As an amateur photographer, I enjoy taking slides during my travels. There's something about a color transparency that is more immediate for me than a color print. Perhaps it's because light passes through the transparency instead of simply bouncing off it.
Recently, while looking at slides I had taken, I recalled another kind of transparency described by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health: "The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane. The light and the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality—much error —in order to become a better transparency for Truth." Science and Health, p. 295. What an intriguing challenge and opportunity are present in that statement!
When thought is receptive to the light of Truth, it is a clear window through which shine spiritual beauty and divine goodness. Often, however, human thought becomes darkened by the shadows of materiality—ignorance, hatred, sensuality, sin, disease, and death. But God, Truth— fundamental, changeless reality—is forever present. And as we open thought to the presence and power of Truth, our lives become a transparency through which the beauty and grandeur of God's design can be seen.
