Watching Point 473

473 — WATCH lest you accept the suggestion that error has a cause or an effect. It is a belief without a cause or effect. Once Mrs. Eddy summed up the entire claim of evil as being typified by the serpent, “existing without a cause.” The discussion of cause and effect in relation to error is merely to enable us to translate matter into mind, and to comprehend Mrs. Eddy’s statement on page 105 of Miscellaneous Writings, “Nothing appears to the physical senses but their own subjective state of thought.”