Editorial September 17, 1949 Issue

THE INSEPARABILITY OF GOD AND MAN

George Channing

God is not separate from man, nor man from God. The unity in which cause and effect exist intact belongs forever to God and man. Mary Baker Eddy's disclosure of that fact in connection with her discovery of Christian Science stamps that discovery as the Comforter Christ Jesus promised to mankind. Comfort stems from unity, and the highest unity is at-one-ment with God. Discomfort is in separation. All the ills of humanity claiming to appear as conflict, sin, disease, death, are but the incidents of a dream encompassed in the false belief that there is distance between God and man. Christian Science wipes out this false sense of distance by exposing the dream as a dream, as an illusion, and supplying the method by which the illusion is prevented from appearing or even seeming to appear.

That is why Christian Science heals. It restores to oneness the divine Parent and child, who seem to mortal sense to have been separated, but in reality are forever united. It enthrones spiritual sense as man's consciousness, and spiritual sense knows the divine Parent as infinite Mind and man as the individualized consciousness by which infinite Mind expresses itself. Consciousness must always be inseparable from the Mind that is its source. Because he perceives that fact eternally, individual spiritual man is never afraid, never unpoised, never blinded by any sense of threat to his existence.

Knowledge of all that this includes belongs to spiritual sense in human consciousness. Spiritual Truth, recognized in human consciousness as the Christ, asserts the total presence of spiritual awareness to the exclusion of mythical mortal belief, which claims to know itself as man experiencing orphaned, unloved, unprincipled existence. Thus so-called human experience partakes of the unopposed dominion and harmony which accompany the sense of unity with the perfect Maker of man. This truth, seen by the Apostle Paul, is probably what impelled him to cry out, perhaps in indignation (Rom. 8:35), "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

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