In the first chapter of Genesis we read, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness .... So God created man in his own image ... male and female created he them." Gen. 1:26, 27 Christian Science says, in the words of Mary Baker Eddy, "Let the 'male and female' of God's creating appear." Mrs. Eddy prefaces this, in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, thus: "Let us accept Science, relinquish all theories based on sense-testimony, give up imperfect models and illusive ideals; and so let us have one God, one Mind, and that one perfect, producing His own models of excellence." Science and Health, p. 249
Mrs. Eddy's summons "Let the 'male and female' of God's creating appear" finds no fulfillment in idle petitions, wishful thinking, or human will. It involves an active yielding to God's demands. It calls upon the individual for willingness and watchfulness, for obedience, humility, and love.
That "the 'male and female' of God's creating" may appear in ourselves demands mighty wrestlings with self, a deep spiritual regeneration that repudiates material selfhood and acknowledges man in God's likeness, the individual expression of His completeness.
