To accuse is to charge with a fault or offense. To acquit is to discharge completely, "as from an . . . accusation." An understanding of Christian Science enables the student to cast down that which accuses and progressively set himself and others free from every conceivable accusation of wrongdoing, moral or physical. Great encouragement may be found in these words in the book of Revelation: "Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night."Rev. 12:10;
The accuser is another name for the serpent—the carnal mind—and it is always accusing men of evil, either as a doer or as a victim. Christian Science wholly separates the evil from the individual, either as a doer or victim, impersonalizes the evil by explaining it as a mortal dream, and proves man to be divine Mind's innocent spiritual idea. Scientifically to impersonalize evil and to see man as God's very witness helps one cast down the accuser and set its would-be victim free. The failure to free ourselves and others is frequently due to personalizing evil. It is due to identifying the accuser with our brother rather than identifying it as impersonal evil. To cast down the brother rather than the evil seems to be the way mortals follow in their efforts to get rid of evil.
In countless instances running through the gamut of human experience, Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science has for a full century proved that man is made in the likeness of perfect Spirit and is therefore spiritual and whole. The Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, have certainly made clear to human consciousness what God is and what man is. These textbooks also thoroughly expose the impersonal accuser for what it is—a liar, a suggester, a deceiver. They relegate it to demonstrable nothingness. Then, since its deceitful nature has been found out, what Christian ground is there for continuing to believe it is a person, a thing, or a place?
