Editorial March 27, 1948 Issue

"HE IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD"

Paul Stark Seeley

Death can be overcome! Christ Jesus' resurrection proved this. His emergence from the tomb proved that an understanding of God, eternal Mind, as the Life of man annihilates the forces that would produce death. The belief of centuries that there comes a time when man must die is no more true than the ignorant belief mortals entertained for thousands of years that the earth is flat, and that to go far out to sea would inevitably mean falling off the earth. Courageous navigators challenged and destroyed that belief. With courage born of spiritual understanding the Master challenged and disproved the mistaken belief that life can be ended by physical forces.

The Master knew that his mission included the rending of the veil of mortality "that is spread over all nations" (Isa. 25:7), and he foretold his rising after the crucifixion. Never in human history had an individual understood sufficiently man's oneness with eternal Life, God, to nullify the destructive material forces that appeared to have put an end to his life, and through his realization of man's spiritual unity with indestructible Mind demonstrated the unbreakable continuity of conscious being.

Christian Science teaches that the resurrection of Jesus foretells the eventual resurrection of all men from ignorant submission to the mortal belief that it is God's will for them to die, to the understanding of the spiritual fact that it is the law and will of God for every individual manifestation of Mind eternally to live. The modus operandi for the abolishing of death is indicated in the words and works of Jesus and amplified in the teachings of Christian Science. This Science explains the applicability of spiritual power, first to the subjugating, and then to the annihilating, of restrictive matter with the forces of God.

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