Article June 25, 1949 Issue

Experience purposeful, distinct. No blurred path. No confusion

"TO ALL MEN LIBERALLY"

MARION D. MAC CANN

In the definition of God in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 587), Mary Baker Eddy names "Mind" as one of seven synonyms. Mind, being a synonym for God, must be infinite and eternal. Mind knows. Mind comprehends all, in the sense that it both includes all and understands all.

This divine, infinite Mind is the one, the only intelligence. There can be in reality no opposite mind, nor absence of Mind—no so-called mortal mind—which can frustrate, baffle, or impede the one Mind or the ideas of that Mind. Mortal mind is the name for a negative so-called mind. Its supposed ability to involve mankind in a wilderness of perplexity by presenting to it a picture of many minds—separately instituted, apt to err, and at odds with each other—fails when one understands God as Mind and man as Mind's idea or reflection, as taught in Christian Science.

The Christian Scientist not only denies the claims of mortal mind, but, having done so, denies them access to his thinking. Each time a belief of error is excluded from his consciousness in order to make way for the realities of immortal Mind, some truth is established in his consciousness.

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