Article April 26, 1930 Issue

The Availability of Divine Mind

NEIL KENSINGTON ADAM

Christian Science has come to enable mankind to overcome its troubles by putting on the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus." It teaches how to replace erroneous thinking by spiritual thinking, and so to achieve complete salvation from sickness and sin and progressively prove that the real man is the true image and likeness of God.

Mortals, however, may be well aware that they ought to think aright, that is, to reflect the Mind which is God, and yet feel insuperable difficulties in even commencing to practice spiritual thinking. One may feel his thinking to be so unlike the divine that he does not know how to take the first steps toward adjusting his thought to that which is true. From such a state, which mortals have been educated to regard as natural, may arise discouragement and hopelessness. One who remains passive under this belief of limited understanding, and accepts it as part of himself, may be constantly excusing himself from demonstrating spiritual dominion over some phase of false belief.

However recently he may have commenced to study, no earnest student of Christian Science need continue in this state of false belief; nor has he any valid excuse for so doing. He should know that spiritual understanding is not limited, and that his realization of this fact should therefore not be limited. It is merely false belief which claims that understanding is limited and that ignorance prevails. Ignorance is but the seeming absence of intelligence, and it vanishes as divine Mind is reflected. In the infinite realm of the real there is no place where ignorance or limitation could prevail.

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