Sin and Judgment

“Sin means, literally, mistake or “missing the mark”. It means our failure to be true to the innate spirit of Good: it means a false system of thinking, the control of the body of the senses rather than by the soul.

Sin is the most subtle illusion that arises from the organs of fancy, which inhabit the soul. It is a supposition that a phenomenon of sense is a verity of Being. Sin is fear, doubt, lust, and all the other myths and goblins that lurk in the shadows that add perspective to the panorama of existence. It is a vista of the senses, unreal and therefore non-existent. Evil lurks in that mind which the great Milton has stigmatised as “mortal mind”, the mind which is not.

There is a law back of sin. You cannot sin without suffering. The only destruction of sin there can be is the reformation of the sinner himself.

To be effectual our repentance must be in proportion to our sin, and the only atonement for evil is the overcoming of the temptation to sin; this is accomplished by persistency in wielding. The sinner alone can atone for his sin. If we realise the fact that we are spiritual beings and not material, that we are now the children of God, gradually we are brought into at-one-ment in consciousness, and we become consciously at-one-ment with the All-Good, the Perfect, the Permanent.

We do not have to reconcile the sun to an object in a dark alley; all we have to do is to move the object, and place it in the sun’s beneficent rays.

Man is spiritual. God is not man, even as the sun is not a ray, but man in his spiritual completion is the outward expression of which God is the indwelling substance. When the lesson of Love is learned, and man rises to the law of Love, existence is transmuted into life, and he becomes a luminary of the Spirit in whom is no darkness at all; neither is there shadow of turning toward the reign of sense.

The predestination of man is that he shall forever repose in the great central heart of God.