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324 the eternal Love. It was therefore Christ's purpose to reconcile man to God, not God to man. Love and Truth are not at war with God's idea, and man is this idea. Man cannot exceed God in Love, and so atone for himself. Even Christ could not reconcile Truth to error, for they are irreconcilable. Jesus aided in reconciling man to God, only by giving man a truer sense of Love, the divine Principle of his teachings, which would redeem man from under the law of matter, by this explanation of the law of Spirit.

The Master forbore not to speak the whole Truth, declaring precisely what would destroy sickness, sin, and death; although his teaching set households at variance, and brought to their material beliefs not peace, but a sword.

Every pang of repentance and suffering, every effort for reform, every good thought and deed, will help us to

understand Jesus' atonement for sin, and aid its efficacy; but if the sinner continues to pray and repent, sin and be sorry, he hath little part in the atonement, — in the at-one-ment with God, — for he lacks the practical repentance which reforms the heart, and enables one to do the will of Wisdom. Those who cannot demonstrate, at least in part, the divine Principle of the teachings and practice of our Master, have no part in God. If living in disobedience to Him, we ought to feel no security, although God is good and man is repentant.

Jesus urged the commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me,” which may be rendered:

Thou shalt have no belief of life in matter; thou shalt not know evil, for there is one Life. —