Article December 9, 1939 Issue

The Nowness of Perfection

WALTER B. KATZENBERGER

THOSE seeking a higher and more substantive understanding of God as divine Love, in order to effect the healing of an erroneous condition which has so far failed to yield to every effort made, should study the words of St. John, "Now are we the sons of God," in their full meaning. The spiritual import of this declaration was considered of the highest importance by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, since we find it included in the reading prescribed for every Sunday service in Christian Science churches throughout the world.

The affirmation of man's present state of perfection as the son of God is important because it offers a basis for the immediate demonstration of Christian Science. Every earnest seeker after Truth can readily avail himself of his God-given heritage by proclaiming his sonship now and going forth in the full expectancy of good. As the idea, the image, of God, good, man reflects only good.

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy states (p. 262): "God creates man perfect and eternal in His own image. Hence man is the image, idea, or likeness of perfection—an ideal which cannot fall from its inherent unity with divine Love, from its spotless purity and original perfection." Any suggestion or argument to the contrary can have no effect on the present perfection of man, even through we may not recognize the divine fact. When we do become conscious of man as the perfect child of the perfect Father, then this recognition will provide us with all that is good and necessary for our needs, "pressed down, and shaken together, and running over."

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