Article February 8, 1982 Issue

Growing toward immortality

MARY C. GEORGE

Human fallacies about aging are slowly being challenged and discounted. God's will for all His children is perpetual newness, eternally unfolding life reflected from Him, for He is Life itself. He maintains the true, spiritual selfhood of each one of us in everlasting perfection as His expression.

Most people still believe, however, that man is a physical mortal and that growing old is the will of God, part of the divine plan. But material birth, growth, and decline have nothing to do with real living or with the true, spiritual man. They belong to the mortal dream of life in matter, with its beginning and ending and accumulated false beliefs. Man has never been born into matter and so can't die out of it—or die at all. He is an immortal.

Christian Science helps us to see through false, material beliefs, one of which is that death too is part of the divine plan and the doorway to eternal life. But if divine Spirit is man's life now and forever, man can never be separated from Life. As the image and likeness of God, man always has been, for God always has been. Man can't come to an end any more than God can. The dream of living in matter is all that can come to an end. Gaining spiritual understanding step by step enables us to emerge from this false, material sense of life and discover our spiritual, deathless selfhood, because in reality we are living eternal Life now.

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