Article August 10, 1946 Issue

"Without measure"

LESLIE BURN ANDREAE

Throughout her writings Mary Baker Eddy has shown that the absolute truths of divine Mind, Spirit, may be applied to human conditions with healing and saving results, and that the divine Love and law manifest in Jesus' works are present today. Under the marginal heading "Jesus the way-shower" she says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 30), "Born of a woman, Jesus' advent in the flesh partook partly of Mary's earthly condition, although he was endowed with the Christ, the divine Spirit, without measure." Here is a spiritual fact with which to replace the many suggestions of lack, deficiency, and discord which assail humanity, for the divine Spirit is all-embracing and all-inclusive. What an uplifting, encouraging, and inspiring thought: The unillumined human mind finds it impossible to grasp the meanings and implications of the infinitude of God and of man as His reflection. Only through spiritual sense can we understand and apply these truths to the solution of our problems. There are many who, quite sincerely, accept God's infinitude as a spiritual fact and yet believe in the reality of a so-called power, named evil, failing to see the incongruity and absurdity of this theory. It is on such illogicalities that material beliefs are shipwrecked.

Being "endowed with the Christ, the divine Spirit, without measure," man can never lack anything. Yet how often does one hear it said, "I need more understanding before I can demonstrate that," or, "I have not enough understanding to take a case and heal it." Such statements, referring to ourselves or to others, are forms of mental malpractice. They depart from the basis of man's perfection and completeness as the image and likeness of God. They limit, obscure, and hinder demonstration and spiritual growth. Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 312), "A personal sense of God and of man's capabilities necessarily limits faith and hinders spiritual understanding."

The belief of lack of any kind has its roots in a false sense of God and man. It is the belief that good is divisible and that one idea can have less of it than another. It is the belief that man is not the perfect idea of God, Spirit. It is error's claim to finitize the infinite.

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