Article March 7, 1953 Issue

EXCHANGING MORTAL MIND'S PICTURES FOR DIVINE CONCEPTS

GIRARD F. BAKER

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read (pp. 86, 87): "Mortal mind sees what it believes as certainly as it believes what it sees. It feels, hears, and sees its own thoughts. Pictures are mentally formed before the artist can convey them to canvas. So is it with all material conceptions."

These mental pictures of mortal mind with all its limitations, troubles, sicknesses, controversies, discords, and death are part of the so-called material sense or experience of mortals and a material world, but they are not the reality of being. Acceptance of this fact of the mental nature of all things does not result in the loss or destruction of anything of value, but on the contrary opens the door to healing and blessings through exchanging false material sense pictures, or concepts of things, for spiritual ideas, which constitute reality. Through the study and application of Christian Science we perceive that whatever expresses the activity of good— beauty, harmony, order, freedom, joy, abundance—is real and is not original with mortal mind. Mortal mind's picture of it is but a counterfeit, a limited, destructible sense material. But the counterfeit hints reality, the perfect ideas of Spirit, Mind, infinite and free from limitation or discord of any nature.

Spiritually and actually, man and God's universe comprise the full and perfect expression of infinite divine Mind and consist of divine ideas, perfect, complete, beautiful, harmonious, joyful, spontaneous, active, free, abundant, ever expressing Life and Love, with no element of fear or limitation. This is the truth of being, the divine concept of all things. Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health (p. 258), "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis."

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