Editorial November 9, 1957 Issue

FUNDAMENTALS AND ELEMENTS

Helen Wood Bauman

The spirituality of Christ Jesus enabled him to grasp the great fundamental truths of being. At the age of twelve he spoke of God as his Father, thus showing his intuitive recognition of the one First Cause. Later in his life he taught this essential truth plainly when he said (Matt. 23:9), "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." By implication this precept lifts the concept of man to spiritual stature as the son of God rather than the son of mortals, which the physical senses depict him to be.

We find another fundamental truth in Jesus' counsel in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:48), "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." These words set forth the deductive form of reasoning which Christian Science follows in arriving at powerful and healing conclusions. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 79), "If the great cause is perfect, its effect is perfect also; and cause and effect in Science are immutable and immortal."

According to the Master's teachings, it is the Father who has life in Himself and who gives life through His immortal Son, the Christ (see John 5:26). That which creates or gives life is necessarily constructive, positive, immortal, incapable of becoming destructive, negative, mortal. The creative Principle of all real existence is Truth, or Spirit.

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