Article February 13, 1937 Issue

Meeting the Demand

[Original article in German]

NADEJDA DESSIATOFF

An inescapable demand of human existence is its preservation. According to the material senses, this preservation consists in provision for food, clothing, and shelter, which are dependent on wages or income, on climate and soil conditions, and other material circumstances. Consequently, the aspirations of individuals and peoples largely center in gaining control of material things and conditions. The paradoxes of overproduction and lack, overwork and unemployment, prove the inadequacy of material ways and means to meet satisfactorily the demand for the preservation of existence by material methods.

Christian Science is the Science of Life. It is absolute, embracing all the laws governing real existence; and all legitimate demands are satisfied if the rules of this Science are followed. On page 275 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle of all that really is."

If we apply this statement to the human concept of demand, our thought is lifted. We find that the only real demand is that given in the record of creation in Genesis: "And God said, Let there be light." What is the function of light in the material realm? To reveal what the darkness has hidden. The brighter the illumination, the more distinctly the lighted objects stand out. But what is the light that God calls forth? Christ Jesus said, "I am the light of the world;" and he also said, "Ye are the light of the world." He was referring to spiritual understanding—understanding of the spiritual and real. God, eternal Mind, has known His spiritual ideas from all eternity, and the appearing or unfolding of these ideas is creation.

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