IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 392), under the marginal heading "Guarding the door," Mrs. Eddy writes: "Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously." Farther on in the same paragraph she continues, "The issues of pain or pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance."
Since "the issues of pain or pleasure must come through mind," not matter, does it not behoove us to watch our thinking instead of our bodies? And since Christian Science uncovers the nothingness of erring beliefs, how alert we should be to recognize and reject "the intruding belief" that would seek entrance to our mental realm, and to admit only Godlike thoughts. Clamoring for recognition and admittance, error may hammer insistently at our mental door, but we must learn not to parley with it. We must learn how to denounce the lie, not parley with it. Better still is it to deny and shut out completely the belief of a mind apart from God, and rise in thought to the consciousness of spiritual being. To do this is to cut off immediately the supposed power of evil communication from any seeming source, and to experience a measure of heaven.
Now Christian Science teaches that nothing really exists outside of true consciousness; hence only that seems real to us which we accept and embrace as true in our thinking. This being so, can we honestly blame person, circumstance, or environment for the beliefs of error we entertain or retain in our consciousness? Furthermore, error or evil is not an idea of God; it is not individualized, and has no identity. Hence it has no abiding place in infinite divine Mind. And is there any place outside of God's infinitude? Consciousness of good is the only true sense of being. Error alone is in a state of unconsciousness of good. The true idea is God's idea; and God's idea is always conscious, always alert, always expressing its God-given dominion. Understanding this, the Christian Scientist is equipped to prove his dominion over every false circumstance, opinion, and condition.
