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Indestructible relationship

God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect. Man is the expression of God's being. If there ever was a moment when man did not express the divine perfec- tion, then there was a moment when man did not express God, and consequently a time when Deity was unex- pressed - that is, without entity. If man has lost per- fection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine Mind. If man ever existed without this perfect Principle or Mind, then man's existence was a myth.

The relations of God and man, divine Principle and

idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He cre- ates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.