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THE LENS OF SPIRIT

From the December 1959 issue of The Christian Science Journal


How limitless is God's love and how manifold are His blessings! And yet how often we fail to demonstrate this truth in our human affairs. We fail because we are viewing creation through the lens of human belief, which presents man as sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always limited. If we look through the lens of Spirit, we find man to be wholly good and unlimited by any mortal error.

One may ask, "Where do we find this lens of Spirit?" Thousands have found it in Christian Science, which explains the teachings of Christ Jesus and shows how we may emulate his mighty works. Aided by the purely spiritual system of reasoning from cause to effect, we are enabled to realize something of the allness of God, good, and the consequent nothingness of matter and evil. In the allness and perfection of God, divine Mind, we find the solution to every human problem, because the infinite has no consciousness of imperfection, and man, as an idea of God, reflects His consciousness.

Christ Jesus, looking through the lens of Spirit, said (John 14:2), "In my Father's house are many mansions," that is, many ideas of security and harmony. He saw abundance in place of lack, spiritual health instead of sickness, life instead of death. And he translated these spiritual concepts into human experience by feeding the multitude, healing all manner of disease, and raising the dead.

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