Article December 11, 1943 Issue

The Substantiality of Spirit

DOROTHY EILEEN HEYWOOD-DOVE

In these days of shifting human values, of rapidly changing scenes, of overrun and conquered countries, vanishing landmarks and boundaries, the challenge to find an abiding place for thought, to stabilize daily life, as well as governments and currency, is universal. To establish a basic sense of individual and collective, national and international, security has become indeed a most pressing need. The human mind, however, has proved itself unequal to the magnitude of the task which has overtaken it. It wanders aimlessly among its own fallen monuments and structures, either seeking hastily to build on inadequate foundations or resigning itself in depression and helplessness until a new regime appears. This new regime it then may either subscribe to slavishly and temporarily or else tear to shreds with critical dissatisfaction.

The great mission of Isaiah for the redemption of Israel from idolatry, infidelity, materiality is typical of the task that lies before the nations today. The remedy offered by him is that of spirituality, in obedience to the one God, the all-inclusive good.

In the remarkable fifty-fifth chapter of the book which bears Isaiah's name, the source as well as the power and purpose of thought is analyzed. The gulf between mortal mind's process of expression and that of the divine Mind is outlined in these words: "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

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