MIND'S EXPRESSION

IRMA A. HAWKINS

In our human experience we are endeavoring to learn better ways of enhancing our daily lives. We educate our children as nearly as possible according to prevailing scholastic standards. We have advanced in the realm of chemistry and physics and in many fields of human research. However, a feeling of inadequacy often prevails—of having much knowledge but little understanding. Consequently there is a sense of inferiority and frustration. This results from accepting mortal concepts of man and of his intelligence.

The worldly philosophy that would induce us to believe that intelligence is superimposed upon us by human educational processes need not deceive us. In Christian Science we know that the intelligence of divine Mind, which the real man reflects, is actually ours eternally and is available now. Man is Mind's representative. Without man to embody and manifest the good which is intelligence, God would be unexpressed. Mary Baker Eddy says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 520), "Unfathomable Mind is expressed." Actually man reflects the effulgence of spiritual intelligence, or Truth, which heals through Christ.

Christian Science teaches that Love is Mind. It is not possible for us to be intelligent without the love which is divine Love's expression. And in our human experience all the cleverness, brilliance, scholarliness, and genius in the world needs to include the substance of God's love. Mental qualities lack true power proportionately as they lack love. Anger, jealousy, or vainglory would strip intelligence of everything it should exemplify. Because Mind is Love, God, it is impossible to love unintelligently. Divine Love, impartial, ever present, waits for our reaching out and our answering thought. Sheltered and safe under its wings, we are supplied with true motive power, and with the divine impetus that heals and blesses. Mind, Love, guides and directs all God's creation, unfolding the unity of good. God's dear love enfolds us in its protecting power, while leading us into the right path.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in her writings that one important requisite for the practice of Mind-healing is unselfed love. Often healing is accomplished as the student of Christian Science, through his concept of divine Love, endeavors to clear his own thought of all evil. Such was my experience while teaching music in a public school.

I was told that a small girl in one of the lower grades was unable to learn. The sentence of mortal mind was a low intelligence rating, and it placed her several grades behind her own age group. I did not accept these false concepts. As a student of Christian Science I had learned that the real man is God's image and likeness, the reflection of divine Mind, therefore replete with intelligence and understanding.

At the holiday season the children were given Christmas carols to learn. I gave the little girl the same material as the others, although I was told that it was useless to expect the child to memorize anything. I knew that in reality divine Love was there, that true intelligence was ever present, and that the pure thought of the child could respond to this confidence in God's presence. She learned every word of every verse of the songs and sang with the others, her face radiant. Those who had deemed such a thing an impossibility expressed happy surprise.

We can rest in the assurance that we always have the love of our Father-Mother God. No humble appeal goes unanswered, no right desire unfulfilled. An understanding of the truth of being heals all our diseases. Mrs. Eddy tells us that the medicine of a Christian Scientist is Mind. Mind knows only purity and perfection. Its love enfolds us as the expression of perfect Mind. The ever-presence of the Love which is Mind and the Mind which is Love lifts us above the mortal concept of creation. It gives us the Mind which was in Christ Jesus. In the Christian Science Hymnal we read (No. 178),

Love, the Golden Rule of living,
Showeth forth the perfect Mind.

We shall be able, in the measure of our understanding, to demonstrate that man is the expression of Mind, which is God.

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