When faced with discord, such as an angry person yelling in your face, or a body complaining of disease, or reports of war around the world, what impresses you most; the discord clamoring for your attention, or the power of God present to dissolve that discord and restore harmony?
To maintain peace and health, it’s important that we reflect the Mind of God, which is a Mind filled with harmony and peace, for we experience what we accept as real and true.
To live in harmony, we want to demonstrate a state of Mind that is filled with harmony. Which means that when evil rears up in front of us, we want to quickly disarm it of any power and to see the power of God at work in its place causing good things to happen.
Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a diviner sense, harmony is the real and discord the unreal” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 563). The “diviner sense” is spiritual sense leading thought to the harmony and peace of God where all is well and safe. It vanquishes any sense of discord.
When discord erupts before you, stay calm. Let the “diviner sense” dominate your perspective and inspire your outlook. The outcome will be much better.
Thank you for such a clear sense of what Eddy describes as the “diviner sense.” I picture our role is that of holding thought steady while God clears the air. It takes disciple on our part as the human is yielding to the divine reality.
Great View Evan, spot on!
Lovely comment John thank you, particularly, “It takes the disciple on our part as the human . . .”
Thank you for this message. I did have some poor messages clamoring for attention. But fortunately I found in the Reading Room the pamphlet “God’s Business” which directed my thought toward The First Commandment. Now your inspiration shared here strengthens my confidence in “the diviner sense”. This helps not only my thought but others as well.
It says “Mind of God” in this. Mrs. Eddy says Mind IS God. I believe it should read “the Mind of Christ.”
There is only one God, so there can only be one Mind – and that has to be God.
So what other mind can we have.? We live and move and have our being in that
Mind, because we are His ideas. How can we have another mind separate from
God, if we are His ideas dwelling in that Mind? Jesus was the true idea of infinite Mind,
and he was demonstrating that Mind for us, so that we could learn what it means
to actually have the Mind of God. If we have the mind of Christ, which is God
expressed, then we also have the Mind which is God. God gives us our thoughts, and our
abilities and everything that expresses Him as our life – the only life. We are
one with God. Divine Principle and idea are ONE – perfect God and perect
man – Perfect Mind and perfect manifestation. We are blessed when we
look to the divine Mind for what we need to know and do . We cannot be
separated from Him for He is our Life foever.
Thank you Maggie. Excellent comment! It was pointed out to me once that Mrs. Eddy writes in S&H that Principle and idea IS one (versus ARE one) to magnify the truth that an idea can never be separated from the Mind that is knowing it and therefore the two “is” really one. 🙂
Question. — Is there more than one God or Principle?
Answer. — There is not. Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 465:16–1)
I do a lot of home improvement projects and I used to stress out when having to figure out how to do something I haven’t done previously. But lately when faced with a project I stop and remember that there is only one Mind and that Mind knows the answer to every question. As I pause and listen, I find answers coming to me as the best way to do things. As the reflection (expression, manifestation, etc.) of Mind, in reality we do what Mind knows. That’s a wonderful truth to reflect on throughout our day, isn’t it?
Thank you, Robert – a good illustration of what it measnt o have the Mind of God.
Thank you Robert, thank you
Maggie, thank you Evan, and all.
To your interpretations, and what I see at the end of the day, we all join the evidence of the continual cause /effect with
response of the
All power, to our infinite friend. Divine Presence.
Dear Maggie
Thank you for your clear and helpful comments, much appreciated.
Love to all
Hi Anne…I looked up “Mind of God” in Concord and I found Mrs. Eddy used that phrase 3 times in her writings (see below):
Jesus rendered null and void whatever is unlike God; but he could not have done this if error and sin existed in the Mind of God. (No and Yes, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 37:25–27)
That God is good, that Truth is true, and Science is Science, who can doubt; and whosoever demonstrates the truth of these propositions is to some extent a Christian Scientist. Is Science material? No! It is the Mind of God — and God is Spirit.
(Message to The Mother Church for 1901, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 22:1–5 (to .))
I have put less of my own personality into Christian Science than others do in proportion, as I have taken out of its metaphysics all matter and left Christian Science as it is, purely spiritual, Christlike — the Mind of God and not of man — born of the Spirit and not matter.
(Message to The Mother Church for 1901, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 27:22–26)
Thank you, Robert. Very helpful and illuminating.
Interesting comment Anne. MBE does say “God is Mind”. And each of us reflects Mind, each of us is what Mind knows. It seems like being in tune with the mind of Christ enables us to commune with and understand the Mind that is God. So we reflect Mind, and we are in tune with the mind of Christ.
I’d be very interested in others’ thoughts on this?
To me it doesn’t matter whether it is “Mind of God” or ” Mind is God”. The fact that it is Mind. capital M, can only mean God. I think that is the important take away here. Mortal mind is never capitalized because it is always error; no real mind or thought involved. I could be wrong because I have not read everything MBE has written but I don’t remember seeing/hearing the phrase “Mind of Christ”.
In any case, I think this is a great post. Thank you Evan. I sometimes struggle with not reacting so this is a great reminder.
Hi Diane…I looked up “Mind of Christ” in Concord and found Mrs. Eddy used that phrase once in S&H:
To-day, though rejoicing in some progress, she still finds herself a willing disciple at the heavenly gate, waiting for the Mind of Christ.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. ix:16)
The phrase also appears in one testimony in Fruitage on page 693. It’s also used one place in the KJV Bible:
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (I Corinthians 2:16)
And it appears twice in other writings of Mrs. Eddy, but one is just a quote of I Corinthians (My 142:2). And it appears in Hymn 589. Below is how it appears in Unity of Good
In other words: matter testifies of itself, “I am matter;” but unless matter is mind, it cannot talk or testify; and if it is mind, it is certainly not the Mind of Christ, not the Mind that is identical with Truth. (Unity of Good, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 33:10)
Thanks Robert. I will look up those references too. I love how everyone helps out on this site. It can only lead us to a clearer view of our being the perfect reflection of God.
Have a great day!
“The “mind of Christ” is yours!” By Moriah Early-Manchester. From the September 2, 2024 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/jedolmuju8?s=copylink
J, thank you for sharing this article. It also supports the statement from 2nd Timothy Chapter 1, v. 7. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, Love, and a sound mind. This can be used to detect where the thought seem to be coming from: if they are fear based, then we have the understanding to refute them with truth, reject them and replace them the true ideas of a sound mind.
A very interesting discussion today. Thanking everyone for their input on
Mind and Christ and seeking the diviner sense. I just looked up Mrs. Eddy’s
definition of Christ in the glossary of Science and Health and she writes :
“CHRIST. The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to
destroy incarnate error.”
In looking up the definition of incarnate, the dictionary gives as the first
definition: “embodied in flesh; given a bodily, esp. a human, form”.
If I understand it correctly, mortal mind is “little” minds in the mortal sense,
whereas Mind as God is spiritual idea, not material.
How would it impact you if God had a bad day? Of course God cannot have a bad day, that’s just a human perspective on a mortal experience. But the question puts a little perspective on what God is not. God is not human as a mortal man is. If as scienctist have said that our universe, material universe is on a knife edge so perfect that if it wasn’t it couldn’t continue to exist, then we should realize the power of God’s perfectness as Spirit, Soul, Love, Life as Truth of our being enwrappen in God’s creating. That for me is the powerful comprehension that Mary Baker Eddy discovered. Thank you Evan for you so loving post.
Thank you to those who look at and use Mrs. Eddy’s capitalization. See Miscellany p. 225:6-11.
if it wasn’t for Paul there would be Saul..
and Mary.. The 3 Mary’s
JC’s mother , Mary Magdelan, Mary Baker Eddy..
Paul and Mary
have totally exterminated
Ken and Barbie
thank God