Article July 12, 1952 Issue

"TRUE HUMANHOOD"

CAROLINE B. WINGERT

Speaking as a true humanitarian and great spiritual seer, Mary Baker Eddy declares in "Unity of Good" (p. 49), "The more I understand true humanhood, the more I see it to be sinless, —as ignorant of sin as is the perfect Maker."

There is in what is called the human consciousness a basic element which is able to perceive spiritual truth. If this were not true, the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, could not be understood by mankind and would therefore be of no practical value. The human self is something more than a mere physical personality. The integrity, gentleness, purity, and loyalty manifested by human beings are basic spiritual qualities pertaining to man's real identity. These and kindred spiritual qualities, which are in no way linked to mortal ancestry, constitute man's divine nature, the spirit of the Christ, which alone can rule out of human experience all effects of the anti-Christ, or sin.

Christ Jesus was the perfect example of true and sinless human-hood. Never did the Master ignore the needs of the human body, but he consigned to oblivion the false beliefs concerning body by revealing the true nature of body as the embodiment of indestructible spiritual ideas, as the immortal evidence of Spirit. "The highest earthly representative of God, speaking of human ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time: 'He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also,'" writes Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 52). To do these works it is essential that the completeness and wholeness of body be understood as the reflection of Spirit, for we experience what we think and truly understand. Did not the Master indicate as much when he said (Matt. 6:22), "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light"? The natural sequence of single mindedness is wholeness and stability, the well-being which has its foundation in God, good.

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