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Eden and Canaan are the perfect consciousness towards which this immature thought is
pushing. In the Garden of Eden, or the perfect
consciousness in which thought is placed, Truth
says, "Turn only to the Spiritual idea of life; do
not look upon form as a source; all your good, all
your wisdom must be found in Spirit. In the day,
light of understanding, that you turn to another
source but Spirit, and receive your conception of
life from the appearance, you shall surely die."
Such turning from Spirit obscures our vision for
the time of that understanding and banishes
thought from consciousness of its place in Spirit,
from a knowledge of its relation to Spirit;
"Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from
the Garden of Eden to till the ground," or to work
out his own belief in material life and substance.
Man has chosen to judge from appearances, to
turn to the outer for his supply; now he must go
on in that belief until his own experience, "the end
thereof," proves to him its fallacy.
A flaming sword keeps the way of the Tree of
Life. When man partakes of this tree, he can
reach it only by passing through the "sword."
The flaming sword is a symbol having the same
significance as the "consuming fire." Each soul
must pass through these to reach consciousness
of Eternal Life in Spirit; every false conception
we have held of life as being anything below the
