Editorial October 22, 1938 Issue

"The one only way"

Duncan Sinclair

In a paragraph in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 242), having the marginal heading "The one only way," Mrs. Eddy states the method whereby heaven, or harmony, is attained. She says: "There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no other reality—to have no other consciousness of life—than good, God and His reflection, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses."

Whoever reads understandingly the words just quoted will see that heaven is not a locality, but a condition of consciousness. This strikes at the belief that heaven is somewhere in space—a fallacy still held by many. They believe that matter is real; that they live in matter, with all its limitations; and these limiting concepts necessarily have as their counterpart a place in space, which mortals call heaven. Men have associated with this so-called heaven a certain sense of harmony, but sustaining this limited sense of bliss there has always been a finite material setting, such as of beauteous palaces and golden streets!

Christian Science demolishes the supposititious heaven of false theology. It reveals the truth that God is infinite Mind or Spirit, and that nothing the opposite in nature to God or Spirit has any real existence. It reveals also that man is the image of God, and thus makes known the truth that, being the image or reflection of God, Spirit, man is altogether spiritual. Thus man, reflecting Spirit or Mind, is conscious only of Mind's ideas, Mind's perfect spiritual ideas. Man is not conscious of so-called matter, since there is no such thing in real being.

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