Christian Science teaches again and again that you can’t often trust your eyes. They frequently give you reports that are not true. Below is an example.
Those circles are not moving! Your eyes are making them move.
To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop moving. But move your eyes to the next black center and the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it.
Mortality is a matrix of unbelievable pictures, just like the above. If we believe the physical senses, they can make us believe scenarios that are not true. To protect ourselves from being deceived, we have to reason a situation out from the scientific facts to come to a correct conclusion. And the ultimate science to utilize is divine Science.
Great symbols to illustrate the way the senses can trick us! I’m taking this one to Sunday School Class!
I am so often thinking of the statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy:
“Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols. Did not
Jesus illustrate the truths he taught by the mustard-seed and prodigal?” (Pg. 575:lines 14-16)
Mrs. Eddy carefully weighed each word she wrote, listening
always for the guidance of divine intelligence, Mind.
So the word “always” in the above quote really makes me think about how I teach my SS class! Wow.
Thanks again, Evan. Your articles are wonderfully full of
symbols!!!
Sue
Interesting….I don’t see them moving at al.