PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS August 6, 1979 Issue

Recession—making it recede

Falling profits, declining gross national product, nervousness about investment, expectations of increased unemployment—whatever the signs and symptoms of recession, the underlying factors are mental before they are outwardly economic. We contribute to recession—or to neutralizing recession—according to our mental standpoint. One of the first results of admitting the importance of thought is that we feel less helpless, more confident that we can contribute to solutions. All suffering—economic, physical, relational—can be alleviated, and finally destroyed, through the understanding of God as Christ Jesus knew Him. God is infinitely good, the substance of all reality. His economy is in constant harmony.

It is inevitably healing, corrective, regenerative, to perceive this divine reality—God's perfection and man's expression of it. Christian Science is mankind's window on reality. What we are seeing—more than that, what we are living and being—is the precursor of what we experience.

The Revelator, John, a tremendously insightful spiritual genius, experienced a major breakthrough. He saw beyond material evidences to the real heaven and real earth, the universe of God's making.^{See Rev. 21:1;} And our own individual perception today of the new heaven and new earth is important in our doing something to neutralize the menace of recession. There is a marginal note"New earth and no more sea" in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Alongside it we read: "In the Apocalypse it is written: 'And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.' In St. John's vision, heaven and earth stand for spiritual ideas, and the sea, as a symbol of tempest-tossed human concepts advancing and receding, is represented as having passed away. The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness."^{Science and Health, p. 536;}

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