Article March 29, 1941 Issue

What Occupies Thought?

BLANCHE HERSEY HOGUE

An important direction in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, urges the following rule (p. 261): "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts." In obedience to this injunction one must watch at the gates of his own thinking, and hourly he can question himself as to what occupies that thinking.

He who follows the teaching of Christian Science soon learns not to look to material sources for spiritual truth. "Flesh and blood," Christ Jesus said to Peter, did not reveal the Christ to him. Investigation of the flesh leads only to further materialistic knowledge concerning the flesh. The understanding of Christ, the Son of God, comes along the pathway of spiritual discernment, wholly apart from material testimony, and spiritually revealed Truth counteracts the belief that flesh and blood constitute the real man. Spirit and matter are direct opposites, as are light and darkness. And just as darkness reveals nothing about light, so matter tells nothing of Spirit and spiritual creation, including man in the likeness of God.

Learning through Christian Science that man, the real and only man, is spiritual, and that matter is a counterfeit illusive sense endeavoring to impose itself upon human thought as man, one begins to reject material suggestions and turns to spiritual revelation for information concerning the man known to Spirit, the man made in the image and likeness of God, the immortal, eternal reality of spiritual existence.

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