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heaven, eternal harmony. Through repentance, spiritual
baptism, and regeneration, mortals put off their material
beliefs and false individuality. It is only a
question of time when "they shall all know
Me [God], from the least of them unto the greatest."
Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards
the joys of Spirit, towards human freedom and the final
triumph over the body.
(The one only way)
There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ
in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no
other reality - to have no other consciousness
of life - than good, God and His reflection,
and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure
of the senses.
Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient
obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve
with the universal solvent of Love the adamant
of error, - self-will, self-justification, and self-love, -
which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin
and death.
(Divided vestments)
The vesture of Life is Truth. According to the Bible,
the facts of being are commonly misconstrued, for it is
written: "They parted my raiment among
them, and for my vesture they did cast lots."
The divine Science of man is woven into one web of
consistency without seam or rent. Mere speculation or
superstition appropriates no part of the divine vesture,
while inspiration restores every part of the Christly garment
of righteousness.
The finger-posts of divine Science show the way our
Master trod, and require of Christians the proof which
he gave, instead of mere profession. We may hide
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