Editorial April 12, 1982 Issue

Taking possession of the body

NATHAN A. TALBOT

We've all known of instances when someone who is rather timid-mannered has let others more or less walk all over him. And then finally he has had enough! He rebels, putting an end to the imposition.

There may be occasions when each of us is a little bit like that too-tolerant individual. An example might be when the body pushes us around—when it claims to give us pain, insists we are uncomfortable, or when it takes on the wrong size and shape, or becomes immobile. Finally our time of insurrection arrives; we are no longer willing to be manhandled by the body.

Christian Science teaches us how to take possession of this body, how to rule it from a spiritually scientific standpoint. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy encourages us to rise up and refuse to be dominated by physicality—and she pinpoints the mental origin of the physique. She advises, "Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit." A few lines later she counsels, "Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against them."

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