Editorial August 31, 1974 Issue

The Spiritual Idea of God's Motherhood

Carl J. Welz

When we fully understand what the Discoverer of Christian Science discovered, we will find a sense of completeness and purity that will eliminate many human ills.

To comprehend Mary Baker Eddy's discovery, we need to consider what she called "the spiritual idea." This was the truth of God to which the Pharisees objected and which materialists of today oppose. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy says, "Anticipating this rejection of idealism, of the true idea of God —this salvation from all error, physical and mental,—Jesus asked, 'When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?' "^{Science and Health, p. 132;}

The spiritual idea has many facets. It is, for example, the spiritual idea of sonship, as opposed to the material belief of biological reproduction; the spiritual idea of man in God's likeness, as opposed to the belief of material inheritance; Christ, God's true idea, as opposed to the mortal belief in a corporeal, anthropomorphic God; the immortal idea of generic man, as opposed to the belief of mortal personalities. The spiritual idea is what John, the Revelator, saw in his vision: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars."^{Rev. 12:1;}

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