Article December 2, 1933 Issue

In reply to a correspondent writing in your issue of...

Charles W. J. Tennant,—London

Kensington News and West London Times

From Letters, Substantially as Published

In reply to a correspondent writing in your issue of April 7, let me reiterate that Christian Science teaches that God, being infinite Mind, cannot know evil, and that His reflection, spiritual man, cannot express what God does not know. Christian Science practitioners are not "battling" with anything that is real when they are destroying false beliefs, any more than a mathematician is "battling" with a reality when he destroys the belief that two and two makes five.

Our critic makes the following statement: "False belief is no part of spiritual man's real, that is to say, his eternal God-given consciousness; it is temporal, unreal; but it is attached to spiritual man's consciousness." Evil can never be attached to spiritual man's consciousness. Such a thing is impossible; for, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 300 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science: "The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existent. These opposite qualities are the tares and wheat, which never really mingle, though (to mortal sight) they grow side by side until the harvest; then, Science separates the wheat from the tares, through the realization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting the divine likeness."