Editorial October 29, 1949 Issue

MAN AS EXPRESSION

Helen Wood Bauman

In recent years, music which was lost to the world for centuries has been brought to light. Dusty shelves of old libraries have been searched for lost manuscripts, and obsolete instruments required for playing them have been restored or reproduced. Thus sound in modes and forms unheard for generations has brought fresh joy to music lovers. Without sound, the harmonies of these compositions were unrepresented—silent. But now forgotten pages live again in tone, and instruments long mute find voice in rhythmic and melodious expression.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, likens the relationship of God and man to that of harmony and sound in her book "Miscellaneous Writings." Here she says (p. 46), "In Science, man represents his divine Principle,—the Life and Love that are God,—even as the idea of sound, in tones, represents harmony." But Christian Science reveals God as perpetually represented and man as Love's constant, living expression. It brings to light the precious interrelationship of Spirit and its creation and proves through healing that there is no moment in Love's timeless history when man is less than God's active expression of good.

In Science, God and man coexist. One without the other would be incomplete and would have no entity, no reason for being. To believe that this unity can be destroyed is to believe that God can be silenced or that the harmonies of Soul can be repressed. Mrs. Eddy stresses the inseparable unity of God and man in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she writes as follows (p. 477): "Man is the expression of Soul. The Indians caught some glimpses of the underlying reality, when they called a certain beautiful lake 'the smile of the Great Spirit.'" And she explains further, "Separated from man, who expresses Soul, Spirit would be a nonentity; man, divorced from Spirit, would lose his entity." Then she declares the impossibility of such a division.

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