People are likely to greet the New Year with mixed emotions until they understand the nature of good and how they can bring more of good into their lives. Christian Science teaches that God is All, the source and substance of good. Then good is infinite, ever present, constant, continuous. Its presence everywhere, at all times, under all circumstances, makes any opposite to itself impossible.
Why, then, in the face of the allness of good, does evil at times seem so real and overwhelming? Why do people seem to fear evil, even though it has in reality no existence, no entity? Because human consciousness is steeped in the illusion that existence is a mingling of opposite qualities: that evil is as real as good. But since good is real, its opposite must be unreal.
We determine our experience by what we believe or by what we understand. Everyone can understand the reality of good, because good is real. Likewise, everyone can understand the unreality of evil, because evil is unreal. But we are deceived when we believe in the reality of that which is unreal, and the experience of evil in any degree is deception.
