Article April 14, 1906 ISSUE

Unity

ALICE MARIAN ADAMS.

How important to us is the true sense of unity. It expresses the sum total of that for which we are striving. In unity is strength, and a realization of man's unity with God annihilates every thought of separation, with its attendant claims of ignorance of God and fear of the unknown forces of materiality, manifested in sin, disease, limitation, death, and eternal punishment. It was the thought of separateness from God — lack of unity with Principle — which ultimated in the accumulation of error that Christ Jesus came to disprove and to destroy.

Jesus reiterated the thought of unity when he said, "I and my Father are one:" and again. "My Father is greater than I." Infinite Principle must be greater than its idea, but in proportion as man realizes unity with Principle does he reflect the insight and power of infinite Mind. To realize that we are one with God in motive and desire, leads us to know that in proportion as we reflect perfection do we see perfection made manifest all around us.

The realization of unity with divine Principle brings the realization of unity one with another: each a part of one grand whole: each working toward the same end and all governed by the one Mind. In this realization is strength impregnable, — the power to meet and destroy the claims of error, no matter under what guise presented.

This thought of unity between God and man, of brother with brother, like a gleam of golden thread runs through all the teaching of our beloved Leader, and we find the same illuminating thought in all Jesus' teaching. It is enough to lift one high above the false sense of divided interests, to ponder the Master's words, "I and my Father are one." We can then say, "I and my brother are one," in our realization of what divine Principle would have us do under any and all circumstances. It is this unity of thought and action which proves the kingdom of heaven on earth, the eternal brotherhood of man, and in proportion as we realize our unity with divine Principle here and now, will the establishment of the kingdom become apparent.

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