The great Nazarene, Christ Jesus, fully manifested the spiritual light and might of meekness. Renunciation of self-power and complete obedience to the will of God made Jesus' consciousness the actual embodiment of the divine will and of its intelligence and power. Sincere Christians, accepting Jesus as Exemplar, strive for the clarity and power his thought and life demonstrated.
In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, sets forth plainly mankind's divine ability to reflect spiritual light and might, thus subordinating the egotistical darkness of self-will, self-love, and self-justification to the will of God. Reflecting divine Mind's undeviating control over man and the universe, one becomes a law unto himself, demonstrating progressively the fullness of his inheritance as the child of God, as Mind's very idea in action.
In the Sermon on the Mount Christ Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."Matt. 5:5; Meekness kept his thought free, flexible, open to the direct impartations of divine Mind. Proving the inseparability of God and man, of Mind and idea, Jesus received directly the spiritual light and power that enabled him to heal the sick, reform the sinner, raise the dead, walk on the waters. While doing these mighty works he could say, "My burden is light,"11:30; because he acknowledged God alone as power. This meek acknowledgment enabled him to do more than any man has ever done in all the history of mankind.
