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Between the Lines.

J\ GoAdervsed Treatise or\ Life ar\d jHealtKas the Jruth of Marx's Being.

BY

HANNAH MORE KOHAUS.

1894.F. M. HARLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY,

87 Washington Street,Chicago.


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CONDENSED TREATISE ON LIFE AND HEALTH....AS....

THE TRUTH OF MAN'S BEING.

BY yHANNAH MORE KOHAUS.

God shall send forth His Truth." Pi-. 57;j.For I will restore health unto thee." /er.jo.-iy.


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Copyright, 1894.F. M. HARLEY PUBLISHING CO.

87 Washington StreetChicago

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Contents.PAGE.

I. God 7II. Man and His Relation to God 14

III. Personality 21IV. Thought and Imagination 29V. The Nature of Evil 38VI. Practical Application 51

VII. The Word 69III. The Two Gates 'jeIX. The Holy Spirit 82X. The Christ 86XL Fragments 91XII. Daily Aspirations for Living Soul 97

XIII. The Bible 99


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PREFACE.There are many valuable and instructive works

upon this inexhaustible subject Divine Truth inthe literary field at this present time, but a number ofthem are so abstruse, metaphysical, or mystical thatmuch is left to conjecture, or to be read between thelines. In this small, unpretentious volume the authorhas endeavored to elucidate conjectures and revealsome of the priceless knowledge that lies hidden inthose fertile ravines of thought between the lines.Moreover, an evident peculiarity of this Truth is, that''the appetite grows on what it feeds upon," and thepresentation of this volume is due to a call for a morecondensed, systematic statement of the same than hasyet appeared. Only the merest outline, however, ofthis marvelous Truth, which cannot be contained in allthe volumes of earth, is given in the following chap-ters.

This same Truth for the restoration of the sick andsalvation of the soul has been in the world ages uponages, but since the time of Jesus of Nazareth and hisdisciples, in very few instances has it been made prac-tical. For the knowledge of its practical applicationtoday, humanity is indebted to Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy,of Boston.A casual reading of the contents of this book maynot be sufficient to enable one to fully comprehend itsmeaning; but an earnest study of the same, with itsdaily application, cannot fail to heal the body and re-deem the soul The Author,


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CHAPTER I.GOD.

In the presentation of the teachings of divineTruth not much time is required; but for that which itwill achieve, once clearly perceived and understood,eternity is necessary.

After the Truth of God is rightly comprehendedand realized which is a process in consciousness itsapplication steadfastly adhered to will produce theunfolding of infinite capacities; the development ofuntold possibilities; demonstrations of powers of in-telligence, wisdom, life, strength, love, purity, andrighteousness, such as no man can number. Infinite asthe sands of the seashore, more various than our pres-ent state of evolved consciousness can even perceive,as well as the correct solution of every problem of life,will be the results which can be obtained by faithfullyfollowing its Principle and rules. Yea, the ignorantbecome wise; the foolish, intelligent; the sick, healthy;the unrighteous, holy; the mortal, immortal; and thehuman, divine.

These pages are designed to convey interest, en-lightenment, and uplifting; to bring peace, comfort,health, and joy, at least in a measure, to all who readthem. Yet no reader is asked to accept any statementherein expressed unless it appeals to him as true. ''Letevery man be fully assured in his own mind," is goodand right counsel which is heartily indorsed. This i


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5 BETWEEN THE LINES.a time when everyone should do his own thinking anddraw his own conclusions.

In order to more clearly and concisely explain theteachings of divine Truth, the form of questions andanswers will be largely adopted.

Question. What, then, is the Science of divine Truth?Answer. It is a knowledge of the truth of God, man,

the universe, and their co-relation, which can be demon-strated. We are living in a practical age. This is the''evening" of revelation and the ''morning" of demon-stration, and it is only a reasonable service that oneproves what he declares to be true. Moreover, the racehas progressed to a degree of intelligence where it isdemanding/r(^^/; therefore we declare, in the first placethat divine Truth is a Science; in the second, that it canh^ proven to be such.

Q. What does this Science teach?A. It teaches humanity what God is; what man

and the universe are, and the relations these sustain toeach other; for there is an inseparable and indissolublelink eternally connecting them. It also teaches howmankind may be redeemed, soul and body, from errorand its consequences, sickness and death,a bond-age of ignorance which has held the human race inchains of iron for innumerable cycles. Yet soon orlate everyone must hGcome his own physician (healer),his own priest (minister), and his own king (subju-gator), the three lines upon which man's salvationmust be worked out by himself, instead of the one line(sin) hitherto believed to be the only overcoming nec-essary to salvation. It also teaches that the "Will" and


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''Kingdom" of God can be done and come upon theearth here and now as it is done and has come in heaven.It teaches of a joy that no one, no condition, no cir-cumstance can take from you. It teaches of healthwhich is every whit wholeness, a lack of no good thing,a peace which passeth understanding, and in due sea-son it brings to pass a realization of eternal life hereas well as hereafter; for dominion over all things, evendeath, is an individual birthright, and whatsoever ispossible with God is not impossible for man.

Q. What proof have we of the existence of God?A, Our own existence, which is an effect and must

have a cause. There must be a First, Uncreate, Self-existent Cause, which we name God. What God is asCause of man's being will now be stated. The follow-ing, then, is the scientific statement (in the abstract)of God from the premise of divine Truth.

''In the beginning God" Gen. i:i.Underneath all, back of all, over all, enfolding all,

the One and only Cause of everything that exists isGod.

Q, What is the nature of God?A, The nature of God is Infinite in variety andmultiplicity.

Q, What terms are used to define God?A. Many terms, because of Its Infinity. We sayGod is Principle, Soul, Spirit, Mind, Substance, Intelli-

gence, Life, Love, Truth, Consciousness, Being, andthe name including all other names which can be con-ceived, the I AM.

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10 BETWEEN THE LINES.A, God as Principle is the changeless, eternal, un-

create, indestructible, unconditional, indivisible, im-perative Cause, or primal origin underlying and Sus-taining, because producing, all things which exist fromIt.

Q. What is God as Intelligence, Spirit, or Mind,Soul, Substance?

A. It is the Absolute, Invisible, Abstract, the op-posite of the concrete, visible, such as person, place,or thing, therefore cannot be outlined, limited, cir-cumscribed, nor encompassed. There is no beyond Godin any direction. It is also the Substance out of whichall things real and substantial are created and made.

Q. What is God as Consciousness, Being, the IAM?A. It is the All Known, or all that ever can beknown, which includes all capacities, possibilities, pow-

ers; all Knowledge, all Life, Love, and Truth whichbelong to God Principle Itself, as Its nature.

Q, Name some other characteristics which are in-cluded in the nature of God.

A. Justice, Strength, Purity, Righteousness, Good,Wisdom, Health, all these and every other good andperfect thing.

Q, Has God attributes?A, No; certain distinctive qualities belong in the

nature of God which are defined Omniscience, Omnip-otence, and Omnipresence, and these are the sum andsubstance of all aforesaid of God, but God has no at-tributes. God has nothing. It is.Q. Why do we call God It?


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A. Because God as Principle of all principles in-cludes all genders.Q. Is God a perfect Being?A. No; God is Perfection Itself.Q. Is God ''a" Spirit?A. No; God is Spirit Itself; **a" spirit is one

among others.Q, Has God '^a" Mind?A. No; God is Mind Itself the One Intelligence

and Substance.Q. Has God Life, Love, Consciousness, Being, etc.?A. No; God has nothing. It is Life, Love, Truth

Itself and not the possessor of anything; It is Con-sciousness, Being Itself. Mark you, if God has any-thing it makes God a possessor, and from whom couldthe possession come? In that case there must needsbe some one back of God some one to bestow uponGod and God would not be First and Only Subsistent,Uncreate Cause. But no; God Is ^ and it is of the firstimportance to perceive God as Principle purely Prin-ciple of all Good in order to obtain a right under-standing of the Science of divine Truth from premiseto conclusion. Many students call God Principle, butdefine It as Personality, giving It attributes, powers,etc., which is a flaw in the premise, a misplaced stonein the foundation, which later may result in preventingperfect demonstrations. In making a scientific state-ment the terms used should be exact, as the slightestdeviation from exactness might cause the entire struc-ture to tumble. Therefore marked emphasis is laidupon the necessity of placing even small words in their


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12 BETWEEN THE LINES.correct position. Hence, in the statements of divineTruth it is of the utmost importance to place the arti-cles ''a," ''an," and ''the" where they belong, especiallyin reference to Deity. Surely there can be no objec-tion to accepting God as Principle Itself when the na-ture and meaning of Principle is once understood!From the present finite growth of comprehension cana fuller, broader, more inclusive, profound conceptionof God be conceived than this? God is ChangelessPrinciple; Infinite Intelligence and Wisdom; SupremePower; Universal and Impersonal Divine Love; Eter-nal Life; Absolute Truth; Unqualified Perfection; theOne unalterable and indestructible Soul, Spirit, Mind,Substance; the One imperative, inevitable, incontrover-tible, and inviolable Law; the One I Am, the AllGood, for God is All in all.

Q. What is God as Law?A. It is the Changeless Truth, undeviating, unvary-

ing, the same yesterday, today, and forever (the Eter-nal Now), which cannot be altered, broken, violated,nor turned aside. One may run contrary to this Lawand receive a blow in consequence, but that will notchange nor affect the Law one iota. One may be ig-norant or unconscious of its existence, but that will notdeter its power of action one moment. Fixed, immuta-ble, and inexorable, It stands eternally.

Q. What is meant by the severity and wrath ofGod often alluded to by individuals?A, Only the exactness of Law or Principle.Q, What is God's "Will"?A. This same irresistible, Almighty Law.


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GOD. 13Q. Can God be known by the human senses?A, No; God and all that God is, is Spirit, and Spirit

can only be discerned by the spiritual that of likenature.

Q, Can God Principlebe made known?A, Yes, 2ind must be; for Principle to be Principle

implies expression; It must be the principle ^/ some-thing, as Cause implies effect; Creator, creation; Itsvery name and nature compel as much.

Q. Is the nature of God as Principle active?A. Eternally and ceaselessly so. God is the One

and Only Creator, Cause, Principle or Source of theUniverse and Man, which are the result of Its activity.

Q. Is God expressed?A, God is, always was, and ever will be expressed,

for Principle and expression are simultaneous.Permit now a brief resume of the definition of God.

There is but One God, One Cause, One Creator, OneDivine, Infinite, Changeless Principle, Life, Love,Truth, Spirit, Mind, Soul, Intelligence, Consciousness,Being; the One I Am; the Only Substance; Omnis-cience, Omnipotence, and Omnipresence.

Q. How is God made known?A, Through Its expression and manifestation.Q, To whom is God made known?A. To Man, who is the expression of God.Q. What is the nature of God as Creator?A, Evolution and Involution; evolution of all that

is contained in the God-nature a going forth from,and involution of the same, or a returning to God, ac-cording to the law of action and reaction, a complete,entire, perfect circle.


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CHAPTER II.MAN. AND HIS RELATION TO GOD.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our like-ness. Gen. 1:26.

To avoid confusion, one of the numerous termsused to define the Infinite God will now be generallyused. With that object in view the term Mind orSpirit will be selected, as it so well includes and ex-presses all other names ascribed to Deity. The termsMind, Spirit, as a rule are considered synonymous;some, however, prefer to give Spirit the precedence.Here they will be used for like purpose to designateGod.

The ''God said,'' viewed from the premise of divineTruth, is the activity of Mind Spirit projecting It-self forth in expression; the unfolding or evolution ofMind, Life, Intelligence, Love, Consciousness, Being,etc. Expression is as necessary to Principle as Princi-ple is to expression; otherwise neither would ever beknown. Therefore it is self-evident that God is ex-pressedmade knownthrough Man the expression.We have Man as an indubitable testimony of the same.

The name Man, as used in this chapter, will in everyinstance refer to the spiritual Being the Image ofGodand not to the natural man whom we daily en-counter. This latter will be dealt with in anotherchapter.

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Man And his relation to god. 15Image, after Its likeness, or the Abstract PrincipleSpirit come forth in concrete form, the evolution ofMind or Spirit.

Q. What is the image or concrete form of a thing?A. The fixed, established, changeless, complete,

perfect expression of that which is imaged or ex-,pressed, showing it forth in all its entirety.

Q, What is the likeness of anything?A, To be like unto it in every detail and particular;

an exact vcidLmi^stdition or revelation. Thus Man createdand made in the image and after the likeness of GodAbstract Principle in concrete form, must be first Itsfull, complete expression, and afterwards Its perfectmanifestation.

In order to make a direct connection in the follow-ing statement, permit a brief review of what God is de-clared to be. It has been said that God is ChangelessPrinciple, Spirit, Mind, Soul, Infinite Intelligence, Im-personal Love, Eternal Life, Absolute Truth, the OneSubstance, Consciousness, Being. Now if Man theImage of God is the fixed, entire, and perfect expres-sion of Deity, what must be the nature of Man?

A. Certainly, the God-nature made known in all itsentirety. God and Man stand to each other in thesame relation as Cause to Effect and Effect to Cause;Principle to Expression and Expression to Principle;Creator to Creation and Creation to its Creator.

Q, How, then, is Man defined?A, Man is the conscious Being which is as change-less, eternal, divine, intelligent, loving, living, truthful(full of Truth), soulful, substantial, spiritual, omnipo-


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l6 BETWEEN THE LINES.tent, omniscient, and omnipresent as God Itself, or the*'/am that I am." Man is the fullness, or evolution ofall that God is, does, and that the God-nature includes.

Q. Can Man be given outline or shape, as, for in-stance, human shape?

A. No; Man the expression of God is as unlimited,universal, impersonal and invisible as God to the senseswhich cognize material objects.Q. Is Man anything of himself?

A. No; what Man is and all that he has is derivedfrom God his Cause, Creator, Source.

Q. Has this God-image attributes?A. Yes; attributes belong to him by inheritance

and not to God. Remember God is all things, and the''all things" which God is, Man has diS his attributes;for example, God is Intelligence, Man has Intelligence,which makes him intelligent; God is Love, Man hasLove, or is loving; and in this manner Man is the pos-sessor of all that God is and includes.

Q, Is Man a dependent or independent being?A. Positively dependent upon God, but independ-

ent of all else.Q. Is Man mortal or immortal?A, As the effect of that Cause which is Immortal-

ity Itself, Man is as Immortal as It.Q. Can man be separated from God?A. Emphatically no; not for an instant. God andMan being One, as Principle and expression are ever

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MAN AND HIS RELATION TO GOD. 1/makes one known from the other. Man is the Son ofGod, to whom the Father God hath given all things,''even His eternal power and Godhead." Man, theexpression, is the spiritual Ego; Individuality; theconscious Being as distinguished from Spirit Itself;Consciousness Itself; the one who knows as distinctfrom the All Known the One Mind. Thus God iseternally God and Man is eternally Man.

Q, Is Man Spirit?A. Since Man expresses God Spirit Man is not

Spirit, but the spiritual Being. Man does not and can-not rob God, nor can God be divided. Man is not apart oi God, but he is the whole of God revealed; justlike God in every department of his Being. We readin the Scriptures that Jesus the Christ thought it notrobbery to be equal with God; nor is this robbery, be-cause God is not lessened by expressing Itself, as Itwould be if God could be divided and Man and theUniverse were a part of It. Equal with is the true rela-tion existing between God and Man; exactly alike, notdiffering in any respect, only distinct; God is foreverGod as Cause, expressed in Man who is forever Manas Effect. Nowhere did Jesus Christ say of himself,"I am God," but repeatedly he called himself the Sonof God. The Almighty uttereth Itself, and Man is Itsutterance the ''God said"the Word made con-crete.

Q, Has Man a mind?A, No; Man has not a mind of his own as is gen-

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l8 BETWEEN THE LINES.Q. What is the activity of Mind and what does itproduce?A, The activity of Mind is Thought, God-energy Divine Force, and it produces that of like nature

with itself thoughts.Q. Does God-Mind think thoughts?A. No; God is the producer of thoughts and Man

is the thinker or user of them.Q, What is Man as the creation of God?A. The Thought of Infinite Mind in which God is

wholly revealed entirely evolved, or expressed.Q. Is the God-activity also expressed in Man?A, Man expresses God his Creator in action as

well as in Being, Life, Consciousness, etc.Q. What is this activity, as expressed or imaged

forth in Man?A. It is Man's capacity /^ /-^my^ which makes Man

the thinking Ego, divine in nature, spiritual in being,and Godlike in consciousness.

Q, Does God as Cause and Man as Effect includeall there really is?

A. Yes; God is ''All in All." Note, there are two''Alls." God is "All" as Cause, expressed in theother "All" as Man the Effect. One is indispensa-ble to, and cannot be made known without the other.There can be no cause without an effect and no effectwithout a cause. Cause to be cause must be the causeof something. Cause and effect are therefore inter-dependent, and between them there exists eternally amost perfect, harmonious, and complete union. Theyare the two in One. "The Father and I are One."


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Q. Is there any unknowable or unthinkable forMan?A. Man being one with Infinite Mind, all Its Know-

ing or Knowledge, all Its powers, capacities, and pos-sibilities being already expressed in Man, renders Manas infinite in all things as God Itself. All Knowledgeis for Man.

Q. For what purpose is Man created?A. To fulfill the eternal purpose of Infinite Mind, the expression and manifestation of Itself in and

through Its Image and Likeness.Q. What is the work of expression, or the Image?A. Through evolution to bring forth the likeness

of God; making God manifest as It already is ex-pressed in himself.

Q, Through what does manifestation come?A. Through personality, by degrees to complete

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CHAPTER III.PERSONALITY.

The first man Adam was made a living soul. I Cor. 15: 45.Infinite, sublime, expansive, and well-nigh incom-

prehensible as abstract Truth is, once clearly perceivedand understood its application,in the concrete, in everydepartment of daily living, is so simple that he whoruns may read. Its possibilities also are so vast andvarious that they cannot be numbered; they are evenas the stars for multiplicity and variety. Its themes,too, are so rich in subject-matter, so broad in deduc-tions, that in order to make a direct and logical se-quence from point to point, repetition is often unavoid-able.

This, however, is no detriment to its teachings; forthese grand, true, soul-awakening statements cannotbe too frequently declared, as the oftener they arerepeated the more firmly rooted and grounded do theybecome in the mentality, enabling one the better topenetrate to the very essence of their significance andthe soul to become impregnate with the spirit andpower of them. It is through practice, or repetition,that perfection of any kind is attained in things in thenatural life, and the same rule can be applied to thespiritual.

In the two former chapters it has been said thatGod to be known must be expressed and manifested,or must be made known through Its image and likeness.

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22 BETWEEN THE LINES.A. They are not, because expression is subjective,invisible, the ideal, individuality or the image, and

manifestation is the objective, visible, the real, thelikeness, individualized being. Each has its own iden-tity or distinction, yet they are eternally inseparable.For example, your thought and your spoken word;they are exactly alike in quality or substance, power oractivity, yet each has its own peculiar distinction; yourthought is forever a thought, and your word forever aword; one is the ideal, the invisible, the expression,and the other is the real, visible, or audible, manifes-tation.

It has been said that Man, the spiritual Ego, is theexpression of God Spirit Consciousness, and as suchhe is the conscious Being, but as the manifestation ofGod he is the ^^/^conscious Being.

Q. What is the difference between conscious Beingand .y^//^conscious Being?

A. A conscious being is one who knows; a self-conscious being is one who knows that he knows. Ananimal has consciousness, called instinct; it knowssomething, but it does not know that it knows is notconscious of its knowing. vS^^consciousness beginswith man. It is in the law and order of Mind-Godthat Man, the conscious Being, must become self-con-scious, or know himself; and this knowledge of him-self comes forth by degrees through manifestation.One may be familiar with the principle and rules ofmathematics; but to know for a certainty that heknows them, he must work out the problems in thebook. Thus Man, the all-knowing Being, works out


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PERSONALITY. 23the problems in the book of life which '*book" he ishimselfby an orderly process of steps and stages,and the knowing of himself is the knowing of all thatis contained in Infinite Mind God. Truly, for Manto know himself ^^ the highest wisdom; for when heknows himself he knows God, his Cause, who is al-ready wholly unfolded or expressed in him, and wait-ing only to be manifested through him, that the likenessof God, also, may be revealed.

Man, the expression, the image of God, is now,always was, and ever will be perfect. He cannot takefrom nor add to, one cubit of his stature his realBeing. What he is is eternally fixed by his CauseGod; but he must reproduce himself, or show forthwhat is in him as the God image; and this is donethrough manifestation.

Q. Through what does manifestation come?A. Through personality.Q. What relation does Man, the expression, bear to

personality?A. Man the expression, known also as generic Man

or universal Man, is the cause or Father of personali-ties; he is the Being from which all personalities aregenerated. As Man is in God and from God, so ispersonality in and from Man, as well as every objectin the material universe. All visible things are sym-bols representing a fraction of the nature of genericMan, who is a compound Being made up of parts; andevery part has its place in the whole, as the fractionsof a unit belong to the unit, and hence its value. Thusall human personalities and the various degrees of


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them, are fractions in the image of God, coming forthto visibility.Some persons entering upon the study of divine

Truth are apt to feel, for a time, that they are losingtheir God. How frequently we hear this complaint:*' You have taken my God away from me!" Here let itbe said, they had no God to be taken away, for theyhad none to lose. Hitherto they had made for them-selves '*a" God (which is right as far as it goes) outof the heavenly Father the image of God he that isthe possessor and user of all that God is. But now,divine Truth, not taking from them their heavenlyFather, gives them a true God Absolute Deity; nota cold, inactive, seemingly lifeless principle like theprinciple of the science of mathematics, but warm,glowing, active Life, Love, Light (Intelligence),Strength, Health Itself, infusing and permeating everyatom of space, enfolding every object in the universe,from a blade of grass to a star, in Its Infinite, Supremeembrace, the while all Its multiplicity and variety is, asit were, focalized in generic Man the image theFather of all personalities, making him an hundredfoldmore precious and bringing him as near to you as youare to yourself; for he is the 07ie, real, true selfoi everypersonality when clothed with all God knowledge andpower.

God as Principle does not know anything of per-sonal feelings, conditions, etc.; but Man, the imagethe heavenly Father, the ^//-knowing, all-wise, all-lov-ing One does. Not a flower springs forth from theground without his knowledge; not a sparrow falleth


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PERSONALITY. 25without his notice; not a star rises and sets in the firma-ment without his cognizance; and as for man, person-ality, even the very hairs of his head are numbered.David the Psalmist says: "There is not a word in mymouth, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether;"and again: ''Thou knowest my thought afar off"even before it becomes a conscious thought to me. Itis this Father that knoweth what things ye have needof before ye ask; he guides with his '*!"; he momen-tarily overshadows us as a great rock in a weary land; heomniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresentwill neverleave nor forsake men. ''Lo, /am with you always!''Now you are doubtless prepared for the statementthat personality in its fullest sense is manifestation.Call to remembrance that expression is the image, theinvisible, the ideal, individuality, or the "I," whilemanifestation is the likeness, the real, the individual-ized "I," that which says "L"

God, expression, and manifestation are a triunePrinciple; God, the One Whole, including Its twohalves, expression and manifestation; three links in achain eternal and inseparable.

Q. Where, then, does personality belong?A, Assuredly in God; for while it is the result ofMan revealing himself to himself, through it, also, is

made manifest the likeness of God, because the OneMind operates in Man to bring forth the "only begot-ten Son," which is the God-likeness. Thus personalitybecomes the mediator between God and Man, as it isstated in I Timothy 2:5: "There is one God, one medi-ator also between God and Man, himself man!' There-


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26 BETWEEN THE LINES.fore personality belongs legitimately in God, for it isthe representative of the son of Man and also of theSon of God.

Q. Define personality more minutely.A. Person is the figure; and that which animates it

is living soul, a degree of the j^/^coriscious being.This is the living soul referred to in the Scripture*'The first man Adam was made a living sour'\ butmodern usage of terms has called this combination ofperson and soul personality ; its real significance is avisible degree of Man's self-consciousness.

In former chapters particular emphasis was laidupon the distinction between God and Man. Now Man'snature is one^ even as God nature 's One; but (seem-ingly) Man has two sides to his nature, the humanand the divine; the divine self is the God side, and thehuman (to borrow from an advanced teacher) is ''hisdistinction from God, or that of him which is not God-like." This human side or self is the cross which mustbe taken up daily, until so lifted up that gradually it be-comes so blended with the divine self that the two areas one. This is the work of living soul the divineself the God side of Man's nature, which by degreescomes more and more into view, projected by Manthe expression into manifestation through humanpersonalities, which attend the process all along theway, until Man the image is revealed to the world andhimself in Man the likeness, and God is made known.

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origin in Man's power to think, which is a forming andnot a creative power. God creates; is the One andonly Creator; Man r^-creates, or forms. It is he whohas formed human personalities, through which tomanifest himself by degrees of ever higher and higherbeing, or active, doing, living soul.

Q. What is the nature of the first degree of livingsoul?A. Total ignorance of itself and everything else.Depending upon its undeveloped senses it judges ac-cording to appearances only, thereby mistaking sym-bols for the real, shadows for the substance (and shad-ows are invariably grotesque and untrue); and it turnseverything upside down generally. You have doubt-less heard that upon the retina of the human eye allthings are inverted; the same may truly be said of thepersonal ''I," for its very nature seems'an inversion ofthe truth. In an ignorant manner it mispronouncesupon everything, calling a sense of evil good, and asense of good, evil; it calls matter substance, and thusdeclares that shape and form have sensation and in-telligence; it will say that a circumstance or an experi-ence is something dreadful, seeing only the grotesque,shadowy side of it; but later, when it has learned alittle, it will call those very same things a ''perfectblessing." Altogether it is like a lost child trying tofind its way home in the dark.

Q. How does the human person pronounce uponitself?A. It says it can be ignorant or learned, sinful orgood, sick or well, miserable or happy, changeful and


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28 BETWEEN THE LINES.dying; it says it is subject to S3'mbols and shapes,which have no power whatever; and moreover, thishuman self is often as truly ignorant and unwise at theage of three-score and ten, as it is at ten.

Q. Is this the truth about personality?A. By no means; for the living soul even in its

childhood is a degree of the God-likeness, and has inits real, true, complete being all that God is and does;for its real self is the Image of God.

Q. Why does the human self so mispronounce?A, Because it does not know any better. It would

do differently if it knew how, and does so as it learnsbetter.

Q. Then it can be taught?A. It can and will be. ''They shall all be taught

of God," the One Mind, for It is incessantly operatingto manifest Itself in the likeness, even as It is alreadyexpressed in the Image.

Q. What will be the indications of soul growth orself-knowledge in human personalities?

A. An effort to think rightly and speak truthfully;a consciousness of power and dominion over the hu-man self, making it subject to the divine; a growingrealization of fearlessness; a quiet firmness, a broadercharity; a larger love and tolerance; less selfishnessand more perfect patience; better health; granderstrength; more comprehensive intelligence and appre-hensive wisdom. As these qualities of being begin toappear, the human with its personal sense of thingswill perceptibly disappear, giving place to the Mindthat is in Christ Jesus, the God-Mind manifested.


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CHAPTER IV.THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Prov. 23:7.For the imagination of a man's heart is evil from (because of)his youl/i. Gen. 8:21.The great need of humanity at this stage of the

world's progress is to know kow to think. The impor-tance of this necessity, however, will not be recog-nized and heeded until the value and power of thoughtand the imagination are perceived.We have Shakespeare's authority for declaring(and rightly viewed, his writings teem with scientific

statements), **There's nothing either good or ill, butthinking makes it so." The Gospel also states that''As a man thinketh, so is he."

There is nothing truer than this: we are thinkingbeings, and must forever think, and think. Sleeping orwaking, consciously or unconsciously, man can neverfor one moment cease thinking. Thinking is living,and living is as eternal as Life Itself. Surely, then, itis of vital importance to \^now how to think ; for throughthinking only can personality the man with whomwe now have to deal ever become aware of his realand true inheritance, the estate the ''kingdom ofGod" with which he is so richly endowed.Only through thinking can a man learn to knowand become conscious of his unity with God, the Cre-


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30 BETWEEN THE LINES.ator and' Cause of his life, the sustainer and controllerof his existence, the one Source of all he has and cando. But, munificently endowed as a man is, it is notso much what is for him as what is from him, in theprocess of self-conscious development.

Everyone knows that he or she can think, and thiscapacity to think is all the evidence a man has of hisexistence. The fact that he can and does think is hisself-conscious knowledge, or proof that there must bea cause for his being, his power to think,whichcause can be none other than Mind Itself God.

This thinking faculty is a great searcher, searchinginto the deep and hidden things until it finds God, andin God its own real, true Self; for while Man theImage, is a going forth from God, man the Likenessis a returning to God the evolution and involution ofthe One Mind, making the circle of expression andmanifestation complete and full. *'I came out fromthe Father and am come into the world; again I leavethe world and go unto the Father."John 16:28.

Q. From whence does this power to think come?A. From God-Mind directly. It is the showing

forth of the activity of Mind as expressed in Man,the Image of God. The activity of Mind is Thought;in Man it is the capacity to think, and belongs solely tohim; and as God-Mind is perpetually and eternallyactive, so also is Man's power to think. Here is theorigin of perpetual motion.

Q, What distinction is there between Mind,Thoughts, and the Thinker?A, Mind is the one and only Substance; thoughts


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THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION. 3are the productions of that Substance; and Man, theThinker, is the user of thoughts, gathering them -inone by one, holding them in his mentality until theyleave their impression or image.

Every thought of Mind is substantial and has form;but although it may not at once be seen, soon or lateit will become visible, tangible, actual. Thoughts areeternal, because they partake of the nature and qualityof Mind.

These thought forms are what is conceded by manyto be eternal matter. Form itself is eternal, inde-structible, and changeless; a direct sequence of the lawof evolution.

Q. What, then, is temporal matter?A. It is the ever-changing formations, or shapes,which are the products of imagination. Matter, whether

eternal or temporal, being only form, shape, or forma-tion, cannot possibly have life, substance, or intelli-gence, hence can have no sensation. Every object inthe visible universe to our present state of conscious-ness is only perishable, changeful shape temporalmatter; back of these are the eternal forms, from whichthey can be renewed or re-formed again and again; for*' creation is forever appearing and will forever con-tinue to appear, because of the nature of its inexhaust-ible Source" (''Science and Health"); and this contin-ual reappearing is through, or the result of, Man'spower to think, and the use he makes of this faculty.This, then, is the forming power Man's capacity tothink; but the quality of the thought, belonging toMind, flows into and fills the form projected by man.


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effects comprise the objective, visible universe with allthat it contains. Everything we behold in the naturallife is the result of thinking. Thinking thoughts isthe r^-creating or forming process, and the objectsformed are mental images or ideas, the externalizationof which are the perishable, changeful parts of them.

Q, Are all thoughts products of the One Mind?A. All thoughts are; but there is a multitude of

beliefs, idle fancies, trifling imaginations, vague ideascalled thoughts, which are but inventions of personal orhuman sense, and in their construction, only, bear aresemblance to thoughts. Solomon said: *'God madeall things good, but man hath sought out many inven-tions,'' these same beliefs which have no substance, nolife, therefore are unreal and illusive.Q. What is the difference between the power tothink and the imagination?

A. One is man's capacity to think, and the other ishow he uses it, or what he thinks. The ability to thinkis one thing, while the activity of that ability, or think-ing, is another. There is a distinction between them;they are the worker and his work the thinker and hisimagination or what he conceives; his imaginations arehis conceptions the images he holds in his mentality.

The imagination can no longer be disregarded. Itis of momentous and inestimable value in the fashion-ing of one's daily existence. Man's imagination is in-cessantly active, and his life is momentarily filled withits images, which shape in various objects, conditions,circumstances, and experiences.


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THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION. 33The images he conceives today will actualize to-morrow, next week, or next year, if not to himself, to

some other personality; for imaginations are con-tagious and diffusing in their nature, and are sure tofind a background or lodging place somewhere insome one's mental vessel.

The mentality of mankind is like an infinite ocean,in which, however, every drop of water retains its ownidentity. The human figure, the material organism, isan appearance which is very misleading. It seems toproclaim separability one from another, while divineTruth teaches that, as mental or spiritual beings, weare as truly one as the ocean is one body of water, oras the physical atmosphere is one; yet each individualbeing preserves his own identity and will eternally doso, because his identity is his individuality.

So truly as God-Mind is Omnipresence, so surelyis thought and the mentality of the human race omni-present; therefore thought transference a mentalaction and reaction is no longer a questionabletheory, but an assured fact; hence the significant con-clusion that **no man liveth to himself alone."Every thought one thinks, every image or pictureone holds in imagination, makes or mars to a certainextent not only one's own existence, but that of thewhole of humanity.

There is also a reactionary power in this mentalforce which is continuously operative. Whateverthought or belief one receives into his imaginationwill go out from him and return again, measure formeasure. Consciously and unconsciously, everyone


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34 BETWEEN THE LINES.receives as good or ill as he gives. This is a law thatnothing can controvert. Again, one may use his im-aginative faculty for good or ill, as the case may be,but the one for whom it is intended or to whom it isdirected may not at the time receive it, as his or hermental door may be closed and barred against it formental self-protection is possible ; but its action willnot return void; it will accomplish that for which itwas sent, with some one, returning to the image makerladen with curse or blessing according to the qualitysent forth.

Too much cannot be said upon the subject of man'smental capacity, the use he makes of it, and how heshould guard his imagination; for the entire construc-tion of daily and hourly living here and now, as wellas every span of life one shall live throughout eternity,with its every possible phase and shade, is, always was,and ever will be the result and consequence of think-ing, until it reaches the knowing.

Every thought one thinks, every idea one holds inimagination, hastens or retards the realization of thespiritual nature and spiritual body, hinders or advancesthe souFs growth. The living soul is a growing thing,and needs to be fed constantly. That upon which itbest grows and thrives is thoughts of the Infinite Mind, the pure, divine, and holy, not foolish, idle, vainimaginings and vague, sick fancies.

As Man the thinking Being gradually evolvesor unfolds, becoming more and more self-conscious,that is, knowingly conscious of his real, true, Godlikenature, naturally he will think grander, higher, purer.


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THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION. 35and in every instance, better thoughts, and the formsor images he projects will rise correspondingly. Allvisible objects or formations in the world representsomething in Man's consciousness, as there is nothingoutside of it. Man's true consciousness in reality isomnipresent, and as such it is filled with forms ofthoughts or images of the imagination. Every tinyinsect, every bird, beast, tree, flower, and in fact every-thing in the natural world, is a shape, image, or symbolof some part of Man's nature, produced by his powerto think and the operation of his imagination; for ex-ample, the lion represents courage, the fox cunning,the dog watchful fidelity, the dove purity, the lambinnocence. All the multitudinous little insects andcreeping things are symbols of the petty annoyances,vexations, and worries of daily life; gold is an emblemof intelligence, silver of wisdom; a tree representsman's life. And thus everything we see with the nat-ural eye is an image of some part of the nature ofgeneric Man's consciousness now coming forth tomanifestation.

If one could only see immediately the image histhinking has produced, no other argument would benecessary to convince the unbeliever of the power ofthought and imagination. But a lapse of time inter-venes between the image and its objectivity, as arule; however, in some instances they do actualize soquickly as to be noticeable to an observing and under-standing personality. Here is an instance: A lady invery limited circumstances one day sang to herself,silently, the words, **In the bosom of the lily Christ


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Think good and beautiful thoughts and attract toyourself the beautiful and good; for every thought ofthe Infinite Mind is surcharged with divine energy, aliving force and potency. This is the seed that pro-duces an hundredfold and develops quickly.

Beliefs, vague ideas, and sick fancies also have amultiplying tendency; they are as prolific as weeds,and need to be overcome barred out of the imagina-tion root and branch, and replaced with pure, divine,good, and beautiful thoughts, to bring forth perfectimages objects. In this manner one redeems hisown mentality and that of his neighbors at one andthe same time. It is through right thinking that therace individually and collectively can and Tnust besaved.

Because of Man's capacity to think, this eternaland inseparable connection between God and Man-kind, no matter how far away from his true homehis real, Godlike consciousness he may wander, nomatter how ignorant he may be of his divine nature,he can never for one moment be severed from Godnor his fellow men. But God and the universal broth-


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THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION. 37erhood remain unknown to him only so long as he neg-lects to use rightly his power to think, the one talentwhich enfolds all others, and is bestowed alike uponevery individual being, irrespective of birth, race, na-tionality, color, or environment.

To know of this God-given power and its unlimitedand inestimable value is doubtless the most importantlesson one can learn. The gain to be derived therebyis beyond the power of words to foretell; for by think-ing, Time's sealed scrolls of the past and forgottenages can be unrolled; by thinking will the unspeak-able radiance and glory of futurity be foreseen; bythinking, only thinking, shall man pass through thegates immortal, encircle the heaven of heavens, forit cannot contain him, and in the profound silenceof eternity emerge into the bosom of Infinity, fromwhence he came forth.

''Keep thy heart (the imagination) with all dili-gence, for out of it are the issues of life!'


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CHAPTER V.THE NATURE OF EVIL.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Rom.12:21.

I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me. Ps. 23:4.Q. What is meant by the term evilfA, The opposite of the good, or that which seems

not good.Q, To whom does it apply?A. To personality; and it is exceedingly personal,

for that which is one person's good is another person'sevil, and vice versa.

Q. What is the nature of evil?A. It is temporal and unreal.Q. What is the difference between the real and un-

real, the eternal and temporal?A. The real and eternal is that which pertains to

God; belongs to, is in and from God, partakes of theGod nature, and is therefore Godlike, eternal, change-less, indestructible, and perfect. The unreal and tem-poral belongs to time and space; having no subsistentcause, hence no life, substance, intelligence, nor powerin itself. God is the One Omnipotence, thereforethere can be no other power than God. If there weretwo powers, the Kingdom would be divided and therewould be no supreme Power. As it is, there is but OneSupreme Being, who is ALL power in Itself. Evil,


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Q, What does the term ''evil'' include?A, All the errors, trials, vicissitudes^ disasters,

hardships, diseases, discomforts, and unrest peculiar tohumanity and embittering daily existence, making thenatural life seem a burden.Q, From whence come they?

A, Out of the obscurity of the unknown; born ofignorance and nurtured by the twin companions"doubt" and "fear."

Q. Where does ignorance originate?A. From the same source from whence come the

mistakes natural to the child beginning the study ofmathematics. It is the lack of knowledge belongingto the untaught, misguided, uncontrolled imaginationof the infant sense of living soul; and the products ofthis ignorance, though unreal in every sense of theterm, are seemingly very actual to the consciousnessthat feels them.

Q, Is the nature of ignorance prolific?A. Amazingly so. Its offspring's name is "legion,"yet they are no more real than any imaginary shadows.They are, indeed, only distorted fancies, hallucinations,unsubstantial images conjured up out of the density ofthe unseen, even as a child will people the twilightwith all sorts of imaginary shapes.

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Evil belongs to the childhood of man's estate. Notknowing of the Fatherhood of God and the universalbrotherhood of man, not recognizing the equal endow-ment of every individual, the sense of the child-manfancies one has more than another, or better; and thischildish ignorance breeds envy, jealousy, discontent,selfishness, anger, malice, and an innumerable host ofimaginary vipers which only turn upon and sting him.

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THE NATURE OF EVIL. 4the law of evolution active within it pressing it onward,imperative, irresistible, and unceasing in its demands;and the consequence is, that here is a child-man, thecentral figure in a world of figures about which heknows nothing, and, as yet, has only his five (supposedto be) physical senses to aid him in unraveling themysteriesWhat are they, whence came they, andwhither their destiny?

Q. What does divine Truth teach in regard to thesenses?

A. That they are spiritual and not material.Q. To whom do they belong?A. To spiritual Man the Image and Likeness of

God. But man, because of his youth, uses only hisouter senses, the evidence of which is altogether mis-leading. The very limited knowledge which these af-ford him prompts him at every turn to mistake the ob-ject the effect for the thing itself; suggests to himthat the unreal and temporal is the real and eternal, agrievous mistake which he discovers to his cost afterhe has burned his fingers with the fire he has playedwith; when his idols have broken his heart and hestarves with the ashes of Sodomite apples upon hislips. Then he turns away from the evidence of his fivephysical senses; looks upward and inward; finds ahigher sense, a diviner life, and a true God.

Evils which are the mistakes of self-deception areself-destroying; they are the thorns and thistles whichgrow profusely in the paths of the youthful degrees ofliving soul's daily life. One tries to make himself be-lieve they bear grapes and figs, but w^hen these thorns


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42 BETWEEN THE LINES.and thistles have lacerated his hands and torn his soultill he can no longer endure the pain, he will ceasegathering them and will then seek a purer, betterknowledge, a higher soul life; cease mistaking theseeming for the real, the appearance for the true, theshadow for the substance, the bitter for the sweet.

Then a man will no longer worship gold and silver(false gods, indeed, for they bring neither health, truehappiness, purity, nor life, and desert him utterly onthe threshold of another phase of existence, into whichhe is ushered stripped of all he possesses save divineknowledge), but placing them upon the left handwhere they belong, he will seek with greater diligencefor intelligence and wisdom, the powers they repre-sent or symbolize. The mother no longer idolizes herchild, but enlarging the borders of her divine soul, sheembraces every child even as her own. Thus everydesire will be purified, every ambition exalted, everyemotion sanctified, and aspiration will find new chan-nels, clear, pure, and righteous, to minister to thesoul's thirst for knowledge, and aid it in outgrowingits limitations the limitations imposed upon it bythe ignorance of its youth, and from which it suffersin consequence.

Q. What are the consequences of evil, or limitedknowledge?

A. Sin, sickness, sorrow, tribulation, and dissolu-tion (death). The Bible says, **By sin came death,"but it neglected to state that between sin and deaththere is an experience which intervenes, sometimescalled sickness, disease, or accident, which follows di-


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Q. Are sickness and disease real?A. By no means. They are as temporal, unreal,

and powerless as the evils of which they are the con-sequences.Q. Explain further what are sickness and disease.

A. Sickness and dis-csise result not only from asupposition that there is life, substance, and intelli-gence in the material organism, but they are the re-flections upon the organism of the sick and morbidfancies, groundless fears, and all erroneous beliefsand false ideas held in the imagination long enough tofix or stamp themselves upon the soul. Sickness anddisease are as sure to follow in the wake of suchthinking as effect follows cause and is one with it;but the nature of both cause and effect is exactly astemporal, unreal, untrue, unsubstantial, lifeless andpowerless as the grotesque shadows of the eveningtwilight. No power whatever have they to touch oralter one's natural life or health if there was no fearof them. To borrow an illustration: A child seesa scarecrow in a field. It looks as terrible to thechild sense as any disease that can possibly be imag-ined by maturer sense. The child is filled with fearso much so, probably, as to throw it into convulsionsand cause its death. But what of the scarecrow? Isit not perfectly harmless in itself, and perfectly pow-erless to one who is old enough to know what it is?


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m44 BETWEEN THE LINES.The scarecrow had not touched the child, not harmedit in the least; only the appearance of it had frightenedthe unknowing child and perhaps deprived it of itsnatural life. Just so are all evil, sickness, and disease.

Let everyone look' into himself, into the innermostrecesses of his human self, and see what are the un-wholesome desires, longings, and ambitions that fretthe living soul. Let everyone look deep into his ownnature and find out the morbid fancies lurking, halfhidden, half exposed, in his ever-active imagination.Is there intolerance, envy, covetousness, jealousy, sus-picion, revenge, vanity, lust, or the more genteel er-rors such as family pride, personal egotism, worldlyambition, love of money, cunning, polished hypocrisy,well-bred intrigue, deceitfulness, moral cowardice, con-demnation, etc.? These are the microbes, germs, ba-cilli, that infest the imaginations of mankind (breedingall kinds of scarecrows), and which, through varioustrials, woes, disasters, and disease, cut one off prema-turely.

Take these unreal devils, personal to everyone inhis youthful search for knowledge and happiness,utterly powerless save with that seeming authorityman invests them, first by countenancing, then fearingthem; meet them courageously and grapple with themperseveringly till the day break and the shadows fleeaway. Then note how rapidly you will recover healthand strength, peace and prosperity.

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Q. Why are these false images which personalitieshold concerning themselves, powerless?

A. Because God is the One and only PowerOm-nipotence.

Q, Why have they no life?A. Because God is Omnipresent Life, and in thisLife there is no change, decay, or death.Q. Why have they no intelligence?A. Because God is the One and only Mind, and as

such It is All Righteousness; no error there.Q. Why have they no substance?A. Because God Spirit is the only Substance,

and It is changeless, pure, and eternal.Q. Where, then, in all this vast universe of exist-ence, are sin, sickness, sorrow, pain, and death?

A. Only in the imagination of a degree of livingsoul, up and out of which it will surely grow in its self-development, or the process of the knowing. How-ever, until all ignorance is outgrown, or overcome,mankind will more or less be liable to these beliefs oferrors; liable to sin, sickness, and dissolution until hehas learned to master them; for complete mastery do-minion over all things is man's God-derived birth-right, and each individual Tnust, soon or late, come intohis divine inheritance. Meanwhile, these are bitterlessons in life over which many tears will fall; but inthe light and realization of the Truth of man's Being,they will seem like a child crying for its broken toys.The scarecrows, though powerless and harmless, are


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Q. What is the mother-fear of all fears?A, The conscious or unconscious belief in and fear

of death that fear Paul refers to as having held menin bondage all their lives, and is the last, probably thestrongest, belief to overcome. Some wit has said,^^ There is nothing sure but death and taxes;" divineTruth, however, teaches and proves there is nothingsurer than eternal life and freedom from all taxation.

Q. What is death?A. Change of body. The soul, wearied with its

burden of corruptible flesh which has served its timeand purpose, drops it for a new body and a season ofrest. The living soul lives on; nothing can destroyit or cause it to cease to be, one moment; for it isSpirit God manifesting, the soul of Soul, and is aseternal and indestructible as Principle Itself.He who is supposed to have died has not passedthrough any sense of death to his own consciousness.If he could speak so that one on this side could hearhim, he would doubtless say, *'I am just as muchalive as I ever was, and with you as before my disap-pearance. Nothing but a veil of sense hides me fromyou; you are not hidden from me."

The belief in death is all on this visible, material,objective side of existence. The one who has passedover knows he has not died at all. Living soul neverdies, nor is it ever unclothed or without a body. Butthe body it has after passing onward, though just asmaterial in quality as the one he has dropped, is of


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THE NATURE OF EVIL. 47far finer texture, so to speak; its elements are not sogross or dense, and that is why they are not visible toone who has not outgrown the sense of gross matter.Death is only a disappearance from this side of thisplane of existence. If the dear ones at the time oftheir departure only knew how to take their garmentof flesh with them, dissolve the old dress immedi-ately,much of the sting and terror of death wouldbe abated. But as it is, at this present, finite sense oflimited being, it is not so done, and thus it is hard torealize that our dear ones have only gone to anothercountry not far away to rest for a few years, ormany, as the case may be.

Q. Does a man need to die?A. Not if he knows the secret of truly living. Itis man's divine prerogative to dissolve these material

organisms if he understands the chemistry of divineSpirit; for matter is soluble, and can again be precip-itated or made objective by man's power to think.

In the chemistry of Spirit, Mind is the one and onlySubstance; Man is the chemist; thinking is the appa-ratus; the universe is the general laboratory, man'sorganism the particular, while the visible objectstherein are the precipitations, or what is called thematerial. Thus matter is a material that can be dis-solved and re-formed. Man can be ** clothed upon"if he knows how, and with a body such as he chooses.Jesus demonstrated' this fact when he put off and onhis visible body to suit his convenience, appearingand disappearing at will.

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Living soul also says that matter limits it, which isuntrue; its own undeveloped sense or knowing is itsonly limitation; liberated from this through knowl-edge, it can see, hear, feel, and know into infinity.

Q. Why, then, does a man die?A. Mainly because he believes he tnust die. He

says, ''It is appointed unto man once to die," a racebelief to which he pays tribute unquestioning, andpasses on accordingly. Very true, it is appointedunto everyone once to die; but that death is the deathto ignorance which Paul died daily and which is al-ways a gain; for ignorance limitation is man'sgreatest foe, and death must ensue in its wake. Thissense once destroyed, all other conquests will be com-paratively easy, and over such a conqueror the seconddeath has no power. Thus we have three modes ofdeath: first, the dissolution of soul from body; second,the death of ignorance; and third (the second deathso called), the disintegration of the astral or invisiblebody which everyone has back of his natural body,and which must be disintegrated that the celestialbody may be resurrected.

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THE NATURE OF EVIL. 49perceive God to be what It truly is, Changeless Prin-ciple, Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Omnipresence;the One Life, Love, Truth, Intelligence, Being, Con-sciousness,and therefore believes in another powerthan God, in the power of evil or Satan. He has anindefinite idea of two lives, one spiritual and one ma-terial; he believes in two loves, the human and thedivine; he believes there is reality in truth and false-hood; he believes there are millions of beings insteadof one; and half the time he does not stop and thinklong enough to realize what he really does believe any-way, but lets some one else do his thinking for him(in a sense).

Of the infinite multiplicity and variety of man'stalents, capacities, and powers, as the expression ofthe One Mind, for only one is he answerable;, and thatone is how he uses, abuses, or neglects his power tothink. If this is left to the keeping of another thanhis own spiritual Ego, all the ills which Jesus pro-nounced upon the wicked and slothful servant will behis portion; moreover he is apt to lapse into idolatry,unconsciously, notwithstanding the fact that he wouldnot be an idol worshiper under any consideration.

Q, What is idolatry?A. Having another god before the One God.

Recognizing a power apart from God. Ascribing au-thority to that which has none; believing, for instance,that air, water, food, evil, sickness, and dissolution areinvested with a power to harm, destroy, or changeman. Man is what he is by virtue of his OriginCause; and nothing no sense of evil nor even a state-


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52 BETWEEN THE LINES.what it is consciously, if it was now fully perfectedinstead of only potentially so, there would be no neces-sity for teaching or healing. But such is not thecase.

Let it be remembered that Man, the spiritual Ego,is more than potential in himself, because he has nowall tliat God is and does; but all that this God-Manhas and does is potential in living soul, and living soulis the nature of God and Man manifesting. For illus-tration: The oak full grown is more than the acorn,yet all that the oak has and contains is potential inthe acorn which it has produced. The acorn belongsto the oak, is begotten of it, sustained by it, yet thesame life principle, with all its possibilities, which isback of and expressed in the oak, is back of andgrafted in the acorn also (''All my springs are in thee,O God!"), and must be brought forth or manifested.

The ''Image of God," in whom are the dual ele-ments, male and female, the rational and intuitional, is the Father and Mother of living soul, but God isits Cause and Creator. A human child, referring toits parents, will say, "so-and-so are my father andmother; nevertheless, I am a child of God." In likemanner, the living soul old enough in knowledge tospeak of its origin may truly say, "The Image of Godis my heavenly Father (and Mother), but God createdme and causes me to exist; therefore God is my Life,Substance, Intelligence, Health, Strength, etc."

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PRACTICAL APPLICATION. 53be i'^^conscious is to h^ perfected. **And the third dayI shall h^ perfected!'Luke 13:32.

Q. Of what does the teaching consist?A. Of awakening the intuitional faculty; of actuat-

ing the perception; of opening the understanding;stimulating the desires and aspirations to holiness;establishing a correct method of thinking; trainingthe soul how to use its power of imagination cor-rectly, and preparing the ''way" to realization of per-fected, whole, changeless, harmonious, eternal self-conscious existence.

Q. Of what does the healing consist?A, The teaching and healing are one. To be truly

healed is to attain to that degree of understanding andrealization of the divine Truth of Man's being wherethat which is untrue or contrary to the Truth cannotenter into his mentality the outgrowth of the soulfrom personal ignorance to divine know^ledge; for itis the soul, because of its not knowing, which is sick,and not the physical organism. Every lesson is atreatment, and every treatment a lesson. As theteaching is perceived, accepted, and voluntarily putinto constant practice, the healing is simultaneous.The curing is the sign given one by another.

It is said that every new truth perceived and heldmentally produces a regenerative action in every atomof the physical system the mirror upon which heal-ing is made visible, or, as some explain it, the barom-eter which indicates the mental status.

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54 BETWEEN THE LINES.A. To personality, or living soul. Call to remem-

brance, it has been stated that it takes the humsin per-son and living soul to make personality.

Q. Is living soul distinct from person?A. It is.Q. What is the visible part of personality?A, The human figure organism.Q. What is the invisible part?A, The living soul, which is the thinking, acting,

seeing, hearing, feeling, doing being, whose instrumentthrough which to do and be is the visible human fig-ure. [Note this direct and inseparable connection:God-Mind (the Unit); Its image and likeness (thenumber), and person (the figure).]

Q. Is living soul a growing being?A. It is.Q, Why is it so?A, Because of the nature of Infinity, its Cause.

As the Effect of that Cause it will be forever develop-ing in knowledge. The 5^//" of Man's consciousness isthe manifestation of God-Mind, which is Infinite; andif the Cause is such, so also must be the Effect. De-velopment is growth.

Q. What is the nature of the development orgrowth of living soul?

A. It is expansion^ not an adding to. The infantnewly born has the same organs exactly as whengrown to the full stature of a man; there are no moreparts added to the man, simply an expansion of everydepartment, and a manifestation of what those partscan do. Living soul expands till it is as self-con-


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Q, In what state or degree of growth is living soulnow?

A. In the infancy of its perfect, spiritual, divineManhood; but as an infant it is so ignorant as to becalled ** totally depraved" by those on its own planeof development. However, it can and must be edu-cated either by experience or revelation into largergrowth or higher knowledge.

Q. At this stage of its growth, of what is it par-ticularly ignorant?

A, Of the truth about itself; it knows nothingabout itself save that what it sees of itself is an objectin a world of objects of which it knows nothing.

Q, What must it be taught?A. The Truth of its being; the supremacy of Mind,

the One Substance; the nonentity of evil; the un-reality of disease; the betrayal of the personal senses;the immortality of man; what its powers, capacities,and possibilities are; whence it came, whither it mustgo, and how to get there.

Q. What further lessons must it be taught?A. It must be taught that it is not a material

object a physical organism (body), but a spiritualbeing created and made in the image and likeness ofSpirit God and is therefore of spiritual substance;that bones, nerves, flesh, and muscles have no sensa-tion because they have no consciousness, no intelli-


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^mi56 BETWEEN THE LINES,gence, and only that which can fki7tk can feel. Thisphysical instrument, however, in every part and depart-ment of its construction, as well as every organ andfunction, corresponds to or represents something inthe nature of the spiritual being living soul. But theorganism is only the figure through which living soulexpresses itself, and over which it has by divine birth-right absolute dominion.

It must also be instructed that its nature is divine,not human, and therefore it is not subject to the falsesense of selfishness, nor error in any of its variousaspects, such as lust, avarice, covetousness, malice,revenge, anger, injustice, pride, dishonesty, hypocrisy,self-righteousness, condemnation, etc., but that eachand every one of these error claims, with their multi-tudinous companions, will soon or late externalize invarious diseases, aches, pains, accidents, sorrow, pov-erty, decay, and dissolution, if held in the imaginationfor any length of time. Living soul must be taughtof its oneness with God, its Cause and Creator, alsoof its inseparability from other fellow beings, yet thatit is perfectly independent of them.A man is answerable only for his own ignoranceand mistakes, although he is often affected, not know-

ing how to protect himself, by the ignorance and mis-deeds of others^ and others in turn by his. Becauseof the mental atmosphere being one, and continuallycharged with floating beliefs of error, a man has a dou-ble work to do in keeping his own mental domainclean and protecting himself against others.

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PRACTICAL APPLICATION. 57tament, when the walls of the holy city were beingrebuilt, the builders worked with the sword in onehand for protection and the trowel in the otherto do their work. Thus living soul must be taughtthe brotherhood of humanity, how to protect itselfand not injure others.

It must also be instructed that all mankind, bondor free, black or white, young or old, rich or poor,learned or illiterate, high or low, are equally endowed(howbeit not yet equally developed); and that everyconceivable talent, gift, or deed now manifested by anyindividual is universal, impersonal, and belongs toeveryone's inheritance of All Knowledge; also thatevery desirable object in the world belongs to everyindividual; all are equally apportioned. Every moralcharacteristic so much admired, such as genius, valor,fidelity, chastity, justice, preseverance, determination,courage, as well as every other moral and spiritualattainment, belongs individually to all; that God-Principle is no respecter of personalities, but thateach soul shall work out the same problems in the onebook of life, over and over again until the correct an-swers are obtained.How truly, then, said Buddha, *'Shun no man'sgarment; it may be upon your shoulders tomorrow."And Paul: ''Wherein thou judgest another thou condem-nest thyself." Any error or lack recognized in another,is very sure evidence that the same problem has yetto be solved, and the lack observed and condemned isever a measure being meted out to oneself.

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58 BETWEEN THE LINES.the fact that a man is not born to die, but that he willdrop his garment of flesh again and again, until helearns the secret of eternal life, which secret is withinhis own consciousness. It must be taught that a high,spiritual grade of thinking will produce a higher,purer body; that through right thinking it puts offthe mortal here and now, and puts on the immortal;puts off the corruptible and puts on the incorruptible,thereby building its spiritual, eternal body, little bylittle resurrecting it from the dust and ashes of ma-teriality.

Living soul must be instructed that there is neitherheaven nor hell as locations, but that they are statesof consciousness of its own making; that the onlySatan there is, is ignorance, and it is personal to everyliving soul until overcome by knowledge; that God^Principle neither rewards nor punishes, but that everyact of a man's life, as well as his every thought, isadjusted by the inexorable law of the sowing and thereaping, or cause and effect. It must also be taughtthat it can and shall know the Truth, and that thisknowledge shall make it free ; free from everythingopposite to the good; free from sin, sorrow, sickness,poverty, weakness, delusion, ignorance, fear, doubt,and death. It is the delusion of ignorance whichbreeds doubt; from doubt arise fears; from fears,sickness, weakness, suffering of all kinds, which sowearies the soul that it drops its garment and fliesaway hoping for a season of rest.

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A, Having perceived the Truth, to recognize andadopt it at once; putting it into immediate and faith-ful practice.

Q. Through what power is this possible?A, Through the power to think,Q. Can living soul be taught mentally or silently

as well as audibly?A. It can. The healing is mostly done in thismanner speaking the Truth silently, just as if one

were talking aloud; and it matters not greatly whereone begins or ends so long as he has a true, clearperception of what he is saying, and expresses it asclearly and truly. There is no space to thought, nolimitations nor hindrances. Thought can leap fromone star to another, as quickly as from one person toanother seated in the same room. Thus an absenttreatment is fully as effective as a present one.

However, to speak the Truth silently to any soul inparticular, it is necessary to call it by name, in orderto gain its attention, drawing it apart from the sea ofmentality in which it is floating. A man's living soulconsciousness will hear and respond as surely as it iscalled. This invisible, silent self in its infancy has nopower of resistance; it must listen whether it wants toor otherwise; hence the advantage of silent teaching orhealing, which here or hereafter will bear the same re-sult as audible work, but against which, meanwhile,the soul cannot protest, nor the human sense dispute,as it would in all likelihood if it were addressed audi-bly.How frequently one talks to himself and to others


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reality of all Beings. He is literally enfolded in theembrace, so to speak, of divine Love; and what cantouch or harm him there? Moreover, in his real, truebeing he has no fear, because his very nature, con-sciousness, and being is permeated with this sameLove which casts out allfear. Always treat the patientmuch for love, impersonal Love, however, as noth-ing so cleanses and purifies the blood supposed to bethe life of the organism as pure love. It regulatesthe circulation, tones up the blood, and gives to it thequality of iron. One loving thought or unselfish ac-tion originating in love will do more for a sick soulthan any medical remedy known to the profession; forthere is but One Substance and its nature is Love.This infuses living soul and its organism, but livingsoul needs to know and feel that this is so, just as agrieved child needs to be assured of its parents' love.To silently reassure the patient of the presence andpower of this One, changeless Love will soon come tohim self-consciously, and tranquillity will be the result.

Remember that all fear, sickness, and disease is inconsciousness and not the corporeal organism. Notehow quickly fear will pale the cheek and make thebody tremble; yet nothing has touched the body.Fear, consciously or unconsciously, produces all in-flammations and fevers; increases or decreases thesecretions; affects the breathing, the bowels, and theaction of the heart, even as anger, malice, envy, jeal-ousy, etc., poison the blood; and there is no antidoteequal to pure love, which, once knowing yourself, canbe transmitted to your patient through silent thought.


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62 BETWEEN THE LINES.Therefore, after warming him through and throughwith all the truth of divine Love you are conscious of,proceed to handle his belief of disease. (If after thefourth, fifth, or sixth treatmentwhen the case is se-vere or chronic the patient will seem to be worse, itis a good indication rather than otherwise. It provesthat the Truth is doing its work, as Truth introducedinto the consciousness disturbs for a time every atomof the organism. At such a time treat particularlyagainst fear, and for love only; the action of Truth ispainless and harms not.) To proceed:

Call the disease by name rheumatism, cancer, orwhatever may be the ill fancy or image one is holdingin his mentality, and deal with it scientifically. Showhim the unreality of dis-ease, no matter by what nameit is called. E^xplain to your patient that it is only amorbid fancy, a veritable scarecrow conjured up outof the darkness of ignorance, and that it has no powerat all, because it has no cause, no creator, no life, sub-stance, nor intelligence, and therefore has no existencesave in his imagination, from which he can expel it.God is the One and only Creator, Cause, Life, Sub-stance, and Intelligence, and Its creations and effectsare like unto It. God is at-one only with Its own, anddisease does not belong to God; but all that does be-long to God is eternal, spiritual, perfect, changeless,and living soul with all that belongs to it is from God.

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ing, which living soul can dismiss from its conscious-ness because of its Godlike power of dominion, as theImage of God. God is All in All, and there is no senseof sin, sickness, sorrow, pain, nor death (all of whichare diseases) in either of these two **Alls," one ofwhich is Cause and the other Effect. Tell living soulthat it is not subject to its own false sense of itself norof those of the race, nor can they dominate it; but thatit has absolute power over them to cast them out of itsmentality because they do not belong there. Livingsoul is changeless, perfect, spiritual, harmonious, andeternal. This argument brings the consciousness intoharmonious thinking, and the organism will soon mani-fest the same.

This wonderful, complex physical instrument, orpiece of mechanism, which medical men inform us iscomposed of eighty per cent, fluids and certain portionsof mineral and vegetable matter, is only the servant ofliving soul, and will serve it faithfully and well if liv-ing soul will, by right thinking, control it judiciously.Every invisible organ and function of this instrumentis as subservient to living soul as its hands and feet,which are ever ready to do its bidding. Do not blamethe organism for any diseased or discordant conditionit may reflect, for the difficulty lies with the soul andnot the body; it is the innocent that suffers with theguilty, so to speak. Jesus, than whom no greaterteacher and healer ever lived, said plainly: ''The fleshprofiteth nothing;" and St. Paul, a teacher called ofGod, teaches: ''Make no provision for the flesh.'' Bothof these great teachers knew that the trouble lies with


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64 BETWEEN THE LINES.the sin-sick soul, and when that is healed the organ-ism, quickly responding, manifests the same. If thecomplaint is believed to be inherited, tell the patientsilently that no one has ever inherited any disease, formatter being only shape figure having no life, sub-stance, nor intelligence, therefore no knowledge norpower, it cannot transmit anything. All the sense ofheredity there is, is but a belief and fear of it, which canbe dispelled with the intelligent arguments of Truth.

Having thus disposed of the discordant conditionin the mentality, proceed to lay before the patient thetruth of his nature; for all that God is and all that theImage of God has is living soul's, by right of its one-ness with God its Cause and Creator. Thus livingsoul can no more be sinful, sick, ignorant, and dyingthan God Itself, who is its very substance and life.Call to remembrance that living soul is both the Imageand Likeness of God; the Image being the **I,"theconscious Being, and the Likeness, that which says *'I,"is the j^/^-consciousness of the Image; and as suchliving soul is one with God, inseparably and indissolu-bly, and therefore all that it is and has must be Godlike.Thus its nature is divine, unselfish, pure, righteous,perfect, and holy; its consciousness and real body arespiritual, changeless, and harmonious; its life is aneternal principle that can no more be destroyed thanGod Itself the One Principle of all principles; itsintelligence, wisdom, understanding, perception, andpure intellect are as unlimited and infinite as GodMind Spirit is Infinity, and in its entire being it isas perfect as God is Perfection. Therefore it is true


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