Article September 10, 1984 Issue

Discovering your gift of genius

ANNA A. VINSON

True genius is not a personal quality or possession. It is man's natural expression of divine intelligence, originating in God, creative Mind. Man, God's idea, reflects the infinite nature of God in unique and myriad ways.

The artist who verbally or visually depicts beauty and harmony; the student who discovers a novel way to actualize an old concept; the entrepreneur who recognizes that integrity bases success; the parent who maintains a unified household—each of these has intimations of the qualities of true genius.

The more clearly God's nature is perceived, the more precisely human activity reveals divine reality. Why, then, do dullness and ineptness characterize human experience so much of the time? Why are spontaneity, creativity, and originality sometimes in short supply? One answer must surely be that intelligence is widely misunderstood. What is intelligence? In the Christian Science textbook Mrs. Eddy writes: "Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle,—Life, Truth, and Love,—named God." Science and Health, p. 469. The acceptance of this scientific definition of intelligence germinates fresh approaches to the familiar, activates progressive and productive work patterns, and culminates in totally unexpected innovations, appearing as better concepts and a more talented implementation of them.

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