0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents

  	    Scholastic theology elaborates the proposition that
15	evil is a factor of good, and that to believe in the reality
  	of evil is essential to a rounded sense of the existence of
  	good. 
18	    This frail hypothesis is founded upon the basis of mate-
  	rial and mortal evidence — only upon what the shifting
  	mortal senses confirm and frail human reason accepts. 
21	The Science of Soul reverses this proposition, overturns
  	the testimony of the five erring senses, and reveals in
  	clearer divinity the existence of good only; that is, of
24	God and His idea. 
  	    This postulate of divine Science only needs to be con-
  	ceded, to afford opportunity for proof of its correctness
27	and the clearer discernment of good. 
  	    Seek the Anglo-Saxon term for God, and you will
  	find it to be good; then define good as God, and you
30	will find that good is omnipotence, has all power; it fills
 
Miscellaneous Writings --- Christian Theism                                  14

 1	all space, being omnipresent; hence, there is neither place
  	nor power left for evil. Divest your thought, then, of
 3	the mortal and material view which contradicts the ever-
  	presence and all-power of good; take in only the immor-
  	tal facts which include these, and where will you see or
 6	feel evil, or find its existence necessary either to the origin
  	or ultimate of good? 
  	    It is urged that, from his original state of perfec-
 9	tion, man has fallen into the imperfection th...at requires
  	evil through which to develop good. Were we to
  	admit this vague proposition, the Science of man could
12	never be learned; for in order to learn Science, we
  	begin with the correct statement, with harmony and
  	its Principle; and if man has lost his Principle and
15	its harmony, from evidences before him he is inca-
  	pable of knowing the facts of existence and its con-
  	comitants:  therefore to him evil is as real and eternal
18	as good, God! This awful deception is evil's umpire
  	and empire, that good, God, understood, forcibly
  	destroys. 
21	    What appears to mortals from their standpoint to be
  	the necessity for evil, is proven by the law of opposites
  	to be without necessity. Good is the primitive Princi-
24	ple of man; and evil, good's opposite, has no Principle,
  	and is not, and cannot be, the derivative of good. 
  	Thus evil is neither a primitive nor a derivative, but
27	is suppositional; in other words, a lie that is incapable
  	of proof — therefore, wholly problematical. 
  	    The Science of Truth annihilates error, deprives evil
30	of all power, and thereby destroys all error, sin, sickness,
  	disease, and death. But the sinner is not sheltered from
  	suffering from sin:  he makes a great reality of evil, iden-
 
Miscellaneous Writings --- Christian Theism                                15

1	tifies himself with it, fancies he finds pleasure in it, and
  	will reap what he sows; hence the sinner must endure
 3	the effects of his delusion until he awakes from it. 
Read more