As
mortals realize that the tendency of a belief in material selfhood, with its desires, affections, and ambitions, is ever towards evil; that of themselves they have nothing upon which to build a perfect character or a pure consciousness, nothing pertaining to immortality and goodness, and that all in them which opposes the reign of Spirit must be denied and cast out before the Christ-idea can appear, they begin to see that salvation depends upon their complete submission to the all-inclusive Truth of being, explained in Christian Science as divine Principle and its idea.
