Article May 30, 1970 ISSUE

Not of the Darkness

JOANNE SHRIVER LEEDOM

The Bible tells us that "God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." Gen. 1:4; According to this account of spiritual creation, even before man was revealed, light and darkness were separated. Mrs. Eddy challenges in Science and Health: "Did infinite Mind create matter, and call it light? Spirit is light, and the contradiction of Spirit is matter, darkness, and darkness obscures light." Science and Health, p. 504;

In the ascending order of creation man exists as God's own image and likeness, the highest expression of the infinite. Thus man from the beginning is the child of light. In this spiritual man there is no darkness.

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