Editorial June 13, 1953 Issue

THE RESOURCES OF SOUL

Helen Wood Bauman

The moment one looks to God, Soul, for his resources, his limitations begin to lessen, for the resources of Soul are boundless, being spiritual, and they are equal to every contingency. Too often mankind do not think of this, but look only to persons or to matter for security and satisfaction. Even if all matter were available to us, our resources would be limited, because matter is a finity, having only the value that mortal belief assigns to it. God alone can actually meet a need or bestow genuine happiness. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 60), "Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul."

This truth corrects the belief that one's resources are limited to a personal sense of affection for happiness, to monetary holdings for supply, or to matter for intelligence. It teaches one to turn away from so-called material treasures and take stock of the riches of Spirit. The resources of Soul are the energies and ideas of Spirit. Demonstrating them as the natural inheritance of man, God's image, we find them transforming our present seeming human experience. There is no limit to the unselfed love one may express, the integrity of motive one is free to exercise, the purity one may manifest. These are the inward resources to which Christ Jesus alluded when he said (Matt. 12:35), "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things."

Furthermore, Christian Science reveals the unlimited spiritual concept of everything in the universe. It sets forth the true idea of home, associates, environment, supply, occupation; and once these concepts are understood and loved for the very perfection they manifest, the human sense of them is uplifted and improved. This is because spiritual understanding gradually dispels the mortal sense that views all things in a meager and false light. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 255), "In league with material sense, mortals take limited views of all things." This leads us to see that it is the physical senses—the seeming mortal perceptive faculties—that need to be understood as unreal; for all things in God's kingdom are perfect and unlimited, and it is only material perception that makes them appear otherwise. Knowing that God's ideas are ever present, we see that our task is not to create abundance, but to recognize through spiritual sense the tangible spiritual perfection of God's creation, which is never limited or conditioned in any way by our ignorance of it. Then spiritual sense demonstrates the rich resources of Soul and we drop our beliefs of limitation.

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