Article July 3, 1937 Issue

What Is Right Thinking?

CHARLOTTE RUTH DECKER

"The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity." These words, found on the first page of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, reveal that right thinking means more than the struggle of the unillumined human intellect to solve the question of the creation of man and the universe on a material basis. This rousing statement represents Truth's demand in the world today; and yet we find the majority of mankind endeavoring to obtain happiness in material ways, not seeing any necessity for them to think or reason spiritually. To such as these the truth about God is vague. To thought completely wrapped up in matter, the question of the origin of all that really exists remains an enigma. Moreover, the thought of God as omnipresent may be accepted, at first, with some effort because of the widespread teaching that He is finite and personal.

Christ Jesus, the most profound thinker the world has ever known, found it wise to resort to parables, when he spoke to the multitudes. When he was asked his reason for doing this, he said, "Because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand ... and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed." To the disciples, who heard him with an open mind, he said, "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears. for they hear."

Let us ask ourselves what correct thinking is. God knows; He knows all reality. And man reflects the allknowing Mind. The spiritual fact is that there is but one Mind, which knows all that exists. Anything unlike Mind is unreal, and should be put out of our consciousness. Our work, then, is to accept into our consciousness only Godlike thoughts, rejecting all beliefs based on matter or evil.

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