Editorial September 28, 1935 Issue

One Perfect Causation

Violet Ker Seymer

On page 71 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy states that "all actual causation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing Mind." Spiritual causation is inseparable from the omnipotence and omniscience of God, good. Christian Science enables one to understand man's spiritual origin and heritage and to rejoice daily in the evidences of the new birth. It scientifically exposes the impotence of everything that claims to misrepresent the perfect and all-inclusive cause named God. Divine Principle, God, being the continuing cause of man's life, intelligence, and health, these are never intermittent, for the laws of divine Principle everlastingly maintain these characteristics of spiritual being. Spiritual law is never checked in its operation, nor diverted from its beneficent purpose.

This is the one perfect premise and conclusion in which the Christian Scientist is empowered to abide, and this abiding leaves him no alternative but utterly to deny the false claim of material causation and law and the ensuing afflictive beliefs. It is strengthening to realize that only that which emanates from God is invested with power, and that every phase of evil is therefore as causeless and powerless as it is godless.

In the correct sense of Deity lies the remedy for all human troubles. Hence the Christian Scientist, through spiritual growth, gradually ceases groping for some evil cause which cannot actually be found, and loyally affirms, "I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause." Through this committing all to God he learns the secret of holiness and health. Christian Science lifts humanity above its weak and wavering tendencies into firmness and stability derived from divine Principle. Not only when he seems to be especially tempted to believe in evil, but at all times, the student should deepen his understanding of spiritual causation and feel the assurance that mortal belief, however dense, will vanish in spiritual illumination. By developing spirituality in its students, Christian Science reveals to them their oneness with the unassailable perfection of being. This spirituality causes the various fruits of the Spirit to be made manifest in human experience, and health is assuredly one of these fruits. The way of demonstration in Christian Science lies in the perception and acknowledgment of the divine allness of cause and effect. He who undeviatingly maintains the truth about spiritual causation, namely, its ever-presence and perfect action, moves on to the fullness of spiritual dominion.

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