"Know thyself!" These significant words of ancient Greek wisdom can be interpreted in two ways: as a command to know the grandeur of one's true, spiritual selfhood, or as a warning to recognize the shortcomings and limitations of the false mortal concept of one's being.
When the Pharisees asked Jesus about the coming of the kingdom of God, he answered that the kingdom does not come by watching for it, and added, "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."Luke 17:21; To find this kingdom within, this kingdom of our true being, and to detect and rule out of human thought and action everything that would deny it, is the Christian's goal in every age.
Mrs. Eddy writes: "Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to discover their quality, quantity, and origin. Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question."Science and Health, p. 462;
