Mortals
are constantly confronted with the necessity of making decisions as to the particular course they will take, as to the methods they will pursue, and as to the means of accomplishing desired ends.
In
Matthew's Gospel it is said that "great multitudes followed him [Jesus], and he healed them all;" and it is also recounted therein that "when he [the Master] had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
When
beset with dread of his enemies, with desire for revenge and dreariness of heart, the Psalmist cried yearningly, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Belief
in creation as material and in human personality as man is the seeming source of the false claims which mortals must deny and destroy in order to gain the true sense of man's selfhood.