Editorial July 21, 1934 Issue

"The secret place"

Violet Ker Seymer

When the Psalmist stated without reservation that "he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty," he declared absolute protection for all who consciously abide in the omnipotence of God, infinite Spirit. This, then, is our task, to understand and reflect omnipotence. Christian Science makes it clear that what appears as protection to human sense is in essence the fact of the indivisibility of God and man, Mind and its very substance—its idea.

We cannot think, then, of "the secret place" as a locality to be entered, as a place apart from other places, as a resort or refuge from surrounding evil. Neither can we think of "the secret place" as a remote haven or heaven to be reached after the change called death, for this would be a denial of man's present spiritual perfection.

On page 244 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The 'secret place,' whereof David sang, is unquestionably man's spiritual state in God's own image and likeness, even the inner sanctuary of divine Science, in which mortals do not enter without a struggle or sharp experience, and in which they put off the human for the divine." "The secret place," then, is man's true identity, which is here to be perceived and proved in so far as we enter "the inner sanctuary of divine Science." In proportion to our mental surrender of unreal concepts of creation, our vision of reality extends, with healing results. The potency of Truth unfolds to us daily the secret of real being, and so, step by step, falsity is eliminated from human consciousness: irresistible spiritual attraction defeats the purposes of animal magnetism. Through Christian Science we have learned how to set our feet in the straight and narrow way. Through invariable alertness, fidelity, God-given vision and courage, our spiritual advance can be as exact and unerring as is the teaching of Christian Science.

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