Paul admonishes us, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."Phil. 2:5; This admonition, repeated in the Tenets of Christian Science See Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 497; by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is a fundamental rule in Christian Science Mind-healing. Knowing God as our Mind is the closest of all possible relationships, and the most rewarding.
The Mind which was "in Christ Jesus," which constituted his consciousness and animated his life, was God. This is the divine consciousness that was and is the Saviour from all the consequences of belief in a mind that is not God. The understanding of Truth is God's own understanding of Himself, and is the immortal consciousness that precludes the knowledge or experience of anything other than good.
No wonder Christian Science exalts the power of Mind to save and to heal! Mind's power is not the power of a human mind over matter but the power of spiritual understanding over material belief. It is the power given unto the Christ, the Son of God, the power of divine consciousness over all unlike itself. The consciousness that is one with its true source, the divine Mind, is inseparable from the Father and therefore reflects the power and understanding of the Father. Jesus said, "I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me."John 8:16; He knew that he had no independent life of his own and that the "I" of his being was inseparable from the Father. True consciousness is inseparable from the divine Mind, which is its origin, state, and continuity.
