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Contents

Lesson One - Bondage or Liberty, Which?

Lesson Two - Statement of Being

Lesson Three - Thinking

Lesson Four - Denias

Lesson Fi!e - "ffirmations

Lesson Si# - Faith

Lesson Se!en - $ersonaity and %ndi!iduaity

Lesson &ight - S'iritua (nderstanding

Lesson )ine - The Secret $ace of the *ost +igh

Lesson Ten - Finding the Secret $ace

Lesson &e!en - S'iritua ifts

Lesson Twe!e - (nity of the S'irit

uestion +e's

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Lesson 1

Bondage or Liberty, Which?

In entering upon this course of instruction, each of you should,

so far as possible, lay aside, for the time being, all previous

theories and beliefs By so doing you !ill be saved the trouble

of trying, all the !ay through the course, to put "ne! !ine into

old !ines#ins" $L# %&3'( If there is anything, as !e proceed,

!hich you do not understand or agree !ith, )ust let it liepassively in your mind until you have read the entire boo#, for

many statements that !ould at first arouse antagonism and

discussion !ill be clear and easily accepted a little farther on

*fter the course is completed, if you !ish to return to your old

beliefs and !ays of living, you are at perfect liberty to do so

But, for the time being, be !illing to become as a little child+for, said the aster, in spiritual things, "-.cept ye become

as little children, ye shall in no !ise enter into the #ingdom of

heaven" $t 1/&3( If at times there seems to be repetition,

please remember that these are lessons, not lectures

"0inally be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his

might" $-ph &1(

"0inally, brethren, !hatsoever things are true, !hatsoever

things are honorable, !hatsoever things are )ust, !hatsoever

things are pure, !hatsoever things are lovely, !hatsoever things

are of good report+ if there be any virtue, and if there be any

praise, thin# on these things" $hil 4&/(

1 -very man believes himself to be in bondage to the flesh and

to the things of the flesh *ll suffering is the result of this

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belief The history of the coming of the 5hildren of Israel out of

their long bondage in -gypt is descriptive of the human mind,

or consciousness, gro!ing up out of the animal or sense part ofman and into the spiritual part

2 "*nd 6ehovah said 7spea#ing to oses8, I have surely seen

the affliction of my people that are in -gypt, and I have heard

their cry by reason of their tas#masters+ for I #no! their

sorro!s+

3 "*nd I am come do!n to deliver them out of the hand of the

-gyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good

land and a large, unto a land flo!ing !ith mil# and honey" $-.

3&',/(

4 These !ords e.press e.actly the attitude of the 5reator

to!ard 9is highest creation, man

% Today, and all the days, 9e has been saying to us, 9is

children& "I have surely seen the affliction of you !ho are in

-gypt 7dar#ness of ignorance8, and have heard your cry by

reason of your tas#masters 7sic#ness, sorro!, and poverty8+ and

I am 7not I !ill, but I am no!8 come do!n to deliver you out ofall this suffering, and to bring you up unto a good land and a

large, unto a land flo!ing !ith good things" $-. 3&' adapted(

:ometime, some!here, every human being must come to

himself 9aving tired of eating hus#s, he !ill "arise and go to

my 0ather" $L# 1%&1/(

"0or it is !ritten,

*s I live, saith the Lord, to me every #nee shall bo!,

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*nd every tongue shall confess to ;od"

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= -ach man must sooner or later learn to stand alone !ith his

;od+ nothing else avails othing else !ill ever ma#e you

master of your o!n destiny There is in your o!n ind!ellingLord all the life and health, all the strength and peace and )oy,

all the !isdom and support that you can ever need or desire o

one can give to you as can this ind!elling 0ather 9e is the

spring of all )oy and comfort and po!er

1 9itherto !e have believed that !e !ere helped and

comforted by others, that !e received )oy from outsidecircumstances and surroundings+ but it is not so *ll )oy and

strength and good spring up from a fountain !ithin one@s o!n

being+ and if !e only #ne! this truth !e should #no! that,

because ;od in us is the fountain out of !hich springs all our

good, nothing that anyone does or says, or fails to do or say,

can ta#e a!ay our )oy and good

11 :omeone has said& "Aur liberty comes from an

understanding of the mind and the thoughts of ;od to!ard us"

oes ;od regard man as 9is servant, or as 9is child? ost of

us have believed ourselves not only the slaves of circumstances,

but also, at the best, the servants of the ost 9igh either

belief is true It is time for us to a!a#e to right thoughts, to#no! that !e are not servants, but children, "and if children,

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meaning o you stop to thin#, really to comprehend, !hat it

means to be "heirs of ;od, and )ointCheirs !ith 5hrist" $


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2 o matter !ith !hat ob)ect you first started out to see#

Truth, it !as in reality because it !as ;od@s "fulness of the

time" $;al 4&4( for you to arise and begin to claim yourinheritance >ou !ere no longer to be satisfied !ith or under

bondage to the elements of the !orld Thin# of itD ;od@s

"fulness of the time" no! for you to be free, to have dominion

over all things material, to be no longer bond servant, but a son

in possession of your inheritanceD ">e did not choose me, but I

chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit"

$6n 1%&1(

21 We have come to a place no! !here our search for Truth

must no longer be for the re!ards+ it must no longer be our

see#ing a creed to follo!, but it must be our living a life In

these simple lessons !e shall ta#e only the first steps out of the

-gyptian bondage of selfishness, lust, and sorro! to!ard the

land of liberty, !here perfect love and all good reign

22 -very right thought that !e thin#, our every unselfish !ord

or action, is bound by immutable la!s to be fraught !ith good

results But in our !al# !e must learn to lose sight of results

that are the "loaves and the fishes" $t 1%&3( We must rather

see# to be the Truth consciously, to be love, to be !isdom, tobe life $as !e really are unconsciously,( and let results ta#e care

of themselves

23 -very man must ta#e time daily for Euiet and meditation In

daily meditation lies the secret of po!er o one can gro! in

either spiritual #no!ledge or po!er !ithout it ractice the

presence of ;od )ust as you !ould practice music o one!ould ever dream of becoming a master in music e.cept by

spending some time daily alone !ith music aily meditation

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alone !ith ;od focuses the divine presence !ithin us and

brings it to our consciousness

24 >ou may be so busy !ith the doing, the outgoing of love to

help others $!hich is unselfish and ;odli#e as far as it goes(,

that you find no time to go apart But the command, or rather

the invitation, is "5ome ye yourselves apart and rest a

!hile" $# &31( *nd it is the only !ay in !hich you !ill

ever gain definite #no!ledge, true !isdom, ne!ness of

e.perience, steadiness of purpose, or po!er to meet theun#no!n, !hich must come in all daily life oing is secondary

to being When !e are consciously the Truth, it !ill radiate

from us and accomplish the !or#s !ithout our ever running to

and fro If you have no time for this Euiet meditation, ma#e

time, ta#e time Watch carefully, and you !ill find that there

are some things, even in the active unselfish doing, !hich

!ould better be left undone than that you should neglect regularmeditation

2% >ou !ill find that some time is spent every day in idle

conversation !ith people !ho ")ust run in for a fe! moments"

to be entertained If you can help such people, !ell+ if not,

gather yourself together and do not !aste a moment idlydiffusing and dissipating yourself to gratify their idleness >ou

have no idea !hat you lose by it

2 When you !ithdra! from the !orld for meditation, let it not

be to thin# of yourself or your failures, but invariably to get all

your thoughts centered on ;od and on your relation to the

5reator and Fpholder of the universe Let all the little annoyingcares and an.ieties go for a !hile, and by effort, if need be, turn

your thoughts a!ay from them to some of the simple !ords of

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the aGarene, or of the salmist Thin# of some Truth

statement, be it ever so simple

2' o person, unless he has practiced it, can #no! ho! it

Euiets all physical nervousness, all fear, all oversensitiveness,

all the little raspings of everyday lifeCC)ust this hour of calm,

Euiet !aiting alone !ith ;od ever let it be an hour of

bondage, but al!ays one of restfulness

2/ :ome, having realiGed the calm and po!er that come ofdaily meditation, have made the mista#e of dra!ing themselves

from the !orld, that they may give their entire time to

meditation This is asceticism, !hich is neither !ise nor

profitable

2= The aGarene, !ho is our noblest type of the perfect life,

!ent daily apart from the !orld only that 9e might come againinto it !ith rene!ed spiritual po!er :o !e go apart into the

stillness of divine presence that !e may come forth into the

!orld of everyday life !ith ne! inspiration and increased

courage and po!er for activity and for overcoming

3 "We tal# to ;odCCthat is prayer+ ;od tal#s to usCCthat isinspiration" We go apart to get still, that ne! life, ne!

inspiration, ne! po!er of thought, ne! supply from the

fountainhead may flo! in+ and then !e come forth to shed it on

those around us, that they, too, may be lifted up Inharmony

cannot remain in any home !here even one member of the

family daily practices this hour of the presence of ;od, so

surely does the rene!ed infilling of the heart by peace andharmony result in the continual outgoing of peace and harmony

into the entire surroundings

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31 *gain, in this ne! !ay that !e have underta#en, this living

the life of :pirit instead of the old self, !e need to see# al!aysto have more and more of the 5hrist :pirit of mee#ness and

love incorporated into our daily life ee#ness does not mean

servility, but it means a spirit that could stand before a ilate of

false accusation and say nothing o one else is so grand, so

godli#e as he !ho, because he #no!s the Truth of Being, can

stand mee#ly and unperturbed before the false accusations of

the human mind "Thy gentleness hath made me great" $2 :am2&3(

32 We must forgive as !e !ould be forgiven To forgive does

not simply mean to arrive at a place of indifference to those

!ho do personal in)ury to us+ it means far more than this To

forgive is to give forCCto give some actual, definite good in

return for evil given Ane may say& "I have no one to forgive+ Ihave not a personal enemy in the !orld" *nd yet if, under any

circumstances, any #ind of a "servedChimCright" thought springs

up !ithin you over anything that any of ;od@s children may do

or suffer, you have not yet learned ho! to forgive

33 The very pain that you suffer, the very failure todemonstrate over some matter that touches your o!n life

deeply, may rest upon )ust this spirit of unforgiveness that you

harbor to!ard the !orld in general ut it a!ay !ith resolution

34 o not be under bondage to false beliefs about your

circumstances or environment o matter ho! evil

circumstances may appear, or ho! much it may seem that someother personality is at the foundation of your sorro! or trouble,

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;od, good, good alone, is really there !hen you call 9is la!

into e.pression

3% If !e have the courage to persist in seeing only ;od in it all,

even "the !rath of man" $s '&1( shall be invariably turned

to our advantage 6oseph, in spea#ing of the action of his

brethren in selling him into slavery, said, "*s for you, ye meant

evil against me+ but ;od meant it for good" $;en %&2( To

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4 The ultimate aim of every man should be to come into the

consciousness of an ind!elling ;od, and then in all e.ternal

matters, to affirm deliverance through and by this divine AneThere should not be a running to and fro, ma#ing human efforts

to aid the ivine, but a calm, restful, un!avering trust in *llC

Wisdom and *llCo!er !ithin one as able to accomplish the

thing desired

41 Hictory must be !on in the silence of your o!n being first,

and then you need ta#e no part in the outer demonstration ofrelief from conditions The very !alls of 6ericho that #eep you

from your desire must fall before you

42 The salmist said&

"I !ill lift up mine eyes unto the mountains

7or to the highest Ane8&

0rom !hence shall come my help?

43 "y help cometh from 6ehovah,

Who made heaven and earth

44 "6ehovah 7your ind!elling Lord8 !ill #eep thee from

evil

4% "6ehovah !ill #eep thy going out and thy coming in

0rom this time forth, and for evermore"

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$s 121&1, 2, ', /(

Lesson 2

Statement of Being

Who *nd What ;od Is

Who *nd What an Is

1 When 6esus !as tal#ing !ith the :amaritan !oman at the!ell, 9e said to her, ";od is :pirit& and they that !orship him

must !orship in spirit and truth" $6ohn 4&24 *H reads, ";od

is a :pirit," but the marginal note is, ";od is :pirit," and some

other versions render this passage, ";od is :pirit"( To say "a

:pirit" !ould be to imply the e.istence of more than one :pirit

6esus, in 9is statement, did not imply this

2 Webster in his definition of :pirit says& "In the abstract, life

or consciousness vie!ed as an independent type of e.istence

Ane manifestation of the divine nature+ the 9oly :pirit"

3 ;od, then, is not, as many of us have been taught to believe,

a big personage or man residing some!here in a beautifulregion in the s#y, called "heaven," !here good people go !hen

they die, and see 9im clothed in ineffable glory+ nor is 9e a

stern, angry )udge only a!aiting opportunity some!here to

punish bad people !ho have failed to live a perfect life here

4 ;od is :pirit, or the creative energy that is the cause of all

visible things ;od as :pirit is the invisible life and intelligenceunderlying all physical things There could be no body, or

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visible part, to anything unless there !as first :pirit as creative

cause

% ;od is not a being or person having life, intelligence, love,

po!er ;od is that invisible, intangible, but very real,

something !e call life ;od is perfect love and infinite po!er

;od is the total of these, the total of all good, !hether

manifested or une.pressed

There is but one ;od in the universe, but one source of allthe different forms of life or intelligence that !e see, !hether

they be men, animals, trees, or roc#s

' ;od is :pirit We cannot see :pirit !ith these fleshly eyes+

but !hen !e clothe ourselves !ith the spiritual body, then

:pirit is visible or manifest and !e recogniGe it >ou do not see

the living, thin#ing "me" !hen you loo# at my body >ou seeonly the form !hich I am manifesting

/ ;od is love We cannot see love or grasp any comprehension

of !hat love is, e.cept as love is clothed !ith a form *ll the

love in the universe is ;od The love bet!een husband and

!ife, bet!een parents and children, is )ust the least little bit of;od, as pushed forth in visible form into manifestation *

mother@s love, so infinitely tender, so unfailing, is ;od@s love,

only manifested in greater degree by the mother

= ;od is !isdom and intelligence *ll the !isdom and

intelligence that !e see in the universe is ;od, is !isdom

pro)ected through a visible form To educate $from educare, tolead forth( never means to force into from the outside, but

al!ays means to dra! out from !ithin something already

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e.isting there ;od as infinite !isdom lies !ithin every human

being, only !aiting to be led forth into manifestation This is

true education

1 9eretofore !e have sought #no!ledge and help from

outside sources, not #no!ing that the source of all #no!ledge,

the very :pirit of truth, is lying latent !ithin each one of us,

!aiting to be called on to teach us the truth about all thingsCC

most marvelous of teachers, and every!here present, !ithout

money or priceD

11 ;od is po!er ot simply ;od has po!er, but ;od is

po!er In other !ords, all the po!er there is to do anything is

;od ;od, the source of our e.istence every moment, is not

simply omnipotent $allCpo!erful(+ 9e is omnipotence $all

po!er( 9e is not alone omniscient $allC#no!ing(+ 9e is omniC

science $all #no!ledge( 9e is not only omniCpresent, butmoreCComnipresence ;od is not a being having Eualities, but

9e is the good itself -verything that you can thin# of that is

good, !hen in its absolute perfection, goes to ma#e up that

invisible Being !e call ;od

12 ;od, then, is the substance $from sub, under, and stare, tostand(, or the real thing standing under every visible form of

life, love, intelligence, or po!er -ach roc#, tree, animal, every

visible thing, is a manifestation of the one :piritCC;odCC

differing only in degree of manifestation+ and each of the

numberless modes of manifestation or individualities, ho!ever

insignificant, contains the !hole

13 Ane drop of !ater ta#en from the ocean is )ust as perfect

ocean !ater as the !hole great body The constituent elements

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of !ater are e.actly the same, and they are combined in

precisely the same ratio or perfect relation to each other,

!hether !e consider one drop, a pailful, a barrelful, or theentire ocean out of !hich the lesser Euantities are ta#en+ each is

complete in itself+ they differ only in Euantity or degree -ach

contains the !hole+ and yet no one !ould ma#e the mista#e of

supposing from this statement that each drop is the entire ocean

14 :o !e say that each individual manifestation of ;od

contains the !hole+ not for a moment meaning that eachindividual is ;od in 9is entirety, so to spea#, but that each is

;od come forth, shall I say? in different Euantity or degree

1% an is the last and highest manifestation of divine energy,

the fullest and most complete e.pression $or pressing out( of

;od To man, therefore, is given dominion over all other

manifestations

1 ;od is not only the creative cause of every visible form of

intelligence and life at its commencement, but each moment

throughout its e.istence 9e lives !ithin every created thing as

the life, the ever rene!ing, reCcreating, upbuilding cause of it

9e never is and never can be for a moment separated from 9iscreations Then ho! can even a sparro! fall to the ground

!ithout 9is #no!ledge? *nd "ye are of more value than many

sparro!s" $t 1&31(

1' ;od is an e.ists $from e., out of, and sistere, to stand

forth( an stands forth out of ;od

1/ an is a threefold being, made up of :pirit, soul, and body

:pirit, our innermost, real being, the absolute part of us, the I of

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us, has never changed, though our thoughts and our

circumstances may have changed hundreds of times This part

of us is a standing forth of ;od into visibility It is the 0ather inus *t this central part of his being every person can say, "I and

the 0ather are one" $6n 1&3(, and spea# absolute Truth

1= ortal mindCCthat !hich aul calls "the mind of the flesh"CC

is the consciousness of error

2 The great !hole of as yet unmanifested ;ood, or ;od, from!hom !e are pro)ections or offspring, in !hom "!e live, and

move, and have our being" $*cts 1'&2/( continually, is to me

the 0atherCCour 0ather+ "and all ye are brethren" $t 23&/(,

because all are manifestations of one and the same :pirit 6esus,

recogniGing this, said& "call no man your father, upon the earth&

for one is your 0ather, even he !ho is in heaven $t 23&=( *s

soon as !e recogniGe our true relationship to all men, !e atonce slip out of our narro!, personal loves, our "me and mine,"

into the universal love that ta#es in all the !orld, )oyfully

e.claiming& "Who is my mother? and !ho are my brethren?

*nd he stretched forth his hand to!ard his disciples, and said,

Behold, my mother and my brethren" $t 12&4/(

21 any have thought of ;od as a personal being The

statement that ;od is rinciple chills them, and in terror they

cry out, "They have ta#en a!ay my Lord, and I #no! not !here

they have laid him" $6n 2&13(

22 Broader and more learned minds are al!ays cramped by thethought of ;od as a person, for personality limits to place and

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moment of your e.istence >ou have po!er to dra! on this

:ource for all of good you are, or ever !ill be, capable of

desiring

4 Ah, if !e could only realiGe that this mighty po!er to save

and to perfect, to deliver and to ma#e alive, lives forever !ithin

us, and so cease no! and forever loo#ing a!ay to othersD

4' There is but one !ay to obtain this full realiGationCCthe !ay

of the 5hrist "I am the !ay, and the truth, and the life" $6n14&(, spo#e the 5hrist through the lips of the aGarene

4/ >our holding to the !ords, "5hrist is the !ay," !hen you

are perple.ed and confused and can see no !ay of escape, !ill

invariably open a !ay of complete deliverance

Lesson 3Thinking

1 We learned in the second lesson that the real substance

!ithin everything !e see is ;od+ that all things are one and the

same :pirit in different degrees of manifestation+ that all thevarious forms of life are )ust the same as one life come forth out

of the invisible into visible form+ that all the intelligence and all

the !isdom in the !orld are ;od as !isdom in various degrees

of manifestation+ that all the love !hich people feel and e.press

to!ard others is )ust a little, so to spea#, of ;od as love come

into visibility through the human form

2 When !e say there is but one ind in the entire universe,

and that this ind is ;od, some persons, having follo!ed

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understandingly the first lesson, and recogniGed ;od as the one

life, one :pirit, one po!er, pushing 9imself out into various

degrees of manifestation through people and things, !ill at oncesay& ">es, that is all plain"

3 But someone else !ill say& "If all the mind there is, is ;od,

then ho! can I thin# !rong thoughts, or have any but ;od

thoughts?"

4 The connection bet!een universal ind and our o!nindividual minds is one of the most difficult things to put into

!ords, but !hen it once da!ns on one, it is easily seen

% There is in reality only one ind $or :pirit, !hich is life,

intelligence, and so forth( in the universe+ and yet there is a

sense in !hich !e are individuals, or separate, a sense in !hich

!e are free !ills and not puppets

an is made up of :pirit, soul, and body :pirit is the central

unchanging "I" of us, the part that since infancy has never

changed, and to all eternity never !ill change That !hich some

persons call "mortal minds" is the region of the intellect !here

!e do conscious thin#ing and are free !ills This part of ourbeing is in constant process of changing

' In our outspringing from ;od into the material !orld, :pirit

is innerCCone !ith ;od+ soul is the clothing, as it !ere, of :pirit+

body is the e.ternal clothing of the soul >et all are in reality

one, the composite manCCas steam, !ater, and ice are one, only

in different degrees of condensation In thin#ing of ourselves,!e must not separate :pirit, soul, and body, but rather hold all

as one, if !e !ould be strong and po!erful an originally

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lived consciously in the spiritual part of himself 9e fell by

descending in his consciousness to the e.ternal or more

material part of himself

/ "ortal mind," the term so much used and so distracting to

many, is the error consciousness, !hich gathers its information

from the outside !orld through the five senses It is !hat aul

calls "the mind of the flesh" in contradistinction to spiritual

mind+ and he flatly says& "The mind of the flesh 7believing !hat

the carnal mind says8 is death 7sorro!, trouble, sic#ness8+ butthe mind of the :pirit 7ability to still the carnal mind and let the

:pirit spea# !ithin us8 is life and peace"

= The :pirit !ithin you is ivine ind, the real mind Without

it human mind !ould disappear, )ust as a shado! disappears

!hen the real thing that casts it is removed

1 If you find this sub)ect of human mind and universal ind

puGGling to you, do not !orry over it 6ust drop it for the time,

and as you go on !ith the lesson, you !ill find that some day an

understanding of it !ill flash suddenly upon you !ith perfect

clearness

11 There are today t!o classes of people, so far as mentality

goes, !ho are see#ing deliverance out of sic#ness, trouble, and

unhappiness, by spiritual means Ane class reEuires that every

statement made be proved by the most elaborate and logical

argument, before it can or !ill be received The other class is

!illing at once to "become as little children" $t 1/&3( and )ust

be taught ho! to ta#e the first step to!ard pure understanding$or #no!ledge of Truth as ;od sees it(, and then receives the

light by direct revelation from the *llC;ood Both are see#ing

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and eventually both !ill reach the same goal, and neither one

should be unduly condemned

12 If you are one !ho see#s and e.pects to get any realiGing

#no!ledge of spiritual things through argument or reasoning,

no matter ho! scholarly your attainments or ho! great you are

in !orldly !isdom, you are a failure in spiritual understanding

>ou are attempting an utter impossibilityCCthat of cro!ding the

Infinite into the Euart measure of your o!n intellectual

capacity

13 "The natural man receiveth not the things of the :pirit of

;od& for they are foolishness unto him+ and he cannot #no!

them, because they are spiritually )udged" $1 5or 2&14(

-ventually you !ill find that you are only beating around on the

outside of the "ingdom of heaven," though in close pro.imity

to it, and you !ill then become !illing to let your intellect ta#ethe place of the little child, !ithout !hich no man can enter in

14 "-ye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into

the heart of man, the things !hich ;od hath 7not !ill8 prepared

for them that love him

1% "But ;od hath revealed them unto us by his :pirit

1 "0or !ho among men #no!eth the things of a man, save the

spirit of the man, !hich is in him? even so the things of ;od

none #no!eth, save the :pirit of ;od" $1 5or2&11(

1' 0or all those !ho must !ade through months and perhapsyears of this purely intellectual or mental process, there are

today many boo#s to help, and many teachers of metaphysics

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!ho are doing noble and praise!orthy !or# in piloting these

earnest see#ers after Truth and satisfaction To them !e cry&

"*ll speedD"

1/ But !e believe !ith aul that "the foolishness of ;od is

!iser than men" $1 5or 1&2%(, and that each man has direct

access to all there is in ;od We are !aiting for the "little

5hildren" !ho, !ithout Euestion or discussion, are !illing at

once to accept and try a fe! plain, simple rules such as 6esus

taught the common people, !ho "heard him gladly"CCrules by!hich they can find the 5hrist $or the ivine( !ithin

themselves, that through it each man for himself may !or# out

his o!n salvation from all his troubles

1= In other !ords, there is a shortcut to the top of the hill+ and

!hile there is a good but long, roundabout road for those !ho

need it, !e prefer the less laborious means of attaining the someends by see#ing directly the :pirit of truth promised to d!ell in

us and to lead us into all Truth y advice is& If you !ant to

ma#e rapid progress in gro!th to!ard spiritual understanding,

stop reading many boo#s They only give someone@s opinion

about Truth, or a sort of history of the author@s e.perience in

see#ing Truth What you !ant is revelation of Truth in youro!n soul, and that !ill never come through the reading of many

boo#s

2 :ee# light from the :pirit of Truth !ithin you ;o alone

Thin# alone :ee# light alone, and if it does not come at once,

do not be discouraged and run off to someone else to get light+

for, as !e said before, by so doing you get only the opinion ofthe intellect, and may be then further a!ay from the Truth you

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are see#ing than ever before+ for the mortal mind may ma#e

false reports

21 The very :pirit of truth is at your call "The anointing !hich

ye received of him abideth in you" $1 6n 2&2'( :ee# it Wait

patiently for it to "guide you into the truth" $6n 1&13( about all

things

22 "9ave this mind in you, !hich !as also in 5hrist 6esus"

$hil 2&%( This is the universal ind, !hich ma#es no mista#e:till the intellect for the time being, and let universal ind

spea# to you+ and !hen it spea#s, though it be but a "still small

voice" $1 ings 1=&12(, you !ill #no! that !hat it says is

Truth

23 9o! !ill you #no!? >ou !ill #no! )ust as you #no! that

you are alive *ll the argument in the !orld to convince youagainst Truth that comes to you through direct revelation !ill

fall flat and harmless at your side *nd the Truth that you

#no!, not simply believe, you can use to help others That

!hich comes forth through your spirit !ill reach the very

innermost spirit of him to !hom you spea#

24 What is born from the outside, or intellectual perception,

reaches only the intellect of him you !ould help

2% The intellect that is servant to the real ind, and !hen

servant $but not !hen master( is good, loves to argue+ but !hen

its information is based on the evidence of the senses and not

on the true thoughts of the ivine ind, it is very fallible andfull of error

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31 Ta#e the thought, ";od loves me" Thin# these !ords over

and over continually for a fe! days, trying to realiGe that they

are true, and see !hat the effect !ill be on your body andcircumstances

32 0irst, you get a ne! e.hilaration of mind, !ith a great desire

and a sense of po!er to please ;od+ then a Euic#er, better

circulation of blood, !ith a sense of pleasant !armth in the

body, follo!ed by better digestion Later, as Truth flo!s out

through your being into your surroundings, everybody !illbegin to manifest a ne! love for you !ithout your #no!ing

!hy+ and finally, circumstances !ill begin to change and fall

into harmony !ith your desires, instead of being adverse to

them

33 -veryone #no!s ho! strong thoughts of fear or grief have

turned hair !hite in a fe! hours+ ho! great fear ma#es the heartbeat so rapidly as to seem about to ")ump out of the body," this

result not being at all dependent on !hether there be any real

cause of fear or !hether it be a purely imaginary cause 6ust so,

strong negative thoughts may render the blood acid, causing

rheumatism Bearing mental burdens ma#es more stooped

shoulders than does bearing heavy material loads Believingthat ;od regards us as "miserable sinners," that 9e is

continually !atching us and our failures !ith disapproval, bring

utter discouragement and a sort of half paralyGed condition of

the mind and body, !hich means failure in all our underta#ings

34 Is it difficult for you to understand !hy, if ;od lives in us

all the time, 9e does not #eep our thoughts right instead ofpermitting us through ignorance to drift into !rong thoughts,

and so bring trouble on ourselves?

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3% Well, !e are not automatons >our child !ill never learn to

!al# alone if you al!ays do his !al#ing Because yourecogniGe that the only !ay for him to be strong, selfCreliant in

all thingsCCin other !ords, to become a manCCis to thro! him on

himself, and let him, through e.perience, come to a #no!ledge

of things for himself, you are not !illing to ma#e a mere puppet

of him by ta#ing the steps for him, even though you #no! that

he !ill fall do!n many times and give himself severe bumps in

his ongoing to!ard perfect physical manhood

3 We are in process of gro!th into the highest spiritual

manhood and !omanhood We get many falls and bumps on

the !ay, but only through these, not necessarily by them, can

our gro!th proceed 0ather and mother, no matter ho! strong

or deep their love, cannot gro! for their children+ nor can ;od,

!ho is omnipotence, at the center of our being, gro! spirituallyfor us !ithout ma#ing of us automatons instead of individuals

3' If you #eep your thoughts turned to!ard the e.ternal of

yourself, or of others, you !ill see only the things that are not

real, but temporal, and !hich pass a!ay *ll the faults, failures,

or lac#s in people or circumstances !ill seem very real to you,and you !ill be unhappy and sic#

3/ If you turn your thoughts a!ay from the e.ternal to!ard the

spiritual, and let them d!ell on the good in yourself and in

others, all the apparent evil !ill first drop out of your thoughts

and then out of your life aul understood this !hen he !rote to

the hilippians& "0inally, brethen, !hatsoever things are true,!hatsoever things are honorable, !hatsoever things are )ust,

!hatsoever things are pure, !hatsoever things are lovely,

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!hatsoever things are of good report+ if there be any virtue, and

if there be any praise, thin# on these things" $hil 4&/(

3= We all can learn ho! to turn the conscious mind to!ard

universal ind, or :pirit, !ithin us We can, by practice, learn

ho! to ma#e this everyday, topsyCturvy, "mind of the flesh" be

still and let the mind that is in ;od $allC!isdom, allClove( thin#

in us and out through us

4 Imagine, if you !ill, a great reservoir, out of !hich leadinnumerable small rivulets or channels *t its farther end each

channel opens out into a small fountain This fountain is not

only being continually filled and replenished from the reservoir

but is itself a radiating center !hence it gives out in all

directions that !hich it receives, so that all !ho come !ithin its

radius are refreshed and blessed

41 This is our relation !ith ;od -ach one of us is a radiating

center -ach one, no matter ho! small or ignorant, is the little

fountain at the far end of a channel, the other end of !hich

leads out from all there is in ;od This fountain represents the

individuality, as separate from the great reservoirCC;odCCand yet

as one !ith 9im, and !ithout 9im !e are nothing

42 -ach of us, no matter ho! insignificant he may be in the

!orld, may receive from ;od unlimited good of !hatever #ind

he desires, and radiate it to all about him But remember, he

must radiate if he !ould receive more :tagnation is death

43 Ah, I !ant the simplest mind to grasp the idea that the very!isdom of ;odCCthe love, the life, and the po!er of ;odCCare

ready and !aiting !ith longing impulse to flo! out through us

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in unlimited degreeD When it flo!s in unusual degree through

the intellect of a certain person men e.claim, "What a

!onderful mindD" When it flo!s through the hearts of men it isthe love that melts all bitterness, envy, selfishness, )ealousy,

before it+ !hen it flo!s through their bodies as life, no disease

can !ithstand its on!ard march

44 We do not have to beseech ;od any more than !e have to

beseech the sun to shine The sun shines because it is a la! of

its being to shine, and it cannot help it o more can ;od helppouring into us unlimited !isdom, life, po!er, all good,

because to give is a la! of 9is being othing can hinder 9im

e.cept our o!n lac# of understanding The sun may shine ever

so brightly, but if !e have, through !illfulness or ignorance,

placed ourselves, or have been placed by our progenitors, in the

far corner of a damp, dar# cellar, !e get neither )oy nor comfort

from its shining+ then to us the sun never shines

4% :o !e have heretofore #no!n nothing of ho! to get

ourselves out of the cellar of ignorance, doubts, and despair+ to

our !rong thin#ing, ;od has seemed to !ithhold the life,

!isdom, and po!er !e !anted so much, though !e sought 9im

ever so earnestly

4 The sun does not radiate life and !armth today and

dar#ness and chill tomorro!+ it cannot, from the nature of its

being or does ;od radiate love at one time, !hile at other

times, anger, !rath, and displeasure flo! from 9is mind to!ard

us

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4' "oth the fountain send forth from the same opening s!eet

!ater and bitter? can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a

vine figs" $6as 3&11(

4/ ;od is *llC;oodCCal!ays good, al!ays love 9e never

changes, no matter !hat !e do or may have done 9e is al!ays

trying to pour more of 9imself through us into visibility so as

to ma#e us grander, larger, fuller, freer individuals

4= While the child is crying out for its 0atherCother ;od, the0atherCother is yearning !ith infinite tenderness to satisfy the

child

"In the heart of man a cry,

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