Editorial May 13, 1944 Issue

Neither Deceived nor Deceiving

Evelyn F. Heywood

The fundamental deception in which all other deceptions are involved, is the belief that man is material, included and operating in a material universe. On page 207 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "We must learn that evil is the awful deception and unreality of existence."

So long as men are self-deceived, that is, so long as they believe themselves to be mortal, governed by laws which limit, handicap, and victimize them, they will be the perpetrators and the victims of deceptions, of many of which they are unaware.

Every frailty and limitation, every temptation to fear, all forms of disease, are phases of deception. They are offshoots of the one monstrous hoax, calling itself mortal existence, which deceives people into believing that life begins with birth, and will terminate with death.

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