INHERENT AFFIRMATIVE THOUGHTS
Question—Do we have any inherent affirmative thoughts?

ANSWER—The great affirmations of life are both inherent and affirmative. That is, they are proclamations of the Universal Mind through us. All truth is inherent.

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WHY DO WE GROW OLD?
Question—We are told that there is no such thing as age in the Divine idea of things. Then why do we, being Divine incarnations, experience age and growing old?

ANSWER—Divine Law says: "Ye shall have the land YE SEE." So if man sees age as a human attribute, he shall experience it. Man cannot redeem himself and his experience from the race-consciousness of age and decay until he evolves to the plane ab0ve it. In this higher mental plane his thought will begin to sense the truth that Divinity is all there is in anything that is created, since Divinity is the sum total of ALL life.
Therefore, we see that as long as man believes that age is natural to human experience, he is functioning in the race- consciousness where this idea lives and acts its life out in human experience. He does not know himself. He has not accepted his kingdom. He is like the Prodigal Son, "afar off." Divinity in man knows Itself, and knows man AS ITSELF, but It gives man choice and privilege as to beliefs and mental acceptances. Functioning through man as Divine Law, It fulfills man after his own mental images of himself. But the Divinity remains unsullied by man's error. Divinity evolves man's consciousness and in the evolution man discovers his error and discards it. (page 49)

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