Article August 24, 1946 Issue

The Conquest of Fear

HAROLD MOLTER

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (p. 542), "The belief of life in matter sins at every step." This statement is illustrated in the dream narrative of Adam and Eve. The entire account of these two characters is a succession of mortal discords, all based on the belief that man is an individual entity living in matter, separated from God, and subject to the claims and so-called laws of mortal mind.

The moment in which an individual accepts the belief that he lives in a material body, and that he is part of a material universe, he experiences feelings of insecurity. The trembling of the men of Israel before Goliath, the externalized object of their own fears, shows how mortal man shrinks in terror from the phantoms of his own beliefs, his misconceptions of creation.

The remedy for fear lies in the exaltation of human thought above the belief that creation is material, and that it consists of persons, places, and things dwelling in time and space. This growth of mortal mind out of itself is a gradual process, in which the facts of spiritual being replace the dark forebodings of mortal thought and the certainty of man's inseparable and eternal oneness with the Father-Mother God, divine Love, is established.

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