Article February 2, 1981 Issue

Focus with the lens of Science

CORNELIA JOYCE HALEY

When someone looks at the Milky Way through a telescope, he sees countless pinpricks of light as hundreds of thousands of stars come into focus. The telescope may point to a portion of sky where the naked eye sees only pale nebulosity. The lens, however, gathers the faint light coming from immense distances and brings it to a focal point—where the human eye can see the concentrated light as individual stars.

The vastness, splendor, and variety of the physical heavens give only a hint of the magnitude and glory of divine Mind's spiritual realm. We can bring this divine glory into our experience if we understand the spiritual laws of Christian Science. These laws, somewhat like the lens in a telescope, bring into focus the real, spiritual universe and give us an enlarged sense of God's power. As Mrs. Eddy states, "The lens of Science magnifies the divine power to human sight; and we then see the allness of Spirit, therefore the nothingness of matter."^{Message to The Mother Church for 1901, p. 12.}

When we can recognize that something is real or genuine, we are less likely to be fooled by its opposite or counterfeit. For example, the better we know what a real coin looks and feels like, the more likely we are to detect a fake coin. The lens of Science enables us to recognize the real universe, which is actually ever present but unseen by material senses. Science focuses on God's allness, His loveliness, His wisdom. This lens shows God's infinite reflection, man, to be the star of His creation, radiating perfection and scintillating with beauty and harmony. When we steadfastly hold this true view of man in consciousness, we are able to deny effectively the unreal picture—for example, a mortal who feels unwanted, sick, lacking, or afraid—and bring out a higher manhood and womanhood.

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