Editorial December 21, 1974 Issue

Prerequisite to Life

Carl J. Welz

The goal of the Science Christ Jesus taught is the demonstration of immortal, eternal Life. Divine Life, our Father, God, is what he himself exemplified and demonstrated. His teachings included controlling, subduing, and overcoming the mortal sense of life. The sins to be put down were not just over acts but the thoughts causing and constituting such acts. But his teachings and example were far more than a system of discipline. They were the end, the destruction, of the mortal sense of life. Only when an individual had experienced the triumph of the immortal over the mortal to the point where the mortal was no more could the immortal self be realized.

Jesus said, "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."^{John 12:24;} And he illustrated the truth of this metaphor by allowing his mortal body to be crucified and buried, only to be resurrected, the graveclothes left behind. He was showing us the way to eternal Life.

Mary Baker Eddy discovered the Science Jesus taught. In it she found the relationship between Truth and the health we experience as we walk this earth. She named the Christian Science textbook, which she wrote, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Here she explains that immortal Life is God and that there is no other real Life. She shows how thoughts emanating from the divine Mind are real and thoughts seeming to come from a material brain are unreal. In fact, all evil thoughts have their origin in the belief of material life—life in matter. Disease shares this false origin with all forms of mortal malice and conflict. Death itself is a belief in something that never occurs.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Editorial

Memorizing the Nativity