Editorial March 10, 1951 Issue

PROTECT THE REVELATION

Robert Ellis Key

Through the study of language many remarkable facts have been brought to light by students of philology. A study of the original meaning of words in the Greek, Latin, Teutonic, Slavonic, and Celtic languages, for instance, has disclosed the fact that the broad outlines of the ancient religious beliefs of those races are the same. It has also been perceived that the early concepts of divinity became changed or perverted into semi-divine and half-human heroes until they degenerated into the monstrous tales of mythology. Gradually the original conception of God, however true or lofty it may have been at first, became a mythological legend, eventually fading away, sometimes in the jingle of a nursery rhyme.

If religion is divorced from revelation and placed in the keeping of mortal mind, such may be its fate. An inevitable perversion takes place, This perversion is always likely to occur in the mind of a mortal as long as mortal mind and not the divine Mind is accepted as basic. Mortal mind is a myth and can therefore only contemplate that which is fleeting and fanciful.

The revelation of Christian Science comes to redeem mortals from mortality and its beliefs. Christian Science is not made up of the opinions of mortals, nor is it the theory of any human being. It is the revelation of absolute Truth, which, in response to the world's great need, has come through one pure enough and sufficiently Christlike to receive and declare the revelation. This one is Mary Baker Eddy.

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