Watching Point 438

438 — WATCH lest you trouble and disturb your thought, through the effort to force yourself to see beyond your present standpoint of growth. In Unity of Good Mrs. Eddy counsels students to defer the infinite query as to whether God knows error, until they can prove it. The deep points in Science become clear only as we grow and demonstrate, and we cannot force issues.

Once Mrs. Eddy told Adam Dickey that he was Spirit. This disturbed him and he replied, “No, Mother, I am spiritual.” What did Mrs. Eddy mean? Did she mean that as idea, we are Spirit, but as man, our identity is spiritual? Was she calling upon Mr. Dickey to regard himself from the standpoint of God rather than man? This was a deep point the essence of which could only be revealed to Mr. Dickey through his own further growth.