Article June 5, 1926 Issue

Removing Stumblingblocks

JOE N. BARNDOLLAR

ASK the average child, "To what kingdom do you belong?" and he will promptly answer, "To the animal kingdom." For has he not been taught that he is an animal, rather than a vegetable or a mineral? Now allow that child to work with this ignorant, almost universal belief about himself until he reaches maturity, and it will be found difficult indeed to convince him that he is not an animal. Nevertheless, according to the Scriptures, man does not belong to the animal kingdom, but to the kingdom of Spirit. His true selfhood or identity is entirely spiritual, even now awaiting recognition and demonstration. As Jesus said: "The kingdom of God is within you."

When individuality is recognized as consciousness which is ever coexistent and coactive with God, or good, separate and apart from the so-called material body, with its supposititious five physical senses, the student begins to awaken from the Adam or animal dream. He glimpses the fact that the physical body is but the suppositional evidence of true individuality, and takes his first step into the light that Christianly metaphysical reasoning throws upon so-called physical existence.

Divinely metaphysical reasoning shows that reality exists entirely apart from the so-called material or physical. This reasoning leads the student into realms of thought where the physical or material has neither precedence nor sequence. Hence, when an afflicted one turns to the purely metaphysical method for the overcoming of moral, physical, or financial disability, he must necessarily deny the physical or material in his thought-processes. This denial or displacement of the physical in his thought may seem an insurmountable task when he faces it for the first time, but as he lays away the material concepts of self and environment, the spiritual facts of self and of existence gradually unfold to him.

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