Article October 8, 1932 Issue

"Write them not"

KATE E. ANDREAE

IN writing of the perfect record of creation existing in Mind's all-comprehensive and limitless sphere, Mary Baker Eddy has said (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 521): "The harmony and immortality of man are intact. We should look away from the opposite supposition that man is created materially, and turn our gaze to the spiritual record of creation, to that which should be engraved on the understanding and heart 'with the point of a diamond' and the pen of an angel."

Jesus, who brought the harmony and immortality of man to the comprehension of humanity, understood as none other those things which are eternally recorded in Mind, and he also saw the vanity of recording the evils pertaining to the flesh. "Write them not," was the command of the "voice from heaven" when the seven thunders uttered their voices. The Revelator was not to record evil in any of its phases. Why? Because all its claims—false material concepts, sin, disease, and death—are not included in the divine record of creation and are, therefore, unreal.

"Write them not" must have been Jesus' mental answer to the woes, weaknesses, and diseases which suffering humanity brought to him. The great friend of mankind lifted the heavy burdens, healed disease, and cast out sin by the divine and unparalleled sympathy he expressed. Recognizing the unreality of evil, he fearlessly rebuked and denounced the false material sense which claimed to victimize the people, and steadfastly upheld the triumphant facts of man's real existence as God's own son.

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