Editorial August 6, 1932 Issue

Divided and Undivided

Violet Ker Seymer

The mighty words and acts of Christ Jesus portray the results of conscious unity with God, good. He showed the impossibility of combining Spirit and matter, life and death, good and evil, love and hate. Throughout his ministry he proclaimed the great fact that there is but one indivisible, unalterable Life, Love, Spirit, divine Principle, into which the mortal beliefs of matter and evil can never enter. His teachings overturned pantheism, or the doctrine of Mind in matter, and many of his listeners were stirred into hostility by his words. Hence he declared: "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division." Jesus showed the distinction between the real and the unreal, the spiritual and the material, and proved the efficacy of his doctrine through his healing actions.

Christian Science likewise stands for undivided allegiance to the healing power of Spirit and requires of patients turning to it for healing, and of Christian Science practitioners, undivided reliance on this power. Contrasting semimetaphysical systems with scientific metaphysics, Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 268, 269), "These semi-metaphysical systems are one and all pantheistic, and savor of Pandemonium, a house divided against itself." Metaphysical healing does not blend with drugs or any physical method of cure, for spiritual healing redeems the consciousness of the sufferer and thereby heals his body. Material methods, on the other hand, attempt to heal sickness while leaving unrelieved the sick and suffering mind of the patient.

Material sense is unable to grasp the fact that God can be infinite, hence indivisible. But Christian Science awakens and develops in its students spiritual sense, through which alone one can apprehend God, the spiritual source of health, intelligence, happiness, and enjoy these without fear of loss. In proportion as it is realized that nothing touches the consciousness of spiritual man save that which reflects God, good, and an individual succeeds in expressing the qualities of spiritual man, evil will be excluded from his thought and experience.

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