Editorial July 28, 1923 Issue

True Concepts

Ella W. Hoag

On page 262 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Every concept which seems to begin with the brain begins falsely. Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms." To state that "every concept which seems to begin with the brain begins falsely," is immediately to challenge all the beliefs of the so-called human mind. While the brain has ordinarily been held responsible for all the thinking of mankind, it has ever been a house divided against itself. It has always been acknowledged to be material. Consequently, however it has named its concepts, they must have partaken of its own nature. Even its presentations of God and heaven have been necessarily material.

What wonderful freedom may come to one if he will but accept fully the teaching of Christian Science that all the supposed concepts of the brain are false and are to be renounced as neither cause nor effect, since "cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms"! Established as this teaching is on the fundamental basis that "divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence," we have the method of separating between Truth and error, between the real and the unreal.

Mrs. Eddy also admonishes Christian Scientists in a multitude of ways to cease looking at corporeality. In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 308) she says, "I earnestly advise all Christian Scientists to remove from their observation or study the personal sense of any one, and not to dwell in thought upon their own or others corporeality, either as good or evil."

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