Article March 20, 1948 Issue

"THE MOUNTING SENSE"—TRUE RESURRECTION

MYRTLE B. MC COSKER

"The mounting sense gathers fresh forms and strange fire from the ashes of dissolving self, and drops the world." So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 1 of "Miscellaneous Writings." Two distinct questions may arrest the reader's thought: What is this mounting sense? and, What is the sense of self that must be reduced to ashes?

True consciousness is divine and is individualized in man. In the degree this fact is understood one is enabled to ascend to the mount of revelation, where the true selfhood of man as spiritual and perfect is seen. But before human consciousness is ready to behold this healing Christ, or true idea of God and man, it must renounce its faith in a material creation with its false material sense evidence. In the measure that this is done, thought mounts to its native atmosphere of peace, joy, and freedom.

One of the phases of false material selfhood that must be dissolved is pride. Often pride appears so innocent that we do not see it as a counterfeit quality which needs to be dissolved. We do not close our eyes to a counterfeit of any kind. Rather do we open them wide to detect and repudiate it. When humility springs up, it is possible for us to gain clearer views of the allness of God and of man as His humble witness.

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