Article April 23, 1921 Issue

Signs of the Times

["Look Not Behind Thee"—The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, U.S.A., Feb. 21, 1921]

With that deep, indwelling, divinely inspired vision which characterizes all of the Pauline writings, "the apostle of the Gentiles" admonished the Philippians to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness, even as he was constantly doing, by saying unto them, "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Here is a clearly defined statement as to how we can best progress toward the full spiritualization of thought, toward that final understanding which accepts only that which really is. This is accomplished in the proportion that we put into practice what has already been learned of Truth, never looking backward into the veil of matter, but rather onward and upwards, scientifically destroying every finite concept which is presented for acceptance, with the actual, spiritual law, the law which makes for ceaseless unfoldment, which neither tarries, waits, nor honors lapse, interval, or reversal.

The human mind, because of its purely suppositional nature, is always theorizing just how this or that condition, which takes place in its hypothetical realm, is to be accounted for through what it chooses to call laws of matter. For this reason, it is forever, as it were, looking back at some prior experience, asking the why and wherefore of it, and trying to judge the outcome of some present happening by some past event. To this mind there seems to be one endless repetition of material circumstances, each more or less dependent on the other. In the realm of Mind, the one and only consciousness, it is at once seen that Spirit, God, is All-in-all, that whatever actually transpires bears a definite and established relationship to Spirit, God; that each and every right action is the effect of this one and only Mind, the one cause; that there is but the one infinite idea of unfoldment, which is taking place, at every moment, and in every place, and that nothing which is so taking place can be actuated, impelled, influenced, or controlled by any theory of the so-called mind of mortals, which Mrs. Eddy has termed mortal mind. Such reasoning as this immediately turns the thought of the seeker after truth to Mind, God, and away from the seeming happenings in the realm of matter. It furthermore demands that we look forward toward God, and not backward into the byways of belief.

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