REVERENCE for religious sanctuaries has been characteristic of humankind from antiquity. To the children of Israel in their wilderness experience, sanctuary was the tabernacle established by Moses.
Together with keeping the Sabbath and adhering to the Commandments, reverence for the sanctuary of God was a rigid requirement of Levitical law. We are told in the twenty-sixth chapter of Leviticus that obedience to this law was a guarantee of peace and prosperity; whereas disobedience threatened to bring desolation to the land.
In Christianly scientific thinking ignorant superstition is dispelled by the understanding of God and of man's spiritual status as His image and likeness. Sanctuary is the consciousness of man's true, spiritual selfhood as the child of God.
