262:9 We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God's creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We must reverse our feeble flutterings - our efforts to find 262:12 life and truth in matter - and rise above the testimony of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the God- 262:15 like man to reach the absolute centre and circumference of his being. The true sense Job said: "I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the 262:18 ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee." Mortals will echo Job's thought, when the supposed pain and pleasure of matter cease to predominate. They 262:21 will then drop the false estimate of life and happiness, of joy and sorrow, and attain the bliss of loving unselfishly, working patiently, and conquering all that is unlike God. 262:24 Starting from a higher standpoint, one rises spontane- ously, even as light emits light without effort; for "where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Mind only the cause 262:27 The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin. To begin rightly is to end rightly. Every concept which seems to begin with the brain 262:30 begins falsely. Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms. Human egotism 263:1 Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be independent workers, personal authors, and even privi- 263:3 leged originators of something which Deity would not or could not create. The creations of mortal mind are material. Immortal spiritual man 263:6 alone represents the truth of creation. Mortal man a mis-creator When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence with the spiritual and works only as God works, 263:9 he will no longer grope in the dark and cling to earth because he has not tasted heaven. Carnal beliefs defraud us. They make man an involun- 263:12 tary hypocrite, - producing evil when he would create good, forming deformity when he would outline grace and beauty, injuring those whom he would bless. He 263:15 becomes a general mis-creator, who believes he is a semi-god. His "touch turns hope to dust, the dust we all have trod." He might say in Bible language: "The 263:18 good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, /that I do./" No new creation