Editorial January 13, 2020 Issue

The divide that unites

Barbara Vining

Divisiveness has always hampered human progress. Today is no exception. Climate change, immigration, and racism are among the large-scale problems needing unity of thought and action. But actually, there is a divide that can unite people on a path of unhampered progress.

Disagreements and competitions between human beings are caused by conflicting elements within the human mind. But the infinite, divine Mind—the one and only real Mind of everyone—has no competing or conflicting elements. The divine Mind includes and imparts only its universally good and unifying spiritual ideas. So when we turn to our divine Mind, God, in prayer and humbly listen for His guidance, we begin to see a clear divide opening in our thoughts between our spiritually true thoughts from God and the untrue elements of the human mind. Then we can cast aside those unreal, conflicting elements and entertain only the harmonizing qualities and ideas of divine intelligence, which lead to unhindered progress.

Following the divine Mind’s guidance in this way is what made Moses able to lead the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage. He led them to follow the one God, the supreme intelligence that leads the human mind to freedom. When the Red Sea—representing the warring and enslaving elements of material thinking—stood in the way of their escape, Moses, at God’s direction, raised his rod and commanded the waters to be divided, forming dry ground for a path forward. Then he commanded the Israelites to proceed forward, with their full trust in God (see Exodus 14:15–27).

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