Article June 21, 1924 Issue

Guarding Against Separation

ANDREW J. GRAHAM

There is but one creator, and therefore only one creation. God's creation is eternally inseparable from Him. Nor can any one of God's creatures or ideas be torn asunder from the others. This fact is involved in the unity of good. In reality, the law of harmony has never been broken. So-called mortal mind believes otherwise; that is, that God's creation has been devastated by the entrance of a so-called evil power. In these days the conflict between "day" and "night," defined by Mrs. Eddy on pages 584and 592 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," advances under more subtle forms. Michael and Gabriel, the angels of spiritual warfare and of peace, are manifestly in evidence, and their activity has aroused the dragon almost to the extremity of bitterness.

The fifty years just passed have been unique. The history of mankind affords no other period in which the trend toward universal brotherhood has been so general and insistent. As a consequence, error has been stirred to greater activity in its effort to separate. One observes the working of this malign influence in many of the relations of men to men and of men to God. The effort to prevent at-onement from being demonstrated by insisting upon separation is evident throughout the world.

Christian Science elucidates and sustains upon a spiritual and logical foundation the fact that God's kingdom is essentially one; that each of His creatures is eternally necessary to the perfection of the whole. "Fan," which Mrs. Eddy calls (Science and Health, p. 586) a "separator of fable from fact," is operating. Spiritual understanding and mortal belief are the contestants. The first says God, good, is the only reality. The second says good and evil both are real. Good, however, moves calmly on, knowing that all evil must ultimately be put under its feet. Error, like the frightened serpent, coils itself, fiercely struggling for self-preservation. The battle of Armageddon is being waged on every hand. On one banner is inscribed, At-one-ment and Peace; on the other, Separation and Devastation. What always gives the trouble is the belief of separation from God, good. If error can persuade one that he has many distinct troubles, it will certainly succeed in holding him temporarily from the consciousness of unity with good. For this reason the Christian Science practitioner may trace all the problems of his patient to concrete instances of separation. Separation of husband and wife; separation of friend from friend; factions in communities; discords in business; conflicts between nations,—all these are the efforts of the evil one, or the one evil, to separate man from the one good.

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