Editorial April 22, 1972 Issue

True versus Habitual Thinking

Carl J. Welz

A person who has been in ill health for a long time may find his illness a habit he would prefer not to give up. And in a world where all that lives appears eventually to die, we all tend to think habitually of ourselves in terms of age.

Such habitual thinking is contrary to what Christian Science teaches of the real nature of man. Man is spiritual. He is the idea of God, the infinite, perfect Mind. He is limitless, timeless, whole, complete. But mortal belief thinks of man as imperfect, limited, material. And mortals—the products of this false belief—dramatize over and over again in all they do the limitation, discord, incompleteness, materiality, this belief includes. Then when the truth of being appears on earth, as it did when Christ Jesus taught and healed, there is terrible resistance to that truth.

Not only the sinful, but the normal, upright human being resisted Jesus. The sinner never enjoys having his pleasures interrupted. Jesus did more than interrupt them; he proved them false—all material pleasures as well as pains.

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