Article April 17, 1926 Issue

"Grand pursuits"

ELEANOR FRANCES PICKMERE

Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 19, 20): "The spiritual sense of Life and its grand pursuits is of itself a bliss, health-giving and joy-inspiring. This sense of Life illumes our pathway with the radiance of divine Love." What does our Leader mean by the "grand pursuits" of "the spiritual sense of Life"? To material sense we have pursuits,—the work, the interests, the pleasures we follow,—material sense seeming to counterfeit reality. The realities, however, are the works, interests, and pleasures of divine Love; and the pursuit of these alone can be termed "grand." Truth will reveal these realities to us, spiritualizing our sense of life and glorifying our sense of activity. Spiritual existence is not inane, but joyously active beyond anything we have yet conceived.

In a measure we feel the joy of service, of helping and comforting, of bringing good to mankind; but this joy to-day is apt to be alloyed with the thought of the seemingly stupendous amount of error which needs yet to be proved unreal. To the purely spiritual consciousness, which, as our Leader says in "Unity of Good" (pp. 23, 24), "has no sense whereby to cognize evil," that consciousness to which Jesus attained in the ascension, there is no alloy, no depressing sense of error to be corrected, no sin or suffering to be healed; yet in that divine consciousness there is ceaseless activity in the unfoldment of good.

When a problem is presented to mortal consciousness, error may seem to assume large proportions, to the apparent exclusion of good. Yet a latent understanding of the allpower of Truth points thought away from error, and persistent and hopeful looking away to the divine Principle of being brings good steadily nearer to apprehension. It is then recognized that a hitherto unperceived divine idea was present to correct the error. This spiritual idea now holds and uplifts the thought, and the error disappears. The idea, which had been seemingly reversed by material sense, unfolds in all its beauty as a message from divine Mind. At this point of vision, there remains "no sense whereby to cognize evil," the consciousness of the allness of good being the only consciousness.

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