to take, but if God could know anything of lack or limitation of any kind -- lack of money, lack of health, lack of intelligence, lack of friends -- then LACK would become an eternal verity, for God is changeless. What He knows today, He has always known, and will know throughout eternity. But God is always One -- not a house divided against itself -- and He can never know anything unlike Himself, so we need not be concerned about lack ever becoming a Reality.

There is nothing in the universe that limits us, or that would or could desire to limit us. This idea that God is trying our souls to see whether or not we can take it, so to speak, is nonsense. That idea is born in ignorance, in superstition, in the night-time of the soul, and has nothing to do with spiritual realization. There is no power in the universe that tries or tempts us but our own ignorance. There is nothing in the universe that withholds from us because we are withholding; because, in withholding, It would withhold from Itself, and we are some part of Its purpose; therefore, not only is there nothing in the universe that limits or restrains us, but the Spirit even seeks, urges, pushes against us, to fulfill Itself. We should get a clear understanding of