Mind governs material conditions. —As I read Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward," I am conscious of a truth the author did not realize; or if he realized did not express. It is this: that the nearly perfect state of society and detail of material environment which he portrays, can be only brought about by the more complete recognition by mortals of their true self-hood, which is Spirit, and by the understanding which is reached in Christian Science, of the one only law of God or Good, which is Love. This law being understood and demonstrated, the supposed ills of flesh vanish and the new heavens and new earth of God's creating begin to appear. But mortal mind cannot understand this, and tries in vain to adjust material conditions, forgetting that man must be manifested as spiritual before the image and likeness of God can appear.
When we come to think God's thoughts after Him in deed and in truth and as naturally as we breathe, then, as I understand it, perfection of detail in the relations of man to man and perfection of so-called material environment will be the inevitable fruitage. We must begin with Soul, which is God, and work outward, instead of striving to adjust material conditions, regardless of Spirit—the underlying cause and only reality.
Christian socialism, of which this author is a prophet, will be developed more surely and healthfully, as this Divine Science is increasingly studied and practiced, as "The law of God or Good, which interprets the Principle and rule of universal harmony and demonstrates it."
Rudiments and Rules of Divine Science by Rev. M. B. G Eddy.
