Editorial February 1, 1936 Issue

"The Science of omnipotence"

Violet Ker Seymer

On page 101 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes: "The Science of omnipotence demonstrates but one power, and this power is good, not evil; not matter, but Mind. This virtually destroyed matter and evil; including sin and disease." Scientifically, everything comes under the head of actual or inactual, omnipotent or impotent. The terms powerful and powerless are not comparative, for infinite, all-powerful good is beyond compare.

Whatever appears to the physical senses to be material and temporal is the effect of ignorance of Truth, and ignorance is not an entity, but a nonentity. Only distrust of the infinite entity of Spirit could dupe one into fearing a nonentity. True existence expresses the unrivaled power of the divine Principle, Love, and its invariable harmony. Christian Science teaches that all power is vested in the one Life, God, and that since there is no cessation of Life, there is no actual death. So-called death is the consequence of believing that life is physical and organic. Therefore death is not overcome by yielding to this belief of organic life and death, but by mastering it, step by step. Even as Spirit is indestructible, so is man's life spiritual and indestructible. This knowledge, demonstrated by means of "the Science of omnipotence," is destined to prove the unreality of the experience called death. Every least demonstration of this Science therefore be regarded as a step towards winning the final victory over "the last enemy."

The ideas of Spirit, representing health, righteousness, eternality, know nothing of disease, sin, or death. Infinite Spirit, their source, has never been invaded by matter, nor truth by error. Thinking from the standpoint of impregnable truth, the student of Christian Science discovers the way out of human dilemmas. When seeming to be obsessed by some form of error, he takes refuge in "the Science of omnipotence," which includes nothing wrong or uncertain. Courageously obedient, he acknowledges that truth, upholding the power of its own witnesses, prohibits the presence of any false belief or false believer. Growing calmer through this acknowledgment, he then rejoices in knowing that no lie has ever proceeded from truth, and that nothing inglorious mars the radiance of infinite Love or casts a shadow of error in the consciousness of man.

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