Article March 30, 1929 Issue

"A glorified consciousness"

SUSAN F. CAMPBELL

Plato saw more than the average person sees when he made the terse statement, "What thou seest, that thou beest." One may object to the assertion that what he is seeing—that is to say, what he is accepting as real—determines his character; and perhaps he would much rather think that his difficulties arise from something entirely outside his thinking, from so-called heredity or from other conditions over which, according to popular belief, he is supposed to have no control.

When it first becomes apparent that thought is the source of all activity, health, circumstance, environment, in fact, of every condition, it is almost startling to the so-called human mind; but once this fact is admitted, it is seen to be of paramount importance for each one to determine what quality of thoughts he is entertaining.

In "Unity of Good" (p. 49) Mrs. Eddy writes: "Through the eternal reality of existence I reach, in thought, a glorified consciousness of the only living God and the genuine man. So long as I hold evil in consciousness, I cannot be wholly good." Christ Jesus realized this "glorified consciousness" continually, and he taught his followers how to attain it. Perhaps one might say this was especially demonstrated on the mount of transfiguration when the three disciples, Peter, James, and John, saw him glorified and had a glimpse of "the eternal reality of existence," and Moses and Elias appeared and talked with Jesus.

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