THE SCIENCE OF CHRIST

"Master, which is the great commandement in the law?" Jesus answered "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and will all thy mind." Loving God in this way is the first and easiest step. As old beliefs about a God that loves and hates give way to the oneness of being, God and His idea man as one and inseparable being, the task of loving Life, Truth, and Love is made easy. We rejoice in the beauty of Soul filled days, as spiritual progress unfolds in health, supply, protection, and in many other tangible ways. While we are grateful for this good already received, we must not forget the second great commandment, which is the same in essence as the first "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

It is comparatively easy to meditate on, pray about, and love God, Life, which is supplying all Good continuosly, but can we truly say we are loving our neighbour (all of them) as ourself? Do we love the politician that we don't agree with? What about the person with the physical infirmity or the businessman caught in a scandal? Are these neighbours any less outside of God's government? Do we deny evil in general, but leave in our thought that on a 'relative' or 'human' plane evil has a reality at least where so and so is concerned?

Mrs. Eddy explains her hope for mankind in Science & Health pg 55:16 "My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as himeslf, -- when he shall realize God's omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done and is doing for mankind." The understanding of the Science of Christ takes us beyond our own personal needs to see the entire world as in reality under the harmonious government of divine Principle.