Article October 27, 1917 Issue

Most people are aware that discordant mental conditions...

The Christian Science Monitor

Most people are aware that discordant mental conditions affect the body. Thus, for example, anger, fear, jealousy, and such like passions, will derange bodily function; and without doubt if indulged in for prolonged periods they tend to produce certain types of disease. Indeed it is usually conceded that evil thinking directly produces discordant bodily effects. That is pretty generally admitted by the great majority of those who have given any thought at all to the subject.

And as with what are more commonly styled the evil passions, so it is with grief, doubt, suspense, and fear. All of these moods of the human mind affect the human body, causing it in some cases to sicken, and making mankind its slave instead of keeping it the obedient servant which it ought always to be. Christian Science points out that the human body and the human mind are inseparable, and shows at once how thought becomes manifest on the body. The body is but an image held in the human mind, and this image becomes more or less unhealthy or more or less healthy according to the condition of the mind which holds it. Like the sensitive photographic plate which is so readily influenced by every gradation of light, the human body responds to human will, to human fear, and to every other human passion. It is well to be clear about this, because to be ignorant of it is apt to prevent the seeing of the way out of the discomforts of human existence.

On page 445 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes, "Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick." The spiritual understanding of Truth and Love destroys the errors of mortal sense. And how? Christian Science teaches that God is infinite Mind. This means that there is only one Mind or one real consciousness in existence. This consciousness is perfect. Being perfect it is absolutely harmonious, without a trace of evil or error about it. The expression of perfect consciousness must be altogether without effort, frictionless, unlabored.

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