Arizona republican., 1920-03-02
"UNITY"

| (Written for The Christian Science Monitor)
 In one of the most remarkable vol umes of her wonderful writings, Mrs. Eddy has set out for the world the unity of good in it's absolute scientific meaning. This unity may be grasped superficially in the fact that Mrs. Eddy uses the term good to express the infinity of all that actually exists, and this she defines as infinite Mind and its infinite expression, image or idea, immorat man. Divine Mind. then, is the creator, the great First Cause, and it's infinite expression, idea. or image, man, must, by reason of it's infinity, contain all creation. Since, however, cause to be cause must produce effect. and effect to be effect must be produced by cause, it is impossible to separate cause from effect, God from man. and thus the unity of good, of God and man, Prin- ciple and it's reflection, Mind and it's idea, is assured
 Now unity means oneness, and man is one with the Father, God. or Prin- ciple. as John writes, when he quotes Jesus saying, T and my Father are one" a passage rendered more accu- rately in the Revised Version, T and the Father are one" The I was, how ever, of course. not the man Jesus, but
 
 divinity which was his divine nature. Thus it comes about that the student of Christian Science striving to put off the carnal man, in other words, to prove the utter nothingness of the human mind by demonstrating the in- finity of divine Mind, finds himself engaged in working out the atone ment, in other words the unity of God and man, cause and effect Mind and it's idea. This unity goes, however. much deeper than the superficial reader is apt to imagine; and so it is really all one, whether the word Prin ciple is used for God, or Mind, or Life, or Truth, or Love, or Soul, or Spirit. Each of these terms is infinite be- cause it is synonymous with any of the others, and expresses the whole ness of Deity, the unity of good.
 It is for this reason that the Sunday. lesson in the Christian Science churches is always applicable to the condition of the hour no matter what that may be. So far from the reason for this being inexplicable, it is obvi- ous and inevitable. It matters not if the subject be God, Truth. or matter. What all the time is being illustrated and proved is the allness, the infinity of Spirit, and the nothingness, the un- reality of matter. In the same way. if God, Principle, Spirit is infinite, the atomic forces of physical nature can only operate supposititiously, and the only substance that can exist is the substance of infinite Spirit, the ideas of infinite Mind, the reflection of in finite Principle. Thus the expression the unity of good, is no mere epigram. It is a scientific axiom, summing up the deep things of God. of Principle.
 Mrs. Eddy's choice of the word Prin- pie as the most satisfactory synonym for the expression of God, is itself one to be most thoughtfully considered. It constitutes a break with an anthropo- morphic God, as a creator, and so with a physical creation. When infinite Mind becomes the creator, the great First Cause. then creation or effect must be expressed in infinitude of ideas, ranging from the infinitesirnal to infinity, the infinite idea, which is compounded of all lesser right ideas, being generic man, the spiritual idea, symboliZed, in the Apocalypse. as the woman clothed with the sun. It is just here, of course, that human phil oSophy. in the guise of scholastic the- ology. has shipwrecked itself. It has sought to make God in the image and likeness of a human being, and to mix good and evil, the human and the di- vine in one mind or consciousness. This Mrs Eddy terms rank infidelity' in a passage. on page 21 of No and Yes" in which she exposes it's would be conseuuences: Human philosophy has an undeveloped God, who unfolds Himself through material modes wherein the human and divine mingle