Article December 23, 1939 Issue

The Brotherhood of Man

[Original article in German]

LYDIA RAMISCH

REFERRING to the one Father, God, the sole creator, and to the true brotherhood of man, the prophet Malachi asks the following momentous questions: "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?" Since God is the only creator, Father and Mother, there is in reality only one great family, God's children. But in order to be able to see the sinless and pure children of God, we must gain a clearer concept of God Himself. Mrs. Eddy gives us in her work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the following definition of God (p. 465): "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."

If we study deeply and seriously this definition of God, if we endeavor with our whole heart to understand better the glory of omnipotent Mind, there will then unfold in our consciousness the joyous certainly that man, whom God created in His likeness, is the enduring expression of Truth, Life, and Love, and "has not a single quality underived from Deity" (ibid., p. 475).

And what is the result of this enlightened understanding? Is it not the giving up of enmity, hatred, envy, and ill-will? Can the Godlike man hate or be hated? Can the idea of divine Mind, immutable good, the true man, express ill-will or envy? Does not spiritual man, the image of Love, express love constantly, and is he not always lovable? "Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother?" Because we see man falsely, as sinful, sick, hateful, vengeful, dishonest, and weak, and naturally we cannot love this hideous caricature of the true man, this unlikeness of God.

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