Editorial July 19, 1958 Issue

ALONE WITH REALITY

Helen Wood Bauman

No right thinker wishes to be mentally influenced by the meddling thoughts of others. One's sovereign right is to be independent of and unlimited by the negative minds of mortals. Mary Baker Eddy says in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 20), "Man is properly self-governed, and he should be guided by no other mind than Truth, the divine Mind." And she adds a little farther on, "The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things."

Christian Science forbids one's being falsely influenced by others, as well as one's doing such influencing. Neither the ignorant influence of general belief in error nor the hateful influence of directed thought can harm the Scientist who understands that he "is alone with his own being and with the reality of things."

But to profit fully by this wise precept, one must understand reality. He must be conscious of true concepts, of things as God makes them, and must be convinced of the unreality of anything which is not of God. Above all, he must be certain of the allness of divine Mind and of the impossibility of a carnal, or mortal, mind, claiming to exist and to put forth willful, evil influences in the atmosphere of human thought.

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