In his metaphysical work for himself or for one who has requested his aid, the student of Christian Science recognizes the perfection, completeness, and harmony of man's spiritual being made in God's likeness. From that basis he denies reality, place, and power to the evil that falsely claims presence and dominion. A persistent affirmation of spiritual verities then results in healing.
Similarly, our work in Christian Science for the world is effective as we hold in thought the changeless perfection of the universe of God's creating and recognize the falsity, the nothingness, of that which is unlovely or harmful, wherever it may appear to be. The upheavals, impurities, and excesses that are so prevalent today are not real or true, since they are not part of eternal, spiritual existence. These disturbances are evidences of a vast mental chemicalization taking place in human consciousness. Latent evil, feeling the corrective, healing power of Truth, is being stirred up and brought to the surface to be destroyed by everywhere-present, omnipotent, divine Mind.
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: "Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a diviner sense, harmony is the real and discord the unreal. We may well be astonished at sin, sickness, and death. We may well be perplexed at human fear; and still more astounded at hatred, which lifts its hydra head, showing its horns in the many inventions of evil."Science and Health, p. 563; Then our Leader asks pertinently, "But why should we stand aghast at nothingness?"
