Many students of Christian Science find ever fresh joy in the daily, prayerful contemplation of the seven synonyms for God, given on page 465 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Her reply to the question, "What is God?" is as follows: "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." These synonymous terms illumine thought with the consciousness of the allness and oneness of divine Being. The quest for the unknowable and unsearchable is ended, and God, the I AM of the Scriptures, shines forth, free from the mists of ignorance that have seemed to shroud an intelligent concept of Deity.
Mrs. Eddy's receptive thought and her single-eyed vision caught and preserved the scientific revelation—God's allness and the consequent unreality of His opposite, evil, matter, mortality. Recording her discovery in her writings, safeguarding it by founding the Christian Science movement, Mrs. Eddy makes it possible for us to find healing truths and to prove that they are demonstrable and good. The divine origin of these truths is proved in the actual experience of anyone willing to subject his thoughts to their regenerating and redemptive power.
Our acceptance and acknowledgment of sonship with God demand that we reflect the qualities inherent in the divine nature, express the holiness that is health and the health that is holiness, and thus separate ourselves entirely from the Adam-dream. This was the way by which our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, triumphed. In him there was no inconsistency of thought, word, or action. He was conscious of his divine origin. Whatever contradicts and opposes God's all-inclusiveness has to be faced and overcome by every one of us until we know ourselves as the likeness of Spirit.
