Article May 26, 1923 Issue

Thinking

RAYMOND H. DAVIS

A GREAT deal is said to-day about the power of thought, of right thinking and of false thinking, of spiritual thinking and of material thinking. Thoughts are either of human or of divine origin. If we look to the brain or what we term the human intellect as the source of thought, we manifestly reap only the results of human thought,—the restless ebb and flow of the various beliefs of human existence, whether apparently desirable or otherwise,—and receive no spiritual animus. Neither do we thereby learn of God and His creation, or how to demonstrate the facts of spiritual existence.

The Bible says, "Canst thou by searching find out God?" Or, in other words, by looking to human thinking for spiritual revelation, shall we ever find it? On the other hand, if our thinking is spiritual, we are looking to God, divine Mind, as the one and only intelligence, and soon discover that true thinking is divine; that real thoughts are spiritual ideas, and that we discern them as we open our consciousness to them. They belong to God, and He uses them to bless all. They deliver us from mortal mind. If so-called mortal mind ever could think or get an idea from God, it would endeavor to manipulate it to its own advantage in a way derogatory to man; but our safety is assured, for we know that by the very nature of Mind, matter can never comprehend or see Spirit. Jesus never claimed to originate an idea of his own. He never gave the human corporeality the credit of being able to think for itself, act for itself, or do anything of its own volition. His only attitude was expressed in the words, "I can of mine own self do nothing," and, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." It is our acknowledgment of divine Mind as the only intelligence that allows these spiritual ideas to operate in our consciousness; and we, in turn, get the benefit of dwelling with them, of bearing witness to the truth. Thus we see that we do not consult the belief in human mentality in order to think.

There is a strong belief about human intellect, that it must think or think about thinking in and of itself; and the mortal goes along thinking how he should, all unaided, think things out, never really arriving at an intelligent conclusion. Revolving in this limited circle of human belief, he may go on almost indefinitely without arriving anywhere; but let him, instead, turn to divine goodness. the source of all true thought, and he begins to find his ability to reflect divine goodness. As a result of this, he finds himself to be an immediate, direct reflection of the divine intelligence, which includes all that is good. Then, what a wonderful influx of the joyous sense of existence, of the sweetness and continuity of being, of the persuasive animus which overshadows the details of humdrum mortal existence, and fills us with the love and the desire Principle, and divine Principle alone!

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