Editorial June 30, 1951 Issue

The Kingdom Within

Helen Wood Bauman

Precepts and parables concerning the good news of heaven's nearness were often on the Master's lips as he brought home the fact that peace, abundance, and immortality are to be found within one's true consciousness. He said (Luke 17:21), "The kingdom of God is within you." His message has never lost its freshness, its vitality, its rousing inference that not outward circumstances but inward purification is the requirement for entrance into the heaven of Spirit, the consciousness of Love.

Christ Jesus showed plainly that a heavenly state of mind is linked with obedience to the Father's will. Paul put it in these words (Rom. 14: 17): "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." But with all their teaching, mortals have generally clung stubbornly to the delusion that one's harmony depends upon material circumstances and the behavior of others and that death alone can usher one into God's heaven.

Christian Science makes heaven a present possibility by showing its students how to obey the will of God through the demonstration of spiritual facts. In Science, God exists as one infinite, all-inclusive Mind; and His creation—man and the universe—is His idea, fully subservient to the Mind whose expression it is. This is the order of heaven, the truth of being, and one who lives the truth not only brings heaven to earth, but actually leaves earth for heaven—becomes conscious of the atmosphere and activity of Spirit here and now. In God's kingdom, man is spiritual. He knows only the light and harmony of divine good, and there is no kingdom but God's, no false sense to proclaim disorder, sickness, disaster, insubordination to Truth—mortality.

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