THE KINGDOM of heaven is like
unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind;
which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach; and they sat
down, and gathered the good into vessels, but the bad they cast
away."
The mind of man is like the net catching every kind of idea, and it is
man's privilege and duty under the divine law to separate those that
are good from those which are not good. In this process the currents
of unselfish, spiritual love flowing through the soul act as great
eliminators, freeing the consciousness of thoughts of hate, lack, and
poverty, and giving the substance of Spirit free access into the
consciousness and affairs.
In another parable Jesus explained the same process as a separation of
the sheep from the goats. When this divine current of love and
spiritual understanding begins its work, we must make this separation.
We put the sheep, the good and obedient and profitable thoughts, on
the right, and we put the goats, the stubborn, selfish, useless
thoughts, on the [Page 174] left.
Each must handle his own thoughts and overcome them by aligning them
with the harmony and order of the divine thought. There is an
infinite, omnipresent wisdom within us that will deal with these
thoughts and guide us in making the discrimination between the right
and the wrong when we trust ourselves fully to its intelligence. We
can establish a connection between the conscious mind and the
superconscious mind within us by meditation, by silence, and by
speaking the word.
The superconscious mind within you discriminates among the kinds of
food you assimilate, controls your digestion, your breathing, and the
beating of your heart. It "doeth all things well," and it
will help you do this important work of directing you in the thoughts
you should hold and the ones you should cast out. As you develop this
mind within yourself you will find that you can gradually turn over
more and more of your affairs to its perfect discrimination. Nothing
is too great for it to accomplish, nor is anything too trivial for it
to handle with perfection and dispatch. This mind of the Spirit will
guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if
you will let it do so. But you must will to do its will and trust it
in all your ways. It will lead you unfailingly into health, happiness,
and prosperity, as it has done and is doing for thousands, if and when
you follow it.
It is just as necessary that one should let go of old thoughts and
conditions after they have served their purpose as it is that one
should lay hold of [Page 175] new ideas and create new conditions to
meet one's requirements. In fact we cannot lay hold of the new ideas
and make the new conditions until we have made room for them by
eliminating the old. If we feel that we cannot part with the goats, we
shall have to do with fewer sheep. If we insist on filling the vessels
with the bad fish, we shall have to do without the good. We are
learning that thoughts are things and occupy "space" in
mind. We cannot have new or better ones in a place already crowded
with old, weak, inefficient thoughts. A mental house cleaning is even
more necessary than a material one, for the without is but a
reflection of the within. Clean the inside of the platter, where the
food is kept as well as the outside that people see, taught Jesus.
Old
thoughts must be denied and the mind cleansed in preparation before
the affirmative Christ consciousness can come in. Our mind and even
our body is loaded with error thoughts. Every cell is clothed with
thought: every cell has a mind of its own. By the use of denial we
break through the outer crust, the material thought that has enveloped
the cells, and get down into the substance and the life within them.
Then we make contact with that substance and life which our denials
have exposed, and by it express the positive, constructive side of the
law. When we consistently deny the limitations of the material, we
begin to reveal the spiritual law that waits within ourselves to be
fulfilled. When this law is revealed to our consciousness, we begin to
use it to demonstrate all things that are good.
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That is the state of consciousness that Jesus had, the Christ
consciousness.

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