Rising Above the Mist

BENJAMIN F. LECKRON

"The mist of error, or materiality, has not ... the power to hide our true being as a child of God"

Some friends and I made a trip to the mountains. We got an early start so as to be able to drive to the top of the mountain and see the sunrise. But on reaching the foothills we were confronted with a very dense fog or mist. Our first thought was to turn back, but after a few moments we decided to drive on; we had come to see beauty, and we were not going to let the mist hide this beauty from us or rob us of the privilege of seeing it. As we drove on, we suddenly came into bright and beautiful sunshine. We had risen above the mist. We no longer looked up into the mist; we had risen to the point of looking down on the mist.

Christian Science teaches that evil is like a mist. And Science tells us not to stay in the mist of error but to rise above it, to look down on it, to see and understand that it has no power to hide God and His true creation, a spiritual universe and spiritual man.

Christian Scientists are sometimes tempted to believe that they have a lot to meet in overcoming the claims of matter and evil. This is likely to keep them on a level where the mist of materiality claims to shroud reality. In the realm of the real, however, man has nothing to meet but Love, for, being the complete expression of God, he is and always will be perfect.

The demand of Christian Science is that we rise above the mist. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 393 of Science and Health: "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man." Students of Christian Science are learning to deal with their so-called problems as opportunities to rise higher in their understanding of God and of man's true relationship to Him.

The belief that one has much to meet is but the mist suggestion of mortal mind that would hide from him his true being as a child of God. Mrs. Eddy points out on page 523 of Science and Health: "The creations of matter arise from a mist or false claim, or from mystification, and not from the firmament, or understanding, which God erects between the true and false, In error everything comes from beneath, not from above. All is material myth, instead of the reflection of Spirit."

Man exists as a spiritual idea of Love, and as this idea he is maintained and sustained by divine Love. If we really understand this truth, we can never become the helpless victims of circumstances, nor can injustice and unfair discrimination touch us. Dishonesty cannot undermine our position or rob us of our rightful place. Love is divine Principle, and against its law there is no power. Man is eternally the direct object of God's care, and our clinging to this truth will enable us to prove that there is no situation or condition which can deprive us of our complete God-given dominion.

Christ Jesus said, "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me" (John 12:32). It was Jesus' motive to lift the thoughts of all men above the mist of materiality into the full recognition and acknowledgment of man's true identity as a child of God. It is a spiritual fact that man is the child of God. Therefore the mist of error, or materiality, has not now, nor will it ever really have, the power to hide our true being as a child of God. Nor will it ever have the power to keep us in fear of disease if we lift our thought to the realm of Spirit and maintain it there.

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