Editorial September 13, 1941 Issue

"The spiritual forces of divine Mind"

George Shaw Cook

In the daily experience of mortals there are found in evidence various kinds of pressure. For example, there is gaseous pressure, atmospheric pressure, in the more obviously material realm, as well as pressure due to lack of time, and other kinds of mental pressure such as that resulting from unfulfilled financial obligations, and so forth. Then there is political pressure, and the sort of pressure exercised by so-called "pressure groups," organized for the purpose of influencing legislators to vote for or against certain measures which are under consideration.

All kinds of material pressure relate entirely to what appears to the physical senses to be taking place in the human body or in the material world. That gaseous and atmospheric pressure have no actual relationship to the activity of divine Mind, is made plain by what Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says on page 293 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as follows: "The material so-called gases and forces are counterfeits of the spiritual forces of divine Mind, whose potency is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal facts of being."

It is equally true that the different types of mental pressure, to which reference has been made, do not emanate from divine Mind and do not express real intelligence. They are all based upon the belief that there are many minds, and that one or more of these suppositional minds can influence another by means of mental suggestion operating through what is known as thought transference or mental manipulation of one sort or another. There are abundant proofs that such so-called mental manipulation is rife in the world today, and that its asserted power is being used by unscrupulous persons through silent thought, as well as through various kinds of spoken and written propaganda. But this is nothing more nor less than animal magnetism, to which Mrs. Eddy refers where she writes on page 104 of Science and Health, "Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicated the rightness of all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the opposite so-called action,—evil, occultism, necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism."

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