Editorial April 6, 1968 Issue

Meekness and Might

William Milford Correll

One of the essentials in the reflection of spiritual power is a recognition of the source of power. Meekness is the human concomitant of divine might. Christ Jesus constantly acknowledged God as the source of his ability to heal, and this gave him access to the might of divine Principle. He knew that man is the effect of the one great cause. When one is clear regarding the relation of God and man as cause and effect, he understands the Science of being, and divine power becomes practical in human experience.

It is the egotism of the belief of a self and source apart from God that interferes with, or obstructs, the reflection of the ability of divine Mind. On the other hand, when thought is spiritualized and the material sense of self is subordinated, the human consciousness becomes a transparency. That real man is the emanation of divine Love and has no other source or substance than God, good, becomes clearer.

This reasoning runs directly counter to the testimony of material sense, which rests on the belief of life and intelligence in matter, the opposite of Spirit. All the trouble in the world comes from this mistaken sense of origin, or cause. The egotism of material causation pits itself against the omnipotence of infinite Spirit, or the one creative power; and from the material beginnings, symbolized by the story of Adam and Eve, to the present day, there has been warfare between the Spirit and the flesh. Mrs. Eddy points to the fundamental nature of this question. In Science and Health she says: "Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others spiritual causation relates to human progress. The age seems ready to approach this subject, to ponder somewhat the supremacy of Spirit, and at least to touch the hem of Truth's garment." Science and Health, p. 170;

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