Many of us experience a feeling of nearness to God when we find ourselves at the summit of a high mountain. Purity is felt in the very air and is symbolized by the white snow at one's feet. Majestic mountains typify the qualities of Soul, divine Principle. As we silently drink in the beauties of nature, we may say as our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, does in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 87), "I love your promise; and shall know, some time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light, and color, of what I now through you discern dimly; and knowing this, I shall be satisfied."
Although we may feel close to God on the mountaintops, we know that He is equally available to us no matter where we may be. In the Bible we are told that "the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there" (Ex. 24:12). On Mount Sinai, Moses received the revelation of the Ten Commandments. This was the moral law which, when obeyed, would lead the people out of materialism and awaken them to the omnipresence of the one omnipotent God. If we think only of Moses' physical struggle to climb Mount Sinai, are we not missing the point? "Moses went up"; he lifted his thought to conscious at-one-ment with God and was thus able to receive God's revelation. Christ Jesus recognized the value of spiritually dwelling on the mountaintop and said (John 12:32), "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
Let us in our daily experience strive to live on the spiritual mountaintops, where Truth reveals to us our true selfhood as a child of God, maintained, sustained, and directed by Him. Let us spiritualize our concept of our neighbor and see him as God's reflection. To do this, we must heed the Psalmist's command (Ps. 46:10), "Be still, and know that I am God." When we silence the material senses and refuse to listen to their false testimony, we are ready to prove the truth of Mrs. Eddy's words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 536), "The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness."
