Article July 24, 1954 Issue

TRANSPARENCY AND WITNESSING

ESTHER DAVIS EDDY

Standing on the bank of a babbling brook, one can often see the stones lying on its bed and the fish as they swim to and fro beneath the ripples. Light penetrates the water and shows forth the treasures of the brook. Because of the transparency of glass one may stand in his home and look out of a window upon a scene, viewing it almost as readily as if he were outside.

This quality of transparency may also be applied to the human consciousness. Mary Baker Eddy says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 295): "The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane. The light and the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality—much error—in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun."

Just as the brook cannot hide its treasures, so the individual human consciousness which looks constantly to Spirit, and away from the belief in matter as substance or reality, does not hide the ideas of Mind that it reflects. There must be a right recognition of that spiritually illumined human consciousness through which Truth appears. Gratitude for the Christ-spirit, the light of Truth, with its healing, regenerating power, should be accompanied by a just appreciation of the individual whose selflessness makes him a transparency for Truth.

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