ONE who is not going anywhere soon comes to a point where there is little else to see; whereas, one who is progressing finds new pictures coming into his consciousness constantly. A transcontinental jet flight, on a clear day, provides a panorama of variety, but some see very little of it. Others may look but find the rapid succession of breath-taking vistas incomprehensible. Growth in spiritual understanding is very much like traveling, except that true growth is comparable to constant acceleration from the mental standstill to infinite progression.
When one first finds Christian Science, one clear idea of God as Principle and man as His reflection may provide inspiration enough for a year or more. But as one grows, he finds new ideas, each expressing Truth in its individual way, coming more and more rapidly until daily communion with the divine Mind reveals countless ideas, each as inspiring as was the first. This constant acceleration is the exact opposite of the belief of learning Christian Science as one would absorb knowledge of an academic subject. Learning in Christian Science patterns the truth of man's being as Mrs. Eddy describes it on page 258 of Science and Health, "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis."
Nowhere can a clearer illustration of this limitless sense of being, "rising higher and higher from a boundless basis," be found than in the life of Christ Jesus. Wherever he looked, Jesus must have beheld the ideas of God in quality and quantity too wonderful for our frail thought at this time, yet setting for us a goal which leads us on and on.
