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Light of Life
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By Thy light and life I am strengthened and healed.
"Every good gift and every perfect gift" cometh from above,
from the Father of light, and I am in all ways prospered.
BIBLE WRITERS use the word "light" to represent
intelligence. When Jesus said, "I am the light of the
world," He undoubtedly meant that He was the expresser of
Truth in all of its aspects. In the 1st chapter of John
light and Truth are synonymous.
"There was the true light, even the light which lighteth
every man, coming into the world." This does not mean that
He was the light of all those who come into the physical
world, but of those who are born of Spirit into the world
of reality. Those who live in physical consciousness regard
the light as a radiation of the sun through which people
discern the outline of things. But within this light that
chases away the darkness is a principle hidden from the
sense man. "And the light shineth in the
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darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not." Materiality
is unillumined and has no power in itself to overcome its
ignorance. So all attempts of intellect to lift man and the
human family to higher states of consciousness will prove
futile. There must be an influx of spiritual energy and
inspiration from the "Father of lights."
Yet it is interesting to note how the discoveries of modern
science are demonstrating phases of truth without bringing
forth a single principle that will raise man spiritually.
For example, light has been probed to its physical source
and properties have been revealed of a world that was
nonexistent to the physical man. Yet with all the marvelous
knowledge acquired about light no quality has been revealed
that man can apply to his moral or health-restoring needs.
The argument that light is a property of electricity that
is being successfully applied to heal human ills is not
borne out by facts.
Yet the Scriptures treat light and intelligence as one. In
the very first chapter of the Bible we are told that Mind
became manifest as light. "And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light" But the mind that judges
according to appearance never discerns the inner truth
about light or anything else.
We must know the Truth about the omnipresence of the one
intelligence in the light; then we shall be made free from
our intellectual darkness. Science agrees with James that
"every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the
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Father of lights." Science says light is a very orderly and
exceedingly productive wave motion in the ether, but
science does not tell us that light is God intelligence in
action and that we can link our mind with the light and
reap the benefit of its marvelous potentialities.
Some Christian metaphysicians are shy about using the
scientists' approach to their problems, fearing that they
themselves will fall into a materialistic trend of thought.
However when we see scientists telling in physical terms of
the properties of God-Mind, needing only to add the
assumption of an intelligent moving power, we have found
the cooperation of a very earnest and convincing lot of
truth seekers.
So do not be afraid of the true physical scientist, but
give his discoveries the light of mind. Then you will find
that the substance and life will become more obedient to
your word of command.
Remember that Moses received his great command from Jehovah
when he turned aside to see why the bush that burned was
not consumed. Jehovah spoke to him "out of the midst of the
bush"; that is, God was in the fire that lighted an
ordinary bush. Open your mind to the light of Spirit
wherever you are. See with the eye of the mind that God is
omnipresent Spirit, "over all, and through all, and in all."
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