Are the mind and spirit the same thing?

EVERYTHING material, moral―or spiritual is impressed upon the mind through its perceptions of opposites―or contrasts. 

Light and dark―heat and cold―virtue and vice―pleasure and pain―are contrasting entities, without one of which the other could form no impression.

And it is by the impressions made upon the consciousness that the soul, which clothes the spirit and becomes the arisen spiritual body, is developed within the temple of clay through which the life-giving spirit acts in earth life―controlling, yet subject to it.

The mind, growing with its experiences, is moulded both from impressions through the outer―or physical you, and through consciousness from the inner―or spiritual you.

As all things were made of God, and without him, nothing was made that was made, it follows inevitably that the qualities of matter itself are inherent in the divine mind.

Since impressions are made upon the mind only by contrasts, it is evident that by such contrasts alone can the mind develop and that you can be given free will—the power to discriminate and choose.

He learns from experience to love the light of truth and harmony, as he learns to abhor darkness and its attendant miseries and loathsome horrors.

He who comes into a clear light of knowledge and understanding cannot be tempted to wrongdoing―to in any way injure others―or himself―the further he progresses in enlightened and refined forms of matter, the further he leaves behind the influences of the dark, material atmosphere and substance in which the propensities to sin are inherent.

You forget that none is entirely good, but God, because none other has all knowledge. 

You must believe that God has knowledge of good and evil because he governs all things by such strong contrasts, but that he prefers the good because he leads the souls he creates always toward that end.

You forget that the more spiritual, the more filled with the light of true knowledge, the soul becomes, the more it loves―not some great, unknown spirit it calls God merely, but all creation in and through which God is revealed.

All things work together for good.

There is no limit to time—there is always eternity ahead and always new delights and possibilities to be found in every progression. 

Know God is good and loving and will promote the ultimate good of all because the nearer you approach him, the more of all that is opposed to good and love must be left behind.

The spiritual planes are united so closely they are like steps of a mighty stairway, leading on up to mystery, glory, infinity.

Let all keep then the spiritual attitude of prayer, which is that of being willing to be impressed with the truth.

LEAFLETS OF TRUTH―OR Light From the Shadow Land