Editorial October 8, 1938 Issue

Spiritual Dominion versus Human Domination

Duncan Sinclair

The Christian Scientist is in possession of an incomparable weapon for the handling and correcting of human difficulties. What is this weapon? It is the truth about real being. Christian Science reveals the truth of God's allness, the truth that good is infinite, and from this it draws the inevitable conclusion that evil is unreal. Moreover, Christian Science is teaching mankind that the understanding that God, good, is infinite and evil unreal, makes possible the rectification of all human wrongs.

Christian Science also reveals that God is infinite Love. This means that Love is the only real power, and that, consequently, Love protects, governs, and guides the entire spiritual universe. Man, therefore, as God's idea, God's image or reflection, is under the perpetual government and guidance of God. With this understanding one is able to deny all error, all that is unlike Truth and Love, in human affairs and relationships. Nothing that savours of evil, nothing that seems to afflict, nothing that appears to disturb harmony and peace, has real existence, and therefore it can be denied and overcome.

Suppose that in the routine of daily living a Christian Scientist were to find himself opposed by evil thoughts, due perhaps to the personal domination of another, even oppressed or persecuted by them, what should he do? He will have recourse to spiritual truth. He will affirm the truth of the allness and omnipotence of God, good, and deny that evil has presence or power. And he will not doubt the effectiveness of his understanding, knowing the power of Truth to destroy error. Just as the knowledge that twice two is four destroys the erroneous belief that twice two is five, so the understanding of God's allness destroys belief in the reality and power of evil. Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 243), "Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God."

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