WHAT incomparable satisfaction is experienced when thought rises above a finite, personal sense of existence and the divine Mind is joyously accepted as the only Mind—the only I, or Ego! Immediately the woes which come of sinful, fleshly thinking begin to fade from consciousness. The human mind, so called, has been in a measure put off, and God, or Mind, ever aware of His own indivisible oneness and allness, His own immaculate perfection and indestructible harmony, is present as man's only Mind. To this pure Mind, sin is unknown and unknowable.
The deliverance of mankind from the thralldom of sin and from sin's concomitants—discord, disease, and death—does not come solely by claiming no other Mind than God. A further step must be taken: namely, to accept the divine Mind as the only Mind. When this Christlike step has been taken, thought necessarily proceeds spontaneously and naturally from the one Mind, uncontaminated by any sense of evil, hate, or limitation. That this pure state of consciousness is possible to us here and now is revealed by our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the following statement in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 469): "There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other, sin would be unknown."
But mortals do not accept God as the only Mind, thereby tacitly denying His oneness and allness. Ignorant of the eternal fact that there is but one Mind, which is unceasingly rejoicing in its undisturbed peace, its spiritual understanding, and its infinite contentment, they mistakenly believe that there are innumerable private personal minds which are governed to a greater or lesser degree by conflicting emotions, human prejudices, and sinful motives. Indeed, one has only to look at the world today with its dissensions and tyranny to see the result of mankind's idolatrous acceptance of more than one Mind, I, or Ego.
