Saul of Tarsus beheld the way - the Christ, or Truth
326:24 - only when his uncertain sense of right yielded to a
spiritual sense, which is always right. Then
the man was changed. Thought assumed a
326:27 nobler outlook, and his life became more spiritual. He
learned the wrong that he had done in persecuting Chris-
tians, whose religion he had not understood, and in hu-
326:30 mility he took the new name of Paul. He beheld for the
first time the true idea of Love, and learned a lesson in
divine Science.
327:1 Reform comes by understanding that there is no abid-
ing pleasure in evil, and also by gaining an affection for
327:3 good according to Science, which reveals the immortal
fact that neither pleasure nor pain, appetite nor passion,
can exist in or of matter, while divine Mind can and does
327:6 destroy the false beliefs of pleasure, pain, or fear and all
the sinful appetites of the human mind.
Image of the beast
What a pitiful sight is malice, finding pleasure in re-
327:9 venge! Evil is sometimes a man's highest conception
of right, until his grasp on good grows stronger.
Then he loses pleasure in wickedness, and it
327:12 becomes his torment. The way to escape the misery of
sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way. Sin is
the image of the beast to be effaced by the sweat of agony.
327:15 It is a moral madness which rushes forth to clamor with
midnight and tempest.
Peremptory demands
To the physical senses, the strict demands of Christian
327:18 Science seem peremptory; but mortals are has-
tening to learn that Life is God, good, and that
evil has in reality neither place nor power in the human or
327:21 the divine economy.
Moral courage
Fear of punishment never made man truly honest.
Moral courage is requisite to meet the wrong and to
327:24 proclaim the right. But how shall we re-
form the man who has more animal than
moral courage, and who has not the true idea of good?
327:27 Through human consciousness, convince the mortal of
his mistake in seeking material means for gaining hap-
piness. Reason is the most active human faculty. Let
327:30 that inform the sentiments and awaken the man's dor-
mant sense of moral obligation, and by degrees he will
learn the nothingness of the pleasures of human sense
328:1 and the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense, which
silences the material or corporeal. Then he not only will
328:3 be saved, but /is/ saved.
Final destruction of error
Mortals suppose that they can live without goodness,
when God is good and the only real Life. What is the
328:6 result? Understanding little about the divine
Principle which saves and heals, mortals get
rid of sin, sickness, and death only in belief. These errors
328:9 are not thus really destroyed, and must therefore cling
to mortals until, here or hereafter, they gain the true un-
derstanding of God in the Science which destroys human
328:12 delusions about Him and reveals the grand realities of
His allness.