Mortal Mind's claims to activity constitute an attempted interference with the harmonious government of God's universe. As such, they are seen to be false and unreal, since omnipotence does not share its all-inclusive power with that which predicates its existence on a denial of omnipotence. The interfering concept seeks to protect and perpetuate itself through the reiterated argument that it, too, proceeds from God and exists by virtue of His law. The daily task of every Christian Scientist is to free himself from such interferences, and allow the Father's will to rule his thinking. Divine Love is positive and unerring; and its guidance is joyfully acknowledged and obeyed as, through Christian Science, each interference is unmasked and overcome. Mrs. Eddy disposes of interferences succinctly and conclusively when she says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 427), "Nothing can interfere with the harmony of being nor end the existence of man in Science."
Human thought becomes spiritualized through devoted study and unselfishness; and thus Christian Science uplifts it to a more willing acceptance of the naturalness of good. No other expectation has a place in Christianity. The blessings specifically promised by Christ Jesus in the Beatitudes are the essential and distinctive element of the Sermon on the Mount. Without these promises, that immortal sermon would have been little more than a restatement of the Ten Commandments; but, crowned with the definite correlation of requirement and achievement, it became the corner-stone of the new dispensation. Through Mrs. Eddy's discovery that Christianity is Science, demonstrable and unchanging, the unity, continuity and completeness of God's law have now been vindicated and established in human understanding; and mortals are free to claim with divine assurance the fulfillment of the blessings which follow obedience to the government of divine Principle. With equal assurance, they are free to repudiate every argument which would interpose obstacles to delay or obstruct their conscious dominion.
First among the interferences which confront the pilgrim who is seeking his salvation is the depressing argument that, being so far removed from perfection, he should content himself with some lower, more easily attainable aim. He looks dismally upon the barren results of centuries of patient toil for human betterment and cries with the Preacher that "all is vanity and vexation of spirit." Literally "as old as Adam," this threadbare argument of evil is a barefaced attempt to force from man the admission that he must work up through material conditions to a spiritual state. There is nothing in the teachings of Jesus or of Christian Science to sustain the theory that God's man—man "in Science," as Mrs. Eddy so often describes him— ever fell into the false belief of existence in matter or imperfection. That theory originated, like many a later and equally plausible lie, with the serpent of material sense. In the measure of our perception that material sense is a lie.—"a liar, and the father of it."—we gain the wisdom which enables us to handle "serpents;" and we realize that temptation is powerless to interfere with our understanding and proof of the wholeness and goodness of God's creation, including man in His image and likeness.
