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"THE GREAT POINT OF DEPARTURE"

From the July 1920 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The belief of limitation claims such a variety of presentation that to list these would be an endless and useless task, yet it may fairly be said that one of the chief ways in which limitation urges its claim of reality upon humanity is in the belief and fear of restricted finance. Lives there an individual who, being entirely satisfied with fabulous wealth, is willing to stop voluntarily the inpouring of riches into his own personal coffers? Is not mortal mind much more likely to pull down its barns and build greater, that it may bestow all its fruits and goods therein, thus putting its faith in material riches and forsaking Spirit?

So slight is the understanding of what true substance is and of how it is to be obtained that the problem of income claims no small portion of the attention of mankind. Until one arrives at the understanding that plenty is mental, as all good is, he is apt to subscribe to the mesmerism that abundance is something separate and apart from consciousness. Metaphysics is forsaken in the vain attempt to reconcile these two opposites; namely, that God is All; that income is a material "Suffer it to be so now," which God knows nothing about. The conclusion is that it is of little use to turn to Mind for the solution of this very trying problem.

Now if the mortal mind arguments could be stifled and human reasoning silenced, this belief, calling itself "man in need of a larger income," would be seen for what it really is, and the lie would return unto its native nothingness. The real man knows that supply is divine idea,— infinite, limitless, unrestricted; that he, man, is inseparably linked with his creator, and that, by virtue of this, man has access to infinite supply. All good comes to man through the operation of divine law, which is but the activity of divine Mind.

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