Editorial January 2, 1960 Issue

TRUE BEING IS UNCONFINED

Helen Wood Bauman

Present-day technological successes in the breaking down of limitations imposed by matter hint humanity's instinctive realization that true being is unconfined. One can see that the mortal sense of life is completely confined to matter. However swiftly men travel about or communicate with each other, they are still chained to material bodies, means, methods, environment. And thus they will continue to be bound as long as they believe that existence is material.

But Christian Science reveals Life that knows no material limitations. This Life is God; and man, Life's expressed idea, dwells in the unrestricted consciousness of spiritual infinity. As the real man comes to light through such manifested Godlike qualities as love, truthfulness, intelligence, purity, and justice, he will be seen to be existing entirely apart from matter and never conditioned by it. Divine Science, not natural science, reveals this truth. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Pulpit and Press" (p. 4), "Who lives in good, lives also in God,— lives in all Life, through all space." And she says further: "Wait patiently on illimitable Love, the lord and giver of Life. Reflect this Life, and with it cometh the full power of being."

Christ Jesus proved man's true existence in the one Life. He dispelled the mortal sense of life as the dream that it is, the illusive realm of material sensations, which vanish at the touch of Christliness. Jesus' knowledge of man as God's spiritual son, unfettered by matter, released many a sufferer from the congested, cramped, painful conditions of the flesh that grew out of the delusion that man lives in matter and is dependent upon it for health and action and even for existence. Jesus was speaking with profoundly scientific accuracy when he said (John 6:63), "The flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."

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