MIND is orderly in its action. The neophyte studies the Christian Science text-book, alive to the imperative demands of Truth, but sometimes he is blinded by a misguided enthusiasm over the new-found treasure and fails to observe Mrs. Eddy's rational presentation of it, likewise her caution toward a sane, orderly demonstration of our understanding of Truth. Generations of mortal thought have permitted love and impulse to work together, and while the twain seem harmonious enough in their partnership, the human sense of love never reflects divine Love until separated from impulse and its close attendants, haste and confusion. Thus it is that when the light of divine Truth first breaks upon human consciousness, it effects a release which may carry thought far beyond the bounds of present demonstration. When this occurs it may make the student of Christian Science seem erratic, unbalanced, and justly deserving of criticism.
On page 482 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy makes that distinction between the word Soul as Spirit, and soul which is sense,—the sense, for instance, which helps the musician to understand a beautiful composition. We thus learn to discriminate between the pure inspiration which lifts desire out of unsatisfied longing to constructive activity, and a sensuous emotion which is all too generally regarded as soulful, heavenly,—divine. A kindred distinction must be made between that inspiration born of the divine will, which uplifts thought to abide in good, and that which we have called inspiration but which is only mere human impulse based on sense experience.
Orderly unfoldment characterizes the growth of every inspired thought. To know God as divine Principle destroys the belief that good is experienced in impulse, for we have thus gained an understanding of good as the one and only Cause. This unfolds into the understanding of good as the one and only activity, underlying, sustaining, supporting, and controlling all interests and desires. Then it must logically follow that good is the one and only result; therefore all belief in human impulse as desire, as irrational activity, or as evil result, has no place or power, for whatever fills consciousness does so to the exclusion of every opposite.
