Article February 19, 1916 Issue

Spirit's Silent Activities

LUCY HAYS REYNOLDS

Amid the mountain heights stillness reigns supreme. With the coming of the evening hour the calm of Spirit seems to brood over all. An occasional call of a bird, the babble of running water, or the low rustle of leaves are the only sounds that are heard. Yet everywhere there is activity, from the mountain brook at one's feet to the great celestial bodies above that move through space at an almost incalculable speed. In the harmony of this silent action earth's turbulent noises are forgotten, and intuitively thought turns Godward. Pondering these beauties of nature and their silent activities, we discern through them, even if but dimly, the true universe, the activities of Mind.

"Mind revolves on a spiritual axis," Mrs. Eddy writes, "and its power is displayed and its presence felt in eternal stillness and immovable Love" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 88). In the hush of divine might creation was brought forth; in the silence of Soul the rotations and revolutions of the universe operate with unlabored energy. No harsh noises, no friction, no explosive activities of mortal law pertain to the operations of Spirit.

As spiritual thought-forces are perceived and understood they become operative in human consciousness, unfolding through reason and revelation the eternal verities of being. Silently they correct false beliefs with spiritual facts, and cause human concepts to give place to divine ideas. As this spiritual activity goes on in human thought, lives are quietly transformed and the sick are healed. Thus spiritual being is never characterized by inertia or stagnation, but rather by that divine energy which authoritatively commands the false belief of inaction to stretch forth the withered hand that it may be made whole. Its power is displayed in the calming of the storm and in the walking on the waves. Through its operation material activity gives way to spiritual activity, even as in the lonely tomb, where false belief reported the torpor of death, there was going on the great work of our Master as he "set the seal of eternity on time" (Science and Health, p. 44).

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