Article October 31, 1931 Issue

The Light

ERNEST C. MOSES

It is interesting to note that the word "light" in its spiritual sense is often used in the Old Testament, and that the word is employed in the New Testament as definitely illustrative of Truth. Jesus the Christ illumined human consciousness with a higher sense of Truth than it had ever known before. As John stated, "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."

How grateful Christians can be in this day that Christian Science has been revealed to mankind, so that all who thirst for spiritual understanding can obtain a clear conception of that marvelous light of Truth, which destroys darkness or error! This Science makes plain to all the spiritual fact declared by the Psalmist in his praise of God, "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." In his Gospel, John recorded the same fact when he wrote, "In him was life; and the life was the light of men."

As one obtains spiritual understanding, one sees that light metaphorically stands for divine intelligence, and that darkness, the opposite of light, is error or false material belief about God, man, and the universe. God's perfect creation is made manifest in the light of Truth, and there can be no reality in darkness; for, as God is Truth and Truth is infinite, All, there can be no error. In one of his epistles, John summed up the message which he had received through his beloved Master in these words: "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."

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