Editorial February 17, 1951 Issue

ITS NAME IS MORTAL MIND

Richard J. Davis

Christian Science declares that there can be no correct demonstration of Christian Science except from the basis of God's oneness and allness. Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, emphasizes this fact throughout her writings. Those who are becoming students of Christian Science and beginning to utilize their understanding in the solution of human difficulties will find that all spiritual reasoning and knowing has its inception in a knowledge of God—His omnipresence, omniaction, omniscience. This is fundamental: the establishment in one's consciousness that God, Spirit, is All-in-all.

It is the sorrows, the suffering, the diseases and sins of the human experience that have turned thought to Spirit; and we would gladly dwell there, and there alone, but this cannot be done without an adequate and satisfactory understanding of what the material experience is—what it represents, and why it is, as Christian Science declares, unreal, error.

When the vision of the Christ, Truth, appeared to Mrs. Eddy, she saw clearly, as she writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 114), that "in Science, Mind is one, including noumenon and phenomena, God and His thoughts." And she continues: "Mortal mind is a solecism in language, and involves an improper use of the word mind. As Mind is immortal, the phrase mortal mind implies something untrue and therefore unreal; and as the phrase is used in teaching Christian Science, it is meant to designate that which has no real existence."