Article October 17, 1942 Issue

True Spirituality

DOROTHY DESMOND

The student of Christian Science learns in his early study to think of spirituality in terms of Truth. On page 99 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience." In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," answering a student's inquiry as to whether she should refer to herself as an immortal idea of the one divine Mind, Mrs. Eddy replied (p. 242): "You can never demonstrate spirituality until you declare yourself to be immortal and understand that you are so. Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom."

With these statements in view, spirituality unfolds as the present actuality of man.

Occasionally one hears it said, "Let's not be too absolute, or too metaphysical about this or that." The fact is that we are being either absolute and metaphysical with regard to the universe or we are being mortally minded. There are no halfways in Principle, cause, or God. This is certainly illustrated in mathematics. Two plus two never makes three and one half or four and one quarter. It is always exactly four. The truth of being is likewise exact, accurate, and absolute, and must be understood from this standpoint, if we are to find our lives representing Spirit, God, rather than material belief or false concept.

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