Article April 30, 1966 Issue

True Substance and Beauty

RUTH ROBERTSEN

Much conversation today revolves around the material body— how much it weighs, what it should be fed, how much exercise it gets, and above all what shape it is in. The constant struggle of many people to gain and maintain a normal bodily weight engages much of the attention of nutritionists, and in this human effort calories and vitamins are deemed important. Keeping down one's weight by counting the calories in each mouthful of food seems a harmless routine to popular thought, but the Christian Scientist recognizes it as based on an insidious belief that ignores man's heritage, his expression of perfect health and beauty as the result of his relationship to God.

According to Christian Science, strength, health, and energy are qualities of God, Spirit, Soul, and belong to man by virtue of his coexistence with this all-encompassing Mind. This Science teaches that beauty is also a quality of Soul, manifested by all ideas, from the least to the greatest, in their expression of God's infinitude. One does not achieve beauty by any laborious methods known to mortals, such as calorie-counting and exercise, or even by attributing bodily structure to the law of heredity; beauty belongs to man, the reflection of God.

However, in order to recognize the real man's perfection as outlined by his Maker and to demonstrate this fact in a pleasing appearance on the human scene, one must refute material beliefs pertaining to food, hereditary laws, and physical changes as the result of age and chemistry.

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