Article June 27, 1953 Issue

SPIRITUAL SEEING

MYRTLE A. CASH

Spiritual seeing is spiritual discernment. Spiritual discernment is manifest in the humble, spiritualized human consciousness as the ability to distinguish between the false sense of material selfhood and the true concept of man as spiritual. The consciousness cognizant of spiritual reality and of man's spiritual identity sees God as perfect Principle, or Spirit, and man as God's perfect, spiritual idea.

An understanding of perfection and of God's spiritual man and universe as the only reality resolves the imperfections of impairment and obstruction of vision into their native nothingness. Jesus said (Matt. 6:22), "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Unity of Good" (p. 60): "Christ cannot come to mortal and material sense, which sees not God. This false sense of substance must yield to His eternal presence, and so dissolve."

Mortal and material sense is mindless, unintelligent, substance-less, lacking in the spiritual receptivity and vision required for the discernment of the Christ. When the individual is humble enough to turn away from the mortal sense of man, refute its claim to being or seeing, and look through the single eye of spiritual discernment, his thought becomes a transparency for Truth. Illumined by divine intelligence, it is open to receive the Christ, which reveals the true idea of God and man.

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