(This is the second part of an editorial concerning the crucifixion and resurrection. The first part, which appeared last month, was entitled "The shadow of the cross—a healing place.")
Resurrection. It seems far away, improbable for today. So Jesus' healings, it might appear, belong to another time, wonderful to hear about, impossible to duplicate.
Then a healing happens. Spiritualization of thought changes a physical condition and restores health. One's own existence is discovered to be spiritual, now. Immortality is glimpsed. Resurrection is experienced—in a very small way, but genuine resurrection, because a belief in matter's substance, power, reality, has yielded. In some measure spiritual understanding is seen to reign, as it did when Christ Jesus rose from the grave. And one loves him with the same awesome reverence that turned Mary's weeping into joyful recognition. "His resurrection was also their resurrection," Science and Health, p. 34. states Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health concerning his disciples, and in the Glossary of this book "resurrection" is defined thus: "Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding." Ibid., p. 593.
