Article November 29, 1958 Issue

DISPELLING ILLUSION

MATILDA GABRIEL ROTHMAN

One day a dark speck appeared on the writer's paper. She brushed her hand over it in an attempt to remove it, but it remained. She used her finger on it in a more vigorous effort, yet it did not disappear. Looking more closely she saw why the spot had not been removed from the paper. It was a shadow—in no way attached to or affecting the paper. Light was required to dispel it.

All illusions, like the shadow, seem real and present. A particular illusion may be called by a particular name, but the fact that it is an illusion means it disappears when its nothingness is revealed by the light.

The light of Christian Science reveals Christ, Truth, to be the manifestation of God that destroys whatever is unlike God, good, no matter what its name. Fear, hate, sickness, lack, are some of the names of evil. Since, however, they are not created by God, they are illusions, thus unreal.

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