Arizona republican., 1915-01-15

Sence or Mind. winch is God. OF Spirit
II makes clear to the receptive thought
mat the so-called consciousness of
both good and evil is not in spiritual
accord with the nature of God or good
zeal consciousness being God, it is
infinite, all comprehensive and ever
present The moment this supersen-
slble fact is admitted we are divinely
empowered to begin the all-important
WORK OF purifying that consciousness
Whlch claims the capacity and privilege
TO Know evil as well as good
TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS
rms one statement on page PIG. of
Science and Health, by Mrs. Eddy.
Real consciousness is cogniZant only
oil the things of God" has already
aroused slumbering world from its
dream of life in matter TO the great
need of mental transformation. for it
! Is the abnormal human consciousness
That is referred to in the scriptural
| passages: NO man hath seen God at
any time and There shall no man
I see me and live" Is it any wonder that
the apostle admonished, BE We trans
formed by the renewing of your MIND? ?"
! This renewing of the mind involves the
| separation of good and evil in con-
seriousness. of right thought and wrong
thought, mental process which every
human being must unde. 90 before he
can fully awaken TO the perfection of
being. Heaven is, always has been,
and always will be. not Il locality, but
d divine harmonious state of conscious
ness into which no erroneous or evil
thought ever entered or ever can enter
! 1t therefore follows conclusively that
all wrong thought must be purged from
consciousness, and that our heaven will
be found here and now just to the ex-
tent that we reject the evil and lay
hold of the good. How to distinguish
between right and wrong thought will
be our main concern. Right thoughts
or IDEAS in Christian Science are en-
anationS of the one divine Mind or in
telligence They are the only avenues
or channels through which the one
Mind finds expression. We could not
conceive of an eXpressionless Mind or
intelligence. Wrong thoughts are hu-
man beliefs only therefore finite, NUT
able and mortal. They do not convey
intelligence or real Mind to man. They
have neither Principle, power nor law
to sustain them. and no mission to
perform. Wrong thoughts are no part
of real consciousness. In no way does
God sanction or uphold them. But how
fel,,, T.
| terfets of reality? obviously by gain
/ ing an understanding of genuine or
right thoughts. Jesus said, I'VE shall
know the truth, apd the truth shall
make YOU free" The right idea of in
telligence or Mind and of what con-
stitutes its expression or manifestation
/ will certainly free us from any mis-
taken sense of Mind 1t is always
knowledge of the truth which corrects
and does away with mistakes So long
as we place both good and evil on
the same level of human belief we fail
to understand the true nature of either
The moment we accept good as su-
preme and as the spiritual reality of
being, that Very moment do we ac-
knowledge divine Principle or law
which operates mentally through the
idea of infinite good to destroy all be-
lief in evil. Here, then, is the way
out of our dilemma.
RIGHT MENTAL ACTIVITY
If two men are in frenZied state of
thought and almost upon the point of
inflicting bodily injury upon each other,
We all know that a certain degree of
right mental activity on their part viii
soon restore harmony, in fact, we can
not think of any other possible means
of bringing about such result. If
pupil in mathematics becomes confused
in thought and cannot work out his
problem, we know that the influence
of right thought will soon adjust the
difficulty and enable him to solve his
problem. We all acknowledge that his
state of consciousness must change be-
fore he can complete his work.
If friend is Frustrated with grief,
thinking that life is dread and lonely
we know and acknowledge that the APP
plication of rightly directed thought will
very soon act as an oil upon the
troubled waters. and mourning will be
turned into joy. If fear overwhelms
one we admit that thought of Gods
power and presence very soon banishes
i the fear. Then why should not the
poor sick man, suffering from some all
ment which has no possible existence
outside of the realm of mortal con-
seriousness. be healed through the OPP
Grafton of Gods thoughts? The activity
of right thought is no finite or limited
capacity. Neither is it any respecter
of persons. troubles or diseases. II is
as natural for right thought to heal as
it is for the sun to shine. All of the
mental disorders which we know yield
to the exercise Of right thinking are
capable of producing what are termed
physical or bodily diseases To say
| then that such diseases. which are only
a different form of error, cannot be
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