DIVINE SCIENCE

by Malinda Cramer

(excerpt from Divine Science and Healing)

Q. What are the first principles for students of Divine Science to learn?

A. The student should first learn what Being is.Then, what to think and do, and what not to think and not to do, to make thought and deed harmonize with their knowledge. The student should then learn to discriminate between Spirit and nature, between God and creation, but not separate them; between that which is eternal and beliefs that are temporal, and separate them. When students have realized the above they have laid the foundation for a practical realization of Divine Science.

Q. Why is it, that material remedies do not effect permanent cures?

A. Material remedies do not remove the cause of disease, which is ignorance, for this reason they can never make a permanent cure.

Q. Why is it that truth cures?

A. A knowledge of truth erases error and strikes at the root of the tree of false beliefs. Truth being the word -of light and life, which never changes, it must ever heal.

Q. Is pain or disease cause or effect ?

A. When disease makes its appearance, the sensing of it is effect. The disease that we feel — false belief — is mental. All seeming discord is false belief ; it is purely mental and suppositional; not spiritual or real. The sense of disease indicates that there is something spiritual and real that should be recognized and brought out in our lives and unfoldment, and given a place in belief.

Q. What is it that invests disease and inharmony with seeming reality?

A. It is a suppositional belief that they are real. As long as we trust human beliefs and opinions disease seems to be real, and we try to get something out of it that it does not contain. We think it is necessary to our advancement, unfoldment or discipline. God is the only source, and is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Q. What is personality?

A. The usual interpretation of personality is limitation pertaining to persons. Feelings of limitation come from supposing the body to be all there is of self; and appearances and sensations to be real and to have dominion over us. The more contracted the beliefs of the person about himself, the closer will he cling to effects, and the less attention will he give to Supreme Cause. True personality is the expression of God. It is one with the Supreme One.

Q. Where shall we commence the work of regeneration?

A. Regeneration must begin where all creation begins ; our work and workshop are both in Divine Mind. When the senses are enlightened by understanding, the production of Mind is realized to be one with it. To image Mind in thought is harmony.

Q. Why are Spiritual adepts without personal desire?

A. They are without desire because they know themselves. Desire is a recognized need; Spirit is fullness, wholeness; self demonstrable.

Q. How can we know that there is but one source of life, or but One Power?

A. There can be but one All. One being the number of unity, harmony is forever maintained in all there is. If a single atom of the One All could be destroyed we might reasonably suppose that all there is, could be. But as there is only One, there is nothing to act against it; so, it is free to be Its Self. As one fills the universe there is no room for another. Two self-existing powers are inconceivable. No matter how much we suppose there are powers many, there can really be no power but God, and God is one.

Q. What is the cause of suffering and the act called evil?

A. There is no cause in truth for either ; they both show that truth has not been recognized and applied. When truth is not recognized we fall short of it in reasoning, believing and acting. Therefore, they come about through placing too low an estimate upon the nature of Being and existence; an estimate that falls short of what man is in his relationship to the all good. The knowledge of Being is the remedy.

Q. Should we treat for particular results ?

A. Speak the truth of Being, with singleness of purpose. Treat, that God's perfect expression may be made known to the patients. That His presence and motive may be apparent to them. Let your intention be to bring patients into the understanding of Being. From the standpoint of the universal we can treat for particular results. From the standpoint of personal desire we should not do so; nor should we treat at all from that standpoint. Treatment should never be given while holding the belief of necessity or disease in thought.The attention should be fully given to the fulfillment of all promises, and thanks should be rendered for the enjoyment of -all seeming necessities and desirable ease. The universal treatment will bring all things to you, out of the universe of supply. In treating do not forget that man is one with God on the three planes constituting the Law of Expression, and your treatment will be all inclusive, all sufficient. To God there is no disease, no poverty, no death.

Q. How do you account for the recovery of my friend, who was ill over fifteen years?

A. God's word is truth ; and her recovery was due to the fact that when truth was spoken she responded and gave it expression. Sometimes it is easier for patients to recover after they have lost faith in all external remedies, and have lost attraction for external things, than it is if they still have hope in and desire for them. To God there is no incurable disease; they who believe, demonstrate.

Q. What did you call her disease?

A. I did not see disease, therefore no name was given it. When the false beliefs that patients hold about themselves are erased and truth is made manifest, they are quite at ease, tranquil and happy.

Q. What is prejudice, and its remedy?

A. Prejudice is pre-judgment; it is an opinion formed or decision rendered before knowing the truth about the person, or thing, which the prejudice is held against. When truth is heard concerning man or anything, if there is a desire to hold to and sustain previous opinions the reverse of truth, that desire is sourced in prejudice ; it shows that more attention has been given to opinions than to truth. When there is no pre-judgment there are no opinions formed before knowing the truth concerning the person or thing about which judgment is to be rendered. When we admit the presence of all, we do away with all prejudice. Let not the mental eye be blinded.

Q. Why are some more difficult to heal than others ?

A. The mental conditions of some persons are more tenacious of error, and less susceptible to truth than those of others. Such innocently believe that sympathy with and for conditions is comforting to the afflicted. They mistake sympathy for love and truth. This false view of sympathy is the means by which they mentally hold conditions of disease. They fear to let go of false beliefs, because they fear losing sympathy which seems to them so sweet and necessary to happiness. Fear is the only bondage sensed, and it holds no reality.

Q. You teach us that God is in every place, at all times. Then we are to conclude that perfect goodness is in every place at all times. How can perfect goodness be where evil is?

A. God being present Goodness, the life and mind which creates all things, creation has no other. Not for a single moment is he who is called a sinner out of the presence of perfect Goodness. He who perceives not this truth perceives not Spirit — God. Beliefs expressed in sinful acts are those which result from the sense of separateness from God, and which
acts at the dictates of desire; they have no realizing sense of the presence of Good ; " Light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not." To our sisters and brothers whom the world calls evil because of words spoken and deeds done through ignorance, we would say that you are living and moving in the presence of absolute Goodness at all times. This presence will cease to be vague, when you recognize the silent good within and around you, and make your decisions in unison with it, wholly disregarding appearances.

The Spirit will teach you the word of reconciliation ; how to make your thoughts and deeds Its thoughts and deeds. Goodness is unmanifest in thought until you think it and make truthful decisions. When your thoughts are good, the good is manifest to you. Make the thought right, and your deeds will be good. As two things the reverse of each other could not occupy the same place at the same time, there is no evil powerpresent anywhere. There is no power the reverse of Power.

Q. If God is all, how did the appearance of error or evil come into the world?

A. One says it came through man's ignorance. We will not be able to solve this problem for ourselves until we realize that there is at all times but one method. So the way error comes into the world at this time is precisely the way it came into the world in the beginning;for in truth now is the beginning, and now is the ending. But what is ignorance? Ignorance is taking things for what they are not. And what are things that are taken for what they are not? Things are forms ; that which is made to appear or is made manifest. So ignorance is unsuspectingly taking forms to be separate from God, and believing them to be ourselves.

Q. How did you say that the mental becomes fixed in the letter or form?

A. The attention becomes fixed in the letter or form because the will accepts effects or appearances as a basis from which to reason; hence, thought forms erroneous conclusions. What we think about, that we are conscious of. As we have believed the body separate from Spirit and thought we were dependent upon it for happiness and health, our pleasure and pain were sourced therein. This is a reversal of the true idea. The truth is, thebody is not a cause for anything, but is a result of something. These beliefs are the cause of thought beingcentered in the letter or form.

Q. What is the way of return to knowledge and power?

A. The way to knowledge, power, health and to all that is good, is that of taking the position of thinker, of being them and then thinking right. The origin of man's existence is God. In thought he goes out from the Father because his attention is given to the works of thought. He is not really away from God; to know this is to do away with the sense of delusion.

Q. Do the thoughts of others influence us, or our children before they are old enough to think for themselves?

A. Thoughts do not influence Being ; hence, they do not influence the child. Thought shows out beliefs and opinions, which are sensed in the body of both parents and children. The beliefs of the parents and friends may be sensed in the bodies of children before they are old enough to think for themselves; but thought based in truth will never cause them any inconvenience. How essential it is, then, for us to know the truth not only for our own comfort but for the comfort of our children.

Q. Is thought affected by things around us?

A. What we see does cause us to change ourthoughts, and we think according to our surroundings until we awaken to truth. Not until we awaken to truth can we stand unchanged in thought by our surroundings. When we know what mere appearances are, we attach no importance to them.

Q. Will every soul have to go through the experience necessary to demonstrate to itself the nothingness of evil?

A. Soul is always demonstrating the problem of life and knows the nothingness of evil ; that the non-recognition of good is not a power; that to ignore God or Goodness ignorantly or otherwise is not an expression of truth.

Q. We can think as quickly of a far place as a near one; can we see similarly?

A. Yes; we can see as far as thought can reach. Seeing is mental. Through physical conditions you may see physical surroundings, but it is not a desirable attainment to work for; it keeps consciousness limited to form.

Q. Do we, in a future state of existence, retain our love for our own : i, e., the members of our family ?

A. Certainly; for love is immortal. To love is to fulfill the law. You cannot lose love, for it is of God. Of all that is His nothing can be lost.

Q. Is not that love which excludes all but our own family circle, selfish?

A. Much of that which is called love in families, and among friends, is selfish because it is limited. You will lose all selfishness in time, for selfishness is temporary, and is doomed to travel the broad road. The time will come to every one of us when we will know we have no selfish desires.

Q. Then, may not all that we now call love, prove to be selfishness and pass away ?

A. Yes ; all that is called love that is selfish will pass away, but all the Love that you now possess, whether you are expressing that love perfectly or not, you will retain throughout eternity ; for the same is of God. You cannot lose the real and permanent ; it is the unreal and false that is lost.

Q. Do we always have form?

A. Yes; to think is to form; therefore, as long as there is thought, there will be form. We will always have form, but we will never be merely form. Form is effect, and we are Cause, the Maker of effect. I, Being, include body, I am one perfect whole.

Q. If God is everywhere, what is meant by being lost?

A. To God, or Spirit, it has no meaning. The awakened are conscious that they are not lost, and they know that the unawakened are only lost in belief. Those who believe themselves to be lost, are like one in the wilderness trying to find a path which leads homeward, while He is the way. They are like a woman looking for her spectacles, while they are on her nose, and she is looking through them. To believe that we are to be cast into outer darkness, and remain there forever, is outer darkness itself; a condition than which there is none darker. To indulge in such habits of thought is to deny the goodness and love of God, and " His mercy which endureth forever." Belief of being lost, is due to ignorance of where and what God and Christ (the Truth) are, that heaven is within, and only waiting recognition to be enjoyed, and that we live in the kingdom and presence of God at all times, and in all places.

Q. Do not persons who believe that they are lost, feel that there is something gone, that they must look for or seek?

A. Yes ; such an one is looking for and seeking —(though blindly), for that which is forever at hand.Salvation is not a matter of being transported, at a certain time to a certain place or locality ; but it is consciousness of being what cannot be lost. To know the truth, and serve it, is to be saved from ignorance, selfishness, and false beliefs of separateness, and continually live in the sight of God. If we indulge the habit of thinking of ourselves as isolated from God, or as separated from Goodness, we cultivate selfishness the-reby, which accumulates troubles to its self. If self or person held in separation becomes our chief consideration, it generates fear; and fear considers all that it sees, as separate from, and an enemy to its self.

Q. What is the remedy for trouble and selfishness ?

A. The remedy for littleness or limitation, is a knowledge of God and love for truth for its own sake. The remedy is a knowledge and love that knows no limitation.

Q. When we treat one, do we treat all?

A. Spirit bears witness of its self when science treatment is given. Truth applies alike to all in the healing of disease or erasing erroneous belief. To think is to centralize action, so, thought is under the direction of the thinker and always accomplishes what the motive indicates ; in this sense thought is individual, but, is inseparable from the universal.
As many can be treated at one time, as conception and comprehension can hold and realize in truth. All are treated when knowledge is applied that embraces the whole. The motive in a special treatment is, that the truth shall be revealed from Spirit in that special case. In a universal treatment it is revealed universally. We frequently have universal demonstrations. A great change of thought and feeling takes place universally; a thought of cheer, a feeling of comfort, a satisfaction with, and an appreciation of the world. A blessing working from within, out, causing people to see that all things work together for good. Great waves of health and of self confidence and spirituality are awakened in humanity by our universal treatment.

Q. Are children to be treated the same as adults?

A. The same truth frees all. In healing men, women, or children, perceive them and yourself, to be pure Spirit or Mind, then, think and speak what is true of Spirit or Mind. Know there is no body of sin ; therefore do not deny the body when denying false beliefs held about it. See the patient as a perfect whole. Say, There is no body of sin, no diseased body, no mortal or corruptible body, no body that is sick. Your body is a temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. It is glorified, sanctified, pure, perfect and complete; a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God. This is performing my reasonable service. Then say: We thank thee, O Lord, God all Mighty for this perfect body. I have not sinned against my body and my body has not sinned against me. There is no sin in me. I am dead indeed unto sin, and alive unto God forever more. I am recreating my body with every breath and with every heart beat. Every day is a new day and nothing that belonged to yesterday can bind or limit me. I am fearless and free.

Q. Are there any true healers who do not suffer pain?

A. There are true healers who from the personal standpoint suffer pain. The author commenced her work of healing as soon as she grasped the truth, without waiting for bodily relief, and she did good and lasting healing. Some of the cases are spoken of, in the chapters on Spiritual Experience. But as a full realization of absolute truth, and living the life, and demonstrating it for others, soon relieved her, so will truth realized and applied relieve every one. Truth reveals that we are maker and master of sensation. Even a partial realization of truth enables us to mind not the things of the flesh, — that which would be painful and troublesome without the truth known and applied. This shows that true healing can be done from the standpoint of Spirit, while we are yet suffering pain bodily. If this were not so how could any heal themselves? as the author healed herself after twenty-five years of illness, so, her literature has proven self healing possible to many others. Every one who will lay hold of the truth can be healed, regardless of the seeming pain apparent.

Q. Why are animals allowed to suffer pain and disease?

A. They are made to fear and tremble, to doubt and to want at the hands of men. They are loved and petted, hated and rejected, sustained and fed, killed and eaten by men. Then, is it not because men are not single to truth in their conception and are not exercising unity, God given dominion, that the animals are caused to sense pain and suffer. Dualism, and a belief of separation, is the cause of the whole creation groaning and travailing in pain together until now; waiting to- wit, the redemption of our body. Ref . Rom. 8 : 22, 24. With the redemption of our body, — the body of humanity, — from pain contains the redemption of the animals and all form. The animal cognizes through the five senses; by seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling. It is sensible of the manifest world, and sense fears to lose that of which it is alone sensible, and also fears that its desire will not be gratified. Much could be said concerning the fear caused by the manner in which they are treated by "human beings," but it is not our purpose to do so at this time. Fear is suffering, for it is mental inharmony. Material things are continually changing; so mentality based therein, and limited thereto, must necessarily suffer from fear, and doubt, and desire. When the visible universe and sensation are all that the thought recognizes, pain results therefrom through a sense of limitation. The thought of fear is the mental disease which has its out-picturing in what is called physical disease; absolute freedom is painless ; reality is void of suffering.

Q. Does Divine Science disregard man made law?

A. Divine Science recognizes and finds a place for all law and order. It knows no limitation and none can be felt in observing the laws of the land. Divine Scientists are a law-abiding people. Everything that really exists in the world symbolizes the truth of Being, and there is no limitation to the use that we may make of them. So, we may use man made laws with absolute freedom and power. He who knows the truth of Being has freedom in the use of all things.

Q. Has Divine Science anything to offer, as a basis, for the education of children?

A. The basis it has for the education of children is the truth of the nature of their being. The relationship they hold to others and to God; that the reality of all educative subjects is potential within and has simply to be brought out ; Being as a basis throws light upon every study. Children respond to truth in marvelous ways — in God's own way. Educators of children should recognize that children are made up right and that the power to know all things is God's presence manifesting in them. They should be treated and talked to by their teachers as they would treat and talk to His Divine presence. This state of things will come, everything is tending that way. The recognition that children are not to be crammed, but that true education is bringing out what is potential, is right, and must work for good for both teacher and pupil. The time will soon come when the Omnipresence of all power and knowledge and of all that really is, will be recognized as a basis for all true education.

Q. Is thought power or the instrument of power ?

A. It is the instrument of power, power reveals its possibilities to the individual by means of thought.

Q. Is unity, or equality, what people want to know and live? Do they not want to maintain their pride of attainment and belief in separateness ?

A. People may not recognize that they want unity and equality, but it is the very infinitude of truth and law, that they want and are seeking for. They are seeking satisfaction. Unity or equality being infinite there is no satisfaction apart, or that differs from it in nature. People have no true desire to maintain pride of attainment based in the false sense of separateness. Unity of Being, unity of action and the result of action does not depreciate or limit individuality in the least; instead it brings out the beauty, the strength, the true culture and eternity of its nature.

Q. What method of discipline in truth is there for children ?

A. Truth itself is the only discipline. "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." First, see all children as Christ children and as begotten of God full of grace and truth and know that the heaven that is at hand contains them and is in them. Treat them as if all this were an eternal reality; then let them be natural; you will find this method of realizing their being, their good and their freedom to be all sufficient. It will be the only mental training and discipline that children and parents require.

Q. Are accidents good?

A. If error is voiced it must be voiced by error. Since truth alone speaks truth, and in truth there are no accidents; to it there are none to be good. The good that really is, is not dependent upon what are called accidents, or mistakes, to bring out its goodness. Mistakes are of no value in the use of mathematics. Were one to say he was bodily in New York at the time he was in San Francisco and cause others to believe it, the erroneous statement would be of no value to the man who made it, nor to those who believed it; then, it certainly would be of no value to God. Nor would miscalculation that resulted in any seeming accident be good, or of value to any one.

Q. Shall we disown the belief altogether, that experience is our best teacher?

A. You should certainly refuse to give this belief a place. God is not taught by experience. His experience is the sum of His Self manifestation, — the expression of His own knowledge. In truth we naturally know all things and were we to maintain the recognition of that fact we would prove it ; until we do maintain a constant recognition of the truth that Being is knowledge, we should hold that It or God is the only teacher.

Q. Is the principle taught in Divine Science infallible?

A. The principle taught in Divine Science is infallible; for principle is everywhere the same from eternity to eternity.

Q. How shall I teach my children to pray?

A. Children should be taught the prayer of thanksgiving and understanding ; to pray by affirming the truth of God, their good for themselves.

Q. What thought shall I hold to secure success ?

 A. If you want to succeed, then practice success. The way to practice success is to act as if you were success itself. Have no fear, doubt not. Love and faith are power and substance. Go forth fully equipped with them. To illustrate, when you want to buy something, buy it as if you could afford to do so and believe you can. Do not feel afraid to spend the last dollar in hand — all of God's dollars are ours equally. On the other hand do not feel afraid to lay up money for certain purposes, or to wisely invest it that you may receive an income. Do not feel afraid that people will say you are not " in Truth " if you do. Attend strictly to your business, regardless of what others think or practice, and be not swerved by opinions and beliefs. I am the way of success, is for everyone to know and demonstrate. You need not hold any thought, but be what God is — Conscious Law, Power and Success. Affirm in every act, I am success. Give and ye shall receive; receive and ye shall be able to give. First receive spiritually — accept what God has given you. Do as did Jesus when he said, " All mine are thine and all thine are mine." This means, to have nothing but what is God's, and that all that is His isyours. Accept this as a practical working basis, and then do not claim any more for yourself than you do for anyone else, and justice will be meted to you as you deal justly with others.

Q. I am at a loss to know how to present the law of growth scientifically. Will you please explain what it is?

A. The law of growth is not what it is generally supposed to be, development from a lower to a higher plane, state of Being, or degree of consciousness. It is not according to any theory in which the unfoldment is claimed to be greater than the Unfolder, the Source from which it is unfolded. The way to understand the law of growth is to view it from the plane of the Creator. If it is a living growth, it must be viewed from the standpoint of Life. It is generally supposed that a child develops from a lower to a higher plane as he unfolds a knowledge of the principle of mathematics, or if he is faithful, and perseveres in practicing his music lessons. This seems to be correct when the subject is viewed from observation. But the right way to view all questions of growth and development, is to view them from the Source that causes growth. All power is in Life, and all that Life expresses is absolute. There is no high nor low. It requires as much power and intelligence to manifest one living form as another. There is no high nor low in mathematics when examples are viewed from principle. The principle being one it cannot be high and low, and it is the principle that is demonstrated in each example, simple or complex ; it is the same intelligence revealed in both. As all harmony or music, unexpressed or expressed is in Spirit, it is Spirit expressing its possibility in the growth or progress that is made by its student. Strict adherence to principle, and the student's faithful practice, brings out what is potential within. Mathematics and music are potential in Being. When we judge righteous judgment, we correctly perceive that the child simply unfolds the fullness of what is within him in his various mathematical demonstrations. There is but one state of intelligence manifest in the Infinite variety of living things. The law of growth we can see, is simply the law of self expression. Being acting and revealing itself — God creating within and unto Himself. True education is said to be the act of calling forth what is potential within. True knowledge demonstrates and reveals, and gives form, or formulates what is potential within ; so all living expressions are from within, out, and the only true unfoldment is the unfoldment of the powers and possibilities that we are. All unfoldment is the work of an Unfolder. All growth is the effect of that Omnipresent Being that causes it. So, direct expression of God in creation by means of Divine activity, is the law of growth
and unfoldment.

Q. What is meant by going into the silence?

A. It means to enter into a state of mental abstraction in which thought and attention is withdrawn from the mere appearance of things and conditions, and is centered upon the truth. There are two ways of entering this state, one is positive and the other negative. When it is entered in the positive way the attention is withdrawn from the surface and centered upon Being, the principle, substance and reality of self and of all visibility. The purpose is to realize at-one-ment with God and thereby commune with him and self, and from this at-one-ment express inherent power and idea which we are in Being. When the silence is entered in a negative way, the attention is withdrawn from the external, the same as in the positive, but it is not fixed upon Being, nor on any definite purpose to be accomplished; hence, it is an attitude of waiting for something to come, or to appear, not knowing from whence it is to come. The conclusion is that the impressions received must come from God, merely because they were received in the silence. The truth is that most, if not all, received in this negative state are simply impressions and are just as liable to be of some human belief and desire as from principle, reality or God. They are just as liable to be unprofitable as profitable. Going into the silence in this way means, if continued, to become a medium for impressions, from all mannner of thoughts, beliefs and conditions, which is not advisable nor profitable. God expresses Himself, and is never impressed. It is advisable and profitable to follow His method and by so doing we shall express ourselves. The common practice of holding in thought a word or words for the purpose of bringing things to pass, without knowing that Being is the reality of the words, brings nothing but sensuous response. To go into the silence understandingly, is to go into it for the purpose of speaking the positive words of the truth of what God is, which words testify of our at-one-ment with Him. These words do not result in a sensuous response, but make visible the truth of what God is. When I cast out devils (personified beliefs and opinions) by the power of God, then God is come nigh unto the patient. When there are no more false beliefs personified the presence of true Being is apparent.

Q. I have studied under a number of teachers of the " New Thought," and have always been led to think that these higher truths should not be used on so low a plane as material prosperity, or business success. It was taught that we have a right to expect health and spiritual prosperity, but that it is wrong to use the Truth to further our financial interests.
I have gathered from the teaching that you not only approve of using Truth for prosperity, but teach that we may use science to promote material prosperity. Is this right? Is it according to the Bible?

A. If Truth is not to be used and made the basis for prosperity on this plane of existence, then there is nothing that can be used and made the basis of our dealings with each other but error. As long as we hold that there is both material and spiritual prosperity, we will hold one in Truth and the other in error, which is a dual theory not found in unity. The moment we hold Truth for both they are seen to be one even as Truth is a unit If it is wrong to use the Truth to further our financial interests, it is certainly right to set Truth aside and use error. They who have been thus instructed in the New Thought have not been taught unity of action and result, hence it is possible for them to suppose that Truth could be used for the well being of some, and to the detriment of others, but this is not possible. One who reads the Bible and does not see that prosperity is God's law, does not read attentively, and all he needs to do to realize that God is His own success, is simply to behold the Truth of the visible universe spread abroad before us. Since God is successful, and is infinite, man's success is to be found within Him, hence it is written, " No good thing will be withheld from them that walk uprightly." " The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." "Turn not to the right hand nor to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest." And Jesus said : " It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Surely success must be a good thing, rightly understood, and being a good thing it is Godly; so I would say : " First seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added." In the Kingdom of God and His righteousness there is food, raiment and shelter for all. The belief of inequality and want has come about through misunderstanding of God's law, and through the belief that we are not to use the Truth in our every day walks of Life. Let us no longer hold our business in separation from God. Unity within is expressed in outward co-operation.

Q. With the full consciousness of the Divine Order of Infinite Mind, does the Law of Expression cease to be?

A. No! emphatically no, no! God never will nor can we do away with the Trinity of Being, action and result. Creator, creative action and creation. He is the whole trinity. All things share in it and it is all things. When Paul said. The Law acts as a school master to bring us to God, he referred to the Law of Moses, "Thou shalt not," not to the Law of Expression which is the eternal, self existing trinity of Being. I am, therefore, I think and speak, will never cease to be truth. Do not allow yourselves to give place to the erroneous suggestion that this question implies, for the law being self-existing it can never cease to be.