Article March 15, 1975 Issue

Love Maintains Completeness

EDGAR ISAAC NEWGASS

We read in I John 4:16 that God is Love. It is through the recognition and utilization of this truth that we can even now begin to establish and enjoy perpetual intactness and completeness, even in the face of false mortal beliefs to the contrary. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes: "Being is holiness, harmony, immortality." Science and Health, p. 492;

True being, as understood in Christian Science, is a matter of wholeness (the root meaning of "holiness"), intactness, completeness, and validity—all of which appertain to each of us in his true spiritual identity. As the unlabored expression of divine Love, man has no other identity.

In the degree that we wake to our true identity, we are saved from subservience to the false arguments of material sense that would persuade us, through suggestion, that we lack things necessary for completeness and holiness. This same sense promises, indeed, that if we will but entertain its lies, this lack will be made good. But as Adam and Eve in the allegory of the Garden of Eden were to discover to their cost, material sense fails to fulfill its promises. It betrays us into mounting misery and distress. Every attempt to alleviate these by further resort to "the knowledge of good and evil" only ends in further bedevilment. "This only have I found," the Preacher sighs, "that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." Eccl. 7:29; This incomplete concept of man is never true manhood.

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