Guard the Windows and Doors G. A. B.          The human mind is like a great mansion with many rooms. The conscious thought occupies a few of these rooms, and, because of its ignorance, it believes that it occupies the whole mansion; but this is not so. There are undiscovered chambers in this mind-mansion which the conscious thought has never entered.          We are living in a great thought-world, and just as the air about us is inhabited by birds and insects, so this thought-atmosphere is swarmed with busy thoughts, — some good (in belief) and some evil, — emitted from human minds. These thoughts assume individuality and power to act, even as the birds and insects do in the material world. There are thoughts which comprise the various physical ills of the human race; others are classed as sins; others as fears, superstitions, errors; others as misfortunes, sorrows, etc.; and others as prosperity, human love, human joy. Just as the winged inhabitants of the air may enter in through the open windows and doors of the material mansion, passing from room to room until they penetrate to the tenanted portion of the house, so the winged thoughts of the mental realm, pass into those silent, unrecognized chambers of the thought-mansion (or human mind), and sooner or later become manifested, each intruding visitant stamping its own individuality upon the unprotected conscious thought, or body.          I often hear it remarked, —          "You say that all sickness has its cause in the mind and not in the body. Now why did I have pneumonia, consumption, or dyspepsia, when I never thought of having them?"          Perhaps you never thought of having them, yet you believed that under certain conditions you could have them. You admitted the possibility, and some dis-ease thought which entered the unrecognized and unguarded chambers of your thought-mansion was admitted through the door "Belief," by the porter "Possibility." Feeling the discomfort which this thought-visitor brought, you consulted a physician, and learned that you had consumption, or dyspepsia, etc. Had you been better instructed you would have endeavored to close the door "Belief," and discharge your porter "Possibility."          How can we bar out these unprofitable thought-visitors? There is only one way. Fill the mind with Truth. Enter into those silent chambers and assert the perfect ego, the spiritual and real self; furnish them with spiritual facts; hang pictures of Truth upon their walls; bar the windows and doors with divine understanding and fearlessness, and occupy them in the spirit of Christly love. Though malice and error may beat against the windows, they cannot enter, for, faithful to the Science of Being, you may dwell here and now, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.   "Guard the Windows and Doors" by G. A. B. The Christian Science Journal, October, 1897

 

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