What a striking and apt figure of speech Mary Baker Eddy uses when she speaks of Christian Science as the prism of truth. She says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 194): "Divine Science is not an interpolation of the Scriptures, but is redolent with love, health, and holiness, for the whole human race. It only needs the prism of this Science to divide the rays of Truth, and bring out the entire hues of Deity, which scholastic theology has hidden. The lens of Science magnifies the divine power to human sight; and we then see the supremacy of Spirit and the nothingness of matter."
A ray of light entering a prism is divided into its seven principal colors, each very beautiful in itself, but inadequate to produce pure white light save in combination with the other six colors. Christian Science, acting as a prism for Truth, explains in perfect clarity the seven synonyms for God, and yet unites them to reveal the wholeness of Deity. Unlike theologies which teach only a limited concept of God, Mrs. Eddy's teaching explains the perfect, complete God, that is, God as Soul, Spirit, Life, Mind, Truth, Love, and Principle. The completeness of our concept of God is in proportion to our spiritual comprehension of the nature of each of these synonyms and of all of them united in the one Supreme Being.
Students of Christian Science may find a lesson in the following experience. A boy new in his position as electrician for a high school stage production did not recognize the necessity for taking into account all the properties of light. Neither did he, before working out his lighting plan, consider the colors, textures, and forms which were to be used upon the stage. In consequence, on the first dress rehearsal night a difficult situation arose. He overused the dimmers, and illumination that seemed adequate on an empty stage failed to disclose the whole beauty of setting and costumes and did not accent action and character values when the play was in progress. The boy soon discovered that only pure white light can give everything within range its true and whole value. At the same time he found that a spotlight emphasis of any one of the seven principal colors or any combination of them is very valuable in producing certain effects and in building a desired atmosphere, mood, scene, or character.
