Through suggestion, so-called mortal mind argues for the reality of its mortal concepts. This subtle sense is, indeed, all there is to matter. The mentality which proclaims the existence of evil, which by its very nature never could come forth from God, is but the inceptive stage of all the myriad forms of matter. Whether false mentality paints matter in rainbow colors and exploits its seeming goodness and beauty, or whether it reveals its unlikeness to good by evil pictures called disease and destruction, its seeming basis is the same, its falsity is unquestionable; for it is the falsity that bears witness of itself, and presents no other proof. Jesus stated this in unmistakable terms, saying: "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true...for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me."
In plain terms, matter depends upon its own suppositional inceptive state, as its only witness to itself; but reality presents the Christ as its proof, and therewith annuls every so-called law of matter, destroys the evidence of the senses, and, as a culminating and unprecedented demonstration, silences the witness itself. The plea of the counterfeit mentality, which builds for itself a mortal habitation, and claims to abide therein, was characterized by Jesus, who detected and exposed its nature, as "the prince of this world." In the gospel according to John, we read as a basic statement for his marvelous exposition of the divine Principle of the Christ: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
Jesus of Nazareth, nearly two thousand years ago, detected the difference between the suggestions of "the prince of this world" and the declarations of the Word. His whole life of ministry and sacrifice was one supreme effort to dispel the suggestions that enwrap "the prince of this world;" and his final ascension, on the shore of Galilee, was the successful accomplishment of this mission. Yet, it required a still further revelation than the marvel of his life to rouse humanity to the individual availability of the Principle which he had so conspicuously demonstrated. Jesus himself recognized that this would be so, and promised the world a further unfoldment of Truth, which he said the Father would send,— namely, the Comforter, "even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father;" and which he said would testify of him. This witness is here. We know it by the same token that Jesus said was true witness of himself,—the same works that Jesus the Christ did, they bear witness.
