Article September 11, 2017 Issue

Alert to the Truth that heals

Carol Rounds

Some months ago, I spent a very full day doing outdoor spring cleanup activities—raking, pruning, planting, and so forth. The next morning I felt so stiff and sore I could hardly move. My first thought was that I’d done too much and was now paying the price. But instead of spending the rest of the day hobbled by pain and fatigue, I decided to pray.

Christian Science teaches that man is not a material being made up of muscles and bones that can be overworked. He is actually the spiritual creation of God, who is unlimited and inexhaustible. As Mary Baker Eddy writes, man “is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; …” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 475).

Staying conscious of what God, the divine Mind, knows about us isn’t always easy, however. Suggestions that man is a limited mortal tend to pull thought away from God’s perfect spiritual creation toward the material belief that reality is a combination of good and evil. Christian Science calls this adverse influence animal magnetism. The term appears more than fifty times in Mrs. Eddy’s writings, and she shows that animal magnetism needs to be denied.

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