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Teach Us To Pray
The Unreality of Error
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My understanding of Truth reveals the unreality of sickness
and the reality of health. I am radiant with the
understanding that abiding health is my divine inheritance.
My understanding of the omnipresence of elemental substance
opens the door to a continuous inflow of superabundance
into my mind and affairs.
LACK OF understanding, not only individual but collective,
confronts us on every side. We blunder through life instead
of walking confidently, open-eyed. Or we sit in the City of
Indecision waiting for something to turn up when, urged and
guided by the inner light, we should be going forth to meet
good fortune.
We never weary of quoting that wise observation of Job's
"There is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty
giveth them understanding." Most persons think that
understanding is gained by intellectual development, mostly
in institutions of
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learning. But the Book of Job was written by one who had
great understanding but no literary degrees, so far as is
known. Some authorities claim the book is at least five
thousand years old; but Job knew much about Spirit both in
Jehovah and in man. In the passage quoted he uses the
pronoun "them" instead of "he" in referring to man, thus
revealing that he understood the spiritual nature of man to
be dual: male and female. Job's familiarity with Spirit and
spiritual laws is evidence to a metaphysician that he
gained his understanding direct from Spirit. Jesus taught,
"It is the spirit that giveth life."
We would not belittle intellectual knowledge if it is
acquired under the guidance of Spirit. The one and only
object of man's existence is the development of his soul,
and any attainment, whether mental or material, that cannot
be associated with and counted as an aid toward that end
will ultimately be refused. So it is the concentration of
the mind upon Spirit that reveals the truth about the many
situations that meet us in our daily contacts. If we count
health and disease as equal, the "thought stuff" of our
mind will animate them with like potency. We shall find
ourselves believing that disease is just as real and far
more catching than health.
Yet a moment's analysis of the relation between disease and
health shows that health is the real, the God-given
condition, and disease the unreal, the abnormal, from which
we are all seeking to escape. Truth not only shows the
reality at the core of all
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things; it also shows that we shall never escape from the
unreal so long as we allow our mental processes to clothe
it with "thought stuff."
If you deny disease as devoid of reality and affirm health
as spiritual and abiding, the Spirit will bear witness with
your spirit and you will demonstrate health.
Daily concentration of mind on Spirit and its attributes
reveals to man that the elemental forces that make matter
are here in the ether awaiting our recognition and
appropriation. It is not necessary to know all the details
of the scientific law in order to demonstrate prosperity.
Go into the silence daily at a stated time and concentrate
on the substance of Spirit prepared for you from the
foundation of the world. You will thus open up a current of
thought that will bring prosperity into your affairs.
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