Editorial January 23, 1932 Issue

Spirituality and Health

Duncan Sinclair

Mrs. Eddy writes on page 166 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:" "The erring human mind is inharmonious in itself. From it arises the inharmonious body." Analyze the so-called human mind, and it is found to be a seeming commingling of good or true thoughts and erroneous or evil beliefs, sometimes the one, sometimes the other preponderating. The good or true thoughts correspond to a harmonious state of consciousness, the erroneous or evil beliefs to an inharmonious state; and these states of consciousness influence the body, making it either healthy or sick.

Many examples could be given illustrating the effects of right or wrong thinking on the state of a person's health. To take but a single example: the almost invariable effect of sensuousness, shown perhaps in overindulgence in food or in the use of alcoholic beverages, is impaired health. Some may place the blame against the matter indulged in, but, primarily, the cause is the erroneous mentality which sustains the desire to indulge to excess. How often has indulgence in alcoholic liquor resulted in broken health, which the repentant one would give all he possessed to regain!

Since what has just been said is true, it is apparent how health can be established, or reestablished. It must come about through the purification of human consciousness; or, in other words, through spiritualization of thought. As our Leader says in "Unity of Good" (p. 57), "Man's refuge is in spirituality, 'under the shadow of the Almighty.'" And the purification of human consciousness through spiritualization of thought is the great task which Christian Science is enabling its adherents to perform.

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