Article May 5, 1951 Issue

UPSIDE DOWN OR RIGHT SIDE UP?

JENS OSVALD LAURITZEN

A Number of years ago on some European fairgrounds you could have heard a crier, or barker, invite you to come into a room and take a ride upside down. The vehicle was a big, long, swinging seat which hung on a brass bar. The customers were strapped to this seat, which appeared to swing forth and back, gaining momentum until the occupants believed they were in an upside-down position. Shrieks and yells would emanate from the room. The truth, however, was that neither the swing nor its occupants had moved, even an inch. The walls had turned, giving the would-be riders the impression that they had been turned upside down.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, makes this statement (p. 301): "Delusion, sin, disease, and death arise from the false testimony of material sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image of Mind and substance with everything turned upside down."

In Genesis we read (1:31), "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." For centuries mankind has believed that everything was not good. The world has gone round and round from one misconception, from one upside-down illusion, to another. The experience of the people in the swing proved conclusively how absolutely misleading material sensation can be. Had they known the facts, they would have reversed the sensation of the senses, unstrapped themselves, and walked away.

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