Article January 6, 1951 Issue

REMAINING ON OUR MOUNTAIN

PETER J. HENNIKER HEATON

We never need to leave the mount of vision, the spiritual revelation of God and man. Christ Jesus never left it.

This mount is not some geographical locality in some distant island or wilderness. It is not just some quiet room where we can read and think about God undisturbed, some quiet hour when we can pray in solitude. We are on it whenever we behold the spiritual idea, man in the image and likeness of God, the perfect universe declaring its perfect Maker. In speaking of John's experience on Patmos, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 561), "The Revelator beheld the spiritual idea from the mount of vision." By steadfastly entertaining in consciousness the fact that God, being perfect, created man and the universe perfect, we remain, wherever we may be, on the mount of revelation.

We read in Matthew's Gospel that as a final temptation the devil took Jesus up into a mountain and offered him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory if he would bow down and worship him. But Jesus was not impressed by this material view of the world's glory. How could he be when all his days he viewed from the mount of vision the illimitable kingdom of his heavenly Father and its true and far greater glory? Whether he was alone under the stars in prayer or in busy streets healing and teaching, his thought remained in high spiritual altitudes, from which he always saw the ordered reality of perfect man and perfect universe, harmoniously governed by the divine Principle of all, Love.

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