In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (pp. 191, 192), "Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit, the atmosphere of intelligence." As revealed by Christian Science, this "atmosphere of intelligence" is by no means the atmosphere of cold intellectualism. For this Science teaches that God, good, is divine Mind, the only intelligence. That because God, Spirit, is infinite, there is only one Mind. That the belief of many minds or mind in matter is a falsity, an erroneous concept of creation.
In its highest human sense "the atmosphere of intelligence" is associated with unselfishness, kindness, beauty, strength, clarity, balance, all qualities derived from divine Mind. It follows that whatever claims to deny, obscure, or reverse the order of divine Mind with its "atmosphere of intelligence" is but the mist of mortal mind, a mental miasma of falsity and error.
"Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea which expresses it and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter" (ibid., p. 467). Beginning with Mind and "reasoning from cause to effect," one finds he must classify that atmospheric phenomenon, weather, as belonging to the mental realm. Weather must be seen as the externalization of thought. We cannot afford then to sit idly by and accept inclement and undesirable weather as something outside and beyond the control of the one Mind. If we do, we deserve to be classified among those of whom Charles Dudley Warner was speaking when he humorously observed, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
