Article December 7, 1957 Issue

GOD AND MAN ARE FOREVER INSEPARABLE

MARGARET TROILI CAMPBELL

As the writer observed a sunbeam upon the carpet, she thought: "How impossible it is to destroy that sunbeam, to remove or separate it from the sun, its source. Nothing can have any effect on its nature except the sun itself, which, by altering its own nature, would then change the nature of its beams."

Then the thought came that, like the sunbeam, man, the manifestation of divine Mind, an individual idea, cannot be destroyed, removed, or separated from his divine source, Mind. An idea derives all its life and power from Mind; therefore it is utterly indestructible. The idea cannot change unless Mind changes. Mind determines the quality of the idea.

Jesus said (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one," and he prayed for his disciples (17:21), "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us." God is one Spirit, Mind, Soul, and includes all His ideas in Himself. The substance of an idea is the same as the substance of the creative Mind. The quality of reflected love is the same as the quality of divine Love. Mind and its ideas, being the same in substance and quality, are one.

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