Editorial March 26, 1977 Issue

Constancy Rather than Tendency

Nathan A. Talbot

Because man is created in the image of God, divine Principle, man's expression of perfection is constant. True being is invariable. It is steadfastly illustrative of good. Man's actions and thoughts never waver—never drift. Genuine individual consciousness moves neither toward perfection nor away from it but is forever at the point of perfection.

Christian Science teaches how an understanding of these facts can profoundly bless and fully heal unstable human propensities or tendencies. Those that are good are steadied while others dissolve. From the human point of view, people drift toward good or bad, are pulled toward right or wrong, tend to be influenced by true and false. Such tendencies illustrate the inherent instability of mortal mind. The very nature of mortal mind lacks stability, because it rests upon the false belief that consciousness is personal, based in a brain and subject to hereditary and environmental elements.

God, divine Principle, is infinite, absolute, and unchangeable. A wholehearted and understanding acceptance of this fact and of the implications it holds for man lifts our lives above capricious materialism. In a practical way, we see the effect of this healing power as good in our lives—first perhaps an inclination, then a constant. The Bible records, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."^{James 1:17;}

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