The False and The True

Life is present goodness. Therefore, to identify ourselves with the letter or effect is to identify ourselves with that which is dead, and to identify ourselves with the dead is a cause for feelings of limitation, which results in pain and separation from the physical body. So, if it be that we speak the truth as Jesus spoke it, we shall refuse to let the senses speak in opposition to the Spirit; and through faith we shall assume our true position as a Divine Soul, or the Father’s idea; we shall hold ourselves in truth by thinking of ourselves as being what true being is, and by ceasing to make excuses for our shortcomings and errors, because Adam partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and fell into doubt and desire. They who are guided by sense partake of the forbidden fruit, and are dead to spiritual truth; all who are separated in consciousness from the ever present first and final Truth, seek out many inventions by which to be saved from error, and come into a multiplicity of beliefs. While thoughts are fluctuating between two or more

opposite beliefs they constitute a state of doubt. To doubt is to stand still; and to stand still is mental stagnation, which is the fall.

Through speaking the truth with love we may grow into a consciousness of the Father, even of the fountain-head of all good. To acknowledge these truths with love is to fulfill our duty to God, and do His will. This true relationship must be recognized by the children of God before they can become conscious of working with Him. To be renewed in the Spirit of your mind is to awaken from the dream of sense. Until the senses are enlightened they alienate us from the understanding of these truths. When the senses are enlightened they serve the mind, and we see with understanding; and to see with understanding is to destroy the cause of inharmonious expression. To speak the truth as it is in Jesus enables us to grow up into truth in all things, even Christ. When once the intellect and reason is raised above sense, and we realize true being, we shall cease to say impossible to anything, or claim weakness or limitation for ourselves. To know things as they are, and to live the truth, is to be spiritually minded, which is life and peace. To be in truth is to be in heaven; to be out of truth is to be out of heaven. To live the truth is to bring heaven upon earth, or make it manifest. When we think the thoughts of the Father, and know our purpose to be His purpose, and our will His will, Christ has arisen in us - we are born again.

When freed by the truth there is no more strife.

Put off the false conversation, that you are something that can die - that can be dead at one time, and alive at another - and clothe yourselves with the truth of true being, and your whole body will be full of light, radiant with truth. Then put off the false conversation about changeable weather affecting you, and about it being good and bad; and about the wind being agreeable and disagreeable; and about food being digestible and indigestible; the belief that we can be affected by these things is an admission that we believe ourselves to be mortal, and that we can thereby be made miserable, sick or well, dead or alive, by the climate, the weather, or material food. All conversation of this nature belongs to the old man, and is according to the deceit of sense; it is based upon mortal appearances, and is therefore false. Such thoughts produce appearances in the body which we name disease, or pain. This and all like conversation is not based upon principle; hence it is not true.

Unchanging truth, dear student, is eternal freedom. All that is bound in seeming will be freed by it. All who live and know the truth are free. To gain the truth is to break the bonds of sense. To accept the truth of the presence of God, is to accept the truth of the presence of all goodness; and this it is to gather fruit unto everlasting life. Acknowledgment of The One is acknowledgment of all.

St. Paul says - give no place to the Devil. We should not; for God fills heaven and earth. Hence it is an offense against God to believe in the opposite of His being. His words to His children are - represent Me in all your thoughts, and I will guide you into all wisdom; believe in nothing but Me, and you will find the kingdom of heaven.

To put away error by speaking the truth is to overcome evil with good; "that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro, carried about by every wind of doctrine." That is, to be no more acted upon in belief by the weather, or by the opinion or sleight of friends; but by speaking the truth to them in love we hold the reins of freedom in our grasp, which shield from all harm.