Article July 2, 1979 Issue

Seeing through the mist of physique

ARTHUR DELAU

Let's say you're walking down the street. How do you appraise the first person you see? Do you view him as a mortal? Is he a self-contained, physical being with a personal mind? So he may seem to most of the people passing by. They think of themselves in the same way. Yet this is a limiting view of others and a harmful self-judgment—a view based on the five corporeal senses.

Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, challenges the world's material view of man with this statement: "The true idea of man, as the reflection of the invisible God, is as incomprehensible to the limited senses as is man's infinite Principle."^{ Science and Health with Key to the scriptures, p. 337;}

A physical scientist's view of mankind focuses on a material body and relates the composition and energy of one's being to molecular activity and cellular reproduction. Physical research, however, is still struggling to provide humanity with freedom from sickness and deterioration. Instead of assuming energy to be physical and looking for smaller and smaller subatomic particles, the searcher should consider man and substance as existing in a dimension that cannot be found by human sight or touch or analysis. The inquirer might well consider the standard of man and substance presented by the Scriptures and made scientifically practical in Christian Science through the healing of sickness. This standard starts with Spirit, with God, who is the true source of all life and substance. Paul speaks of God as "one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."^{ Eph. 4:6;}

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