Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it" (Isa. 45:11, 12). This Scripture indicates that there is but one source of correct information concerning man, namely his creator, the divine Mind, Love. Either we turn to God for the true image or we give ear to what the one liar, mortal mind, has to say of man. The choice is entirely ours, and there is no halfway position. Either we perceive, at least in a degree, the spiritual individuality of man, or we accept the false, material concept, which is not man and never has been.
Christ Jesus' command (Mark 12:31), "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," is based on the discernment of man's spiritual existence as Mind's perfect idea. It is no task to love the sinless, pure, and good.
If, however, we regard our brother from the standpoint of the one basic error, mortal mind, the picture is entirely different. This so-called mind is unmasked in the Bible as an "accuser of our brethren ... which accused them before our God day and night" (Rev. 12:10). Because mortal mind has no capacity to know man aright, this so-called mind creates its own false, limited, mortal sense of man and accuses it day and night of being material, transitory, subject to sin, disease, and death. Even when mortal mind ascribes to man its own mistaken sense of happiness, well-being, and prosperity, it condemns these conditions to a certain end.
