THERE is always enough and to spare in the ever present now, since infinite Mind and all of its ideas exist now. Constant knowing is the natural function of divine Mind. As Mind is understood to be God, its continuous knowing is also recognized to be wholly good. Mind always expresses itself in the perfection of the compound idea man. Then, the allness of Mind is forever manifesting itself in abundant goodness, without limits of time or space, without possible change to lesser or greater degree; and it is incapable of disintegrating processes.
The idealism of Jesus was an uninterrupted demonstration of God's sufficiency to supply man with all that is necessary for wholeness, including health and happiness. His was an idealism so divinely natural that the feeding of the multitude seems to have occurred unattended by any sense of human extremity, which frequently happened before the miracles of older Scripture. True, he went apart to pray, yet ever with the consciousness of God's allness and nearness. Jesus took no erroneous suggestion into the sanctuary of his spiritualized desire to bless mankind. The habiliments of condemnation or of condonation disguised no belief that man lacks good or is supplied with evil, in the Master's compassionate love. Whether for loaves and fishes of practical demonstration, or for words of divine wisdom to enlighten men's thought, the healing power of Spirit went forth from a consciousness uplifted in grateful acknowledgment for the answer to prayer, and unfolded in merciful ministry to mortality's need.
The counterfeit of such a pure idealism claims to be a mortal sense that is mere restless self-will and its human craving. Mesmerism, or a belief in the absence of divine Mind, constitutes the illusion which is dispelled whenever and wherever Truth finds a ready channel for its own expression. Each individual consciousness may demonstrate in some degree the presence of divine Principle; and as it does so, supply for human needs manifests itself. This, however, can occur only as a false sense of self is relinquished to make room for the reflection of Spirit, thereby releasing mortal man from mesmeric belief.
