Editorial August 19, 1922 Issue

The Might of Mind

Duncan Sinclair

Not only is Mind omnipresent; Mind is also omnipotent,—that is to say, Mind possesses all power, exercises complete dominion over all creation. Here, then, are two spiritual facts of great importance,—Mind's omnipresence, and Mind's omnipotence,—facts which are being more and more recognized and acknowledged by an ever increasing number of people, both for their own good and for the good of the whole world. Whenever it is recognized—and precisely in the degree that it is recognized—that Mind is omnipresent and omnipotent, it becomes demonstrable to the individual that there is no other real presence or power in existence, and that, therefore, there is no material force or energy opposing spiritual power. This understanding is simply priceless in value to mankind.

On page 423 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the truth of being, to destroy the error. This corrective is an alterative, reaching to every part of the human system. According to Scripture, it searches 'the joints and marrow,' and it restores the harmony of man." In the practice of Christian Science, whatever the difficulty, one goes back in thought to Mind, and declares the truth about Mind. Mind is: and Mind is All-in-all. Mind governs through spiritual law; and being perfect, spiritual law controls all true being harmoniously; so that nothing untoward can ever occur to disturb the equilibrium of spiritual creation. As this is realized, human fallacies or false beliefs—whether of sickness or of sin—are destroyed. Thus, the truth about God and real spiritual being, in which perfection or health abounds, meets the human need, every "part of the human system" responding to the power of Truth,—to the might of Mind,—until harmony is restored.

Think, then, what the discovery of Christian Science means to suffering humanity! Now, God's power is known, even as Christ Jesus knew it. Now, God's might is available—even as Jesus made it available—to heal humanity of its sorrows and sicknesses and sins, to restore it to the true sense of man's harmonious being, as the child—the image and likeness—of God. No longer is God afar off! He is ever present, here where man is at this very moment; and thus He ever will be, never for an instant separated from His creation. Besides, God, who is inseparable from His idea, man, is omnipotent. Thus, no other power exists to prevent the divine power manifesting itself everywhere, and at all times. As it is set forth concerning God in the first chapter of Revelation: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."

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