To arrive at this point of unity of Spirit, God, one must commence by turning away from material gods; denying [5] material so-called laws and material sensation,—or mind in matter, in its varied forms of pleasure and pain. This must be done with the understanding that matter has no sense; thus it is that consciousness silences the mortal claim to life, substance, or mind in matter, with the words [10] of Jesus: “When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own.” (John viii. 44.) When tempted to sin, we should know that evil pro- ceedeth not from God, good, but is a false belief of the personal senses; and if we deny the claims of these senses [15] and recognize man as governed by God, Spirit, not by material laws, the temptation will disappear. On this Principle, disease also is treated and healed. We know that man’s body, as matter, has no power to govern itself; and a belief of disease is as much the prod- [20] uct of mortal thought as sin is. All suffering is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of _both_ good and evil; of adherence to the “doubleminded” senses, to some belief, fear, theory, or bad deed, based on physical material law, so-called as opposed to good,—all of which is corrected [25] alone by Science, divine Principle, and its spiritual laws. Suffering is the supposition of another intelligence than God; a belief in self-existent evil, opposed to good; and in whatever seems to punish man for doing good,— by saying he has overworked, suffered from inclement [30] weather, or violated a law of matter in doing good, there- fore he must suffer for it. [Page 199.] God does not reward benevolence and love with pen- [1] alties; and because of this, we have the right to deny the supposed power of matter to do it, and to allege that only mortal, erring mind can claim to do thus, and dignify the result with the name of law: thence comes man’s ability [5] to annul his own erring mental law, and to hold himself amenable only to moral and spiritual law,—God’s gov- ernment. By so doing, male and female come into their rightful heritage, “into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” [10] _Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities,_ _in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake._—2 COR. xii. 10. The miracles recorded in the Scriptures illustrate the life of Jesus as nothing else can; but they cost him the [15] hatred of the rabbis. The rulers sought the life of Jesus; they would extinguish whatever denied and defied their superstition. We learn somewhat of the qualities of the divine Mind through the human Jesus. The power of his transcendent goodness is manifest in the control it [20] gave him over the qualities opposed to Spirit which mor- tals name matter.