Knowing and thinking are terms that interest the Christian Scientist. He understands that knowing is the natural function of spiritual man, God's likeness, whereas thinking is a human process. However, right thinking is important, for it is proof that the real man, who reflects God's knowing, is appearing. A thinker is one who searches deeply for right ideas, who applies what he learns in constructive ways, and who resists limitation as something alien to God's creation. A thinker is what the Christian Scientist is exhorted to be.
Mary Baker Eddy is rousing people to vigorous mental efforts when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref., p. vii), "The time for thinkers has come." The spiritual truths which follow in this textbook of Christian Science are revolutionary, and they upset many human notions regarding God, man, Christ, law, matter, force, and the universe in general. The truths revealed by Christian Science appeal to right thinkers, and they make thinkers of people who have been asleep mentally before they found the Christ Science.
Who would be willing to remain in a state of ignorance when there is truth to know, divine logic to follow, healing power to exercise, the law of Life to demonstrate? Who could continue in a listless state once he has realized that sinless, deathless, infinite being is at his mental doorstep and that spiritualized thinking makes it accessible?
