Editorial August 20, 1932 Issue

Desire and Fulfillment

Violet Ker Seymer

On page 9 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 Mrs. Eddy writes, "Strong desires bias human judgment and misguide action, else they uplift them." Christian Science lifts desire above illusion and human disillusionment into the mental realm of realization and fulfillment.

The Psalmist discerned the nature of God's will when he wrote, "Thou desirest truth in the inward parts." God's desire is law to His likeness; and since every law of divine Mind is resistless, and in perpetual operation, all that is really taking place is the perpetual fulfillment of God's purposes.

What, then, of the perverted desires of mortals, often carried headlong into discordant action? How may we rid ourselves of them? By knowing that they are illusory, unrelated to divine law or intelligence, and that they can therefore accomplish no good thing, even temporarily. Christian Science instills that love of divine Principle whereby we become genuinely willing to part with every false desire even as we would honorably part with a false coin and not attempt to pass it off as a true one. As we unconditionally surrender the false coins of material fear and material faith, and reach out, empty-handed, to the God of love, we for the first time grasp the spiritual treasures of health, righteousness, and peace.

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