When asked by King Darius if his God had saved him in the lions' den, Daniel replied (6:22), "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me."
This quality of innocency which saved Daniel from being harmed by the beasts belongs to the true selfhood of each one of us. The power of innocency, in its spiritual sense, annihilates any belief that the individual is in subjection to the limitations or bondage of materialism.
One who understands that man is the reflection of God may prove that he is "innocent from the great transgression" (Ps. 19:13), innocent of sin, or of a negative, finite sense of existence, free from belief in gods other than the one God, divine Mind.
