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them with the plain teachings of the Christ in whose footsteps they
profess to follow.

I never could understand how God could be ever-present as a personal
Being, but I think I can and do understand how divine Principle can
pervade every thing and place.

I never could understand how heaven could be a place with gorgeous
fittings, but I think I can and do understand how it might be a spiritual
(or if you please mental) condition. Jesus said, "The kingdom of God
cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo
there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

"Knowledge (or understanding) is power." Since adopting the views of life
as set forth in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I have
seen proofs of what can be accomplished through a knowledge of the truth,
which to my mind amount to demonstrations, and which no longer seem
incredible, but which I do not ask another to accept upon my statements.
Every one must see or feel for himself in order to be convinced; but I am
satisfied that any who will lay aside their preconceived notions, and deal
honestly with themselves and the light they have, will come to a knowledge
of the truth as illustrated in the teachings and life of Jesus Christ;
that is, that Mind, or Soul, or whatever you may be pleased to call it, is
the real Ego, or self, and that mortal mind with its body is the unreal
and vanishing, and eventually goes back to its native nothingness.

Truth is, and ever has been, simple; and because of its utter simplicity,
we in our pride and selfishness have been looking right over it. We have
been keeping our eyes turned toward the sky, scanning the heavens with a
far-off gaze in search of light, expecting to see the truth blaze forth
like some great comet, or in some extraordinary manner; and when, instead
of coming in great pomp and splendor, it appears in the simpleness of
demonstration, we are staggered at it, and refuse to accept it; our
intellectual pride is shocked, and we are sure that there has been some
mistake. Human nature is ever the same. The Jews were looking for
something transcendently wonderful, and the absence of it made the Christ,
Truth, to them a stumbling-block. It was foolishness to the Greeks, who
excelled in the worldly wisdom of that day; but in all ages of the world
it has ever been the power of God to them that believe, not blindly, but
because of an enlightened understanding.

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