Editorial October 11, 1930 Issue

Wisdom

Violet Ker Seymer

Every normal human being desires to be divinely wise, to preserve harmony in his character, experience, home, and career; and he lovingly desires this harmony for all individuals and nations, for divine Love and wisdom are eternally allied. Because it prevents discord and opens the way for all blessedness and prosperity, wisdom is a universal human need. Accordingly, on page 538 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Truth places the cherub wisdom at the gate of understanding to note the proper guests." What are these "proper guests," acceptable to divine wisdom? They are thoughts aligned with divine Principle, spiritual ideas bringing to mankind apt counsel and noble standards.

One imbued with wisdom must dismiss, among other improper guests, fear, selfishness, depraved mortal will, anxiety, for in these traits of the so-called carnal mind he can find nothing wise or beneficent. Through unwise impulse or inordinate greed of gain, for instance, fortunes have been quickly made and as quickly lost. Through blind enthusiasm, or through yielding to the selfish aim of another,—in other words, through a lack of wisdom and foresight,—many have become involved in painful situations from which the exercise of wisdom could have saved them and others. Therefore Christian Science, the rescuer of mankind, requires us constantly to review the motives underlying human thought and action, and, as the saying is, to look before we leap. It urges us to be divinely wise in claiming as the controlling source of our every aim and desire the one all-wise divine Mind, remembering Mrs. Eddy's statement (ibid., p. 275) that "no wisdom is wise but His wisdom."

If our desire should be, for instance, for increase in the things pertaining to our environment and mode of living, let us make sure, before carrying it out in action, that this desire is entirely free from pride, rivalry, undue self-indulgence, and is within the bounds of temperance, simplicity, honesty. The way of wisdom is not the way of indebtedness or display.

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