Editorial May 7, 1955 Issue

THE NECESSITY FOR INSPIRATION

Robert Ellis Key

Inspiration is an awareness of the spiritual kingdom. It is not merely an elated sense of mortal thought. It is a clear, calm conviction of God's presence expressed through the beauty, purity, and perfection of the Christ. It is the power and the authority of Truth seen in manifestation.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 547), "Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and immortal." We must relinquish the belief that man is a frail mortal living in an insubstantial structure of matter. We must adopt the truth that he exists as the manifestation of Mind and is as perfect and immortal as the Mind that made him. Inspired thought reveals the real man, and by this understanding we are lifted up from the earth to discern our heavenly and harmonious nature.

The Master said to his disciples, and his words apply to all his followers for all time (Matt. 28:20), "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." The understanding of man's spiritual existence in Christ, or Truth, is always with us. To affirm or even entertain the thought that we cannot gain inspiration is a denial of the presence of the Christ. Maybe we have not thought of it in this way, but in fact it is so. It is not our thinking that suggests this denial, but aggressive mental suggestion that would, if it could, keep one separated from his spiritual heritage.

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