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as the force of mortal mind is less pungent or sensitive,
and that health attends the absence of mortal mind.
A fair conclusion from this might be, that it is the human
belief, and not the divine arbitrament, which brings the
physical organism under the yoke of disease.
(Ignorance the sign of error)
An inquirer once said to the discoverer of Christian
Science: "I like your explanations of truth, but I do
not comprehend what you say about error."
This is the nature of error. The mark of ignorance
is on its forehead, for it neither understands nor
can be understood. Error would have itself received as
mind, as if it were as real and God-created as truth; but
Christian Science attributes to error neither entity nor
power, because error is neither mind nor the outcome of
Mind.
(The origin of divinity)
Searching for the origin of man, who is the reflection
of God, is like inquiring into the origin of God, the self-existent
and eternal. Only impotent error
would seek to unite Spirit with matter, good
with evil, immortality with mortality, and call this
sham unity man, as if man were the offspring of both
Mind and matter, of both Deity and humanity. Creation
rests on a spiritual basis. We lose our standard of
perfection and set aside the proper conception of Deity,
when we admit that the perfect is the author of aught
that can become imperfect, that God bestows the power
to sin, or that Truth confers the ability to err. Our
great example, Jesus, could restore the individualized
manifestation of existence, which seemed to vanish in
death. Knowing that God was the Life of man, Jesus
was able to present himself unchanged after the
crucifixion. Truth fosters the idea of Truth, and not the belief
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