Editorial March 27, 1926 Issue

The Real

Duncan Sinclair

The real is what mankind has been reaching out for with painstaking effort since ever it began to question as to the why and the wherefore of existence. But alas, the limitations of the human mind, so called, have been all too evident to the thinker. How often has he stood in abject impotence before the data with which material sense, purporting to be true, has furnished him, totally unable to find a clue to reality—that is, to absolute Truth! Speculation as to the nature of the real has indeed been rife enough in every philosophical school; but can it be said of any one of these that it has dared to advance beyond the theoretical into the realm of demonstrable truth?

It is interesting to note that philosophical speculation has gone on side by side with revelation. For while philosophers have questioned and argued and theorized, religionists have prayed and had divine Truth revealed to them. It is therefore to the latter one has to go for the solution of reality. It is to them one has to turn if he would be enlightened on the nature of God and His creation. What then is the position to-day? Briefly, that the world is in possession of a vast store of spiritual treasure which has accumulated throughout the centuries, including the revelation of God and His law which has come through the Hebrew prophets and Christ Jesus, and in these later days through Christian Science.

In Christian Science the climax of revelation has been reached; and here also is to be found preserved and cherished the spiritual truth perceived by the prophets and by Christ Jesus. Christian Science, the discovery of Mary Baker Eddy, was indeed made possible by the revealed truth of the Bible. Mrs. Eddy acknowledged the fact when she wrote that "the Bible was her sole teacher" (Science and Health, Pref., p. viii). And the Bible remains an honored and faithful guide to the Christian Scientist in his study of reality and in his endeavor to gain the spiritual understanding which overcomes the unreal.

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