Article May 17, 1947 Issue

Maintain Your Spiritual Consciousness

DOUGLAS ROBERTS

"All consciousness is Mind; and Mind is God,—an infinite, and not a finite consciousness. This consciousness is reflected in individual consciousness, or man, whose source is infinite Mind. There is no really finite mind, no finite consciousness," writes Mary Baker Eddy (Unity of Good, p. 24). Man therefore is spiritual, perfect, harmonious, and complete. Man's health, happiness, intelligence, understanding, and wisdom are inherent in his spiritual, Mind-given consciousness; his righteousness is in his spiritual consciousness of the ever-presence of infinite good, God.

Into divine consciousness enters no evil, no finite, mortal concept of existence, person, place, or thing. Any such concept lacks reality and belongs to a dream state, or mortal mind. In the waking dream of material-mindedness, disease and death, sin and discord seem to be real, but are contradictions of the truth of being. As our understanding of Spirit, God, and His reflection, man and the universe, increases, we are freed in ever greater degree from the belief in and consequences of evil of every kind. Our Leader asks in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 179): "Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have we any other consciousness than that of good? If we have, He is saying to us to-day, 'Adam, where art thou?' We are wrong if our consciousness is in sin, sickness, and death. This is the old consciousness."

Through changes in personnel suddenly made in an office, a young man, a student of Christian Science, found himself working with several newcomers. These men, on learning that he was a First Reader in a Christian Science church and thinking that he would have a narrow and bigoted outlook, thought to shock him with obscene stories which they told one another well within earshot. At first the student was confused and secretly resentful. However, after considering the situation in the light of Christian Science, he saw that his first step was to impersonalize evil. Resentment, he realized, would merely open his mental doors to the suggestion that evil has identity, and thus reality.

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