Article October 6, 1917 Issue

The Real Man Here

LOU-VEE B. SIEGFRIED

There is no compromise between the mortal belief of existence and the understanding of what constitutes true existence or reality. The psalmist sounded the confession of mortal existence and of the mental character of its counterfeit of man when he cried, "In sin did my mother conceive me." One definition of the word conceive is, "To take into one's mind, to formulate or imagine." Cruden defines sin as "any thought, word, action, omission, or desire, contrary to the law of God." Then a human body is but the projection of a belief of life, sensation, and substance in matter, entirely outside of and contrary to the law of God which reads: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

So persistently is this belief held in mortal thought and surrounded by common consent of multiplied mortal believers, that it becomes apparent to the physical senses as a new human being or subdivision of mortal belief. On page 263 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says: "The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of persons and things is not creation. . . . The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and material earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind. They have their day before the permanent facts and their perfection in Spirit appear."

The misconceptions of man are as though the human mind, hiding behind spectacles of finite, material belief, with lenses colored and distorted by the illusions of the five physical senses, gazed out upon reality and sought to remedy by material means what it seemed to see. Such an attempt has always been as needless and futile as was the bleaching process employed by a friend of the writer to remove what seemed a yellow stain on some white linen which she was washing while wearing amber goggles to lessen the glare of a southern noon. Scarcely more promising of success would be the effort to beautify a human being by patching up his shadow with silhouette paper. The real man is as little affected by what happens to the shadow-like mortal existence as light is affected by darkness.

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