Article September 10, 1921 Issue

Place

KATHRINE JONES

God, Mind, is always present, just as much in one place as in another. Indeed, Mind needs no physical space to occupy. Mind is. We can begin to understand this by realizing that a truth, a thought, an idea, by its very nature, does not occupy physical place. It has no physical requirements, because it is metaphysical in its being. For instance, the truth that two and two are four is an ever present reality. It is true on earth, and on Mars, but it has nothing to do with place. If these planets should cease to be, it would still be true. This leads us to the apprehension of the fact that divine Mind, the one cause, the one creator, the origin of all ideas, is omnipresent.

Since God is Mind, and all-presence, then the approach to God is purely spiritual. No physical movement is required to reach Him. It is not necessary to kneel down or to raise the eyes to the heavens or to close the eyes or to go to a temple or to retire into a quiet room in order to address Mind. The fact of Mind's omnipresence is apprehended spiritually; the movement or activity necessary to enter into communion with Mind is a purely spiritual one.

Spiritual man is never cut off from his connection with Mind. It is as impossible to think of man's having an independent life of his own, apart from his creator, as it would be to think of the sunbeam's existing independently of the sun. Mortals may realize this fact, and the blessings that flow from the realization of it, just in the proportion that they are willing to work for this understanding. Mortal thought does not readily occupy itself with the things of Spirit; but one who sincerely prays that he may desire Spirit first, will cultivate and increase his ability to study and live Christian Science, with the result that he will be prepared to receive the answer to his prayer. It will become increasingly easier for him to turn his thought from worldliness, and to live in the realm of Spirit.

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