Some time ago I was given a book containing pages of miscellaneous artwork. Each page seemed to be a hodgepodge of colors, representing nothing in particular. I couldn't understand the purpose of the book until I read its preface. Then I found it was designed to present pictures that are called Magic Eye® stereograms. Actually, each page represented some kind of pictorial scene. But to bring that scene into focus, I had to hold the page about a foot away from my eyes, and then stare at it intently, almost as if I were looking through the page to some distant object. Suddenly the picture would come into focus, in three dimensions.
It was fascinating. A variety of interesting pictures became apparent. But to see them, I first had to realize that the surface impression was misleading. I had to change my perspective so that I could see what had been there all the time. Then the three-dimensional pictures came into view.
This reminded me of a statement Mary Baker Eddy makes about Jesus: "He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause." Science and Health, p. 313. When he healed people, Jesus must have known that the appearance of a sick or sinful person was a misleading view of that individual's identity. He focused instead on what he understood to be the spiritual reality of each individual as God's reflection. This spiritually correct view healed sickness.
