Editorial October 1, 1949 Issue

REALITY IS IN GOD

George Channing

"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." When the prophet Isaiah, as a spokesman for the divine creator, wrote that statement, repeated in varying phrase in the forty-fifth chapter of his book in the Bible, his last eight words encompassed total reality. His first thirteen words embraced his perception of the total requirement for individual living in the consciousness of reality.

God is all there is. There is nought else. He is infinite Mind, Spirit, Love, intelligence. He includes all the ideas by which He expresses Himself, every manifestation of Himself which collectively constitutes the universe He creates. These ideas derive their eternal existence from God, who conceives them. Individualized, they constitute the man God made. This man, the only man who exists, looks, as Isaiah phrases it, unto God. From God he receives his life and by him God makes Himself manifest.

Isaiah, gifted with a seer's insight, thus glimpsed a great spiritual fact. Addressing himself, therefore, to men and women in need of restoration to harmony and health, he urged them to conform to man's normal attitude, as he saw it, by looking unto God. This prophet, like other spiritual seers of the Old Testament, was to be followed years later by Christ Jesus, whose appearance among men as the Son of God was to reveal in clearer light the healing effect of looking to the divine creator. "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name," he said (John 16:23), "he will give it you."

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