Article December 29, 1951 Issue

MAN'S REAL DWELLING PLACE

ZADA MC CLUSKY

There are many people in the world today known as displaced persons who through war have lost home and country and are seeking new ones where they may start life afresh and find freedom from tyranny and want. Even in lands of freedom and plenty there are many people who are looking for a better place in which to live and work.

Is it possible to lift oneself above discordant conditions into a more harmonious place, and does our thinking affect our position? The wise man of old answered these questions for all time when he said (Prov. 15:24), "The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath." The student of Christian Science sees the wisdom of these words, for he is learning that he must lift his thoughts above the material sense of existence, which tells him that he has been separated from God and has therefore known discord, lack, evil, into the true, spiritual sense of being. He knows that since God is infinite divine Mind, man, God's idea, really lives, moves, and has his being in infinite, omnipresent Mind. This is the only place where man can be, the only place where he ever has been or ever will be. The man of God's creating is an individual spiritual consciousness, the reflection of infinite divine Mind. Therefore man is always in a place of safety, of abundance, a place where all God's children dwell together in harmony.

Since it is a law of metaphysics that thoughts externalize themselves, the Christian Scientist early learns to accept and hold to the truth of man's spiritual existence as the reflection of God. One is always where his thinking is. If it is in accord with Love and harmony, he cannot be bound to a place where there is friction. He simply cannot know irritation, because Love is not annoyed or disturbed. If he understands and maintains that substance is infinite Spirit, always manifested in a wealth of spiritual ideas, he will not express lack, strain, or worry. If he acknowledges and is grateful for the good gifts which have already come to him from "the Father of lights," he will find himself continually satisfied. He will never be tempted to entertain a sense of lack or an unsatisfied longing.

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