Editorial June 18, 1955 Issue

PERSONAL SENSE VERSUS SPIRITUAL SENSE

Robert Ellis Key

Personal sense is the counterfeit of spiritual sense; it is based on the frail premise of belief, whereas spiritual sense rests upon understanding. Mortal mind insists that one has a personal sense of sight, hearing, circulation, assimilation, and so on. If the human parent suffered from a belief of an impaired faculty, personal sense asserts that the child may have this disability also.

One must deny the error of this false sense and adopt spiritual sense as his rule for health and perception. In truth there is no personal sense. One might as well talk of tree sense or table sense. The only truly sensible evidence is given by spiritual sense; the only truth concerning life and perception originates and exists in God. Man is the reflection of God; therefore man expresses hearing, seeing, feeling, as senses of Spirit which is the all-knowing Truth, the omnipresent intelligence. When the allness of God is better understood, we shall claim to do nothing of ourselves but attribute all to God, the creator.

When Jesus said (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing," he attributed all power to God. His disciples and indeed a multitude of the local population witnessed his wonderful healing works. Generally speaking, they believed him to be the source of these wonders. Perhaps they accepted a personal sense of him, but this was a concept the Master repudiated. He declared (John 14:10), "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."

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