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the flesh and the triumphs of Spirit. Thus they have

reached the goal in divine Science, by knowing Him in whom they
have believed. This knowledge is not the forbidden fruit of sin,
sickness, and death, but it is the fruit which grows on the "tree of life."
This is the understanding of God, whereby man is found in the image
and likeness of good, not of evil; of health, not of sickness; of Life, not
of death.
God is All-in-all. Hence He is in Himself only, in His own nature and
character, and is perfect being, or consciousness. He is all the Life and
Mind there is or can be. Within Himself is every embodiment of Life
and Mind.
If He is All, He can have no consciousness of anything unlike Himself;
because, if He is omnipresent, there can be nothing outside of Himself.
Now this self-same God is our helper. He pities us. He has mercy upon
us, and guides every event of our careers. He is near to them who adore
Him. To understand Him, without a single taint of our mortal, finite
sense of sin, sickness, or death, is to approach Him and become like
Him.
Truth is God, and in God's law. This law declares that Truth is All, and
there is no error. This law of Truth destroys every phase of error. To
gain a temporary consciousness of God's law is to feel, in a certain
finite human sense, that God comes to us and pities us; but the
attainment of the understanding of His presence, through the Science of
God, destroys our sense of imperfection, or of His absence, through a
diviner sense that God is all true consciousness; and this convinces us
that, as we get still nearer Him, we must forever lose our own
consciousness of error.
But how could we lose all consciousness of error, if God be conscious
of it? God has not forbidden man to know Him; on the contrary, the
Father bids man have the same Mind "which was also in Christ
Jesus,"--which was certainly the divine Mind; but God does forbid
man's acquaintance with evil. Why? Because evil is no part of the
divine knowledge.

John's Gospel declares (xvii. 3) that "life eternal" consists in the
knowledge of the only true God, and of Jesus Christ, whom He has sent.
Surely from such an understanding of Science, such knowing, the
vision of sin is wholly excluded.
Nevertheless, at the present crude hour, no wise men or women will
rudely or prematurely agitate a theme involving the All of infinity.
Rather will they rejoice in the small understanding they have already
gained of the wholeness of Deity, and work gradually and gently up
toward the perfect thought divine. This meekness will increase their
apprehension of God, because their mental struggles and pride of
opinion will proportionately diminish.
Every one should be encouraged not to accept any personal opinion on
so great a matter, but to seek the divine Science of this question of
Truth by following upward individual convictions, undisturbed by the
frightened sense of any need of attempting to solve every Life-problem
in a day.
"Great is the mystery of godliness," says Paul; and mystery involves the
unknown. No stubborn purpose to force conclusions on this subject will
unfold in us a higher sense of Deity; neither will it promote the Cause
of Truth or enlighten the individual thought.
Let us respect the rights of conscience and the liberty of the sons of
God, so letting our "moderation be known to all men." Let no enmity,
no untempered controversy, spring up between Christian Science
students and Christians who wholly or partially differ from them as to
the nature of sin and the marvellous unity of man with God shadowed
forth in scientific thought. Rather let the stately goings of this
wonderful part of Truth be left to the supernal guidance.
"These are but parts of Thy ways," says Job; and the whole is greater
than its parts. Our present understanding is but "the seed within itself,"
for it is divine Science, "bearing fruit after its kind."
Sooner or later the whole human race will learn that, in proportion as

the spotless selfhood of God is understood, human nature will be
renovated, and man will receive a higher selfhood, derived from God,
and the redemption of mortals from sin, sickness, and death be
established on everlasting foundations.
The Science of physical harmony, as now presented to the people in
divine light, is radical enough to promote as forcible collisions of
thought as the age has strength to bear. Until the heavenly law of health,
according to Christian Science, is firmly grounded, even the thinkers
are not prepared to answer intelligently leading questions about God
and sin, and the world is