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228 should be considered first that the state of blessedness is found in a condition of mind and secondly that the special force of the parallel lies in the fact that both systems place it in the same special kind of mind-state.

Explained in the simplest language the writer can command the position is as follows: All reality is one; and the realization of this in thought is the highest possible attainment. When we are cognizant of limitations of time and sense, of physical conditions, of anything finite or even of ourselves as something other than deity or mind or universal reality or as some finite limitation of it we are in an imperfect state of mind or of character. Therefore, freeing ourselves from these notions or delusion and understanding the unity, infinity and identity of reality, ourselves included, is the highest blessedness, the greatest good, the end of existence.

Mrs. Eddy says: “To reach heaven, the harmony of being, we must understand the divine principle of being;” “To be present with the Lord is to have, not mere emotional ecstacy or faith, but the actual demonstration and understanding of Life as revealed in Christian Science;” “Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God;” “Breaking away from the mutations of time and sense, you will neither lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own