beliefs are all destroyed as Heaven becomes real, anxiety, fear, resistance and condemnation for any one or any thing touch us no more. All things become new, for we see the soul of things animate, and even those things which seem inanimate to sense reveal meaning and purpose. All is well forevermore once we have left the confines of mortal limitation. There is no place, no time where God is not invisibly visible to those who love Him. We hear above the clamor of sense the angel's song, "Peace on earth, good will among men."

When we know God an infinite trust holds steadfast the consciousness. We know that He is our "Almighty Resource," and can never fail us in any thing or at any time. We know that He who has thought us into existence will continue to think us according to His Consciousness until we stand in His Resurrection. That which God began in us He will finish. His Ideal in man must be expressed, for failure with God is impossible. The Real of each is hid with Christ in God, and "there is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed." "When God is with us," said Josephus, "the impossible becomes possible."

We are never alone, for an all embracing love enfolds us. In the gorgeous colors of sunset, from the hearts of flowers, through the purple haze of mountain and hill, in the comradeship of friends, the great companion reveals himself to us and realizes His Presence for us.

We are never alone. In the privacy of our chambers, in the wide spaces of our fields and valleys, in the depths of the forests, the Great Lover ever

waits and watches to give us of His splendid riches, His joy complete when we accept them.

We who know God are eager to tell the good news of His Presence and availability. We are working to dispense His gifts of healing from sin, disease and sorrow. We would take Him at His word and bring back to our fellow-man the image of that perfection which was his "When the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy." This deep unalloyed joy is ours as we leave the vitiated valleys of mortal delusions and pitch our tents towards the dwelling place of light. "In thy Light, we see Light." Already there is falling upon us some of that glory which we had with Him before the creation of the world. "Vistas of glory incessant and branching," open continuously. Having once experienced divine illumination, nothing and no one is foreign or alien, all become our very own, for life is indivisibly one, and that One, OUR FATHER-MOTHER-GOD.

"Waiting the word of the Master,
Watching the hidden Light;
Listening to catch His orders
In the very midst of the fight.
Seeing His slightest signal
Across the heads of the throng,
Hearing His lightest whisper
Above earth's loudest song."

CHAPTER III

THE PRINCIPAL AND THE PRINCIPLE.

Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord.Deut. 6:4.

Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free.-John 8:32.

Knowing God and Knowing His Law.-There cannot be a principle without a principal; the one is the inevitable consequence of the other. A principal is "one who has controlling authority or influence," and principle is defined as, “a settled law or rule of action." The Principal of the universe is its Thinker, and Principles are what He thinks and the way He thinks things. In order to know the Truth that makes free, it is necessary to perceive these distinctions, because thought is the tool through which we work and express ourselves. Ideas which are distinct and definite, cast forms that are clear-cut and perfect. Our bodies, our houses, our art work of every description are thought forms.

Jesus, called the Principal, "Father," because He is the one Source of all life, and His relationship to His children is the protecting shelter and comprehending love of a Father whose Divine Will and eternal purpose is to give the Kingdom to these children, His beloved heirs. Spiritual education consists in learning the principles of life in order that we be able to receive our inheritance. The

eternal speech of God to man is through principles. So long as we are unable to solve any problem in the universe our spiritual education is incomplete; spiritual efficiency is the ability to meet any demand made upon it with a joyous conviction of mastery. Principle is a rule of thought and action; it is the basic and fundamental activity of spiritual power; it demonstrates its own exactness. One may know much about principles, but to know a particular principle is another thing altogether. Knowledge of a principle is obtained by experiment and by demonstrating that it meets the demand. We never know a principle until we have demonstrated it. What we have proved enters into our consciousness and is the sum total of our knowledge. What we know about a principle is a perception which we must work out until we have reduced it to actual knowledge, and it has become subject to us through demonstration.

The Atonement.—The doctrine of the Atonement is a paradox. It is at once a sublime truth and a monstrous error. The truth lies in the fact that Jesus attained his freedom by making his at-onement with God and thus fulfilling the Principle. The error is in the interpretation that because he did this, it in any way absolves us from being obliged to do it also. Jesus did it because the compulsion and impulsion of the Principal exact the fulfillment of the principle, and the inspiration of his life is the revelation of spiritual knowledge and power which enabled him to make this demonstration. The resurrection of Jesus prefigures that which must take place in all men.

Christianity lays down two great mandates. First: "This is life eternal to know thee the only true God," which is the fundamental of the Principal. Second: "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free," which is the fundamental of the Principle. To understand the teachings of Christianity and receive its freedom it is essential to realize that although freedom is a bequest to man from God, it must also be a conquest of man through his comprehension of divine principles. Man has been compelled to discern that all life is governed by principles which he cannot disregard without entailing pain and suffering; that he becomes free from material ills in proportion to his knowledge and application of these principles.

How may we gain the splendid freedom Jesus realized? As we study the short record of his life we are amazed at the freedom to which he attained. God from Whom we have received the ability to think placed no limitation on our capacity to develop and exercise this power. Under the penalty of disaster, we are obliged to learn to think. and work in principles. Beginning and ending in principle, that is the way God thinks us; we are under the compulsion of learning the truth about ourselves. Otherwise we find that the power which makes us akin to God is destructive and disastrous, holding us in the excruciating tortures of a selfmade hell. Through knowledge of spiritual principles we release ourselves into a God-made heaven. Faithfully thinking and working in Mind Principles is the way to freedom.

The Freedom of Jesus.-To comprehend the great