Article September 1, 1923 Issue

"Ye took me in"

CHARLOTTE PAULSEN

TO rise in the consciousness of Spirit, if but for a moment, and so be unconscious of the so-called existence of matter even in a degree, is to begin to experience an unfoldment of supply. Surely no greater boon to mankind could be demonstrated than an understanding of supply, which is the understanding of the constant availability of good always to meet every human need. To admit the presence of matter is to grant the existence of an obstruction to the activity of Mind, an opposite to Truth, and a destroyer of Love. To be receptive to Truth is to open thought to that which is infinite, indestructible, and unchanging, and which is eternally ours. The truer one's vision of God, the larger one's income of good. Only that which is permanent can be substantial; and the truth about reality is its indestructibleness.

Divine Mind includes all true thought. Mind includes every right idea, or comprehends all that is; and only right ideas have true or permanent existence. False beliefs are illusive, transitory, and fleeting, vanishing into the nothingness from which they seemed to appear. The likeness of divine Mind—man—reflects that Mind. Man is not separated from Mind; hence, he does not need to reach out for, strain after, or struggle to grasp the ideas of Mind. This understanding of Mind is wholly spiritual or divinely mental. It transcends any supposition about Mind as intellect or brain, and unfolds itself to the one whose moral sense is awakening out of the dream of human depravity to reject all that is unlike the Christ, Truth.

True appreciation always attends the appearance of divine light in human consciousness. "And God saw that it was good" is the inspiration which illumines consciousness, causing it to rise from desire to understanding. Because Spirit maintains its own identity, the consciousness which cognizes Spirit need fear no lack; but in order to do this, one must be moral. Mrs. Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 115), has named "humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, meekness, temperance" as the transitional moral qualities which precede the fullness of spiritual understanding. They characterize the children of light, and insure their position and steady supply, on the basis of infinite, eternal good.

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