Editorial February 18, 1905 Issue

Heaven

Mary Baker Eddy

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 267:13-31

In response to an invitation received by her from the New York American, Mrs. Eddy has contributed a brief but comprehensive article upon a subject which has engaged the attention of humanity for centuries. We feel sure that our Leader's words will bring light to many.

Mrs. Eddy's article is as follows:—

Concord, N. H., February 9, 1905.
To the New York American.

Is heaven spiritual?

Heaven is spiritual—heaven is harmony, infinite, boundless bliss. The dying or the departed enter heaven in proportion to their progress, fitness to partake of its quality and quantity. One individual may awaken first, from his dream of life in matter, with a sense of music; another with that of relief from fear or suffering, and still another with a bitter sense of lost opportunities and remorse. Heaven is the reign of divine Science. Material thought tends to obscure spiritual understanding, to darken the true conception of man's divine Principle, Love, wherein and whereby soul is emancipate and environed with everlasting Life. Our great Teacher hath said,—

"Behold, the kingdom of God is within you"—within man's spiritual understanding of all the divine modes, means, forms, expression or manifestation of goodness and happiness.

Mary Baker Eddy.

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