Article July 9, 1955 Issue

THE HIGH GOAL

SCOTT D. SLOAN

Under the marginal heading "Our footsteps heavenward" Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 426): "The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less difficult when she has the high goal always before her thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavoring to reach it. When the destination is desirable, expectation speeds our progress." Students of Christian Science will find their path less difficult and their progress more consistent when they keep the high goal before their thought and press toward it.

The newcomer to Christian Science may have as his goal the healing of some bodily ailment or the overcoming of some discordant condition. A more advanced student may consider that the maintenance of health and harmony or the demonstration of peace and abundance is his goal. Many have not clearly realized that in studying Christian Science they have entered a path leading upward to a final destination.

One of the important facts revealed by Christian Science is that consciousness includes experience. If consciousness is mortal, experience will seem material, discordant, and temporal. If consciousness is spiritual, experience will be spiritual, harmonious, and eternal. On page 573 of Science and Health, referring to the vision of St. John (Rev. 21:1), Mrs. Eddy writes: "This testimony of Holy Writ sustains the fact in Science, that the heavens and earth to one human consciousness, that consciousness which God bestows, are spiritual, while to another, the unillumined human mind, the vision is material. This shows unmistakably that what the human mind terms matter and spirit indicates states and stages of consciousness."'

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