SO firmly convinced was the Psalmist of the ever-presence and all-power of God that, filled with assurance, he sang: "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."
Christ Jesus, who possessed yet greater recognition, could say to all who were seeking help, to all who were sad, fearful, and despairing, "Be not afraid." He knew positively that the angels of God are with us to guide and protect, these angels which Mary Baker Eddy defines, on page 581 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality." The angels of God designate the way we all must take— the upward way, which leads out of the lowlands of error. "These upward-soaring beings," Mrs. Eddy tells us, "never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to the divine Principle of all good, whither every real individuality, image, or likeness of God, gathers" (ibid., p. 299). Hence, the upward path is a progressive one to the human consciousness.
As human thinking is freed from false beliefs, it is lifted out of unreality into reality, out of the atmosphere of discord into that of harmony, out of error into Truth, out of matter into Spirit, out of ill will, envy, jealousy, and hatred into the love that seeketh not its own. This is the way that leadeth from sense to Soul. It is a constant going up higher, a continual rising above the deceptions of the mortal senses, until thought reaches the heights of spiritual understanding, the mount of God. In Scripture this development is often described in such a way as to represent the goal of progress as a mountain height.
