AS an antithesis of ideas, the study of the words "dominion" and "domination" affords an array of contrasts, pointing in the last analysis to the full realization of man's sonship with divine Love.
What is the basis of dominion? It is man's inseparability from his creator, omnipotent divine Mind. In the beginning, God-given dominion, ever operative and without variation or diminution, was conferred eternally on man. The exercise of this divine quality, as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, enables mankind to regain the true prerogative of spiritual authority. Throughout the Scriptures the pivotal point upon which turn all success and true progress is the idea of dominion. From Abraham to Jesus, the leaders of Israel sought, through spiritual desire and demonstration of divine Principle, to regain that which seemed lost through fear and sin, namely, man's right to express the sovereignty of good under each and every temptation of mortal mind.
Dominion brings out the highest qualities of constructiveness, into which considerations of selfishness can never enter. Dominion is dependent upon faith in God advanced to spiritual understanding, which according to the progress of the individual becomes scientific demonstration of Principle, taking form in the healing of discord, disease, decay, and in the preventing of disaster. By his understanding of dominion, Jesus restored sight to the blind, healed congenital lameness, stilled the storm on the Galilean sea. fed the multitude without diminishing the supply, and raised to life his friend Lazarus, who had lain three days in the grave. He proved his complete mastery of the world, the flesh,—all evil,—by the wondrous glory of his resurrection and his ascension.
