On my way back this morning from breakfast, I was thinking about something I had just read. Quite an interesting piece on developing one's mental processes, on memorizing mainly. And it seems this person practiced by associating certain things he wanted to recall, with unwholesome images. And this puts in mildly! Some tricks involved downright gross mental pictures.
The contrast with this, and what my religion stresses--namely developing the Mind that was in Christ Jesus--stood out clearly. In fact, one of the tenets of Christian Science states in part: "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus;" This is from Mary Baker Eddy's masterwork, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, page 497. (The rest of this tenet reads, "to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.")
To be involved daily with understanding, claiming one's identification with the one Mind, God is an exercise that couldn't be more important for one to engage in. It is challenging to be sure. It takes humility. It takes discipline. But oh the rewards--in peace of mind, in health, in harmony, in expanded usefulness to humanity. I could go on and on with the benefits from acknowledging God as our Mind--which Jesus indisputably did. But thank God, the teachings of divine Science enable any one of us to do this holy work.
