Throughout the Scriptural record of humanity's spiritual progress there runs the golden thread of evidence of Deity's omnipresence, of God's nearness to man.
Some thirty-three hundred years before the beginning of the Christian era, over five thousand years before the discovery of Christian Science, there was, as the Bible records, a man whose long life is described in the brief but graphic statement that he "walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." The validity of this story was confirmed by the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews, who wrote of Enoch as having been "translated that he should not see death." His claim to attention and appreciation rests upon the fact that he "walked with God"; that he so thought and comported himself that he could be continually and increasingly aware of the divine presence and companionship. In this he serves as an illustration of the possibilities of spiritual realization in our present experience.
What was it that enabled Enoch to realize this divine presence and enjoy the ineffable satisfaction of such realization? It was certainly something not derived from human education or finite experience; something so much at variance with the physical senses that these senses were silenced as this realization was achieved. Was not Enoch's realization the logical and inevitable outcome of his perception of Spirit as the only creator, the only cause of all that really exists?
