Editorial September 5, 1931 Issue

Causation and Dominion

Violet Ker Seymer

Christian Science acknowledges only one real cause, namely, Spirit, expressed in spiritual substance and effects. In this infinite spiritual domain materiality is not extant; it is scientifically causeless and without effect. God, Spirit, is the only cause in existence, and in His creation inheres all true effect. For anything to be real it must be traceable to God, the one cause, and must be consistent with His purpose. As this true causation is understood, humanity learns the secret of dominion.

There are not two clashing causes, one making one healthful and righteous, and a contrary cause making one sick and sinful; the one making one glad, and a contrary cause making one sad. Such flatly unscientific, dual thinking underlies all human imperfection, and it must cease in order that the resultant discord may cease. In Truth there is no duality. God does not undermine or destroy the perfection of His own creation, and nothing exists which has the power to do so.

Through this basically true understanding of God and man students of Christian Science are learning to rise superior to medical verdicts which label certain cases incurable, and which sometimes would dishearten an individual on the score of so-called hereditary imperfection. There can be no resignation to sickness, helplessness, sorrow, lack, when one realizes the relation between spiritual causation, dominion, and understanding, and strives to live in accord with this realization.

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