Article September 19, 1953 Issue

COMPREHENDING THE SPIRITUAL COSMOS

KATHERINE H. GUEST

The writer and a friend watched one evening by a southern sea the brief twilight of the tropics fade into night as the stars began to appear. After a time the friend asked, "Can one imagine what lies beyond the visible stars—beyond the most distant stars measured by light years—and endlessly on and on?" Silence prevailed until the writer had mentally turned the pages of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and the satisfying answer came (p. 520): "The depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love fill all space. That is enough!" The friend was grateful, as was the writer, for the answer. How clearly the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science in these few words revealed the divine idea of the cosmos.

As he views this pageant of harmony the thoughts of a Christian Scientist turn naturally from physics to metaphysics, from matter to Mind, because he knows that it is infinite Mind that moves all in perfect harmony and that however marvelous, vast, and ancient the planetary system may seem to finite human comprehension, the material universe can be neither infinite, eternal, nor real.

If the infinite and unseen elements of divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, could be eliminated from the universe, would there be any universe? Could atoms, electricity, nebulae, gravitation, adhesion, cohesion, create and govern the universe? In Christian Science we are beginning to understand the divine import of the words of the Apostle John (John 1:3), "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." We are blessed in being able to rise above the fable of limited human reason based on matter, for through the revelation of Christian Science of the allness of God, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter, we discern the cosmos of divine Mind, in which both cause and effect are wholly spiritual.

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