Article August 20, 1949 Issue

LOVE ONE ANOTHER

CLARA T. WATSON

To love our neighbor as ourselves is not transcendental idealism. It is a divine commandment, voiced through Moses (Lev. 19:18) and reiterated by Jesus (Matt. 22:39). The measure of our obedience to this commandment is the measure of our understanding of the allness of God, good, and of man as His spiritual, perfect reflection.

Is there really any erring mortal whom we must love? In Deuteronomy (4:35) we read, "The Lord he is God; there is none else beside him." Then, if "there is none else beside him," man is not an erring mortal personality with a mind separate from God; he must be the reflection or expression of the one I AM. As we thus rightly identify ourselves and others, we begin to know man as God knows him— spiritual, sinless, without spot or blemish, and hence forever lovable and lovely.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 302), "The Science of being reveals man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect, because the Soul, or Mind, of the spiritual man is God, the divine Principle of all being, and because this real man is governed by Soul instead of sense, by the law of Spirit, not by the so-called laws of matter."

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