There are two questions which deserve primal consideration. The individual alone can answer them aright. The first is, "Am I teachable?" The second is, "Whom shall I acknowledge and obey as my schoolmaster if I wish to exercise my God-given dominion over all the earth?"
Christ is Truth. Anti-Christ is error. Truth and error are opposites. If one is teachable, he will be actuated by the compelling forces of God—Life, Truth, and Love—to separate righteously between opposites, good and evil, intelligence and nonintelligence, facts and fables. It must be plain that of any two opposites one only is real and true. Its opposite logically is not another reality, not another expression of truth, but an unreality, an untruth. A truth is a fact of being, is real, and is without beginning or end. A falsity is merely a supposition, unreal and untrue, having in belief both beginning and end.
Difficulty in distinguishing quickly, clearly, and invariably between the real and the unreal is due to the variableness of human mentality. Christian Science teaches that divine Mind and the so-called mortal mind are opposites; that one only is real and true, and that that one is divine Mind. The human mind, however, illustrates the state of consciousness which has, in belief, partaken of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Wisdom warned Adam against this error of believing in the existence and co-operation of opposites. It is the ability of the human mind to reflect the intelligence that forces mortal mind to its own ultimate and inescapable self-destruction, for under the impulsion of immortal Truth, the human self forsakes all that it finds through reason and revelation to be false and nonintelligent. In this unique way the human mind increases in wisdom while mortals become less and less mortal, until the mortal sense finally disappears, and immortal Mind is found to be the only Mind. It is through what humanity terms education that false consciousness is impelled to give up its admitted erroneous beliefs. But this counterfeit consciousness has not the slightest power to destroy or even to hide permanently one single immortal spiritual fact of being.
