Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-16

"Where I am there may ye be also" The Koran reads, There is no God but God" Jesus declared likewise, viz: "Thou shalt worship or love the One shalt thou serve" The statement lof Omniopotence is. Am I not God? Do I not fill Heaven and earth?" Then , there is no other presence or power. To believe this, and to act upon it, Jesus called ''single-eyed devotion.' The Brahman teaching is, one-pointed devo- ton. It is the same.
 E There seems a power not good This appearance of evil has it's foundation in ignorance of the omnipresence, omnipo- tence and omniscience of the one God. Ignorance is darkness. The Hebrew na- tion in Egypt symbolize the mind of man in darkness previous to the dawn of spiritual perception. Moses, or the per ception of the T am," brought them out of darkness into light or out of Egypt into Canaan through the final instrument tality of keen perception or a higher plane of understanding symbolized by Joshua. The individual mind must read the Delphic oracle, Know thyself;'' know the "I ann of thee, even thy poten- tial good; and the Christ, the understand ing of the good-the son of God-shall be- born in thee. The Hebrews were in bondage to very low conditions when in Egypt. So the individual mind is in bond age to mistaken ideas called sin until it learns that it's good is omnipresent, om- npotent and omniScient. "A house di- vded against itself cannot stand, neith- CT can satan cast out satan" Ignorance cannot put out ignorance, nor darkness dissolve darkness. '"rhe truth shall make you free" God is truth. Satan is ignorance. I do not mean by ignorance the unlettered. Oh no. They are for the most part like the little child of whom Jesus speaks Except ye be con verted and become as a little child, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.' or except ye become teachable and willing to let fall your old ideas of God, as send ing afflictions like sorrow, and pain and i poverty; as seeing iniquity and being full of wrath; as being an unreasonable, capricious being instead of the change | less, eternal good, you cannot discern | truth, which is the only way by which you can enter heaven or a realization of | now. The unlettered are receptive like | little children. Jesus made wonderful l characters out of simple fishermen. By l ignorance I mean the .EgyI1t fof the mind, which imagines it must bow down | to brick and straw, or submit to low | conditions, when if it will but listen to 1 the voice of it's T am" it shall | hear this statement, viz: My God works in me to will and to do of his own good pleasure" therefore am not poor and sick and blind and heavy laden, since Omnipotence works in me and through
 
 redeems man from seeing evil as real ity, or as a real presence and real pow | CT. Jesus said, "They know not what they do"when the world was intent upon the annihilation of his personality. Father. forgive them" Thus 1t is everywhere. The worldly minded know net what they do. They are in the l dream of sense Awake, thou that sle"neth arise from the dead and God shall give thee light" Dead are they in ! trespasses and sins, or stesped in ig | norance. immersed in darkness. Who shall condemn the sleeper? Not Jesus "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do." Call them not evil--.hey only dream. Every individual mind is the prodigal. Going away from sight of his divine inheritance seeming to have squandered his divine possibilities walking in shadow which he imagines to | be ubStance-mistaking ambition, pride and sense desire for his good-his God he drives himself to extremities and staryes in ignorance of his birthright Now, "his extremity becomes Gods op- | portunity," and a nightmare of horror awakens him from his delusion As from a dream when one awaketh," he becomes again a little child, uniting wis dom to innocence, for he has learned to l know the truth and is free from mis- taking shadow for substance His idea | is redeemed. "He restoreth my soul" He 1eadeth me in paths of righteous ness" This wanderer need not have travelled SO long or so hard a road had he known that his God was always within him." that his Kingdom of heav- en was always at hand-"yea, oven at the very door" The Christian Scientist boldly declares there is no reality in evil" speaking from the standpoint of the T am'' within and the "I am" with out, the omnipresent, omnipotent, omnescient good in all mankind and things. We do not say that there is no appearance of evil, but that the only reality Is God, the everlasting good Relieving thus, we do not. we will not, heed appearances nor condemn anything under the sun. It is ignorance to condemn shadow. We must walk through the shadows. seeing the infinite substance only. must be SO in love with the substandG as not to become involved in the shallow. If Jesus cduld say Father. forgive them; they kfcw not what thev do ' VIC met do likewise. Jesus is our example.