Our individuality is not a mortal mind or sinner; or else we have lost our true individuality, as a perfect child of God. Our Father is not a mortal mind and a sinner; or else the immortal and unerring Mind, God, is not our Father; but God is our origin and loving Father, and hence that saying of Jesus, “Call no man your Father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in Heaven.”
The bright gold of Truth is dimmed by the doctrine of mind in matter.
To say there is a false claim, called sickness, is to admit all there is of sickness; for it is nothing but a false claim. To be healed, one must lose sight of a false claim. If the claim be present to the thought, then disease becomes as tangible as any reality. To regard sickness as a false claim, is to abate the fear of it; but this does not destroy the so-called fact of the claim. In order to be whole, we must be insensible to every claim of sin.
As with sickness, so is it with sin. To admit that sin has any claim whatever, just or unjust, is to admit a dangerous fact. Hence the fact must be denied; for if sin's claim be allowed in any degree, then sin destroys the at-one-ment, or oneness with God, —
