... An Excerpt From the Essay in Monitoring My Universe
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By John Hargreaves, C.S.
There is a mythical character whose appearance in the day of
mankind is disruptive, depressing, and generally unwelcome. Its
name is “Everyone.” Its disguises are manifold. As the old song
went, “Everyone is doing it,” and also seeing, hearing, and
unfortunately, listening to it. To be associated with everyone
is to join mankind in its dream. To stand apart from everyone is
to invite the suspicion that this is somewhat anti-social and
even reprehensible. “Supposing everyone behaved like that” is
the condemnation!
But who or what is “everyone”? This article started by referring
to it as a mythical character, and the reason for this becomes
apparent in the teachings of Christian Science. In these
teachings we begin with God as the infinite One whose oneness
and allness go hand in hand. The infinite has to be one or else
it would not be infinite. A second would finitize the first.
Plurality is not a factor when we accept the premise that “all
that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea” (S&H
151:26-27) and “Principle and its idea is one, and this one is
God” (465:17). In this second quotation we find that God is a
term that embraces its idea or man, showing that what we term
God and man, or Mind and its idea, exist as aspects of one
being, and not as two entities. Science and Health says
that “Jesus taught but one God, one Spirit, who makes man in the
image and likeness of Himself” (94:1-2). The image and likeness
of one God has therefore to be one man. A finite, personal
manifestation of an infinite incorporeal God is impossible.
The term “everyone” indicates plurality. There is not, so to
speak, everyone but just one – One, and this One is unique,
indivisible, universal and all. This oneness refers to Mind and
its ideas. We read in Science and Health that the “forms
of Mind, the ideas of Spirit, [are] apparent only as Mind, never
as mindless matter”(505:9-11). The forms of Mind are the aspects
of Mind, and each aspect is infinite and therefore one. So, we
can speak of home-Mind, abundance-Mind, freedom-Mind,
wholeness-Mind, and so on. Each idea or aspect of Mind has to be
as infinite and indivisible as Mind itself.
We learn that “the spiritual man’s consciousness and
individuality are reflections of God. They are the emanations of
Him who is Life, Truth and Love… God is indivisible…. Allness is
the measure of the infinite, and nothing less can express God” (S&H
336:14-17; 19 only; 23-24). If anything about the infinite
could be divisible, then the nature of the infinite would be
lost. We cannot conceive finite, divisible, located ideas
emanating from an infinite, indivisible, universal Mind.
Following this through, and never leaving the scientific
standpoint that we look out from and as the one Mind, and
experience that Mind as our being, we have to conclude that in a
universe of ideas, there is one home, one dollar, one freedom,
one wholeness as our divine experience. This is in the same way
that there is one idea 7 in mathematics, even though this 7 is
available as unlimited, undepletable, indivisible, and universal
as any idea must of its nature be. It is not really one idea
available to everyone, even though this is how it may appear to
be in daily experience. It is one idea constituting the
experience of one — One, and so of all-One.
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