Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. OVERCOMING. In its commonly accepted meaning the term overcoming suggests contest, contention and strife for the accomplishment of a desired end. This conception has been carried even into the old thought pertaining to the religious life, which has been regarded as a sort of continual warfare between Good and evil, with great stress laid on the necessity of combating the latter in order to attain the former. In the light of Truth we have seen that this false conception arises from the fact that man has regarded evil as an entity and has given it almost equal power with Good. Hence the alleged necessity of fighting against evil. That no such conception of overcoming was a part of the teaching of Jesus and the disciples who understood him, is evident from the Bible references to this subject. The manner of overcoming is clearly indicated in the instruction to "overcome evil with Good." Again, "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God." Here we find only faith in the Good mentioned as means for overcoming; no suggestion of strife or warfare, and no recognition of evil as a power to strive against. Nevertheless, the query may frequently come to the new student of Divine Science, How am I to overcome what is spoken of as "the world" or "evil"? Even though we may know that in Truth we are free from the bondage of error, the way to realization of freedom is not always clear. Frequently this slight confusion is due tothe fact that previously acquired beliefs have not been discarded, so that the thought is mixed. "It is almost as difficult to make a man un-learu his errors as his knowledge. Mai-information is m...