Editorial February 21, 1970 Issue

Acting in Subordination to Mind

Helen Wood Bauman

God's image is His reflection. And reflection implies something derived, something that is never self-acting. It is thus that Christian Science describes God's man, His spiritual emanation, His perpetual impartation. Mary Baker Eddy brought to mankind's attention this precious relation of God and man. She says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "The divine Mind includes all action and volition, and man in Science is governed by this Mind."^{Science and Health, p. 187;}

Because the action of divine Mind, or God, is orderly, the action of man is orderly; it is harmonious, healthy. Man's action cannot move out of the relationship to God that is its destiny. Because there is no disorderly action in Mind, there is no such action in Mind's reflection. Neither can there be any inert element in that reflection. But these truths describe the incorporeal man, the spiritual idea of Mind, not the mortal who manifests false action in sin and disease and sometimes in mental and physical inaction, which are equally debilitating to health.

Even in the temporary human concept of self, which possesses physical organs, faculties, and functions, there must be orderly action if there is to be health. Through the discipline of Christian Science human action is made subordinate to God. Evil mental action is ruled out by the knowledge of Mind's omniaction.

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