Three steps of right thinking whereby one can harmonize his experience through Christian Science have so blessed the writer that he desires to share the unfoldment as it appeared to him. This Science, which reveals the allness of God as one infinite Mind, proves the unreality of the temporal or mortal mind, so evident to humanity. Proofs in daily living over many years gradually established in thought the first step: a recognition that everything comes to us individually as a form of consciousness. Next he saw that consciousness is always expressed in the present, is always a now experience. Finally, he discerned and accepted the scientific fact that at any given instant the quality of one's experience is exactly measured by the quality of thoughts he is entertaining at that instant.
That all being unfolds in the now may be proved by the following test: Try to be conscious at any time except in the present. You can think about the events of five seconds ago, or a week ago, or a year ago, but you will always be thinking in the now. Consciousness is like that. The same truth holds when we try to be conscious ahead of the present moment. This helpful sequence of ideas took form through earnest study and unmistakable evidence based on the marvelous statement of mental anatomy onpages 462 and 463 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The statement was seen to include a rule: "Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self-knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to discover their quality, quantity, and origin. Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question." Yes, a question so important that the answer given by each of us, moment by moment, will determine the content of our lives.
Facing this tremendous fact of mental cause and effect, we may well pause to survey the path of our mental footsteps. So doing, we find our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, beckoning us forward along the ascending road of self-knowledge, or mental anatomy. His gospel teachings emphasize and elucidate this mighty theme. A classic Scriptural example of mental anatomy is recorded in two sharply contrasting dialogues between the Master and Peter.
