Article April 26, 1952 Issue

PROGRESS TOWARD THE SUMMIT

DOROTHY A. EREAUT

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," under the heading "Scientific Translation of Immortal Mind," Mary Baker Eddy defines God and man as follows (p. 115):

"God: Divine Principle, Life,
Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind.
"Man: God's spiritual idea, individual,
perfect, eternal."

Perfect God and perfect man, described in the first chapter of Genesis, are apparent only to spiritual sense. In the second and following chapters of Genesis we read a very different story, that of an anthropomorphic God and a fleshly man. The first record is true; the second is a mesmeric, deflected sense of creation, the outcome of hazy, hypnotic thinking, which cannot behold the absolute and perfect. This false sense, or human concept, must be abandoned, in order that the perfection of God and man may be discerned and demonstrated as the ever-present reality.

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