MANKIND'S troubles can all be effaced as the true sense of intelligence is manifested, to the exclusion of its counterfeit. On page 469 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle,—Life, Truth, and Love,—named God." Since intelligence is primal and eternal, it obviously knows neither cessation, lapse, nor disability; it is not subject either to immaturity or to deterioration.
Mind and its manifestation being omnipresent, there is for man as Mind's expression no absent-mindedness. Immortal man reflects immortal intelligence. Since it is a quality of divine Principle, intelligence is used only for righteous purposes. What is unrighteous is unintelligent. Crime, hate, enmity, and the involuntary errors of sickness and death express the ignorant assumption of life and intelligence in matter. They are counterfeits of health, holiness, and immortality, for divine Mind alone is truly causative.
As a quality of Truth, intelligence is immovable, flawless, free, uninfluenced by the suppositions of error. Therefore, as mortals utilize this intelligence, they find former erring habits of thought, speech, and action being arrested and nullified. Intelligence never believes in the absence of good, nor in the presence of discord.
