ord and disease, everything that comes as
testimony of the five physical senses, is but a part of the lie about
Him, the stuff that has the minus sign before it, making it less than
nothing. We must know that it is the suppositional opposite of the
real--it is an illusion, seeming to exist, yet evaporating when we try
to define it or put a finger on it, for it has no rule or principle by
which it was created and by which it continues to exist. Its existence
is only in human thought."

No, Jose assured himself, the Gospels are not "loose, exaggerated,
inaccurate, credulous narratives." They are the story of the clearest
transparency to truth that was ever known to mortals as a human being.
They preserve the life-giving words of him whose mission it was to
show mankind the way out of error by giving them truth. They contain
the rule given by the great Mathematician, who taught mankind how to
solve their life-problems. They tell the world plainly that there
seems to exist a lie about God; that every real idea of the infinite
Mind seems to have its suppositional opposite in a material illusion.
They tell us plainly that resisting these illusions with truth renders
them nugatory. They tell us clearly that the man Jesus was so filled
with truth that he proved the nothingness of the lie about God by
doing those deeds that seemed marvelous in the eyes of men, and yet
which he said we could and should do ourselves. And we must do them,
if we would throw off the mesmerism of the lie. The human concept of
man and the universe must dissolve in the light of the truth that
comes through us as transparencies. And it were well if we set about
washing away the dirt of materialism, that the light may shine through
more abundantly.

Jesus did not say that his great deeds were accomplished contrary to
law, but that they fulfilled the law of God. The law is spiritual,
never material. Material law is but human limitation. Ignorance of
spiritual law permits the belief in its opposite, material law, or
laws of matter. False, human beliefs, opinions, and theories, material
speculations and superstitions, parade before the human mind as laws.
Jesus swept them all aside by knowing that their supposed power lay
only in human acceptance. The human mind is mesmerized by its own
false thought. Even Paul at times felt its mesmerism and exclaimed:
"I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with
me." The very idea of good stirs up