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AT REST IN THE KINGDOM
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the Good Law, even those called evil. All men are essentially divine, though unaware of their divine nature, and all their acts are efforts, even though many of them are dark and impotent, to realize some higher good. All so-called evil is seen to be rooted in ignorance, even the deeds called deliberately wicked, so that condemnation ceases, and Love and Compassion become all in all.

But let it not be supposed that the children of the Kingdom live in ease and indolence, for these two sins are the first that have to be eradicated when the search for the Kingdom is entered upon; they live in a peaceful activity; in fact, they only truly live, for the life of self with its train of worries, griefs, and fears, is not real life. They do their work with scrupulous diligence, apart from thoughts of self, and employ all their means, as well as their powers and faculties, which are greatly intensified, in building up the Kingdom of Righteousness in the hearts of others and in the world around them. This is their work—first by example, then by precept. Hav-