The inner Spirit, which is God, bears witness to the divine fact that we are the sons of God, the children of the Most High. As sons of God we are heirs to the heaven of reality; joint heirs with Christ. This means that we are all one in Christ as we are one in God. Christ typifies the universal Son of which each is an individual member.n6619 ¶1
Our expectation looks for a more complete manifestation of our own inner divinity. Evolution will bring this about as it does all things. We are an unfolding principle of life, truth, perfect law and action. We wait for a more complete unfolding of our inner life. It is already within, the perfect way and the eternal Truth. We wait for the unfolding of ourselves, through the law inherent within our real nature.n6619 ¶2
THE INNER LIGHT
The creature shall be delivered from bondage. As the inner light dawns it delivers the outer life from bondage. This is in line with the teaching that everything is from within out. When the soul knows freedom the law will free the body and the outer life will express health, happiness and success.n6619 ¶3
All things work for our good. Even that which we call . evil is salutary, leading us to the Way, the Truth and the Life. Suffering should teach us a lesson which would cause us to refrain from making more mistakes ; it carries a blessing with it when we learn how to learn. .n6619 ¶4
PREDESTINATION
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate.” God foreknows His own perfection and the perfection of His entire creation, so it is foreknown and predetermined by the Divine Mind that all shall be sons of God. Man cannot forever keep himself from his birthright; all will eventually be saved from themselves,—as there can be no such thing as eternal damnation. To believe in such an absurd doctrine is worse than ignorance. Emerson tells us that there is no sin but ignorance.n6619 ¶5
God knows only perfection; when we know as God knows, our troubles will be rolled up like a scroll and numbered with past illusions.n6619 ¶6