Reasoning from Cause to Effect

Reasoning from cause to effect in Christian Science, we begin with the great and only cause, the infinite and omnipotent Mind. The Scriptures inform us that "all things were made by him [God]; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men." John 1:3, 4;

Divine Mind's infinitude precludes the possibility of an effect from any other cause. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence." And she adds, "In reality there is no other existence, since Life cannot be united to its unlikeness, mortality." Science and Health, p. 492; The terms "mortality" and "mortal existence" express a mistaken, false sense of existence. Any attempt to reason from what appears to the material senses to be mortal existence or matter back to cause is incorrect. Such attempts end in frustration and erroneous conclusions. A right beginning is requisite for a right ending. Mrs. Eddy writes, "You command the situation if you understand that mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the truth of being." p. 403;

True being, or spiritual existence, and self-deceived mortal existence are foreign to each other. They do not cooperate or contribute in any way the one to the other. Mortal existence and matter and the so-called mortal mind are inseparably one. Specifically, mortal mind is the satanic liar, the anti-Christ. Its false beliefs and its seeming effects are nonintelligent, the contradiction of the intelligence and wisdom of the divine Mind. Hence they are unreal and unreliable, because there is no invariable rule, law, or Principle to support them. When this is seen and understood, there is no reason to believe or fear them.

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