Article April 2, 1955 Issue

"AS FROM A SECOND BIRTH"

DOUGLAS ROBERTS

The caterpillar does not simply grow wings and become a butterfly. It passes through a transformation which finally eliminates the characteristics of an earth-bound worm. The reborn creature emerges from the cocoon to a new existence, clothed in beauty, spreading its wings above the earth, free as the summer air.

How symbolic is this transformation of the human self as it is reborn in Christian Science. This transformation from mortality to the radiance of immortality is summed up by St. Paul (I Cor. 15: 42-44), "It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body."

A mortal is of the earth, earthy. He lives in bondage to finite material sense, which is darkness, and knows nothing of spiritual sense, which is reality and actually right at hand. In his ignorance he may even deny that this true sense exists.

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