Editorial June 13, 1942 Issue

Diversity of Worlds

Peter V. Ross

There can be but one world, really, and that fashioned after the divine plan. With this proposition reflective people will pretty generally concur. Yet to appearances there are worlds many. And how near they are! One has only to close his eyes to place himself in another realm. Lively hues and tints are there; graceful shapes and forms. Often has he suspected, when eyes were open, that colors and objects were formations of thought rather than of matter. Now he is convinced they are such.

Most astonishing of all, how different does one appear to himself, on shutting his eyes! He discovers that he is mental and spiritual, and this throughout his being. He recognizes that he is consciousness rather than corporeality. He finds himself face to face with limitless Mind and boundless Life. He is entering the closet to commune, if he will, with the "Father which is in secret," and to feel the invincible energies of Spirit.

Since the individual is mental and spiritual, he who would improve his health or disposition or prospects needs, chiefly, to improve his thinking, normalize his mentality. He will obey the injunction written by Mary Baker Eddy on page 392 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Stand porter at the door of thought." For one to contemplate fear, disease, disaster is to invite them to become part of his experience. Whereas for one to insist, regardless of appearances, that Life, the very life he lives, is God, and hence continuously exuberant, will bring out in his experience added strength and confidence. For consciousness, and truly you are an individual consciousness, grows by what it feeds on. You grow by the quality of thoughts you entertain. Give your thinking a healthful, generous, upward direction. There are no limits to the heights you may climb.

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