Editorial September 7, 1940 Issue

The Divine Purpose

EVELYN F. HEYWOOD

MORTAL mind-reading has been exercised by certain individuals, throughout the centuries. Their skill at their task, because it is exceptional and mysterious to their fellows, has sometimes brought temporary advantages, but it has accomplished nothing of value to themselves or to the race. It has not brought them at any time nearer to an understanding of God or the true meaning of existence; it may have uncovered but it has never healed mortal mind.

Immortal Mind-reading has been exercised to some degree by all who have communed with God, who have sought to obey the divine will. What the world has failed to realize is that immortal Mind-reading is the divine right of everyone who acknowledges God, and that the means of attaining it are neither complicated nor afar off; that the possession of it is not a matter of predestination or specific selection. Immortal Mind-reading demands one thing only of him who would exercise it, and that is spirituality. Through spiritual sense, whereby the impressions and superstitions, the reasonings and deductions of the human mind are laid aside, immortal Mind-reading is attained. By such means men are able, in the degree of their understanding, to discern, as did Jesus, not only what the claim of mortal mind may be in regard to any situation, but how to counteract and destroy it with Truth; how to disarm it of a seeming power to confuse, darken, and terrorize.

On many occasions Christ Jesus read the thoughts of his disciples and others, but always with the purpose of rebuking evil and bringing home the needed lesson. "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did," declared the woman of Samaria; "is not this the Christ?" On page 83 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes: "There is mortal mind-reading and immortal Mind-reading. The latter is a revelation of divine purpose through spiritual understanding, by which man gains the divine Principle and explanation of all things." By immortal means alone, do men comprehend the divine will, the meaning of the universe about them, and the phenomena of all existence. In this way though they may appear to be surrounded by fear and rumors, often menacing and possibly far-reaching, there has been revealed to them not only the nothingness of all material evidence and prophesyings, but the means whereby Truth uncovers and destroys them. Christ Jesus, perceiving man's true spiritual status, and his divine right to the explanation of all phenomena, did not fail to read mortal mind from the standpoint of spiritual understanding and so expose its falsity. He also made it clear that all who followed him faithfully would be able to do likewise.

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