Editorial August 15, 1936 Issue

Incorporeality

Violet Ker Seymer

At every stage of our study of Christian Science our urgent need is to acquire the correct understanding of God, for in no other way can human problems be scientifically solved. On page 13 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Because of human ignorance of the divine Principle, Love, the Father of all is represented as a corporeal creator; hence men recognize themselves as merely physical, and are ignorant of man as God's image or reflection and of man's eternal incorporeal existence." The correct sense of God is the first thing to be gained when one needs to demonstrate health and supply, for there can be no separation from either when their incorporeal and universal nature is understood.

Incorporeal divine Love is not represented by finite, physical personality, by selfishness, disease, and fear—all of which center on a physical sense of body. The correct sense of the incorporeality of God and man alone enables us to understand the wholly spiritual nature of individuality, universality, eternality. Because Jesus had this understanding he coped successfully with the sense evidence of a hungry multitude, space to be traversed, sin, disease, or death. The incorporeal sense of existence leads human thought away from the belief in age, failure, perverted aims, immature states or stages—separation from the spiritual ideal.

To Paul came the illumined conviction that it is impossible to believe in God, infinite Spirit, and at the same time believe that one inhabits a physical body. He therefore said, "Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord." He knew that there is no choice between God and mammon, for God is All. Thus he declared, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."

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