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of Spirit. The responsibility of the individual is
to see, to realize what God is and does. Imagine
a tree with strong branches and rich looking fruit.
Suppose you hear the branch saying, "I can support myself; here is this beautiful fruit to satisfy
my desires (looking to Egypt); I shall give up my
attachment to the tree and feed upon this good
fruit." See it sever its connection with the tree
and begin to live upon its fruit (going down into
Egypt). For a time it seems to flourish, but its
doom is inevitable; before long both branch and
fruit wither and die, Israel is in bondage. There
is no mystery at all about the ills of life. They
are the withered branch and its dying fruit.
They are the result of thought claiming a life
apart from Spirit.
The "prodigal" represents that condition of
thought which leaves its home in Divine Consciousness, separates from its source and tries to
find in the outer, which is called the "far country." its strength and substance. We know how
at last, starving, it returns to its home.
Material sense, which is ignorance of Divine
Law, claims that the visible or material is good
to make one wise, to make one strong, to make
one happy, to make one well. But, the same
sense declares that the material also can make one
weak, unhappy, and make one sick! Such belief,
if accepted by our thought. makes the external a
