Article November 28, 1931 Issue

A Transparency for Truth

MARGARET J. SINCLAIR

A window, to be a clear transparency for light, must be clean, and the blind must be drawn aside; otherwise, however brightly the sun may be shining, it is impossible for the light to enter freely. The sunlight may shine upon the blind, but cannot remove the blind; the dweller in the house must do that. The instant the blind is drawn, the sun shines into the room unimpeded.

This illustrates how one may be mesmerized for a time by a false sense of material pleasure and ease, until something causes an awakening and he finds that he is not really happy, not satisfied. The darkened room resembles thought filled with evil forebodings, but perhaps not yet willing to see that such errors as selfishness, self-will, egotism, procrastination, fear, doubt, are blinding illusions that are hiding the very help and harmony that one is needing and seeking. The freeing truth, the love of God, is waiting for admission! May we humbly pray to be shown how to overcome whatever trait is a stumblingblock. False characteristics lead to much unhappiness; they are blinds that must be lifted; and as they begin to give way, and the true sense of man begins to unfold, the gleams of light grow brighter. Man, reflecting all the qualities of God,—spiritual, perfect, immutable,—has no selfhood separate from God. Therefore, he is always reflecting God's will, God's dominion, God's love, the acme of perfection.

Mrs. Eddy, on page 295 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," writes: "The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality—much error—in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun." Christian Scientists are realizing that real substance is spiritual, and that God's thoughts or spiritual ideas can melt into nothingness all illusions of belief in a substance apart from God, Spirit.

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