Article November 1, 2013

“Winged to reach the divine glory”

Originally published in the September 20, 1920 issue of The Christian Science Monitor

With the coming into view of improved conditions of travel and communication, through the medium of invention, mortals wonder often enough and naturally enough what the next steps will be when humanity has outgrown the present rate of speed of carrying individuals by aeroplane and carrying their voices by the swiftness of wireless telephony, as well as other modern marvels. But humanity must come to the point of abandoning its wondering and look forward to, and be satisfied with, nothing less than that which is perfection in all things and in all directions, Mind and the idea of Mind.

Divine Mind never ceases to unfold the glories, beauties, and spiritual excellence of the scientific universe. The process of creating which seems to take place in human invention is purely a false representation of what is actually taking place perpetually in Mind. That is, divine intelligence, without a single limit, is unfolding its infinite expression. Mind is bringing forth the pure image of all the vast knowledge and understanding which dwells in the unlimited consciousness, infinite good, or Spirit. This pure image is the spiritual creation, the unfoldment of which is the reality of invention, of which the mortal sense of invention is indeed a poor make-believe. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, deals with this subject in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” wherein she says on page 263: “There can be but one creator, who has created all. Whatever seems to be a new creation, is but the discovery of some distant idea of Truth; else it is a new multiplication or self-division of mortal thought, as when some finite sense peers from its cloister with amazement and attempts to pattern the infinite.”

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