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Chapter nine is CREATION. Our vision is opening to a
totally new view or sense of creation. The concept of man cast out of God and
having the burden of trying to create is fading. As we saw in the sixth
chapter, we are discovering what God has created. "There can be but one
creator, who has created all. Whatever seems to be a new creation, is but the
discovery of some distant idea of Truth" (263:20). God has not created a
material universe. The material universe is the shadow of the reality.
God is infinitely expressed as spiritual ideas. All that really exists is God
in self-expression and our new view of creation is simply that "multitudinous
objects of creation, which before were invisible," have suddenly "become
visible" (264:14). Because our vision is clearer, we therefore see more. We
begin to see creation fulfilled and complete and accomplished now.
Chapter ten is SCIENCE OF BEING. The phrase, Science
of being, is always spelt with a capital S for Science because it is God's
Science, and with a little b for being, because, you might say, it is our
being. (The textbook always reserves the capitalized letter for God and the
uncapitalized for man as the activity of God.) If Science is the truth of our
being and all comes from God, this is the Science of our being God's
Being. God's Being is our very being.
This is a long chapter full of beautiful details of
how the divine comes with Christ power to illuminate, and to transform, and to
redeem all the details of our human sense of being. It finishes with thirty-two
numbered sections, called "the platform." Mrs Eddy introduces this by saying,
"When the following platform is understood and the letter and the spirit bear
witness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics will be demonstrated" (330:8).
The word platform is derived from two words, plat and form,
and plat is an interweaving. So the platform offers us interwoven spiritual
precepts about the nature of God, the nature of Christ, the nature of the
human, and the resolving of the problem of evil. This therefore must be
something on which we can safely stand.
Chapter eleven is SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. How often
we preface what we say with 'but' or 'what about so and so?' This chapter says
that we only raise objections if we take things out of their context and regard
them as separate objects. By taking ideas away from the oneness of God, out of
their real context, they lose their relationship to the whole.
The objections are answered if we view the parts
of the whole always from within the framework of the divine whole
itself. So often in life when we find things objectionable it is because we
have isolated them from the purpose and meaning of the plan of the universe.
This purpose must be God expressing Himself as man, not man having his own
ideals unrelated to God. But if we can reintegrate ourselves with the sense of
divine purpose and wholeness—see everything interwoven with everything
else—that which objects, or is objective, is then seen as part of
the whole. It is answered from within, from the subjective point of
view.
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