Job said, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee." It should not be supposed, however, that Job saw God through the medium of physical sight. He had heard from his friends and would-be comforters much about their concept of God, but this concept was finite and faulty. It did not convey to the patient Job any understanding of God's true nature. But when he became conscious of a more spiritual concept of God, he was able to say, "Now mine eye seeth thee," which means of course that Job had then reached the point in his experience where he was able spiritually to discern, in some measure, the truth about God as omnipotent and omniscient Being.
On page 586 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "eyes" as, "Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental." True vision, then, is spiritually mental, and is not dependent upon the so-called visual organs. Indeed, these organs, however perfect they may appear to be in their functioning, are not the medium through which one sees, knows, or apprehends the truth about Spirit, Mind, and its universe of ideas.
Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 140): "That God is a corporeal being, nobody can truly affirm. The Bible represents Him as saying: 'Thou canst not see My face; for there shall no man see Me, and live.' Not materially but spiritually we know Him as divine Mind, as Life, Truth, and Love." Since Mind cannot be separated from the ideas through which it is expressed, it follows logically that no one can see, know, or cognize, by means of the material senses, the ideas that constitute Mind's spiritual universe—the only real universe. Therefore, what the physical eyes appear to see is not divine or spiritual reality, but only a finite, material concept of that which is real.
