"What mortals hear, see, feel, taste, smell, constitutes their present earth and heaven: but we must grow out of even this pleasing thraldom, and find wings to reach the glory of supersensible Life; then we shall soar above, as the bird in the clear ether of the blue temporal sky." So states Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 86, 87).
The wings that enable us "to reach the glory of supersensible Life," or the Life which is unseen to the material senses, are the wings of spiritual understanding. God knows His creation as perfect, for He formed it so; and man, the image and likeness of God, reflects God's knowing. God, Life, knows the reality of spiritual form, light, and color; so man, His image, perceives divine substance, which never changes. As we understand these truths, we demonstrate the substance of unchanging peace, joy, purity, health, abundance, harmony, love—the eternality of all good.
Perhaps one of the greatest examples of spiritual soaring is that of the Apostle John. Even while exiled on Patmos, a rocky and barren island, he lifted thought above material sense and beheld harmonious being. No self-pity or resentment abode in his thought. As the divine vision unfolded to him, there came also the assurance of God's omnipotence, which transcends any material vision.
