Article October 11, 1930 Issue

Mental Arrows

[Original article in German]

DORA CLEVE

An arrow that misses its mark is harmless; but how often we, having been mentally wounded, have carried with us a mental arrow, perhaps for days, weeks, or even months!

We think we see an enemy before us who has made, or intends to make, a personal attack on us, and a sharp word-arrow may be received. A student of Christian Science was once wounded by such an arrow. It burned in the mental wound. and she could not rid herself of it until at last she asked God for right thoughts. After she had sent forth her petition, she opened "Miscellaneous Writings," and her eyes fell on these words (p. 8): "Can you see an enemy, except you first formulate this enemy and then look upon the object of your own conception?"

It was about such an imaginary enemy that she had been disturbed! There fell from her eyes "as it had been scales," and she saw so-called mortal mind as the aggressor. She declared that she could not be deceived and defrauded, disturbed and annoyed, by error, and that she would not submit to it. The struggle, consisting of a constant declaration of the truth through which to silence the voice of error, lasted a week. Again and again the serpent tried to creep into her consciousness, and again and again it was driven out. The erroneous thoughts were eventually exterminated, and peace remained.

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