Article December 23, 1933 Issue

The Divine Vision

HERBERT W. BECK

The Bible says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Vision of what? The vision of that which is real, of that which is divinely good, of that which comes from God and is eternal! Throughout the ages people have perished because there was no vision of divine Science. The blind leaders of the blind have fallen into the ditch of despair. Because of the mesmerism of physical sense, the light of reality has not brightened their skies. Something outside and above itself is required in order that the human consciousness may be lifted above belief in error. This help must be above that materiality which is the seeming cause of our burdens. To expect matter to help us out of matter is a hopeless expectation: our help must come from the spiritual realm. If we have the true vision, we shall not seek relief in or of materiality, but shall reach up for salvation to the divine source of all good. Paul states a fact when he says, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God."

In the Old Testament we find warnings against "a vain vision," that vision which, being based upon the conjectures of mortal mind, is vain and worthless. What a failure has been the dependence upon the false promises of the metaphorical Egypt, mortal mind—a deceptive reed which has failed all who have leaned upon it! How the world turns here and there for relief, instead of striving to gain the vision of divine Science, which will lift fallen hope to fulfillment! No plan of relief can ever be successful which does not embody the action of divine Principle. It is apparent that we cannot legislate that men shall be good; neither by legislative acts can so-called good times in business be restored and kept on a permanent basis. Some laws are better than some others because they come closer to the Golden Rule; but so-called man-made laws cannot make business successful and keep it so continuously; nor can they lift thought and daily living into obedience to God.

The vision of divine Principle is needed to save the world from its fears, its depressions, its stagnation; and through this vision it will be found that the law of true success is ever ready and operative, awaiting only intelligent utilization. The rule of conduct called the Golden Rule, if practiced by the world, would establish business and economic structures upon Principle, and good times would not be subject to the ebb and flow of the tides of human hopes and fears but would be constant.

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