“the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” (Proverbs 9: 10) I love this statement. If ever I have failed to understand anything, it is the result of my unwillingness to gain “the knowledge of the holy.” This refers to the things of Spirit. After all, Jesus stated that “God is a Spirit…” and since God is all, knowledge of the things of Spirit is the only true knowledge there is. Knowledge of matter is not knowledge at all, but is the great lie, mesmerism, which we eat of the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” to our detriment.
This knowledge of the holy is the “translation” that Mrs. Eddy refers to in Miscellaneous Writings (25): “Science, understood, translates matter into Mind, rejects all other theories of causation, restores the spiritual and original meaning of the Scriptures, and explains the teachings and life of our Lord. It is religion’s ‘new tongue,’ with ‘signs following,’ spoken of by St. Mark. It gives God’s infinite meaning to mankind, healing the sick, casting out evil, and raising the spiritually dead.” Further, she writes in MIS, page 74: “Christ Jesus’ sense of matter was the opposite of that which mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual and immortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission was to translate substance into its original meaning, Mind.”
Martha Wilcox explains that this is how we spiritualize our thought. In Addresses by Martha Wilcox is written (page 311): “Through translation of man and the visible universe back into the spiritual fact of man and the universe, we shall finally see and know that an elephant, or a planet, or an airplane is not larger or mightier than ourself. We shall see all things as thought forms, or ideas, or spiritual facts, included within us and as possessing all the qualities and attributes of God.”
It requires a spiritualized thought to understand the reality of things. A thought that is not spiritualized is mesmerized.