Editorial March 6, 1943 Issue

Self-Completeness

Evelyn F. Heywood

When the individual awakens to the fact that he lives in a mental and not a physical world, that Spirit not matter, divine law not mortal belief, govern him, he finds not only unity but completeness within himself. "I do nothing of myself," said Jesus, disclaiming all mortal initiative and responsibility; "but as my Father hath taught me."

And what had the Father taught him? Assuredly, not dependence upon other mortals, submission to any dictum based on materiality, but dominion over every claim of evil and the power to heal both sickness and sin; the consciousness of his divine sonship, summed up in the words, "All things are delivered unto me of my Father."

The history of the human race has been the seeking of satisfaction, of fulfillment, in that which was without. According to the allegory, Adam was deprived of a rib—that he might achieve completeness, in the form of duality. But he to whom all things are delivered of the Father finds, as Mind's idea, oneness of being, unfolding in self-expression. He finds as he is taught of God, of Spirit, companionship in the awareness of giving and receiving, in friendship, in intercourse, which bring with them not personal ownership, not jealousy and competition, but universal brotherhood. He learns that he is no longer afraid of being alone, so that he can say with the calm assurance of Jesus, "I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me."

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