Editorial May 19, 1980 Issue

No encumbrances for man

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

To be unencumbered! An appealing prospect. An achievable one. We can lighten our burdens and drop them. And the responsibilities that are properly ours, we can manage more readily.

The Science of Life denies the presentation of the physical senses that man is weighed down in matter. To leave unchecked this cruel supposition about man is to live a life more or less encumbered and unfulfilled. To accept God as the Soul of man—the source of his being—is to come upon man's individuality and to foil the physical senses. As this happens, like balloonists discarding unwanted ballast, we drop the weights of material living. We begin enjoying the buoyancy and amplitude of spiritual being.

Man, seen scientifically, is never encumbered by matter and sin. As divine Life's immortal image, he is as unrestricted as Life itself. Taking this as our rationale for living, we will be freer.

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