A Christian Scientist, who for many years had proved for herself and others the power of divine Mind to dissolve human discords, found herself overcome by an illness that seemed to resist the application of Truth.
Praying earnestly for enlightenment, she was led to open the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, at page 176, where she read: "When the mechanism of the human mind gives place to the divine Mind, selfishness and sin, disease and death, will lose their foothold." The words "mechanism of the human mind" arrested her attention.
Christian Science had taught her that God is divine Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love; that all that this infinite Mind creates is eternal, harmonious, and spiritual; that what seems baneful, evil, or transitory is the product of a false sense of things, the phenomenon of unreal mortal thinking. But what is "the mechanism of the human mind"? Earnestly she searched consciousness, and through the illumination that came from her reaching out for divine Mind's answer, she saw the secret of certain phases of wrong mental activity, or animal magnetism.
