Article February 4, 1905 Issue

True Happiness

J. I. L.

The sorrows and disappointments of mortal existence show very clearly the awful unreality of what we term human love and affection, which for the most part is love inverted, and therefore beset by fear and hate. We may well ask, Why does mortal man continually seek pleasure and happiness through material sense, since he ever fails in finding it there? This question is one that requires deep study and an earnest effort to reach the metaphysical basis of life.

Ever since the beginning of the dream of material sense, of life in matter, mortal man has believed that he needed something outside of himself for happiness, instead of looking within his own consciousness for it. Now the true idea of man is in the Divine consciousness, and this idea is never dependent upon another person for its manifestation, and cannot, under any consideration, be materialized, or inverted, because it is complete and perfect, and it cannot be separated from God.

Christian Science teaches that man is spiritual how, always has been, and always will be. When, therefore, we claim our rightful heritage in Spirit, we find that man is "complete in him," — the Christ. In this complete, individual consciousness, man reflects God, the infinite Father and Mother. To find true happiness, therefore, man must first find that he is not separated from his own true nature, as he now believes he is, but that he is complete; that he can find in God all the sweetness of love and communion that his being craves, and finding it there, he finds his hopes abundantly satisfied. There is no fear of losing the ideal we love, for it is the expression of perfect wisdom, Life, Truth, Love, and purity, in which there is no shadow to mar perfect harmony, the blessedness of eternal happiness and joy.

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