Article February 11, 1980 Issue

Bring them out of hiding!

CAROL CHAPIN LINDSEY

Appetites and materialistic leanings must be brought out into the light of divine Truth, unmasked, and progressively abandoned for higher desires and more spiritual allegiance. Spiritual understanding unfolds into greater spiritual understanding, and as we yield to its demands we move away from the unreal, unreasonable demands of mortal mind.

The truth of being is simple. To demonstrate it seems less so, because mortal mind, the supposed consciousness of life in matter, is self-deceived and deceiving. We can be caught up in its self deception to the point where we don't recognize that we are, in effect, fooling ourselves.

If man is mortal—so one kind of fallacious reasoning goes—he is subject to material life with all its frustrations and to the final tragedy of death; therefore, as some of the ancients have advocated in a half-desperate attempt to escape mortal confines, "Let's eat, drink, and be merry!" But do mortal actions and reactions make mortals less mortal? Do they postpone or even ameliorate the effects of mortality? When we are unblinded by self-deception, we see that the acceptance of appetites of any kind would vindicate mortality.

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