Spiritual Peace

[Original article in German]

ALICE LAEMMLIN

The peace for which men long can be known only meta-physically, through understanding the first record of creation, given in the first chapter of Genesis. We must all wake to see ourselves as children of the one creator and in this way perceive our oneness with God. As soon as we lean upon the truth about creation, in which man is recorded as created in the likeness of God, Love, the fetters of false belief are loosened and we comprehend our spiritual relationship as the offspring of divine Love.

Material viewpoints, limiting traditions, pride of race, bind the ignorant with chains, but these limiting beliefs give way to spiritual understanding. How could even one thought of war arise, if we saw that we are children of one Father-Mother, God, and that everyone has his place in God's creation? Not a single weapon would be wielded henceforth if men fully understood that truth.

The downfall of Babylon, of sensuality, would be assured if everyone understood creation to be spiritual, no longer regarding it as an increase of people, but as the creator's infinite unfoldment of ideas.

Mrs. Eddy, our wise Leader, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 69): "Mortals can never understand God's creation while believing that man is a creator. God's children already created will be cognized only as man finds the truth of being. Thus it is that the real, ideal man appears in proportion as the false and material disappears." And she continues, "Spiritually to understand that there is but one creator, God, unfolds all creation, confirms the Scriptures, brings the sweet assurance of no parting, no pain, and of man deathless and perfect and eternal."

Through acquaintance with the first record of creation, material theories of heredity will be seen for what they are, mortal beliefs. They will no longer be able to confine man to a sickbed in desperate fear, there to pay the last farthing. Students of Christian Science are having to prove that in their real being they are invulnerable to evil, inheriting only the spiritual and the good.

Through the illumination shed by the true record of creation, the following passage in Ezekiel may be fully understood: "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him." All theories based on the belief in a material origin receive their deathblow as the spiritual understanding of true brotherhood unfolds. This truth, when understood, reveals the one true government of God, divine Love or Principle. Viewing creation through the lens of Love, seeing only the real spiritual perfection in oneself and all, he understands somewhat our Leader's great statement (Science and Health, pp. 469, 470): "With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science." With his gaze constantly on the spiritual record of creation the Christian Scientist sees in God his creator and also his preserver. He learns that the spiritual ideas which God imparts to His likeness are substance, and he begins to discern these spiritual ideas. This wealth of ideas is his fortune, always ready to impart to him at the right time anything needed.

What is our true medicine, when we comprehend the true creation? It no longer consists of matter, but of the truth of being; for did not our great Master, Jesus the Christ, say, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"? He did not say that herbs, baths, mineral waters, prescriptions, and so forth would free men. He never used matter to heal matter. The example of the man born blind, on whose eyes he put clay, is to be considered only symbolically. Jesus spat on matter, that is, he saw the impossibility of its possessing healing power—even its utter unreality.

With what promise does the Bible point to true vision when it says in Revelation, "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Death will be no more! We stand before this great decree of Love full of reverence and gratitude. When we look deep into the understanding of spiritual being, we see more and more that peace is a quality of Spirit, belonging eternally to every idea of God. It is not to be gained by material ways and means. In thought we all stretch out our hands to one another over mountains and seas and say, "We are all brothers and have one Father-Mother, God." What would be the result if all the nations represented at peace and religious conferences should gather as children of one living and true God, should open the Bible and read the first record of creation and apply it in the light thrown upon it by Christian Science? Then would all peoples joyously join in the song of the angels, "On earth peace, good will toward men."

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