Article July 27, 1940 Issue

Creation

HELEN CARLYLE MITCHELL

THE Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, says in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 255), "The mythical human theories of creation, anciently classified as the higher criticism, sprang from cultured scholars in Rome and in Greece, but they afforded no foundation for accurate views of creation by the divine Mind;" and in the same book, on page 69, she states, "The real, ideal man appears in proportion as the false and material disappears."

Anyone will concede that he did not make himself, and, if honest, will admit that the universe has not just happened, but must be the result or effect of some cause. Further, since men believe themselves to be intelligent, it logically follows that the cause of which they are the effect must be intelligent also. But, having got thus far, the average individual, upon trying to reconcile this reasonable conclusion with the apparent mutable and changeable conditions of his world, with the materiality of all that he believes about them, finds the two to be quite irreconcilable and frequently dismisses the subject as something beyond human perception. How often is the individual, in the realm of religion apart from Christian Science, driven to classify as "inscrutable" things that touch his happiness and wellbeing most nearly, and to put them on one side as things to be revealed "some day."

But at this point Christian Science provides the "foundation for accurate views of creation by the divine Mind" by encouraging the individual to go forward and prove that because he is intelligent, the logical outcome of a thinking, intelligent cause, he is in fact not material, but in his real being a wholly spiritual idea of wholly spiritual creator.

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