Editorial August 28, 1954 Issue

SEEING AND HEARING

Helen Wood Bauman

Christ Jesus said to his disciples (Luke 10:23, 24), "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: for I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them, and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them." The Master had opened the receptive thought of his disciples to the presence of the universe of Spirit, unknown to the material sense of sight and sound, but forever present to the real spiritual senses.

Christian Science shows that these senses are not found in matter, nor are they subject to physical conditions. They are faculties of divine Mind, individualized in man, God's image, as distinct functions of real consciousness, as abilities inseparable from that consciousness. To see truly is to distinguish the spiritual formations of Mind, to discern creation as God made it. To hear truly is to understand the communications of Mind to man, to recognize Truth's voice and its message.

The material senses are counterfeits of the real senses and are at every point unreliable. The simple illustration of perspective in which distant objects appear smaller than they are illustrates this unreliability. The material senses are faculties, not of divine Mind, but of false material consciousness, or mortal mind. And any deterioration or disorder that material sight and hearing suffer must be dealt with in terms of consciousness, not of organic matter. Restoration of real consciousness, reflected by man, brings restoration of seeing and hearing in proof that one comprehends divine reality in some measure.

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