Article May 7, 1910 Issue

SOME CATEGORIES AND DEDUCTIONS

HON. CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK.

Two parallel lines can never meet. Twice two is four. These are statements of unvarying truth. Again, one may say: Two parallel lines can meet. Twice two is three; twice two is five. These are representative statements of what seems to be; not is. Innumerable falsehoods seem to be, but are not.

An eternal truth exists or is; but a falsehood never exists, never is, for it represents not what is but what is not. That twice two is four, is now, always has been, and always will be, an existing and eternal fact, or truth. Though the planets may be blotted out from their places, it will remain true that twice two is four, that parallel lines can never meet. On the other hand, that which does not exist can only seem to exist. Such seeming existence is a negation, and a negation does not stand for something, but stands for nothing. To make use of the term eternal falsehood would be to describe a falsehood or negation as something when it is really nothing. That which is nonexistent cannot be said to be eternal. Every negation of an eternal truth, such as sin, suffering, discord, death, etc., seems to be something, but it really is nothing. All such negations or falsehoods have their seeming existence in that erring human thought which in Christian Science is aptly termed mortal mind; and such seeming existence ceases when the erring human thought ceases.

This erring human thought, or mortal mind, is a negation of true thought. Like all other negations or falsehoods, it seems to exist, but in truth does not exist, for all falsehoods or negations are nothing but false thinking. A negation or falsehood could not have even a seeming existence except in false thinking, which is in itself a falsehood, and when the false thinking disappears from human consciousness, falsehood thereby disappears. The untruth and the untrue thought are one and the same negation or denial of something which is true. The thought and what is thought are one and inseparable. Nothing exists or is except what is thought by infinite and eternal Mind. An eternal truth is an eternal fact, and it is true everywhere as well as always. All so-called finite facts exist only in seeming, whereas everything which, exists or is, is known to infinite and eternal Mind. The thought of existence precedes existence; and the thought of existence likewise accompanies existence.

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