UNFOLDMENT should be a subject of universal interest, because unfoldment is inherent in all ideas. We see unfoldment illustrated in such fields of activity as illumination, transportation, communication, and in business and social services. Observing the unfolding processes in nature, the student is aware that these reflect law and order.
What is it that true, spiritual unfoldment reveals or brings to light? It is God's creation, the unfolding of His pure and perfect ideas. Mary Baker Eddy says in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 502, 503:) "There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected."
God's ideas of necessity partake of the nature of their source or cause, for like produces like. Ideas are not embraced in matter, nor are they subject to matter's blight, stagnation, uselessness, decay. Spiritual ideas emanate from God, divine Mind, and are forever reflected in His creation. They are embraced in Soul, God, and are obedient to the omniactive laws of Spirit, which express only perfection, continuity, usefulness, fulfillment. Any appearance to the contrary is an illusion of material sense, not the reality of being.
