from contentious tongues." --- Psalm 31:20

The secret place! Why called a secret place? What is it? Where may we find it? How abide in it?

It is a secret place because it is a place of meeting between the Christ at the center of your being and your consciousness --- a hidden place into which no outside person can either induct you or enter himself. We must drop the idea that this place of realization of our divinity can be given to us by any human being. No one can come into it from the outside. Hundreds of earnest persons are seeking, night and day, to get this inner revealing. They run from teacher to teacher, many of them making the most frantic efforts to meet the financial obligations thus incurred.

You may study with human teachers and from man-made books until doomsday; you may get all the theological lore of the ages; you may understand intellectually all the statements of Truth, and be able to prate healing formulas as glibly as oil flows, but until there is a definite inner revealing of the reality of an indwelling Christ through whom and by whom come life, health, peace, power, all things --- aye, who is all things --- you have not yet found "the friendship of the Lord" (Ps. 25:14).

In order to gain this knowledge --- this conscious- ness of God within themselves --- many are willing