grass springing from the soil, with beautiful green Human frailty. blades, — afterwards to wither and return to its native nothingness. This mortal seeming is temporal, and never merges into immortal being.
The Hebrew bard, when swayed by mortal thoughts, thus swept his lyre with saddening strains about human existence:
| As for man, his days are as grass; |
| As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth; |
| For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. |
| And the place thereof shall know it no more. |
But when hope rose higher in his heart, and he grasped the realities of divine Being, the Psalmist wrote:
| As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness; |
| I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness. |
| ....... |
| For with Thee is the fountain of Life; |
| In Thy light shall we see light. |
The brain can give no idea of God's man. It can take no cognizance of Mind. It is not the organ of the infinite Mind.
As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God, His likeness will appear, and the eternal Good will include in that likeness no other element.
As a theoretical life-basis is found to be a misapprehension of existence, the spiritual and divine Principle The manger. of man dawns upon human thought, and leads it to “where the young child lies,” — even to the spiritual idea of Life, and what Life includes.
The whole earth will be transformed by Truth on its pinions of light, chasing away the darkness of error.
