Assassinations

I've been taking some time off to think about what is happening in the news which includes the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The guy committing the crime had no remorse in stealing Kirk's life. Dealing with evil is not easy so it is need at times to go into our closet to do some Soul searching for answers on how to handle this type of situation. I go to my Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures along with Mrs. Eddy's other writings. Mrs. Eddy visited the assassin who killed President Garfield which is noted in Mrs. Eddy's other writing entitled Miscellaneous Writings. Below is Mrs. Eddy writing on the story in which points out "moral idiocy."

Miscellaneous Writing 112: 12-27

The mental stages of crime, which seem to belong to the latter days, are strictly classified in metaphysics as

some of the many features and forms of what is properly denominated, in extreme cases, moral idiocy. I visited

in his cell the assassin of President Garfield, and found him in the mental state called moral idiocy. He had no

sense of his crime; but regarded his act as one of simple justice, and himself as the victim. My few words touched him; he sank back in his chair, limp and pale; his flip‐ pancy had fled. The jailer thanked me, and said “Other visitors have brought to him bouquets, but you have brought what will do him good.”

This mental disease at first shows itself in extreme sensitiveness; then, in a loss of self-knowledge and of

self-condemnation, — a shocking inability to see one’s own faults, but an exaggerating sense of other people’s.

Unless this mental condition be overcome, it ends in a total loss of moral, intellectual, and spiritual discernment,

and is characterized in this Scripture: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” This state of mind

is the exemplification of total depravity, and the result of sensuous mind in matter. Mind that is God is not in

matter; and God’s presence gives spiritual light, wherein is no darkness.

If, as is indisputably true, “God is Spirit,” and Spirit is our Father and Mother, and that which it includes is

all that is real and eternal, when evil seems to predominate and divine light to be obscured, free moral agency

is lost; and the Revelator’s vision, that “no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the

beast, or the number of his name,” is imminent.

Whoever is mentally manipulating human mind, and is not gaining a higher sense of Truth by it, is losing in

the scale of moral and spiritual being, and may be carried to the depths of perdition by his own consent. He

who refuses to be influenced by any but the divine Mind, commits his way to God, and rises superior to sugges‐

tions from an evil source. Christian Science shows that there is a way of escape from the latter-day ultimatum

of evil, through scientific truth; so that all are without excuse.

Already I clearly recognize that mental malpractice, if persisted in, will end in insanity, dementia, or moral

idiocy. Thank God! this evil can be resisted by true Christianity. Divine Love is our hope, strength, and

shield. We have nothing to fear when Love is at the helm of thought, but everything to enjoy on earth and in heaven."