Article March 3, 1945 Issue

Finding Paradise

WILLIAM PADGET

Milton wrote of a paradise lost and regained. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," under the marginal heading "Paradise regained" (p. 171), Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says, "Through discernment of the spiritual opposite of materiality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will reopen with the key of divine Science the gates of Paradise which human beliefs have closed, and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free, not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities either of his life or of the weather, not needing to study brainology to learn how much of a man he is." What a promise this is for spiritually hungry humanity!

The desire for paradise is a natural longing of the human heart. And the almost continuous presence of this longing hints the fact that true happiness and true bliss do exist and can be experienced by those who discover the way fully to acknowledge and discern this blessed sense of spiritual existence.

The way to paradise on earth has been thought by some men to be the way of indulgence of the five corporeal senses. But this way has been found to bring as much pain as pleasure. Indeed, it has been discovered that pleasure and pain of the material senses are partners which never can be separated, so long as one believes matter is real. To adopt one is to adopt the other. This so called mortal law of opposites obtains in the realm of human sense testimony. But when the Science of divine being comes to light it nullifies the mortal law, and supports the testimony of Spirit, wherein the law of God has no opposite.

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