Editorial December 20, 1958 Issue

MAN AS EMANATION

Helen Wood Bauman

An emanation is that which flows out from a source. And it is as emanation that we should think of man, who is the spiritual outcome of God. The Psalmist glimpsed the great truth of man's relation to his source when he declared to God (Ps. 36:9), "With thee is the fountain of life."

Christian Science constantly stresses the fact that man is not a finite, mortal mind, but the spiritual idea of infinite, divine Mind, God. Mary Baker Eddy explains the subject in these words (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 256, 257): "Infinite Mind is the creator, and creation is the infinite image or idea emanating from this Mind."

Inspiration, invigoration, constant refreshment, and renewal come to the student of Christian Science who identifies himself as an emanation of Mind and sees the folly of accepting a frail, material body as a definition of himself. An emanation is in a constant state of activity; it issues freely from its source and expresses the character and substance of that source. And so it is with one's true identity; its spontaneity of action is due to its freedom from obstructive, inert elements. This identity, or consciousness, might be termed one's real, vital current, the "pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb" (Rev. 22:1).

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