Editorial November 6, 1948 Issue

ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND THE HUMAN PROBLEM

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science unveils absolute truth. It interprets the words and deeds of the Master and brings to light the divine truths of God and man, which he fully proved. According to its revelation, God is one infinite, individual consciousness, absolutely good and pure. He is perfect Spirit, including no matter or limitation; invariable Love, expressing all good. He is fundamental Principle, or Father, the source of all real effect. He is divine intelligence, incomparable wisdom, ultimate reality. He is absolute Truth.

There is nothing outside the infinite knowing of this self-existent, self-complete Mind. Mary Baker Eddy says in "No and Yes" (p. 16), "For God to know, is to be; that is, what He knows must truly and eternally exist." And she adds, "He is Mind; and whatever He knows is made manifest, and must be Truth."

In this infinite, self-contained Mind, you and I exist, not as fleshly personalities, but as the spiritual expression of God's knowing. Science reveals man as divine idea, the absolute formation of Spirit, and our real identity, or consciousness, is definite, distinct, individual, as Mind's incorporeal reflection. In our real being we express no evil, but individualize God's absolute attributes—love, health, wisdom, joy—in their perpetual unfoldment of good. As Mind's perfect manifestation we have no will, no motivation, apart from Deity. This real, incorporeal, immortal state of being is ours now and ever. Nothing can disturb or destroy it, and Science brings it to light.

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