In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy makes this sweeping yet precise statement: "You command the situation if you understand that mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the truth of being."Science and Health, p. 403;
Surely every Christian wants to command situations. He wants to see God, who is wisdom and Love, in full control of his life. Christian Science provides the means whereby divine government is proved, right where self-deception claims to hold one's self and one's affairs in its grasp.
Webster says, "Deceive implies the imposing of a false idea or belief that causes bewilderment or helplessness or furthers the agent's purpose."Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary; To be deceived by another individual is a bad enough situation, but to be self-deceived is a worse one. No one wants to lose control of the sanity and integrity of his own thought.
