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Jesus Christ Heals

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Much has been written and said about the healing methods
that Jesus used in His very striking cures of physical
ills. The generally accepted theory is that they were
miracles, but to this there have been many objections,
among them Jesus' promise "He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also." So many millions have
claimed that they believed on Jesus, yet not only have they
failed to heal others but they have gloried in sickness and
finally death under the assumption that it was the will of
God.

Few have dared even to suggest that Jesus applied universal
law in His restorative methods; for on the one hand it
would annul the miracle theory and on the other it would be
sacrilegious to inquire into the miracles of God. So it has
been generally accepted that Jesus' great works were
miracles and that the power to do miracles was delegated to
His immediate followers only. But in recent years a
considerable number of Jesus' followers have had the
temerity to inquire into His healing methods, and they have
found that they were based on universal mental and
spiritual laws that anyone can utilize who will comply with
the conditions involved in these laws. This inquiry has led
to the conclusion that man and the universe are founded on
mind and that all

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changes for good or ill are changes of mind.

Ages of thought upon the reality and solidarity of things
have evolved a mental atmosphere that has produced the
present material universe. These and millions of other
concepts are the work of men and not God, as is popularly
supposed. However they all rest on the original God-Mind
and can be restored to the perfect law and order of that
Mind by those who free themselves from their mental
entanglements with materiality and identify their thinking
with that of the Mind that is Spirit. "Ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free."

It is taught in the Bible that Jesus was born into the
human family to save its people from extinction; that,
according to Paul, as in Adam all died so in Christ shall
all be made alive. A psychological study of the whole
situation proves this to be virtually true. Millions have
accepted Christianity on faith and have found peace of mind
and spiritual satisfaction without understanding the
fundamental mind principles on which the redemptive system
rests. This is proof that there is more to Christianity
than the surface acceptation of Jesus as mediator between
God and man.

We are all in mind related to a great creative Spirit that
infuses its very life into our minds and bodies when we
turn our attention to it. We have mentally wandered away
from this creative Spirit or Father-Mind and lost contact
with its life-giving currents. Jesus made connection for
us, and through Him we again begin to draw vitality from
the great fountainhead.

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Ability to pick up the life current and through it
perpetually to vitalize the body is based on the right
relation of ideas, thoughts, and words. These mental
impulses start currents of energy that form and also
stimulate molecules and cells already formed, producing
life, strength, and animation where inertia and impotence
was the dominant appearance. This was and is the healing
method of Jesus.

Although the Bible repeatedly refers to the creative power
of the Word, men have not dared to think that the creative
law is universal and could be taught to any man who would
discipline his thoughts and words and center them on
God-Mind. Jesus gave His whole attention to God, so much so
that He claimed He did not even originate the words that He
spoke: they came from the Father. By careful thinking and
wholehearted concentration on God, Jesus made such complete
union with creative Mind that His body was transformed in
the presence of His disciples. He taught that men would
eventually reap the reward of every word they uttered. "For
by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou
shalt be condemned."

Perfect health is natural, and the work of the spiritual
healer is to restore this perfect health, which is innate
and can be spoken into expression. Our ills are the result
of our sins or failure to adjust our minds to Divine Mind.
"Man hath authority on earth to forgive sins." When the
sinning state of mind is forgiven and the right state of
mind established, man is restored to his primal and natural
wholeness. This is wholly a mental process, and so all
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man are the result of his thinking. "As he [man] thinketh
in his heart, so is he."

No book, not even the Bible, covers all phases of human
thought. Therefore the mental panacea for every ill is
beyond the description of words, but Jesus Christ
epitomized in His own consciousness all the thought
processes necessary to man's complete restoration. So it is
taught that Jesus Christ is the Word or Divine Logos in
which is contained all the original creative essence.

The truth that divine man is manifest God is the great
mystery hid for ages and generations and now revealed in
Jesus Christ.

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Foreword ... 3

I Be Thou Made Whole ... 9

II God Presence ... 22

III Realization Precedes Manifestation ... 39

IV Producing Results ... 53

V The Omnipotence of Prayer ... 67

VI God Said, and It Was So ... 87

VII Indispensable Assurance ... 100

VIII The Fullness of Time ... 117

IX Healing through Praise and Thanksgiving ... 137

X "I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life" ... 154

XI Healing Power of Joy ... 168

XII Holy Spirit Fulfills the Law ... 182

Question Helps ... 197

Index ... 207

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Chapter I

Be Thou Made Whole

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JESUS SAW in Himself the perfect pattern of the God-Mind.
He lived so close to that pattern that He became its
perfect expression. As He continued to live closer and ever
closer to God He beheld all men as living inventions of
God, and through His spiritualized mentality awakened the
image of the perfect pattern of the God-Mind in those who
came to Him for help. Thus by arousing their souls' energy
to such an extent that the physical became immersed in the
healing life He enabled the perfect man to come into
manifestation.

For example, when Jesus said in a loud voice to the
spiritual man in the sleeping Lazarus who had been in the
tomb four days, "Lazarus, come forth," the power of the
Word in His voice aroused the spiritual man in Lazarus, who
in turn awakened his soul to activity. Then the soul life
in Lazarus resurrected and restored the seeming dead body,
and Lazarus arose and walked out of the tomb.

The more enlightened man becomes the greater is his desire
for perfect health. This is logical, for to be healthy is
natural. It is a state of being sound or whole in mind,
body, and soul. To heal then is to bring forth the perfect
Christ man that exists within each of us.

There is quite a bit of misunderstanding on the

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part of both Christians and non-Christians with regard to
the meaning of the words Christ and Jesus, and their use as
applied to Jesus of Nazareth. Christ, meaning "messiah" or
"anointed," designates one who had received a spiritual
quickening from God, while Jesus is the name of the
personality. To the metaphysical Christian--that is, to him
who studies the spiritual man--Christ is the name of the
supermind and Jesus is the name of the personal
consciousness. The spiritual man is God's Son; the personal
man is man's son. In the unregenerate God's Son is a mere
potentiality. But in those who have begun the regenerative
process Jesus, the Son of man, is in a state of becoming
the Son of God; that is, man is being born again. At the
time Jesus told Nicodemus, "Except one be born anew, he
cannot see the kingdom of God," He Himself was undergoing
that mysterious unfoldment of the soul called the "new
birth." He promised great power to those who followed Him
in soul development. "Ye who have followed me, in the
regeneration . . . shall sit upon twelve thrones."

The Christ or Son-of-God evolution of man's soul is plainly
taught in the New Testament as the supreme attainment of
every man. "For the earnest expectation of the creation
waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God."

Without some evidence in us of the Christ man we are little
better than animals. When through faith in the reality of
things spiritual we begin soul evolution there is great
rejoicing; "we rejoice in hope of the glory of God."

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Christ existed long before Jesus. It was the Christ Mind in
Jesus that exclaimed, "And now, Father, glorify thou me
with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee
before the world was."

We should clearly understand that the Christ, the spiritual
man, spoke often through Jesus, the natural man; and then
again the natural man, Jesus, spoke on His own account.
Spiritual understanding reveals to us when it was that
Christ spoke and when it was that Jesus spoke. We know that
Christ, the spiritual man, could not have experienced
death, burial, and resurrection. The experiences were
possible only to the mortal man, who was passing from the
natural to the spiritual plane of consciousness. The Christ
was present with Jesus, quickening and healing His body and
finally raising it to the ethereal realm, where He exists
to this day.

As Christ the Son of God became manifest in Jesus so He
becomes manifest in us when we follow Him in the
regeneration. "The Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from
the dead . . . shall give life also to your mortal bodies."

But we must have faith in Spirit and through our thinking
build it into our consciousness; then our bodies will be
restored to harmony, health, and eternal life.

Jesus still lives in the spiritual ethers of this world and
is in constant contact with those who raise their thoughts
to Him in prayer. The promise was not an idle one that He
would be with those who have faith in Him. "Let not your
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let it be fearful. Ye heard how I said to you, I go away,
and I come unto you."

His body disappeared from our fleshly eyes because He
raised it to its true place in the ether; but He can make
His presence felt to anyone who looks to Him for help. "For
where two or three are gathered together in my name, there
am I in the midst of them."

If but two persons agree in their prayers and thoughts
about Jesus Christ and His power to help, by sympathetic
soul unity He instantly responds. "Again I say unto you,
that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching
anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of
my Father who is in heaven."

Jesus did not go to a faraway heaven, there to abide to the
great day of His "Second Coming." He explained again and
again, in language that anyone who has even a slight
understanding of the interrelation of spirit, soul, and
body may comprehend, that He would continue to exist in the
etheric realm that He called "the heavens." He appeared
after His crucifixion to five hundred at one time, and to
many others: notably Paul, whom He converted by talking to
him out of the ether. This all confirms His promise "Lo, I
am with you always, even unto the end of the world."

Paul says that we are all dead or asleep in trespasses and
sins and that Jesus was the "firstfruits of them that are
asleep." Physiology teaches that the body is alive to the
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that we are carrying around many dead cells. Jesus knew how
to quicken with new life the cells of His organism, and He
promised that all who follow Him will do likewise.

So both Scripture and science agree that there must be a
resurrection of the body from the dead; that is, the dead
substance that our minds have organized into cells,
tissues, flesh, and blood. The all-important task for
everyone is how to get the mastery of the negative life or
microbe that is reducing our bodies to corruption and final
dissolution.

Paul says, "This corruptible must put on incorruption, and
this mortal must put on immortality." Here is a concise
statement of where resurrection is to take place. Other
writings of Paul's have seemingly prophesied a great day on
which all the dead are to come forth from their graves, but
this would involve situations complex and contradictory
beyond reconciliation. That we have all lived hundreds,
even thousands, of times and have left our bodies in many
lands is being accepted by logical persons everywhere. If
our old bodies are to be resurrected, which of these
discarded ones shall we repossess? Chemistry says that our
flesh becomes again the dust of the ground:

"Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,

Might stop a hole to keep the wind away."

Jesus spent whole nights in prayer according to the
Gospels, and it is quite evident that He was resurrecting
His body by realizing, as we do in our prayers, that God
was His indwelling life. His affirmation for more life was
"I am the resurrection, and the life."

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I AM is the spiritual name of Jehovah, the everliving one.
When we affirm, "I am," with our thoughts centered on
Spirit, we quicken the life flow in the body and awaken the
sleepy cells. Such affirmations clear up congested areas of
the organism and restore the circulation to its normal
state, health.

A prominent scientist recently stated that man's body is
composed of trillions of cells, every one an electric
battery. A battery emits electrical impulses of various
kinds, transformable into light, power, heat. The human
body is undoubtedly the most powerful dynamo in existence
for the carrying on of life. The presiding ego or I AM in
each organism determines the particular kind of impulse
that the cells shall radiate. The field of dynamic energy
is limitless. God is Spirit, and Spirit is the very essence
of the ether in which we live, move, and have our being.

Affirmations of health by Christian healers right in the
face of sickness often result in marvelous restorations
that are sometimes called miracles of healing. But when one
understands the power of words spoken in spiritual
consciousness the results are in fulfillment of divine law.
Jesus stated the essence of this law when He said,
"Whosoever . . . shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have
it."

Every word has within it the power to make manifest
whatever man decrees, but especially spiritual words have
this power. God creates by the power of the word. "God
said, Let there be light: and there was light." Every act
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"God said." Man, the apex of God's creation, was created in
His image and likeness; that is, exactly like Him in the
power of his word to bring forth what he says.

In order to create as God creates man must have undoubting
faith in God-Mind and the obedience of the creative
electrons hidden in the atoms of all substance. In Hebrews
it is written, "By faith we understand that the worlds have
been framed by the word of God." In the 1st chapter of John
the Word or Logos is given as the source of all things, and
this Word is said to become flesh and be glorified as the
only-begotten from the Father. "As many as received him, to
them gave he the right to become children of God, even to
them that believe on his name." Jesus said that every man
would be justified or condemned by his word. He
demonstrated the power of the word of faith in His mastery
of natural laws and in His many marvelous healings.

Although we all get definite results in body and affairs
from the words we utter, those results would be infinitely
greater if we understood the power of words and had
undoubting faith in their creative power. Jesus said, "The
words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life."

We all want to be like Jesus, and millions have made and
are making Him the pattern for their life. So among His
faithful followers of the past twenty centuries we should
expect to find a world of glorified men and women. Why have
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promised? The answer is that we have emphasized the
negative qualities as portrayed by the human side of His
character. We have sought to imitate Him in our acts
instead of our thoughts and words.

We are now realizing that as a man "thinketh within
himself, so is he." The outer acts are secondary; the
primal world of causes is within, and it is to this inner
realm that we must look for the transforming power of man
and of the world about him as well. "Be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind." Hence the quick and lawful way
to attain health is to put your creative words to work and
bring into swift action the superman Christ.

There can be no logical doubt that an all-wise and
all-powerful Creator would plan perfection for His
creations and also endow them with the ability to bring His
plan into manifestation. That is the status of the world
and its people. We are God's ideal conception of His
perfect man, and He has given us the power of thought and
word through which to make that ideal manifest.

It is written in John 5:21 (King James Version): "For as
the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even
so the Son quickeneth whom he will."

The American Standard Version says that the Father raises
up the dead and gives them life, and that even so the Son
gives life to whom He will. To quicken means to vivify,
vitalize, energize, hence to make alive.

Jesus made this assertion of the life-giving power of the
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a man at the Pool of Bethesda who had been infirm and
helpless for thirty-eight years. Jesus said to him,
"Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse
thing befall thee."

Here Jesus again emphasizes sin as the cause of infirmity.
All the ills of humanity are the effect of broken law, of
sin. That word "sin" covers more ground than we have
usually granted it. There are sins of omission and
commission. If we fail to cultivate the consciousness of
the indwelling spiritual life, we commit a sin of omission
that eventually devitalizes the organism. To be
continuously healthy we must draw on the one and only
source of life, God. God is Spirit, and Spirit pours its
quickening life into mind and body when we turn our
attention to it and make ourself receptive by trusting
Spirit to restore us to harmony and health.

As for all the marvelous works that Jesus did, He never
claimed His personality as their author. "The Son can do
nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for
what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in
like manner." We all have access to the Son of God (the
Christ) implanted in us by the Father-Mind if we will give
it a chance to quicken us with creative ideas.

Let us remember that in declaring Jesus to be present with
us we are placing ourselves in a thought atmosphere that
will help us to quicken our own supermind or Christ Mind.
Jesus raised His mind and body to His supermind level,
permitting a life radiation without crosscurrents or
discords of any kind.

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He preceded us, and as He said, He had prepared a "place"
for us. This "place" is a spiritual current in the cosmic
ether, in which we live, and we can feel it when we direct
our attention to Christ in prayer and meditation. "The
kingdom of God is come nigh unto you."

Jesus called attention to the fact that the creative Mind,
which He lovingly called Father, had provided for the
subsistence of the birds and flowers, and that man was of
more value than these; and would it not be reasonable, He
argued, that the Father would also provide for man? His
logic is unanswerable, and we must all admit that judging
from our human ideas about providing for our children, we
should expect God to have done even better for His progeny.

When we understand the nature of the creative Mind--that it
is Spirit-mind, that all things come out of ideas, and that
there are unlimited ideas right at the door of the mind--it
dawns on us that God has provided for us beyond our fondest
dreams.

We have been so persistently taught that nature heals that
we do not as a rule give the question of the origin of her
healing power any serious thought. But we should, because
our thought calls into action in our consciousness the mind
principle to which we give our attention. If we center our
attention on nature as the healing principle, we stir up
natural activities that are secondary to the one cause of
all action, that is, infinite Mind. But it is our privilege
as creations of supreme Mind to bring into action all its
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the mighty mind energy back of thought we can stir to
action all the powers of Being and get the results of their
concentrated healing currents instead of the weakened,
segregated seepage from one.

Just here is a good opportunity to urge Truth students to
shape their spiritual unfoldment on one system of
development instead of chasing after every spectacular
scheme that pops up. All signs both spiritual and secular
point to Jesus Christ as the appointed head of our race.
Through Him we have received a philosophy of life that has
been tested in the past, that is now being tested as never
before, and that is proving to have no peer as a revealer
of Truth and as a remedy for all the ills of humanity.

This being obvious and so many of us having received
special revelations confirming it, why should we feel the
lack of another or listen to the many "Lo, there! Lo,
here!" proclamations of those who discern superficial
things only? Concentrate your I AM attention on God as the
one and only supreme Spirit and Jesus Christ as the Son of
God through whom we all have access to the Father. Then you
will lift your consciousness into a sphere of spiritual
clarity and power superior to anything in the heavens above
or the earth beneath.

Certain persons called "masters" have forged ahead of the
race in their understanding and use of some of the powers
of mind and have in personal egotism set up little kingdoms
and put themselves on thrones.

These so-called "masters" and members of occult

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brotherhoods are attracting susceptible minds away from the
"straight and narrow path" and leading them to believe that
there is a short cut into the kingdom. Jesus described the
situation forcibly and clearly in Matthew 24:24:

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead
astray, if possible, even the elect."

Read the whole 24th chapter of Matthew. In it Jesus
describes in symbols and facts what is taking place today
in all parts of the world. It may be argued that these
conditions have been present in every generation, and so
they have; but never have so many of the signs stood out so
forcibly as now. All this indicates the end of a world
dispensation, a climax in race development. The end of the
world of matter came with the discovery that the atom is
electrical, and all the things that revolved about that
material supposition are coming to an end with it. This
means the end of our old ideas that God is a big man
sitting on a throne in a heaven with streets of shining
gold, with Jesus at His right hand writing in the book of
life, as well as the end also of our ideas of Satan and his
fiery hell, of the divine right of kings and the prestige
of royalty and other established institutions. These crude
ideas about God and man having lost the sustaining thoughts
of the race, old religions and governments dissolve and the
world seems a chaos. However the wise see in all this the
passing away of old ideas and old things to make room for
the new. "Behold, I make all things new."

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The only safety from chaos is unity with God and His Son
Jesus Christ, the head of every man. If we are not anchored
to this supreme and immovable reality, we shall be exposed
to the storms of mortal thought and shipwrecked on the
rocks of materiality. "Have this mind in you, which was
also in Christ Jesus."

Jesus taught that His mission was to establish the kingdom
of heaven on earth. The first step in His great work was
the awakening of men to certain fundamental truths of
being. He taught the power of mind, thoughts, words. He
cast out the demons (errors) and healed the sick with a
word. He planted the seed thoughts in our race mind that
will, when properly used, grow into the kingdom of the
heavens here on earth. But peace, harmony, and love must
first be planted in the minds of men.

Jesus gave us the consciousness of peace. "My peace I give
unto you." The mind of peace precedes bodily healing. Cast
out enmity and anger and affirm the peace of Jesus Christ,
and your healing will be swift and sure.

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Chapter II

God Presence

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I AM NOW in the presence of pure Being and immersed in the
Holy Spirit of life, love, and wisdom.

I acknowledge Thy presence and power, O blessed Spirit. In
Thy divine wisdom now erase my mortal limitations, and from
Thy pure substance of love bring into manifestation my
world, according to Thy perfect law.

Man knows intuitively that he is God's supreme creation and
that dominion and power are his, though he does not
understand fully. The I AM of him ever recognizes the one
divine source from which he sprang, and he turns to it
endeavoring to fathom its wonderful secrets. Even children
grope after the truths of Being.

No man knows the beginning of the query, Who, what, and
where is God? It is dropped from the lips of the little
child when he first begins to lisp the name of father and
of mother, and it is repeated throughout the years.

Who made you? Who made me? Who made the earth, the moon,
and the sun? God.

Then who made God?

Thus back to the cause beyond the cause ever runs the
questioning mind of man. He would understand the
omnipresence that caused him to be.

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Does an answer ever come to these questionings? Does man
ever receive satisfactory returns from this mental delving
in the unfathomable? Each man and each woman must answer
individually; for only the mind of God can know God. If you
have found God in your own mind you have found the source
of health, of freedom, and of the wisdom that answers all
questions.

Language is the limitation of mind; therefore do not expect
the unlimited to leap forth into full expression through
the limited.

Words never express that which God is. To the inner ear of
the mind awakened to its depths words may carry the
impulses of divine energy and health that make it conscious
of what God is, but in their formulations such words can
never bind the unbindable.

So let us remember that by describing God with words in our
human way we are but stating in the lisping syllables of
the child that which in its maturity the mind still only
faintly grasps. Yet man may know God and become the vehicle
and expression of God, the unlimited fount of life, health,
light, and love.

God is the health of His people.

Man recognizes that health is fundamental in Being and that
health is his own divine birthright. It is the orderly
state of existence, but man must learn to use the knowledge
of this truth to sustain the consciousness of health.

Health is from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning

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"whole," "hale," "well." The one who uses the word really
implies that he has an understanding of the law of the
perfect harmony of Being. Health is the normal condition of
man and of all creation. We find that there is an
omnipresent principle of health pervading all living
things. Health, real health, is from within and does not
have to be manufactured in the without. Health is the very
essence of Being. It is as universal and enduring as God.

Being is the consciousness of the one Presence and the one
Power, of the one intelligence, and man stands in the
Godhead as I will. When man perceives his place in the
great scheme of creation and recognizes his I AM power, he
declares, "I discern that I will be that which I will to
be."

Man is the vessel of God and expresses God. But there is a
mighty difference between the inanimate marble, chiseled by
the sculptor into a prancing steed, and the living,
breathing horse consciously willing to be guided by the
master's rein.

So there is a wide gap between the intelligence that moves
to an appointed end under the impulse of divine energy and
that which knows the thoughts and desires of Divine Mind
and co-operates with it in bringing about the ends of a
perfect and healthy creation.

"No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his Lord doeth; but I have called you friends; for
all things that I have heard from my Father I have made
known unto you."

It must be true that there is in man a capacity

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for knowing God consciously and communing with Him. This
alone insures health and joy and satisfaction. It is
unthinkable that the Creator could cause anything to be
that is so inferior to Himself as to remove it beyond the
pale of fellowship with Him.

It is our exalted ideas of God and our little ideas of
ourselves that built the mental wall that separates us from
Him. We have been taught that God is a mighty monarch with
certain domineering characteristics, who wills us to be
sick or healthy; that He is of such majesty that man cannot
conceive of Him.

Even in metaphysical concepts of God the impression left us
is of a Creator great in power, wisdom, and love. In one
sense this is true, but the standard by which man compares
and judges these qualities in his mind determines his
concept of God.

If I say that God is the almighty power of the universe and
have in mind power as we see it expressed in physical
energy and force, I have not set up the right standard of
comparison. It is true that all power comes from God, but
it does not follow that the character of the thing we term
power is the same in the unexpressed as in the expressed.

God is power; man is powerful. God is that indescribable
reservoir of stored-up energy that manifests no potency
whatever until set in motion through the consciousness of
man yet possesses an inexhaustible capacity that is beyond
words to express. When that power is manifested by man it
becomes conditioned. It is described as powerful, more
powerful, most powerful, and it has its various degrees of
expansion,

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pressure, velocity, force, and the like.

This power is used by men to oppress one another, and there
has come to be a belief that God is power in the sense of
great oppressing capacity. It is an ancient belief that He
can and does exercise His power in punishing His creations,
pouring out upon them His vengeance.

But this is not the character of divine power. If by power
we mean force, energy, action, oppression, then we should
say that God has no power, that God is powerless; because
His power is not like the so-called power that is
represented by these human activities.

God is wisdom--intelligence--but if we mean by this that
God is "intelligent," that His knowledge consists of the
judgments and inferences that are made in a universe of
things, then we should say that God is nonintelligent.

God is substance; but if we mean by this that God is
matter, a thing of time, space, condition, we should say
that God is substanceless.

God is love; but if we mean by this that God is the love
that loves a particular child better than all children, or
that loves some particular father or mother better than all
fathers and mothers, or that loves one person better than
some other person, or that has a chosen people whom He
loves better than some other people who are not chosen,
then we should say that God is unloving.

God does not exercise power. God is that all-present and
all-quiet powerlessness from which man

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"generates" that which he calls power.

God does not manifest intelligence. God is that unobtrusive
knowing in everyone which, when acknowledged, flashes forth
into intelligence.

God is not matter nor confined in any way to the idea of
substance termed matter. God is that intangible essence
which man has "formed" and called matter. Thus matter is a
limitation of the divine substance whose vital and inherent
character is above all else limitless.

God is not loving. God is love, the great heart of the
universe and of man, from which is drawn forth all feeling,
sympathy, emotion, and all that goes to make up the joys of
existence.

Yet God does not love anybody or anything. God is the love
in everybody and everything. God is love; man becomes
loving by permitting that which God is to find expression
in word and act.

The point to be clearly established is that God exercises
none of His attributes except through the inner
consciousness of the universe and man.

God is the "still small voice" in every soul that heals and
blesses and uplifts, and it is only through the soul that
He is made manifest as perfect wholeness.

Drop from your mind the idea that God is a being of majesty
and power in the sense that you now interpret majesty and
power.

Drop from your mind the belief that God is in any way
separated from you or that He can be manifested

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to you in any way except through your own consciousness.

We look at the universe with its myriad forms and
stupendous evidences of wisdom and power and we say: All
this must be the work of one mighty in strength and
understanding; I should stand in awe of such a one and
realize my own insignificance in His presence. Yet when we
behold the towering oak with its wide-spreading branches,
we say it grew from a tiny acorn. A little stream of life
and intelligence flowed into that small seed and gradually
formed the giant tree. It was not created in the sense that
it was made full-orbed by a single fiat of will, but it
grew from the tiny slip into the towering tree through the
inherent potentialities of the little seed, the acorn.

So God is in us the little seed through which is brought
forth the strong, healthy Christ man.

That "still small voice" at the center of our being does
not command what we shall be or what we shall do or not do.
It is so gentle and still in its work that in the
hurly-burly of life we overlook it entirely. We look out,
and beholding the largeness of the world of things, we
begin to cast about for a god corresponding in character
with this world.

But we do not find such a god on the outside. We must drop
the complex and find the simplicity of "the most simple
One" before we can know God. We must become as a little
child.

Jesus said, "God is Spirit," not "a Spirit," as in the King
James Version. According to Webster, the

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word spirit means life or living substance considered
independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence
conceived of apart from any physical organization or
embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy as distinct
from matter; the intelligent, immaterial, and immortal part
of man; the spirit, in distinction from the body in which
it resides.

Paul says, "In him we live, and move, and have our being."
If we accept Scripture as our source of information there
can be no higher authority than that of Jesus and Paul.
They say that God is Spirit.

Spirit is not matter, and Spirit is not person. In order to
perceive the essence of Being we must drop from mind the
idea that God is circumscribed in any way or has any of the
limitations usually ascribed to persons, things, or
anything having form or shape. "Thou shalt not make unto
thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is
in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath."

God is life. Life is a principle that is made manifest in
the living. Life cannot be analyzed by the senses. It is
beyond their grasp, hence it must be cognized by Spirit.

God is substance; but this does not mean matter, because
matter is formed while God is the formless. This substance
which God is lies back of all matter and all forms. It is
that which is the basis of all form yet enters not into any
form as finality. It cannot be seen, tasted, or touched.
Yet it is the only "substantial" substance in the universe.

God is love: that from which all loving springs.

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God is Truth: the eternal verity of the universe and man.

God is mind. Here we touch the connecting link between God
and man. The essential being of God as principle cannot be
comprehended by any of the senses or faculties, but the
mind of man is limitless, and through it he may come in
touch with divine Principle.

It is the study of mind that reveals God. God may be
inferentially known by studying the creations that spring
from Him, but to speak to God face to face and mouth to
mouth, to know Him as a child knows his father, man must
come consciously into the place in mind that is common to
both man and God.

Men have sought to find God by studying nature, but they
have always fallen short. This seeking to know God by
analyzing things made is especially noticeable in this age.
Materialistic science has sought to know the cause of
things by dissecting them. By this mode they have come to
say: We must admit that there is a cause, but we have not
found it; so we assume that God is unknowable.

To know God as health one must take up the study of the
healthy mind and make it and not physical appearance the
basis of every calculation. To study mind and its ideas as
health is a departure so unusual that the world, both
religious and secular, looks upon it as somehow
impracticable. The man who lives in his senses cannot
comprehend how anything can be got out of the study of
something apparently so intangible.

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The man of affairs cannot see what mind or its study has to
do with matters pertaining to his department of life, and
the religionist who worships God in forms and ceremonies
makes no connection between the study of mind and finding
out the real nature of God.

//quote

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there;

And backward, but I cannot perceive him;

On the left hand, when he doth work, but I cannot behold
him;

He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

//text

Thus ever cries the man who looks for God in the external;
for health from an outside source.

In mathematics the unit enters into every problem; and in
existence mind is common to all, above and below, within
and without. The secret of existence will never be
disclosed before man takes up and masters the science of
his own mind.

Man's consciousness is formed of mind and its ideas, and
these determine whether he is healthy or sick. Thus to know
the mysteries of his own being he must study mind and its
laws.

Many people in every age have come into partial
consciousness of God in their souls and have communed with
Him in that inner sanctuary until their faces shone with
heavenly light; yet the mysteries of creative law were not
revealed to them, because they did not get an understanding
of its key, which is mind.

Mind is the common meeting ground of God and

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man, and only through its study and the observation of all
the conditions and factors that enter into its operation
can we come into the realization of God as abiding health
and sustenance.

God is mind; and we cannot describe God with human
language, so we cannot describe mind. To describe is to
limit, to circumscribe. To describe mind is to limit it to
the meanings of sense. In our talk about mind we are thus
forced to leave the plane of things formed and enter the
realm of pure knowing.

We can only say: I am mind; I know. God is mind; He knows.
Thus knowing is the language I use in my intercourse with
God.

If you ask me about the language I use in communicating
with God, I am not able to tell you; because you are
talking from the standpoint of using words to convey ideas,
while in the language of God ideas in their original purity
are the vehicles of communication.

But ideas are the original and natural agents of
communication; and everyone is in possession of this easy
way of speaking to God and man. Thus we may learn to use
this divine and only true way consciously if we will but
recognize it and use it on the plane of mind.

But we must recognize it. This is the one truth that we
have to reveal to you: How to recognize this divine
language in your own consciousness and how through
recognition to bring it forth into visibility. It is a
truth however that we cannot reveal to you

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by a series of eloquent essays on the majesty, power, and
wisdom of God and on the everlasting joy that follows when
you have found Him; but only by showing you in the simplest
way how to come into conscious relations with the source of
omnipresent wisdom, life, and love, by taking with you in
the silent inner realms the first steps in the language of
the soul.

Compared with audible language, communion in mind can be
said to be without sound. It is the "still small voice,"
the voice that is not a voice, the voice using words that
are not words. Yet its language is more definite and
certain than that of words and sounds, because it has none
of their limitations. Words and sounds are attempts to
convey a description of emotions and feelings, while by the
language of mind emotions and feelings are conveyed direct.
But again you must transcend what you understand as emotion
and feeling in order to interpret the language of God. This
is not hard. It is your natural language, and you need only
return to your pristine state of purity to achieve it
entirely.

You are mind. Your consciousness is formed of thoughts.
Thoughts form barriers about the thinker, and when
contended for as true they are impregnable to other
thoughts. So you are compassed about with thought barriers,
the result of your heredity, your education, and your own
thinking. Likewise your degree of health is determined by
your thoughts, past and present.

These thoughts may be true or false, depending

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on your understanding and use of divine law. You must open
the walls of your mental house by a willingness to receive
and weigh these thoughts in the balance of good judgment
and to drop out of your mind everything except the one idea:

I want to know Truth, I am willing to learn. I want to
express radiant health.

If there is not in your consciousness a demonstration that
mind has a language on its own silent plane and that it can
manifest itself in your mind, body, and affairs, then you
can go back to your old convictions.

The fundamental basis and starting point of practical
Christianity is that God is principle. By principle is
meant definite, exact, and unchangeable rules of action.
That the word principle is used by materialistic schools of
thought to describe what they term the "blind forces of
nature" is no reason why it should convey to our minds the
idea of an unloving and unfeeling God. It is used because
it best describes the unchangeableness that is an inherent
law of Being.

From the teaching that the Deity is a person we have come
to believe that God is changeable; that He gets angry with
His people and condemns them; that some are chosen or
favored above others; that in His sight good and evil are
verities, and that He defends the one and deplores the
other. We must relieve our minds of these ideas of a
personal God ruling over us in an arbitrary, manlike manner.

God is mind. Mind evolves ideas. These ideas

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are evolved in an orderly way. The laws of mind are just as
exact and undeviating as the laws of mathematics or music.
To recognize this is the starting point in finding God.

God loves spiritual man, and that love is expressed
according to exact law. It is not emotional or variable,
nor is there any taint of partiality in it. You are
primarily a spiritual being, the expression of God's
perfection, the receptacle of His love; and when you think
and act in the consciousness of perfection and love, you
cannot help being open to the influx of God's love and to
the fulfillment of His divine purpose. This is the exact
and undeviating law that inheres in the principle that God
is.

God is wisdom; and wisdom is made manifest in an orderly
manner through your consciousness.

God is substance--unchangeable incorruptible,
imperishable--to the spiritual mind and body of man.

This substance of mind--faith--does not happen to be here
today and there tomorrow, but it is moved upon by ideas
which are as unchanging as Spirit.

In Spirit you never had a beginning, and your I AM will
never have an ending. The world never had a beginning and
will never have an ending. All things that are always were
and always will be, yesterday, today, and forever the same.

But things formed have a beginning and may have an ending.

But God does not form things. God calls from the depths of
His own being the ideas that are

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already there, and they move forth and clothe themselves
with the habiliments of time and circumstance in man's
consciousness. We must have firmly fixed in our
understanding the verity that we shall have to square all
the acts of life.

God is never absent from His creations, and His creations
are never absent from their habiliments; hence wherever you
see the evidences of life, there you may know that God is.

If you are manifesting health, that health has a source
that is perpetually giving itself forth. A perpetual giving
forth implies a perpetual presence.

There is no absence or separation in God. His omnipresence
is your omnipresence, because there can be no absence in
Mind. If God were for one instant separated from His
creations, they would immediately fall into dissolution.
But absence in Mind is unthinkable. Mind is far removed
from the realm where time and distance prevail. Mind is
without metes or bounds; it is within all metes and bounds;
it does not exist but inheres in all that is. Hence in
spirit and in truth you can never for one instant be
separated from the life activity of God even though you may
not externally feel or know of His presence.

God lives in you, and you depend on Him for every breath
you draw. The understanding you have, be it ever so meager,
is from Him, and you could not think a thought or speak a
word or make a movement were He not in it. Your body is the
soil in which God's life is planted. Your mind is the light
for which He supplies the oil. "I am the light of the

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world," said Jesus. "Ye are the light of the world."

Intelligence is the light of the world. "Let your light
shine." How? By increasing the supply of oil, by increasing
your consciousness of life, and by learning how to draw
upon the omnipresent God for every need.

A good healing drill is to deny the mental cause first,
then the physical appearance. The mental condition should
first be healed. Then the secondary state, which it has
produced in the body, must be wiped out and the perfect
state affirmed.

Deny:

I deny that I inherit any belief that in any way limits me
in health, virtue, intelligence, or power to do good.

Those with whom I associate can no longer make me believe
that I am a poor worm of the dust. The race belief that
"nature dominates man" no longer holds me in bondage, and I
am now free from every belief that might in any way
interfere with my perfect expression of health, wealth,
peace, prosperity, and perfect satisfaction in every
department of life.

By my all-powerful word, in the sight and presence of
almighty God, I now unformulate and destroy every foolish
and ignorant assumption that might impede my march to
perfection. My word is the measure of my power. I have
spoken, and it shall be so.

Affirm:

I am unlimited in my power, and I have increasing health,
strength, life, love, wisdom, boldness,

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freedom, charity, and meekhess, now and forever.

I am now in harmony with the Father, and stronger than any
mortal law. I know my birthright in pure Being, and I
boldly assert my perfect freedom. In this knowledge I am
enduring, pure, peaceful, and happy.

I am dignified and definite, yet meek and lowly, in all
that I think and do.

I am one with and I now fully manifest vigorous life,
wisdom, and spiritual understanding.

I am one with and I now fully manifest love, charity,
justice, kindness, and generosity.

I am one with and I now fully manifest infinite goodness
and mercy.

Peace floweth like a river through my mind, and I thank
Thee, O God, that I am one with Thee!

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//section Chapter 3

Chapter III

Realization Precedes Manifestation

//text

GOD'S MAN is hale, whole, hearty. This is Truth. A
spiritual realization is a realization of Truth. A
spiritual realization of health is the result of holding in
consciousness a statement of health until the logic of the
mind is satisfied and man receives the assurance that the
fulfillment in the physical must follow. In other words, by
realizing a healing prayer man lays hold of the principle
of health itself and the whole consciousness is illumined;
he perceives principle working out his health problems for
him.

However when man lays hold of the principle of wholeness,
he finds that he is automatically working with God and that
much new power is added. He realizes: "My Father worketh
even until now, and I work." After man has applied his mind
diligently for a season, he exhausts his resources or
powers of realization for the time being and rests from all
his work; but his accumulated thought energy is completed
or fulfilled in a higher realm, and he has a double
assurance that health must become manifest.

Jesus understood and demonstrated this law perfectly. He
was so much at one with the principle of health that He
needed only to say, "Thy faith hath made thee whole" or
"Lazarus, come forth,"

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in order to bring into evidence the perfect demonstration.

Realization means at-one-ment, completion, perfection,
wholeness, repose, resting in God. A realization of health
brings to the consciousness an inner knowing that the
divine law has been fulfilled in thought and act. Then as
man lays hold of the in-dwelling Christ he is raised out of
the Adam or dark consciousness into the Christ
consciousness. This at-one-ment with God brings a lasting
joy that cannot be taken away.

God-Mind rests in a perpetual realization of health, and
that which seems to be sickness does not exist in Truth.
When man becomes so much at one with God-Mind that he
abides in the consciousness of health he enters the eternal
peace in which he knows that "it is finished."

In order to understand God-Mind we need to study our own
mind. The more we analyze the processes of the mind the
more plainly the mind with its mental "compounds" appears
as the source of health and of all other things. In the
realms of dense matter intelligence may be so faint as to
have lost all contact with Mind. Yet the poet sings about
there being "sermons in stones." Again science announces
that life is present in and is disintegrating the solid
rocks and the whole earth groans and creaks in her struggle
with inertia. So if we want to know the secrets of health
and how right thinking forms the perfect body, we must go
to the mind and trace step by step the movements that
transform

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ideas of health into light, electrons, atoms, molecules,
cells, tissues, and finally into the perfect physical
organism.

Although there is almost universal skepticism with
reference to the mind's ability to know consciously how
relative substance is formed, there are those who have made
contact with the thought processes and can apply them in
transforming the cells and tissues of their own body. The
almost insurmountable obstacle to explaining to others how
this is accomplished is the paucity of language. The mind
functions in ways that are so strange and unbelievable that
the pioneers on this frontier of metaphysics choose as a
rule to remain silent.

Jesus is the outstanding pioneer in this realm where the
health-producing processes of cells are released and imbued
with supermind vitality.

He spent years in becoming acquainted with His body and
freeing its cells from the material bondage to which the
race thought had bound them.

Yet He gave no scientific explanation of the purifying
through which He put His body to transform it before Peter,
James, and John, as stated in Luke 9:29: "And as he was
praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and
his raiment became white and dazzling." Modern
metaphysicians do not excuse their ignorance by claiming
that this and many other instances in which Jesus showed
mastery over His body were miracles. Scientific Christians
regard as mortal superstition the prevalent view that
miracles are the abrogation by God of His laws

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and are performed as a sort of legerdemain to attract and
astonish the people. The marvelous things that Jesus did we
can do when we understand the law. "The works that I do
shall he do also; and greater" still holds good.

Much that is attributed to the subconscious, strictly
speaking, springs from the all-knowing or spiritual Mind.
When we cannot intellectually account for our knowledge we
assume the subconscious to be its source. Yet we should
know that the subconscious is the storehouse of past
knowledge and past experiences. So it knows only what has
filtered through the conscious mind. It cannot therefore be
the source of knowledge except through reflection or
memory. This memory of what man has passed through in the
aeons of his experience is often called intuition; it is
the instinct of the animal soul.

The world today looks up to science; that is, it does not
accept or believe anything unless it can be demonstrated by
well-known universal laws. There are no known laws
governing religion that can be scientifically explained;
hence it is not acceptable to the scientific mind. But
there is a technique for molding thought stuff by means of
the mind, and metaphysicians follow it in their scientific
thinking and in healing. The metaphysician handles
omnipresent Spirit life and substance very much as the
electrician handles electricity. Energy is locked up in all
this life and substance and its release enables the
metaphysician to utilize it in demonstrating health and in
achieving success.

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All the chemical elements adhere to their particular form
and endeavor to retain it. Electricity is supposed to be a
universal invisible energy whose unity can be broken up by
the whirl of a dynamo. The electronic units exert all the
force of their nature in a pull to regain their original
status. Thus the power generated by a dynamo is gained from
the force exerted by the electrical units in their rush to
establish their primal equipoise.

Only a certain percentage of this energy is utilized
because of the pull of the electrical units to get back
home to their mother principle. The dissipation of energy
is one of the great problems of the engineer. The loss of
electricity in transmission is so great that only a small
part of the original current reaches its destination.

We exist right in the midst of forces that would yield us
power to do all our work if we knew how to conserve and
properly utilize their energies. This is not only true of
our use of the many elements in the natural world all about
us but especially of our utilization of the energy
generated by our minds. If we could utilize this dissipated
energy constructively it would restore the body, illumine
the mind, and establish us in a lasting consciousness of
dominion and mastery.

With every thought there is a radiation of energy. If a
person is untrained in thinking and lets his mind express
all kinds of thoughts without control, he not only uses up
his thought stuff but fails also to accomplish any helpful
result.

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Conservation of thought stuff is essential to right
thinking. Right thinking is using the mind to bring about
right ends idealized by the thinker. All the elements
necessary to the restoration of health exist in the higher
dimensions of the mind. Through concentration and
conservation of thought force man regains the consciousness
of health in his mind, and health then becomes manifest in
his body.

Laws fixed by infinite Mind automatically accomplish
whatever man desires when he becomes obedient to the inner
guide. Concentration, one-pointed attention, forms a mental
magnet in the mind to which thought substance rushes like
iron filings to a loadstone. Then follows confidence or
faith in one's ability to accomplish the desired end.
According to the Scriptures this is the law by which the
universe was brought into manifestation. In the 11th
chapter of Hebrews it is written: "By faith we understand
that the worlds have been framed by the word of God."

Modern science by its most daring proponents is launching
out into the deeps of the invisible and describing in
detail the electrical processes that ultimate in the atom
and its aggregations in visible things. In substance they
tell us that when points of light gather about a certain
nucleus an atom is created, and from this a cell, and cell
aggregations make tissues and these merge into the realm of
things.

Here we have the scientific explanation and the Christian
metaphysician's formula for making the

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invisible visible. The greatest of all physicists cannot
tell what electricity is. Even Edison said he was ignorant
of its real nature. Some find it sometimes acting very much
like mind and have so stated. The head of the General
Electric research department was asked by a reporter to
give him a definition of electricity. The professor replied
that to his mind electricity was like what the Christians
describe as faith.

The scientific metaphysician fixes his attention powerfully
on the consummation of a certain idea until he has a
realization, which means that the idea has nucleated a
certain amount of thought substance. When this realization
is had the metaphysician rests "from all his work." Through
faith and work he has fulfilled the law of mind and he
rests in the conviction that his ideal of health will
appear in manifestation in due season.

To a metaphysician realization is the conviction that a
person gets when he has persistently concentrated his
attention on an ideal until he feels assured of the
fulfillment of that ideal. Elohim God pronounced His
spiritual creation "very good"; then rested from all His
work. There was as yet no manifestation, "no herb of the
field had yet sprung up," and "there was not a man to till
the ground"; yet the planning Mind had the realization that
the spiritual law had been fulfilled and that it should
rest from all its works.

That all things visible are held in place by a force
invisible is the conviction of the majority of logical
thinkers. In other words, everything is ensouled.

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When we understand that the soul has consciousness, that it
thinks, we have the explanation of many mysterious
phenomena. Some 150 years ago Franz Mesmer announced in
Germany that under certain conditions he could induce a
magnetic sleep in persons and control their minds. His
demonstrations attracted the attention of doctors and
mental scientists the world over. In this day the system is
practiced under the name of hypnotism. It is full of
pitfalls for both operator and patient because its tendency
is to weaken the positive control that the mind should
always exercise over its own brain structure. However it is
one of the many proofs that the mind can produce conditions
in the mental world that ultimate in the material world. A
great physical scientist stated recently that it may be
that the gods that determine our fates are our own minds
working on our brain cells and through them on the world
about us. This is very close to the Truth.

Every Christian metaphysician knows that back of the
personal mind there is a great creative Mind that also
recreates. This creative Mind has been named and described
by men all down the ages. God-Mind not only can restore and
heal but can establish us in the consciousness of permanent
health. Do not allow your conception of God to be
handicapped by what men have said about Him.

"There is a spirit in man,

And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding."

Let the Spirit of God in you reveal to you His true

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character. God was never sick a day; He is the source of
life and health and joy. God wills that we express His
"image" and "likeness," in which we were created.

The prayer for realization attains its consummation when
with concentrated spiritual attention one has affirmed that
God Spirit is present, that with all His power He is
bringing to pass the perfect health desired, and that all
is well. When your thoughts radiate with the speed of
spiritual light, they blend with creative Mind (called by
Jesus "heaven"), and the thing you have asked for will be
done. Jesus told Peter that whatever he bound (affirmed) in
earth would be bound in heaven and whatever he loosed
(denied) in earth would be loosed in heaven. Peter had
unbounded faith in Jesus (who represents spiritual man).
When any man has unbounded faith in spiritual power his
words, uttered in the limitations of matter, are flashed to
heaven (creative Mind) and they accomplish whatever he puts
into them. The fulfillment of this spoken word in the world
of activities may take moments, hours, days, years,
centuries; Jesus said that the Father only knew when these
things would come to pass. Do not think because you do not
get an instant response to your prayers that they are not
answered. Every sincere desire and every effectual prayer
for health that has ascended to heaven (creative Mind) is
fulfilled, and will be made manifest whenever material
limitations permit. Shakespeare had an inkling of this law
of the relation

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of thoughts and words when he wrote,

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:

Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

The kingdom of heaven (the heavens) so often referred to by
Jesus and described by Him as very near to us is far more
accessible and is more often contacted by us than we
imagine. Not only those who pray but those who persistently
concentrate their thoughts on mathematics, music, or
philosophies based in principle, are often rewarded with
the marvelous intuitions of genius. These persons
apparently break into a realm where no effort is required
to gain the answer to their questions. The mathematical
genius is called a prodigy. He solves instantly the most
complex mathematical problem, yet cannot explain how he
does it. He simply knows the answer, often before the
statement of the problem has been completed.

Henri Poincare in his book "Science and Method" says that
his discoveries in mathematics came to him in flashes after
he had spent long periods of study and concentration on the
subject. Concentrated attention of the mind on an idea of
any kind is equal to prayer and will make available the
spiritual principle that is its source in proportion to the
intensity and continuity of the mental effort. Anyone can
attain spiritual understanding and become conscious of the
light who will persistently pray for it. "He that cometh to
God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him." The emphasis here is on the
word "diligently."

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The mind is the seat of perfection, not only of health but
also of talents like music, art, writing, and the like. The
idea of health and the idea of music are interblended, for
instance. Music is a great aid to the healing force.
Musical and health ideas interblend, and their
establishment in order produces this kingdom of the heavens.

Our spiritual realizations produce that silent shuttle of
thought which, working in and through cell and nerve,
weaves into one harmonious whole mind and body and is
expressed as health and wealth and genius.

The musical genius says he hears the music in a flash and
is often at his wit's end to transcribe it fast enough.
Many an immortal poem and prose work as well has been
flashed from the mind of the author without any apparent
effort on his part. But if all the prayers and mind efforts
of literary geniuses were inquired into, it would be found
that there had been heroic mental effort somewhere at some
time. So it is with healing. The realization of perfection
takes root in the soul and may come forth in a flash as
perfect health. We should not confine ourselves to the
present life of the individual but go into previous
incarnations in which the work was done that made the
genius in this incarnation.

Professor Einstein was considered the greatest mathematical
genius of our time. The scientific world does not connect
his insight into scientific principles with his religious
life, but he freely stated that he worshiped God. He said:
"The voice of God

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is from within. Something within me tells me what I must do
every day." For him God is as valid as a scientific
argument. On the subject of spiritual realization he once
said:

"Every man knows that in his work he does best and
accomplishes most when he has attained a proficiency that
enables him to work intuitively. That is, there are things
that we come to know so well that we do not know how we
know them. Perhaps we live best and do things best when we
are not too conscious of how and why we do them."

The supreme realization of man is his unity with God. Jesus
had this realization and proclaimed it before there was any
manifestation. When He told His followers, "I and the
Father are one" and "He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father," they demanded that He show them the Father. They
could not then understand that He had spiritually united
with creative Mind. Men in our day are having this
realization in a more universal way than ever before in the
history of the race, and they are affirming it in the face
of ridicule and condemnation. When this inner consciousness
is attained by any man the foundation has been laid of the
Peter church or temple that is man's immortal body, which
will never pass away.

Metaphysically realization is expectancy objectified. The
mind conceives a proposition and then marshals all its
forces to make that conception a reality in the objective
world. All things material are first thought pictures,
carved by the imagination

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from omnipresent thought substance. Shakespeare in "Much
Ado about Nothing" brings out the idea as follows:

//quote

The idea of her life shall sweetly creep

Into his study of imagination,

And every lovely organ of her life,

Shall come appareled in more precious habit,

More moving-delicate and full of life

Into the eye and prospect of his soul.

//text

This realm of realization is so real to the mind that it
requires a trained metaphysician to detect the difference
between its creations and the manifest realm of things. We
all have a body in the ether that is the counterpart of the
physical. It is through this psychic body that we have
sensation in the physical. It is possible to think of the
psychic body and cultivate its sensations until it appears
as real as the physical. Many persons have done this until
they have formed a psychic world consciousness and they are
often unable to separate it from the physical. They search
materially for the treasures they see psychically. To them
the realm of thought forms is the finality of creation
instead of the mental pictures of that which is about to
appear.

The trained metaphysician is no stranger to this picture
gallery of the mind and he is not deceived into believing
that it is any more than a mental reflection. One who
enters the realm of spiritual ideas does not allow his
consciousness to become confused with the mind pictures
that flash into psychic sight. They are part of the process
of making ideas manifest. When a Christian healer realizes
that his

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treatment has firmly formed the picture of health, he
relaxes his decrees and statements of Truth and trusts the
divine law to make health manifest.

Paul urges in many of his writings that we have the Mind of
Christ: that we let Christ be formed in us. This has
usually been taken to mean that we are to imitate Christ.
This is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far
enough. To follow Jesus Christ in the regeneration or new
birth we must fulfill the law of body building, which is a
reconstruction of the corrupt cells: "This corruptible must
put on in-corruption." To accomplish this and make the body
conform to His perfect body we must see Him as He is in His
perfect body. This perfect body exists as an ideal body in
us all. By mentally concentrating on this perfect body and
focusing all our powers on it as the vital life of the
physical a transformation will begin that will finally
raise the physical to divine stature. Paul points the way
in II Corinthians:

"But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror
the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit."

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//section Chapter 4

Chapter IV

Producing Results

//text

IT IS A striking fact that even back in the time of Moses
the health of the people was considered of great importance
and was always mentioned in connection with their spiritual
welfare. If they were obedient to the law, they kept in
health; if disobedient, they fell sick. The same law that
brought about these results has always been operative and
is active in our midst today. Faith in God as the health of
His people and obedience to the law of Being bring health.
Distrust and disobedience produce ill-health.

It has been proved again and again that there is a definite
relation between the thoughts of man and the conditions in
his body. Scientists of the world are experimenting with
mental processes and are discovering that the old Scripture
writers knew whereof they spoke when they taught that sin
produces sickness and righteousness health. It is known
that infants have been poisoned by the milk from the
breasts of angry mothers. Persons under the stress of fear
suffer a loss of appetite. Many other illustrations of the
effect of discordant mental states come to those who study
mind and its manifestations. Job understood the relation
between a mental concept and its result. He said: "The
thing which I fear cometh upon me."

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In the past century there has been a general awakening
among people to the realization of the relation between
righteousness and health, and men everywhere are seeking
the knowledge of God and His healing power. God becomes to
them their "all-sufficiency in everything." This
all-sufficiency manifests itself to them according to their
needs. To one it is health, to another it is freedom from
bondage to some habit, to a third person it is illumination.

Jesus was the great teacher and example of obedience to the
law of constructive thinking. All His commandments and
sayings tend toward the enhancement of life and health and
harmony. The reforms that man in mortal consciousness tries
to make are all based on destructive ideas set to work in
the external. The reform of Jesus is an inner
transformation: "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill."
He came not to tear down but to build up. If we follow Him
we shall give our strength and substance and thought force
to constructive activity.

In order to understand the Scriptures and especially the
portion of them that gives the life and experiences of
Jesus it is necessary to study the action of the mind. The
movement of every mind in bringing forth the simplest
thought is a key to the great creative process of universal
Mind. In every act is involved mind, idea, and
manifestation. The mind is neither seen nor felt; the idea
is not seen, but it is felt; and the manifestation appears.

The history of mankind in the majority of its aspects shows
a steady growth or ascent from a lower

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to a higher estate. In the forms of nature external to man
the same law of development is seen. Jesus' statement that
"the earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then
the ear, then the full grain in the ear" is a recognition
of the truth that evolution in the earth is universal.

The progress of man through the aid of uplifting influences
has been especially marked in the education of the mind. In
the field of mathematics alone almost unbelievable increase
in the understanding of abstract truth has been gained over
a period that began with the crude though systematic work
of the Egyptians, about 2500 B.C., and extended to include
the seventeenth-century research of Leibnitz, who developed
the branch of higher mathematics known as the infinitesimal
calculus.

Steady progress has been the rule also in that phase of
life which deals with a man's relations to his fellow men.
The various activities of social service have led to
improved working conditions, better homes, and more helpful
environments for those whose condition of life has called
for the help of their brothers. Sociology has thus resulted
in many movements for the uplift of mankind.

In the field of religion the upward march has been
especially remarkable. There is a wide range of religious
experience between the blindly groping faith that caused
men to pass their children through the fire as sacrifices
to their deities and the divine consciousness of Jesus
Christ, who submitted His body to the purifying fire of the
Spirit and came

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forth alive with a life that never dies.

The healing of the body of man must follow the law of
evolution, in common with the education of his mind and the
adjustment of his social relations. Jesus did His healing
spiritually. When He was told of the "great fever" of
Simon's mother-in-law, He administered no drug to reduce
her temperature. Instead He "stood over her, and rebuked
the fever; and it left her." Jesus knew the law that
"without any dispute the less is blessed by the better." He
knew that the blessing of health comes through the exercise
of faith on the part of the man who seeks it, that faith
opens the mind to the influx of power from on high, and
that the power of the Highest heals all diseases both of
soul and of body.

When faith is sufficiently strong to dissolve all adverse
conditions and to open the mind fully to the power of God,
healing is instantaneous. In the natural course of events
the patient who survives a fever goes through a long, slow
convalescence; hence perhaps the name "patient." Jesus had
no "patients" although He healed many who were "sick with
divers diseases." Simon's mother-in-law rose up immediately
and went about her work when Jesus denied the power of the
fever to hold her.

After a busy day of teaching in the synagogue in the course
of which Jesus restored to his right mind a man who "had a
spirit of an unclean demon," He ended the evening by
healing, without exception, "every one of them" that were
brought to Him. He had spent no time in the study of
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this work. Shortly before that time He had spent forty days
in the wilderness in communion with God and in setting His
own purposes in order by the light of the divine
understanding that He had gained there. After each season
of healing and intensive teaching He again withdrew into a
desert place or to a mountain, either alone or in company
with His apostles, and there obtained a new influx of power
from the Father. So the healing work went on. There is no
record of incurables.

Further there is no record that Jesus took any precautions
to avoid infection when He was engaged in healing the sick.
He was without fear of evil because He acknowledged only
the power of the Highest, which is good. He put His hand on
the leper to prove to him that He was fearless and
confident. He spoke six short, decisive words, "I will; be
thou made clean"; and we are told that "straightway his
leprosy was cleansed" although the Scripture shows that he
was in the last stage of the disease ("full of leprosy").
There were no long explanations, no instructions given.
Jesus simply turned His super-will upon the leper, and the
power of the Highest flowed through Him instantly to do its
perfect work. Then only did an instruction follow. The
leper was told to offer the usual praise and sacrifice to
God and to ascribe his healing to the Highest rather than
to the power of personality.

Jesus always connected sin and sickness as cause and
effect. When the man sick of the palsy was let down through
the roof of a house that he might be

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brought before Jesus for healing, there were those present
who expected the healing to be done in some mysterious way;
and when Jesus spoke of forgiving the man's sins in order
to heal him they said: "Who is this that speaketh
blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" These
men lived in a material world and saw everything from a
material viewpoint. They did not understand that the man's
sins caused his palsy. As a proof of man's power to forgive
sin and thus heal the effects of sin Jesus said when the
man was brought for healing:

"But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on
earth to forgive sins (he said unto him that was palsied),
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go unto
thy house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took
up that whereon he lay, and departed to his house,
glorifying God."

Jesus taught plainly that the mind was the place of origin
of every act. He said that if there was lust in the heart,
it was sin even though no overt act were committed. All
thinking people in this day accept without question the
fact that the body is moved by the mind; and those who have
made a study of mental processes have found that all the
conditions of the body are brought about by the mind; also
that there is a law of right thought and that a departure
from that law is sin or "missing one's aim," which is the
original Hebrew conception of sin.

Forgiveness really means the giving up of something. When
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the thing that you ought not to do. Jesus was correct in
assuming that man has power to forgive sin. Sin is a
falling short of the divine law, and repentance and
forgiveness are the only means that man has of getting out
of sin and its effect and coming into harmony with the law.
But who can tell what the law is? Only those who study man
as a spiritual and mental being. Study of manifestation
alone is futile; it leads nowhere. We must get at it from
the cause side. All sin is first in the mind; and the
forgiveness is a change of mind or repentance. Some mental
attitude, some train of mental energy, must be transformed.
We forgive sin in ourselves every time we resolve to think
and act according to the divine law. The mind must change
from a material to a spiritual base. The law is already
fixed; there is nothing in it to be changed, because God is
the lawgiver and does not change. The change must all be on
the part of man and within him. The moment man changes his
thoughts of sickness to thoughts of health the divine law
rushes in and begins the healing work.

The law is Truth, and the Truth is that all is good. There
is no power and no reality in sin. If sin were real and
enduring, like goodness and Truth, it could not be forgiven
but would hold its victim forever. When we enter into the
understanding of the real and the unreal, a great light
dawns upon us and we see what Jesus meant when He said,
"The Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins."
The Son of man is that in us which discerns the difference
between Truth and error. When we get this

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understanding, we are in a position to free our soul from
sin and our body from disease, which is the effect of sin.
Sin is the result of desire manifesting itself in erroneous
ways and may be compared to the errors of the child working
a problem in mathematics. When the error is discovered and
there is a willingness to correct it, under the law of
forgiveness man erases it as easily as the child rubs out
the false figures in his exercise. Thus in spiritual
understanding, the I AM of man forgives or "gives" Truth
"for" error; the mind is set in order and the body healed.
The moment man realizes this he puts himself in harmony
with the Truth of Being, and the law wipes out all his
transgressions.

In denying the reality of sin send out your freeing thought
to others as well as to yourself. Do not hold anyone in
bondage to the thought of sin. If you do, it will pile up
and increase in power according to the laws of mental
action.

No one can understand how forgiveness sets free the
sin-bound soul and the sick body unless he studies mind and
has some understanding of its laws. There is a universal
thought substance in which thought builds whatever man
wills.

The right images become active through the power of
thought. Man has unlimited power through thought, and he
can give his power to things or withhold it. If he thinks
about the power of sin, he builds up and gives force to
that belief until it engulfs him in its whirlpool of
thought substance. He forgets his spiritual origin and sees
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He thinks of himself as a sinner "born in sin and conceived
in iniquity" rather than as the image and likeness of God.

Man also sees the law of sowing and reaping, and he fears
his sins and their results. Then fear of the divine law is
added to his burdens. The way out of this maze of
ignorance, sin, and sickness is through man's understanding
of his real being, and then the forgiving or the giving up
of all thoughts of the reality of sin and its effects in
the body.

But we must recognize the unity of the race in Christ and
include all people in our forgiving. A good freeing
statement is:

"I do not believe in the power of sin in myself or in
others."

If anyone tries to free himself while holding others in the
thought of sin, he will not demonstrate his freedom. No man
can rise except as he lifts the race with him in his
thought: "and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will
draw all men unto myself." As by one man sin came into the
world so by one man it is taken away. As all were included
in the sin of one so all are included in the righteousness
of one, and every man stands sinless before God in Christ.
Recognition of this will make men free, and the greater the
number of men that recognize and declare the Truth the
sooner will all men know that they are free from sin in
Christ.

You must build upon faith in the reality of the spiritual.
The next step is to put your selfishness away. There cannot
be two in this kingdom. It is the

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kingdom of God, and man must give up. The John the Baptist
must recognize the Son of God that is in you and that this
Son must be always active in you in love, life, and power.
The kingdom is for the larger man. The personal man must be
eliminated.

The next step is love, universal love: not the love of
earthly possessions but the love of spiritual things. We
must give up the flesh man and all his possessions and at
the same time lay hold of the spiritual man. Then we have
everything although apparently we may have nothing. This is
a difficult proposition to those who think in terms of
material ideas. You must be able to get away from all
thought of material things. "Love . . . seeketh not its
own"; "is not puffed up." Love is not selfish. We cannot
have selfishness and love at the same time. We cannot have
this universal brotherhood unless we love everybody. We
must love all because we are all one. There must be in our
consciousness a recognition of the universal right of all
to all the possessions of the world.

Then there must be this inner growth that is a fuller
consciousness of the new life which comes with the entering
into this kingdom of Christ.

The fact is that there is a foundation for this world-wide
movement in behalf of purer men and better things for all.
There is something back of it all, and the old conditions,
diseases, and limitations must pass away; and the time is
now ripe for entering into this kingdom, this attainment of
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every one of us can enter in if we only will to do so.

True, in all actual transformation of mind and body a
dissolving, breaking-up process necessarily takes place,
because thought force and substance have been built into
the errors that appear. In each individual these errors
have the power that man has given to them by his thought
concerning them. These thought structures must be broken up
and eliminated from consciousness. The simplest, most
direct, and most effective method is to withdraw from them
the life and substance that have been going to feed them,
and to let them shrivel away into their own nothingness.
This withdrawal is best accomplished by denial of the power
and reality of evil and affirmation of the allness of
Spirit. Nothing is destroyed, because "nothing" can't be
destroyed. The change that takes place is merely a
transference of power from an error belief to faith in the
Truth, through the recognition that God is good and is all
that in reality exists.

The doctrine of the Trinity is often a stumbling block,
because we find it difficult to understand how three
persons can be one. Three persons cannot be one, and
theology will always be a mystery until theologians become
metaphysicians. It is necessary to understand the Trinity
in order to be healed in soul and body.

God is the name of the all-encompassing Mind. Christ is the
name of the all-loving Mind. Holy Spirit is the all-active
manifestation. These three are one fundamental Mind in its
three creative aspects.

We have to be healed physically, mentally, and

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spiritually. Often people think they are sick physically
when they are just sick in soul. It is easy to understand
how the idea of perfect health may exist in the great
Father-Mind; also how that idea may become active in the
individual and manifest in his life. This simple comparison
clears up the mystery of the Trinity. Here are the
Scripture symbols compared with modern metaphysical terms:

God--Christ--man.

Mind--idea--manifestation.

Father--Son--Holy Spirit.

Thinker--thought--action.

Spirit--soul--body.

I AM--I AM conscious--I appear.

We want the actual overcoming power of Christ. To get this
we must appreciate life and enter into it thankfully and
heartily. "I came that they may have life, and may have it
abundantly." This abundant life is always present. When we
recognize it and open our consciousness to it, it comes
flowing into mind and body with its mighty quickening,
healing power, and they are renewed and transformed.

The following affirmations are for the purpose of
establishing the whole man in the consciousness of unity
and health. They are given as they came into mind without
any attempt at classification:

My body does not starve for my love and appreciation of it.
I recognize it, honor it, and love it as the body temple of
the living God.

I have now the only body I ever had. Though I were
reincarnated a thousand times, yet is my body

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the same. It is I. Its appearance depends on my beliefs and
thoughts and changes accordingly, but it is always the same
body, even as my soul and spirit are always the same. My
body is as much a part of my individuality as my soul. It
is eternal, like any other part of my I. It is I, even as
my soul is I.

I cannot disown my body and say that I borrowed it from my
parents. This is not the truth. I may have taken up some of
my parents' error beliefs and built them into my body; but
my body came from no one but God. It came from Him with my
spirit and soul and has ever coexisted with them. These
three are one, inseparable. It is the belief in man that
his body is separate from him and is something that he
merely owns that makes the appearance of separation. I do
not own my body: I am body. I do not own my soul: I am
soul. I do not own my spirit: I am spirit. And these three
are one.

The redemption of the body depends on my having the right
idea of body. It must be the divine idea, and there must be
no other. The eye must be single.

My body (or I manifested as body) is not filled with error,
sin, discord. Beholding myself free from these keeps me
manifesting thus. The law of growth is in beholding. While
I behold the body as anything else but its divine idea I
hold it there. It can never change before the belief of it
changes.

I am. I am in every cell of my body. I am every cell of my
body. I do not disown my body. I do not withdraw my I, but
I take possession--full possession--of every part in the
name of the Lord.

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I now fully identify myself with my body even as with my
soul and spirit, thus making the at-one-ment.

Since my body is I, if there appears resistance in it, that
resistance is my own; it comes only from me. It comes from
my failure properly to identify myself with my body. The
way to get control is to take it. This I do, not by will
power, by personal force, or by anything that recognizes my
body as separate from me, but by my consciousness of
oneness with it. This unifies all of me and stops all
resistance.

My body is life, purity, wholeness, sinlessness. In my
flesh I see God. What I see, what I behold, becomes
manifest.

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits,
whether they are of God; because many false prophets are
gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God:
every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not
Jesus is not of God."

I confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, even in
my flesh.

"Not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be
clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of
life."

The idea of the body as an earthly house is now dissolved,
and I am now clothed upon with the heavenly house, even the
divine idea of man complete. In this idea I am one with the
immortal, incorruptible flesh of Jesus Christ, and I have
eternal life. I do confess that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh.

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//section Chapter 5

Chapter V

The Omnipotence of Prayer

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TO A PERSON in the understanding of Truth prayer should be
an affirmation of that which is in Being.

What is the necessity of the prayer of affirmation if Being
already is? In order that the creative law of the Word may
be fulfilled. All things are in God as potentialities. It
is man's office under the divine law to bring into
manifestation that which has been created or planned by the
unmanifest. Everybody should pray. Through prayer we
develop the highest phase of character. Prayer softens and
refines the whole man. A prominent skeptic once said that
the most unattractive thing in existence was a prayerless
woman.

Prayer is not supplication or begging but a simple asking
for that which we know is waiting for us at the hands of
our Father and an affirmation of its existence. The prayer
that Jesus gave as a model is simplicity itself. There is
none of that awe-inspiring "O Thou" that ministers often
affect in public prayer but only the ordinary informal
request of a son to his Father for things needed.

"Father . . . Hallowed be thy name." Here in the Lord's
Prayer is a recognition of the all-inclusiveness and
completeness of Divine Mind. Everything has its sustenance
from this one source; therefore "the

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earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof."

We need supplies for the day only. Hoarding for future
necessity breeds selfishness. The Children of Israel tried
to save the manna, but it spoiled on their hands.

The law "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"
is here shorn of its terrors. If we forgive others we shall
be forgiven, and the penalty of suffering for sins will be
eliminated.

It does not seem possible that God would lead us into
temptation. The statement about temptation follows closely
that regarding the forgiveness of sin, and it is evidently
a part of it. "Let not temptation lead us" is a permissible
interpretation.

Jesus advised asking for what we want and being persistent
in our demands. People ignorant of the relation in which
man stands to God wonder why we should ask and even
importune a Father who has provided all things for us. This
is explained when we perceive that God is a great mind
reservoir that has to be tapped by man's mind and poured
into visibility through man's thought or word. If the mind
of man is clogged with doubt, lethargy, or fear, he must
open the way by persistent knocking and asking. "Pray
without ceasing," "continuing instant in prayer." Acquire
in prayer a facility in asking equal to the mathematician's
expertness in handling numbers and you will get responses
in proportion.

We give our children what we consider good gifts from our
limited and transitory store, but when the gifts of God are
put into our minds we have possessions

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that are eternal and will go on being productive for all
time.

Undoubtedly the one thing that stands out prominently in
the teaching of Jesus is the necessity of prayer. He prayed
on the slightest pretext, or in some such manner invoked
the presence of God. He prayed over situations that most
men would deal with without the intervention of God. If He
was verily God incarnate, the skeptic often asks, why did
He so often appeal to an apparently higher God. To answer
this doubt intelligently and truly one must understand the
constitution of man.

There are always two men in each individual. The man
without is the picture that the man within paints with his
mind. This mind is the open door to the unlimited principle
of Being. When Jesus prayed He was setting into action the
various powers of His individuality in order to bring about
certain results. Within His identity was of God; without He
was human personality.

The various mental attitudes denoted by the word prayer are
not comprehended by those unfamiliar with the spiritual
constitution of man. When the trained metaphysician speaks
of his demonstrations through prayer, he does not explain
all the movements of his spirit and mind, because the outer
consciousness has not the capacity to receive it.

When we read of Jesus spending whole nights in prayer, the
first thought is that He was asking and begging God for
something. But we find prayer to be many-sided; it is not
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also. We must pray believing that we shall receive. Prayer
is both invocation and affirmation. Meditation,
concentration, denial, and affirmation in the silence are
all forms of what is loosely termed prayer.

Thus Jesus was demonstrating at night over the error
thoughts of mind. He was lifting the mortal mind up to the
plane of Spirit through some prayerful thought. The Son of
man must be lifted up, and there is no way to do this
except through prayer.

One who exercises his thought powers discovers that there
is a steady growth with proper use. The powers of the mind
are developed in much the same way that the muscles of the
body are. Persistent affirmation of a certain desire in the
silence concentrates the mental energies and beats down all
barriers.

Jesus illustrates the power of such affirmative prayer, of
repeated silent demands for justice, for instance, by the
case of the widow bereft of worldly protection and power.
To the widow's persistence even the ungodly judge succumbs.
The unceasing prayer of faith is commanded in the
Scriptures in various places.

If a man's prayers are based on the thought of his own
righteousness and the sinfulness of others, he does not
fulfill the law of true prayer. Self-righteousness is an
exclusory thought and closes the door to the great Father
love that we all want. We are not to justify ourselves in
the sight of God but let the Spirit of justice and
righteousness do its perfect work through us.

That God and angels and heaven exist is accepted

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by all who believe the Scriptures, but there is wide
diversity of thought about their character and abode. Those
who read the Bible after the letter have invented all kinds
of imaginary notions as to the conditions under which God
and His angels live and as to the location of heaven. Their
minds being fixed on things, they have not conceived of the
realm of ideas, and they are therefore totally ignorant of
the true teaching of the Scriptures. To understand the
Bible one must know about the constitution of man. This is
the key to all mysteries, the knowledge of man's true self.
"Know thyself."

Man is spirit, soul, body. These are coexistent. God is the
principle of being as an axiom is a principle of
mathematics. God is not confined to locality. Is a
mathematical principle confined to a particular place and
not found elsewhere? "The kingdom of God is within you."
God is the real of man's being. It follows that all the
powers that are attributed to God may become operative in
man. Then we live right in the presence of God and angels
and heaven. What seems a desert place is filled with
angelic messengers, and like Jacob we know it not.

Man sets into action any of the three realms of his being,
spirit, soul, and body, by concentrating his thought on
them. If he thinks only of the body, the physical senses
encompass all his existence. If mind and emotion are
cultivated he adds soul to his consciousness. If he rises
to the Absolute and comprehends Spirit, he rounds out the
God-man.

Spirit is the source of soul and body, hence the

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ruling power. Its works are so swift and so transcend the
limitations of matter that the natural man cannot
comprehend them and hence calls them "miracles." But all
things are done under law. "Prayer was made earnestly of
the church unto God for him," and Peter was delivered from
prison by an angel. The earnest prayers of the devout
believers in the power of supreme Spirit brought about the
result. The history of Christianity is full of instances of
so-called miracles wrought through prayer. The hour-long
prayer of Luther by what was supposed to be the deathbed of
his friend Melanchthon is a famous instance of importunate
pleadings. It was Luther's firm belief that Melanchthon's
years of continued life were the direct answer to his
prayers.

Mighty things have been wrought in the past by those who
had mere blind faith to guide them. To faith we now add
understanding of the law, and our achievements will be a
fulfillment of the promise of Jesus "He that believeth on
me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works
than these shall he do." The prayer of Luther and its
results are now being duplicated every day. As we go on in
the exercise of the spiritual faculties we shall strengthen
them and understand them better, and we shall cease to talk
about anything miraculous. All things are possible to man
when he exercises his spiritual power under the divine law.

When man directs the power of exalted ideas into his body,
he exalts the cells, releases their innate spiritual
energy, and causes them finally to disappear

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from physical sight into the omnipresent luminous ether.
This is what Jesus accomplished at His ascension. The
promise was that all who follow Him in the regeneration of
the body would do likewise. It is true that even the
followers of Jesus have not always understood the
scientific import of His doctrine. They have mentally
absorbed His exalted ideas and looked to their fulfillment
in a faraway heaven in the skies. By thus projecting their
ideas toward a fulfillment outside of the body they have
separated their soul or mind consciousness from its
companion, the body, and the deserted cells have been
resolved into their mother principle, the earth.

The mind of man is constantly projecting thought energies
or waves through brain cells into the ether or space
element in which we live. Every person lives in an
environment of radiant energy that circulates through the
cells of his organism like bees in a hive. Ordinarily we
cannot see the radiations of the mind, but we almost
universally feel them. When a discordant mind impinges upon
our mind radiations we instinctively shrink away. But we
are radiantly happy in the presence of an exalted mind.

"No man hath beheld God at any time." Seers, prophets,
preachers, and holy men and women in all ages are a unit in
saying that they have become acquainted with God through
prayer, expressed in the spirit of their minds.

This testimony to God's spiritual presence is so unanimous
that no one seeks His help in any way other than through
the spirit of the mind; and the

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fact that we know God with our minds and not with our
senses proves that God is Spirit.

In its higher functioning the mind of man deals with
spiritual ideas, and we can truthfully say that man is a
spiritual being. This fact explains the almost universal
worship of God by men and makes possible the conjunction of
the heaven and the earth by those who understand the
underlying laws of prayer. Jesus stated this emphatically
in John 4:24 (margin): "God is Spirit; and they that
worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Then the real foundation of all effective prayer is the
understanding that God is Spirit and that man, His
offspring, is His image and likeness, hence spiritual.

Such a concept of God gives man a point of contact that is
never absent; in all places and under all conditions he has
the assurance of the attention and help of God when he
realizes the Father's spiritual presence and comradeship.

When it has a spiritually poised mind to work through,
Spirit is not limited in its power by any material
environment. "With God all things are possible." To make
this strong statement of Jesus come true we must study the
laws of God and strive to carry them out through a
quickened consciousness.

The Bible is replete with situations where men and women
seemed beyond any material help, but through faith and
prayer they triumphed right in the face of seemingly
insurmountable obstacles. The author of the 11th chapter of
Hebrews builds pyramids

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of faith demonstrations. Hear the climax:

"And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I
tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and
Samuel and the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms,
wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the
edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed
mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens."

Paul might have added to his pyramid of faith the long list
of miraculous healings of diseases and many superhuman
works recorded in the Bible, among which are the
restoration of the leper Naaman and the resurrection of the
Shunammite's son by Elisha; the control of the elements by
Elijah; the overcoming of gravity in the floating of the
workman's axhead from the bottom of the Jordan by Elisha,
and Moses' causing the water to gush from the rock.

The majority of people think that great spiritual faith is
necessary to get marvelous results. But Jesus taught
differently. "The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our
faith. And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye would say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou
rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would
obey you."

The mustard is among the smallest of seeds, and the
comparison would indicate what a tiny bit of real faith is
necessary to cause motion in material things. Paul and
Silas in the Roman jail prayed and sang until their bonds
fell off, the doors flew open,

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and they walked out, both free men. On the day of Pentecost
the followers of Jesus prayed and sang until the ethers
were so accelerated that tongues of fire flashed from the
bodies of the worshipers, and they were miraculously
quickened in mental ability.

Prayer liberates the energies pent up in mind and body.
Those who pray much create a spiritual aura that eventually
envelops the whole body. The bands of light painted by
artists around the heads of saints are not imaginary; they
actually exist and are visible to the sharp eye of the
painter. The Scriptures testify in Luke 9:29 that when
Jesus was praying "his countenance was altered, and his
raiment became white and dazzling." After Moses had been
praying on the mountain his face shone so brightly that the
people could not look on it, and he had to wear a veil.

Thus prayer is obviously dynamic and actuates the spiritual
ethers that interpenetrate all substance. Prayer is related
directly to the creative laws of God, and when man adjusts
his mind and body in harmony with those laws, his prayers
will always be effective and far-reaching. The activity of
the mind that is named the understanding is essential in
righteous prayer. Spirit is omnipresent, but the individual
consciousness gives it a local habitation and a name.

If in thinking about God we locate Him in a faraway heaven
and direct our thoughts outward in the hope of reaching
Him, all our force will be driven from us to that imaginary
place and we shall become devitalized.

"The kingdom of God is within you." The

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pivotal point around which Spirit creates is within the
structure of consciousness. This is true of the primal cell
as well as of the most complex organ. The throne on which
the divine will sits is within man's consciousness, and it
is to this inner center that he should direct his attention
when praying or meditating. David called this spiritual
center of the soul "the secret place of the Most High," and
all the defense and power of the 91st Psalm is promised to
the one who dwells in the consciousness of the Almighty
within. Paul says, "Know ye not that ye are a temple of
God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"

In the 6th chapter of Matthew, in giving His disciples
directions for prayer, Jesus called attention to the God
center in man in these words: "But thou, when thou prayest,
enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut the door,
pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who
seeth in secret shall recompense thee." He also told them
not to use vain repetitions: "For your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of, before ye ask him."

If Divine Mind knows our needs, why should we have to ask
to have them supplied? We do not ask expecting God to hand
us the things we want, but we realize that He has made
provision in the very nature of things for our every need
to be fulfilled. When we realize this and go about our work
in perfect confidence, the fulfillment of the divine law of
support and supply is often demonstrated in ways we had not
dreamed of.

Do not supplicate or beg God to give you what

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you need, but get still and think about the inexhaustible
resources of infinite Mind, its presence in all its
fullness, and its constant readiness to manifest itself
when its laws are complied with. This is what Jesus meant
when He said, "Seek ye first his kingdom, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto
you."

We all need a better understanding of the nature of God if
we are to comply with the laws under which He creates. We
must begin by knowing that "God is Spirit." Spirit is not
located in a big man called God but is everywhere the
breath of life and the knowing quality of mind active in
and through all bodies, "over all, and through all, and in
all." The highest form of prayer is to open our minds and
quietly realize that the one omnipresent intelligence knows
our thoughts and instantly answers, even before we have
audibly expressed our desires.

This being true, we should ask and at the same time give
thanks that we have already received. Jesus expressed this
idea in Mark 11:24: "Therefore I say unto you, All things
whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them." Before He broke the
miraculously multiplied loaves and fishes and fed the five
thousand He looked up to heaven and gave thanks. When He
raised Lazarus He first said: "Father, I thank thee that
thou heardest me. And I knew that thou hearest me always."
Then He commanded Lazarus to come forth.

We observe that all things come out of the formless, but
our knowledge of the formless is so limited

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that we do not conceive of its infinite possibilities. When
we think or silently speak in the all-potential ethers of
Spirit, there is always an unfailing effect. "Whatsoever ye
have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and
what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers shall
be proclaimed upon the housetops."

Silent prayer is more effective than audible, because by
silent prayer the mind comes into closer touch with the
creative Spirit. James says, "The prayer of faith shall
save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up."
Countless thousands are applying this faith prayer today
and are being healed as men were in the time of Jesus.

The strange thing is that this very important proof of the
Spirit's work in Christian healing should have been
neglected for so many hundred years when Jesus gave it as
one of the signs of a believer: "These signs shall
accompany them that believe; in my name shall they cast out
demons; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take
up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall
in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and
they shall recover."

The history of the Christian church records that during its
first three hundred years the followers of Jesus healed the
sick by prayer and that healing was gradually dropped as
the church became prosperous and worldly. A layman from a
rural district was being shown, by a bishop, the riches of
a cathedral. The bishop said, "The church can no longer say,

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'Silver and gold have I none.'" "No," said the layman.
"Neither can it say, 'Take up thy bed, and walk.'"

It is found by those who have faith in the power of God
that the prayer for health is the most quickly answered.
The reason for this is that the natural laws that create
and sustain the body are really divine laws, and when man
silently asks for the intervention of God in restoring
health, he is calling into action the natural forces of his
being. Doctors agree that the object of using their
remedies is to quicken the natural functions of the body.
But medicine does not appeal to the intelligent principle
that directs all the activities of the organism, hence it
fails to give permanent healing.

However a conscious union with the natural life forces
lying within and back of all the complex activities of man
gets right to the fountainhead, and the results are
unfailing if the proper connection has been made.

The first step in prayer for health is to get still. "Be
still, and know that I am God." To get still the body must
be relaxed and the mind quieted. Center the attention
within. There is a quiet place within us all, and by
silently saying over and over, "Peace, be still," we shall
enter that quiet place and a great stillness will pervade
our whole being. Jesus Christ said, "Peace be unto you. . .
. Receive ye the Holy Spirit." That is, He spoke to the
within. He said also, "whatsoever ye shall ask in my name,
that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the
Son."

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"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways, saith Jehovah. For as the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and
my thoughts than your thoughts." This verse from Isaiah
gives us an insight into the difference between the mortal
thinker and the divine. Divine Mind is serene, orderly,
placid, while sense mind is turbulent, discordant, and
violent. We can readily understand from this comparison why
we do not get divine guidance even though we strive ever so
hard for it. The best of us are subject to crosscurrents of
worry that interfere with the even flow of God's thoughts
into our consciousness. Jesus warned His followers not to
be anxious about what they should eat, drink, or wear. In
all literature there is no finer comparison than that given
by Jesus when He pointed to the flowers and said: "Consider
the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin; yet I say unto you, that even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."

If God so clothes the lilies, shall He not much more clothe
His children? This argument holds good with reference to
all human needs. There is a natural law whose chief purpose
is to take care of the human family. But the divine order
of creative Mind must be observed by man before he can
receive the benefits of his natural inheritance.

Metaphysicians, who study the mind and its many modes of
action, find that when they refuse to let thoughts of
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their minds, they gradually establish an inner quietness
that finally merges into a great peace. This is the "peace
of God, which passeth all understanding." When this peace
is attained, the individual gets inspirations and
revelations direct from infinite Mind.

Any method that will hush the external thought clamor will
achieve unity with the inner peace. When we are in peaceful
sleep, the outer clamor of thought is stilled and the great
Spirit of the universe communicates its higher vision to
the inner consciousness of man.

The ancient peoples seem to have been more open than
moderns to revelations in sleep. Long ago Job wrote in the
33d chapter of his book:

//quote

"In a dream, in a vision of the night,

When deep sleep falleth upon men,

In slumberings upon the bed;

Then he openeth the ears of men,

And sealeth their instruction."

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It is written in I Kings, chapter 3, that the Lord appeared
to Solomon in a dream and said, "Ask what I shall give
thee." Solomon did not ask for riches, for honor, or for
the glory that kings usually seek, but in meekness he asked
the Lord to give him an "understanding heart" so that he
might discriminate between good and evil and be a wise
judge of his people. Riches and honor followed of course,
as they always do when a man is earnestly striving to be
honest and just in all ways.

We get our most vivid revelations when in a meditative
state of mind. This proves that when we

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make the mind trustful and confident, we put it in harmony
with creative Mind; then its force flows to us in
accordance with the law of like attracting like.

The agonizing, supplicating, begging prayer is not
answered, because the thoughts are so turbulent that Divine
Mind cannot reach the pleader. Jesus prayed with a
confident assurance that what He wanted would be granted,
and He established a mode of prayer for His followers that
never fails when the same conditions and relations are
attained and maintained with reference to the Father-Mind.

Through His spiritual attainments Jesus formed a spiritual
zone in the earth's mental atmosphere; His followers make
connection with that zone when they pray in His "name." He
stated this fact in John 14:2: "I go to prepare a place for
you." Simon Peter said, "Lord, whither goest thou?" Jesus
answered him, "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now;
but thou shalt follow afterwards."

When Jesus had purified His body sufficiently, He ascended
into this "place" in the spiritual ethers of our planet. In
our high spiritual realizations we make temporary contact
with Him and His spiritual character, represented by His
"name." But we, like the apostles, are not yet able to go
there and abide, because we have not overcome earthly
attachments. We shall however attain the same freedom and
spiritual power that He attained if we follow Him in the
regeneration. But we should clearly understand that we
cannot go to Jesus' "place" through death. We must overcome
death as He did before we can

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be glorified with Him in the "heavens," the higher realms
of the mind.

We should not cease to pray to the Father in the name of
Christ Jesus; He said that man should "pray always." Prayer
lifts our thoughts on high and sets us free from the narrow
limits of matter, just as the electromagnetic impulse is
lifted and carried by the ether and caught by any receptive
station. Spiritual-minded people are being united today, as
in the past, by zones of spiritual force that will
eventually become the permanent thought atmosphere of the
planet. In Revelation this is typified as the New Jerusalem
descending out of the heavens into the earth.

Jesus said we could ask whatsoever we wished in His name
and it should be done unto us: "Verily, verily, I say unto
you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give
it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my
name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made
full."

Jesus taught in parables because the people did not
understand that spiritual forces, acting through mind, make
race conditions. But He told them: "The hour cometh, when I
shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall
tell you plainly of the Father."

The time prophesied by Jesus--when we should plainly
understand the character of the Father--is now at hand, and
it behooves all Christians to come out of parables and to
realize that scientific laws govern the material, mental,
and spiritual realms of Being.

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"Pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks," wrote
Paul to the Thessalonians. The idea is that we should be
persistent in prayer. We know it is always the will of the
air to give us all that we can breathe into our lungs.
Jesus compared the Spirit to the air in describing the new
birth to Nicodemus. It requires lung capacity to breathe
deeply of the oceans of air; so it requires spiritual
capacity to realize how accessible and ready omnipresent
Spirit is to fill us full of itself. The lack is in us. God
is more willing to give than we are to receive.

To acquire the mind that is always open to Spirit we must
be persistent in prayer. It is written in the 18th chapter
of Luke: "And he spake a parable unto them to the end that
they ought always to pray, and not to faint." He then told
of the judge who feared not God nor man yet who was worn
out by the persistency of a woman who demanded justice.

By experimentation modern metaphysical healers have
discovered a large number of laws that rule in the realm of
mind, and they all agree that no two cases are exactly
alike. Therefore one who prays for the health of another
should understand that it is not the fault of the healing
principle that his patient is not instantly restored. The
fault may be in his own lack of persistency or
understanding; or it may be due to the patient's dogged
clinging to discordant thoughts. In any case the one who
prays must persist in this prayer until the walls of
resistance are broken down and the healing currents are
tuned in. Metaphysicians often pray over a critical case
all night,

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as history says Luther prayed for the dying Melanchthon and
brought about his recovery.

Persistency in prayer awakens the spiritual consciousness
and sets into perpetual glow the core of the soul. When
this has been accomplished, one is in a constant state of
thanksgiving and praising, and the joy of a conscious union
with creative Mind is realized.

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//section Chapter 6

Chapter VI

God Said, and It Was So

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EMERSON said that the utterance of true ideas by one with a
mission causes kings to totter on their thrones. Words of
Truth from a zealous man possess dynamic power to heal and
bless because the spiritual man enters into them. This is
why they move multitudes and are not stayed by conditions
or time. When the zone of Spirit, from which healing words
emanate, is unobstructed, they feed the souls of men and
are creative as well as re-creative. This is why the
sayings of the prophets and mystics have such enduring
qualities. They are attached by invisible currents of life
to the one Great Spirit, and they have within them the germ
of perfect wholeness that keeps them perpetually increasing.

The scriptures of the different races are examples of the
outward expression of this inner germ. The Book of Job is a
dateless work that has been preserved through great
changes, including the rise and fall of nations. Who wrote
it no one knows, but it was not lost with the loss of its
custodians. They were wiped out, their lands taken from
them, and they are no longer known among the nations of the
earth, but the mystic word of Job was not consumed. If they
had applied in their own lives the power of the germ word,
the fate of these people would have

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been very different. But the history of the Book of Job is
that of nearly all the sacred writings of all peoples.
Secular histories and records of the exploits of men and
the affairs of nations have disappeared and been forgotten
because they told the tale of the passing world of flesh;
but the records of those who had to do with the spiritual
are preserved, and they are living today as they have lived
ever since they were given forth: through the power derived
from Spirit. The true prophet of God does not even have to
write his words down. He may speak them to the ethers, and
through their own inherent power of perpetuation and growth
they will find their way into the minds of men to uplift
and to heal. Jesus did not write a line except in the sand,
yet His words are treasured today as the most precious that
we have.

We know by these many examples that the word of Truth has
life in it, that it has power to restore and make whole,
and that it cannot perish or grow less with the changes
that come with the fleeting years. The more spiritual the
individual is who gives forth the words the more enduring
they are, and the more powerfully the words move men the
more surely they awaken them to their divine nature.

The words of Jesus Christ were given to common
people--according to the world's standard--by a carpenter
in a remote corner of the earth. Yet these words have moved
men for more than nineteen hundred years to realize, to
dare, and to do as no other words that were ever uttered.

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When Jesus said, "The words that I have spoken unto you are
spirit, and are life," He was speaking in terms of that
inner Word which creates all things. He knew that His words
were vivified with a life essence and a moving power that
would demonstrate the truth of His statement.

These words have rung through the souls of men and set them
afire with God's Spirit throughout the ages. This is
because they are spiritual words, words that have within
them the seeds of a divine life, of a perfect wholeness.
They grow in the minds of all who give them place, just as
a beautiful flower or a great tree grows from the seed germ
planted in the ground.

Jesus knew that the consciousness of man was submerged in
the things of sense, that it could not perceive Truth in
the abstract, and that it must, under these conditions, be
stirred into activity through some stimulating force
dropped into it from without. Hence He sent forth His
powerful words of Truth to the thirsty men, and said unto
them, "Keep my word."

To "keep" a word is to resolve it in the mind, to go over
it in all its aspects, to believe in it as a truth, and to
treasure it as a saving, healing balm in time of need.

All peoples have in all ages known about the saving power
of words and have used them to the best of their
understanding to cast out demons and to heal the sick. The
Hebrews bound upon their foreheads and wrists parchments
with words of Scripture

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written upon them. The Hindus, Japanese, Chinese, and
nearly all other nations have their various methods for
applying sacred words to the alleviation of their ills, and
for invoking the invisible powers to aid them in both their
material and their spiritual needs. Although these methods
are faulty in that they tend to use the letter of the word
instead of its spirit, they are significant as indicators
of the universal belief in the power of the sacred word.

We know that words express ideas, and to get at their
substantial part we must move into the realm of ideas.
Ideas are in the mind, and it is there we must go if we
want to get the force of our words. The Hebrew's
phylacteries and the Buddhist's prayer wheels are
suggestive of the wordy prayers of the Christian; but this
is not keeping the words of Jesus, nor reading the inner
substance of the mystical words. This can be done only by
those who believe in the omnipresent Spirit of God and in
faith keep in mind the words that express His goodness,
wisdom, power, and wholeness.

Jesus voiced this nearness of God to man more fully than
any of the prophets, and His words are correspondingly
vivified with the divine inner fire and life and wholeness.
He said that those who keep His words will even escape
death, so potent is the energy attached to them. This is a
startling promise, but when we understand that it was not
the personal man Jesus making it but the Father speaking
through Him, then we know that it was not an idle one; for
He said, "The word which ye hear is not mine, but

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the Father's who sent me." This is why these words of Jesus
endure and why more and more they are attracting the
attention of men as the years go by. That is the reason why
Jesus' words heal.

Whoever takes Jesus' words into his mind should first
consecrate himself to the Truth that they represent. That
Truth is not the formulated doctrine of any church nor the
creed of any sect; not even of Christianity. That truth is
written in the inner sanctuary of every heart, and all men
know it without external formulas. It is the intuitive
perception of what is right in the sight of God and man. It
is this Truth and justice which every man recognizes as the
foundation of true living. Whoever consecrates himself to
follow the inner monitor, the Spirit of truth, and lives up
to its promptings regardless of social or commercial
customs has consecrated himself to do God's will, and he is
fitted to take Jesus' words and make them his own. His
words are then spirit and life.

It is no idle experiment, this keeping in the mind the
words of Jesus. It is a very momentous undertaking, which
may mark the most important period in the life of the
individual. There must be sincerity and earnestness and
right motive, and withal a determination to understand its
spiritual import. This requires attention, time, and
patience in the application of the mind to solving the
deeper meanings of the sayings that we are urged to "keep."

People have a way of dealing with sacred words that is too
superficial to bring results. They juggle

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words. They toss them into the air with the heavenly tone
or the oratorical ring and count that a compliance with
divine requirements. But this is only another form of the
prayer wheel and the phylactery. It is that lip service
which Jesus condemned, because the purpose is to be "heard
of men."

To keep the words of Jesus means much more than this. It
has peculiar significance for the inner life, and it is
only after this inner life is awakened that the true sense
of the spiritual word is understood. But through his
devotions the sincere keeper of Jesus' sayings will awaken
this inner life or Spirit, and the Lord will come to him
and minister to him as carefully as to the adept mystic.

Jesus said, "The words that I have spoken unto you are
spirit, and are life." Spirit is that indescribable
invisible cause that produces all reality. He who lives in
the consciousness of effects alone can know nothing about
Spirit, because he has not made himself acquainted with the
realm in which it operates. But no one is barred from
becoming acquainted with Spirit and residing in its domain.
It is just as accessible as the material and far more
attractive. If you want to know about Spirit, you will have
to take up spiritual ways. You cannot go to the realm of
Spirit by traveling the lower road. The road to the realm
of Spirit does not lie on the map of the earth, and no man
has found it in his physical geography. That spiritual
things "are spiritually discerned" was the discovery of
someone long ago, but he had no copyright on it. To him it
was a revelation, just as it

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will be to you and to everyone when it dawns on the
consciousness. It is a great advantage to the spiritual
seeker to make this discovery. Millions of persons in every
age have tried to find Spirit through matter and material
ways, but they have returned unsuccessful to the dust. "For
verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men
desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not;
and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not."
They did not fulfill the promise of Jesus, because they saw
death and succumbed to its dissolving hand. They missed the
goal because they did not keep the words of Jesus. They
kept the letter instead of the spirit. They applied in an
abstract way what was intended for everyday practical use.

Jesus tells us that His words are spirit, and then says to
keep them. How can we keep a thing that we know nothing
about? How can we keep the words and sayings of Jesus
unless we get right where He was and grasp them with our
minds?

Surely there is no other way to keep His words. Those who
are trying to do so from any other standpoint are missing
the mark. They may be honest and they may be good, sincere
people, living what the world calls a pure Christian life,
but they are not going to get the fruits of Jesus' words
unless they comply with the requirements.

"There's no getting blood out of a turnip" is a trite
saying. Neither can you get Spirit and life out of matter
and death. Unless you perceive that there is something more
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up a worldly moral standard as preparation for salvation
after death, you will fall far short of being a real
Christian.

Jesus did not depreciate moral living; neither did He
promise that it would fulfill the law of God. Very negative
persons are frequently trustworthy and moral. But that does
not make them Christians after the Jesus Christ plan.
Jesus' Christianity had a living God in it, a God that
lived in Him and spoke through Him. It was a religion of
fire and water, of life as well as purity. Men are to be
alive: not merely exist in a half-dead way for a few years
and then go out with a splutter like a tallow dip. Jesus
Christ's men are to be electric lights that glow and gleam
with perpetual current from the one omnipresent energy. The
connection with that current is to be made through the mind
by setting up sympathetic energies.

The mind reacts to ideas, and ideas are made visible in
words. Hence the holding of right words in the mind will
set the mind going at a rate proportioned to the dynamic
power of the idea back of the words. A word with a lazy
idea back of it will not stimulate the mind or heal the
body. The words must represent swift, strong spiritual
ideas if they are to infuse the white energy of God into
the mind. This is the kind of words that Jesus reveled in.
He delighted in making great and mighty claims for His God,
for Himself, for His words, and for all men: "I and the
Father are one." "All authority hath been given unto me in
heaven and on earth." "My

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Father . . . is greater than all." "Is it not written in
your law, I said, ye are gods?" "He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works
than these shall he do." These were some of the claims with
which He stimulated His mind, and He produced the results:
He fulfilled His words. He even raised the dead.

But He did not copyright His words or forbid anyone else to
use them. He importuned you and me to keep them as He kept
them--right in His heart--to realize that this is no idle
repetition of words but the setting up of a living fire in
the soul that will never go out. This is what the words of
Jesus will do for everybody who keeps them in the inner
sanctuary of the mind. They will kindle a fire there that
will burn higher and higher until it licks the very canopy
of heaven and burns a hole in the blue vault of Truth,
revealing the wonders of God to the astonished eyes of man.

Jesus' words are varied, but all are food for the minds of
His disciples. None of them is too hard for him who would
be a disciple, nor is it too far from his present power of
realization. What you now comprehend is not the ultimate of
your ability in any direction. Your not consciously feeling
that you and the Father are one does not militate against
its being true. Men in high states of civilization lived
for centuries on this planet without knowing that it was a
globe and that just across the seas were other continents
inhabited like their own. The race today is in the same
position as regards the spiritual world. We

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look with longing eyes across a sea of doubts, fears, and
delusions, trying to catch sight of the "Promised Land,"
but there seems to be no one to pilot us over. But here
comes one who is to us a Columbus and who has given us a
ship and compass. He has sailed the sea and found the other
shore. He asks us to follow Him, and keep His words. His
words are the ship and compass.

In about twenty places in the New Testament Jesus is
recorded as saying in substance, "Follow me." When we
inquire into Jesus' teaching, it is evident that He meant
for us to follow His example of being receptive to God's
wisdom, peace, power, and health. For instance, let us
consider His healing of the man at the Pool of Bethesda who
had been afflicted with an infirmity for thirty-eight years.

//quote

Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which
is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches. In these
lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt,
withered. And a certain man was there, who had been thirty
and eight years in his infirmity. When Jesus saw him lying,
and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he
saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole? The sick man
answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is
troubled, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming,
another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him,
Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. And straightway the man
was made whole, and took up his bed and walked.

//text

This healing of the man at the pool represents the power of
the Christ (typified by Jesus) to restore the equilibrium
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activity of spiritual ideas in consciousness, independently
of the healing methods utilized by the sense man. The true
spiritual healing method employs the word of authority, as
spoken by Jesus, which must be set into activity. Through
the power of the word the "infirmity" gives place to
perfect equalization and strength.

To the rich young man who desired to enter into eternal
life Jesus recommended the keeping of the commandments, but
in addition there was the inevitable "Sell that which thou
hast, and give to the poor . . . and come, follow me."
Faithfulness to law alone will never make you a follower of
Jesus in the regeneration. You must go deeper than this;
you must know the inner secrets of the universe. These are
revealed in Spirit, and Spirit is found only by those who
go about looking for it in an orderly way. People who have
for years been students of the science of Christ and who
have a clear intellectual perception of its truths are yet
outside the kingdom of Spirit. They anxiously ask, "Why is
it that I do not realize the presence of Spirit?"

Have you kept the "words" of Jesus? Have you said to
yourself in silence and aloud until the very ethers
vibrated with its truth, "I and the Father are one"? Have
you opened your mind by mentally repeating the one solvent
of crystallized conditions, "Even as thou, Father, art in
me, and I in thee"? This means mental discipline day after
day and night after night until the inertia of the mind is
overcome and the way opened for the descent of Spirit.

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The personal consciousness is like a house with all the
doors and windows barred. He who lives within may hear
voices without, but the doors and windows unlock from
within, and it is left to him to unfasten them. The doors
and windows of the mind are solidified thoughts, and they
swing loose when the right word is spoken to them. Jesus
voiced a whole army of right words, and if you will take up
His words and make them yours, they will open all the doors
of your mind, the light and air will come in, and in due
time you will be able to step forth.

No one can do this for you. You do not really want another
to do it although you sometimes think how nice it would be
if some master of spiritual ideas would suddenly help you
right into his understanding. But this is a childish dream
of the moment. You want to be yourself, and you can be
yourself only by living out your own life and finding its
issues at the Fountainhead. If it were possible for one
person to reveal the Truth to another, we should have
heaven cornered by cunning manipulators of mind and its
glories stored up in warehouses awaiting a higher market.
Let us be thankful that God is no respecter of persons;
that Truth cannot be revealed by one mortal to another. God
is a special, personal Father to every one of His children,
and from no other source can we get Truth.

Jesus, who has clearly revealed the Father in His
consciousness, tells all men how it came about. He points
out the way. He says, "I am the way, and the

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truth, and the life"; but there is always a condition
attached to its realization by the seeker. He must
"believe," he must "keep my words," "follow me." Summed up,
the condition is that by adopting Jesus' methods you will
find the same place in the Father that He found. But the
Father is Spirit and spiritual understanding is the open
sesame to His kingdom. The secrets of Jesus' words may be
said to be in sealed packages to be opened by those only to
whom is given "the mystery of the kingdom of God."

But Jesus did not peddle His doctrine. He did not copyright
His "words." He claimed to hold converse with the Father,
and He demonstrated extraordinary abilities in many ways in
substantiation of this claim. He did not found a sect or in
any way fence off His doctrine. He opened wide the way:
"Whosoever believeth on me" and "keepeth" My words--shall
do thus and so; shall do as I do and do greater things. He
made a special prayer to the Father that all who kept His
word might be made one with the Father as He was one with
Him.

The mighty "words" of Jesus are handed down to us. By using
them in the silent corridors of our own consciousness we
may come into the place where He now is.

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//section Chapter 7

Chapter VII

Indispensable Assurance

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MAN CAN be what he determines to be. He can be master or he
can be serf. It rests with him whether he shall fill the
high places in life or the low, whether he shall serve or
be served, lead or be led, or be sickly or healthy. Of
course we understand that these distinctions are relative
only; in the sight of the Most High the servant may be
prized more than his master, but there is within every one
an inherent desire to be at the top, which desire has its
root deep down in our very nature and is consequently
legitimate. That it is frequently misdirected and used
toward base ends is no reason why it should be depreciated.
We all desire to excel. This desire is the inspiration of
Spirit, which ever forces us up through earth toward
heaven, and it should be encouraged and cultivated in the
right direction.

A man without ambition is like a ship afloat on the waves
without sails or power. Such a man simply drifts: if he
reaches port safely it is by chance.

But a ship under full sail or power needs one other
important thing and that is a rudder. Then it needs a man
to handle that rudder, and that man needs faith.

In considering the character of faith we must start, as we
do with everything else, in the one Mind.

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God must have had faith in order to ideate the universe
before it was created; and man, being like God, must base
his creations on faith. Faith is innate in man. A favorite
definition of faith is that of Paul: "Faith is the
assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not
seen." It is by works of faith that we develop our
consciousness and heal ourselves. The important question
with everyone of us is, How does faith work?

It is possible to have a reality and yet neither touch it
nor smell it nor see it nor in any way come into
consciousness of it in the outer realm. That is what faith
is. It is the consciousness in us of the realities of the
attributes of mind. Before we can have the substance of
faith we must realize that the mind creates realities. How
do we create realities without seeing them, or feeling
them, or smelling them, or tasting them, or in any way
coming into outer consciousness of them? Faith is the
wonderful power that builds these eternally real things.

Faith is a power of the spiritual mind, but in all the
realms of existence we find faith. The foundation of faith
is in the spiritual, but wherever you find the mind at work
you find faith. Faith in its highest form is an exalted
idea. And what is the most exalted idea that man can have?
That he is spiritual; that he is related directly to the
one great Spirit, and that through that Spirit he can do
mighty works by faith.

Jesus laid great stress on faith. He always tried to direct
the attention of the people to the invisible,

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the spiritual, by statements like these: "Believe ye that I
am able to do this?" "According to your faith be it done
unto you." "Thy faith hath made thee whole." All through
His works there runs a golden thread of faith. Jesus did
not advocate faith in material forces of any character.
Through faith He healed thousands. His command was "Have
faith in God."

We would not destroy anyone's faith in the lesser things,
but would give him a sure foundation for all faith by
directing his attention to the one and only source of
faith, Divine Mind. The question for us is how to increase
our faith in Spirit. You will find that you have plenty of
faith. All men have faith, but it is scattered here and
there and everywhere by being placed in lesser things, and
those lesser things finally fail us.

If you get a good strong perception of something that your
inner mind tells you is true, act upon it, and you will
find that it will come true.

In developing His apostles Jesus took Peter as the
representative of faith, and proclaimed that upon this
foundation (of faith) He would build the new man, His
"church" or aggregation of spiritual ideas. The faith
demonstrated by Peter in the beginning of his career was
not of a very high type. When Truth (represented by Christ)
was being tried, Peter denied Jesus: said that he did not
know Him and swore at Him, showing that Peter's faith must
have been at a very low ebb when put to the test. At the
very last Jesus tried Peter again and again, asking three

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times, "Lovest thou me?" Faith and love are very closely
related. You must love the Lord, and then you must have
faith in His spiritual power and continuity. Peter finally
unfolded a mighty healing power. Even his shadow healed.

Now this faith that we are all cultivating and striving for
is built up through continuous affirmations of its loyalty
to the divine idea, the higher self. You must have faith in
your spiritual capacity.

Many have learned how to hold the truth about health
steadily in faith even in the midst of the most adverse
appearances, and they clearly understand that they are not
telling falsehoods when they deny sickness right in the
face of the appearance of it. In the same way we achieve
our victory over sin. When ill temper, vanity, greed,
selfishness, and other sins of greater and lesser degree
come up, they should be denied; and the unselfishness, the
purity, the uprightness, and the integrity of the higher
self should be affirmed. Persons who are quickened
spiritually can do very much greater works through the law
of faith than those who are still in the material
consciousness; and once having discerned the power of
Spirit, we should be on our guard and send forth on every
occasion exalted ideas of the spiritual.

"I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if
any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever." Jesus
Christ raised people who had let go of the life idea and
brought them into such a consciousness of omnipresent life
that they came out of the tomb.

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This life consciousness that Jesus Christ quickens is as
greatly needed in our day as it was in the time when He
first worked in the souls of men. If you go to a medical
doctor and ask him the cause of your ills, he will tell you
that most of them come from lack of vitality, which means
lack of life. We all need vitalizing. The question is, How
shall we get life? What is the source of life? Those who
teach the use of material remedies point us to various
things as the source--food, air, water, and so forth; but
those who depend on these remedies are fast losing faith in
drugs and are reaching out to electricity and similar means
of gaining more abundant life. They are thus getting a
little closer to the healing system of Jesus, but they
still lack the all-important truth that God is life and
that they who worship Him must worship Him in the life
consciousness, that is, in Spirit. When we worship God in
His way, we are vitalized all at once; there is no other
way to get real, permanent life. We cannot get life from
the outer man or from anything external; we must touch the
inner current.

The life source is spiritual energy. It is deeper and finer
than electricity or human magnetism. It is composed of
ideas, and man can turn on its current by making mental
contact with it.

When Jesus came teaching the gospel of Spirit, people did
not understand Him. They did not know that universal Spirit
is Principle and that we demonstrate it or fail to
demonstrate it according to the character of our thinking.
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thousand years to find that we turn on the life current by
means of thoughts and words. We can have fullness of life
by realizing that we live in a sea of abundant,
omnipresent, eternal life, and by refusing to allow any
thought to come in that stops the consciousness of the
universal life flow. We live and move and have our being in
life, Mind life. You can think of your life as mental;
every faculty will begin to buzz with new life. Your life
will never wane if you keep in the consciousness of it as
Mind or Spirit; it will increase and attain full expression
in your body. If you have faith in the life idea in your
consciousness, your body will never be run down but will
become more and more alive with spiritual life until it
shows forth the glory of Christ.

We must think life, talk life, and see ourselves filled
with the fullness of life. When we are not manifesting life
as we desire, it is because our thoughts and our
conversation are not in accord with the life idea. Every
time we think life, speak life, rejoice in life, we are
setting free, and bringing into expression in ourselves
more and more of the life idea. Here is the place of
abundant life, and we can fill both mind and body, both our
surroundings and our affairs, with glad, free, buoyant life
by exercising faith in it. "According to your faith be it
done unto you."

In this way we enter into the same consciousness of
abundant, enduring, unfailing, eternal life that Jesus had,
and we can readily understand His proclamation that those
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Christ life will never die. If we are wise, we shall
cultivate faith in and understanding of omnipresent life.

I know a man who is a natural pessimist, and if anyone
mentions something that is not to be emulated he will say,
"Now, let us be careful about that." If you speak of
someone who has been doing a good work for the community,
he will always throw in a little depreciation. His whole
life has been like sodden bread. Everything falls flat in
his affairs, and he does not understand why it is. He says,
"I have been studying this Truth for years, and I do not
understand why I do not succeed." Intellectually he is a
Truth seeker, but it has not taken hold of his faith
substance. He doubts, and down he goes. When Peter tried to
walk on the water to meet Jesus, he went down in the sea of
doubt. He saw too much wetness in the water. He saw the
negative side of the proposition, and it weakened his
demonstration. If you want to demonstrate, never consider
the negative side. If mountains seem to oppose the carrying
out of your plans, say with Napoleon that there shall be no
Alps. The man who is grounded in faith does not measure his
thoughts or his acts by the world's standard of facts.
"Faith is blind," say people who are not acquainted with
the real thing; but those who are in spiritual
understanding know that faith has open eyes, that certain
things do exist in Spirit and become substantial and real
to the one who dwells and thinks and lives in faith. Such a
one knows.

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Many Christians are like the woman who was on a ship during
a great storm. She went to the captain and said, "Now I
want to know just how bad it is." He told her plainly that
they were in a very desperate and helpless condition and
finished by saying, "We shall have to trust in God." She
exclaimed, "Oh, dear! has it come to that?"

A close analysis shows that faith is the foundation of all
that man does. The doctor knows that the patient's faith in
him and his method is essential to his success. I remember
a story told me by a lawyer: A certain attorney was subject
to periodical headaches. He had some capsules prescribed by
his physician that would cure these headaches almost
instantly. For emergencies he carried one of the capsules
in his vest pocket, and immediately upon swallowing it the
pain would disappear. Once when pleading a case he was
seized with a headache. He reached into his pocket, secured
the little antidote and swallowed it, and immediately the
headache left him. He went on with his argument, and after
he sat down he wished to make some corrections in his
notes, and felt in his pocket for a little rubber pencil
tip that he carried for that purpose. Instead of the rubber
tip he brought out a capsule, thus discovering that he had
swallowed his pencil tip instead of the capsule.

This was an exhibition of faith asserting itself unawares.
Suppose we should concentrate such faith on the invisible,
the real things, the things of Spirit, how wonderful would
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effective we should become in using the mighty working
power of Spirit!

Jesus told His followers (and we are all His followers) to
go forth and do His works--raise the dead and the like--and
that we should do even greater works than He did. How? By
exercising spiritual faith, by increasing our power through
exalted ideas. We must raise our faith to the very highest
in us and rest in the "assurance" or substance of its
reality.

Jesus had faith in God, and this gave Him faith in all men.
Spiritual understanding reveals the universality of all
things. When they brought to Him the lame man on the couch,
letting him down through the ceiling, "Jesus seeing their
faith," healed him, not because of the faith of the man
himself but because of the faith of those who brought him.
The faith of his neighbors in the power of Spirit did the
work for the sick man.

We believe that doctors are doing the very best they know;
but if they would only approach a little closer to the
spiritual, what a wonderful work they might do! They are
giving less and less medicine every year. They recognize
more and more that there is something back of medicine that
they call the healing power of nature.

Nearly every doctor of large experience will tell you that
he can get the same result with a little sweetened water
that he can with drugs if he has the confidence of the
patient. If the patient can be made to believe that the
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a certain way, he will carry out this belief to the letter.
Thus the word, the imagination, and faith work together.

Jesus had this high spiritual realization, and He healed
through the word. He is the Great Physician. He is the one
whom we are to follow, whom we are seeking to emulate; and
we do it through laying hold of Spirit. I would say to you
that if you want to do the works of God, you must follow
Christ. If you want to elevate yourself out of the
physical, you must have faith in God and must cultivate
that faith through affirmation of your spiritual power and
faith. The Lord's Prayer is continual affirmation from
beginning to end.

It has been our experience in developing the faculties of
mind that the more we affirm a certain thing the stronger
it becomes. But we must have the understanding that our
relation to God is that of a son to his father; that we
exist in the one Mind as an idea, and that this idea does
work in us as in a superman, even Christ.

It is a metaphysical law that there are three steps in
every demonstration; the recognition of Truth as it is in
principle; holding the idea; and acknowledging fulfillment.
Pray believing that you have received, and you shall
receive.

From the teaching of Jesus it is clear that He accepted
fully the proposition that God is our resource and that all
things are provided for us by our Father. It is necessary
to cultivate these ideas by considering them daily in all
that we do.

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It is recorded that a pupil of Socrates' once said to him:
"Master, when we read what you have inscribed we are
inspired; when we come into your presence we are moved to
love; when we hear your words we are charmed, and when we
touch your hand we are thrilled."

Socrates was a great soul, a master mind, and his soul
radiation was very powerful. But Jesus was still greater in
His soul radiation; He had through ages of discipline and
thought projection in word and deed made Himself a master
scientist in the mental and spiritual worlds. His soul
radiation or aura was so powerful that it perpetually
stimulates to greater achievement and thrills with new life
all who enter its sphere of influence. Thought transference
is an accepted fact to many persons, and it is sustained by
the recent tests in measuring the force projected in the
process of human thinking. Machines have been invented so
sensitive that they respond to the thoughts of men and
women under various emotions. The results are reported to
be so pronounced in their order and regularity as to
constitute a universal law in mind activity.

This power of the mind to project the results of thinking
gives us the key to the work of Jesus in resurrecting His
body and making it perpetually radiant in our mental and
spiritual atmosphere.

As there are dimensions above that in which we live so
there are levels of mind activity above and beyond the
intellectual. Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many
mansions"; that is, dwelling places

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in mind or consciousness: states of consciousness.

"I go to prepare a place for you. . . . that where I am,
there ye may be also."

The assertions by physical scientists that we have no
assurance of any power that will increase our moral stature
or save us from suffering and degeneracy is beyond
comprehension to one who has gone deeply into the study of
psychology and spiritual dynamics.

We may receive spiritual inspiration from within. By prayer
and meditation on words of Truth in the silence we may so
open our consciousness to the inner divine presence that
the necessary understanding, love, and power may be given
us to enable us to bring forth in our own lives the good
results that we wish to see manifest. This is much better
than waiting to see the demonstrations of others before
believing and before attempting to bring forth
demonstrations of our own.

After Thomas was shown the evidence he believed. After the
outer reason sees the works accomplished by the I AM by
means of faith and the word it accepts Truth. But there is
a quicker way to grow in faith and in spiritual
understanding, a way that has nothing to do with
intellectual reasoning and belief. Jesus said, "Blessed are
they that have not seen, and yet have believed." That way
is the quickening of our innate spiritual faith.

True faith in God separates itself from all negative belief
in the body as material, impure, transient.

With the growth of faith in the mind of the individual

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there comes a quickening of all his thoughts by the influx
of Truth. "The word of God" increases.

God is never absent from you. He is constantly taking form
in your life according to the exact pattern of your words,
thoughts, and actions. Just as soon as you really bring
your words and your expectations up to the measure of God's
love for you, just that soon you will demonstrate.

Thoughts are seeds that, when dropped or planted in the
subconscious mind, germinate, grow, and bring forth their
fruit in due season. The more clearly we understand this
truth the greater will be our ability to plant the seeds
that bring forth desirable fruits. After sowing the plants
must be tended. After using the law we must hold to its
fulfillment. This is our part, but God gives the increase.
You must work in divine order and not expect the harvest
before the soil has been prepared or the seed sown. You
have now the fruits of previous sowings. Change your
thought seeds and reap what you desire. Some bring forth
very quickly, others more slowly, but all in divine order.

The law of spiritual healing involves full receptivity on
the part of the one under treatment. God does not do things
in us against our will, as will acts in both the conscious
and subconscious realms of mind. However much it may appear
that the word is thwarted in its original intent, this is
never true; it goes on, and it enters where reception is
given it. In this way men are quickened, and whether we see
the result with our physicial vision

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or not, the process is as sure as God Himself.

In treating others we are told to see our patients as
perfect. So in actualizing our ideals we must see them as
if they were part of our phenomenal life. We often hear it
said that the genius lives in a world of his own, separate
and apart from common minds. From the metaphysical
standpoint we see that the genius is merely one who has
caught onto the law of believing his dreams of health,
perfection, and success to be true, and whose dreams have
therefore become true.

A genius is one who lets the full Spirit within him speak
out, regardless of how different its utterances may be from
those of people who have posed as authority. He has
absolute faith in his spiritual revelations and fearlessly
proclaims them. He is a pioneer and a leader. He listens to
his own inherent genius and has faith in his God-given
ability. Not only must he listen but he must act. The world
is filled with original dreamers. They have ideas brilliant
beyond expression, but they do not clothe them in the
habiliments of action.

You must not only perceive and idea; you must also give it
form by infusing into it the substance of your living
faith. Daydreamers may be found by the score in physics and
metaphysics. They all fall short in failing to realize that
there are two sides to every proposition, the image and the
expression: and that the Lord God formed man out of the
ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

So each one of us must not only see the image

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of his desires as a theory, but he must also form it into a
living, breathing thing through every motive and act of his
life. That is, if we have an idea, we must act just as if
it were part of our life. We must be formed from the
substance of our world, whether it be the dust of the
ground or the ethers of the invisible. There must be an
actual imaging of them in our consciousness before we shall
ever see our ideas realized.

Here is where the dreamer and the divine scientist part
company. One says, "I admire your theories greatly, but
they can never be realized on this earth. Things are as
they are, and they cannot be changed. We are here, and we
shall just have to make the best of it."

He who has learned the meaning of man--who and what man
is--never allows himself to make any such admissions. He
knows that there is a way provided by which he not only can
lift himself out of the swamp of belief in sin, sickness,
and death but also through his efforts open the way for
many others to find the way to perfection. No man ever
demonstrated his God-given powers in even a small way who
did not help many others to do likewise. Preaching is good,
but practice is better. "I, if I be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men unto myself."

There is a work for everyone who will listen and obey the
Spirit. That work is important, because it is eternal and
brings results eternal in their nature.

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obedient to it at any cost, you are chosen. Your life is
hid with Christ in God, and the way into the kingdom is
assured you.

This is no fanciful sketch, nor does it refer to a
theoretical place or condition to be reached in some future
state or under circumstances more propitious. This kingdom
of God is now existing right here in our midst. It is being
externalized little by little.

Whoever has a high, pure thought and affirms his allegiance
to it as a part of his daily life is adding to the
externality of that kingdom among men. Whoever says, "I
will be upright and honest in all that I think and do," is
laying the foundation stones for one of the buildings of
the New Jerusalem.

Whoever affirms his allegiance to the good, regardless of
all appearance of evil, and in dealing with his brother
declares by word and act that only the good exists, is
building white spires to the one and only true God.

Whoever lays up in his mental storehouse the resolve "I
will do unto others as I would have them do unto me" is
paving the highways with pure gold in a heavenly city of
equity and justice.

There will be no need of the sun or the moon in the city of
the kingdom of God, because God, the good, will be the
light thereof.

We are the temples of God, of good, and through us is this
light to shine, which is so bright as to dim the rays of
those shining orbs of the night and the day. Herein is God
glorified that we love one another. Herein does the true
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love and peace and kindness shine forth forever and always.
We are to be the very light itself and we can only be the
light by becoming so pure that it cannot help but shine
through us. This is possible to the highest and lowest in
the world's roster of respectability. We are all the chosen
of the Lord and we make the covenant that carries us into
His visible presence by laying down the personal man and
taking up the universal man. He it is that thunders in the
depths of our soul. "Who say ye that I am?"

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Chapter VIII

The Fullness of Time

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ALL SANE persons acknowledge the necessity of observing the
laws of health in their daily living, but the great
majority have a human standard. Now that the whole race is
awakening to the knowledge of a higher source of existence
more people every day are giving attention to the law of
Spirit in their life.

"Order is heaven's first law." If we desire to demonstrate
health when we receive more spiritual life, we must order
this life rightly, for if it is not so ordered, mental and
physical discord will ensue. This applies to all that we
think and do. Everything must be brought into order. If we
affirm prosperity, that too must be brought into orderly
relations to the rest of our thinking. We may be declaring
life and prosperity and at the same time be holding some
disorganizing thought. This will produce inharmony and
discord in body and affairs. Lack of orderly arrangement of
thoughts is responsible for many delayed demonstrations of
healing.

We find in the Scriptures constant reference, in symbols
and also in direct language, to order as a fundamental law
of the universe and of man. There must be order in the
spiritual life as well as the material life. All peoples
have observed this, and especially the people of God. Paul
said, "Let all

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things be done decently and in order."

Suggestion is systematically used in the business world,
and unless you are strong in your own convictions as to
what your needs are, you will be loaded up with many things
for which you have no use. The remedy is to establish
yourself in the spiritual law. You will come under one or
the other of these laws, the man-made or the spiritual, and
it is for you to choose which is best.

You want to know then the metaphysics of order as a means
of demonstrating health. How can you order your life by the
divine plan? By accepting it as a truth that there is such
a plan and by making this plan yours through affirming your
oneness with the omnipresent Mind in which this plan exists
in its righteousness. Say, "I am the offspring of God, and
I am one with His perfect wisdom, which is now ordering my
life in divine harmony and health." Ask for wisdom; then
affirm divine order. Put yourself in unity with Spirit.
Then you will come into the consciousness of a new world of
thought and act and find yourself doing many things
differently because the orderly Mind that directs the
universe is working through you. A harmonious relation will
be established in all your ways. Whatever there was in
mind, body, or affairs that was out of harmony will easily
be adjusted when you open the way in your mind for the
manifestation of divine order.

The bringing forth of man even in the material sense is an
orderly process. The birth of Jesus is an example. His
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beforehand. It was not left to chance. His mother
"magnified" the Lord before He was born. This illustrates
the truth that it is necessary to have order from the very
beginning. The bringing forth of John the Baptist is an
example of the coming of another state of consciousness and
of the necessity of law and order in prenatal culture.

The same law holds good in our body and our affairs. The
power of the word should be expressed in our homes. We
should surround ourselves with words suggestive of
spiritual things. If words count, and we know they do, we
should be careful of every idea taken into consciousness
through the eye as well as through the ear.

From their inception to their expression words are
important. The law is fulfilled not only in mind but in
manifestation also. Every suggestion that enters the mind
brings forth like expression in act. The time is coming
when it will be unlawful to print in the daily papers any
record of crime or of anything that will bring discord into
the minds of readers. Recently I read of a man who
committed a crime, and in his pocket was found a newspaper
clipping describing almost identically the same criminal
act. His crime was the fruit of suggestion. How many such
suggestions does one large daily paper carry to its
thousands of readers in its recital of the daily horrors
that make up the news?

As the world comes more and more under the spiritual law
editors and publishers will not ask their readers what they
want, but will give them

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what they should have for mental food. And as the people
are raised to higher planes of consciousness they will
demand reading of an uplifting character. They will be just
as careful as regards what they read as they are now
beginning to be in reference to food. There will be the
same demand for pure reading as for pure food. If it is
against the law of the land to adulterate food, how much
more is it against the law of right thinking to adulterate
the truth. We can see the necessity of order and law
according to Spirit. If we would demonstrate health, every
deleterious thought should be kept out of our mental
atmosphere even more carefully than harmful elements are
kept out of our material food.

This spiritual law is operative in food and clothing. If we
think about order and harmony our taste in material things
will change. We shall desire the purest foods, and there
will be more harmony in the colors we choose to wear. "If
God doth so clothe the grass of the field . . . shall he
not much more clothe you?" Some people think it is
impossible for man to be clothed like the lilies. But if
man stands above all creation, has he not power to clothe
himself in the richness and glory of Spirit? Out of the air
we may manufacture the things we eat and wear. This is not
a flight of fancy. Chemists are already considering the
possibility. It is not an assumption of theoretical
metaphysics that we may be able to make our food and
clothing from the air, but a logical conclusion that
follows the understanding of God as the omnipresent source
of all that appears.

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So long as we believe in the slow processes of what we call
nature we shall place ourselves under a law of slowness.
But if we know the spiritual law of health and the power of
the word, we shall bring into operation in our lives an
entirely different law. Where is the limit to the power of
thought?

So let us begin anew and lay down the law of order in all
that we do. If there is a tendency to hurry, let us stop
and affirm divine order and rest ourselves in its poise.
Geologists tell us that our world has been whirling around
the sun for over five hundred million years. So you see
there is no need to hurry. Remember that you live in
eternity now. This thought of omnipresent eternity will
alleviate nervous tension. Put every thought and act under
the divine law. Even if you think you are going to miss a
car, do not hurry. Another car will be right along, and if
your mind is in divine order, it will be your car.

If you are disorderly and indefinite along any line, put
yourself at once under the order of Divine Mind by
affirming daily that the same law that swings the stars in
the cushioned ethers is operative in and through your life
and all your affairs.

All people who have studied metaphysics and understand
somewhat the action of the mind recognize that there is one
underlying law and that through this law all things come
into expression; also that there is one universal Mind, the
source and sole origin of all real intelligence. First is
mind, then mind expresses itself in ideas, then the ideas
make

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themselves manifest. This is a metaphysical statement of
the divine Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The
trinity Mind, the expression of Mind, and the
manifestations of Mind are found in simple numbers and
complex combinations everywhere.

The metaphysics of the Hebrew Scriptures are based on this
law of the Trinity. They were written far ahead of the race
thought, and it is probable that those who wrote them did
not understand all that was involved in the word of the
Spirit. It is seldom that great writings are fully
understood. Not many years after Shakespeare's demise a
book aiming to give the names of all the English poets was
published in London, and Shakespeare's name was left out.
It is said that a great man must be dead five hundred years
before his work will be appreciated.

In the King James Bible the Hebrew "Jehovah" has been
translated "Lord." Lord means an external ruler. Bible
students say that Jehovah means the self-existent One, the
I AM. Then instead of reading "Lord" we should read I AM.
It makes a great difference whether we think of I AM,
self-existence within, or "Lord," master without. All
Scripture shows that Jehovah means just what God told Moses
it meant: I AM. "This is my name for ever, and this is my
memorial unto all generations." So instead of "Lord" say I
AM whenever you read it and you will get a clearer
understanding and realization of what Jehovah is. God was
known to the Israelites as Jehovah-shalom: "I am peace."
You can demonstrate peace of mind by holding the words "I
am peace."

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If we start any such demonstration and try to apply the I
AM to personality, we fall short. This is frequently the
cause of lack of results in carrying out the laws that all
metaphysicians recognize as fundamentally true. The mind
does not always comprehend the I AM in its highest, neither
does it discern that the all-knowing, omnipotent One is
within man. This recognition must be cultivated, and
everyone should become conscious of the I AM presence. This
consciousness will come through prayer and meditation upon
Truth. In Truth there is but one I AM, Jehovah, the
omnipotent I AM that is eternally whole and perfect. If you
take Jehovah-shalom into your mind and hold it with the
thought of a mighty peace, you will feel a consciousness, a
harmonizing stillness, that no man can understand. This
consciousness is healing in itself. It must be felt,
realized, and acknowledged by your individual I AM before
the supreme I AM can pour out its power. Then you will know
that you have touched something; but you cannot explain to
another just what it is, because you have gone beyond the
realm of words and made union with the divine cause. It is
the quickening of your divinity through the power of the
word. This divine nature is in us all, waiting to be
brought into expression through our recognition of the
power and might of the I AM; so Jehovah-rapha is "I am he
that healeth thee."

We should not fail to think always of the spiritual law
under which the I AM moves. It is possible for man to take
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ways and leave out the true spiritual law. In our day we
are proclaiming that man can use I AM power to restore
health and bring increased happiness; in fact, that through
righteous, lawful use of the I AM he can have everything
that he desires. But some people are using this power in a
material way, neglecting soul culture, building up the
external without taking the intermediate step between the
supreme Mind and its manifestation in the outer. We should
remember that the soul must grow as well as the body. For
example, a man was overtaken with physical disability and
loss of eyesight some years ago. In his extremity he turned
to the spiritual law for help and was very faithful in its
mental application. I saw him not long since; his physical
condition was unchanged, but there was a great change in
his mind. He had found the light and he was filled with
inward rejoicing. He had become blind that he might see.
However his family thought all his dependence upon Truth
had been a failure because his physical sight had not been
restored. During all these years however he has managed his
business, and it has prospered, and his family has been
well provided for. He was himself for a time disappointed
and rebellious because his eyes were not healed; but now he
is glad, because through the prayers and meditations he has
found the inner light. His physical sight will be restored
when he has made the complete connection between mind and
body.

So if you find yourself disappointed because you do not at
once demonstrate health or success, be at

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peace and know that your earnest prayers and meditations
are working out in you a soul growth that will yet become
manifest beyond your greatest hopes.

It is easier to seek the Truth willingly and be watchful
and obedient than it is to be forced by some severe
experience. Hard experiences are not necessary if we are
obedient to the Truth that saves us from them. Time should
be given to prayer and meditation daily. We cannot grow
without them, and no man who neglects them will
successfully develop his spiritual powers.

The great I AM is not far away from man. Spirit is closely
connected with the little things of daily life. "The
kingdom of God is come nigh unto you." This means that the
mighty One is with us in all ways. We are all in touch,
heart with heart, and a real sympathy makes us one. In
reality we all love the simple life. The pomp and parade
and pageantry of the external world do not satisfy the
soul. It is the small things that touch the heart and
appeal to us. We want realities. Even in the drama we
demand the realistic. I once read of a playwright who tried
to give all his scenes the touch of realism, and in one
place he had electric fans so placed that they would blow
to the audience the odors of the viands that the actors
were eating, thus convincing the people that the food was
real.

While one of his plays was being given a cat strayed in,
stretched before the fireplace, lay down and went to sleep.
The audience applauded. This added a touch of naturalness
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was anxious to introduce as a permanent feature of the
play. But it is hard to get a cat to do things when you
want it to do them. However the playwright set himself to
studying how he could induce the cat to go through with its
part, and he hit upon this plan: About noon each day he
shut the cat up in a very small box so that it had no room
to stretch; then he let it out just at the time its
appearance on the stage was desired. Of course the first
thing it did was to stretch, then drink from a saucer of
milk set ready for it; then it would lie down before the
fireplace and go to sleep. So he solved the problem, and
this little touch of commonplace realism became the hit of
the play.

It is on such little things as these that success hinges in
the play called "life." The I AM might is not in the storm
nor in the earthquake nor in the fire but in the "still
small voice," according to Elijah.

We are receiving new truth in all fields, and if we are to
use it, it seems most important that our religion be
progressive, that we get new and higher concepts, and that
we see deeper and more scientific relations in the lessons
and experiences of those who have preceded us in study and
demonstration of spiritual Truth.

If there is science in the universe, there must be science
in the Mind that projected the universe. If there is
mathematical accuracy and order in the material world,
there is a like accuracy and order in the mental world. If
there is science in the relation of atom to atom, if there
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that flows over the wire and sets in motion the electric
fan, there must be science in the Mind back of all these
manifestations.

God created all things by His mind, by His thought, by the
power of His word. The divine fiat went forth, "Let there
be," and there was. The one Mind is still projecting itself
into the universe, and its law of health is expressed by
man through thought rightly directed. The highest
expression of divine thought is man. God created man in His
image, in the image of perfect health. How important then
that man should study the science of mind and in every way
seek to find the law lying back of the harmonious universe
in which he functions.

If we make living cells through the power of thought, we
should know something of the law underlying the process. On
every hand thoughtful men are searching for the scientific
cause of things. Here is an illustration that came to my
attention. The woman in the case, an ardent Unity student,
had a husband who thought Truth was all foolishness. She
did not urge it upon him directly, but she would call his
attention to various healings. He paid no attention until
his mother was healed of a mole on her face. This woman
said to her husband: "Your mother's healing was due to the
withdrawal of her nourishing thought. That mole is gone."
"How did it go?" he asked, showing some interest for the
first time. His mother said: "I withdrew the nourishing
thought. Before that I had mourned over it and wished it
were not there, and that nourished it and

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sent vital forces into it and it kept growing." "I
suggested that she quit thinking about it," said the wife;
"that she quit nourishing it, and it gradually withered and
disappeared." The husband said: "I can see how through our
thought we do nourish these conditions in our bodies. If
there is such power behind this healing system I am willing
to think about it. There is something satisfactory in
knowing that one may learn how healing works. I can see as
a reasonable proposition that mind acts on the body through
nerves and that the conditions are nourished by thought.
When Mother stopped thinking about that mole, it was no
longer nourished and consequently disappeared. That appeals
to my reason. I thought this was a religion, a sect; but if
it is something that a logical mind can understand, I want
to know more about it." You will find persons like that
everywhere. They think this is some new religion, and when
they come to understand that it is absolute science they
are willing to look into it. This man saw the truth when it
was explained to him.

We may nourish a good thing by thinking how good it is--a
beautiful face, a beautiful form, whatever it may be that
is good; but suppose we take the negative side, shall we
then get results also? Yes, absolutely. We shall get just
what we think about. The thought of nourishing is a very
good thought, because it shows us just what we do. Our mind
draws upon the vital forces, and according to physiological
laws we alter our tissues. Either we tear down our bodies
or we build them up.

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Is that all that is necessary? No, that is only one phase
of mind activity. Withdraw the error; then build in the
good. Some people leave out this second step. When you get
into this understanding of the mind it is always good to
use both the denial and the affirmation. Sometimes the
denial will produce wonderful results. But this law of the
mind working on the body is applicable to both the inner
and the outer.

You will get suggestions from newspapers. You may read
about some healing drug and a description of how your cold
is going to develop into pneumonia and then into
consumption if you do not buy some of it. You read the
advertisement, which describes in minute detail how
terrible you feel, and you say, "Yes, that's my case
exactly." If you do this, you will nourish that sick
thought. Is it wise then to let this law of mind operate in
this way? No. Avoid these things. Don't give yourself up to
them.

The universe was not created through illogical assumptions
of law. Law is its foundation. There are no miracles in
science. Jesus did no miracles. All His marvelous works
were done under laws that we may learn and use as He did.
As the body is moved by mind, so the mind is moved by
ideas; and right here in the mind we find the secret of the
universe. This is where Jesus differed from ordinary men:
He knew He was the Son of God; He knew the power of
spiritual ideas to do mighty works: "The Father abiding in
me doeth his works."

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Before you can realize the mighty power of ideas you must
unify them. All must pull together. Get your ideas in
divine order, and a mighty mind force will begin to work
for you right away. This divine order is necessary to the
upbuilding of both mind and body. This divine order is the
"kingdom of heaven" so often referred to by Jesus. To
attain this unity and harmony of mind it is necessary to
have perfect statements of Truth and to adhere to them in
thought and word. States of mind can be set into activity
just as through the manipulation of gases, electricity, and
so forth we may purify or impart certain potencies to the
atmosphere. In a far larger degree ideas change the race
thought atmosphere. Jesus had a grasp of divine ideas, and
if we believe in and follow Him we shall come into the
Christ state of mind. We become like-minded by entering
into the absolute Mind. In the absolute Mind there is only
harmony.

Spirit is a vigorous stimulant. It uplifts the whole
consciousness, vitalizes the organs, and gives us courage
and endurance. It also tends to make one supersensitive. In
this state one is liable to more rapid waste, especially if
fleshly indulgence of any kind is gratified. Failing to
restrain one's passions and appetites quickly burns up the
cells, and then the collapse is even more complete than
before the healing. In order to guard against this students
should be instructed carefully in the truths of Being. They
must learn that "the wages of sin is death," that they must
master their appetites and passions.

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As man unifies his own mind forces in the one Mind his body
is lifted up into a new state of harmony. If he is not
demonstrating this principle, it is because he is not
unified with the one great harmonious Mind. He is not
expressing this Mind as he should because he is not
realizing his oneness with it. Resolve to become one with
God through Christ. Harmonize yourself with Him and all
your world will be in harmony. Be on the alert to see
harmony everywhere. Do not magnify seeming differences. Do
not keep up any petty divisions but continually declare the
one universal harmony. This will insure perfect order and
wholeness. The Christ Mind is here as the unifying
principle of this race, and we must believe in this mind
working in us and through us and know that through it we
are joined to the Father-Mind. That is the Father's house
to which, like the prodigal son, we have all so long been
seeking to return. In the consciousness of the Father-Mind
the unity of God and man is demonstrated.

The fact that you can always return to the Father's house,
the ideal world, carries with it the possibility of
fulfillment in your life expression. In Being you cannot
shirk expression. To think is to express, and you are doing
that without cessation. You may deny that these things of
the world have existence, yet so long as you live in
contact with them you are recognizing their place. A
wholesale denial of their existence keeps you even as a
house divided against itself. A reconciliation must take
place before you can demonstrate the power of the Christ man

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over death. Jesus did not say that His body was nothing,
but He did say, "I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again." He laid it down in corruption and
raised it up in incorruption. He found that His ideal was
not being expressed in the body, which was subject to
decay; so He let the corruptible be crossed out and from
the ruins raised the body of light, which appeared and
disappeared at will. This was the fulfillment of His
ministry and the demonstration of the power of the Spirit
to overcome the last enemy, death.

All men desire to overcome disease and death. The
fulfillment of this desire would be the perpetuation of
existence in form. So in the last analysis we see that we
all want to continue our chain of expression indefinitely,
without break. This has always been the desire of mankind,
and the whole world is today and ever has been fighting
this monster death. Oceans of medicine are swallowed daily,
millions of doctors are exerting all their energies, and
prayers unnumbered are uttered in a blind struggle to
vanquish this dreaded enemy of mankind. This indicates a
most powerful desire to be fulfilled. Jesus showed how it
might be done and gave the recipe. He said, "Verily,
verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he shall
never see death." He also said: "The word which ye hear is
not mine, but the Father's who sent me" and "The words that
I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life."

There is a chain of mind action connecting cause and effect
in all the activities of life. This chain is

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forged by man, and its links are thoughts, words. Jesus
laid great stress upon the power of the word. Yet He was
wise in the injunction that His words should be kept; that
is, men were to keep before them the ideal that He had.
This realm of the ideal is the realm from which the word
draws its substance, and its character determines the
result.

The "sayings" of Jesus were charged with tremendous
significance. They raised the idea of man and God far above
what had ever before been conceived. They so far
transcended the thought plane of the people that even His
followers could not accept them, and many "walked no more
with him." It is but a few years since the followers of
Jesus began to grasp the power of the word as taught by
Him. Who in the past has taken Jesus literally and sought
to overcome death by keeping His sayings? Many have
believed in His doctrine, and a great ecclesiastical
industry has been built upon it as a foundation; but who
has taken in full faith the words of Jesus and made them
flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone by not only
believing in them but by saturating his mind with them
until they reincarnated themselves in his body? This
achievement is the secret of every spiritual demonstration;
it is not only a concept of what is true of Being but a
carrying out in thought, word, and act of that concept.

If I can conceive a truth, it follows that there is a way
by which I can make it manifest. If I can conceive of
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ethers, there is a way by which I can make that life appear
in my body. When once the mind has accepted this as an
axiomatic truth, it has arrived at the point where the
question of procedure arises. No one ever fully sees the
steps he is to take in reaching a goal. He may see in a
general way that he is to go on from one point to another,
but the details are not definitely clear to him unless he
has gone over the ground before. The architect tells the
builder to follow the plans. So in this demonstration of
the spiritual powers that are ready to find expression
through man he must be willing to follow the directions of
one who has proved his efficiency by demonstration.

We all intuitively know that there is something wrong in a
world where poverty, suffering, and sorrow prevail. We
would not, any of us, create such a world. We all want to
see these things blotted out in this world. This is the
index pointing the way to the possibility of doing so.
Whatever we see as wrong is for us to right. Lack of health
is not prevalent in God's universe, and if such lack
appears anywhere it is the work of man, and it is our duty
to do away with it.

There is a way, the "highway of the Lord." Will you take
that way? It is a broad way, and there is room for
everybody. Jesus called it the kingdom of the heavens and
said that "all these things" should be added to those who
sought it. This implies that you do not have fully to enter
this kingdom in order to have the things added, but you do
have to "seek."

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You must turn your attention in the right direction; then
they begin to come to you.

This is being proved by many thousands in this age who have
accepted the promises of Scripture literally and are
looking to God for every need, health included. They may
not in the beginning of the seeking have a single thing to
encourage them. They just accept the promise, proceed to
carry it out in faith, and act as if it were true, and all
at once new life and new strength are theirs. This
encourages them to go on still further in seeking this
kingdom of God, and eventually they will demonstrate the
perfection of Christ.

These are they who have wisely used their one talent. They
may not have caught sight of the holy of holies in the
inner sanctuary, but they are gradually getting closer and
closer to it. This is the step that everybody is commanded
to take. Trust God in all things, and see the result made
apparent by the mental currents that you set going all
about you. You may not be able to point out just how each
separate word of allegiance to the Father took effect, but
as the months go by you will gradually observe the various
changes that are taking place in your mind, body, and
affairs. You will find that your ideas have broadened
immensely to begin with. The little world has been
transformed into a big world. You have begun to think about
realities instead of appearances. Your mind is more alert,
and you can discern when before you were in doubt. Your
body is vital, and you are free from inharmony and weakness.

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You are not so fearful. The consciousness that there is a
divine hand guiding the universe and you has given you a
feeling of security. This has extended to your body and
your affairs. There is an absence of prejudice and
faultfinding in you. You do not judge so harshly. You are
more generous, and others respond by being more generous
too. Things are coming your way now where you once thought
they were blocked.

This is not only true of your own particular life and
affairs, but if you are observing you will notice its
effect in a measure upon those with whom you come in
contact. They are getting more substantially healthy and
happy. They may not in the remotest way connect it with you
or your thoughts, but that does not affect the truth about
it. All things have their cause, and every cause is mental.
Whoever comes in daily contact with a high order of
thinking cannot help but take on some of it. His mind takes
it on unconsciously just as his lungs breathe the air of
the room. Ideas are catching, and no man can live where
true ideas of wholeness and abundance and peace are being
held without becoming more or less infected with them. "For
none of us liveth to himself." Health is the divine
heritage of every human being.

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//section Chapter 9

Chapter IX

Healing through Praise and Thanksgiving

//text

I PRAISE and give thanks that the strength and power of Thy
Spirit now restores me to harmony and health.

"Always praise the cooking of the cook" is the instruction
of the veteran hobo to the novice. Experience has taught
the gentlemen of the road that praise and thanks melt the
hardest heart and often open the door to amazing
hospitality. Tradespeople have found that "Thank you" has
commercial value.

Metaphysicians have discovered that words which express
thanks, gratitude, and praise release mind energy of mind
and Soul; and their use is usually followed by effects so
pronounced that they are quickly identified with the words
that provoke them.

Let your words of praise and thanksgiving be to Spirit, and
the increase will be even greater than when they are
addressed to man. The resources of Spirit are beyond our
highest flight of imagination. You can praise a weak body
into strength, a fearful heart into peace and trust,
shattered nerves into poise and power.

I give thanks for the Christ life now apparent in my mind
and body.

It is an easy matter to give thanks for what we

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have already received, but it is not so easy to give thanks
for what we hope to receive. However giving thanks in
advance brings to pass a present expectation. Remember what
Jesus said about one's mental attitude in demonstrating
spirituality: "All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in
prayer, believing, ye shall receive." This may be rephrased
in this wise: Pray believing that you have received, and
you shall receive.

Christians who have discovered the hidden laws of the mind
make it a practice to give thanks for health, for peace of
mind, for all things that they desire, believing that God
has given in Spirit that which is to appear in the visible.

I daily praise and thank the Spirit of life and health for
constantly restoring me to perfection of body.

Praising and giving thanks liberate the finer essence of
soul and body when we center our attention upon Spirit.
Spirit is the dynamic force that releases the pent-up
energies within man. The energies have been imprisoned in
the cells, and when released are again restored to action
in the body by the chemistry of creative Mind. The
perfection of this restoration is in proportion to the
understanding and industry of the individual.

Every thought we loose in our mind carries with it a
certain substance, life, and intelligence. So we might call
our thoughts our "thought people." Whenever praise is
bestowed on these thought people, who are intelligent, it
is carried to every part

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of the body and through the ether to a large area of our
soul aura, and our whole consciousness and everything about
us is tinctured with praise. Thus we prove what Jesus
proclaimed, that when we seek His kingdom and His
righteousness all things are added to us.

The prophets of old knew the power of increase inherent in
thanksgiving. "Praise ye Jehovah" is repeated again and
again in the Psalms, because the Psalmist knew that praise
and thanksgiving divinely directed tap the mighty
reservoirs of infinite Mind.

Jehovah-shalom gives me peace of mind, and I am harmonized
and healed.

The Bible contains more high mysticism than all other
books. But it requires study of certain fundamental
spiritual principles to discern it. Spiritual things are
spiritually discerned. Unless you call on your own innate
spiritual light you cannot appreciate spiritual insight of
those who wrote the books of the Bible.

The idea that all the Bible writers were equally inspired
is fallacious. They were from every walk of life, and their
inspirations were modified by their own mental bias as well
as their surroundings. Moreover some of the most important
revelations of fundamental principles are undoubtedly the
result of borrowing. Although Moses was a trained mystic
and inspirational writer, he did not originate all the
allegories found in the books that bear his name. It is
obvious from the testimony of religious records antedating
the Hebrew Scriptures by thousands of

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years that Moses complied and edited for the benefit of the
Israelites.

This discovery does not detract from the truth or
importance of the writings but greatly enhances them. The
very fact that these sacred writings have been preserved
for untold ages points to them as possessing unusual value
and as conservers of worthwhile knowledge.

Studying the Bible in the light of the discoveries of
modern science, we are amazed at the scientific accuracy of
the statements in the early chapters of Genesis. Have men
in past ages been wiser than those of the present or were
they inspired beyond their understanding? For example, in
the 3d verse of the 1st chapter of Genesis, God created the
light on the first day, yet the sun, the supposed source of
light, was not created until the fourth day. This supposed
error in the orderly creative process often has been cited
as evidence of crudity by Bible critics. But the very
modern scientific discovery that the sun is not the source
of light, that the sun merely radiates the light that
originates in universal etheric waves proves that Moses was
right. So what we call light is not the real light, but a
luminous effect produced in our earthly atmosphere. So also
all life originates in the ether, and not in the earth,
where scientists have vainly sought it. When science
admits, as it eventually will, that the ether is moved by
omnipresent Mind, we shall have in the Bible a complete
spiritual cosmogony.

The Bible is a perpetual revelation to Truth seekers

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on account of its allegorical character. This is especially
outstanding in Genesis, which veils in names and ordinary
incidents some of the great truths of creation. The names
of the Divinity are not all the same in the Hebrew. Elohim
God represents the original Mind in creative action. El
means the strong and ever-sustaining one, and alah, to
swear or formulate by the power of the word. Here also is
implied plurality of attributes in addition to masculine
and feminine qualities. Elohim thus represents the
universal principle of Being designing all of creation. In
the 2d chapter another name for God is
used--Jehovah--God--metaphysically representing the
executive power Elohim. This name is also rich in occult
significance. Yahweh is the original form, and its meaning
is "the self-existent one" at work or becoming known or
revealing Himself to His creation and through His creation.
Yahweh revealed Himself to Moses as "I AM THAT I AM." He
reveals Himself to every one of us according to our needs
when we call upon Him. He revealed Himself to Jesus as the
Father within.

The Hebrew teachers gave compound names to Jehovah to meet
every situation. That is, they invoked His I AM presence as
a creative factor in producing the thing needed. When they
needed supply, they invoked Jehovah-jireh, "Jehovah will
provide." Jehovah-rapha is "the Lord that healeth thee."
Jehovah--shalom is "Jehovah is peace" or "the Lord send
peace." The whole world needs peace today as never before,
and peace will not be ushered in until

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men call on the name of Jehovah.

It may sound foolish in the sight of men for a small group
of people to call on Jehovah-shalom to make peace in the
midst of war, but great miracles have resulted from such
action. Jehovah-shalom will save us from personal worry and
fear of future ills. It was the Jehovah-shalom in Jesus
that proclaimed, "My peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it be fearful."

I am a tower of strength and stability in the realization
that God is my health."

It is the conclusion of the followers of Jesus that a new
and original interpretation of His teaching has sprung up
in the last half century. The adherents of this new
religion, for such it seems to be, claim that they have a
revelation of Christianity that far transcends the old in
spiritual understanding and power. The new religion makes
Jesus a demonstrator of scientific mind laws that any
industrious student can understand and apply as Jesus
applied them. In addition to this the new Christianity
elevates man to a realm in which seeming miracles of
healing become possible to those who train their mind to
think spiritually, carrying out the admonition of Paul "Be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."

As all the physical science books have to be re-written
since the discovery that electricity is the mother of
matter, so all books of religion that ignore psychology
will have to be rewritten.

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The new Christianity claims that Jesus Christ understood
the real character of space and ether as taught by science
and that it is the home of a great and mighty life and
intelligence that brought man and the universe into
manifestation.

Instead of fighting modern science the new Christianity
welcomes its discoveries as proofs of the veritable
existence of the kingdom of the heavens that Jesus taught
so persistently.

Instead of a heaven after death the new Christianity
teaches a kingdom of the heavens existing now as a
righteous state of mind. It teaches that man makes his
heaven here and now by the formative power of his thought.

It is by way of this emphatic and constant emphasis on the
formative power of thought that the new Christianity
launches out into the deep. Instead of God's creating man
with a mighty word fiat and arbitrarily following it up
with vengeance and punishments, God is discerned to be a
mind principle that requires the co-operation of its
creations, because they are formed of it and in it and are
so like it that there is virtual action and reaction
between Creator and creation. This places the
responsibility for conditions on both God and man. When we
think and work in unity with the Father the results are
universally good. When we work without reference to the
inspiring Mind within our work is usually unsatisfactory.
"My Father worketh even until now, and I work," said Jesus.

Then the carping critic cries, "Your religion is

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psychology instead of Christianity." Our answer is that the
new Christianity includes an understanding of psychology
but does not stop with an analysis of the mind. It goes on
to the highest phase of mind's possibilities, unity with
Spirit.

When it dawns upon man that he has within him the primal
spiritual spark of God, the living Word or Logos, and that
through the Word he is identified with the original Mind,
he has the key to infinite soul unfoldment.

Even though a person does not at first have this higher
revelation of his sonship and unity with creative Mind, the
assumption helps him to bring it to realization. Jesus
developed in faith and power as He used His word. According
to the text, He did not know that He could do absent
healing by the power of His word before the centurion
suggested it.

Never dampen your faith or the faith of another in you.
Jesus exalted faith to first place in His healing work. "Be
of good cheer; thy faith hath made thee whole." "When they
cast thee down, thou shalt say, There is lifting up," said
Eliphaz to Job. If there is appearance of sickness or
weakness, affirm with all your faith the healing thought.

Through the Spirit of truth I now partake of Christ
substance and Christ life in holy communion, and I am made
whole.

At the Last Supper Jesus taught that the bread and wine
that He consecrated were His body and His blood, and He
told His followers to partake of them in remembrance of
Him. He did not say

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that these elements were symbols of His blood and body but
that they were essentially the same substance and life as
His body. This also has been the teaching of the church, as
interpreted by the Council of Trent: "Under each species
and under each particle of each species Christ is contained
whole and entire." This is the doctrine of
transubstantiation, that the consecration by the minister
of bread and wine changes the material elements to Christ
elements, without affecting their appearance.

This doctrine has been attacked both within and without the
church, the majority of ministers and laymen accepting it
on faith as in some way related to the miraculous. But the
discoveries of the elemental character of matter by modern
science are revealing the universal unity of substance and
the possibility of its transformation from one thing to
another by changing the number and arrangement of the
electrons in the atom.

According to modern science this whole universe of forms
can be dissolved into energy, from which it may again be
formed. Science does not say that the directive and
formative power is man, but the Bible so teaches and
especially Jesus. Jesus said that all power was given unto
Him in heaven and in earth. He manifested His power in a
small way by multiplying a few loaves and fishes to feed
more than five thousand persons. In various other instances
He demonstrated that He had an understanding of the
transmutation of substance. He raised His flesh body to an
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potential life and substance than any reached before.

As a race we have for ages been deprived in our
consciousness of union with our creative source, and the
result has been a gradual decrease in vitality until the
body has lost the ability to hold its atoms together and
consequently has disintegrated. Thus death has come to be
accepted as in some mysterious way a part of the divine
plan. Here again certain biological experiments with cells
prove them to be possessed of an ability to reproduce
themselves, which at least hints at physical immortality.

There are in the world today men and women who have
followed the teaching of Jesus and have developed in their
bodies a superenergy or life that not only permeates the
physical structure but envelops it in a luminous aura that
can be and is felt by both themselves and others. Spirit
reveals that spiritual thinking breaks open the physical
cells and atoms and releases their imprisoned life, which
originally came from Divine Mind. Jesus carried this
process so far that His whole body was transformed and
became a conscious part of the Father life and intelligence.

In this way the substance and life of Jesus' body became a
connecting link between our bodies and the body of God.
Jesus merged His consciousness with the race consciousness
and made Himself subject to our shortcomings in order to
lift us up to spiritual life. This is the secret of His
great sacrifice and sin offering.

When we understand that man has the power to

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release the divine life imprisoned in the cells of his body
and project it as spiritual energy, we have the key that
unlocks many mysteries of personal influence. The vast
difference between mediocre and great speakers and singers
is not in voice and words but in invisible soul energies.
We feel the presence before a word is uttered. For example,
a music critic says of Toscanini, the great orchestra
leader: "He brings a charge of electricity into the hall
that cannot and does not enter in at any other time. If
only certain persons felt this galvanization of the
atmosphere one might be accused of romanticism or hero
worship for mentioning it. But everybody feels it."

Thousands of great and near-great religious leaders have
developed this "soul body," for that is what it is, but
none has reached the high development of Jesus, who made it
possible for us all to take advantage of His achievement
and through Him attain eternal life.

All things and all conditions of body and affairs have
their origin in mind, and it is in our minds that we make
contact with the Christ Mind. The mind of Jesus Christ
penetrates and permeates our race consciousness like the
etheric waves from a mighty broadcasting station, and we
can tune in at any time by simply concentrating mentally on
the Christ life and Christ substance.

God and man, heaven and earth, and all the healing powers
that be now unite in healing me.

Socrates, the wise man of Athens, once prayed that "Jove
and all the gods that be" hear his prayer.

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His idea was to invoke all the higher forces, counting them
all worth while. All great men recognize the breadth,
height, and depth of Being, that it is not comprehended in
one name, but may be expressed in many. Paul preaching to
the Athenians on Mars' Hill did not disdain their many
shrines, said to be two thousand in number, but
complimented them on their piety, at the same time
proclaiming that he came as the representative of the
"UNKNOWN GOD" to whom they had erected an altar.

So we recognize that there is but one source of Being but
that He is expressed in His Son Christ and manifest in His
personal representative, Holy Spirit. The ancient
Israelites had several outstanding names for Jehovah, each
representing some special agency, as supplier, peace giver,
guide, and the like. Some sects in our day pray to saints
to execute the will of God in their behalf.

These all point to the fact that God is made manifest in a
universe of executive powers, upon whom man can call as
principle or as some form of personal agency.

This healing statement is recommended particularly to those
who have depended upon temporal remedies or persons for
their healing. It will amplify and energize the healing
idea to the point of omnipotence, because it recognizes all
the healing potencies that faith has made substantial in
the past and brings them all to a focal center in wholeness.

It is universally recognized that the whole human family
has broken loose from the usual stabilized

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thoughts, that we are afloat in an atmosphere of doubt,
that we are walking question marks asking one another at
every turn: What next? What will be the outcome?

The world of materiality is ending. Science says that what
we thought was a material atom was really the shadow of an
amazing aggregation of protons and electrons pulsating with
potential life, energy, and power. We have been
perpetuating the world of materiality by our material
thoughts. Now our dominant thinkers are letting go, and
they are telling us that matter is merely the smoke screen
of a universe of energy. As an eminent scientist says, "We
live in a universe of waves, and nothing but waves."

Christian metaphysicians see the truth that our minds have
been jarred loose from their material concepts and that
they have not yet laid hold of the true concepts. We are
mentally afloat in the cosmic ether, waiting for someone to
show us how to lay hold of real, stable ideas. When men's
minds lose their stability, chaos reigns in their affairs.
Emerson said that when a man of ideas is born into the
world kings totter on their thrones.

Jesus said that He came to fulfill the Law and the
Prophets; that is, to demonstrate that natural and
spiritual law are one. He foresaw this very period when the
"powers of the heavens shall be shaken" --that is, the
mental realms be broken up--and He attributed this
phenomenon to the coming of the Christ as "lightning."

The 24th chapter of Matthew describes in symbols

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what is taking place in this century. Christ Mind is
quickening the cosmic light, which science is interpreting
as natural law. Those who see spiritually announce that the
next great revelation will be that of the "prophets," those
who discern spiritually that the cosmic ether and the
Christ Mind are one and that the character and the manner
of the coming of the Christ--as a mighty, all-infolding,
spiritually quickening mind--is referred to in the very
modern metaphor of lightning: "For as the lightning cometh
forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so
shall be the coming of the Son of man."

Jesus answers the flood of queries as to what we shall do
when we are caught in a whirlpool of thought: "Seek ye
first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you."

The present panceas for the ills of the world are all
lacking in principle and will eventually be discarded, to
be followed by the Christ plan, which will make all the
products of the earth directly available to all the people
of the earth. Before this Christ plan can be established
governments must petition God for His intervention in their
affairs; then the divine plan will be revealed.

I press forward with courage and boldness in the power of
God, and I am healed.

In the 6th chapter of Revelation it is written: "And I saw
when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard
one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of
thunder, Come. And I saw,

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and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon had a
bow; and there was given unto him a crown: and he came
forth conquering, and to conquer."

The "four living creatures" represent the four dominant
factors in manifest life, which has its original source in
the Lamb, which represents the pure, nonresistant life of
Being.

The four horses and their riders are, first, "a white
horse," representing the power of the Christ; secondly, "a
red horse [war]: and to him that sat thereon it was given
to take peace from the earth"; thirdly, "a black horse"
(commercialism): "a measure of wheat for a shilling, and
three measures of barely for a shilling"; and fourthly, "a
pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death."

At no time in the history of the world has there ever been
such activity in the riders of the three dark horses as
right now. The prodigious preparations for war by nations,
incited by the greed for gain will soon lead them to "let
slip the dogs of war" unless the rider of the white horse
comes forth "conquering, and to conquer."

Although all Truth students are praying for harmony in the
settlement of earth's tribulations, they cannot help seeing
the effect of thoughts of selfishness. The last section of
this chapter in Revelation gives a symbolic description of
the chaos to come among those who are not seeking to
conquer under the banner of the rider of the white horse,
Christ.

We hold that those who have had revealed to them the
peace-giving power of the Christ mind

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should be unusually energetic in declaring it to be the
dominant quality in the minds of men everywhere. Do not
argue or contend with error but silently (and aloud if the
occasion seems propitious) declare the presence and power
of the Christ.

In the 7th chapter of Revelation is a symbolical
description of four angels protecting the earth until the
servants of God are sealed on their foreheads.

The forehead is the center of consciousness, which the
understanding of Truth seals; that is, it secretly unites
the consciousness with Christ. The number sealed is twelve
thousand out of the twelve tribes. This is all symbolical
and should not be taken literally. Man has twelve
faculties, represented by the twelve tribes of Israel. When
the consciousness in the forehead is illumined by Spirit,
all twelve centers in the body automatically respond.
"These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and
they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb."

The "blood of the Lamb" represents the primal life of
Being, which Jesus made accessible to all those who believe
in Him as the revealer of the pure life of God the Father.
This consciousness of spiritual life is mentioned in the
22d chapter: "And he showed me a river of water of life,
bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and
of the Lamb."

The concluding verses of the 7th chapter of Revelation
reveal the joys of the faithful. Every member of Unity
should study chapters 6 and 7.

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It will require more than mortal fortitude and courage to
cope successfully with the conditions that are imminent in
human affairs, and we shall all need the help of a higher
power. This higher power we shall find in the Christ Mind.

Cast out fear as far as the tribulations of the world are
concerned. Affirm:

"I press forward with courage and boldness in the power of
God, and I am healed."

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//section Chapter 10

Chapter X

"I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life"

//text

JEHOVAH GOD restores me to health and wholeness. Words are
quickened by those who speak them and they pick up and
carry the ideas of the speaker, weak or strong, ignorant or
wise, good or ill. Thus words descriptive of deity have
been personalized in the thought stuff of the race and
those who invoke them in prayer and meditation are given a
spiritual impetus far beyond what they would receive from
common words. It is a fact that the name Jehovah came to be
held in such reverence by the rabbis that they never spoke
the word aloud. Jesus said that His words were so charged
with spirit and life that they would endure longer even
than heaven and earth.

Next to Spirit the word of Spirit is the most powerful
thing in existence. The author of the Book of Hebrews says
"that the worlds have been framed by the word of God." We
read in Genesis that "God said" and it came to pass. And
God said, "Let us make man in our own image, after our
likeness." Thus we see that man is the incarnate word of
God, and it logically follows that our words bring forth
whatever we put into them. Study the 1st chapter of John.
Jesus said that a man will be held accountable for his
lightest word.

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Spiritually classified, the Jehovah of the Old Testament is
identical with the Christ in the New. One who heals by the
power of the word should become familiar with the inner
meaning of all words and use those that appeal to him as
possessing the greatest healing potency. Jesus promised
that He would unite with the Holy Spirit in helping those
who called upon Him. Unity healers have found that this
promise is fulfilled when they concentrate in prayer and
positive affirmation on the presence of the Holy Spirit and
Jesus Christ. A new and strong contact is felt with
spiritual life, as if it were a mighty battery, when the
name Jehovah God or Jehovah-rapha ("the Lord that healeth
thee") is spoken silently and audibly; then the ethers
quicken with the name and shower spiritual life on both
patient and healer. The word Jehovah or Yahweh is charged
with spiritual power far above and beyond any other word in
human language.

I am raised to perfection in mind and body by the healing
power of Jesus Christ.

Quite a few Truth students ask why we emphasize Jesus
Christ so strongly in our writings and statements of Truth.
Spiritual psychology proves that the name of a great
character carries his mind potency and that wherever his
name is repeated silently or audibly his attributes become
manifest. Jesus knew this and commanded His disciples to go
forth in His name. The marvelous works they did prove that
they exercised power far beyond anything warranted by their
education or previous ability, power

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springing directly from Spirit.

Every thinker who studies the life and teachings of Jesus
readily admits that He attained an understanding of
spiritual things far beyond that of any other man that ever
lived. His mind touched heights far beyond those of other
advanced searchers for Truth. As we unfold spiritually we
see more and more that Jesus understood the finer shades of
metaphysical reasoning and related His mind and body to
both ideas and their manifestation.

Jesus demonstrated that He understood the healing power
stored up in the body, which He said is released through
faith. "Thy faith hath made thee whole." Jesus identified
Himself and His name with the sacred name of the Hebrew
dispensation, Jehovah, and added another link to that long
chain of names and events that brought forth the perfect
man ideated by God-Mind, Jesus Christ.

As a directive head is essential in any army, militant or
spiritual, so in every forward movement of the human family
there must be a leader. The leader is chosen because of his
ability as a demonstrator of the principles adopted by the
group he represents. The religious principles taught and
demonstrated by Jesus were not originated by Him, nor did
He claim them as a "discovery." He said that Moses wrote of
Him, and He often quoted Moses, but with an interpretation
quite different from that of the popular religious leaders.
He told them that they studied the Scriptures expecting
through them to attain eternal life when the only way to
attain that life was through

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Him, and they would not come to Him. Right here Jesus
emphasized the spiritual man, the I AM in man, as the only
way by which man can enter the kingdom of God.

Jesus was undoubtedly the greatest of all exponents of the
impersonal I AM, which is revealed to man when he opens up
the supermind within his own soul. Jesus Christ's real name
is Jehovah, I AM. The personal man Jesus is merely the veil
or mask worn by the spiritual man Christ or Jehovah. We are
all, in our personality, wearing the mask that conceals the
real, the spiritual, I AM. Jesus shattered that mask and
revealed the spiritual man. He also taught the way by which
we may all do what He did and thus fulfill the destiny
implanted in us by the parent Mind.

There are many distractions to keep us from finding the one
door into the inner kingdom and many voices calling to us
that they will show us the easy way, but Jesus Christ is
the only one that appeals to those who are grounded in
principle.

Any declaration man may make in which the name Jesus Christ
is used reverently will contact the spiritual ether in
which the Christ I AM lives and will open the mind and body
to the inflow of spiritual healing rays. These healing rays
are very much superior to the ultraviolet rays that come
from the sun or our best medical appliances, because they
minister to the mind as well as the body.

Thy vitalizing energy floods my whole being, and I am
healed.

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The most inclusive name for Being is Jehovah God. Jehovah
represents the individual I AM and God (Elohim) the
universal Principle. When man thinks or says "I am" he is
potentially giving freedom to the seed ideas that contains
in its spiritual capacity all of Being. The natural man in
his narrowed mental comprehension barely touches the seed
ideas that expand in the Christ man to infinite power. The
more we dwell upon and expand our I AM the greater looms
its originating capacity before us. When Jesus proclaimed,
"Before Abraham was born, I am," He realized that the I AM
preceded all manifestation, however great, and was capable
of infinite expression.

The proposition that the seemingly insignificant individual
I AM contains infinite creative capacity appears absurd to
the thoughtless, but we have numerous examples of
extraordinary capacity for expansion in the little seeds
that bring forth gigantic trees. The Scriptures plainly
teach that men may become gods. Adam was expelled from the
Garden of Eden because Jehovah realized that he might
appropriate eternal life and live forever in his ignorance.

When man realizes that "death and life are in the power of
the tongue" and begins to use his "I am" statements wisely,
he has the key that unlocks the secret chambers of
existence in heaven and earth.

The Christ substance (body) and the Christ life (blood) are
accessible at all times and in all places to the one who
awakens his soul to spiritual omnipresence. The table of
the Lord is spread everywhere

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for those who believe on Him as Spirit and in their Spirit
affirmation eat of His body and blood. The appropriation by
His followers of His life and substance is the very
foundation of salvation through Jesus Christ. The mere
acceptance intellectually of the teaching that we are saved
by the blood of the Lord Jesus and the partaking of the
bread and wine in a perfunctory manner will save neither
mind nor body. The only thing that will do it is the
understanding that Jesus raised His body life and substance
out of the race consciousness into Spirit consciousness and
that with our minds poised in that consciousness we can lay
hold of the Spirit elements that will save us to the
uttermost.

Nearly everyone needs both mind and body healing, and those
who give faithful attention to the law as it operates in
man are rewarded by demonstrations of healing. Jesus healed
"all manner of disease," the same Jesus has broadcast that
healing Spirit to the uttermost ends of the earth, and
today all who will may be made whole.

The Christ life quickens and heals me.

Although millions have testified that they have felt the
quickening life of Christ, other millions doubt if such a
thing as the Christ life exists.

The unseen forces have always been an enigma to the masses,
and even those who are expecting the unseen to spring forth
suddenly into some marvelous manifestation do not recognize
it when it comes to pass. It is said that when Marconi
demonstrated to a group of scientists in Paris the power of
radio waves,

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they doubted his claims and sought in various ways to
discover the concealed wires, which they were sure were
being used. So every unseen force man uses has had to prove
its existence by some visible manifestation that can be
mechanically demonstrated. But are there unseen forces that
cannot be mechanically demonstrated? The answer is that all
unseen forces can be mechanically demonstrated and that
they are being demonstrated every day the world over, but
scientists have not yet recognized as mechanical all the
devices through which man brings unseen forces into
manifestation; for example, his own brain and the radio.
These with many other unseen forces come under the head of
mechanism.

Brain cells are the only material things that will transmit
mind, and man has never yet been able to invent so fine a
piece of mechanism outside his own organism. But brains are
mechanical, and man does build and use them in expressing
his intelligence.

The fact is that each of us builds a brain especially
designed and fitted for our individual use and for no one
else's. All attempts to turn our brains over to others in
hypnosis or mediumship will prove abortive in the end.

In radio terms your brain cells correspond to the tubes in
a combined broadcasting and receiving set, and you have
tuned them to certain wave lengths and turned on the power.
If you have not been informed of your innate ability to
turn on or off the mind waves, you are functioning in the
established race programs of personality: what your
ancestors

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have thought, what other people think, and what little
thought you can conjure up yourself. Unless your mind has
been quickened by the light of spiritual understanding, you
are living in a little three-dimensional world whose
beginning and end is sin or a falling short of the divine
ideal.

"If a man keep my word, he shall never see death."

"I am the resurrection, and the life."

Jesus stressed the power of words, especially His words. In
the parable of the sower He said, "When anyone heareth the
word of the kingdom." Here He referred to the Logos, the
creative Word, which framed the worlds, according to John.
The creative Word or Logos is also identified as Holy
Spirit, which is carrying forward the ideas of God as they
unfold in the manifest universe.

As the Word of God, the Logos, is creating in the universe
(body of God) so man's word is creating in his universe
(man's body). That is why Jesus said that we should be
judged by our words. We are creating a little universe in
which the cells of the body correspond to the planets of
the solar system. "And I say unto you, that every idle word
that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in
the day of judgment."

The "day of judgment" to us is any day that we get the
fruit in body and affairs of some thought or word that we
have expressed.

The creative power of man's word is in proportion to his
understanding of God-Mind and his unity

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with its law. The creative power of most men does not get
beyond their own body consciousnesss, because they know
very little about Spirit and their relation to its laws.
The better we realize our spiritual relationship to
creative Mind and conform our thoughts and words to its
laws the greater is the power of our words. Jesus "tuned
in" to Divine Mind until that Mind reinforced His mind and
raised it to superhuman capacity. It was in one of His
moments of mental exaltation that He declared, "The words
that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life."

We have thought that we were to be saved by Jesus' making
personal petitions and sacrifices for us, but now we see
that we are to be saved by using the creative principles
that He developed in Himself, and that He is ever ready to
co-operate with us in developing in ourselves by observing
the law as He observed it. "I in them, and thou in me, that
they may be perfected into one."

Thus we see that when Jesus said, "If a man keep my word,
he shall never see death," He meant that we should realize
the life-giving properties of the creative words of God as
He had realized them, that we should have no consciousness
of death.

I have new life in Christ and I am healed.

To attain this realization of the word of life we must
create currents of life in our bodies as Jesus did in His.
Of all man's possessions the most valuable is life. "For
what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole
world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in
exchange for his life?"

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When Jesus uttered these words He was explaining to His
disciples that He was about to pass through a
transformation in which He would give up His physical life,
though He would continue His manifestation in a spiritual
life. They did not understand Him, and Peter "began to
rebuke him." Jesus told them they did not understand the
things of God "but the things of men." Up to this day the
passing over of the natural life into the spiritual life is
not fully understood by Christians. It is almost
universally interpreted as something that takes place after
the death of the body, while in fact it is a transformation
of the issues of life while the body is intact. Paul said,
"I die daily." So Jesus could not have appeared after His
crucifixion in the same body if He had not daily given up
the physical life and daily put on the Christ life. It is a
step-by-step or cell-by-cell transformation.

What did Jesus mean when He said, "If a man keep my word,
he shall never see death"? Did He mean death of the soul?
There is nothing in His teaching to warrant such a
conclusion. He meant that we shall escape physical death if
we identify ourselves with the creative Word in Him, the
Logos.

Then to understand the new life in Christ we must give
attention to that mystical Word or Logos, because in it are
wrapped the principles that, planted in our minds, will
spring into new life in mind and body.

Eternal life and strength are here, and I am made whole
through Jesus Christ.

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Among the seven sacred names given to Jehovah by the Hebrew
priesthood is "Jehovah-shammah," meaning "Jehovah is
there." Jehovah is the name of the ever-living I AM. When
the mystic desired to commune with the omnipresent life he
did not speak the name aloud but silently intoned,
"Jehovah-shammah!" This pervasion of his I AM with the
ever-living I AM harmonized the spiritual man with his
source, and the individual was merged with the universal.

A certain mystery has always accompanied the use of the
sacred name, and the priesthood gained their ascendancy
over the people by performing marvelous works through the
silent and audible intoning of words charged with thoughts
of spiritual power.

However a priest must undergo discipline to acquire mastery
of the elemental forces that function in mind and body. A
cursory reading of Exodus conveys the idea that for forty
years Moses was a shepherd, tending the flocks of his
father-in-law Jethro, priest of Midian. But his mastery of
nature, as evidenced by his works in Egypt, plainly shows
that he understood the control of matter by mind better
than did the magicians of Egypt, although he was versed in
their magic.

The followers of Jesus did marvelous works in His name, but
that name was also used by those who were not His immediate
disciples, and they succeeded in casting out demons so well
that John complained about it. Jesus said, "Forbid him not:
for he that is not against you is for you." So we find that
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name identifies him with his character. If that character
is mighty in spirituality and power, he who invokes it in
his prayers is automatically raised into a like sphere of
power and what he says comes to pass. "And whatsoever ye
shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may
be glorified in the Son."

Salvation through Jesus Christ is not accomplished by
looking forward to freedom but by realizing that we are now
free through His freeing power, which we are using to cut
the bonds with which our thoughts have bound us. Then we
have only to establish ourselves in real life and strength
by understanding that these attributes of Being are
omnipresent and that our affirmations of that presence,
will cause us to become conscious that we do now and here
live, move, and have our being in eternal life and strength.

In the name and by the power and authority of Jesus Christ
I am made every whit whole.

Man gives a name--that is, "character"--to every idea that
comes into consciousness, and whatever he conceives a thing
to be, that it becomes to him. So it is written in Genesis:
"Whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was
the name thereof."

Jesus taught and demonstrated that man is master of a
kingdom far beyond the consciousness of the natural man,
but accessible to those who open their mind to its laws and
observe those laws in thought and act.

The official declarations of a representative of a country
are recognized by all as worthy of credence.

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Jesus represented the kingdom of the heavens, and we, His
agents, take possession of that kingdom in His name and
declare that we are vested with authority to bring
spiritual forces to bear that will restore man to his
primal perfection.

In the 3d chapter of Acts is recorded the healing by Peter
of a man lame from his birth; and Peter says, "In the name
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. . . . and immediately
his feet and ankle-bones received strength. And leaping up,
he stood, and began to walk; and he entered with them into
the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God."

When the people were greatly astonished at this marvelous
healing and gathered around Peter and John, Peter
explained, "Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this man? or
why fasten ye your eyes on us, as though by our own power
or godliness we had made him to walk? . . . And by faith in
his name hath his name made this man strong."

Shakespeare says, "Good name in man and woman . . . is the
immediate jewel of their souls." But even Shakespeare, with
his psychological insight, never realized how good a name
would be or to what heights of power it could lift one who
applies the laws of Spirit in its use.

Those who have searched diligently to know God and His Son
Jesus and have prayed for the light of Spirit find that
they possess a certain confidence and faith in the very
name Jesus Christ and that to the one who speaks it the
name draws creative forces far beyond mental comprehension.

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Hence we should have confidence in the promises of Jesus
that those who in faith use His name shall do the marvelous
wonders that He did and even greater works of a spiritual
character.

Read in the 16th chapter of Mark what are the signs of a
real follower of Christ and see if you are measuring up to
them: "And these signs shall accompany them that believe:
in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak
with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they
shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

By the grace of God through Christ Jesus I am made whole.

Jesus knew what He had accomplished in breaking the mortal
mesmerism of the race, and He boldly proclaimed His ability
to help all those who join Him in seeking to effect a
direct union with creative Mind.

As Jesus healed in Galilee so He is healing in the same
spiritual realm of radiant health today. "To him that
overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life,
which is in the Paradise of God." "I am the way, and the
truth, and the life."

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//section Chapter 11

Chapter XI

Healing Power of Joy

//text

I REJOICE and am glad because Thy harmonizing love makes me
every whit whole. All healing systems recognize joy as a
beneficent factor in the restoration of health to the sick.
"The joy of Jehovah is your strength." This statement is
based on a principle recognized by all who help to bring
about strength of mind and health of body. An old country
doctor used to tell how he healed a woman of a large cyst
by telling her a funny story: at which she laughed so
heartily that the fluid broke loose and passed away.

The mind puts kinks in the nerves in ways beyond
description. A thought of fear will stop the even flow of
life in some nerve center deep down in the body, forming a
nucleus where other fears may accumulate and finally
congest the blood concerned in some important function. The
impast of energy of some kind is necessary to break the
dam. Physical exercise will sometimes do it, or massage, or
electricity; but these are temporary remedies. None of them
has touched the cause, which is mental: fear.

There are various methods of erasing fear from the mind and
preventing its congestions in the body. One of the most
direct and effective shatterers of fear is laughter. Laugh
your fears away. See how ridiculous they are when traced to
their source.

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Nearly all persons have some pet fear, and they give up to
it without trying to find its source.

The nerves surrounding the heart are most sensitive to
thoughts of fear, and when mind and body are strenuously
excited the fearfully charged nerve cells grab the heart
and hold it like a vise. Businessmen who live in a world of
sharp competition and constant risk of loss with few
exceptions are subject to this kind of fear.

Christian metaphysicians of course know that the only
permanent cure for the ailment is a heartfelt trust in God
as the one and only source of good to man. A daily prayer
for wisdom and divine guidance in the conduct of one's
affairs will restore peace and harmony to mind and body,
and health must of necessity follow.

I will sing unto the Lord a new song of harmony and health.

That there is an intimate relation between happiness and
health goes without question. When you feel good you sing
either audibly or silently. Singing promotes health because
it increases the circulation, and a good circulation is a
sign and promoter of health. If the blood stream were never
congested and all the nerves and pores were open and free
and were swiftly carrying forward their appointed work,
there would never be an abnormal or false growth in the
body. It follows logically then that we should cultivate
those mind activities which stimulate naturally the
currents of life in the body. One of these, and a very
important one, is joy.

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No one likes to take medicine even when sugar-coated,
because there is an instinctive feeling that it will do no
good. Besides it usually tastes bad. But nearly anyone can
sing a little song, and those who have tried it right in
the face of suffering will tell you that it is a marvelous
health restorer.

The reason that singing restores harmony to tense nerves is
that its vibrations stir them to action, thus making it
possible for the ever-waiting healing Spirit to get in. The
organ of the human voice is located right between the
thyroid glands, the accelerators of certain important body
functions. To a greater or less degree every word you speak
vibrates the cells up and down the body, from front brain
to abdomen.

The Spirit of health, or as the doctors call it, the
restorative power of nature, is always right at hand
awaiting an opportunity to enter in to make whole and to
harmonize all discords in the body. Back of every true song
is a thought of joy. It is the thought that counts in the
end, because it is the thought that invites the healing
Spirit. Consequently we should sing with the thought that
the Lord is right with us and that His joy is giving our
words the healing unction; as Jesus said, "that my joy may
be in you, and that your joy may be made full."

When men think a great deal about spiritual things and
especially about God as an indwelling spiritual presence,
both mind and body are thrilled with joy, a feeling of
satisfaction, and a tendency to break out in songs of
gladness. This is not confined to Christians; persons
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told of an inner glory and happiness when they got into the
habit of concentrating their mind on God. The great
philosopher Spinoza wrote so much about God that he was
known as the "God-intoxicated man."

Pythagoras taught that the universe is God's symphony and
that all the suns and planets sing as they swing their way
through the heavens. All nature has a language and a song
for those who listen. Shakespeare says:

//quote

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything."

//text

Shakespeare often quoted from the Bible, and he may have
got his idea that trees have tongues from I Chronicles
16:33: "Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy
before Jehovah."

//quote

"My mind is cleansed by Christ;

My life flows swift and strong;

The peace of God wells up within,

My soul bursts forth in song."

//text

Some people think it almost a sacrilege to sing when they
feel bad. They think that that is the time to groan, and
they usually do. That is the way the mortal looks at it,
and that is the way you may happen to feel, but you can
quickly be released from the prison of pain or grief if you
will sing and praise and pray.

First sing in your soul--you can sing 'way down inside of
yourself--then you will soon be singing with your voice. So
we lay down the metaphysical

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law that everybody should know how to sing. Everybody can
sing. It does not make any difference what your previous
thoughts have been about your ability to sing, it does not
make any difference what you think about it at present, and
it does not make any difference whether you can sing or
not; cultivate the singing soul and you will some day break
forth into a singing voice.

This is a creative law, and it is a law that everyone
should know and use, because through the vibrations of the
voice joined with high thinking every cell in the body is
set into action, and not only in the body but out into the
environing thought atmosphere the vibrations go and break
up all crystallized conditions.

The whole universe is in vibration, and that vibration is
under law. Chaos would result if the law were not supreme.
Each particular thing has its rate of vibration. Heat,
light, and color are different rates of vibration in one
field of primal energy. Different colors are caused by the
different frequencies of the vibrations as they strike the
eye. But what causes vibration? We answer Mind.

The cells of the body are centers of force in a field of
universal energy. There are no solids. That which appears
solid is in reality the scene of constant activity. The eye
is not keyed to the pulsations of this universal energy and
is therefore deceived into believing that things are solid.
All energy and life are governed by laws of spiritual
harmony. If the mind that receives sound vibrations is in
spiritual

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consciousness, the body responds to the higher activity. If
our mind were trained to think thoughts that harmonized
with Divine Mind, we could hear the music of the spheres.

You can drive away the gloom of disappointment by
resolutely singing a sunshine song. I believe that we could
cultivate the power of music in connection with the
understanding of Truth and thus rend all the bonds of sin,
sickness, and death. The world needs a new hymnal, with
words of Truth only and music so strong and powerful that
it will penetrate to the very center of the soul.

Our body is now tuned to the divine harmony; we shall find
the keynote by listening in the silence to the singing soul.

The new life in Christ fills me with zeal to live, and I am
healed.

In putting on Christ--that is, developing the
supermind--every faculty has to be raised to supermind
proportions. The exact mathematical degree of power
necessary to "synchronize" oneself with the "kingdom of the
heavens" in which the supermind functions has not been
revealed to human consciousness, if indeed it can be. An
eminent British astronomer says that he has discovered that
God is a great mathematician, and the logical conclusion of
all wise philosophers is that everything in the universe
both seen and unseen is under mathematical law. "The very
hairs of your head are all numbered," said Jesus.

Jesus also said that He came to bring more life

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to slow-moving humanity. More vital force now is and always
has been the crying need of people everywhere. Disease
germs run riot in anemic persons. The cause of such
conditions is mental: there is a lack of vital interest in
life and a disinclination to assume its responsibilities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that no great work was ever
accomplished without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is another word
for zeal, and zeal is a great stimulator of man. You cannot
think of or repeat the word zeal without evoking a certain
mental thrill that spurs you to action in some direction if
you repeat it over and over. This brings us back to the
point we mentioned about everything having a mathematical
infusion; that is, everything is impregnated with
mathematics. Every word we speak goes forth from our mouth
charged with atomic energies that vibrate at a definite
numerical rate. According to science every atom is composed
of protons and electrons, the number of electronic elements
in an atom determining the character of the substance. Now
we see that modern science is proving the truth of Jesus'
statement that we shall be held accountable for every word
we speak. Our minds determine the character of our words
and what the mind determines the mouth obediently utters,
its words loaded with constructive or destructive electrons
all mathematically arranged to build up or blow up both
ourselves and our aims and ideals. We are perfectly aware
that some persons are overzealous, that they consume their
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wisdom: "The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up." Such
persons are so enthusiastic in externals that they lose
contact with the source of things, the inner mind, and they
destroy the body, the temple of the living God. However
these are the minority. The great majority lack zeal in
doing even the most ordinary things, and even the
overzealous would find a much-coveted and needed poise by
linking their minds with the Christ.

The beginning of the culture of the mind that enables it to
make contact with the realm of creative ideas is faith, and
faith is superenthusiasm. You must have such confidence in
your ability to make union with creative Mind that you fuse
the two and the invisible elements melt and fall into the
mold you have made for them.

When we know that every word is mathematically linked with
certain creative ideas and that Divine Mind has made it
possible for every one of us to draw upon these ideas
mentally, we have the key to all creative processes.
"Whosoever . . . shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have
it." Here in a nutshell Jesus has stated the law and its
fulfillment. The one and only reason that we do not always
succeed in our demonstrations is that we do not persist in
our mental work. If we have never tested our faith in God
and His mathematical laws, we must begin to discipline our
minds and raise our thoughts to the point where they
abandon the slow inertia of the natural man for the speed
and spring

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of the spiritual man. This is accomplished by prayer,
meditation, and the repetition of true words. It is not the
vain repetition of words over and over, parrotlike, but the
quiet realization that there is a listening Mind and a
ready host of great ideas at all

times waiting for us.

I am at peace because I trust divine justice to regulate my
mind, body, and affairs.

The mind may be compared to the sea, which is calm or
stormy according to the wind that moves it. Thought
utilizes the substance of the mind and forms that which man
ideates.

A restful state of mind is greatly to be desired because of
its constructive character. When the mind is lashed by a
brain storm the cells of the whole organism are shattered
and exhaustion ensues. Nervous prostration is the result of
exhausted nerve force.

Man's whole character is determined by the thoughts for
which he allows a place in his mind. A strong man or a weak
man is what he is because of repeated thoughts of strength
or weakness. Steadfast affirmations of peace will harmonize
the whole body structure and open the way to attainment of
healthy conditions in mind and body. The reason that
prayers and treatments for health are not more successful
is that the mind has not been put in a receptive state by
affirmations of peace.

The Mind of Spirit is harmonious and peaceful, and it must
have a like manner of expression in man's consciousness.
When a body of water is choppy with fitful currents of air
it cannot reflect objects

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clearly. Neither can man reflect the steady strong glow of
Omnipotence when his mind is disturbed by anxious thoughts,
fearful thoughts, or angry thoughts.

Be at peace and your unity with God-Mind will bring you
health and happiness.

We all should practice delightful, happy, joyous states of
mind. It is such thoughts that open the way for the
ever-present Father-Mind to pour out its splendid resources
into our mind and through us into all our affairs.

Thou art my life unfailing, and I rejoice in Thy abundant,
buoyant health.

No one can understand the real character of God without a
metaphysical study and analysis of mind and its properties.
To think of God as an enormously enlarged man, as most
persons do, entangles one in a maze of wrong conclusions
concerning the nature and creative processes of Being.

Think of Being as an aggregation of ideas with potential
creative capacity but governed in its creative processes by
unalterable laws. Mentally see those ideas projected into
action in a universe evolving a self-conscious creature
possessed of free will called man. As man develops through
the combination of those original ideas, behold him
arriving at a place in his evolution where he realizes his
power of self-determination and consciously begins to
choose as his own field of action the many pleasant
activities of the universe and to combine them in his own
way.

This phase of man's development is symbolized

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in the Edenic allegory as Adam and Eve eating of the fruit
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree
that bears the fruit of pleasure in the midst of man's body
garden is the sympathetic nervous system. Satan, sensation,
tempts Adam and Eve--man--to appropriate or eat of this
tree without listening to the voice of wisdom, Jehovah God.
The result is unbridled and unlawful development of the
sympathetic nervous system with excess of pleasure (good)
followed by a corresponding reaction of pain (evil).

Jesus regained this lost Eden and showed us how to regain
it by likewise identifying our minds with God-Mind. His
prayer was "Not my will, but thine, be done."

Christ is the name of the God-Mind imaged in everyone. When
we identify ourselves with that image, we rise superior to
the Adamic man and become unified with the spiritual man.
It is in the strength of this supermind that we can say to
the man of flesh, "I will; be thou made clean." This is the
decree of the Christ in you to your conscious mind and its
visible body; it is the exercise of the authority given to
every child of God. "Decree a thing, and it shall be
established unto thee."

And manifest substance flows from a realm of light,
according to the most modern conclusions of physical
science. James says, "Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights."
God ideas are the source of all that appears. Accept this
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truth and consciously connect your mind with the
Father-Mind, and you will realize abundant health and true
joy.

The Holy Spirit life heals me, and I radiate health to
everybody and everything.

Some persons think that when they quit lying they are
demonstrating Truth. To quit lying is commendable but falls
short of fulfilling the complete reformation of the Spirit
of truth. In chapter after chapter of the Gospel of John,
Jesus repeats the promise that He will send a Comforter,
whom He names "the Spirit of truth," to those who believe
on Him. In the 15th chapter we read, "But when the
Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
Father, he shall bear witness of me." In the 16th chapter
we find these words: "I have yet many things to say unto
you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the
Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the
truth." "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, even
the Spirit of truth . . . for he abideth with you, and
shall be in you."

The Spirit of truth is the mind of God in its executive
capacity: it carries out the divine plan of the originating
Spirit. It proceeds from the Father and bears witness of
the Son. We have in the operation of our own minds an
illustration of how Divine Mind works. When an idea is
fully formulated in our minds and we decide to carry it
out, our thoughts

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change their character from contemplative to executive. We
no longer plan but proceed to execute what we have already
planned. So God-Mind sends forth its Spirit to carry out in
man the divine idea imaged in the Son.

It is very comforting to know that Spirit is cooperating
with us in our efforts to manifest God's law. God in His
divine perfection has seemed so far removed from our human
frailties that we have lost heart. But now we see that
Jesus taught that God is intimately associated with us in
all our life's problems and that we need only ask in His
name in order to have all needs fulfilled.

The Spirit of truth is God's thought projecting into our
minds ideas that will build a spiritual consciousness like
that of Jesus. The Spirit of truth watches every detail of
our lives, and when we ask and by affirmation proclaim its
presence, it brings new life into our bodies.

Again the Spirit of truth opens our minds to God's law of
supply and support, to the existence of a universal etheric
thought substance prepared for man's body sustenance by
infinite Mind. We have thought that in answer to our
prayers God in some mysterious manner brought about the
marvelous demonstrations that we had. Now we see that there
has been prepared from the beginning an interpenetrating
substance that, like a tenuous bread of heaven, showers us
with its abundance.

But we must not only ask but bring the Spirit into our
consciousness by affirming its abundance to

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be the source of all our good. Then perfection will begin
to be manifested right in the face of apparent negation.
Remember the invitation of the Master "Hitherto have ye
asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that
your joy may be made full."

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//section Chapter 12

Chapter XII

Holy Spirit Fulfills the Law

//text

THE SPIRIT of wholeness quickens and heals me. The Spirit
of wholeness is called the Holy Spirit in the New
Testament. In classical mythology it is called Hygeia.
Modern medical men refer to it as the restorative power of
nature. It has been recognized by savage and civilized in
every land and age. It has many names, and they all
identify it as a universal urge toward perfection in man
and the universe and toward keeping things going regardless
of any interfering force.

We may look on this restorative power as merely the
tendency of the cells in an organism to retain their
homogeneity, and when we look at it in this light our
consciousness robs it of any of the divine qualities it may
possess. This is the way the scientific world regards what
we call the Holy Spirit. To such a view the Holy Spirit has
no warm heart. To persons holding such a view the Holy
Spirit is not the Comforter referred to by Jesus but merely
an abstract principle that works just the same way whether
it is praised or blamed.

But to the Christian metaphysician the Holy Spirit is just
what the name implies, the whole Spirit of God in action.
In the Hebrew Jehovah is written Yahweh, Yah being
masculine and weh feminine.

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In the New Testament Christ stands for Jehovah. Jesus
talked a great deal about the Holy Spirit: that it would
bear witness of Him, come with Him, and help Him to the end
of the age.

Do not be misled by the personality of the Holy Spirit and
the reference to it as "he." This was the bias of the
Oriental mind, making God and all forms of the Deity
masculine.

Holy Spirit is the love of Jehovah taking care of the human
family, and love is always feminine. Love is the great
harmonizer and healer, and whoever calls upon God as Holy
Spirit for healing is calling upon the divine love.

Just here, in connection with the Holy Spirit is an
important point for a good Christian healer to consider. Do
not regard the Holy Spirit altogether as a restorative
principle without feeling, sympathy, or love. This reduces
your healing method to intellectual logic and the slow
process of mental science. Under this method the patient
must always be educated in Truth principles before he can
be healed. No instantaneous healing ever takes place under
this method.

The Holy Spirit is sympathetic, comforting, loving,
forgiving, and instantly healing.

//quote

"Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

Who healeth all thy diseases."

//text

Do not fear to call mightily upon the Holy Spirit, who has
all compassion and healing power at His command.

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Thy perfect plan of bodily perfection is now made manifest
in me.

That Mind, which designed the universe, must have planned
for man, its leading citizen, a body in harmony with the
universe is good logic. This conclusion does not require
inspiration but merely common sense.

The religions of every race have taught this perfection of
the body but have usually assumed that it was to be given
to God's elect in some heavenly place after death. They
have not thought it possible that the body of flesh with
its many apparent defects could be transformed into an
ideal body. In consequence man has put the stamp of
inferiority upon his body, and through the creative power
of thought he has built into the race mind a consciousness
of corruptible flesh instead of the inherent incorruptible
substance of God-Mind.

This race thought of man's body as impure and perishable in
time became so dense that no human thought could penetrate
it. It was gradually consuming the little life left in
human bodies and would have ended with their total
destruction if it had not been for Jesus, who was
incarnated as demonstrator of the perfection and
immortality of man's body.

That the body of flesh had within it life elements that
could be released and incorporated into a much finer body
has always been beyond the comprehension of the sense mind,
and it required a physical demonstration to convince men
that it could be done.

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Jesus made that demonstration, and some of His followers
were convinced that the body with which He appeared to them
after the Crucifixion was the identical body that suffered
on the cross. Thomas, for example, was allowed critically
to examine that body for the marks and wounds of the cross,
and he found them and was convinced.

But the majority still doubted and do so to this day. Not
understanding that the body that Jesus occupied for the
thirty-three years of His earthly incarnation could be
transformed into an imperishable body, they have assumed
that Jesus really died on the cross and went to heaven
where God gave Him a glorious body. There is no foundation
for this in the facts given in the New Testament.

"God is Spirit," said Jesus. "Know ye not that your body is
a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have
from God?" wrote Paul. Here are two statements by accepted
authorities on fundamental Christian principles. If God is
Spirit and He dwells in man's body, that body must have
within it certain spiritual principles. Here modern science
comes to the rescue of primitive Christianity, telling us
that the atoms that compose the cells of our body have
within them electrical units that, released, can change the
whole character of the organism. Jesus had attained an
understanding of the law that releases these electrical
units, and He knew before the Crucifixion that He could
thus make His body unkillable; which He did.

When Elohim God created man in His likeness,

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He imprinted upon man's supermind two body pictures: first
the picture of a natural body, and secondly the picture of
a spiritual body. In the primal cell He then inclosed the
elements necessary to the building of the natural and the
spiritual body; that is, electricity on the inside and
flesh on the outside. Then to man was given dominion and
authority over these living atoms and cells out of which he
must build mind and body into visibility. As God created
man, His image and likeness, by the power of His word so
man, God's image and likeness, projects his body by the
same power.

Our physical bodies are carried in our minds as thought and
they obediently reflect every mental attitude. When in the
course of our evolution we discern that an allwise Creator
must have designed perfection for all His creation and we
begin to affirm that perfection, then the transformation
from the natural to the spiritual body begins, and it
continues until our body is wholly regenerated and appears
objectively in its divine perfection.

Thou art the strength of my life, and I am made whole.

The mighty truth that everything in this universe is the
product of thought few persons let sink deeply into their
minds. Mankind have wandered in thought so far from the
parent Mind that they do not reflect or observe that
everything they do originates in mind. A very little
observation and reflection will convince anyone that mind
acts on matter in every part of life. The story of creation
begins in the

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first chapter of the Bible with God's command that the dry
land appear. Then in the second chapter Jehovah God formed
man out of the dust of the ground. Not only here in the
beginning do we find mind molding matter; all through the
Bible runs the same story. Jesus said of His body that He
could raise it up.

When the truth dawns on man that mind rules matter in both
the great and the small, he has the explanation of myriad
mysteries, strange episodes, reputed miracles. This great
truth that mind is the source and moving factor in all
creation would, if studied and practiced, prove of
tremendous worth to religion, science, and art. Jesus
taught the supremacy of mind in many illustrations, but His
followers have not understood the metaphysical significance
because they have not analyzed the mind or directly applied
its spiritual powers. When Jesus said that the Father was
within Him and that the words He spoke were not His but the
Father's, He must have referred to God as an
interpenetrating mind.

Everything in this universe has both its mental and its
physical side. Heaven and earth are parallel everywhere.
Even the so-called elemental forces of nature are dual. Our
men of science are puzzled because light sometimes appears
as waves in space and again as particles. To a
metaphysician the waves express the mind and the particles
the matter. When Jesus walked on the water He blended His
mind with the mind of the water and it obeyed His
concentrated

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will.

Nature's mind is always the servant of man's mind when man
lifts his thoughts to Spirit. Nature will even obey a
determined will on an inferior plane of consciousness.
Concentration of will as practiced by metaphysicians of the
Orient, African witch doctors, and a horde of occult adepts
bears testimony to the power of the mind to manipulate
matter visible and invisible.

//quote

"I sow no seeds of care and strife;

But those of love, and joy, and life."

//text

It is reported that a great philosopher, Herbert Spencer,
once said substantially that he would gladly turn his life
over to any creative force that would plan and carry it
forward without his having to take any responsibility.

Because of the many blunders that the natural man makes in
his life, such a shifting of responsibility would be
popular on the part of many who have ideals that they are
unable to fulfill because they are bound by material
limitations. Also in the secret recesses of all of us there
lurks the conviction that there is a power somewhere that
may be invoked to show us a hidden way into the city of
success. We think we should willingly follow any path in
life if we were sure that we were being led by the hand of
supreme wisdom.

In his famous soliloquy Hamlet heaps up the measure of the
burdens of life with the subtle argument that they could be
shifted by death:

//quote

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

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The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered country from whose bourn

No traveler returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

//text

Spiritual insight reveals that Hamlet is right. We cannot
escape life's experiences, be they ever so rough, by
fleeing to another environment. All the conditions in this
world have been constructed by the people who inhabit the
world, and each individual is a builder of it and
personally responsible for his immediate environment.

It is the mind that makes the man, and the mind and the
thoughts of the mind endure even though the body be
dissolved. So let no man think that he can escape the
creations of his mind by breaking the physical chains that
bind him to the earth. Nor does death in any of its phases
relieve him of the states of mind that dominated him at the
time of passing. The law of God is not mocked at any time
or under any circumstances. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap." What we have sown in the flesh we
shall reap in the flesh unless we repent, change our minds.
When we do repent, we shall break mortal thoughts and
ascend into a spiritual thought

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realm, the kingdom of God. This ascension we do not attain
by dying physically but by dying to ill thoughts and living
in true, good thoughts while still in the flesh. "Yet in my
flesh shall I see God."

"The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us," says John in
the very first chapter of his gospel.

Of all the great spiritual teachers of the ages Jesus has
given us the most vivid and vital evidence of God as Father
and guide. We say as Philip did, "Show us the Father, and
it sufficeth us." The disciples were looking for a
flesh-and-blood God. Do not the majority of Christians
today look forward to seeing sometime, somewhere, a
flesh-and-blood God sitting on a throne? Jesus replied, "He
that hath seen me hath seen the Father."

He then explained that He was in the Father and the Father
in Him. Yet His listeners did not understand, because they
had not been trained to think metaphysically. God is
Spirit, omnipresent Spirit-mind; and in Him "we live, and
move, and have our being."

//quote

"God lives in me; no more I pine;

For love, and health, and joy are mine."

//text

That God is the animating principle of all creation is not
a new or startling teaching. It has been the conclusion of
thinking minds ever since the birth of logic, and it will
never be discarded so long as the faculty of logic
continues to be exercised. Where there is an effect there
must be a cause, and no amount of sophistry will erase the
straight line from premise to conclusion. Timid men will
cry pantheism

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and scare both themselves and others with a bugaboo they do
not understand. Nevertheless the fact remains that
intelligence and design and all the other evidences of an
omnipresent planning Mind are so palpable in us and the
world about us that we cannot boast of our sanity and at
the same time deny them.

When logic presents these mighty truths to us and we begin
to turn our attention to the omnipresent principle
eternally active and flashing its presence into us and the
whole universe, we awaken within ourselves a consciousness
of it, and it begins to think and plan through us. This is
the first movement of Omnipresence, creating man as a
self-conscious replica of itself, that is, of God. This
replica is the Son of God or Christ, the exact reproduction
in miniature of the mighty cosmic Mind. When this man of
cosmic Mind arrives at full manifestation of Himself in
habitation and place, we have Jesus Christ, the Son of God
or God glorified in man. Jesus in ecstasy beholding this
climax exclaimed "Glorify thou me with thine own self with
the glory which I had with thee before the world was."

So if we have not begun our glorification by realizing this
quickening life within, let us commence right now to
recognize it in thought and word. James Russell Lowell
wrote, "It may be that the longing to be so helps make the
soul immortal." A great truth, spoken by a great man.
Desire from within shoots a ray of energy from the
imprisoned I AM to the all-infolding Spirit, and a thread
of golden light unites

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parent and child. Darwin taught that desire for light in
the protoplasmic cell shot a ray from its center to its
surface and formed the primary eye. If this be true, and it
seems logical, it is possible for us to animate the
thirty-nine trillion cells estimated by Doctor Crile to be
present in the body and eventually make them all luminous,
as did Jesus. Thus science is revealing to us the movements
of mind in forming the primary or physical body, which by
the quickening of the Spirit is raised to the glorified
immortal body.

We should not lose sight of the fact that the completion of
this glorified body that God has planned for us devolves on
us. We must become conscious of God-Mind and co-operate
with it in making His plan manifest in us. As Jesus said,
"My Father worketh even until now, and I work."

The childlike simplicity of this primary work seems so
insignificant that great men who have delved into
philosophy and worked with weighty intellectual problems
deem it beneath them to become as a little child and
concentrate their thoughts on nursery rhymes. They do not
realize that instead of molding and animating the cells of
their bodies they have projected their thoughts outwardly
in speculating about the universe and its laws. So the
cells left to themselves gradually starve for want of mind
stimulation and finally die.

If you, dear reader, have attained eminence in some earthly
field of action and yet have not demonstrated health, it
may be that you need to take sound

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words in some simple form and go unto your Lord.

The Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus dwells in me, and I
am made whole.

Paul wrote, "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus
from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ
Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal
bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you."

Few Christians realize the vital truth in this statement by
Paul, although it is but one of many of like character to
be found in his writings. Paul taught that what Spirit did
for Jesus it would do for all who follow Him and adopt His
methods of spiritual self-development.

Jesus claimed like results for His followers. In Matthew
19:28 it is written, "Verily I say unto you, that ye who
have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man
shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit
upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

The promises of the power of Spirit to transform man from a
mortal to an immortal state are producing a great company
of spiritual-minded persons in the world today who work in
the silence and speak but little about their heavenly
experiences. In this way Spirit is forming a mighty
Christian army that, when the need arises, will come out of
its obscurity and save our civilization from extinction.

Although these spiritually quickened souls, often widely
separated, may be working alone, they are bound together by
the Holy Spirit, and the bond of

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brotherhood that unifies them is far more enduring than any
human relationship. They are developing latent faculties of
the soul that will make them superpowered men and women.

In order to establish and perpetuate the new order of life
that is being poured into earth's mental atmosphere from on
high it is absolutely essential that a people be prepared
who can make use of the finer forces of the mind. The great
initial outpouring of Spirit took place at the Pentecostal
baptism more than nineteen centuries ago. The few who
received this primal baptism are the seed from which has
sprung a multitude. The trillions of cells forming the body
of Jesus swim in omnipresence awaiting our appropriation.
They are the living, quickening seeds of new life.

I am strengthened and healed by the power of the Spirit in
the inner man.

We all need a better acquaintance with that phase of
creative Mind that reveals and forms a connecting link
between the Most High and the mind of the natural man. Most
of us have not made conscious contact with the Spirit
within but are thinking and acting in the outer crust of
our being. Consequently we cannot hold communion with God
in His omnipotence but must have a mediator or equalizer of
the light and power that proceeds from the originating
source of existence.

This is illustrated in high-powered electric systems: a
transformer is necessary to lower the voltage and adapt it
to the capacity of small industrial

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motors. If the full current from one of the big electric
cables were turned directly into our small motors it would
burn them up.

If the full current of God life were turned directly into
the ordinary man's nervous system, it would destroy it. An
equalizer has been provided--the Holy Spirit or Spirit of
truth--through Jesus Christ.

Our human family has lost contact with the Spirit of truth,
and our only salvation is through a soul strong enough to
re-establish the connection. Jesus Christ released the
electric atoms in His body and formed a conduit in the
ether through which divine life is again flowing to the
inhabitants of this planet. Without this purified life
substance we should be unable to receive life or any
message direct from God.

In John 14:16 Jesus said, "And I will pray the Father, and
he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with
you for ever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world
cannot receive." Again in John 16:14 He makes His identity
with the Spirit of truth stronger: "He shall glorify me:
for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you."

All who have faith enough to believe these things are
comforted and guided by the Spirit of truth. Read John
17:20: "Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also
that believe on me through their word."

It is the Spirit of truth that talks to us in dreams,
visions, and inner urges. The more we acknowledge

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the Spirit as our indwelling inspiration and life the
stronger its consciousness will be to us.

Through the Spirit of truth God moves the whole creation;
hence any man may constantly increase his understanding of
the source and relation of all things by claiming his unity
with the Spirit of truth.

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//section Question Helps

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Be Thou Made Whole

Chapter I

1. In what respect do the words Christ and Jesus differ in
meaning?

2. What is the supreme attainment of every man?

3. Is it possible for the Christ to experience death,
burial, and resurrection?

4. When and where does resurrection take place? How did
Jesus resurrect His body?

5. Do the words we use have any bearing on the results we
get?

6. Why is it that man has not brought forth a greater
degree of the Christ perfection?

7. Are infirmities permanent? How overcome?

8. Why did Jesus never give His personality any credit for
the wonderful works He did?

9. Do all men have access to the Christ within?

10. Should man give more attention to the healing power of
nature?

11. Should the student give his undivided attention to one
system of development or should he study many? Explain
fully.

12. Are there any short cuts into the kingdom of heaven?

13. Explain what is meant by the "end of the world," as
brought out in the lesson?

14. Describe the means by which Jesus undertook to
establish the kingdom of heaven on earth.

God Presence

Chapter II

1. How may we know more of God and of ourselves?

2. Explain the meaning of "God is the health of His people."

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3. Does God ever will man to be sick? Does He ever use His
power to punish His creations?

4. How may we say that the attributes of God are expressed?

5. Should man ever think of God as being separate from him
or outside him?

6. Explain how mind is the connecting link between God and
man.

7. What is the proper procedure in realizing God as health?
Is it looked on as practical by the world at large?

8. Explain the "still small voice."

9. Explain God as principle. Should the truth that God is
principle lead us to infer that He is cold and unfeeling?

10. What part does man play in the forming of things?

11. Is God ever absent from His creations?

12. Since intelligence is the light of the world, how may
we increase our intelligence?

Realization Precedes Manifestation

Chapter III

1. How are we able to know that mind is the source of all
things?

2. How should we regard miracles?

3. Is it possible for us to do the works that Jesus did?

4. Is it possible to explain the laws governing religion
from a scientific viewpoint?

5. What part does concentration play in our demonstrations?

6. Give the metaphysical meaning of the word realization.

7. What does faith have to do with the realization of one's
ideals?

8. Are all prayers answered?

9. The text mentions a realm where no effort is required to
gain the answer to questions. Explain.

10. What is the supreme realization of man?

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Producing Results

Chapter IV

1. What states of mind are necessary if we are to realize
perfect health?

2. To what phase of being should a person give his

attention in order to understand the Scriptures?

3. How can healing be instantaneous?

4. Explain the meaning of the word sin.

5. What is it to forgive sin?

6. Should one ever think of oneself as being born in sin?
What should be one's viewpoint?

7. What is the foundation of the Jesus Christ kingdom?

8. What part does love play in our unfoldment?

9. Explain fully the meaning of the Trinity.

10. What mental attitude should man have toward his body?

The Omnipotence Of Prayer

Chapter V

1. Why is it necessary to affirm a thing one already knows
to be true?

2. Should everyone pray? Why?

3. Explain why Jesus advised us to ask for what we want.

4. Is asking always a part of prayer? What other forms of
prayer are there?

5. Is it ever good for one to be self-righteous? 6. What is
the key to all mysteries?

7. What part do faith and understanding play in a perfect
demonstration?

8. What is the real foundation of effective prayer?

9. Is it essential to have great faith in order to
demonstrate?

10. Is silent prayer more effective than audible prayer?
Why?

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11. What state of mind is necessary if we are to receive
clear revelations?

12. Why are some healings slow even though prayers are said?

God Said, And It Was So

Chapter VI

1. Explain fully in your own words the power of healing
words.

2. Did Jesus ever write? Through what channel have we
received His words?

3. From what standpoint did Jesus say that His words are
spirit and are life?

4. Does the word of itself have power? What must we do to
give full force to our words?

5. Is Truth ever the formulated doctrine of any church,
creed, or sect? Where may we find Truth?

6. What must we do to keep successfully in mind the words
of Jesus?

7. Is moral goodness always an indication of spirituality?

8. What determines the character and the results of our
words?

9. Is it necessary for us to feel our oneness with God in
order to believe in His omnipotence?

10. What does the healing of the man at the Pool of
Bethesda represent?

11. Is it ever possible for anyone to do our spiritual work
for us?

12. Explain how Jesus made His teachings available to all.

Indispensable Assurance

Chapter VII

1. Is man's desire for a fuller and more excellent life a
natural and orderly one? Explain fully.

2. Give in your own words a definition of faith. Is it

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natural for man to have faith?

3. Is it a falsehood to deny sickness in the face of its
appearance?

4. How are we to get more life?

5. Is it a fact that faith is blind?

6. How are we to emulate Jesus? Is it necessary to do so in
order to do the works of God?

7. Give three steps that are necessary in demonstration.

8. Would you call Jesus a master scientist? What did He
mean when He said, "In my Father's house are many mansions"?

9. Is it better to seek understanding through intellectual
reasoning or through divine inspiration?

10. Just what do our thoughts and words have to do with our
demonstrations?

11. Is it always necessary for us to be receptive in order
to be healed? Does God ever do things for us against our
will?

12. Give the difference between a genius and an ordinary
man from the metaphysical viewpoint.

13. Is it sufficient to be inspired by an ideal, or is
something else needed?

14. Should one ever take the attitude that things as they
are cannot be changed?

15. Explain what is meant by giving up the personal and
taking up the universal.

The Fullness Of Time

Chapter VIII

1. What part does order play in life?

2. Explain fully the power of words.

3. Is there any limit to the power of thought?

4. What should be our attitude toward hurry?

5. How may we become conscious of our I AM?

6. How is soul growth related to bodily health?

7. Explain the relation between law and order. What part
does law and order play in the divine scheme of things?

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8. What is the difference between natural law and divine
law?

9. Were the works that Jesus performed really miracles? Why?

10. Is it good to deny the existence of the things of the
world?

11. Is it necessary to enter fully into the kingdom in
order to realize results?

12. Give some of the signs that follow the giving of
attention to Spirit.

Healing Through Praise And Thanksgiving

Chapter IX

1. Has praise any commercial value? Any spiritual value?
Explain.

2. How is the body restored to perfection?

3. How should the various writers of the Bible be judged?

4. Is it possible for us to be of service in establishing
peace on earth?

5. In your own words tell how the new Christianity and
physical science are working together.

6. Where is heaven, and how is it formed?

7. Explain what Jesus meant when He said that the bread and
wine was His body and His blood.

8. Does man have the power to form and reform the universal
energy?

9. Is there more than one God?

10. Explain in your own words the meaning of the four
horses mentioned in the 6th chapter of Revelation.

"I Am The Way, And The Truth, And The Life"

Chapter X

1. Explain why the word of Spirit is next to Spirit in
power.

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2. Compare Jehovah and Christ. How should one go about
choosing healing words?

3. Why do we find it advantageous to use the name Jesus
Christ?

4. Did Jesus discover the principles He taught and
demonstrated?

5. Give the difference between the real spiritual I AM and
the personality. How did Jesus handle this proposition? Is
it possible for us to do likewise?

6. What is the difference between Jehovah God and Elohim
God?

7. Does the individual I AM contain infinite creative
capacity?

8. Can the unseen forces be mechanically demonstrated? How?

9. What did Jesus mean when He said that we should be
judged by our words? What is meant by the "day of judgment"?

10. Explain fully the change from the natural life to the
spiritual life. What did Paul mean when he said, "I die
daily?"

11. What must be our viewpoint if we are to be saved?

12. Should we expect healing today the same as in the time
of Jesus' ministry on earth?

Healing Power Of Joy

Chapter XI

1. Explain how joy acts on fear.

2. Explain the relation between happiness and health.

3. Do you think that singing can be of benefit toward the
realization of perfect health?

4. Explain how the whole universe is in vibration.

5. What part does zeal play in our unfoldment? Explain
fully.

6. What is the cause of man's seeming lack of vital energy?

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7. Explain the importance of faith. How is faith quickened?

8. Does man's thinking have much to do with his spiritual
progress?

9. Why is it necessary first to study mind in order to
understand the real character of God?

10. What should we do to bring the Spirit into our
consciousness?

Holy Spirit Fulfills The Law

Chapter XII

1. Explain the Holy Spirit from the viewpoint of the
Christian metaphysician and the physical scientist.

2. How should a good Christian healer regard the Holy
Spirit?

3. Should we ever hesitate to call on the Holy Spirit?

4. Did God create man with a perfect body or perfect-body
idea?

5. Did Jesus die on the cross? Explain how He was able to
resurrect His body.

6. Is it to our benefit to know that mind rules matter?
Explain.

7. Is it possible to escape life's experiences by a change
of environment or by death?

8. Can "ascension" be gained through physical death?

9. What did Jesus mean when He said, "He that hath seen me
hath seen the Father"?

10. Is it necessary for man to become as a little child?
Explain fully.

11. Why is it that man must have a mediator in order to
contact God? Who is this mediator?

12. Since man has seemingly lost contact with Spirit, what
is his only salvation?

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Adam, 4, 40, 158; and Eve, 177, 178

Adamic man, 178

affirmation, and faith, 103; and order, 121; effect of, on
body, 13, 14

affirmations and denials, list of: 22, 34, 37, 38, 61,
64-66, 137-139, 142, 144, 147, 150, 153-155, 157, 159,
161-163, 165, 167-169, 171, 173, 176, 177, 179, 182, 184,
186, 188, 190, 193, 194

angels, 70, 71

ascension, 73, 83, 84

atom, 149, 174

at-one-ment, 40 (see God; realization)

attention (see concentration)

aura, spiritual, 76, 110, 138, 139, 146

Being, as aggregation of ideas, 177; defined, 24;
expression inevitable in, 131; how to stir powers of, 18,
19; unchangeable laws of, 34, 59

Bible, key to, 70, 71; mysticism and inspiration of, 139

blood, 158; as symbol of primal life, 152 (see Jesus)

body, creation and interrelation of physical and spiritual,
186; flesh body vs. ideal, 52, 184; healing power stored
in, 156; human, as dynamo, 14; Jesus as demonstrator of
imperishable, 184, 185; natural, vs. spiritual, 186;
present abode of Jesus; 11, 12; psychic, 51; race thought
about, 184; regeneration of, 72, 73, 83, 84; resurrection
of, 13, 14; transformation of, by right thinking, 40-42,
163; transforming process of mind and, 63 (see Jesus)

brain cells (see cells)

bread, and wine, 144, 145, 158, 159

cause and effect, 16, 92, 93, 132, 133, 136, 190, 191

cells, 130, 138, 170, 176; and ideas, 72, 73; and thought,

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127, 128, 192; as electric batteries, 14, 185; body, as
centers of force, 172, 173; brain, 73, 160, 161; live vs.
dead, 12, 13; of body of Jesus, 41, 146, 194;
transformation of, 41, 52, 163

Christ, as Jehovah, 157, 182, 183; as loving Mind, 63; as
name of God-Mind in man, 178; as superman, 16; as the Word
(Logos) 6; as Truth, 102; defined, 9-11; man's access to,
17; Paul on having mind of, 52; power of, 96, 97; putting
on, 163, 173; spoke often through Jesus, 11; substance
(body) and life (blood) of, 158, 159 (see Jesus; Son of God)

Christ I AM, 157

Christ man, 9, 10, 28, 131, 132

Christ Mind, 147, 149, 150, 153; as unifying principle of
race, 131

Christianity, and modern science, 142-144; living God in, 94

church of Christ, as aggregation of ideas, 102

Comforter, 179, 182, 195

communion, 24, 25, 32, 33

concentration, and realization, 45; as mental magnet, 44;
equal to prayer, 48

consciousness, 64; Adam consciousness vs. Christ, 40; and
life, 104, 105; and mind, 31, 33, 34; personal, 98

creation, 140, 141, 186, 187; and faith, 100, 101; God's
ideal conception of, 16

Crile, Dr. George W., 191, 192

crucifixion, 184, 185; significance of, 163

Darwin, Charles Robert, 191, 192

"day of judgment," 161

daydreamers, 113, 114

death, 146; nature of, 189, 190; overcoming of, 90, 91,
131-133, 162, 163; separation of mind and body in, 73

demonstration, 175, 176; and thoughts, 112; of unseen
forces, 159; secret of, 133, 134; three steps in, 109

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denial, importance of both affirmation and, 129

discernment, spiritual, 92, 93, 103, 139

disease germs, 173, 174

disobedience, and sickness, in Scriptures, 53

Divine Mind, 5, 24, 67, 77, 81, 83, 102, 121, 146, 162,
173, 175, 176, 179

doctors, 80; and faith, 107-109

doubt, 106 (see faith)

dreams, 82, 195 (see revelation)

eden (see Garden of Eden)

Edison, Thomas Alva, 44, 45

Einstein, Albert (quoted), 49, 50

electricity, and faith, 44, 45

Elijah, 75, 126

Eliphaz, 144

Elisha, 75

Elohim God, 45, 140, 141,186; as universal Principle, 158

Emerson, 87, 149; on enthusiasm, 174

energy, 42, 43, 138, 145; spiritual, 104, 146, 147 (see
thought)

enthusiasm, 174, 175

ether, and omnipresent Mind, 140; and space, 143;
spiritual, as zone of spiritual force, 83, 84, 157

Eve (see Adam)

evolution, 54, 55; Christ or Son-of-God, 10

faith, 15, 44, 53, 74, 101, 111, 144, 156; and
instantaneous healing, 56; and material remedies, 104; as
basis of all action, 107; as substance of mind, 35, 101; as
superenthusiasm, 175; blind, 106; defined, 100, 101;
miraculous power of, 75; represented by Peter, 47, 102,
103; understanding, 72; vs. doubt, 106 (see creation; man;
prayer)

Father, 50, 95, 97, 135, 141, 187; access to, through Jesus
Christ as Son of God, 19; as provider, 18, 68, 109; as
Spirit, 98, 99; self-righteousness as barrier to

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love of, 70; Son, Holy Spirit, 64, 121, 122; working in
unity with, 143 (see creative mind)

Father-Mind, 4, 17, 63, 64, 83, 131, 177-179

fear, 57; erasing, 168, 169

forehead, as center of consciousness, 152

forgiveness, and healing, 57, 58, 60; and understanding,
61; of others, 60, 61, 68; significance of, 58, 59

Garden of Eden, 158, 177, 178

Genesis, 140, 141, 165

genius, 113; and intuition, 48; musical, 49

God, as a person, vs. God as mind, 34-36; as animating
principle of creation, 190, 191; as Father, 98, 109, 190;
as health, 23, 30-32, 53; as lawgiver, 58, 59; as life, 29,
104; as love, 26, 27, 29, 35; as mind, 30-34, 63; as power,
25-27; as principle, 34, 71; as Spirit, 14, 17, 28, 29, 46,
47, 73, 74, 78, 185; as "still small voice," 27, 28; as
Truth, 30; as wisdom, intelligence, and substance, 26, 27;
character of, 177; end of old ideas about man and, 20;
imaginary notions of, 70, 71; known through mind. not
senses, 73, 74; man's communion with, 24, 25, 32, 33; not
circumscribed, 29; present in all His creations, 36, 120;
unity (at-one-ment) with, through Christ, 21, 40, 50, 131;
various names of, and their meaning, 140-142; wrong
concepts of, 25, 34

Godhead, man's relation to, 24

God-man, 71

God-Mind, 4, 5, 9, 46, 156, 177, 179, 180, 184, 192; and
man's mind, 40, 41; faith in, 15

God's will, 3, 91

healing, absent, 144; and forgiveness, 58; and order, 117,
118; and receptivity, 112, 113, 176, 177; denial as good
drill for, 37; instantaneous, 56; method of metaphysical,
45, 50, 51; miracle theory of, 3; nature of, 9; origin of
power of, 18, 19; through

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praise and thanksgiving, 137-139

health, and righteousness, 53, 54; and vitality, 104; as
natural, 5, 9; as normal condition of all creation, 24;
defined, 23, 24, 39; lawful way to attain, 16, 127;
realizing principle of, 40, 49; singing and, 169-173;
thoughts as determining, 33, 127; way to continuous, 17
(see law; mind; prayer)

"heavens." (see kingdom of heaven)

holy of holies, 135, 136

Holy Spirit, 155; as active manifestation, 63; as bond of
brotherhood, 193, 194; as Logos, 161; as mediator or
equalizer, 194, 195; as Mother-God, 183, 184; as personal
representative of God, 148; as regarded by scientific
world, 182; as Spirit of wholeness, 182; character of, 183

hygeia, 182

hypnotism, 45, 46, 160

I AM, 22, 24, 35, 60, 64, 111, 122-126, 157, 158; and the
lifted consciousness, 19; as creative power of individual,
158; as name of Jehovah, 13, 14, 164; as presiding ego in
each organism, 14; in Hebrew scriptures, 122, 123; lawful
and unlawful use of, 123, 124 (see Jehovah)

I AM THAT I AM, 141

I will, 24

ideas, 30, 31, 121, 122, 175, 176; and race consciousness,
130; as catching, 136; as only means of communication
between God and man, 32, 33; as source of things, 35, 36;
giving name ("character") to, 165 physical body carried in
mind as, 186; reaction of mind to, 90, 94, 95, 129, 130

image, and expression, 113, 114

incarnation (see reincarnation)

individuality, vs. personality, 69

influence, mystery of personal, 147

inspiration, vs. intellectual reasoning, 111

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intellect, and demonstration, 111; and Truth seeking, 106

intelligence, 26, 27, 37; Mind as source of, 121, 122; two
types of, 24

intuition, as instinct of animal soul, 42; Einstein on, 49,
50 (see genius)

Isaiah, 81

Jacob, 71

James, 79, 178, 179

Jeans, Sir James, allusion to, 46; (quoted), 149

Jehovah, 148, 182, 183; and Christ, 155, 156; as I AM, 13,
14, 122, 164; as individual I AM, 158 (see I AM)

Jehovah God, 141, 154, 158, 178, 186, 187

Jehovah-jireh, 141, 142

Jehovah-rapha, 123, 141, 155

Jehovah-shalom, 122, 123, 139, 141, 142

Jehovah-shammah, 164

Jesus, alive in spiritual ethers ("heavens"), 11, 12, 83,
84, 110; and conversion of Paul, 12; and evolution, 54, 55;
and faith, 101, 102, 108, 144, 157, 175, 176; and Holy
Spirit, 155; and prayer, 69, 70, 78; and race
consciousness, 146, 147, 159; and regeneration ("new
birth"), 10, 11, 52; and the abundant life, 105, 106; and
the kingdom of God (heaven), 99, 134, 135, 138, 139, 143,
150, 165; and the Lord's Prayer, 67, 68, 109; and the power
of the word, 88, 99, 132, 133, 161; as appointed head of
race, 19; as demonstrator and teacher of mind laws, 39, 54,
142; as example of God glorified in man, 191; as exponent
of impersonal I AM, 157, 158; as fearless of disease, 57;
as perfect expression of God-Mind, 9; as spiritual man, 47;
ascension of, through body regeneration, 72, 73, 83, 84;
body and blood of, 144, 145, 158, 159; born to save human
family from extinction, 4; distinction between Christ and
9-11; healing method of, 3-5, 56, 57; mind and

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body of, raised to His supermind level, 17, 18, 161, 162;
mission of, 21; on false Christs, 19, 20; on healing and
forgiveness of sin, 57-60; on oneness with the Father, 50,
97; on overcoming death, 90, 91, 132, 133, 162; response
of, to united prayer, 12; salvation through, 165;
transfiguration of, 41; used law, not miracles, 129; using
name of, 155-157, 164-167, 180 (see Christ)

Jesus Christ (see Christ; Jesus)

Jethro, 164

Job, 31, 46, 53, 82, 87, 88, 144

John, 15, 83, 164, 190

John the Baptist, 118, 119; vs. Son of God, 61, 62

joy, healing force of, 168-170; vs. fear, 168, 169

kingdom of God, 71, 77, 125, 189, 190; externalized
gradually, 115; seeking of, through thought, 78, 138, 139;
spiritual understanding as key to, 98, 99

kingdom of heaven, 12, 20, 21, 130, 165, 166, 173; as realm
of mind, 47, 48, 83, 84, 143; how to enter, 134, 135

Last Supper, 144, 145, 158, 159

law, 34, 44, 171-174; and health, 53; as Truth, 59, 60;
man-made law vs. spiritual, 118, 119; manifesting God's,
180; spiritual, 119-124

Lazarus, 9, 39, 40

Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 55

life, current of, and right relation of ideas, 4, 5, 162;
defined, 29; everywhere present, 40, 104, 105; fullness of,
and life consciousness, 104, 105

light, 115, 116, 124, 140, 178; as waves (mind) and
particles (matter), 187, 188

logic, 190, 191

Logos, 6, 15, 144, 161, 163 (see Jesus; Word of God)

Lord, all men as chosen of, 115, 116; as translation of
word Jehovah, 123

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Lord's Prayer, 67, 68, 109

love, 26, 27, 29, 35, 183; importance of, 62; of spiritual
things, 62

Lowell, James Russell, 191

Luther, Martin, 71, 72, 85, 86

man, as determiner of his own destiny, 100; as God's image
and likeness, 14, 15, 46, 47, 60, 61, 74, 127, 154, 186; as
God's supreme creation, 9, 22; as spirit, soul, body, 71;
as temple of God, 115, 116, 174, 175, 185; as the Son of
God, 191; desire of, to shift the burden or escape life's
experiences, 188, 189; development of, 177, 178; faith
innate in, 100, 101; inability of, to receive fullness of
power, 194, 195; mind's role in consciousness of, 31;
natural vs. spiritual, 10, 11, 175, 176; power of, to
manifest the ideal, 16; twelve faculties of, represented by
twelve tribes of Israel, 152

Marconi, Guglielmo, 159, 160

Mark, on following Christ, 167

"masters," and occult brotherhood, 19, 20

matter, 187, 188; and God, 26, 27; end of world of, 20, 149
(see world)

medicine, no permanent healing through, 80

meditation (see prayer)

mediumship (see hypnotism)

Melanchthon, Philipp, 71, 72, 85, 86

Mesmer, Franz Anton, 45, 46

Messiah ("anointed") spiritual meaning of term, 10

metaphysics, and Trinity, 121, 122

mind, 187, 188; as link between God and man, 30-32; as
place of origin of acts, 58, 186; as source of health, 40;
creative, as the Father (also called "heaven"), 18, 47;
discipline of, 97; Divine, vs. sense, 81; finding God
through, 31; idea, and manifestation, 31, 54, 64, 121, 122;
laws of, exact, 34, 35, 44; man and universe founded on, 3;
molds matter, 186,

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187; of nature as man's servant, 188; peace of, 176, 177;
science of, 126, 127; study of healthy, 30, 31; unlimited
ideas in, 18 (see consciousness; God; man)

miracles, 3, 41, 71, 72, 129, 142 (see healing)

Moses,53, 75, 76, 122, 139-141, 156; as master of nature,
164

Mother-God, 183, 184

Naaman, 75

Napoleon, 106

nature, healing power of, 18, 19; restorative power of, as
Holy (healing) Spirit, 170, 182

"new birth" (see rebirth)

New Jerusalem, 84, 115

Nicodemus, 10, 85

omnipresence, God's, 36, 71, 90, 191

order, divine, 117, 118, 121, 130; in body and affairs,
119, 120; in food and clothing, 120, 121

pantheism, 190, 191

parables, 84

Paul, 4, 29, 52, 117, 118, 142, 148, 185, 193; and Silas,
75, 76; on dying daily, 163; on faith, 74, 75, 100, 101; on
resurrection, 12, 13

peace, 141, 142, 176

personality, 17, 69

Peter, 83, 106, 163, 166; (church), as man's immortal body,
50; (faith), 47, 102, 103

Philip, 190

Phylacteries, 90-92

Poincare, Henri, 48

Pope, Alexander (quoted), 117

power, defined, 25, 26; life-giving, 16, 17; misuse of, 26;
to be invoked, 188

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prayer, 175, 176; and faith, 72, 74, 75, 79, 80; and
health, 39, 79-81; and spiritual ethers, 75, 76, 83, 84;
and spiritual inspiration, 111; and thanksgiving, 78, 137,
138; as an affirmation of Being, 67; as invocation,
meditation, concentration, denial, and affirmation, 70;
consciousness of I AM presence through, 123; daily, 169;
effective, 74; for realization, and its consummation, 47;
importance of getting still in, 80; in Jesus' name, 84,
164-167; Jesus' directions for, 77; necessity of, 69, 125;
not supplication or begging, 67, 78, 83; persistency in,
68, 85, 86; presence of Jesus felt through, 11, 12, 17, 18;
related to laws of God, 76; silent vs. audible, 78, 79 (see
concentration)

prayer wheels, 90-92

principle, 34

"Promised Land," 95, 96

psychology, 142-144, 155, 156

Pythagoras, 171

race consciousness, 130, 146, 147, 159

radiation, soul, 110

realization, 45, 47, 176; and health, 49; as expectancy
objectified, 50, 51; meaning of, 40

rebirth, 10, 52

receptivity, 112, 113, 176, 177

regeneration, 10, 11, 52, 72, 73, 83, 84, 97 (see body;
Jesus)

reincarnation, 13; and genius, 49

repentance, 189, 190; and forgiveness, 58, 59

resurrection, 13

revelation, and meditative state of mind, 82, 83; in sleep
and dreams, 82

Revelation, 6th chapter of, explained, 150, 151; 7th
chapter of, explained, 152

salvation, 162, 165

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Satan, 20; as sensation, 177, 178

science, 126, 127; and Genesis, 188; and metaphysics, 44, 45

Scriptures, 177; understanding of, and study of mind, 54

"Second Coming," 12, 149, 150

selfishness, 151; hoarding breeds, 68; vs. love, 61, 62

Shakespeare, 13, 47, 48, 50, 51, 122, 166, 171, 188, 189

sickness, denying, 103 (see disobedience; sin)

Silas (see Paul)

Simon Peter (see Peter)

sin, and sickness, as cause and effect, 5, 17, 53, 57-60;
of omission and commission, 17; unreality of, 59, 60, 61,
103

sleep, 82 (see revelation)

Socrates, 110, 147, 148

Solomon (dreams), 82

Son of God (Christ), 10, 19, 191; life-giving power of, 16,
17

Son of man, 10, 59, 60, 70

song, therapeutic value of, 169-173

"soul body," 147

Spencer, Herbert, 188 Spinoza, 170, 171

Spirit, 119, 120, 162; as source of soul and body, 71, 72;
as stimulant, 130; conscious contact with, 194; defined,
28, 29, 92, 93; increasing man's faith in, 102; no
beginning or ending in, 35; obeying the, 114, 115; of
wholeness, 182; soul, and body, 12, 64, 71; transforming
power of, in man, 193; vs. matter, 92, 93; worshiping God
in, 104

Spirit of truth, 195, 196; as inner monitor, 91; as mind of
God in executive capacity, 179, 180

"still small voice," 27, 28, 126; and communion, 33

subconscious mind, and conscious mind, 42, 112; and
spiritual mind, 42; as storehouse of experience, 42

substance, 26, 27, 29, 35, 41; transmutation of, 145, 146

suggestion, 118, 119

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supermind (Christ Mind), 10, 17, 18, 173

telepathy, 110

thanksgiving, 78, 137-139 (see prayer)

Thomas, 111, 184, 185

thought, and energy, 43, 73; breaking up old structures of,
62, 63; formative power of, 143; healing forces stirred by,
18, 19; importance of, in demonstration, 112

thought stuff, 43; conservation of, and right thinking, 44;
technique of molding, 42

thoughts, and character, 176; as affecting body, 53; as
barriers, 33: as seeds, 112; nourishing, 127-129; of
praise, 138, 139

Toscanini, Arturo, 146, 147

transubstantiation, 144, 145

Trinity, in Hebrew Scriptures, 122; metaphysically
interpreted, 63, 64, 121, 122

Truth, importance of adhering to one system of development
in, 19; possibility of expressing, 133, 134; revealed
individually, 98; value of statements of, 130; words of,
87-91, 111

universe, as body of God, 161; as product of thought, 186,
187

vibration, 172

wholeness, principle of, 39 (see Spirit)

will, concentration of, 188

word, as expressing an idea, 90, 94, 95; cannot express
God, 23; different uses of, 89-92; germ, 88; importance of
faith in creative, 15, 89, 144, 161, 163, 175, 176;
intonation of, 164; man justified or condemned by own, 15;
of Spirit, next to Spirit, 154; power of the spoken, 9, 14,
15, 47, 88-98, 119, 121, 123, 132, 133, 144, 154, 161, 162;
responsibility for, 174; salvation through, 162 (see Truth)

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Word of God (Logos), according to John, 15, 161 (see Holy
Spirit; Jesus; Logos)

world, "end" of, and the new dispensation, 20

worry, and prayer, 81

wrongs, righting, 134

Yahweh, 155; meaning of, 141, 182, 183

zeal, 174, 175