This week’s Watching Point (216) quotes Mrs. Eddy: “The argument used in healing is simply tuning up. If your violin is in tune, it is unnecessary to tune it up. Keep your violin in tune. ”
This statement reminds me of lines from the CS Hymnal, 36:
“Amid the restless eyes of earth
How steadfast is thine eye,
Fixed on the silent loveliness
That fills the morning sky.”
God’s steadfastness is like that of a stable tuning fork tuned to standard pitch, to be used as a reference tone for tuning the instruments of an orchestra. A tuning fork resting on a music stand in a concert hall will always remain at an unvarying pitch even if all the other instruments of the orchestra be out of tune with it and with each other.
The 1st edition of Science and Health, says, “numbers are harmonious only when governed by Intelligence, outside the figures,” and the same can be said of musical notes (page 31).
“Though the grass seemeth to wither, and the flower to fade, they reappear; erase the figures that express numbers; shut out the tones of music; give to the worm the body called man, the Principle of these survives despite the so-called laws of matter, and holds its ideas immortal. If the inharmony of belief hides the harmony of Truth, it cannot destroy this Principle, for it is God, supreme over all, ‘who doeth according to His own will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto Him, What doest Thou?'” (Science and Health, 1st edition, pages 75-76)
Here is a practical audio-visual demonstration of what happens when 2 tones are in unison with one another (cf., “I and my Father are one.”) and when they are not: