The voice of God came to mankind through the prophet Isaiah, saying, "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right."
What a comfort it is to know that to seek God aright is to find Him; that He lovingly and unfailingly reveals Himself to His own creation; that He does not dwell apart in hidden places! Christian Science is teaching men that God is omnipresent, and is perceived by the illumined consciousness. It is teaching them to emerge from the dark places of fear and ignorance, where God is not seen.
Truly there is no mysticism about God. That the first great cause is Mind is a simple fact. That Mind is manifested by its own creation of right ideas is also a simple fact. When a hypothesis has been carried through to a proof, it is removed from the domain of mysticism. Through both reason and revelation Mrs. Eddy proclaimed the truth of Christian Science, and proved its teachings in the healing of sin, disease, and death. The truths of Christian Science and their proofs of healing wait for acceptance at the door of human consciousness at all times. Sometimes, it is when one has seen enough of mortal experiences to be convinced of the futility of material ways and methods, that one is ready for the acceptance of these truths.
When the human mind, baffled by the arguments that the way is hopelessly beclouded, that God is shrouded in mystery, stands helplessly before a so-called unsolvable problem, wondering where the hoped-for Saviour is, a most promising position has been reached, for Love's reality is always present, filling what seems to be error's void. As long as the material fields look attractive, satisfaction in matter holds the ground. But when difficulties begin to loom up, the unreliable nature of the material senses, which have promised so much and fulfilled so little, appears, and the waiting heart turns from the husks of its disappointments to find God.
In one's first efforts to turn from sense-evidence and follow the light which is dimly dawning, insidious arguments such as the following may have to be silenced: "There is a God, but you cannot find Him. You are too sinful or too ignorant even to reach out for a present heaven. Others have failed to see Him through the mist; how can you have the temerity to try to do so?" But the "still small voice" reminds us of the words of God voiced by Isaiah, "I declare things that are right." God is always declaring to us the truth about His children. Error, simulating entity, argues that error cannot be unmasked, that it is insidious in its activity, that it may assume almost any form, thus inducing great fear in those who consent to listen to it. It tries to dignify its mythological nature and mental despotism with the appearance of a great unknowable.
We have seen that God, divine Principle, is understandable, and consequently His opposite, evil, cannot hide from the truth, for there is no mysticism about either good or evil. Recognizing evil for what it is exposes its falsity, or nothingness. An error exposed has lost its seeming power, for its greatest argument is that it shall not be recognized as error, or that, though seen in its falsity, it cannot be cast out.
But why do men feel that God is mysterious, and communion with Him remote? Because the world's religious poverty, embodied in ecclesiasticism, has blurred their vision and paralyzed their faith with a sense of limitation and separation from the one divine Father-Mother.
When we need the rules of mathematics they are always available, and we can use them. If we need to know how to produce any given thing, the rules governing that production are available and come to us as right thoughts. So it is with the Science of good, the Science of divine Principle. When we need Christian Science—and we always need it—it is available to us, and applicable through right thinking.
Progressing in the line of right knowing, the individual begins to lose his fear, rejoices that God is within reach, caring for him, and gradually conforms to the divine pattern, God's image, the spiritual concept. The outward appearing of the spiritual communing is recognized in the phenomena of good—peace, progress, healing—miraculous to the material senses, but natural to the spiritual vision. With each new experience the spiritual phenomena become more distinct.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 80), "Science dispels mystery and explains extraordinary phenomena; but Science never removes phenomena from the domain of reason into the realm of mysticism."
