Article March 12, 1938 Issue

"Eternal noon"

KATE W. BUCK

On page 246 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy sets forth truths which, as they are developed in one's understanding, destroy one of the special bugbears that beset mankind, namely, age, with its fretting accompaniments. She writes, "Life and its faculties are not measured by calendars." She also says in the next paragraph: "The radiant sun of virtue and truth coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun."

The entire page on which this discussion is found rings with powerful teaching regarding any and all mortal beliefs that would attempt to hold in a material form the life which reflects Life. Man is the full and complete expression of Mind, God, the eternal and infinite Life, the source of all real existence. Thus one may comprehend the eternal manhood of spiritual being. How understandingly did our clear-seeing Leader use the words "eternal noon" in referring to immortal, spiritual manhood!

We know that eternal means forever; and the application of this to the word "noon" brings the inspiring realization of man's unchanging, undimmed perfection throughout eternity. Surely, then, the words "eternal noon" metaphorically indicate that God's creation has neither beginning nor ending. What becomes of the mortal belief of age, decrepitude, mortality, when it is understood that man dwells eternally at the point of perfection, coexistent with God? There is no other man than the man God made. There would be no man at all without God. Then God is responsible for man, knowing him as perfect. There is no wearisome distance between man and God; no long, intimidating journey between a beginning and an end. That which is indivisible cannot be divided, and spiritual man and the spiritual universe are one with God, the origin and sustainer of all that really exists. This is unfailingly true, despite the mortal concept of creation, with its dream of a beginning and an end. Gloriously continuous is the creation of God, forever "undimmed by a declining sun."

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