EDITORIAL SECTION
There is profound comfort in the fact that whatever evil seems to appear seems only to appear to itself. Evil is the dream of a dreamer, not the thought of Mind awake. The dreamer is an illusion of mind, and the dream is an illusion of thought. Illusion may, in supposition, twist and cast itself whimsically in grotesque forms that frighten itself, or in lovely forms that fascinate itself, or in forms just dull and humdrum and routine; but it is nevertheless illusion. Never can a dream be entertained by Mind awake; never can the thoughts, or ideas, of Mind awake be entertained by a dreamer.
Thus Christian Science explains the somethingness of good and the nothingness of evil. Thus it describes the reality of the origin of good, and therefore the reality of good; thus it illustrates the unreality of the origin of evil, and therefore the nonexistence of evil. In the terminology of this Science, Mind eternally and perfectly awake is divine; it is God, and it knows itself as the Mind of man, that is, of its individualized qualities, by which it expresses itself. And the dreamer is called mortal mind; it dreams in its supposition of existence that it is the mind of a mortal, in other words, the mind of false, mesmeric concepts which deceptively claim to bear witness to its presence as their source.
