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'Evil becomes a reality of personal choice only when a moral mind makes evil its choice.'
'Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living.'
'Revealed truth, personally discovered truth is the joint creation of the material mind and the indwelling Spirit.'
'But truth can never become our possession without the exercise of faith. Faith acts to release the superhuman activities of the divine spark that indwells us.'
Our task
'Human life continues--survives--because it has a universe function, the task of finding God.'
'Prayer is the great unifier of the inspirations and faith urges of a soul trying to identify itself with the spirit ideals of the Indwelling Spirit.'
'There are only two groups of mortals in the eyes of God; those who desire to do his will and those who do not. Likewise there are two great classes--those who know God and those who do not.'
'If we know God, our real business on Earth is so to live as to permit the Father to reveal himself in our lives, and thus will all God-seeking persons see the Father in us and ask for our help in finding out more about God who in this manner finds expression in our lives.'
Jesus taught a young associate: 'I have absolute confidence in my Father's overcare; I am consecrated to doing the will of my Father in heaven. I do not believe that real harm can befall me. I am absolutely assured that the entire universe is friendly to me--this all-powerful truth I insist on believing with a whole hearted trust in spite of all appearances to the contrary.'
The soul
'The soul of man is distinct from the divine Spirit that dwells within the mind. The divine Spirit arrives simultaneously with the first moral activity of the human mind, and that is the occasion of the birth of the soul.'
'The soul is self-reflective, truth discerning, and spirit-perceiving, the part of mankind which elevates the human being above the level of the animal world. Self-consciousness is, in and of itself, not the soul. Moral self-consciousness is true human self-realization and constitutes the foundation of the human soul--and the soul is that which represents the survival value of human experience. Moral choice and spiritual attainment, the ability to know God and the urge to be like him are the characteristics of the soul.'
Jesus' life
In deciphering Jesus' life be mindful of his purposes--first, to acquire creature experience, second, to reveal the Paradise Father, and third, to untangle the consequences of our rebellious sin. (later Christianity reversed this order, making Jesus' sacrificial death his primary purpose.)
On the day of his baptism, Jesus stood in the Jordan a perfected mortal of the evolutionary worlds of time and space. Perfect synchrony and full communication had become established between the mortal mind of Jesus and his indwelling Spirit of the Father.
Following his baptism, the choices confronting Jesus for the kind of ministry to adopt were: his own way--one that might seem profitable from the stand point of immediate needs; or the Father's way--one that provided an example to humanity of a farseeing ideal of creature life.
There was just one motive in Jesus' post baptismal life and that was a better and truer revelation of his Paradise Father; he was the pioneer of the new and better way to God, the way of faith and love--which he insisted on going about in the most quiet and non-dramatic manner, avoiding all display of power.
Jesus told his apostles, 'Make no mistake; we go forth to labor for a generation of sign seekers…but they will be slow to recognize in the revelation of my Father's love, the credentials of my mission.'
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