Article October 18, 1941 Issue

Behold the Perfect Man

MARION F. BECKLER

Man is made in the image and likeness of God. Therefore he is perfect. It was through the understanding of this fact that Mary Baker Eddy restored Christian healing to the world. The man that is erring, sick, sinning, and dying is not the real man, but a false concept of false material sense. Spiritual sense beholds the perfect man, at all times, under all circumstances. To live in harmony with others, to benefit all by our presence, we must keep our eyes uplifted to behold the divine likeness. With Paul we should say, "Henceforth know we no man after the flesh."

Christian Science establishes in our thinking the spiritual vision by which the true man is seen. The Master's method of healing seems quite simple when we read the following statement by Mrs. Eddy on pages 476 and 477 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."

This spiritual vision, which directly contradicts the evidence of the material senses, is divinely inspiring. The blindness and limitation of the unillumined thought were illustrated to a student of Christian Science one summer when she was viewing, with a group of tourists in Sequoia National Park, the great tree known as one of the oldest living things. Ancient even when Christ Jesus lived upon earth, symbolizing the eternality of God's creation, it lifts its majestic head heavenward.

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