Editorial February 29, 1964 Issue

Spiritual Completeness

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science feeds the hunger of the human heart, whatever that hunger may be. One widespread hunger, especially among young people, is for companionship. They feel that nothing but marriage can satisfy them. But this is not necessarily true. The desire for marriage is often explained as merely a biological urge. But it is more than that; it has its roots in the divided man, metaphorically described in the Bible as the result of Adam's deep sleep.

To heal this artificial division produced by physical sense and typified by Adam in the Scriptural allegory, one must understand the real man, God's spiritual image and likeness, who is complete in his reflection of the Father-Mother God.

Christian Science reveals this perfect man and makes spiritual identity, which includes both masculine and feminine qualities, the basis for the healing of a sense of incompleteness and loneliness. But it also provides for the successive steps of development by which the human self will eventually rise entirely above human instincts and beliefs and reach the state described by Christ Jesus when he said (Matt. 22:30), "In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."

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