Editorial December 9, 1939 Issue

True Thought Processes

George Shaw Cook

Sometimes those who have just begun the study of Christian Science find it difficult to understand the modus operandi of Christian Science healing. Just what thought processes, they may ask, are required to demonstrate the unreal nature of sickness and sin?

However, no one need remain in doubt on this point, for in one paragraph, on page 251 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," its author, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, concisely explains the method by which the sick are healed and the sinning are reformed. She says: "We must learn how mankind govern the body,—whether through faith in hygiene, in drugs, or in will-power. We should learn whether they govern the body through a belief in the necessity of sickness and death, sin and pardon, or govern it from the higher understanding that the divine Mind makes perfect, acts upon the so-called human mind through truth, leads the human mind to relinquish all error, to find the divine Mind to be the only Mind, and the healer of sin, disease, death."

Thus is given substantially the mode of Christian Science treatment, and its result. It is thereby seen that healing in Christian Science is based upon the understanding that the divine Mind—perfect Principle—is the only cause, and that, the creative Principle being perfect, all that it creates is likewise perfect. This truth, acting upon the so-called human mind, leads it to relinquish the error it has previously entertained, and finally to acknowledge divine Mind to be the one all-inclusive intelligence. In this manner that which is called human consciousness is freed from the belief that sin, sickness, and death are real, and thus it finds itself relieved of the consequences of such believing.

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