Article August 14, 1954 Issue

THE HOLY COMFORTER

EDITH BAIRD ROBINSON

Mary Baker Eddy has given great spiritual light on the subject of the Holy Ghost, dispelling mystery and clarifying spiritual facts, which are fundamental in demonstrating scientific metaphysics. In"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she says (p. 332), "Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God—the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth." Throughout her writings Mrs. Eddy uses many terms in establishing a comprehensive meaning of Holy Ghost or divine Comforter—such as divine Science, spirit of Truth, divine Spirit, spirit of God, and others.

In her teaching, our Leader plainly distinguishes between Jesus and the Christ, between the human concept and the divine idea of God. This is in accord with the Master's own teaching, expressed in answer to his questioners (John 8:42), "I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me." God is the Father; Christ is the Son of God, the spiritual selfhood to which Jesus alluded. Christ is not God, but is the spirit of God, eternally expressing God in oneness with Him.

Since these truths are known only to spiritual sense, we seek to spiritualize and purify consciousness that we may understand more of the Science of God and man. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Unity of Good" (p. 52): "This Science of God and man is the Holy Ghost, which reveals and sustains the unbroken and eternal harmony of both God and the universe. It is the kingdom of heaven, the ever-present reign of harmony, already with us. Hence the need that human consciousness should become divine, in the coincidence of God and man, in contradistinction to the false consciousness of both good and evil, God and devil,—of man separated from his Maker."

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