Editorial December 11, 1954 Issue

TRUE INCLUSIVENESS

Helen Wood Bauman

One never finds it difficult to realize that the objects he perceives in a night dream are included in the dream consciousness. Sometimes these objects change during the dream: the evil personality becomes good; the seed becomes a flower; the landscape, the birds, the trees, alter in color and form as the dream consciousness changes them. And when one awakens, the dream consciousness is gone, and all of its concepts disappear with it.

Christian Science points to a great lesson which may be learned from the night dream: the fact that so-called material consciousness includes all that it is conscious of; that the physical objects we perceive in human experience are the product of thought and inseparable from it. These objects are not external to material consciousness, but represent a state of mind, a way of thinking. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 220), "Mortal mind produces its own phenomena, and then charges them to something else,—like a kitten glancing into the mirror at itself and thinking it sees another kitten."

Transformation of body and environment takes place through Christian Science because this Science transforms human consciousness. It lifts one's thought above the mortal sense of life and things into the consciousness of Spirit, where real concepts exist as God creates them. Paul must have had a clear understanding of the mental change which Christ Jesus brought about in his healings and so-called miracles, for he said (Rom. 12:2), "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

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