Article December 4, 1948 Issue

AWAKENING TO OUR HERITAGE

KENDALL D. STUART

Man is never outside the supporting arms of divine Love. This is demonstrably true because of the oneness and allness of God, divine Principle. Christ Jesus said (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one." He was the Way-shower, pointing the way to at-one-ment with our divine source, Principle, Mind. The divinely inspired revelator of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, makes it plain throughout her writings that cause and effect, God and man, are and must ever be inseparable; otherwise there would be a time when Love would be without its object, Mind without its idea, and Spirit without the image, or reflection, of God.

The logical conclusion to these unalterable truths, therefore, is that man does not change from a material to a spiritual selfhood. He does not grow from mortality into immortality. He does not pass through a stage of metamorphosis; that is, he does not emerge out of what once was a material both into a spiritual body. Man has never been less than the idea of God, divine Life.

It is our awakening to man's heritage through spiritual understanding of God and His universe which enables us to shake off false material concepts about God and man. Thus we increasingly learn more about our real individuality, our real spiritual selfhood. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 505): "Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritual good. Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal." So as we spiritualize our thinking, we acquire a higher sense of that which is real and lose the material or mortal sense of things. Only thus are we able to grasp the divine law of being and our true identity as the son of God.

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