Article March 27, 1965 Issue

"Thou shalt not know evil"

GLADYS C. GIRARD

An emphatic refusal on the part of mankind to know evil in any phase would promote a departure from mortality and the demonstration of spirituality. Mortality is predicated upon a knowledge of evil. The Bible gives mankind a terse command in the second chapter of Genesis, where we read, "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

Spirituality is obscured to the thought that knows evil, the thought that believes in a power opposed to infinite good. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 19, 20), "Jesus urged the commandment, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me,' which may be rendered: Thou shalt have no belief of Life as mortal; thou shalt not know evil, for there is one Life,—even God, good."

We learn in Christian Science that a deep and honest awareness of good, a determination to dwell mentally on nothing but good, can change one's life from sickness to health, from drabness to sparkling joy, from hatred to love, from confusion to certainty. To know good alone is to obey the command not to know evil. Good is the counterfact of evil. Evil is the counterfeit of good; and good being all there is or can be because it is one of the designations for God, evil is consequently without power, place, or existence.

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