Article July 25, 1959 Issue

"AS HE THINKETH . . . SO IS HE"

J. LESLIE HADDON

"THERE is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so," wrote Shakespeare. Examination of this declaration proves it logical and true. In human experience everything that exists has its origin in thought. Everything one sees, feels, knows, enjoys, or suffers is the objectification of human thinking. How truly then could the writer of Proverbs say of a person (23:7), "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he"!

In Christian Science we learn that right thinking or reasoning is the faculty of utilizing intelligence, drawn always from the one source, God—infinite Mind, or intelligence—with the purpose of gaining enlightenment. The accumulative results of thinking constitute the store of what one knows. Since the real man, God's image or reflection, is an individual consciousness, the most worthy activity in which mankind can be occupied is right thinking.

Christian Science is a religion for thinkers. It teaches one how to spiritualize thought. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 428), "To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear,—this is the great attainment by means ofwhich we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true."

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