Editorial January 23, 1915 Issue

Mystery Ended

Annie M. Knott

The human mind has always regarded spiritual things as mysterious, and this fact receives due consideration from prophets, apostles, and Christ Jesus himself. The word "mystery" has several definitions, one of them being "that which is beyond human comprehension." Paul tells us that the carnal mind cannot comprehend spiritual things, for the reason that they must be "spiritually discerned." He also says that spiritual things are "foolishness" to mortal man, but he at the same time tells us that with the aid of omnipotent Spirit we shall "know the things that are freely given to us of God." Christ Jesus told his disciples, who were learning to look away from the material to the spiritual, that to them it was given "to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,"—the things which could not be comprehended by the unillumined human mind.

In Science and Health (p. 90) Mrs. Eddy counsels us to "improve our time in solving the mysteries of being through an apprehension of divine Principle." To this she adds, "At present we know not what man is, but we certainly shall know this when man reflects God." It is too true that mystery enshrouds the mortal concept of both God and man. The material senses offer no evidence of the existence of God at all, and practically none as to man in His likeness. Today we have a glimpse of what we call man, and tomorrow he is gone to mingle with the material elements from which he sprang, so physical science tells us.

But the unsatisfied human heart asks, Why? Did not Jesus say, "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death"? Why then should we have forever this unexplained mystery of a life that ends in death? Must it ever be so? Assuredly no, if we are willing to follow the path trod by the Master and marked out by him, a path long covered up by the tangled growths of material theories, but opened up anew in Christian Science, which "lifts the veil of mystery from Soul and body," and which "shows the scientific relation of man to God" (Science and Health, p. 114). As this view-point is gained, man's immortality rises upon one's consciousness, like the morning star which foretells endless day.

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