A VISION of a snow-capped mountain once brought to a student of Christian Science a wonderful sense of the value of uplifted thought. The term "mountain" is used in Scripture to typify an exalted state of consciousness wherein spiritual vision is gained. In figurative language Isaiah expresses the value of spiritual understanding when he says, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; . . . that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" The beliefs of materiality cannot dim spiritual vision when one is awake to the truth of existence. Many are to-day catching glorious glimpses of the healing power of God through the revelation of Christian Science, which the mists of mortality cannot obscure.
To dwell in spiritual sense, that is, in the atmosphere of Soul, lifts thought above the thralldom of error. So-called material law has no power over one when he understands spiritual law to be ever operative and available. Illustrating the possibility of destroying the belief of disease through an understanding of the spiritual nature of the universe and man, Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 184, 185): "A woman, whom I cured of consumption, always breathed with great difficulty when the wind was from the east. I sat silently by her side a few moments. Her breath came gently. The inspirations were deep and natural. I then requested her to look at the weather-vane. She looked and saw that it pointed due east. The wind had not changed, but her thought of it had and so her difficulty in breathing had gone." If conditions are present which are believed to produce disease and suffering, one need not fall a victim to them, for material law has no power to produce disease; and one can prove this as he understands that the law of God, Spirit, governs man.
The fact that winds seem to be blowing is no reason for believing in the necessity of suffering ill effects from them. The law of God is always available, and one need never suffer from untoward conditions or circumstances. One can rise above the discord of material sense in whatever phase it may appear, if one has sufficient understanding of spiritual law and faithfully applies it to his present need.
