I woke up with a slight headache one morning, at the beginning of 2014. The pain was mild, and I didn’t think much about it. I went out and ran some errands with a friend. However, when we arrived at his house, the headache was severe. Actually, the sick feeling was such that I felt as if I was going to faint.
I sat on the couch and asked my friend to help me through Christian Science prayer. We talked about what man—the generic, spiritual term for all men and women—is. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy poses the question: “What is man?” And she answers: “Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique” (p. 475).
These ideas flooded my consciousness. I promptly felt better and could reason more clearly. I started to think about the creation of God. It came very clearly to me that divine creation isn’t something that happened in the past and was left to be governed by material laws. Actually, God’s creation is a constant revelation of what He knows of Himself, and God is all-seeing and all-acting. Since God is good and is Spirit, then all that God sees is the unfolding of God’s wholeness, expressed continuously in spiritual, perfect, and pure ideas. Each of us is an idea of God.
