Editorial May 29, 1965 Issue

The Rising Human Thought

Helen Wood Bauman

One can imagine the joy of Jesus' disciples at his reappearing after the tragedy of the cross. Their blindness to his mission had prevented their realizing that he would be seen again in the flesh, unharmed by the experience of the crucifixion. The Master's statement that "the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, . . . and the third day he shall rise again" (Matt. 20:18, 19) had evidently gone unheeded. The disciples had not fathomed the full purpose of his sacrifice: to prove that man is deathless, that he is the loving Father's spiritual son that matter cannot destroy life, that the immortal has dominion over the mortal.

Now the disciples realized that there was more for them to do than they had realized. "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15) was the command of the Saviour of mankind. A rising sense of human life would result from the Master's proof that being is spiritual, and this progress would eventually lead to the awakening of all people from the illusion of life in frail flesh.

For nearly a century Christian Science has been advancing the proof of immortal life by healing the sinful, the suffering, and the impoverished and by giving those who accept Science as the governing law of their being clearer and clearer views of real life in Spirit.

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