The Bible teaches that living on earth is successful to the extent I reject or turn off wrong thinking and give place to right thinking. The wrong-thinking side of the scales of thought must always be lighter than the right-thinking side, and it should be growing lighter, more insubstantial, every moment, every day.

To the extent that I engage in right thinking, I have attained that state of being which Mrs. Eddy described — in very plain terms — in an 1886 edition of Science and Health.

“At present, we know not fully what we are, but this is certain, that we shall be Love, Life, and Truth when we understand them.”

Wrong thinking is like the mist or fog that blocks the sun’s ray while right thinking is like the sun’s ray itself. These two cannot in the least mingle with one another, ever. “The carnal mind is enmity with God” (Rom. 8:7).

The Bible designates right thinking as “God”, “the Word” (“Logos”), “the Spirit of Truth”, etc., and wrong thinking as “the adversary”, “the accuser”, “satan”, a non-existent talking serpent, etc. These two are more distant from one another than east is from west, or as somethingness is from nothingness..

To Christ Jesus as the Son of man, wrong thinking was felt as something immediately discordant, and he never failed to correct it, to rebuke it, to cast it out — instantly and forcefully — as something not his own.

God grant that I be as dedicated to right thinking and as sensitive to wrong thoughts as Christ Jesus was.