Article May 17, 1924 Issue

Illusion Dispelled

KATE DULLAM HAWKINS

One bright sunshiny day the writer was sitting at her open window in Switzerland looking out on a beautiful cloudless sky. It was one often seen in that country, an ever fresh joy to behold. Suddenly there appeared from behind a small house near by a cloud of thick smoke. Sometimes smoke of different colors was seen to issue, as if different materials were being burned. The smoke rose from the ground in thick dark volumes. It was interesting to watch how, as it ascended and caught the sun's rays, it gradually lessened, became more transparent, and rising higher, grew whiter and clearer, finally breaking away until every vestige of its appearance was lost and the sky stood out again as if nothing had darkened it.

Pondering over this scene, the writer perceived what a lesson in the process of thought action could be taken from it, how God—Truth, Life, and Love—was at that very moment accomplishing purifying effects, obliterating the vaporous claims of so-called mortal mind, breaking up fear and the thick cloud of error, lifting human consciousness ever higher toward the realization of spiritual facts, and through His warmth and radiance was illuminating thought until finally it would rise to the full vision of the Christ-idea, and perfect man in his oneness with his divine creator would appear.

The different colors of the issuing smoke might be said to typify the many beliefs of erring human thought, striving, by their pretentious methods, to impose themselves as something, but always terminating in nothing. As that beautiful sky finally appeared in its serene majesty, bringing a sense of relief, what joy it was to realize that there is always present the true and real, waiting for all to acknowledge it. How great is the necessity to keep vigilant watch over thought, that we offend not God nor harm the least of His little ones by wrong thoughts, but prove instead, as Mrs. Eddy tells us on page 17 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "Love is reflected in love." Deep gratitude was felt for our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and for her faithful labor and insistence in explaining to the world the healing effect of right ideas.

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