Article January 31, 1948 Issue

MAN KNOWS

ELLA H. HAY

Do we mentally or audibly rehearse occurrences that have happened in the past, or that are going on at present, or that threaten to happen in the future? In other words, Do we ruminate? Ruminating is the animal function of mastication called chewing the cud. Usage has, however, given the word a more dignified figurative meaning, namely, to meditate, muse, or ponder.

Man, the real man, made in God's image and likeness, does not ponder evil, or error, because he knows it not. He is wholly spiritual, the reflection of his Maker, and is conscious only of what is genuine and good. In her definition of man in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says, in part (p. 475): "Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God's image and likeness." She further says of man that he is "that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker."

So-called material man is a false concept of man, a concept which is given up as we gain the spiritual understanding of God and His creation in Christian Science. This understanding enables us to put off envy, fear, dishonesty, relinquish belief in material creation, dissipate mental darkness, and to express kindness, altertness, poise, and spiritual enlightenment.

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