Lessons in Truth

Until now, we have known nothing about how to get ourselves out of the cellar of ignorance, doubt, and despair. Because of our wrong thinking, it has seemed as though God withheld the life, wisdom, and power we wanted so much, even though we pleaded with him most earnestly.

The sun does not radiate life and warmth today and darkness and chill tomorrow; it cannot, by the very nature of its being. Similarly, God does not radiate love at one time while at others allowing anger, wrath, and displeasure to flow out from his mind toward us.

"Does a fountain send out sweet water and bitter from the same place? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives? Or a vine bear figs?" original: "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can a fig tree, my breth-ren, bear olive berries? either a vine figs?" The author is quoting James 3:11–12.

God is All-Good—always good, always love. He never changes, no matter what we do or may have done. He is always trying to pour more of himself through us into visibility so as to make us grander, larger, fuller, and freer individuals.

While the child is crying out for its Father-Mother God This term reflects the "New Thought" belief in the dual masculine and feminine nature of the Divine., the Father-Mother is yearning with infinite tenderness to satisfy the child.

"In the heart of man a cry,
In the heart of God supply."

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RECAPITULATION original: "RECAPITULATION"; a summary or review of the main points.

There is only One Mind in the universe.

Mortal mind is a false mind, or the intellect. It gathers its information and speaks from the outside original: "without"; referring to the external, material world..

Universal Mind sees and speaks from within.

Our ways of thinking create our happiness or unhappiness, our success or failure. We can, through effort, change our ways of thinking.

God is at all times—regardless of our so-called sins—trying to pour more good into our lives to make them larger and more successful.