Article February 12, 1977 Issue

The Commandments help us verify spiritual facts

Our Relationship to Law

ARLINE WALKER EVANS

It is recorded in Exodus that Moses beheld a burning bush, but the bush was not consumed by the fire. Was not the love of God rousing a ready human consciousness to the apprehension that what lives is not, in reality, subject to a destructive material law? Was not Moses being wakened to the true meaning of law by finding that a seemingly relentless, destructive, material law could be set aside by divine, beneficent law—a higher law—in fact, the only true law?

When Moses sought a meaning for what he had witnessed, there appeared an angel in the very midst of the bush. What a promise for mankind! Right where there seems to be that which would harm or destroy, there can be seen an angel, ready to inspire, whose presence can counteract the seeming activity of evil.

Mrs. Eddy perceived the office of "angels" and defined them as "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 581;

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