Article July 17, 1943 Issue

Awareness of Truth Nullifies Error

GLENN E. DOUGLAS

Protection , healing, and regeneration in Christian Science are based upon the axiomatic fact that Truth destroys untruth. God, good, is Truth. God and His perfect manifestation, man, the embodiment of all right ideas, are the sum total of reality. It follows that the opposite of God, that which is not good, is untrue. Since fundamental opposites cannot exist simultaneously in the same place, a scientific, spiritual awareness of Truth annuls untrue beliefs in human consciousness and heals the sick.

The Way-shower, recognizing this fact, said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Jesus did not say that we should merely know about the truth, for that does not result in demonstration. Knowing the truth is spiritual revelation; it is prayer or treatment. Human reasoning, embracing analysis, denial, and rejection of the claims of material sense, is often an aid in the mental process of unseeing that which is untrue. However, the divine logic which heals and protects is an unfolding awareness of the truth about God and man, a specific comprehension of present perfection. Strictly speaking, a Christian Science treatment does not heal man; it reveals man.

The writer was delivered from the depths of illness and discouragement through becoming conscious of the truth of his real being. After struggling long and apparently with slow progress to regain his health, he found himself engulfed in a flood of self-pity. Almost in despair, his lament echoed the cry of Job when he cursed the day on which he was born. "Why was I born?" he asked. "How did I get into this condition? I did not ask to be created. It is not fair that one should be born into the bondage of materiality, handicapped with a heritage of incapacity and limitation, without his volition or consent." For a moment he was even tempted to feel resentful towards his parents. Then he humbly turned from his rebellious thoughts in prayer to God, desiring to know the truth.

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