Article February 23, 1981 Issue

See past the seeming

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

It's clear from the Bible record that a characteristic of spiritual luminaries was their ability to see beyond the seeming, the material look of things. This is especially true of Christ Jesus. The closeness of his relationship to God, his Father-Mother, his intimate understanding of God and His flawless man, was foundational to his outstanding, still unique healing work. Christian metaphysics, understood and applied to our lives today, enables us to see past matter and its conditions to the reality of God and His perfect creation, where all is concordant and good. We learn to regard being as wholly spiritual and to apply this truth in our human experience.

The scientific understanding of the Bible begins revolutionizing our thought and life. "The Scripture declares that God is All," Mrs. Eddy notes. "Then all is Spirit and spiritual. The true sense of life is lost to those who regard being as material. The Scripture pronounces all that God made 'good;' therefore if evil exists, it exists without God. But this is impossible in reality, for He made all 'that was made.' Hence the inevitable revelation of Christian Science—that evil is unreal; and this is the best of it."^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 178.}

Human appearances of evil and disharmony are the derivative of material thought. They have no independent reality. Those appearances are all amenable, then, to the application of the divine law based on the allness of God and the perfection of man. The way out of human suffering and confusion is to Christianize, spiritualize, dematerialize, our thoughts and acts. Then things will look better, will be better, will evidence more of unchanging divine good.

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