Holy One of Israel": in these words the Bible, like the New Thought,
traces all the sorrow of the world--that terrible _Weltschmerz_ which
expresses itself with such direful influence through the pessimistic
literature of the day--to the one root of a false belief, the belief in
man's limitation. Only substitute for it the true belief, and the evil
would be at an end. Now the ground of this true belief is that clear
apprehension of "the Father" which, as I have shown, forms the basis of
Jesus' teaching. If, from one point of view, the Intelligent Universal
Life-Principle is a Power to be obeyed, in the same sense in which we
have to obey all the laws of Nature, from the opposite point of view, it
is a power to be used. We must never lose sight of the fact that
obedience to any natural law in its generic tendency necessarily carries
with it a corresponding power of using that law in specific application.
This is the old proverb that knowledge is power. It is the old paradox
with which Jesus posed the ignorant scribes as to how David's Lord could
also be his Son. The word "David" means "Beloved" and to be beloved
implies that reciprocal sympathy which is intuitive knowledge. Hence
David, the Beloved, is the man who has realised his true relation as a
Son to his Father and who is "in tune with the Infinite." On the other
hand, this "Infinite" is his "Lord" because it is the complex of all
those unchangeable Laws from which it is impossible to swerve without
suffering consequent loss of power; and on the other, this knowledge of
the innermost principles of All-Being puts him in possession of
unlimited powers which he can apply to any specific purpose that he
will; and thus he stands towards them in the position of a father who
has authority to command the services of his son. Thus David's "Lord,"
becomes by a natural transition his "Son."

And it is precisely in this that the principle of "Sonship" consists. It
is the raising of man from the condition of bondage as a servant by
reason of limitation to the status of a son by the entire removal of all
limitations. To believe and act on this principle is to "believe on the
Son of God," and a practical belief in our own sonship thus sets us free
from all evil and from all fear of evil--it brings us out of the kingdom
of death into the kingdom of Life. Like everything else, it has to grow,
but the good seed of liberating Truth once planted in the heart is sure
to germinate, and t