Editorial January 14, 1939 Issue

Infinite Progression

Violet Ker Seymer

When beginning the study of Christian Science, one may still be imbued with the man-made creed which requires an individual to think of himself as a miserable sinner, struggling to rise from a low altitude with a view to reaching heaven after death. A false premise leads to false conclusions. A negative and deluded supposition, then, is not the basis for progress.

Christ Jesus said, "No man knoweth the Son, but the Father: neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him." Through Christ, Truth, we put off the old sense of man and perceive and express our sonship, eternally established by and of Spirit, God. This view, being true, frees us from the handicaps which mortal mind, believing in stagnation or retrogression, attempts to attach to our progress.

Mrs. Eddy writes (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 82): "Infinite progression is concrete being, which finite mortals see and comprehend only as abstract glory. As mortal mind, or the material sense of life, is put off, the spiritual sense and Science of being is brought to light." Man, the expression of God, infinite good, is unhandicapped by limited capacity, fluctuation, or backsliding. His endowment is spiritual unfoldment, steadfastness, everlasting progress. And this is the endowment of all, as Christian Science reveals.

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