Shakespear puts into the mouth of Julius Caesar these words:

The student of Christian Science, by facing them with the assurance that comes from Truth, causes his fears to vanish; for he has learned that they are but illusions. The Scriptures declare that God created man in His own image. Mary Baker Eddy defines man as "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 591). Every false fear, then, suggests that in some particular good is lacking. In this light, the solution of a problem involves attaining and maintaining the clear and positive realization of man as God's image, immutable, and immune from mortal belief.

Thus, the banishment or overcoming of evil is to be thought of not as a striving against something capabel of resistance, but as a confident denial and abandonment of every suggestion that man ever is less than perfect. It is the overcoming, or rising above, belief in evil, or lack, into the pure atmosphere of Mind. Only the material senses testify of evil, and everyone is familiar with their undependableness. When he awakes from sleep, one dismisses the dream that has seemed real to the dream sense. In like manner, the spiritually illumined thought dismisses the suggestion of reality in discordant experiences. The evil, which seems real, is unreal, having no part in true existence. And just as the motion picture projected upon a screen is no part of the screen, so the discords of human experience are no part of the individual, but are mesmeric beliefs of mortal mind projected upon human experience. Thus the student of Christian Science applies the truth he has learned, turns from the discordant manifestations, and devotes his attention to praise and gratitude for the presence and allness of God, infinite good, wherein abides the good which to mortal belief seemed to be lacking. The student's whole endeavor is to follow the instruction given by Mrs. Eddy in the textbook, Science and Health, in such words as the following (p. 14): "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well."

As through study and practice one's thought rises above the testimony of the senses, one attains the true sense of dominion over material beliefs and suggestions of every name. In reflecting the allseeing and all-knowing Mind, one is divinely equipped to detect the suggestions that would contradict the harmony proceeding from infinite, all-acting Principle; for he knows that evil, being the opposite of good, which is infinite, must be nothingness; and he refuses to ascribe any value, power, or presence to nothingness. Like the bank teller, who detects counterfeit money through his familiarity with the true currency, the student detects the false through his understanding of the real; and he knows that he is protected and led by the spiritual ideas which come from God and reveal the affluent provision of immutable Life and Love. The expression of all-inclusive Truth, man lives, moves, and has his being in infinite divine consciousness; he dwells in serene assurance in the kingdom wherein is no discord—no sorrow, no lack, no pain—and wherein is constant, joyful recognition of his unassailable identity as the Father's son.

A student of Christian Science found himself in a discordant situation which involved the fact that his salary was quite inadequate. He did his work cheerfully and well, with gratitude for the opportunity to serve. He sought to be co-operative, even pursuing a course of studies designed to aid him to do more effectively the work in which he was engaged and to fit him for more responsible work. Meantime he left no stone unturned to effect a change of place, for he had begun to think that progress in the situation was improbable, if not impossible. For three years he seemed to be working without avail.

Then it was pointed out to him that his need was to seek a higher understanding of God. One night he read, with more than usual care, the account of the Master's feeding of the five thousand, as narrated by Luke, Meager, indeed, appeared the visible supply—five loaves and two fishes. But the Master, seeing God's provision, "took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude."

Becoming aware that he had been trying to run away from the problem and to overcome lack and other inharmonious conditions while regarding them as realities, the student set about thanking God for ever-present supply, and striving more clearly to see his true work as the reflecting of spiritual qualities, expressing them to everyone about him. In a few weeks he was made assistant to the president of the organization, with a more than doubled salary.

The real man, reflecting God, expresses complete, harmonious activity. This ceaseless, unvarying, irresistible activity unfolds to receptive thought an understanding of real being which is adequate to banish fear, to reverse and obliterate false belief, and to prove true the Master's words, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."