Who Hasn't wished he or she could give quick, intelligent answers to tough questions, make insightful comments, or recall facts and figures more accurately? The good news is that we all can. We can break away from material definitions of intelligence and awake to the fact that God is infinite Mind. And in this way we can develop, expand, and even transcend our current mental capacities.
When we don't know something, we might say it's because we have never learned or been exposed to that information. But isn't that viewing the human mind as a material receptacle and intelligence as a product of human thought processes? Adopting a more spiritual perspective opens the possibility of expressing the capacities of infinite Mind, and of gaining access to whatever we need to know, even if the idea or information is not something we have previously learned.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes a strong statement on this subject: "Man is God's image and likeness; whatever is possible to God, is possible to man as God's reflection. Through the transparency of Science we learn this, and receive it: learn that man can fulfil the Scriptures in every instance; that if he open his mouth it shall be filled—not by reason of the schools, or learning, but by the natural ability, that reflection already has bestowed on him, to give utterance to Truth."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 183.
