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138 impurities of flesh, signifies that such as see God are approaching spiritual Life and its demonstration.

It is “easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,” than for a mortal to enter the Kingdom of

Heaven. Through spiritual baptism and regeneration, mortals put off false individuality. It is only a question of time when “they shall all know Me [God], from the least of them unto the greatest.” Denial of the claims of matter is a great step toward the joys of Spirit, toward human freedom, and toward triumph over the body.

There is but one way to Heaven and harmony, and Christ shows us this way. It is to know no other reality

than Good, or God and His reflection, to have no other consciousness of Life's demands, and to rise superior to the so-called pains and pleasures of matter.

Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve, with the universal solvent of Love, the adamant of error, — self-will, self-justification, and self-love; for these war against spirituality, and are the law of sin and death.

The vesture of Life is Truth. According to the Bible, the facts of Being are commonly misconstrued; for it

is written: “They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.” The Divine Science of man is woven into one web of consistency, without seam or rent. Mere speculation appropriates only a part of the divine vesture, while inspiration restores every part of the Christly garment of righteousness.