Editorial July 9, 1966 Issue

Divine Mind Governs the Human Body

Helen Wood Bauman

A question that puzzles many inquirers seeking health through Christian Science is how God, divine Mind, reaches the human body and governs it. For Science declares God to be supersensible—above the physical senses—and conscious only of Himself and His perfect, spiritual creation. Then how can He heal what He is unconscious of?

The answers lie in the fact that the human self must become conscious of God, not that God must become conscious of mortal ills. The Father's mandate for the health of His sons is forever resounding throughout the universe; and man in God's likeness is governed by that mandate. But mankind must respond to it and give up any false beliefs they are entertaining that make them deaf to it. They must quit believing that man is mortal and that they are separated from God, the source of health. They must identify themselves as the ideas of divine Mind, forever reflecting health.

Ordinarily, people unschooled in the truths of Christian Science govern their own bodies through their faith in nature or drugs or any therapeutic means they are employing. In every case their bodies are animated by the beliefs they are entertaining, whether consciously or unconsciously. The moment the student of Christian Science begins to understand that God is one infinite Mind and that Mind is the animating Principle of all reality, healing starts to take place.

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