Article June 9, 1945 Issue

Error Has No History

DOROTHY L. ELWELL

Mind's concept of a situation is the only real concept there can be. In this concept there can be no error, because Mind is God, Principle, Love, and can cognize only perfection. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 151) the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, makes the following arresting statement: "All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal." The truth in this statement nullifies any and all claims of a supposititious belief of inharmony, physical or mental.

One definition of the word "history" is "a systematic written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art." In God's creation, nothing has to occur or develop in order to make an event for history. His universe, forever created, needs no series of events or happenings to prove its completion and maintain its continuity.

A Christian Scientist understands God's allness to be ever present, omnipotent, infinite. When he affirms that error therefore is not real, that it never had reality or power, and realizes this truth, the seeming manifestation of error, of a power apart from God vanishes. There are not two worlds, one belonging to God and one belonging to mortal mind. Error has no place in which to occur, no channel through which to work, and no object at which to aim or on which to strike. The lie has no mind to direct, no force to use. In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 367) our loved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, reveals this demonstrable truth: "Infinite Mind knows nothing beyond Himself or Herself." Thus spiritual man, the man of God's creating, the expression of infinite Mind, can know nothing beyond illimitable good. He can have no material history claiming to exist outside this infinite activity of Mind.

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