THE one commandment which is most frequently iterated throughout the Bible is that very terse one of three words, "Fear thou not." Isaiah, the great prophet of promise, of good tidings and beauty, is particularly emphatic in his admonition to the people of Israel to fear not. And this admonition always came as a command from God followed by the reason why there should be no fear. An example may be found in that familiar verse in Isaiah, "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."
It remained for the beloved Apostle John to give us the definition of God which revealed His nature and justified reliance on His promise of safety and deliverance. That inspired declaration is found in the first epistle of John: "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." Here only is fearless being to be found, and here is found only fearless being. God is Love, and God is infinite; therefore Love is infinite, and in the infinitude of Love there exists nothing that can know anything about fear or its suppositional existence. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, throughout her inspired writings has revealed this infinite Love as divine Principle, and has made the Science of this Principle available to mankind, that its dreams of fear may be dissolved in the crucible of Truth. On page 256 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes, "Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man."
Only in the supposititious realm of what is called mortal mind does fear obtain, and there it seems at times to be supreme and insurmountable. The fears of mortal mind are always and only for its own suppositional creation, its own selfhood. In proportion as that selfhood is recognized as unreal, without cause or creator, and therefore without identity, is fear eliminated from consciousness. The very core of every fear, every discord, every disease, is the belief in a mortal self apart from immortal Truth or God. If one did not believe in and love a self apart from Spirit, a matter self, he would never fear. A selfhood "rooted and grounded" in Love, must displace a self "rooted and grounded" in what is called matter, in order to find and experience fearless being.
