There is no past, no future. The true spiritual man lives now in eternal at-one-ment with divine Life, Truth, and Love. God is his Father-mother; the divine nature is his only inheritance; his only status is immortal being, and he is heir of the heavenly kingdom. Since God, good, is the Principle of the universe, nothing evil ever has entered or ever can enter man's experience. Since there is but one Mind, the deceptive suggestions of mortal sense cannot becloud man's consciousness of spiritual harmony.
Most regrets are linked to the past; and most fears center on the future. To live now in the consciousness of the one Mind is to know only that which God knows, and to experience the unfoldment of His all-wise, all-loving purpose; it is to be aligned with omnipotence. To live now in the knowledge of man's true selfhood heals false mortal inheritances, forestalls or annuls the effects of advancing age, and blots out the memory of forsaken errors. It brings the consciousness of dominion and completeness, and confidence in an unfailing and inexhaustible supply of health, substance, and life. Every realization of the truth about God and man lifts thought above the limitations of mortal belief to a glimpse of the new heaven and earth, foreseen by John, where "there should be time no longer." It brings into human experience some measure of the good that is without beginning and without end.
Since good is actually present now, evil's claim to tenacity is but one of the aspects of a lie. An age-old belief can be discarded as promptly as can an erroneous suggestion presenting itself as new, for time never added one iota of reality to that which never was. There is spiritual truth present to destroy error in all its manifestations, and from the very moment the truth about any situation is recognized, the opposing material belief diminishes, until it no longer seems to be.
