Have you ever been tempted to fight a particular error or evil as if it were real and powerful, a truly formidable force, because this is the way error presented itself to you? Yet in Christian Science we learn that no matter how big and frightening evil may appear, it never has attained the status of reality. If it had, it would be a direct denial of the supremacy of good, or God, and we could then never be certain of the triumph of Truth over any particular error.
The supremacy of good is why I find such encouragement in a sentence of Mrs. Eddy's in Science and Health. (The paragraph in which it occurs has the marginal heading "Error's power imaginary.") The statement reads: "Mortal mind is constantly producing on mortal body the results of false opinions; and it will continue to do so, until mortal error is deprived of its imaginary powers by Truth, which sweeps away the gossamer web of mortal illusion."Science and Health, p. 403.
Error—a "gossamer web"! Mrs. Eddy could hardly have found two more fitting words to describe corporeal sense and its discords. One gazes in awe at the beautiful designs of spider webs glistening in the morning sunlight. Yet with the slightest touch the webs are broken. How encouraging to realize that the illusions of mortal mind, no matter what form they may assume, can just as easily yield to the touch of Truth.
