Article October 18, 1947 Issue

LIFE

ZILPHA A. STACK

"And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him" (Gen. 5:24). Since God is Life, Enoch must have walked with Life, and he was no longer visible to those who held a concept of life as materially personal. The human sense, that which appears to see solely from the standpoint of material sense, sees only its own finite beliefs. It is not strange that Enoch's true selfhood, the expression of Life, was not visible to what is called the material senses, because the material senses never have any cognizance of God, eternal Life, and its manifestation.

This experience of Enoch is a glorious one, proving the ability of Mind to dispel the mist which, according to the mythical record of creation, "watered the whole face of the ground" (Gen. 2:6). Through our recognition of man's spiritual nature the undying reality of existence becomes apparent. Life is present, never past. And we demonstrate our oneness with eternal Life in the measure that we realize our real, our only selfhood is entirely spiritual and perfect.

In her definition of "day" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Mary Baker Eddy tells us (p. 584) that "the objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded." In our progress as Christian Scientists, the sense that material things are important or limiting, or even true, steadily lessens. Thus more of divine, reality appears. Material, cramping thoughts are displaced by a majestic sense which recognizes creation as it was "when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7).

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