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Teach Us To Pray

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When Jesus' disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray
He warned them against making a display of their praying in
order to be seen of men. They should retire to their "inner
chamber" and pray to the Father who sees in secret and
rewards openly. Then He said, "After this manner therefore
pray." The Lord's Prayer was given as a sample: not to be
followed literally. It is a petition according to the
American revision; but according to Fenton's translation it
is a series of affirmations, as follows:

"Our Father in the Heavens; Your Name must be being
hallowed;

"Your kingdom must be being restored;

"Your will must be being done, both in Heaven and upon the
Earth.

"Give us to-day our to-morrow's bread;

"And forgive us our faults, as we forgive those offending
us, for You would not lead us into temptation, but deliver
us from its evil."

As in all matters where we seek divine help we are free to
use any words we choose or no words at all.

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"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,

Uttered or unexpressed."

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Prayer in man is a conscious expression of the upward trend
of nature found everywhere. So every impulse or desire of
the soul for life, love, light, is a prayer.

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Eliphaz repeated a prayer formula when he said, "Thou shalt
also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee."

Jesus put the same idea in these words: "Whatsoever ye
shall ask in my name, that will I do."

All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based upon
this law of soul urge.

What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be
yours, if you "faint not."

When we frame our desires in sound words and place them
before our indwelling Lord, we are using intelligently the
supreme law of God in bringing into manifestation that
which He has implanted in us.

A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without sincerity
in it, a prayer without soul in it, a prayer without Spirit
in it is a fruitless prayer.

But above all practice the presence of God in prayer.
Divine Mind has given us all potentialities, in prayer we
recognize it as the source of these, and with a right
understanding of our relation to it our soul grows great
with infinite capacity, all potentiality. "With God all
things are possible." "All things whatsoever the Father
hath are mine."

We have been so persistently taught that prayer consists in
asking God for some human need that we have lost sight of
our spiritual identity and have become a race of praying
beggars. God is Spirit in whom we "live, and move, and have
our being." We are the offspring of this Spirit and can
make conscious contact with it by turning our attention

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away from material things and thinking about Spirit. As we
practice this kind of prayer our innate Spirit showers its
life energies into our conscious mind and a great soul
expansion follows.

Jesus described this in the following words:

"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner
chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who
is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall
recompense thee."

This "inner chamber" of the soul has been variously named
by Scripture writers. It is called the "secret place of the
Most High" and the "holy of holies," and Jesus named it
"the Father . . . in me" and "the kingdom of God . . .
within you." What we need to know above all is that there
is a place within our soul where we can consciously meet
God and receive a flood of new life into not only our mind
but also our body.

This understanding shows us that prayer is more than asking
God for help in this physical world; it is in its highest
sense the opening up in our soul of an innate spiritual
umbilical cord that connects us with the Holy Mother, from
whom we can receive a perpetual flow of life. This is the
beginning of eternal life for both soul and body, the
essential teaching of Jesus, which He demonstrated in
overcoming death.

We have earnestly sought to know and tell others how to
pray, and this book is our very best exposition of the
subject. Language has not yet been invented to tell all the
wonders that we have found since we

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began opening our minds to the Spirit in prayer. We have
discovered enough to convince us that the body can be so
charged with spiritual life through prayer that it will
overcome death, as promised by Jesus Christ.

Do not enlarge the defects of this book until they darken
its truths, but accept the urge to begin the practice of
prayer and through it make contact with the source of your
being. Thus you will prove that, as Job wisely taught,

"There is a spirit in man,

And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding."

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//section Contents

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Foreword ... 3

The God to Whom We Pray ... 11

True Prayer ... 16

Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence ... 22

Healing through the Prayer of Faith ... 27

Prosperity through Prayer ... 33

Contacting Spiritual Substance ... 38

Joyous Prayer ... 43

How to Handle the Psychic Forces of Consciousness ... 47

Spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man Master ... 55

Fulfillment ... 60

Unfoldment ... 66

Thought Images ... 70

The Spoken Word ... 73

Thou Shalt Decree ... 77

Be Strong in the Lord ... 80

Face to Face with God ... 83

Not Magic but Law ... 86

Spiritual Soul Therapy ... 90

Health and Prosperity ... 93

Thoughts Are Things ... 96

The Supermind ... 100

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Cheerfulness Heals ... 104

Love Harmonizes ... 107

Casting Out Fear ... 112

Spiritual Hearing ... 116

Light of Life ... 119

Thought Substance ... 122

Intensified Zeal ... 126

The Unreality of Error ... 129

Joy Radiates Health ... 132

"Selah!" ... 135

Spiritualizing the Intellect ... 138

The Sevenfold Cleansing ... 148

Prayer and Faith ... 157

The Healing Word ... 164

Six-Day Prayer Treatments ... 175

Questions ... 191

Index ... 201

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//section The God to Whom We Pray

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Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;

But only he who sees takes off his shoes,

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

--Elizabeth Browning

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OMNIPRESENCE, omniscience, omnipotence are verities of
Being and are facts of existence.

The Mind of God, creative Mind, is perpetually moving upon
supermind ideas and through them bringing man and the
universe into existence.

Creative Mind is everywhere present; yet while it is within
the mind of man it lies beyond the consciousness of sense.

Omnipresence is that spiritual realm which can be
penetrated only through the most highly accelerated mind
action, as in prayer. Thus in unfolding this inner kingdom
we are dealing with a reality beyond the ordinary
comprehension of man.

To the superbly tuned mind and brain of Jesus Divine Mind
was a soil eager with vibrant life and light and substance,
which He used to produce the finest of materials for both
character and body building.

Spiritual character building is from within outward.

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Spiritual character lives in man; it is what God has
engraved on man's soul, ready for development through man's
spiritual efforts. It is a reserve force of organized
victory over carnality.

Man builds spiritual character by consciously functioning
in God-Mind, where, laying hold of spiritual ideas, through
Christ he realizes the Truth they contain; and as he thus
weaves them into his soul consciousness they become a part
of his very nature.

Our most effective prayers are those in which we rise above
all consciousness of time and space. In this state of mind
we automatically contact the Spirit of God. Indeed when we
elevate our consciousness to that of Jesus Christ, the God
presence becomes as meaningful to us as it was to Him. It
is in this state of at-one-ment that we truly become aware
of His sublimity and power.

"I go to prepare a place for you." By getting acquainted
with the one Mind as integral substance, we move with it
and it moves with us, and thus are established within us
new spiritual states of consciousness, a "place" where we
are aware of the God presence as reality.

Jesus said: "My Father is the husbandman." "I am the true
vine." "Ye are the branches." "As the branch cannot bear
fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither
can ye, except ye abide in me."

"Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away:
and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that
it may bear more fruit."

In this scripture Jesus is revealing to us that

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through Him we are born anew, born of God, and that through
Him we may be consciously attached to God--as the branch is
attached to the tree--so that we may not wither and be cast
away.

Through Christ we are consciously attached to the parent
stem. It behooves us to retain this attachment so that we
may go forward in spiritual unfoldment and be crowned with
eternal life.

Many good people think that God is a person located in a
place in the skies called heaven. They pray to Him for what
they want and are satisfied. This is the prayer of the
primitive, personal man, and it meets his needs; but this
is not direct communion of the Father and the Son, the
communion with reference to which Jesus said, "I and the
Father are one." We must have this more intimate
acquaintanceship or communion with creative Mind if we are
in all ways to do His will.

God presence establishes us in ideas of honesty, strength,
intelligence, spiritual manhood, perfect womanhood, all
needed factors in the unfoldment of the redeemed man, all
builders of the indestructible body temple.

Thus we must understand the nature of the God to whom we
pray and awaken in ourselves that divine nature through
which we effect our union with God.

God is power: man is powerful. God is wisdom: man is wise.
God is substance: man is form and shape. God is love: man
is loving. God is life: man is the living. God is mind: man
is the thinker. God is truth: man is truthful.

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Many people pray to God in the same manner as they talk to
some distant friend over the telephone. We talk too much
about God, too much as though He were a third person in the
God-man relationship instead of the first. It is
unthinkable that the Creator should cause to exist a
creation so inferior to Himself as to remove it beyond the
pale of fellowship with Him. In his saner moments man knows
that this is not logical or true. It is man's exalted ideas
of God and his disparaging ideas of himself that have built
the mental wall that separates them.

In our prayers we must meet God face to face and realize
that we are getting that inner assurance which is the real
answer to our petitions.

A minister, after twenty years of faith preaching, once was
persuaded by a friend to try the Truth way of prayer, the
way of scientific silence. Afterwards he confessed that
when he touched God and found Him alive he was startled.

To Jesus the God presence was an abiding flame, a flame of
life, of life everlasting that He felt in every cell and
fiber of His being, making Him more and more alive,
cleansing and purifying until He became every whit perfect.
During our higher realizations of Truth we are often
conscious of this abiding flame working in us and through
us.

To Jesus God-Mind was a treasure field within Him in which
could be found the fulfillment of every need He could
possibly have. The Spirit of God in Him was constantly
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and persistently working, to transmute every natural
impulse of mind and soul into a spiritual realization of
life. To Him the Spirit of God was working to satisfy His
inner craving with living substance and intelligence, thus
rounding out soul and body consciousness into the perfect
expression of Divine Mind itself. What a glorious
satisfaction God must feel in His perfect Son Jesus who
acknowledged His inner consciousness as one with, and as
consciously expressing, God's will and wisdom. God Spirit,
God-Mind, is not in any way confined or limited; it is
everywhere present. The "ether" of science corresponds to
"the kingdom of the heavens" taught by Jesus. Light and
other forms of radiant energy, the objective expression of
the invisible spiritual forces, compose an omnipresent
world more marvelous than the old-time heaven. All the
forces of modern scientific discovery are but parts of "the
kingdom of the heavens" described in the many parables of
Jesus. Science recognizes the physical phases of the
kingdom, ignores the mental, and utterly fails to
comprehend the spiritual.

The announcement of Jesus to the obtuse Nicodemus, "Ye must
be born anew," gives us a clue to the shortsightedness of
physicists. They have not developed the faculties of mind
necessary to the discernment of the spiritual intelligence
that moves the physical universe, consequently they see its
material aspects only. A new school of science must be
developed in which the mind of the Spirit will be given
first place.

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//section True Prayer

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Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise

From outward things, whate'er you may believe.

There is an inmost center in us all,

Where truth abides in fulness;

. . . and, to know,

Rather consists in opening out a way

Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape,

Than in effecting entry for a light

Supposed to be without.

--Robert Browning

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ALL DOWN the ages man has been making the spiritual effort
to realize conscious union with that innermost center where
Truth in all its glory abides eternally. This realization
can be accomplished only through true prayer.

The disciples of Jesus earnestly importuned, "Lord, teach
us to pray." Today, as disciples of the Master, we are
asking of Him to be taught the way of unifying our
consciousness with God-Mind. We would find that inner Truth
which sets us free.

His instructions to the disciples were "But thou, when thou
prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut
thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy
Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee." It is
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this simple method. Quietly entering the inner chamber
within the soul, shutting the door to the external thoughts
of daily life, and seeking conscious union with God is the
highest form of prayer we know.

The purpose of the silence is to still the activity of the
individual thought so that the still small voice of God may
be heard. For in the silence Spirit speaks Truth to us and
just that Truth of which we stand in need.

Prayer is man's steady effort to know God. There is an
intimate connecting spirit that logically unites man and
his source. This connecting spirit is the divine Logos, the
Word of God, which in truth reveals the logic of Scripture.
Because of this fact man instinctively feels and knows
whence his help comes.

God-Mind, composed of radiant ideas, vibrant life, glorious
new inspiration, is ours to use. Since we are the I will
man in the supreme Godhead, let us through Jesus Christ
realize our spiritual importance. Let us think deeply on
the divine Logos, the Word of God! In it is the living
impetus that is bound to vitalize the soul of man and
enable him to develop his latent powers.

When we awaken even a very slight consciousness of this
co-operative spirit, we become cocreators with God, and we
find we can adjust any condition that comes into our life.
Jesus was so completely unified with God-Mind that He could
claim the words He spoke to be not His but those of the
Father dwelling within Him.

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Through prayer we gain the intimate relationship with God
that Jesus must have enjoyed when He said, "I and the
Father are one." Jesus Christ is our teacher and helper. In
prayer what should be our attitude, our interest, as we
approach the divine presence? If we knew that right now we
were about to be ushered into the presence of Christ, to
what extent would our spiritual expectancy be aroused? No
doubt we should be thrilled through and through at the mere
thought. Let us feel this same intense interest, this same
concern, as we approach the divine presence within
ourselves. It will add much to the readiness with which we
receive Truth.

ENTERING THE SILENCE

When entering the silence, according to Hosea, the command
is "Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah." After
many centuries this instruction still stands approved
today. To the metaphysician it means to close the eyes and
ears to the without, to go within and hold the mind
steadily on the word "Jehovah" until that word illumines
the whole inner consciousness. Then affirm a prayer such as
"Thy vitalizing energy floods my whole consciousness, and I
am healed."

Think what the mighty vitalizing energy of God, released
through Jesus Christ, really is. Penetrate deeper into God
consciousness within you and hold the prayer steadily until
you attain spiritual realization and the logic of your own
mind is satisfied.

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To realize an idea in the silence is to clothe it with
life, substance, and intelligence. To realize a prayer is
to actualize it. To realize it is to clothe it with soul,
to know there is fulfillment.

The word of prayer has in it a living seed that is bound to
impregnate the soil of the mind and cause it to bring forth
fruit after its kind.

Through Christ man has the power to realize that as I AM or
I AM "vitalizing health" he is the great central magnet
functioning in omnipresence, around which all the healing
powers of Spirit revolve. He has the power to realize this
truth until the most sacred ethers respond, and he beholds
himself as powerful, peaceful, perfect: healed through and
through. It is after this fashion that we engraft the
healing word into our very souls.

When we were in Florida a few years ago a citrus fruit
grower told us many interesting things about the growth of
his orchards. There are many swamps in Florida. He had
instructed his men to go out into these swamps, into the
muddy black waters infested with creeping things, there to
dig up the wild-lemon saplings with their strong, vigorous
roots, to transplant them into well-prepared soil, and then
to graft into them buds from his prize domestic fruit
trees. Thus new trees laden with golden fruit appeared in
due time. The strong, vigorous root of the wild lemon gave
the new fruit added flavor and quality.

Metaphysically the law is "If the root is holy, so are the
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holy. We find that the natural man is usually physically
strong and vigorous just as the root of the wild-lemon tree
is. The natural man also struggles in a murky, negative,
swampy atmosphere without power to bring forth spiritually,
just as the wild-lemon sapling does.

But the natural man can take a word of Truth and through
"one-pointed" mind concentration can penetrate into the
invisible, can unite his consciousness with the mind of
God, and can hold a realizing prayer until the truth it
contains is engrafted into his very soul. Thus just as the
citrus fruit is developed through the grafting process, so
man, through the engrafted word, becomes a strong, positive
spiritual character.

There is only one God, only one ruling power in all the
universe; and the highest avenue through which God can
express Himself is man. The hungering for God that is felt
by man in his soul is really God hungering to express
eternal life through man. God is always seeking to awaken
man's very soul to His mighty presence. He thus expands the
consciousness, offering man an opportunity more fully and
more perfectly to express Him.

There is a partial unity with Spirit and there is a
complete unity with Spirit. Whenever we wholly merge our
mind with creative Mind we meet Christ in our
consciousness, and it is when we are in this consciousness
that our prayers are fulfilled. The ability to merge our
mind into the one Mind makes a great man of us.

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Every person hungers for eternal life, and in his effort to
satisfy this hunger every soul makes its own concept of
God. The ancients said that an honest man is the noblest
work of God. Ingersoll said, "An honest God is the noblest
work of man."

In deed and in truth prayer is man's spiritual approach to
God, and effective prayer does not agonize. Neither Jesus
nor any man who has fused his soul with the soul of God has
suffered or agonized. The suffering comes as a result of
separation and the effort to return to the consciousness of
Omnipresence, "my Father's house."

Carlyle said, "Consider the significance of silence: it is
boundless, never by meditating to be exhausted, unspeakably
profitable to thee! Cease that chaotic hubbub, wherein thy
own soul runs to waste, to confused suicidal dislocation
and stupor; out of silence comes thy strength. Speech is
silvern, silence is golden; speech is human, silence is
divine.

"Fool! thinkest thou that because no one stands near with
parchment and black lead to note thy jargon, it therefore
dies and is harmless? Nothing dies, nothing can die. No
idlest word thou speakest but is a seed cast into Time, and
grows through all eternity. The recording angel, consider
it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper
tablets thou canst burn; of the 'iron leaf' there is no
burning."

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Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence

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IT IS MAN'S concept of God that makes prayer intellectual
or spiritual. There is a vast difference between mere
intellectual silence and that constructive silence which
always gives the victory within the soul. The intellectual
silence, which is limited in its power, is the silence
where one's whole attention is fixed on the intellect.

Herbert Spencer once said that he would gladly turn his
life over to anyone who would live it for him and relieve
him of its burdens. This no doubt can be said of hundreds
of other weary ones. It reveals however the fact that man
lacks the true vision of life and is not living it as God
intended. Man should lift his eyes "unto the hills, from
whence cometh" his help. He should dwell much on the truths
taught by Jesus and make them a part of his very nature.

Jesus ushered into the race consciousness a thought
atmosphere that we contact in the silence by just affirming
in spirit and in truth the name "Jesus Christ." There is
true magic in this name.

When He said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest," He was mentally
freeing man from his many trials and

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tribulations, and leading him into the broad highway of
spiritual freedom, and joy, and abundance. To accept Jesus
Christ as Saviour means to take His way of thinking and
acting and make it ours.

There is a popular teaching that just accepting Jesus
Christ as one's Saviour will set into operation a spiritual
magic that will save the soul from all past and future
sins. The word "magic" implies accomplishing something with
the assistance of the supernatural. We find that in deed
and in truth there is magic in adopting the way of life
taught by Jesus. But this is not mysterious to those who
study the transforming power of thoughts and words. It is
all contained in the formula stated by Paul "Be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind." Instead of
doubting, distrusting, and hating man, which is the fruit
of the intellect, Jesus taught us to love man with all our
mind, soul, and strength. Instead of fighting life and
struggling to compete with millions of others in the same
foolish war, as the intellectual man does, Jesus taught man
to co-operate. Instead of wasting energy in tearing down,
Jesus taught man to conserve his energy in building up.
Jesus does not load on man's back all the burdens of
humanity; in fact He shows humanity how to love life, how
to love the Author of life, and how to love life's
activities. In this state of consciousness man
automatically drops the burdens of the intellect and enters
into the freedom of real living. In the past the intellect
has thought its power supreme. But while it is a wonderful
faculty, it is in truth the tool of Spirit,

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and as such it needs discipline if it is to be able to
perform its perfect work.

The intellect is always busy, jumping from one thing to
another, much of the time dwelling on the daily routine of
the workaday world or on conditions in the world at large.
The first step in scientific silence is simply to still
these outer intellectual thoughts so that the consciousness
may become subservient to the Spirit within.

In I Peter 2:2 we read, "As newborn babes, long for the
spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow
thereby unto salvation." Those who are seeking and
receiving spiritual understanding are born anew every day,
and every day the milk of the spiritual word continues to
feed and nourish the soul.

Moses was commanded by Jehovah to make all things after the
pattern shown him on the mount. In the heavens of the mind,
the spiritual center in the crown of the head, the Lord
keeps ever before man life's perfect pattern. But man must
have the spiritual ability to discern this pattern if he is
to fulfill the requirements of scientific prayer.

By quieting the mental man, by passing through the
discipline of intellectual silence, man arrives at the very
threshold of God's workshop, the threshold of Being. As he
passes into the inner chamber he finds he is entering the
holy of holies, where noiselessly, silently a mighty work
is always going on but where there is "neither hammer nor
axe nor any tool of iron heard." God works in the
stillness. As man comes into the presence of God with his

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prayer in the form of an affirmation of Truth, holding the
prayer steadily in mind and consciously unifying his mind
with the mind of God, he is aware only of the soundlessness
of God's word as it weaves itself in and out through the
whole soul and body consciousness, illumining, redeeming,
and restoring him according to his faith and trust,
according to his strength and power to receive. This is
quite different from mere intellectual silence that does
not know the way of spiritual unfoldment. In this spiritual
silence man's realization is established in his heart and
he has the assurance that his prayer is answered and that
the law of demonstration brings forth the fruit.

The realization is not only written in the soul but in the
intellect, whose seat of action is in the front forehead.
The intellect always perceives what has taken place within
and has power to retain its perception and to express
itself accordingly. Thus the intellect serves Spirit, and
as it unfolds it becomes more and more like Spirit, and it
becomes in deed and in truth the instrument of God.

Carlyle must have had an intellectual understanding as well
as a spiritual understanding of divine law when he wrote,
referring to the kingdom within: "Art not thou the living
government of God? O Heaven, is it not in very deed He then
that ever speaks through thee--that lives and loves in
thee--that lives and loves in me?"

Constructive thought force is a great and mighty power, but
when it is realized in the silence it becomes

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the one and only power in all the earth. The understanding
of this made Jesus an adept in the domain of scientific
prayer.

"The God that made the world and all things therein, he,
being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples
made with hands." Jesus was born down among the animals in
the manger at Bethlehem. There is a truth symbolized in
this; for not only the intellect in man is to be redeemed
through prayer but also the body; even every animal
propensity must be redeemed and lifted up through Jesus
Christ. "In the name of Jesus every knee should bow . . .
and . . . every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

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//section Healing through the Prayer of Faith

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Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful?
let him sing praise. Is any among you sick? let him call
for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the
prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord
shall raise him up.--James

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THIS IS A very definite and wonderful promise. According to
the record, it was undoubtedly acted upon by the disciples
and proved to be very effective for hundreds of years. That
this mighty promise still stands is proved by unnumbered
thousands of Jesus' followers today. Faith healing through
prayer has become a practice founded on principles that
never fail when rightly applied. Those who seek the kingdom
of God and His righteousness are having all things added,
as promised. When we "take with us words" and attempt to go
into God's presence, our faith in Him is the power that
swings wide open the gate that leads into the inner kingdom.

But in order to keep the gate ajar it is a daily necessity
to withdraw into this deep stillness of the soul. Listen
first to the innate voice of faith; then

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through the centers within the subconsciousness you can
appropriate the life, substance, and intelligence of Being.

Man builds up an enduring state of faith by repeated
realizations of Truth. The illumination thus gained comes
forth in man as spiritual understanding expressed in sound
words.

Faith draws upon substance. Dynamic, creative, transforming
power is roused to spiritual action when man affirms his
unity with Almightiness and his undaunted faith in its
power.

"Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah,
the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say." "Concerning
the works of my hands, command ye me."

Man must not only be submissive and obedient to the divine
law; he must also realize that he is the offspring of the
ruler of the universe.

When asking the Father for that which belongs to the Son
under the divine law, man should assume the power and
dignity of the Prince of Peace. He should not crawl and
cringe before an imaginary king on a throne but rather feel
that he is the image of an invisible being who has created
him to represent His mightiness as well as His
loving-kindness. We should affirm with conviction those
mighty words uttered by Jesus: "All authority hath been
given unto me in heaven and on earth."

The prayer of faith is not supplication, a begging God to
give things to man. Prayer at its highest is the entry of
the ego through faith into a realm of

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mind forces that when rightly contacted change the
character of every cell in brain and body. One who has
mastered even the primary technique of prayer has made
contact with the spiritual ethers that connect all minds,
high and low, and by means of which great reforms for the
good of man can be projected into the world's thought ether.

When Jesus prayed, sometimes the whole night long, He did
not plead with God over and over to do what He asked.
Through positive faith Jesus was laying hold of new ideas,
which through His spiritual understanding He incorporated
into His consciousness, which included both soul and body.
Through this mental process He became a living
demonstration of spiritual man.

Today Jesus Christ is our helper and teacher. Every man
when he prays should recognize and take advantage of this
truth. He can profit much by realizing that the same Spirit
is in him that was in Jesus, who became the Christ. 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."

Jesus is teaching us today that to pray effectively we must
believe and know that there is a dispenser of the thing
asked for and that by reaching out in prayer we can receive
it from the one great source. This is truly the prayer of
faith. "All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe
that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

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Faith, the conviction of a higher providing source, is
based upon spiritual logic or innate reason and on the
certainty that an all-wise and all-powerful Creator's plan
includes necessary provision for His offspring. Among even
the primitive forms of nature this providing law is active.
The insect stores food in the egg for the sustenance of its
progeny. When man emerges from his animal consciousness and
feels within him the stirring of Spirit, he finds that it
is supremely logical and true that Spirit has provided for
his supply and support.

When we have achieved spiritual realization of our prayer
and our innermost soul is satisfied, we have the assurance
that the thing is accomplished in Spirit and must become
manifest.

We may continue in our realization of faith until the whole
consciousness responds and the instantaneous demonstration
takes place.

Spiritual Truth, psychology, and science tell us that
visible things come from the invisible and are dependent
upon the unseen for their existence. The sense mind cannot
conceive of this.

//quote



"But there is a spirit in man,

And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding."

//text

Before man can fully appreciate and work the spiritual law,
he must cultivate a consciousness of reality. When he does
this, he finds he is automatically working with God,
through Christ, and that he can say with Jesus, "My Father
worketh even

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until now, and I work."

Prayer is impotent and unfruitful when the one who prays is
without the firm belief that his petitions are answered.
When man turns wholeheartedly to God, the prayer of faith
brings forth abundantly. Healing currents of life are freed
and flow into and through soul and body, healing,
redeeming, uplifting the whole man. Since the prayer of
faith is the activity of divine love, let us pray without
ceasing, knowing that God hears and grants our petitions.

Truly the Lord is in the midst of us. When we turn toward
the omnipresent light of Spirit in faith, our eyes are
opened to the astonishing fact that this seemingly material
body and these temporal surroundings conceal the immanent
God. We come to understand what Jacob meant when he said,
"How dreadul is this place! this is none other than the
house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

In prayer attention is the concentration of the mind upon a
statement of Truth. Attention is focalizing the I AM or
inner entity upon a word of prayer, until the inner meaning
is realized and the soul is aware of a definite spiritual
uplift. As a lens focalizes the sun's rays at a given
point--and we know how intense that point of light may
become--so concentration focalizes the mind on a single
idea until it becomes manifest and objective.

In concentration the Holy Spirit works through the divine
mother substance to bring forth the fruits of Divine Mind.
The Holy Spirit is the teacher. The teacher and the student
use the same principles;

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but the teacher arouses and inspires the student to greater
achievement. The Holy Spirit today is urging us to greater
spiritual effort.

When we direct the mental powers upon a definite idea,
faith plays its part; it is involved in concentration. As
we give attention to the idea through one-pointed mind
concentration, we break into a realm of finer mind
activity, called faith or the fire of Spirit. Thus faith
opens the door into an inner consciousness, where we hold
the word steadily in mind until the spiritual ethers
respond to our word. Earnest, steady, and continued
attention along this line is bound to bring forth the
fruits of the Spirit in abundant measure. A steady,
unwavering devotion of heart and principle to Spirit
develops in us supermind qualities.

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//section Prosperity through Prayer

Prosperity through Prayer

//text

"NOW THERE cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons
of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband
is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear
Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two
children to be bondmen. And Elisha said unto her, What
shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house?
And she said, Thy handmaid hath not anything in the house,
save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels
abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not
a few. And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee
and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and
thou shalt set aside that which is full. So she went from
him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons; they
brought the vessels to her, and she poured out. And it came
to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her
son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is
not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came and
told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay
thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest."

The story of Elisha and the little pot of oil that at his
command and with her co-operation filled all

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the vessels in her house and also those of all her
neighbors so that she had enough oil to pay all her debts,
free her children from bondage, and provide a living for
herself and her sons, reveals the working of a mighty law.

Metaphysically the meaning of the name Elisha is "God is a
saviour; God of deliverance; to whom God gives victory; God
is rich." The widow typifies a belief in lack, a thought or
a line of thought in consciousness that has fallen away
from that inner union with the divine source (husband) and
as a result is suffering from lack of supply.

Elisha (meaning also "God is rich") showed this woman how
to shut the door and realize that her supply came from
within. Then he revealed to her how to pour out the oil
(love) of plenty, and how it would prove a permanent
supply. Any thought is a prayer in which we realize that
our desires, God directed, are answered the very moment
they are expressed.

Christian metaphysicians find that words that express
thanks, gratitude, and praise, release energies of mind and
spirit, and their use is usually followed by effects so
pronounced that they are quickly identified with the
originating words, effect being merged in cause.

Let your words of praise and blessing be to Spirit and the
increase will be even greater than it is when they are
addressed to man. The resources of Spirit are beyond our
highest flights of imagination. You can praise a weak body
into strength; a fearful

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heart into peace and trust; shattered nerves into poise and
power; a failing business into prosperity and success; want
and insufficiency into supply and support.

Do not beg in your prayers, but praise and give thanks for
the new self-manifesting God of abundance fulfilling every
desire of your heart.

Make a "date" daily with God and keep it. He will never
fail you. Some persons are overtimid about their religion.
They fear ridicule and misunderstanding. A certain banker
had established a certain time each day for going into the
silence to pray. His bank, which was located in a country
town, needed to borrow what it considered a large sum of
money, and he was in New York City negotiating for the
loan, but without apparent success. However he was strong
in the silence and trusted God regardless of appearances.
While he was talking the matter of the loan over with the
New York City banker his "silence hour" approached, and our
country banker was puzzled what to do. He finally decided
to be honest with God, and in the midst of the apparently
unfavorable discussion in regard to the loan, he quietly
announced that he always devoted a few moments to prayer at
that hour and begged to be excused.

The face of the city banker at once lighted up. He
instantly recognized that this country friend had something
that he did not have: he was poised, peaceful, trustful in
the face of defeat. So the city banker hesitatingly replied
that he also was in the

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habit of observing a daily moment of prayer and that he
would gladly join him. Then and there they entered the
silence together and had a high realization of God's power
to supply and to bless. At the conclusion of their prayer
session the city banker informed the country banker that he
was satisfied that his securities were good and that the
loan would be made without delay.

Emerson's inspiration or comment on prayer was "Prayer is
the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest
point of view. Prayer is the soliloquy of a beholding and
jubilant soul. It is the Spirit of God pronouncing His
works good. But prayer as a means of effecting a private
end is theft and meanness. It presupposes dualism and not
unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as a man is at
one with God he does not beg. He then sees prayer in all
action."

Father Almighty! We bow before Thine infinite goodness, and
invoke in prayer Thine all-merciful presence of love.

We ask, and as we ask we give thanks that Thy power and
presence are here in love and that we are tightly held in
Thine all-embracing arms, where our every need is supplied
and where we shall ever rest secure from all the buffets of
the world.

Open to us the inner chambers of peace and harmony, which
divinely belong to us as Thy children.

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We come as little children into the sacred and trustful
presence of Thy love, knowing full well that only love can
draw and hold us in peace and harmony and prosperity.

Every fear falls away as we enter into Thee and Thy glory
of love and as we bask in the sunshine of love, Thy love,
Thy never-failing love!

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//section Contacting Spiritual Substance

//text

MAN MUST build a perfect soul structure with faculties
capable of always producing abundantly for both his
spiritual and his material welfare.

In order to accomplish this man must become familiar with
what the metaphysician terms omnipresent Spirit substance,
which is visible only to mind and the nature of which is to
sustain and enrich whatever idea is projected into it.

This Spirit substance stands back of and gives support to
man's every thought and word. It is ready to provide food
for all living creatures everywhere.

Today man is learning consciously to make union with this
invisible spiritual thought stuff and appropriate and
manifest it. Our supply and support is governed by our
familiarity with substance and by our mental hold upon it.

Spiritual substance is the source of all material wealth
and cannot suffer loss or destruction by human thought. It
is always with us, ready to be used and to make potent and
fertile both the soul and the body consciousness. In this
connection Jesus said, "I have meat to eat that ye know
not."

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Just as God has been from the beginning so Spirit substance
has been from the beginning. This substance is in fact the
Mother side of God, the feminine element in God's nature.
It is the universal medium in which we plant all ideas of
supply and support.

Just as the earth is the universal matrix in which all
vegetation develops so this invisible Spirit substance is
the universal matrix in which ideas of prosperity germinate
and grow and bring forth according to our faith and trust.
The "dust of the ground" spoken of in Genesis represents
the radiant substance, the fruit of the initial thought in
the expression of the substance idea. Under the influence
of man's mind radiant Spirit substance continues to be
manifested in form and shape. For example, the sunshine is
incorporated in the products of the vegetable world; these
being appropriated by man through mastication, digestion,
and assimilation, it becomes part of his body. Light and
electricity are forms of radiant substance.

Someone has said,

//quote

"The hand that rocks the cradle

Is the hand that rules the world."

//text

In this same way the Mother side of God may be said to
cradle our good, nurturing it into manifestation and
producing the influences that hover over and enrich our
life. We should always bear in mind that if we are to
demonstrate we must pay strict attention to the
conservation of the spiritual

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thought stuff. If we are to go forward spiritually, we must
not waste our thought stuff in idle thoughts, in thinking
thoughts of poverty, discontent, jealousy. We should
positively weed out of consciousness all thoughts of
poverty and failure, and in thinking or speaking of our
affairs we should use the very highest and best language at
our command.

Whatever the seed word is that is implanted in omnipresent
Spirit substance, this seed word will germinate and grow
and bring forth fruit "after its kind." Just as the farmer
therefore selects the very best seed corn for planting, so
we must choose the words that will bring forth the rich
harvest of plenty.

We should bear in mind that God is our silent partner and
that His wisdom and strength, His energy and skill are ours
to use. We should realize that in every soul there is
undoubtedly present (as a result of former effort) a great
reservoir of radiant Spirit substance, which is ready and
eager to be tapped and freed so that it can supply our
every need.

To gain control of Spirit substance we grasp it with our
mind; that is, lay hold of the idea back of it. Right
thinking is necessary in using the mind constructively to
bring about right results.

The Father-Mother God has provided abundantly for all. In
truth, when a babe is born into the world it brings with it
faculties that, once set to work consciously functioning in
the omnipresent etheric substance, open up channels through
which unfailing supply and support come to this one. The
divine-life idea in the awakened soul is implanted in divine

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substance and brings forth a new being, the Son of God.

The realization of the following prayer will awaken man to
the consciousness of his divine supply and support:

//quote

The idea of the one reality is quickened in me, and I am
alive and athrill with the one radiant substance of Spirit.

//text

Sometimes in demonstrating prosperity God's mill seemingly
grinds slow. The reason is, first, that man's consciousness
is functioning in such a thick envelope of materiality that
it is hard to get action. And secondly, man has not yet
unfolded the working power of the word.

To overcome this condition man must enter the silence and
realize a prayer like this:

//quote

I am free from the clutches of inert matter.

The working power of the word is quickened in me, and I
understand the law governing God's abundance.

//text

Then it is well to clinch the matter with this realization:

//quote

Divine substance flows in all its fullness into my
consciousness and through me as prosperity into all my
affairs.

//text

God made us, and there is a vital connection between

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us and God. Keeping this truth in mind makes demonstration
easy and enjoyable.

//quote

Be ye builders, vital, doing,

Architects of life and fate,

Ever striving and preparing

For a higher, nobler state,

Not in sighing, aging, dying,

Is the measure of the man,

But in growing, building, living

Life fulfills the Master plan.

//text

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//section Joyous Prayer

//text

THERE are vibrations in space that our men of science have
not yet discerned or measured. These undiscovered
quantities are related to the Mind of Being and must be
apprehended through the unfolding in man of supermind
faculties. When the trained Christian metaphysician prays
he can, with a disciplined consciousness, make contact with
these forces in the ether and through them gain a certain
unity with the Mind of Being. The consciousness thus
attained is usually designated as the Christ consciousness
or the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the union is
attained an increase in spiritual power is felt and one has
the assurance of the activity of spiritual principles
within of which one has had hitherto no awareness.

But no man yet knows all of life's joys, nor will he until
he has come into the full understanding of spiritual
communion with God. No man knows the fullness of life, nor
its joys, until he has prayed in meekness and thanksgiving
and has received the sweet, pure realizations of Jesus
Christ. True and lasting joy arises from within. The nature
of the deep inner life is revealed only to those who
spiritually penetrate into its source.

Would you feed the soul on the joys of the scientific

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Christian? If you would you must realize them and give
thanks in prayer for the more abundant life. Then you will
find that a great subconscious well of living water will
begin to bubble up in your soul, and you will come to know
that hitherto you have been living in the shallows of life
instead of in its mighty depths. You will be blessed with a
knowledge of the unity of all things, and a great peace and
harmony will well up within.

Man must know spiritual harmony, and therein is the source
of a great secret. Musical geniuses say that they first
hear their compositions before they are given outer form.
Poets clothe in words and give local habitation and a name
to what to the practical mind seems airy nothings.

Pythagoras, the ancient philosopher, wrote that God was
singing the universe into expression and that the suns and
planets were the musical notes on a grand universal staff.
Shakespeare in "The Merchant of Venice" had one of his
characters say:

//quote

"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!

Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony.

Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven

Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st

But in his motion like an angel sings,

Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;

Such harmony is in immortal souls;

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But whilst this muddy vesture of decay

Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."

//text

The realization of God as a great wooing, all-knowing
presence, an everywhere present sustaining strength,
wherein each man functions and works out his own salvation
is to be established in a mighty stronghold that fortifies
us against all adverse beliefs.

It is said that on the ocean of life a joyful man makes a
good sailor. This is true. The strong, joyful nature will
make its way where others fall by the wayside. Joy,
spiritual joy, is ours by divine right, and buoys us up and
urges us onward to accomplishment.

It is impossible to found a lasting stronghold within on
anything less than the understanding that God is a God of
joy. It is through our realization of this truth that we
drink heartily of the wine of life. Often even during
serene, yes, sober moments, the inner man, the inner woman,
is athrill with some newborn, joyful anticipation. In
prayer every high realization that comes to us is to
strengthen us for greater achievements.

And when we pray, let us pray with a purpose. Purpose gives
life a real meaning. Purpose gives joy and zest to living.
When our eye is on the goal we are not so easily perturbed.
Purpose awakens new trains of thought; purpose directs
these trains of thought into new fields of achievement.
Really to succeed we must have some great purpose in mind,
some goal toward which we are to work. But

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above all, we must always purpose in our heart to achieve
spiritually.

As we study the one great Presence and Power, we come to
know that there is no chapter in our life that is such a
failure but has back of it a grand purpose, which purpose
must eventually somewhere, somehow work itself out in a
most ennobling manner, well pleasing in the sight of God.

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//section How to Handle the Psychic Forces of Consciousness

//text

THE FIRST step of a Truth student in handling the psychic
forces of consciousness is the same as that in handling any
other, and that is to realize that God is the one and only
power; to declare with Byron: "There is no god but God!--to
prayer--lo! God is great!"

The name psyche, which figures in Greek mythology, means
breath, life. Psyche is represented as one of the three
daughters of a king. These three "daughters" are spirit,
soul, and body. Psyche is the soul in its many earthly
experiences, in its failures and its successes.

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and His law
is for the use of all alike. Man interprets His law and
operates in accord with it to the best of his ability in
his endeavor to grow and prove his mastery over the many
events that take place in his life.

If man would become expert in handling scientifically the
psychical forces, he should first get a thorough
understanding of just what these forces are, and above all
he should know that like other forces they are subservient
to God's law. The psychic

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or soul realm includes the sum total of consciousness, all
that the individual has experienced.

In analyzing the soul realm we have first the animal soul.
The animal soul comprises all sensations and all thoughts
that we entertain with reference to animal life. Through
man's thought the animal soul forms the animal man.

The second element in the soul realm, the human soul, is
one step higher than the animal, and comprises all the
thoughts and emotions we entertain on the human plane of
consciousness: thoughts of family, of friends, of business
associates, or personal possessions.

The third and highest element of soul is the spiritual.
This phase of the soul is the depository of all thoughts
and aspirations we have ever had about God and things
spiritual. Here also we find a consciousness that relates
us to God and forms the connecting link between the human
and the divine. When through prayers, meditations, and good
works man has built spiritual qualities into his soul to
the point of dominance over the animal and human natures,
he is ready for the regeneration with Jesus Christ.

It is true that through the animal and human departments of
the soul we are in sympathy with all nature, which includes
the earth, the sun, the moon, and the stars, and as these
are all ensouled, their reactions affect us when there is
no higher power in evidence. But there is a higher power in
us every one: Spirit. In Genesis it is stated that spiritual

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man, the image-and-likeness man, was given dominion over
all creation. As Shakespeare aptly says,

//quote

"The fault is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

//text

In our ongoing we endeavor always to bear in mind that God
is the one and only power. We must know and realize that
the great intelligence of God works in every conceivable
way to lead us into the light, thus aiding us in avoiding
error conditions. The indwelling Christ will "neither
slumber nor sleep"; with the Holy Spirit it is teaching us
the great truth that we are "Gods in the making" and that
as such we have dominion over every thought and condition.

When Jesus was born in the manger in Bethlehem the star
appeared in the east and pointed the way for the Wise Men
to the spot where the young child lay. A mighty soul had
been incarnated and had come to do a mighty work on the
earth. So great was the occasion that the whole heavenly
universe sang with joy. This to the individual means that a
speck of light shone in the east, the within, revealing to
the illumined soul what was taking place. The star is a
symbol of potentiality; it represents expanding
possibilities. The saving I AM had at last made its
spiritual power manifest in the earth. But was the star
seen by those who were not spiritually illumined? No. They
had eyes but saw not. Only the illumined, the awakened,
could perceive

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the star of Bethlehem. So the spiritual I AM is often doing
a great work in a man, and the man knows it not. This
scripture also reveals the way in which Spirit often uses
the so-called psychic to do its bidding, to reveal its
power.

Today men are breaking into the psychic realm as never
before and, not being consciously unified with Spirit, are
becoming entangled in their own mentality, in addition to
the psychic vibrations of the whole race. Often this leads
to very unpleasant experiences.

In fact all people are being quickened, and in the absence
of an understanding of Truth erratic states of mind are
formed that cause fantastic notions about many things.
Persons in this condition often become supersensitive and
imagine that they are being criticized, that others are
talking about them, and a thousand and one other things.
Very often this condition is the result of trying to
communicate with the dead through mediums and
spiritualistic seances.

There is a realm in which the souls that have left the body
are functioning feebly. Spiritualists call it "spirit land"
or "the home of the soul." The early Christians taught that
those who had passed away were asleep. This is not true of
all persons, but those who have lived a long, strenuous
life and are weary want rest and fall asleep. Paul said,
"Because you have not discerned the Lord's body you have
fallen asleep." Others who have lost their body early in
life are ready for immediate action

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in reincarnation and do not find sleep necessary.

Eventually all souls reincarnate on the earth as babes and
in due time take up their problems where they left off at
death. But before they do reincarnate they sometimes try to
communicate with their loved ones here on earth. This is
never satisfactory and leads nowhere. Persons who sit in
seances are taking a great risk. Instead of really getting
in touch with their loved ones they are apt to make contact
with psychic forces of a low order that tend to weaken
their faith in God.

Paul said, "Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood,
but against the principalities, against the powers, against
the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual
hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."

When a person is established in the Christ power and
dominion, he finds that Spirit often uses the mental realm
to reveal to him some message that is of vital importance
to him. Such messages are imparted through dreams and
visions. When the soul is still, as in sleep, the Spirit of
truth throws the message on the screen of the mind in the
form of thought pictures. One only has to read the symbols
in order to receive the message. If the message is
constructive, it is well to praise God and give thanks. If
it is of a destructive nature, take the message into the
silence and place it before God. Hold the thought for light
until you have the realization that the illumination of
Spirit permeates and penetrates the whole condition.
Spiritual light transforms, reconstructs,

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and makes beautiful. Joseph, the son of Jacob, was an
expert at interpreting dreams and visions. However many of
the patriarchs of old were well versed in the art of
deciphering the visions of the night.

Again the psychic realm is the realm in which primitive man
(Adam and Eve) first functioned. Instead of listening to
the Lord they listened to the serpent (the sense man) and
learned to indulge in sensation until it depleted divine
substance. Disintegration of the body followed. This is
physical death. For this cause the human family lost their
original estate in the ethereal or heavenly kingdom and
descended into earthly fleshly consciousness.

We are now, through Christ, listening to Jehovah God,
through whom we are learning the law of life, and we are
being restored to the understanding that all the factors
that enter into life are here all the time and are ours to
use. Through Christ man has dominion. Through Christ it is
possible for us to make the perfect union between soul and
body, and enter into the consciousness of Almightiness,
thus being restored to the paradise of God from which we
originally came forth.

We should not think of the psychic realm as evil or be
afraid of it. Through Christ we possess mastery and
dominion over all realms. Through our own Christ dominion
we develop spiritual powers to handle the psychic realm to
great advantage. And that this is a realm in which
tremendous forces are present is being discovered by the
investigations of

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physical science. Jesus often referred to the "kingdom of
the heavens" or the kingdom of God, which He said was very
nigh unto us and even within us. This kingdom is above the
psychic, awaiting our appropriation of it through prayer.
Jesus told His followers that after His ascension they were
to go into the upper room in Jerusalem (a high, peaceful
state of consciousness), where the Holy Spirit would come
upon them with power. Science says the ether possesses
dynamic power beyond anything we can imagine. Sir Oliver
Lodge is quoted as saying that there is energy enough in
one cubic inch of ether to run a forty-horsepower engine
for forty millions of years. This is beyond all human
conception; but many of the stories that science is telling
us about the power of the ether are fully equal to this,
and if they were in the Bible skeptics would point to them
as examples of the credulity of the Christians.

Jesus says that all power should be given to us, which
carries with it the idea of unlimited capacity.

For mastery and dominion over all conditions affirm:

I AM THAT I AM.

Through Jesus Christ I am the master of every realm of
consciousness in my being.

Through Jesus Christ I enter into a full and complete
understanding of how to handle all states of consciousness
to the glory of God.

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I am illumined with the light of Spirit, and I bring "every
thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ."

I commit all my works unto Jehovah, and my purposes are
established.

Every plane of consciousness in me is transformed by the
renewing of the mind.

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//section Spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man Master

//text

ACCORDING to Genesis, Elohim God planned that man, created
in His image and likeness, should have all the qualities of
his Maker. At first glance this man created in the
beginning seems the equal of God man or God son.

Further insight into the creative process however reveals
that man has a work to do in developing his innate
abilities, the "image" and "likeness." Following the
paragraph "Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness" we read: "And let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him, male and female created he them. And God blessed
them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the birds . . . and over
every living thing."

In modern language we would say that God imaged a man like
Himself who would fulfill the law of his being when he had
gained the mastery

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over certain forces in his field of activity. These forces
are symbolically described as "birds," "fish," "cattle,"
and "creeping things," through which man replenishes the
earth.

The whole Bible tells of man's experience in striving for
the mastery. In addition to the Bible, all the history of
man is a record of how the human family has struggled to
fulfill the creative ideas implanted in it from the
beginning. The "birds of the heavens" are their high
ideals, the "cattle" or "beasts of the field" are of a low
order, the "fish of the sea" are their generated or
accumulated impulses, and the "creeping things" represent
the micro-organisms of modern science that are claimed to
be the cause of most diseases. It has been assumed that
man's dominion was to be exercised through aggression,
through physical mastery. This idea has instigated man to
wage war and rule by tyranny, all of which his higher
thoughts tell him is in direct violation of divine law.

Our higher reason, backed by experience, forces us to look
to another source than the physical for a solution of the
problem of "dominion."

As the great example of one who became a master through
spiritual unfoldment we point to Jesus, who became the
Master of all masters. Jesus was God manifest in the flesh.

Today Jesus Christ is the realized, ideal Master. He is the
full, perfect expression of the superman. In Him "dwelleth
all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." To Jesus Christ God
was a being of infinite

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goodness that He was to realize and express. So today
through Jesus Christ God is a being of infinite goodness
that we are to realize and express. Today the name Jesus
Christ is called "Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Jesus Christ is the
Master, majestic yet simple. His relation to man makes His
tenderness toward humanity exquisitely touching. When we
think of the mighty revolution that has taken place in the
consciousness of the race through His teaching, we realize
at least to a degree what He has done for the race.

//quote

"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;

And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city."

//text

Jesus ruled His own spirit. Through Christ we are learning
to rule our own spirits, to gain the mastery over every
word and thought, yes, over every impulse of the whole
being, not only on the soul plane but on the physical plane
as well. His presence right in our midst is teaching us
control. His presence right in our midst inspires us with
new ideas, incites us to go forward to achieve.

In the world of affairs a master is one who can enforce
obedience, but the Master of masters did not "enforce."
Through His spiritual ability He inspired obedience.

Jesus attained mastery over sin, sickness, death. He
attained a permanent state of consciousness where mortal
weakness cannot enter. Emerson says

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that the measure of a master is his ability to bring all
men around to his opinion within twenty years. Today, as
never before, two thousand years after Jesus closed His
ministry here on earth, He is bringing men around to His
opinion or rather to His truths as never before.

But Christ is also a servant. We follow Him because He
serves best; because He bears with us as we strive to
overcome our sins--He bears our sins with gentleness and
patience. As we work in prayer with Him, He leads us into a
high state of spiritual consciousness where we realize the
allness of God and His laws.

When Jesus was asked by a crafty lawyer to name the
greatest commandment He quickly answered that all the Law
and the Prophets could be summarized thus: "Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind. This is the great and first
commandment. And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments the
whole law hangeth, and the prophets." This is a test, a
challenge, to all those who would unfold spiritually. This
attitude of mind brings us in tune with Divine Mind so that
we are prepared to receive its blessings. When our thoughts
are established in love, a divine synchronization takes
place. Divine Mind has a fixed rate of vibration to which,
through Christ, the mind of man is synchronized, just as a
radio receiving set is synchronized to the frequency of a
broadcasting station. In order to

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tap Divine Mind we must bring the rate of vibration of our
mind up to the standard, for it is only when our mind is
vibrating at its most accelerated rate that God can make
Himself known to us. The efficiency of the radio receiving
set depends upon the number of its tubes and their
adjustment to the electromagnetic field in which its
kilocycles function. By this same law the perfect man must
have his twelve great powers developed, operating in
perfect tune with Divine Mind, in order to bring forth the
image and likeness man.

In the silence when his mind is fixed steadily on God and
is functioning in the consciousness of infinite love, the
activities of man's brain cells synchronize with those of
the very brain cells of the Master. Even the intelligent
principle of the love center responds, and thus man becomes
a spiritual radio with power to receive radiations from
Divine Mind as well as power to broadcast them throughout
his whole organism. He even is able to broadcast them
throughout his environment near and far, an ability that is
limited only by the spiritual power he has developed.

Humanity must bear in mind that it is traveling the road of
spiritual unfoldment and hold its eye on the goal. Right
here in our midst, in the mind realm as well as in the
manifest world, will be developed a mighty neutralizing
power that will render all destructive powers null and
void, that will dissolve disease, and resurrect the
consciousness of peace, health, and abundance.

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//section Fulfillment

//text

"AND GOD created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them. And God
blessed them." "And on the seventh day God finished his
work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the
seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested
from all his work which God had created and made."

Science tells us that all living forms are made up of
aggregations of cells, that all cells are made up of
molecules and atoms, and that atoms have within them
electrons and protons, the soul of light and energy, the
source of everything the atom and its aggregations
manifest. So we are safe in asserting that the atom at its
core is Spirit and that Bible characters had this primal
source of light in mind when they spoke of the light of the
Spirit. Jesus proclaimed: "I am the light of the world."
"Ye are the light of the world." When He spoke thus He was
speaking of this inner light which gives life and
intelligence to all creation. When the apostle James wrote,
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights," he was
corroborating the Gospel of

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John, which in the very first chapter says: "In him was
life; and the life was the light of men. And the light
shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it
not. There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of
the light, that all might believe through him. He was not
the light, but came that he might bear witness of the
light. There was the true light, even the light which
lighteth every man, coming into the world."

These light and energy units radiate light and generate
light, of which an incandescent electrical bulb is an
example. From this we get a clue as to the status of man
and his body as a light center with an aggregation of
billions and trillions of cells, every one of them flashing
light of varying color and brilliancy and forming about the
body an aura of splendor. As stated in John, this aura
shines in the darkness and the darkness apprehends it not.
The mind must be illumined by Christ before it can behold
the light radiating from every soul. When that light is
developed it is visible to those who know how to still the
outer mind and enter into the silence. In the 1st chapter
of Revelation John says: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.
. . . I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of
the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a
garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts
with a golden girdle. And his head and his hair were white
as white wool, white as snow;

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and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like
unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a
furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. . . .
and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he
laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the
first and the last, and the Living one; and I was dead, and
behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of
death and of Hades."

Here John, resting at the light center of his soul, saw the
resurrected Master.

The development of this spiritual light is the destiny of
us all; and we shall not be satisfied until we "awake in
his likeness." All are radiant in a certain degree with
this spiritual light, but especially those who have an
understanding of Spirit and its universality. We feel the
light and sometimes mentally see it flashing into
expression when we have a spiritual uplift gained from a
new idea of Truth. Others feel its influence and are moved
to higher things by it; or if it is radiating gloomily,
they are moved to depression and discouragement.

The scientific understanding of the great Bible truths
thrills the soul with the desire for spiritual attainment,
with a longing for spiritual fulfillment. Today many
enlightened persons are proudly acknowledging Jesus Christ
as the grand and perfect fulfillment, as perceived by John
in Revelation, and they are claiming His promises: "If ye
abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye
will,

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and it shall be done unto you." "If a man keep my word, he
shall never see death."

We revel in just concentrating upon the name Jesus Christ
and in speculating about the history of His soul's
unfoldment. We take delight in speculating about the true
reason why He is so far in advance of our time. Surely
Jesus Christ was the product of a cycle of human
development that was before our present cycle of
development. When here on earth, through the mastery of
spiritual laws of which we today have only an inkling, He
performed many seeming miracles. Think of the condition in
those times of a body that had been dead for four days.
Imagine Jesus thanking God that His petition had been heard
and then speaking the word of life to one who had lain in
the grave for this length of time. Then imagine this person
instantly being charged with new life; imagine great
streams of life flowing through his every cell and fiber
until he came walking out of the tomb, restored to perfect
health. Imagine Jesus in the consciousness of perfect unity
with God speaking the healing word to many "sick unto
death" and each one instantly throwing off the disease and
coming forward sound and well.

Jesus taught us how to pray. He taught us that prayer is
not only the spiritual approach to the Father but that
through prayer and realization we attain the
interpenetrating consciousness of God's perfect life and
love and power. Jesus revealed to us that we are the sheep
of His pasture; that is,

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that we are children of the same Father as He. He is our
Elder Brother, our helper. We are His people, and He is
interested in our progress.

Jesus Christ has provided and provides today the greatest
impetus to the ongoing of our race. When the soul of the
race (symbolized by Eve) became involved in the pleasures
of sensation (symbolized by the serpent) and sought other
guidance than that of Jehovah God, gradual degeneration of
the whole human family began until men were in a bad way.
Something had to be done. Someway, somehow we had to be
lifted out of the murky darkness of sense thought.

To lift the race out of sense thought Jesus was compelled
by the necessity of soul sympathy to become an intimate
associate of the people He sought to help. Hence He
incarnated into the race and was "tempted in all points as
we are, but without sin."

Through His experience on the cross, where His precious
blood was spilled, through His suffering there Jesus
lowered His consciousness to the consciousness of the race,
thereby administering to the whole race a blood
transfusion, imparting to both the soul and the body of men
the properties of Being that will restore man to his divine
estate.

With their blood transfusions the medical men of today are
copying this grand transfusion of life. We are on the way
to fulfillment and the Jesus Christ way!

Jesus Christ broadcast the electrons of His blood into the
race thought atmosphere, and they may be

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apprehended by all who believe in Him. These electrons
become centers of energy and life in those who appropriate
them, and thus men gradually transform and regenerate their
blood and their body. This is the real spiritual meaning of
being saved by Jesus Christ.

The blood is the life. Jesus really came to bring to the
whole human family a larger consciousness of life. He said,
"I came that ye may have life, and may have it more
abundantly."

Life is a universal energy that moves even the corpuscles
of the blood. Therefore life is more powerful than the
blood. Consequently we believe that it was through the
"shedding," the getting rid, of the idea of flesh and blood
that Jesus accomplished His great works. He tapped the
great reservoir of divine life and raised His consciousness
of life to that of the Father. Through Him we all have
access to this perpetual life stream. We must really eat of
His substance, as He taught us; that is, we must
appropriate it as spiritually ours. We must drink of His
blood: let His life stream flow through our mind and body,
healing, cleansing, and purifying us in every way. This is
the grand at-one-ment (atonement) of man's life with the
life of God through Jesus Christ. This is the way to
perfect fulfillment.

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//section Unfoldment

//text

//quote

God's pure life and substance are constantly renewing and
rebuilding His holy temple, my body.

New and rich ideas arise in my mind, and I demonstrate
prosperity.

//text

"UNITY claims that the Bible teaches evolution; just where
is the evolution of Jesus taught?"

The evolution of Jesus was a combination of mind and body
unfoldment.

The body of Jesus developed from germs planted in Mary, His
mother. Science says that all stages of unfoldment from the
most primitive animal to man are illustrated in the
development of the human organism. So we must conclude that
the body of Jesus was an unfoldment from sense to Spirit.

However Unity teaches the evolution of both soul and body;
an evolution summarized in the 1st chapter of John under
the head of the unfoldment of the Word. Bible authorities
say that "Word" is a poor translation of the Greek word
Logos. Logos

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conveys the idea of implanted God--Mind in man--from which
the perfect man logically evolves.

God is Spirit. In creation Spirit takes the form of mind,
implanting itself in substance and becoming manifest as
perfect man. Here is condensed in a few words what would
take volumes to describe. Here are epitomized all books on
physiology and evolution, mental science and psychology,
religion and spiritual philosophy.

In the rocks beneath our feet are preserved the bones of
mammoth creatures that have been succeeded by finer types
of animal life. Here is evidence of evolution from lower to
higher types of life. Anthropology teaches that the earth
has been inhabited by man for at least half a million
years. Many hold that the present body of man has within it
natural forces that would transform it if they were
released. Those who read between the lines have discovered
that the Bible veils evolution in rites, ceremonies, and
acts of personalities.

As all words in every language have their root in the
thoughts and acts of man, so all the rites and ceremonies
of religion represent man's relation to his source, God,
and the development of his soul.

The two baptisms, that of John and Jesus, represent the two
common steps in the growth of the soul, denial and
affirmation, the dropping of the old and the laying hold of
the new. This is evolution.

In totality John the Baptist represents the perfected
natural man who recognizes his finality and his willingness
to surrender his personality so that

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the superman Christ may supplant him, thus symbolizing the
evolution of the soul from the personal to the spiritual.

It is essential that a clear understanding be had of the
principles involved in the transition from the natural to
the spiritual, otherwise the way will be difficult.

Jesus praised John as the most perfect of those born of
women--that is, of the Adam or natural man--but He
explained that John even in his perfection was not to be
compared with the spiritual man. He also commented on the
futile efforts of those on the natural plane who attempt by
will force (violence) to attain the spiritual ("kingdom of
heaven").

In the process of developing out of the natural into the
spiritual not only the mind but the body also is affected.
The energy locked up in the cells of the physical are
released and the body of flesh is transformed into a
radiant body of light. This is a day-by-day transformation
of the cells until the whole body is "electrified" and
passes over into the fourth dimension or kingdom of the
heavens. Jesus accomplished this transformation of His body
and it became an electrical dynamo broadcasting life germs
through our race consciousness. We are to follow Him in
this transformation.

These life germs of Jesus' body form the nucleus of a new
race organism for all people. All persons everywhere may
partake of (eat) the radiant body (bread) of Jesus by
exercising faith in Him as the

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great source of pure Spirit substance, sown as soul seed
for the saving of humanity from sense consciousness.

Not only may one eat of this superbody substance but one
may also drink through faith of His transcendent life. Such
eating of His body and drinking of His life or blood is the
"Holy Communion" of which sincere Christians partake daily.

The understanding that this very intimate relation exists
between Jesus and His true followers is transforming the
body of thousands of Christians who formerly labored under
the thought that the new body in Christ was to be attained
after death.

"I am the resurrection, and the life." "If a man keep my
word, he shall never see death."

When man understands that he is always right in the
presence of a supermind force that is perpetually pushing
him into higher states of consciousness and finer physical
radiations, he cannot help co-operating with it in the
divine urge toward higher things.

No man can retard this universal upward sweep of the whole
creation, but in the exercise of his inherent free will man
can insulate his soul and body, separate himself from it,
and thus become lost in the delusions of sense. To join the
Holy Spirit in its efforts to gain the attention and
co-operation of all men we make it a practice to join with
people of like mind in every walk of life in affirming
words that bind us to the mighty moving Spirit of Jesus
Christ.

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//section Thought Images

//text

//quote

I see myself as God sees me, perfect in mind and body.

What I image in mind is molded in omnipresent substance,
and I behold plenty for everybody.

//text

EVERY TIME we go to a movie we are witnessing a likeness of
what is constantly taking place in our mind. A likeness is
an imitation or repetition of a thing. The projection into
visible action of a series of small images by a
motion-picture machine is the copy of a process that we all
use, the picture-making ability of our mind. However the
picture-making ability of our mind is a far more
substantial thing than the weak imitations of the movie
camera. We clothe our mental pictures with flesh and blood,
while the movie is merely shimmering shadows.

It is true that persons who are shallow in their grasp of
the deep things of life image weakly, and the projections
of their mind are transitory. But those who have meditated
seriously upon the source

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of existence and stirred up the inner substance and life
make very substantial pictures in the universal ether or
"kingdom of the heavens." An image projected from the head
alone, which has not made union with soul substance, is a
mere flickering will-o'-the-wisp that shimmers for a short
moment in the mental marshes and then fades away.

There is a vast difference between the thought images of an
intellectual thinker and those of one who has got access to
the spiritual substance and life within. One may make
brilliant pictures in the ether, but they are without the
substance and life that is so essential to the structure of
things eternal. Jesus illustrated this in His comparison of
the man who builds upon rock with the man who builds upon
sand. The house built upon sand soon falls, but the one
built on rock (substance) endures when the winds and floods
descend upon it.

Spiritual insight or discernment shows us that Divine Mind,
which created in the beginning, must still be carrying
forward the universe and the man that it originally
conceived. It also shows us that by projecting the perfect
picture of ourselves that God projected we shall behold its
perfect manifestation.

Paul says that we shall attain the glory of the Lord by
degrees: "from glory to glory." Jesus said, "In your
patience ye shall win your souls." So many of us have
visions of the perfect man, as had John on Patmos, and we
are so eager to be like him that we get impatient and
eagerly grasp at the many

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"promising" short cuts into the kingdom.

But we should be constantly reminded that there are no
shorter cuts than those taught by Jesus. He said that the
kingdom of heaven suffered violence under John the Baptist
and the other prophets up to the time of John and that the
violent took it by force. Then He called attention to John
the Baptist as the reincarnation of Elijah. Of all the old
prophets Elijah was the most violent and destructive. He at
one time called down the fire of Jehovah and destroyed four
hundred of the prophets of Baal. This violent and
destructive rise of the power of the word finally reacted
upon the cells of Elijah's body and burned them up, and he
was taken up into the heavens in a chariot of fire.

It is popularly taught that Elijah is a saint in heaven,
but this cannot be true because, as Jesus plainly taught in
Matthew 11:14, he appeared again in the earth as John the
Baptist. Neither did John get into heaven. He expressed the
Elijah spirit by condemning Herod and then having his head
cut off by way of reaction to his destructive thought. All
this instructs us in the power of our mind to bring peace,
harmony, and health into our life by right thinking. All
that Jesus taught about man and his mighty mental capacity
is being confirmed by modern psychology and by the
discoveries of science in the realms invisible. For us it
is not only a privilege but an absolute necessity to bring
forth that perfection of character and form which was
originally imaged in our soul by God-Mind.

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//section The Spoken Word

//text

//quote

Spirit life quickens mind and body, and I am whole.

Spirit substance fills my mind and floods my affairs.

//text

WE UNDERSTAND that the worlds were framed by the word of
God spoken in faith. This in substance is the comment of
the author of Hebrews. If God created by the power of His
word it is fair to assume that He gave like power to man,
who has in miniature all the abilities of His Father. Jesus
confirmed this power of man's word when He said that we
should be held accountable for our lightest word and that
our words would both justify and condemn us.

Our words are so interwoven with our thoughts and acts that
we do not discern the relation between cause and effect, in
fact we do not as a rule see any connection between them.
We are so concerned with effects that we have no
consciousness of causes. So in explaining the law by which
man builds his

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character, body, and environment, we must repeatedly call
attention to the source of these things, Spirit and its
outlet in man, the word. Thought and word are so intimately
allied that we usually count them as one. "Out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Get a deep
conviction of the truth of your cause; then speak it forth
in strong words, and it will surely come to pass.

The process through which the idea--conceived in mind,
formed in thought, and made manifest in body and
affairs--passes in its various stages is not always clear,
and we are not usually concerned about the manner in which
the end is accomplished. The fulfillment of our objective
is the principal thing.

However it is within the province of man to understand and
witness the whole process of creative thought in his own
organism. It requires soul culture of an advanced order to
do this, and but few persons are willing to undertake the
necessary study and discipline. It is not taught in any of
the metaphysical schools, because the instructions cannot
be put in words. No words have yet been invented to express
the attitudes of mind and body required to raise the cell
life in man's body to the required potency. The spiritual
ether in which we float has a rate of vibration millions of
times greater than matter. This is the kingdom of Spirit
life, which Jesus brought to our attention and of which we
must lay hold if we would attain eternal or continuous
life. The individuality or I AM must give concentrated
attention to this inner life energy and

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introduce it into mind and body continually until the whole
nervous system is aflame with Spirit life. We may not be
conscious of it, but we are all seeking this inner life
flame, because its energy is the only source upon which we
can draw to raise our atomic vibration to the point where
it will overcome the slow disintegrating flow of human
nature.

There are souls in the heavens who have accomplished this
and so attuned their bodies to the spiritual life that they
are no longer subject to death. Jesus of Nazareth is the
illumined soul appointed to save our race from the
disintegrating effects of broken law, and through Him we
are dynamically infused with life.

Every time we listen to a radio program we have in the
diffusion of intelligence an illustration of what Jesus
accomplished in the diffusion of life. In the 1st chapter
of John we read, "In him was life; and the life was the
light of men."

Here light (intelligence) and life are treated as one. Like
all the attributes of Spirit, intelligence or the knowing
quality is united with the active quality, life. There is a
spiritual ether corresponding to the radio ether, into
which Jesus merged His soul and body at His disappearance
in the heavens (hoi ouranoi). Here awaiting our
appropriation is a radiant intelligence and life. When we
turn our attention within and give ourselves up wholly to
Spirit, we are quickened with a life and intelligence of
superexcellence.

When the blood stream becomes depleted our

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physicians hasten to make a blood transfusion, overlooking
the fact that Jesus made it possible for all of us to
receive from Him a life transfusion that not only revives
us in temporal ills but, above all, begins in our body a
purifying and energizing process that will finally save us
from death.

When we strive to be like Jesus in thought and word we are
quickened by Him and are lifted up. This results in
healing; but far more important, we are inoculated with the
germs of soul and body cleansing.

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//section Thou Shalt Decree

//text

//quote

In the presence and power of the Christ in me I decree the
manifestation of perfect health.

In the presence and power of the living Christ substance I
claim the riches of God.

//text

GOD MADE man by the power of His word: "God said, Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness." By virtue of
his spiritual origin and the power vested in him man forms
by his word the world in which he lives. Jehovah said to
Eliphaz, "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be
established unto thee."

Every word man utters energizes the ether with a creative
impulse that in due season brings forth its image and
likeness.

The formative power of man's thought and word is governed
by his faith in himself and the vehemence with which he
thinks and speaks.

Jesus expected great things of His followers because He
knew what is in man. He knew that man has laid hold of the
power of God, as stated in Genesis 3:22, "Behold, the man
is become as one

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of us." Jesus recognized this when He said, "Is it not
written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?"

We have not brought forth in the majesty of the sons of God
because of our self-depreciation and our ignorance of the
creative law implanted in us. Job had the inferiority
complex of personality. He whined:

//quote

"Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? .
. .

Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

Gird up thy lions now like a man:

I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me . . .

Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity;

And array thyself with honor and majesty."

//text

Isaiah said, "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees." Our woes can be traced right back to some
unrighteous decree. We have decreed a thousand things that
we did not want to come to pass, but that have come to
pass, and we are suffering the woeful consequences.

Our body is weak or strong, according to what we have
decreed for it. Every organ is functioning as we have
decreed. If we have said, "My stomach is weak,'" the
obedient life and substance have found this kind of stomach
for us. If we have declared strength and vigor for our
stomach, this organ will at once begin to carry out our
decree. "Say the word, and my servant shall be healed."

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So every organ and member of the body responds to our
decree.

Man is the anointed son of God called Christ. When we know
the truth about ourselves we are freed from the bondage of
the foolish decrees of personality. Do not exalt
personality in your decrees for yourself. Exalt Christ by
making your decrees in His name. "Christ in you, the hope
of glory."

The vital energy of eternal life exists in every cell of
our body. Science proclaims that its experiments with
animal tissues prove that man's body would live forever if
it were not for his brain. In a recent interview Doctor
Carrel says that "the only thing that keeps men from living
forever is the possession of a brain and nervous system."

Metaphysicians know that the brain and nervous system are
the organ of the mind, and that man dies because he is not
wise in his directive power.

//quote

"And the Almighty will be thy treasure,

And precious silver unto thee"

//text

was the prosperity proclamation of our wise old friend Job.

A "depression" took everything he owned, even his sons and
daughters. But he was not defeated, he claimed his own and
it was restored to him:

//quote

"Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak;

I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me . . .

And Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before."

//text

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//section Be Strong in the Lord

//text

//quote

I praise and give thanks that I am strong in the Lord and
in the power of His might.

I praise and give thanks for the plenty, visible and
invisible, that I feel and see everywhere.

//text

TO BE "strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might"
means that we are seeking strength and power from sources
other than the physical. Food and exercises are the usual
sources of bodily vigor. We are not discussing mental
vigor, which is gained by combining diet, discipline, and
idealism.

A study of Truth reveals that words based upon the
authority of Spirit develop dynamic force. The difference
between the force of a word based in physical things and
one based in spiritual things is the difference between the
effect one gets from contact with a wire carrying a light
and a wire carrying a heavy voltage.

The time will come when scientific metaphysics will measure
mathematically the currents of energy

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emanating from a brain charged with material ideas and one
charged with spiritual ideas. At present the science of
mind is quite primitive. We are, like Franklin, flying a
few kites and making cursory excursions into a field of
energy the control of which will eventually change our
whole world.

We have found however that very definite changes occur in
our mind and body when we practice concentration in the
silence. This means that when we want to gain spiritual
power we get still mentally and physically and turn our
attention within. On our first entering this "silence" we
close our eyes and ears, and with our concentrated
attention fixed on an imaginary point within, we repeat
silently any set of words that carry a spiritual idea. With
practice we can make the inner connection without closing
the eyes.

In His directions for effective prayer Jesus told His
disciples to go into the secret place and close the door,
there to pray to the Father in secret, and the response
would appear outwardly. Jesus sometimes prayed all night.
He taught persistence in prayer. We find that contact with
the supermind--which Jesus named the Father--is sometimes
quickly made in concentrated prayer; then again our mind is
slow to see the inner light. The relation of our mind to
creative Mind may be compared to the relation of a radio
receiving set to a broadcasting station. As we must tune
our radio set so that it will pick up waves from the proper
station, so we have to acquire the ability to attune our
mind to Divine

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Mind, so we may learn by spiritual understanding the true
ideas that exist eternally in Divine Mind.

Every word has a quality that sympathetically relates it to
an idea innate in the mind of man, and when the word is
released it radiates an energy that contracts or expands
the body cells and through them external nature. For
example, words of praise, gratitude, or thanksgiving
expand, set free, and in every way radiate energy. Words of
failure or impotence congest energy and cause the cells to
crowd together, making nerves trembly and bones brittle.

When the thoughts are lifted up to the contemplation of our
all-pervading and all-powerful Spirit Father and our voices
ring out in words of praise and thanksgiving, the withered
hands and shackled feet are freed, the walls of negation
are shattered, and we step forth into a new consciousness
of life.

To those in the clutches of adverse words it seems a
travesty to praise and give thanks to the God of strength
and power, but thousands of those who have endured poverty
and sickness for years find that their prison doors open
when they praise and give thanks, like Paul and Silas, as
related in the 16th chapter of Acts. They were praying and
singing hymns to God when suddenly there was a great
earthquake, all the prisoners' chains were loosened, and
Paul and Silas stepped forth free men.

So you will find that you can be freed from all the prison
cells of mind's blind thinking by lifting up your voice and
heart in songs of praise and thanksgiving to the God of
freedom, light, and life.

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//section Face to Face with God

//text

//quote

Thy Spirit strengthens both my soul and my body, and I rest
in the peace of wholeness and health.

Every anxious thought is stilled. Thy mighty confidence and
Thy peace infold me. Omnipresent Spirit substance fills my
mind, and abundance is everywhere manifest.

//text

MANY CHRISTIAN metaphysicians who are quite familiar with
the idea of the omnipresence of God address Him in terms
that imply His absence. Instead of talking direct to God,
who is always right in our midst, we talk about Him. We are
apt to say, "God strengthens both my soul and my body"
instead of "Thy Spirit strengthens both my soul and my
body."

Our words betray our dominant state of mind, although the
logic of Truth may belie this. We see logically that there
cannot be any separation in spirit between the Creator and
the created, but the created has the power to think of
itself as separate from its source, and this thought makes
a mental vacuum in which there is a total absence of
spiritual

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attributes. The human family on this planet has set up this
sort of a mental void, and unless we train our mind to
think the truth, we find ourselves talking to God as if He
were in the next room or in some faraway heaven in the
skies.

We in our day and age are not alone in making God the third
person in our conversation. Bible authors did the same. We
should remember that the people who live today are the same
people who lived in the past, in other words, we are people
who thought ourselves separate from God life and thereby
killed our body. We also are like some of the people who
acted the part of the prodigal son, desiring to be again
united with the Father.

However we should not forget that although the Father was
"moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and
kissed him," the prodigal was yet "afar off." No one save
Jesus has fully bridged this gulf of separation, and we are
excusable if we at times lapse into the old consciousness
of absence from the Father. Jesus gives us the right cue
when He affirms, "It is the spirit that giveth life; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto
you are spirit, and are life."

"For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to
the Son also to have life in himself."

We find that we must train our mind in trust, look
persistently and continuously to God for all things, and
rest in the assurance that what we ask and affirm in Spirit
will surely come to pass. Jesus had such supreme confidence
and faith in the Father

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as the source of health and prosperity that His name has
become the synonym and open door for the manifestation of
those things. He said that whatever we asked of the Father
in His name would be granted. Many persons get a very
definite mental uplift and consciousness of Spirit by
repeating audibly and silently the name of Jesus Christ.
But the name does not represent the real character of the
person unless it is known to us through our acquaintance
with the person himself. Unless you have read about Jesus
and tried to realize His love, wisdom, and supermind power,
you have no conception of the meaning of His name. Paul
urged that we let Christ be formed in us. That means that
through the study of the life of Jesus and the discipline
He gave His mind we shall put into our mind the same ideas
that He had. These ideas will form in our mind a new kind
of man, which is God's man.

When you turn your attention to Spirit your mind makes
contact with a realm of ideas very much above the level of
your common thinking; and when you strike this mental
stratosphere you are tremendously lifted up. Then you make
your statements of Truth and whatever you decree comes to
pass. Job's friend Eliphaz said to him:

//quote

"Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:

Thereby good shall come unto thee . . . .

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established
unto thee;

And light shall shine upon thy ways"

//text

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//section Not Magic but Law

//text

//quote

I see myself as God sees me, strong, robust, healthy.

The Spirit of industry, energy, and honesty now stirs me to
action, and I am truly prosperous.

//text

THERE IS AN idea quite prevalent in the public mind that we
teach a system of thought and word juggling; that anyone
anywhere can have any and every thing by merely repeating
over and over certain magic words. It is true that words
have magic in them and very often the result of the mental
imagery evoked by them is so startling as to suggest
Aladdin and his lamp. However a comprehension of the whole
philosophy reveals a well-balanced set of principles upon
which it rests. By being determined one can project an
isolated idea and gets results without conforming to the
accepted laws of human relationships. No one can use the
dynamic power of thought and word in unbalanced ways
without suffering undesirable reactions. To avoid this we
keep before our mind's eye the dominant existence of a
divine order and law to which

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we must conform if we are to attain enduring success. Jesus
taught that He was the executive of a spiritual principle
that was the source, the wisdom, and the power of
everything He did. He urged His followers to look to the
same inner power. "Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you."

We who are striving to acquire an understanding of the
divine law and to apply it in our life as Jesus did in His
should set up the same intimate relation with the Father
that He did. "For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth
him all things that he himself doeth." We are all the
offspring of God and come into sonship when we acquaint
ourselves with His mind.

In the beginning of our existence as free, thinking
entities we had a certain consciousness of the Father-Mind,
but continued thinking of ourselves as independent of this
Mind has formed a gulf of apartness. We are prodigals in
the far country of sense life. Those of us who are
beginning to see how poor and bare this material life is
have turned our faces to the Father's house and are
mentally journeying home. It is not a question of
geographical locality but of mental recognition. "The
kingdom of God is within you," said Jesus. Seeking God
within changes our whole mental viewpoint. We find
ourselves right in the presence of creative Mind, and
seeking to co-operate with this Mind, we receive spiritual
inspiration and are guided in even the most minute details
of life.

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In the early stages of our spiritual awakening we realize
our dependence upon God for all that we are, and our
attitude is that of the humble, obedient child. Then
gradually there arises within us the consciousness of
sonship, the consciousness that God is the parent Mind and
that we inherit all the ideas constituting this mind. If we
inherit these creative ideas it logically follows that we
are to use them. This is where, as Jesus explained, the son
becomes the co-operator with the Father in creation. "For
as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the
Son also to have life in himself: and he gave him authority
to execute judgment, because he is a son of man." The claim
that Jesus was the exclusive and only Son of God is here
refuted: "because he is a son of man." By divine right man
is the executive power of God-Mind, and he will never
fulfill the law of his being before he enters into the
realization of his dominion and authority in the realms of
mind and matter.

Thus we see that we are warranted in affirming our unity
with God and expecting the attributes of the perfect man to
appear. "Judge not according to appearance." Right in the
face of adverse appearances enter into God-Mind and see
yourself as He sees you, strong, robust, healthy. Jesus
said, "Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which
all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall
come forth." All those who believe in the inevitable
conquest of death are already in mental tombs, but when
they realize that Jesus walked out of the tomb

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and said, "Follow me," they are lifted into the heavens of
eternal life. Do not be afraid to go all the way with Jesus.

When the prodigal son returned, the father ran to meet him,
ordered the best robe to be put upon him, shoes on his
feet, a ring on his hands; and he provided a feast, with
merriment. Here is parabled the prosperity that ensues when
man returns to the consciousness of God as his resource. In
the world of affairs, industry, energy, and honesty are
expected of those who would succeed. These qualities have a
divine source and can be quickened and intensely energized
by attaching them to the dynamic mind of God. "Thou shalt
also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee."

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//section Spiritual Soul Therapy

//text

//quote

I praise Thee and bless Thee for the consciousness of
health and wholeness through Christ.

With all Thy pople I praise and bless Thy Spirit of plenty
now manifest everywhere.

//text

PSYCHOANALYSIS is growing more popular every day because it
measures the capacity of the soul. We are all interested in
our soul and how to save it. Those who follow Jesus go one
step further in soul therapy than the average
psychoanalyst; they incorporate Spirit with soul and make
it the primal source and sustainer of both soul and body.
"It is the spirit that quickeneth."

We make our soul out of the thoughts and words we
entertain. Consequently we should be very careful in
choosing our words, because they are the means by which we
convey Spirit to character and its structure. So instead of
psychoanalysis let us say we have Spirit psychoanalysis.

Every word has its root in an idea, whether this idea is
reflected from within or not. When we wish

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to approve, extol, applaud, or commend we praise and bless.
Words of this kind and the mental attitudes that they set
up stimulate, quicken, whirl into action, and finally
establish in character the ideals of which they are the
vehicle. So let us remember that we use words as
instruments of ideas and that it is the idea that we are
seeking to enlarge and establish by our words of praise and
blessing.

So "praise" and "bless" are words freely used by those who
love spiritual values, because these words are heavily
charged with capacity to express creative Mind. In
themselves alone the words "praise" and "bless" are potent
for good because they are associated with ideas that
eulogize the good. These words are not found in the
vocabulary of the pessimist or atheist. From various
sources we learn that scientists are experimenting with
instruments like the lie tester that register mind
emotions. These instruments measure the force of fear and
courage, sorrow and joy; in fact every emotion and mental
attitude is coming under scientific observation, and it
will not be long before we can produce graphs of the power
of every thought as it registers on the nerve and brain
cells of the body. When these brain testers definitely
prove that certain emotions not only stimulate but
permanently enlarge brain areas the cultivation of
constructive states of mind will become part of our
common-school curriculums.

Metaphysicians find that words that express thanks,
gratitude, and praise release latent energies of mind and
spirit; and the effects of their use follow

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so quickly that they can almost be identified with the
originating words.

Let your words of praise and blessing be to Spirit and the
increase will be even greater than it has been when
addressed to man. The resource of Spirit are beyond our
highest flights of imagination. You can praise a weak body
into strength, a fearful heart into peace and trust;
shattered nerves into poise and power; a failing business
into prosperity and success; want and insufficiency into
supply and support.

The healing and prosperity thougths in this chapter are a
guide for those who are trying to demonstrate the power of
words to regulate health and finances. If you are in need
of health use the statement as printed, putting special
emphasis on the words "strength" and "power." When using
these health-producing words, direct your attention to
Spirit as if it were an interpenetrating presence, which it
is. Try to feel the quickening spiritual harmony and
health, which will be manifested at once or later,
depending on your attitude toward the time element. If you
join in thought with Silent Unity every night from nine to
ten o'clock you will get a powerful uplift. In
demonstrating prosperity you should praise and bless even
minor evidences of financial improvement.

Remember what Jesus said about your mental attitude in
demonstrating spiritually: "And all things, whatsoever ye
shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive"; which
may be rephrased thus: Pray, believing that you have
received, and you shall receive.

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//section Health and Prosperity

//text

//quote

My health is in Thee, and I affirm Thee and Thy life as the
one and only source of my healing.

Thou art my resource, and in Thee I am bountifully supplied
with all things.

//text

GOD IS SPIRIT, and Spirit is located and appears wherever
it is recognized by an intelligent entity. It thus follows
that whoever gives his attention to Spirit and seals his
identification with it by his word, starts a flow of Spirit
life and all the attributes of Spirit in and through his
consciousness. To the extent that he practices identifying
himself with the one and only source of existence he
becomes Spirit, until finally the union attains a
perfection in which he can say with Jesus, "I and the
Father are one."

Many persons who have been taught that God exists in a
realm separate from His creations and that He has parts and
passions like man discount the claim that He is the essence
of man's body. But that Spirit is the essence of all things
is good logic,

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and those who have made the contact with Spirit life
testify that it has revealed itself to them as the very
source of their existence; that is, as creative Mind, God.

Jesus was undoubtedly the most radical of all the thousands
who have claimed that God revealed Himself to them right
out of omnipresence.

The same thought stuff that God used to create man is
accessible to man at all times and in all places. In fact
we are using this all-potential thought stuff with every
mental concept. Thus we plant ideas in the same soil in
which God-Mind plants its ideas, and the offspring or fruit
is of the same kind. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap."

Following the creative law that works constantly in Spirit
substance and life, we find that we are creating permanent
thought forms when our ideals are in harmony with divine
law. We thus see that our immortal body is formed when our
thoughts harmonize with what we intuitively know to be God
thoughts, and the perishable body is formed when we think
and speak words that are out of line with Truth as
established in divine principle.

God is Spirit. God is the source of all that we are, hence
the source of life, substance, and intelligence. The one
and only substance out of which all things are formed is
right here at all times, awaiting our recognition of it in
its spiritual freedom. When we do recognize it in the
simple faith that it will carry out our demands, we are
doing just what Jesus did.

In like manner the divine substance, out of which

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all things are formed, in its spiritual freedom is here in
our midst waiting for us to form it into whatever we may
decree. Thus it follows that God has actually planted man
in a garden or paradise of potential substance (mental
soil), out of which he can grow his prosperity.

Thousands are testifying in this day that a greater work is
being done in His name than was done in Palestine.

Your health and prosperity will surely be demonstrated if
you are faithful in your open-mindedness; in holding fast
to healing and prosperity thoughts.

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//section Thoughts Are Things

//text

//quote

I am no longer like Lot's wife, preserving evil in mind and
body by remembering it. I relax and willingly let go of all
effete substance, that the new, pure radiance of God may be
made manifest in me.

My mind no longer clings to the complexity of mortal
finances. I am open to the splendor of the kingdom of God
within, and a flood of plenty follows.

//text

ONE OF the axiomatic truths of metaphysics is that
"thoughts are things." That the mind of man marshals its
faculties and literally makes into living entities the
ideas that it entertains is also a foregone conclusion.

The word "things" expresses poorly the active and very
vital character of the thoughts to which the mind gives
life, substance, and intelligence.

We see so many inanimate "things" around us in the material
world, and we compare our creative thoughts with them and
thereby get a very inferior

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conception of the marvelous ability of our mind in its
creative capacity.

Shakespeare says, "The poet's pen . . . gives to airy
nothing a local habitation and a name." At the same time
the poet's mind forms in the ether a replica of his idea,
and that replica takes up its habitation in his thought
atmosphere and henceforth injects into it a tincture of the
sentiments that the poets originally had.

This ability of the Adamic man to "name" or give character,
form, and shape to ideas is symbolically described in the
2d chapter of Genesis, where Jehovah God brought before
Adam the elemental ideas or "beasts" of the Garden of Eden
(called by metaphysicians the "ether"). "And whatsoever the
man called every living creature, that was the name
thereof."

We often refer in Unity literature to the discoveries by
modern science of the ether and its stupendous properties
as confirming in scientific terms what Jesus taught in
symbols concerning the properties of the ether, which He
named the kingdom of the heavens. The Garden of Eden is a
symbolic description of that elemental realm which modern
science has named the ether. Science says that this ether
fills all space, is not molecular, and possesses an amount
of energy beyond comparison with anything material; that
all the complex phenomena of nature may be reduced to
different kinds of waves of energy in the ether. Professor
James Jeans says, "We live in a universe of waves, and

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nothing but waves." He also says that it may be that our
mind lays hold of the atoms of our body and so forms the
world about us.

Here we see how very near to the teaching of religion
scientific minds are approaching. They are virtually
proclaiming the one life as the source of everything. Their
next great proclamation will be that one directive
intelligence is an essential cause of the harmonious
universe.

Every experienced metaphysician knows that man's mind molds
from an omnipresent element whatever takes form, shape, and
intelligence and becomes part of his thought world. That
science in a measure confirms this is a source of
gratification and a stabilizer of faith. Knowing that our
world is composed of what we have idealized should make us
more watchful of the activities of our mind. Are we still
harboring thought forms that are impeding our soul's
progress? Are we preserving our evil thoughts by thinking
about them with fear in our mind? Or it may be that we
yearn for the pleasures of the past and like Lot's wife
look back, thereby subjecting ourselves to the things of
the past or with the salt of the mind preserving them.
There are always better things just ahead for those who
build in mind the living thought entities that go before
and open the way.

Man lives in two worlds, the world of cause and the world
of effect. The world of effect is at present in a complex
tangle. Panaceas without number are offered. There is but
one panacea and that is the installation of an economic
system in which human greed will be eliminated. To
institute such a system will require men and women who have
overcome greed in themselves.

If you would help the world, and incidentally yourself, to
better economic conditions, begin to deny your selfishness
and greed and affirm,

"I am open to the splendor of the kingdom of God within,
and a flood of plenty follows."

The Supermind

I join with all the hosts of heaven in declaring that only
the good is true, and that good health everywhere is made
manifest.

The rich substance of the kingdom of God is pouring its
plenty perpetually into my mind and affairs, and I am in
all ways prospered.

THAT MAN in his spiritual nature is leagued with supermind
realms is taught freely in the Scriptures and can be proved
to the satisfaction of anyone who will submit to the
required mental discipline. That these supermind forces are
not always used to bring about good is no argument against
their existence. Anyone who develops spiritually in any way
breaks into realms of thought energy superior to the
intellectual and can incite to action subtle causes that
mystify the average on-looker. For this reason every
Christian metaphysician should acquaintance with these
facts about the supermind, which occupies so great a place
in Truth demonstrations.

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The question is often asked if the Indian medicine man or
the African witch doctor uses the same force that the
Christian healer does. The answer is yes. There is but one
primal life in which we all exist and which we use as we
will. The way in which we project this force determines
whether we are Christian or pagan. If our thought is to
destroy, we are pagan. If our thought is for peace, we are
Christian. This law is operative not only in the nations
but in every individual. As we are taught in our Bible, God
originally guided man to think good only; but man was
tempted and chose to be free and think for himself. This
freedom threw the whole race into a mental vortex of "good"
and "evil," hate and love, war and peace. Christ is the
Prince of Peace and Satan is the devil of destruction.

These good and evil states of consciousness form the
heavens and the hells of the race, and we go in mind to
heaven or hell every time we mentally project the thoughts
that "chord" with that particular state. Only a
supermastermind can overcome this law of mental affinity
and set up in our earthly discordant thought atmosphere a
consciousness of peace and love. Jesus was able to do this,
and when we think of Him, the Christ in us "tunes in" to
the Christ in Him and we are saved from the destructive
forces that tear soul and body asunder.

The mental harmony of Jesus not only radiates throughout
the earth but reaches into the heavens, where it taps the
glory of the Son of God. When we pray in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ or

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decree His presence and power in our spiritual work, we
effect a reunion with His supermind and its tremendous
ramifications in heaven and earth, and our own meager
spiritual ability is augmented a thousandfold. Jesus
understood and used this law of thought affinity when He
claimed that the works He did were not His but the Father's
within Him. It was in this consciousness that He
proclaimed, "All authority hath been given unto me in
heaven and on earth." He also affirmed a like spiritual
unity for His disciples and for all those who proclaim Him
as their spiritual leader. His last promise was "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." This is found in the
16th chapter of Mark, where it is also written, "And they
went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with
them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed."

Peter and John developed marvelous healing power when they
spoke the magic words to the lame man at the gate
Beautiful: "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."
"And immediately his feet and his ankle-bones received
strength. And leaping up, he stood, and began to walk."

For two thousand years those who have had faith in Jesus
and proclaimed their faith in His name have had proof that
He is present as a dynamic

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life-giving force. Men and women with no previous healing
power have suddenly become healers of marvelous ability.
They do not claim to understand how the healing is done.
They know only that through the exercise of faith and their
word the spiritual quality in them is fused into unity with
the power of Christ and the work is marvelously
accomplished.

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//section Cheerfulness Heals

//text

//quote

The joy of health and happiness in Christ fills my body
with new life, and I am made whole.

The love of the cheerful giver is expressed in me, and I
feel Spirit pouring out its plenty into all my affairs.

//text

EVERYBODY advocates cheerfulness as an aid to healing, but
how few practice it as a vital part of the restorative
principle? The large majority of sick persons are
pessimists. They think they are much worse off than they
are. They retard the healing efforts of nature and nature's
God by repeated shocks of mental depression and fear of the
serious character of some physical shadow as transient as
"ships that pass in the night."

Some of our best doctors say that eighty per cent of
humanity's ills would heal of themselves if left alone. In
a book called "Let's Operate," by Dr. Roy H. McKay and
Norman Beasley, we find this in italics:

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"What people don't know, or won't believe, is that in
eighty per cent of the cases they would get better without
the ministrations of a physician, if they would merely go
to bed and follow a proper diet."

To this the writers add:

"This applies to operations too. Every day a distressing
number of unnecessary ones are being performed."

The authors of this book are not metaphysicians. Doctor
McKay is an eminent surgeon. He says in his preface, "This
book was written with great reluctance."

So we find that good doctors, who have the welfare of
humanity at heart, are advising that we do not race to the
operating table at the first sign of pain.

"Be of good cheer." The intelligence that created your body
knows how to repair it. Get still, relax, turn your
attention to the sustaining life forces within your
organism. Say to yourself,

I will fear no evil; for thou art with me.

Don't eat unless you are hungry. Many of our ills are
caused by a greedy appetite that, in being satiated, clogs
the body with surplus fuel. Jesus told His disciples that a
certain type of devil (error) could be eradicated only by
fasting and prayer. Then rejoice and be glad when you begin
to feel the healing peace of Spirit creeping over you.

As we find cheerfulness conducive to health we

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also find it paving the way for prosperity. Paul wrote,
"God loveth a cheerful giver." If the Lord loves a cheerful
giver, it must follow that He takes a more intimate
interest in the finances of a happy person than in those of
one who handles his money in a stingy fashion.

Make it a practice to put love and good cheer into all your
finances, and you will open up sources of income that have
stagnated because you have not given their mind substance
an opportunity to flow into your affairs.

You have doubtless met commercial Jonahs--sunk in the
waters of their own negative statements. Avoid their
pessimistic thoughts and words. Bless what you receive;
bless what you send out. God's plenteous substance moves in
and through our mind constantly like a light shining in the
darkness, but we do not comprehend it.

Cultivate the bountiful, cheerful spirit in every thought
and act. Then your finances will flow harmoniously, and you
will never lack any good thing.

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//section Love Harmonizes

//text

//quote

Thine harmonizing love is mine, and I am restored to peace
and health.

Divine love, like a magnet, charges my mind and prospers my
affairs.

//text

AMONG PEOPLE who observe and think there is no question
about love's being the greatest harmonizing principle known
to man. The question is how to get people to use love in
adjusting their discords. Where for a lifetime there has
been continuous agitation for lawmaking and force as
panaceas for the discords of humanity, the simple and easy
methods of love seem childish and silly. The minds of
reformers have as a rule been charged and surcharged with
pictures of the unjust conditions in the world and their
righteous indignation has often been excited to the boiling
point. Their uppermost thought is how to outlaw or crush
the oppressors. They fairly explode with indignation when
love or some of its attributes is proposed as a remedy.
This brings up the matter of the component parts of love,
what the elements are that

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constitute that very quiet and apparently powerless thing
called love.

Paul says (I Cor. 13) that love is patience, kindness,
generosity, contentment, modesty, goodness and good temper,
truth, burden-bearing capacity, faith in everything, a hope
for the happy outcome of everything, and never a thought of
failure. These are some of the working parts of love, but
not all. The fact is that love is fundamental in every
activity of life, not only in the spiritual and mental but
in the mechanical and physical as well.

Scientists describe gravitation as the force with which
bodies attract each other. This definition holds good in
the mental, in the physical, and for all we know, in the
spiritual realm. So what the physicist calls gravitation is
one of the activities of love. Withdraw for one instant the
steady pull of love from mother earth and we, her children,
would be plunged into the depths of space and darkness. We
should remember this when we are tempted to think that no
one loves us. The spiritually developed soul gives thought
and attention to these apparently invisible yet powerful
forces, and by repeated mental contacts it unifies spirit,
soul, and body in the one Mind, which sustains and unifies
all things.

It is through this process of unfolding love that great
souls are developed. Men are not created great but with the
capacity to become great. Many factors enter into soul
growth, some minor and some major, but a soul never attains
supermind

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power without love. The reason why love is essential in a
great soul is that love is the binding power, the factor so
necessary to strengthening or fortifying the soul. Hate and
antagonism are disintegrating, and they destroy the
cohesion of the spiritual electrons and protons of which
the soul is built.

There are metaphysicians who think that this earth is a
temporary abiding place of the soul, a kind of
kindergarten, where lessons are learned in a single
lifetime that fit the soul at death to fly away to paradise
or some beautiful place in the skies. This line of thought
separates the soul from its source and builds a mental gulf
between soul and body. The body is the precipitation of the
soul or thinking part of man; if it has developed
sensuality and separation, it must be redeemed by being
unified with the soul, and this unification is accomplished
through love. When like Jesus we have developed love for
all things, even for our enemies, then the body and all its
elements become plastic to thought and we have all power in
heaven and in earth. The energy of light, through which
creative Mind rules heaven and earth, is amenable to man
when his mind of love synchronizes with creative Mind and
he can say, "I and the Father are one." According to
physicists, nature in all its forms is an electromagnetic
"solution" in which the atoms spin like cannon balls about
one another; that is, nothing is solid, as it seems to be,
but everything floats in ethereal space, ready to fly about
at the impulse

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of a directive mind of superenergy such as that of Jesus.
With this understanding we can see that Jesus was stating
facts of superscience when He said to His disciples, "If ye
have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto
this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall
remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."

In his "Essay on Man" Pope must have had something akin to
this combination of gravitation and love in mind when he
wrote,

//quote

"When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall
gravitation cease, if you go by?"

//text

In us who are followers of Jesus in the regeneration, which
engrafts upon the natural man the spiritual genius that
causes him to develop superman power, it begins its work by
inspiring us to do little things in love. From this doing
grows larger capacities until we attain the full stature of
the Christ man.

According to Revelations, Jesus said, "He that overcometh,
I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne."

We begin our overcoming by thought mastery. We begin to
master thoughts of hate and force by first thinking and
doing the little component acts that constitute love. Begin
today to be a little more patient. Practice kindness. Be
generous in thought and act. When you are tempted to lose
your temper, say, "I have a good temper." Affirm your
truthfulness

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under all circumstances. If your burdens seem greater than
you can bear, remember what Jesus said: "Come unto me, all
ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest." Develop spiritual faith by believing in spiritual
forces capable of accomplishing for you the seemingly
impossible. Affirm a propitious outcome for everything you
plan or do, and never admit failure in anything.

"He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me
in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my
Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith to the churches."

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//section Casting Out Fear

//text

//quote

All-infolding God love and protection free me from every
thought of fear, and I am strong and well.

My mind is filled and satisfied with Thine all-infolding
substance, and all things are added.

//text

IT IS THE unanimous verdict of students of the mind that
fear is a paralyzer of mental action; also that fear
weakens both mind and body. This being so universally
conceded, it certainly is not worth while to call attention
to that enfeebling state of mind but rather, on the other
hand, to show how to keep from falling into its shadows and
also how to overcome its habits. The majority of people
will resent the statement that fear is a habit, but close
observation proves to anyone that his fears are governed by
repeated thoughts, words, and experiences. All fears rest
upon thoughts, and if the thought foundation can be broken
up the fear will vanish.

The mind imagines mountains of fears where no

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real cause for fear exists. We live in a world where fear
is taught as essential to safety. To begin with, we are
told from infancy to "fear" God; then to fear evil in all
its forms. With our mind crammed with fear images working
night and day, how can we expect anything but the multitude
of disasters that follow?

"Perfect love casteth out fear." Jesus taught love of God
as the first commandment and love of neighbor as the
second; there was no need for any other commandments. These
two round out the law. Then the one and only effective
remedy for fear and its ills is love.

We have all been told again and again that we must love God
and our fellow man in order to fulfill the law of our
being. Doubtless most of us have done this and have had the
experience of very pronounced demonstrations of peace and
protection in our life, yet we do not have that
consciousness of love which we feel we should have when we
think of God. There must be a reason for this deficiency,
and there is. We have thought of love to God in terms of
something of immense size, something that we must encompass
as a whole, when the fact is that love is a composite. It
is made up of attributes, as is made clear by Paul in I
Corinthians.

According to Paul, love is the name of a great variety of
little commonplace activities of everyday life. Are you
patient and kind? "Love suffereth long, and is kind."
Envious? "Love envieth not." Egotistical and proud? "Love
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not puffed up." Are you temperamental? Love "doth not
behave itself unseemly." Are you grasping and selfish? Love
"seeketh not its own." Do you give way easily to your
temper? Love "is not provoked." Do you behold evil as real
and agonize over the evils of the world? Love "taketh not
account of evil." Do you rejoice when disaster overtakes
evil persons and exclaim, "They got just what was coming to
them"? "Love . . . rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but
rejoiceth with the truth." Do you patiently bear "the whips
and scorns of time"? "Love . . . beareth all things." Are
you open-minded and receptive to good, whatever its source?
"Love . . . believeth all things." Do you anticipate the
future with fear and forebodings? "Love . . . hopeth all
things." Do you endure with trust and confidence in eternal
justice

//quote

"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"?

//text

Love "endureth all things." Paul says: "If I speak with the
tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am
become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And if I have
the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all
knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but have not love, I am nothing . . . . But now
abideth faith, hope, love, these three: and the greatest of
these is love."

Nowhere in all literature do we find as clear an

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analysis of love as here in this 13th chapter of I
Corinthians. Those who have taken it as a guide to
character discipline--that is, seeking to fashion their
daily thinking by the standards set forth--have attained
results so pronounced that they have been convinced of its
being a panacea for all who are suffering from the ravages
of distorted, Godless love.

The one and only remedy for the crosscurrents of fear is
the restoration of the peace and harmony of life by love
and its combinations.

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//section Spiritual Hearing

//text

//quote

I give ear to Thee and now realize Thy life in all my
members, for Thou art my health unfailing.

My mind is full of Thy substance, and my prosperity is
always manifest in abundance.

//text

THE SCRIPTURES are rich in references to the listening ear.
"He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?"

Jesus said, "What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in
the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the
house-tops." "He that hath ears to hear let him hear."

In many places the Bible indicates the ear referred to is
not the physical organ but the listening mind or spirit.
"Having ears, hear ye not?"

Then the question arises, Do we have ears that can hear
"overtones" from which the mind can obtain meanings
superior to those of the senses? In every walk of life are
those who stoutly claim that they hear voices and sounds,
musical and otherwise, inwardly or apparently with another
set of

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ears. Sometimes these persons are geniuses and sometimes
they are classed as queer.

Physiology describes a complicated physical ear, but the
"ear" that conceives and really hears is the auditory
center in the brain. It is here the mind grasps and
analyzes the sound vibrations. Thus musical people may have
the same physical ears as the unmusical, but their minds
have listened for the fine variations of sound and have
given the auditory area in the brain a composer's ego. The
great Beethoven was a brilliant example. He was stone-deaf
when he composed some of the most beautiful music of the
world. But his "inner ear" must have been open to music
that is not heard by everyone.

What is true in music is also true in every religion, art,
and science. Little Samuel heard the voice of the Lord.
Joan of Arc heard militant voices. Modern psychics and many
who are deeply religious hear voices, or sounds that they
translate into voices, in their cerebral cortex. It is the
bent of the mind that determines the character of the
voice. Job said in substance that there is a spirit or mind
in man that gives the breath or vibrations of the Almighty
understanding.

Practice giving ear or listening with your mind to the
Lord. You will acquire the ability to make contact with the
mind radiations of Christ and concentrate them in your mind
and actually hear His voice. On the contrary, by a like
concentration of thought you can attract the mind of
persons both in and out

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of the body and thereby become a psychic and medium.
Excessive meditation on things spiritual also often dulls
the receptivity of the outer ear and it loses its alertness.

Shakespeare says, "Give every man thy ear, but few thy
voice"; that is, learn to listen rather than talk. Jesus
called His first disciple Simon Peter. Simon means
"hearing" and Peter "a rock." Spiritual receptivity is the
basis of a solid character. We all need a fuller
realization of life in order to be healthy. This can be
attained by concentrating our attention on the universal
life radiations and incorporating them into our mind and
body.

This world of matter has its origin in a radiant substance
that our mind conceives and automatically translates into
flesh and physical things. The process is so gradual that
we do not realize it, but modern science is daily
approaching an explanation that will eventually be
universally accepted; then what we are teaching from the
spiritual side will be confirmed by the physical.

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//section Light of Life

//text

//quote

By Thy light and life I am strengthened and healed.

"Every good gift and every perfect gift" cometh from above,
from the Father of light, and I am in all ways prospered.

//text

BIBLE WRITERS use the word "light" to represent
intelligence. When Jesus said, "I am the light of the
world," He undoubtedly meant that He was the expresser of
Truth in all of its aspects. In the 1st chapter of John
light and Truth are synonymous.

"There was the true light, even the light which lighteth
every man, coming into the world." This does not mean that
He was the light of all those who come into the physical
world, but of those who are born of Spirit into the world
of reality. Those who live in physical consciousness regard
the light as a radiation of the sun through which people
discern the outline of things. But within this light that
chases away the darkness is a principle hidden from the
sense man. "And the light shineth in the

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darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not." Materiality
is unillumined and has no power in itself to overcome its
ignorance. So all attempts of intellect to lift man and the
human family to higher states of consciousness will prove
futile. There must be an influx of spiritual energy and
inspiration from the "Father of lights."

Yet it is interesting to note how the discoveries of modern
science are demonstrating phases of truth without bringing
forth a single principle that will raise man spiritually.
For example, light has been probed to its physical source
and properties have been revealed of a world that was
nonexistent to the physical man. Yet with all the marvelous
knowledge acquired about light no quality has been revealed
that man can apply to his moral or health-restoring needs.
The argument that light is a property of electricity that
is being successfully applied to heal human ills is not
borne out by facts.

Yet the Scriptures treat light and intelligence as one. In
the very first chapter of the Bible we are told that Mind
became manifest as light. "And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light" But the mind that judges
according to appearance never discerns the inner truth
about light or anything else.

We must know the Truth about the omnipresence of the one
intelligence in the light; then we shall be made free from
our intellectual darkness. Science agrees with James that
"every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the

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Father of lights." Science says light is a very orderly and
exceedingly productive wave motion in the ether, but
science does not tell us that light is God intelligence in
action and that we can link our mind with the light and
reap the benefit of its marvelous potentialities.

Some Christian metaphysicians are shy about using the
scientists' approach to their problems, fearing that they
themselves will fall into a materialistic trend of thought.
However when we see scientists telling in physical terms of
the properties of God-Mind, needing only to add the
assumption of an intelligent moving power, we have found
the cooperation of a very earnest and convincing lot of
truth seekers.

So do not be afraid of the true physical scientist, but
give his discoveries the light of mind. Then you will find
that the substance and life will become more obedient to
your word of command.

Remember that Moses received his great command from Jehovah
when he turned aside to see why the bush that burned was
not consumed. Jehovah spoke to him "out of the midst of the
bush"; that is, God was in the fire that lighted an
ordinary bush. Open your mind to the light of Spirit
wherever you are. See with the eye of the mind that God is
omnipresent Spirit, "over all, and through all, and in all."

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//section Thought Substance

//text

//quote

The Spirit of truth floods me with the light of life, and I
am made whole.

The Spirit of truth reveals abundant Spirit substance,
which I affirm to be the source of my prosperity.

//text

AGAIN the Spirit of truth opens our mind 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
consciousness by affirming its abundance to be the source
of our prosperity. Then prosperity will begin to be
manifested right in the face of apparent lack. Remember the
invitation of the Master "Hitherto

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have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall
receive, that your joy may be made full." When we greatly
desire to be just and honest and in all ways to express
only that which is true under the divine law, our soul
radiates energy waves into the ether that produce the color
blue. The aura around the bodies of sincere, honest persons
is usually bright blue or some modification of blue. Blue
is nearly always associated with white in representing
spiritual ideals. The birth of Jesus was heralded by a
bright star in the blue vault of heaven, and the stars in
our American flag have a blue background.

Some persons think that when they quit lying they are
demonstrating Truth. This is commendable, but falls short
of fulfilling the complete reformation of the Spirit of
truth. In the Gospel of John Jesus repeats in chapter after
chapter the promise that He will send to those who believe
on Him a Comforter, whom He calls "the Spirit of truth." 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."

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Never in the history of the world have there been so many
religious cults as now. It is "Lo, here! or, There" the
world round. To one who is not well grounded in the
fundamental principles of Truth this is all very confusing.
Jesus warned us to beware of man-made religions: "Go not .
. . after them." "The kingdom of God cometh not with
observation." "The kingdom of God is within you."

By exercise of his innate independence man lost his
awareness of Spirit and was consequently cast out of the
Garden of Eden or "paradise of God." Those of us who are
getting an understanding of the divine law are becoming
aware again of the Spirit that rules in this wonderful
kingdom of the mind.

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 mind an
illustration of how Divine Mind works. When an idea is
fully formulated in our mind and we decide to carry it out,
our thoughts 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 there is a Spirit
co-operating 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

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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 fulfilled.

The Spirit of truth is God's thought projecting into our
mind ideas that will build a spiritual consciousness like
that of Jesus. The Spirit of truth watches every detail of
our life, and when we ask and by affirmation proclaim its
presence, it brings new life into our body and moves us to
observe hygienic and dietary laws that restore health.

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//section Intensified Zeal

//text

//quote

The zeal of God quickens, vivifies, and vitalizes both mind
and body and makes me every whit whole.

My zeal for spiritual things increases, and I am abundantly
prospered, praise God!

//text

PERSONS with poise and purpose, holding themselves well in
hand, regard with some suspicion those who are unduly
zealous. When zeal runs away with judgment, energy is
wasted and confidence blasted. The fires of zeal are soon
burned out and the cause of its champion may be slightingly
referred to as "flashes in the pan." Nevertheless, zeal,
intensity, enthusiasm, is essential to the achievement of
any and every great purpose.

We usually judge zeal by the noise it makes. But noise is
not characteristic of the zeal that overcomes seemingly
insurmountable obstacles and wheels them into line with its
quiet yet mighty energy of purpose. When you see men and
women working steadily and unselfishly toward some
cherished goal, do not conclude that they are moved by some
selfish

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motive, the attainment of which will give them personal
pleasure. They are fired by an impulse of soul that boils
with an inward flame and urges them onward, regardless of
the outer mind of caution and conservatism.

The trait of man named variously zeal, enthusiasm,
intensity of soul, is a prime faculty of spiritual man. It
is found in one of the disciples of the type man Jesus, and
its character is revealed in his name, Simon the Zealot.

Zeal's throne or center of activity in the body is at the
base of the brain, in the medulla. It is the seat of the
animal soul, and its office is to vaporize the fine nerve
fluid and distribute it to the senses. The medulla performs
in the body the work of the carburetor in a motorcar.

An intense desire to carry out some idea forces the nerve
fluid into the medulla, where it is atomized with
inspiration (air) and then flared through the optic nerve
to the eye, where the Spirit ignites it, and it flashes
into light. "It is the Spirit that giveth life."

When the Spirit moves a man from within to the
accomplishment of some cherished ideal and the intellect
steps in and says it can't be done, a conflict ensues and
the natural flow of the volatile body is impeded.
Congestions and clots form in the circulation, the man
gradually slows down, and what are called the marks of old
age appear. This is why man should never give up the quest
for greater and better expression of God-given abilities.

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The hop, skip, and jump, the buoyancy and joy of youth,
should be cultivated and continued more enthusiastically as
the years advance. The idea that man grows feeble with
years is a foolish fallacy. The longer one lives the better
one should know how to live.

The attention of the followers of Jesus in the regeneration
is called to the many lessons and warnings that He gave
regarding man's zeal for commercialism. He rebuked Satan,
the adverse mind, for suggesting that He demonstrate how to
turn stones into bread. He warned, "Lay not up for
yourselves treasures upon the earth." One of His earliest
works was putting the commercial activities out of His body
temple. "Take these things hence; make not my Father's
house a house of merchandise."

Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal
for thy house shall eat me up." Jesus explained that the
"house" He referred to was His body. He was cleansing His
body of a dominant race thought, the desire to accumulate
money.

The people of the world today are so zealous for the
solution of economic problems that they have forgotten God.
They do not ask for wisdom to guide them in the nation's
industrial affairs, but they plan and scheme and wrangle
and get deeper and deeper in debt; that is, into the
clutches of the beast of greed that puts its mark of
slavery upon all who worship it.

Be zealous for spiritual realities. Lay up for yourselves
treasures in the heavens.

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//section The Unreality of Error

//text

//quote

My understanding of Truth reveals the unreality of sickness
and the reality of health. I am radiant with the
understanding that abiding health is my divine inheritance.

My understanding of the omnipresence of elemental substance
opens the door to a continuous inflow of superabundance
into my mind and affairs.

//text

LACK OF understanding, not only individual but collective,
confronts us on every side. We blunder through life instead
of walking confidently, open-eyed. Or we sit in the City of
Indecision waiting for something to turn up when, urged and
guided by the inner light, we should be going forth to meet
good fortune.

We never weary of quoting that wise observation of Job's
"There is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty
giveth them understanding." Most persons think that
understanding is gained by intellectual development, mostly
in institutions of

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learning. But the Book of Job was written by one who had
great understanding but no literary degrees, so far as is
known. Some authorities claim the book is at least five
thousand years old; but Job knew much about Spirit both in
Jehovah and in man. In the passage quoted he uses the
pronoun "them" instead of "he" in referring to man, thus
revealing that he understood the spiritual nature of man to
be dual: male and female. Job's familiarity with Spirit and
spiritual laws is evidence to a metaphysician that he
gained his understanding direct from Spirit. Jesus taught,
"It is the spirit that giveth life."

We would not belittle intellectual knowledge if it is
acquired under the guidance of Spirit. The one and only
object of man's existence is the development of his soul,
and any attainment, whether mental or material, that cannot
be associated with and counted as an aid toward that end
will ultimately be refused. So it is the concentration of
the mind upon Spirit that reveals the truth about the many
situations that meet us in our daily contacts. If we count
health and disease as equal, the "thought stuff" of our
mind will animate them with like potency. We shall find
ourselves believing that disease is just as real and far
more catching than health.

Yet a moment's analysis of the relation between disease and
health shows that health is the real, the God-given
condition, and disease the unreal, the abnormal, from which
we are all seeking to escape. Truth not only shows the
reality at the core of all

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things; it also shows that we shall never escape from the
unreal so long as we allow our mental processes to clothe
it with "thought stuff."

If you deny disease as devoid of reality and affirm health
as spiritual and abiding, the Spirit will bear witness with
your spirit and you will demonstrate health.

Daily concentration of mind on Spirit and its attributes
reveals to man that the elemental forces that make matter
are here in the ether awaiting our recognition and
appropriation. It is not necessary to know all the details
of the scientific law in order to demonstrate prosperity.
Go into the silence daily at a stated time and concentrate
on the substance of Spirit prepared for you from the
foundation of the world. You will thus open up a current of
thought that will bring prosperity into your affairs.

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//section Joy Radiates Health

//text

//quote

The joy of Jesus Christ sets me free, and I am healed.

I rejoice as I realize Thine all-providing plan now
fulfilled in me.

//text

NOW WE HAVE reports of a sanitarium where laughter is the
only healing remedy. Time was when such an institution
would not only have been subject to the ridicule of the
community but its promoters would doubtless have come under
the insanity regulations. But now that not only psychology
but medical therapy is giving attention to the effect of
the emotions on the health, the systematic cultivation of
joy is looked upon favorably as a healing agent.

"A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance;

But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken."

Solomon or some other wise author of Proverbs wrote that
thousands of years ago, and it is good doctrine today. The
historical records of the race go back about six thousand
years, and it is found

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that people have changed very little in their dominant
characteristics during that time. Solomon, reputed the
wisest man of his age, rendered his judgments from the
testimony of the emotions rather than the facts as they
were given in his court. The Bible tells of his appeal to
the love of the two women who claimed the same infant as
their child, calling for a sword to divide it so that each
woman might receive half. The real mother begged that the
sword should not be used, and of course the case was
decided in her favor.

Legend says that Solomon amazed the Queen of Sheba by his
quick solution of problems that she proposed. She dressed a
group of boys and girls in exactly the same clothes and
demanded that he tell the sex of each. He ordered basins of
water for them to wash their hands in. The boys all plunged
their hands in the water and got sodden cuffs, while the
girls carefully rolled up their sleeves. Then a combination
of real and artificial flowers were brought in; the queen
demanded that Solomon point out the difference. He sent for
a swarm of bees and readily made a decision. The queen was
so pleased with Solomon's wisdom that she made him a love
offering equal to three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

In our modern practice of spiritual healing we find sadness
and sorrow to be the cause of many physical ills. We also
find that happiness is natural to man and that he can
release it from his inner life through an understanding of
Truth.

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The study of the spiritual side of life awakens in mind,
and even in body, emotions that convince one of the reality
and eternal continuity of life, regardless of the changes
that take place in outer manifestation.

Isaiah had a consciousness of this when he wrote in the
35th chapter of his book: "And the ransomed of Jehovah
shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall
obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away."

Zion represents spiritual peace, a peace that comes to
those who attain an understanding and consciousness of
Spirit and its activities in the soul.

Sorrow used to be considered a virtue among religious
people, but this notion is being dissolved among the
enlightened. Death has been the greatest source of sorrow,
but evidence that the soul continues to live after it
leaves the body is being produced from so many sources that
the sense of separation is being rapidly removed, and many
people now believe that we continue to exist as thinking
entities whether in the body or out of the body.

Of all men who have lived on earth Jesus understood best
the joy of the spiritual life, and He had the power of
imparting that joy.

"He shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye
shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into
joy." "These things have I spoken unto you that my joy may
be in you, and that your joy may be made full."

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//section "Selah!"

//text

//quote

I have set the Lord always before my face, therefore my
heart is glad and my flesh resteth in confidence.

I have faith in Thee as my unfailing resource, and I am in
all ways prospered.

//text

"I HAVE SET Jehovah always before me:

Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth:

My flesh also shall dwell in safety."

The Psalms constituted the hymnbook of the early church,
and no finer example of religious fervor and devotion and
literary excellence can be found in the lyrics of any
people.

Although the author of the Psalms is usually referred to as
David, that great poet and musician is by critics credited
with considerably less than half of the one hundred and
fifty hymns that appear in the Bible.

Psalm means "lyric," and the heading of each indicates to
the musician what attitude of devotion should precede its
rendition. "Selah" is the most

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common heading. Bible authorities are not all agreed as to
its precise meaning, but a very general opinion is that it
means "pause," "silence," "to be still." But why pause
before the music has even begun? Just here is where an
understanding of spiritual law helps one. Before any act
that involves direct appeal to God there should be a silent
recognition of God's presence, of Jehovah-shammah, "The
Lord is present," which is one of the sacred names of
Jehovah.

In all our prayers, talks, and songs with God as the
subject, we should first have a period of silence, a selah,
in which the divine presence is invoked as the creative
power. Then we can proclaim with Jesus, "I speak not from
myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works." The
heading of Psalm 16 is "Michtam of David." One authority
says michtam means "gold," another "excellence," and still
another "mystery." It means all of these and more.
Beginning at verse 8, we have a prophecy of the supreme
overcoming demonstrated by Jesus:

//quote

"I have set Jehovah always before me:

Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved."

//text

Jehovah is the name of the supermind in man and is called
the Christ in the New Testament. Give first place in all
your thoughts and acts to this all-powerful presence and
you will realize the "right hand" of guidance and steadfast
conviction.

A "glad" heart speeds up the circulation and

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sweeps effete matter from the blood stream; then the flesh
rests in confidence and health appears.

The prosperity word is one that we have often used in our
Unity prayer ministry during the past fifty years. Some of
you may cast it aside as threadbare, but don't be hasty.
You may have used it many times, with varying degrees of
success, but no one has exhausted its possibilities.

The producing power of a word depends on the ability of its
user to uncover its inner meaning and apply it to his
particular needs. When you use the word "Thee," do you
think what its antecedent is? You will quickly say "God,"
but "God" covers a multitude of creative forces. In this
case you are working to bring prosperity into your affairs;
hence you should fill your mind with images and ideas of
the all-providing, all-supplying One. Ancient Hebrew seers
and adepts like Moses and Elijah understood this, and they
had seven sacred names for Jehovah, each of which
represented Him in His specific creative ability.

Jehovah-jireh means "Jehovah will provide," and anyone who
concentrates his mind on this mighty One and persistently
affirms His presence and power visible and invisible will
be provided for regardless of any opposing circumstances.
Should the Lord seem to be absent, use the hidden name of
this mighty presence. Jehovah-shammah ("the Lord is
present"), and you will soon feel the dynamic life and
substance of creative Mind charging the ether with its
living productiveness.

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//section Spiritualizing the Intellect

//text

//quote

I separate myself in consciousness from the mind of the
flesh, that I may enter into the mind that was in Christ
Jesus.

//text

THIS affirmation is a good one to take into the inner
consciousness, and we would emphasize the word
"consciousness." This whole matter of soul unfoldment
depends upon the consciousness that we have.

We have no independent mind--there is only universal
Mind--but we have consciousness in that Mind, and we have
control over that consciousness. We have control over our
own thoughts, and our thoughts fill our consciousness. By
analyzing ourselves we find that we unconsciously separate
our self into different personalities. Now we should do
this work consciously. We should enter into the
understanding that the I AM power (all power) is given unto
us in consciousness, and then join or unify this
consciousness with the great Christ Mind.

Thus the central idea in this word of affirmation that we
are seeking to understand and to incorporate into our
consciousness is the Christ Mind. As spiritual
metaphysicians we find that the Christ Mind is the Mind of
Spirit. In the consciousness of man

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it functions as two states of consciousness: one in the
flesh, the other in the Spirit. But the mind of the Spirit
is the source of all.

In daily worship it is well to impress upon the sensitive
mind that it is unified with Divine Mind through Christ,
through the same mind that was in Christ Jesus.

Understanding this as the basic principle of our thought
and realizing the power of thought to impress itself upon
the sensitive plate of man's mind, we find this prayer
invaluable:

//quote

I separate myself in consciousness from the mind of the
flesh, that I may enter into the mind that was in Christ
Jesus.

//text

First we disentangle our thoughts from the flesh and lift
our consciousness up to Spirit. We hold them steady in
spiritual consciousness until they begin to get hold of
Spirit essence, Spirit power, Spirit love. Everything that
we see in the manifest comes from this one Spirit-mind; so
it is well to hold this affirmation until the most sacred
ethers respond to our realization:

//quote

I separate myself in consciousness from the mind of the
flesh, that I may enter into the mind that was in Christ
Jesus.

//text

When considering the value of prayer and realization we
call to mind the case of Jacob and Esau receiving the
blessing of their father Isaac.

It was customary to give the first-born the prior

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blessing, and this blessing of the first-born belonged to
Esau. But through the connivance of the mother, Rebekah,
and Jacob himself, Jacob got the blessing, and of course by
a subterfuge. The procedure was really a dishonest one, and
Esau was wroth with his brother Jacob for taking his
blessing and threatened his life. The mother advised Jacob
to flee to the country of her brother Laban, and Jacob
immediately set out on his journey. He was however in a
wilderness of thought.

As metaphysical Christians we take this scripture to be a
spiritual history of man as well as a history of outer
events. We try to read it in the spirit appropriate to it.
Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned. The Bible
is a spiritual book. We arrive at a greater understanding
and enhance our interest in the different characters of
Jacob and Esau when we look upon them not only as
individuals but as representatives of the race as a whole.

If we study the four characters of Isaac, Jacob, Esau, and
Rebekah, we find that they represent dominant ideas in man,
ideas that pertain to his very being, that are of vital
interest. As we read out of the law we find that Esau--a
hunter, a person subservient to his bodily appetites, a man
of the flesh--represents the flesh, the body. A person of a
little different turn of mind, a man who loved home and the
quiet spiritual things of life, Jacob represents the mind,
the intellectual man.

Of course in the process of evolution the natural man comes
first. Then the spiritual man begins to

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unfold in us. Here in the Bible story we find that the
spiritual man, or rather the intellectual man illumined by
Spirit, gets the blessing. The Israelites set great store
by this blessing. Rightly understood, a blessing is a great
source of inspiration. It lays a firm foundation in the
mind, and it brings out the good. A curse sees the evil and
emphasizes it; but a blessing sees only the good and
emphasizes only the good. Thus we come to see the
importance for the soul's evolution of an understanding of
the development of these two Biblical characters.

As we look at the blessing that Isaac gave Jacob and
Esau--for he did bless Esau after he had blessed Jacob,
though he gave Esau the blessing that would bring out his
character--we discover that he was governed by law. The
blessing he gave Jacob was one upon the mind and not upon
the body; in fact, it was a blessing of the part of the
race mind concerned with service, the part that has to do
with the exercise of authority.

In this blessing there is a calling forth of those inherent
faculties of the mind which enter into the exercise of
authority. "Let people serve thee." The mind dominates the
body. "Let . . . nations bow down to thee." We also see
nations being dictated to by some mind, some dictator.

//quote

"Let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:

Cursed be every one that curseth thee,

And blessed be every one that blesseth thee."

//text

Here we can see the power of ideas to bless or to

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curse. We see that he who uses his mind to curse gets the
curse in return, while the mind that blesses receives
blessings in return.

If we study our mind we find that it is radiating energy
constantly and that whatever we send out comes back. This
is true of the mind of man, and we see it in evidence
everywhere, not only individually but collectively.

To Esau Isaac said,

//quote

"Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling,

And of the dew of heaven from above;

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy
brother."

//text

Here in these symbols we have the body man or man of the
flesh. "The fatness of the earth shall by thy dwelling":
man lives very close to the earth. "And by thy sword shalt
thou live": the man of flesh is sent forth by the man of
the mind to carry out his warring ideas. Intellectual man
is the general or the governor or the dictator that sends
the man of the flesh to do his biddings.

//quote

"And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break loose,

That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck."

//text

In the evolution of man, the body (Esau) finally comes into
its own. The Isaac blessing is carried out in the world
today. We find that the working classes

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that have been under the yoke of the intellect--the
intellectual man--now are beginning to assert themselves.
They are breaking loose from the yoke of bondage to the
intellect, the mind; the flesh is beginning to assert
itself. We are giving more attention to the flesh every
day. People are awaking to the fact that the body is an
important part of man, and so we see everywhere the
fulfillment of this blessing.

If we study ourselves, we find a tendency toward the
working out of the two minds. The tendency of the intellect
is to dominate, to have its way and ignore the body. But
the body is beginning to break loose from this bondage and
demand its own. It is saying to us: "Why, I am a very
important part of this world. You can't leave me and go off
to some faraway place. I am an important part of you." So
with Esau the flesh begins to break loose from this
dominance of the mind that has separated it from the good
things of the heavenly estate. We raise it up, and it
begins to become a power in the world. We must soon come to
a place in our national, social, and economic evolution
where the earth and all that it has will be recognized in a
larger way, become an integral part of our life. This is
very clearly taught in this story of the mind and the
heart. Isaac (the I AM) recognized this unity and brought
it into expression in his blessings of his two sons.

We have these two "sons," the mind and the body. It is the
mind that connects us with Principle.

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Jacob made this connection, but Esau had as yet failed to
come to the place where he could recognize that he was a
son of God. Jacob took that blessing from him. He became
the sole representative when he was really the secondary
one, but he forged ahead in the race; and so we have today
the intellect dominating almost everything. It is evident
that the Jacob faculty (the illumined intellect) has
assumed its prerogative in the world today. The illumined
intellect rules. God is omnipresent, God is intelligence,
just as much in our mind as anywhere. The blessing of the I
AM consciousness brings out the intelligence that has the
greatest ruling power. But we find that we must also bless
the body as well as everything connected with it.

As we study the Bible we find that after he broke away from
the material consciousness Jacob had many experiences. He
went into another state of consciousness (another country),
in which he was awakened spiritually to a still higher
plane. In the 16th verse of the 28th chapter of Genesis we
read: "And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,
Surely Jehovah is in this place; and I knew it not." He was
in the sleeping state of consciousness. He had a dream and
saw a ladder extending from the earth up into heaven and
angels or messengers of God ascending and descending it.
Jehovah was at the top of this ladder, and He told Jacob
that he was to be the father of a great nation and that a
certain blessing was to be poured out upon him. When Jacob
awoke he saw that God was in the

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place where he was; that the place was the very "house of
God," the dwelling place of God.

In other words, here was evidence of omnipresence. Each
individual must have his first awakening to the truth that
God is everywhere and that, whatever may be the place, God
is there as omnipresent Spirit-mind. In this instance Jacob
was surrounded by rocky hills, and he piled up stones and
made an altar to Jehovah right there. The great lesson for
us is that God is everywhere, no matter how material the
surroundings may seem to be. To the unregenerate man there
is usually a great awakening in an experience of this kind.

When man begins to see beneath the surface and to realize
that God is with him constantly, he seeks to make a union
with infinite Mind, omnipresent God-Mind. The Scripture
reads: "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with
me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give
me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come
again to my father's house in peace, and Jehovah will be my
God, then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar,
shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I
will surely give the tenth unto thee."

Here was a covenant or an agreement made by a man at the
moment of his first great illumination as regards the one
omnipresent substance. He may have realized before that God
was the great I AM, the Jehovah, leading him, but he did
not realize that this earthly substance, the rocks about
him, were

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really representative: that they are a part, a living part,
of the God substance; that the I AM man in his illumination
has a share in that substance; that it is his substance
through infinite Mind. The covenant of Jacob to give one
tenth of all his increase was the real beginning of what in
modern times we call tithing: making God a partner in all
our finances.

Jacob became a great financier of the ancient world, and
through the illumination that he got from Jehovah he knew
how to take advantage of every opportunity.

We do not take Jacob as an example of how man should handle
his finances, for he was something of a trickster. In truth
he represents the trickery and cunning of the world in this
field. But apparently Jehovah, the one Mind, was with him.
Sometimes there are contradictions that we cannot always
understand; but when we know that we are the directive
power as regards all that belongs to us, we may get on
financially. But in the end there is an adjustment,
illustrated in the meeting of Jacob and Esau at the ford
Jabbok.

But with it all Jacob loved Jehovah and shared his wealth
with the Lord. He proved the law of tithing, that tithing
is one of the foundation principles of financial success.
Man can become a great possessor of the substance of this
world if he follows certain rules of tithing. Jacob gives
us the key, which is the recognition that God is all
substance, and that if man wants to handle this substance
wisely and well, if he wants to handle it for great material

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success, he should do what Jacob did: take God into
partnership with him.

There is an omnipresent economic Mind, and if a man begins
to deal with this economic Mind he will have a partner that
has all resources.

If you want to become a rich man, if you want to be
possessed of every good thing in the world, take God as
your partner, incorporate His mind into your mind, in your
daily giving. Give of your substance with the thought that
it is God's money you are handling. Realize that it is His
tenth that you are giving for His glory. With this thought
in your mind you will begin to attract new spiritual
resources, and things will begin to open up in your
affairs. You will know that infinite Mind is with you. That
is what Jacob realized, and he attained great success in
his affairs. I would say to everyone who wishes to
demonstrate prosperity: take God into partnership with you
and you will demonstrate abundance.

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//section The Sevenfold Cleansing

//text

//quote

Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall
come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

//text

The 5th chapter of II Kings relates the healing of Naaman
by Elisha. Naaman was the captain of the hosts of Syria,
but he was a leper. The Syrians had brought away captive
out of the land of Israel a little maiden, who waited on
Naaman's wife. She said to her mistress, "Would that my
lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would
he recover him of his leprosy."

The incident was told to the King of Syria and he sent a
letter, with presents of silver, gold, and raiment, to the
king of Israel, requesting that he heal his general,
Naaman. When the King of Israel read the letter he rent his
clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive,
that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his
leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a
quarrel against me."

When Elisha heard of it he sent word, "Let him come now to
me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."

So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots and
stood at the door of the house of

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Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and
wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come
again to thee, and thou shalt be clean."

But Naaman was wroth and went away and said, "Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call
on the name of Jehovah his God, and wave his hand over the
place, and recover the leper. Are not Abanah and Pharpar,
the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of
Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned
and went away in a rage.

And his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My
father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing,
wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when
he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?"

Then he went down and dipped himself seven times in the
Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his
flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he
was clean.

This demonstration of spiritual healing doubtless took
place just as related, and again and again it has been a
source of encouragement to those who have believed in the
healing power of God. But to all who read scripture in the
spirit this narrative is rich in clues to a method of
healing for all men who can discern and use the law set in
action by Elisha.

Elisha is often referred to by the Bible commentators as a
forerunner of Jesus. His marvelous

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works are easily recognized as proceeding from the same
Spirit that inspired Jesus, and his gentleness and
simplicity are paralleled only by those of the great Master.

It is not difficult to see in Elisha an incarnation of the
Christ, and he was in a certain degree Christ manifest.
Jesus was a fuller manifestation of the same Christ.

If we admit that Elisha is a type of Christ--that is, of
the Jehovah or supreme I AM of man--we should admit with
equal readiness that the other characters in the narrative
are types of various powers or traits common to all men.

Starting with a certain understanding of man in the three
departments of his being, spirit, soul, and body, we
discern Naaman to represent the will, Syria the intellect,
the king of Israel the ruling power in the domain of
intellectual thought. The "little maiden" is representative
of a rudimentary intuition that has been captured by the
intellect and is being made to serve its ends. The river
Jordan is the life current flowing into man's subconscious
nature from the one great life. This "river of life" is the
source of the natural healing impulse that constantly
reconstructs and restores the organism.

The will through its conquests in the sense world has
gained the applause of men and is called "great,"
"honorable," "mighty." This exaltation of will stimulates
the personal ego until it ignores any power higher than
itself. This supreme egotism stops the flow of spiritual
life in the organism and

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body atrophy sets in. Pride and ambition cut the invisible
channels that connect soul and body with the great river of
life. The blood then loses its elixir and the flesh its
glow of health; decay of skin and extremities follows and
the man becomes a leper.

The only remedy for the starved body is the relinquishment
by the will of its haughty assumption of dominion. No new
life can flow in until the will unclamps its affirmations
of supremacy. All men and women belong to the Naaman
family, and no one is wholly exempt from the limitations of
personal will until he has said with Jesus Christ meekness,
"Not my will, but thine, be done."

Intuition (the little feminine Israelite) points the way to
the representative of Jehovah who dwells in Samaria.
Personal will loves to make display of worldly possessions
and goes to the simple, unpretentious Elisha with a great
retinue of servants, horses, chariots, besides presents of
silver, gold, and rich raiment. He expects the prophet to
call upon his God, wave his hands over the place, and make
a great display in the healing. But the gentle prophet
tells him in his simple way to bathe in the Jordan seven
times. Naaman is wroth at being told to do so slight a
thing when he had come so far as such a great outlay. He
had expected the prophet to recognize his exalted position
and give him special attention. To do such a puerile thing
as to bathe in an insignificant stream like the Jordan
filled him with indignation.

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Teachers of Truth are constantly having to meet this
egotism of the personal will in their students. The
intellectual method of gaining knowledge is so ponderous:
so many books have to be studied and so many things
memorized that the simple methods of Truth are considered
childish. In modern medical practice a paralytic might be
dosed, serumed, X-rayed, and what not. Jesus healed such a
case by simply saying, "Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are
forgiven."

Jesus said He accomplished this through the faith of those
who brought the sick to Him. There must be faith action
before the forces that restore the life to the organism can
be set in operation. The laborious methods of the medical
profession are all for the purpose of stimulating the
healing forces of nature. Nature is the servant of mind,
and when lawful thoughts are enthroned in consciousness,
nature restores the natural harmony existing between
spirit, soul, and body. When the use of right thoughts and
words is understood, nature's work is so easily
accomplished that the intellectual man is nonplused and
shakes his head with incredulity; or he goes away like
Naaman, wroth at the seemingly crude and unheard-of
prescription. However Naaman's servants prevailed upon him
to give Elisha's remedy a trial, and when he had bathed in
the Jordan seven times, "his flesh came again like unto the
flesh of a little child, and he was clean."

The first step in all spiritual healing is faith, and the
next is receptivity. Where the pride and fullness

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of intellect is dominant there is little opportunity for
the subconscious stream of life to do its cleansing work.
The proud Naaman must first be humbled before he can be
healed, and the proud flesh be taken out of his heart
before the proud flesh can be cured in his body.

Elisha apparently took no part in the healing, simply
directing Naaman to bathe in the Jordan seven times. But
there was a deep undercurrent of Spirit power at work in
Elisha. He represented the higher self of the Naaman
consciousness, which had been quickened. Jesus referred to
this incident in Luke 4:27: "There were many lepers in
Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them
was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."

Elisha told Naaman to bathe in the Jordan seven times.
Seven is a cardinal numeral and in ancient times was
regarded as having mystical significance, that is, as
symbolizing perfection, besides being loosely used for any
indefinite considerable number, much as twenty or a hundred
is used now. Peter used it in this sense when he said, "How
oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
until seven times?" Jesus replied, "Until seventy times
seven."

Seven is so universally used as a mystical number that
there must be some reason for this in the fundamental
arrangement of the natural world. In Solomon's Temple was
the seven-branched candlestick. We know that this Temple
represented the body of man and that the seven lights were
symbols of seven centers in the organism, through which
intelligence

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is expressed. Everybody knows five of these centers:
seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touch. There are two in
addition to these, which we may call intuition and
telepathy. The solar plexus is the organism of intuition
and the brain the organ of telepathy.

All these centers of light have been dimmed by sin. Hence
sin has also been given a sevenfold classification, viz.,
pride, anger, lust, covetousness, envy, gluttony, sloth.
The great purifying river of life must wash away these sins
and their leprosy in the body. To bring this to pass man
must deny in sevenfold measure the darkness of error that
obscures the inner light and life. These seven washings are
to be repeated until the whole body is clean.

The eye represents the discerning capacity of the mind.

//quote

My eyes are no longer darkened by thoughts of deception,
concealment, or lust. The cleansing life and light of
Spirit makes pure and clean these eyes, and through
all-seeing Mind I have spiritual vision.

//text

The ear represents the receptive capacity of the mind.

//quote

My ears are no longer stopped by the sensitiveness and
willfullness of the little self. I am no longer bound by
personality. I now bathe in the great ocean of life, and I
am free in boundless

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Spirit. I hear the voice of Truth only and rejoice.

//text

The nose represents the initiative capacity of the mind.

//quote

The cleansing life of Spirit frees my mind of all thoughts
of fear, timidity, and incapacity. I am bold, free,
courageous Spirit, and I can do all things through Christ.

//text

The tongue represents the judging capacity of the mind.

//quote

Sense appetite no longer clogs the clear discernment of my
spiritual judgment. The cleansing life of Spirit quickens
and cleanses my taste, and I eat and drink only what my
body requires under divine law.

//text

Feeling represents the loving capacity of the mind.

//quote

I am no longer in bondage to the thought that sensation is
in matter. The cleansing life of Spirit dissolves all
fleshly lust for sense pleasure. I am Spirit, and I desire
the clean, pure currents of life to flow through every part
of my body, so that all may be made clean.

//text

Intuition is the natural knowing capacity of the mind.

//quote

The cleansing life of Spirit purifies my heart, and I trust
the "still small voice" within my soul.

//text

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Telepathy is thought interchange.

//quote

The cleansing life of Spirit clears my mind of ignorance
and materiality, and I see the activity of ideas and
understand their import independently of human language. As
God gave Daniel "knowledge and skill in all learning and
wisdom: and . . . understanding in all visions and dreams,"
so He gives me and all His children the original ideas of
His great mind to use as we will.

//text

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//section Prayer and Faith

//text

PRAYER is a science susceptible of being reduced to rules
that prove it to be based upon demonstrable laws. The
intellectual school of scientists will not accept our claim
of science for prayer, because we operate in a field that
they have not investigated. However "there are more things
in heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt of" in their
philosophy.

We who are testing out the laws of prayer cannot say with
assurance that we have discovered and applied all of them
so clearly that we can teach them to the multitude. The
laws of prayer require a spiritually developed mind to give
them full expression; hence not all persons are at once
competent to cover the whole range of mental and spiritual
activity requisite to the unfailing demonstration of
prayer. Jesus taught that whatever we ask in prayer,
believing, we shall receive.

So right at the beginning of our inquiry into scientific
prayer we find a very vital condition emphasized and
demonstrated by Jesus in His most effective prayers, and
that is faith. We must have faith, though it be merely of
mustard-seed size, before we can approach the fulfillment
of the law of prayer.

Faith is the most mysterious of the spiritual faculties

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and has so far eluded the descriptive powers of man. Many
attempts have been made to describe faith but with
indifferent success. All spiritual metaphysicians agree
that faith is an apprehension by man of a mind power that
connects matter and spirit. Faith handles ideas with a
facility similar to that with which we handle pumpkin
seeds. We plant the little seeds in good soil and watch
them grow in a few months into large pumpkins. This is a
great a miracle as any that Jesus performed, the difference
being that it takes time and an adjustment of material
instead of spiritual conditions.

But the scientific operation of the law of manifestation is
just as mysterious in the one case as in the other. However
we find that we can improve the conditions conducive to
growth in the natural world, and it is good logic to assume
that we can improve on the ancient practices of prayer.
Primitive man had a sense of separation from his God. He
believed that through storm, lightning, thunder, and
earthquake his God was taking vengeance on him for his
misdeeds, and he prayed to be saved. Then the most common
form of prayer was the prayer for favors and for vengeance
on one's enemies. This form of prayer was popular among the
Israelites, as evidenced by their literature:

//quote

"Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies."

"Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

From the wicked that oppress me,

My deadly enemies, that compass me about."

//text

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Although we have progressed somewhat in our attitude toward
God the great majority of Christians are still begging a
faraway God for favors.

What we all need is a better understanding of the
principles at the very foundation of Being, of the
spiritual character of God, and especially of the
omnipresence of the spiritual principles. Then we need to
understand our relation to these spiritual principles and
what we have to do to make them operative in our mind and
affairs.

We must know first that prayer is cumulative; that the more
we pray the more we accumulate of the powerful spiritual
energy which transforms invisible ideas into visible
things. Paul said, "Pray without ceasing." Do not
supplicate and beg God to give you what you need, but
realize, affirm, and absolutely know that your supreme mind
is functioning right now in God-Mind itself and that your
thought substance and the spiritual substance of the Most
High are amalgamated and blended into one perfect whole
that is now being made manifest in the very thing you are
asking for.

This is the modern technique of prayer, and it is being
demonstrated by quite a few devout souls in this modern
mechanical world. It is not emotional, nor do its devotees
expect miracles; on the contrary, they apply the law of
righteous thinking to a problem that has always been
treated as outside the realm of exact science.

Every science under the sun has progressed and developed
out of its early state of crudeness except

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the science of the true character of God and of our
relation to Him. Now the time has come for us to improve
our methods of worship and reduce them to scientific mind
laws. When we fully realize that God is a great mind in
which "we live, and move, and have our being," we shall
begin to use our minds in consonance with the Mind
omnipresent. Then a supreme harmony will be ours, and
prayer will become a divine soliloquy. As the entrancing
music of the modern world has been developed from the
primitive shepherd's playing his flute to his mate and then
falling in love with his own music, so we shall unfold
innate abilities of communion with God and finally discover
the divine harmony.

With this understanding then of the true character of
prayer, let us give ourselves to prayer.

In its spiritual character our mind blends with Divine Mind
as the mist blends with the cloud. Both are composed of the
same elements and they unite without friction if left to
their natural affinity. But give "the mist" the power and
ability of separation and we have conditions that involve
divisions beyond enumeration. Man came out of God, is of
the same mind elements, and exists within the mind of God
always. Yet by thinking that he is separate from
omnipresent Spirit he has set up a mental state of
apartness from his source and he dwells in ignorance of
that which is nearer to him than hands and feet. A few
moments of thought daily directed toward God in
acknowledgment of His presence will convince anyone that
there is an intelligence

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always with us that responds to our thought when we direct
our attention to it. Sometimes we automatically make this
high contact when our mind is exalted by transcendent
sights or sounds. The eminent astronomer Kepler had this
experience when, viewing the expanse and majesty of the
universe of stars, he inspirationally exclaimed, "O God, I
am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee."

Much is heard about giving ourselves to service to the
world, but how important is the self that we are offering?
If we have found our real self the offer will be worth
while, but if we are offering personality alone we shall
never set the world afire.

Paul was a great example of an indefatigable minister. We
can hardly conceive the hardships he endured. He enumerates
a few of them in II Corinthians 11:24-28: "Of the Jews five
times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I
beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered
shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; in
journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of
robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the
Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the
wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false
brethren, in labor and travail, in watchings often, in
hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
nakedness. Besides those things that are without, there is
that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the
churches."

Paul was a tentmaker. He went from house to house preaching
the gospel. At Troas Paul preached

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in a third-story room for several hours. About midnight a
young man named Eutychus was overcome by sleep and fell
from a window to the ground and was taken up dead. Paul
went down and resurrected him, then went back to his
preaching and kept it up until daybreak. A sermon twelve
hours long would appall some ministers and all
congregations, but not Paul.

//quote

"It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishment the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul."

//text

To Timothy Paul recommends, "Exercise thyself unto
godliness." The word "exercise" is derived from a Greek
word having the root meaning of "gymnastics." That is,
train your mind to think about God as a force that can be
incorporated into your mind as you incorporate strength
into your body. If your mind is weak and flabby, practice
thinking about God as strong and stable. This will lift
your mind out of its depression and connect you with a
never-failing source of stability and confidence. Thus in
order of their importance and necessity take all the
attributes of God, such as life, love, power, wisdom, and
incorporate them into the muscles of your mind by exercise.

We are very apt to forget that the mind of man develops
like his muscles, by exercise. The minister who thinks his
education is complete when he leaves the theological
seminary never becomes a great

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teacher of men. So the Christian who thinks he is saved
when he has been "converted" will find that his salvation
has just begun. Conversion and "change of heart" are real
experiences, as anyone who has passed through them will
testify, but they are merely introductory to the new life
in Christ. When a person arrives at a certain exalted
consciousness through the exercise of his mind in thinking
about God and His laws, he is lifted above the thoughts of
the world into a heavenly realm. This is the beginning of
his entry into the kingdom of the heavens, which was the
text of many of Jesus' discourses. When a man attains this
high place in consciousness he is baptized by the Spirit;
that is, his mind and even his body are suffused with
spiritual essences, and he begins the process of becoming a
new creature in Christ Jesus. Skeptics and the
inexperienced view the changes in one's life produced by
conversion as merely an emotional upheaval that will
eventually pass away and leave the subject as he was
before. No one is ever left exactly as he was before the
experience. An effect has been produced on the soul
structure that will never be wholly obliterated, but it may
remain merely a temporary impression unless it is developed
by exercise. This development cannot be accomplished by
bodily exercise either. As Paul wisely says, "bodily
exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is
profitable for all things."

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//section The Healing Word

//text

HEALING by the power of the word did not originate with
Jesus of Nazareth, although it is from Him that we get our
modern inspiration. In every age where man has realized the
perfection of the original essence of Being and has spoken
forth that realization, the result has been a restoration
of things to their inherent harmony and order.

Whoever realizes that God is the underlying creative
perfection and that man is His mouthpiece has laid the
foundation for performing miracles of healing through the
power of the word. But in order to do the miracles he must
speak the word that he knows to be true.

Thousands in every age have caught sight of the truth of
God's perfect being, but they have not been sure enough of
their ground to go forth and proclaim it to a waiting
world. Jesus of Nazareth was counted the Saviour of mankind
because He freely proclaimed the truth about God and man.
He not only proclaimed it, but He had faith in the power of
His word to redeem men from the mental lethargy into which
they had fallen.

"And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their
synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and
healing all manner of disease and all

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manner of sickness among the people." The method of Jesus'
healing has always been a theme that many have learnedly
discussed and written about. The theories have been
numerous, but they have nearly always been theories. The
claim that He was the only Son of God, begotten in a
certain manner to do a miraculous work, is also a theory to
him who has not a clear understanding of what constitutes a
son of God; hence it would be futile to discuss the things
of Spirit with one who has not been quickened by Spirit.

Whatever these various theories of Jesus' remarkable
healing power may be, none disputes one point: He used
words as the vehicle of the healing potency. He always
spoke to the patient "as one having authority." He had a
certain assurance, an inner conviction, that He was
speaking the truth when He said, "Thou art made whole"; and
the result of His understanding carried conviction to the
mind of the patient and opened the way for the "virtue"
that went forth from the speaker. Notwithstanding this very
apparent use of words by Jesus there has been a failure on
the part of His followers to grasp their vitally important
office in demonstrations. There has always been a belief in
the religious world that there was somewhere a lost word
that when found and spoken would set all things right. The
Jews say this lost word is veiled in the name "Yahveh" and
that its correct pronunciation is no longer known to men.
They claim it was once known to their priesthood, and when
it

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was used all the powers of God were manifest and mighty
works were accomplished by it in brief moments of time.

All are familiar with the "God said" of Genesis in
connection with the creation of the heavens and the earth.

Here at the very beginning the word is the creative agent,
and John, personifying it, corroborates this. He says that
in the beginning "the Word was with God" that it was God,
and that all things were made by it, and without it was not
anything made that has been made. The term that John used
and that is translated "Word" in the King James New
Testament has a much deeper significance than is usually
given to it by Bible readers. It has been assumed by the
church that "the Word" meant the personal Jesus Christ, and
it has been so accepted.

The most thorough Greek scholars and all careful and honest
Scripture authorities tell us that the Greek term logos has
no equivalent in the English language; that it is
untranslatable and should have stood in its original form
instead of the accepted translation, "the Word."

Even in Greek the term logos has an inner meaning that only
those of spiritual discernment can comprehend. Externally
it covers both the spoken word and the underlying reason or
valid premise; both being so intimately connected as to be
one. This John conveys in saying that "the Word was with
God, and the Word was God." Here is implied a

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distinction in office but a unity in purpose. With the
early Fathers of the Greek Church the divine Logos had a
peculiar significance which only those who had delved into
the innermost of existence could comprehend.

Philo made the divine Logos the embodiment of all divine
powers and ideas. He distinguished between the Logos
inherent in God, corresponding to reason in man, and the
Logos emanating from God, corresponding to the spoken word
that reveals the thought. The former contains the ideal
world; the latter is the first-begotten Son of God, the
image of God, the Creator, the preserver, the giver of life
and light, the mediator between God and the world. It is
claimed that Philo wavered between a personal and an
impersonal conception of the Logos, but leaned more to the
impersonal.

Philip Schaff, speaking of the Logos, says:

"Saint John uses Logos (translated Word) four times as a
designation of the divine, pre-existent person of Christ,
through whom the world was made, and who became incarnate
for our salvation (John 1:1-14; I John 1:1; 5:7, A.V.; Rev.
19:13). Philo may possibly have suggested the use of the
term (although there is no evidence that John read a single
line of Philo); but the idea was derived from the teaching
of Christ, and from the Old Testament, which makes a
distinction between the hidden and the revealed Being of
God. There is an inherent propriety in this usage in the
Greek language, where Logos is masculine and has the

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double meaning of thought and speech. Christ as to His
divine nature bears the same relation to God as the word
bears to the idea. The word gives shape and form to the
idea, and reveals it to the without. The word is thought
expressed; thought is the inward word. We cannot speak
without the faculty of reason, nor think without words,
whether uttered or not. The Christ-Logos is the Revealer
and Interpreter of the Hidden Being of God, the utterance,
the reflection, the visible image of God, and the organ of
all His manifestations to the world (John 1:18; Comp. Matt.
11:27). The Logos was one in nature or essence with God,
yet personally distinct from Him, and in closest communion
with Him."

In plain, everyday language, we would say that Being, the
original fount, is an impersonal principle; but in its work
of creation it puts forth the idea that contains all ideas:
the Logos, the Christ, the Son of God, spiritual man. This
idea is the creative power, the concrete consciousness
formulated by universal Principle.

It is written of God: "Thou . . . art of purer eyes than to
behold evil." "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and
not one of them shall fall on the ground without your
Father." These passages seem paradoxical. When we
understand that in the first passage Principle is referred
to, and in the second the Logos or creative Father of
Jesus, then all is clear. Jesus always called the divine
Logos "Father." He never referred to it as an abstraction

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but always as a being having intense love and compassion
for all creation.

So He will become to each one who makes the conscious
connection with Him. We shall realize that Being is not
only principle so far as its inherent and undeviating laws
are concerned, but also person so far as its relation to
each one of us is concerned; that we as individuals do
actually become the focus of universal Spirit, of the
all-pervading and all-wise Logos, and that through us the
universe is formed.

"And then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds
with great power and glory." Each one of us is a son of
man, and our glory and power is in the keeping of the
divine Logos.

We come into this power and glorify God just to the extent
that we recognize and use the Logos. Jesus of Nazareth
recognized and used it in its fullest sense. To Him it was
not only an all-pervading principle of goodness and power
but it was very much more; it was a near and dear Father, a
Father whose interest in His children is greater than that
of any earthly parent.

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto
your children, how much more shall your Father who is in
heaven give good things to them that ask him?"

We may make little out of the Logos and live in the shadow
of its glory, or we may make much out of it and live in the
sunshine of that glory. Some ask sparingly and receive in
like measure; others ask largely and receive largely.

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The Logos is the preserver and transmitter of the original
spiritual ideas and essences of God. It is the sustainer
upon which the universe rests, and all its creations are
spiritually sequential, that is, logical. We are dependent
upon it for every breath we draw. Its substance and
intelligence are at the beck and call of prince and peasant
alike, and in this sense it becomes the servant of all. All
mold it into consciousness in the one and only way--through
thought. Whatever you think about life or substance, that
it becomes to you.

If you think the Logos will heal the sick through the power
of your magnetic hand, you will do your healing in that
way. If you think it will heal through your silent or
spoken word, it will act accordingly. It will work for the
ignorant and the wise, the wicked and the good, the poor
and the rich. It is yours to use in whatsoever way you
will. However the permanent results you get will be
proportioned to your understanding of its whole nature. To
grow in its grace and be glorified in the ineffable glory
of the everlasting God you must know who it is you are
dealing with.

Herein many are falling short in our day. They have been
taught the manipulation of the Logos in its healing aspect
and they are using it as a new therapeutic agent. To them
it is a cold abstraction, a principle having intelligence
and substance without consciousness. These qualities they
handle as does the potter his clay. Instead of striving to
attain that loving relation to the Father which should

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exist between parent and child, they are virtually
introducing into their business world a new factor for the
attainment of selfish ends. Do not let the icy hand of such
a science grasp yours. Refuse to see the Father as anything
less than the all-compassionate One who is interested in
every act of your life, every thought you think; who has
numbered even the hairs of your head. This is our God, the
Most High Good, which dwells in our heart and soul and
flames up into our mind with all the power of cleansing,
healing, and uplifting. To this dear Father nothing is
small, nothing is great. He does not ignore His creation;
He does not stand afar off and view with the cold, critical
eye of a connoisseur. His heart throbs with compassion; He
sheds upon us the holy peace of His presence in the turmoil
of sense, and we joyously exclaim, "Though all else fail
me, in Thee I find rest."

Yet we must attain the full stature of the God-man. We must
ultimately understand that the Father cannot be
circumscribed by any human idea of Him or of what He should
do for us. We must know that there is only good and that
the word of good is the only permanently healing word. So
long as we believe that the Father might heal at one time
and not at another, that He might be induced to give us His
healing Spirit under certain circumstances and not under
others, we are misjudging His nature. If there is ever any
limit to the healing power of the word, it is of our own
manufacture.

The healing word is not a special creation to meet

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an emergency. It is not a patent medicine prepared to cure
specific diseases. The idea that it is a healing word at
all originates in our limited notion that there is
something that needs healing.

God is the supreme perfection; the Word is like unto that
perfection. All its creations are perfect. It takes
cognizance of the perfect only. When we realize this
perfection and speak the words of Truth from that plane of
understanding, the Word goes forth and establishes that
which is. It does not heal anything--in its perfection
there is nothing to heal. Its office is to behold the
perfection of its Being; and as we do the works of the
Father, we behold and restore that which is and always was
perfect.

Thus he who realizes most thoroughly that God is the
supreme perfection and that in Him can be no imperfection,
and speaks forth that realization with conviction, will
cause all things to arrange themselves in divine order.

This is being daily and hourly demonstrated by the faithful
all over the land, thus proving true the nature of the
Logos or Word of God. The meaning of the word logos is
speech based upon reason. If the reasonable premise that
God is the omnipresent God is well grounded in you, you
cannot speak anything but healing and uplifting words. Your
words must be for the healing of the nations, because they
are true words flowing forth from a source in which Truth
has no opposite.

If you believe that both good and evil conditions can be
brought forth from this divine Logos, that

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both sweet and bitter waters can flow forth from the same
spring, then your healing will be mixed. The spring is
pure, and by letting your mind be an open way for its
outpouring, you permit it to remain in its original purity
and to cleanse all in whom you quicken it. If however you
stop the flow here and there by an idea of limitation, by
an idea of imperfection in the fount or in him upon whom
the fount is being poured, you cut off its free currents to
that extent.

Do not construe this to mean that you can pollute the
stream by your thinking. This cannot be done; you simply
refuse to let its purity come forth in its fullness. Like
the lens that refracts the sunlight, you receive some rays
that you do not throw upon the screen. The white light of
Spirit is poured upon you, and your idea of limitation, in
a given direction makes you opaque to some of its colors.

You are nothing less than a child of God, and to you is
intrusted the creative power. When you realize this you can
go forth forgiving men their sins as you have forgiven your
own.

The word of God is spoken through the Son of man. You are a
son of man, and it is your duty to be about your Father's
business, healing the sick, casting out demons, forgiving
the sinful, and spreading the gospel of a living God.

But the "word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth." Speak
it forth and demonstrate, as did Jesus, that "the Son of
man hath authority on earth to forgive sins." What is sin?
It is anything other

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than an erroneous way of attaining happiness? God is happy,
and it is a state natural to us all or we would not strive
for it. There must also be a way to reach it. If we have
not reached it by the way we have followed, we have but to
turn about and seek another way. Repenting is turning
about, letting go of the sense way. As soon as we let go
and recognize that the way of Spirit is the way of
pleasantness, we have been forgiven our sins. The mental
attitude has invited the word of God, and it flows forth
into our consciousness and erases the erroneous concepts.

Anyone can speak true words and thus be the agent of God in
forgiving sin. The little child may do it; the ignorant
disciple may do it. The power does not inhere in the
individual; the cleansing is through the word. "Already ye
are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you."

This living Word of God is a spiritual principle. It is
omnipresent, like the air we breathe.

One small grain of it is more powerful than many tons of
dynamite. It is the "assurance of things hoped for" that
will remove mountains. It is very nigh unto you, even "in
thy mouth," as a wise one said. Its premise is that God is
good and that His offspring is like unto Him. You have only
to recognize this premise in all that you think and do and
then speak it forth to get the results promised. There is
no respect of persons in God; you are as near the Father as
Jesus was if you recognize the principle and speak the true
word always.

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//section Six-Day Prayer Treatments

//text

//quote

I no longer accuse myself and others of sin and evil.
Forgiving, I am forgiven and healed.

I daily praise the invisible good that is bringing the
ships of prosperity to my harbor.

//text

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HOW PRAYER HEALING IS DONE

FROM A STUDY of the foregoing lessons, you should be
convinced that man and the universe are under the creative
direction of a supreme being, name it what you will, and
that man needs but to conform to the laws of creative Mind
in order to be healthy, happy, and wise. It logically
occurs to you that all healing methods, whether applied to
self or to others, consists in establishing the unity of
the individual and the universal consciousness. No man
heals himself or another; the supreme Mind does the work.
"The Father abiding in me does his works," said Jesus. This
is the testimony of all the truly wise.

The first move in all healing is a recognition on the part
of the healer and on the part of the patient that God is
present as an all-powerful mind, equal to the healing of
every disease, no matter how bad it may appear. "With God
all things are possible." The best way to establish unity
with the Father-Mind is by prayer. "God is Spirit," and He
has a kingdom or ruling center in every soul. Do not look
up or out for God, but "pray to thy Father who is in secret
[silently within your own soul], and thy Father who seeth
in secret shall recompense thee."

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Many healers use the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of
every treatment. Talk to the Father as if He were an entity
present within you. He is visible to your soul, and when
you have attained the particular inner confidence called
faith, you will realize His presence as clearly as you
realize visible things. When you have stilled the outer
senses and have become quiet, you are in the mental realm
where thoughts are obedient to the word. Error thoughts
must be told to go, and true thoughts must be called to
take their proper place.

Mental causes are so complex that it is impossible to point
out in all cases the specific thought that causes a certain
disease; but twelve fundamental mind activities lie at the
base of all existence, and when any one of these is
contacted, all the others respond.

Nearly all sick people lack vital force, hence the life
treatment is good for all. Hate, anger, jealousy, malice,
and the like are almost universal in human consciousness,
and a treatment for love will prove a healing balm for all.

Fear of poverty burdens most people, and the prosperity
treatment will be effective. Do not be afraid to use the
statements in healing as a whole or in part; they will
always help and never hurt anyone. Remember that the object
of all treatment is to raise the mind to the Christ
consciousness, through which all true healing is
accomplished.

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SAMPLE PRAYER TREATMENTS

Fear, anxiety, worry, dread, and suspense--these thoughts
cause the mind to become tense, thus shutting out the great
helper, the Spirit of truth. Say silently:

//quote

I am now free from fear, anxiety, worry, dread, and
suspense. I have faith in Thy Holy Spirit, and I trust Thee
to protect me, to provide for me, and to bring all my
affairs into divine order.

//text

NERVOUSNESS

The mind sends its messages along the nerves; the nerves,
forming a network of communication with the brain, get into
a chronic crosscurrented condition from the presence of
repeated anxious, worried, fearful thoughts, and the many
forms of nervousness result. This idea of nervousness must
be specifically denied and the truth affirmed. Say silently:

//quote

I am not subject to any kind of nervousness. My nerves are
harmonized, peaceful, and poised in Spirit and in Truth.

//text

Note: Deny the mental cause first; then the physical
appearance. Nervousness is produced by worry, anxiety, and
the like. These mental conditions should be healed first;
then the secondary state which they have produced in the
body must be denied and dissolved, and the perfect
condition affirmed.

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COLDS, GRIPPE, AND THE INFLUENZAS

Affirm:

//quote

Spirit is not subject to heat or cold. I am Spirit. I am
the positive force of Being, and I put out of my
consciousness all negative thoughts. I do not believe in
the thing called a cold, nor do I admit for a moment that
it has any power over me. I am Spirit, free-flowing life,
and my circulation is equalized in God.

//text

STOMACH TROUBLES

Prayer:

//quote

My understanding is established in Spirit. I know the
relation between mind and body, between thought and
substance. I agree with what I eat, and what I eat agrees
with me. I am at peace with all men and all things. I do
not resist or antagonize anybody or anything. My stomach is
strong, wise, and energetic, and I always think and speak
of it as in every way capable of doing the work given it to
do. I do not impose upon my stomach by overloading it. I am
guided by divine wisdom in eating and drinking, and I
follow its dictates instead of the sense appetites. I am no
longer anxious about what I shall eat or what I shall
drink. I am not hurried or worried, but after each meal I
rest from all the cares of life, and I give my stomach
opportunity to do its perfect work under the divine law.

//text

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All Liver Troubles

Prayer:

//quote

I am not misjudged, nor do I misjudge others. I do not
criticize or condemn. I do not hold bitter, revengeful
thoughts against others. I do not think that I have been
unjustly treated. God-Mind is my supreme arbiter, and I
rest all judgment in the divine law of justice. The swift
energy of Spirit now penetrates and permeates every atom of
my liver, and it is free to do its perfect work.

//text

Kidney, Bladder, and Urinay Disorders

Prayer:

//quote

God is the strength of my life. I do not believe in
exhaustion of strength. Strength is always present in
supreme completeness, and I am eternally strong. Spirit is
the strength of my loins, and my back is free from all
thought of burdens. My life is divinely ordered, and I am
not afraid of weakness, old age, or death. All the issues
of my life are from God, and He is a well of living water
within me.

Lustful passions no longer separate me from the pure,
spiritual life. My life is lifted up by the Christ Mind,
and I am resurrected from the dead. My life is hid with
Christ in God.

//text

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All Throat Affections

Prayer:

//quote

All power is given to me, in heaven (mind) and in earth
(body). Dominion, control, and mastery are mine by divine
right, and I refuse to believe in failure or discouragement.

I am free, and the inspiration of Spirit is poured into my
soul. I am quickened by Spirit, and the flesh is obedient.
I rejoice and am glad because the joy of Christ is mine. I
am filled with Spirit energy, and every cell in my organism
is alight with God. I am the resurrection and the life.

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SIX-DAY PRAYER TREATMENTS

It is found that the mind establishes a permanent
consciousness through six steps or stages, called in
Genesis "days."

First, the mind perceives and affirms Truth to be a
universal principle. Secondly, faith in the working power
of Truth is born in consciousness. Thirdly, Truth takes
definite form in mind. Fourthly, the will carries Truth
into acts. Fifthly, discrimination is quickened and the
difference between Truth and error is discerned. Sixthly,
every thought and word is expressed in harmony with Truth.

The seventh "day" represents a peaceful confidence and rest
in the fulfillment of the divine law.

By the use of these denials and affirmations for one week a
new and more orderly basis of thought

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is established in mind, and the whole man is harmonized and
vitalized. This process often heals obstinate cases, and
the six-ray course is recommended in conjunction with the
special prayers.

Make your denials as if you were gently sweeping away
cobwebs, and make your affirmations in a strong, bold,
vehement positive attitude of mind.

Each day's treatment, and the whole course of treatments if
necessary, is to be repeated over and over until it
manifests its living presence and potency in consciousness.

If you desire to help a patient who will not try or who
cannot himself successfully bring his mind into harmonious
relations with Principle, think of this person when you
hold the daily thought, and Spirit will cause your word to
be manifested both in you and in him.

Invocation

To precede each day's treatment

//quote

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.

//text

Monday

Deny:

//quote

I am no longer foolish or ignorant, and the foolishness

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and the ignorance of ancestry can no longer be visited upon
me.

I am free from the foolishness and the ignorance of the
race and of those with whom I associate. The foolishness
and the ignorance that may have been treasured up by my own
understanding are now erased.

//text

Affirm:

//quote

I am wise with the wisdom of infinite Mind and I have
knowledge of all things. I know that I am pure intelligence
and I hereby claim my divine right to light, life, and
liberty in all goodness, wisdom, love, and purity. Let the
light of wisdom appear and the ignorance of human thought
vanish.

//text

Tuesday

Deny:

//quote

I deny the belief that I have inherited disease, sickness,
ignorance, or any mental limitations whatsoever. I deny all
belief in evil; for God made all that really is and
pronounced it good. Therefore no such deception as belief
in evil can darken my clear understanding of Truth. Those
with whom I associate can no longer deceive me with their
words of consideration and sympathy. I can no longer
deceive myself with such weakness.

Perish from my world these silly beliefs of

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darkened ignorance. I am now free from them all, and by my
powerful word I hereby destroy them wholly.

//text

Affirm:

//quote

God's life is my life, and I vibrate with harmony and
wholeness. I am free with the knowledge that all is good; I
am therefore perfectly whole and well.

//text

Wednesday

Deny:

//quote

I deny the belief that I am a child of the flesh and must
suffer for the sins of my forefathers "unto the third and
fourth generation." Perish all such ignorant beliefs.

I deny that I inherited from my ancestors lustful passions
and sensual appetites.

I deny the belief that the race can constrain me to yield
to lustful passions and sensual appetites. I deny the
belief that those with whom I associate can constrain me to
yield to lustful passions or sensual appetites. I deny my
own ignorant belief in such erroneous ideas.

//text

Affirm:

//quote

God is Spirit and I, the divine image, am Spirit. I am born
of God. God is too pure to behold iniquity, and I am
therefore pure being, without a tinge of lust or passion.

//text

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Thursday

Deny:

//quote

I deny that the sins and omissions of my ancestors can
influence me in any way. Selfishness, envy, malice,
jealousy, pride, avarice, arrogance, cruelty, hypocrisy,
obstinacy, and revenge are no part of my present
understanding, and I deny all such beliefs in the race, in
those with whom I associate, and in my own mind.

//text

Affirm:

//quote

I am at peace with all mankind. I truly and unselfishly
love all men and women. I now acknowledge the perfect law
of justice and equality. I know that "God is no respecter
of persons," and that every man and woman is my equal in
the sight of the Father.

I do love my neighbor as myself and I will do to others as
I would have them do to me.

//text

Friday

Deny:

//quote

I deny that I have inherited the consequences of fear from
my ancestors, or that the race can constrain me to accept
its fears. The fears of those with whom I associate can no
longer hold me in sickness or in want, and my own
understanding is now fully rid of these illusions.

There is not and cannot hereafter be any fear in or about
my bold world.

//text

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Affirm:

//quote

I am brave and bold with the knowledge that I am Spirit and
therefore not subject to any opposing power.

Plenty and prosperity are mine by inheritance from God, and
by my steady, persistent word I now bring them into
manifestation.

//text

Saturday

Deny:

//quote

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 perfection in every department of
life.

I now, in the sight of Almighty God, unformulate and
destroy by my all-powerful word 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.

//text

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Affirm:

//quote

I am unlimited in my power and I have increasing health,
strength, life, love, wisdom, boldness, freedom, charity,
and meekness 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 flows like a river through my mind, and I thank Thee,
O God, that I am one with Thee!

//text

Sunday

//quote

"Be still, and know that I am God."

//text

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//section Questions

Questions for Teach Us To Pray

By Charles and Cora Fillmore

//text

The God to Whom We Pray

1. How is the spiritual character built?

2. Explain "I go to prepare a place for you."

3. How are we born anew through Christ?

4. How does man awaken the divine nature within him and
bring about his union with God?

True Prayer

1. What is true prayer?

2. How does one enter the silence?

3. How are prayers fulfilled?

4. Why does God need man as an avenue of expression.

Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence

1. Why do we ask in the name of Jesus Christ?

2. Does salvation come by accepting Jesus as one's Saviour?
Explain.

3. Did Jesus make individual effort unnecessary?

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4. What is intellectual silence?

5. What is spiritual silence?

Healing through the Prayer of Faith

1. How is faith healing done?

2. How does man develop a deeper faith?

3. What is attention?

4. What is concentration?

Prosperity through Prayer

1. Give your own interpretation of the story of Elisha and
the oil.

2. Give the metaphysical interpretation of Elisha, the
widow, and the oil.

3. Why is praise so beneficial?

4. Why is daily prayer essential?

Contacting Spiritual Substance

1. What is Spirit substance?

2. How does man appropriate and manifest the invisible
substance?

3. How do we gain control of Spirit substance?

4. Why are prosperity demonstrations delayed?

Joyous Prayer

1. How can a metaphysician contact the undiscovered
quantities in space?

2. How is the Christ consciousness attained? What is the
result?

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3. Explain the effect of joy on the mind, body, and affairs.

4. Why must we pray with a purpose?

How to Handle the Psychic Forces of Consciousness

1. What is the only way to handle the psychic forces?

2. What are the three elements of the soul, and what is
comprised in each?

3. What effect does the psychic realm have on the emotional
nature?

4. What happens to souls who pass on?

5. Explain how Spirit gives messages in dreams and visions.

6. How is man being restored to the heavenly kingdom?

Spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man Master

1. Is man the equal of God?

2. How does man develop his innate abilities?

3. How did Jesus become a master?

4. Why is the unfoldment of love so important in gaining
spiritual mastery?

Fulfillment

1. What is the "light of the world"?

2. How did the crucifixion of Jesus save us from sin,
sickness, and death?

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3. What is the grand fulfillment?

4. Explain the difference between "life" and "blood."

Unfoldment

1. What was the evolution of Jesus?

2. What is your understanding of the Logos?

3. How is the body transformed?

4. How do we partake of the Holy Communion?

Thought Images

1. What are thought images?

2. How do we project thought?

3. Can man have a perfect character? How?

4. Are there short cuts into the kingdom of the heaven?

The Spoken Word

1. Explain the process of creative thought.

2. How does the soul overcome death?

3. What is your understanding of the "ether"?

4. How do we receive a life transfusion?

Thou Shalt Decree

1. What is the effect of man's words?

2. Does an inferiority complex prevent one from expressing
sonship?

3. Why do the organs of the body respond to our decrees?

4. Amplify Dr. Alexis Carrel's statement "The only thing
that keeps men from living forever is the possession of a
brain and nervous system."

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Be Strong in the Lord

1. How do we become strong in the Lord?

2. What was Jesus' instruction regarding prayer?

3. Name some helps to entering the silence.

4. Explain the effect of words of praise and failure.

Face to Face with God

1. Why should we speak direct to God?

2. How can we become established in the consciousness of
oneness with God?

3. Explain the parable of the prodigal son.

4. Why must we study the life of Jesus?

Not Magic but Law

1. Where is the "kingdom of God"?

2. Was Jesus the only Son of God? Explain.

3. How do we attain the consciousness of eternal life?

4. Why should we look to God as our resource?

Spiritual Soul Therapy

1. What is Spirit psychoanalysis?

2. What determines the character of our soul?

3. Explain the effect of praise on the individual.

4. Does the mental attitude govern spiritual demonstration?

Health and Prosperity

1. How can Spirit manifest itself?

2. How is the immortal body formed?

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3. Where is the substance of God?

4. Can we manipulate substance as Jesus did? Explain fully.

Thoughts Are Things

1. What are thoughts?

2. Compare the "ether" of science with the Garden of Eden
and the "kingdom of the heavens" of Jesus.

3. Do you agree with Professor Jeans' statement that we
live in a universe of waves?

4. How does man form his world?

5. Is there a panacea for the present world conditions?

The Supermind

1. Do all kinds of healers use the same force? Why?

2. What is heaven?

3. What is hell?

4. How did Jesus save us from destructive, discordant
conditions?

5. Why do we pray in the name of Jesus Christ?

Cheerfulness Heals

1. How does cheerfulness aid healing?

2. Why does a cheerful attitude bring prosperity?

3. Why is proper diet conducive to health?

4. Why do we bless our money and affairs?

Love Harmonizes

1. How does love adjust man's discords?

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2. Explain the law of gravitation.

3. How are great souls developed?

4. Why did Jesus use scientific methods?

Casting Out Fear

1. What is the effect of fear on the body?

2. How do we cast out fear?

3. How do we fulfill the law of our being?

4. What does perfect love mean to you?

Spiritual Hearing

1. How do we hear?

2. Can everyone hear with the "inner ear"? Explain.

3. Is excessive meditation advisable? Why not?

4. Explain the importance of spiritual receptivity.

Light of Life

1. What is the "true light"?

2. Why have the discoveries of modern science about light
failed to aid man in his spiritual development?

3. Are light and intelligence one? Explain.

4. What should be the attitude of Truth students in regard
to physical science?

Thought Substance

1. How are our prayers answered?

2. Does asking alone bring abundance into manifestation?

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3. What is the Spirit of truth?

4. In what way are the laws of hygiene and diet beneficial?

Intensified Zeal

1. Explain the office of the faculty of zeal.

2. What is the cause of "old age"?

3. How did Jesus overcome greed?

4. How do we lay up treasures in the heavens?

The Unreality of Error

1. Why is error unreal?

2. What is the object of man's existence?

3. How is the truth revealed to us?

4. What is matter?

Joy Radiates Health

1. Explain the effect of laughter and joy on health.

2. Where did Solomon turn for judgment?

3. How is happiness attained?

4. How do we find lasting peace?

"Selah!"

1. What does "selah" mean?

2. Why is "God first" the only way to the consciousness of
Truth?

3. How does man demonstrate prosperity?

4. What is the meaning of the word "Jehovah"?

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Spiritualizing the Intellect

1. How many minds are there? Explain.

2. How do we unify all our forces?

3. Explain the difference between the blessings bestowed by
Isaac on Jacob and Esau.

4. What is the intellectual man?

5. What is the proper relationship between the mind and the
heart? The mind and the body?

6. Explain the principle of tithing.

The Sevenfold Cleansing

1. Why is humility necessary in spiritual healing?

2. Why must personal egotism be overcome?

3. Name two important steps in spiritual healing.

4. What part did Elisha have in the healing of Naaman?

Prayer and Faith

1. Define prayer in your own words.

2. What does faith mean to you?

3. Why did Paul admonish us to pray without ceasing?

4. What is meant by true spiritual baptism?

The Healing Word

1. Does the "word" have power to heal? Why?

2. What is the "only Son of God"?

3. What does logos mean?

4. Can man forgive sin? How?

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//section Index

//text

Abanah (river of Damascus), 149

Acts, 82

Adam, 68; and Eve, 52

Adamic man, 97

affirmation, soul growth and, 67

affirmations and denials, list of: 18, 36, 37, 40, 53, 54,
66, 70, 73, 77, 80, 83, 86, 90, 93, 96, 100, 104, 107, 112,
116, 119, 122, 126, 129, 132, 135, 138, 139, 154-156,
179-188

animal soul (see soul)

atonement (at-one-ment) (see Jesus)

aura, 123

baptism, spiritual, 162, 163

Beasley, Norman ("Let's Operate"), 104, 105

Beethoven, Ludwig von, and the "inner ear," 117

Being, 11, 159; as Principle and person, 168, 169

Bible, and evolution, 66, 67; as spiritual book, 140 (see
Scriptures)

blessing, vs. cursing, 140-143

blood transfusion (see Jesus)

body, as precipitation of man's soul (mind), 109, 110;
natural vs. spiritual, 68, 69, 94; regeneration
(transformation) of man's, 64, 65, 68, 69; response of, to
man's decree, 78, 79 (see Esau; Jesus; Spirit)

brain, as the seat of telepathy, 153, 154

brain cells (see cells)

brain testers, 91

Browning, Elizabeth (quoted), 11

Browning, Robert (quoted), 16

Byron, George Gordon, Lord (quoted), 47

Carlyle, Thomas, 21, 25

Carrel, Dr. Alexis (quoted), 79

cause and effect, 73, 74, 98

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cells, 82; as light and energy units, 60, 61, 79; brain,
59, 91; transformation of, 66

character, 11, 12, 118

cheerfulness, 104-106 (see health; joy)

Christ, as Prince of Peace, 101; as spiritual light in
man's soul, 61, 62; as superman, 68; asking and receiving
in the name of, 22, 85, 101, 102, 122, 123; attaining
consciousness of, 43, 178; Elisha and Jesus as incarnations
of, 149, 150; listening with the mind to the voice of, 117;
man's attachment to God through, 12, 13; man's dominion
over psychic realm through, 52, 53; mind of, as flesh and
Spirit in man's consciousness, 138, 139; new birth in, 69
(see Jehovah; man)

Christ man, 110

Clark, Glenn (quoted), 3

communion (see prayer)

concentration (see faith; prayer)

consciousness, 138, 139; heaven and hell as good and evil
states of, 101, 138, 139, 144, 178

conversion, 162, 163

creative mind (see Mind)

cross (see crucifixion; Jesus)

crucifixion, 64

David, and the Psalms 135, 136

death, sorrow at, 134

decreeing (see word)

denial, soul growth and, 67

desire, and prayer, 4

disease, as unreal, 130, 131

Divine Mind (see Mind)

dreams, 51, 52

ear, and excessive meditation, 117, 118; as auditory center
in brain, 117

economic problems (see problems; world)

egotism (see will)

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Elijah, 72, 137

Eliphaz, 4, 85

Elisha, and Naaman the Syrian, interpreted, 148-153; and
the law of prosperity, interpreted, 33, 34

Elohim God, 55 (see God)

Emerson, 36, 57, 58

enthusiasm (see Zeal)

error, unreality of, 129, 131

Esau (body), 139-146

ether, and the spoken word, 77; in science and metaphysics,
15, 52, 53, 71, 72, 97, 98, 109, 110, 131; spiritual, 19,
28, 29, 32, 43, 74, 75, 139

Eutychus, 162

Eve, represented as soul of race, 64 (see Adam)

evolution, in science and religion, 66-68 (see unfoldment)

faith, 174; and concentration in prayer, 32; and healing,
27-32, 152, 153; as essential to prayer, 157 (see prayer)

Father, 3, 5, 16, 17, 28, 65, 84, 85, 128, 168-174, 177,
178; as supermind, 81, 82

Father-Mind, 87, 88, 177-178

Father-Mother God, 40, 41

"Father of lights," 120, 121

Fathers of the Greek church, 166, 167

fear, 178; as a habit, 112; vs. love, 112-115 (see love)

Fenton, Ferrar, on Lord's Prayer, 3

forgiveness, on, of sins, 173, 174

Franklin, Benjamin, 81

front forehead, as seat of intellect, 25

fulfillment, spiritual, 60-65

Garden of Eden, 97, 124

Genesis, 39, 48, 49, 55, 56, 60, 77, 78, 97, 144, 166

God, and man as the "image" and "likeness," 55, 56, 60; as
healer of every disease, 177; as joy, 45; as life,
substance, and intelligence, 94; as man's resource,

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89; as multitude of creative forces, 137; as silent
partner, 40, 147; as Spirit, 4, 5, 14, 15, 67, 93, 94, 177;
as the only power, 49; daily "date" with, 35, 160, 161; man
as existing within mind of, 160, 161; man's communion with,
as highest form of prayer, 4, 5, 13; not a person, 13, 84;
omnipresence of, 11, 83-85, 121, 144-146; practicing the
presence of, 4, 11-13, 136, 137; Spirit substance as mother
side of, 39-41; word of, as spiritual principle, 174 (see
silence)

God-man relationship, 13, 14; synchronized through mind,
58, 59

God-Mind, 12, 14-16, 72, 94, 121, 124, 159; man as
executive power of, 88

gratitude (see praise)

greed, and zeal, 128

happiness, 133, 173, 174

head, crown of, represented as spiritual center, 24

healing, and the prayer of faith, 27-32; Peter and John on,
102; spiritual, 133, 148-156; through praise and
thanksgiving, 34, 35, 92 (see faith; Logos)

health, and realization of life, 118; and the Spirit of
truth, 125; cheerfulness (joy) conducive to, 104-106,
132-134; power of word and thought in demonstration of, 92,
94, 164-174; vs. disease, 130, 131

hearing, spiritual, 116, 118

Henley, William Ernest, 162

Herod, 72

"Holy Communion," 69

Holy Mother, 5

"holy of holies" (see inner chamber)

Holy Spirit, 69; as teacher, 31, 32

Hosea, 18

human soul (see soul)

I AM (or inner entity), 19, 31, 74, 138, 143, 144, 146, 150

"image" and "likeness" (see God; man)

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inferiority complex (see personality)

Ingersoll, Robert Green, 21

inner chamber, and prayer, 3, 5, 16, 17, 24, 25, 81, 177
(see silence)

intellect, as instrument of Spirit (God), 25; represented
by Jacob, 139-146; vs. Spirit, 127-130, 138-147 (see
intuition)

intelligence (see light)

intuition, 154, 155; vs. intellect, 150, 151

Isaac, as I AM, 139-143

Isaiah, 78, 134

Jacob, 52; and Esau, interpreted, 139-147

James, 27, 60, 120, 121

Jeans, Sir James (quoted), 97, 98

Jehovah, 18, 24, 77-79, 121, 130, 144, 145, 150, 151; as
name of supermind in man (also called the Christ), 136, 137

Jehovah God, 64, 97

Jehovah-jireh, 137

Jehovah-shammah, 136, 137

Jesus, and healing, 152, 164, 165; and race consciousness,
22, 64, 65, 68, 69, 101; and regeneration, 109, 110; and
the greatest commandment, 58, 59, 113; and the law of
thought affinity, 101, 102; and the Lord's Prayer, 3; and
the presence of God, 14, 15; and the "Spirit of truth,"
123-125; as adept in scientific prayer, 26; as dynamic
life-giving force, 102, 103; as executive of spiritual
principle, 87; as God manifest in the flesh, 56; as master
and servant, 56-59; as our teacher and helper, 18, 29, 63,
64; as Saviour, 22-24, 64, 65, 75, 164; as son of man, 88;
as the Christ, 150; as "the life" and "light of men," 60,
61, 119; as "the true vine," 12; birth of, interpreted, 49,
50; body and blood of, vs. body and blood of man, 64, 65,
68, 69, 75, 76; establishing a consciousness of oneness
with God, by

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studying life of, 84, 85; evolution of body and mind of,
66-99; instructions with respect to prayer, 4, 16, 17, 81;
on fasting and prayer, 105; on joy of spiritual life, 134;
on overcoming death, 6, 69, 88; on what He expected of His
followers, 77, 78; on zeal, 128

Jesus Christ (see Christ; fulfillment)

Joan of Arc, 117

Job, 6, 77-79, 85, 117; on Spirit and spiritual laws, 129,
130

John, 60, 61, 66, 71, 102, 166; and Book of Revelation (1st
chapter), explained, 61, 62

John the Baptist, as reincarnation of Elijah, 72; vs.
Jesus, 61, 67, 68, 72

Jordan, 148-153

Joseph (dreams), 52

joy, 43-46; and health, 132-134 (see cheerfulness; God;
health; prayer)

judgment, and zeal, 126, 127 (see zeal)

Kepler, Johannes (quoted), 160, 161

kingdom of God, 27, 87, 124; Carlyle on, 25 (see Mind)

kingdom of heaven, 163; and the transformed body, 68; no
short cuts into, 72

Laban, 140

law, applying divine, 86-89

life, as universal energy, 64

life germs, 68, 69

light, in science and metaphysics, 120, 121;
(intelligence), as one with life, 75, 119-121; of Spirit,
60-63, 68

Logos, 17, 66, 67, 73; as the Christ, the Son of God,
spiritual man, 168; as the Father, 168-174; defined,
166-168; in its healing aspect, 164-174

Lord, 80

Lord's Prayer, 178, as series of affirmations, 3

Lot's wife, and past conditions, 96, 98

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love, and gravity, 108, 110; and spiritual mastery, 58, 59;
as essential to soul growth, 108, 109; as fulfillment of
law, 113; as harmonizer, 107-111; Paul on, 113-115

McKay, Dr. Roy H. ("Let's Operate"), 104, 105

magic, vs. law, 86-89 (see law)

man, and his spiritual unfoldment, 55-59, 130; and seven
centers of his organism, 154-156; and the Christ mind, 138,
139; and the development of his twelve powers, 58, 59; as
anointed son of God (called Christ), 79; as cocreator with
God, 94, 95, 98; as focus of Spirit, 169; as God's highest
avenue of expression, 20; as male and female, 129, 130; as
mouthpiece of God, 164, 173; as offspring of Spirit (God),
4, 28, 79, 87; as spiritual radio, 59, 81; as the "image"
and "likeness," 55, 56, 77; happiness as natural to, 133,
173, 174 (see Jesus; soul)

Mary, 66

matter, and ether, 131

meditation, excessive, as dulling receptivity, 117, 118

medulla oblongata (base of brain), as seat of zeal, 127

Mind, 4, 58, 59, 81, 82, 87, 88, 108, 109, 177, 178; as
everywhere present, 11, 160, 161; as light, 120, 121; as
molder of man's world, 98; kingdom of, 124, 163; tuning
man's, to Divine Mind, 81, 82, 160, 161 (see kingdom of
God; man)

miracles (see law)

Moses, 121, 137; and the pattern on the mount, 24

Mother God (see Father-Mother God)

Naaman, the Syrian, healing of, and Elisha, interpreted,
148-153

Nicodemus, 15

old age, cause of, 127, 128

omnipresence, 11, 83-85

oneness, concerning, 83, 84, 87, 88

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Paul, 51, 71, 85, 106, 108, 113-115, 159, 161-163; and
Silas, 82

personal will (see will)

personality, and inferiority complex, 78, 79

Peter, 24, 102; as "rock," 118

Pharpar (river of Damacus), 149

Philo (Judaeus), on the Logos, 167

Pope, Alexander ("Essay on Man"), 110

practicing the presence of God (see God; Jesus; prayer)

praise, importance of, in demonstration, 34, 35, 82, 91, 92

prayer, an entry of the ego into realm of mind forces, 28,
29; and desire, 4; and faith, 29, 31, 157-163; and healing,
177, 178; and joy, 43-46; and purpose, 45, 46; and supply,
41; and thanksgiving, 35, 43, 44, 82; and the spiritual
ethers, 19, 28, 29, 32, 43, 139; as communion, not asking
for things, 4, 5, 12, 13, 28, 29; as man's approach to God,
21; Emerson on, 36; in Jehovah's name, 18; Job on, 4; Paul
on, 159; practicing the presence of God in, 4, 11-13, 24,
25, 136, 137; redemption of body and intellect through, 26;
supplicative vs. affirmative, 159; to God a communion of
Father and Son, 5, 13; value of concentration in, 31, 32
(see faith; God; meditation; prosperity)

prayer treatments, sample, for body disorders, 179-182;
six-day, 182-188

Prince of Peace, 28, 101

Principle, 168, 169

problems, economic, and their solution, 128

prodigal son, parable of, interpreted, 84, 87, 89

prosperity, 89, 146, 147, 178; and cheerfulness, 104-106;
and divine substance, 94, 95; and praise, 34, 92; and
prayer, 35-37, 131; and the word, 137; vs. lack, 122

proverbs, on cheerfulness, 132-133

Psalms; as hymnbook, 135

purpose, 45, 46 (see prayer)

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Psyche, 47 (see soul)

psychic forces, handling, 47-54 (see soul realm)

psychic phenomena, 50-53

psychoanalysis (see therapy)

Pythagoras (quoted), 44

race consciousness, 64, 65, 68, 69; and psychic vibrations,
50 (see Jesus)

Rebekah, 140

receptivity, spiritual, 118 (see hearing)

redemption (see prayer; regeneration)

regeneration, 64, 65, 68, 69, 109, 110 (see body)

reincarnation, and psychic phenomena, 50, 51

Samaria, 148, 151

Samuel, 117

Satan, 101; as adverse mind, 128

Schaff, Philip, on the Logos, 167, 168

Scriptures, and the listening ear, 116; as record of man's
experience, 56; on light and intelligence, 119, 120; on man
and supermind realms, 100

"Secret place of the Most High" (see inner chamber)

Selah, 135, 136

Separation, concerning, 83, 84, 134, 158, 160, 161

serpent, as symbol of sensation, 64

Shakespeare (quoted), 44, 45, 49, 97, 114, 118

Sheba, Queen of, 133

Silas (see Paul)

silence, Carlyle on, 21; contacting God in, 14, 59;
directions for entering, 18-21, 81, 82, 131, 136;
intellectual vs. spiritual, 22-26

Silent Unity, 92

Simon, the Zealot (the Cananaean), 127

Simon Peter (see Peter)

sin, 173, 174

solar plexus, as seat of intuition, 153, 154

Solomon, 132, 133

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Son of God, 28, 79, 88, 101

Son of man, 169, 172, 173

sorrow, vs. joy, 134

soul, development of man's, as sole purpose of existence,
130; elements of, animal, human, and spiritual, 48;
evolution of, 67, 68, 109 (see Spirit; therapy)

soul realm, vs. spiritual realm, 47-54

Spencer, Herbert (quoted), 22

Spirit, 6, 15, 20, 25, 29, 60-62, 73-75, 80, 84, 85, 121,
129-131, 138-141, 163, 169; as essence of all things,
92-94; as source of prosperity, 122, 123; born of, 119,
120; soul, and body, 108, 109, 150, 152; vs. intellect,
127-130, 138-147

spirit psychoanalysis (see therapy)

Spirit of truth, 122-125; as Mind of God in executive
capacity, 124

spiritual receptivity (see hearing; receptivity)

spiritual unfoldment (see unfoldment)

spiritual understanding (see understanding)

strength, spiritual, 80-82

substance, contacting spiritual, 38-42; gaining control of
spiritual, 40; nature of spiritual, and its omnipresence,
38-41; thought (etheric), 122

supply, and Spirit substance, 38-41

superconscious mind (supermind), 100-103, 108; forces of,
good or bad according to man's thought, 100, 101; named by
Jesus as the Father, 81, 82 (see Father)

telepathy, 154, 156

thanksgiving (see joy; praise, prayer)

therapy, spiritual soul, 90-92

thought, law of affinity, 101, 102; man's constructive or
destructive, making him Christian or pagan, 101; projection
of, 70-72, 94, 98; use and misuse of, 86, 87, 130, 131 (see
Jesus; substance)

thoughts, as things, 96-99

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Timothy, 162

tithing, 146, 147

transformation, of Jesus' body, 68, 69 (see body)

treasures, material vs. spiritual, 128

treatments (see prayer treatments)

Truth (see Spirit of truth)

understanding, spiritual, vs. intellectual knowledge, 129,
130, 152, 153

unfoldment, 66-69; mastery through spiritual, 55-59

Unity, on evolution of soul and body, 66, 67

visions (see dreams)

Wallace, William Ross, 39

will, personal, as detrimental to bodily health, 150-153

Wise Men, 49

word, as Spirit's outlet in man, 73, 74; power of the
spoken, 34, 35, 40, 41, 69, 73-82, 90-92, 164-174; use and
misuse of, 86, 87 (see decree)

Word of God (see God; Logos)

world, people of, leaving out God in zeal for solution of
economic problems, 128

Yahveh, meaning of name, 165, 166

zeal, represented by Simon the Zealot (the Cananaean), 127;
use and misuse of, 126-128

Zion, represented as spiritual peace, 134