I’ve been contemplating a statement made by Mary Baker Eddy
in her book Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures. She wrote:
“The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding [sic] and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it? … Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually. The result is that you are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your lifework, and adopt into your experience the angular outline and deformity of matter models.”
Yikes! I don’t want
to be liable to follow these lower patterns or admit this moral deformity into
my experience! Eddy goes on to explain
what we should do to prevent this:
“To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives. Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love – the kingdom of heaven – reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear.”
