Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1: 21,22,25)

In an article by Frederick Dixon entitled ‘The Nothingness of Nothing’ he says “Nothing, that is to say, outside of Principle can have any actuality. As a theory such a statement is easy enough to comprehend. But Christian Science is not satisfied with theories. James declared that faith without works, theory without demonstration, was a dead thing….Mrs. Eddy wrote, on page 563 of S&H “The great red dragon (of Revelation, my words) symbolizes a lie,-the belief that substance, life, and intelligence can be material”…..Fortunately, however, matter is not real, and evil is not power,…..But to merely say that matter is unreal amounts to almost nothing. The metaphysical reason for its unreality must be grasped and understood. In just the same way, to say there is no power in evil is merely futile for anyone behaving all the time as if there were…..The distraughtness, the restlessness, the trouble that pursue the individual, exist in the ratio of the individual’s belief in evil, and vanish in the exact ratio in which the individual, through his knowledge of Principle, reduces evil to nothing…..Greater love, says the Greek of the New Testament, hath no man than this, that a man lay down his materiality for his friends.”

The Nothingness of Nothing by Frederick Dixon