Chapter 12 - Lesson Twelve - Overcoming the Thought of Lack

THE KINGDOM of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast
into the sea, and gathered of every kind; which, when it
was filled, they drew up on the beach; and they sat down,
and gathered the good into vessels, but the bad they cast
away."

The mind of man is like the net catching every kind of
idea, and it is man's privilege and duty under the divine
law to separate those that are good from those which are
not good. In this process the currents of unselfish,
spiritual love flowing through the soul act as great
eliminators, freeing the consciousness of thoughts of hate,
lack, and poverty, and giving the substance of Spirit free
access into the consciousness and affairs.

In another parable Jesus explained the same process as a
separation of the sheep from the goats. When this divine
current of love and spiritual understanding begins its
work, we must make this separation. We put the sheep, the
good and obedient and profitable thoughts, on the right,
and we put the goats, the stubborn, selfish, useless
thoughts, on the