From the beginning to the end of the sacred writings, the keynote is obedience. This teaching is so very clear and impressive that even the casual reader must observe its constant reiteration. To the earnest seeker after Truth, this requirement must, if he is faithful, become the dominant principle of his consciousness. And his work along this plane of thought will be either glorious to the pulling down of the strongholds of sin and satan, or as stubble to be burned, according to his compliance or neglect, of this all-inclusive requirement of Divine Science. The necessity of the observance of this law of obedience has permeated the atmosphere, secular and religious, through all the ages; and we would do well to trace the results of attention or indifference to it, through the varied stages of thought that have occupied mankind since the creation.
Looking into the Bible, we note that the demand to obey runs like an unbroken chain through its entire length. Genesis, 2:17, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Man did eat, and the disastrous results of knowledge of good and evil, of a mixed belief in a dual power—admitting mortal, material belief as a reality co-equal with Good—is at once the root and the fruit of all the inharmony manifested through all the annals of history.
Exodus, 20:3, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Who to-day is not groaning on account of disobedience to this Divine command, and struggling to be free from false gods?
