Since God, good, is the all-knowing Mind, the only true consciousness, all real consciousness must be perfect. What divine Mind knows is harmonious, beneficent, because it is unadulterated good without an element of evil. The Bible represents God as saying, "Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any." And, "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me."Isa. 44:8 and 45:5;
The fact that no evil can be known to the creator means that nothing but good can be known to His creation, His spiritual universe and man. There is nothing outside God's presence to be known. Divine Mind can conceive no imperfection; consequently His idea, man, must be changelessly perfect too. Since there is no real consciousness besides omniscience, individual consciousness or spiritual man, expressing his omniscient creator, can know nothing unlike good. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "To gain a temporary consciousness of God's law is to feel, in a certain finite human sense, that God comes to us and pities us; but the attainment of the understanding of His presence, through the Science of God, destroys our sense of imperfection, or of His absence, through a diviner sense that God is all true consciousness; and this convinces us that, as we get still nearer Him, we must forever lose our own consciousness of error."Unity of Good, p. 4;
Humanly speaking, we seem to have thoughts of evil as well as spiritual concepts, but through Christian Science you and I can discover this real and only consciousness, which God imparts, as our only real state of thought. There is no sense of evil in this real state. Consciously reflecting God, we can have in thought only what God puts there. Science opens thought to the heavenly kingdom God knows and the immeasurable glories of the realization of infinite goodness. The things of God are here—pure, spiritual, complete. There is nothing on earth to compare with this state of thought and the power accompanying this total separation from belief in evil.
