Article November 9, 1940 Issue

Man, the Image of Mind

RUTH G. PRELL

IT is characteristic of the human mind to resist spiritual truths which, if accepted, would constitute the solution of its various problems. Not only is there a reluctance on the part of this so-called mind to accept the truth about any situation, but often a vehement repudiation of the statement that evil is a false state of thought.

"Can I not see it?" the troubled one may question, as he refers to some pressing suggestion calling itself a sick body, a failing business, or lack of supply. Often he supplements visual testimony with corroborating reports from the other so-called physical senses, and then challenges one to refute such overwhelming proofs of the reality of evil.

On page 301 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy has written, "Delusion, sin, disease, and death arise from the false testimony of material sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image of Mind and substance with everything turned upside down." In accepting and consenting to this false testimony, we become the victims of our own admissions.

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