In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy has written (p. 255), "'Let there be light,' is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into order and discord into the music of the spheres." This demand has impelled innumerable men and women throughout the ages to respond to it in greater or less degree, because of the longing to be delivered out of the confusion and darkness of mortal beliefs into the clear light of immortal. Truth. The demands of divine Love are not apart from that which already exists. The ever-present spiritual fact inevitably reveals man as existing in the light of omnipresence. In a world where confusion and chaos seem to be holding sway, how great is the need of the spiritual light which changes "chaos into order" and discord into harmony!
Hearing one night the droning sound of airplanes flying overhead, and looking out of the window, a student of Christian Science saw a sharp pencil of light moving across the sky to expose enemy planes, and. as her upward gaze followed the path of the searchlight, there came to her thought another picture, that of a glorious ray, not from below but from above, representing the source from whence comes all true light. It was the picture called "The Way" in the illustrated poem "Christ and Christmas" by Mrs. Eddy. Reversing the testimony of the material senses, this student saw that the spiritual light of the pure idea of God pierces the shades of earthly beliefs even to the shadow of the cross. In this picture, light from above touches only the foot of the dark cross in the foreground. Higher in the light, another cross is covered with blossoms, and birds are winging between it and the crown.
Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 250), "Man is not God, but like a ray of light which comes from the sun, man, the outcome of God, reflects God." There is but one true light, that of Spirit. So every gleam of spiritual enlightenment is from the infinite spiritual illumination of Mind. In the record of creation, in Genesis, darkness gave place to light. God's command, "Let there be light," is still to be heard, and the true light, or spiritual enlightenment, is forever revealing the truth, the reality of being.
