Editorial June 11, 1927 Issue

Freedom

Duncan Sinclair

One of the most helpful things Mrs. Eddy ever wrote on the question of freedom is to be found on page 228 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." It reads: "Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God. Then they will control their own bodies through the understanding of divine Science. Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality." The words are full of promise for mankind, prophesying as they do mental and physical freedom through the understanding of true being.

All are in need of relief from something,—sickness, poverty, sorrow, sin, or some other form of materiality,—from some evil belief, which appears to human consciousness to exist in opposition to good. And it may be noted that mortal existence, so called, is characterized by the constant changing of the nature of the bondage. Is not the prisoner as he passes from the jail in which he has been incarcerated, freed from one form of bondage only? The temptations of the outside world have to be encountered by him; and it may be that he will find them beyond his understanding to resist, and so become even more enslaved than before his release from prison.

Now the question of freedom is a highly important one to the human race. The words of Paul to "the church of God ... at Corinth" apply to all mankind: "For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life." They go straight to the mark; for is not the "tabernacle" in which we seem to "groan, being burdened," material sense, that false sense which believes in evil and mortality? It is from this illusory sense mankind must be delivered or freed by the true understanding of God—Spirit, Life.

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