Article August 26, 1972 Issue

Finding the Counter Fact

WILLIAM MILFORD CORRELL

One of the necessary activities in the healing ministry of Christian Science is the discernment of the specific truth that will counteract a particular error of thought which is causing the suffering. The more exact this application is, the more efficient the work that is done and the quicker the fruitage. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy states: "The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it. The utterance of truth is designed to rebuke and destroy error." ^{Science and Health, p. 233;}

In seeking out the counter fact one must understand that the human universe and man is an imitative creation. That is, mortal mind, the belief of life and intelligence in matter, has projected a false and material sense of creation in direct contrast to the original and true, or spiritual, sense. Everything in this lower or material creation is a counterfeit of the true ideas of God. Having no real foundation in fact, this lower sense of creation is subject to all kinds of disorder and discord. But through spiritual understanding one becomes aware of creation as God made it. The light of Truth uncovers the fact that man has always been God's spiritual image and likeness and has always been under God's harmonious law.

One instance of seeking the counter fact is seen in this—that each occasion of sin or disease is some phase of material self-will asserting itself and the remedy lies in seeking and understanding the divine will. Discord and sin are the self-assertion of a lie, the belief of life and intelligence in matter. The counter fact may well be perceived as the divine Principle or God asserting the truth of His allness and man's perfection as His likeness. I am that I am is the divine fact that silences the claim of sensation and suffering in matter. God is the only Mind or intelligence, and He shares His government with none other.

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