question of right-thinking. When we think right, then our
right thoughts will be--what you said--"

"Externalized," he supplied.

"Yes. We will see them all around us, instead of seeing, as we do now,
a lot of jumbled-up thoughts of good and evil which we call people and
things. They will all be good then. And then will be the time when
'God shall wipe away all tears.' It is, as you say in English, 'up to
us' to bring this about. It is not for God to do it at all. Don't you
see that He has already done His part? He has made everything, and
'behold it was very good.' Well, He doesn't have to do it all over
again, does He? No. But we have got to wash our windows clean and let
in the light that comes from Him. That light comes from Him all the
time, just as the beams come from the sun, without ever stopping. We
never have to ask the sun to shine, do we? And neither do we have to
ask God to be good to us, nor tell Him what we think He ought to do
for us. We only have to _know_ that He is good, to us and to
everything, all the time."

"Yes, _chiquita_, we must be truly baptised."

"That is what it means to be baptised, Padre--just washing our
window-panes so clean that the light will come in."

"And that light, little one, is truth. It certainly is a new way of
looking at it, at least, _chiquita_."

"But, Padre, it is the _only_ way," she persisted.

"_Bien_, I would not say that you were mistaken, Carmen."

"No, Padre, for we can prove it. And, look here," she continued,
referring to her list. "If the kingdom of heaven is within us, then
everything that comes to us in life comes from within, and not from
without. And so, things never happen, do they? Don't you see?"

"I see," he replied seriously, "that from the mouths of babes and
sucklings comes infinite wisdom."

"Well, Padre dear, wisdom is God's light, and it comes through any one
who is clean. It doesn't make any difference how old or young that
person is. Years mean nothing but--but zero."

"How can you say that, _chiquita_?"

"Why, Padre, is God old?"

"No. He is always the same."

"And we are really like Him?"

"The real 'we'--yes."

"Well, the unreal 'we' is already zero. Didn't you yourself say that
the human, mortal man was a product of false thought, thought that was
the opposite of God's thought, and so no thought at all? Didn't you
say that such thought was illusion--the lie about God and what He has
made? Then isn't the human 'we' zero?