Article November 8, 1941 Issue

Universal Focus

NYDA MC CLURE

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 586) Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, defines "eyes" thus: "Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental." She also states (ibid., p. 393), "When Jesus declares that 'the light of the body is the eye,' he certainly means that light depends upon Mind, not upon the complex humors, lenses, muscles, the iris and pupil, constituting the visual organism."

An interesting and helpful light is cast upon this human faculty of seeing by consideration of various phases of the subject of lenses. An amateur's experience in learning how to adjust the lens and shutter of his camera furnishes food for thought. In cameras of the folding type one may set his lens at various points so as to limit the distance at which objects will appear sharp and distinct in his picture. Or he may adjust his lens to a point called "infinity" or "universal focus," at which the camera will picture everything near and far with equal clarity or sharpness. He learns to adjust his shutter according to the amount of light he needs.

Mortal man is prone to set his concepts of sight to certain limits. He says: "Beyond this point all is indistinct and misty; only to a certain distance can I see clearly. Certain hereditary conditions prevail so that I cannot see distant or near objects clearly." A common claim of mortal thought is that added years may affect one's sight. Thus the aggressive suggestions of mortal mind are ever arguing limitation.

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