Article January 28, 1950 Issue

CLAIM YOUR TRUE PARENTAGE

CLARA LOUISE METZNER

"God is the parent Mind, and man is God's spiritual offspring." So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 336 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." This statement, understood and applied, becomes a source of healing for inharmonious relationships of every kind.

Because God is the parent Mind, any false claim regarding man's individual experience can be annihilated, for man, the child of Mind, is spiritual idea. Mrs. Eddy defines God as Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. Consequently, by the law that like produces like, man, God's offspring, is Godlike. He enjoys the heritage and blessings which result from such a relationship. This substantial relationship cannot be swept away by any false law of inharmony, fear, or ignorance. Hence, man's protection is assured by his oneness with his divine creator, and this conscious at-one-ment with God is manifest in a constantly improving sense of supply, health, and harmony.

Man's reflection of Love assures and entitles him to all of Love's beneficence, just as the sunbeam reflects all the qualities of its source, the sun. An unhappy, sick, or poor mortal presents a false picture to human sense, but a mortal has no relation to Spirit, God. Mortality is a false belief which has its supposititious source or parentage in mortal mind, nothingness. Our Leader assuringly tells her followers (ibid., p. 316), "The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship."

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