What to Deny and What to Affirm

God is infinite, indivisible and unalterable goodness. Goodness includes life, truth, love, power, understanding, strength, knowledge, faith, presence, justice, mercy, harmony, and charity.

As God is infinite and unalterable goodness, then all goodness must be eternal; and the opposite must be false appearance.

As life, truth and understanding are eternal, then death, falsehood and ignorance must be false appearances.

As love, strength, knowledge and faith are eternal, then hate, weakness, fear and doubt must be false appearances.

As God is love, and everywhere at all times, and no respecter of persons, then prejudice and aversion are false appearances.

As justice, mercy, harmony and charity are eternal, then revenge, cruelty, disease and envy are false appearances.

As that which is eternal is truth, temporary appearances are false.

As that which is eternal is real, temporary appearances must be unreal.

As that which is eternal is substance, temporary appearances must be shadow.

Then the new man is the man of truth; the old man is the man of falsehood.

The new man is the real man, the old man is the unreal. The new man is the man of substance, the old man is the man of shadow.

To put off the old man is to cease thinking that you are that which is temporary; to put on the new man is to think that you are that which is eternal.

To put off the old man is to cease thinking death, falsehood, ignorance, hate or weakness; to put on the new man is to think life, truth, understanding, love and strength.

To put off the old man is to cease thinking fear, doubt, prejudice and aversion; putting on the new man is thinking knowledge, faith, and universal love - without respect to person.

To put off the old man is to cease thinking revenge or cruelty, disease or evil; putting on the new man is thinking justice, mercy, harmony and charity.

To put off the old man is to refrain from judging according to the senses; to put on the new man is to judge according to the Spirit.

To put away lying is to put away all conversation about being temporary and mortal.

To speak the truth with each other, is to converse about being that which is eternal.

To be in error is to believe that we are mortal.

To be in truth is to know that we are immortal.

The Infinite and Unalterable Good says: believe in nothing but the Infinite and Unalterable, and you will find the truth that frees, and the peace that passeth understanding.

The deceitful senses say: believe in all appearances, and you shall become as gods; this promise believed in leads to unconsciousness, ignorance and desolation, because belief is centered in feeling or sense.

Put off this primitive condition, or the old man, and let your childhood pass by; assume the true position of a Son of God, and express the truth in wholeness. All perfection, that has been, and that ever will be, is now. To recognize it, is to receive it; or to acknowledge it, is to awaken to a realization of Being, which will enable you to speak the truth as it was in Jesus.

Truth is the daily baptism for the awakened. So the Scientist renders thanks hourly for good received, for knowledge gained, for health expressed, for truth perceived, for love manifest, for God revealed, for the ever present Goodness.

If it be that we have had ears to hear what the Spirit saith, and have heard, we have put off all conversation concerning the old man, and we have taken on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness; we have reckoned temporary things as dead, and ourselves as alive with Christ unto God; we have identified ourselves with the One, which is Creator and life of all things, and are renewed in the spirit of our mind in understanding.

According to the measure of your truth have you expressed Christ as it was in Jesus. To express the truth is to express immortality; and it is truth which is the permanent remedy for all disease.