Regardless of its nature or tenacity, evil is a misconception, unreal. Proving it to be so is an inescapable Christian demand. Healing in Christian Science is accomplished by spiritual means alone. Treatment is based on God's perfectness and man's inseverable unity with Him—a divine relationship that can be proved and that fully governs us.
But what about evil, which sometimes manifests itself in bodily distress? The only course to take is the radical stand that since evil is the opposite of infinite good, God, it must be unreal. And then we need to illustrate this in our lives.
To see any discord as a misconception is not always easy, but doing so is a great step forward. This understanding weakens the false belief in matter as substance. Spirit is the only substance, for God, Spirit, is the only cause, the one creator. Matter, Spirit's opposite, can neither construct nor reconstruct; its illusions have neither substance nor reality. Mind is the sole cause, and we can see its creations right now in both good and beautiful forms.
