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158 Consecration to God lessens not man's dependence on Him, but heightens it. Neither does it diminish his

obligations to God, but shows the paramount necessity of meeting them. Science takes naught from the perfection of God, but ascribes to Him the greater glory. By putting “off the old man. with his deeds,” mortals “put on immortality.”

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 life and truth in matter, and rise above mortal man, above the material universe, to God. We must rise to clearer views, which inspire the Godlike man, and thus reach the absolute centre and circumference of Being.

Job said: “I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee.” Mortals will echo

Job's thought, when the supposed pain and pleasure oi matter cease to predominate. They will then drive away false estimates of life and happiness, of pleasure and pain, and attain the bliss of loving unselfishly, working patiently, and conquering all that is unlike God. Starting from a higher standpoint, one rises spontaneously, even as light emits light without effort; for “where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin. To begin rightly is to end rightly.

Every calculation which begins with the body begins falsely. Immortal Mind is the only Cause and Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms.