For several hours I had labored at unloading large cartons after a move from one state to another. As I eagerly sought respite and rest, I found myself thinking that I was exhausted. But quickly came the awakening angel message "Why? You haven't broken any law!" I thought, I haven't broken any law, because the only law is God's divine decree that good be manifested. What I had been thinking and doing was good; order and beauty were being brought forth in our home, and that is coincident with the order and beauty that prevail in God's creation. It is not a law but a negation of law that states we must suffer for being active—that depletion and weariness must follow a certain amount of activity. It was suddenly very clear that thinking good and doing good had to be protective, not punitive.
It is not a law but a negation of law that states
we must suffer for being active—that depletion and
weariness must follow a certain amount of activity.
From that moment on I became more aware of and alert to how frequently mortal mind presents to human consciousness its false beliefs about man as a mortal. Often we unwittingly accept these beliefs as laws. For instance, one such universal belief is that we are constantly aging and getting nearer and nearer an end— death. Another is the belief that one material body can transmit infection to another or cause injury or destruction to another. All these so-called laws, however, relate not to man but to mortal mind's erroneous concept of substance, existence, and man.
