A comment that beauty in the world seems all but lost in a swamp of ugly problems turned me to the Psalmist's lovely prayer: "Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us." Ps. 90:16, 17 This prayer, offered with understanding, can contribute to uplifting humanity.
To understand divine beauty requires some comprehension of God's being. After years of Bible study and demonstration of what she was learning from it, Mrs. Eddy wrote Science and Health. Students of this teaching find that this book, the Christian Science textbook, enables them to apprehend more clearly what Scripture reveals of God. Mrs. Eddy writes of Christian Scientists, "In their textbook it is clearly stated that God is divine Principle and that His synonyms are Love, Truth, Life, Spirit, Mind, Soul, which combine as one. " The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 225 These seven synonyms describe God's nature—His substance, His indivisibility, His basic perfection.
The name "Soul" conveys the beauty of God's being. Yet because the seven synonyms are interchangeable, Soul's beauty belongs also to infinite Love and supreme Truth, to indestructible Life and limitless Spirit, to flawless Mind and unchanging Principle. The beauty of God is His wholeness, the oneness of His being.
