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172 Having one God, one Mind, establishes the brotherhood of man, and fulfils the divine laws: “Thou shalt have no

other gods before Me,” and “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” When these divine commands are understood they unfold the Principle of brotherhood, wherein one mind is not at war with another, but all have one Mind, one Soul, one God, one intelligent Source, in accordance with the Scriptural command: “Let this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” Man and his Maker are correlated in Divine Science, and consciousness is cognizant only of the things of God.

The realization that all discord is unreal brings objects and thoughts into human view in their true light,

and presents them as beautiful and immortal. Harmony in man is as real and immortal as in music. Discord is unreal and mortal.

If God is admitted to be the only Mind and Life, there ceases to be any opportunity for sin and death.

When we learn in Science how to be perfect, even as our leather in Heaven is perfect, thought will be turned into new and healthy channels, — towards the contemplation of things immortal, and away from materiality to the Principle of the universe, including man.

Belief and understanding never mingle. The latter destroys the former. Discord is the nothingness of Error. Harmony is the somethingness of Truth.

Nature and revelation inform us that like produces like. Divine Science gathers not grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles. Intelligence never produces non-intelligence; but matter is ever non-intelligent, and