MEN have talked a great deal about mind. Some have believed it to be located in brain and have supposed it capable of thinking both good and bad thoughts. Through indefinite cycles of time mankind has attempted to discover how to educate and cultivate mind, imagining that thereby its thoughts could be improved. It has, however, been forced to acknowledge that often the most earnest efforts in this direction have seemed to result in disappointment and failure. As to finding out just how thoughts were to be brought under control, this has seemed quite impossible of accomplishment. Even the most profound thinkers have generally recognized their inability to govern perfectly their own thinking, and, instead, have found it often proving itself most erratic and puzzling.
All this has been the result of the more or less dense ignorance which has ever seemed to surround the subject of mind. No conclusion could apparently be reached in regard to it that in the course of time would not be upset by some supposedly new discovery or theory. Consequently, all consideration of it has been of a more or less speculative nature, and the world has gone on in comparative darkness concerning the most important of all questions: What is mind? Where is mind? How can its thoughts be properly controlled?
When God gave to Mrs. Eddy the marvelous truth that He is the one infinite and only Mind, the way to the solution of every human problem was revealed. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 492) our Leader writes, "God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind." And again on page 143: "If Mind was first chronologically, is first potentially, and must be first eternally, then give to Mind the glory, honor, dominion, and power everlastingly due its holy name."
