Article March 12, 1960 Issue

MAGNIFYING GOD

GWEN M. CASTLE

Long ago in Judea a young Hebrew woman rejoiced aloud (Luke 1:46), "My soul doth magnify the Lord." The pure, illuminated sense of the Virgin-mother enabled her to conceive a child who acknowledged no earthly father. Christ Jesus, when he attained his manhood, taught his followers to accept man's spiritual sonship with God and to understand that man can never be separated from his creator.

Centuries later a devout woman, searching the Scriptures for the true sense of being, found an answer to her questioning and consecrated thought and rejoiced in a wider concept of God. Mary Baker Eddy, in her discovery of Christian Science, found that it is not possible for human thought to grasp the whole meaning of Deity by the one word, God. She realized that if the world is to be lifted out of suffering and confusion, a better understanding of God's infinitude is necessary.

Mrs. Eddy has given to mankind a magnified or enlarged concept of God. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she gives us seven synonyms for Deity, namely: Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, which came to her in the light of revelation. In this spiritual light, she saw these seven synonyms as divine and yet practical when applied to human existence, lifting it above the limitations of mortal thinking into some comprehension of true being.

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