Nona L. Brooks from: The Divine Science Weekly Oct. 12, 1924

We live in a universe in which all is one. One Substance, One Intelligence, One Nature, One Life is all. The manifold creation is but an expression of this One.

Planets are whirling through space according to law and order. They are made up of wonderful forms and forces, each performing its part. They produce an infinite variety of vegetable and animal life. They are inhabited by a being so highly endowed that not only has he dominance over the lower kingdoms, but he has learned to chain the powerful forces and direct them to his will.

Whence came all this? Who is responsible for it?

Early in man’s development he began to feel after the One that is back of it all. A manlike God was his first conception. It took a broad vision to see as Amos saw, that God was a God of law and of justice. The beauty of the New Testament God was foreshadowed when Hosea affirmed that God was not merely a God of Law, but also a God of Love.

Jesus perceived this Love, taught it, lived it. He summed up his conception of God’s tenderness in the word Father- one family!

Divine Science gives us the very largest conception of God. It teaches that all space is filled by Infinite Being—living, thinking, feeling Being; and that, impelled by love, this Being brings forth, not merely the universe of forms and forces, but beings like itself in substance, mind, nature. It teaches that man will come to know the Truth of his God-environment and, through this knowledge, will be freed from the limitations that bind him now.

To realize Truth we must give attention to it. Here is a meditation that helps me to a realization of God’s allness:

I live in a universe alive with God-Life, pulsing with God-Love, whose beauty and order evidence the goodness of the Originating Spirit.
If I send out my thoughts into wide-stretching space, I find God. If they linger in the nearer heavens and wonder at the glory there, it is God that I find. If I search the depths and bring forth marvels of treasure, it is still God that I find. There are messages from Him everywhere.
And again, I turn to myself. Here is a being aspiring to the highest, capable of infinite attainment, a living, loving, breathing soul—the very life of God.

Jesus, seeing this, affirmed, “I and my Father are one.” We, seeing from his point of view, claim our oneness with God-Spirit.
To be a child of God means to be an expression of this Infinite One. To be an expression of God means to be endowed with God-Being, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all. Knowing this, we can say with the poet, “Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I, myself, am good fortune.”

Rev. Leslie