Concentration upon God. Vs. 22-24

No Thought for Worldly Welfare.

Free from Judging. Matt. 8:1-5

Good Judgment in Ministering. V. 6.

Divine Persistency. Vs. 7, 8

The Will of God.

Vs. 9-11

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Vs. 25-34

The Way and the Door. Vs. 13, 14

Fair Words and False Thinking. Vs. 15-21.

Works without Love. Vs. 22, 23

Hearing and Doing. Vs. 24-27 .

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Foreword

EVE

JESUS CHRIST

VERY man is an Idea of God, a thought of the divine Mind, sent into the world upon a great mission. In proportion as he carries out that Idea a man becomes universal, and is immortalized in the recognition of mankind, which claims him for its own; for he has ceased to belong to any one race or people, or to live in any one time or place.

Jesus Christ represents the crowning Idea of man and God, the Truth that saves man from sickness, sin, sorrow, and death. He is that Truth within us that says: "I am the Son of the Most High God. I am spiritual, not material; immortal, not mortal; holy, not sinful: and all dominion over the whole universe is given

unto me, and all things that my Father hath are mine."

As this truth gains ground in the heart, and becomes master over the carnal and lower self, Man proves his divinity; and the history of Its ongoing within man is depicted in the life of Jesus Christ, from Its immaculate conception to Its ascension and identification with God, the universal Good.

The many years of Jesus' life that are unknown typify the silent, invisible workings of the divine Man within.

The coming forward of Jesus to minister openly signifies the stirring of the inner nature that is beginning to be recognized by the outer self. Then many thoughts begin to run to and fro in the mind in pursuit of this one great Idea; or, as it is said in the Gospel," and there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan."

The Sermon on the Mount

(From the Gospel according to St. Matthew)

Chapter 5: verse 1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:

Mountains are symbols of exalted states of mind. When our thoughts are concentrated upon a great truth we are lifted up in mind preparatory to an outpouring of divine revelation and instruction.

2. And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

THE BEATITUDES

The nine blessings called the Beatitudes are divine announcements of the presence of the Good in the midst of evil, of joy in the place of