Editorial March 13, 1971 Issue

Attaining a Higher Humanhood

Alan A. Aylwin

The human mind appears to be a strange concoction of good and evil, of spiritual and material qualities. The ratio of right to wrong varies with the individual, but regardless of the quality of the mix there is a sure and certain way to improve it. So long as a vestige of dualism seems to exist there is mental housecleaning to be done, and the study of Christian Science can show us how. It can cleanse human thought of its disease-producing residue and thus bring out harmony.

Material beliefs and character faults begin to recede as one learns to claim his unity with God and recognize Him to be the one and only Ego, the actual Mind of man here and now. We soon discover that the unaided human mind hasn't the spiritual power to correct and purify itself. It must consciously and willingly surrender to the All-Mind as the divine Principle of real thought and action. In the degree that this is done, thought and conduct are uplifted, spiritual ignorance disappears, and human character is renovated.

In several instances in her writings Mrs. Eddy implies a distinct difference between the unregenerate mortal, or carnal, mind, and the human consciousness which seems to be a mixture of both righteous and unrighteous tendencies, and therefore represents an intermediate mental stage in mankind's march from matter to Spirit.

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