THE pronouncement of Christian Science on the subject of inheritance is simple, spiritual, and always redemptive. Man's inheritance is his inseparability from God, Spirit, his reflected ability to be perfect and to live forever. Upon this basis one must immovably stand if he would throw off the burden of materiality and prove his divine freedom.
Paul said, "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." No one, then, should stoop to deplore any peculiarity, or sequence, of his birth, because human birth is totally apart from man's spiritual heritage, and can therefore neither aid nor hinder this inheritance. Whether apparently favored or unfavored in respect of genealogy, everyone is destined to find his true being, or spiritual selfhood, through the new birth, through the joy and freedom of spiritual awakening, which all may achieve by the consecrated study and application of Christian Science.
Spiritual man, endowed with God's own impeccable righteousness and immortality, has started aright and stayed right. As the idea of divine Mind, he has inherited the capacity to know the truth about himself and about all creation, and cannot for one instant be deprived of this divine ability.
