Article June 11, 1979 Issue

Lose Mind? Impossible!

HELEN B. CHILDS

Mind, God, does not exist without idea. And idea, man, cannot exist without Mind.

A man was afraid his wife was having a nervous breakdown. When he told a Christian Science practitioner that he thought his wife was losing her mind, the practitioner retorted, "But that's impossible!"

How could this practiced metaphysician be so sure? Because of his scientific certainty that God is divine Mind, inseparable from its idea, man. Man can no more be separated from God than living can be detached from infinite Life. By understanding that the real man is the complete reflection of what divine Mind is seeing and knowing of itself, we discern why one can never really "lose his mind," his faculties, or even his life. Mrs. Eddy explains in Science and Health: "Man is the expression of God's being. If there ever was a moment when man did not express the divine perfection, then there was a moment when man did not express God, and consequently a time when Deity was unexpressed—that is, without entity. If man has lost perfection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine Mind." Science and Health, p. 470;

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