Article May 21, 1932 Issue

The Author of Man

JESSIE L. REMINGTON

In the writings of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, are to be found references to Deity as the author of all that is good and true, that is, of real substance, and other references giving, conversely, a clear statement concerning that which is not authorized by God. Study along this line with the help of the Concordance to the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, is highly enlightening.

Among the lessons unfolded during such study is that some degree of spiritual sense is requisite in order to gain cognizance of the real nature of God; for God cannot be understood by a spiritually unenlightened state of consciousness. Acceptance of the truth of the allness and oneness of God is the basis of demonstration. Thus equipped, one perceives that there can be but One who is author of all.

"God is the only author of man," writes Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 29). "God is not the author of mortal discords," is to be found in the same book (p. 231). "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace," says Paul in I Corinthians. These statements are not open to argument any more than are the pointed parables and word pictures of the master Christian as he taught spirituality in his exposition of the nature of God and man. Jesus knew—and he stated his knowledge for the benefit of all humanity for all time—that God is Spirit and man is the image or likeness of Spirit, therefore perfect.

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