Editorial May 7, 1960 Issue

THERE IS ONE MAKER

Helen Wood Bauman

In the story of Adam and Eve, which is a profound allegory exposing the ways of suppositional evil, a serpent appears to Eve with the suggestion (Gen. 3:5), "Ye shall be as gods," that is, creators, or makers. Here is the first implication that a mortal can be a maker, a lie which has led on to the belief that he can make himself, his environment, his character, his self-governing laws.

But making, creating, belongs to Deity alone. Many who believe superficially that God is One and that He is the only Maker have yet to learn that the mortal self makes its own conditions and that this false self, which is not God's likeness, must be dropped for the immortal self, which is truly created, but is never a creator.

Mary Baker Eddy made an invaluable contribution to humanity's salvation from the physical, limited sense of life when she exposed the false creating action of mortal mind. She says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 208): "A material body only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal man possesses this body, and he makes it harmonious or discordant according to the images of thought impressed upon it."

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