Editorial June 4, 1949 Issue

ON LIVING PEACEABLY WITH OTHERS

George Channing

Living peaceably with others is the manifest consciousness of living peaceably with oneself. It draws its substance, not from deference to the whims of persons, but from conformity with the will of God. It stems from conscious alignment of thought with the one Principle, divine Mind, from the recognition of the entireness of divine Spirit and of man as the idea by which Spirit expresses itself.

To human sense there appear to be qualifications upon living at peace with one's fellows, but in spiritual truth there are none. Man is forever at peace because God is at peace. God expresses Himself in terms of His peace, which passeth human understanding, and man is that expression. Paul knew this spiritual ideal, and he also knew the human necessity for striving to see it manifest. "If it be possible," he wrote to the Romans (12:18), "as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men."

How much lies in each of us to live peaceably with all men? Exactly as much as lies in each of us to live peaceably with the Mind of man, the individual's own true Mind, God. This is not to say that the degree of human necessity for traveling at times a thorny pathway, for facing and mastering the enmity and malice of mortal sense, measures the progress one is making toward knowing God. It is simply to say that one's achievement in being at peace with divine Mind makes evident his dominion over enmity and malice.

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