Editorial March 6, 1965 Issue

Relating the Human to the Divine

Ralph E. Wagers

Religionists have for ages sought to relate the human to the divine—the human individual to the divine facts of being. The great obstacle has been the belief that matter and evil are realities of being. Attributing dualism to Deity, this belief assumes that Spirit is dependent upon matter for manifestation and that good, having an opposite, is not supreme, All.

Even with such a handicap, however, the steps of progress which have been made in relating the human individual to his divine source have resulted in the overcoming of many phases of restriction and limitation which had been considered necessary elements of human existence.

The marvelous life of Christ Jesus is an example of what is possible when human thought is aware of God as the one divine source of all that really exists. How may we become aware of this all-important fact? By spiritualizing our thought; that is, by responding to the spiritual idea, or Christ, which Mrs. Eddy refers to in these words (Science and Health, p. 332): "Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness." The Revelator previously had put it this way (Rev. 3:20): "Behold, if [Christ] stand at the door, and knock:: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me."

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