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exercise profiteth little," says Paul, "but godliness is profitable for all things." We must seek our good in Mind, not in body. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added."

In Mind, the Universal, all Substance of good is held. In Thought, Mind's action, the Substance of good is put into exercise. In body, the Substance of good is made visible. This is the Perfect Law that brings forth the "fruits of the Spirit" in joy plants peace. This is the only "growth," unfoldment in God.

When he begins with the outer and conceives of it as a cause, man's thought of Life is inverted. He lives backward. One points out that the word "lived" spelled backward gives us "devil!" This is suggestive. All our inharmony comes from thinking to reverse God's Law. As Emerson says, "Law obeyed or disobeyed must bring opposite results."

We unfold in knowledge as we open our thoughts to Truth. As we think of being Love, Purity, Goodness and Peace, of being Eternal Life, we become more conscious. We cannot improve thought or deed by calling ourselves sinners! The Self, as seen in Truth, is not a sinner. Sin is the sinner and it shall die.

There is a French adage, "Noblesse oblige," that means "My nobility obliges me to act nobly" --- so, seeing our Divinity compels us to act divinely;