Article May 29, 1937 Issue

"Fixing your gaze"

FLORENCE I. EDWARDS

Jesus said: "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." And Mrs. Eddy makes the following statement (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 261): "Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a skyward flight." These statements point to the fact that as we hold our thought to the real, the spiritual, we see only the good and eternal. As a result, our consciousness is filled with light, that is, with the spiritual understanding of Truth which destroys sin, disease, and death.

One day a student of Christian Science was sitting in her parked car on a busy street. As she sat there looking out on the left side, all she could see and hear was confusion and noise. After watching the moving traffic for a while, she felt a sense of weariness. Presently she looked to the right and saw a beautiful park with trees and lovely flowers, and a cool fountain playing in the midst. Birds were flying about. Children played on the grass. In this instance, the student had only to turn her gaze in the right direction to find a scene of peace and quiet. This taught her a beautiful lesson.

We read (ibid., p. 476): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." Where ugliness, disorder, or chaos seems to be, there is spiritual beauty for those who learn to look beyond the veil of materiality. Where sin and disease appear to mortal sense, spiritual sense beholds omnipotent Life with its healing balm.

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