The loveliness of the universe stirs many a heart to meditate on what lies behind it all. The Bible tells us of God, the creator, and from the first chapter of Genesis we learn that His creation is wholly spiritual and is perfect in its completeness.
The full revelation of God, Love, as the first and only cause, or Principle, of the universe is dawning through Christian Science, as stated in the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. One learns from this book to know God as the only Life and Mind of all that really is, and he glimpses the spiritual glory of God's universe. The realm of Spirit is not afar off but here and now. It is a present reality, which through spiritual understanding and living all may find and enjoy. The Psalmist must have perceived this glory and in some measure experienced God's kingdom, for he sang, "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple." Ps. 27:4;
In Christian Science we understand the beauty or glory of the Lord to be God's holiness. It is the wholeness, the health or harmony, of good, which characterizes God's entire creation, including His highest idea, man. In the Bible we read, "I have created him for my glory." Isa. 43:7; That God may be glorified, then, is the reason for our being. It is His will, and He is enforcing it right now and forever. God's spiritual idea has never been separated from His kingdom, or rule. We have never failed to be the expression of His radiant selfhood, of His holy character. Christ Jesus' superb demonstration of God's pure goodness entitled him to be called the Son of God, the Christ. The book of Hebrews describes the Son as "the brightness of his [God's] glory, and the express image of his person." Heb. 1:3;
