Daily the active Christian Scientist affirms statements of truth to replace the arguments of error. The truth is that God is supreme, infinite, omnipotent, ever present, and that evil is powerless, lawless, unreal, and, when considered from the standpoint of Spirit's allness, nonexistent, a mere illusion of the senses. Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, states, "Evil is not something to fear and flee before, or that becomes more real when it is grappled with." And she adds, "Evil let alone grows more real, aggressive, and enlarges its claims; but, met with Science, it can and will be mastered by Science." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 284
In the Bible we read, "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7 Christ, Truth, as revealed by Christian Science, is the remedy for evil, or animal magnetism, the error that would have us believe that disease is real, God-sent, and therefore part of our destiny. This Science proclaims that human ills are no more real than are mathematical errors; that they disappear when they are detected and resisted with divine power. Facing up to mortal error with Christ, Truth, is a joyful experience; and in destroying mortal beliefs, we are free to enjoy the perfection of our spiritual selfhood, God's idea.
What are some of the truths that destroy the claims of animal magnetism, or mortal thinking? Science reveals them to be these: God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," Hab. 1:13 and therefore sin, disease, and death have no divine authority with which to impose themselves upon us or to enforce false laws; God creates man of the substance of Spirit, not matter, and therefore human ills are merely false beliefs, errors of thought, not physical conditions; actually we are influenced by Spirit, God, not flesh, and therefore we can experience only spiritual good, health, joy, peace, harmony, and immortal being.
