If someone had asked me not too long ago, "Do you love Principle?" I'm sure I would have countered with the question "Love Principle? I don't know—can one love a principle?"
But I have learned that in Christian Science, Principle is a synonym for God. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, its author, Mrs. Eddy, asks, "What is God?" And her answer is "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." On the same page she asks, "Is there more than one God or Principle?" And her reply is "There is not. Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe."Science and Health, pp. 465-466.
I had long accepted the fact that God is the Principle of all being without ever really coming to grips with what Mrs. Eddy means when she refers to God as all-acting and all-knowing Principle.
