Article January 23, 1971 Issue

Eliminating Contagion

JAYNE MONROE

The word "contagion" often strikes deep fear into the hearts of those who believe that evil can pass from person to person, bringing illness and death.

Is there any refuge in time of epidemics? The answer is Yes if one will but accept the fact that because God makes everything, including man, and makes it good, disease, being evil, has no creator and no reality. Accepting or rejecting evil is a personal choice. One can see himself either as a spiritual idea of God, immortal and perfect, or he can believe himself to be a helpless mortal subject to chance, Satan, or a God who sends plagues. To believe that God makes everything good and at the same time believe that disease and contagion can be part of this creation is not logical. Good and evil will always be opposites; they have no part in each other.

Spiritual identity, described in the first chapter of Genesis, is man as he really is, God's image and likeness. Behind what appears to be a human being is this perfect, spiritual entity. The true individuality of everyone is his likeness to God, Spirit. Complete protection results naturally from the understanding that man is enveloped by God, all-powerful good, filling all space.

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