Article November 12, 1955 Issue

GOOD KNOWS NO OPPOSITION

[Original article in German]

KATHE M. OCKERT

When we are about to enter a dark room with a light, we do not wonder whether the darkness in that room will resist the light or whether the light will dispel the darkness. We know that in the presence of the light the darkness, which may have seemed very black and very real, will simply vanish. We also know that darkness does not disappear gradually and reluctantly before the light, but instantly.

The nature of mental darkness is completely illusory and, in the presence of the light of Truth, is entirely substanceless. This means that darkness itself is not an object, is not truth, is not reality. Through the light of his spiritual understanding, his illumined knowledge of the impotence of matter and of the omnipotence of Spirit, God, good, Jesus destroyed unhesitatingly and instantaneously the darkness of materiality, whether it appeared to be sickness or death, or was manifested as sin, lack, or the fury of the storm or waves.

Christian Science reveals the wonderful truth that to God, who is infinite Spirit and Love, and to His reflection, the true spiritual man, there is no opposition, since all power belongs exclusively to God. How wonderful it is when we first glimpse the truth that whatever seems to trouble, to tyrannize over, or to hold mankind in fear and trembling can offer no real opposition or resistance, for, as Christian Science declares, evil has no identity or reality. It is because of their ignorance concerning the truth of being that mortals attribute power and reality to error and thus limit themselves by their own beliefs.

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