Article February 20, 1960 Issue

WHAT CONSTITUTES TRUE HUMILITY?

GERTRUDE E. VELGUTH

In Christian Science, true humility may well be thought of as willingness, even gladness, to forsake the misleading, limiting dictates of material, personal sense for the infinite enlightening revelations of the Christ, Truth. In proportion to our receptivity to Christ, the true idea of God, are we enabled to replace the mortal sense of existence, the dream of life in matter, with the reality of life in Spirit, God.

The carnal mind, originator of the illusive mortal sense of life, with its envies, rivalries, hatreds, resentments, and their resulting ills, prides itself as an authority. This so-called mind would, then, contest the omnipotence or allness of God, good. It haughtily resists the thought of material nothingness.

For instance, carnality would counterfeit the true sense of humility with self-abasement, sanctimoniousness, or even inferiority complexes. The supposititious mortal mind would invest sin, sickness, and death with undisputed authority rather than admit man's spiritual dominion of understanding.

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