Editorial May 16, 1964 Issue

"Be ye therefore perfect"

Ralph E. Wagers

To be perfect would seem to most individuals an impossibility. Yet the Master's command (Matt. 5: 48), "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," is one that Jesus expected us to fulfill, and certainly he would not ask us to do the impossible.

"The divine demand, 'Be ye therfore perfect,' is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable," writes Mrs. Eddy on pages 253 and 254 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Humanly speaking, we attain perfection by degrees, and this attainment is possible because in reality our true spiritual selfhood is already perfect. From the spiritual standpoint, it is natural for us to demonstrate the perfection we derive from God, the divine source of our being.

Perfection, then, is here and now the normal status of man, made in God's image and likeness, and as we yield the human sense of ourselves to the divine, the divine appears more and more right where the human seems to be. In that coincidence, attaining perfection and demonstrating it are inseparable.

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