Editorial January 26, 1987 Issue

Spiritual awakening restores mental health

Carolyn B. Swan

Permanent soundness of mind and body must be arrived at through a higher source than human help. Because perfect sanity—the unfailing soundness that embraces the individuality and identity of man created in God's likeness—is spiritual, it must be realized through spiritual awakening. Health is invariable only when found in God, the unchanging divine Mind.

The author of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, sets forth a proposition that has been well proved in healing. She writes: "Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health. The Science of Mind-healing shows it to be impossible for aught but Mind to testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man."^{Science and Health, p. 120.}

God is always exhibiting in His man–our true nature—the perfect health of His nature. If we are not always aware that we are witnesses to the undisturbed, untroubled health of God's expressing, this does not mean that God has forsaken us. It indicates that we need to grow in our understanding of Him. Disturbing feelings do not come from God, and permanent, thorough healing of emotional disorder comes about as we realize that God is truly the only Mind.

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