Absolutely speaking, there is in the spiritual universe no evil to resist for the very reason that God is All and there is no power opposed to Him; hence there is nothing offering resistance to good; but relatively speaking, mortal mind is more or less constantly suggesting resistance in one form or another. Nevertheless, correctly speaking, there are not differing forms of resistance. All seeming opposition is the so-called mortal mind resistance to the one divine fact, namely, the omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience of changeless good. But this so-called mortal mind is particularly insistent that one's resistance to disease should not be permitted to remain low, because it believes that if one's resistance is low, he is liable to take on a physical ailment of one sort or another. It is necessary, therefore, for Christian Scientists in their work to give definite attention to this suggestion and to handle it specifically.

In considering the scientific way in which to handle a suggestion of this kind, Christian Scientists find it helpful to ponder the words of Mary Baker Eddy to be found in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 233), "The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it." What, then, is the counter fact relative to this error? Can the claim of low resistance ever touch man? No! Absolutely no! And why not? In reality there is no low resistance, because there is no opposition to God, or good. In His kingdom, where the real man dwells, there is no error, nor are there any resisting powers, for God is the all and only power. He knows no power in opposition to Himself. God is conscious of His allness—His all-inclusiveness, all-presence, all-power—and of nothing else. Man, therefore, as the reflection of God, is always one with good and eternally conscious of the fact that there is no evil present with him to resist or to be resisted.

From a study of his works it is readily seen that Christ Jesus, recognizing his eternal oneness with the Father, instantly rejected the testimony of the physical senses and held unfalteringly to the ever-present truth about man. When the ten lepers who stood afar off (Luke 17:12) asked him for aid, he had no fear of meeting them, because his spiritualized thinking did not respond to the suggestions of contagious error and of diseased bodies. He refused to give substance to error's suggestion that man's true and healthy nature could ever be resisted by evil. The fact that they were instantly cleansed and healed as they obeyed the truth voiced by the Master, proves these conclusions to be true. His clear spiritualized thought, which was ever aware of man's inseparable oneness with God, silenced the suggestions of what mortal mind calls a serious and contagious disease. The result of this right thinking was healing for the ten men and protection for Jesus.

It does not make any difference whether mortal mind calls sickness a sick body, sick supply, sick morals, or sick relationships. It is always a false claim—an evil suggestion. It is never real. It is never anything but animal magnetism suggesting itself. Right work in knowing that man is ever at the point of perfect oneness with all and unresisted good, will protect him from the seeming influence of every evil suggestion about low material resistance. Mrs. Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 115, 116), "Using mental power in the right direction only, doing to others as you would have them do to you, will overcome evil with good, and destroy your own sensitiveness to the power of evil."

To be sensitive to something is to have a sense of it or an awareness of it. In reality there is no sense of evil, for evil is senseless—untrue. So-called mortal mind cannot feel evil without first admitting that it is there, for feeling it and being otherwise conscious of it, according to the testimony of the physical senses, are one and the same thing, namely, animal magnetism—a lie and the father of the lie. The uncovering of a lie is on the way to the destruction of it, but when we know the utter nothingness of it, the complete elimination of it is assured. The ideal always to be kept before one's thought is a realization of the allness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil, for in this way only does one handle successfully the claims of restrictive and inharmonious beliefs.

James, in his epistle, admonishes: "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you." Christian Scientists are learning from the study of their textbook that in actual fact there is no devil to resist, but humanly speaking they are tempted, and that very frequently, to accept the claims of one. Hence they realize clearly their need for drawing nigh to God, that is, for realizing their at-one-ment with Him—with all good—because they know that as they do this they are truly resisting devilish beliefs of every kind. The way of resisting evil, or error, is not a struggling effort. It is not a fight that one carries on with a powerful enemy without. It is the quiet, peaceful knowing that God, good, is ever present with man, and that, consequently, nothing else is present with him. Christian Scientists strive to know that there is only one Mind; that this one divine Mind, or God, has all power and is ever present; and therefore that it is unnecessary and foolish for them to fear anyone or anything.

Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 149), "The Principle of Christ is divine Love, resistless Life and Truth." Man is the reflection of Love, of "resistless Life and Truth," and this fact realized renders powerless and ineffective every negative suggestion. God being omnipotent and all-inclusive, this resistless all-power belongs, by reflection, to man. This truth, made one's own, completely nullifies, eliminates, and destroys every evil belief, including all that claims to resist man's complete and eternal harmony.