Earnest students of the Bible have found that many Scriptural passages, besides their beauty and historical significance, have a spiritual meaning and application, rich in comfort and inspiration.
For example, in studying the Biblical account of Noah, we have the recorded fact that in obedience to divine command he built an ark as a place of safety from the destroying flood of waters. He took into this ark only those of his own household, in other words, those near and dear to him and the rest which the Lord had commanded him—beasts, both clean and unclean, fowls of the air, and creeping things. Two by two they entered the ark, and all else was destroyed except "they that were with him in the ark."
The metaphysical interpretation of the word "ark" is given by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Her definition reads, in part (p. 581), "Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved to be as immortal as its Principle." This definition enables us to grasp the spiritual significance and application of "ark" and to see that in divine Science this ark, this place of safety, is in truth ever present for all. God, good, is everywhere. He "is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34). Security is found in the understanding of the fact that man exists as idea, the reflection of God, and is immortal, indestructible, and eternal. This truth is our ark of safety, possessed by all. To realize this is to build an ark in consciousness, where the devastating waters of the carnal mind can reach neither us nor those that are with us:
