Article June 27, 1970 Issue

"The centre and circumference of being"

HELEN M. CARNES

One who finds himself faced with a serious difficulty may find that his thoughts contract. All of his previous pleasures and interests tend to become unimportant. His thought narrows to total absorption with the difficulty. While thought is thus centered, no solution seems apparent, but as soon as thought becomes more thoroughly God-centered, it expands, and error's claim to dominion is broken.

Mrs. Eddy states that "God is at once the centre and circumference of being." Science and Health, pp. 203, 204; Error, or a finite, material sense of being, therefore has no real claim to existence. To free his thought, one can know that because "God is at once the centre and circumference of being" there is, in reality, no influence that can narrow one's thinking and exclude the consciousness of God, or good.

Students of Christian Science have found that in every difficulty it is necessary to lift thought into the realm of infinite divine Spirit. As thought thus becomes centered on God, the solution comes by replacing the erroneous belief that man is a mortal besieged by difficulties with the truth that man is immortal, forever in harmony with God and incapable of experiencing difficulties. When one holds fast the understanding of his indissoluble connection with God, his thought expands and he finds himself free to explore the range of infinite Mind.

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