Editorial June 20, 1970 Issue

Scientific Evaluation of Mortals

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science often points to the Scriptural evaluation of man as a spiritual individual, the image and likeness of God, who is Spirit. Then it scientifically evaluates the material personality, the Adam so-called man, as something different—not a fallen man but a misrepresentation of the man who cannot fall.

To identify oneself as the offspring of Adam rather than of God is to start with the wrong foot in everything one does. But this is what mortals have been taught for many faltering, theological centuries. This false evaluation is responsible for the sins and diseases and limitations of human existence; it leads to death. Christian Science corrects the fallacy and explains how to outgrow the insistent material suggestion that man ever was a mortal—either fallen or unfallen. This Science gradually wakens those who listen to its teachings from the mesmeric dream of corporeal sense existence, for a mortal dream it is, and nothing more. This heals both sin and sickness, uplifting the human being, who is burdened by the imposition of the world belief that life is in a physical body.

Sometimes students of Christian Science obstruct their own spiritual progress by trying to waken themselves from the disturbances of sin and the pains of sickness while forgetting to rouse themselves from the deeper dream of being a material personality. So they continue to live in the general delusion of life in matter. Perhaps they still want to be mortals but mortals free from pain and limitation! This doesn't work. As long as the corporeal personality is accepted as the real self, the intensification of it expressed in suffering and other aspects of insubordination to God is likely to harass them. The possibilities and capabilities of spiritual man will remain hidden.

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