Editorial October 29, 1966 Issue

Ever-present Healing Power

Carl J. Welz

When we use a vacuum cleaner, we may think that the cleaner sucks the dirt out of the rug. Actually the dirt is pushed out of the rug into the vacuum cleaner bag by the pressure of the air or the atmosphere. This pressure, almost fifteen pounds per square inch at sea level, is always present. The vacuum cleaner removes some of the air that is pressing downward on the dust in the rug. Then the pressure from below is free to act.

Not only dust but most of the objects we see about us stay where they are because atmospheric pressure pushes against them in all directions. Remove this pressure from one side of any object that is not tied down, and it will move off rapidly.

This illustrates, although crudely, the way in which we experience the ever-present power of God, divine Principle, and the opposing forces of mortal belief. God's power manifests itself in the real man, His idea, everywhere, and its energy is all in the direction of goodness. But we appear to be limited by the opposing belief that creation is material. Any progress we make toward demonstration of our limitless selfhood as God's reflection seems to require great personal effort, even struggle, to exert a force on the side of spirituality that is greater than the belief of material limitation.

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