rt from places, or
things, or people. Now if I say that Life is eternal, I have stated a
mental thing. That is the fact. Its opposite, that is, the opposite of
Life, is death. One opposes the other. But God is Life. Is God also
death? He can't be. Life is the fact. Then death must be the illusion.
That being so, Life is the reality, and death is the unreality. Very
well, what makes death seem real? It is just because the false thought
of death comes into the human mind, and is held there as a reality, as
something that has _got_ to happen. And that strong belief becomes
externalized in what mortals call death. Don't you see? Is there a
person in the whole world who doesn't think that some time he has got
to die? No, not one! But now suppose every person held the belief that
death was an illusion, a part of the big lie about God, just as Jesus
said it was. Well, wouldn't we get rid of death in a hurry? I should
think so! And is there a person in the whole world who wouldn't say
that Anita's babe was blind? No, not one! They would look at the human
thought of blindness, instead of God's real idea of sight, and so they
would make and keep the babe blind. Don't you understand me, Padre
dear? Don't you? I know you do, for you really see as God sees!"

She stopped for breath. Her eyes glistened, and her whole body seemed
to radiate the light of knowledge divine. Then she went hurriedly on:

"Padre, everything is mental. You know that, for you told me so, long
since. Well, that being so, we have got to face the truth that every
mental fact seems to have an opposite, or a lot of opposites, also
seemingly mental. The opposite of a fact is an illusion. The opposite
of truth is a lie. Well, God is the great fact. Infinite mind is the
infinite fact. The so-called opposite of this infinite fact is the
human mind, the many so-called minds of mankind--_a kind of man._ But
everything is still mental. Now, an illusion, or a lie, does not
_really_ exist. If I tell you that two and two are seven, that lie
does not exist. Is it in what we call my mind, or yours? No. Even if
you say you believe it, that doesn't make it real. Nor does it show
that it has real existence in your mind. Not a bit of it! But--if you
hold it, and cling to it--allow it to stay with you and influence
you--why, Padre dear, everything in your whole life will be changed!

"Let me take your pencil--and a piece of paper. Look now," drawing a
line down through the paper