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Rh community. The Apostle Paul refers to the personification of evil as “the god of this world,” and further defines it as dishonesty and craftiness. Sin was the Assyrian moon-god.

The liberation of the powers of mortal mind through Science, whereby man may escape from mortality into

immortality, blesses the whole human family. As in the beginning, however, this liberation shows itself in a knowledge of good and evil; but this knowledge must be destroyed.

On the other hand, Mind-Science is wholly separate from any half-way, impertinent knowledge; because it is of God, and gives a spiritual understanding, which works out the purposes of Good only. The maximum of Good is always met by the maximum of suppositional evil.

As used in Christian Science, animal magnetism is the specific term for error, or mortal mind. It is a belief

that mind is material, and both evil and good; and that evil is as real as goodness, and more powerful. This belief has not one quality of Truth or Good. It is either ignorant or malicious. The malicious form of animal magnetism ultimates in moral idiocy. The truths of immortal Mind sustain man; and they annihilate the fables of mortal mind, whose flimsy and gaudy pretensions, like silly moths, singe their own wings and fall into dust.

In reality there is no mortal mind, and consequently

no transference of mortal thought and will-power. Life and Being are of God. In Christian Science man can do no harm, for his thoughts are true thoughts, passing from God to man.