"To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme," wrote Herman Melville. This might be paraphrased to read, "To live a mighty life, you must choose a mighty theme."
A mighty theme is to be found in the teachings of Christian Science. This theme may be stated variously, but there can be no successful deviation from its fundamental proposition that that which emanates from God, Spirit, is forever free from contamination, taint, or pollution; that it is pure in the highest sense. This is a divine, not a human conception, spiritual and not material. Therefore it is consistent in its purity.
Physical science, scholastic theology, and material medicine are based more or less on the false hypothesis that evil is real and is to be considered as an actual factor in the search for Truth. Of this erroneous postulate Mary Baker Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 346): "The mortal admission of the reality of evil perpetuates faith in evil; and the Scriptures declare that 'to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are.' This leading, self-evident proposition of Christian Science, that, good being real, its opposite is necessarily unreal, needs to be grasped in all its divine requirements."
