Editorial March 2, 1968 Issue

God Is Not a Mystery

Helen Wood Bauman

If there is any mystery about God, it is only to those who do not realize that God and good are one. Such desirable qualities as justice, wisdom, intelligence, joy, and love are not mysterious. Any right thinker knows and respects these elements of good and many others, and he lives them in the measure that he loves them. Confusion comes, however, when one believes that good originates in people instead of in God and, in so doing, disconnects good from the Father.

Good qualities may seem to be personal possessions, but they are not. They are the expression of the one Father whom Christ Jesus worshiped. Jesus was explaining that good is not broken into fragments and not separate from its divine source when a young man addressed him as "good Master" and he replied, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Matt. 19:16, 17; And Mary Baker Eddy sums up the same subject when she says, "All that worketh good is some manifestation of God asserting and developing good." Message to The Mother Church for 1900, p. 10;

The qualities of God are individualized in the identities He creates. In fact, the divine qualities are manifested through man. They are actually mental forces that perfectly control God's offspring, His images, but are more or less hidden in the human personality by the material senses, which are blind to them. We can discern the divine character feebly shining through human beings much as we see sunlight shining through a mist. But no one thinks there is anything mysterious about good qualities. The Christian Scientist devotes himself to dispelling the mist of materiality that conceals their natural intensity.

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