Article September 25, 1948 Issue

MAN'S HARMONY NEVER IMPAIRED

HELEN K. SCHOENHARD

Mankind generally desires harmony. It can never be found, however, within the limitations and frustrations of a false, material sense of existence. Corporeal sense claims to measure harmony with its own substanceless yardstick of intellectuality, position, wealth, prestige, ancestry, and tradition, of gratification of the physical senses, human will, and domination. Security, beauty, order, grandeur—the harmony of being—are only experienced as they are found in Soul, in the oneness of Principle and its idea.

Mankind generally looks at the material picture before its eyes and then cries, "If this circumstance were different, I could be happy!" or, "If this condition were changed or corrected, peace and harmony would be sure." What futile longing to find true happiness and harmony in human policy, ways, and means!

We can never reach a happy, right, or permanently satisfying conclusion by starting from a wrong premise. True harmony can be attained only through understanding and demonstration of the universality of good, the spiritual fact of creation as thus stated in Genesis (1: 31): "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

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