Editorial August 7, 1965 Issue

Restoring Faculties

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science draws a clear distinction between the material faculties of mortals, the five senses, and the spiritual faculties of man, the real man, made in God's likeness. While the former are useful and necessary in our present belief of existence, this Science shows that they must eventually give place to the purely spiritual senses, which are Mind-faculties, not dependent upon matter for existence or function.

Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 486): "Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immortality are in Spirit and understanding, not in matter,—hence their permanence."

In healing impaired sight or hearing or any other human faculty, one must understand that the problem is one of consciousness and not of physique. For it is not flesh but mortal consciousness that cognizes material concepts. A better understanding and demonstration of consciousness as divine Mind, which man reflects, is the need, and Christian Science supplies this need.

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