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320 Life, Truth, and Love. Hence the hope of the promise Jesus bestows: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also,. . . because I go to my Father, — [because the Ego is absent from the body, and present with Truth and Love.]” The Lord's Prayer is the prayer of Soul, not of material sense.

Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding, and the consciousness of man's dominion over the whole earth. This understanding casts out error and heals the sick, and with it you may speak “as one having authority.”

So spake Jesus. The closet typifies the sanctuary of Spirit, whose door shuts out sinful sense, but opens to

Truth, Life, and Love. Closed to error, it is open to Truth, and vice versa. The Father in secret is unseen to the physical senses; but He knows all things, and rewards according to motives, not according to speech. To enter into the heart of prayer, the door of the erring senses must be closed. Lips must be mute and materialism silent, that man may have audience with Spirit, the divine Principle which destroys all error.

In order to pray aright, we must enter into the closet and shut the door. We must close the lips and silence

the material senses. In the quiet sanctuary of earnest longings, we must deny sin and plead God's allness. We must resolve to take up