Article December 14, 1957 Issue

LOOK UP AT CHRISTMAS

ANNA A. VINSON

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, the Science of divine Love, teaches that since God is Spirit and man is His image and likeness, the real man lives in the spiritual universe. The understanding of this makes it possible to reverse material concepts and to replace them with their spiritual counterparts.

Christmas is an event which affords us the opportunity to reverse many material concepts. Such reversal reveals the spiritual significance of the season and the real meaning of Christmas as well. Although from the material point of view Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus, the human child, to the Christian Scientist, the true significance of Christmas is in the Christ, which Jesus demonstrated. To understand that Christmas is the coming of the Christ, the divine idea, to human consciousness is to experience individual awakening. When the awakening begins, many practices customarily indulged in at this season are ommited, and the spiritual import of Christmas is given precedence.

As one begins looking up—lifting thought—the divine Mind is seen to be the only consciousness there is. The Christ reveals the nature of the real man, God's image, who reflects Mind. When one discovers the real meaning of Christmas, he discovers the Christ-consciousness, his own true being, a perfect idea of perfect Mind.

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