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“Owe no man any thing, but to love”
Originally published in the 1921 pamphlet titled “Occupation”
A false human sense of obligation is one of the worst foes to human progress and happiness. Believed in, and so admitted into experience, it limits a man's understanding of infinite good, defeats his desires, and hides from him the fact of the ever presence of all-sufficient Principle.
Mrs. Eddy says: “The Principle of Christianity is infinite: it is indeed God; and this infinite Principle hath infinite claims on man, and these claims are divine, not human; and man's ability to meet them is from God; for, being His-likeness and image, man must reflect the full dominion of Spirit—even its supremacy over sin, sickness, and death” (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 16). It is the belief then that obligation is human, that it is personal and conditional, that causes trouble; whereas it is really between God and His idea alone God having “infinite claims on man,” and His idea from its very origin and nature reflecting “the full dominion of Spirit.”
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