Editorial January 7, 1939 Issue

"That is enough!"

Violet Ker Seymer

Several times in the forty-fifth chapter of Isaiah the prophet repeats the inspiring proclamation of God: "I am the Lord, and there is none else. ... There is none beside me." With every passing century, spiritually-minded individuals have rallied to this clarion call of Truth, and have in some measure proved its liberating influence.

This spiritual advance opened the way for the appearing of Christ Jesus, who, in word and deed, brought home to his followers the fact that God, good, is the only power and presence. Hence that good is unmixed with evil. Enjoining men to abandon their dualistic, confusing, discouraging habits of thought and speech, he said, "Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." That which reflects God alone represents genuine consciousness, the oneness of being. Nothing can be added to the infinity of good. Hence the true thinker's "Yea"—the acknowledgment that God is All-in-all and that "there is none else"—rings out triumphantly, and his unqualified "Nay" to every claim of evil is equally firm, being the logical deduction from the "Yea."

All through "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy patiently reiterates the allness of God and the consequent nonexistence of evil save as false belief. On page 287 of this book she writes: "God being everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He be absent or suggest the absence of omnipresence and omnipotence? How can there be more than all?" The word "suggest" indicates that one must shake oneself free from the mental suggestion that God, good, is not All. In short, from the hypnotic belief in evil claiming to affect one by means of thought-transference between many minds. The one Mind, God, projects no such suggestion, and none has ever touched the consciousness of spiritual man or in any way affected God's creation. The one Mind is productive only of good. The thoughts of divine Mind alone are real and powerful.

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