Article July 28, 1945 Issue

Mastering the Myth

J. WOODRUFF SMITH

Everyone knows that there is no truth in a myth. But is everyone equally sure that there is no truth in sin disease, death —the general inharmony of the human scene?

One of the most sweeping statements found in the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," occurs on pages 151 and 152. There Mary Baker Eddy writes: "That mortal mind claims to govern every organ of the mortal body, we have overwhelming proof. But this so-called mind is a myth, and must by its own consent yield to Truth." Could there be a more accurate description of mortal mind? A myth-mind!

Since God is the only Mind, how could there be such a thing as a myth-mind? If there is. God made it and knows it and suffers it to act oppositely to Himself. But this is an impossibility. God is without a second, an equal, an inferior, a partner, or an opponent. Whatever the phase of error, it is not of Mind. God. Whether error claims to govern some portion of the mortal body, morals, vocation, home, or nation, it is only a figment of a so-called mythmind fictitious and unreal. It is never logical, but always mythological.

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