What is truth?

• God is truth.
• To perceive all things embraced within God and pervaded by Him, is truth.
• To say that all things are embraced within God and pervaded by Him is to speak the truth.
• To know that God is the Life and Light of all at all times is to know the truth.
• To know that there can never be a time when the Holy Spirit does not fill full his Holy Temple not made with hands, is to know truth.
• Another truth is, that all we know and have expressed of Spirit, is by perceiving and thinking.

What naturally suggests itself to you at this point of the lesson? Is it not that the lesson of life to be learned is to recognize the Divinity that is ever present, by conforming all mental conditions to it, or by representing it in all your ways? Is not this the truth that is life to live?

And is not this the religion which binds us to God - which Jesus practiced - than which there is no higher?

At the beginning of your perception of truth you will naturally think that, if the All-good and All-powerful is about us and through us, my duty is to recognize it and feel happy and satisfied; and that not to do so would be ingratitude. You are now unwilling to entertain feelings of inharmony. When these feelings come the shadows are dropping off; the longings of the heart are being gratified. When the Infinite Spirit, in which soul is inherent, is acknowledged, realization of the ever-present Bridegroom - the limitless Source of Being - is felt, and the two are understood to be one, and the heart rejoices in the at-one-ment; for this is the union of Peace and Harmony, eternal in the heavens.

Recognition is the one demand made by principle, which must be fulfilled if the solution of the problem be correct. Acknowledgment is the one demand that God makes of His children, which must be fulfilled if they know Him and express harmony. Recognize Me in all your ways - is the voice of Spirit - the Bridegroom - to the child, and you will demonstrate immortal power and know that I am the Father of all that live.

We know that you who study this lesson will not allow yourselves for one moment to entertain feelings of separateness from the good; and that you will soon cease to entertain feelings of non-possession or doubt; for all your affirmations will be upon the side of wholeness, possession - that which is permanent - and health and harmony will result therefrom. You will wish to change your conversation concerning yourself being mortal and limited, and about being environed by mortal things, which will remove self-placed limitations, and free your perception.

The Author of your existence places no limit on your powers for good; and how foolish it is for the individual to do so.

The highest spiritual unfoldment is to be attained by fulfilling the command, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me," by refusing to let the senses speak in opposition to the truth of Infinite Spirit, thus turning the thought to omnipresent good. The above commandment means to the Scientist that the individual should not allow himself to indulge in negative thought, that is, in thought which contradicts the ever present positive good. Not until the individual fully awakens to the understanding of his union with God and to the truth that there has never been a separation, does his love and motive change: then it becomes a most sacred privilege to think, speak and act like that which he believes himself to be and to be surrounded by.

That we have not known our real self proves nothing against our being real. The folly of not knowing self as Divine Being has bound mentality in chains of beliefs in ignorance, sorrow, pain and death. The mental thus bound causes feelings to take form or quality in dis-ease. The great delusion of the world is ignorance, which consists in unsuspectingly taking things for what they are not. But when in the broad sunlight of truth we by its light view ourselves as we are, soul and Spirit, we realize the oneness and divinity of the life of all things. How quickly this realization fills the heart with universal love! Awakening a sense of universal justice; and strength and harmony are the result.