0.0 – Christian Science – Bk 7 of 7 – Mary Baker Eddy – Your Divinity Revealed by Helen M Wright – Chpt 4 -Mind

CHAPTER IV
MIND
The Power of Mind
We stand in awe before the great fact that we can learn
the nature of God, of Being, as Mind.
Mrs. Eddy taught that the primal slavery was accepting human life as defined by the physical senses. In class
she started her revelation at a single point in her students'
thinking, namely, their concept of God. Each student had
to explain his concept of God. Then, for three days Mrs.
Eddy would open up to them a view of divinity that transformed the world they had known. She presented them
with a divine Principle that knew no pain or death. Her
students stood in awe before the glimpse of reality they
were catching, and felt centuries of spiritual growth would
be necessary to grasp the vision sufficiently to heal with it.
But so clearly did Mrs. Eddy present divine Love as the
very Principle of man's being, and so clearly did she show
the Mind of that Principle to be their Mind, that after three
days Mrs. Eddy had worked such a transformation in her
students' thought that she could confidently demand that
they accomplish a healing of some disease or discord before the next class convened. And they did.
Like those early students, we are devoting ourselves
to the greatest, most important, and  most empowering
pursuit in life, namely, learning what reality is. It isn't
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possible to spend our time and energy for
something higher than learning the nature
of our divine being.
The Meaning Mrs. Eddy Gives to Mind
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What does Mind mean, as Being revealed itself to Mrs.
Eddy and through the textbook to us? To orient ourselves
as we go through the ideas characterizing Mind it is a good
plan to list briefly what Science and Health says Mind is,
what Mind does, what Mind has, what Mind deals with,
and how Mind interprets itself, as follows:
What Mind Is
36:20 Mind is immortal law
84:17 Mind is fetterless
114:10 Mind is one
208:25 Mind is causation
256:32 Mind is the creator
387:8 Mind is ever active
415:2 Mind is the only cause
508:2 Mind is All
508:3 Mind is the multiplier
551:3 Mind is first
What Mind Does
103:25 Mind sustains man
179:7 Mind heals what eye hath not seen
200:6 Mind bestows the grand human capacities of
being
206:28 Mind made all and includes all
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222: 12 Mind governs man
239:30 Mind sends forth perfection
248:8 Mind feeds the body
271:8 Mind heals through Mind
505:1 Mind makes its own record
507:2 Mind institutes absolute formations
What Mind Has
124:21 Mind has adhesion, cohesion, and attraction
145:23 Mind has laws
148:4 Mind has requisite power to heal
203:3 Mind has all power
217:23 Mind has control
310:17 Mind has systems
401:28 Mind has efficacy and supremacy
What Mind Deals With
98:8 Mind deals with saving the body through Mind
171:26 Mind deals with false beliefs
182:22 Mind deals with putting matter under the feet
of Mind
183:21 Mind deals with demanding man's entire obedience
199:10 Mind deals with enlarging and empowering
man
280:11 Mind deals with finite belief
284:3 Mind deals with the belief that matter is the
medium of Mind
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285:19 Mind deals with the belief that a material body
is the seat of Mind
413:2 Mind deals with the belief that mind can produce pain in matter
413:7 Mind deals with regulating the condition of the
stomach
544:13 Mind deals with the belief that mind produces
matter
551:8 Mind deals with the belief that mind is the progenitor of matter
Mind deals with such negatives as ignorance, hereditary beliefs, illusions, mesmerism, hypnotic suggestion, minds many, mortal mind.
Mind Interprets Itself
7:25 as the all-hearing and all-knowing Mind
109:5 as the All-in-all
114:10 as the one Mind including noumenon and
phenomena
143:27 as first eternally
209:14 as Mind power
417:13 as all causation
423:26 as the law of Mind
469:10 as intelligence
469:18 as the one Mind
Mind interprets itself through revelation, through
Mind-reading, through the Mind of Christ, through its
laws.
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Terms Pertaining to Mind
Much of our work in this book will focus on the terms
Doorly's team identified pertaining to each synonym. The
terms pertaining to Mind are listed here alphabetically.
In the discussion that follows, the ideas herein will be considered in a more natural order, as they lead to each other
conceptually.
Words Mrs. Eddy Uses to Describe MIND
action First mandate
all forces manifests
ability forms (verb) makes (Mind/Truth)
apprehend faculties medicine
all-faculty guides metaphysics
author govern (Mind/Principle)
basis (Mind/Soul! multiplies
comprehend Principle) might
cause heals origin
controls image one (Mind/Principle)
creates (Mind/ idea parent Mind
Spirit) immortal perfect (Mind/Principle)
creative ability immortality power
desire includes presents
delivers (Mind/ (Mind/Love) produces
Love) influence perception
directs intelligence revelation
discovers intuition reveals
dominion knows Science
(Mind /Truth) law supreme
expresses leads source will
emanates light thought wisdom
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Opposites hypnotism m.m.p.
accident ignorance mesmerism
brain illusion minds many
belief limits mortal
darkness Materia medica nerve
heredity matter
Creator
To begin our concept and tonality building for Mind,
we will consider the terms of this list, one by one. Let us
start with "creator," one of the most basic ideas pertaining to Mind. If we examine our list we will quickly notice
some related terms, like creates, makes, produces, creative
power, creative impulse. As we read these words we can
hear they all have to do with the initial creative impulse,
and we begin to understand that everything that has to
do with the initial creative impulse is Mind. Mind says,
"I am Mind, and as Mind I am that which brings forth,
that which impels creative activity, impels bringing forth.
I am the producer; I am the creative power." This Mind is
our Mind.
Mind has nothing to do with time, space or locality. It
isn't a why, where, wherefore, or when. In Science we are
working with the omnipresence of present perfection, so
a term like "where" would be outside the divine frame of
reference. We don't ask, "Where is 2 x 2 = 4?" "Where"
has a human connotation. Mind has no locality. Mind is
the only consciousness; the only possible "where" would
be "in Mind."
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Someone might ask, "What about 'everywhere"'? The
answer is no, not even the term "everywhere" can apply
to Mind. When we ask the textbook, "What is Mind?" the
textbook never says, "everywhere." With the term "everywhere" we are at the point of Life. Only Life could
perhaps say "everywhere," but even there it is a very human sense.
So we don't have Mind with any external limits; we
have Mind as one great aspect of the one Being. What is
Mind? What does it mean that I am thinking in the realm
of Mind? let's think about the term we are considering
here, the word, "creator." Creator as an idea of Mind is
telling us that Mind, not something else, is the creator.
Can matter be the creator? No! Can sexuality be the creator? No! Can brain be the creator? No! Mind is the
creator. And that Mind is your Mind-" the kingdom of
God within you."
We begin to see there is only this Mind that creates
all. Because Mind is the creator Mind creates. Because
Mind is the only Mind and the all-Mind, it creates all. It
constantly creates. As we ponder this fact we get the warm
comforting feeling that Mind is constantly creating. Nothing else is creating. No evil can be created; no one is
around to create or make trouble. Mind makes all, and
only Mind makes. Realizing that only Mind can make
and create, our thought is filled with adoration for this
one Mind that makes all. Mind is the only maker. Mind
is the only producer, and produces all, and this Mind is
our Mind, since "the kingdom of God is within [us]."
We can see that only the divine Being, God, Mind,
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our true Mind, is the creator, the producer, the maker of
everything. It is the only creative ability ever going on.
Nothing other than Mind can create. Notice how we can
incorporate the negative, that which is not. We must see
there is nothing else, no creator but Mind. It is practical
to bring in the negative because it shows what cannot create, and thus we feel the assurance that there is no creative ability other than that which stems from Mind. There
cannot be a creative ability going on that creates evil, that
creates trouble or unhappy situations. We fill our thought
with the simple affirmation that only the divine Mind can
create.
When we study a term we must listen with our spiritual ear to the tonality of it. Here we have the nature of
Mind where Mind-our real true Mind-says, "I am
cause. I am creator. I am the creator that creates everything, makes everything, produces everything. I am Mind
that has the creative power, the creative impulsion. I am
Mind that propagates everything." We hear spiritually
the terrific impelling creative power that lies in the nature of Being as Mind. Keep in thought that this divine
Mind is your real true Mind.
Producer
Producer could be put under the main idea of creator,
but producer has a slightly different connotation than creator. We have to get used to language that is spiritually
figurative, that has spiritual impact in its shadings. Dictionary definitions can help us get the more exact meaning and language. These dictionary definitions show how
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each idea links together with other ideas under the same
root category of the seven synonymous terms. We are
often inclined to use language too superficially. In our
work, language should be as exact as possible. With "creator" we only have the very origin of where something
comes from. With producer we begin to think about the
product; we get a sense of a creator bringing forth a product.
We see from this how the term Mind enlarges. Mind,
our real Mind, is the producer of all. Only that which
Mind creates, makes, produces, is of lasting value. There
is no reason for building on any other productive cause
because there is only one real producer, the divine Mind,
our true Mind.
In our study we should note carefully all the references from Science and Health given in connection with
each idea. They will help us immeasurably with our concept building and tonality building. Beginning with Science and Health page 544:6, we see that Mind is the producer. A number of other references show that Mind produces all, and Mind produces only that which is positive.
Mind produces its own models of excellence. Man and
the universe are the product of Mind, and Mind produces
in man health, harmony, and immortality. Mind produces
all action.
The greatest good that we can do for another is not
just share our riches, but reveal to him his own.
These short epitomes begin to fill our consciousness
and develop our sense of the tone of Mind. As they do
we become convinced that only Mind, our true Mind, is
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the producer. Therefore we see Mind produces all. Mind
produces man and the universe, producing only models
of excellence and nothing else. Only the maximum of good
is produced; Mind therefore produces health and immortality and harmony; it produces all right action, all positive action.
Our thought begins to flow more and more in this
vein. Mary Baker Eddy says Mind is the builder, in a figurative sense. We hear in this term that there is more than
just Mind as the creator-here we have a sense that this
creative Mind is a structural creator, a builder; Mind creates structurally. We could also say that Mind institutes.
"Institutes" has the tonality of creating and of bringing
forth.
Parent Mind
Here we begin to see that the divine Mind is really
the parent Mind. This is a great point in Mrs. Eddy's teaching about Mind. It takes away the sense that we have
been created from another cause than the one Mind, our
own true Mind, "the kingdom of God within" our consciousness. Mind is the creator of everything; therefore it
is also the creator of our true being. But it is not the creator of the mortal seeming. Our true being has nothing to
do with people, with human parents; it came forth from
the parent Mind.
In the first statement of the Lord's Prayer, Mary Baker
Eddy illustrates the parent Mind as Father-Mother, which
in Science and Health is usually Life and Love. In the
references given here she presents Father-Mother, or Life
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and Love, as the parent Mind, your true Mind. Why is it
the parent Mind? What is she indicating about the nature
of Mind?
In presenting the parent Mind, your true Mind, as
Father-Mother, Mary Baker Eddy is showing the creative
aspect from which everything comes, whereas in Life as
Father she is showing the office of Father, and in Love she
is showing the office of Mother. But here we learn it is
Mind that conceives; it is Mind that has the creative idea,
the producing idea. It is Mind that sets an idea, sets an
aim. As we go further we see that Mind, our true Mind,
conceives of its creation; then Mind produces what it has
conceived. Mind outlines what it conceives and therefore we have in Mind, our real Mind, the will to produce.
We can thus see that in Mind as parent it is not so
much the office of Father and Mother that is under consideration, but rather that which has the first creative
impulsion and says, "Let's bring forth, let's create, let's
make, let's produce, let's build, let's construct, let's institute."
From this we can see that Mind, our real Mind, "the
kingdom of God within [us]," is the only creator and the
only producer. From this we learn the source of our true
being; we learn the origin of our true being. We learn we
did not come from human desire. We are not a sex creation. We are not an accident, a chance; we are not here
by the will of human parents. Our true and immortal
being did not originate humanly. All that has ever been
really created was created by the divine Mind, our true
Mind, which the mortal only counterfeits.
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This brings out the comforting law of our divine heredity. We have inherited only the one Mind-the one
Mind that knows all, that is all-intelligent, all-wise, that
comprehends all and sees all.
Ignorance alone brought about the counterfeit creation, the belief in human parentage, the dust to dust creation, the illusion of corporeality, of flesh, blood, and
bones, so we can drop the whole question of material creation, material propagation, material begetting, etc. We
can drop it right here at the very beginning.
In Christ and Christmas Mrs. Eddy speaks of life without birth and without end, asking why "signalize the birth
of him ne'er born?" She states, "The time cometh when
the spiritual origin of man, the divine Science [the Science of Love] which ushered Jesus into human presence,
will be understood and demonstrated" (S.&H. 325:26).
Science and Health, 29:30, speaks of man as "the offspring
of God" and "the idea of Spirit" and calls the Science of
Love "Father or divine Principle." Remember, we are the
Principle since "the kingdom of God is within" our conSCIousness.
The divine Mind, our real and true Mind, willed all
into being in its absolute conception, its ideal conception.
We have no other mind than the Mind that is God. The
Mind that is God is our parent Mind.
Mind Forms
It is Mind, God, my true Mind, that forms and creates. The term "forms" can be either a verb or a noun.
When it is a noun it is Truth, the forms of Truth. As a
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verb, "to form" is the ability to bring forth something that
has outline; therefore it is a creative activity. The moment
we have a creative activity we are dealing with Mind because Mind is the creator, the producer, the maker; therefore Mind forms as a creative ability.
Remember we are learning the method so that we can
work with these ideas in any context. Besides seeing that
we have a correct list, we want to see how each idea flows
into the other ideas, how they link together and form a
whole chain of tonality.
Related to "Mind forms" we have Mind shapes, models, fashions-all as verbs. Mind shapes, models, fashions, and molds our thought. We hear the creative activity implied with these terms. Little by little the language
of Spirit is making itself known to us. The human language isn't adequate in itself; but it is acting as a bridge to
help us hear spiritually, Mind's activity, Mind's creative
impulsion.
To Be a Creator Mind Must Form
How can Mind, our true Mind, be a creator if it doesn't
form something, shape something, model something?
Only as it is formed, shaped, molded, and modeled can
something appear. If it isn't formed, shaped, modeled,
molded, it is illusive, not concrete. Mrs. Eddy brings in
these verbs to emphasize Mind's creative ability-your
Mind's creative ability.
Pondering this, we realize Mind forms, shapes, fashions and models everything according to the highest models of excellence, for as we saw before, Mind produces
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only models of excellence. This Mind is my Mind and it
forms and produces all, fashioning and molding according to its models of excellence. Mind never forms anything that isn't of the highest excellence. From Mind, our
true Mind, proceeds that constant flow of health, harmony,
immortality, holiness.
Mind never produces malformations or deformities;
Mind doesn't have the power to form distortions or malformations. Mortal mind's counterfeit formations are not
the formations of the divine Mind. Holding in thought
the perfect model heals cases of severe deformity, because
the formations of divine Mind are always beautiful and
shapely. We must stick to the truth. Mind creates only
ideas. Our true Mind gives us a sense of the impelling
power that is there as a creative force. This one power of
Mind is supreme over all the supposititious hypnotic
power of mortal mind.
Cause
So far, we have built up our consciousness by seeing
that Mind, the divine Mind, my true Mind, is the creator
that creates, makes, produces. It is the creative impulse
behind everything; it is our parent Mind from which all
has been inherited. We have the Mind that is God, the
Mind of Christ. This divine Mind, that is our Mind, forms,
fashions, models, and molds everything according to its
own image, its own models of excellence.
No wonder we have "cause" as a characteristic of
Mind. Mind, my true Mind, is the cause of all. This is one
of the big ideas of Mind. We can see that cause and cre131 
ator must be under the same Mind-category since there
can be no creator without cause, and cause demands a
creator. A cause brings out something, cause originates,
creates, produces, makes something, so cause suddenly
appears as creator. Here we see that the creator is the
cause. While these two terms are not synonymous in ordinary language, they are synonymous in the spiritual
language. They mean the very same thing. They both
mean Mind, because Mind is the cause, the origin, the creator. Spiritually we can see that theses terms belong together; they form the same tone.
Mind, as creator, is causative; nothing happens without the divine cause. We can only think logically if we
begin with Mind as the cause of every effect, since Mrs.
Eddy says, "Mind, not matter, is causation" (S&H
208:25), and Mind, your true Mind, is the cause of everyeffect.
Roget's Thesaurus is very helpful for elaborating our
list of ideas. If we have cause we naturally have origin,
since we can't have a cause that isn't an origin. An author
is an originator. A source is a cause. These examples just
explain the same concept with different terms. Seeing that
"cause" also implies all the other shades of causation,
helps free us from words. Some students might feel if
they don't find "cause" in the text they wouldn't know it
was referring to Mind. Having more words included in
our concept frees us from being dependent on any particular word. Through this study we now see it doesn't
matter whether a text says origin, source, author, first
cause, or the beginning; we know it is referring to Mind.
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Learn To Get the Tone
When we read the Bible and these terms do not appear but other terms appear, we still can catch the tone. It
is the same with everyday experiences. We can get the
tone of Mind in illustrations, in experiences, in happenings. As we learn the language of Spirit we see that these
happenings and experiences have a tonality of reality. Do
they have the tonality of Mind? Or do they have the tonality of Spirit, of Soul, Principle, Life, Truth or Love?
Whatever happens in the world, Mind is still the first
cause and there is nothing really going on except Mind.
Mind is the cause of every effect. If Mind is cause, origin,
then our origin is in Mind, in the parent Mind, our own
true Mind. In order to stimulate thought, ask "What and
where is my origin?" Since Mind is the only source, cause,
and originator, my origin is in Mind. Mind is the cause of
all; it produces all, makes all. This gives us the spiritual
sense of Mind as first, as the source, as the origin. We
begin to see there is no other origin, no other source, no
other cause than the divine Mind, and to think there is, is
backward thinking, like the notice in the Seattle Times:
"Call the Times by noon today if you do not receive your
paper tomorrow morning."
There is no cause in brain, in mortal intelligence; there
is no cause in matter, or in the stars. There is no hereditary law to cause disease and discord of any nature. No
negative cause is at work to influence our life. Mind is
the source and condition of all movement. We get the
spiritual sense that nothing starts, nothing comes into
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being except what Mind initiates, promotes, impels. It is
Mind that produces and causes it, that is the creator and
originator of it. We must build up within ourselves the
absolute conviction that there is no other cause, no other
origin, no other parenthood at work.
First
If Mind is the cause, Mind comes first.
If Mind is first, this fact at once tells me I must start
with Mind, begin with Mind. When we hear "first" saying, "Start with Mind; begin with Mind," we are hearing
the tonality of it. In order to draw accurate divine conclusions we take Mind as our basis, because unless we have
Mind as the very first conceptional image we have started
wrongly.
If we start with the human mind it will probably say,
"I can't do it. I don't have the necessary qualifications.
It's not my responsibility." But if we always start with
Mind, our true Mind tells us we can do it; "I can do it"
becomes a natural habitual attitude. This is how a treatment starts. We put the problem behind us, we don't argue with it; we set the problem aside and ask, "What is
going on?" Nothing is going on but what Mind causes.
Mind is first; Mind is the only.
Since Mind is first, it is our starting point, the point
from which we begin to think. We can't start with Spirit
because Spirit demands that we can discern and distinguish between ideas and illusions and that we can separate ideas from illusions. This implies that the creation
of ideas has already occurred, but creation of ideas is
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the province of Mind, so Mind is first and we must start
with Mind.
It doesn't matter which term we use to convey this
message that Mind is first. Actually all the words we have
studied up to now convey this tone. After we have the
tone we can use many different words to convey this same
meaning that Mind is first. We can use illustrations and
experiences, too.
The textbook gives the operational sense of these seven
synonymous terms, as we will see after we master concept building and tonality building along with consciousness and being-building. We will later also get the dimensional sense and also the structural sense of the seven
synonymous terms.
Why do these ideas flow into each other? Why are
they not foreign to each other? Why can they be classed
under one category? We have already taken about twenty
terms which in ordinary language would not all mean one
thing, but in spiritual language we can see they imply
Mind-one tone.
Mrs. Eddy says Mind [your Mind] is the creator. Starting with creator we see that creator constantly creates,
makes, produces, propagates, constructs, builds. Mind is
that creative impulsion that is constantly going on, so it
begins to produce, to build, to construct, to institute. This
is the parent Mind as the creator, and it is always saying,
"I want to create; I want to produce; I want to bring forth.
I am the parent Mind, and as I create I form everything; I
shape, mold, model, and fashion everything; I outline everything. I am the creative impulsion, and therefore I am
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the only cause. I am causative. I, Mind, your own true
Mind, am the only origin, the only author, the only source
which creates and produces all, which brings forth all that
is brought forth. I am the very first because I am the creator."
The effect wouldn't be first. Cause is first. "Cause"
and "first" mean the same thing; they mean the beginning, the starting point, the point that all goes out from.
We must gain the scientific certainty that all causation is
Mind. Mrs. Eddy saw, through revelation, through mental or spiritual illumination, that Mind is basic and fundamental to all phenomena, and in Science and Health
she has reconciled reason and revelation in her divine
system of Science. Mrs. Eddy saw that Mind, our real,
true Mind, creates only ideas. Mind creates its own likeness only in ideas.
Basis
As first cause, Mind is the "basis." With "basis" we
get a tone that is intimately connected or related to first
and to cause, because basis is that on which one builds,
on which one relies. The divine metaphysician makes
Mind his basis of operation, since the basis of all health
and immortality is the fact that Mind, our true Mind, is
the only cause and creator. So again we start on the foundation of Mind.
"The categories of metaphysics," Mrs. Eddy says, "rest
on one basis, the divine Mind" (S&H 269:13-14). Mortal
mind erroneously believes man is the basis of the creation
of his own kind, a kind of man, which mortal mind calls
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mankind, thus reversing spiritual creation and pronouncing material organization as the basis of man. This reduces Mind to dependency on matter and establishes the
basis for pantheism. Mortal mind, acting from the basis
of sensation in matter, is animal magnetism, and it must
finally yield to the divine Mind as the only basis from
which to create and produce phenomena.
Power
So far all the terms we have looked at had a very similar feel. Now we are ready to add something new, the
idea of power. Let's consider power as an idea characterizing Mind. From what we have learned up to now why
should Mind be power? If Mind is the creator, cause, producer, if Mind is that which makes all, wouldn't Mind
need power in order to create, cause, produce, and make
all? In order for a cause to express itself and be creation,
wouldn't it need power? There is no possibility for a cause
to express itself unless that cause has power. Without
power a cause could not express itself and therefore could
not be a cause. For something to be a cause means that it
is followed by or leads to an effect, that it brings forth an
effect. In the cause there must be a power sense.
From this we can see a term like cause is not conveying just one thing; it is conveying at once many things.
Here we see cause means at the same time beginning, creator, originator, producer, so it needs or implies power
because nothing can be formed or produced without
power.
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Freeing Ourselves From Terms
We can see that though we are studying these terms
we are at the same time freeing ourselves from terms.
Why?
Because of the great synonymity principle of the language. The synonymity principle tells us that one term
doesn't have just a single meaning, but it always blends
with and overlaps into other terms, whether they are
spelled out or not. We might feel that a single term like
"cause" has a single meaning, but as the concept unfolds
we see cause is only cause because it reflects other terms,
terms like power, the beginning of something, the bringing forth, the producing of something. It is only cause
because it sets something in motion, in action. Thus we
see it is not just one term but is the overlapping of many
terms. This is the synonymity principle.
Historically, in the development of the language, one
term, through the synonymity principle, built many new
terms, just as when one throws a stone into a lake the
ripples go further and further out. This synonymity principle is fundamental to Christian Science.
In Christian Science we have the foundational symbol called God, and in the synonymity principle we have
God as a compound symbol for the seven synonymous
terms. Each of the seven synonymous terms in the synonymity principle has many ideas, as we are seeing here.
Mind has the ideas of creator, cause, beginning, source,
origin, power, etc., and they are all synonymous. The point
is that each one of these ideas is also synonymous with
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each other idea; they cannot stand by themselves, they
have no meaning by themselves. Cause, for instance, has
no meaning without having within itself also the meaning of first, beginning, power, source, action, origin, producing, etc. Without meaning all these other things also,
cause by itself would have no meaning.
How We Get Tonality
Like the stone tossed into the placid lake generating
ripples that go further and further out, the synonymity
principle builds up the whole tone of Mind. We can see
from the way this concept expands that these ideas are
natural. They are not something Mrs. Eddy made up.
They impelled themselves on her consciousness the moment she caught the first right tone. If we have a cause,
then, thought says, we must have an outflow, an emanation, an issue, a bringing forth.
This is how we get the tonality of a synonym.
We have also started to combine. When we see that
the idea power is intimately related to cause and creator,
we feel that Mind is all power, has all power, is omnipotent. This power lies in the Mind of Christ, our true and
real Mind, giving a sense that the creator is a powerful
creator, that Mind, as the cause, is a powerful cause. Here
we can combine power with all the ideas we have considered under Mind so far. As we combine these ideas we
strengthen our sense of tonality, because we now feel
Mind, our true and real Mind, is not only the first cause, it
is also a terrific power. It is a cause that will have an effect. It is not a tentative cause that tries to create some139 
thing and then finds itself unable to do so. It is a power.
It will go forward and accomplish what it sets out to accomplish. It can originate and produce something. It can
bring forth the formations of Mind. It can shape, fashion,
form, mold, and model, which all takes power.
Mortal Mind Has No Power
Here we get a sense of power and force, and we
strengthen our sense of Mind's power even more when
we bring in the negative, when we say, "Mind is all power,
therefore mortal mind hasn't any power. Mortal mind
hasn't any cause, any creative power; mortal mind is not
a maker; it cannot create, make, or produce anything.
Human thinking has no power. Human thinking, mortal
mind thinking, false thinking, destructive thinking, is
powerless."
Many Christian Scientists fear thought, fear the thinking of others or the consequences of their own wrong
thinking. They believe in the power of thinking, of evil
thinking. They believe in thought transference. But in
Christian Science we learn there is one Mind, which is
positive, and this one Mind is the only Mind and creates
good only. There is no other mind that can be causative;
therefore the human mind can't have power, action, or
influence, except as illusion, hypnotic suggestion.
We must build this up in our consciousness, then we
are not afraid to walk through a field of mortal-mind thinking. It doesn't touch us because we are in another realmthe realm of the divine Mind. To believe we are touched
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physics to believe human thinking has power. In divine
metaphysics we feel only the power and force of the one
Mind, and are not subjugated to the supposititious power
of mortal thinking.
Contemplating these truths we feel ourselves entering a realm of freedom, and a realm of dominion.
Action
Seeing Mind as power frees us and gives us dominion. It also leads us to another idea characterizing Mind,
namely action. Mind is the source of all action. The divine Mind, our true Mind, is the source of all our activity,
and the source of the activity of the entire universe. Can
we have power without action? Power implies action.
We readily recognize power in action, but even when we
have potential power, power which is not yet energetic
power, we know it is potentially holding within itself the
ability to act. So power-and especially the definition of
power-implies the ability to act, to move, to perform.
Implicit in power we have action and movement. "Mind
is the source of all movement." This implies motion, function, rotation, omni-action, locomotion, the revolutions of
Mind, and so on.
Our understanding of Mind, our true and real Mind,
is continuing to grow as we feel that this one Mind that is
cause, origin, basis, begins to express itself as power, and
power expresses itself as action. We need never think,
when we are sitting quietly, intently pondering Mind, that
this is not doing something. A great action is taking place
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ing the infinite action of Mind. This infinite action of Mind
is action all over the world, over the entire universe. Mrs.
Eddy's daily work for the world showed forth this Mind
action. Things begin to happen. We don't make them
happen, but our consciousness, knowing that only Mind
is ever-active everywhere as every idea, is doing a productive job. It is doing this job by being still within.
Mind Takes Care of Negative
Mentality, Negative Action
Mind is movement. We recognize the negative sense
of action, as in inaction, overreaction, irritated action, but
if Mind is all action then this all action of Mind is taking
care of the negative. Mind is taking care of inactioninaction of the body and inaction of our mentality, meaning our apathy. If Mind is all action it is taking care of
irritated action in the body or in human affairs. There is
only peaceful, restful action, the restful action of omniactive Mind.
Mind is characterized as function. Mind takes care
of the functions of the body. Here is another point on
methodology: As we are thinking these concepts and
they are becoming tones, we begin to use terms we don't
have on our list but which we recognize to be right tonewise. Function, for instance, is not on our list but we
know Mind has to do with functions because Mind has
to do with action, intelligent action, the control of action. Our whole activity, whether in our business, our
family, our relationships, functions under Mind. We
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ity so a higher functioning and efficiency can operate.
The activity of Mind expresses itself in constructive
divine thinking; therefore the activity of ideas in our consciousness always produces harmony. Ideas, being productive, express themselves in omni-action, in which there
is no conflicting discordant action. Mind-action is always
harmonious.
Emanation
If action is implicit in Mind, the activity of Mind must
express itself. Here we come to emanation as an idea characterizing Mind, and with it such ideas as "proceed from,"
"issue," "flow forth," "springs forth," "sends forth."
The moment we have, tone-wise, the sense that there
is a cause, we know that a cause, in order to be a cause,
must express itself. Therefore it must have power, and if
something has power or is power, then it cannot be without action. Again we have at once that whole blending of
cause, power, action. Then, if there is action, something
happens: we have emanation, a flowing forth, a projecting forth. We can bring in many terms which all give the
meaning that from this cause something flows forth,
projects itself, pushes on. We have a great sense that something comes forth from Mind as source, or else it isn't truly
a source, a cause, an origin.
From this example we can see that terms only mean
something when all that is necessary for that term to mean
what it means is included. We might say that the term
itself doesn't exist. Cause, as a term, only exists if it includes or reflects a lot of other terms or what other terms
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mean. There is an inner relationship, an inner blending,
an inner combination that is necessary in order for cause
to be cause. A cause is not cause if it is not first, if it is not
power, if it does not bring forth something.
An "Idea" Reflects All Other Ideas
An "idea" reflects all other ideas. This is very important because as applied to Christian Science we know that
an idea is never an idea until or unless it reflects all other
ideas. An idea like intelligence, for instance, is never an
idea until it reflects all other ideas. The synonymity principle shows that a term by itself is nothing. It is only something when all the synonyms are considered. The term
God is nothing; it doesn't mean a thing until we consider
that term, God, in its synonymity. Then it begins to mean
everything, to mean All. When God blends with Mind,
Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love, then it begins to
mean something, namely "the kingdom of God within
[us l."
Every term blends with other terms, overlaps other
terms. Each term overlaps in the first generation, in the
second generation, in the third generation, with every
other term, until finally we can see an idea that is infinite. Such ideas are infinite in meaning through the
synonymity principle, not by putting ideas next to each
other; they are infinite because these ideas blend and
overlap.
Permeates is another way of saying every idea reflects
every other idea. Every synonym permeates all; every
part permeates the whole.
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Science is an emanation of the divine Mind, our true
and real Mind, and all truth proceeds from Mind. Mrs.
Eddy states that man springs from Mind, that the spiritual senses emanate from Mind; all action proceeds from
Mind. Ideas, not illusions, emanate from Mind. This
shows Mind, your real true Mind, as the source from
which everything emanates, and there is no other source
from which anything could emanate. Any thought that
this sounds wonderful and true is most apt.
Influence
How reassuring it is to realize that Mind is the only
influence.
Why is Mind the only influence?
If up to now we have seen that Mind is creator, producer, parent Mind, the only forming power, cause, first,
basis, power, action, and emanation, then wouldn't Mind
also be influence? Could there be influence without those
ideas we have just listed? We wouldn't feel we were under the influence of something if it had neither power nor
ability to act, would we? We attribute to influence all those
qualities we have studied up to now that characterize
Mind. Without these qualities and attributes influence is
not influence.
In Christian Science an emanation means an outflow.
With influence, we have an emanation of the divine Mind,
since emanation characterizes Mind. This is what we must
know in practice, since one of the common claims of mankind is that they believe themselves to be under the influence of something other than the divine Mind-under the
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influence of the stars, the weather, the boss, the family,
some relationship, the husband, their race, their religion,
the times, the government, etc. People often feel they are
like a tiny grain of sand in a big field of influence. They
believe there is a cause outside of themselves that has
power, and which acts on them, flows into them. But this
is not true. We welcome the fast descending awakening
to our present perfection and possession of all good.
Think of the power and the mastery we gain when we
realize there is only one influence, the influence emanating from Mind, and that we are constantly under that influence.
What Does it Mean To Be Under
the Influence of Mind?
What does it mean to be under the influence of Mind?
To get the answer to this we can blend influence with other
terms listed under Mind, and see we are under the influence of the parent Mind. It is the parent Mind, our own
true Mind, that formed us, not the stars, not human parents. Our real Mind is the parent Mind. We feel the power
of Mind. The action of Mind alone influences us. We feel
we are constantly under the influence of what Mind manifests. We are under the influence of the divine cause, origin, producer, etc., and there is no influence from belief in
false heredity.
When we go through the whole list we have been considering we see only the divine Mind is influencing us,
and the creative ability, the creative intention, of that divine Mind is constantly conceiving of its own ideas. This
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is the only influence; therefore only the intelligence of
Mind is emanating towards us. This is the way to establish in our consciousness a complete barrier against a false
concept of influence.
If Mind only creates and produces ideas, forms of excellence, then we are only under the influence of Mind's
perfect ideas. We are never under the influence of what
Mind is not. The divine Mind, our true Mind, is expressing itself in us and as us, as ideas, as ideas of the one Mind.
Since all the ideas of Mind blend together, we should
always go back and blend the ideas we discussed earlier
under Mind. Doing this now, we find that these earlier
ideas-creator, producer, parent Mind, cause, basis, and
so on-are active, are powerful, are influential. Theyalways produce something that is right because they reflect
the divine Mind. We suddenly feel ourselves to be in a
realm of ideas, a realm of active ideas, powerful ideas,
ideas which alone influence everything that happens.
Ideas
That which emanates from Mind is ideas. How does
this term, ideas, flow with the preceding terms? We must
see the logic and inner consistency of how these ideas flow
together. If only ideas flow from Mind then the true influence is always ideas.
With every added term we enlarge our concept of the
preceding terms. We have Mind as cause and we enlarge
it when we say Mind is the cause of ideas. Mind never
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strict or more clearly define the term cause. We have just
said Mind is the cause of ideas and of nothing else. If we
merely said Mind is the cause, source, origin of all, and
stopped there, we would be implying that Mind is the
cause of everything that happens in our human experience of the world-all the counterfeit activity, the activity
that is the counterfeit of Mind.
In order to get definite, clear, unmistakable meanings
of the synonymous terms it is not enough to have just a
few ideas. Only as we take in more and more of these
ideas and see that they conform to all the other ideas, do
we get the right sense. As we blend more and more ideas,
we refine and refine until there is no longer any misconception about Mind's activity.
If we go back to where we said Mind is the creator we
can now ask, "What is Mind the creator of?" We answer,
"It is the creator of ideas." By bringing in more terms we
refine that statement, "Mind is the creator," until it means
what it is supposed to mean. When we combine "Mind"
with "ideas" we have Mind as the creator of ideas. Later
on when we combine Mind with Spirit-the only-we will
be able to say, "Mind is the creator only of ideas." This
will refine our understanding even more.
Idea, An Image in Mind
Only through a structural sense can we know what
an idea is. This means making a matrix of "idea" through
the textbook. A short definition for idea, found in Science
and Health on page 115:17-18, describes idea as" An image in Mind; the immediate object of understanding." An
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idea is that which divine Mind conceives. That which the
divine Mind, our true Mind, has in Mind is an idea. Idea
is God in expression so there is no such thing as a bad
idea. Ideas are what Being consists of. Ideas are the building blocks of reality, the elements of reality. The divine
Mind conceives everything as idea.
The quality of an idea can be power, law, unfoldment,
eternality, etc.; idea is just the substance of reality, the fundamental spiritual element-the "stuff" that makes up
reality. Being consists of ideas, although the counterfeit
mortal mind suggestion is that reality consists of matter,
human thinking, etc. The ideas that constitute being can
be classified into seven synonymous terms, so it is actually idea that constitutes reality; and classified, the seven
synonymous terms are the seven big classifications of the
nature of Being.
Image
The ideas which the divine Mind has are imagesimages in Mind. As we saw, a short definition of idea
was "an image in Mind." (Mrs. Eddy uses "likeness" with
Spirit.) The divine Mind is the power that forms the image. Creation, Mrs. Eddy says, is the infinite image emanating from divine Mind.
Divine Mind only has ideas, and these ideas come to
human apprehension in the form of new thought models.
Ideas come to us in their translated form as images of
thought, new models of thought which give us a new
realm of thinking, but these new thoughts are formed and
shaped by ideas.
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This is where we have to make the distinction between
what Mind produces, namely ideas only, and what Mind
does to the human, namely, it supplies the human with
new thoughts, divine thoughts which Mrs. Eddy calls
God's thoughts, infinite good's thoughts. These are saving, helping thoughts. But behind these saving, helping
thoughts is the divine Mind, our own true and real Mind,
coming to us as us.
When we become convinced that Mind is the only
power that can form an image, in reality, this will free us
from believing in the counterfeit images formed by mortal mind.
Thoughts
Scientific thoughts are translated forms of divine ideas,
as we have seen. Mind doesn't have thoughts; it doesn't
think; Mind knows; it is the all-knowing. But human
power is proportionate to its embodiment of right thinking. Mrs. Eddy, under the marginal heading, "Mind's pure
thought," states, "The seed within itself is the pure thought
emanating from divine Mind" (S&H 508:14). This is because God's thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance
and Life, and they do not lack a divine cause. "Eternal
things ... are God's thoughts as they exist in the ... realm of
the real [God's thoughts are spiritual realities]" (S&H
337:24). Are thoughts human or divine? That is the important question. Divine thoughts are translated ideas of
the divine Mind.
There is a Christ in Being, and the Christ always
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ence. It translates God not only to the spiritual plane,
but also to the mental plane and to the psychical plane,
even to the material plane. We have to take into consideration the way Mind translates itself to the human.
What happens here is that Mind, which only knows
ideas, which does not think in its own realm, has the
power of translating itself to the human plane. The
moment it translates itself to another plane, other than
the divine, the phenomena changes, so ideas change into
divine thoughts. Thoughts, therefore, are a translated
form of ideas.
Mrs. Eddy Has Given Us a Saving Science
When Mind's ideas translate themselves to human
consciousness they appear to human consciousness as
God's, or infinite good's thoughts, as divine thoughts.
We call them divine thoughts or God's thoughts; thereby
they become attributes and not qualities of God. Qualities are that which is innate in reality, where it is what it
is whether we see it or not, whether we realize it or not.
Attributes are what we attribute to something. In reality Mind is all-knowing, so doesn't "think" or have
"thoughts." But Mrs. Eddy has given us a saving Science, and so she had to constantly translate the spiritual realm right down to the human realm so it would
be a savior for us.
Through translation a phenomenon is changed but
without losing its identity. H20 is the chemical formula
for water, and it can have three different phenomena, but
it is still H20 whether it is vapor, water, or ice. According
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to the temperature it is either vapor, water, or ice. The
phenomena change according to the dimension, according to the level.
This is called dimensionalism in the various sciences,
as compared to reductionalism. Dimensionalism shows
that something that has identity doesn't need to always
appear as the same phenomenon. It can appear as many
different phenomena, but not at random. We have to know
on which level, on which dimension, the phenomena are
seen. This is what Mrs. Eddy tries to show in the textbook, namely, that an identity appears in different forms
on different levels of consciousness. It is for this reason
we can say God doesn't have thoughts. "God's thoughts"
are ideas translated to a lower dimension of consciousness, to a human level of thinking, where they appear as
human thoughts, scientific human thoughts. In the beginning of our study of each of the synonyms we should
exclude these translated forms, because we want to see
these seven synonymous terms in their purity.
Light
Light is a biblical symbol, a natural symbol, which
we should try to supplant with abstract symbols, since
natural symbols aren't as clear, as definite in meaning as
abstract symbols. Light for us in Christian Science is a
symbol for intelligence, vision, new insight, wisdom, intuition, revelation, scientific thought, comprehension, discovery, inspired thought. These terms all have to do with
the concept that Mind, our true and real Mind, brings
enlightenment to the human.
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Here Mrs. Eddy brings in something more, something
different. The ideas we studied, to this point, had to do
with the creative sense, with creating, producing, making, originating, parenting, and so on. Now we see that
this which is being made is an emanation of ideas; so we
have creator producing an emanation of ideas.
What does this do to the human?
It brings enlightenment to the human; it brings vision.
Most of the related terms here, like comprehension, illumination, discovery, vision, are not ideas. They are translated forms of ideas such as we found thoughts to be.
Mind doesn't discover; Mind doesn't comprehend; Mind
knows. Mind is all-knowing. What does Mind do on the
human plane? It inspires thought, gives vision, illumination, discovery. Thought, vision, illumination and discovery are not actually pure ideas, but what stands behind
these attributes is the pure idea: Mind knmvs; Mind is
intelligence.
From the Human Standpoint We Need Discovery
This shows how alert and how exact we must be. We
must make a distinction between idea and the translated
phenomena of idea, of Mind, while still seeing that these
human qualities also have their specific definite background, that they are Mind-related qualities, which don't
belong under Soul or under Love.
From the human standpoint we need inspiration, we
need vision, discovery, comprehension, apprehension,
intuition. But Mind itself doesn't know about the human,
doesn't know about the counterfeit creation. Mind only
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knows its own idea. We go out from the standpoint that
Mind knows all, and this translates itself as vision.
If Mind said, "I will discover it," that would be tantamount to Mind saying, "I don't know all, so I will discover what I don't know." We go out from the concept
that Mind knows all, is all-knowing, all-seeing, all-understanding, all-intelligent, which then transfers itself to us
as greater insight, vision, discovery, illumination, light.
We must open ourselves to the influx of the divine
Mind instead of trying to go back to a memory bank. The
one Mind should be our only source of enlightenment.
Take the time to quietly know we are one with the divine
Mind. The divine Mind isn't somewhere up there; it is
our very own Mind, ever-present. Right now we are in
the state of being the one Mind; it is our natural state of
being. This one Mind that is our Mind is the Mind that
illumines. The more we shut out all false conceptions the
better our own divine Mind can talk to us and find ways,
means, channels, through which to interpret itself to us.
LiThe Time For Thinkers Has Come"
Science and Health tells us that "The time for thinkers has come." But it is not the kind of thinking that many
people think they are doing, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. Or, the kind of thinking two
rookie police officers were doing when they found three
hand grenades in the street and decided to take them to
the police station. "What if one of them explodes?" asked
the younger officer. "It doesn't really matter," the other
reassured him. "We'll say we only found two."
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Here and now the divine Mind is our own true Mind.
When we shut out all false conceptions and allow the one
Mind to be our only source we will never be trapped in a
material sense of things, like the Washington, D. C. lawyer who was opening the door of his BMW when a car
came along and hit it, ripping the door off its hinges. The
police arrived and found the lawyer hopping up and
down with rage, complaining bitterly about the damage
to his precious car. "You lawyers as so materialistic-you
make me sick," a police officer commented, shaking his
head in disgust. "You're so worried about your beautiful
BMW that you didn't even notice that your left arm was
ripped off." "Gh, no!" said the lawyer, looking down and
noticing the bloody stump where his arm had been.
"Where's my Rolex?"(his expensive watch).
We need to turn away from the material, turn away
from mortal mind to our real, true Mind. "The time for
thinkers has come." Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow, and whoever wants to lead the orchestra must turn
his back on the crowd.
Remember, divine Mind, your true real Mind, knows
no material limits. It knows only its own, forever perfect
idea and that is what it manifests.
Manifest
Let's consider "manifest" as an idea characterizing
Mind. We are learning method, so we should ask ourselves, "What does manifest have to do with Mind? What
does manifestation mean?"
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Manifestation implies there is a cause at work that
wants to express itself, and does express itself, and brings
out what it is. This explains why we attribute manifest
to the category of Mind rather than to Soul or to Love.
The inner nature of manifestation is such that it needs
power. Without power there is no manifestation. Manifestation calls for action. Without action there is no manifestation. Manifestation calls for a cause, a creator, an origin, a producer. These are all Mind ideas, therefore it must
be Mind that manifests.
Again we realize how necessary it is to see that these
ideas blend with other ideas, and to see with which ideas
they blend. In this case we can see that manifests blends
with all the ideas of Mind.
Further, Mrs. Eddy speaks of "the power of expression" which means the same thing, and she also speaks of
"the impartation of Mind," that Mind conveys impressions, which has to do with Mind bringing out its own
expressIOn.
Mind manifests itself, expresses itself, and there is no
other expression. Mortal mind, the counterfeit of Mind,
is not a real power, therefore evil, so-called, cannot manifest itself. It has no channel, no place, no time in which to
manifest itself, since it is unreal, hypnotic suggestion only.
To sum it up, we see manifestation includes the concept of cause, power, action, and so on, since without
cause, without power, without action, there is no manifestation. In this way we see how the tonality is building
up, and we are becoming freer and freer of terms. First,
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bedded and implied in "manifests itself." Little by little
we are building up the tone of Mind and finally we just
think: "Mind;" and we have everything in it. In this way
the infinite is reduced to simplicity.
All-knowing
All-knowing as a characteristic of Mind brings us to a
new category of ideas in Mind: the knowing sense. We
saw that what stands behind illumination, light, vision,
discovery, and inspired thought, is the fact that Mind is
all-knowing. All-knowing is one of the big, important
ideas of Mind.
Ideas related to all-knowing include comprehends,
apprehends, perceives, foretells, foresees, informs, allhearing, information, conceives, reasoning, insight. But
when we say all-knowing we really include all these other
terms, and this shows that we only need to know a few
typical ideas of each synonymous term. Then, through
our own sense of synonymy, we can enlarge the list substantially. Right in the first chapter of the textbook Mrs.
Eddy says Mind is all-knowing, so we already have all
those secondary ideas included. It is only a matter of feeling the spiritual sense of the term.
God, Mind, is all-knowing, all-cognizing, all-recognizing, all-skillful, all-informed. All knowledge proceeds
from Mind because all ideas come from Mind. All ideas
coming to us are an importation of divine Mind. Ideas
are transmitted by Mind. We must turn to Mind to learn
about God, man, the universe, and about any condition
or problem.
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Intelligence
Intelligence, Mrs. Eddy says, is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind. Webster defines intelligence
as the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action towards a
desired goal. As a characteristic of Mind, intelligence
means that Mind knows all. Intelligence is a quality of
being. For Mind to comprehend, apprehend, perceive,
foretell, and be all-knowing it must be of the nature of
intelligence. Here again we see the synonymy of these
terms and how each includes all the others-each reflects
the others.
Since Mind is all-knowing and the only intelligence,
it follows that the counterfeit of Mind, mortal mind and
its mediums of intelligence in matter, in brain, are only
false beliefs that must eventually give place to divine intelligence. The revelations of the Science of Mind are proving intelligence in matter to be merely a false belief, like
believing that the earth is flat.
When confronted with something we have never done
before and which we don't understand, we must fall back
on Mind, realizing Mind knows, and that Mind is my
Mind. With the human so-called mind I can do nothing,
so I must stay with the divine Mind until that Mind begins to manifest itself by emanating ideas. These ideas
come to us and form new vision in us, new apprehension,
new perception and comprehension; we begin to discover
something new. In this way the true intelligence is working in us and as us.
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We have to work out the human belief of lack of intelligence by knowing we have the one Mind, and this one
Mind imparts all information; it gives us all the ideas we
need when we rely on it. It gives us new models of thinking about the world. It shows us everything in a new
light, which the human intellect cannot begin to equal.
Nothing Is Created
When we say Mind is intelligence, how does that fit
in with the other ideas we have had up to now? What
about creator, for instance? The man in the street wouldn't
think intelligence and creator are the same thing, but Mrs.
Eddy puts them in the same category.
In the divine system of reference, that is, in reality,
only that which is intelligent is actually creative, yet when
we reason in the human system of reference we see-or
imagine we see-a lot of things being created which don't
make sense at all. On the other hand, when we reason in
the divine we see that the creator can only create intelligently, since there is only one creator, an intelligent creator, the all-knowing Mind, that is my real Mind. In reality nothing is created, just as in mathematics, nothing is
created. 2x2=4 always was. Harmony in music was not
created, it always was.
This shows again that we are learning to speak another language. We use the same terms that are used in
ordinary language but those terms mean something else
to us. If the student of the textbook is not aware of this
fact then the textbook won't yield much for him.
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The important point in this present study is to see
why a quality such as creator is synonymous with intelligence. Why is intelligence the same as creator? This
must become clear to our spiritual consciousness because only then do we get the true spirit of the synonymous terms.
Can we have intelligence without creative activity?
Intelligence, being the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, knows all, and can see how everything links
together. This is always creative-to be able to structure
everything is always creative.
What would intelligence be if it wasn't that which
could bring forth something new? A parrot can learn a
few words. It could learn the words we have on our list
but could it comprehend them well enough to bring forth
something new? The parrot doesn't know how these
terms fit together. Without intelligence there is no innate
creative ability. The parrot might string sounds together,
but it would be just noise, just a repetition of terms. Intelligence means seeing the inner relationship of what we
know, and this is always creative. It means discovering
and newness of insight.
For programming a computer we need a program. But
who assembles the program? For this we need the qualities of all-seeing, all knowing; we need an overview that
sees all angles at one go, in one survey. Mind surveys all,
but in addition to surveying all, we need intelligence, or
we just have a survey where things don't necessarily fit
together harmoniously. Intelligence will see all the interrelationships, and comprehend them.
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Mind is the programmer that constructs the program.
We have Mind as that which conceives, as that which has
an image in Mind; to be the programmer Mind needs intelligence and it needs creative ability. Thus we can see
the idea. Programmer includes within itself quite a few
of these Mind ideas or it isn't a programmer. Again we
are seeing how all these ideas blend with each other to
make the big tone of Mind.
Mind of Christ
Mind of Christ is a characteristic of Mind which is
based in Scripture and is introduced very early in the textbook. In fact, Mrs. Eddy uses Mind of Christ in the Preface to Science and Health. We have that Mind which was
also the Mind of Christ Jesus-that Mind of God, which
leads, guides, influences rightly.
We have the same Mind God has, therefore we have
Mind-reading ability. With this divine Mind we can read
reality. What does Mind-reading mean? It means Mind,
reading itself, Mind knowing itself. What does Mind
know about itself? Mind knows all ideas of Mind, and
also all ideas of Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and
Love.
We can thus see that Mind-reading fits in with the idea
all-knowing. It is practically the same thing except that
Mind-reading is specific. With the all-knowing Mind we
say, "Mind knows all;" but Mind-reading means that
Mind, as the programmer, can perceive specific ideas of
Mind. Mind-reading can read the specific ideas of a situation. Mind as the programmer is Mind as the scanner.
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The scanner takes out of the infinitude of ideas exactly
those ideas that are adapted to the situation. This is Mindreading.
Mortal Mind-reading & Divine Mind-reading
What is mortal "mind-reading?" It is reading the
human mind. In the world this is considered to be a
"higher faculty" because the average person doesn't know
mind-reading-isn't efficient at mind-reading, while the
so-called "mind-reader" claims to easily read what is going on in the mind of someone else, and says "You are
thinking this and that." But this, even if true, is of no
advantage. Of what use is knowing the erroneous thought
of mortal mind?
How can we read error in a certain situation-the error that makes the patient sick for example? Certainly
not by mortal "mind-reading." What is needed is divine
Mind-reading. In divine Mind-reading we have only our
true Mind knowing only true ideas-ideas which are of
the nature of Truth when considered in relation to error.
The ideas of Mind become the ideas of Truth in relationship to uncovering error. This means we read error via
divine Mind-reading and true ideas, whereas mortal
"mind-reading" reads error directly, namely, through erroneous thought.
We need to be able to read the divine Mind in such a
way as to detect the error in the patient's thought-the
error that is causing the problem or illness. We need to
uncover the specific error, and we can only uncover it
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fore through divine Mind-reading we know the truth
about the patient (Mind as Truth), and that truth uncovers, by the law of opposites, the specific error.
How Error is Uncovered
To repeat: In divine Mind-reading the divine Mind
only knows the ideas, the ideas that are the truth about
every counterfeit belief; therefore the divine Mind, knowing the truth about the situation, by the law of opposites
uncovers the specific error.
Doesn't every science do this? Isn't this what we do
in music and mathematics? It is the truth we know about
a subject that, by the law of opposites, uncovers an error
in that subject. It is not that I, myself, uncover a false note
in music, but because of my cultured sense of musicbecause of what I know and understand to be the truth
about music-I hear the false note, and this false note is
uncovered (Mind as Truth).
When we have a cultured sense in any subject we always react when a tone doesn't fit, when something isn't
right. It is the same in divine being. It is our understanding of a subject that protects us from believing an error if
one should appear. So what is it that uncovers? It is the
understanding of the Truth.
When we have the same Mind that God has, the Mind
of Christ, then we have Mind-reading ability, immortal
Mind-reading ability that can read reality and see the
beauty of divine ideas, the coherency of divine ideas. We
see how these ideas cooperate, how they blend and compliment each other, and how they are calculated.
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Jesus could sense where mortal mind was at work and
then correct and heal it. In the same way, when we are in
tune with the divine Mind, we too can detect what error
is trying to accomplish, and can forestall it by knowing
that only the divine Mind is causative, is producing, is
influencing, is manifesting itself; only the divine Mind has
power and intelligence. Being one with this divine Mind
enables us to uncover and expose mortal mind's plan.
Knowing this, we stay with the divine Mind and let mortal mind fall by reason of its unreality, its falsehood, its
illusionary nature, knowing it is hypnotic suggestion only.
Faculties
Now let's look at a different set of ideas, beginning
with "faculties" as an idea of Mind. Faculties are inherent in intelligence. If Mind is intelligence, then it follows
that Mind, being all-knowing, has all faculties. Intuitively
it also makes sense that the faculties of Mind, which have
to do with spiritual seeing, hearing, feeling, speaking, are
infinite.
Nevertheless, as Scientists we need to ask, "Why could
Mrs. Eddy use faculties as an idea characterizing Mind 7"
Saying that Mrs. Eddy was inspired by God isn't enough.
If her authority was the divine Mind speaking to her, then
the connection between ideas should be divinely logical
and we should be able to understand why faculties and
Mind are linked together.
We are building a whole system and Science on a revelation Mrs. Eddy says came from God. As Christian Scientists we accept this fact, and can build on it, but many
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people will not accept this, so we should find other proofs,
other reasons, to show that what we are learning here is
the nature of Being itself. If we can show that it is innate
in Being itself, and so can be proved from Being itself, we
put the authority for Mrs. Eddy's statements back into
God, into the supreme Being, and then we shall have an
even higher authority.
Through the synonymy principle we can prove that
in Being we have the authority for what Mrs. Eddy has
written. Demonstrating that" faculties" link up with the
other ideas of Mind will prove that faculties must be a
quality of Mind. Seeing this proof in Being gives us an
even greater impact.
We too, want to find that higher authority, namely,
Being, from which Mrs. Eddy took everything. If we can
show that what is meant by faculties has something to do
with the other qualities we have found in Mind, then we
know that-even if Mrs. Eddy had not said so-faculties
belong to Mind, to the nature of Mind.
What is Implied by Faculties?
What is implied by faculties? What attributes does
Mind need if Mind is to have all faculties? Faculty means
the ability to do something efficiently, expertly, in a masterly way and with authority, so faculty must have intelligence and know-how embedded in its meaning. It also
must imply action. Certainly it would need capacity, and
power. It would also need knowing and intelligence, or
its faculty isn't a faculty. It would need the characteristics
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edge that it is sufficient in itself, and it must have a creative sense behind it. Without these qualities we don't
attain the meaning of faculty.
These are all terms we have under Mind, and this gives
us the authority for listing faculty as a quality of Mind.
Claim the Faculties of Mind
Being Christian Scientists we should claim for ourselves all the faculties of Mind, but how often do we say
"I can't do it" or "I don't know how to do it"? To the
extent we think we can't do it, etc., we are not practicing
what Christian Science teaches. We are not putting into
practice the fact that we have the Mind of God, have all
intelligence, have all power and comprehension, and
therefore have all the faculties of Mind.
We must open ourselves up to the divine Mind or else
we shut out our ability to image forth all that is in the
divine Mind. Whatever the divine Mind has in the way
of faculties we have also, since the divine Mind is our
present state of consciousness. In reality, there is no other
consciousness. Thus we have all faculties of comprehension, all innate ability to act and to do-we have the spiritual faculty of seeing, hearing, feeling, comprehending.
Mind bestows the grand human capacities, faculties of
Mind, that cannot be lost. These faculties of Mind are
infinite and ever-present. Therefore we can do whatever
it is right for us to do-we possess sovereign power to
think and act rightly. We must free ourselves from all
human reckoning and begin to compute divinely, having
the divine infinite calculus as our natural state of being.
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The faculties of Mind are ideas of Mind which translate themselves to the human plane; and if they ask us to
do something on the human plane we can do it.
What is Going On in Being?
Let's become quiet within, and ask, "What is going
on in Being?" Being says, "The only thing going on is
Mind." What does that mean? It means that Mind, Being, is the only creator, the only creator that creates, that
produces and brings forth, that makes everything, so Mind
is the creative producer, the creative power. Since it is the
creator, it is the only cause. There is no other cause besides Mind, so nothing is going on in a creative way but
the divine Mind. Mind is producing; Mind is bringing
forth; Mind is forming, shaping, modeling everything
according to the intelligent formations of Mind-that
which Mind has as an idea, an image, in Mind.
What is Mind creating? Mind is creating ideas. These
ideas are the manifestations of the one Mind. Mind manifests its own ideas with power and force. As it manifests
its ideas with power, we get a great sense that Mind is the
only action, that everything is enacted by the divine Mind,
that behind every action is the restful action of Mind which
has all faculties, all abilities.
This one Mind emanates all ideas, and it is the only
influence in the world. We are never under any other influence since there is only the one influence of the divine
Mind which is influencing us with ideas. These ideas are
always good. We therefore feel we are in an infinite field
of ideas, and nothing but ideas are ever going on.
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These ideas have infinite faculties. Because Mind has
those faculties, we have those faculties. We need only to
go back to the one Mind, since we have the Mind that is
God; it is our present Mind.
Guidance
Next let's consider "guidance" as a term characteristic of Mind. Related to guidance we have terms like leading, steering, directing, outlining. Tone-wise these are all
saying the same thing. Because we realize they are all
saying the same thing we can finally get rid of terms and
just have a sense that Mind guides.
Why should Mind be guidance? Why isn't it Spirit or
Soul that guides?
If we start with the idea of guidance by itself, we immediately see that guidance needs intelligence because
guidance must have an aim in view. Guidance must have
a point it is aiming toward, therefore its intelligence is
channeled into a certain direction. It also needs power
because it forces us to go; it doesn't leave us free to choose
whether we want to be guided or not. Thus the idea guidance leads us back to Mind.
If, on the other hand, we start with the idea that Mind
guides then it means that Mind actually does guide, and
so needs power and action. It also needs illumination
because it has to show us the way to go; it needs vision
and a goal. It is goal oriented giving us goal causality.
Here again we see that in order for Mind to guide it needs
practically all the other ideas characterizing Mind that we
have considered up to now! Later on we will see that
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every idea must reflect every other idea in order to be
that idea.
Guidance Leads to the Goal: Love
We have talked about goal. Goal, as we will later
see, is Love. Guidance describes that Mind which right
from the beginning has the goal, Love. Mind is therefore that initiative power that will lead thought in an
ordered way towards the goal. The subsequent ordered
unfoldment is no longer Mind, but the initiative, the
impulsion, the conception, is Mind. Mind has an infinite primeval conception of what it wants to do. The
intelligence of Mind knows what it wants to do and for
this reason it must have a primordial conception. It is
Mind that says, "I want to do this and this," and thus
sets the goal. The goal itself, where it is fulfilled, is Love,
but Mind, at the beginning, is that which sets the idea
and brings it into action.
Mind guides, leads, steers, directs. Thus we have a
tone that the intelligence of Mind, the wisdom of all-knowing, all-comprehending Mind is the only power that can
guide us rightly. The intelligence of the one Mind knows
what, where, when and how it wants to achieve its purpose when it manifests itself. Mind, by manifesting itself,
is constantly guiding us aright. Mind outlines what must
be done to achieve its aim. Being one with the consciousness of the one steering, leading, all-directing, guiding
Mind eliminates the possibility of accidents because Mind
knows its aim and design and how to arrive at the aim it
has in view, in the most direct way.
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Unerring
"To all that is unlike unerring and eternal Mind, this
Mind saith, 'Thou shalt surely die;'" (S&H 277:2). Science
is governed by the unerring Mind which destroys the suppositional partnership of matter and mind. On the human level Mind corrects all mistakes since it knows all, is
all-comprehending and faultless. In such an atmosphere,
mistakes can't live, so the unerring guidance of the divine Mind corrects the errors of the human mind. The
divine Mind is a corrective law, a corrective power, a corrective action, a corrective guidance and influence.
If we are quiet within ourself and build up the tonality of Mind, it will take care of all possible mistakes we
could make. Mind is a preventative action as well as a
corrective action. We just let the divine Mind work on
that situation. We don't ever need to interfere humanly,
unless the divine Mind directs us to do so. The divine
Mind knows how to correct the situation, and will correct
it if we get self-will, human planning, human desires out
of the way. The divine Mind, which is not only moral but
also spiritual, has a much bigger plan, since it sees all possibilities at once, so we should leave it to the divine Mind
to correct a situation, and not interfere with our sense of
moral honesty, moral integrity-all that the human mind
thinks is right. Let Mind rectify and remedy the situation
in Mind's own way. Mind is self-supporting, self-maintaining, and definitely knows what to do.
This doesn't mean we should be apathetic about a situation, and just say, "Well, Mind will do it." We have to
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have a constant consciousness of Mind's directing power.
We must see that the whole universe is an atmosphere of
the divine Mind; nothing happens in the universe but the
all-powerful action of the one Mind that is lawful, intelligent, always leading and guiding rightly, and it will set
matters right in the way Mind wants to do it.
Will
Because Mind wants to correct and set straight all
problems, all difficulties and mistakes, we come to the
will of Mind. The only will is the will of the divine Mind,
and it corrects the human will. It works on us until we
pray, "Not my will but Thine be done," and we actually
do let the will of the divine Mind work and take its course.
It is the will of Mind to hold man in a perfect state. Mind
can't do other than will to keep every idea intact, harmonious, healthy, and whole. We only have to get self out of
the way and let the activities of Mind prosper in their own
inimitable way. Mind is matchless in its ingenuity, and
its solutions defy the imagination. Mind flows through
the situation and fulfils its aim.
Will is imbedded in Mind. We are not merely stating
that will is in Mind; we see it is in Mind because the term
"will" includes within itself other ideas of Mind, and it is
because of this that it belongs to Mind. As long as we just
say, "Will belongs to Mind: will is a quality of Mind," we
make a statement without any reasoning in it. We must
see why; we must understand why.
We can only understand why will is a quality of Mind
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ative authority, influence, and these are all ideas of Mind.
Will requires power, because a will without power is not
will; it is nothing. We have determination in will, determination to do; we have incentive and impulsion, creative
impulsion. A will usually has an idea. It is determined to
bring out something and has the will to bring it out. It
must have within itself creative power, creative action.
Reasoning thus, through the synonymity principle, we can
prove that "will" is a quality of Mind and not of Spirit or
Soul, or one of the other synonyms.
Mandate
The will of Mind is the mandate of Mind. The mandate of Mind says, "I am the power of Mind and this is
what I am going to do; this is the way it will happen."
Mind has within itself the all-power and it is determined
to do something, knowing it has the action to do it. Mind
has the power, the guidance, and therefore it can execute
its will. The divine will is the laying down of the law, the
divine law, the divine mandate. God's creative mandate
rescues us from believing in a counterfeit mind.
Remember, in this study we are dealing with Mind as
a subject. This means that if Mind" creates," then creates
is a quality of Mind. But when we say "Mind creates this
and this," for instance, "Mind creates man and the universe," man and the universe are the object of Mind, and
have nothing to do with establishing a quality of Mind.
When we analyze the text of the textbook we only ask:
"Through what qualities is the subject of the sentence
qualified? How is Mind qualified?" not, "What is the
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object of it?" We must watch that we don't confuse the
subject with the object. The object does not qualify the
subject.
Since the plan of Love must be fulfilled, we have the
will of Mind operating as the mandate of Mind. Mind's
ideas, obedient to Mind's mandate, are productive, active,
powerful, influential and intelligent. They unerringly
work and aim for Mind's goal, which is Love. Mrs. Eddy
says growth is the mandate of Mind, your Mind; and that
Mind, through its mandate, empowers and enlarges man.
Man has no choice but to obey Mind's mandate which
leads, guides and unerringly steers him until he sees the
omnipresence of his present perfection.
Law
This brings us to law as a characteristic of Mind. Why
is law concerned with Mind? Why isn't it a characteristic
of Principle?
To understand this we need to ask, "What is necessary for a law to be a law?"
Law would be impossible without cause, without
power, action, direction, influence, faculties, intelligence.
A law that doesn't embody these qualities is not a law.
For a law to be a law it is understood there is a cause, that
this cause creates and produces something. By creating
an effect it must act, and as it is acting according to a definite aim and design it must be intelligent, not blind. Acting intelligently, this law steers and guides. In this term,
"law," we again gather together the main ideas we have
seen as Mind ideas. It is another good example of how all
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these ideas hinge together intimately when examined
closely.
We have seen that law, in order to be law, must have
power, intelligence, and the authority to enforce itself. This
shows why law is Mind and not Principle. We have law
in Mind in order to have government in Principle.
Within Mind, we see that a law is only a law when it
enacts itself, when it has within itself power to express
itself. A law of Mind is unerring since it proceeds from
the unerring Mind. Law is intelligence because it knows
what it wants to do. Order, which, as we will see in the
next chapter, characterizes Spirit, would not show the inner nature of law. However, order does show in which
way law expresses itself and thus Spirit, in the next stage,
takes law a step further.
Law is something that leads from cause. As we have
been seeing, a great many ideas are involved in this little
term "law." This term offers a good example of why we
have to learn without speculation. We can't speculate;
we can't say, "Well, law has to do with rule, or with issuing an order, or with government because governments
govern through law, etc." This lack of right method leads
into a wilderness. We have to stick to the inner nature of
a term and see what the qualities are that are necessary
for a term to be that term, not what they are going to be
afterwards.
As we saw in our discussion of "mandate," we always
need to ask, "What qualifies the subject?" The object is
that which is outside the subject: Mind is the law of health;
Mind is the law of government; Mind is the law of all
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being; Mind is the law of order; Mind is the law of identity. The object is outside the subject. We are investigating Mind as the subject and not what it does to an object,
or its connection with an object.
Considering law we have seen that without power
there is no law, without action there is no law, without
cause there is no law because the law is cause to effect.
" All causation is Mind, acting through spiritual law" (S&H
417:13). Mind operates as a law of perfect cause and effect, thus law is that divinely intelligent force which in
unbroken continuity directs the perfect cause unerringly
into perfect effect.
Control
"Mandate" and "law" lead us to control as an idea
characterizing Mind. Here we will see that Mind controls
and regulates. But why? What does control have to do
with Mind? We started out by saying Mind is creator.
Why do creator and control belong in the same category?
Control needs power, force, regulation, guidance, intelligence, action, comprehension, influence. On the divine level of consciousness these terms intertwine with
each other and are synonymous. Control, in order to be
Mind's control, blends with and reflects Mind's creative
ability in the language of Spirit-that divine language that
we are building up, and which we feel, hear, and sense. It
is not a language of terms, though terms are a help, a
bridge, to gaining this language of Spirit.
In the spiritual language all the ideas of Mind come
in and blend with each other, reflect each other, and they
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then give us a feeling of control that is powerful and unerring, and which restrains all anti-Mind forces and influences. Therefore only that which is in accord with
Mind's images can come to pass.
Applying this criteria we see that control can't be exercised without power, without law, without action. It
must reflect intelligence or it would be unintelligent control. To be Mind's controt it must be unerring, always
operating to regulate, thus reflecting the cybernetic law
of self-regulation and self-government.
Mind Governs
"Control" brings us to "governs/' another idea characterizing Mind. Here we need to note that later in our
lists we will have "government" as an idea of Principle.
When we come to Principle we will see more dearly why
Principle is characterized by "government/' while Mind
is characterized by "governs."
Governs means to control, regulate, direct, influence,
to exercise power and authority, to guide. Mrs. Eddy states
that Mind governs all supremely, Mind governs man and
the universe, it governs the Science of Mind. This gives
us a vital sense of the power of Mind to govern.
When we speak about Mind governing we are speaking about that aspect of government that has to do with
intelligent government, with the intelligence that can govern. Here we are putting the accent on intelligence, on
the leading, guiding, directing, controlling, regulating,
influencing characteristics of Mind. On the other hand,
when Mrs. Eddy speaks of government to bring out the
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fact that every detail of that which is governed is under
one government, then government is an idea characterizing Principle, because Principle governs all ideas and
unites all ideas into one harmonious whole. This is the
idea of Principle. In Principle we shall see that all ideas
are gathered into one system.
With Principle's government the relationship of the
governor and the governed is brought out, but when we
ask, "What is that central intelligence that can lead every
part, every phase and facet, in the right way so it makes
sense and so it all harmonizes?" then we answer, "It is the
governing power of Mind."
This governing power of Mind expresses itself in every idea harmonizing with every other idea. There is no
situation and no problem outside the government of Mind.
There is only an intelligent divine Mind governing, and it
leads, directs, and controls every part of our system. When
man finally discerns this, he will know that nothing unlawful, accidental, or ignorant can govern; and there is no
haphazard government. On the divine level of consciousness Mind governs supremely.
Mind Heals
Mind heals. Here again we have a term that fits
equally well under another synonym, in this case Truth,
and again we need to examine the difference between the
two uses, between Mind heals and Truth heals.
"Heals" is a term susceptible of multiple interpretation. Why should Mind heal? What would be the more
absolute term for Mind heals? Mind maintains. Why?
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Because Mind maintains in such a way that nothing ever
needs to be corrected. Mind maintains the ideal status; it
maintains its own creation. Thus "Mind heals" would be
a translated sense of "Mind maintains."
Heals is such an important concept in Christian Science that we should see its relationship to Mind. Exactly
how is "Mind heals" a translated sense of "Mind maintains"? Why doesn't Mrs. Eddy say "Spirit heals," or
"Principle heals"? Mind is first, and Mind is the creator
of all ideas; how is that related to healing?
Healing means healing disease. What is disease?
Mortal mind. Disease is the objectification of mortal mind.
The fundamental issue of the whole textbook is that mortal mind is the cause, the originator, of all diseases. Of
course, only Mind is truly cause or truly an originator.
Therefore we have mortal mind as the counterfeit originator, the counterfeit mind, and its apparent effect, disease, is merely aggressive mental suggestion, hypnotic
suggestion. To solve a negative problem-in this case
the problem of disease-we simply replace the counterfeit, mortal mind, with the real, the divine Mind. Thus it
follows the divine Mind must be the healer.
The Medicine of Mind
Because Mind is the healer we speak of the medicine of Mind. Why is Mind the medicine? Because
"when thought is lost in the eminence of Mind," as Mrs.
Eddy once said, "the healing takes place." Going to
Mind and contemplating Mind and Mind's idea is the
medicine. All true conception is medicine. Medicine is
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true conceptions, true ideas. Therefore healing at that
point has to do only with Mind knowing its own ideas.
That's the medicine. If I turn to Mind and contemplate
what Mind knows about itself-that Mind knows only
ideas-that's the medicine.
Therefore in a treatment we prescribe the medicine of
Mind. This means we go out from Mind, we see what
Mind has to say. We stick with Mind and contemplate
only ideas. It is Mind contemplating the ideas of Mind,
the ideas of Spirit, the ideas of Soul, of Principle, of Life,
Truth, and Love. The disease came from mortal mind
contemplating its own illusions, so the medicine of Mind
is letting Mind contemplate its own ideas.
If the medicine is Mind, why is the remedy Truth?
A medicine is only a remedy when the right medicine
is applied. If a doctor just pulled out of his drawer any
kind of medicine it might not be the remedy. It is the
remedy when he pulls out the right medicine (or pills).
Truth is the remedy, because Truth means knowing exactly the right idea, the specific idea. That's Truth; that's
not Mind.
From this we can see how restricted Mind still is. At
this point in our study, Mind is still restrict~d to one-seventh of the whole cake. Mind says, "I am the first, the
first conceptual idea of being; I am only that which creates initially; I am the initiative of everything."
What Is the Remedy?
The power, activity, intelligence and influence of
Mind is the medicine of Mind, but when we ask, "What
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is the remedy?" then Truth-knowing the truth-becomes the focus. The moment we ask, "Which truth?
Which specific truth takes care of the situation?" we
have Truth-healing.
Every Truth-healing needs Mind as the medicine, as
the true medicine. The ideas of God are the active, operative elements of healing. Mind, being first and foremost,
the only cause and creator, the only activity, the only
power, it must be our only medicine. We must let the
ideas of the divine Mind come into our experience and
use us; then we will realize that the power of divine Mind
supersedes all other healing methods, and that the medicine of Science is the divine Mind.
Since we are never dealing with a person, place,
thing, disease, accident, loss, or inharmony of any kind,
but are always dealing with mortal mind, with illusion, with animal magnetism or hypnotic suggestion,
every problem or discord must first be traced back to
this realization. We must see that the medicine for it is
Mind's divine ideas, since Mind-healing rests on an
understanding of God's, infinite good's, ideas, the
ideas of Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and
Love. We must first be convinced that Mind creates
everything perfectly. This conviction then acts on the
limited, imperfect human mind, and causes it to give
up its erring beliefs and illusions. It forces mortal mind
to acknowledge the divine Mind as the only Mind.
Thus we realize our perfection, and erring thought
loses its grasp on us.
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Mind Saves
Related to Mind heals we have another set of ideas:
Mind saves, Mind cares for, Mind is a present help, etc.
These are translated forms, for, of course, Mind never
needs to be saved or helped, but they are different from
the translated forms we had when we took up divine
thoughts, divine desire to know God, vision, enlightenment, which we said are qualities in the way that divine
Mind comes to us, and wells up in our consciousness as
these qualities.
Here, in the case of Mind healing, caring, helping, aiding, saving, we have an intermediary action. This falls
between the idea characterizing Mind and the translated
form of the idea-like vision, enlightenment, true desire
to know God-because with saving, helping, healing, caring, aiding, Mind comes and does something to the human without bringing about another quality in the human. Qualities like caring, saving, and helping, don't
awaken and establish in the human a higher quality like
vision, or enlightenment, or true desire.
Here we begin to see the difference between the operation of the Word, the Christ, and Christianity, the first
three elements of the four dimensional calculus, which
we introduced briefly in Chapter I. As long as we are
investigating the synonymous terms we are at the point
of the Word. When we come to Mind healing, aiding,
saving, and helping we are touching the Christ Mind.
Then, at the point of Christianity, Mind enlightens, gives
wisdom, new vision, new insight.
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Why is it Mind that heals, saves, cares for, aids, helps?
Why isn't it Spirit or one of the other synonymous terms?
Just as when we took up "Mind heals" and "Mind-healing," we can here again say that the corrective is the divine Mind. The divine Mind corrects everything that the
human mind does wrong. Everything that is of the nature of discord-sin, sickness, disease, death-is always
the effect of mortal mind's hypnotic suggestions. Since it
takes the divine Mind to correct the inharmonies of mortal mind, therefore divine Mind acts as healing, saving,
aiding, caring for the body, etc.
Mind Maintains
"Mind maintains," "Mind sustains" and perhaps we
could add "Mind supports." Why are these terms found
under Mind? Why not under Spirit or Life?
A point in method: In trying to determine which synonym a term like "maintains" belongs to, start with the
term "maintains" and not with the term Mind. Start with
the tone of maintains, sustains, supports. What do they
mean? What kind of a feeling do we have when we feel
something is maintained, sustained? Do we get a sense
of power? It takes a sense of power to keep something
maintained in its present state, in its perfect state. We
have a sense of control at work, an active sense, a sense
that Mind is always alert, aware, alive, awake, never off
guard for one second. Mind maintains that which it has
created.
This is the way we must reason: "What does the term
maintain imply? What does it mean that Mind, God,
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maintains?" Next we have to get a feeling of what "maintains" implies. We see that in order to maintain, Mind
must be aware, awake; it must be intelligent, must have
power and ability, must be unerring in its action. In this
way we find that in order to maintain properly, the term
maintain implies all the ideas we have listed under Mind.
Then we know Mind maintains. This way of reasoning
tells us that "Mind maintains" should be the last sentence
in our reasoning instead of the first sentence.
Mind is Limitless
Mind is limitless, and here we need to be careful, because this is a term which also characterizes Soul.
The limitless quality of Mind is through terms like
fetterless, unsearchable, unfathomable. Limitlessness as
a characteristic of Mind shows Mind to be limitless knowledge, limitless intelligence, limitless creative ability, limitless action, power, will, influence, etc. Limitless Mind
includes all; it is within and without all things.
We can see that limitless is a term (among many others in the textbook) where we have to use judgment in
deciding which kind of limitlessness is meant by the statement in the textbook. If the statement speaks of limitless
substance, that would be Spirit or Life. In Soul we could
have the limitless capacity of Soul. Truth is limitless while
error is limited, nothing. Mrs. Eddy speaks of the limitless glories of incorporeal Life and Love.
Mind, likewise, is always limitless with reference to
the qualities we studied under Mind, but in general the
term "limitless" does not uniquely imply the qualities of
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Mind, and for this reason limitless is not really typical for
Mind. Looking at the synonym Life, for example, we have
limitless Life, not limitless intelligence.
Unsearchable, on the other hand, is typically Mind.
Why? Because unsearchable has to do with knowing. We
don't talk about unsearchable substance, or unsearchable
Life. Unsearchable has to do with seeking more "knowing," therefore unsearchable is typically the limitlessness
of Mind. "The unfathomable Mind is expressed." Unfathomable also has to do with knowing, discovering, to
have knowledge of. Such terms are geared into a qualified sense of limitlessness, the limitlessness of knowledge,
and because knowledge is an idea of Mind, unfathomable and unsearchable are clearly Mind terms, while limitless probably belongs to Soul as much as to Mind.
ALL-in-all
Because Mind is the limitless creator of all ideas, Mind
is that which initially establishes the whole realm of being, the realm of ideas which has no realm besides itself,
and therefore Mind is All-in-all. All-in-all is the climax of
Mind. This definition says, "I am All," plus "I am All-inall." It means Mind is All as an infinite All, but it also
means Mind is all, Mind is everything, manifested. All is
infinite Mind infinitely manifested. The" All" is in everything. It is the All of all qualities, of all situations, of all
opportunities, of all faculties, and so on. We get the tone
of Mind as All-in-all.
When we come to Spirit we will give that All-in-all
another touch, because there it becomes the only.
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The One Mind
In Science, Mrs. Eddy says, Mind is one, including
noumenon and phenomena, and this Mind dwells in the
realm of Mind. From this one Mind proceed infinite ideas,
qualities, attributes, and identities, since Mind is the Soul
of all. But these identities do not constitute separate entities; they reflect the infinite many-sidedness of the one
creative Mind that is All-in-all. Each one of us has that
one Mind that is God, and this is why Mind is All-in-all,
in each one of us, and in all situations. "The kingdom of
God is within you" -Jesus. (Luke 17:21)
As we become convinced that there is only one Mind
we free ourselves from the hypnotic suggestion of the
Adam-dream of mind in matter, and retranslate ourselves
into our true being, the one Mind that is All-in-all.
Translated Qualities
Before we conclude our examination of the terms characterizing Mind, let's briefly return to those qualities we
touched upon which we called translated qualities of
Mind. Why are they translated qualities, and what does
that mean?
Mrs. Eddy always teaches the aim-reality-and the
way to reach the aim. She doesn't just teach the aim, just
reality. If she taught only reality as such she would have
had to write the textbook exclusively on divine Science
and not on Christian Science. She wrote on both, namely,
on reality-what reality is-and also how to reach reality.
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She had to translate reality to the point of human thought,
to the human level, so that from the human level-where
we are, before we are illumined-we can build a bridge
to the one and only reality there is.
A mystical type of metaphysics will not show the way.
Mystics might show reality, and therefore be able to write
wonderful books. They show the oneness of being, the
wholeness of being; there is nothing incomplete in the
wholeness of being, hence it is like being on cloud nine.
The Textbook Is Full of Showing the Way
But the Christian religion is Christian; it has a saving
effect. Jesus said, "I am the way." The Christian religion
shows the way, the method. Jesus wanted to show the
way so that the human could be awakened to the point
where the human accepts the divine. This is why Mrs.
Eddy's textbook is full of showing the way. It shows how
the divine translates itself to the human, and how the
human has an approach to the divine, and this is why the
textbook is the" Comforter" Jesus prophesied.
The textbook starts with Prayer. Well, God doesn't
pray. The chapter Prayer, and the chapter Atonement
and Eucharist, and the chapter Marriage-the first three
chapters-all start with the reader, start where the reader
is, in his ignorance, his imperfection. To that state of
thought Mrs. Eddy says, "I am showing you the way,
the best way to find reality, to find your true identity,
your true oneness with being." This is the nComforter"
Jesus prophesied.
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In studying the synonymous terms we therefore come
across many statements where we might feel Mrs. Eddy
doesn't say anything about the synonymous term. We
might not, for instance, see any quality brought out that
characterizes Mind. But many of these statements will
show what qualities we need to have, to enable us to be at
one with Mind. These statements show the translated
qualities of Mind as a human motion, so that the divine
as the human is shown forth-so that the divinity of humanity is shown forth, meaning that the divine is the human.
Mrs. Eddy shows us that this is what builds the bridge
to our oneness with Mind. In the beginning of the textbook she doesn't say much about Mind but just about what
qualities are needed or are required of us in order to approach Mind, to be one with Mind-the qualities we need
in order to reach Mind. All through Prayer she gives the
approach-to-Mind qualities.
Therefore many of the qualities we have on our Mind
list are not actually ideas qualifying Mind, and yet they
have something to do with Mind; they still are characteristics of Mind because they are translated forms of Mind.
For example, Mrs. Eddy says she had to be a willing disciple. We can hear the tone in this statement; being a willing disciple is a quality we need. Mind is not a disciple;
Mind is not "willing"; Mind is the will. And yet we feel
these are qualities that have to do with Mind, based on
how they appear in the human. Are we willing? Are we
willing to lay down the human will? Are we willing to
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ing to study, willing to reason? All this is Mind, isn't it?
Mind has to do with intelligence, with reason.
Mrs. Eddy brings out such qualities over and over,
showing how the divine is reflected as human qualities
which are opening up the door for the divine. This is why
we must give heed to these qualities. We are Mind, Spirit,
Soul, Principle, Life, Truth and Love, but the first death,
meaning human birth, has pulled the wool over our eyes,
so we have to work, work, work, watch and pray to learn
what we are in reality, before the dream of life in matter
overtook us. In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus prayed,
"And now, Oh Father glorify thou me with thine own self,
with the glory I had with thee before the world was [before this dream overtook me]." (John 17:5)
Let's look at another example. Mrs. Eddy says she
was waiting all her life for the Mind of Christ. What is
this waiting? Well, we know Mind doesn't wait-waiting is not an idea-but the attitude of waiting within us is
an attitude that is receptive for understanding what Mind
is. It is that constant attitude that says, "I know that I
don't know, but I am willing to learn." It is the attitude
Jesus urged when he said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit."
The right attitude-waiting-builds up those qualities
within us that we have to culture constantly in order to
be in a position to be touched by the one Mind.
We can see that these translated qualities are all concerned with "I don't know, but I want to know. I know
that I don't know but I want to search." These translated
qualities are all about the willing disciple waiting for the
Mind of Christ. We have to be a student, one who thinks
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correctly, investigates correctly, one who longs to have
Mind mold his desires. Desires are the longing to know,
so desire is a positive quality, but it is still a human quality. It is a necessary quality insuring that the divine Mind
can come to us, making us receptive for the divine Mind.
Thought must be in rapport with the divine Mind.
This again has a Mind sense because to be in rapport
means to be acquainted with something, to know something. We see at once it has something to do with Mind
rather than with Spirit, or Soul, or Life.
Mrs. Eddy says we have to commune with Mind.
What does "commune" mean? It means to be in rapport,
to be acquainted with Mind. It again means studying,
investigating, being in a state of receptivity. We have to
investigate the Science of Mind. These human terms all
have the same Mind tone. They don't change very much.
Spiritualization of thought is again that acceptance of
the Mind of Christ; it means to let in the light of Mind. It
too is saying, "I don't know, but I will let the light of Mind
come in." It is showing the touch of Mind.
Go Through All References Often
At the end of this chapter is a list of all the references
in Science and Health related to Mind. We should go
through all these references to Mind at least once a year,
and as we go through them we should watch for these
human qualities that must be cultivated. In this way our
study begins to sort out things. It begins to structure our
tone of Mind, and to show those qualities that are a translation of the ideas of Mind, ideas that are translated to the
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phenomena of the human, but still are Mind. It is just a
matter of the level the qualities are being viewed from; it
is just a matter of which plane, which dimension they are
being viewed from or considered from. Studying these
terms often brings us to an expanded understanding of
who and what we are.*
As students, as learners, we can see that the ability
and the willingness to study, to investigate, to search, to
be open, are all Mind. They are not Spirit or Soul. When
we come to Spirit we will find very different qualities that
are necessary, in the human, to be open for Spirit. The
same is true of Soul, and of Principle, Life, Truth, and Love.
Openness to each synonym requires different qualities,
but being open to each is vital, for always remember, in
the first edition of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy tells us
repeatedly that we are Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth
and Love.
*Mary Baker Eddy Letter No. 12 described how, using a Spanish-English edition of Science and Health,
the author of this book marked all the references to
Mind, and what Mind deals with. Using another 6 such
Science and Health's the same was done for Spirit, Soul,
Principle, Life, Truth and Love. If you wish a copy of
these seven books containing the marked pages from
S&H please use the order form at the end of this book.
Students are urged to order these as a wonderful help
in their study, or to compile their own.
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While we shouldn't mix up the human qualities which
open us to Mind with the qualities characterizing Mind,
we should see they are concerned with Mind. They tell
us, for instance, if we don't seek we don't find. If we study
the synonymous term Mind without the seeking thought
it can't reveal itself. If we don't study, if we don't let our
thought be molded by the divine Mind, we will never find
our oneness with it, we will never realize that this divine
Mind is our Mind, our only Mind. We can therefore see
the great practical value and importance of these qualities, even though they are not ideas of Mind itself.
Counterfeits of Mind
Another important set of terms which relate to Mind,
but are not themselves ideas of Mind, are the counterfeits
of Mind. At the end of the alphabetical list of terms pertaining to Mind, given at the beginning of this chapter,
the reader will find a list of these negative terms which
are opposites to Mind and Mind's attributes.
It is very important to become familiar with such a
list of negatives because the negative or counterfeit will
always tell us what positive idea we must use to offset
the negative. By reversal, the counterfeits lead us to the
truth. If we know the negative it gives us an easier way
to know the fact about the negative, namely, its nothingness. We investigate the counterfeit so the error can be
handled by the facts of the case, the spiritual facts.
Naturally every idea we have identified with Mind
has a counterfeit, so there are as many counterfeits as there
are ideas. If I have the idea action, I know the counterfeit
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is inaction, false action, irritated action, apathy, etc.. If we
contemplate the counterfeits of the various ideas of each
synonymous term, we can come up with myriads of counterfeits, because there are dozens of counterfeits for every
idea we have been studying. However, the simple counterfeit of the synonymous term itself is usually quite
enough for the text analysis of the textbook in this initial
study. In our study, therefore, we shall be mainly concerned with the counterfeits of the synonymous terms
themselves, and not so much with the counterfeits of the
ideas characterizing the seven synonymous terms.
Mortal Mind
A primary negative of divine Mind is mortal mind,
because mortal mind is precisely the opposite of divine
Mind. Other counterfeits Mrs. Eddy uses in connection
with Mind are ignorance, illusion, human mind, carnal
mind, negative mind, a mind of one's own, many minds,
animal magnetism, mesmerism, hypnotism, and so on.
If we look closely, we see mortal mind behind all of
them. Mortal mind is ignorance and is the source of all
illusions and of all that is the opposite of the divine Mind.
Mortal mind implies something untrue, unreal; it implies
that which has no real existence but is hypnotic suggestion, and only seems to exist.
Mind is the root, the basis, the noumenon of all the
ideas of Mind, and the ideas of Mind, our true Mind, are
the phenomena of Mind or the way Mind expresses itself.
As we said, the noumenon, Mind, also has its counterfeit-in this case mortal mind-and the phenomena or
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each of the ideas has its counterfeits, but the noumenon
counterfeit is the most important because from it can be
deduced all the other counterfeit phenomena.
Animal Magnetism
Animal magnetism is a noumenon counterfeit of Mind
because animal magnetism is the belief that mind is in
matter and that mind can be both good and evil. Animal
magnetism is the belief that there is sensation in matter.
It is a name for the operation of error.
Evil thoughts are effect, not cause; it is not wrong thinking that gives animal magnetism so-called power. It is the
evil animal nature, the evil "heart." It is the carnal, sensual nature, the unspiritual, the brute instincts, the mythical serpent that pushes the claim of sin "with the glittering audacity of diabolical and sinuous logic." (Un. 54:27)
The only way we can free ourselves from animal magnetism is through" self-renunciation of all that constitutes
a so-called mortal, and the acknowledgment and achievement of [our] spiritual identity" (Mis. 185:7). We can
change our thoughts at will. We can think one thing one
minute and something quite different the next minute. But
changing our disposition is quite another matter, and is
not so easy; here we are not dealing with thought or mental magnetism, but with animal magnetism. This is why
ordinary metaphysics, which operates in the mental realm,
can be misused by sensuality, by animality. The Science
of Spirit, however, cannot be so misused because Science,
in contradistinction to metaphysics, proceeds from God,
not from men and their thoughts. For this reason animal
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magnetism loses its supposed power in proportion as we
give up our own ego and think, feel, and act from the I
AM, out from the I AM that I Am.
Matter
We often have matter as a counterfeit of Mind, but
here again we need to be careful, because Mary Baker
Eddy uses matter as a counterfeit of both Mind and Spirit.
When Mrs. Eddy speaks of substance matter she is using
matter as a counterfeit of Spirit but when she uses matter
as the objectified sense of mortal mind then she is using it
as the counterfeit of Mind.
When we come to Spirit we will find our big counterfeits to be "matter" and "flesh," so the moment Mrs. Eddy
deals with matter as flesh she uses matter as a counterfeit
of Spirit. She also uses matter as a counterfeit of Spirit
when she is exposing matter as only a counterfeit of reality, of purity, of understanding, of true substance.
On the other hand, when she speaks about matter's
claim of intelligence in matter, or of matter's ability to do
something, or the claim that matter has power, that matter is self-sustaining, that matter's sensations can create
human offspring, can reproduce man, or that matter has
law within itself, claiming to act lawfully-all these claims
are counterfeits of Mind. In this case she is using matter
as the counterfeit of Mind.
We have to use spiritual sense to determine when
matter is a counterfeit of Mind, and when matter is a counterfeit of Spirit. Language is inadequate to express spiritual ideas so we have to use spiritual sense to discern the
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true meaning. In the textbook we will see statements like,
"sin, sickness and death do not belong to the divine Mind,"
but this does not indicate sin, sickness and death are counterfeits of Mind. If I said, "This car does not belong to
me," the car wouldn't be a counterfeit of me. If something doesn't belong to divinity or to reality that doesn't
make it a counterfeit of the synonymous term it happens
to be used with. Sin, as we know, is a counterfeit of Soul;
death is a counterfeit of Life; sickness is a counterfeit of
Truth. When we come to Life it will be brought out that
Life overcomes death, but it won't say that Life overcomes
sin. It has to be the fact about something that overcomes
the counterfeit belief, and Soul is the fact about the counterfeit belief of sin.
Sin, sickness and death do not belong to divine Mind,
nor are they counterfeits of divine Mind. They belong to
mortal mind and it is mortal mind that is the counterfeit
of divine Mind. We see negatives such as the human mind,
erring mind, carnal mind, negative mind, migratory mind,
a mind of one's own, many minds, the theoretical mind.
These various minds remind us we must switch over to
the spiritual system of reference which starts with the divine Mind and which alone has all ideas.
The human mind wants to say, "I have the qualities
of the divine Mind; I have intelligence; I have creative
abilities, I have the faculties of mind, I can correct something." The human mind usurps the prerogatives of the
divine Mind-what the divine Mind is and does. We must
watch, therefore, that we continually go out from the divine Mind.
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It would be wonderful if we could always keep the
tone of the divine Mind like a musician keeps the tone of
his music. A musician never deviates, never diverges. A
musician might hear a wrong tone but he himself has the
right tone, so he instantly supplants the wrong tone with
the right tone, supplants the false note with the true note.
An artist adheres to his artistic point of view. We, too,
should go through the day steadfastly clinging to the
standpoint of the synonymous terms without continually
backsliding into the false frame of reference.
Knowing What Is Right Corrects the Wrong
To the extent we are one with the seven synonymous
terms we cease hearing mortal mind's suggestions; we
don't notice them anymore. We become spiritual mathematicians, instantly replacing a false calculation with a
right calculation. It becomes automatic.
Why can divine Mind-reading uncover mortal mind's
tricks? As we saw earlier it does so through the law of
opposites, just as a mathematician uncovers and corrects
false calculations with right calculations. Because he
knows what is right in mathematics he can detect what is
false. It is understanding harmony that exposes and brings
to light what is inharmonious. Only harmony can unmask inharmony; nothing else can. One who has never
known harmony is not in a position to unveil inharmony.
The more we know concord, the more we can detect and
correct discord. It isn't that the divine Mind knows discord, but that we, having cultured within ourselves the
divine Mind, can detect seeming discord. When we do
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detect error we should be happy about it because the only
reason we could detect it was because we knew the truth.
If we know the truth about an error we have begun to
solve that error, since" error, when found out, is two-thirds
destroyed, and the remaining third kills itself" (Mis. 210:5).
Anything that bases itself on the belief that there is
intelligence in matter is animal magnetism. Everything
that bases itself on the human mind or the techniques of
the human mind is animal magnetism. When confronted
with these mental isms always ask, "What is the cause?
Is the cause the divine Mind or the human mind?" Only
what is based on the spiritual, on divine Mind, is true,
real, eternal. We recognize "ignorance" as the counterfeit of intelligence, "drugs" as the counterfeit of the medicine of Mind, "brain" again as the counterfeit of the intelligence of Mind, and "nerves" as the counterfeit of information, the counterfeit of influence, because we believe
messages are carried on nerves. Thus, treatment of nerves
must be handled through knowing the omnipresence of
the restful one Mind. So it is also with "fatigue;" for fatigue, too, is the counterfeit of the restful one Mind.
The more consistently we stay with these ideas of
Mind the more easily we can build up the tonality of Mind.
The key is doing it over and over, like a musician practicing his finger exercises everyday. He doesn't insist that
when he has done it three times that he has done it enough
for the year. Similarly, in order to build up the tonality
we must go over and over these ideas at the beginning.
Our analysis of terms characterizing Mind started
with creator, but it didn't need to. We could have started
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with any other term. We could, for instance, start with
"manifests itself;" in which case we would reason that
in order to manifest itself, Mind needs power; then in
order to manifest itself through power, it would need
action; then it would require law. Then we would see
that in order to manifest itself it must have a cause, and
so forth.
How to structure the ideas was unknown fifty years
ago. Only in recent years have we seen how we could
structure the ideas. The more we spiritually understand
our textbook, the more we will structure our consciousness, and Mind will become more and more a structured
concept. So far we have only been building up the general tone of Mind with no structure in it although we did
try to put some logic into it as we went along, by seeing
the combinations and the leading of one idea to the next
idea-seeing how they demand each other, how each one
functions with the others.
As we go on in Science, in our learning process, we
will get a structured sense, and then gradually the beauty
of the synonymous terms will come into focus, but concept building and tonality building is the first step.
Later we can take the synonymous terms through the
four-fold calculus of Word, Christ, Christianity and Science and the four levels-Science, divine Science, absolute Christian Science and Christian Science and see that
a synonym like Mind has a different value at each place
on the chart. In the same way we can also take up the
structuring of each of these ideas, and every idea will find
its place value.
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References From Science And Health
At the end of this chapter we have listed all the references in Science and Health dealing with Mind. Some of
these references were quoted at the beginning of this chapter, in our list of what Mind is, does, and deals with and
how Mind interprets itself. Before proceeding, the reader
may wish to review that list. Then, to refine our understanding of Mind, let's now look at some of the more difficult references to Mind.
We will begin with references that use "power" with
synonyms other than Mind, showing Mind blending with
the other synonyms. (Note: because of these blendings,
some of our discussions will draw on terms charaterizing
synonyms we have not yet studied. Students may wish
to return to this section after reading the chapters on the
other synonyms.)
S&H 316:7 states, "Christ, Truth, was demonstrated
through Jesus to prove the power of Spirit over the flesh ... "
To understand why power is used with Spirit in this statement, rather than with Mind, we need to ask, "What is
the main proposition in this sentence? Is the main proposition Spirit over the flesh, or is it that there is power?"
The main proposition here is "Spirit versus flesh;" this
is the key to this sentence; this is what we have to remember. We must read the textbook not as words, but as
stated subjects, as stated themes. We must be able to distinguish what is in the sentence, in the hierarchy of a sentence. What is the highest hierarchy of a theme, what is
the secondary, the third, etc.
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In this statement the highest hierarchy of the subject
is Spirit versus flesh. Secondary is the idea that in order
for Spirit to overcome the flesh it must have power to do
so. Here power is secondary; it is not primary. It is always the primary subject that rules the use of a synonymous term.
The statement answers the question, "What can I do
to overcome the flesh?" Here we see the necessity of
knowing our counterfeits. The fact about flesh, (as we
will see in the next chapter) is Spirit, so it is the power of
Spirit that is necessary to overcome the flesh. We could
just as well have the law of Spirit to overcome the flesh,
or the authority of Spirit. The secondary term isn't critical; it could be the indestructibility of Spirit, the eternality
of Spirit. The main interpretation is flesh vs. Spirit, and
that rules the use of the synonymous term. A right understanding of the synonymous terms gives you the first
clue for scientific interpretation vs. inspirational or mystical interpretation. The text itself dictates the interpretation of the text.
S&H 109:32-2 tells us, "The three great verities of Spirit,
omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience-Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science-... "
Up to this point in this statement we might think what is
between the dashes should be Mind. Yet power is used
here with Spirit. Why?
In this case the primal subject is what is outside those
dashes. The primary theme is that the three great verities
of Spirit "contradict forever the belief that matter can be
actual." Always ask, "What is the primal proposition?"
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Here we have the verities of Spirit vs. the actuality of
matter, so between the dashes Mary Baker Eddy has to
use Spirit; she couldn't go back to Mind. She is saying
that Spirit, not matter, is the verity, and as a sub-tone she
is saying that Spirit has all power, fills all space, and constitutes all Science.
If what is between the dashes were the main subject,
and Mrs. Eddy were actually asking, "What is it that is all
power? What is it that fills all space?" you would have to
answer, "Mind," but here that is not her main question or
proposition. Here her main question is, "Here are the
verities of Spirit; what do they contradict?" The answer,
of course, is, "They contradict the belief that matter can
be actual."
You can see that a sentence like this can't be interpreted at random, just as we happen to feel about it, or as
inspiration might flow to us. We must depend on the
structure of the subject to tell us what the primal proposition is and what the secondary proposition is. As we go
on in the textbook, we find very few statements where
only the intrinsic characteristics of a synonym are used.
The synonyms are usually in combination such as this one,
"Spirit possessing all power" and that is what makes it
difficult at first sight, until we realize we can say, mentally, "Spirit possessing all Mind power."
What the Three Verities Are
Note that in the statement we are considering, Mrs.
Eddy also explains what the three verities are. "Omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience" characterize
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Word, Christ, and Christianity. These terms are in the
category of the operation of God, which is different from
the category of the nature of God. When we analyze
what is meant by the Word, we analyze it just as we analyze the seven synonyms, through their qualities. Thus
in this statement we have further categories intertwined.
This is why in the first reading we can only have an approximation.
Let's consider S&H 232:16, "In our age Christianity is
again demonstrating the power of divine Principle, as it
did over nineteen hundred years ago by healing the sick
and triumphing over death."
The question we need to ask here is, "What can demonstrate?" We didn't have demonstration under Mind. It
is the nature of Principle to demonstrate itself, to prove
itself, (though under certain circumstances we also get
demonstration with Truth.) However, in order to demonstrate something you need power, so we have "the power
of divine Principle." (Divine is typically a quality of the
Christ, describing the Christ).
Let Go of What You Learned in Church
- Old Theology
We must take Science and Health as a textbook, and
we must learn from it as from a textbook. Often people
with long church background build their own conclusions; they go according to their own inspiration, and
they mix everything up because they don't know categories. We must be willing to let go of everything we
have ever learned in old theology, and we must have the
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humility of the first Beatitude to say, "I know that I don't
know, but I accept as right that which the textbook tells
me." We should not interpolate into a text the things we
learned as church goers, because this only brings human
conceptions in, to cloud and distort our wonderful pure
clean text.
In the quote we are considering, Mary Baker Eddy
could have said that in our age Christianity is again demonstrating the "system" or "Science" or "nature" of the
divine Principle, the Science of being. Why did she instead use "power"? When we read the sentence in its
context we notice that before we get to this sentence the
author was telling us, "Scripture informs us that 'with
God all things are possible'-all good is possible to
Spirit." This gives the sense of power, through the implied question, "Why is it possible?" As Mrs. Eddy goes
on, she says it is possible because the divine Principle
has power.
This example shows that when we pick out just one
sentence we detach it considerably from the whole context. Once we know the terms, and can put everything
into its context, then it is beautiful music, like a symphony.
But we learn spiritual music just as a beginner learns to
playa Beethoven symphony. We have to get our fundamentals straight, and then we will make progress. Without getting our fundamentals straight first, we never have
a solid foundation. We should be willing to do our finger
exercises, and get to the purity of those seven synonymous terms. We will see the reason for these things as we
study them.
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The Power of Truth - Another Blending
S&H 111:12 states, " . .. the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error;
its rules demonstrate its Science."
Is Truth intrinsically power? No, Mind is. Then why
is Truth and not Mind used here? Let's consider. What is
the main proposition? Truth over error. What can counteract error? Truth. That's the primal proposition. Consider further. How does Truth overcome error? With what
means? Through the use of power.
We could say that the practice of divine metaphysics
is the utilization of Truth over error. Mary Baker Eddy
just elaborates on this and says that Truth has power on
the ground that Truth is Mind, for remember, a synonymous term is only a synonymous term when it blends
with every other synonymous term. Truth can never be
Truth without Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, and Love.
This is the synonymy principle.
Knowing our synonyms gives us a knowledge of how
to read the textbook. What we have in this quote is a
combination, a blending. If we combine power with other
synonymous terms we get a combination, but we are not
allowed to make those combinations at random. The subject here is error; this subject determines which synonym
will be used-Truth.
The Counterfeit Rules the Use of a Synonym
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mous term would fit, and which term would not fit. For
example, material sense usually is the opposite of Soul,
but it can be used as an opposite of Spirit, as when Spirit
overcomes material sense.
When the textbook combines "power" with a synonym, the choice of synonym depends-in most caseson the counterfeit sense that is under consideration. It is
therefore the counterfeit that rules the choosing of the
synonyms. We have seen that if we are talking about the
power of the flesh, flesh demands Spirit, so Spirit is primary, and power is secondary.
Solving the Human Problems
Mrs. Eddy did not write her textbook from the standpoint of the synonyms. That would have demanded a
textbook on divine Science. Her main concern was how
to solve the human problems, the negative problems. This
is Christian Science. To do this she had to bring forward
the negative problems of sin, sickness, death, accidents,
etc.-all the errors of mortal mind. She brings up the
proposition of these problems and deals with them
through the synonymous terms.
A very high percentage of all the statements in the
textbook concern the level of Christian Science which deals
with the human problems. The titles of the chapters alone
indicate this. "Prayer" obviously has to do with the human. The omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient One (our
true Mind and being) can have no need of prayer. "Atonement and Eucharist" shows that with the synonymous
terms we must atone and get out of the human frame of
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reference. "Marriage" shows us how to put chapters I
and II into practice. "Christian Science vs. Spiritualism"
is all about resolving the whole concept of spiritualism,
of believing life is in matter. "Animal Magnetism" resolves
the question of animal magnetism, the evil animal sensual nature in the heart of man. All of these chapters
clearly relate to meeting human needs, to awaken us from
the first death, alias human birth.
The next chapter is "Science, Theology, Medicine." In
Science, Mrs. Eddy includes big statements from the infinite One, but then she has to deal with the wrong sense of
natural science, the wrong sense of theology, and finally
with the wrong sense of medicine.
"Physiology" follows, again dealing with the illusion
of the human condition. Right through these first seven
chapters, Mrs. Eddy takes up the wrong propositions, the
material propositions, and asks, "How can I deal with
them?" The main proposition is the erroneous propositions, and she deals with them through the synonymous
terms, to awaken us from hypnotic sleep.
In the passages we have examined, dealing with
"power," we have seen that when Mrs. Eddy speaks about
flesh, she calls on the power of Spirit over the flesh. When
it is a case of demonstrating the healing power, she calls
on Principle. When it is a question that death is such a
great power that nothing can resist death, she deals with
it through the power of Life.
S&H 231:21 says, "To fear sin is to misunderstand
the power of Love." Why don't we have the power of
Mind here? Because we are dealing with fear. The ac206 
cent is on "to fear sin," and Love is the remedy.
S&H 411:10 says, "If Spirit or the power of divine Love
bear witness to the truth, this is the ultimatum, the scientific way, and the healing is instantaneous." Why the
power of divine Love? Mrs. Eddy is not dealing with fear
here and yet she uses the power of divine Love. Why?
Here a positive sense is ruling, not a negative one.
Mrs. Eddy doesn't say here that Love heals, but that it is
instantaneous. Love is the ultimate, and this quote gives
that complete and ultimate sense. Truth is always the
healing remedy, the remedy that brings the healing, but
here the healing is already-instantaneously-accomplished, finished and perfect; so if you put Truth there in
place of Love, it would not ring true.
S&H 224:29 states, "The power of God brings deliverance to the captive. No power can withstand divine Love."
Love is represented here as having a power against which
nothing can stand. Why Love? Why not Mind? Is Love
the great deliverer?
Here we have what "no power can withstand." Mind
is the creating, manifesting power, the initiating power,
but here we have the sense that there is no other power.
This gives a sense of ultimate achievement, ultimate perfection, ultimate completion. It is the All of Love.
S&H 302:31 says, "Even in Christian Science, reproduction by Spirit's individual ideas is but the reflection of
the creative power of the divine Principle of those ideas."
Here we have the creative power of the divine Principle.
Why does Mrs. Eddy use Principle here? Why does she
speak of the creative power of the divine Principle?
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Because it is "Principle governing the reflection." This
is further explained in S&H 507:15, which states, "The
universe of Spirit reflects the creative power of the divine
Principle, or Life, which reproduces the multitudinous
forms of Mind and governs the multiplication of the compound idea man.'" The same Principle is behind both
quotes; the word "governs" rules the use of the synonym,
Principle.
In the 302:31 reference we see Principle in charge, governing the ideas. In the reference on page 507:15, under
the heading "Divine propagation" we get the multiplication of those ideas, still governed by Principle. Mind
doesn't govern the ideas. Ideas are governed by their Principle, not by Mind. The moment you have ideas and you
ask, "What is the central authority?" you have Principle,
not Mind. Mind creates all the ideas, but it doesn't govern the ideas. Later when we take up "governs" we will
see that when governs is used with Principle it is used in
a different way than when it is used with Mind. When
we have a lot of ideas we find that they are all governed
by One. What is that One? It is Principle. Always when
the relationship between all the ideas and the central pivot
is under consideration, it is Principle, so here in these references we have a combination of Mind with Principle.
Power Intrinsically Mind
Analyzing these references on power raises some
questions. How can we determine that power is intrinsically Mind when it is used with all the other synonymous
terms? Does Mrs. Eddy use power with Mind in a differ208 
ent way, so that it doesn't merely resolve an opposite?
Does she use power in such a way that she actually defines Mind with power?
Yes, she does. Take S&H 443:6 " ... from entire confidence in omnipotent Mind as really possessing all power."
Here the author actually defines Mind as possessing all
power. She is not rejecting or rectifying an opposite such
as mortal mind. Here Mind intrinsically has all power.
We see the difference here in comparison to the other references we have looked at.
S&H 157:8 states, "Christian Science exterminates the
drug, and rests on Mind alone as the curative Principle,
acknowledging that the divine Mind has all power." Here
again Mrs. Eddy tells us that Mind has all power. She
isn't simply using that power of Mind to overcome mortal mind or animal magnetism.
S&H 143:26 says, "Mind is the grand creator, and there
can be no power except that which is derived from Mind."
Here it is specifically stated that power is derived from
Mind. We won't have anything like that with Spirit, Soul,
Principle, Life, Truth, or Love.
It Took Years For Doody & Team to Sort Out
What Was the Synonym, Intrinsically.
There are quite a few references that define Mind
through power, and that is our justification for saying that
the intrinsic quality of Mind is power.
It took years and years for John Doody, Max Kappeler
and the other dedicated researchers to sort out what is
intrinsically Mind, and what are combinations. "Is power
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intrinsically Mind? Is power intrinsically Spirit? Or is
this use a combination?" they asked. They didn't know,
at the beginning, but statements like the above pointed
the way.
Another way Doorly's team had of determining
whether the idea "power" belonged to Mind was to ask,
"What is needed for power to be power?" Then they saw
that behind power lies creative impulsion; it needs a creator; it needs a cause which expresses itself; it needs action. They began to see that these terms were all ideas of
Mind, too. Or at least they put them there as a hypothesis, and saw that they all began to fit in again, and the
more the ideas fit in with each other the more the researchers had authority to proclaim them as ideas of Mind.
Law Intrinsically Mind
A similar analysis can be applied to "law," another
Mind term which is often used in combination with other
synonyms. The intrinsic nature of Mind is law; Mind is
law. How do we know? Let's consider. What is needed
to have law? In order to have law we need power, cause--
a cause leading to effect. We need action, a basis from
which to start. All these are Mind. Law conforms to these
ideas, and therefore law is also Mind.
This is one conclusion, but we need more than one
conclusion to have a full proof of our hypothesis that law
is Mind, so we ask, "Does the idea law conform to other
ideas of the same synonymous term? When it is used
with other synonyms is it the secondary rather than the
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nection with Spirit, so let's look at some more quotes, keeping these questions in mind.
S&H 207:10 says, "Evil is not supreme; good is not
helpless; nor are the so-called laws of matter primary, and
the law of Spirit secondary." The question, the main proposition addressed in this statement is whether laws of matter are primary. Since this is a question of matter, it must
be answered by Spirit. Are the laws of matter primaryand therefore, by implication, the law of Spirit secondary? Matter-illusion, hypnotic suggestion-must be
answered by Spirit as predominant, so here Mrs. Eddy
presents the law of matter versus the law of Spirit.
S&H 302:22 is a similar case, " ... and because this
real man is governed by Soul instead of sense, by the law
of Spirit, not by the so-called law of matter." Again we
have law (Mind) blended wth Spirit to answer the claim
of matter.
S&H 183:19 says, "Laws of nature are laws of Spirit... "
Why Spirit? Why not laws of Mind? Nature is Spirit.
The proposition is, "There is nature; there are laws in nature. Are these laws material laws as the physicists tell
us? Or are these laws of nature spiritual?" Since the question concerns matter versus Spirit, Mrs. Eddy couldn't use
the synonym Mind. It is a question of nature, which is
Spirit and is not material, so she has to answer it through
the laws of Spirit, and not through the laws of Mind.
S&H 62:31 is more complex. Here Mrs. Eddy states,
"Because mortals believe in material laws and reject the
Science of Mind, this does not make materiality first and
the superior law of Soul last." If the issue is material law
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why doesn't she say, " ... and reject the Science of Spirit,"?
And why does she say "law of Soul"?
Here Mrs. Eddy is asking the question, "Are there laws
that are ruled by matter as active matter, by matter that is
intelligent?" Therefore she has to answer it by Mind, by
the Science of Mind. But this is not the main point.
The main point is found in the statement, "this does
not make materiality first and the superior law of Soul
last." You would think that if Mary Baker Eddy is talking
about materiality she would use Spirit, because that which
counteracts materiality is Spirit. But Soul rules-the
greater controls the lesser-so the moment we have the
superior law, we are dealing with Soul. Soul is that which
is superior. The greater ruling the lesser is the rule of Soul,
so when, as in this quote, it is not a question of opposites,
not primarily a question of materiality and spirituality but
of which is superior to the other, we have Soul.
Only when these things become our consciousness,
can we understand the textbook and its laws. We must
gain a definite sense of what each of the synonymous
terms means because if we don't have that very distinct
sense of what Spirit is, and what Soul is, we will have a
hard time. Spirit asks, "Is this real, or is that real?" It
always deals in opposites. But the moment Mrs. Eddy
asks, "Which one controls the other? Which one is the
higher? Which one rules over the other?" it is Soul.
We see it spiritually. As long as we are in Spirit we
make the line of demarcation-this is real, and this is unreal. Spirit handles dualism. The moment the proposition comes up that one is above the other then it is Soul;
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Soul controls the lower; Soul rules over the lower; Soul is
above the lower; Soul is never within, but is without; in
Soul the whole, the greater controls the lesser. With Soul
there is no longer separation or dealing with opposites as
there is with Spirit.
Only when this information is innate in consciousness can we read a chapter and see over many pages that
Mrs. Eddy is talking about Soul-and yet she may not
even mention Soul. When we are able to see this, the chapter opens up. Suddenly the chapter becomes clear and
ordered.
We have to know the subject-the occurrence of the
synonymous terms is secondary. It is the subject that is
dealt with in a chapter that defines which synonymous
term she is speaking about. Without seeing these things,
the textbook remains a closed book. The wealth of the
textbook only comes out when we can read the language
of Spirit, which is not a language of terms.
As we culture our thought more and more we will no
longer read words; we will read only tones-tones of the
synonymous terms. S&H 427:1 states, "If it is true that
man lives, this fact can never change in Science to the
opposite belief that man dies. Life is the law of Soul." In
a quote like this we will read Life, Life, Life. We will see
that Mary Baker Eddy's main consideration here is about
living and Life.
"If it is true man lives, this fact can never change in
Science to the opposite belief that man dies"-man lives,
man dies; this is clearly the tone of Life, yet Mrs. Eddy
takes the thread up again and says, "Life is the law of
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Soul." Why does she say Life is the law of Soul? If the
tone is Life, why doesn't she say it's the law of Life?
Soul is changeless. What, then, is our reasoning when
we have in the first sentence" can never change"? "If it is
true that man lives [we hear Life] this fact can never change
in Science [we hear Soul, which is changeless] to the opposite belief that man dies [therefore] Life is the law of
Soul [Life is the law of changelessness.]"
These sentences when taken out of context don't mean
very much. If we leave out the first sentence, and the mid
part of the second, so it reads: "Life is the law of Soul ...
and Soul is never without its representative," we have lost
the proposition. We give an answer to a proposition we
don't know.
The first sentence is the proposition: Life is Life. Can
Life change into its opposite, death? No, it is changeless.
We hear Life and Soul. For us, it is Life and Soul. We
translate it right back into the synonymous terms, into
tonality. We reduce all these words into synonymous
terms, and we hear Life is the law of Soul, because Life
cannot change. We see Life is Soul. Life is Life, and can't
be changed into its opposite; it is changeless. So we have
Life and Soul; we have being unchanged-our divine being unchanged.
How to Read the Textbook
This is the way to begin to read the textbook. It is no
longer a lot of words; we can read it with a few words if
we know our synonymous terms. "Divine metaphysics
is now reduced to a system." The interpretation of the
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text is a matter of understanding the proposition stated
in the paragraph or in a few paragraphs; all the rest is
just elaborating on that proposition. Since the message
in this case is the changelessness of Life, Mrs. Eddy
speaks of the law of Soul and not the law of Mind. There
are, of course, other propositions where we would say,
"Life is the law of Mind," but the proposition would have
to be quite different. Not every answer is the right answer to a particular question, but a right question has its
right answer.
Here is another example: "The belief in sin and death
is destroyed by the law of God [and when you hear something about sin and death you know that something about
Life will be forthcoming] which is the law of Life instead
of death" (S&H 253:28).
Again we have, "Truth through her eternal laws unveils error." It is Truth that uncovers error. There is a law
about it; so Truth is that law that uncovers error. It's not
Mind because Mind is the law itself.
Law is fundamentally Mind. Mary Baker Eddy says,
(S&H 417:10) "Maintain ... that all causation is Mind, acting through spiritual law." Mind acts through spiritual
law-it doesn't rectify an opposite-so law is intrinsic Mind,
although here again we see only a few references, like this
one, that show us law is intrinsically a characteristic of Mind.
The moment law has to rectify an opposite it is used
in conjunction with another synonym. For example, law
is used with Spirit in order to correct the material law;
but it is the law of Soul when you have to correct the
belief that material law can be superior to spiritual law.
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Used with Life, law corrects the belief that death is a law;
but it is the law of Truth when it is uncovering error, and
it is the law of Love when we have to correct hate, fear,
jealousy, etc.
Recapitulation
Now that we have quite a good survey of the ideas of
Mind, we can begin to see that these terms or characteristics have their proper value only when they are combined
and blended with all the other ideas; else they have not
their right nature and their right qualities.
Let's go through the list again now and see how these
ideas must blend with each other in order to gather their
proper meaning.
We started with creator and saw that Mind is the creator; then we saw it is not just the creator but is the creator of ideas only. Mind is characterized by ideas, so creator can only mean the creator of ideas. Since we find in
our list that Mind is all, we know that this creator is the
creator of all ideas. As we now contemplate this creator,
which is also the producer and maker, we realize that this
creator must be an intelligent creator-not a blind creator,
but an intelligent creator that creates only ideas. We find
we have here a great cause. Mind is the cause of all. What
"all"? The cause of all ideas. Mind is an intelligent cause,
therefore we know that it is a cause that will guide, steer,
lead, and direct us divinely.
Slowly we build up a concept of Mind. We see that
this cause is a lawful cause. It acts according to a law,
therefore this cause is an unerring cause; it brings forth
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an effect according to a law-unerringly guiding and steering. We go on and see that this cause is a powerful cause,
which doesn't wait until it is brought into action but activates itself. It brings forth the necessary action; therefore
it is a powerful cause acting according to law, guiding
and leading. We build up a sense of the power reservoir
that lies in Mind.
Mind, our real, true Mind, is the powerful cause that
wants to express itself, so Mind manifests itself; Mind is
that which cannot help manifesting itself. What does it
express? What does it manifest? It can only manifest
ideas-intelligent, lawful, powerful, active ideas. Here
we are beginning to blend "ideas" with the other terms
by taking the nouns and turning them into adjectives.
These ideas reflect Mind, so they are intelligent ideas,
powerful ideas, active ideas, lawful ideas. In this way we
get a whole realm of ideas and we see that these ideas are
creative. These ideas are positive, lawful; they are intelligent; they guide, lead, direct. These ideas maintain themselves because Mind maintains all. What does it maintain? Certainly not a house, a car, or a friendship. Mind
only maintains ideas. Mind, our true Mind, maintains
and supports all ideas, so we have to work with a universe of ideas that is supported and maintained by Mindthe only origin and source of everything.
Building Up the Concept: Mind
Slowly we build up the fact that Mind is the basis from
which we start, from which we go out. We have no other
basis to think or act from. We have no other basis from
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which our motives spring. Our true Mind motivates our
thinking. We then get the sense of Mind as the only will,
the only volition, the only motivation; therefore Mind, my
own perfect Mind, is the parent Mind that is motivated to
bring all into being. Mind has created everything according to ideas, according to intelligent ideas. The parent
Mind, my true Mind, is the creator of the universe of ideas.
Laying a Proper Foundation
We blend these ideas as they come into our consciousness but we stick to one tone at the beginning. If we stick
to the one synonymous term-Mind-and its ideas, then
slowly the whole tonality of Mind forms and molds itself.
It becomes more tangible in one's consciousness. It distinguishes itself from the other synonymous terms. Resting with one synonymous term for a while is really scientific prayer. In scientific prayer we contemplate the nature of God as God is, as our "incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth
and Love,"-"the kingdom of God within [us]"-Jesus.
To lay a proper foundation for the Science of all sciences, a good beginning is to make it a habit for a year or
so to take time each day to contemplate the rhythm of
these ideas-how they blend into each other, what they
mean. Stick to one synonymous term for an evening and
build up the tonality of the term. Ask, "How do they
blend? How do the ideas blend into each other?" Realize
that if we have law, for instance, we cannot have law without power, without cause, action, intelligence, control. All
this is imbedded in the meaning of law. This shows us
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that all these terms must have a common denominator, a
common tone, Mind.
It is super important to get a thorough foundation in
our study, so that when we read more advanced material
we know exactly what these synonyms mean when they
appear in the text.
Man Not a Selfhood Apart from God
We haven't talked about man. Man as a selfhood
apart from God doesn't exist. That man has a selfhood
apart from God, is pure hypnotic suggestion, illusion only.
"Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God," says
Mrs. Eddy (S&H 465:17). We must free ourselves of that
mystical sense that there is God and man instead of Mind
and Mind's manifestation. We want to get away from
asking, "How does this apply to us, to me?" Being is being, and it doesn't "apply" to "man." Being is of the nature of Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love,
which Mrs. Eddy tells us in reality we are. Everything
else is a human conception that we have interpolated into
being, and they are just old religious and mystical beliefs
that have been dragged along, since there is only God,
your real Mind, and its manifestation. "The kingdom of
God is within you" - Jesus.
In her Science Mrs. Eddy has shown us, step by step,
beginning with the chapter "Prayer," how to get away
from the self. The very first paragraph of Science and
Health shows that prayer is an unselfed love. It is not
merely an unselfish love; it is a love that knows no self,
that knows no people or what is called man. Mrs. Eddy
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tries, step by step through the chapters, to substitute Principle and idea for the concept of God and man, until finally, in the chapter Recapitulation, she drops "God and
man" and asks, "What is man?" and answers that man is
not "he who" but man is "that which" has no separate
Mind or Mind quality from God. Later, in the chapters
Genesis and Apocalypse, she throws it all overboard and
says that what constitutes being is divine Principle and
its infinite idea. We get enormous freedom when we finally drop that erroneous concept of a God and a man.
Only then do we get the Science of being. Before that we
have only a humanized sense of the Science of being.
As we gain a deeper understanding of the synonymous terms we will forget to think about man. The magnitude of Being as Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth,
and Love and their ideas is so great and all encompassing, that the old questions, "What is man? How does it
apply to man?" just fade away because everything is included in being. Nothing is left out. Mrs. Eddy says "man
is a family name" just as God is a name for the supreme
being. A name is not a nature. A name is a name but it is
not a nature. A name doesn't touch the reality, the nature
of being. In his Oxford Report of 1949 John Doorly explained this quite forcefully-that "man" is only a name
for something; it is not the thing itself.
The point is: God is not a name. There is a supreme
Being, "the kingdom of God within you" as the incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle,
Life, Truth and Love, which are the nature of Being. We
must see that, similarly, the name man is not the thing
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itself. The thing itself is idea, ideas. It is God's consciousness (meaning your true Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life,
Truth and Love's consciousness) of Itself which is important. If for ages people have given to that the name "man"
then we can talk about the name "man," but we are interested in understanding reality, and not in names. We are
not interested in talking about the name of God and the
name of man. We are interested in talking about reality
itself; and in reality itself we only have divine Principle,
which in reality we are. This divine Principle has an infinite calculus of ideas. It is a pity if one applies to that the
name man. It is misleading and takes one's thought away
from the real subject, your true being as divine Principle.
When we think along the line of the synonymous terms,
like this, we are not leaving out anything that concerns true
being. We include everything that concerns our true being.
We must never feel that Mind is something out there-that
it is a subject out there which we study, like geography. When
we study the synonymous terms we study our own being.
Being is being. Being is not out there. Being is; it is not
within and without, it just is. It is what I am-what we are
as incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul,
Principle, Life, Truth and Love.
In studying the synonymous terms we are contemplating, in consciousness, the one infinite Being, the nature of infinite Being; and that one infinite Being is our
consciousness. What more do we want than to have the
consciousness of the infinite One? There is nothing
greater than that; it includes everything, since it is as
Jesus said, "the kingdom of God [that] is within you."
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As we go through these synonymous terms let's be
aware that the synonymous terms are our consciousness.
We are not studying an object outside of ourselves. We
are building a new consciousness. If this new consciousness we are building, coincides and is identical with the
divine consciousness, then the divine consciousness and
our consciousness are one consciousness, and that same
consciousness is the one and only consciousness. What
more do we want than to have a consciousness that is
aligned to God's nature-to the nature of reality?
Giving Ourselves A Treatment
In treatment, Mrs. Eddy declared:
All is Mind; there is no matter, and this needs
only to be understood to establish perpetual harmony.
I do not lack anything.
I do not lack wisdom or love.
I do not lack judgment or intelligence.
I do not lack energy or industry.
I do not lack, and cannot lack, anything, or
the means by which to acquire anything.
When we start with Mind and go through the ideas
of the seven synonymous terms we give ourselves a treatment because we culture our consciousness into a divine
reality. When we see that our consciousness is of the nature of divine reality, it is certainly a wonderful treatment.
We not only give ourselves a treatment but we are treating our whole concept of the universe. Our work, our
understanding, has its impact on everything. We are
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building up a new universe, so let's try to stay in our native atmosphere of the seven synonymous terms.
To make this easier, a list of all the Science and Health
references on Mind are included here. The student may
also find it useful to review what Mind is, does, deals with
as seen at the beginning of this Mind chapter.
Science & Health References on Mind
PREFACE
ix: 18 xi: 25
PRAYER
I: I I 2: 19 2 : 24 3: 20 7 : 25
ATONEMENT AND EUCHARIST
36 : 20 44: II 45: 30 52: 22 54: 16
MARRIAGE
62 : 22 62: 32 63: 3 67: I I 68: 29
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS SPIRITUALISM
70: 12 79: 28 83: 29 84: 19 88: II 91: 30 95: 1
71 : 20 79: 29 84: " 84: 22 88: 28
71 : 21 81 : 5 84: 12 85 : I 89: 18
78 : 5 83 : 2 84: 15 85 : 6 90 : 8
79: 18 83: 26 84: 18 87: 17 91 : 17
ANIMAL MAGNETISM UNMASKED
102: II 103: 12 103: 13 103: 25 104: 16
SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE
Science
108: 10 109 : 5 113 : 17 114: 13 116: 15
108: 22 109: 12 113 : 29 115: 2 116: 30
109 : 2 109: 17 113: 30 115: 12 119 : 31
109 : 3 III : 5 114 : 5 115: 14 119: 32
109 : 4 III : 28 114: 10 115: 17 120: 15
Theology
132: 12 133 : 8 139 : 5 139 : 6 140 : 8
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91 : 31
92 : 9
94: 29
94: 32"
104: 19
120: 17
120: 18
123: II
123: 20
124: 21
98: 8
98: 17
124: 29
124: 30
126: 24
127: 14
127: 18
127: 24
127: 27
128 : 2
128: 27
130 : 2 
Medicine
142 : 26* 143 : 26 145: II 149 : 3 151 : 10 153: 14 158: 17
142: 27 143 : 27* 145 : 24 149: 25 151 : 21 156: 31 159: 24
142: 30 143: 29 146: 14 149: 26 151 : 23 157 : 5 160 : 2
142: 31 143: 32 147: 15 150: 21 151 : 26 157 : 6 160: 30
143: 10 144 : 3* 148: 4 150: 30 151 : 27 157 : 9 162: II
143: 23 145: 10 148: 25 151 : 4 152 : 3 157: 10 162: 12
PHYSIOLOGY
166 : 3 169: 20 171 : 26 179 : 7* 181 : 26 183: 31 190 : 7 194 : 5
166 : 26 169: 21 IH: 32 180: II 182 : 2 185 : 16 191 : 2 195: 12
166: 28 169: 31 176: 14 180: 13 182: 18 187 : 2 191 : 3 199: 10
166: 30 170 : I 176: 20 180: 26 182 ~ 22 187 : 4 191 : 5 200 : 7
167: 27 170: 15 177 : 5 180 : 29 182: 23 187: 22 191 : 19
168 : 7 171: 12 177 : 9 181 : I 182: 24 187: 24 191 : 30
168: 23 171 : 15 178: 15 181 : 12 182: 26 188 : 2 191 : 32
169: 16 171 : 22 178: 22 181: 21 183: 21 189: 22 192 : 3
FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH
202 : 7 205: 25 209: 10 215 : 6 219 : 4 229: 21 240: 12 248 : 8
203 : 3 205: 30 209: 13 216: II 219: 13 229: 30 240: 14 249 : 3
203: 19 206 : I 209: 14* 216: 12 221: 22 231 : 30 240 : 16 249: 12
204: 13 206 : 28 210: 15 216: 17 222: 12 232: 22 243: 20 250 : 2
204: 22 206 : 29 210: 20 216 : 32'" 225 : 15 236: 10 244: 22 251 : 20
204 : 27 207 : 9 211: 9 217 : 8 225: 28 236: 19 244: 26 251 : 23*
204: 29 208: II 212: 24 217: 18 226: 24 237: 30 245: 32 251 : 31
204: 31 208 : 25 212: 25 217: 23 227 : 7 239: 26 246: 24 252 : 4
205: 12 209 : 5 213: 32 217: 26 229 : I 239: 30'" 247: 16 253 : 7
205: 22 209 : 8 214: 16 218: 16 229 : 8 240 : S 247: 22
CREATION
255: 10 256 : 28 257 : 2'" 257: 24 257: 31 259: 28 264: 10 267 : 2
256 : 6 256: 32 257: 12 257: 27 258: 15 262: 30 265 : 3 267 : 5
256: 18 257 : I 257:14 257: 28 259 : 4 264 : 6 266: 26 267: 24
SCIENCE OF BEING
268 : 9 274: 28 280 : 3(1 284 : 6 292 : 8 305 : 14 315 : 6 331 : 5
268 : 18 275 : 3 281 : 12 284 : 8 293 : 6 307: 21 315 : 7 331 : 13
269 : 3 275 : 8 281: 14 284 : 12 293: 14 307: 2S 315 : 9 331 : 24
269 : I. 275: 21'" 281 : 20 284 : 13 293: 20 307: 30 318 : 3 334: 24
269: 25 275: 24 282 : 3 284 : 29 294: 31 308 : 5 318 : 8 3-35 : 25
269: 30 276 : I 282: 10 "284: 31 295 : 7 310 : 6 318: 22 336 : I
269: 31 276: 17 282: 12 285: 13 295: 28 310: 10 319 : 4 336 : 2
270 : 277 : 3* 282: 18 285: 19 300: 29 310: 17 319: 19 336 : 10
270 : 4 279 : 8 282 : 26 286 : 32 301 : 23 310: 29 319: 20 336 : 12
270 : 5 279 : 9 282: 30 287: 18 301 : 28 310: 30 321 : 31 336 : 13*
270 : 9 279: 10 283 : 4 290: 10 302: 20 311 : .* 322: 2 336: 31
224 
270: 13 279: 29 283 : 6 291 : 14 303 : 3 311 : 5 327 : 5 337: II
270: 18 280 : I 283: 10 291 : 15 303 : 4 313: 12 330: 21 339: 27*
270: 30 280 : 7* 284 : I 291 : 25 303 : 1/ 314 : 9 330: 22 340: 18
271 : 8 280: II 284 : 3 291 : 26 303 : 26 314: 14 330 : 23* 340 : 20
SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED
342 : 6 347 : 9 353: 26 353: 28 357: 20
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE
366: 18 376: 27 382: 20 391 : II 398: 30 404: 31 417 : 5 423: 19
369: 29 3n: 28 383 : 4 392 : I 399: 15* 406 : 29 417: 13 423 : 26
370 : 5 378 : 7 383 : 7 392 : 2 399: 27 407: 14 417: 28 424 : 5
371 : 2 378 : 23* 384 : I 393 : 8 399: 28 407: 22 417: 31 424 : 7
371 : 4 378: 26 384: 19 393 : 16 400: II 407: 27 419: 20 424: 21
371 : 28* 379 : 6 384: 32 393: 26 400 : 27 413 : 2 419: 21 427: 23
372 : 2 379 : 8 387 : 5 393: 29 401 : 28 413 : 7 419: 25 427: 30
372 : 9 380: 10 387 : 8 394 : 9 402: 10 414: 24 420: 22 429: 13
374: 15 380: II 387: 30 394: 1/ 0f02 : 18 415 : 2 421 : 30 430: 14
375: 12 380 : 24 389 : 4 395 : 23 403: 13 415 : 3 422 : 30 .... 1: 26
375: 24 381 : 26 389: 1/ 396 : 32 403: 27 415: 13 423 : 9
TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
.... 3: 7 .... 5: 23 446: 12 452: 27 455 : 9 457: 27 458: 28 460 : 7
.... 3: 17.· .... 5: 27 .... 6:19 453: 29 455: 13 457: 28 459: 14 460: 24
444: 32 446 : I 451 : 20 454: 15 456: 30 458: 13 460 : 6 463:25
RECAPITULATION
465: 10 468: 10 469: 16 470: 31 482: 29 487 : 9 492: 16 4,.. : 3
466 : 5 468 : 22 469: 18 471 : 29 483 : 6* 487: 10 492: 20* 495: 31
466: 22 468 : 26 469: 19 472 : 16* 483 : 7 487: 16 492: 24 4" : 3
467: 10 469 : 4 469: 20 473 : 4 483: 16 487: 20 492: 25 4" : 4
467: 14 469: 10 470 : 2 475: 18 483: 22 488: 23 492 : 26 496 : 7
467: 16 469: 12 470: 12 478: 23 484: 1/ 488 : 30 493: II 497: 25
467: 27 469: 13 470: 16 480: 1/ 484: 16 489 : 4 493: 17
467: 29 469: 14 470: 17 480: 18 485 : 4 489 : 28 493: 20
467: 30 469: 15 470: 30 481: 10 486: 20 490: 12 493: 31
GENESIS
S03 : 2 S07: 17 S09 : 23 513: 18 520: 29 532: 25 546: II 552: 31
503: 20 507: 20 S09 : 25 514 : 6 520: 30 539: 29 547: 18 554: 19
S03: 23 507: 23 S09 : 29 514 : 7- 524: 18 543:28 547: 22 555: IS
So.. : 27 507: 24 510: 19 SIS: 8 524: 21 5 .... : 4 549 : 2 \555: 22
50S: I 508 : 2 510: 27 517 : 8 525 : I 544 : 6 SSO : 3 557 : 6
50S: 9 50S : 3 510: 29 517: 20 527 : I 544: 1·2 550 : 4 557: 25
S05: 10 50S : 4 511 : 1 519 : I 528 : 2 544: 13. 551 : 3· 557: 26
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505: II 508 : 6 511 : 5 519: 26 531 : 25 S+4: 16 551 : 6
505: 23 508 : 7 511 : 13 519: 27 531 : 26 S+4: .8 551 : 8
507 : 2 508 : 16 5.2: .2 520 : 3 531 : 31 S45: .3 551 : .4
507 : 3 508: 21 512: 22 520: 24 532 : 22· S46 : 5 55. : 27
507 : 9 509 : 3 5.3 : 7 520: 26 532: 24 S46 : 6 551 : 29
THE APOCALYPSE
564 : 23 570: 27 570: 3. 5n: 2.
GLOSSARY
sao : (, S&4 : 5 587 : 7 588: 12 S88 : 20 591 : 7 591 : 26
sao: 25 S&4 : " S87: " 588: 16 588 : 25 591 : 14 594: 19
583: 20 S86 : 9 S88: 10 S88: .7 590 : ] 591 : 16 597: 26
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