Article July 5, 1941 Issue

Immortal Man

ANNA STANTON LAY

The mortal beliefs which not only attach decrepitude to age and folly to youth, but even attempt to arouse social and industrial rivalry between the so-called young and old, are seen in the light of Christian Science to be utterly false. Such beliefs are part of the "heavy burdens and grievous to be borne" which mortal thought binds on mortal man. They have no part in Truth. Corporeal, erring sense, falsely depicting man as entangled in a web of evil—where youth is marred by ignorance, age depleted by weakness and loss, and young and old may be haunted by sin, disease, and death—is proved by Christian Science to be but a part of the false dream of life and intelligence in matter, an unreal supposition of an unreal sense.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." Christ Jesus declared that God is Spirit, and John proclaimed the fact that "God is love." In harmony with these statements, Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 475 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God's image and likeness."

Because man is spiritual, he reflects eternally the perfection and power of God. Man is ageless because he forever has his being in God, Mind, and therefore is without beginning or end. Time is only a mortal concept, and when understood to have no part in the eternal now of God's creation, time will be seen to have no jurisdiction over or effect on the man of God's creating. Man forever manifests complete manhood and womanhood, divine intelligence, infinite strength, all the attributes of God, the infinite divine Principle, Love.

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