Editorial November 11, 1939 Issue

Divine Intelligence Ever Available

DUNCAN SINCLAIR

MEN are alert to make use of what they call opportunities. They are on the watch for new openings for their merchandise, and ready to avail themselves of whatever openings may present themselves to increase and extend trade connections. Much wisdom and foresight are required in all well-conducted businesses, for conditions are constantly altering, being influenced not only by changes in human relationships, but also by so-called natural causes, such as droughts, storms, floods, and the like. Faced by variables such as these, how difficult it sometimes is for men to arrive at decisions which will prove advantageous to them! Happy are they if, through spiritual understanding, they can summon to their aid the power of divine intelligence.

In the realm of the material there is always more or less of uncertainty, the reason being, as Christian Science shows, that a material sense of existence is a false sense. We live in matter only in belief. We contemplate material phenomena only in belief. We engage in material enterprises only in belief. The forces of nature, so called, which so often appear to upset human calculations, we encounter only in belief. Briefly, a material sense of existence, with all that pertains thereto, is but an illusory state of mortal consciousness. It is necessary to be clear about this, for not otherwise can one meet, the problems of mortal existence as their master.

Matter, with all that pertains thereto, is unreal. What then is reality? Christian Science answers the question by making known the truth concerning real being—God and His creation. God is perfect Spirit or Mind; therefore His creation or universe consists of perfect spiritual ideas. And because God is omnipresent, His universe of spiritual ideas is likewise omnipresent. Further, man is the compound idea of God, the full expression of Mind. Hence, man reflects all the spiritual ideas of God.

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