Article April 21, 1934 Issue

The Irradiance of One Eternal Day

ELEANOR WARNER FISH

A prism placed on a window sill, when the sun is shining, refracts the sunlight in various and pleasing colors throughout the room. This is a beautiful thing to see, for the exquisite blending of colors, the clarity and tonal quality which thus appear, are unrivaled. If, however, the prism were placed in a dark closet, it could receive and give out no light. We might liken our human consciousness to a prism. So long as we let it be darkened by mortal beliefs, it can neither receive nor express the light of divine understanding, with its radiantly beautiful hues. No one naturally desires darkness. No normal person seeks it. Each individual naturally is attracted to the light of good, and spontaneously seeks it, though he may not know just how to conduct his search. In accord with the Bible, Christian Science teaches that God is light. The Psalmist sang: "How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! ... For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light." It is the privilege of each individual to see that, being a child of God, he necessarily is abiding in the light of good and reflecting its myriad hues.

Mrs. Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 479): "We admit that black is not a color, because it reflects no light. So evil should be denied identity or power, because it has none of the divine hues." Man is conscious only of that which is good, for that is all there is of which he can be conscious. Man has no consciousness separate from God, good, for true consciousness reflects God. In proportion as we realize these truths will our human thinking lose the blackness of materiality, which includes the entire family of self—self-will, self-love, self-justification, self-consciousness, self-righteousness, self-condemnation—and express those incomparable "divine hues," loveliness, lovableness, joy, purity, peace, and poise.

Does it not behoove us to know continually, as Christian Science teaches us to do, that because materiality has no "identity or power" it has no life? Since it has no life, no reality, we do not wish to darken our thoughts or our activities with it. Rather do we desire to let our thoughts reflect the varied "divine hues" of infinite Truth, Life, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit. Spiritual light is vitalizing, irresistible. Before its illumination the darkening beliefs of lack, fear, sickness, sorrow, death vanish. In order to see the appearing of light and the consequent vanishing of darkness, we must deny evil "identity or power." We must accept God as the source of all light or good, and man as continuously reflecting divine light—only good.

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