Article October 28, 1939 Issue

Vision

JOHN H. HOAGLAND

The Bible tells us of many God-inspired individuals who attained to such a degree of spiritual vision that they were enabled to perceive more than their fellow men of the true creation—to become more fully aware of spiritual reality.

It was such spiritual vision which enabled St. John to record that he "saw a new heaven and a new earth." It was this exalted quality of spiritual receptivity which enabled the Master and others to see and hear what is imperceptible to the worldly-minded.

Of the Revelator's vision of the new heaven and new earth Mary Baker Eddy asks (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 572): "Through what sense came this vision to St. John? Not through the material visual organs for seeing, for optics are inadequate to take in so wonderful a scene." She then says (p. 573) that John's revelation is "Scriptural authority for concluding that such a recognition of being is, and has been, possible to men in this present state of existence,—that we can become conscious, here and now, of a cessation of death, sorrow, and pain." Then follows this inspiring declaration by our Leader (p. 574): "This spiritual consciousness is therefore a present possibility."

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