Editorial May 10, 1975 Issue

Life, Death, and Spiritual Sense

Carl J. Welz

"Spiritual sense," Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God."^{Science and Health, p. 209;} God is Life. Man is the reflection of Life. We can see man really only by using the "conscious, constant capacity to understand" Life, which is eternal and never in matter.

Spiritual sense is a faculty of the divine Mind. Insofar as we recognize ourselves as reflections of Life, God, we become conscious of this faculty and can use it. But insofar as we think of ourselves as mortals apart from God and living in matter, we cannot see spiritually. We cannot see the real man.

Now it does no good to sit as a mortal, trying to use the faculty that belongs to divine Mind and its immortal idea. A mortal will never see more than a mortal sense of existence. But as the mortal yields to the divine idea, spiritual sense becomes, to the individual, an active faculty he can use. And as he uses it, he sees man spiritually.

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