Editorial August 13, 1966 Issue

"The solution of being"

Helen Wood Bauman

One appealing aspect of Christian Science is that it provides a solution for every type of human problem. Whether sickness or sin, poverty or hatred, crime or war is included in the human sense of existence, some truth, revealed by this Science, is present to correct it. The Principle of all being, according to Christian Science, is God, the one universal Mind. The government of divine Principle is supreme and can be demonstrated once it is understood and its laws utilized.

Christ Jesus understood the oneness and allness of God, whom he called Father. The Saviour was so conscious of the one Mind as the source of all reality that he could obliterate the impressions of the false, carnal mind—the mind of mortals—and prove the presence and control of divine Mind. In ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says, "Our Master gained the solution of being, demonstrating the existence of but one Mind without a second or equal."^{Science and Health, p. 314;}

Jesus' loyalty to the truth that there is but one Mind instead of many independent ones was the secret of his success in solving the many kinds of problems that came to his attention. We see this loyalty in action when he withdrew from the confusion and pressure of great crowds and went away to pray alone. During his lonely vigils he must have been resisting the pressure of mortal mind to make him believe in the existence of a material world inhabited by people who were mentally incapable of coping with mortality. Withdrawing from the sights and sounds of the material senses, Jesus was proving that his natural abode was in the heaven of Mind's presence. He once described himself as "the Son of man which is in heaven."^{John 3:13;} He prayed ceaselessly to maintain his understanding of the truth of Mind's oneness. How else could he have solved the problem of being?