Article October 1, 1910 Issue

PURITY

LOUISE FANNY BODMER.

Higher than all other children of the Alpine flora, where only a few daring tourists disturb its peace, grows the edelweiss. The flower is an emblem of purity, as the name signifies. Attempts have been made to transplant it from the lofty summits of its native soil into lower altitudes, but despite the care given the tender plants, in the few instances where it took root and grew, the flowers were but poor reminders of the beautiful white stars that grow among the rocks and snows of the Swiss Alps.

Like the edelweiss, our consciousness can only reach purity and perfection when we dwell on the mountain top, in the realm of Mind, man's native soil. It cannot be transplanted into a lower altitude, however favorable the conditions may seem. Man is the reflection of God and expresses the purity of the divine Mind, but the suppositional opposite of the divine Mind, mortal mind, would make us believe that purity can be transplanted, taken into the environment of worldly thoughts. It is, however, only by jealously guarding our mentality against all intruders that we can resist the attacks of every foe and expand in beauty on the heights of Truth.

By heeding our Leader's counsel to keep ourselves "unspotted from the world,—uncontaminated with evil" (Manual, Art. III., Sect. 1),—we can realize our rightful heritage of purity of heart; and great is the reward of this faithfulness, for Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

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