Editorial April 13, 1957 Issue

MAN'S DOMINION

Helen Wood Bauman

The dominion which God bestowed upon man, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, is the dominion of understanding. But Christian Science points out that man is spiritual, the image and likeness of his Maker; he is not a mortal, struggling to gain dominion over evil. The real man knows no error which needs to be overcome; he dwells in the kingdom of absolute good, where evil has no place. His dominion may be illustrated by that of the mathematician, who knows the facts, or laws, of mathematics and bears witness to the natural operation of those laws.

The human being demonstrates man's dominion in the degree that he approximates his real selfhood by understanding true concepts and God's control of all. Dominion involves obedience to God's law, and with obedience comes the power to remove from thought the conditions and experiences which do not accord with that law. A simple explanation of real law is that it is the will of God manifested universally to express good alone; it is conscious, beneficent force.

God's laws are changeless; they can never be broken, but are demonstrable as eternal truths. If they seem to be broken, this is illusion, supposition. God's laws are continuously at work in the real man, through whom the action of the one great cause and creator is manifested. Mary Baker Eddy says in "No and Yes" (p. 11), "Man has perpetual individuality; and God's laws, and their intelligent and harmonious action, constitute his individuality in the Science of Soul."

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