Article June 1, 1957 Issue

THE HARMONY OF BEING

PAT PHILIP ADKINS

How may I experience more harmony? No doubt this question is in the thought of everyone in greater or lesser degree. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy provides this answer (p. 427): "The belief that existence is contingent on matter must be met and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood and harmony obtained."

Harmony of being is generally considered a project for future development in a transcendental paradise called heaven. But Christian Science reveals harmony to be a practical possibility here and now. Contrary to prevalent theories, we do not meet the real issue of life by getting ourselves into heaven, but by awakening to the heaven that is already within ourselves. There is nothing really new about this revelation, however, for Christ Jesus said (Luke 17:20, 21), "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

True harmony is a spiritually scientific state of thought; therefore it is not materially acquired, but is mentally cultivated. This truth is an important one to see in connection with metaphysical healing. Otherwise we may be looking upon some external change as the forerunner of harmony, when actually an inward sense of harmony is needed to effect the desired change. It is not healing that brings harmony, but spiritual harmony that brings healing. The Master expressed this in these words (Matt. 6:33): "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

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