Article December 9, 1972 Issue

Spiritual Recognition

ESME A. GOLLSCHEWSKY

How heartwarming it is to see, coming toward us out of a sea of strange faces, one that is familiar! How comforting to hear our own language spoken in a foreign country or catch a first glimpse of our native land after a long sea voyage or overseas flight!

The faculty of recognition operates on different levels. There is the recognition of material phenomena. There is also a more ethereal type. This is the instinctive but sure affinity we experience when for the first time we meet a kindred spirit. Right away we feel that we know some stranger very well indeed, and that he knows us.

How desirable, then, is that state of spiritual enlightenment which enables us to recognize each and every one of our fellows as an individual creation of God—spiritual, perfect, eternal, untouched by any alien or limiting aspect of material selfhood. At all times, under all conditions, we can endeavor to see beyond the picture presented by human personality and physical appearance to the indestructible reality of spiritual man. We can lovingly, joyfully recognize his true identity as an idea in divine Mind.

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