Questions as to the why or wherefore of the seeming presence of evil never occur to one who has learned in Christian Science that God created all, including man in His own likeness—created all good and perfect in accordance with His own nature. As the student of Christian Science lifts his thought above a false material sense of existence to spiritual realization of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God divine Mind, reigning eternally in ceaseless harmony, he sees as invalid any reason for the presence of even a claim of error. He instantly rejects such claims, just as one schooled in the science of numbers refuses to accept errors in mathematics. Doubtless it was from such a state of uplifted spiritual consciousness that the prophet perceived the truth of God's nature when he declared (Hab. 1:13), "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."
Since divine Mind knows and maintains its own perfect creation of ideas, and since the one Mind is the Mind of man it must follow that for man everything enduring, good, true, and needful is always at hand. The progress that seems necessary in human experience to achieve and maintain this spiritual consciousness of being comes through schooling thought to the acceptance and awareness of the fundamental fact that God, good, is All and that through His present and eternal laws He lovingly governs and maintains man in perfect harmony, security, and peace.
But sometimes one who is seeking healing through Christian Science may he moved to ask, "Why has my healing not yet come about:'" Who is it that puts such a question:' Does it come from man, God's image and likeness:' No; man, the expression of God's being, could no more ask a reason for the supposed presence of error than could God, in whose presence evil is as absent as is darkness in the illumination of light. The basis of any such question must be a false supposition that man is mortal and is separated from God.
