The Law of Correspondents

This teaching incorporates the great law of correspondents. The spiritual world contains an image of the physical; the physical is a counterpart of the spiritual. A true estimate of the outward symbol points to the spiritual reality behind it.

We understand the unseen by correctly viewing the seen. The outward effect must partake of its inward

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nature. The physical universe is the result of an inner intelligence, working through the law of matter, and moulding it into many different forms. Behind form is idea.

In Religious Science we say there is a subjective cause for every objective effect. In psychology we say, the subjective mind is the builder of the body and creator of the circumstances. We go from the known to the unknown, no one sees causes, they remain forever hidden from the physical gaze, but the seen proves the unseen, the formless gives itself form through the creative power of its own mind and Spirit.

Behind every effect there is a cause, and if this cause is a spiritual idea, which it must be, then it follows that should the spiritual idea be discerned the physical effect would be like it. The entire possibility of demonstrating the law of good depends on this proposition. The idea is father to the fact. Ideas are real, having the power within themselves to be made manifest.

The whole teaching of the Bible is to the effect that God is universal Spirit, and universal creation. He creates by the power of His word; this word is the law of His being. Man reproduces the divine nature on the scale of the individual. He also uses creative power which works through the law of his word. From this he cannot escape, he need only use this power constructively and all will be well. If he uses the creative power of his thought destructively then it will destroy.

In Religious Science we learn that persistent, constructive thought is the greatest power known and the most effective.

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If the visible effect in our lives is not what it should be, if we are unhappy, sick and poverty stricken, we already know the remedy. The Truth is always the remedy, and the Truth is that the law of liberty is the only real law. When we reverse the process of thought the effect will be reversed.

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There is therefore now no condemnation to them, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit . . . hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh;
But they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear;
But ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;

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If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.

ROMANS -- Eight.