Article August 14, 1943 Issue

"Things which cannot be shaken"

MICHAEL ST. JOHN O'CARROLL

Like the beam of a lighthouse piercing the darkness of the storm, Christian Science comes to mankind as the promised Comforter, healing its ills, calming its fears, and establishing men firmly and unshakably upon the rock, Truth.

Today, a great fear which tends to mesmerize mankind is one of possible loss of life, home, business, comforts—of all that mankind has deemed desirable. True it is that all material things fade away and perish, for matter does not constitute reality, but is illusion, the dream sense of existence. On the other hand, the spiritual idea cannot be destroyed, but endures forever, and it is by the spiritualization of thought that one discerns "those things which cannot be shaken." Our Leader writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 269), "Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul."

When in Science we learn that there is only one Life, God, and that man expresses this Life, which is eternal, infinite, indestructible, then we become conscious of our indissoluble unity with God, and no more fear that matter, in whatever guise it may present itself, has power to obscure the true concept of Life, or to deprive us of it. Indeed, we begin to prove for ourselves that our true spiritual individuality is quite above and apart from any material sense of existence. We find that, although we appear to be in a material world, we are not of it, and that although mortals may believe man to be material and mortal, he really lives and moves in Mind, in the boundless bliss and eternal harmony that is heaven, man's only dwelling place.

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