Article August 14, 1976 Issue

A way to detect and destroy claims of evil

Bringing the Crime Rate Down

FRANKIE L. THOMAS

In reality we all have the same address: the kingdom of heaven, where man, forever at one with divine Love, dwells in perfect safety. Our beloved Master, Christ Jesus, tells us, "The kingdom of God is within you" Luke 17:21; —that spiritual kingdom where there is love, harmony, justice, and abundance. In order for us to experience this kingdom now, it must be acknowledged to be within us now. Mrs. Eddy writes of this kingdom within: "Think of this inheritance! Heaven right here, where angels are as men, clothed more lightly, and men as angels who, burdened for an hour, spring into liberty, and the good they would do, that they do, and the evil they would not do, that they do not." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 251;

The activity of checking crime must take place in our own thought. We cannot expect others to express Mind's perfect qualities if we are not first striving to bring our own lives and thoughts into perfect accord with Principle. When we have demonstrated in our thought and actions sufficient truthfulness, purity, trustworthiness, and freedom from fear, we are enabled to bring the expression of these godly qualities into wider human experience and see them expressed there.

The fear of being a victim of a crime becomes less threatening as we gradually learn that material conditions are really subjective phenomena—mortal images that have no more reality or life or substance than a dream. When we grasp this fact, we begin to lose our fear of our surroundings. The perfect, harmless universe of God and man becomes more real to us, and the fraudulent belief that man is a mortal, capable of molesting or being molested, becomes unreal. We then look right through the illusion of the physical senses and see man as the inviolable, individual expression of God's being, governed by Him in meaningful and loving action.

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