Demonstration

ZEBULINE H. BECK.

"THE supremacy of Spirit was the foundation on which Jesus built" (Science and Health, p. 138). Jesus said that "Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:... and every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand."

We who are seeking to build our House Beautiful, should be sure its foundation is based upon the supremacy of Spirit, of Mind, and not on the shifting sands of mortal mind, and its so-called laws. Shifting sand is a type of mortal mind and never to be depended upon. This supremacy of Mind must be acknowledged, not only as the governing power in the spiritual realm, but also in the so-called material world. The acknowledgment of the eternal fact that immortal Mind governs all, annuls the claims of matter to sovereignty.

We can have but one standard to follow if we would be victorious, for a divided interest brings a divided result. Unity of thought, oneness of purpose should be our working basis. To make perfect demonstrations we must rigorously exclude every suggestion of error from our thought. If we let error be aught else than error, we are taking failure into our problem, and there will be failure in our conclusion. The closer we live to Spirit, the higher our demonstration of its laws will be.

It is in our own consciousness that this work of crowning Spirit as king, must be done, and if done carefully, habitually, no one will be in our presence a moment without receiving a blessing.

Perhaps our greatest fault is in seeing the shortcomings of another, instead of our own. If Love is becoming more real to us, self is becoming less, and will be able to destroy in our own consciousness the seeming error in others, and error will be impersonal, having neither habitation, nor name—no thing at all.

Self is the price we must pay for admission into heaven; not merely what we do for others, but errors overcome within our own domain of thought. "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." This fact is shown clearly by the so-called close of the Master's career on earth. After all he did for the help of poor sinning and suffering humanity, it was only he himself that ascended up into heaven. He had marked out the way for us, that was enough. "Work out your own salvation." No one can solve that problem for you, for me, and the sooner we are about our "Father's business" the better.

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