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understanding which moves thought to look to the
visible or form as a source, instead of to the Invisible.
It is hard for us to understand that the Inner,
or Invisible, is All Cause; that from it alone each
individual must receive all things, hence that we
cannot, in Truth, find any cause in the external.
When we ignorantly claim that the visible is a
Cause, and seek to gain our good from thence, our
Israel, or Spiritual thought has turned to Egypt.
Today we find ourselves in Egypt, dependent
upon material things, guided by human opinions
of good and ill. How did we come there? Just in
the same way that Israel went there. First, Israel sent to Egypt and bought corn. It is reasonable
to think that in this first turning to Egypt for
help no idea of ever going into Egypt to dwell was
entertained for a moment. Israel brought the
corn out of Egypt and fed on it in. Canaan. Have
we not been trying to dwell in Spirit and yet be
helped and sustained by what material sense calls good? Have we not our Sundays and prayer
meetings in spiritual consciousness and our everyday life, perhaps, unconsciously given to material
sense?
Can we live both in Canaan and Egypt? This
is the first step that will lead us into bondage in
Egypt. Jacob was doing this only as a temporary
relief from the famine. So on earth our spiritual
