Editorial January 23, 1954 Issue

MAN'S INFINITE CAPACITIES

Robert Ellis Key

God is Truth, and Truth is omnipresent. God is Mind, and Mind is infinite. The belief in many persons and things is so-called mortal mind's attempt to confine man in matter, in fact, to limit God and man. But since man is the image and likeness of God, he must have infinite capacities. In our present experience we appear to be corporealities, and in accepting the evidence of the material senses we seem to have a corporeal and finite conception of existence.

Mary Baker Eddy, referring to mortal man, writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 190), "This embryonic and materialistic human belief called mortal man in turn fills itself with thoughts of pain and pleasure, of life and death, and arranges itself into five so-called senses, which presently measure mind by the size of a brain and the bulk of a body, called man."

Jesus' concept of life in Christ was not finite or localized. He once said (Matt. 8:20), "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." It is hardly conceivable that Jesus considered himself homeless. Might not his words indicate that man is not finite or localized in matter?

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