Article December 18, 1954 Issue

INDIVIDUALIZING INFINITE POWER

LEANDER M. GAETZ

"To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science." This arresting statement is made by Mary Baker Eddy in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p.160). To grasp the import of this statement is to appraise it as a pearl of great price, for who does not desire above all else to be able to "individualize infinite power"?

The real man, the spiritual man, created in the image and likeness of God, reflects this infinite power. But the human being, whose material concepts of life embrace sin, sickness, limitation, death, attains this power only as he awakens from sense to Soul and is transformed by the immortal view of life. This transformation is referred to by the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Ephesians. To them he wrote (Eph. 4:22-24), "Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and ... put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."

As a prerequisite to attaining this demonstration of infinite power we are told by Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 4), "What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds." Infinite power was abundantly possessed and gloriously demonstrated by Christ Jesus, our Example and Way-shower. He proved that divine power is as limitless and impersonal as the sun's light and is available to all.

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