"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Rev. 3:20). Is not this the Christ knocking at the door of human consciousness, asking for admission? The thought that is receptive to this appeal is ready and willing to open the door and to let in the Christ, Truth. The door here referred to may be likened to any obstruction or resistance to spiritual progress. To receive the Christly blessing, we must be willing to eliminate material obstructions.
We need to examine our thoughts often to ascertain if we are unintentionally tolerating or permitting an obstacle to the unfoldment of our true being. We must be willing to relinquish all cherished concepts which are contrary to the divine understanding of God's allness. One of the most common of these is the false belief that existence, past, present, or future, is dependent upon matter instead of Spirit. Down through the ages many theories have been propounded as to prior and future existence. Most of these have been based primarily upon the belief of material evolution alone. If we have been believing in life as mortal and as contingent on matter for expression, we can understandingly deny the reality of life in matter and begin to grasp a fuller comprehension of life in Spirit.
Most of us at one time or another have desired to know life as a more permanent existence than the human concept embracing sin, disease, and death. We have probably pondered the question, "How can we get rid of the inharmonies of mortal existence?" We might ask ourselves, "Where, how, and why am I at this moment?" It is well to often ask ourselves this arresting question, for by knowing the answer we may gain the recognition that Life is ever spiritual and eternal. The answer is to be found in looking above and beyond the fading and finite material evidence of the mortal senses to the spiritual facts as set forth in the first chapter of Genesis. There we find spiritual man, conceived in God's image and likeness, as the full representation of God, the one I, or Us.
