“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven…”

I love this story of Babel. It is such a good explanation of what happens when people try to find heaven (happiness, security, joy) through material knowledge, so-called. The human mind will create schools of education so people can spend years working for advanced degrees, searching for what? It will promote human theories in school as if they were fact (Darwin’s theory of evolution). It will create rules of law that will prevent people from doing anything in order to save them from their own mistakes.

Then, of course, we have institutions like Islam and the Roman Catholic church that promote themselves through fear and ignorance, and are clearly not improving civilization. With those, there is no communication at all. All of these human institutions, which promise something good, always fall short, or worse, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” (Romans 8: 6)

Think of all the human institutions that have been created to try to make civilization better. Yet, those that are not based on the omnipotence and omniscience of God, the one and only Mind, lead to confusion, frustration, and people not understanding one another.

Mrs. Eddy writes, “There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way.” We have a great privilege and responsibility to follow Christ as Mrs. Eddy did, and as she instructs us to do in the textbook. It is Christ’s Christianity that brings us to heaven on earth.