"If ye love me," said the master Christian, "keep my commandments." We must understand the nature and character of these commandments, in order to keep them at all times, in all places, and under all circumstances.
On one occasion, when asked, "Which is the first commandment of all?" Jesus replied, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, . . . and the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." What does it mean to love God with all our heart, our soul, our mind? Does it not mean to love the one infinite Mind, God, good, supremely? Does it not mean steadfastly to refuse to accept or acknowledge any opposite to good? This will preclude the acknowledgment of evil in any guise, for evil, as a false claim, is mental and must be thought before it is manifested humanly. No one's hand could ever steal unless there were a dishonest thought held in consciousness to prompt the action. So disease and discord manifest ignorance of God, destructive thoughts of fear and sin, such as hate, lack, jealousy. This fact does not cause us to fear evil thoughts or give them power, but it does awaken us to declare their falsity and realize the truth of the ever-present spiritual universe, in which "we live, and move, and have our being."
God is Spirit; God is infinite, is All. Since He is infinite, He has created all out of Himself. There is nothing real but the ever-living Life, which is the substance of all, and which admits of no opposite, no evil, no matter, no disease, no decrepitude, no death.
