Article December 28, 1957 Issue

LIGHT AND SIGHT

WILLIAM M. SELLMAN

The need for better and unfailing sight is met in Christian Science with the light and might of God, divine Truth and Love. The Apostle John discerned that "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all" (I John 1:5). Christian Science reveals that man, the image and likeness of God, Spirit, reflects divine Light. Hence man's power to see perfectly cannot really be lost or impaired.

Physical science considers light a form of material, radiant energy which, acting on the eye, gives it the sensation of sight. But such light is only a symbol of the irradiance of Spirit, or cloudless Truth.

Divine Mind, God, radiates the light which its ideas embody. Thus man, by reflection, possesses Mind's perfect vision of creation. Through prayerful study of Christian Science, we gain glimpses of these glorious facts, and we have better sight because we perceive and express more of Mind's intelligence and power.

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