What a book1 this
is! I find so much that stops me in my tracks. For example: page 33
talks of animal magnetism and why it is now malicious. Animal magnetism
is all of error; and it is now malicious animal magnetism because it is
fighting the Truth.
I vividly remember reading later
in the book that Mrs Eddy classified extreme weather conditions as the effect
of malice. I’ll keep looking for that reference2.
Meanwhile, this idea is developing in consciousness. I think I can see
that there is no difference between the fury of mortal mind expressed in the
“earthquake, wind, wave, lightning” (see Mary Baker Eddy’s Science &Health with Key to the Scriptures p. 293:22) of those
extreme weather conditions, and the tumult of mortal mind expressed in confused
mental and physical conditions. The antidote is the same in each example:
“Truth…says to disease, “Peace, be still” (ibid p. 144: 22). Just so,
Jesus said to the storm of wind and sea, “Peace, be still” (Mark 4:39).
Is it not that the animal
magnetism presenting itself as mortal mind is what is to be combated through
our understanding of the great Science of Being which is Christian Science?
It is to be reduced to its native nothingness through knowing that God is the
only power and presence, and that all Mind is Spirit, good. This
precludes any possibility of there being a mortal mind having any power over
man and nature.
Joyce Voysey
1We
Knew Mary Baker Eddy
Expanded Edition, Vol II
2Lida Fitzpatrick is the one who
records Mrs. Eddy’s remarks about the “malice” of extreme weather
conditions. On page 110 we find recorded under the date May 18,1903
“We are told the
world will be destroyed; how? By
malice. By cyclone, electricity, and be burned up. What is a
cyclone? It is a condition of mortal mind-malice. What burns
up? Malice. It is all malice, and our textbook tells us, Christian
Scientists will hold such things in check. God never made them and they
can be overcome just the same as sickness. It is all within.”
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