Christian Scientists reverently regard Christ Jesus as their Way-shower. Jesus lived among the people, healing and saving from error all those whose hearts were receptive to the Word he taught. At the same time, the Master established for himself a spiritually mental privacy and poise that no attack of evil could intrude upon and that all his contacts with the world could not spoil. This ideal of privacy and poise is indicated in Mrs. Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1901 where she writes, "The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things."'01, p. 20;
An individual's experience is made up of the thoughts he entertains in his consciousness. God's thoughts are ever present and are available to us, for the Bible declares, "In him we live, and move, and have our being."Acts 17:28; We need not accept any thoughts save those of Truth, God, if we are alert watchmen at the door of consciousness. Suggestions of sin, sickness, unhappiness, and lack are classified as intruding beliefs in Christian Science, and just as we would act to prevent intruders from taking over our homes, so we can deny evil's suggestions any place in our mental abode. Each moment of the day we are alone with our own being, deciding what we shall think, and no power can prevent our entertaining true spiritual thoughts if we will claim our real identity as children of the one Mind.
Mrs. Eddy makes specific provisions for sacred privacy. In the Manual of The Mother Church she instructs us to protect our thought daily from aggressive mental suggestion. The Christian Scientist knows that there is no mystery about this process. Basically, it is to acknowledge God as the only real Mind, wholly good, and to realize that since omnipotent Mind can neither be approached nor impressed by evil, so Mind's idea, man, the true selfhood of each one of us, cannot be subject to erroneous thought or be influenced by it. The divine intelligence, which man reflects, provides the ability to refuse what is evil and to choose what is good.
