Article April 10, 1976 Issue

The Fan

VIRGINIA YERGER ANDERSON

We find in Genesis two accounts of creation—one represents the spiritual fact, the other the Adam myth, or fable. The first account, the true one, is entirely spiritual and good. It shows that God has made man in His image to reflect Him, and man has been given dominion. But the second gives a picture of man that is misty, confused, deceptive—full of defeat, shame, and fear—in which the Lord God comments to Adam, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Gen. 3:19;

Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health that "fan" signifies "separator of fable from fact; that which gives action to thought." Science and Health, p. 586;

A "dominion" man and a "dust" man: Which would hold up better in the fanning process? The only chance the Adam man has to survive in our thought is in persuading us that the real and unreal can be mixed. Divine Science—the Science of Christ— does not countenance any mixture at all. God, Spirit, is All. Therefore man and the universe are spiritual, not mortal or material.

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