Article October 24, 1959 Issue

"THE PROPER GUESTS"

RICHARD CARVER

Who or what determines our life experience? Is it luck, or good fortune? Are some people naturally born lucky, while others are doomed to misery, poverty, or ill fortune? No, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, points out that it is the guests we entertain in consciousness, the thoughts we admit or accept, which determine the flow of our life.

She says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 261), "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts."

When, in the allegorical account of creation, the Lord God, Jehovah, exiled Adam from the garden of Eden, he placed a guard at the east of the garden, presumably to bar admittance to any unauthorized persons who might seek to enter. "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life" (Gen. 3:24).

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