“A Better Transparency for Truth”

“The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane. The light and the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun.” (Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, page 295:16-24.)

I came across the following line by Mrs. Eddy where she writes, “A Christian Scientist knows that, in Science, disease is unreal; that Mind is not in matter; that Life is God, good; hence Life is not functional, and is neither matter nor mortal mind; knows that pantheism and theosophy are not Science. Whatever saps, with human belief, this basis of Christian Science, renders it impossible to demonstrate the Principle of this Science, even in the smallest degree.” (Rudimental Divine Science, pages 12-13.)

“Sap: To undermine; to subvert by removing the foundation.”

Pantheism and theosophy have been around since the old Testament. They have resurfaced under terms like “communion with the natural world,” a form of worship of nature. Theosophy was rampant during Mrs. Eddy’s time. Students used her wording and mixed it with “beliefs (such as reincarnation, holism, pantheism, and occultism) outside the mainstream, and that advance alternative approaches to spirituality.” (1828 Webster’s Dictionary.)

It is a good reminder to watch what we are taking in or reading. Mrs. Eddy is very clear that we cannot mix with this material thinking, error. That will sap the ability to practice the Science of the Christ, and render it “impossible to demonstrate.”