Centuries ago, Christ Jesus gave us a great, unchanging truth about the kingdom of God. The Pharisees asked him "when the kingdom of God should come;" and Jesus answered, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." The truth, then, about one's right place is that one finds it within his own consciousness of Truth, and, as such, it is here and now available to everyone.
In view of the fact that one's right place is primarily mental, one must begin to find it by affirming, daily and hourly, the truth about God and man as revealed in Christian Science. Christian Science teaches that the real universe is a product of Mind, and that this Mind is God. The real man, in this Mind-created universe, is the perfect idea of Mind, God. Man is therefore the son, the heir of God, and as such he possesses, by reflection, all the qualities of his creator—limitless abundance of wisdom, joy, love, harmonious activity, freedom. When an individual is affirming the truth about his real selfhood, he is dwelling "in the secret place of the most High," of which the Psalmist sang, for he is gazing with his divinely derived spiritual vision upon reality. He is looking, with the perfect clarity of Truth, at his real spiritual status as an idea of God, and he is realizing and affirming all the grand implications of this true selfhood.
But, one immediately asks, what possible connection does this spiritual discernment of my place in Mind have with my human experience, when I see myself surrounded by limitation, in bondage to uncongeniality of position and associates? In the light of the declared truth about the real man, one may begin, persistently and firmly, to deny these false suggestions of mortal mind, and so destroy them.
