Editorial March 2, 1946 Issue

What Is Reality?

Paul Stark Seeley

A recent letter from a student of Christian Science recited this important change in her thinking. "While I have had innumerable healings through prayer and trust in God," she wrote, "still I see now that I believed prayer somehow removed something that had been real. Now I see that what it removed was never real but only suggestion."

Mortals have for so long been impregnated with the belief that whatever is cognized by the material senses is real that they usually relinquish this mistaken conclusion slowly, and only in the degree that they gain an understanding of the absolute reality of God, Spirit, as infinite Mind, expressed in a universe of spiritual, right-minded identities at one with their causative Mind.

Material thought processes dwell on what the material senses see, hear, and feel. These processes, and the material sense evidence they imbibe, are what Christian Science calls mortal mind. This is not real Mind but only simulates the action of Mind and its intelligent processes. The contrast between a state of material-mindedness, thinking thoughts of fear, selfishness, ill will, or pain, and the consciousness constituted of an understanding trust in God, unselfish devotion to good motives, and the recognition of the supremacy of Deity in the affairs of men illustrates the unbridgeable abyss between the fiction-like mortal mind and true Mind, intelligent, constructive, and good.

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