The dominion that is his by divine right is over his own thoughts, only. One of the laws of mind is that one belief must be dissolved before another can take its place. If you have in mind a thought that someone has wronged you, you cannot let in the cleansing power of Spirit until you have dissolved and cast out the belief of the wrong. Page 248 You may be wondering why you do not get spiritual illumination as others do. Jesus recognized this infallible law of mind.
Thoughts have substance and form.
They may easily be taken to be permanent by one who lacks spiritual discernment. They bring forth fruit according to the seed ideas planted into the mind. They are not enduring unless founded in Spirit. That means very much more to one who enjoys an understanding of mind and its laws than it does to the ordinary individual. He who knows not himself wholly, but just his superficial, external personality, thinks that he is reformed when he conforms to moral and municipal laws.