Article April 18, 1983 Issue

Purity: pathway to freedom

DOROTHY KAPLE

Purity is considered by many today as an old-fashioned quality, but, actually, purity is never outmoded. It is an essential facet of our true nature as sons and daughters of God.

If we think of man as a sinning mortal ridden with moral blemishes, the achievement of self-purification may seem to be a hopeless task. There may be a continuing round of progress followed by retrogression. Christian Science points to a higher concept of man as the image and likeness of God, as we are taught in the first chapter of Genesis. Surely, such spiritual individuality cannot be anything but pure. The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded this Science, states: "In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry." Science and Health, p. 63.

Through Christian Science we can experience an unfolding realization of our true identity as God's man. The change this brings to our whole outlook on life leads us out of the discouraging round of progress followed by retrogression. We begin to gain more certainty of our already-established purity. Even if we begin the study as rather worldly individuals, indoctrinated with material beliefs and habits, we will inevitably discover—if we are earnest—that in truth we are God's creation, His expression of good, and include purity as an integral quality.

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