Editorial July 21, 1951 Issue

NO LOSS

Helen Wood Bauman

Nothing real can be lost. Even if the moral fiber of character seems to weaken and deteriorate, this is an obscuration, a clouding over of reality, and never a destruction of it. And Christian Science restores all that is good and true. Through the recognition that God is All and that the real man is incorporeal and spiritual, human consciousness is lifted above the mortal sense of life, where loss seems to take place, and the real sense is gradually attained. Christian Science reveals God's creation to be intact, the idea of Mind, eternally embraced in Mind, supported by it, and held in a perpetual state of spiritual perfection by Love's omnipotence. Death does not change this spiritual order; the deterioration of age does not affect it; nor do the scars of accident and war touch spiritual man, whose identity continues to exist in Spirit, undisturbed by the mind-pictures seeming to appear to the physical senses. The flesh, as Christian Science discloses, is an illusion evolved in the mist of false belief and sensation; it is a hypothetical reversal of the creation of God, for man is made of indestructible spiritual elements and in his Maker's likeness. Joy and love, wisdom and intelligence, justice and integrity, constitute his identity, which is eternally conscious and forever individual.

When loss of any kind seems to occur, it should be seen that the full fabric of the material sense of life is a dream from which one needs to rouse himself, and that the demonstration of spiritual life in God reveals true substance, which can never be lost or injured or destroyed. All that God is and has is available to man as His reflection. Even a glimpse of these facts comforts the apparent loser, and Love's law of compensation provides whatever is needed to prove the nearness and perfection of the Father's love. Often a restoration of the human sense of substance takes place. In every case, a higher consciousness and proof of reality are attained.

In "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy relates the sad experience of being separated from her son for many years. And she writes (p. 21): "It is well to know, dear reader, that our material, mortal history is but the record of dreams, not of man's real existence, and the dream has no place in the Science of being. It is 'as a tale that is told,' and 'as the shadow when it declineth.' The heavenly intent of earth's shadows is to chasten the affections, to rebuke human consciousness and turn it gladly from a material, false sense of life and happiness, to spiritual joy and true estimate of being."

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