Article August 14, 1954 Issue

THE RADIANCY OF SOUL

LESLIE C. BELL

Christian Science shows how each one of us may see and experience beauty and loveliness in his life through spiritual, not material, means. It teaches that beauty is not to be sought in matter and material conditions, for these are unreal, since God, Soul, is All, and in His infinite radiancy is found the fullness of perfection reflected. Spirituality, not materiality, is the way to true fulfillment. Spirituality does not mean bleakness, but completeness, and in turning from the illusions of material sense to the facts of Soul we gain instead of lose, and experience redemption, not deprivation.

The lives of those who give up a false material sense of existence and accept God, Soul, as their Life, are not arid, but joyful and productive, for Soul sheds on all the radiance of beauty and immortality and imparts to all the glory of spiritual being. The whole vast creation of Soul is perfect and reflects imperishable divine beauty. Nothing can mar this loveliness, for there is no power but divine Love, and consequently nothing exists which is capable of hurting or destroying what God has created.

Color is an attribute of Soul, and its divine hues brighten the whole universe. The infinite colors of Soul are unfading and imperishable, and nothing can dim their beauty or dull their hues, for God is their source. There can be no dinginess in the creations of God, which never lose their freshness and fairness. Is not the description in the book of Revelation of the great city, holy Jerusalem, a symbolic portrayal of the spiritual beauty and loveliness of the perfect divine consciousness? In part the city is described as "having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal" (Rev. 21:11).

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