Editorial March 23, 1929 Issue

Causation

Albert F. Gilmore

One of the most important teachings of Christian metaphysics pertains to causation. Christian Science denies in toto the testimony of the material senses, so called, and posits all causation in God, in Mind. The inevitable corollary of this premise is that the universe, which is the result, the effect, of this causation, is spiritual; and it follows that since Spirit, God, is infinite, He is the only cause, and there can be no result, effect, or phenomenon from any other cause. God, Spirit, is the one and only cause.

But what of the material universe, the world of time and space, of which the senses seem to furnish such substantial evidence? Is it not real? Does it possess no quality or element of reality? Christian Science returns to these questions the unequivocal answer, No, none whatsoever! The belief that the material universe has some degree or measure of reality, however, is the foundation of the many troubles which harass us, in fact of all the afflictions which mortals encounter. From this mistaken belief spring the discords, the ills, the distresses and heartaches of life. A false concept of causation lies behind them all. And they are all healed when this belief is corrected with the facts about God and His perfect creation.

In support of this, Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 417), "Maintain the facts of Christian Science,—that Spirit is God, and therefore cannot be sick; that what is termed matter cannot be sick; that all causation is Mind, acting through spiritual law." When this is laid hold of, received into the understanding, and becomes our conscious realization, error will cease to claim attention; for God, Spirit, will be recognized as the only cause, as our veritable Father-Mother; and man as God's offspring will appear in his primal and eternal perfection. Can one doubt the beneficent result of such realization?

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