ll enter, and nothing but good will be
externalized to me in consciousness. I shall be in heaven--all the
heaven there is. It is the heaven which Jesus talked so much about,
and which he said was within us all. It is so simple, Padre dear, so
simple!"

The man sat humbly before her like a rebuked child. He knew that she
spoke truth. Indeed, these were the very things that he had taught her
himself. Why, then, had he failed to demonstrate them? Only because
he had attempted to mix error with truth--had clung to the reality and
immanence of evil, even while striving to believe good omnipotent and
infinite. He had worked out these theories, and they had appeared
beautiful to him. But, while Carmen had eagerly grasped and
assimilated them, even to the consistent shaping of her daily life to
accord with them, he had gone on putting the stamp of genuineness and
reality upon every sort of thought and upon every human event as it
had been enacted in his conscious experience. His difficulty was that,
having proclaimed the allness of spirit, God, he had proceeded to bow
the knee to evil. Carmen had seemed to know that the mortal, material
concepts of humanity would dissolve in the light of truth. He, on the
other hand, had clung to them, even though they seared the mind that
held them, and became externalized in utter wretchedness.

"When you let God's thoughts in, Padre, and drive out their
opposites, then sickness and unhappiness will disappear, just as
the mist disappears over the lake when the sun rises and the light
goes through it. If you really expected to some day see the now
'unseen things' of God, you would get ready for them, and you would
'rejoice always,' even though you did seem to see the wickedness of
Padre Diego, the coming of the soldiers, the death of Lazaro and Don
Mario, and lots of unhappiness about yourself and me. Those men are
not dead--except to your thought. You ought to know that all these
things are the unreal thoughts externalized in your consciousness.
And, knowing them for what they really are, the opposites of God's
thoughts, you ought to know that they can have no more power over
you than anything else that you know to be supposition. We can
suppose that two and two are seven, but we can't make it true. The
supposition does not have any effect upon us. We know that it isn't
so. But as regards just thought--and you yourself said that everything
reduces to thought--why, people seem to think it is