Article June 10, 1916 Issue

God Revealed Through Man

FRANK P. EBERMAN

The writer of the epistle to the Hebrews opens that remarkable appeal for a more spiritual interpretation of Judaic symbolism with the proposition that God "hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, . . . by whom also he made the worlds." The thinker of today is thus pointed to one of the great rudimental facts of Christian Science, namely, that man reflects the power of the infinite, whereby divine Mind manifests His whole creative activity, and that therefore specifically every divine impulsion of Life, of Truth, of Love, is first of all whispered to individual consciousness in tender plea for expression, effectiveness, entity.

While as our Leader says, "Jesus' teachings and demonstrations" gave to his disciples "a faint conception of the Life which is God" (Science and Health, p. 47), they waited many days for the direct message from its infinite source, and then there came a great influx of light and power. A significant circumstance attending this revelation of divine Science which so illuminated the sense of thousands on the Pentecostal day and which is now being repeated, was that "they were all with one accord in one place." No solemn conclave had been called, no specious conventions were in force, no contract hampered, no personal ties bound them. They were there of their own desire and accord, because each man knew for himself the call of Spirit. It had not been communicated from Peter to John, nor from John to Thomas, but one and all knew only an individual unison with and drawing to God.

This same sweet appeal entered directly the individual consciousness of Abraham as he climbed Moriah's side, intent upon the sacrifice of the boy whom the angels had foretold and guarded. And so, even while the whetted blade was poised in obedience to what he undoubtedly believed to be the call of God, but which was rather a merciless dogma of his old but unforgotten Chaldaic mysticism, —

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