Editorial April 4, 1936 Issue

The Irreversible Truth

George Shaw Cook

Truth is understood in Christian Science both as a name for God and as being synonymous with Christ, the spiritual idea of God. Thus, in her definition of God, on page 587 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy includes Truth among the seven synonyms for God, whereas in many other places in the same book she uses the terms "Christ, Truth," and, occasionally, "the truth" as meaning that which is true about God, Spirit, Mind, and its spiritual universe, including individual man. Writing of truth in the latter sense, she says (ibid., p. 282):: "Truth is the intelligence of immortal Mind. Error is the so-called intelligence of mortal mind."

The so-called intelligence which has its only claim to existence as the suppositional opposite of divine Mind—absolute truth—is the reverse of real intelligence, or the intelligence which expresses divine Mind; hence its unreality. This erroneous belief of intelligence, claiming existence apart from and outside of that which is infinite and divine, also claims power to reverse all that is true about God, Spirit, and its perfect spiritual creation. It claims, for example, that matter exists as entity, that it has intelligence and sensation, and even more, that matter is capable of originating and sustaining existence. This false belief of intelligence claims that it can produce in matter the sensations of pleasure and pain; that it can create and perpetuate the conditions of disease; and, finally, that it can terminate the so-called life or existence that it pretends to have created.

Mrs. Eddy had disposed of these false pretenses of so-called mortal mind briefly but categorically in her wonderfull answer to the question, "What is the scientific statement of being?" found on page 468 of Science and Health. Her answer is, in part: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." And the paragraph which contains the foregoing words embodies the essence of Christian Science. It is amplified, however, throughout the Christian Science textbook and in Mrs. Eddy's other writings. Students of these writings in connection with the Bible have found them to confirm and elucidate the Scriptural teaching that God is "a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."

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