Article May 2, 1959 Issue

THE RECIPE FOR BEAUTY

HAROLD TAYLOR WEEKS

The world's notions of what constitutes beauty vary greatly. Material sense has no absolute standards. But Christian Science reveals the true sense of beauty. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says of true beauty (p. 247): "Comeliness and grace are independent of matter. Being possesses its qualities before they are perceived humanly. Beauty is a thing of life, which dwells forever in the eternal Mind and reflects the charms of His goodness in expression, form, outline, and color."

Mrs. Eddy continues farther on, "The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony."

Since true beauty is "independent of matter," it is not determined by circumstances of birth, racial beliefs, or by the whims of fashion. God gives beauty and supply abundantly and impartially, and without Him there can be no true beauty. Because matter itself is a false belief, its claim to beauty is always erroneous. Regardless of how charming it may appear to the erring mortal mind, this material sense of beauty remains a mesmeric illusion.

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