Editorial July 7, 1945 Issue

Man's True Constitution

Margaret Morrison

On page 488 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," its author, Mary Baker Eddy, asks this pertinent question: "Do the five corporeal senses constitute man?" Her comprehensive answer to this question is conclusively in the negative. She throws the light of Truth on the corporeal senses and they are seen as false mortal beliefs without substance, intelligence, or reality; without ability to cognize divine Mind and its ideas or the spiritual facts of being. She declares how these senses deceive and defraud, and she denounces them as the source of all the ills of mankind.

Our Leader shows throughout the Christian Science textbook how the acceptance of their evidence as real so perverts our concept of the character of God that all sense of His goodness and power is lost. She makes plain the fact that the physical senses do not constitute man, but pervert and hide the true nature of man. This she does with unparalleled logic, irrefutable reason, and inspired revelation. She calls to mankind, as did the prophet Isaiah. "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?"

Christ Jesus knew the unreal nature of the corporeal senses, which claim to constitute man, and healed all the ills and limitations arising from these falsities of belief. He knew and declared that that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that it can never mingle with nor usurp the place of that which is born of the Spirit, and which really constitutes man. Referring to his ministry he said, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." This light of the world has, through the revelation of Christian Science, become "a burning and a shining light," revealing that which constitutes man as the expression of God, his divine Principle.

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