“It were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate” (SH 258:27-30).
Mrs Eddy’s words here are confirmed by Ephesians 2:5-6. “Even when we were dead in our transgressions, [God] made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
Collectanea, p. 144 – “The sense of dominion is the only begotten of the Father.”
“The foosteps of thought” (SH 174), progressing from mortality-consciousness to immortality-consciousness, are those that lead me from the sleep of self-absorption to the place of radiation of the Christ-Light unconditionally, through storm and sunshine, maintaining love for God and all humankind through every possible test and trial; leading me to that place where I am firm, stable, and serene in the conviction that I am enthroned with Him who is Life, Truth, Love — now — “seated with Him in the heavenlies far above all principality and power”, reigning with Him who is “seated at the right hand of God” and who has “put all things under His feet” (Eph. 1:21-22, Col. 3:1, emphasis added); that place where God has delegated to all His people the same authority that Jesus had: authority over all the power of the enemy, power to do the same works He did, and greater works as well; that place where I am immoveably enthroned in the firmament of understanding far above mere belief or faith: so that my sense of being created in the image and likeness of God matures into an all-encompassing awareness, demolishes personal sense, and demonstrates unwavering “dominion over all the works of His hands” (Ps. 8:6).
Only in this way can my works be wrought in God, begotten not of self, but “begotten of the Father.”