Article February 26, 1966 Issue

"Because I go unto my Father"

EMMA E. AKIN

Students of Christian Science are grateful to learn that when Christ Jesus told his disciples, '"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John 14:12), Jesus did not mean he was preparing to die. He made this clear in his declaration (Luke 20:38), "He is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him."

In a Bible Lesson in "Miscellaneous Writings" based on the words from John's Gospel quoted above, Mrs. Eddy tells us (p. 194): "The context of the foregoing Scriptural text explains Jesus' words, 'because I go unto my Father.' 'Because' in following him, you understand God and how to turn from matter to Spirit for healing; how to leave self, the sense material, for the sense spiritual; how to accept God's power and guidance, and become imbued with divine Love that casts out all fear. Then are you baptized in the Truth that destroys all error, and you receive the sense of Life that knows no death, and you know that God is the only Life."

Christian Scientists are grateful to Mrs. Eddy not only for discovering but for defining and giving to the world the true concept of God and of His spiritual creation. She explains in Science and Health (p. 470): "God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect. Man is the expression of God's being." She continues in the same paragraph: "If man has lost perfection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine Mind. If man ever existed without this perfect Principle or Mind, then man's existence was a myth."

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