wrong never results in right. Man (soul) has freedom of choice, and the choice of the good and rejection of the evil in materiality, is the first step toward Immortality.

The first step in Immortality or the beginning of an immortal life is the soul's realization that the material understanding or world of sense originated with man, and that it is not the wisdom of God, but is the absence of it; that the knowledge which man considers the light of the world is foolishness with God or is darkness, the absence of immortal Light: it is the soul's spiritual perception and realization of that Light which is God, through which he can say, "The darkness" (material understanding) “is passing away and the true light" (spiritual understanding) "already shineth." In laying aside this temporal, material, or acquired knowledge he becomes as a little child: this is the first step in immortal Life. The soul will then have an understanding that matter and all material knowledge are the

result or fruits of the material seed which the soul has sown in itself; that sin, sickness and death are the result of the evil material seed, and that this evil seed and its fruits must pass away in order for the soul to be prepared for the spiritual seed. When the soul, through the spiritual understanding of God or the teaching of Jesus (new Adam), casts away the teaching of error or the old Adam, it enters into one understanding with God and Christ. The realization of this understanding will destroy not only disease, but will, at last, translate the body or destroy death. Even as John said, "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." Then, and not until then, shall soul perceive God * and the spiritual crea

*This does not refer to the change called death.

tion as Jesus said, "Then I will show you all things plainly of the Father." Paul also says, "Then shall I know also as I am known." The soul will then realize the sayings "Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" The last enemy will then be destroyed, and there will be no more ground to be tilled. The mountains will have been removed, and all materiality will have disappeared. This is the proof that the whole material universe or all matter, is the coarser fabric of the thought of the soul, produced by the soul through its material thoughts.

Saint Dionysius, in his epistle to Timothy, says, "For the beholding of the hidden things of God shalt thou forsake sense and the things of the flesh, and all the senses can apprehend and that reason of her own. powers can bring forth, and all things created and uncreated that reason is able to comprehend and know, and shall take thy

stand upon an utter abandonment of thyself, and as knowing none of the aforesaid things, and enter into union with Him who is, and who is above all existence and all knowledge." And it has been said that when a man enters into this state, all that he has ever lost is restored to him in a moment.

This may seem, at first, an impossible or, at least, a very difficult thing to do, but if it be done earnestly and sincerely with the same energy one would expend in pursuit of success in any other vocation, it will grow less difficult each time, and will soon be very easy to do. This state is what might be termed a glance into Eternity or Harmony. It brings us nearer to Harmony or God, and is of more benefit to ourselves and others than any material work we can perform. Through the soul's perception and realization of the Christ or Understanding of God, and in proportion to that realization, or in proportion to the fulfilment of the spiritual understanding in the soul, will the soul

be able to demonstrate that understanding or to restore to itself or another that harmony or health which has been lost.

The union of God and man is the soul's constant perception and realization of the infinite Understanding, and continual working in harmony with it. It is the fulfilment of that realization in the soul. Neither God nor the Understanding of God, will enable us to do the work of God, unless the soul partakes of that Understanding. While the soul clings to the material understanding it cannot realize the spiritual understanding although it may perceive it to a certain extent. All evil things, even sin and sickness, cannot harm the soul that does not partake of, nor consent to them. Thus, we must not only perceive the Truth, but we must partake of it, that is, have it fulfilled in us; in other words, we must live it. St. Paul says, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cym