Article November 12, 1904 Issue

Reality versus Unreality

E. C. WICKERSHAM.

Science and Health, page 275, states that "To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God, as the divine Principle of all that really is."

Principle means source, cause, foundation, that from which everything proceeds, that which underlies all true phenomena. Thus Principle or Mind being the infinite Creator, its creations, or ideas, must express the nature and perfection of their cause, and this cause and its effects constitute the realities of being, and are eternal. When, therefore, we speak of anything as real, it must have emanated from divine Mind, and must manifest all the qualities of this Mind.

The distinctive difference between Christian Science and all other forms of religion, philosophy, or ethics is found in the fact that the latter are based upon the asserted reality of both good and evil, Life and death, Spirit and matter, Truth and error, health and disease: while Christian Science teaches that since God and His manifestation is real and eternal, the opposite must be unreal and temporal, though it seem ever so real to material sense.

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