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A NEW CREATURE
By Edna Carter
From Unity, February 1915, Volume XLII, Number 2, Pgs. 134-137
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away: behold, all things are become new. *—Il Cor.
5:17.
"In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." -Gal 6:15
Unity Magazine is a herald of the New Age. It proclaims a new heaven and a new earth, new people, new conditions. This newness begins with the individual. Everyone is to be made a new creature, a new creation. Reforms of men have failed to bring about an ideal civilization because the renewing process did not begin with the individual, but sought to accomplish results by dealing with conditions instead of causes.
Veneration for the old has characterized the human race always. Certain ideas that well established race habits are necessary for the welfare of humanity have prevailed so long that it now seems almost sacrilegious to question their place in the new order of things. Jesus, Paul and John, and all who have told of the coming of the new kingdom, have taught plainly that the old must pass away, and give place for the new.
The old which is to be done away is the mortal ignorance and assumption of knowledge that has been dominant in the world since Adam.
The new which is to come is the Christ Mind. The change which is to take place in man and make of
him a "new creature," is the elimination of what the scriptural writers call mortal, or carnal mind, and the substitution of the Christ Mind. In thousands of individual all over the world this change is now taking place. Many of these have awakened to an understanding of what is going on within them, and are working consciously with the Spirit to overcome the mind of the flesh, and establish in themselves the consciousness of righteousness and power and dominion through the indwelling Christ Mind. The process by which men are set free from ignorance and error and lifted up into the Christ consciousness is called resurrection, redemption, regeneration.
It is very important that one who is in the regeneration should understand that old things must pass away, because unless he does see this he will unconsciously resist the transforming work of the Spirit. He will cling to old ideas and conditions and try to carry then into the kingdom with him. At every step of the way the command, "Watch," should be heeded. There is a subtlety about the flesh mind that makes many things that are not true pass for Truth. The mind should be ever watchful to see that all thinking is according to Divine Principle, the Absolute Truth. Not that we are to watch for error, but exactly the opposite-watch for Truth and conform to it.
A creature is something which is not self-existent, but created. The old creature which is to pass away has intelligence and substance, mind and body.
There is but one Mind, but intelligence may be expressed in limited ways and false relations.
and it is this untrue expression of intelligence that is called the "carnal mind". The mind of the flesh works in substance with a certain degree of life, and forms a body of flesh. It follows logically that the body is like the mind that forms it, and therefore it is imperfect and corruptible.
The individual builds into it not only his own thinking, but is carrying subconsciously in
every cell the thoughts of his ancestors.
The new creature also has life and intelligence, and works in substance to make a body, and this is the problem man has before him when he comes into the regeneration. Instead of limited intelligence, he takes on gradually, by a daily process of growth, the mind of Christ, which is perfect in intelligence.
He lets go of mortal ideas of life, and takes on the limitless
eternal life of Christ.
Then he works in pure, incorruptible spiritual substance and forms a new body, and becomes a new
When Paul wrote that "neither circumcision nor un-circumcision availeth," he was saying that man could not get into the kingdom of heaven by ceremonies or by eternal religion of any kind, but only by a complete transformation from the carnal to the spiritual. This transformation of course includes the body. The creature, either old or new, is not complete without its organism
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away: behold, all things are become new. *—Il Cor.
5:17.
"In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." -Gal 6:15
Unity Magazine is a herald of the New Age. It proclaims a new heaven and a new earth, new people, new conditions. This newness begins with the individual. Everyone is to be made a new creature, a new creation. Reforms of men have failed to bring about an ideal civilization because the renewing process did not begin with the individual, but sought to accomplish results by dealing with conditions instead of causes.
Veneration for the old has characterized the human race always. Certain ideas that well established race habits are necessary for the welfare of humanity have prevailed so long that it now seems almost sacrilegious to question their place in the new order of things. Jesus, Paul and John, and all who have told of the coming of the new kingdom, have taught plainly that the old must pass away, and give place for the new.
The old which is to be done away is the mortal ignorance and assumption of knowledge that has been dominant in the world since Adam.
The new which is to come is the Christ Mind. The change which is to take place in man and make of
him a "new creature," is the elimination of what the scriptural writers call mortal, or carnal mind, and the substitution of the Christ Mind. In thousands of individual all over the world this change is now taking place. Many of these have awakened to an understanding of what is going on within them, and are working consciously with the Spirit to overcome the mind of the flesh, and establish in themselves the consciousness of righteousness and power and dominion through the indwelling Christ Mind. The process by which men are set free from ignorance and error and lifted up into the Christ consciousness is called resurrection, redemption, regeneration.
It is very important that one who is in the regeneration should understand that old things must pass away, because unless he does see this he will unconsciously resist the transforming work of the Spirit. He will cling to old ideas and conditions and try to carry then into the kingdom with him. At every step of the way the command, "Watch," should be heeded. There is a subtlety about the flesh mind that makes many things that are not true pass for Truth. The mind should be ever watchful to see that all thinking is according to Divine Principle, the Absolute Truth. Not that we are to watch for error, but exactly the opposite-watch for Truth and conform to it.
A creature is something which is not self-existent, but created. The old creature which is to pass away has intelligence and substance, mind and body.
There is but one Mind, but intelligence may be expressed in limited ways and false relations.
and it is this untrue expression of intelligence that is called the "carnal mind". The mind of the flesh works in substance with a certain degree of life, and forms a body of flesh. It follows logically that the body is like the mind that forms it, and therefore it is imperfect and corruptible.
The individual builds into it not only his own thinking, but is carrying subconsciously in
every cell the thoughts of his ancestors.
The new creature also has life and intelligence, and works in substance to make a body, and this is the problem man has before him when he comes into the regeneration. Instead of limited intelligence, he takes on gradually, by a daily process of growth, the mind of Christ, which is perfect in intelligence.
He lets go of mortal ideas of life, and takes on the limitless
eternal life of Christ.
Then he works in pure, incorruptible spiritual substance and forms a new body, and becomes a new
When Paul wrote that "neither circumcision nor un-circumcision availeth," he was saying that man could not get into the kingdom of heaven by ceremonies or by eternal religion of any kind, but only by a complete transformation from the carnal to the spiritual. This transformation of course includes the body. The creature, either old or new, is not complete without its organism.
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away: behold, all things are become new. *—Il Cor.
5:17.
​
"In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." -Gal 6:15
Unity Magazine is a herald of the New Age. It proclaims a new heaven and a new earth, new people, new conditions. This newness begins with the individual. Everyone is to be made a new creature, a new creation. Reforms of men have failed to bring about an ideal civilization because the renewing process did not begin with the individual, but sought to accomplish results by dealing with conditions instead of causes.
​
Veneration for the old has characterized the human race always. Certain ideas that well established race habits are necessary for the welfare of humanity have prevailed so long that it now seems almost sacrilegious to question their place in the new order of things. Jesus, Paul and John, and all who have told of the coming of the new kingdom, have taught plainly that the old must pass away, and give place for the new.
​
The old which is to be done away is the mortal ignorance and assumption of knowledge that has been dominant in the world since Adam. The new which is to come is the Christ Mind. The change which is to take place in man and make of
him a "new creature," is the elimination of what the scriptural writers call mortal, or carnal mind, and the substitution of the Christ Mind. In thousands of individual all over the world this change is now taking place. Many of these have awakened to an understanding of what is going on within them, and are working consciously with the Spirit to overcome the mind of the flesh, and establish in themselves the consciousness of righteousness and power and dominion through the indwelling Christ Mind. The process by which men are set free from ignorance and error and lifted up into the Christ consciousness is called resurrection, redemption, regeneration.
​
It is very important that one who is in the regeneration should understand that old things must pass away, because unless he does see this he will unconsciously resist the transforming work of the Spirit. He will cling to old ideas and conditions and try to carry then into the kingdom with him. At every step of the way the command, "Watch," should be heeded. There is a subtlety about the flesh mind that makes many things that are not true pass for Truth. The mind should be ever watchful to see that all thinking is according to Divine Principle, the Absolute Truth. Not that we are to watch for error, but exactly the opposite-watch for Truth and conform to it.
​
A creature is something which is not self-existent, but created. The old creature which is to pass away has intelligence and substance, mind and body. There is but one Mind, but intelligence may be expressed in limited ways and false relations. and it is this untrue expression of intelligence that is called the "carnal mind". The mind of the flesh works in substance with a certain degree of life, and forms a body of flesh. It follows logically that the body is like the mind that forms it, and therefore it is imperfect and corruptible. The individual builds into it not only his own thinking, but is carrying subconsciously in every cell the thoughts of his ancestors.
​
The new creature also has life and intelligence, and works in substance to make a body, and this is the problem man has before him when he comes into the regeneration. Instead of limited intelligence, he takes on gradually, by a daily process of growth, the mind of Christ, which is perfect in intelligence. He lets go of mortal ideas of life, and takes on the limitless eternal life of Christ. Then he works in pure, incorruptible spiritual substance and forms a new body, and becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus
​
When Paul wrote that "neither circumcision nor un-circumcision availeth," he was saying that man could not get into the kingdom of heaven by ceremonies or by eternal religion of any kind, but only by a complete transformation from the carnal to the spiritual. This transformation of course includes the body. The creature, either old or new, is not complete without its organism.