As the Truth We Never Sinned

As true Being, we have never been limited in any way. We have never been born. Never suffered sickness, sin nor sorrow. Never made a mistake nor entertained a false belief. For does mathematics know anything about erring computations, or light know aught of darkness?

But as students of Truth, we certainly did entertain many false beliefs. For instance, that we left our Father’s kingdom, our perfect state of Being. Also, we believed that we were sick and were healed; were ignorant and received instruction; were sinful and were forgiven. But we now see that as the Truth, have done none of these things! As the Truth or divine Principle, we never had a false belief, never were sick nor imagined ourselves so; never sinned in any way; and never left our state of being the Truth; even as no mistake ever entered into mathematics or could any error mingle with it.

As the Truth itself, we can truthfully and honestly say I am whole. I am complete, I am changeless and absolute Perfection always. But never as the student can we speak with such absoluteness. Oh, what a difference it makes to us in our visions and expressions, – to be the Truth and the Life rather than the student applying the Truth to his problems! And so long as one considers himself a student will he find himself confronted with problem. For are not problems part of the life of a student? To be the Truth is to let go automatically of the lesser visions and misconceptions. Here I “lose” my life as a student or disciple to “find” it as the veritable Life itself, the Principle “without shadow of turning.” Now, I can no longer call myself an “idea of God,” or a “manifestation of Life,” nor will I strive after right thinking. As the Truth I will be the divine Mind, and so perceive and know Reality and Perfection. Only as the one Consciousness can I ever hope to feel imperishable life, all-adoring love and unspeakable peace and glory. Only as Life can I ever be immortal, incorruptible and ever lasting.

“I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God and your God,” explained Jesus. He ceased operating as “the Son” when he saw, “I and my Father are one; when you see me you see the Father.” The Jews said to him: “Thou makest thyself God.” Yes, he did this very thing, and he further admonished, “Follow Me; the works that I do shall you do also” when you see as I see, think as I think, speak as I speak, make yourself God as I do; for we are all the same One. As I am the Light, so you are this same Light; as I am the Truth, the Life and the Way, so, likewise, you are the same. We are all the selfsame one and there is no other.

When we see this Truth for ourselves we may also transmit it to another who is willing to receive it. We will both be carried away with the glory of being the absolutely fixed, changeless and perfect Truth Itself. We then shall prove that true Being cannot lack anything, cannot be other than what it eternally is. We shall feel for a certainty that Life is always harmonious, and so is ever harmoniously expressing its glorious and luminous Being. Thus our treatment or prayer will consist of words of authority and power, words of recognition and praise.

“Our Father which art in heaven,” – our real and perfect state which awaits our recognition and acceptance of it; “hallowed be Thy name,” – only and glorious one. “Thy kingdom come,” that is, this Almighty knowledge is within reach of us all, and in proportion to our readiness and willingness to receive it, so shall we possess it. We do the “will” of God when we see that we are Life, Truth and Love, and nothing less. “Our daily bread,” or spiritual substance, is our daily awareness and acceptance of our real Name and Nature. This reality feeds, sustains and preserves us with life all-harmonious and ever-lasting. Our “sins” are all blotted out and forgiven on the basis that we are Changeless Principle and, as such, we never knew sin, sickness nor grief; nor even false beliefs. We never were alienated from our all-perfect Being. This divine understanding, received and felt in our hearts, “delivers us from all evil,” and we rest secure in the exalted awareness that to be perfect we must be Perfection, – we must be perfect Life, Truth and Love, for only such “is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever.” Verily, until we actually see and feel that we are the Truth, and not the student of the Truth, we shall ever be trying to get ourselves out of difficulties, called problems. Only when we see that “I am the very Truth itself, I am the very Life itself,” shall we have no thought of a problem, even as to light there is no darkness whatsoever. To the Truth all is Perfection, and to the divine Mind all is understanding, always. Our beliefs change, our thoughts change, our ideas and perceptions change, but Truth changes never. Thus, until one discovers that he is the Changeless Truth, he is bound to climb and fall, and to climb and fall time and time again. Only when he reaches the knowledge that he is the Truth and so begins to make himself as God, does he enter into that peace where there is no urge to resist evil in some fashion; no desire to handle appearances in any way: for there is the conscious experiencing of the Light, the drinking from the living waters from which he shall never thirst again. Now one is always the Truth despite any beliefs or appearances to the contrary; but until he awakens to this fact, and partakes of its glory, he does not consciously experience this Reality of himself.