are illusions. They are formed in mentalities that are
themselves wrong interpretations of the infinite Mentality, called
God. They are formed without any rule or principle. They are made up
of false thoughts, false opinions, beliefs of power opposed to God,
beliefs in evil, in sickness, disaster, loss, and death. They are the
results of educated and inherited and attached beliefs. They are
largely made up of fear-beliefs. The human mentalities see these
various beliefs combined in what it calls men and women, houses,
animals, trees, and so on, all through the material so-called
creation. It is this wrong interpretation that has caused all the
suffering and sorrow in the world. And it is this false stuff that the
good man Jesus finally said he had overcome."

"How did he do it, Padre?"

"By knowing its nothingness, and by knowing the Allness of his Father,
infinite Mind. He called this false stuff a lie about God. And he
overcame that lie by knowing the truth--just as you overcome the
thought that you cannot solve your algebraic problems by knowing the
truth that will and does solve them."

"But, Padre, you said once that Jesus was the best man that ever
lived. Was he just a man?"

"Yes, _chiquita_. That is, the human minds all about him saw their
mental concepts of him as a man. But he was a human concept that most
clearly represented God's idea of Himself. Mortal, human minds are
like window-panes, _chiquita_. When a window-pane is very dirty, very
much covered with matter, only a little light can get through it. Some
human minds are cleaner, less material, than others, and they let more
light through. Jesus was the cleanest mind that was ever with us. He
kept letting more and more light--Truth--through himself, until at
last all the matter, even the matter composing the material concept
that people called his earthly body, dissolved in the strong light,
and the people saw him no more. That is called the Ascension."

"And--Padre, don't we have to do that way, too?" she asked earnestly.

"Just so, _chiquita_. We must, every one of us, do exactly as Jesus
did. We must wash ourselves clean--wash off the dirty beliefs of power
apart from God; we must wash off the beliefs of evil as a power,
created in opposition to Him, or permitted by Him to exist and to use
His children; we must wash off beliefs of matter as real and created
by Him. We must know that matter and all evil, all that decays and
passes away, all disc