Editorial January 3, 1970 Issue

Healing Thought

Helen Wood Bauman

There is a great difference between considering sickness a stubborn, physical condition and realizing that it is nothing more than a mortal thought. Christian Science makes this distinction. And in reducing a material condition to a mental state, it makes healing of any sickness possible, for a thought can be disciplined, mastered, even eradicated permanently.

Part of Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of the healing method used by Christ Jesus is the fact that matter itself is nothing more than mortal thought, a finite way of interpreting the infinite. Matter is never separate from the mind, or material sense, that cognizes it but is a concept in that mind. It is altogether a mental image, a sense-picture. Mrs. Eddy says in Miscellaneous Writings, "Nothing appears to the physical senses but their own subjective state of thought." Then she tells us what to do about it: "Destroy the thought of sin, sickness, death, and you destroy their existence. 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.'"^{Mis., p. 105;}

Surely one should not fear what his own thinking has evolved; he can always change his thoughts. But there is more to spiritual healing than a human attempt to destroy a material thought of sickness. The fact is that because a mortal thought is false it can be obliterated only by a spiritual thought, which is true, being God-created. Such obliteration calls for spiritualization of consciousness. Denial of matter as substance is essential. But something real and good must be put in its place if the body is to respond so fully to the method of Christian Science healing that it can never experience a recurrence of the discord.

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