SIGHT and hearing are faculties of Mind. To understand this clearly is a step toward human redemption. It reveals the way by which a diviner sense of life may be apprehended. While the material senses are dominant, there is seemingly an impenetrable barrier obstructing those higher and purer intuitions which emanate from Truth. This may produce permanent discouragement if it is accepted as a reality, but there are two facts in Science which can never be forgotten,—that man as God made him is never separated from his creator; and that "thought passes from God to man. . . . The intercommunication is always from God to His idea, man" (Science and Health, p. 284). It is impossible to overrate the importance of these two basic truths as they relate to the salvation of mankind.
Modern thought is lamenting that to a certain extent men are banishing God out of their calculations, seeking for good, as every man does in some form or other, in ways that are not His. But there is a divine ordering of every man's life which he cannot ignore or reject if he would. God's plan for each is perfect and complete. Some, as the inertia of mortal mind is overcome, reach the spiritual understanding of this more quickly than others; but at some time or other the spiritual faculties will be awakened, and all will see and hear and live, with a conscious sense of man's true individuality.
The human response to the divine impulses and invitations is prompt or feeble in the ratio of the government of the corporeal senses. But divine Love is never impatient, harsh, or threatening; its corrections are gentle and just. A thousand years in its sight are but a moment; it leads by the still waters, and reveals the spiritual idea which reflects the radiance of divine Truth. Mortal mind's finite conception is impotent to pass beyond its own narrow orbit, and therefore Life's real meaning is hidden from it. With the entrance of Truth we can catch a glimpse of Life's divine purpose for man's redemption in the pathetic lament of Jesus over Jerusalem, when he saw what was to befall the people because of their persistent material mental condition. They were blind and rejected him. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not."
