It is easy to capitalize the numeral one: One. But in divine Science this is more than a stylistic move. The acceptance of God as the universal One is the basis of metaphysical healing and Christian living.
As often as we're faced with the feeling of being hopelessly weighed down with a bundle of problems, we can shake it off with the truth of one Life, one Spirit, one Soul, the Divine—and man the reflection of the divine One. It makes a practical, healing difference when we reason from one Truth, eternal good. That we are even able to begin doing this is an encouraging evidence of the Christ, the idea of God, unfolding to us the allness of God.
Accepting the ministrations of the Christ, we start outgrowing merely human mind efforts to help and are lifted into spiritual realization. The Christ makes clear to us that there is one Truth, God, and God is expressed in the wholeness and completeness of man and the universe. "In divine Science, God is One and All; and, governing Himself, He governs the universe," Mary Baker Eddy writes. And across the page, "It is this infinitude and oneness of good that silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim."Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 258-259;
