Article February 12, 1921 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Charles F. Dole, Margaret Porch Hamilton, Arnold Reymond, J. M. Powis Smith, Archibald MacLeish

The Christian Science Monitor

["The Law of Opposites"—The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, U.S.A., Dec. 9, 1920]

When Mrs. Eddy wrote in "Unity of Good" (p. 48): "He [God] sustains my individuality. Nay, more—He is my individuality and my Life," she was giving the result of years of earnest study and consecration to the task of working out the Science of being. Any student who will make a study of the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," will discover how metaphysical is Mrs. Eddy's use of words. Through this study he will begin to comprehend the teachings of this Science and eventually to demonstrate what he has learned of immovable facts which have staggered the wise men throughout the ages.

Take, for instance, the word individual, which appears time after time throughout Mrs. Eddy's writings. The first definition of man, as given in most dictionaries, is "an individual," and individual is defined thus: "Latin, individuus; not divisible; of one essence or nature; indivisible." Drawing one's conclusions, then, even from mortal mind's own learned definitions, man is indivisible. This, however, refers only to mortal man, while Mrs. Eddy's definition refers to man himself, who is the expression of Life, Truth, and Love. Since these are synonymous terms, all there is to man is Life. Therefore, man cannot be separated from Life, or God, the only cause. There is just one thing which makes cause to be cause, and that one thing is effect. The necessity of indivisibility here becomes apparent, since cause cannot be cause without effect, and vice versa.

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