The Christian Scientist claims the God-given right and might to reflect the dominion of pure Mind. In his joyous Christian warfare he utilizes the scientific fact that, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 260 of "Miscellaneous Writings," "Pure Mind gives out an atmosphere that heals and saves." The invariable harmony of pure Mind begets only true thoughts and feelings, and constantly maintains them in all who manfully and consistently strive to reflect the atmosphere of pure Mind. This atmosphere obviously excludes sick beliefs, timid fears, and aggressive sins. Gusts of error cause no flicker in the light of divine Love which is steadfastly reflected in the consciousness of spiritual man.
Christian Science offers to circumscribed mortal thought expansion and clarification. Even as insects and creatures tunneling below ground are unaware of the vast sky overhead, of the beauty of oceans, trees, and flowers, so ignorant mortals, seeming to be submerged in materiality, move round and round in the darkness of ignorance and perceive little or nothing of the ever present beauty and power of spiritual creation. From this fictitious mental state Christian Science awakens its students by unfolding to them the harmony of all God's creation. Through spiritual enlightenment human thought begins to take on eternal hues. Heaven is everywhere and includes all creation. It is the only atmosphere known to God and man, the only real atmosphere in existence.
The aggressive mental suggestion may persist that we or others are unloving, selfish, self-engrossed, callous of another's needs, and this accepted suggestion has doubtless left its mark in our character and in our lives. But the mark is not indelible, for only the true ideas of divine Mind are indelible. The so-called carnal mind may also insist that we are sick, uneducated, narrow in our outlook—in short, that our mental atmosphere is poor. What, then, are we to do if we seem to have descended to a low mental state? We are to recognize that this low estimate is but a perversion of the true man; that it comes to no one from God, and that the God who is Truth and Love upholds man as His own unfallen image. Pure Mind is able to raise the mortal who has seemed to fall under the weight of traditional evil. Every quality of divine Mind is represented in man, and is available to one who turns whole-heartedly to divine Mind and is honestly determined to abandon the old standards of thought and action which formerly deceived him.
