Article March 26, 1955 Issue

OVERCOMING EVIL SUGGESTIONS

LAWRENCE M. FARRELL

An infinite good cause cannot possibly produce an evil effect. God, good, being the only cause and creator, evil suggestions lack a cause or source and have no Principle or law to enforce them. They are illegitimate.

A well-known encyclopedia defines "suggestion" in part as "the communication of any proposition from one person (or persons) to another in such a way as to secure its acceptance with conviction, in the absence of adequate logical grounds for its acceptance." Aggressive mental suggestion continually keeps knocking at the door of thought.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 495, 496), "In the Science of Mind, you will soon ascertain that error cannot destroy error." And she continues, "You will also learn that in Science there is no transfer of evil suggestions from one mortal to another, for there is but one Mind, and this ever-present omnipotent Mind is reflected by man and governs the entire universe."

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