Article March 10, 1951 Issue

"WHICH ONE?"

MILTON SIMON

All is Mind and its ideas. Nothing can exist outside of the one all-inclusive Mind. All that divine Mind can possibly be cognizant of is itself and its own ideas.

Correspondingly, mortal mind can have only its own concepts. It cannot perceive anything external to itself. It should be understood, however, that the individual's concept of sin is not the whole of sin. If the suggestions termed sickness, lack, or unemployment were realities, existing apart from one's thought, then one would be faced with the difficulty of trying to control forces and events existing outside of himself. But since they are within consciousness, one is in a position to control them, because he can always exercise dominion over his own thinking.

No activity extraneous to human consciousness can be transferred to it. Every so-called discordant condition, including disease, must be mental, for it could not appear to human consciousness as a thing, but only as a thought. Although mortals claim otherwise, human consciousness need not be impressed by incidents that are going on in a material universe external to it. On the contrary, the phenomenon it sees as the world is occurring only within the seeming human consciousness itself, for it sees its own thoughts.

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