Article August 8, 1953 Issue

"THE CAMERA OF DIVINE MIND"

THOMAS LOVATT WILLIAMS

In reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the student discovers that its author, Mary Baker Eddy, sometimes uses similes derived from optics to illustrate metaphysical points. One such sentence occurs on page 264: "The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal." The marginal note is "Mind's true camera."

In scientific usage a camera is an instrument which, by means of a lens or lenses, records on a plate, a film, or a screen the picture scanned by the lens. Thus a clear representation of a scene results.

Turning to the view of creation as presented by Christian Science, we learn that God is infinite Mind and that His universe consists of ideas forever embraced in His allness and all-inclusiveness. These ideas are necessarily of the same nature as their source—spiritual, perfect, changeless, and immortal. Their perfection is a guarantee of their loveliness, and their changelessness embodies no element of destruction or decay. This is the world of reality, Mind and its ideas the established government of Principle, the verity of Love.

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