A Large number of the troubles which harass mortals appear to be produced by personalities thought of as enemies, rivals, or unjust critics. The thoughts and acts of such individuals often seem to offer serious obstacles to the success and happiness of those who are the objects of their hostility, rivalry, or criticism. The result is the breeding of fear, hate, resentment, retaliation, and physical disease. Bad thoughts produce bad health. But this battle of mortals with mortals which characterizes the material sense of life and selfhood is the flimsy counterfeit of the spiritual and real sense of creation, wherein the universal fatherhood of God puts the unbreakable seal of reality on the indivisible brotherhood of man.
Mary Baker Eddy describes the false material sense of existence as fratricidal, which means that this mortal sense of life is often characterized by brother killing brother. But Christian Science shows how, through an understanding of God, of His allness and man's spiritual sonship with Him, every individual can realize his complete unrelatedness to this godless, truthless, loveless sense of creation and find his primal and perpetual superiority to it and disassociatedness from it.
God, infinite Mind, Life, and Love, is unassailable. The one Mind is forever conscious only of its own infinitude, filled with its family of ideas, all knowing one another aright and all understandingly and lovingly co-operating with one another under the unifying guidance and government of their one Mind or Principle, God.
