In response to a question about meekness and humility, I found it difficult to cite anything in the Bible that would indicate that God Himself is meek or humble. But clearly these are good Christian qualities, even essential qualities in working out our salvation. Where do they come from, and how do they fit into the Science of being?
Meekness and humility were prominent qualities of Christ Jesus, the Way-shower. Jesus was the individual who most clearly exemplified the Christ as the true idea of God. But Jesus was human. He was born of Mary. Is this a clue that the qualities of humility and meekness are transitional qualities that support our waking to reality? They are qualities that are essential in that human consciousness most clearly reflecting the divine. In Mary Baker Eddy's analysis of the "Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind" in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the moral quality "meekness" appears in the second, or transitional, degree.See Science and Health, p. 115.
So the question: What is the source of this quality? Meekness must be a factor in recognizing the nothingness of material life and intelligence, and the allness of God. In reality there is no power or presence other than infinite Spirit.
