We start this narrative as Jesus entered his 28^th year at which time he began to be certain that he was indwelt by the Spirit of God. As this relationship grew, he also became aware that this same Spirit of the Father indwells all of his earthly children as their mentor and guide.

   Jesus taught: The will of God is the way of God, partnership with the choice of God in the face of any potential alternative. To do the will of God is the progressive experience of becoming more and more like God--who is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true.

   Only in the perfection, harmony, and unanimity of will can the creature become as one with the Creator…always must the desire to do the Father's will be supreme in the soul and dominant over the mind of a mortal child of God.

   When a wise man or woman understands the inner impulses of their fellows, they will love them. And when you love your brothers and sisters, you have already forgiven them.

   Goodness and truth

   Goodness, like truth, is always relative, unfailingly evil contrasted, living, and always progressing, a personal experience that is everlastingly correlated with the discernment of truth and beauty.

   Goodness is found in the recognition of positive truth--its values are at the spiritual level, which must, in human experience, be contrasted with the negative counterpart--the shadows of potential evil.

   Evil becomes a reality of personal choice only when a moral mind makes evil its choice. Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living.

   Revealed truth, personally discovered truth is the joint creation of the material mind and the indwelling Spirit. But truth can never become our possession without the exercise of faith. Faith acts to release the superhuman activities of the divine spark that indwells us.

Our task

   Human life continues, survives, because it has a universe function, the task of finding God.

   Prayer is the great unifier of the inspirations and faith urges of a soul trying to identify itself with the spirit ideals of the Indwelling Spirit.

   There are only two groups of mortals in the eyes of God; those who desire to do his will and those who do not. Likewise there are two great classes--those who know God and those who do not.
 
   If we know God, our real business on Earth is so to live as to permit the Father to reveal himself in our lives, and thus will all God-seeking persons see the Father in us and ask for our help in finding out more about God who in this manner finds expression in our lives.

   Jesus taught a young associate: "I have absolute confidence in my Father's overcare; I am consecrated to doing the will of my Father in heaven. I do not believe that real harm can befall me. I am absolutely assured that the entire universe is friendly to me--this all-powerful truth I insist on believing with a whole hearted trust in spite of all appearances to the contrary."

The soul

   The soul is self-reflective, truth discerning, and spirit-perceiving, the part of mankind which elevates the human being above the level of the animal world. Self-consciousness is, in and of itself, not the soul. Moral self-consciousness is true human self-realization and constitutes the foundation of the human soul--and the soul is that which represents the survival value of human experience. Moral choice and spiritual attainment, the ability to know God and the urge to be like him are the characteristics of the soul.