IT seems to be sometimes believed that the business world is a sphere of activity set apart from all other human endeavors, and that it requires a different or exclusive mentality to conduct its affairs. Business men and women frequently justify standards of conduct and practices wholly at variance with those of their other pursuits, because of "business necessity," a reasoning which in itself is beclouding and mesmeric. It denotes such inconsistency as is referred to in the epistle of James, where it is written, "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."
Business transactions at times seem to be sadly devoid of consideration of the Golden Rule laid down by Jesus, the great Exemplar, as fundamental in all human relationships. Rather, such dealings often include selfishness, greed, dishonesty, friction, hatred, and other beliefs of the carnal mind. The contemplation of such conditions so often encountered in the business world causes the earnest but wearied one to seek some solution, and to endeavor to establish a permanent remedy for such engulfing situations.
To free an individual's business relations from these carnal (mortal) mind tendencies requires a complete change of that one's thought, a new basis of activity, a heeding of Paul's admonition, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." In "Science and Health with Key to the scriptures"(p.225) Mrs. Eddy says, "the despotic tendencies, inherent in mortal mind and always germinating in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out through the action of the divine Mind."
