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Caution in the Truth.

This knowledge is not the forbidden fruit of sin, sickness, and death, but it is the fruit which grows on the Tree of Life. This is the understanding of God, whereby man is found in the image and likeness of Good, not of evil, of Health, not of sickness, of Life, not of death.

God is All-in-all. Hence He is in Himself only, in His own nature and character, and is perfect Being, or consciousness. He is all the Life and Mind there is or can be. Within Himself is every embodiment of Life and Mind.

If He is All, He can have no consciousness of anything unlike Himself; because, if He is omnipresent, there can be nothing outside of Himself.

Now this self-same God is our Helper. He pities us. He has mercy upon us, and guides every event of our careers. He is near to them who adore Him. To understand Him, without a single taint of our mortal, finite sense of sin, sickness, or death, is to approach Him and become like Him.

Truth is God, and in God's law. This law declares that Truth is all, and there is no error. This law of Truth destroys every phase of error. To gain a temporary consciousness of God's law is to feel, in