Father, but are of the world and the lust thereof, but that he (the soul) that doeth the will of God (Truth) abideth forever.

We have now shown you Spirit and its Thought, also spiritual and material thoughts which are of the soul. A spiritual thought is unchangeable, and a material thought is changeable. If the soul perceive changeable thoughts, and these thoughts become attached to the soul they become, as it were, a part of the soul, and finally the soul acts in accordance with them or they become the expression of the life. Now these thoughts are mortal or changeable; therefore, as the soul lives in accordance with these thoughts, it lives a mortal, changeable life of sin, sickness and death, which is not known to God. These thoughts have no connection with the spiritual thoughts, and must pass away before the spiritual can be perceived. Just in proportion as we destroy or let go the mortal, changeable thoughts do we perceive the

spiritual thoughts which are known to God. As the thought changes, the act changes. also; and we live the new thought, and it becomes attached to us as a part of us. Thus are we, in time, separated from the old or material thought and brought into the new thought of eternal Truth; in other words, we are born anew, and all things have become new. For illustration, having lived in the thought of sickness as a reality, we at last receive a true spiritual thought that God is real and made all things good; then if he made sickness it would be real and good also; and man could not destroy or change that which God made. Now if the spiritual thought that God could not have made sickness, is understood and realized, it becomes ingrafted in the soul, or becomes attached to it, the soul begins to expel or cast out the former incorrect material thought of the reality of sickness; this changes the action in the system and the soul lives a harmonious thought which

restores the body to health. If the soul continue to perceive spiritual thoughts and to live in accordance with them, they will be attached to, and become a part of the soul, and the soul will then live the life which is known to God, until it becomes the pure reflection of the Thought of the eternal unchangeable Spirit.

Thus must our soul be like unto God, but no portion of God. "Not born of his Substance, but deified by his grace." Jesus thought it not robbery to be like unto God but not to be God; because there is but one God, therefore but one Spirit, and that Spirit is the Substance and Life of all souls.

There is quite a difference between believing and understanding; the former is an acceptance without infallible proof, which often proves to be wrong. No one who understands mathematics can be deceived in it, because, before he decides the result of a work to be correct, he proves it through his understanding of the principle.

Belief is a decision reached through reasoning in material things. It is a conclusion from a theory of opinions and beliefs which is not demonstrable, and therefore it is a false conclusion; but faith (understanding) is a demonstrable knowledge obtained through a clear perception of Spirit and its Thought, which are real, unchangeable and eternal, and also of spiritual things. It is the soul's consciousness of Love, Truth and Life, that is God, and his spiritual creation. "Now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face (soul to Spirit); now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known" (we shall see as God sees us).

I will try to show clearly how the soul or life of man has reasoned and thereby arrived at its present condition, which is not that in which it was created, but a state or condition created by its own understanding, — the absence of the understanding of God. God created the soul the likeness or opposite in

quality, and the image in outline, of his Thought, spiritual, to see the product of its thought or so-called matter, in order that it might multiply, and that the fruits (souls) thereof might be his. God, being unselfish and no respecter of persons, gave mankind a free will to choose its own course. He knew that some would not obey the law of Spirit, but would seek their own,— a material law; therefore He concluded them in unbelief, or in other words, left them under the material law, or in a material understanding of their own construction. He sent the prophets to teach and demonstrate unto them the law of Spirit or God, that they might, through his ambassadors, be led to see the error of their understanding, and be brought to the immortal Truth. The prophets, they did not heed, or heeding, did not understand, and then God sent his Son, the greatest demonstrator of immortal Truth, to redeem his servants; but very few believed even on him. Thus God fulfilled his promise.