Article December 12, 1953 Issue

THE ATMOSPHERE OF MIND

DOUGLAS ROBERTS

In its voyage through space our earth is enveloped in a dense atmosphere of air, miles in depth. This protective envelope shields the earth's surface not only from the direct heat of the sun, but also from cosmic radiation and countless meteorites. We know that no place on earth is ever without this protective covering.

How symbolic earth's atmosphere is of the spiritual atmosphere of divine Mind, that infinite consciousness of good wherein man, the idea of God, lives and moves and has his being! The Psalmist gloried in this "secret place of the most High," where man abides "under the shadow of the Almighty" (Ps. 91:1). God was to him a refuge, fortress, habitation, a shield and buckler. Mary Baker Eddy refers in her writings to the atmosphere of Mind, of God, of intelligence, of Soul, and of Spirit. She writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 512): "Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power, and also by holy thoughts, winged withLove. These angels of His presence, which have the holiest charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of Mind, and consequently reproduce their own characteristics."

Good abounds in the spiritual atmosphere of Mind. Here are no destructive elements, no heat of mental condemnation, no radiation of aggressive suggestion. Mind is our ever-present home, the Father's house, where holy thoughts, the angels of God's presence, preclude the possibility of sin, disease, and death. No circumstance of evil can put man out of this infinity of good or dim his consciousness of Love's allness. Man's only consciousness is Mind, that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus." There is no other real consciousness. Anything unlike good is only a false claim of mesmeric suggestion, which God knows nothing about. You and I, as God's ideas, are completely aware now of this infinite atmosphere of Mind, and we are as completely unaware of the unreal, suggestive atmosphere of mortal mind. Students of Christian Science who live consciously and constantly in this atmosphere of Mind bless all with whom they come in contact.

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