Men, for the most part, think of law as something enacted by rulers or legislative assemblies—rules of conduct which those affected may conceivably obey or disobey.
The Psalmist writes of a higher concept of law, the law with the making of which men have nothing to do. This law is the natural, controlling force, or influence, of sovereign Mind, deific intelligence, always present and active in its representative, man. "The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide" (Ps. 37:31). Because man is Mind's expression, he is one with the spiritual, intelligent forces of Mind, which are God's law. Man cannot exist apart from law any more than he can exist apart from Life. Law inheres in Life, is Life's constructively controlling force, eternally active in and for man, constituting his individuality and ordering the unfoldment of the ideas natural thereto.
The Psalmist also saw that iniquity, or evil, "frameth mischief by a law" (Ps. 94:20). Just as true law is the force of divine Mind, actively governing and conditioning every idea of Mind, so the false concept of law is the suppositional force of mortal mind active in its suppositional realm of materially-minded mortals and material phenomena. True to error's claim to be both good and evil, it sometimes produces, for a time, an appearance of health and harmony, at other times all forms of discord, and finally death.
