Article December 27, 1982 Issue

Some thoughts on seeing

ALBERT CARLTON ROBERTS

Eyes. Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental.
Jesus said, thinking of the outward vision, "Having eyes, see ye not?"
(Mark viii. 18.)^{ Science and Health, p. 586 .}

Mary Baker Eddy

Seeing is perception. In the truest sense, it is a completely mental activity, not a function of the physical body. Seeing is a primal quality of God, for we read in Genesis that "God saw every thing that he had made."^{ Gen, 1:31.} This seeing was of Spirit, not of matter. The same account also says that "God created man in his own image."^{ Gen, 1:27.} Man, reflecting Spirit, must therefore include spiritual seeing. Contrary to any mist of miscreation, seeing is eternally established as a spiritual quality.