Editorial June 17, 1950 Issue

"THE HIGHEST CHRISTIANIZATION"

Helen Wood Bauman

The ultimate purpose of Christianity has become apparent with the coming of Christian Science. It is to reveal man in his primal integrity, to unveil him as God's image, as he exists eternally in heaven. Every step of spiritual advancement in religious history has tended toward this result. Mary Baker Eddy discovered man's original spiritual perfection, which is intact, and found that the discernment of anyone's real identity in Science brings about his healing and release from sinful impulses. It was her spirituality, her deep love for God and His goodness, that made this discovery possible. She says in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 15), "Nothing aside from the spiritualization—yea, the highest Christianization—of thought and desire, can give the true perception of God and divine Science, that results in health, happiness, and holiness."

The highest Christianization of thought implies the clearest understanding and presentation of Christ, God's divine idea. The master Christian fully proved his true, invisible individuality to be the Christ, the incorporeal Son of the Father, and the suppositional corporeal selfhood, which appeared to the material senses, vanished. He taught the great lesson that flesh is no part of man. Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 162), "The spiritual man, or Christ, was after the similitude of the Father, without corporeality or finite mind." Christian Science has come in our times with its message of universal perfection, proving through scientific demonstration that everyone in his real being is the incorporeal son of God.

The Christ, God's ideal, presents the divine nature, the highest nature of man. Our Leader's Christliness—her consciousness of man's purity in Spirit—made it possible for her to prove the truths of Science, which she discovered. It empowered her to sweep away the heaviness and dullness of carnality that clouded the minds of her patients, leaving them refreshed, spiritualized, healed. It quieted sense disturbances which had seemed to externalize themselves as disease and deformity and left the objects of her benefaction Christianized in a higher meaning than they had known before.

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