mediately the Spirit--carnal belief,
error, the lie--driveth him into the wilderness." And there he was
made to prove God. So Jose de Rincon, when the light had come, years
gone, in desolate Simiti, had been bidden to know the one God, and
none else. But he wavered when the floods of evil rolled over him; he
had looked longingly back; he had clung too tightly to the human
concept that walked with him like a shining light in those dark days.
And so she had been taken from him, and he had been hurled into the
wilderness--alone with Him whom he must learn to know if he would see
Life.

Then self-consciousness went out, in those four years of his
captivity, and he passed from thence into consciousness of God.

Then his great world-knowledge he saw to have been wholly untrue. His
store of truth he saw to have been but relative at best. His knowledge
had rested, he then knew, upon viewpoints which had been utterly
false. And so, like Paul, he died that he might live. He crucified
Self, that he might resurrect the image of God.

"The world," resumed Hitt, "still worships false gods, though it
reaches out for Truth. And yet, what are we all seeking? Only a
state of consciousness, a consciousness of good, of joy and harmony. And
we are seeking to rid ourselves of the consciousness of evil, with
its sin, its disease and death. But, knowing now that consciousness
is mental activity, the activity of thought, can we not see that
harmony and immortality are within our grasp? for they are functions
of right thought. Salvation is not from evil realities, but from the
false sense of evil, even as Jesus taught and proved. The only salvation
possible to mankind is in learning to think as Jesus did--not yielding
our mentalities daily to a hodge-podge of mixed thoughts of good and
evil, and then running to doctors and preachers when such yielding
brings its inevitable result in sickness and death. Jesus insisted that
the kingdom of heaven was within men, a tremendous potentiality
within each one of us. How may it be reached? By removing hampering
false belief, by removing the limitations of superstition and human
opinion which hold its portals closed. True progress is the release of
mankind from materialism, with its enslaving drudgery, its woes, and
its inevitable death. Mankind's chief difficulty is ignorance of what
God is. Jesus proved Him to be mind, spirit. He proved Him to be the
creator of the spiritual universe, but not the orig