God is the parent Mind; man and the universe exist in Him. There is no outside to God's allness. Man coexists with God. He is an emanation of divine Spirit, not a material germination. Man's entire being is in the realm of divinity's knowing.
Man is the image of Spirit. He is one with his originator, God, never separate from his source. These are the unchanging facts of God and man, the absolute facts of man's coexistence with all good. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Wholly apart from this mortal dream, this illusion and delusion of sense, Christian Science comes to reveal man as God's image, His idea, coexistent with Him—God giving all and man having all that God gives." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 5; There are no circumstances that have ever changed this immutable relationship between God and man, and there never can be. God is unchanging good, and God's creation, man and the universe, reflects and expresses Him in unchanging goodness.
But what of the human situation, our day-to-day relationships and experiences? There appears to be much that is unlike the divine in the world around us. Crime is rampant. People are starving, sick, out of work, afraid. How can statements about man's coexistence with God be true? And can an individual really demonstrate in his own life such coexistence? We have proof that one can.
