Man is sensible only of good. What a thought! Can this be possible? Any individual who will seek to understand and accept this statement as a spiritual fact applicable to his daily life will find the world's tensions, frustrations, and anxieties with their attendant discords and diseases diminishing and disappearing from his experience.
But how can this be true when one may justifiably argue that the more sensitive and conscientious he is, the more sensible of evil he seems to be? Do we challenge rather than concur in the generally accepted world belief that evil is as real as good— that if we are sensitive individuals we have to endure suffering? Have we challenged the generally accepted belief that the senses are physical—in every instance proclaiming life and intelligence to be in matter?
As we study the Bible in the light of Christian Science, we begin to see that man's senses are spiritual and good, coming from God, Soul, divine Mind, outside the flesh. We then begin to challenge the reality of evil and the belief of life in matter. Mrs. Eddy writes: "Real sensation is not material; it is, and must be, mental: and Mind is not mortal, it is immortal. Being is God, infinite Spirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, or outside of infinity."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 72;
