but for the purpose of causing it to disappear under the healing influences of the Sun of Truth.
The Eastern sage traces all false appearance to what he calls “nescience,” not-knowing or ignorance.
True knowledge combines in it every divine manifestation, such as love, faith, goodness, power, and therefore contains the secret of all healing and redeeming. “The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”—Jas. 3 :17.
Meditate upon Scriptural passages while holding that you have the Mind of God and that He makes you understand what He has inspired.
Watch that your lips and your thoughts do not assert, “I don’t know,” and “I can’t understand.” It is true that the carnal mind does not know the things of God and “not that we are sufficient of ourselves to thlnk anything,, (2 Cor. 3 :5)
if we are speaking from the earthly standpoint. But we are not. Our purpose is to train our believing into our divine Self and keep our “I” lifted up above the earth.
Learn to look upon all things material, personal, or evil as but signs and symbols back of which lie the Real, to be found and expressed, or drawn out, by the GodMan in us.
Some mentalities seem to leap quickly out of their former errors into the Truth. It is because of the difference in beliefs that the unfolding appears so different.
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