Article February 12, 1955 Issue

THE MIRAGE TREMBLES

RUTH INGRAHAM

A woman who lived on the edge of a California desert, where atmospheric conditions seem particularly favorable for producing mirages, related that while tourists are completely taken in by this phenomenon, residents know how to distinguish between the true and the false. Then she said, "You know, the mirage trembles just before it disappears."

One who takes up the study of Christian Science begins to learn that mortal mind, being itself an illusion, presents a panorama of illusions which the mirage illustrates. His earnest and persistent endeavor to see through these illusions and discern the spiritual creation which he knows is there is rewarded, sometimes quite early in his experience, by beautiful glimpses of divine reality. These may come as a sudden relief from pain, the instant dismissal of an angry impulse, or the dispelling of a cherished grudge.

On page 300 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes: "The mirage, which makes trees and cities seem to be where they are not, illustrates the illusion of material man, who cannot be the image of God."

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