A Comparison

BY F. M.

We read in the Bible that "God is a Spirit," and that "In him we live, and move, and have our being."

Like much of the Bible, this was incomprehensible until a gleam of light, radiating from the grand and glorious truths of Christian Science, came to me, declaring that Mind and Spirit are synonymous.

If it is in Mind we live, move, and have our being, it must naturally follow that life is not dependent on matter, material law, or physical conditions. Since Mind cannot evolve or produce anything but thoughts, or ideas, then life and all that is life-giving must be the unfolding of the eternal facts or truths of this one all-knowing Mind.

Let us compare each individual consciousness that is dwelling in the darkness of belief that matter and material laws can support and govern life, to a plant that is shut up in a darkened room. The sunshine without is flooding all with light, and if the least little ray is let into the rooms the plant will naturally turn its leaves, so it can drink in more and more of its rightful nourishment, air, and sunshine.

That the meaning of Mind, Spirit, and God is just the same, was the ray of light that first found its way to my darkened sense, and little by little I have realized many blessings as the beliefs of sense and self have been dispelled by this wonderful Light.

The consciousness, to which a faint perception of the Truth of Being has appeared, must feel the invigorating effect. We have only to turn to it, and this light of Truth will mould and fashion us anew until we awake in His likeness. How our hearts swell with gratitude to our dear Leader for the Truth reflected and expressed in a way that is comprehensible to us in Christian Science, for we can never forget that hers was the consciousness to which this Truth appeared.

Science and Health tells us on page 335, "Had his origin and birth been wholly apart from mortal usage, Jesus would not have been appreciable to mortal mind as the Way."

Christian Science has shed a light on us that must grow brighter into the perfect day, where there is no night, for the darkness of mortal, sinful belief of life as separate and apart from God, will be destroyed, and we shall know and acknowledge no reality in that which proceeds not from the one Mind.

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