Article June 18, 1955 Issue

THE SPIRITUAL CAUSE

AUDREY R. WIGGINS

How often, when an endeavor is being made to overcome some physical difficulty, the physician probes deeper and deeper for the physical cause of it. Especially is this so when the condition seems obstinate in yielding to treatment. There is an arresting statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" where Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 286), "Physical causation was put aside from first to last by this original man, Jesus." Put aside! Not searched for, temporized with, or even allayed, but put aside completely. What a call to us is this dynamic statement! From what false responsibility it relieves us!

When we endeavor to help either ourselves or others to overcome some difficulty, we need to be alert that we do not associate material results with material cause. Physical causation is to be "put aside from first to last" in our work. With what confidence we can do this is shown by the results obtained from Christ Jesus' approach to disease, however serious the case was. The result of his work was always healing, quick and generally instantaneous. We therefore need not be afraid to be drastic in putting aside physical cause.

Jesus, however, did look for a cause when he was confronted by some condition, physical, mental, or moral, which called for healing. It was not the cause of disease for which he looked, nor for the cause of any discordant condition; he had already discounted, or put aside, such so-called cause. Mrs. Eddy tells us on page 313 of Science and Health, "He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause." Here we have the basis for all healing. In Genesis we read (1:1), "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." This is the fundamental cause of which we should never lose sight if we are to expect the results which Jesus obtained. We must plunge beneath the material surface of every mortal condition, whatever it may call itself, realizing that God is the only creator.

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