Arizona republican., 1919-05-19
Thrones Of TyrdntS

Written for The Christian Science
 Menitorl
 Of whatever sort it may seem, ill., ness is ever a tyrant. By counting himself i'll in body or mind, illtreated, ill-starred, or even i'll at ease, a man has unwittingly subjected himself to a would be despot which, however. has no inherent power to oppress. Since this imposturous despot, what Paul called the carnai or fleshly mind is never good, it is always ill after one fashion or another. With its belief of living matter, which, full Of friction, relentlessly disintegrates at the mercy Of one knows not what, this mortal mind is indeed sorry supposition. It's unsatisfactoriness claims to torment merely because human beings in spite of all their blindness are really looking for complete good and, of course, can- not find it in any such hypothesis of mind filled with whims and dis cords. Setting itself up to be actual ! but without any genuine foundation, evil is thus an illusory autocrat, Fortunately there is but one truly controlling mind. Divine intelligence alone exists as the source of all ac- | tion. Quite apart from mere human u, is God, free from ills of any sort. This l intelligence is substantial, dependable, constantly joy-giying. It's action is tangibly harmonious. What it knows is idea, the unlimited expression of unlimited consciousness. Since the provable reality of good is thus bound ! less, the supposition of evil must be T mere phantom.
 l How, then, can any phantom, no matter how tyrannical 1t may seem. be enthroned to rule over human beings? The ordinary concept of a | throne is of conventional and sym { bolical evidence of power. Any seem I ing evidence that a phantom could 1 have power must crumbie into it's native nothingness. Only God can truly be established. Of the con- tinuity and substantially of Principle there is every sure spiritual indication right where an indication of material force may seem to be. So with the crumbling of human thrones whether they indicate autocracy in government or autocracy in the details of human thinking. must come the replacement of the false sense with the true idea.
 Mrs. Eddy showed this in her poem Satisfied" (Poems, 6. 7s), when she wrote:
 And of these stones. or tyrants
 thrones,
 God able is
 | To raise up seed-in thought ana
 deed
 To faithful His
 No illness of government, of human relations and conditions generally is too hard or too deeply seated to bt healed by the truth. For in it's seem ing place is divine mind, which knows all things and knows no evil.
 To illustrate more specifically Though physicians may pronounce : case influenza, the Christian Scien tist sees clearly that it is but belle of mortal mind. Whatever the Hines might be named, however much i may seem to assert itself as a tyrant it has to be dethroned, because divin' mind is infinite and knows it not Hence it never has had any real power Belonging not at all to consciousness it must cease to be even as a supposi ton. Before the understanding of tn one divine intelligence, manifestini perfect power, any such belief has t abdicate. It never has had any gen uine realm in which to rule
 For any seeming counterfeit ther must be the reality. Even the stat of human thought which appears | be throne for disease, deceit, hatred self-pity, revenge, or any of the ne farious illness of the supposititiou mortal mind must have its better orig