THE fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah includes a clear declaration that God's thoughts are not like those of a mortal. The Christian Scientist, in learning to think spiritually, accepts the definition of God given by Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. The seven synonyms for Deity, which express the nature of good, are found on page 465 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." On page 585, in defining "Elias," she speaks of "spiritual evidence opposed to material sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold."
Since good thoughts are a protection against all shafts of error, the Christian Scientist understands the necessity of keeping his consciousness in unity with divine Principle. Accordingly he tests his thought by the plumb line of Truth and conforms his judgment to the measure of infinite Love. Thinking in terms of incorporeal good reverses the legendary belief of intelligence in corporeal structure. The perfect ideas of supreme divine Mind exterminate all error. Neither error nor its effects — sin, sickness, death, inharmony —have a divine Principle; therefore error is incapable of demonstration.
Right or true thinking annuls wrong thinking, which is merely fabulous belief; and spiritually right thinking is prayer, as Jesus knew prayer. There is never a moment when one may not become conscious of divine Mind; and there is no interval when one may not reflect it. Since spiritual man has no quality other than good, he possesses no intelligence other than good.
