Article November 23, 1974 Issue

Unseeing a Discordant Past

VICCI SPERRY

Man's true history is in the record of his spiritual existence as God created him. It is good and harmonious throughout since, as the Bible says, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Gen. 1:31; Only that which God made has reality. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." John 1:3;

God never made illness, unhappiness, death, and so they have no part in man's real history. Only qualities of God such as health, joy, and life are included in man's true being. The fact is that nothing erroneous has ever existed in the spiritual kingdom. God's law of harmony governs every situation, and it is important to know that this law has always been in operation and always will be.

Only in the realm of the mortal belief, or dream, has error appeared in any of its various, unreal forms. Mrs. Eddy declares, "It is well to know, dear reader, that our material, mortal history is but the record of dreams, not of man's real existence, and the dream has no place in the Science of being." Retrospection and Introspection, p. 21;

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