God is All. And God is good. Therefore good is everywhere and may be seen everywhere. Evil is nowhere, and the illusion that it is somewhere may be dispelled as we look with love on all Love's creation and on all mankind.

The human view of a scene in which someone appears to be ill can be corrected through Christian Science. Love knows all there is to know about that scene. Love is Mind, the creator of all there is, and all that Love makes is good. Illness is not part of this creation. The illusion of illness is presented by mortal mind as evidence that there is a mind apart from divine Love. But the evidence is false. By recognizing Love as Mind and demonstrating man's oneness with this Mind, we see the goodness that Love sees and gain the authority to cast out the illusion of sickness with the power of Love.

When we view a scene in which there are thoughts of insecurity, we have authority to correct the view. Love sees one infinite Mind and its perfect manifestation. The illusion of many minds, of false motives, of unkindness, of domination, of timidity, of uncertainty, does not exist in the one Mind.

The real man, Mind's manifestation, does not suffer from this illusion. Understanding this, if the illusion presents itself to us, we may recognize the one Mind, see what Love sees and rejoice in the purity, mercy, justice, power, certainty of all thought and action in Mind's universe. We may denounce as unreal the illusions and replace them confidently with Truth. We may see that every corner and every point in the scene before us represents something very different from the mere objects or thoughts which appear. On page 267 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes, "Thought is borrowed from a higher source than matter, and by reversal, errors serve as way-marks to the one Mind, in which all error disappears in celestial Truth."

Love sees the reverse of obstructions, of antagonisms, of evils, because the reverse of these is true. The unobstructed expression of Love, the unopposed harmony of all ideas in God's universe, the all-inclusive goodness of every thought, motive, action, or object in Mind—these are always evident to Love. As we understand this we see the truth of the Christ promise (Rev. 3:8), "Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it."

As we view a scene in which medical law appears to threaten harmony or life, we may consciously reflect Love's perceptive power. Love sees the certainty of cause and effect, divine law infallible and irrevocable, always good. To Love, contagion is not a law unless it be the contagion of Love's goodness reflected throughout the infinitude of creation.

Love is Spirit. Therefore it knows no material substance, material action, material life. What it sees is the spiritual embodiment of Love's qualities, harmonious action, constructive action, perfect being, immortal life.

Love sees nothing that can suffer malfunction or breakdown, for there is no error in Mind's creation, nothing out of Mind's control, no foreign element developing in Mind's image. Love perceives perfect being, perfect harmony, perfect control—every element created and maintained by Mind for the purpose of expressing the one Principle, Love.

When viewing a scene in which there appears to be discord among human beings, we are free to correct the view. Every real thought must begin with Love. Love is the one Spirit which gives purpose to every thought that has ever come into being.

The illusion of discord in the human scene is the illusion of animal magnetism. This illusion claims that thoughts are formed by a magnetic force, animal in nature, causing men to think and to behave with evil motives. Animal magnetism appears to have power to make selfish, hateful, ugly mortals and call them men. But Love sees through this false picture and perceives the allness of Love excluding animality and hate, the oneness of Spirit including all motivation, and the perfection of man in Mind. Love sees what is real.

As we recognize Love as All, as Spirit, as Mind, as the divine Principle of man, and as we face the illusions of mortal sense with a clear consciousness of reality we destroy fear, we conquer animal magnetism, we prove by degrees the health and immortality of man. We heal disease. We overcome sin. We restore harmony. We lift mankind above evil, above mortality.

Every problem we face is in some degree a problem of vision. When we seem to see evil, the solution lies in recognizing man's true perceptive power. And the problem is solved when we utilize that power, the power of divine Love to see all that is real and to exclude all that is unreal. Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 248), "Love never loses sight of loveliness." Through Christian Science we may see what Love sees, destroy what Love does not see, and enjoy the loveliness our God has made.

Carl J. Welz