WHEN Shakespeare said, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," he voiced a momentous fact. Therein he showed pointedly that thought is solely responsible for whatever is apparent in human affairs, and that a man's master is his own mentality, his own thinking. "As he thinketh in his heart," declares the Bible, "so is he."
Since it is certain that, humanly speaking, one's thoughts are his controller, it is but natural to infer that each individual wants to be able always to establish his thinking aright in order that his outward experiences may also be right and harmonious. To do this he needs to know at the very outset that, as the Scriptures aver, the great First Cause, the one eternal creator, God, is Spirit, Mind. And he needs to know, too, that the effect of this only cause, namely, the universe, inclusive of man, is the idea, the reflection, of divine Spirit, or Mind. This apprehending of spiritual facts is Christianly scientific, for these facts formed the unshakable basis of the teaching and practice of our perfect Way-shower, Christ Jesus, who, in his public ministry, proved them continually and conclusively. Therefore, all who actually accept and apply this scientific truth can demonstrate it as he did and said they should do.
To gain a knowledge of this absolute truth, we must reason properly. "Reason is the most active human faculty," says Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 327 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." And she further remarks (p. 492), "For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence." Now, since Spirit is the divine source of all that truly is, its creation or expression is like itself. And, since the universe, including man, is the product of Spirit, it is plain that the real man and the real creation are spiritual and perfect.
