Article August 1, 1988 Issue

You can't throw shadows at the sun!

Nothing brings a sense of hope and inspiration like seeing the utter powerlessness and nothingness of evil.

Jacob Robert Moon, Jr.

Consider the following metaphor and its spiritual implication. On a cloudless midsummer day, darkness gathers its forces and invades the warm brightness of a sunlit beach. Nonsense! you say. Of course it is. Darkness cannot threaten. It cannot even resist, much less attack. Where light is, darkness cannot exist. You can't throw shadows at the sun! Nor can that which God knows and creates be invaded or obscured by evil of any kind, because His allness precludes evil's reality.

Throughout history, darkness has been a symbol of evil, danger, fear. It's an appropriate symbol because, wherever there is light, darkness is a non force. A non-presence. An absence. And in Christian Science, which has come to show mankind the unseen realities of God's all-good spiritual creation, so are evil, danger, fear.

This fact, which so contradicts what the physical senses may be telling us, is encouraging to anyone working to demonstrate in his or her life the all-power of good, God. Christ Jesus said to his followers, those to whom he was showing, by example, God's way of life, "Ye are the light of the world."^{Matt. 5:14.} Surely this metaphor encouraged his followers then, and it does so now. It says to us, as it said to them, "In Christ you are the light of the world; the lovers and knowers of Truth; the irresistible dispellers of shadows and darkness; the nemesis of obscurity and occultism, of blindness and fear."

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