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and effect," since error has no cause. Failure is certainly not found in the Infinite Cause, therefore, has no place in Truth. Seeming failure can be no more than postponement of good that our lack of faith occasions. The disciples could not heal the boy at the foot of the mountain. When Jesus healed him the disciples asked, Why could not we do this? and he replied, "Because of your unbelief." Divine Science does not attribute "failure" to the "malicious thoughts," or to the error beliefs that surround us. Jesus never did this. The only "failure" is when our thought fails to grasp the deep significance of Truth. Let us press on with deeper love and fervor to a better understanding and more perfect practice.

Belief in separation from God creates all our conceptions of evil, it gives rise to the words "mine" and "thine." In this false imagining of separation, we claim "my mind, my will, my way, myself (with a little s), my life;" we speak also of "my ills" and "my troubles."

Pains and aches are not mine. My Spirit and my body are the Lord's. I know no separation from the Perfect Being that is Wholeness. When we are conscious, as was Jesus, that "I and my Father (Source) are one," like him we may say, "All mine are thine and all thine are mine."

To come to God is to come to knowledge of oneness with Perfection, which brings realization of Wholeness.