Article July 5, 1919 Issue

Christian Science shows clearly that the human sense of...

The Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science shows clearly that the human sense of any process is a counterfeit of the true activity going on in the divine Mind. The common thought about recuperation is that it is a material process, requiring above all considerable time. Anyone who will stop to think will admit at once that recuperation, either of a nation from war or of a person from illness or any other disorder, must be a mental process, a change of thought to the standard of true peace, health, and order. In other words, if thought has seemingly departed in any respect from absolute Principle, it simply has to turn completely back. This recuperation does not depend upon mere time; it requires eternal, unlimited turning.

What constitutes turning to God, to Principle, is, of course, stated and restated innumerable times in the Scriptures. Ezekiel, particularly, was fond of the word, and time after time he explained in glowing language what is essential for real turning. "Cast away from you all your transgressions," he declared, for instance, "whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye." Real recuperation does indeed seem the appearing of a new heart and a new spirit to the one turning his thought wholly to the truth that divine intelligence governs the genuine, spiritual man. It means necessarily the utter casting away of the belief that anything but divine intelligence could possibly produce real activity. Such a belief is the transgression from which human thought needs to be recuperated.

Absolutely, the real man, in the image and likeness of God, never has transgressed, been sick or in confusion of any sort. It is only the suppositional opposite of this true man, called a mortal, that has even seemed to be discordant. Fortunately mere supposition is never reality. In mathematics, for instance, since two parallel lines are by definition those which never meet, the supposition that they meet at some infinitely distant point is the supposition of an absurdity. Just so, the real man has never diverged for an instant from the straight and narrow way of Principle into disease or human warfare, into any supposition of a mind able to produce matter or destruction. The only consciousness or Mind of the genuine man is the consciousness which, being always provably existent and provably all that is, must be the consciousness of continuously harmonious activity. Existing as the manifestation of this divine Mind, the spiritual man does not need what is humanly called recuperation but always has had unfailing vigor.

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