In the book of Proverbs we read, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." The Bible is replete with messages regarding the need of vision. All the good that has been accomplished for humankind has been the result of the discernment, on the part of those through whom this good has come, of something higher and better than had previously been brought into manifestation. And so the prayer of the ages has been for vision.
Christ Jesus, in the direct and succinct manner with which he was accustomed to speak the truth, gave in his great gift of the Beatitudes the true sense of vision, and the means of its attainment: he said therein, "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." To see God is to discern good and to reflect the qualities and attributes of good. It is also to reflect divine Mind, thus giving expression to the intelligence, purity, and loving-kindness of that Mind. In Christian Science we learn that "divine Mind" is synonymous with "divine Truth." Therefore, to understand divine Truth is to have the Christ-vision, which, as Christ Jesus proclaimed, can be attained only through purification of thought and motive.
Christ Jesus was speaking of the outward vision when he said, "Having eyes, see ye not?" He knew that the Christ-vision was hidden from the worldly thought, and that pride, selfishness, and sensuality blinded this true vision; that what is seen by means of the material sense of vision is as the antipode of what is seen through true vision, the vision of spiritual sense.
