Editorial July 26, 1952 Issue

SCIENTIFIC DOMINION OVER FEAR

Richard J. Davis

The Apostle Paul, who was one of the most metaphysical of the early Christians, wrote to the Corinthians (I Cor. 9:26, 27), "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection."

Spiritually considered, these words of Paul's are quite as helpful and applicable now as they were then: "So fight I, not as one that beateth the air." In this unusual statement Paul has in a manner described the wrong as well as the right way of meeting evil thought. To beat the air would imply a fearful and frantic effort to combat error on its own false plane and would certainly be an indication that one believed he was confronted with a very real and even desperate situation.

In Christian Science we find that the supposititious claims of evil are not met by running away or by refusing to face them, nor by beating the air in a humanly mental effort to destroy them. In her book "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (p. 355), "To Strike out right and left against the mist, never clears the vision; but to lift your head above it, is a sovereign panacea." The belief of a material body with its erroneous suggestions is brought into subjection only as one begins to see the true subjective nature of body, or being; as one sees identity as individual spiritual consciousness. Because man's true body is the unfoldment or objectification of thought or ideas, we see how and why Mind creates, governs, and controls its own embodiment always harmoniously and therefore becomes the law to every belief of body. In other words, the so-called human body through scientific understanding is brought into subjection to the law of divine Mind.

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