Editorial October 17, 1970 Issue

Getting Self Out of the Way

Alan A. Aylwin

Aggressiveness may appear to achieve success in many walks of life, but it spells sure defeat in the art of spiritual healing. Mary Baker Eddy makes this abundantly clear. She writes in Miscellaneous Writings, "That individual is the best healer who asserts himself the least, and thus becomes a transparency for the divine Mind, who is the only physician; the divine Mind is the scientific healer."^{Mis., p. 59;}

It is no coincidence that Christ Jesus was both the humblest man who ever lived and also history's most effective healer. His thought was at once gently subdued and powerful because of his conquest of self—his complete acknowledgment of God, divine Mind, as the Principle of his every thought and act. No one has ever achieved such self-surrender as did the Master, and consequently his words and works have become the guide and model for all who would learn the Science of Life and demonstrate its possibilities.

Jesus said that those who accepted his teachings would do the healing work he did, thus indicating that this ability is a natural component of a higher humanhood—a state of thought that is striving to leave material-mindedness and reaching for man's real identity in God, the one infinite Mind.

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