Article June 2, 1951 Issue

FATHER-MOTHER LOVE—AND PEACE

WILLIAM GEORGE DEAKIN

Hebrew religious history and Christianity pay eloquent tribute to God as Father; the motherhood of God is a comparatively modern recognition of the true nature of the Godhead. A few decades before Mary Baker Eddy announced her discovery of Christian Science, Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister, spoke of God as Father and Mother.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy presents the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer and gives us, as the meaning of "Our Father which art in heaven," the beautiful words, "Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious" (p. 16). In the conception of one universal Father-Mother God is infinite harmony, or universal peace. To Mrs. Eddy's Love-inspired consciousness, the fact that we in reality are the sons of God was clear proof that God is both Father and Mother. Sonship entails both motherhood and fatherhood. Moreover, there is an essential corollary to the recognition of God as the only Father and Mother: since God is Spirit, His children must be spiritual, not material, and the material sense of creation is a counterfeit of the spiritual creation.

We read in the second chapter of Luke that at the coming of Jesus the shepherds who were watching their flocks by night heard the angel of the Lord saying (verses 10,11): "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy. ... For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Our Leader writes (Science and Health, p. 29), "The illumination of Mary's spiritual sense put to silence material law and its order of generation, and brought forth her child by the revelation of Truth, demonstrating God as the Father of men." Jesus was the human herald of the Christ, the spiritual idea of God, good. Christ is the Son of God, the highest evidence of Father-Mother Love.

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