Editorial June 15, 1946 Issue

The Inheritance of the Meek

Margaret Morrison

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." This beatific, promise given by Christ Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount seems paradoxical to the human mind. It is quite generally regarded with cynicism and scoffed at as a bit of impractical religious sentiment. This is because the human mind defines all things from its own false premise of materiality and regards meekness as weakness, lack of will, of self-assertiveness, or self-determination. This is not the meekness taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus. His meekness was the complete surrender of self, of the belief of either human weakness or strength, that the power of divine Principle might fully operate as consciousness. Nothing less than this meekness can make manifest the might of Mind, the nobility of Soul, and the undying substance of Spirit. God. Meekness in truth gives power over error. He who is meek before Principle is mighty before men.

On page 1 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Meekness heightens immortal attributes only by removing the dust that dims them." What is this dust but materiality; the belief of life and intelligence apart from Spirit; personal aims and desires, abilities or disabilities? True meekness or scientific humility removes the dust of material belief from consciousness; the dust of fear, of self-depreciation or self-glorification. It reveals the ability of Mind, the activity of divine intelligence, the immortal attribute of power forever reflected by man in Mind's likeness. True meekness, which acknowledges the allness of Principle, will remove the dust of personal sense from the consciousness of anyone who cherishes that meekness and exercises its radiant power.

This radiant meekness will remove the dust of self-will, aggressiveness, or domination from one's own thought and consequently from that of his associates. As one exercises this meekness he acknowledges only one will, the good will of God, which governs all with equal immutability and equal blessing. Thus true meekness increases one's understanding of God his capabilities, his freedom, his substance, his safety. A wise Christian Scientist has said, "We are safe if, like our great Example, we are 'meek and lowly in heart.' Why? Because then we know Love, which is life."

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