Article January 6, 1945 Issue

Separating Fable from Fact

SVEND PONTOPPIDAN BROBY

Has not the world, since the beginning of time, been striving to discover a way out of its manifold troubles, hardships, sufferings, wars? Mortal existence may be compared to a dark cave full of people all looking for a way out, groping in the dark and striving to find the door. Here and there individuals see a glimmer of light and follow it until they reach the sunshine and freedom. Many, however, remain roaming in the darkness, shackled by fear, superstition, false pride, and self righteousness, until something happens which awakens them to their false and self-imposed position, and they begin to follow the light which has set so many free.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes the following remarkable statement (p. 129): "If you wish to know the spiritual fact, you can discover it by reversing the material fable, be the fable pro or con,—be it in accord with your preconceptions or utterly contrary to them."

The student of Christian Science knows that he has accepted a scientific method of emancipation, that he has begun a mental house cleaning, separating the worthless from the valuable, fable from the fact. Hitherto he believed that what he did with his mortal experience was his to decide, that this life was his to do with as he pleased. But now he discovers that what is known as human existence, beginning at birth and ending at death, is merely a personalized expression of mortal belief in the Adam-dream of life and intelligence in matter, alias mortal mind. Thus he sees that the troublesome human problems, which before appeared to be his peculiar problems, are but those of all mortals, manifesting themselves in more or less aggravating forms, but all unreal.

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