Article December 16, 1939 Issue

Spiritual Vision

MYRTLE R. BIGGINS

Happy is the man who holds to spiritual vision when dark clouds of trouble appear. Paul wrote: "When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.... For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face."

The most important thing is to see the truth, even though it be but darkly at first. And he who sees, discerns, the truth, who is even in the smallest measure conscious of spiritual reality, is blessed beyond words to express. If he but holds to this vision, his spiritual sight will grow and expand into the realization of the truth.

In early Biblical days Noah built an ark to provide safety for himself and his family, and in this they were protected from the danger without. Today, sufficient human protection must be provided while humanity is gaining a clearer sense of Truth and Love, which eventually will unite all men in one harmonious brotherhood. Even while supporting the human measures that are being taken for human safety, the Christian Scientist is learning how to build an ark, not with material supplies or by the aid of human inventions, but with spiritual truths that take possession of his consciousness and rule out the sense of fear and uncertainty, divine reality being wholly and eternally free from the beliefs of hatred, malice, greed, envy, and revenge. As we gain this true consciousness, which we are learning to do more fully through the teachings of Christian Science, not only are these false traits ruled out of our thinking, and so no longer indulged by us, but the belief of any reality in them when seeming to be expressed by others is erased from thought, and there remain in our consciousness only the facts of true being, as set forth in Mrs. Eddy's words in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468), "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

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