Article March 22, 1958 Issue

THOUGHTS AND THEIR INFLUENCE

EDITH BAILEY

On the quotation page of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy appear these words of Shakespeare: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." In her writings Mrs. Eddy gives to this thought spiritually illumined significance. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," she writes (p. 203), "Our thoughts beget our actions; they make us what we are."

Thoughts are forces. If thoughts originate in God, divine Mind, they impart a capacity for good to those who consciously receive them. Thoughts that stem not from this Mind are not divine, true, or real; hence they bring not forth the fruits of Spirit.

The study of Christian Science reveals that right thoughts are powerful and real; that wrong thoughts are actually powerless and unreal. Good thoughts, Godlike thoughts, are eternal; evil thoughts possess the nature of dreams. We need to understand, however, that in our present experience sickly, gloomy, or resentful thoughts affect the body erroneously; whereas health-giving and joy-inspiring thoughts, emanating from a spiritual sense of Life, are evidenced as strength, vigor, correct functioning, harmony, and freedom from evidence of disease.

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