Article June 30, 1928 Issue

Losing the False Sense of Evil

LILLIAN BARKER DURKEE

The prophet Habbakuk's marvelous declaration that God is "of purere eyes than to behold evil," and cannot "look on iniquity," remained a mystery to mankind until our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, discovered the unreality of matter and the consequent unreality of everything that falls short of the requirements necessary for classification as positive good.

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave specific instructions to his followers in all ages, whereby to solve the daily problems and live the righteous life. The goal of persevering effort to overcome and patient striving for spiritual attainment, he reveals in the divine command, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Then, if our Father-Mother God is too pure to behold evil, and mankind is striving to grow into His image and likeness, or to emerge from the belief in a material existence into man's heritage of spiritual existence, it is clearly requisite that we lose our sense of evil by looking out upon the universe with eyes pure enough scientifically to unsee everything that is unlike good.

The ability to discern quickly between good and evil is indicative of progress in the understanding of the Science of Mind; and it is necessary that the active, alert student of Christian Science should be able to uncover the beliefs of so-called mortal mind and reject the subtle suggestions that are attempting to deceive and mislead. But this awakened mental ability, that can draw the line of separation between wrong thoughts and right thoughts, is not sufficient to lift us to the spiritual understanding where vision becomes so purified that it does not even behold evil thoughts. The question naturally arises, By what process of thought can we attain to such a spiritual understanding? There is but one satisfactory answer: By endeavoring to obey Jesus' loving admonition, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

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