Article August 11, 1917 Issue

A Ray of Light

CHARLES F. KRAFT

As one stops to consider the many viewpoints from which Mrs. Eddy has striven throughout her writings to bring to mankind a better understanding of God and His creation, he cannot fail to note the wonderful simplicity of her explanations. The human mind is however slow to grasp more than an infinitesimal part of the depths of meaning which these explanations convey.

It was years after commencing a study of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, when the writer began to see something of the depth of meaning to be found in the following statements: "As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being;" and "Man is not God, but like a ray of light which comes from the sun, man, the outcome of God, reflects God" (pp. 361, 250). In the light of these words a careful analysis of the relationship existing between the ray of light and the sun brought then and there a clearer realization of the real man's relation to God, and of his birthright of dominion, which can never be taken away.

It was readily seen that the ray of sunlight, however regarded, is neither self-created nor self-sustained. All the power, light, and warmth it possesses is in and of the sun. It has in it nothing which is not in the sun; and what is more, it cannot be deprived of a single quality which the sun has. It could neither be changed nor destroyed without changing or destroying that quality of the sun, for as the sun's reflection it is of the same nature as the sun; in fact, the sun is its very life. The ray is not the sun, but it has always coexisted with the sun, and will continue to do so, so long as the sun exists.

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