Editorial March 31, 1934 Issue

Demonstration

Violet Ker Seymer

Mrs. Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 306), "Life demonstrates Life," identifies demonstration with God, with cause. Then to doubt demonstration would be to doubt God's existence as cause enfolding effect. Nothing actually contradicts Life, curtails its evidence, or presumes to end it. Man's inclusion in Being is established. The facts of Life, God, are self-assertive, and no assertion is valid which is a contradiction of spiritual facts.

The Christian Scientist's responsibility consists in adhering to the fact that "Life demonstrates Life" and Love demonstrates Love. If besieged, for instance, with a false sense of hatred or revenge, envy or jealousy, claiming to operate through one or to be directed against one, what is the way out? It is to acknowledge that Love manifests love and nothing else. Love is already demonstrated, for it is all-embracing and nothing actually exists save that which originates in Love and expresses its nature.

That which appears to us as healing, then, is not an actual change mysteriously wrought in God's creation. It is the operation in human consciousness of infinite, changeless Love, which is expressed in perpetuity by all Love's manifestations. The most grievous temptation is blotted out as one totally surrenders the belief that anything unlike divine Love has had or now has any actual hold on one's self or one's fellows. Since the infinite God is not displaced, the opposite of God has no place. Love it is which declares its own all-inclusiveness and blessedness and so redeems humanity from ignorant delusions. Error must be driven out of every would-be hiding place. To affirm, for instance, that ignorance, delusion, or any other lie has presence or power would be to deny Christ, Truth, the rock upon which the righteous man stands and error founders. It is error, not Truth, which the Christian Scientist is called upon to deny, not in part, but in toto. The nightmares seeming to be included in human experience cannot withstand the light of spirituality beaming on all alike in the revelation of Christian Science.

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