Editorial March 10, 1945 Issue

"Scientific man"

Margaret Morrison

The generally accepted idea of man is that he is a material organism with a mind inside controlled by and at the mercy of a variety of forces. Humanity bases its living on this altogether false and untenable premise: intelligence is subject to nonintelligence; mind is imprisoned in and limited to matter, matter being this mind's own false concept. Thus mortal man is the victim of his own false beliefs. From this false premise arise all the suppositional experiences of mankind.

Christian Science enables us to exchange supposition for Science and so to dispel the illusions arising from supposition. This Science reveals man in his true being, the manifestation of divine Mind, governed by divine Principle in immutable exactness. Christ Jesus understood and demonstrated this divine Principle, which he called "our Father," and he revealed the true nature of man as the beloved son or expression of the Father. His close friend and follower, John, has defined God as Love. Therefore the divine Principle, Love, is the Father-Mother, cause and creator, of the universe, infinite and indivisible in nature and expression.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, reasoning logically from this pure premise, saw man and the universe as purely mental or spiritual, never in any way mixed with or involved in the false suppositions of a suppositional mind claiming to be the opposite of infinity. What simple, immaculate logic bases Christian Science, and how simply and clearly that Science has been stated in its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In a marginal note on page 94 of that textbook we find the words "Scientific man." In the paragraph Mrs. Eddy says: "Jesus taught but one God, one Spirit, who makes man in the image and likeness of Himself,—of Spirit, not of matter. Man reflects infinite Truth, Life, and Love."

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