Editorial August 10, 1935 Issue

Inspiration and Guidance

George Shaw Cook

Mortals frequently lack an adequate sense of direction. They are often conscious of the need for a more assured sense of guidance in their daily lives and affairs. With this lack of a definite sense of direction and guidance there is likely to be confusion, indecision, uncertainty, and doubt.

That which is required to destroy this confused and uncertain sense, so common in human experience, is divine inspiration. "Love," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 454 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way." What mortals need, then, to illumine their daily path and to guide them in the right way, is inspiration—that inspiration which emanates from and is an unfailing and infallible quality of divine Love.

Writing again on the subject of inspiration, Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 84), "Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, to be divinely inspired,—yea, to reach the range of fetterless Mind." One who through inspiration becomes conscious of his indestructible unity with "fetterless Mind" can no longer entertain a sense of uncertainty. He can no longer be the victim of indecision. He can no longer be in bondage to doubt. It is plain that the all-knowing Mind does not include a sense of indecision or uncertainty, and it should be equally clear that man, created in the likeness of Mind, and for the purpose of expressing the exact nature of Mind, could not be conscious of that which Mind, God, does not include.

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