Article April 14, 1945 Issue

Looking Deep into Realism

LA RUE M. MURRAY

The teachings of Christian Science are daily enlightening and teaching the receptive thought how to apprehend and appreciate the indisputable legality, beauty, and virtue of spiritual facts, and to detect the unreality and illegality of their opposites, materialistic beliefs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, vividly states this truth in a thought-provoking paragraph in her textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which reads in part as follows (p. 129): "We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things. Can we gather peaches from a pine-tree, or learn from discord the concord of being? Yet quite as rational are some of the leading illusions along the path which Science must tread in its reformatory mission among mortals. The very name, illusion, points to nothingness."

God and His wholly good creation, Christian Science designates as the real, because God, or Spirit, and His reflection, spiritual man and the universe, alone are immutable and eternal. Similarly, the carnal mind and its counterfeit creation are recognized for exactly what they are—nothing claiming to be something.

The perception and acknowledgment of the substance and supremacy of spiritual good, which involves the casting out of consciousness of all that denies God's (good's) allness, is the Christianly scientific method of healing employed in Christian Science, and it is eminently practical and potent in its application to daily life. The realization of the presence and perfection of God and His ideas destroys the physical evidence of sickness, lack, fear, and all the ugly train of evil beliefs and suggestions included in mortal thought, and establishes the true consciousness of harmony, joy, and progress. Always the mental state is found to govern the material or physical.

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