Article June 29, 1981 Issue

What Mind knows

NICOLLE G. TORDA

Christian Science provides insight into the nature and character of God. As we study, and prove our understanding, the resulting vision brings us closer to Him, to the divine Mind, the source of all intelligence. His knowledge becomes, in a measure, our own.

God is not unknown or unknowable. Paul explained God's nature as perfect, universally available, ever present. "For in him we live, and move, and have our being." Acts 17:28.  We can know God because in our true being we are at one with Him.

Some ancient cultures conceived a pantheistic religion, worshiping each deity in its own temple. Their personalized deities were gods and goddesses with names, whose exploits were outlined in minute detail. In fact, so vivid were these stories that even today many of us are familiar with them. The difference between such early cultures and us is that they were almost convinced their illusions were factual, whereas we know they are entirely mythical. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "What is the god of a mortal, but a mortal magnified?" Science and Health, p. 140. And she describes what God truly is: "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." Ibid., p. 465.

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