Article October 31, 1959 Issue

OVERCOMING EVIL'S DECEPTION

NOEL D. BRYAN-JONES

IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 207), "We must learn that evil is the awful deception and unreality of existence." Christian Scientists are learning to see through the "awful deception" of evil, disease, poverty, and inharmony to the glorious reality of God and His expression, man.

From the inspired words of the Bible, spiritually illuminated by the writings of Mrs. Eddy, we learn that God is entirely good, including no element of evil; that He is All, leaving no place outside His divine allness in which evil can exist; and that He is all-knowing Mind, leaving no mind which can be deceived by evil. Science reveals that whatever is not good is actually unknowable, because it is not known by the one Mind, God.

This All-God, good, manifests Himself through His own idea, man, who knows his own spiritual origin and condition. One understanding his spiritual selfhood cannot be deceived by the mistaken concept of man as mortal. The misconception of man as material, as existing in addition to the spiritual image or expression of the one God, would deceive one into believing that the mortal must be changed into the immortal before health and harmony can be experienced.

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