Article November 14, 1983 Issue

What are our thoughts indicating?

LYDIA MARY EKINS

"The scientific statement of being" from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, sends out a clear challenge to the matter-loving mentality of this age, or any age. Surely the walls of Jericho were not shattered more effectively than the false foundations of matter are exposed by one of its statements: "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."^{Science and Health, p. 468.}

If God is Mind, which creates, orders, and controls man and the universe—and throughout the ages many deep-thinking people have concluded that there is a central, omnipotent intelligence, called God, or Spirit—what must be the function of that Mind? Obviously, to know; to have ideas; to express and manifest itself.

We have the authority of the Bible to tell us that man is the offspring of God, made in His image and likeness. How important, therefore, to understand Mind, God, in order that we may be able to understand man! There is a common belief that the purpose of the Almighty is altogether above the comprehension of the human race; and indeed the human mind, per se, can arrive at no contact with Spirit.

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