It is most awakening and very enlightening to consider, from the standpoint of regenerating and healing, the definition of "eyes" as given in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 586): "Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental." A dictionary says "discern" means "to make out as with the eye or by the mind; . . . to lay hold of with the understanding." God is Mind, the all-seeing Mind. He is my God; hence my all-seeing Mind.
Our Leader states (Science and Health, pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." Jesus beheld in Science, in Truth, not in matter, the perfect man. To behold the perfect man instead of the false mortal concept of man is spiritual discernment, or "eyes." Most assuredly to have this perfect man appear to him, and to see him as God's own likeness, in each instance is spiritual discernment, or "eyes," which dispels the false material sense of man, which is the source of all disease, distress, lack, and discord. A clear perception or correct view of man would wipe out the sickly, mortal, imposed beliefs and laws and set men free. Mind is all-seeing everywhere present, all-powerful; so sight is infinite, everywhere present, but mortal mind would localize it and say eyes are material, finite, destructible, and subject to loss and disease.
Jesus said (Matt. 6:22), "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." We cannot accept the fact that God is infinite Mind, eternal Life, divine Love, the only creator, and then accept the opposite, namely, matter, disease, loss, and lack, as reality or as having any power or presence. Only by the singleness of our spiritual discernment, by seeing man as God made him and sees him, the embodiment of spiritual ideas, is one's body full of light, of spiritual understanding.
