Article July 29, 1972 Issue

What Is Your Model?

SYLVIA M. HERRING

Our experience is very much the outcome of what we believe to be true of ourselves and others. How important it is, then, to gain the right concept of everything so that our lives may be governed by spiritual understanding in health and harmony!

In Science and Health Mary Baker Eddy asks: "What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it?" After explaining the negative results of such an acceptance she says: "To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives."^{Science and Health, p. 248;}

Forming "perfect models in thought" spiritualizes one's consciousness. A constant process, it involves learning how to distinguish between true and false concepts, or thought-models, between what God, Spirit, has really created and what is only fiction.

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