Article March 6, 1926 Issue

"The kingdom of his dear Son"

EDMUND HOGG

Great joy comes to him who realizes, through the revelation of divine Science, that the "kingdom of his [God's] dear Son," to which Paul refers in his epistle to the Colossians, is an ever present kingdom, from which only false material belief can seem to exclude one. The mission of Christian Science is to destroy obscuring false belief and to bring us into the consciousness of reality. Few there be who have tasted the perilous and unsatisfying beliefs of a life lived apart from a right understanding of God (and in varying degree all have so lived until Christian Science replaced this ignorance), who do not continually rejoice in an ever expanding sense of freedom as Christian Science controls individual living.

A meaning given the verb "translate" is "to change from one condition to another." Mortal living is a condition of ignorance; and the darkness of it is not dispelled until the heavenly evangel of divine Science is heard, announcing that as man is the image and likeness of his Masker he is immortal, like his divine Principle. The Christian Scientist needs always to think of himself as immortal; and as this is done, it brings a sense of boundless freedom which is demonstrated in countless ways, bringing immunity from bodily ills and petty annoyances of every kind. Sin is unknown in this kingdom of reality, where man, the idea of God, eternally dwells. Thus, through Christian Science, we are translated or changed from the contemplation and acknowledgement of sin as a reality, to the consciousness man's sinless condition as the perfect expression of divine Mind, "the Son of God" referred to by Jesus' beloved disciple.

This understanding arms mortals against sinful beliefs, purifying human consciousness, "even as he is pure." Through this revelation sin is destroyed, not condoned, in mortals. As the darkness of sinful belief gives place to the realization of God's ever present kingdom, we find our identification with it and its spiritual laws, and we become more and more aware of the light and beauty with which God's bounty has surrounded His beloved Son. The bright promise of the beauty of the visible world but speaks of unlimited beauty of the eternal yet physically unseen universe, living and moving in God; and the head and front of this universe is the Son in accord with the Father, the spiritual idea or Christ.

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