Editorial August 7, 1954 Issue

FREEDOM WITHIN

Helen Wood Bauman

Men have long realized that true freedom is within thought—freedom to obey God and to think rightly. External conditions can rob no one of this fundamental liberty; only one's own response to evil can actually enslave one. Christ Jesus said (John 8:34), "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin," and he destroyed such servitude by demonstrating that man is the Father's perfect son, the spiritual emanation of God, who is Spirit; that the son is sinless and moves in an unrestricted sense of good.

To regain freedom that seems to have been lost one needs to follow the Master in the understanding that man has never been a mortal, subject to the tyranny of despots or to the merciless impositions of the physical senses. He is God's individual reflection, the expression of His wisdom. Christian Science has brought to light this great fact which the Master demonstrated; and its students know that humanity's fundamental struggle for freedom is not with persons or with political and economic ideologies, but with the false material sense of man and life.

This Science has exposed the physical senses as unreal, as counterfeit instruments of the carnal mind—its embodiment and expression. It has done this on the basis that these senses always contradict true spiritual being and present everything and every individual in a false mortal light. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 101): "Christian Science and the senses are at war. It is a revolutionary struggle. We already have had two in this nation; and they began and ended in a contest for the true idea, for human liberty and rights. Now cometh a third struggle; for the freedom of health, holiness, and the attainment of heaven."

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