Is it all in your thinking?

Reprinted from the December 18, 1971, Sentinel

Christian Science practitioners hear patients say, when troubled with an illness or other problem, “I know it’s all in my own thought.” Such individuals are cruel to themselves.

So as not to indulge in or ignore any error, any materialism, we need to meet it in our own thought, with or without the help of a practitioner. But although the place to meet error is in our own thought because the physical is no more than the outward manifestation of the mental, error is never really a part of our thinking.

Fortunately, error is not personal and not real. It is invariably a suggestion of some phase of the fear or ignorance or sinfulness of the carnal mind, the world belief in the presence and power of evil, which, of course, inevitably yields to the exercise of divine intelligence. Christian Science makes a distinction between the real, perfect, spiritual man of God’s creating and the erroneous concept of man as material and limited. It teaches that man’s true consciousness is always free of error because it reflects God, the one infallible divine Mind.

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