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New Light Upon Old Truths, BY FANNIE B JAMES
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This is, DIVINE SCIENCE:
New Light Upon Old Truths, BY FANNIE B JAMES
important TO ALL READERS
As the lessons in this book are designed to
be
studies upon the Science, or right knowledge
of Divinity,
the subject is taken from its starting point
in the Divine,
and step by step is it developed from the
Source and
Cause of all things
therefore each study makes that which follows
it
plain, and it is decidedly important that
the lessons be
read, or studied rather, in their order
To one who has never had opportunity to study
this
truly Divine Science, we would suggest that
they may
find, by careful thought, a complete understanding
of the
principle and practice of the Science of Life,
in these
lessons
So we advise such, to lay aside questions
at first;
read each lesson to gain clearly the point
considered in
it; let all else alone Read one lesson each
day, or even
on alternate days; reread often, until the
subject of it is
understood, before studying the next By so
doing, without
a teacher, the knowledge of the Science may
be
gained, and its practice understood
INTRODUCTorY THOUGHTS
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
wordS of Jesus the Christ are growing in significance
or, are
coming to us with deeper meaning to-day than
in any age
before this One minister has said,"The Bible
means more to
us than it did to our parents; it will mean
more to our
children than it does to us" Another said,"The
Sunday
school children of to-day are better able
to understand Jesus'
teachings than were the disciples of old"
Jesus said to his disciples," I have many
things to say unto
you, but ye cannot bear them now"; which plainly
shows us
that Jesus was limited in his speaking of
the Truth, by the
dulness of his hearers He could give to the
disciples only
what they were able to"bear," or to receive
He sometimes
rebuked their lack of understanding Matt 15:16;
Mark 8:21
From His words quoted, and those which followed
" Howbeit, when He, the Spirit of Truth, is
come, he will
guide you into all Truth" we may conclude
that Jesus
had a reserve of Truth, which he would gladly
have expressed,
but that it could not be understood even by
the
disciples; and that he knew and foretold in
these word c ,
how the revelation of fuller Truth would continue
from
STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING
the Spirit throughout the ages to come, until"
all Truth"
had been received and understood
This certainly contradicts our past ignorant
belief,
that all revelation ceased with the" good
old times";
and that the" voice from heaven" has long
been silent
it can speak to us no more! Is revelation
finished?
The Truth will never cease to speak within
our souls,
while there is anything of God not comprehended
" Take heed how ye hear" Luke 8:18
"There is nothing covered that shall not be
revealed
" Matt 10:26 Revelation cannot be finished
until every mystery is made plain: revelation
is not
therefore limited to any time or place; and
whenever or
wherever there is the spirit to receive and
be taught,
fuller and higher Truth is being made known
One says," Revelation is unveiling; but the
veil is
on the face of man and not on the face of
God" The
"veil*' is a fitting symbol of our own ignorance;
with
every new revelation of Truth the" veil" grows
thinner
" Which veil is done away in Christ" 2 Cor
3:14-16
Christ is" The way, the truth and the life"
As fast
as we are able to be led in the" Way," andto"
bear,"
or carry in our hearts the" Truth," and to"
hear," or
understand the so-called" mysteries" of" Life,"
just so
surely is the" veil," or lack of understanding,
being
" done away"
" Clouds and darkness are round about Him,"
is
David's conception of God, and with Jeremiah
we have
been willing to say," Thou hast covered thyself
with a
cloud, that our prayer should not pass through"
Lam
3:44 But we may rejoice in the increasing
light, which
now reveals that around God are no impenetrable
clouds!
As well might we say on a cloudy day,"The
sun has
wrapped himself in clouds and darkness" The
clouds
that hide the sun from us, and shut out the
warmth and
brightness of its presence, are around our
earth, and arise
from the earth These intercept the light of
the sun, so
that it does not reach us, but the sun shines
on and on
unaltered by the clouds around us
So the clouds of darkness, fear, sorrow or
doubt that
seem to come into our lives, are around us,
and not near
the source of Light and Love Neither do they
come
from the source of Love, but arise from our
own incompleteness,
or incomplete understanding
As long as we see"clouds" about us, there
is need
of further revelation, or unveiling As long
as we have
the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Wisdom, Truth
and Love
with us, we shall still be taught of God,
and shall go on
hearing Truth more and more clearly
New things shall be revealed must be while
the
Spirit continues to lead us into all Truth
Revelation
never ceases unless we close our eyes and
ears to it
Shall we then shrink from the" new," or shall
we
" Prove all things, holding fast that which
is good"?
i Thess 5:21
Jesus said," Ye shall know the truth, and
the truth
shall make you free" Jno 8:32 These words
express
a truth for all times, as long as man any
where is not
free The promise is given to-day, to every
yearning one,
who feels the depression of bondage to the
flesh, or to
" The ills that flesh is heir to"
From these words we may gather three suggestions:
First, that ignorance, or not knowing the
truth, is the
cause of our bondage; second, that the relief
from all
bondage shall come through knowledge of truth;
and
third, that we shall come into this knowledge
and be
made free In this last is the promise of progression
and hint of continued revelation How could
we otherwise
come to know all truth?
Also in this is the blessed assurance that
when we
have understanding of the truth as it is,
we shall have
perfect freedom" Where the Spirit of the Lord
is,
there is liberty" 2 Cor 3:17"My people are
destroyed
for lack of knowledge" Hos 4:6
What is this Truth that shall make us free,
and
where is it to be found?
Jesus declared, concerning his mission to
earth,"To
this end was I born, and for this cause came
I into the
world, that I should bear witness unto the
truth" Jno
18:37 Certainly this Divine One understood
that the
need of man was to know the Truth, and announced
himself
as the teacher and living witness of Truth
From Him them we may expect to catch the clearest
idea of what and where Truth is We would not
still
be asking these questions if man could have
understood
his answer to them at that time He said,"The
kingdom
of heaven is at hand The kingdom of God is
within
you" Matt10:7 Luke 7:21
If we are able now to"bear" these words, we
shall
find in them no uncertain sound The kingdom
of God-all
that heaven is the kingdom of Truth, of Love
and of
Peace, is not afar off, but at hand, within
us!
We have heeded these words so little, that
our
heaven --our good and our peace"at hand,"
has been
literally overlooked, as we have tried to
stretch our gaze
into the beyond We have been taught to place
our
happiness in the future, at some other time
and place
We have sung," I'm but a pilgrim here, heaven
is my
home" We have put off everything good to a
future
heaven How can we see and enter into" heaven"
right
here and now, if we do not know the truth
about it being
at hand, and within us
Like the patriarchs of old, we have" Died
in the
faith, not having received the promises, but
having seen
them afar off; and truly, if they had been
mindful of that
from whence they came out, they might have
had opportunity
to have returned" Heb 11: 13-15
When shall we become"mindful?"
When shall we accept our heaven? Not until
we know
the truth of it"Now is the accepted time"
Now is
the time to accept and there can never be
any better
opportunity than now, for it is all right
here"At
hand"" Within you"
" How far from here to heaven? Not very far,
my friend;
A single hearty step will' all thy journey
end
Hold, there! where runnest thou? Know heaven
is in thee
Seekest thou for God elsewhere, His face thou'lt
never see"
Is not our question answered? Where is the
Truth?
Everywhere! Heaven is the kingdom of Truth
Heaven
is wherever God is God is everywhere Truth's"kingdom
" is within us; is all around us Our only
need is to
know the Truth, to have our eyes opened and
our faces
unveiled to see the everpresent goodness and
Truth
We remember the story of one who sought the
temple
of fame He had been told-by those who had
never
been there to see, that it stood on the summit
of a distant
mountain The youth left the plane of his every
day life, forsook all else and spent the years
of his life in
toiling up the steep mountain in order to
reach the temple
At last, aged and weary, he attained the height
and looked eagerly for his treasure; he saw
no temple,
and, wandering on, he met an old man, who
looked sadly
at him, appreciating his earnest and worthy
effort, but
pitying his mistake, and said:" My friend,
the temple
you seek stands in the midst of the place
you have left"
May we not expect something like this to greet
us
as we finish life's journey here, thinking
to find our
heaven at the end of our faithful toiling
to attain it?
Shall we have to learn then instead of now,
that our
heaven is within us? If we listen to the voice
of the one
who knows, we will have no reason for any
delusion
Heaven is now and always"within you at hand"
Heaven is God's presence, and God's presence
is the
Truth which we may know and accept at this
moment as
now and here; and knowing this Truth, shall
make us
free
Truth never changes; it is"The same yesterday,
today
and forever" it fills the universe of God,
hence all
Truth is here and now, and all that is true
is eternal
There is no new Truth Man may gain new ideas
of
the Truth, and revelation of God must bring
new ideas
to us, but this does not alter one iota of
the Eternal
Truth
Truth must contain many things new to us,
and these
new things must be among the" many things"
that Jesus
could not tell to his disciples, but promised
that the
Spirit should reveal them as soon as they
could be received
Why then be afraid of a' new idea of Truth?
Why
hesitate to accept something that has not
been" seen"
or"heard" before by us? it is written," Eye
hath not
seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it
entered into the
heart of man, what God hath prepared"--1 Cor
2:9
We have not yet conceived of the things that
Truth
hath in store for us; we never shall know
if we refuse to
accept a new idea
This idea of progress in spiritual understanding,
is
clearly taught in the Bible" Greater works
shall he
do" (" that believeth on me," which makes
these words
apply to believers of every age) Paul speaks
of" milk"
for" babes," and" strong meat" for" full age"
Simple
spiritual thoughts for us in immature consciousness,
but
strong sustenance for fuller developed thought"
That
we may grow up into Him in all things"" Till
we all
come to the measure of the fulness of the
stature
of Christ" Eph 4:13"therefore leaving the
principles
(or first teachings) of the doctrine of Christ,
let us
go on to perfection" Heb 6:1, 2
Truth is never afraid to declare new things
it says,
Isaiah 42:9," New things do I declare"; 43:19,"
Behold
I will do a new thing"; 62:2," Thou shalt
be called by
new name"; 65:17,"Behold I create a new heaven
and
a new earth"; Ezek 11:19," I will put a new
spirit within
you"; Matt 26:28," This is my blood of the
new
testament"; Mark 16:17," They (that believe
on Me)
shall speak with new tongues"; Jno 13:34,"A
new
commandment give I unto you"; 2 Cor 5:77,"
If any
man be in Christ (the Truth) he is a new creature,
all
things have become new"; Col, 3:10,"Put on
the new
man"; Rev 2:17,"To him that overcometh will
I give
a new name"; 3:12," I will write upon him
my
new name"; 5:9," They sung a new song"; 21:5,"
Behold
I make all things new"
Why, we cannot enter into Truth until we are
ready
to accept all these" new" things Truth is
not changing
" New things" are only the eternal things
seen by a
new light even by Divine illumination called
the Spirit
The church has always feared to entertain
the idea
of progress in religion The Jewish church
is the first
example of this One says:"If Jesus had taught
no
higher truth than the Jews had received from
their forefathers,
they would have heard him gladly, but they
could not accept His"new doctrine"
We cannot blame the Jews We find the same
mistaken
zeal to-day, the same rejection of a higher
truth
not understood by our religious leaders We
remember
it is recorded by Matthew," All the chief
priests and elders
took counsel against Jesus to put him to death";
and
again," The chief priests and elders persuaded
the multitude
that they should destroy Jesus" Isaiah's words
seem to be fulfilled:" The leaders of this
people cause
them to err" Isa 9:16
Then, as now, the church of God refused to
hear any
doctrine new to it; it said:"We have Moses;
we know
that God spake unto Moses; as for this fellow,
we know
not whence he is"
Judge them not, Oh Minister of God, for"Wherein
thou judgest another, thou condemneth thyself"
it was
no easier then to accept a"new doctrine''
than it is now
it was just as hard to give up the old and
sacred conceptions
then as it is now
"The common people heard him gladly" Those
that were humblest in their opinions had little
to lay
aside, could come as a"little child" and receive
Matt
11:25; 1 Cor 1:19,27 But"The first shall be
last" it
is hard when we feel that we have so much
of Truth, to
humble ourselves to listen to"new doctrine";
to give up
what has seemed so sacred, for a new idea
Truth calls upon us to"Leave all and follow
Me,"
even"Mother" and"Father" our dearest past
conceptions
for Truth's sake"When that which is perfect
is
come, that which was in part shall be done
away"
The world has been crying for"more light,"
and
then shrinks in alarm at the"new things,"
that"more
light" reveals
If we stand in a dark room, we see little
that the
room contains, we scarcely can tell where
we are If we
stand in the kingdom of heaven, with our souls
darkened,
we cannot"see" what heaven is holding for
us, nor know
even where we are! Bring a light into the
dark room,
and how different everything appears; the
light does not
bring in anything, but it enables us to see
what was already
there, and to realize where we stand
So the soul illumined sees everything in a
new light,
and begins to know where it is This is the"new
heaven and the new earth" promised heaven
and earth
seen by a diviner light, revealing what was
not seen by
us before; new to us
Jesus came as a light to the world, not to
bring anything
that was not always here, but to throw light
upon
the world As it is written of him,"He came
to bring
life and immortality to light" Men were suffering
and
dying not for any lack of good in the world,
but because
they did not know the truth, could not see
the presence
of Good
He brought to light, or to man's consciousness,
the
immortality he had not known, and led man's
thought
out of darkness into light; out of ignorance
into knowledge
of truth; out of bondage into freedom
"That is the light that lighteth every man
that cometh
into the world" Jno 1:9 But"If the light that
is
in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness"
Every
man has the light of the Divine within him,
but if he becomes
unconscious of this truth, he is in deep darkness
to himself
Jesus' mission was to show the Truth to man,
and
thus rekindle the light of that Divine in
man, by which
he should see his way to the Father, and understand
the
tie that eternally unites him with his Divine
Source That
"tie" is the Divine Nature in man, which Paul
speaks of
as the"Christ in you, your hope of glory"
This unites
man with God, and is the at-one-ment, which
Jesus revealed,
or brought to light Only now is this being
truly
understood by man
"The path of the just is as a shining light,
which
shineth more and more, until the perfect day"
Our
"light" within must increase until it blends
with the
Eternal, or enters the"Perfect day" At first,"We
see
through a glass darkly" this is when understanding
is
feeble"But then face to face" When our consciousness
is clear, we see without any veil
Truth is not changing our light upon it is
growing
Our forefathers lighted their rooms with a
tallow candle
Electricity with all its possibilities was
right with them,
but they understood not its use it was better
to have a
candle than no light, but would that satisfy
them now?
Would they not now accept the brighter light,
and shall
not we? Do we show disrespect to their memory
when
we use electricity instead of candles?
Do not let us put the new religious"light"
out of
our lives, because our fathers had it not
May we not
imagine that they too have gone on into better
light?
We need not worry about leaving their light,
they have
left it too
We pray for spiritual understanding, but are
ready
to refuse it, if it comes through a channel
unknown to us
A simple story is told of a nest full of birds
which were
deserted by the mother-bird Hunger beset them
and
an attempt was made to give them food for
which they
were crying, but as the strange hand approached
them,
their open mouths were quickly shut in a flutter
of fear,
making it impossible to give them that for
which they
cried The food was then laid on the edge of
the nest
and they were left for the night In the morning
all
were dead Too afraid to take their food from
a new
source, and too blind to see it"at hand,"
they suffered
and died for their own ignorance
"May we not," says the writer,"for the same
reason,
lose the good sent to us in answer to our
cries"?
The cry of these birds may be heard all around
us
"Give us our spiritual bread, and our water
of life, but
give it to us in the old familiar way which
we know so
well"
One says:"it takes two to make a gift, one
to give,
the other to receive" God, the Giver of every
good gift,
has never withheld anything from us David
sings:
"The earth is full of the goodness of the
Lord" Psl 33:5
If we lack any good, it is because we have
not known
how to accept and appropriate the good that
is everywhere
God has given all; we have not received
"Our citizenship is in heaven" Phil 3:20 Rev,
Ver
Not is going to be, but is now The world needs
a Saviour
to-day just as much as it did 1,800 years
ago The
same Divine Power, the same pure Life, the
same Truth,
the same Love, and the same spiritual Presence
is with
us"Lo, I am with you always"
Let us admit this Presence and Power, and
then
shall we hear in each new voice that speaks
the assuring
words,"it is I, be not afraid"
If we follow the inner call of Truth, we shall
have
the outer evidence The disciples, without
a question,
followed a voice strange to them, which bade
them
"come" They left all, and followed without
any evidence
After this willingness and obedience, they
received abundant proof; so will every disciple
of Truth
Let us"Be careful to entertain strangers"
even strange,
or new thoughts,"for thereby some have entertained
angels unawares""With all thy getting, get
understanding
for understanding is a wellspring of Life"
Proverbs
GOD
OUR responsibility is twofold; first, to obey
the truth
as far as we understand it; and we read,"God
gives
his spirit to them that obey," which is to
say, that
more light comes to them that obey what light
they have
The spirit of understanding comes in greater
fulness to
them that are obeying the Truth they already
see
But unless they are looking for, and ready
to listen to
higher understanding, they cannot receive
the reward of
their obedience! Hence, our second responsibility
is to
be ever on the alert for higher revelation,
ever ready and
willing to catch a hint of something beyond
what we
have yet thought of
it is not a new Truth we seek but a new consciousness
of Truth What shall bring this new consciousness
to us?
Jesus said to the disciples," it is expedient
for you
that I go away; for if I go not away the Comforter
will
not come unto you" The"Comforter" is the Spirit
of
Truth, the inner guide While Jesus is with
the disciples,
they look to Him personally, and leave upon
His power
and understanding But His desire was to teach
them how
to be led by the spirit, which must be heard
within them
Thus would their individuality be strengthened,
and they
learn, as each soul must sooner or later,
to hear the guiding
voice within themselves, and to come in direct
touch
with the Infinite
This is true for every disciple There is but
one
True Teacher Jesus himself was learning from
this One,
and was showing to man, not what he personally
could
do, but what Divine Presence and Power, Divine
Love
and Truth, can do in humanity
So he said to one who called him"Good Master,"
"Why callest thou me good, there is none good
but one"
As if to say,"I am not here to glorify myself,
but God,
the Father of All; if you see good in me trace
it back of
my personality, to the One Source of good
which is Universal,
therefore is for all alike As I manifest this
good,
so may you Greater works shall ye be able
to do, but
all by the One Power"
This inner guide, is that which shall lead
us into new
consciousness, it is called in Scripture,
the"Still Small
Voice," and of this leading it is written;"They
shall be
all taught of God" Jno 6: 45 This inner voice
is the
"Light that lighteth every man," which God
has placed
in each soul, to guide it into all Truth
We cannot see by the light that lighteth another
We may get the spark that shall set our lamp
to burning,
from another's light, but that is all! it
is written,"The
spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,"
Prov 20: 27
Whatever consciousness, or inner light any
soul receives,
it is set aflame by Infinite Love and Truth
The voice of Truth keeps speaking in the soul,
for it
is always there," Behold I stand at the door
and knock"
Once in a while some soul hears, and this
is revelation!
If it has ever been, it must be now, for Truth
never
changes
The Whole Truth, includes all the fragments
of
Truth ever known So that as we advance into
better
knowledge of Truth, we shall not lose any
Truth we ever
possessed But one may ask, in what relation
does a new
Truth stand to the old?
We may find illustration for this in our schools,where
there are many grades, and a pupil passes
from one to
a higher, just as fast as he can accomplish
the work required
in each grade
it is a pupil's pride to push on into new
work, and
learn new things; and it is a teacher's purpose
to assist
the child in his progression
Each grade belongs to the one school, and
has equal
honor in its place The last grade does not
hold the first
in contempt, but in high esteem, as having
been a stepping
stone in the way of advance
One must learn his A B C's before he can become
an author, and though he shape the world's
thought by
his writings, he never ceases to use his A
B C's learned
in the first grade
No Truth gained is ever lost; the higher contains
all
the Truth of the lower
Truth has been compared to a cone which has
its
base in a circle, and its summit in a point
The circle well represents the eternal nature
of
Truth, and its omnipresence, encircling the
universe
But as the cone rises to its summit it terminates
in a
point, so as man's consciousness of Truth
is lifted up, he
begins to see the unity of all Truth As it
is written,
"That in the fulness of times he might gather
together
in one all things in Christ" Eph 1:10 Christ
is the final
Truth into which all things shall be drawn"If
I be lifted
up, I will draw all men unto me"
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all
these
things shall be added unto you"
for centuries we have been pleading"Thy kingdom
come" If the kingdom is"at hand," and"within
us," whence is it to"come"? it has already
come
The Divine promise is,"Before they call I
will answer,"
Isa 65; 24
Before we asked for the Kingdom to come, it
was
with us! We must come to a knowledge of it,
and
the result of our"seeking" has been to find
it"at hand"
and finding the kingdom, we find within it
all good
things, ours, here and now
Are we ready then, to hear a new doctrine,
and to let
the light within us be our guide? We desire
better conditions,
we long for satisfaction, but if we are unwilling
to
receive new ideas upon life, we shall have
to continue to
submit to old conditions, in the old ideas
If the"Spirit of Truth," is leading us, we
must expect
to be led into more spiritual ideas of all
things Our
conception of God, of Christ, of man and of
life, will become
more spiritual
As our spiritual sense of things is quickened,
we shall
be glad to find our material sense being"done
away"
Jesus said,"The flesh profiteth nothing, it
is the spirit
that quickeneth," and we read that many of
his disciples
hearing this,"Went back, and walked no more
with him,"
Jno 6: 6o-66 for they said,"This is a hard
saying"
They were not able to"bear" it, but shall
not we search
deeper into the words, and seek for their
highest meaning?
May we not say with Paul:"Henceforth know
we no
man after the flesh; yea though we have known
Christ
after the flesh, yet henceforth know we him
so no more?"
2dCor$:i6 for are we not going to search for
the
spiritual idea of God, of Christ, and of man?
Divine Science encourages this search, made
by the
light of Spirit The name has a significance
Science is"knowledge, Truth ascertained; knowledge
duly arranged" Having for its foundation,
or
starting point, a Truth that never changes,
all its knowl
edge is derived from, and agrees with this
changeless
Truth
and this Science we are now to study, is Divine,
because
the Truth with which it begins and from which
it
judges of all things, is Divinity God is the
basis and
foundation of all its knowledge
for where shall we look for the changeless,
but to
God, the Eternal,"In whom is no variableness,
nor
shadow of turning" Where shall we seek for
a beginning,
and Source, itself without beginning, but
in the Infinite
Mind of Wisdom and Spirit of Truth! Now this
is our
foundation, for in this Great Eternal Being,
we shall find
a Cause or Source, therefore a reason, for
everything that
is
Let us then search in Spirit and in Truth
for a clearer,
and above all, a more spiritual understanding
of this Great
Being we call"God"
We read,"Other foundation can no man lay,
than is
laid, which is Jesus Christ" Here we learn
that the
foundation for Truth's building is already
laid: like all
Truth it is eternal!
"order is heaven's first law," and the order
in every
building is, that the foundation shall be
laid first The
strength and safety of the building depends
upon the
perfection of its foundation
What is the foundation of Divine Science?
The foundation for all Truth is"Jesus Christ;"
not a
personality, but the"word" which was"In the
beginning
with God, and was God""All things were made
by him," (Jno 1:3) by the Eternal word of
God! With
us always
This Foundation and Cause of all things is
in our
midst today, and ever has been in the earth
Of it Jesus said:"Before Abraham was, I am;"
and
again,"Lo! I am with you always''
How easy then to find and lay our foundation
it
is God with us, and through us, above and
below us
God everywhere present"All in all"
Then, to know certainly the changeless Truth
or real
nature of all things, we must find the Truth
of God
First we will think of God as Source and Cause
of all
things; not making things of nothing, but
of His own Life
and Being, this Great Mother-Father God, brings
forth
all the forms of Life"One God, and Father
of all, who
is above all, and through all, and in you
all" Eph 4:6
"for 0/Him, and through Him and to Him are
all things"
Rom 11:36
God the Source and the Cause, the Beginning
and
the end of everything; as Spirit saith:"I
am the Beginning
and the end""The first and the last""I am
all
in the beginning, and all in the end I am
the all of everything!"
This is just what we mean by speaking of God
as
Principle, which is thus defined by Webster:"The
source and origin; that from which anything
proceeds;
the beginning; the first,"
Principle is changeless Truth, Foundation
and Cause,
out of which visible things are brought forth
God is the beginning of all things Think of
this!
Everything that lives and moves, begins its
life in God-
Life"With Thee is the fountain of Life" Everything
true has its origin in God All that is, is
in and of God!
We cannot emphasize this too much
In the word we read,"The same fountain cannot
bring forth sweet and bitter water" From the
same
source cannot come sweet and bitter Nothing
can come
from God, that is not in God If the"fountain"
or source
of Life is sweet and good, it can send forth
only that
which is pleasant and good
What then is the nature of this Fountain that
supplies
all Life? What do we know of it?
We know that God is good, hence must say everything
begins and ends in Good God never changes
if
good, then always good, and sends forth only
good to
His creation"Oh, taste and see that the Lord
is good"
Psl34:8"for Thou, Lord, art good" 86:5, This
teaches us then that the Source of life is
good, and when
I say with the Psalmist, (877)"All my springs
are in
Thee," I understand that everything that comes
into my
life has origin in this Great Fountain of
Good
moreover, not only is God good, but all the
good
there is as Jesus said:"There is none good
but One' 1
I cannot look anywhere else for my good, but
to God I
cannot find good in anything else I must look
to God
only for my good health
I must know then where God is, and what God
is,
to know where and what my good is
God is the Source of good God is the only
source
of good God is the source of good only, nothing
else
but good can come from God
We know God not only as a Source and Cause,
but as
the only Source and Cause There is but One
Source"I
am the Lord, and there is none else; there
is none beside
me" Isa, 45:5-6"One God and Father of all"
"and Jesus answered, The first of all commandments
is,
Hear, O Israel, the Lord, our God, is One
Lord"
We have thought it easy to believe in One
God; but
now that we find it means to believe in One
Good; One
Cause only, is it so easy?
We know God as Life; therefore as the only
Life,
and the Only Source of Life; so it is written,"Whoso
findeth me, findeth Life" Prov 8:35
We know God as Love; as Paul says:"for God
is
love" Not Loving, but is love itself, and
changes never!
Love is God"Every one that loveth is born
of God"
1 Jno 4:7 The source of everything is Love!
"God is Light" 1 Jno 1:5 God is Truth"I am
the light of the world; I am the Truth," Jesus
said
There is just One Light, One Understanding,
One Intelligence,
One Truth
God is the Infinite Mind All Wisdom
"God is Spirit" God is Substance (Sub, under,
and
stare, to stand,)"that which underlies all
the outward"
Webster Spirit is the one only Substance
The Substance of all things is not the visible
but the
Invisible; is not matter, but Spirit"The things
that
are not seen are eternal" We should rejoice
in this
"Things are not what they seem," but altogether
better!
So Jesus said:"Judge not by appearances, but
judge righteous
judgment"
Science teaches us to judge of things by their
Source
If all things proceed from One Source, they
are contained
in that Source, before they are visible, and
they
can be only what that Source is
We have seen that the origin of all things
is Light;
is Love; is Good; is Spirit, or Intelligent
Mind; is Truth,
and, like a Great Fountain, this Light and
Love, Truth
and Life, is pouring forth its perfect Substance
into all
the forms of Life In countless ways it is
making itself
visible to us
But where shall we find this Great Source
which is
our Life, Substance and Intelligence? Do we
say, like
Job,"Oh, that I knew where I might find him,
that I
might come even to his seat"? Job 23:3
We long for God, because we long for Truth,
for
Peace, for Love, for Understanding, for Life
Jesus said
that to know God aright is Life, eternal Our
desire for
life, Peace and Good, is really our cry for
God,
Where shall we find Him? Everywhere"In Him
I
live" Acts 17:28 Think of this! I live in
Life eternal,
in Intelligence, in Spirit, in Truth and Love,
in All Good
Of course I do if the kingdom of God is within
me at
hand
Do we believe that God is Omnipresent? We
say yes;
but think, do we believe God is All-Presence?"God
omnipotent means good everywhere present,"
and this
admits of no other presence but Good Do we
believe
that God's Presence fills every spot and space,
and do
we refuse to see anything that is not the
presence of
Good? Yet this is just What Omni-presence
means
The Bible supports this idea: Jer 23:24,"Do
I not
fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord" Psl
139:7,
"Whither shall I go from thy spirit, or whither
shall I
flee from thy presence? If I ascend into heaven
Thou
art there If I make my bed in hell, behold
Thou art
there" God's presence, which, remember, means
the
presence of Changeless Love, Truth and Life,
fills heaven
and earth, and behold is to be found even
in hell!
What is the difference between"heaven" and"hell"?
Heaven is where God's presence is recognized
as"all in
all" Hell is where God's presence is not recognized
Both are"within" us
But as if these words were not enough to convince
us, we hear still further, in Eph 1:23, about"The
fulness
of Him that filleth all in all"; and again,
Col 3:11, we
read,"Christ is all and in all" This is what
God omnipresent
means
Omnipotent --All-Power--admits no other Power
God's Power is the Only Presence Can we accept
this?
Paul says this very thing, in Rom 13:1,"There
is no power
but of God" Can we now admit an evil power
or an
evil presence? Can we claim any longer a Source
for
evil?
Non-recognition of God as Omnipresence, Omnipotence,
as All in All, is the only cause, presence
or power
of evil Hence to recognize God as All-Presence,
All-
Power, All-Intelligence, Omniscience, shall
be the destruction
of every claim of evil, error, or fear
CONDENSED STATEMENTS
" In the beginning was the word"
Divine Understanding begins with the word
In imitation thereof we begin by speaking
the word
" The kingdom of God is within you"
"The kingdom of heaven is at hand"
God is Everywhere God is here
God is Light Light is here
God is Truth Truth is here
God is Good Good is here
God is Peace Peace is here
God is Freedom Freedom is here
Now am I in All Good Presence
Now am I in Perfect Freedom
Now am I in Changeless Love and Truth
Now am I in Eternal Life
Now am I in Full Light, for" I live, move
and have
my being" in God In Light, Truth, Love, Freedom,
Goodness and Peace
" God is All and in all"
"The Truth shall make you free"
"When ever the Christmas season
Lends lustre and peace to the year,
and the Ling-long-ling of the bells,
Tells only of joy and cheer,
I hear in the sweet wild music,
These words, and I hold them true:
The Christ who was born on Christmas morn,
Did only what you can do
Each soul that hath breath and being
Is touched with heaven's own fire;
Each living man is part of the plan,
To lift the world up higher
No matter how narrow your limits,
Go forth and make them broad,
You are, every one, the daughter or son,
Crown Prince, or Princess of God"
CHRIST, THE DIVINE MAN
ALTHOUGH Truth may be Omnipotent, and perfect
Love be Omnipresent; though we may"live move,
and have our being" in God, the All-Good;
though we
dwell in the kingdom of heaven, if we are
not conscious
of these truths, and do not know the wonderful
meaning
to us, we may go our way, in lack of all things,
losing the
blessedness that is ours
"Heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ," we
may,
through ignorance of this, be slaves of misery
and poverty
As Paul declares:"Now the heir, so long as
he is
a child, (without understanding), differeth
nothing from
a servant, though he be Lord of all" Gal 4:1
Truth must be recognized in order to be realized
by
us, and to become a power in and through our
lives
it is said that seed have been found in the
hands of
mummies, which being planted, have burst forth
into
growth, after having been dormant for centuries
The
seed had within it all the Life-principle,
waiting development,
but the hand that held it was dead
The Divine Life and Truth begins in the soul
as a
seed it may be held in a dead consciousness,
but the
Truth-seed never dies it is waiting its opportunity
it
is implanted by Divine Hand in every soul
One says,"When Jesus said he had finished
the
work, he had sown the entire field with seed;
the seed
were small, the harvest is universal"
" We think that heaven will not shut forevermore,
Without a knocker left outside the door:
Lest some belated wanderer should come
Heart-broken, asking just to be at home
So that the Father will at last forgive,
and looking on His face, that soul shall live
We think there will be watchmen through the
night,
Lest any far off turn them to the light
That He who loved us into Life, must be
A Father, Infinitely Fatherly
and groping for Him, all shall find their
way
From outer darkness, through twilight, into
perfect
day"
"His mercy endureth forever"
"Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess"
What is this knowledge that we need to make
us
free?
The knowledge of God, and of man's relation
to
God; the right understanding of these will
break the
bonds of our captivity, and give us consciousness
of
Eternal Life
Jesus said, knowing the Truth makes free,
also
knowing God is Eternal Life two most precious
boons,
Freedom and Life, are ours for the knowing
Knowing
what? That they are ours!"All things are yours,"
Paul affirms Life and freedom are mine now
The
Truth makes me know I am free Understanding
God
and my relation to God, convinces me that
I am Eternal
Life, for I am made of Eternal Life, I am
Peace, because
I am made of everlasting Peace I am changeless
Love
and Truth, for I am made of Love and Truth
that
changes never
"I am, because God is" God is the reason or
cause
of my being at all; the Source and Substance
of my existence
All that I am must be found in God my Source,
and
most truly I cannot be anything that God is
not, for I
have no other Source God is all I cannot be
something
else
To know what I am, I must know what God is,
for
in God I have my beginning and in God I shall
have my
end God is"All and in all"
What is God? Goethe says,"The Most High cannot
be spoken in words" Then words, either written
or
spoken, can only hint of the highest conception
of Truth,
and each soul must go for itself to the Infinite
Fount, to
receive within its own consciousness
To form a practical idea of God, take paper
and pencil
and write the word"God"; then write with this
word
every term that expresses God to you Do not
forget
the Infinitude of God, and when you write
beside the
word God"One" write with it,"All" The One
God
is all there is
If you write"Mind," let the One Mind be All
Mind;
declare that the One Mind is all Mind; then
cast out belief
of something beside God, by saying, There
is no
other Mind, no mortal mind
If you write the word"Love," let it be to
you All
"Love fills all, I live in perfect Love There
is no fear
or hate"
Whatever you write with God"Life,""Strength,"
"Spirit,""Light,""Good" declare it All Deny
the
claim of any opposite Make this a common practice
if
you would see God everywhere
So we love to think of God as changeless Good,
filling all: the Only Power, controlling all;
Principle, or
Source of Life, pressed out into all Perfect
Truth and
Love, pervading all Eternal Mind and Substance,
sustaining
all Everpresent Fulness, supplying all, The
Only Intelligence enlightening all"Since God
is all,
there is no room for any opposite" 5, and
H
Can any limited personality be attached to
such an
exalted idea of Infinite Being? Can we for
a moment
think that such an Universal idea of Deity,
can be compatible
with the cramped notion of God, as dwelling
in
any one time or place in greater fulness than
in another?
"The fulness of Him that filleth all in all,
without
shadow of turning," must teach of Limitless
Presence
and Power,"That God may be all and in all,"
in every
time and every place the same
One says,"We are as much in the presence of
God
now, as we shall ever be" The only possibility
is to become
more and more conscious of God's presence
Our
heaven is growing nearer, as our knowledge
of God's
presence expands
To understand my relation to God, I must study
Jesus Christ, for I am nothing to God except
by and in
the Christ
"No man cometh to the Father but by me" Jesus
Christ, we have been told, is the foundation
of every created
thing All the universe of Spirit (and there
is no
other universe) is built upon Christ What
is the meaning
of Christ?"Now know I no man after the flesh
Yea, though I have known Christ after the
flesh, yet
henceforth know I Him no more" If we will
find the
spiritual idea of Christ Jesus, we can then
understand how
every man is founded upon Christ, and how"Christ
is
all in all"
Many sayings of Jesus, which cannot refer
to personality,
will also be made clear to us, as"Before Abraham
was, I am""Lo, I am with you always" This"I
am" that has been and shall always be in the
world, cannot
possibly be the personal Jesus, it must be
something
more There is plainly reference to an impersonal
presence
Also, when Jesus said of his disciples,"That
they
may be one in us, I in them and Thou in me,"
he must
have referred to a spiritual or soul relation,
and not to
any personality
"In the beginning was the word, and the word
was
with God, and the word was God" Jno 1:1 Christ
is
here called the"word" of God, which signifies
the expression
of God; or the expression of Life, Truth and
Love This eliminates all idea of personality
A minister called the attention of his listeners
to the
fact that in the Gospels the name Christ applied
to the
Divine Nature of the Son of God, and the name
Jesus to
his human nature
Let us try to understand Jesus' relation to
God, for
it is the type of every living soul"I am the
way,"
shows us that there is no other way Jesus
himself
claimed no personal advantage over any one
He said,
"I am the light of the world," also,"Ye are
the light of
the world""As the Father hath sent me even
so have I
sent you""The works that I do, shall ye do""That
the world may know that Thou has loved them
as Thou
hast loved me"
He showed what God could do in man, and that
the
Divine Power that governed him is universal,
hence is
for all alike
One says,"Jesus solved the human riddle; he
has
shown us in himself, that God and man are
one inseparable
life; God in Jesus, is God in our humanity"
Another declares,"Christ comes not merely
to show
Divinity to us, but to evolve the latent Divinity
that is
implanted in every one of us" Man was ignorant
of the
Divine in himself The Truth, always there,
lay dormant
in his soul Jesus was the first to rise out
of this
deadness of consciousness He was the first
of heaven's
children, to know who and what he is the Son
of God
Paul speaks of this when he speaks of Jesus
as"The
first-born from the dead" Col 1:18"The first-born
of
every creature" Col 1:15 Into his consciousness
shall
every soul follow, as fast as it awakens from
its dream of
ignorance
By what Power did Jesus know and manifest
the
Divine Life and Truth? There is but One Power,
One
Presence, One Mind or Intelligence Jesus recognized
the One as All He said,"Of myself I can do
nothing"
He claimed no individual power, no power but
that
which is universal, therefore is for all
One says,"We must not try to imitate Jesus
in his
self-confidence" But was Jesus' reliance upon
himself,
or was it upon the One Divine Power and Presence,
and
shall we not imitate him in this?
Jesus' sole dependence was upon the Divine
Nature
which he was manifesting, the Christ or Expression
of
God, his own spiritual Being and Life The
same must
be the strength and moving power of every
living soul
Each one may say as truly as could Jesus:"I
can do
all things through Christ which strengthened
me" Phil
4:13
This Christ is the Whole Divine Nature, always
with
us, of which each soul is a partaker
"Christ is all in all" Col 3:ii We need to
accept
this in its fullest sense, for then shall
we come to see
Christ Only; Begotten of God: Divine Self-hood;
Divine
Man, as all Self-hood, as the Only Man Not
seen"After
the flesh," but in the understanding of God's
Divine
Idea of Man All personality is lost sight
of
This is the Foundation and Substance of every
living
soul Christ is God's complete Idea for all
men
We are to come into Christ, by letting the
old self"go"
die to our consciousness, and know Christ
to be all All
therefore of me
Jesus knew perfectly that he was nothing apart
from
the Divine, but recognizing his Divinity , declared
all
power, life, perfection and truth to be his,
because of his
relation to the Infinite No other has yet
comprehended
this as Jesus did, but"All shall know Him"
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but
we know that when He shall appear, we shall
be like
Him" When we are like Him, he shall appear
to us
again Then we shall be able to see Him
"Christ in you, your hope of glory" Col 1:27
The
Divine in you is your claim upon God, and
through it and
in it shall you be glorified
" In His Son the Father sees us,
and as Sons He gives us place"
How shall I truly accept Christ as my substitute?
By
putting myself as I have thought myself to
be, entirely
out of mind, and where I have looked upon
self, see
Christ as the Only Self I can then say with
Paul,"I no
longer live, but Christ liveth in me," or
in place of the old
me This is true self-sacrifice, to be made"Once
for all"
We have been trying to patch up and make better
the
old self We have repented of a sin here, and
a shortcoming
there, and where the sin has rent the soul,
we
have tried to put in a new piece, a better
condition
Shall we recall Jesus' words:"No man putteth
a piece
of new cloth into an old garment for the rent
is made
worse" Matt 9:16 This is just what we have
endeavored
to do, to patch up our old lives with new
Christ-life
What has been the result? Is sin destroyed
and its effects
banished?
If not, let us listen to the"new" way Entirely
dis
card the old self; do not try to improve the
mortal, but
accept the Divine Self in its stead If the
Divine is exalted
and the mortal denied a place, soon it will"No
longer live," but the Divine will be all life
"Likewise, reckon ye yourselves also to be
dead unto
sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ
our Lord"
This is to"Put on Christ" Rom 13:14 Put out
of
thought the self that sins, and looking at
Christ, or man's
Divine Nature as all of man in God's image,
declare:
"Christ is my Divine Nature; Christ is my
Life and Being;
Christ is my Self-hood, when I find myself
in God
I accept Christ as the All-Truth of me, for"Christ
is all
and in all"
Of such, the Divine saith:"Their sins and
their iniquities
will I remember no more" Having once truly
accepted
Christ, we can have no more memory of sin,
but
will say with Paul,"If I do that which I would
not, it is
no more I that do it" The Divine of me cannot
sin, suffer,
or be sick
Continual sacrifice for sin is not Divine
method, and
is therefore not acceptable to Deity Heb 10:1-3,
5, 6,
8, 11-14
Accepting the Divine of us Child of God instead
of the child of evil, we make a sacrifice"once
for all,"
or rather accept the eternal sacrifice in
Christ
One says,"True humility is not to think meanly
of
oneself, but not to think of self at all"
Accepting Christ
instead of self is not to think of self at
all; therefore not
to think of the sinner it is to be so filled
with the Divine
Idea of Perfection, Love, Goodness and Truth,
as to
have no room for any other idea
Jesus taught the Divine Nature of man when
he
bade him say"Our Father" This declares man
to have
a Divine origin We say this is man's only
nature, for
there is no other origin
Jesus emphasizes this when he bids us"Call
no man
on the earth your father, for One is your
Father even
God" The command is, Acknowledge no Life-giver,
no Source, or Cause but Spirit
We have always recognized the"spark" of Divinity
in man; why is it but a spark? Is the Divine
so feeble
that it must yield the right of possession
to another
power? No, for there is no other power! it
simply
means that we have acknowledged the Divine
so little
that it has seemed but a spark to us
Now, if we will exalt the Divine in man, lift
it up, in
all our ways acknowledge him, we shall soon
realize the
spiritual sense of Jesus' words:"If I be lifted
up, I will
draw all men unto me" Truth will fan the"spark"
into
a great"flame" when we lift up Divinity in
all
CONDENSED STATEMENTS
God is manifest to me through Christ within,"Because
that which may be known of God, is manifest
in
them" Rom i; 19
I am heir of all good through the Divine in
me God
only is my Father, Source, origin, hence my
only inheritance
is good
In the Divine of me, I am the child of God
I am
the child of Good Child of Light I am born
of Love
"I am free-born" I am child of Truth I inherit
all
Good, all Love, all Light, or Knowledge, all
Peace, all
Wholeness
I have no lack I do not lack good I have no
lack
of Love or Knowledge I have no lack of Peace
or
Health, for"I" am Divine
By the Christ, or the Truth, I am made free
"If the Son shall make you free, then are
ye free indeed"
Jno 8: 36
THE HOLY GHOST
DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS
“THAT which is born of spirit is spirit"
The child
I has the nature of the Father If God is our
"Father" we may rightfully claim to be of
Divine Nature
Having been blind to this, all kinds of conceptions
have
gathered around ourselves but"The Truth shall
make
you free"
We have heard of the artist, who looking upon
a
rough stone said,"There's an angel in that
stone" There
was no visible evidence of it, yet he began
his work of
chipping away, with patience and skill, bit
after bit of
the stone that hid the angel, until at last
there stood before
all eyes the visible representation The artist
mind
saw the invisible angel, hidden beneath the
rough exterior
so Divine Mind sees Divine nature buried out
of
sight perhaps in humanity, and with patience
and skill
destroys mortality's claims, one after another,
until the
perfect being is revealed
What further endorsement do we find in the
word of
God, for the Divine in man?
In its first chapter we read:"God created
man in
His own image; in the image of God created
He him;"
and again in the same first chapter are these
words;"and
God saw everything that He had made, and behold
it was
very good"
Is there anything that God did not make?"All
things
were made by Him; and without Him was not
anything
made that was made'' Jno 1:3 God made everything,
and pronounces all He made"very good"; then
there is
no reality in evil
Whatever there is, God is responsible for
it, and more
than that is the Source of it: there is"none
else""Whosover
is born of God doth not commit sin, he cannot
sin;
because he is born of God" 1 Jno1: 9"We know
that
we are of God" That which is born of God and
cannot
sin, is the Divine Man, the"Image and likeness"
of God;
for that which comes forth from God is like
God
As we have been admonished to call none other
"Father," we must acknowledge ourselves born
of God,
and must know further that all that is born
of God is pure
and perfect"Be ye therefore perfect even as
your
Father in heaven is perfect" Matt 5: 48
"Be ye holy for I am holy" 1Pet 1: 16
My only claim of perfection and holiness must
be,
because God my only source is Perfect and
Holy That
which comes from God and is of God must be
holy, the
image of God cannot sin Christ, Son of God,
is the
Divine Nature of all, and in the Christ, or
Truth of myself,
I am Divine Jesus said,"I am the Vine, ye
are the
branches," and it is written in the same book:"If
the
root be holy, so are the branches" Rom 11:16
Paul says,"That we may present every man perfect
in Christ Jesus," which means spiritually,
and in no other
sense can any one be in Christ Jesus, that
we may present
every man perfect in the Divine of himself
Man has never yet been bettered by condemnation;
would it not be wise to try the opposite course?
see the
"angel" or the Divine Nature, the Christ presence
in
every soul, no matter how hidden; deny the
truth of all
seeming error; it is not born of God, and
all that is real
is of God Break away the false ideas that
obscure the
angel and watch the result
"The worst way to improve the world is to
condemn
it Men might be better if we better desire
of them"
"Man is the image and glory of God" 1Cor 11:7
"Men, which are made after the similitude
of God"
James 3:9
it is certain that man in his spiritual nature
is Godlike,
and when we see or understand but One Source,
One
Life, One Mind, and One Substance Spirit we
shall
know that man's true and only nature is Spiritual"God
hath made man upright, but they have sought
out many
inventions'' Ecc 7: 29 Man has invented many
false
ideas about himself, and these false claims
have gathered
so densely about him, as to cover his"eyes"
with a
thick"cloud"; so that the inner glory of God
is not
recognized
This"cloud" or veil, is"done away" when we
see
Christ, the Holy One of God as"All in all"
We"die"
to the old idea of self which was false, and
become alive
to the Divine idea, the Eternal, though"new"
to us
Paul beseeches us to put on this new idea
of man
when he says:
"That ye put off concerning the former conversation
the
old man" (do not any longer talk about the
man of sin;
the man of God never sins), which is corrupt
according to
the deceitful lusts!and be renewed in the
spirit of your
minds!and that ye put on the new man (the
new idea of
man) which after God, is created in righteousness
and true
holiness Eph 4:22-24
The Bible gives full encouragement to look
at God's
perfect work, and to put away the old idea
of unrightousness
If we once realize God as"All and in all"
All that
is in all we can never again admit the truth
of something
beside God The source and cause of error and
evil, is the belief in something beside God
A belief in two
Minds, two Substances, two Powers, and two
Truths, opposite
to each other, is all the evil there is, and
this belief
is false
"I am the Lord, and beside me there is none
else"
Let us get from this statement all the practical
interpretation
that we can
The Lord is Life All Life then it may read:"I
am All Life and beside Life there is none
else, no opposite
to Life" according to which we safely conclude
there is no death Life is All Power, All Presence
What a joyful message if we can receive it!
The Lord is Good, All Good; then it may read:
"I am All Good and beside Good there is none
else"
Which plainly states, there is no evil Good
is All
Power and Presence
The Lord is Spirit, then it may read:"I am
spirit,
and beside Spirit there is none else" This
teaches us
that all is Spirit, there is no other substance,
no other
Presence
The Lord is Love, and so it may read:"I am
Love,
and beside Love there none else" There is
no hate or
fear"Perfect love casteth out all fear" Jno
4:18
All is Love The only Presence is Love
If Spirit is All, then I am Spirit
Spirit has no clouds and darkness Spirit is
Light;
then I am Light
Spirit has no sin, sickness, or death in it
Spirit is
Holiness, Wholeness, and Life eternal I am
Holiness,
Wholeness, and Life eternal I am Understanding
for I
am Spirit
"There is a Spirit in man and the inspiration
of the
Almighty giveth them understanding" Job 34:8
This"inspiration" of the Almighty is what
we have
known as the Holy Spirit, and here it is declared
that
this Spirit"giveth understanding"
The Holy Spirit of God is Divine Consciousness
or
Understanding, which illumines the soul, revealing
to
it the truth of the Infinite Love, Life, and
Peace; by the
Light of the Spirit each individual may know
the unlimited
Presence and Power of all Good, and may claim
this
Presence and Power as its own
God is manifest to us visibly in Jesus
"He that hath seen me hath seen the Father"
Jno
14:9
God is manifest to us in the Invisible in
Christ, the
Divine Nature in each,
"for that which may be known of God is manifest
in them" Rom1:19
Christ is God's Divine Idea; in Christ we
see what
the Divine Idea is for all The Light by which
we see
this Divine Idea, is Divine Consciousness,
or the Holy
Ghost By this inner light are we led into
all Truth, it is
God-Consciousness within us
The unpardonable sin is to refuse to see this
Light,
and to be led by it for as long as we refuse
its guidance
we must remain in darkness, or lack of knowledge;
by no
other power can we be enlightened concerning
our
Source and our Divine Nature The sin of ignoring
the
Light Divine must be given up, it can never
be excused:
by no other leading can we find the Father
This Holy
Spirit guides us from within, it is the consciousness
of
God in the soul
God is known as a Trinity in Unity called
Father,
Son and Holy Ghost Our three lessons thus
far have
presented the spiritual idea of this Trinity
God, the Infinite Mind of the Universe and
man
Christ, the Divine Idea of the Infinite Mind
Holy
Spirit, the Divine Consciousness of the Infinite
Mind
There is no perplexity in this understanding,
to see how
the Three are One
Mind to be complete and perfect must have
within
it a Perfect Idea, and Perfect Consciousness
Also, Idea
and Consciousness cannot exist without Mind
to contain
and include them
If we expect to accomplish anything, the very
first
fact is that we have an idea in mind of what
we want to
do, and how we want to do it All we do is
based upon,
and begins in that idea So Christ is the Idea
in the Supreme
Mind from which all created things begin
That which enables a mind to carry out, or
manifest
its idea, is its consciousness by understanding
that it
can do a thing our mind acts So the Holy Spirit
is the
Acting Power of Supreme Mind, by which the
Perfect
Idea it contains is carried into expression
Christ is the Whole Truth of creation which
is in the
Infinite Mind before creation Christ is the
Universal
Man, the Divine Idea and Divine Nature of
every individual
This is what Jesus meant by saying,"I am the
Vine" there is just One Divine Man,"Only Begotten
Son of God,""for whom the whole family in
heaven and
earth are named" The"whole family" are the
many
"branches" of the one vine All individuals
branch out
from the One Divine Nature
Study the parable of the vine and branches
to under,
stand how all individuals are related to the
One Universal
Man of God
Christ is the"Vine," the root and beginning
of all
living souls, which are the branches Note
the process
when the vine begins to put forth its life
in the spring;
here and there are seen buds pushing their
way out from
within the parent stem; we know these buds
are the first
appearance of the great branches into which
they shall
grow; but all the life and substance of the
branch still
and always is drawn from within the vine There
is one
vine, but many branches Like to this is the
relation of
each and all individuals to the One Divine
Soul Divine
Man is the Holy Root, there is but One Divine
Man individual
souls are the many branches, pressed out from
within the One Divine Soul, having life of
its Life and
substance of its Substance
"If the root be holy so are the branches"
When we
see all in the Christ, and of the Christ,
know the Christ
or Divine Nature as the"root," we see also
the purity
and perfection of all
But the vine with its branches which it has
put forth,
is not yet complete A third necessity exists;
from the
branches must proceed fruit: if the branch
adheres properly
to the vine it bears much fruit, if it becomes
severed
from the vine, both branch and fruit wither
and die
"Abide in me," says the"Vine,""and ye shall
bring forth
much fruit, for apart from me ye can do nothing"
The individual can be and do nothing of itself
Jesus represents the most perfect branch of
this great
Christ-Vine, and yet he said,"Of myself I
can do nothing"
He knew that apart from the great Principle
of Life
and Being, he individually could accomplish
nothing If
He said it, we surely must
The"Vine" is type of the Universal, Omnipotent,
Divine Life, Substance and Intelligence, that
is the only
Source of individual life it is Man, as Spirit"I
am
Spirit""I am the Vine"
The"branches" are type of individual life,
substance
and intelligence, expression of the Universal"Man
is the
expression of God" Science and Health This
is the living,
active soul; Image of God
The"fruit" is type of the visible universe;
the earth;
the spoken word; the true"body" The"fruit"
is the
inner Life and Substance, made visible; it
is the third
and last step in the Divine process it has
come from
within Spirit; it is the"likeness" of God
Hence the soul which is Man's individuality,
is the
Image of God, and the body is the likeness
of God
There is but one life, and one substance for
vine, branch
and fruit; so there is but One Life and One
Substance for
Spirit, soul and body
As the Vine, branch and fruit make one perfect
and
complete vine, so do spirit, soul and body
make one perfect
and complete Spirit
Spirit is creator of the living soul, and
soul is maker
of the body, not of its own power, but by
the Power back
of the soul even Divine Spirit
One says,"Our natural bodies begin to form
as soon
our souls exist, and because they exist The
soul's life
is the power that forms the body"
"for of the soul, the body form doth take,
for soul is form, and doth the body make"
"The mind of man is God," (Science and Health],
for All Mind is God, there is but One Mind
Man, as Divine
Being, is eternally in and of that Mind; as
an individual,
man expresses that Mind; thinks its thoughts,
and then speaks these Divine thoughts into
words, so
the thought and word unfold from within Divine
Mind;
are contained within Divine Mind before they
are
thought or spoken
We can learn from this the method or law by
which
Infinite Mind expresses itself, viz: Mind,
forms its
thoughts and speaks its words
Let us compare these various statements:
1 Mind,
2 forms its
Thoughts
3 Speaks out its
word
or Vine,
forms its
branches
Puts forth its fruit
or Spirit,
forms its soul
Makes its body
1st Being 2nd Acting 3rd Result
Back of you and me and all of us, is the Great
Infinite
One As Jesus said,"My Father is the husbandman"
Everything begins in this One known when manifest
to us, as Christ still One for it is simply
the Spiritual
Truth and Life of the Father, expressed in
all"All
are one in Christ"
The consciousness of Truth, Life and Love,
or Divine
Understanding is the Holy Spirit of God, the
Light
of the world, lighting each soul to see its
Divine Nature,
and to know that all that is, is Spirit, and
its manifestation
in soul and body; is Mind, and its expression
in
thought and word
ONE GOD, ALL
One Mind is All Power
One Life is All Presence
One Substance is All Reality
One Spirit is All Intelligence
One Law is All Love
One Good is All Truth
All is Spirit All is God
All is Mind All is Good
If God is Omnipresence, there is nothing anywhere
but God
There is no presence of evil
If God is Omnipotence, there is no opposition
to
God
There is no power of evil
If God is Omniscience, there is no knowledge
but of
God
There is no knowledge of evil
There is no mind of evil
There is no cause of evil
"God is all and in all"
THE work OF THOUGHT
THERE is no power against, or contrary to
God God
is the Infinite or All Mind, of the universe
The
whole Idea of creation is within this Infinite
Mind, which
also contains all consciousness
Every idea in the world comes forth from the
One
Perfect Idea of God, for it is all All Understanding
in
the world, comes forth from the One Perfect
Consciousness,
for it is all
So God, as All Mind, Idea, and Consciousness,
pervades
all living souls, and acts within them This
action
of Infinite Mind is called Divine Thought
Paul declares,
"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to
think anything
as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of
God" 2 Cor
3-5
We are entirely dependent upon our Divinity
for our
ideas, our consciousness, and even our thoughts!
When
we receive the consciousness of this Divine
Idea within
us, Christ is born to us; and
"Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem
be born,
If he's not born in thee, thy soul is all
folorn
Could but thy soul, oh man, become a silent
night,
God would be born in thee, and set all things
aright"
I cannot claim to be anything in and of myself,
or apart
from the Infinite What I am, individually,
is wholly
according to what the Great"I am" is
The name"I am"is full of new meaning to us
now it
is not originally my individual name it is
eternally the
the name of Divine Being
The real"I" or self belongs in this Divine
Being,
whose name is"I am"
There is but One I am"I am that I am" is received
by Moses as the Divine Name it is becoming
to us
a sacred name We have used the name"I am,"
as if it
belonged to us wholly, to handle as we chose;
but now
we are learning to say"Hallowed be Thy Name"
We say"I am" in this understanding of it,
with reverence;
for it is God's Name, it is God's Nature,
it is
God's Presence,"descending upon us like a
dove"
"I am" is always Life, Spirit, Love and Truth,
filling
us to fulness, so that there is no lack, in
that which I am
"I am" is Wholeness, Perfection and Health,
the
Mind of Good that is All in all There are
not many I
ams, but One, even God So I understand that
to say"I
am afraid, I am sick, I am weary, I am weak,"
is to
speak falsely; the I am is none of these things
"I am," as I now speak it, is my"new name,"
because
it appeals to me with such new meaning"I will
write
upon him my new name" Rev j: 12 I will give
him
a new consciousness of my name
Only my Divine Nature can say I am I have
no being
apart from God,"In Him I live, move, and have
my
being"
To know what I am, I must know what the All
I am
is Hence, when I say"I am," I speak not of
myself but
of God it is enough to know what the Great
I am is;
since it is All, it includes me To speak truthfully
then,
I silence all opinions and beliefs, in order
to listen" Be
still, and know, (for then shall we know),
that I am God"
Let us conceive of the individual as being
perfectly
still In this silence of the soul, he hears
the testimony
of the Spirit within him"I am Spirit, the
beauty of holiness, the perfection of Being,
imperishable
glory, all are mine, for I am God I give
immortality to man, for I am Truth I include
and
impart all bliss, for I am Love I give Life
without
beginning and without end, for I am Life I
am
Supreme and give all, for I am Mind I am the
Substance
of all because I am that\ am" Science and
Health,
page 149
When the individual soul thus hears from within,
it
has"become a silent night," and Truth is forming
itself in
soul and body Our thoughts are being put out,
that the
Divine may do its own thinking in us, and
speak its own
words
"for it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit
of your
Father which speaketh in you"
Many mistake the intention of these high declarations,
supposing the individual is speaking of himself,
but instead of this he has put self out of
the way, and is
letting the spirit of God speak through him
This spirit spoke through Jesus, (as he said,"The
words which I speak, I speak not of myself")
What did
it say?
"I am the light of the world""I am with you
always"
"I am the Truth I am the Lite""I am the
resurrection and the life""I and my Father
are one"
"Abide in me""He that liveth and believeth
in me shall
never die""Come unto me""In me ye shall have
peace," etc
This"I am" and"me" is the Divine Nature of
which
we have been speaking, it says the same words
within
each, for Jesus spoke not these words of himself
individually,
but of the Father, or Spirit of Truth
When we learn to speak the I am rightly, we
have
found a refuge from every ill! Into it we
may run and escape
every claim or belief of mortality
When we go into the"I am" we enter God's world
Spirit's realm
it is in our own little world, which means
our belief
of separation from God, that sin and evil
exist
There is no sin in God's world; no evil in
God's universe,
no darkness in God's presence, and God's world
is
the only world God's universe fills all, God's
presence
is all in all! Hence a world of sin, evil
and darkness,
is a false belief There is no world of our
own, apart
from God
My belief in a world of sin, is my mistake,
resulting
from my idea of separation
Jesus came into our world, came to us in our
belief of
separation from God, to show us the truth
of our oneness
with God
"1 have overcome the world"; not God's world,
but
the false idea of the world, the world and
the self apart
from God that we have believed in The truth
shall
make you free
The world of separation has no true existence,
for
God is all in all it is therefore a belief
which Truth
destroys; in this belief of separation is
all the claim of sin
and suffering
To destroy or overcome this world of suffering,
man
must come into consciousness of oneness with
God; this
ends our belief of separation, and is the
end of our world
of sin and death
Then we see the"new earth," or God's world
filled
with Divine Nature
Oneness with God is the at-one-ment
In this conscious oneness, self is surrendered
God
is all; then we say, I am what God is, for
I cannot be
something beside God therefore I let God,
or"The
Spirit of My Father," say within,"I am Life
Eternal
and Changeless I am Spirit and Power I am
Light and Truth I am Fulness and Freedom I
am
Health, Goodness, Perfection, and all Love"
This is what I am, for there is no other"I
am" I
think this that I am, and my soul is radiant
with Light
Then I speak what I think, and my body is
full of Light,
full of Strength, full of Good, full of Health,
because I
see what I am
There is no"I am," no Being anywhere, that
is not
in Peace and Health
In thus thinking,"We have the mind of Christ"
1 Cor 2: 16!and are willing to"Let the word
of Christ
dwell in us richly in all wisdom" Col3: 16,
17
"and whatever ye do in word or deed do all
in the
name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God
and the
Father by him"
The"name of the Lord Jesus" is this very"I
am"
that we are to believe in and to abide in,
for it is the
Great Christ presence which includes all,"I
in them and
they in me""That they may be one in us"
As soon as I see the One that I am, I can
also see
what I am not!
I begin to think of the true I am; I know
that I live
in Mind and not in body
I am spirit, and am manifest in soul and body
I am Mind, and am expressed in thought and
word
We have studied Mind, and have found the meaning
of its threefold aspect We have seen the Son
to be in
the Father This is the place Divine Man holds,
he is
co-eternal with God, therefore is Eternal
Life, Changeless
Truth, and Perfect Substance The many living
souls
are but branches out of the One Man and therein
have
they all Life, Being, Intelligence, and Substance
The
fruit of these branches is the body, perfect
and complete
in all good when the branch abides in the
vine
Thought is the busy worker; gathering material
from
within, from Source and Cause Invisible, from
the I am
that is always Wholeness and Perfection, it
conveys what
it has gathered into the visible, or fruit
Thought is building the visible universe,
and it it
turns only to spirit for its knowledge, the
outer will be
in the very likeness of Spirit
If we see in our visible"world" things contrary
to
good or God, then thought has turned away
from Spirit
to gather its material for building, and brings
forth other
than Spirit's fruit,"for the fruit of the
spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and truth" Eph
5:9
Misery, error, and evil, are not fruits of
Spirit Has
thought power to bring forth these?
it is written, Jer 6:19,"Behold I will bring
evil upon
this people, even the fruit of their thoughts,"
and again
"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he"
The soul of man is the power God has given
him to
think divinely, and thus image all Good If
thought has
been wedded to something beside Spirit, it
has failed to
image God in the earth Among the wonders shown
to
Christian in the Interpreter's home, was a
man raking
in the dust, and so intently was his attention
fixed upon
this, that he did not see held just above
him a crown,
waiting for the upward look of his eye, and
the lifting of
his head
"Thou hast crowned him (man) with honor and
glory Thou hast put all things under his feet,"
but,
thought has been so busy looking into the"dust"
of its
own stirring up, so intent upon seeing man
as a"worm of
the dust,"that it has not seen the crowning
of man by
Divinity, nor lifted its head to receive the
God given
glory!
Now by Divine Consciousness, are we able to
see
man by a Diviner light We are beginning to
believe in
the Divine Idea of Man and to accept it as
all of man
When thought sees truly what is in Being or
Source,
all things will appear right and good, for"Thoughts
expand
into expression" S!and H
Body is the thought made visible
We must therefore carefully guard our thinking
Let Truth and Divine Consciousness, which
speaks only
of good, control it"*"
"stand, porter, at the door of thought" S!and
H
Guard the very entrance of thought, decide
whether
God's Idea alone shall enter your thought
You can decide,
for you are the thinker
"If we are wise," says one,"We will not permit
anything
to enter our thoughts, that we are not willing
to
have expressed in our bodies""Think the thoughts
of
Infinite Mind Watch your thinking, control
it with
Truth There is a channel, so to speak, through
which
the Light (of Divinity, the Life, the Perfection,
Wholeness,
etc) is conveyed to its destination, and this
channel
is man's capacity to think"
Perfect Life, Divine Peace, all Goodness and
Health,
Intelligence and Freedom, are all ours, for"We
are
Christ's and Christ is God's" 1Cor 3:23 Thought
is the
"channel" by which these Divine qualities
are conveyed
to their destination Their destination is
the body Thought
should continually pour into word and body,
all perfect
qualities contained in Divine Source Thought
and
conditions of body are as Cause to effect;
change the
thought, and conditions of the body will change
I must be the Mind of Good, before I can think
good,
or act good
Good thinking comes from Good Being, and good
doing results from good thinking
I cannot make myself good by acting good!
I must
begin where all things begin, in Being See
the truth of
my Being I am Good, is first; I think good,
follows; I
act and speak good, is the result
I am perfect in Mind, for Mind is God
I am perfect in Thought
I am perfect in body
SILENCE SELF, and LISTEN
"Be still, and know that I am God"
I am
Mind, Idea, Consciousness
"In him dwelleth the fulness of the God head
bodily;
and of his fulness, have all we received,
and grace for
grace" Col 2:9; Jno 1:16
I am the fulness of the God head bodily
In Source I am Life, Strength, Intelligence,
Love,
Wholeness, Freedom, Fulness, Goodness, and
Truth
In Source I have power to express Life, Strength,
Wholeness, Goodness, Etc
In Source I am conscious of having power to
express
my Wholeness, Strength, Life, Etc
I know the Truth of Being Whole
"In him ye are complete"
I think of my freedom and peace
I declare now my strength and completeness
By the Law Divine, as I recognize and declare
my
Peace, Plenty, and Satisfaction, the Truth
of Peace, Plenty
and Satisfaction resounds through all my existence
The One Only Voice that speaks"I am Peace,"
is
God My soul and body echo that voice and say"I
am
Peace"
THE TRUE I am
Lite
Love
Peace
Strength
Health
Goodness
Perfection, etc
I think what I am
I speak what I think I am
Result of thought: The body full of Life,
strength,
health, etc
THE FALSE I am
Life and death
Love and fear
Peace and discord
Strength and Weakness
Health and sickness
Goodness and evil
Perfection and imperfection
I think what I am
I speak what I think I am
Body the result of what I think I am
Which"I am" have we been thinking, the true
or
the false? The body answers our question;
well and
sick; strong and weak; living and dying
OUR JUDGMENT DAY
EVERYTHING begins in mind, is expressed in
thought,
and manifest, or spoken forth in word
Mind is the Actor, or Thinker Thought is the
action,
and word is the fruit or result Every action
must
have an actor before it, and a result following
it
Every thought must have a thinker preceding
it, and
a spoken word following it
Mind is the spirit of Man; his Divine Being
and Life,
his Intelligence and Substance
Thought is the soul of Man Image of Eternal
Mind,
Life, Being, Intelligence, and Substance
word is the body of Man, that which results
from
thought, which shows forth thought, likeness
of Eternal
Mind, Life, and Substance
Thought is the invisible form of Mind, Life,
etc
Body is the visible form of Mind, Life, etc"By
one
spirit are we all baptized into one body"
When all have One Mind, One Intelligence,
and that
the Mind of Christ or Truth, we shall see
but one kind of
body, perfect and pure
When we see no Cause but Infinite Mind, we
shall
see no result but a perfect body
Mind works through thought into word Spirit
works through soul into body
Mind is the Only Power, and Cause of everything
All things begin to form in Mind
Thought is the action that forms things The
work
of the soul is to form the Image of the Divine
within itself,
and to bring its likeness into the visible
Body is the thing formed by this action The
body
of this perfect method is the likeness of
God the fruit of
Spirit
Stillness is the Universal Man, the"I am";
enter
therefore into the silence, if thou, my soul,
wouldst learn
what I am
Action is the individual man, expression of
God,
manifestation of Divinity
Mind is the Universal Man, Fulness and Freedom
Thinking is the individual man; the Divine
Acting,
declaring itself
Spirit is the Universal Man, Changeless Self-hood
Living soul is individual man,"Thought of
God," as
Phillips Brooks has said; Image of God, action
of God
Thought stands between the Invisible and visible
By the action of thought is the Invisible
made visible;
this is the law of expression
Divine Thoughts are the angels of God; Love
Messages
straight from the heart of the Infinite Soul,
to the
living soul the spiritual"ear" of man"Angels
are pure
thoughts winged with Truth and Love Angels
are not
messengers, but messages of the true idea
of Divinity
flowing into humanity These upward soaring
thoughts,
never lead mortals to self, or sin, but guide
them to the
principle of all-good" Science and Health
"When the angels look into the soul of man,
they see
only the good and true"
"and it seems to me that the more we grow,
Like the angels in love and duty,
The less we shall see of evil in all,
and the more of good and beauty
and so the good shall increase, increase,
and evil shall vanish away,
Until the Truth in each heart shall glow,
Like the light of a perfect day''
When"The Lord is in the midst of thee," (in
the
midst of thy thoughts),"Thine eye shall not
see evil any
more" Zeph3: 15
In our ignorance of God, and belief of separation,
we
have conceived of two selves, a spiritual
nature, and a
carnal nature The latter is the sinner, the
former the
saint One the child of the evil one; the other
child of
God
Both of these natures, our belief declares,
inhabit our
tenament of clay, though they are opposed
one to the
other Conceive of deadly enemies living together
in
one house! Would we expect very much peace
or harmony
in that house? Yet under just such circumstances,
as we have supposed, we have been trying to
find health
and peace of mind!
One speaks to us of peace; the other holds
us in
bondage"Nevertheless what saith the scriptures?
Cast
out the bond woman and her son; for the son
of bond
woman shall not inherit with the son of the
free woman"
Gal 4:30
We are to cast out of our mental household
the
thought, or belief of bondage to"the world,
the flesh,
and the devil," and the fruit of such thought
will also
go, for"We are not children of the bond woman
but the
free stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ
(the Truth) hath made us free, and be not
entangled
again with the yoke of bondage" Gal 5:1
We"put off the old man," the self apart from
God,
the"sinner" that must die, when we see Christ,
Divinity,
"I am," as all it is simply growing out of
self into
Christ, after we receive the revelation that
came to Paul,
of which he said,"it pleased God to reveal
His Son in
me" Gal 11:5
When self is dead, Christ is all The growth
out of
self is strongly pictured in these words:
First,"All of self and none of Thee
Second, Some of self and some of Thee
Third, Less of self and more of Thee
Fourth, None of self and all of Thee"
"There is therefore now no condemnation to
them
that are in Christ Jesus for the law of the
spirit of life,
in Christ Jesus, (perfect idea of man), hath
made me free
from the law of sin and death" Rom 8:1-2
"If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under
the law"
Gal 5:18
"Reckon ye yourselves therefore, to be dead
unto sin,
but alive unto God" Rom 6:11
We have not seen the impossibility of accepting
Christ, and still holding on to the sinner!
But we must
receive Christ as all See no more condemnation,
no law
of sin, no bondage to the ills of the flesh,
no self but
Divine Nature, the all that I am This means
perfect
freedom to us, and wholeness in spirit, soul
and body
"In the spiritual philosophy of Jesus, religion
and
health are viewed as one Health of body was
external
holiness, and holiness was internal health"
"How shall we take hold of this new realization?
By
using the new thoughts and speaking the new
words
faithfully
See what I am, think and declare it See what
I am
not, cast it away by denying it""Know ye not,
that to
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,
his servants are
ye, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience
unto righteousness"
Rom 6:16
"Be ye transformed by the renewing of your
minds"
"Finally, whatsoever things are pure, are
true, are lovely,
are of good report think on these things"
Phil 4:8
The more steadfastly we think upon good, the
less
of evil shall we see; the more earnestly we
think upon
Peace, the less of discord shall we see, the
more we think
upon righteousness, the less of sin shall
we see; the more
we think upon Health, the less of sickness
shall we see
Not that thought has this power in and of
itself, but
good thought, health thought, life thought,
expresses God,
and fulfills the law of all Being, of all
Mind, therefore the
law is completed in good results of health,
peace, and
Tightness it is the law of God
If we will listen to the general conversation
around
us, what shall we hear? Constant acknowledgement
of
God, the Good? Do we talk of good health,
and perfect
love, or is our talk of ill-health, and much
fear?
Our speech shows what our thoughts are If
thoughts
mold our conditions, is it any wonder that
in every direction
there are signs of sin, sickness and death?
The
outer is but an expression of the inner
The light of Truth shining more clearly within
us,
shows us our mistakes, uncovers error and
destroys it for
us
In this light we now discover many opinions
and beliefs,
not based upon changeless Love We believe
so
many things that could not come from changeless
Love,
which are to be separated from our thought
and cast out
We cannot talk as we once did, for we do not
think the
same"From the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh"
We are trying to"Let love become a habit of
the
soul," as Drummond says: to let good become
a habit of
thought In order to do this, we are led to
deny a place
to evil in our thoughts, somewhat as Paul
says, Eph 4:27,
"Neither give place to the devil" When we
see God
everywhere, we cannot consent to allow evil
a place
There is no place for it When we see Truth
clearly, we
cannot give error a place When we recognize
Love as
Infinite, we can find no place for fear If
Life is all,
death has no place Seeing Perfection fill
all, we can
grant no place to imperfection
Truth revealed, shows us the One All, without
any
opposite, and says to claims of evil:"Depart
from me,
I never knew you"; which is to say, you are
not of Truth
Jesus said of the devil, the personification
of all
error,"He was a murderer from the beginning,
and
abode not in the truth, for there is no truth
in him""for
he is a liar, and the Father of it" The origin
of all evil
is a lie it says, There are two minds, two
wills, two
powers, etc!and all sorrow and trouble come
from this
falsehood
Now we are beginning to separate and to cast
away
from the self all that the I am is not, and
to maintain
firmly that which I am
This process into which I find myself drawn,
began
in the first dawn of spiritual consciousness
When man
awakened from the"dust," or from the wholly
material
conception of himself, and"Became a living
soul,"
(Gen 2:7), he became alive to, or conscious
of the
fact of his spiritual being He heard Truth
saying
then, even though he heard in feeble consciousness,
"Thou shalt not partake of the knowledge of
good and
evil" Gen 2:17 This is the interpretation
we may find
beneath the letter of those words
Later on, man receives the same instruction
under
another figure"Thou shalt not sow thy field
with
mingled seed" Lev 19:19"for what a man soweth
that shall he also reap" Another way of saying,
Thou
shalt not believe in good and evil, for if
thou dost, thou
shalt reap good and evil
Jesus represented this condition of thought
by a parable
(Matt 13:24-30} He illustrated the good seed
by
"wheat," and the evil seed by"tares" He saw
thought
as a field sown with mingled seed The kingdom
of
heaven, which is"within you," was planted
with good
seed only; but men fell asleep, and in their
sleep saw"an
enemy" planting tares! Asleep to Truth, we
see an opposite
to Truth This is the"origin" of evil
So good and evil are held side by side, (26)
until
thought awakens to the fact of good as all;
then it questions,
"Whence the tares"? it did not know before,
that
the tares had no right to be there Something
is arousing
thought, and it at once desires to separate
the wheat
from the tares
This shall be done, Truth replies,"In the
time of
harvest" Then"I will say to the reapers: Gather
ye
together first the tares and bind them in
bundles to burn
them, but gather the wheat into my barn"
Our first question has been, since Light revealed
the
true nature of all things as good,"Whence
then is evil"?
Truth answers: You have been asleep! The harvest
is the
awakening time of thought it is called in
other places,
the Judgment day
To judge is to discern, or distinguish between;
and
our"Day of Judgment" is when by Divine Light
within,
our thoughts are able to distinguish, and
thus separate,
between the true and the false claim
The"Reapers" are Divine Thoughts, directed
by
Truth, in this sifting and separating We understand
the process when we have entered into it
What is Truth's directions?"Gather first the
tares
and bind them to burn them" Error must be
disposed
of first This law we will consider in our
next study
"Gather the wheat into my barn" All good is
eternal
All error shall be consumed"for behold the
day
cometh that shall burn as an oven" Mai, 4:1
The
"Day" is the Divine Light; it shall"burn as
an oven,"
for"Our God is a consuming fire," consuming
all unlike
good The Light is also the fire, for the Light
of Truth
destroys all error belief
Jesus again illustrates this judgment, in
Matt 25:31
Truth is the Judge; sitting upon his"throne,"
represents
the Truth enthroned within our consciousness
Then is
judgment passed upon all conditions, and separation
is
made by Divine Thoughts, for the"holy angels"
are in
this picture The"sheep" are placed upon the
right,
the"goats" upon the left The sheep go into
life eternal,
the goats into the everlasting fire
These all teach us of the purifying each soul
receives,
when it falls into the hands of Truth Every
belief
of sin, error, evil, or any opposite to God,
shall be
dissolved in the consciousness that the One
is All
"I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely
purge
away thy dross" Isa 1:28
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
When we look into faces around us, we find
traces of
anxiety and care in all Anxious thought has
written its
marks over most faces
What are we anxious about? Some fear haunts
us
We seem afraid of so many things Afraid of
falling into
something that will hurt us, or somebody else,
Suppose
now, that we just let ourselves fall! Rest
awhile by saying,
"I have no concern about what happens I am
not
anxious I have no responsibility" it will
be well for
us to try falling for a time We have been
on such a
strain, trying to hold ourselves up, to keep
from falling;
let us now yield, give up the strain, fall!
What then?
Where is there to fall but into God?
"Underneath are the everlasting arms" We have
never rested upon them, because we have been
trying to
keep ourselves up When we"let go," we shall
feel all
about us, these strong arms"
All threats of what may happen to us, will
be proven
powerless when we give up resistance Let come
what
will, for only God can come!
We may begin to destroy claims of fear and
anxiety
by saying often:"I am not afraid, for there
is nothing
to be afraid of"God hath not given me a spirit
of fear
Perfect Love casts out all fear"
I am love, for God is Love I am peace, for
God is
Peace I am understanding, for God is Understanding
I am not afraid
In the judgment of Truth, we are led to surrender
past conceptions, that we may follow the light
of a new
consciousness"and another of his disciples
said, 'Lord,
suffer me first to go and bury my father'
But Jesus said
'Follow me; let the dead bury their dead'
So, likewise,
whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not
all that he
hath, he cannot be my disciple
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father
and
mother, and wife, and children, and brethren,
and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my
disciple
"The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure
hid in a
field, the which when a man hath found, he
selleth all
that he hath, and buyeth the field” Jesus'
words
Martha was cumbered about much serving; and
Jesus said to her,"Thou art careful and troubled
about
many things But one thing is needful; and
Mary hath
chosen that good part which shall not be taken
away
from her"
We cannot receive the Divine Idea of All-good,
until
we have given up many opinions and beliefs
FASTING
WE shall all stand before the judgment seat
of
Christ" Rom 14; 10 That which cannot"stand"
or remain, before Truth's judgment, is not
of Truth
“We shall all stand" before this judgment,
is a blessed
assurance, that there is Truth enough in all,
to abide the
trial by Truth! and Paul adds right here,
(Rom 14:11)
as if this is what was in his thought,"for
it is written,
As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall
bow to me, and
every tongue shall confess to God"
"Judgment day" comes, when the Light of Divinity
is so bright in the soul, that it detects
all that is of Truth
and all that is not of Truth all that is of
the Divine, and
all that is not
In this time, or consciousness, sinners"tremble"
because
all sense of error is about to be destroyed;
only
that which is of Divine image and likeness,
shall"remain,"
or"stand," in this increase of Light
So it is written, Psl 1:5"The ungodly, shall
not
stand in the judgment," but"We shall all stand!"
All
that is ungodly anywhere, shall be wiped out!
Truth
shall search out all wickedness until none
is found Psl
10:15"The wicked shall be turned into hell,"
Psl9:17,
that is, into the purifying fire which is
Divine Love
"for yet a little while and the wicked shall
not be
Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place,
and it shall
Not be" Psl37:10 Because in the very place
that we
saw wickedness, Light and Truth have shown
God to be!
Omnipresent Good In this light the wicked
shall not
stand or remain in any place at all Omnipresence
is the
"Consuming fire"
"As wax melteth before the fire, so let the
wicked
perish, at the presence of God" Psl 68:2
"When the Lord shall have washed away the
dross of
the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged
the blood
of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the
spirit of
judgment, and by the spirit of burning" ha
4:4
"The sinners in Zion are afraid Who among
us shall
dwell ("stand") with the devouring fire? Who
among us
shall dwell with the everlasting burnings?
He that walketh
uprightly, and speaketh righteously, he that
stoppeth
his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth
his eyes from
seeing evil" Isa jj:I4~I5
When the time of judgment or separation comes,
the
sinners are represented as being"afraid,"
or"trembling,"
or being in great rage, because their end
is near As in
Rev 12:12"The devil is come down unto you,
having
great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath
but a short
time" Later on in the book, we see the devil
cast into
the"Lake of fire" The Greatness of Divine
Love, at
last consumes the most boasted power of evil
The purifying fire, then, is a process in
each soul by
which all false conceptions, are destroyed
Paul tells all
about it in 1 Cor 3:11--16, (please read it
right here)
Upon one foundation, which is Truth, men are
building
two ideas of life; one is of Divine Nature,
therefore is
the eternal Substance, designated as"Gold,
silver, and
precious stones" The other is not of the Divine
Nature,
Changeless Truth, and it is designated as
"Hay, wood,
and stubble," because of its perishable nature
(12)
The testing time comes (13)"The day shall
declare
it" Divine Light shall show the true or false
nature
of all things, of all opinions and all works"The
fire
shall try every man's work of what sort it
is"
If man's idea of life is based upon the true
and eternal,
his thought and word, his soul and body, is
representative
of Truth, is the image and likeness of God
This building"abides,""dwells,""stands" in
the midst
of Light and fire (14)
If man's ideas of life are contrary to that
which is
good, his thought and word, soul and body,
is representative
of error This building"shall be burned" in
the
consuming fire All the false ideas of life
shall be destroyed;
all that this soul has"built" shall be swept
away,
in order that his thought may be purified,
for it is declared,
(15),
"But he himself shall be saved, yet as by
fire"
This judgment day, by the"light" of which
we are
able to discern what is of Truth's nature
and what is not,
and therefore to separate the true from the
false claim,
does not break suddenly upon us, but comes
at the end
of a process within our consciousness
it is the"Day of the Lord," which spiritually
interpreted
signifies the"Light of the Divine Nature,"
the
light in which Divine Nature is clearly seen
it is a day of destruction, which we welcome
when
we understand it, because the many false ideas
which our
ignorance has invented, are destroyed by the
true light
This judgment day comes near the"End of the
world," because in its light, our conception
of the world
passes away and we enter into a new consciousness
of the
world Thought is ready to see heaven and earth
by a
new light, is prepared to receive a new idea
of heaven
and earth; this is the end of our world!
John saw in his vision, the"Great and small"
appear
before God to be judged In this judgment he
saw heaven and earth pass away; he also saw"Death
and
hell cast into the lake of fire" Later, he
declares that
he saw a"New heaven and a new earth," but
speaks not
of seeing a"new hell" after its destruction!
The devil spoke to Jesus,"All these things
will I
give thee if thou wilt worship me" Worship
acknowledges
a power and presence Every day this temptation
meets
us, as it did Jesus; evil appearances appeal
to us, to acknowledge
the reality of evil, to admit its power and
presence! But Jesus answered,"it is written,
Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt
thou
serve" Truth replies to claims of error, God
alone is
power and presence; this only do I acknowledge
Then"the devil leaveth him and angels come''
We recall the story of the Saint, who was
so lost in
contemplation of Divine Love, as to be filled
completely
with its Holy Presence In the midst of his
bright vision
arose a dark figure, whom he knew to be"Satan"
Looking
upon it a moment, with the light of Love filling
his
soul, he exclaimed,"Satan, thee too I love"
Immediately
the dark form disappeared, and Light Divine,
shone
in the very place where darkness had been
To look at every appearance, with thought
aglow in
the consciousness of Divine Presence and Power
as all, is
to dispel every opposite claim
Peter expresses this idea of the judgment
day when
he says,"The day of the Lord shall come as
a thief in the
night"
A thief does not announce his coming with
noise of
trumpet and commotion! He steals upon us so
silently,
that we are not aware of his presence, until
we see what
his work has been!
So does Divine Light quietly take possession
of our
thoughts, stealing away our treasures of earth
As is
added,"In which the heavens shall pass away
with a
great noise, and the elements (of the world)
shall melt
with fervent heat, and the works that are
therein shall
be burned up"
The Light is the thief; we now long for its
coming!
though we shall find all our old and highly
valued ideas
of heaven and earth"done away"
Understanding the work of Light, even its
destroying
power, we no longer rebel, but gladly lay
in its consuming
power, all that is not of Divine Nature
"He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost
and with
fire" Christ's baptism upon us, immerses us
in Divine
Consciousness, which purifies us from our
beliefs in
something beside God
We noted how Truth said in this harvest, or
sifting
time,"Gather first the tares, to burn them"
First then, we will search truly among our
conceptions,
and separate, by the light of judgment, based
upon
Spirit as All Life, Mind, and Substance, all
that claims to
be, or that we have believed to be a truth,
a life, and a
mind not God
We can do this when touched by Divine Knowledge,
for"He that is spiritual judgeth all things"
standing in the Presence of Truth, let us
witness
what separation is made between the Divine,
and not
Divine
STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING
On one hand we have:
The Divine Nature
born of God
Cannot sin
Perfect health
Perfect love
Perfect peace
The immortal
The living
The loving
Rest
The incorruptible
The wheat
The sheep
Truth speaks to these,
"Enter thou into the joy
of thy Lord”
On the other:
The claim of mortal nature
Not born of God
Full of sin
Full of sickness
Full of fear
Full of discord
The mortal
Dying
Hating
Unrest
The corruptible
The tares
The goats
To these Truth says,
'Depart from me, I never
knew you"
That which Truth never knew, has no truth
in it, is
therefore falsehood
All Truth belongs in the Divine Nature, and
here we
find, in the separation taking place within
us, Peace, Perfection,
Life, Health, Strength, and all Good, hence
we
declare these to be truth All untruth belongs
in the claim
of a mortal nature, and here we find arrayed,
discord, imperfection,
sin, sickness and death, all evil
In the Divine Nature, God, Spirit, Infinite
Mind is
seen as the Master sowing Good seed only;
here is the
"Wheat" In the claim of a mortal nature, man
has fallen
asleep to Truth, and his dreams, which seem
so real, while
he is in them, are of suffering, death, evil
and darkness
He begins to be aroused by the voice of Truth
saying,
(Eph 4:14),"Awake, thou that sleepest, and
arise
from the dead, and Christ shall give thee
light"
"it is high time to awake out of sleep, for
now is our
salvation nearer than when we believed The
night is
far spent, the day is at hand'' Rom 13:11
The"deep sleep" that fell upon Adam, has held
the
race in dullness until this day But it is
written,"As in
Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made
alive" Not
in some far off Adam, any more than a far
off Christ!
In the ignorant thought within us, is belief
of separation
and death Also in the consciousness of sonship
within
us, is knowledge of oneness and life eternal
for all
In this"sleep," the whole race have believed
in separation
from God, which means separation from Peace,
from Life, from Spirit and Wisdom, from Strength
and
Wholeness We have the"fruit" of that belief
it appears
as our world of sin and suffering
In the awaking, we begin to see the falseness
of
these universal, or race beliefs; we see there
is no separation
from God, no world of our own, no mind of
our
own, no life separate from God; no power,
no presence,
no knowledge but God Mind
But, as when we awaken from a deep sleep,
we do
not in a moment throw off the spell of the
sleep and its
dream, so we do not at once and for all, give
up that
which has held us so long We are not at first
wide
awake; sometimes we indulge in a little more
sleep, and
go back into our dream! But"morning" has come,
the
"day" has dawned, darkness is disappearing,
and we
must arise
After we are fully aroused, we often smile
at the absurdity
of our dreams; sometimes we are so glad to
know that they are not true How much more
satisfaction
shall we feel when we"awake to righteousness,"
which is right thinking,"I shall be satisfied
when I
awake with thy likeness" Prov 17:15 When I
awake
to the truth of being in thy likeness, or
of being Divine
Nature
What will help us to arouse quickly from our
dream
of error and evil? To cease to believe in
error and evil,
because we see Truth and Goodness as All in
all But
we have seen the opposite so long it is hard
to throw it
off
for this very reason we must not fall asleep
again;
the first awakening is the hardest; be persistent,
be positive
What will help us to be positive?
First,"Bind the tares in bundles to burn them"
We
have bound them in bundles under Truth's directions
The race beliefs, the claim of a mortal nature,
of something
not born of God All appearances of evil result
from these beliefs, for we have seen how all
sorrow and
suffering follow in this train How shall we"burn"
these"?"Cast out the bond woman and her son""The
grace of God (which is light within) that
bringeth salvation
hath appeared to all men, teaching us that,
denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly,
righteously and godly in this present world"
Titus 2:12
The surest way to become free from evil is
to deny it
a place; deny all that is ungodlike We can
do this
when we know God is all Begin and deny each
claim
separately"There is no truth in the claim
of a mortal
nature There is nothing that is not of God
There is
no separation from God There is, therefore,
no world
of sin, sickness, discord, or fear"God hath
not given
us a spirit of fear" 1 Tim 1:7 There is no
death
There is no hate There is no suffering in
the world; for
There is no mind but Immortal Mind
There is no power in any claim of evil
There is no power in the false race beliefs
There is no place for evil or error
There is no self apart from God"
When we deny the race beliefs the universal
opinions about fear, trouble, sickness and
death,
which bind us, until by Truth, we see our
freedom, we
have handled the strongest claim of error
there is, one of
the largest"bundles"
Remember, error and evil are only claims,
resulting
from ignorance of God, and belief of separation;
deny
ignorance, it does not belong to Divine Mind,
and Divine
Mind is All-Presence
Deny separation there is none All are in the
One
While we have not seen God every where, we
have believed
in seeing something not God This belief is
that
which must be"cast out," and is cast out by
our denials;
because as we deny, we cease to believe in
it
Jacob, in his sleep, saw a ladder reaching
from
heaven to earth Angels ascended and descended
So
in sleep have we believed in the visitation
of"angels,"
but God's presence was at the other end of
the ladder
When"morning" came and"day" dawned to Jacob,
he saw differently"When Jacob awaked out of
his sleep
he said, Surely the Lord is in this place,
and I knew it
not This is none other but the house of God,
and this is the gate of heaven" Gen 28:16,
17
When the disciples questioned Jesus about
their inability
to heal a certain case, he said it was because
of
their unbelief He added these words:"Howbeit
this
kind goeth not out, but by prayer and fasting"
This is
just as true to day We must fast and pray
without
ceasing
Fasting in its inner sense, is the soul's
denial of all
the claims of sense; denying the old mortal
idea of life
and of self; that the Divine Idea may more
fully possess
our thoughts
"The Lord is in the midst of thee, thine eye
shall
not see evil any more"
STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING
DENY THYSELF
I have no set/apart from God
There is no Mind, Life, Power, or Substance,
apart
from God
There is no Mind or Power of darkness, or
evil
There is no reality or power in fear
"God hath not given us fear" There is no fear
There is no evil There is no death
There is no cause of suffering or sorrow
These claims are not found in the Source of
All
Man is not born of flesh
Man does not inherit from flesh
Man is not heir to ills of flesh
There is no flesh, for all is Spirit
I am not"conceived in sin," nor"shapen in
iniquity"
God only is my Father, my Lifegiver, my Source
I am not affected by universal beliefs of
sin, evil and
death
There is no universal mortal mind
I have no past outside of God
I have no doubt, anxiety, or fear
I have no uncertainty of Life
I have no ignorance
I am nothing of myself I am all in God
The Truth hath made me free
PRAYER
FASTING, in its spiritual sense, is breaking
away from
all that binds or limits We may do this by
ejection
of past ideas which contain belief of any
opposite to
God
"Is not this the fast which I have chosen:
To loose
the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy
burdens, to
let the oppressed go free, and that ye break
every yoke?
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thy health spring forth speedily" Isa
58:6, 8
When the light of true judgment has illumined
our
consciousness, we know how to fulfill this"fast"
"Ye cannot serve two Masters," Jesus said;
Which is
to say: Ye cannot acknowledge two powers Because
we have done so, we must now break the yoke
of bondage
to one or the other; shall we acknowledge
the power
of Spirit only? If so, we must free ourselves
from the
belief of bondage to the flesh"There is no
power but
of God; no power but Spirit," may be our denial
for this
Jesus said:"Now is the axe laid at the root
of the tree,
and every plant that my Father hath not planted
shall be
rooted up"
Cause of evil and error must be struck at,
not the
outer effect Cause of sickness and sorrow
must be destroyed,
and not just the appearance Truth cuts deep,
and roots out"Every plant which my Father
hath not
planted;" because Truth reveals that whatever
the Father
hath not planted, has no reality, no cause;
this understanding destroys the cause of sin,
sickness and death There
is no cause of evil; when we see this, a blow
has been
made at the root, which shall finally destroy
the entire
plant" Isa 52:2, 5
To clear our garden of weeds, we clean them
out
root and all, for if we cut away only the
tops we shall
have an abundant crop again To heal the sickness
of
the body is like cutting off the tops of our
weeds, and
leaving all the roots to put forth again in
new growth
Science goes always into Cause; and as there
is but
One Cause to go into, and that forever Good,
it soon
eliminates the cause of evil, seeing it has
none! The
only supposed cause of evil and suffering
is the thought
of separation from Good There is no separation
from
God Truth destroys this"cause"
Fasting is"casting down imaginations," or
false images
thought is holding"and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God:
and bringing
into captivity every thought, to the obedience
of
Christ" 2 Cor 10:5
That which sees things contrary to God is
imagination
"and God saw that every imagination of
the thoughts of man's heart was only evil
continually"
Gen 6:5 This condition caused the"flood,"
and within
each of us, the flood shall come, that shall
destroy these
imaginations When the soul is flooded with
the light
of Truth and Love,"The world of the ungodly"
perishes;
the imagination that there is an ungodly world,
is destroyed
Righteous thought Noah, (Gen 7:1), is separated
from all unrighteousness, that ungodliness
may be
destroyed
Fasting is"shutting the door" when thought
enters
into communion with All-Spirit it shuts out
every
thing but Spirit, seeing that Spirit is all
Hence fasting
prepares the way for prayer; it empties thought,
making
it ready for, or receptive to refilling"Empty
that he
might fill me," expresses the idea of fasting
and prayer
Thought emptied of its own opinions and ideas,
is
cleansed, and prepared to be filled with Divine
Idea
Prayer is the complement of fasting After
the
emptying must come the filling; after the
rooting out,
comes the re-sowing; after tearing down, we
want to
build; after fasting we must pray
As a new idea of Truth dawns in our understanding,
one of the first questions it stirs up is,
How shall I pray?
which shows that our prayer changes as our
consciousness
changes
As Jesus opened the disciples' eyes to more
Spiritual
understanding, we hear them asking at once,"Lord,
teach us how to pray"
As consciousness increases, prayer assumes
new
meaning, and the words of our childhood the"milk"
that belonged to babyhood no longer satisfy
our fuller
grown thought
To find a more helpful idea of prayer, which
our new
consciousness demands, we first must know
what the
purpose of prayer is
Prayer cannot, and has never changed God We
read, in Isaiah 51:9, the prayer of Israel,
calling upon
God, to awake"Awake, awake, put on strength,
O
arm of the Lord" This is the prayer of childhood,
and
the answer comes back, (Isa 52:1),"Awake,
awake, put
on thy strength, O Zion""Zion" needs to awake,
not
God
As soon as we understand that the All is Everpresent,
that we live in it, and that"All things are
ours,"
we see that the purpose of prayer is not to
bring anything
to us, is not to induce the Divine to grant
us, what
it would otherwise not have given, but to
bring us into a
realization of the Fulness of Good, that is
everywhere
present, so that we may accept the Eternal
gift of Love
One says,"God has given all of Himself to
each
one He has nothing more to give" and when
Truth declares,"Before they call I will answer,"
it is as
much as to say, everything is given them,
before they
ask for it Asking does not then bring anything
to
us, but earnest seeking helps us to find and
receive that
which is always"at hand"
God's Omnipresence makes us sure of all good
here
and now, and when this consciousness is ours,
prayer
changes We have no more pleading to do, but
we desire
only to have our eyes opened, to see what
is here for
us in Truth
When Hagar wept and"Lifted up her voice,"
praying
for water, that her son might live,"God opened
her
eyes, and she saw a well of water" Gen 21:19
Prayer opens our eyes to see God's everpresent
supply,
and we see there is no lack Because"Eye hath
not seen" and"Ear hath not heard" we have
been
"hungry" and"thirsty" in the midst of full
supply
"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance,
it is laying
hold of His Highest willingness"
In this understanding, Jesus' words come to
us with
clear meaning,"therefore all things whatsoever
ye ask
and pray for, believe that ye have received,
and ye shall
have" Mark 11:24 (Rev Ver}
No more pleading when our eyes and ears are
opened to see and hear the good that is all
around us
that is ours as"Heirs of God"
If we pray as Jesus here directs, our petitions
will be
changed to thanksgiving, as we recognize that
we"have
received" all things!
Jesus' prayer at the tomb of Lazarus, before
he had
called upon him to come forth from the dead,
should be
ours in all that we desire:"Father, I thank
Thee, that
Thou hast heard me, and I know that Thou hearest
me
always"
it is also written:"If we know that he heareth
us, we
also know that we have the petitions that
we desired of
Him" 1Jno 5:15 When we know that He"heareth
us always," we will joyfully declare this,
as Jesus did,
rather than plead, as of old:"Hear our prayer,
good
Lord" Our manner of praying will be, then,
according
to our understanding of God, and man's relation
to God
While we believe in God as a Great Personality,
seated in some far off heaven, arbitrary in
will and purpose,
swayed by man's pleadings, moved by his desires,
sending good gifts as a reward, withholding
good as a
punishment, we will send up our petitions
and pleadings
without cessation
When we know God as Changeless Power and Presence,
always Love, forever Good, Eternal Fulness,
"Without shadow of turning," filling full
heaven and
earth; that the kingdom of All Good is within
us; that
this Infinite Good-Presence does not change,
because it
is always Perfection; does not make special
gifts, but forever
gives all to all; then we pray according to
this
knowledge
We know that every good thing is ready and
waiting
for us to accept with loving gratitude; that
in the"Son"
we are heirs to this All-good, everpresent
We hear
Spirit saying to its Own Begotten in us:"Son,
all that I
have is thine"; and we answer:"All mine are
thine, and
all thine are mine" Blindness ignorance only
has
kept us from receiving all good; we have not
seen
it is written, (Jer 17: 5-8),"Cursed be the
man that
trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm";
that trusteth
in man's opinions; that believes in Life and
Understanding
apart from God"for he shall be like the heath
in
the desert, and shall not see when good cometh
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord,
for
he shall be as a tree planted by the waters!and
shalt not see when heat cometh"
So we need not ask God to be near us; Good
cannot
come any nearer than it always is! Let us
then seek to
realize how near God is We will not ask for
more life,
more strength, more health, to be given us;
but will try
to appreciate and accept the changeless Life
and
Strength, the perfect Health in which we live"Shall
we plead for more at the open Fount, which
already
pours forth more than we can" (or know how)"to
receive"?
5!and H What then shall we ask for? Only
that our eyes may be opened to see what eternally
is
Consciousness of God enables us to claim what
is;
to recognize our Father's good gifts and good
will The
prayer then of a higher understanding is recognition
of
Truth, and willing thanksgiving
"In happy childhood, at a father's call,
Trusting we walk wherever He may lead
We say not: 'Father, do not let me fall
Down this steep hill' We feel so safe, that
all
We think is to enjoy his loving heed
We never plead: 'Do not forget, I pray,
To give me food and drink enough to-day'
Why should we with a heavenly Father plead?"
In a better consciousness, the pleading of
God's children,
gives place to joyful recognition Many, at
this
point, call attention to the"Lord's Prayer,"
and ask, Is
not that full of petition? Granted that it
is, we must remember
that Jesus himself, admitted his restriction
in
speaking, because of lack of understanding
in his hearers -He must give the prayer which
the consciousness
of his hearers could receive The Spirit of
Truth is revealing
the"many things" that Jesus could not then
tell
about; and clearer consciousness can receive
them
But we notice that in the Lord's Prayer there
is no
"if" it seems that the greatest hindrance
to answer of
prayer, has been because of that little word"if,"
which
Jesus never directed us to use Webster defines"if"
to
mean,"In case that, or supposing that" Then"if"
implies
doubt, and doubting prayer is not answered"He
that wavereth is like a wave of the sea Let
not
that man think that he shall receive anything
of the
Lord" James 1:6, 7
Jesus indicated the need of perfect confidence
when
he said,"Whosoever shall say to this mountain,
Be thou
removed, and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe
that what he saith comes to pass, he shall
have it"
Here we are authorized to speak positively,
which we
never do when we put an"if" in
When we know that"The word which I speak is
not
mine, but the Father's," we will also know
that it"Shall
not return unto me void"
But one will say,"I pray, If it be thy will,
because I
am not sure whether it is God's will or not"
In such a
case, we had better at once enlighten ourselves
about
God's will; there is no excuse for not knowing
it As
Paul says:"Be not foolish, but know what the
will of
the Lord is" Eph 5:77 (Rev Ver}
"The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil,"
(Psl
121:7), is a statement in His word, and makes
plain
God's will towards us Again, it is told us
clearly, in
Gal i-4,"Who gave himself for our sins, that
he might
deliver us from this present evil world, according
to the will
of God" One came to Jesus, saying:"Lord, if
Thou wilt,
thou canst make me clean" Not doubting his
power I
know thou canst but uncertain about his willingness
Jesus' answer to this one is the answer for
all in such
doubt,"Twill: be thou clean" God is always
more willing
to give than we are to receive!
When we understand God's will, as Jesus did,
how
gladly will we say,"Not my will, but Thine,"
for as one
says:"The 'I will' in Truth is God's will"
This we see,
when we know that the One is All; One Mind;
One Intelligence;
One Will
Jesus said:"Abide in me"; be firm or fixed
in consciousness
of the One that I am,"and ye shall ask what
ye will, and it shall be done unto you," for
it is then the
One Will"it is God that worketh in me both
to will
and to do of His good pleasure," after I have
given up
all belief of separateness
Jesus again said:"If ye ask anything in my
name, I
will do it"; does not say in these boundless
promises,"I
will do it if it is best for you," but simply,
I will do it
Do what?"Anything" you wish, but seek it"in
my name"
This is the secret We may find everything
in that wonderful
Divine Name, I am, which is also Divine Nature
In the Divine Nature we have all things we
desire:
Peace, Health, Strength, All-good is there,
and is ours in
that Nature, which I am We can feel no doubt,
nor say
an"if" when we understand asking"in his name"
"Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it" Psl
81:10
Make plenty of room to receive, the Divine
sets no limit
If thought is half filled with belief of evil,
it cannot be
more than half filled with good If thought
is emptied
of all belief of evil, it can be filled full
of good
'Prove me now, saith the Lord, if I will not
open the
windows of heaven (open your spiritual eyes
to see) and
pour out a blessing that there shall not be
room enough"
Mai 3:io
What we recive is not limited by the Giver,
but by
our capacity to receive
"When the poor widow applied to Elisha for
aid, he
met her need by increasing the oil she had
in the house;
and the limit of increase was set, not by
the Giver of every
good gift, not by Elisha, through whom the
blessing
came, but by the widow who measured for herself!
The
oil ran until it filled every vessel she had
set to contain it!
and when there was not a vessel more, the
oil stayed"
As one says,"our failure to receive comes
from self
made limitations"
What shall we ask for? Jesus told us, when
he said,
"Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven" and
David gave
us the right idea of prayer when he declared,"One
thing
have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek
after; that I
may dwell in the house of the Lord forever"
Psl 27:4
The kingdom of God is also God's house; David
was
seeking the kingdom of God, or to dwell in
God's presence
To become conscious of God's All-Presence
is to
dwell in that Presence If we declare God's
Presence as
all, we help our thought to dwell in that
consciousness
to dwell in God's"House"
Jesus said (Luke, 10:42):"But one thing is
needful"
This one thing is to recognize the everpresent
God or
Good
Can we concentrate our desires to"one thing?"
When we do, we shall find in that"one thing"
whatever
we would ask for it is His Holy Name or Nature;
it is
His One Only Presence and Power, which we
are to joyfully
acknowledge and accept
Our past praying, has been so mixed with doubt,
because
we have not seen God's will clearly, and could
not
understand that the All-Good was ours before
we began
to pray, so we never felt certain of the answer!
This need
not discourage us, because when we know better,
we
shall pray better!
When Peter was imprisoned by Herod, we read
that
"Prayer was made without ceasing, of the church
unto
God for him" On the night of his delivery
he went to a
house where"Many were gathered together praying"
Peter knocked at the door, am the maid, who
knew
Peter's voice, ran in to those praying, and"Told
them
how Peter stood before the gate" and they
said unto
her,"Thou art mad!" But she constantly affirmed
that
it was even so"Then," said they,"it is his
angel!" The
need, just as truly now as then, is to have
more faith in our
prayers! and knowledge will give us that faith
In
clearer understanding we will revise our form
of prayer
Our old and well loved"Now I lay me," has
new strength
and meaning in its"new" form:
A CHILD'S PRAYER
"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I know that God His child doth keep,
I know that God my life is nigh,
I live in Him, I cannot die
God is my Health, I can't be sick,
God is my Strength, unfailing, quick
God is my All, I know no fear,
Since Life, and Truth, and Love are here"
"Oh, Thou All-seeing, and All-knowing One,
Whom we call 'Father,' 'God,' 'Creator,' to
Thee
We pray, not as of old when ignorance of Thy
laws
and Thee, did bid us supplicate, entreat,
Implore for things we most desired
Eut in the higher understanding
With which our great Teacher bade us pray;
He who said: 'When thou prayest, believe
That things desired by thee, are thine!
for thy Father knoweth all thy heart,
and gives thee all good blessings, e'er thy
prayer
Is uttered'! God is perfection, law itself,
and He no changing needs But we, His children,
Heirs by birth and inheritance, have lived
So long in doubt of our estate, cannot receive;
Our spiritual ears, eyes and thoughts are
silent;
So we the changing need,
Now when we pray, we will not say:
'Dear Father, hear our prayer;' but know
That Thou dost hear, and answer!
We will not plead, 'Be near us,'
But know that space is filled by Thee alone!
and surely Thou art here as everywhere
We will not plead that Spirit's power,
May us encompass and protect,
We know that spirit never leaves us day or
night
We'll let each breath, and thought, and word,
A recognition be, our lives be hid in Thee
Content in Thee, we find our heaven now,
and nothing have to fear,
Since God is 'All in All,' and God is good"
STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING
I and MY FATHER ARE ONE
One in Life, in Mind, in Idea, in Consciousness;
One in Truth, in Freedom, in Fulness, in Wisdom;
One in Strength, in Wholeness, in Peace, and
Rest
God, my Source, is Omnipresent, Omnipotent,
Omniscient
Life and Love
I (my name, or my patient's name) express
the Omnipresent,
Omnipotent, Omniscient Life and Love
I, (patient's name), the individual, express
all the
Truth of the Universal Divine Man
The Universal says: I am Divine Man, one with
God; one with Life, Truth, and Love
The individual says: I express the Whole Truth
of
Divine Man; his Perfection, Peace, Wholeness,
Ease,
Understanding, Harmony, Goodness, and Love
The Spirit of Love fills the universe of God
I live in the full Power and Presence of Love
Spirit fills all time and all places
Every moment is brimming full of Life Eternal
and Changeless
Because God is Life, I (patient's name) express
life;
because God is Wholeness, I express health;
because
God is Peace, I express peace and ease
(After emptying thought by the denials given,
fill it
with these Divine affirmations)
GROWTH
THE POWER OF THE word
(by thy words thou shalt be justified and,
by thy
words thou shalt be condemned" Matt 12:37
Science turns about (converts) our thoughts
from the outward to the inward; from the visible
to the
invisible; from appearances to righteous judgment;
from
the body to Spirit; from the word to Mind;
from the
fruit to the Vine; from effect to Cause By
thus looking
beyond appearances, I can see by Divine Light,
what I
am
Before I can judge righteously, and appear
right, I
must know what it is to be right
The spoken word is, as Webster defines it:
A sign
or symbol of an idea in Mind Every word spoken
which also signifies every visible thing has
an idea back
of it, in which it originated The idea is
the unspoken
word; the spoken word is the idea expressed
The idea
is first, therefore is the power that is in
the word Hence
all power is in Mind, and the word expresses
that power
In Divine Mind is the Eternal Idea of all
things
"The word that was in the beginning with God,
and was
God" This word is complete in God, before
it is spoken
forth; for it is God's complete Idea, which
is All-Good,
All-Perfection, All-Truth So when we speak
the word
of Truth, we speak of finished work, that
which is eternally done in God; hence our
speaking does not make
any truth, but it expresses, or brings forth,
the Truth that
is, and that was, before we spoke
This explains many verses in the Bible, as
Gen 2:4,
5,"In the day that the Lord God made every
plant of
the field before it was in the earth, and
every herb of the
field, before it grew!' and again, in Heb4:3,"for
we
which have believed do enter into rest The
works
were finished from the foundation of the world";
or Eph
2:9,"Not of works lest any man should boast"
My Eternal Life is a finished fact
My Health is a finished fact
My Peace is a finished fact
We can never in Truth assume that individually
we
have done anything; not even can we claim
by our understanding,
to have accomplished aught Divine Understanding
enlightens our thought to see that which is
eternally fiinished in Truth!and as soon as
we see it, we
begin to think it, and to declare it: this
is to be our
work Our part is to believe in the finished
Truth of all
things in God
The Truth that thus presents itself to us,
is God's
Divine Idea; we have called it the Christ
always Full
and Complete We are to believe in this Fulness
and
Completeness of all things, and this helps
us to understand
that, which Jesus declares to be the"work"
which
God requires of each soul Jno 6:29,"This is
the work
of God, that ye believe on him whom He hath
sent"
We are to believe on, and to be positive about
the finished
work of God the Divine that He hath sent into
all
Now, I desire to be good, where shall I begin?
Shall
I try to make myself good by acting good?
This would
be trying individually to make something,
which is impossible
If I want a beautiful lily, do I try to make
the flower first? or do I plant deep out of
sight, a
lilly bulb, which in due time sends forth
stems, out of
which burst the blossom? All of us can plant
a bulb and
have a lilly The bulb contains within it the
perfect
lilly; the flower is the result of the perfect
life and substance
that is in the bulb
This bulb may represent to us our Divine Nature
The planting of it in mother earth, may remind
us to see
our Divine Nature implanted within the Whole
Divine
Life, the Mother, Father, God Source of all;
Power in
and through all;"Your life is hid with Christ
in God"
Col 3:3
To understand my life buried with Truth in
God, is
to plant the bulb of my existence, the starting
point of
all outward expression of good
The"stem" and"flower" represent to us this
outward
expression, put forth from within the bulb,
after it
is buried When we look from the visible to
the Invisible
Life, from the act to the Actor, or Power
of Action,
Divine Life stirs up our souls, by pushing
out its own
action, and the result comes into the visible
act of goodness
With faith in the bulb, and what it can do,
we plant
it, and wait With faith in Divine Nature,
and what it
can do, we believe in it, and wait"for we
have need of
patience that after we have done the will,
we may receive
the promise"
The Divine Soul is the budding out of the
Spirit of
Life, Truth, and Love The Divine Body is the
development
of this bud into the perfect flower
When thought is truly converted, it sees that
we
cannot make perfect lives, but we can be the
Perfect Life
in God, and thus let it put forth its perfection,
peace, and
beauty, into soul and body
We cannot make good acts that are genuine;
they
must unfold from within good thoughts, which
rest, or
are positive in Good Being All Truth must
come from
Source
We cannot then make good health! There is
just
One Law of making or expressing anything
We must go into Source and Cause, and see
Good
Health as an eternal fact a finished Truth
then we
will believe in good health only, and wait
By the law
we have seen, this bud of good health, shall
unfold into
the perfect expression
We cannot make the body well permanently,
while
thought is based upon ill-health as a truth
If we desire
a well body, we must"work as the Father works/'
which
is to say we must recognize the Divine Law
and method
First, a well mind As there is but One Mind,
and
that the Infinite, we can easily see that
Mind is well!
There is no Mind of disease
Second, a well thought and this comes naturally
from a sound Mind
Third, a well body the sure result of a sound
Mind
and Thought
"God hath not given us a Spirit of fear, but
(God
hath given us a Spirit) of love, and of power,
and of a
sound mind" 2 Tim 1:7 therefore claim,"I have
a
sound mind, a sound thought, and a well body"
This is
the way to look to God for our good health
Joyfully
recognize"What God hath prepared" for us My
good
health is finished in God, is waiting for
me to accept
This is the whole Law of expression, which
means
the law of growth it is always from within,
outward
"Consider the lillies how they grow; they
toil not,
neither do they spin""Which of you, by taking
thought, can add one cubit unto his stature"
Matt 6:
27, 28 These words contain such a wonderful
secret:
the whole mystery of growth is wrapped up
in them
Toil not, labor not to grow Growth is never
promoted
in that way; busy thought never adds to your
stature, and yet thought was made to be busy,
for
thought is the action of Mind!
it is natural to grow, and we grow without
effort
If we use thought as a cause of growth, we
make a mistake;
thought is only the method by which growth
is accomplished;
the impelling power is in Mind which moves
thought on to do its will Thought is the servant,
not
Master; the action, not the Actor; the expression,
not
the Expressor
Thought does not add to my stature, because
I am
that I am, eternally Thought may see what
I am, and
seeing, declare it, The work of thought is
not to make
me anything, but to continually express what
I am
"Their strength is to sit still" In the outer,
be passive,
but in the inner, to"sit still" is to be brimful
of the
consciousness of Omnipotence! Be positive
"for thus saith the Lord! in returning and
rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and confidence
shall be
your strength; and ye whole not" Isa 30:7-15
"O, Jerusalem, how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a
hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings, and we would
not" Matt
23-37
"Ye will not come unto me that ye might have
life"
Jno 5:40
We cannot"sit still" in Life, in Truth, and
in Love,
until we have come into Christ come into knowledge
of
being Divine Then I rest in Being; I direct
thoughts to
express the truth of my Being Divine, and
the word, or
visible result of thought, will follow Growth,
then, is not making myself become anything,
it is becoming more
and more conscious of what I am
Because we have not recognized the truth of
our
Life and Being, thought has become filled
with images
of false being, which have obscured the true
idea Our
visible world rests under the shadow of such
false belief;
for it is an acknowledged fact, by many thinkers,
that
creation, or the visible, is mysteriously
linked with man's
thought
"The student of nature observes, that all
things in
nature the animals, mountains, seas, and stones
have a
secret relation to man's thought and his life
Nature
gives him a copy of every mood and shade in
his character
and mind Every object he beholds is the mask
of
man Nature is the immense shadow of man" Victor
Hugo
"The soul spreads its own hue over everything;
the
shroud or wedding garment of nature is woven
in the
loom of our own feelings" F W Robertson
The visible world returns to us our own opinions
and
beliefs
"There is nothing either good or bad, but
thinking
makes it so" Shakespeare
"There is nothing unclean of itself; but to
him that
esteemeth a thing to be unclean, to him it
is unclean"Paul
His thinking makes it so to himself We may
as
truly say,"There is nothing hurtful of itself,
but to him
that esteemeth a thing to be hurtful, to him
it is hurtful"
To change our world, therefore, we must change
our
thoughts about it"The things that are seen
are temporal,"
because our way of seeing things shall change!
"The creation is on wheels, always passing
into
something else, streaming into something higher;
everything
undressing and stealing away from its old
into new
forms Thin or solid everything is in flight"
Emerson
The outer is uplifted, as thought is enlightened
by the
Truth, to see-the true nature of all things
"A pure inward life, may transform the outward
shape, and turn it by degrees, to the soul's
essence, till all
be made immortal""Be ye transformed by the
renewing
of your minds"
The whole world is to be transformed by the
making
new of our thoughts of the world When our
belief of
the world is darkness, the shadow of sin,
sickness and
death, or the absence of Purity, Health and
Life seem to
be
A little girl, when asked what made the daylight
on
the earth truthfully replied:"The side of
the earth that
is turned to the sun" But when asked again
what makes
the night? naturally replied,"The side of
the earth that
is turned to darkness" There is no darkness
for the earth
to turn towards! The darkness comes to the
side of the
earth that is turned away from the light!and
still more,
it is the earth's own shadow that creates
darkness! If the
earth were transparent, the light of the sun
would penetrate
it through and through, and shine into it
and beyond
it everywhere The opaqueness of the earth,
throws
the shadow or darkness
So the denseness of our thought, throws darkness
over our world; these dense thoughts stand
between the
"Light that lighteth every man," and the world
of Truth,
casting their shadow on all things This is
how"We
see through a glass darkly"
If our thoughts were clear, filled with light,
then
we would see"Face to face"; or see everything
as it is;
for the light would penetrate our thoughts
through and
through, and shine upon all things
These shadows cast from ignorant, dark thought
make our world seem enveloped in darkness,
doubt, fear,
error and evil; of this it is written:"for
all that is in the
world the lust of the flesh, and the lust
of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father, (not
God's world,)
but is of the world" (your own idea of the
world)"and
the world passeth away, and the lust thereof;
but he that
doeth the will of God abideth forever" 1st
Jno 2:16,17
it is descriptive of a mental state, opposed
to spirituality,
which shall pass away, as spirit is known
to be all
Of this"world" (our own ideas, in belief of
separation)
Jesus spoke when he said,"In the world ye
shall
have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I
have overcome
the world Ye are not of the world, even as
I am not of
the world"
Our first, or infant ideas of things, shall
pass away,
as thought matures"The first man is of the
earth
earthy"; this represents the earliest idea
man has of himself
"But the second man is the Lord from heaven;"
the latest, or last idea that man has of himself,
when the
"new" is"put on,""Created in rigteousness
and true holiness"
Man is to grow into this knowledge of himself,
and the seed of such knowledge must be planted
in the
soil of Divine Mind, put forth through thought,
and last
of all, spoken out in word
Hence to improve the world, we would not in
Science
begin our work with the world not work to
change
the outer;"Not by might, nor by power, but
by my
Spirit, saith the Lord" Change the beliefs
of thought
into right knowledge; and this must be done,
not
by saying"I will," but by hearing the voice
of Wisdom
within saying"I am" Begin always with Divine
Nature,
let it reveal itself This is what all creation
is waiting
for, as it is written:"The whole creation
groaneth; waiting for the manifestation of
the sons of God" Rom 8:22,19
"Be still," is not slothfulness, but stilling
mortal
opinion, to let Divine Will have its full
action Be still,
but expectant, wide awake, looking!"for to
as many
as look for him, he shall appear, without
sin unto salvation"
We receive what we look for, since that only
have
we"eyes" for If we do not look for or expect
good, we
"shall not see when good cometh!" So of Health,
of
Life, and Strength, Peace and all good
Two who had spent some time in India upon
different
missions, met, and each told his experience
The
Missionary recounted his triumphs, and rejoiced
in the
number of converts; the hunter replied,"I
do not believe
there is a Christian in India, for I was there
for months
without seeing one"
Then the hunter told his story, and spoke
of the
number of bears he had seen and shot; the
Minister replied,
"I do not believe there is a bear in India,
for I was
there for years and never saw one"
We all see what we look for As long as we
say, ''We
must look for trials and sufferings, and sickness,
and
death, while we are in this world," we shall
find just
these!and we cannot but notice now, how busy
people
are looking for tribulations!
Let us consider a practical illustration of
how to obtain
good results by going into Source, rather
than working
with effect I feel tired, my body rebels against
further
effort I lie down, or lay the body down to
rest it
I rise refreshed, but only for a time; soon
again the body
demands rest; it is right, it should have
rest! Again I
lay it down to rest; soon again it asks for
rest, and it will
continue to cry out for rest, until we learn
how to give it
true and permanent rest How shall we do this?
Go to
where rest eternal is"Come unto me, and rest"
Enter
into the Consciousness that I am Rest; my
thought
expresses the Rest that I am, and my body
shows it
forth this is the only lasting rest; and the
body will
continually demand it, until we give it its
own! The tired
body then is a warning voice to us"Give me
my true
rest"
Let us be willing to grow up into our Divine
Nature
in all things Which means that in every place
we recognize
that the Divine is, and is the rewarder of
all that
seek it
A STUDY OF THE TRINitY
Three is the sign, or symbol, of completeness
"Three in One," indicates the Complete One
Mind is a Trinity in Unity, or is complete
as
Mind, Idea, and Consciousness
This is Infinite Mind, in Stillness and Fulness,
but
with all Power of action it"creates," or manifests
itself
in its own likeness therefore we find the"Three
in One" in all creation; and God-Mind includes
the
whole creation, and holds it in oneness with
itself
In the Trinity we may say there is one, two,
three
The One is the Infinite Mind
The Two is the action of the One Infinite
The Three is the result of this action of
the One
The One is the Creator
The two and three, or action and result, is
the creation
In the parable of the Vine, we find an illustration:
The One is the Vine
The two and three are the branches and fruit;
and
Vine (Creator) includes and holds in oneness
with itself,
its branches and fruit (creation)
So there is but One in the universe Mind,
the Actor;
and creation, the unfolding of Mind
1 Mind, the"Head"
2 and 3 Creation, the"Body" All One
1 Infinite Mind
2 its Thought
3 its word
1 Creator
2 its Image
3, its Likeness
1 Infinite Spirit
2 its Soul
3 its Body
1 Infinite Cause
2 its Heavens
3 its Earth
1 The One
2 its Action
3 its Result
1 The Vine
2 its Branches
3 its Fruit,
"Upon the summit of each mountain-thought
Worship thou God; for Deity is seen
From every elevation of the soul"
"They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy
mountain; for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge
of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea"
Isa 11:9
THE MOUNTAIN OF THE Lord
and it shall come to pass in the last days,
that the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established
in the top of the mountains, and shall be
exalted
above the hills, and all nations shall flow
into it!and
many people shall go and say, Come ye, and
let us go up
to the Mountain of the Lord" Isa 2:2
Mountain is the symbol of clear consciousness,
or
perfect spiritual realization As we ascend
a mountain
our vision is extended; we rise above the
earth nearer
heaven; we see more clearly So does consciousness
lift
us above"earthiness," and give us plainer,
broader vision
The"Mountain of the Lord's house," represents
consciousness
of God's presence, and the promise is, that
in
the"last days," or fuller light, the knowledge
of God's
presence shall be established above all other
knowledge,
and all others shall come into it
This indicates plainly to us, that in due
time, all
things shall be brought into the Consciousness
of Love,
Life, and Truth"for the knowledge of the Lord
shall
cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea"
This Consciousness
of Divinity as all in all, is now beginning
to be
our refuge"Beautiful for situation is Mount
Zion, God
is known in her palaces for a refuge" Psl
47:2,3
"Flee as a bird to your mountain, thou who
are weary of
sin" In perfect understanding, sin is not
known!
"O Zion, that bringeth good tidings, get thee
up into
the high mountain" We know how Jesus went
up into
the mountain to pray; and it was in"an exceeding
high
mountain" that he met and conquered the strongest
claims of the flesh! We need to be established
in the
highest consciousness, to be able to deny
the allurements
of sense, or appearances In the Old Testament
stories
peculiar reference is made to mountains; and
by finding
the spiritual significance, most helpful truths
are gleaned
from the narratives
"The ark rested upon the mountains," lifted
up by
the waters that had destroyed the"world of
the ungodly"
Our ark of safety finds its resting place
in Divine
Consciousness, borne upward upon the flood
of light
and Truth, that has destroyed our beliefs
of darkness and
error
Moses went into the Mountain to receive the
commands
of the Lord We likewise meet the Divine, face
to face, when we rise into pure consciousness
John says
that he was carried away in Spirit"To a great
and high
mountain," where he saw"The holy Jerusalem
descend,
ing out of heaven from God" Rev 21:10 When
in the
Spirit we are lifted into"a great and high"
consciousness^
the same vision awaits us We see in this high
consciousness,
heaven and earth as one heaven, and hear
Truth saying, of this new heaven and earth,"and
God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes,
and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither
shall there be any more pain,!and there shall
be
no more curse,!and there shall be no night
there, for the Lord God giveth them light"
Rev 21:4 22:3, 5 We cannot see this except
from the
height of pure Consciousness, even in"His
holy mountain"
THE MOUNT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Each one stands now, somewhere on the"Mount
of
Consciousness" One may be lingering at the
foot of this
mount, where his vision is shut in, limited,
Here his
seeing is likely to be obscured by the mists
of the valley;
into this low spot, the sunlight reaches for
only a few
brief hours, the"shadows," therefore, fall
long and deep
In the"valley" is the"shadow of death" Psl
23:4
We hear this one praying for deliverance from
these
deep shadows and blinding mists The answer
comes,
"work out your own salvation If you are seeing
clouds
and shadows, it proves that you are standing
on low
ground Your only deliverance is, to rise above
the place
of mists and darkness In the valley must ever
be deep
shadows and clouds, they belong to to the
valley; but I
have told you that 'There shall be no hurt
in all my holy
mountain' Ascend, come up; and soon you will
be
lifted to where there are no shadows 'Follow
me'"
Now the willing one, obedient to the guiding
voice,
begins to turn away from the valley, and to
seek the
mountain path; soon he sees a way that has
been opened
by the One who first ascended, and who now
calls from
the heights to all below him,"Come unto me";"Come
and be with me, where I am; come from the
depths of
your doubt and fear in the valley, to this
summit of
Light, where I stand I have gone before and
prepared
a way for you I wait to receive you here I
have overcome,
by coming up over all doubts and darkness,
and
because 1 did this, you may also The way is
'straight
and narrow,' it leads direct to me"
This voice is heard even by those halting
in the valley;
and he who heeds, begins at once the ascent,
although
the way is not familiar at first
But soon an exclamation of surprise is heard;
as this
one advances in the new way, he cries,"How
my view is
broadening, how much freer I feel, how pure
is the atmosphere
becoming,, how much clearer is the sunlight,
how less dense the shadows! From where I now
stand,
I"see" what I never even conceived of while
I was in the
valley"!
From above a voice is heard,"and I, if I be
lifted
up, will draw all men unto me" and this ascending
one, begins to understand the drawing power
that is giving
him strength to rise in consciousness
So, all along, from the base to the summit
of the
mountain, are those who have left the valley,
in obedience
to the voice, and are attempting to attain
the
heights Each speaks his view, from his standpoint,
for
the view changes with every upward step; and
so we hear
views given, differing according to the height
reached in
consciousnesss
Some of these travelers move slowly, others
rapidly
We see one who halts and hesitates, and learn
that it is
because he fears to go too fast; he wishes
to be sure of
every step of the way, before he takes it;
he is so occupied
with his own thoughts and beliefs, that he
hears not
clearly the voice that says"come," and feels
uncertain as
to just the direction from which it speaks
In his confusion
he is sometimes led to believe that he must
not try
to rise higher, and then he halts He does
not realize
that by going on up, his seeing will be clearer,
and he will
draw nearer to the voice that calls him, for
it comes from
the very summit of the mountain
Another progress, slowly, as if burdened We
find
that this one is trying to carry with him
up the mountain,
a remembrance of the"clouds and shadows" he
has seen
in the valley! He is so engrossed with trying
to hold on
to these memories, that he cannot hear the
voice above
saying,"Thy sins and thy iniquities, will
I remember no
more" He sighing says,"Whom the Lord loveth
he
chasteneth" He does not realize that the chastening
means the purifying from all doubts and clouds,
and an
uplifting into Light! He does not know that
all the
"Scourging" comes in the clouds of the valley,
because
Love would draw us above them"To him that
overcometh
(which is, 'cometh up over') will I grant
to sit
with me in my throne" Rev 3:21 This one does
not
"forget the things that are being left behind,"
though it
is written,"Remember ye not the former things,
neither
consider the things of old" Isa 43:18 So his
progress
in consciousness is hindered
We meet another steadily pressing upward,
and we
hear him joyfully singing,"I will look unto
the hills whence
cometh my help Who shall dwell in thy holy
hill? He
that walketh uprightly I have set the Lord
always before
me I shall not be moved Thou wilt show me
the path
of life; in thy presence is fulness of joy,"
and we notice
as these words are uttered, that the upward
progress of
this one, is rapid and easy; we remember it
is written,
"The joy of the Lord shall be your strength"
and all
who catch the echo of this rejoicing one,
are strengthened
to push on
As we go higher, we see that all the other
hills and
moutains begin to disappear, as we are being
exalted
above them All the hills of difficulty, which
once arose
so threateningly above us, now seem to be
leveled, when
looked down upon from this highest of mountains
Also
as we look, the very valley we left is lifted
up, and is
seen no more as a valley! Now is the prophesy
of Isaiah
understood,"Every valley shall be exalted
and every
mountain and hill shall be made low" Isa 40:4
Fulfilled
when the soul has reached the heights of Pure
Consciousness, or the Consciousness of Purity
filling all"To
the pure, all things are pure" This is the
summit of the
Mount, the Christ-consciousness towards which
each soul
on the Mount has been pressing, from the"beginning"
One says,"To get above the clouds you must
ascend
the mountain; so with the soul; it must rise
to where it is
lighted by Supreme Truth, before the mists
of error and
ignorance vanish"
"Behold the day of the Lord cometh, and it
shall not
be clear in some places, and dark in other
places of the
world, but it shall be one day which shall
be known to the
Lord" Zech, 14:1, 6, 7 (Margin)
"There shall be one fold, one shepherd"
THE LAW OF HEREDitY
In the second commandment it is written:"Visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the
third and fourth generation of them that hate
me; and
showing mercy unto thousands of them that
love me and
keep my commandments"
Upon these words, the universal belief in
heredity is
based Even Christians claim its threat, of
the visiting
of iniquity upon the children of the Fathers
that hate me!
They claim for their children the inheritance
of an evil
habit, or a weak body from some ancestor,
even though
for generations back they have been God-loving
people
They entirely forget that the assertion is,
that the sins of
iniquity shall be visited upon those that"hate
me," but
mercy is shown to"Those that love me" Certainly,
Christians should insist upon freedom from
heredity by
this very second commandment
To love God is to be conscious of God Hate
is the opposite of Love; hence to hate God,
is to be unconscious
of God Whenever we see evil, or see the absence
of
Good, we, in a sense,"hate" God, for we cannot
see any
absence of God, without being unconscious
of God!
Where we see absence, God is; therefore, to
see evil, is to
be unconscious of God's all presence, and
this is to"hate"
God
In this understanding we can see the truth
contained
in the words above quoted
"Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children, of them that are unconscious
of me; but
showing mercy unto them that are conscious
of me" To
believe that man inherits any evil, is indeed
an indication
that thought is unconscious of Truth and Good;
hence
"The Truth shall make you free," for to become
conscious
of the Truth of Good only, is to be free in
thought,
from belief of evil inheritance
In Ezekiel, eighteenth chapter, we read, long
after
the commandments had been given:"What mean
ye by
using this proverb, saying The fathers have
eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth
have been set
on edge? As I live, saith the Lord, ye shall
not have
occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel
The
son shall not bear the iniquity of the father,
neither shall
the father bear the iniquity of the son,"
etc
Later on, when Jesus spoke from still more
perfect
understanding, we hear him say, and now know
his meaning:
"Call no man on the earth your father; for
one is
your Father, even God" This forever settles
the question!
Man is child of God only; his Father is the
Infinite
Spirit of Perfection and Peace; now does he
know
what his inheritance is; and knowing, he claims
it; and
claiming, he possesses it, for it is his for
the knowing
therefore, in the Light of true Knowledge
we say: Infinite Mind is the Only Source or
Cause I am in that
Source eternally, and am of its Perfect Changeless
Nature
I am born of Spirit only, and am Spirit This
is my
new birth, or new consciousness of birth My
inheritance
is goodness and perfection in mind, thought,
and
body I was made whole
There is no source, or cause, of disease,
weakness, or
lack of any kind I am eternally of Divine
nature, and
am filled full of all Truth from my Source
WHAT I am NOT
God, or Good, is in everything
There is nothing to be afraid of
am not afraid of any kind of weather,
am not afraid of rain or wind,
am not affected by cloud or sunshine,
am not affected by anything external
am not afraid of anything I do
am not afraid of anything I eat
do not believe there is anything to hurt me
do not believe in two Minds or two Powers,
do not believe in two Substances,
am not bound by universal beliefs of fear
and evil,
am not influenced by individual claims of
fear or
evil
I am free
"The value of a thought cannot be told
He lives most who thinks most
it is much less what we do, than
What we think, that fits us for the future"
---Festus
"Christian experiences are not the work of
magic,
but come under the law of Cause and effect
Joy is as
much a matter of Cause and effect, as pain
There is
no mystery about Happiness whatever Put in
the ingredients
and it must come out All fruits grow, whether
in the soil, or in the soul Spend the time
you have
spent in sighing for fruits, in fulfilling
the conditions of
their growth We have hitherto paid immense
attention
to effects Henceforth let us deal with Causes
Do not imagine that you have got these things
because
you know how to get them As well try to feed
upon a cookery book What more need I add but
this:
test the method by experiment," ---Drummond
CONCLUSION
THERE is no new thing under the sun" Solomon
All Truth is Eternal; but man illumined by
the increasing
light of Spirit within, progresses in consciousness,
and perceives Truth more and more distinctly;
he is on his way to the"perfect day"; that,
is, to
perfect understanding
One says:"Man is on his way to God, not by
mere
lapse of time, but through various stages
of illumination"
Man comes to God, by seeing God more and more
clearly
"Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous
things out of thy law" Psl 119:18
When Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, saw the
city encompassed
by the enemy, he said to Elisha:"Alas my
master, what shall we do"?"and Elisha prayed
and
said: Lord, I pray thee open his eyes that
he may see;
and behold the mountain was full of the horses
and chariots
of fire round about Elisha" As soon as his
eyes
were opened, he saw the truth of Divine protection
What were these"horses and chariots round
about
Elisha"? We read, in Psl 68:17,"The chariots
of the
Lord are twenty thousand, even many thousands
of
angels; the Lord is among them"
"The angel of the Lord encampeth round about
them
that fear (or acknowledge) him and delivereth
them"
Psl 34:7 Angels are Divine Thoughts: whisperings
of
Truth and Love in the soul These tell us of
the Omnipresent
Power of Good, and deliver us from all fear
When our eyes are opened to see, we too are
made conscious
of the Divine that surrounds us, and can say,"I
will fear no evil, for Thou art with me"
"Because thou hast made the Lord thy habitation,"
Because thou hast seen the Divine as thy dwelling
place
"There shall no evil befall thee, nor any
plague come
nigh thy dwelling" Certainly not, for neither
evil nor
plague can come near to God"for He shall give
His
angels charge over thee, to keep thee They
shall
bear thee up, lest thou dash thy foot against
a stone"
Psl 91:9:12
May we not trust in this, when we come to
the
rough, steep places in life's journey, that
just"at hand"
is the"chariot of the Lord," to bear us up
above all hardship;
that if we enter into Divine thinking, or
thinking
of the Divine Presence, All in all, nothing
can be"hard"
to us?
Let us not wait, however, until confronted
by appearances
that claim to be evil, before we establish
our
thoughts in Divine Consciousness Begin at
once, and
continually try to see Divinity always at
hand, wi:hin
you; deny all other presence, power, or knowledge,
a
place Do this while all seems well; then are
you fortified
when you see the"enemy all around"
We know that when a train approaches a tunnel,
the
lamps are all lighted while the train is still
in daylight;
then when it plunges into the darkness of
the tunnel, it is
all light within If the lighting of the car
were left to be
done after the train had entered the tunnel,
there would
be much confusion, for it is too dark to see
even how to
make a light!
So we find many who have made just this mistake,
and feel discouraged because in the darkness
they could not find their light; in sickness
they tried, but could not
find their health!
We should carry our health, our light, our
peace,
always burning within us; and if we suddenly
rush into a
claim of sickness, it is all health within
If we plunge
without warning into discord, it is all peace
within
If the within is fixed in health and peace,
the without
will soon be restored to harmony
We need but to know the truth to be free,
because
we are free already from every mortal claim,
and we only
need to know it"Open my eyes to see the Infinite
Truth," is our prayer; and the answer comes,"Say
to
them that are of a fearful heart, fear not:
the eyes of the
blind shall be opened, and the ears of the
deaf shall be
unstopped Then shall the lame man leap as
the hart,
and the tongue of the dumb sing They shall
obtain joy
and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away"
Isa 35:4-10
How much we are able to"see," depends upon
the
height we have reached in Consciousness A
new understanding
is our need, and not a new thing"There is
no
new thing"
One says:"Our measure of Consciousness is
our
measure of life"; which is to say that we
have all the life
we are conscious of; and as truly may we say,
we have all
the good we are conscious of; our health is
measured by
our consciousness of Health; our strength,
by our consciousness
of Strength; our rest, by our consciousness
of Rest
Our Life, Health, Strength, Goodness, and
Rest are
limitless we have all that we know how to
claim
To-day a deep and new idea of Truth is dawning
in
our consciousness; it does not appeal to material
sense,
for it is the Spirit of Truth that is leading
us into this
new consciousness, and as we read,"The natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
of God, for they are
foolishness unto him; neither can he know
them, because
they are spiritually discerned" 1Cor 2:14
"The world, weary and disappointed, is wooed
to listen
to the more excellent way, which promises
better results"
If we have worked a long problem in mathematics,
and at the end find a mistake in our answer,
how do we
correct it? Are we willing to change the figures
in our
result, without going back over our work to
see where the
mistake began? Would a teacher allow a pupil
to correct
his mistake in that way, by simply changing
his figures
in the answer? Never! The scholar must learn
what his mistake was, that in future he may,
with better
understanding, work more correctly, and be
sure of correct
results
All our conditions of life, may be likened
to the
worked out example in mathematics There is
a Principle
of Life, back of all examples in the visible,
to be understood
and demonstrated in living We learn the Principle;
the First Cause the Source of every visible
thing;
we find that from this starting point, which
is Infinite
Mind, all things are brought forth Our thought
recognizes
the Way and the Truth to be followed in its
working,
or reasoning All things that come from this
First
Cause, or Source, must agree with it in nature;
must be
like it; must express its Truth, Light, Goodness,
Peace,
and Wholeness Our living, which includes all
our conditions,
should be an example, or proof, of its Source
and Cause: for"The fruit of Spirit (of Principle,
Mind, or
Infinite Cause) is in all goodness," etc Such
would be
a perfect example of Life Complete, it is
Perfect Mind, as Cause;
Perfect Thought, and Perfect Body,as effect
for result
We have found a Cause, or Principle, and know
that
when we rightly understand it, and work in
accord with
its Truth, by thinking rightly of the Life
and Peace it
contains for all, we shall have in all our
conditions, rightness,
peace, love, health, etc
But now we are finding in our examples, conditions
of not good, not peace, not health! Without
much consideration
of the right way, we have tried to fix up
this incorrect
example by changing its figures! We have taken
the sick body, which is one wrong figure,
and tried to
make it a well body by working to change the
outer
This is just like changing our result in mathematics
by
altering the figures in the answer
We call this, in school children, a dishonest
method
I look on some other little girl's paper,
who always gets
her answers right, and I see I have gotten
nine as an answer,
and it ought to be ten I just erase the nine
and
put ten in its place Have I been helped by
this? Only
temporarily I have been carried over a hard
place
So I may patch up the sick body for the time,
but
have gained nothing until I learn the mistake
that produced
the sick body, and find the antidote for all
such
conditions, in Divine Source
To understand true healing, then, is to know,
as exactly
as in mathematics, what the Principle of Health
is;
what its law of demonstration, in order that
I may
always express this true condition
"With all things, a right beginning is essential
to a
correct ending" it is then all important to
know and
understand the source of all things One says:"To
hold
a false idea of God is to worship a false
God" and to
be ignorant of the True and Only Source, is
to misunderstand
our Life, and all its conditions To know anything
about our lives we must go into the Source
of Life;
to understand our health and strength and
peace, we
must go into the Source of Health, Strength
and Peace,
and work it out from there!
If then,"figures" or conditions appear in
our answer
to the"problem of Life," that do not harmonize
with the
Principle of Life, in goodness and peace,
we may conclude
that our work is wrong somewhere, and our
wisest
course is to do just as an honest scholar
in mathematics
does, erase our work and begin all over again
it seems hard to some, that after having been
religious
all their lives, they are made to begin so
far
back, when they turn to Divine Science! But
they come
with anxious minds and sick bodies, which
often have
grown rebellious against former methods, and
refuse to
be improved thereby; so that they must have
a better
way, and in their earnest desire, they submit
to the new
method
They are carried at once to the Beginning
of all
things, are shown the True and Eternal Nature
of their
own soul and body, in changeless Being or
Spirit; are
persuaded to rub out their past work, or method
of reasoning
from appearances, to go into Invisible Source,
where all Good has its Beginning, and to bring
forth by
Divine Law or method, from Mind, through thought,
into visible things, the Perfection and Truth
of Divinity
This is Divine Science An exact knowledge
of Being
Divine; or Being perfect as Source is, in
Mind,
thought, and body; perfect in Strength, in
Health; complete
in Love and Truth and Life
This is the true condition of the I am that
I am, and
I learn that as I think truly of the I am,
knowing that"I
and my Father are one" one in Life, in Mind,
in Idea,
and Consciousness; one in Substance, one in
Spirit or Being, as I think of this, beholding
the glory of the One
Only I Am, I must become individually in its
image, and
express its Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Life,
and Goodness
As I think in my heart, I shall manifest in
my world,
this is the law If I think holiness, my world
will be
holy whole complete If I think not of holiness,
my
world will lack
If I believe not in the unity of all things
with Source,
I see separation from God, and consequently
a world
lacking Ease, Light, Truth, and Love; it is
the shadow of
my own thought, and the wrong"figures" in
the living
example, all come from this
The remedy is to enlighten thought, show it
the One
that is All and in All"If thine eye be single,
thy whole
body shall be full of light" If my thought
sees but One
and that all light, then must my body be"full
of light"
When we turn to the Infinite Source, we find
it is
Light All that comes from Light is Light We
find it
is Love, and all that comes from Love is Love
We find
it is Mind or Spirit, and"That which is born
of Spirit,
is Spirit" it is Strength, Life, Health, and
All Good;
that which comes from it, is likewise Strength,
Life,
Health, and All Good
If in any living thing there is a lack of
Life, Intelligence,
Strength, Wholeness, Peace and Good, these
are
the wrong"figures," because they give no representation
of the Source, or Principle of Truth
If the Good made all things and made them
good, as
the word declares, and if without Good"Was
nothing
made that was made," then every true thing
is good, and
all that seems not good, is a false result
from a false reasoning, or thinking
Evil is not of God, therefore has no Source
or Cause in Truth Our mistakes put it there,
our right knowledge will wash it out
To Spiritual Being and Consciousness, there
is no
darkness, no error, no pain or disease, no
evil I am
spiritual consciousness in Divine Mind, and
I know the
Divine and Perfect Idea of all things This
knowledge
is the Light of my Spirit within me, which
judges
righteous judgment
it separates from me, all claims of Being
weak, erring,
sinful, sick and dying it says to these claims,"You
are
no part of the Divine Me Depart from me into
everlasting
fire" The Light within becomes the consuming
fire
to all error
We have let good and evil, Truth and error,
Life and
death, Peace and discord, Health and sickness,
share our
faith Now we refuse to do so! We deny the
truth of
evil appearances; because we do not find cause
for
them in the One Source, the One Life, the
One Mind,
the One Truth, we reject them; this is erasing
our old
wrong example, in order to write new and truer
figures
We find that by denials, our thought is freed
from
faith or belief in the power and presence
of evil, or of
anything not Good, and we are made ready to
think
wholly upon God as Omnipresent, Omnipotent,
Omniscient Truth
We can make these denials even in the face
of appearances,
when we have received clearly the Divine
Truth, called the statement of Being:"All
is Infinite
Mind and its manifestation," which means,
that Infinite
Mind with its thought and word, Infinite Spirit
with its
soul and body, Infinite Source with its image
and likeness,
js all there is in the universe!or, as another
states the
same truth,"God, and God manifest is all there
is"
The same is declared by Paul in these words:"God
is
All and in all"
"Since God is All, there is no room for any
opposite"
S!and H
"To see the Divine Nature as filling all,
is the destruction
of every opposite claim"
One says, that all our trouble comes from
the use of
two little words,"mine" and"thine" These certainly
admit a claim of separation When we learn
to speak
the"I am" in consciousness of oneness, we
will know
how to say with Jesus,"All thine are mine,
and all mine
are thine"
it has been written in one of the sacred books,"This
is the great enemy, the my-ness in me" My
thought of
separation from God and from my fellow being,
causes
all belief of enmity
Let us deny separateness, and declare oneness
The*
Great Source of Life and Light, pushes itself
into expression,
just as the sun sheds its light in all directions
God's expression is man, and as the rays of
light are forever
joined to their Source, and shine by its light,
not as
separate rays, but blended into one body of
light, so man
is always united with his Source, and lives
its Life, and
is one Mind, soul, and body, with all expressions
of Life
Christ Divine Nature is the Head, the Foundation,
the Beginning of all things!and all things
are the
"body" of Christ the form of Divine Nature
As such,
let us receive all things, as being in the
nature of the
Divine, whose Presence and Power, whose Light
and
Knowledge is All, and embraces all
One Substance is the Substance of all things
There
is no hurt for us in anything Every breeze
that blows,
whispers of good; every thing that moves,
tells of Divine
Life and Presence We have nothing to fear,
therefore,
"whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do,
do all for
the glory of God"
"May not the lofty mountains and the hills
Be voice of God? His song the gentle flowers,
His chant the stars' procession; and, alas!
His only sigh these human hearts of ours"
In full consciousness, there shall be no more
pain or
crying, for former idea of things is passed
away"Behold,
all things are new
WHAT i am
"God worketh through me to will and to do
of His
good pleasure""In Him I live, move, and have
my
Being"
I am Life within Eternal Life
I am Substance within the Eternal Substance
I am Strength within the Infinite Strength
I am Mind within the Divine Mind
I am Idea within the Divine Idea
I am Consciousness within Divine Consciousness
I am Truth I am Freedom I am Fulness I am
that I am
My life is complete now I am eternally perfect
My Health is a finished fact
My Freedom is a changeless reality,
My Strength is Omnipotence
My Understanding is Omniscience
I now accept my always Perfect Health, my
Changeless
Freedom, my Unlimited Strength, my Divine
Understanding
and my Spiritual Substance from Thee, my
Source
"All souls shall be in God, and shall be God,
and
nothing but God be" Festus
SOME FINAL wordS
We learn, then, in Science, the futility of
trying to
better conditions, by working to change the
outer, without
reaching the inner Cause
One has said, that although our streets were
swept
and kept as clean as the streets of heaven,
and man's
thoughts remained the same, every known disease
would
be repeated within a generation!
The outer is not a cause of anything; all
cause is invisible;
the visible is the effect, or result, of a
cause
To work scientifically, and this means to
work with
certain knowledge, and to be certain of results,
we must
begin with Source and Cause
In Divine Science, we accept that the Source
of all
things is Divinity; that all Cause is Divine
Mind We
follow the method of Divine Mind in expressing
itself,
and know that its first expression, or activity,
is Divine
Thought, and that the result of Divine Thought
is Divine
word, or Body As this Divine Mind is Omnipresent,
and its expression is always with it, we have
everywhere
the Divine, with its image and likeness; its
expression
and manifestation; its thought and word; its
soul
and body
We do not pretend to bring out the expression
and
manifestation of Divine Mind into the visible,
but we go
into the Source and follow it out; see that
it does fill all
with its perfect Presence, Invisible and visible
As soon as we are willing to see the Omnipresence,
Omnipotence, and Omniscience of Divine Mind,
our
"Whole body shall be full of light," for the
visible will be
seen in its true relation to the Invisible;
it will be known
as the result, or fruit, of Invisible Cause,
which is Light
As soon as we know the Truth, we shall begin
to be freed
from all false ideas about the visible
We look to Source only to find the Truth of
things;
for that which is in Source is all reality
We look upon
"disease; immediately we ask, Has it a place
in Source
and Cause? No; Divine Mind is Perfect Ease,
and can
therefore, as Source of all, send forth only
ease Disease
(of any kind) has no existence in Source;
it has no place
in Mind, hence no place in"thought," and no
place in
"body"; for thought and body, are image and
likeness,
expression and manifestation of Divine Mind,
their
Source
There is, therefore, no truth in the claim
of disease,
no cause for disease There is no disease in
the world of
God, or in the expression and manifestation
of God
We find that these denials of any opposite
to God, or
Good; any opposite to Ease, or Life, cleanse
thought of
its belief in fear and evil, and prepare it
to believe only
in God moreover, we have learned that as this
change
takes place in thought, appearances change;
sickness,
sorrow, and pain, fear, hate, and all discord,
disappear
Then we know that there is no opposite to
Good except
in our thought^ and when its belief is destroyed,
the Cause
or root of evil is touched, and the whole
outgrowth of
that belief begins to wither and die! Seeing
but One
Cause, and that All-Good, we can say, There
is no cause
for evil, and its appearances begin to go
One says,"Regeneration means work" If we receive
from these studies in Divine Science, only
a beautiful
theory, we have gained but little Unless we
put into
practice, according to the rules given, its
Divine Principle
meeting every condition in life with true
judgment,
by letting Divine Truth as seen in Source,
settle every
question for us; by daily cleansing thought
of mortal
claims universal and individual, knowing that
there is
no mortal Being, the Only Being is the Divine;
no mortal
mind with its opinions, the Only Mind is the
Immortal
therefore denying the claims of mortality
any place; then
stating or affirming the Truth of the I am
until we are
sure of what I am unless we do this regularly
and earnestly,
we shall never know the freedom that is ours
in
Truth, of which these studies bear witness
"He that willeth to do the will, shall know
of the
doctrine" Rev Ver
"Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God,
and let each try by great thoughts and good
deeds,
To show the most of heaven he hath in him"
REALIZATION for HEALTH
All Reality is in God and like God There is
no reality in
darkness, doubt, fear, or evil
I am that I am, for my Life is in God, my
Being;
my Strength is in God; my Health is in God;
my Understanding
and Wisdom is in God; therefore, my Life is
Divine and Perfect; my Strength can never
fail; my
Health is always the same; my Understanding
is complete
I am expression of Perfect Life and Good,
and I am
kept by Divine Power, forever in the Truth
I can never be separated from Truth, Life,
and Love
I can never be out of Health, out of Peace,
or out of
Light There is no darkness; there is no doubt
or
anxiety about anything; God is always my Light
There is no disease in God There is no truth
in
the world's claim of disease and death such
a thought
has no reality God is the Only Mind; there
is no Mind
of error, evil, or suffering There is no place
for error,
disease, or pain, for God fills all
There is no truth at all in the claim of sin
or sickness;
we cannot find these in the Source of all,
and only
that which is contained in Source is true
All Truth is
in God
That which is born of God, is the image of
God, and
cannot have any sickness or discord in it
The Divine
fills all, hence, there is no place for pain
or disease in
my mind, my thought, or my body I have no
belief
in pain I am the Mind that knows all Peace
In Truth
I am now free from every claim of ignorance,
or error,
for these are not to be found in God, and
I am in God
HOW TO REALIZE ILLUMINATION, or
UNDERstandING
First, realize what I am
I am Strength and Understanding I am Light
I am
that I am I am Mind, I am Idea, I am Consciousness
I am all Wisdom within myself, for my self
is God's Divine
Idea
There is no lack in the universe God fills
it all
There is no need of anything There is no ignorance
Mind has no lack in it, and All is Mind
There is no Mind of darkness or misunderstanding
no Mind of fear or error
There is no fear There is no cause of fear
There
is nothing to be afraid of
Light fills all for Light is God
Understanding is all in all
I live, move and have my being in Light I
express
perfect understanding
I am Light, in Mind, in thought, and in body
I am
all Light I am complete I am satisfied now
I am filled full of the Fullness that filleth
all Life,
Truth, Light, Love, and Understanding, are
all mine in
God
This is THE END of, DIVINE SCIENCE:
New Light Upon Old Truths, BY FANNIE B JAMES
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