Editorial August 24, 1940 Issue

Man Is Undeceived

Alfred Pittman

CHRIST JESUS' statement, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," implies that the acceptance of falsity constitutes the only bondage; and this is the teaching of Christian Science. The practice of this Science continually illustrates to its students that to be scientifically undeceived, through the understanding of Truth, is to demonstrate man's God-given freedom and dominion.

In this manner, the sick are healed. When confronted with disease, the Christian Scientist recognizes that it is unreal. He knows that the divine Principle of all being is God, infinite good; and this infinite Principle excludes the possibility of disease as a reality. Therefore the Scientist classifies it as false belief.

That disease may present certain physical evidences does not lessen his conviction as to its nature. Christian Science fully accounts for such evidences in its explanation of the mesmeric, or hypnotic, character of belief. It shows that belief seems to the one accepting it to present all that is necessary for its acceptance, including material appearances if need be—a characteristic illustrated in dreams in sleep, and in the illusions of conscious, or intentional, hypnotism. "A mortal belief," as Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 297), "fulfils its own conditions."

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