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SCIENCE AND HEALTH.
Here let me give what I understand to be the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer: —
| Our Father, who art in heaven, |
| Our eternal Supreme Being, all-harmonious. |
| Hallowed be Thy name. |
| Forever glorious. |
| Thy kingdom come; |
| Ever-present and Omnipotent; |
| Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. |
| Thy supremacy appears as matter disappears. |
| Give us this day our daily bread; |
| Thou givest to mortals the Bread of Life; |
| And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. |
| Thy Truth destroyeth the claims of error. |
| And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; |
| And, led by Spirit, mortals are delivered from sickness, sin, and death. |
| For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. |
| Amen. |
| For Thou art Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, and Man is Thy likeness forever. |
| So be it. |
Atonement is the exemplification of our oneness with God, whereby man reflects Truth, Life, and Love, and not sickness, sin, and death. Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated this oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage and love. His mission was both individual and collective. He did Life's work aright, — not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals; to show them how to do their duty, but not to do it for them, or relieve them of a single responsibility.
