IN Science and Health (p. 538) we read, "The sun, giving light and heat to the earth, is a figure of divine Life and Love, enlightening and sustaining the universe." If this is so, it may be profitable to consider this symbol of Life and Love, for it should teach us grand lessons. Speaking from a material standpoint, all organisms owe their existence to the sun. In its light and warmth they may be said to live, move, and have their being. Take away the sun and they are not.
When one looks out of his window on a summer day, he may perchance see a beautiful garden full of flowers, bird and insect life, all reveling in the sunlight. Now suppose that at midnight we could stop the world from turning on its axis and keep the garden in darkness, say for a year. What would happen? This: the beautiful flowers would soon fade and die, and the song-birds and insects would give place to creatures that love darkness rather than light. However, the sun would still be shining, and if we wanted to see our beautiful garden again we would simply have to turn the world so that the garden would be flooded with light. Then the creatures of darkness would disappear and the creatures of light would reappear.
May we not take this abnormal darkness as typical of the false beliefs in which mortal man abides and which produce the phenomena of our human environment? Light does not create darkness or manifest creatures of darkness, but dispels them. God, Spirit, is not the author of the phenomena of mortal beliefs, for they disappear with the advent of spiritual light, as Jesus clearly showed.
