"Thought will finally be understood and seen in all form, substance, and color, but without material accompaniments." An art teacher paused to digest this compelling statement when she read it for the first time on page 310 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Naturally, a material sense of color had played a large part in the artist's experience. The seasons, with their varied quiet, delicate, or vivid tints and hues, had frequently challenged the palette, yet how ephemeral was the enchanting view! In no time the colorful scene had faded and changed. Even the painter's canvas would retain its beauty long after nature's color, popularly accredited to God's handiwork, had faded from view.
As the artist reasoned from the standpoint of Christian Science, it became increasingly clear to her that God, to whom all power, permanence, and beauty are Scripturally attributed, could not be the originator of fading, dying color. It would be contrary to the immutable nature of Deity to create a material, finite, changing, fading sense of color.
