Article September 25, 1948 Issue

BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM

SYLVIA JOAN ALBERY

A well-known modern poet has said, "Home is where one starts from." Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," writes (p. 254), "Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven," indicating that one must change his material, limited, and variable concept of home for the realization of the ever-present spiritual realm, alias the kingdom of heaven, where man, the reflection of God, perpetually lives.

The consciousness that opens to the radiance of limitless Life and Love, to the foundation of Truth, the plan of Principle, and the eternal beauty of Soul, will find the true dwelling place to be not a material structure, but the eternal, ever-present realm of harmony, where Love abounds to bless all. In proportion as one exchanges one's human concept of home for the true, he finds the seeming evidence of lack, frustration, or overcrowding disappearing.

In seeking to establish in her own thought a true sense of home, a young student of Christian Science won her way to the consciousness of harmony even when the material conditions seemed to be a series of disjointed and overcrowded situations. Looking back on the experience, she saw that she had overcome the conditions of thought enumerated by Mrs. Eddy in the first part of her definition of "Jerusalem." These are (ibid., p. 589): "Mortal belief and knowledge obtained from the five corporeal senses; the pride of power and the power of pride; sensuality; envy; oppression; tyranny."

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