Editorial February 2, 1946 Issue

Honoring Mind

Margaret Morrison

What shall we honor in our daily living? Shall it be the ever-changing, unreliable, and false testimony of the physical senses? Or shall it be divine Mind, the one unchanging and changeless Principle? This is a decision that is continually being forced upon us, and upon that decision depends the nature of our experience, whether it shall be the reality and satisfaction of divine Mind or the unreal pains and pleasures, the enigmatical experiences of the so-called human mind.

On page 118 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says, "In all mortal forms of thought, dust is dignified as the natural status of men and things, and modes of material motion are honored with the name of laws." Shall we honor dust and its formations with the name of man, and so-called material forces with the name of law? That "form of thought" called a physical body is never the medium through which God expresses man, nor is it the medium through which man understands God. Mind could never express itself in anything less than its own nature, its own vital, intelligent, beauty-forming ideas, The ideas of Mind are the substance of man, and it is through those ideas that God is under-stood and made known. Man is not found in the transiency of mortal beliefs and their formations, but in the eternality of spiritual ideas which honor and are honored by Mind. Man is never asleep in the Adam-dream, or dust creation, but is ever in keen awareness of his true being.

The fact must perpetually be recognized that there is but one Mind and this one Mind alone is to be honored, to be identified, and to be given power and presence. Identification is error's greatest flatterer, so let us be sure that we are not flattering anyone by attributing to him a mind of his own apart from God. Let no one flatter himself that he has a mind of his own with which to judge and condemn another; through which he can either suffer or enjoy. Do not distinguish another by according to him a mind that can be conceited, deceitful, dictatorial, jealous, dishonest, unjust, ungenerous, immoral, or afflictive; a mind through which he can experience or cause others to experience either good or evil; a mind that can either bless or curse.

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