Article December 14, 1940 Issue

Proving Our Inseparability from Good

MILTON SIMON

When Paul admonished the Thessalonians to "prove all things; hold fast that which is good," he indicated the method of proving the facts of being, namely, by holding fast mentally to the actual or good. The activity of good in one's consciousness assuredly acts as a law to destroy the seeming presence of evil. All that is true about man and essential to his existence is wholly good, and man's inseparability from God, good, can be proved because it is an eternal fact.

Being unchanging good, divine Mind cannot know evil, its opposite. Therefore, the real man, God's reflection, cannot know evil. Error is thus no part of the real man. Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 300), "The mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect;" and she continues, "Science separates the wheat from the tares, through the realization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting the divine likeness." Through an understanding of the fundamental facts of God's ever-presence and of man's unity with his Maker, one is able to lay aside, as unreal, the mental and physical burdens that would limit or restrict his progress, or obscure his God-given freedom and harmony.

However, with the vision clouded by acceptance of material sense testimony as real, the individual struggles unsuccessfully to free his thought of belief in evil. He is prone to start to dissociate himself from discord by trying to account for its apparent activity. Hence, these and similar questions are sometimes voiced: Whence comes this lack? What have I been thinking or doing to bring on this condition? But error is never true. Fear, hate, resentment, disease, or any other discordant condition must be seen as unreal. It is false belief which would have us maintain our association with inharmony by admitting error to be real; whereas an understanding of our unity with God, good, severs any seeming relationship with error. Recognizing discord as a false belief is necessary in order to prove the nothingness of its claim. To understand the real man as the perfect idea of God, divine Mind, involves the recognition that disease, as well as the erroneous thoughts which seem to produce it, is unreal.

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