Article March 27, 1971 Issue

Love's Law of Salvation

DENYS IRVINE

Though God loves the world, His sympathy is not human pity. It is the outpouring of the Father-Mother Love, the divine understanding, conscious of nothing but the presence of His own nature and ideal creation. His sympathy is light, which destroys the darkness of materiality, not by having any knowledge of the darkness, but because the very nature of light exposes the darkness as an illusion, a belief in the absence of light. God knows us only as immortals, as His beloved children, spiritual, perfect, whole, complete.

The law of divine Principle is at work bringing about the salvation of the human from mortality. In this salvation here and hereafter the mortal does not become immortal; but as the glorious light of God dawns, material darkness is dissolved and consciousness is progressively uplifted, renewed, regenerated.

This is the power of divine Science in action. This regeneration comes to the human consciousness purified by Spirit. It came to Mary so forcibly that she glimpsed God as the only Father. Mrs. Eddy explains in Science and Health: "Those instructed in Christian Science have reached the glorious perception that God is the only author of man. The Virgin-mother conceived this idea of God, and gave to her ideal the name of Jesus—that is, Joshua, or Saviour."^{Science and Health, p. 29;}