If someone were to ask us where he could get some honesty, where would we send him? Certainly we should show him that honesty is not a commodity to be purchased or acquired from without. It is a mental possession and must be found within consciousness. There is no other place to look for it or find it. There is, however, something that every individual can do who wants to be honest. He can recognize that because honesty is derived from God, the divine Mind, there is no limit to the amount of honesty he may express and possess. He must also acknowledge that since God, good, is the only cause, dishonesty is unreal; and then he must demonstrate these basic facts in his daily affairs.
It is the same with all spiritual qualities. W e cannot, for example, acquire purity and true culture by accretion. We find them through spiritual unfoldment, through the understanding that these qualities already exist in man's consciousness because man as the child of God is made in His image and after His likeness. Here too we need to deny the presence and power of impurity and vulgarity and prove by our speech and actions that true culture is real to us.
The same is true of health. Health is not ease in matter or a material condition to be acquired through material means. Health cannot be found through a change in diet or by a move to a different climate. Sooner or later everyone must learn that health is a spiritual quality of harmonious consciousness, like honesty and purity. It is the eternal possession of every one of God's creatures, since divine Principle can only express itself in all-harmonious being.
