Editorial January 17, 1948 Issue

THE ROYALTY OF BEING

L. Ivimy Gwalter

Ask anyone whom you meet in the street of one thing of which he is absolutely certain, and he will probably agree that it is his own existence. He might possibly be in doubt as to the actual existence of everyone else, but that he himself exists, he is sure.

Mary Baker Eddy defines being in very simple language in her book "No and Yes" when she writes (p. 16): "For God to know, is to be;" and in further elucidation of this statement she continues: "that is, what He knows must truly and eternally exist. If He knows matter, and matter can exist in Mind, then mortality and discord must be eternal. He is Mind; and whatever He knows is made manifest, and must be Truth." Thus Christian Science reveals that being is what God knows and that it forever evidences His nature.

Since God is infinite He knows His own completeness and perfection, and all that He knows is comprised within and expresses His infinity. Not the least component element of Mind is unknown to Mind or unexpressed, for whatever is devoid of expression is devoid of existence. In no respect, then, is being limited, finite, or mortal. Flawless Mind knows and expresses its own flawlessness. Divine Mind comprehends and reflects its own divinity, and since God, Mind, is incorporeal, that which He expresses is incorporeal, incapable alike of a sense of physicality or sensuality.

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