Article September 21, 1946 Issue

Gaining Spiritual Altitude

ELIZABETH H. MARSHMAN

In order to have clear vision ahead, a pilot often needs to take his plane to a higher altitude. If he can lift the plane high enough, he inevitably will find clear atmosphere, free from all interference and obstruction.

One day, as the writer was thinking about a problem which she was endeavoring to solve, she became aware that she had been struggling mentally to overcome all the false claims of mortal mind concerning the problem, delving deeply into the maze of mortal mind's intricate involvements, and had not been using and accepting sufficient affirmations of the truth of being. The result was that she had become more and more confused, trying to make perfection out of imperfection, harmony out of discord, instead of realizing that the real remedy lay in seeing harmonious man as the one and only man there is or ever was, not needing to be healed or improved upon in any way.

She saw that her need was to gain spiritual altitude, as it were, to lift thought above the arguments and claims of discord and disease into the clear, uninterrupted, and unobstructed vision of man's status as the perfect expression of infinite Mind, divine Love, Spirit, Soul. Did not Jesus once tell his disciples, in speaking of the utter confusion and fear that would beset mortal existence (Luke 21:28), "When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh"?

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