Article January 12, 1946 Issue

Dissolving False Selfhood

HOWARD J. CHAMBERS

In a short paragraph beginning on page 1 of "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy points out the blessings which accrue from the qualities of humility, meekness, and goodness. She writes as follows:

"Humility is the stepping-stone to a higher recognition of Deity. The mounting sense gathers fresh forms and strange fire from the ashes of dissolving self, and drops the world. Meekness heightens immortal attributes only by removing the dust that dims them. Goodness reveals another scene and another self seemingly rolled up in shades, but brought to light by the evolutions of advancing thought, whereby we discern the power of Truth and Love to heal the sick."

The material sense of self starts to dissolve as soon as one begins earnestly to study and apply Christian Science. It follows, therefore, as simple logic, that mortal selfhood, which consists entirely of false beliefs, disappears proportionally as these beliefs are destroyed by the recognition of the truth of being.

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