AND THOU SHALT KNOW THE LORD

“And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.” (Hosea 2:19,20) The only way to know God, as promised in Hosea, is to acknowledge yourself wedded to or united with Mind, God in the oneness and onlyness of being.

“When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His, -- no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no consciousness of the existence of matter or error.” (S&H 205:32) No person, no living thing, has a consciousness separate from God, Spirit. When thinking of ourselves as reflection only, but not Mind itself, we can not know anything. Can your image in the mirror know anything? Of course not! In order to understand our relation to the Divine, we must start with the fact that we are both Mind and its reflection indissolubly connected together.

“The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God’s will must be universally done.” (S&H 202:3) All that infinite good is, we are. Life, heaven, is our own being.