God is All-in-all. He is omnipotent, omnipresent Mind, and man, His idea, is His expression. Mind's attributes or qualities include perception, intelligence, and activity. Perception is the ability to see what is true; intelligence is the awareness of the power of the Christ, Truth, and the ability to use this power fully; activity is the pure rhythm of Spirit manifested through this power. These qualities are constantly expressed by God through man without any sense of lack or limitation. This constant, harmonious expression of God's allness is man's true being—spiritual, perfect, and complete. Thus man is the embodiment of Mind's activity.
The acceptance of these wonderful truths which Christian Science reveals brings harmony and a proper sense of right activity into our human experience. When Jesus at the age of twelve accompanied Mary and Joseph to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of the Passover, he lingered behind to talk with the doctors in the temple. To Mary's rebuke of him, he said (Luke 2:49), "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" Jesus already knew that his duty was to obey God, his Father.
Writing of Jesus, Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 31), "He recognized Spirit, God, as the only creator, and therefore as the Father of all." Jesus saw man as the image or idea of Love, the spiritually substantial expression of infinite Mind. He recognized that his own duty was to be constantly conscious of his true nature. He said (John 18:37), "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth." It was Jesus' consciousness of man's perfect selfhood, his Christ-consciousness, which brought forth the fruits of Love in his healing work.
