Article June 6, 1970 Issue

Uninterrupted Unfoldment of ideas

CAROL EARLE CHAPIN

The president of a large corporation was asked why his company's scientists and engineers hadn't discovered some current innovations much sooner. His reply was, "Sometimes we have to wait for God." This man was not a student of Christian Science. However, he had glimpsed a basic teaching of this religion—the limitation of the human mind until it is allied to the divine source of true intelligence, which is God.

Are the impartations of this Mind intermittent? Can they falter, can they cease? Sometimes Christians of all denominations say, "I can't feel any inspiration"; "The right idea hasn't appeared yet"; "I'll have to wait for unfoldment." These statements are only half true.

We do often have to wait. But not for what divine Mind is doing. What we have to wait for is that degree of readiness, meekness, and willingness which puts us in the position of being able to recognize Mind's angel messages. What an important difference is indicated here! Having to wait for these messages implies that unfoldment is sporadic—sometimes on, sometimes off. Can this be the case, when divine Mind—eternal, infinite, unchanging, but ever fresh — is ceaselessly unfolding its perfect nature through its spiritual ideas? Mind's knowing is continuous. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, "Mind is perpetual motion." ^{Science and Health, p. 240;}