Students of Christian Science are grateful for their increasing measure of understanding that man and the universe actually are the products of God, the only causative Mind. But to think of cause simply in terms of the past is misleading. For God is the continuing cause of all real existence, ceaselessly producing order and well-being, acting through His law of immediate correction to every apparent deviation from His established rule of harmony.
It must be true that the perfect, divine Mind is continuously sending forth perfect thoughts, moment by moment maintaining His holy idea, man, at the standpoint of originally created rightness. "The perfect Mind sends forth perfection, for God is Mind," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, assures us in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 239). An important fact concerning cause and effect is that "the perfect Mind sends forth perfection." It is in the living now that the wonders of God's love unfold to the receptive thought, bringing awareness of the immediacy of divine law and its operation.
May not much of the Christian's woe be due to the deeply laid theological mistake of misreading the spiritual import of the earliest portion of Scripture? In the second chapter of Genesis we are told that God "finished" His creation and "rested . . . from all his work which he had made" (Gen. 2:1, 2). A spiritual perception of the true nature of divinity discloses the real intent of these Scriptural passages. When Christian Science illumines consciousness, personal and limiting concepts of the creator give place to recognition of God as the all-actuating divine Life, the forever enlightening Mind, the eternally governing Principle. Hence Mrs. Eddy's comment (Science and Health, p. 519): "God rests in action. Imparting has not impoverished, can never impoverish, the divine Mind."
