Chapter 5 - Lesson Five - The Law That Governs the Manifestation of Supply
IT IS SAFE to say that all men are striving to fulfill the
law of their being, but few have understood the law. The
law is one of the most important things we can study,
because only as we come to understand it and in proportion
as we understand it can we comply with its requirements and
demonstrate our divine possibilities through it.
In reading the Scriptures we gradually raise our
consciousness of them as mere history and begin to
apprehend them as setting forth the principle or law of
life. We find the great Bible characters fitting into the
pattern of our own consciousness, where they represent
ideas. This makes the Bible a divine Book of Life rather
than merely the history of a people. The idea of the law is
symbolized by Moses. In our individual consciousness he is
denial, the negative side of the law that precedes its
affirmative expression. Moses gave the law as "Thou shalt
not." Jesus represents the law in its affirmative
expression "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God."
Moses could not go into the Promised Land, the
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