266:6 Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this 266:9 seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love. When this hour of development comes, even if you cling to a sense of personal joys, spiritual Love will 266:12 force you to accept what best promotes your growth. Friends will betray and enemies will slander, until the lesson is sufficient to exalt you; for "man's extremity 266:15 is God's opportunity." The author has experienced the foregoing prophecy and its blessings. Thus He teaches mortals to lay down their fleshliness and gain spirituality. 266:18 This is done through self-abnegation. Universal Love is the divine way in Christian Science. The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the 266:21 saint his own heaven by doing right. The opposite per- secutions of material sense, aiding evil with evil, would deceive the very elect. Beatific presence 266:24 Mortals must follow Jesus' sayings and his demonstra- tions, which dominate the flesh. Perfect and infinite Mind enthroned is heaven. The evil beliefs 266:27 which originate in mortals are hell. Man is the idea of Spirit; he reflects the beatific presence, illuming the universe with light. Man is deathless, spiritual. He 266:30 is above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with God and the universe. The infinitude of God 267:1 Every object in material thought will be destroyed, but the spiritual idea, whose substance is in Mind, is eternal. 267:3 The offspring of God start not from matter or ephemeral dust. They are in and of Spirit, divine Mind, and so forever continue. God is one. The 267:6 allness of Deity is His oneness. Generically man is one, and specifically man means all men. It is generally conceded that God is Father, eternal, self- 267:9 created, infinite. If this is so, the forever Father must have had children prior to Adam. The great I AM made all "that was made." Hence man and the spiritual uni- 267:12 verse coexist with God. Christian Scientists understand that, in a religious sense, they have the same authority for the appellative 267:15 mother, as for that of brother and sister. Jesus said: "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and 267:18 mother." Waymarks to eternal Truth