Editorial May 19, 1934 Issue

Mind-Pictures

Violet Ker Seymer

Solomon indicated the beauty of the word in season, its fruitage, and the mental nature of pictures, when he said that "a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." Wherever divine Love is reflected there can always be discerned a host of heavenly thoughts clothed in fitting words, a blending of ideas in the setting of God, pure Mind. Whoever possesses a moral standard would probably refuse to hang objectionable pictures in his home. Yet this same individual, when attempting to displace disagreeable mental pictures, long-harbored fears or grudges, might feel nonplused.

Now Christian Science enables us to rise above every dubious mental state. This is accomplished through spiritual vision, teachableness, fidelity, perseverance—all of which are at hand for every willing disciple. Perhaps the picture to be blotted out is one of disease, sorrow, or poverty. Perhaps it is a haunting fear regarding the past, the present, or the future. Then it is comforting to learn that these pictures are only in material thinking, and that this material thinking can in every case be exchanged for true thinking. How? By learning through Christian Science to entertain only the thoughts of God, pure Mind. These thoughts tell us all there is to be known about life and substance, intelligence, health, and joy. As these true thoughts cleanse and govern human consciousness the individual finds that he is gaining his freedom from the obsession of unwholesome mental pictures and their bodily effects.

Control of thought is learned by acknowledging divine Mind to be the one source and controller of all real thoughts. If beset with fears, old or new, one can resolutely look away from them to the ineffaceable health and right-mindedness of man, who forever reflects pure Mind-pictures. The nonexistence as fact of false mental pictures or material thinking must be unreservedly admitted, for in this admission is liberation for humanity. God, divine Mind, is infinite, self-governed, and nothing can intervene between man and Mind. This is the truth on which one seeking help through Christian Science is required to dwell loyally and confidently.

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