Article October 6, 1980 Issue

A moment of divine consciousness heals

BARBARA M. VINING

One moment's consciousness of spiritual truth has the power to instantly transform a discordant situation. This is the moment when human consciousness yields to the divine—that is, when the individual realizes in regard to a particular area of concern that spiritual reality constitutes the only reality.

This pivot power—the power to turn or transform a situation from discord to harmony—lies in divine consciousness, God. Deity knows man as he really is, as His own reflection, individual and perfect. Man's true consciousness, therefore, is spiritual consciousness and when we rise to real consciousness, accepting God's conceptions of what appear to be persons and things, transformations result.

The opportunity to reflect God's seeing is ever with us. We can become conscious of God's ideas, because His infinite intelligence fills all space. To become conscious of spiritual man is to understand that the discord confronting us has no substance. It is to know that the real identity of the persons and things we love is wholly separate from disease and discord, wholly apart from matter, which has no reality.

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