Editorial March 17, 1951 Issue

NO DUALITY

Helen Wood Bauman

The first whispered suggestion of the serpent in the garden of Eden was that of duality—knowledge of good and evil. And the entire Scriptural record deals basically with the effort of mankind to destroy evil and prove the singleness, or purity, of man as God makes him, incorporeal and spiritual.

When John the Baptist prophesied the coming of Christ Jesus, he described him as one whose fan would separate the chaff from the wheat. Centuries before, Isaiah had foretold that the Messiah would "know to refuse the evil, and choose the good" (7:15). Christ Jesus fulfilled these prophesies, teaching by parable and demonstration that there is no mingling of good and evil. His parables of the wheat and tares, sheep and goats, figs and thistles, grapes and thorns, all stress the lesson of man's innate goodness and the worthlessness of the admixture of an evil mind which would produce the illusion of human beings, double-minded men.

It is by holding to the oneness, or pure spirituality, of individual man that Christian Science heals the ills of mankind, for this destroys the delusion of a dual self, a self knowing and expressing both good and evil. The real man, the individual consciousness of good, is never entirely hidden by the seeming addition of the physical senses and their material, mortal conceptions. The indestructible good that constitutes real manhood is always apparent in human beings in some measure, and it is this evidence of reality that Christian Scientists treasure and seek to preserve, for it relates the human consciousness to God and makes the infinite resources of Spirit available now. Christian Science leads mankind to the full revelation of immortal, spiritual individuality through the method of dividing between the real and the unreal and demonstrating progressively the unity or integrity of individual spiritual man.

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