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seed that is "wholly right." This Life was hidden by the ignorance of our conceptions; "being alienated from the Life of God through the ignorance that is in them." This hidden Life is now being revealed; it is the "Christ in you your hope of glory." This Divine Self is called the "new man," because it is our new vision of man, "which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." This, Paul says, we are to "put on," or to take into our thoughts as the true idea of man. By this understanding we "Put on Christ."

We are also told to "Put off the old man," to "Reckon yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God," to be able to say, "I no longer live but Christ liveth." The first step in healing is to see the purity and perfection of all things. Seeing the Truth of all, we can not see evil or sickness as realities.

We may "put off the old man and his deeds" by putting off any imperfect thought of man, and we shall "put on the new man" , by declaring or affirming man to be the image and likeness of God. This "old man" is our belief of being unlike our Creator. It is our old ignorant thought that something in God's creation is imperfect, which is false. This we have called "mortal sense," and we know it is contrary to God; it believes all kinds of things contrary to Truth, for what is contrary to God is contrary to Truth. It claims sin, sickness and death