Article June 4, 1932 Issue

The Single Eye

[Original article in German]

MARGARETE KÜNDINGER

In studying the narrative, in Genesis, of the flood and Noah's deliverance, the attention of a student of Christian Science was arrested by a passage which proved to be a great help to him. On reading the description of the flood, the increasing of the waters, the picture of devastation and horror, the student was distressed by the thought that it must have been dreadful for Noah to look upon all this misery, and to witness the distress of the others, while he himself was saved; may not this have robbed him of the joy at his own deliverance?

On studying the narrative more closely the student understood why it was possible for Noah to be untouched in the midst of the turmoil. According to God's command the ark had only one window, and this window looked upwards. Since the ark floated on the waters, the destruction might not be seen from this one window. Even though Noah seemed surrounded by destruction, the ark sheltered him and his relatives, concealing from him the whole picture of destruction and misery. By implicit obedience to the injunctions of divine intelligence Noah brought about physical and mental deliverance.

Jesus once said to his followers: "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" What did Jesus indicate by this comparison? May it not mean that the "window" of our consciousness must look upward? Jesus knew that only the thought which is dwelling in God can reflect light, while the thought directed towards matter dwells in darkness, and does not see the light.

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