Article May 15, 1943 Issue

The Glory of Our Spiritual Being

MARJORIE C. SELLERS

To realize something of the magnitude of Jesus' demonstration in the sepulcher fills one with unbounded gratitude. The lesson it teaches can never lose its inspiration. Jesus emerged from the tomb having proved not only that hatred was impotent to destroy him but that actually his Life was Spirit. His disciples and friends were deeply saddened by what seemed a tragic end to a glorious career, until they understood how wonderfully he had triumphed over every material law.

Mary Magdalene came first to the sepulcher after the resurrection, but she did not immediately realize the full glory of the risen Saviour. In the Gospel of John we read of Mary standing "without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre." Mary looked into matter for Jesus and was bitterly disappointed. Mrs. Eddy tells us (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 119), "Mary of old wept because she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre—looked for the person, instead of the Principle that reveals Christ."

Jesus had risen above matter's claims of destruction; he had proved his spiritual individuality at one with the deathless Christ, incapable of being crucified. He had proved his unity with his Father. He knew there were not two beings, one spiritual and the other personal, living in a material body, moving in a material world, finally crucified and buried in the earth. He knew of only one being —the spiritual, which lived and moved in the realm of fetterless Mind. Mary, however, was mesmerized by the material appearance of the crucifixion and burial, and thus she failed to see reality.

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