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The Holy Ghost is Consciousness, the light, and only guide into all Truth. To sin against light is to refuse to follow the light after we have seen it. This can never be forgiven, for while the means is rejected the end can not be reached. While we persist in this refusal there is naught else to guide us into Consciousness of Life and Wholeness.

One has illustrated this by the unripe fruit that remains unripe if it come not to the light. While we cling to darkness, there is no coming to the light. This is the unforgiveness. We can not realize completeness or perfection while we refuse to receive the Idea of Perfection that Consciousness reveals to us as our inmost Being, and birthright. "Ye will not come unto me that ye Might have life." Banishment from conscious peace must exist while we refuse the Consciousness that would lead us into all Truth.

Did not Jesus commend the publican's prayer, "God be merciful to me a sinner?" (Luke 18: 9-14.)

Jesus compared the prayers of two classes of men; one the self-satisfied, the other the self dissatisfied --- neither had found the true Self. He did not commend either, but said that the publican "was justified rather than the other." The humble spirit that is dissatisfied with its condition will more readily listen to a better way. A prayer of humility is better than a prayer of pride, but still better is the prayer that contemplates the Infinite so wholly that no thought of self apart from God can enter.