Article February 1, 1930 Issue

Spiritual Affluence

THOMAS R. MINTURN, JR.

Like many other words used by Mary Baker Eddy to convey to mortals the essential nature of Deity, affluence must be translated in spiritual terms before its true significance can be discerned. So long have mortals used words to define material objects and conditions that they do not readily perceive the original spiritual idea. Thus, affluence was considered more or less materially, until Mrs. Eddy out of the fullness of her spiritual vision perceived the truth concerning man and the universe, and translated them back into their original meaning as spiritual ideas.

In speaking of Christ Jesus' wonderful capacity to do good, Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 54), "With the affluence of Truth, he vanquished error." Through his overflowing love and compassion for humanity, Jesus replenished whatever belief of depletion presented itself to him. The afflictions and wounds of this world were not primarily physical to him, but mental, due to wrong views of God and man; and into these wounds he poured the "oil and wine" of Truth and Love.

The writer has watched a pure mountain stream pour in on a parched field, first filling the depressions, and then, when checked by an embankment, rising until it saturated even the highest parts of the land. How this typifies the entrance of the light of Truth into individual human consciousness, wounded, perhaps, by wrong and cruelty, as it begins the removal of that afflictive and destructive sense which shadowed forth disease upon the body, and continues until thought is radiant with reflected love!

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