Article January 1, 1944 Issue

Where Are We?

FREDERICK W. STRINGER

The Psalmist, when uplifted spiritually to realize man's coexistence with the infinite God, declared, "Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations."

Throughout all the generations of the dream called material existence with its loving and fearing, its loneliness, poverty, and sorrow, the ineffable grandeur of infinite Mind and its ideas has actually been the only real. In the only true consciousness or dwelling place, the fleeting illusion of life in matter has occupied not the slightest point at any time or place. Man's identity as a creation of Spirit has never known or been touched by the dream presentations of war, sin, disease, and death. God's happy family has never been depleted or separated.

The anguish of loss and separation is experienced only in the mortal illusion that we are excluded from heaven and its holy family. Thus the destruction of this mesmeric belief can take place only as this false sense of separation is displaced by the realization that our real identity is spiritual, without need or knowledge of corporeal accompaniment, and has dwelt forever in the harmonious realm of Mind.

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