Article February 4, 1933 Issue

Surrendering Human Selfhood

ALICE EDITH RAMSAY

We are told that the children of Israel, journeying to the promised land, wandered for forty years in the wilderness, and that they murmured against Moses, their divinely directed leader, and longed for the fleshpots of Egypt. The story seems to imply that had it not been for their mental wanderings, the journey might have been accomplished in less time.

Perhaps one reason for their prolonged pilgrimage was a desire for human ease. This longing to live at ease seems to be an ingrained characteristic of the human race. In fact, it might be said that one of the strong tendencies of human thought is the desire to accumulate wealth and material possessions, with a view to gratifying the tastes, desires, personal wishes, comforts, and ease of the flesh.

To students of Christian Science this love of mortal selfhood is a fundamental error to be overcome, for it includes within itself every phase of the so-called carnal mind—its ambitions, false appetites, desire for place and power, social prestige, in short, the gratification of every personal wish—all of which tends to impede spiritual progress.

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