Editorial October 3, 1959 Issue

MIND DISPELS THE FALSE SENSE

Helen Wood Bauman

One great lesson of the Bible is that God dispels misconceptions of Himself and His creation. Step by step Deity's self-revelation has come to mankind, informing them of the true nature of God as Love, Life, Truth, and of man, made in His likeness. To Abram, God gave the assurance (Gen. 15:1), "Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." To Moses came the voice of God declaring Himself to be the great I AM, divine Mind, the one conscious Being. And through Moses, God defined Himself as "a God of truth and without iniquity" (Deut. 32:4), whose work is perfect.

These were tremendous messages which have helped dispel ignorance and the debilitating idolatry that would impel men to fear and worship matter. Spiritual enlightenment has come to mankind with each unfoldment of real being as centuries have multiplied and spiritually minded individuals have proved the truth of God's self-revealments. The climax of this development came with the Master, Christ Jesus, who yielded fully to the self-revelation of God as Spirit and taught God's universal fatherhood and man's inseparable sonship with Him.

The Word of invisible Spirit and the power accompanying it were demonstrated by the Master, who constantly listened for the voice of Truth that he might know the will of God and obey it. Jesus applied the power of God's Word to human experience, subjugating matter and its laws to the will of the Father, which he understood as the one true law of being. He taught us to pray (Matt. 6:10), "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

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