Article January 14, 1933 Issue

In reply to the letter of a clergyman in your issue of...

Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,—Kingston, London

Surrey Comet

In reply to the letter of a clergyman in your issue of April 9, let me point out the distinction made by Christian Science between divine Mind, God, and the so-called carnal or mortal mind. Mortal mind is carnal in its make-up, and it is, therefore, "enmity against God" (Spirit), as Paul declares. It can neither see, feel, taste, smell, nor hear Spirit. This is the condition of the human mentality before the dawn of spiritual understanding takes place in human consciousness. This carnal mind believes in the reality of sin, disease, and death, argues for their reality, and keeps mortals in bondage to the false belief that man was made from the "dust of the ground."

The divine Mind, on the other hand, is the Mind that is God, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Spirit, the creator of the spiritual universe including spiritual man, and can be conscious only of that which is eternal, immutable, immortal, and divine. This is the Mind which was in Christ Jesus, and which Paul tells us to have. The statement, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind," must mean, Be ye spiritualized by gaining the true consciousness, which reflects divine Mind, and giving up the carnal mind.

No religious teacher, since the days of Christ Jesus, has taught with such persistent clearness how to distinguish the carnal from the divine Mind as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. From Genesis to Revelation she has drawn a dividing line between Spirit and the spiritual and that which is carnal and material; whereas other teachers have allowed the lines to join and become confused. She has given us the clear, demonstrable way of salvation from sin, disease, and death. She has shown us that the man mentioned in the first chapter of Genesis is spiritual, made in the image and likeness of God, Spirit. She has also pointed out that the man made from the dust of the ground, mentioned in the second chapter of Genesis, is a false sense of man. It is from this false sense of man that humanity needs to be saved. In I Corinthians 15, Paul draws a very clear distinction between the man of God's creation, spiritual, perfect, and eternal, and Adam or fleshly man, which must be put off.

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