Article August 6, 1979 Issue

No accidents in Mind's all-presence

STIG KIÆR CHRISTIANSEN

During my school days in Copenhagen one of my first English textbooks contained this riddle: "In case of an accident what is better than presence of mind?" The answer: "Absence of body"!

The crazy point of impossibility was rather to my taste, and I never forgot that riddle. But years later, after I had started the study of Christian Science, the words took on a new and unintended meaning. It struck me that in a sense this Science enables one to demonstrate both! But that will take a little explaining.

In Christian Science a synonym for God is "Mind," meaning the omniscient intelligence, omnipresent consciousness, and omnipotent thought-force that constitute Deity. God being one, Mind is one. There are not many minds; each individual does not really have his own personal mind. That is a false belief, and endless difficulties have arisen from it. No, in truth there is one Mind, divine Mind. The spiritual reflection of this Mind is man, who expresses divine wisdom, intelligence, and understanding. Man can't help doing so, and he can do nothing else.

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