heaven. Here he recognized
the fact that the real life is direct from the life of God. Our
fathers and our mothers are the agents that give us the bodies, the
houses in which we live, but the real life comes from the Infinite
Source of Life, God, who is our Father.

One day word was brought to the Master that his mother and his brethren
were without, wishing to speak with him. Who is my mother and who are
my brethren? said he. Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which
is in heaven, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Many people are greatly enslaved by what we term ties of relationship.
It is well, however, for us to remember that our true relatives are not
necessarily those who are connected with us by ties of blood. Our
truest relatives are those who are nearest akin to us in mind, in soul,
in spirit. Our nearest relatives may be those living on the opposite
side of the globe,--people whom we may never have seen as yet, but to
whom we will yet be drawn, either in this form of life or in another,
through that ever working and never failing law of attraction.

When the Master gave the injunction, Call no man your father upon the
earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven, he here gave us the
basis for that grand conception of the fatherhood of God. And if God
is equally the Father of all, then we have here the basis for the
brotherhood of man. But there is, in a sense, a conception still
higher than this, namely, the oneness of man and God, and hence the
oneness of the whole human race. When we realize this fact, then we
clearly see how in the degree that we come into the realization of our
oneness with the Infinite Life, and so, every step that we make
Godward, we aid in lifting all mankind up to this realization, and
enable them, in turn, to make a step God-ward.

The Master again pointed out our true relations with the Infinite Life
when he said, Except ye become as little children ye shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven. When he said, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, he
gave utterance to a truth of far greater import than we have as yet
commenced fully to grasp. Here he taught that even the physical life
can not be maintained by material food alone, but that one's connection
with this Infinite Source determines to a very great extent the
condition of even the bodily structure and activities. Blessed are the