Article November 28, 1931 Issue

Divine Concepts

WILLIS M. CHRISTIAN

In the solving of every human problem the Christian Scientist employs right ideas. These are as indispensable to him as symbols to a mathematician demonstrating a theorem. Just as numerals derive their significance from the arithmetical relations and functions they express, so the meaning of perfect concepts is revealed in the truth they demonstrate. They are emanations of divine Mind, active, living witnesses to God's presence and power. Describing their intent, Mrs. Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 259), "Immortal ideas, pure, perfect, and enduring, are transmitted by the divine Mind through divine Science, which corrects error with truth and demands spiritual thoughts, divine concepts, to the end that they may produce harmonious results." The transforming power of these angels is felt whenever one receives them into one's consciousness.

Christian Science discloses the falsity of evil by demonstrating good. Error can have no enduring history, for it is false. Existence in matter is the seeming manifestation of the belief in a life apart from God. It constitutes the original lie about man in the divine likeness. From the acceptance of the lie proceeds the claim of evil to power and intelligence. To the material senses, life appears to be physical, and subject to the suppositional laws of matter; but this false sense is mortal, self-destructive. It is only through spiritual sense that one gains the understanding of true being. As this understanding dawns on human consciousness, the shadows of error begin to vanish as wholly unreal, and illumined thought becomes identified with the pure thoughts or ideas of immortal Mind.

God made all that really exists, and in the first chapter of Genesis we read that He saw everything He had made and it was "very good." Heaven has always been present to spiritual consciousness; as Paul wrote to the Romans, "the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen."

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