The truths gleaned from the Bible and from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy help us in storm and calm, in defeat and victory, in moments of doubt and darkness, and in days of assurance and sunlight. They must be ever active in our consciousness if we would safeguard our mental homes from the encroaching suggestions of mortal mind. Mrs. Eddy tells us in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 210): "There is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness. Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort." Our duty, then, is to keep thought constantly in conformity with divine Mind by recognizing the spiritual relationship between God and man. In this way we shut out the would-be intrusion of mortal mind.
That this mental work brings liberation and healing was proved by a young woman who was suddenly confronted with error which seemed so great that she felt plunged into a maelstrom of gloom and fear. Clear thinking seemed an impossibility, but she audibly repeated "the scientific statement of being" from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy (p. 468). This steadied her thought, and clear, prayerful metaphysical work followed. Mortal mind was stilled, and a positive victory resulted. The more earnest study we give to the spiritual facts of reality, the more will be unfolded to us of the depth and height, the majesty and might, of the Love and Mind they forever reflect.
The opening statement of "the scientific statement of being" reads, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter." If there is no truth in matter, then matter must be a lie, and no one could actually believe that which he knows is false. We perceive the fallacy in the statement that three plus three equals seven because we know that it is contrary to fact. There is no intelligence in it, for it is contrary to knowledge; we cannot use it, for it does not conform to mathematical science and has no entity. It is only our belief in its fallacy that would make it appear real to us. We may reason similarly regarding materiality. There is no place in Spirit for matter, the antipode of Spirit. Man cannot know matter, for he knows God. Man cannot use matter, for it does not exist in his spiritual habitation. Matter does not conform to Principle, for it is contrary to spiritual law. Therefore matter possesses no entity.
