Article December 11, 1954 Issue

"IF I BE LIFTED UP"

FRANCES WILSON

"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." These words of Jesus', as recorded in John's Gospel (12: 32), spoken in reference to his forthcoming victory in the demonstration of eternal life, are meaningful and far reaching when viewed from the standpoint of Christian Science.

The exalted thought which Jesus steadfastly maintained throughout his three-year mission of healing not only brought about his own success, but was made manifest in the spiritual, moral, and physical regeneration of his faithful followers. Christ Jesus often used the word "I" in reference to his spiritual selfhood, his real identity, the Christ. He was referring to the Christ, his real selfhood, when he said (John 10: 30), "I and my Father are one." Even as he knew himself to be the Son of God, so he understood all true ideas to be at one with the Father. His thought embraced the understanding that man, in God's likeness, is already "lifted up."

Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." describing the healing method employed by the Master, writes (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."This uplifted consciousness which Jesus expressed is the true status of man, in whom the reign and oneness of perfection are recognized here and now.

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