Reading my books, without prejudice, would convince all that their purpose is right.  The comprehension of my teachings would enable any one to prove these books to be filled with blessings for the whole human family.  Fatiguing Bible translations and voluminous commentaries are employed to explain and prop old creeds, and they have the civil and religious arms in their defense; then why should not these be equally extended to support the Christianity that heals the sick?  The notions of personality to be found in creeds are far more mystic than Mind-healing.  It is no easy matter to believe there are three persons in one person, and that one person is cast out of another person.  These conceptions of Deity and devil presuppose an impotent God and an incredible Satan.

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PANTHEISTIC?

Christian Science refutes pantheism, finds Spirit neither in matter nor in the modes of mortal mind.  It shows that matter and mortal mind have neither origin nor existence in the eternal Mind.  Thinking otherwise is what estranges mortals from divine Life and Love.  God is All-in-all.  He is Spirit; and in nothing is He unlike Himself.  Nothing that “worketh or maketh a lie” is to be found in the divine consciousness.  For God to know, is to be; that is, what He knows must truly and eternally exist.  If He knows matter, and matter can exist in Mind, then mortality and discord must be eternal.  He is Mind; and whatever He knows is made manifest, and must be Truth.

If God knows evil even as a false claim, this knowledge would manifest evil in Him and proceeding from Him.  Christian Science shows that matter, evil, sin, sickness, and death are but negations of Spirit, Truth, and Life, which are positives that cannot be gainsaid.  The subjective states of evil, called mortal mind or matter, are negatives destitute of time and space; for there is none beside God or Spirit and the idea of Spirit.

This infinite logic is the infinite light,—­uncomprehended, yet forever giving forth more light, because it has no darkness to emit.  Mortals do not understand the All; hence their inference of some other existence beside God and His true likeness,—­of something unlike Him.  He who is All, understands all.  He can have no knowledge or inference but His own consciousness, and can take in no more than all.

The mists of matter—­sin, sickness, and death—­disappear in proportion as mortals approach Spirit, which is the reality of being.  It is not enough to say that matter is the substratum of evil, and that its highest attenuation is mortal mind; for there is, strictly speaking, no mortal mind.  Mind is immortal.  Death is the consequent of an antecedent false assumption of the realness of something unreal, material, and mortal.  If God knows the antecedent, He must produce its consequences.  From this logic there is no escape.  Matter, or evil, is the absence of Spirit or good.  Their nothingness is thus proven; for God is good, ever-present, and All.