Editorial August 20, 1955 Issue

MAN'S INHERENT PURITY

Helen Wood Bauman

"Unto the pure all things are pure" (Titus 1:15). These words written by Paul have more than surface meaning to the Christian Scientist. He can well apply them to the real man, who is the sinless expression of God. All things are pure to spiritual man, because man is conscious of Spirit and its creation and of nothing else.

Man's purity is not ignorance of evil, nor is it merely untried virtue; it is the reflected essence of the Mind whose image man is. And Mind possesses purity which knows no matter, no evil, not taint of mortality, because it dwells eternally in the light of its own divine infinitude. Christ Jesus pointed to the truth of man's inherent purity when he said (Matt. 5:8), "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

Mary Baker Eddy discovered the Science of man's purity, and she sets forth the demands which Christian Science makes for proofs of that purity. She says in "Unity of Good" (p. 49): "Through the eternal reality of existence I reach, in thought, a glorified consciousness of the only living God and the genuine man. So long as I hold evil in consciousness, I cannot be wholly good." By reaching out for and finding the consciousness of God, which is one's true state, one rules evil out of thought as an entity or as a power. Moral uprightness, freedom from sin, appears in the measure that the consciousness of error and matter cease to claim importance in one's interests and God is known as All.

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