Article May 24, 1969 Issue

The Safety of the Secret Place

ROSEMARY COBHAM

On an occasion when the Jews were incensed with Christ Jesus, they "rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way."  Luke 4:29, 30;

With what dramatic simplicity the Master achieved his safety! One senses the purity and tranquillity of his consciousness amidst the pushing, furious hatred that was bent on destroying him. Although, as a human being, he was in the very midst of them, his knowledge of his divine identity as the beloved Son of God made him invulnerable.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "Jesus' true and conscious being never left heaven for earth. It abode forever above, even while mortals believed it was here." Farther down the same page she continues: "The real Christ was unconscious of matter, of sin, disease, and death, and was conscious only of God, of good, of eternal Life, and harmony. Hence the human Jesus had a resort to his higher self and relation to the Father, and there could find rest from unreal trials in the conscious reality and royalty of his being,—holding the mortal as unreal, and the divine as real. It was this retreat from material to spiritual selfhood which recuperated him for triumph over sin, sickness, and death." No and Yes, p. 36; In the degree that we follow the Master, we also are safe in the secret place.

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