Disease Was Never Real

CHARLES V. WINN

Humanity probably is concerned with no greater problem than that of maintaining health. The fact that mortals spend a large proportion of their time and effort in trying to attain it shows the high premium which is placed on it. The further fact that it has not been widely secured, proves that humanity has not been looking in the right direction for health; hence the many failures and disappointed hopes.

Christian Science has revealed to the world the divine verity that, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 298), "The true consciousness is the true health." The human so-called mind has for so long believed that health is material and governed by material conditions, that such a statement comes as a distinct shock to its age-long beliefs. That our Leader's statement is eternally true, however, can be proved in the personal experience of any earnest seeker for a right understanding of health and harmony.

Divine Science has revealed to this age the fact that God is the only Mind, the one true and infinite intelligence. Divine Mind has only one way to express itself—through right ideas. This Mind includes every right idea; hence, it includes the right idea of health or harmonious being. This Mind cannot include within itself anything inharmonious, negative, or destructive, else it would embody something which would eventually cause Mind, God, to be self-destructive; and such a theory is unthinkable. Man is made in God's image and likeness, and is the full and complete expression of all God's attributes or qualities. He must be conscious of that of which God is conscious. In his true being he must know only that which God knows, namely, harmony, completeness, perfection, and wholeness. God could no more produce inharmony in man, His reflection, than music could express itself in discord.

It is in the application of these eternal truths that the Christian Scientist has to be most watchful. We have for so long believed that man is at one time sick and at another time well that it requires constant vigilance lest thought revert to the old beliefs and erroneous concepts.

In an allegory illustrative of healing through Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy presents Christian Science as saying (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 439), "We send our best detectives to whatever locality is reported to be haunted by Disease, but on visiting the spot, they learn that Disease was never there." Having learned that disease is no part of divine or true consciousness, the student of Christian Science readily discerns that it never was anything or anywhere, and that it never had any actual or true existence. It only seems to exist in a false, unreal, or untrue state of consciousness. Hence, it never had any real history, location, states, stages, entity, or reality; any origin, presence, or actuality.

To be consistent, then, a true Christian Scientist resolutely refrains from any belief in disease, even if it has seemed to exist in either the immediate or the remote past. He completely wipes it out of consciousness, because it has never existed as a reality; it "was never there."

This truth realized utterly destroys any fear of a return of disease, because the fact is established in consciousness that God, good, is, always has been, and always will be All-in-all. There never was a time when disease had the slightest reality, because God is and always has been every-where. Jesus of Nazareth, the world's greatest healer, proved this beyond all doubt. His healings were generally instantaneous. It made no difference to him whether mortal mind said that certain conditions had seemed to exist from birth, for thirty-eight years, or for twelve years; they immediately vanished when our great Master knew the truth about them. His profound understanding of the eternal verities enabled him to know at once that they never had been, and that man, God's child, never had anything but what the Father bestowed, namely, immutable good.

Nahum says, "He will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time." Why? Because there never was a first time. There never was anything in the divine consciousness, man's eternal dwelling place, but illimitable good.

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