Article September 17, 1984 Issue

The nature of progress

BARBARA A. J. HARGREAVES

Many people are searching for some dependable basis for shaping their lives and progressing. Have they glimpsed, perhaps, that progress has a spiritually scientific foundation? More than the improvement of a temporary human state, true progress is the falling away of basic misconceptions about ourselves and others and the world.

This different view of progress stems from the revelation that divine Spirit alone has made man and the universe and therefore their perfection is already established. It is not possible to improve God's work. We can only gain clearer views of it.

Our starting point is to acknowledge that there is only one Life, which is God. Being All, this Life already includes everything that is good. So progress cannot mean the accumulation of anything—and certainly nothing from outside this allness, for there is no outside. Progress can only mean the revealing of what is already here and everywhere.

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