Article March 25, 1916 Issue

"The lens of Science"

BERTHA V. ZEREGA

The carnal mind, focusing its gaze within the contracted boundary of physical sense-testimony, looks through the lens of its own misconceptions and sees as real that which never has existed in Truth. From this corporeal point of view it cannot perceive "the things which God hath prepared for them that love him," for, as the apostle says, "they are spiritually discerned." Although the people who followed Jesus in such great multitudes were sorely in need of help, both physical and mental, immersed as they were in an agelong miscomprehension of God, they were unprepared to receive the spiritual, scientific teaching which the Master would so gladly have imparted to them if they had been pure and receptive enough truly to desire it. He said, "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."

Well could Jesus turn to his disciples—the little chosen group of followers who had "straightway left their nets" to become "fishers of men"—with the words, "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear." Leaving all they had, turning from the false corporeal sense of life and substance in which they had been educated, to demonstrate the Christ, Truth, embodied in the teaching of the Master, they gained a metaphysical consciousness of existence, and beheld through the lens of their spiritually chastened and uplifted thought a vision of man coexistent with his creator, and of God as the Father of all, sustaining and governing His perfect creation through spiritual laws of harmony and immortality.

Jesus inspired his disciples with the wonderful words, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." This was to be their goal,—to become so pure, so unselfed in thought, motive, and desire, so lifted above carnal, fleshly impulses, and so free from worldly ambitions of striving to be greatest, that the healing light of Love would shine through their spiritualized thought, beckoning all the weary ones of earth within the focus of its life-giving radiation. Jesus urged upon them the necessity of constant mental purgation and of increased spirituality, in order to do the healing works. After instantaneously making a demonstration in which they had failed, he remarked that "this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." He himself frequently continued all night in prayer to God. His rapt communion with the Father, fasting from a corporeal sense of things, enabled him to prove the absolute unreality of discord and disease which confronted him when he returned from these silent vigils illumined by the reflected glory of God's presence and power.

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