Article May 23, 1931 Issue

"Pure Mind"

CAROLINE B. WINGERT

On page 260 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Pure Mind is the truth of being that subjugates and destroys any suppositional or elementary opposite to Him who is All."

The word "pure" admits of no mixture or combination; hence we see in the discovery of pure Mind as the truth of being the downfall of the time-honored belief of a mixture of Mind and matter, good and evil, the pure and the impure. With this downfall one's numerous fears, forebodings, and apprehensions may be dispelled, for one beholds himself in his real being as God's image, as no longer a mixture of good and evil, Spirit and matter, but as a living witness to pure Mind, complete, perfect, and eternal. Indeed, as John declared, "now are we the sons of God."

If we accept pure Mind as the Ego, the one and only cause expressed in perfect ideas, the conclusion inevitably follows that pure Mind with its manifestation of pure ideas constitutes the whole of reality or the All-in-all of being. The materialist, who believes he lives in and because of matter, may object to the attitude Christian Science maintains towards what is termed matter, yet he will frankly admit that matter is destructible, and that sometime he will either become nonexistent or exist in Mind only.

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