Editorial January 3, 1976 Issue

Mind's Healing Power

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Our understanding of divine Mind, our progressive acceptance of it as our Mind (along with the richer spiritual living that accompanies such acceptance) enable us to heal disease. Disease is essentially a belief—a nonauthoritative claim, a misconception of being arising from a supposititious consciousness termed, in Christian Science, mortal mind.

Mind, God, is eternal consciousness, the source of all knowing. There is only one God and one Mind. Mind is omnipotent because God is. Because divine Mind is God, Mind is good, and only good. Its goodness is irresistible, for it is the only power. Resistance would imply opposition. But in the infinitude of Mind there is no place or opportunity for such opposition to erupt or be active.

Christian Science practice shows that these statements are not philosophical abstractions but demonstrable facts. Divine Mind's omnipotence can be demonstrated in adjusting and annihilating all human woes. This large claim may not have been fully substantiated, but it has been shown to be true to such an extent over many decades as not to be fairly refuted.

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