Article January 30, 1978 Issue

Unidentified?

ROSE M. HENNIKER-HEATON

Picture the natives of an undiscovered land, hundreds of years ago, standing on the shore trying to identify some large white objects appearing over the horizon. Nothing like them had been seen before. Soon they were recognized as the white sails of great ships.

When unknown phenomena appear on our horizon, we try to identify them, to place them within our own frame of reference. But often we are not immediately able to identify these new phenomena. So humanity frequently fears the unknown. Or it may be excited by the possibilities.

When unknown, unidentified phenomena appear on our horizon, what should be our response? If our response is based on material sense, we may be alarmed or excited or both. If it is based on spiritual sense, we will turn at once to the infinitude of divine Mind. Spiritual sense lifts its gaze to the measureless universe of divine Mind, within which is found the spiritual reality and identity of all things. In Isaiah we read, "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might."Isa. 40:26;

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