Article February 8, 1941 Issue

Wise Discrimination

HARRY E. DE LASAUX

In the first chapter of Genesis, which presents the true account of creation, we read, "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." In explaining the spiritually scientific meaning of this passage, Mary Baker Eddy has written in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 505), "Spiritual understanding, by which human conception, material sense, is separated from Truth, is the firmament." Farther down the page, speaking on the same subject, she has stated, "Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal."

God, infinite divine Mind, imparts spiritual understanding. The revelation of Christ, Truth, makes apparent to human thought the true nature of God, man, and the universe.

This divinely bestowed understanding is the firmament, which enables us to detect the quality of the thoughts that are constantly presenting themselves to our consciousness. True thoughts come from God. They are the expressions of Life, Truth, and Love. They should fill our consciousness, and they will do so as we strive each day to be more Godlike. But evil thoughts, being the opposite of good and true thoughts, originate in the counterfeit, mortal mind. And evil thoughts, apparent as some phase of materiality, sin, disease, inanity, discord, are useless, harmful, unworthy of admission into our consciousness. Spiritual understanding enables us to discriminate between right and wrong thoughts.

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