All movement is either mortally mental or spiritual. If it proceeds or seems to proceed from mortal mind, it is the former. If it originates in the divine Mind, it is spiritual and eternal. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 283), "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action." Here is indicated the fact that the source of life and action is God, divine Mind. Physical movement, being conditional on time and space, is a counterfeit of the true movements of Mind. All movement is governed by Mind and not by matter. This fact can be made practical from the revolution of a planet to the movement of a mote.
Reviewing the signs of the skies, we may see the clouds in motion, we may feel the undulations of the atmosphere producing changes of temperature or at times giving rise to winds of great vehemence. Turning from the skies to review the signs of the times, we see movements of thought taking place among nations and peoples. New ideologies are springing up, some of which produce disturbances violently disruptive or revolutionary.
During the last three quarters of a century the static state of mortal mind, which for so long lulled the old materialism in the lap of happy complacency, has been rudely shaken. Many people wonder where and when these disturbances will end and whether we shall ever return to the tranquillity enjoyed by those who way back in the past, did not enjoy all the amenities of modern civilization.
