Article April 13, 1957 Issue

WHAT ARE WE SEEING?

RONALD GRAY WALKER

In the twenty-fourth chapter of Luke's Gospel it is recorded that after his resurrection Christ Jesus appeared to two of his disciples as they walked to Emmaus. But they did not recognize their Master immediately. So fixed was their belief in the finality of death, and so feeble was their understanding of the deathless Christ, Truth, that the two disciples could not recognize what their eyes beheld. But later, when Jesus ate with them, "he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight."

What is the significance of this event in the light of Christian Science? The disciples had suddenly recognized Jesus. They began to see the portentous implications of their Master's reappearance in the flesh. This evidence before their very eyes of Jesus' sublime victory over death enabled them to glimpse the eternal Christ, untouched by matter or the material senses.

Before his crucifixion Jesus had told his disciples that it was expedient that he should leave them so that the Comforter, "the Spirit of truth," might come. This "Spirit of truth" cannot be seen materially. Only through spiritual enlightenment can Christian Science, which is the Comforter, be discerned. Only through our relinquishing the false evidence of the material senses can we see the Christ, Truth, as revealed in Christian Science. In the proportion that we cease to give reality to materiality shall we see spiritually and be led unto an increasingly clearer understanding of God.

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