Article July 18, 1953 Issue

"O DREAMER, LEAVE THY DREAMS"

CHARLES ROBERT RODŸK

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy makes this arresting statement (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy."

When the writer was a very new student of Christian Science, this statement was an enigma to him. The question that confronted him was always the same one, namely: "In what way did Jesus see the perfect man and with what mind was he working?" It was patent that Jesus could not have seen this perfect man with the human eye, and this indicated that his view must have been a mental one.

The first chapter of the book of Genesis records the true, or spiritual, creation. Included in this record are the statements: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness ... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them ... And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Since God's creation is "very good," when and where did evil originate? In the next chapter we read: "There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." When woman was created, we are told, God took a rib out of Adam's side with which to form Eve.

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