THE divine statutes declared by Jesus to be the great commandments, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," are deific commands to all ages and peoples; and implicit obedience thereto by everyone everywhere is an imperative necessity. There is no other way whereby individual members of the human race can escape from the morass of discordant experiences in which to so great an extent mankind appears to be floundering.
Throughout her writings Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, insists upon an unswerving observance of these two great commandments—the expression of supreme spiritual law. Many times she writes of the divine Principle, Love; and on page 329 of her most important work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," appears this thought-challenging statement: "Principle is imperative. You cannot mock it by human will. Science is a divine demand, not a human. Always right, its divine Principle never repents, but maintains the claim of Truth by quenching error. The pardon of divine mercy is the destruction of error."
Men are free to choose whom they will serve, whether good or evil; but they cannot choose to serve evil instead of good without, sooner or later, paying the price of suffering for doing so. Error and sin in our thinking cannot be condoned or excused or overlooked. Scientifically speaking, they can only be destroyed. As students of Christian Science we have no choice but this: so to fill our thoughts with the divine ideas of Life, Truth, and Love that evil will be seen for what it is—a lie—and then it will not even seem to be real, but will disappear with all its seeming effects.
