Article March 22, 1930 Issue

True Thinking

PHOEBE E. GIFT

On page 475 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy states: "Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas." And in the same paragraph she further defines "man" as "that which has no separate mind from God." From this we understand that spiritual man has no power to think evil, but that, being the expression of the divine Mind, man reflects only good thoughts.

Christian Science teaches us that in order to keep the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," we cannot acknowledge God as the only God, the one power, and at the same time believe that material things, such as food, air, or place, have power to heal or harm. When the powerlessness of material things is seen, we can no longer entertain the false belief that there is real power in so-called evil or wrong thinking. It is necessary clearly to distinguish between true thinking and that which is counterfeit and consequently powerless. On page 92 of Science and Health our Leader says, "The mistake of thinking that error can be real, when it is merely the absence of truth, leads to belief in the superiority of error."

Thinking which does not include the truth about God and man and the loving motive unselfishly to bless one and all is not true thinking, but falsity, which is not of God, and so has no power in it. This is true because God, good, is the only Mind, and man reflects God—Truth and Love—and can of himself think nothing. Paul saw this when he wrote, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God."

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