Article September 16, 1933 Issue

True Attraction

JULES CERN

As one ponders the spiritual import of attraction, two questions present themselves: first, What exists to attract? second, What exists to be attracted? Mary Baker Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 269), "Matter does not enter into metaphysical premises or conclusions." It follows that if we would gain the true answer to these two questions, we must reason from an entirely spiritual basis.

Material sense testimony offers many objections to its exclusion from consciousness; but our Leader gives us a dominant weapon in her statement in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 21): "It is well to know, dear reader, that our material, mortal history is but the record of dreams, not of man's real existence, and the dream has no place in the Science of being." Let us, then, consider "the Science of being."

We have Biblical authority for the statement that God is infinite, All, and is good, and that man is His image. Since God is All and is good, all that really exists is good. This allness of good establishes the goodness of His image, man; for since nothing but good is included in allness, evil has no place from which to start or anything to which it could attach itself.

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