True Causation

CHARLES V. WINN

On page 170 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we find a most profound and helpful statement. It reads, "Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others spiritual causation relates to human progress." As everyone is trying to progress along some line, it is not to be wondered at that this bold declaration has arrested the attention and earnest consideration of thousands. When its true import is firmly grasped, many striking changes in human affairs are bound to take place.

During the past few years there have been many extraordinary phenomena of an unusual nature which have engaged the thought of many students of natural science, so called, and other thinkers as well. The deeper the search the more baffling has seemed the answer, until oftentimes the so-called human mind has given up almost in despair.

To the student of spiritual Truth the solution is plain and satisfying, and can be tested on the touchstone of daily demonstration. The world, generally, believes that causation is largely, if not wholly, material; that force is physical, or at least both spiritual and material. It believes in a real material world, subject to material force, governed by material law, and inevitably subject to sin, sickness, disaster, disease, and death. Is it strange that mortals experience that which they concede to be the inevitable accompaniments of human existence?

Now, what says Christian Science? It declares, proves, demonstrates that God, Spirit, is the only cause, origin, source of all true being or existence; that God creates, sustains, and governs all creation; that God being Spirit, His universe must reflect His own nature and must be spiritual, good, perfect, complete, and harmonious; that the man of God's creating, being His offspring, must reflect God's nature and attributes, and thus is wholly spiritual, Godlike, healthy, and good; that God, Spirit, is supreme, and governs the universe through His spiritual laws, which can operate in only one way, namely, to uphold and maintain His creation in perfect order, harmony, and perfection. This being true, it inevitably follows that as we dwell more upon the spiritual facts of being and our consciousness becomes more and more permeated with the recognition of spiritual ideas, these metaphysical truths will externalize themselves in human experience, in better health, fewer disasters, and greater harmony along every line.

The revered Leader of Christian Science has declared in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 265), "The atmosphere of the human mind, when cleansed of self and permeated with divine Love, will reflect this purified subjective state in clearer skies, less thunderbolts, tornadoes, and extremes of heat and cold." Divine Love manifests itself only in loveliness; and as love and truth — spirituality — more and more govern human thinking, untoward, harmful, or disastrous conditions of mortal existence are bound to vanish. That these things still continue in a degree is no cause for discouragement. The progress made thus far by reason of applying in our daily life the spiritual facts of being, spurs us on to greater endeavor. We know that with increased spiritualization of thought the universe of God's creating will become more and more apparent. This divine creation is here and now. In it there is no pain, no disease, no accident, no misfortune, no death; and the pure in heart, those who are dwelling in this serene consciousness, are ever repeating the words of the Revelator, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."

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