separates himself from God in his thinking and from his fellow men in his doing is experiencing one form of death.

A consideration of the experience of death from the standpoint of Divine Science will bring an answer to the question, "Who are the dead?" The so-called dead are those who conceive themselves apart from Life -- God in action. In this God-Plan of eternal progression there is no death. The process of life is that of resurrection, continuous unfoldment. Divine Science sees resurrection as an eternal process; we rise out of limitation daily. This is living. We rise out of the belief in death or separation into the realization of unity and cooperation. To rise we must train our thought to see the true and the beautiful -- God in action -- instead of the false and the ugly, men’s opinions from the standpoint of duality.

It is interesting to trace the differing attitudes toward death that have characterized the expressions of our fellow men. The Christian has [60] faced it as a calamity with fortitude and resignation, while he has resisted death and mourned it as the worst of evils; for to him it was synonymous with separation of loved ones and the ending of earthly life, but it was the will of God.

Has the dread and fear of death, as we call the experience of transition, passed out of the thinking of those who call themselves followers of New Thought? With many resistance to the experience still remains; it is considered an evil, because they think it is a sign