The fact recorded in the Bible that Christ Jesus wore the seamless robe is no mere coincidence, but a fitting reminder to humanity. Thus were the completeness and majesty of God's representative made manifest in his daily apparel. The way in which mortal man clothes himself is an evidence of his character. It may be modest or extravagant, dignified or absurd, consistent or erratic. Sometimes clothes may play too large a part, or they may be given inadequate attention. Whichever it is, the individual is involved. It is his task to see that everything concerning him receives its appropriate thought and execution.
When men's primary purpose is to show forth the beauty of holiness, they will be able to say in the words of Job, "I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem." Then also there will be manifest in human apparel an increasing evidence of beauty and appropriateness. When the disciples beheld Jesus on the mount of transfiguration, to them even his apparel had taken on the evidence of his radiant sense of eternal being, for it is recorded that "his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them." On page 267 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy has written: "The robes of Spirit are 'white and glistering,' like the raiment of Christ. Even in this world, therefore, 'let thy garments be always white.'"
As the individual begins to lay hold of the fact that in Christian Science the perfect model in all things is the only model, he seeks more earnestly to clothe himself with the robes of Spirit. He may find that he has hitherto clothed himself with thoughts which are destructive, inimical to well-being, sick, fearful, or unloving; or that he has been unclothed, negative, indifferent, apathetic. He knows that he must learn, as did Job, to be clothed with righteousness and judgment.
