Article October 12, 1929 Issue

Evil a Mirage

ELIZABETH ANNIE HODGSON

ON page 14 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 Mrs. Eddy says, "We regard evil as a lie, an illusion, therefore as unreal as a mirage that misleads the traveller on his way home."

A fuller meaning of these words was brought home to the writer while crossing an extensive American desert. As the train forged ahead at full speed, there suddenly appeared a broad expanse of water, its waves rippling in the bright sunlight. All eyes were immediately fixed upon it and the water looked convincingly real. Yet the conductor, speaking with authority, pointed out that it was a mirage. To one passenger at least, although the mirage continued for a considerable time, it was seen to be without either foundation or claim to reality.

When the truth of Christian Science dawns upon the receptive thought,—the truth that God is infinite, ever present good, that He made all and is All, and that there is no other cause or creator,—evil is seen to be an illusion. Then although, according to the testimony of the material senses, it may still seem to remain in evidence, to the awakened consciousness it has been bereft of its claim to reality.

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