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CHAPTER VIII.

CONCLUSION.

WE have the law through Moses, and if we are saved by the law then Jesus' teaching was in vain, but "By the works of the law" (material understanding) "shall no flesh be justified" (freed from sin) "in his sight: for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin. But now apart from the law" (material understanding) "a righteousness of God had been manifested." Through this righteousness or spiritual understanding of God, which is apart from the material understanding, we do the work of healing.

Jesus, the Christ, born of a woman, came in the flesh according to the material law, in order that he might give to those under the material law, the Law of eternal Life or the righteousness of God, which he pos

sessed, and which, according to the promise, frees us from the material law which is a law unto sin and death; and that through this Law of Life (spiritual understanding) we might receive the adoption of sons, instead of servants. We cannot serve God unless we know his will, and through his Will (Christ or Understanding of God) is the hope of glory formed in us. "For he that soweth unto his own flesh" (material understanding) "shall of the flesh" (material understanding) "reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit" (Understanding of God) "shall of the Spirit" (Understanding of God) "reap eternal Life.”

Circumcision, baptism, or any other material form availeth nothing, but the Law of Spirit or Understanding of God maketh a new creature, and according as we are governed by that Law or Understanding are our sins forgiven, or our discords annihilated.

Thus the mystery of God has been made

known unto us in this time, even as Jesus purposed when on earth, that he should gather together unto himself from the ends of the earth all of those who have the understanding of God. The soul's understanding of God is the promise, and if we have not this understanding we are without hope and without God in the world; therefore let us seek for the hidden riches of Truth, not according to the will of man, but according to the Will of God, or according to the Understanding of God, that we may heal the sick and broken hearted.

Through the spiritual understanding of God, is Life and Immortality brought to light, and with it we not only have a form of worship or godliness, but have, and exercise, the power thereof, as Jesus promised, saying, "And these signs shall follow them that believe in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise.

hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

There are none in this world as good as the angels, and even unto them, was the understanding of God not subjected; but to Jesus, according to the promise, was the understanding of God subjected that through him the world might be redeemed, as it was written, "I will declare thy name unto my brethren.' Thus was Jesus greater than the angels because he was crowned with glory (Understanding of God), and there was given unto him an everlasting kingdom

which is not of this world, but is of the world to come, and which those that are in the material understanding do not comprehend or recognize.

The material understanding is the absence of the Understanding of God, and is, to it, what a dream is to the waking state; and when we wake from this dream or material sense and perceive the spiritual understanding of God, we shall say as did St. Jude,

"Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at naught dominion, and rail at dignities," and as the psalmist said, "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion" (removed the bondage of sin from the servants of God) "we were like them that dream." Dear Reader, if you comprehend the explanations given in this book, you are only prepared to enter into the understanding of that Truth which is from everlasting to everlasting, or a door is opened unto you in heaven.