Article August 16, 1982 Issue

Why false beliefs can always be reversed

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

Nothing can turn back God. Nothing can frustrate His purpose, reality, plan, activity, allness. These are facts we need in order to prove why no falsity is irreversible. An illness, a sense of chronic failure, injustice—these are always reversible because always illusive.

Mortal thought—the mistaken matter-based reasoning of mortals—would argue that some disease or relationship has deteriorated so far as to have crossed the point of no return; nothing can be done about it. But there's no material law of irreversibility. Divine Truth is the source of all law. Standing with law, we can confront nonlaw. The claims of discord, uniting with our concession to the reality of matter, are illegitimate. They're the offspring of mortal mind—a bogus consciousness.

Mortal thought, not identifying the real source of healing, issues the challenge: "It's too late now. Things have gone too far. You'll have to write off this particular attempt at healing and do better next time." And so on. And on.

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