Article December 20, 1975 Issue

Our Spiritual Cue

BARBARA BLECH DUNBAR

There is an incident recorded in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (see p. 261) concerning a lame actor who hobbled to the theater every day to take part in a play and sat aching in a chair awaiting his cue. When that cue was given, he immediately rose, went on stage, and performed his part oblivious of pain. His impelling desire to perform turned his thought away from the body, to the extent that the pain and limitation were forgotten.

We can think of the Christ coming to us as our cue, telling us there is no life or substance in matter, that God made man in His image—perfect, whole, free. Mrs. Eddy tells us, "Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness." Science and Health, p. 332;

As we uplift our thought from a material sense of things—from the belief that we live in material body and are subject to all the material laws concerning it, or that we are in bondage to these laws and they cannot be broken, or that we are helpless victims and dare not hope for release—as we lift our thought above this false picture of man, we will hear the ever-present Christ. This spiritual message assures us that these so-called laws of physicality can be broken because they lack divine authority, that the mesmerism of materiality has no hold on man, God's spiritual idea; and it cannot govern us or keep us in bondage.

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