Article November 12, 1955 Issue

HEALING THROUGH SPIRITUAL VISION

STREATFIELD H. COX, JR.

True vision is spiritual. Being spiritual it is of God, and being of God, it is indestructible and therefore permanent. "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever" (Eccl. 3:14). God is the supreme intelligence, the all-knowing, all-seeing divine Mind. The real man is God's divine idea, the spiritual reflection or image of divine Mind. Divine Mind expresses its infinite intelligence entirely through ideas because there is no other way in which Mind can be expressed. Since God is All, He can behold nothing outside of Himself, and since God beholds all things perfectly. His ideas must continually express perfect vision or spiritual discernment.

Spiritual vision is entirely apart from material vision or sight, and the two never mingle. Mary Baker Eddy shows the nature of the material sense of sight when she says of mortal mind (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. p. 86), "It feels, hears, and sees its own thoughts." It is clear that in dreams the mortal sees only his own thoughts, and this shows the nature of all material so-called sight. That the physical eyes are not the medium of mortal sight is shown when we sometimes see the same object in a dream that we see when awake.

True vision pertains to the ability to discern the things of God—the good, the real, the spiritual; vision results in the disappearance of the evil, the unreal, the material from consciousness in accord with the words of the Master (John 8:51). "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." It should be understood that seeing mortal existence as real with its pictures of in-harmony, lack, sin, sickness, death, is not true vision, no matter how acute one's eyesight may be. It is also well to realize that mortal feelings, such as resentment, fear, self-pity, and the like, as well as eyestrain, are the result of a lack of real vision.

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