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Index

abundance, 77

affirmation(s), 59-70, 102, 104, 121, 133-134, 136, 164; for deliverance, 13; for freedom, 92-93; four comprehensive, 62-65; of Elijah, 80; repetition of, 62, 65; specific useful- ness of, 67; to overcome timidity, 91-92

All-Good, 30, 39

All-Perfection, 23, 164

anger, to be denied, 53, 104

animal part of man, 2-3

anxiety, 67-68, 82, 125-126, 163

appearance(s), negative, 49; of evil, 51, 63, 68; of weakness, 63

argument, 29, 30, 33, 163

Artist, master, 157

asceticism, 9

ask(ing), 78, 134, 146, 159

aspiration, 59

astronomy, 97

attitude toward God, 64

automatons, 35

beauty, 125

Being, 19; statement of, 17-24

being, 8, 19, 79, 99, 106, 113-116, 120, 127, 130, 133, 139, 152, 163

beseeching, 101, 129

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Bible, 77

birth, new, 100, 106; spiritual, 98

birthright, 66

blood, 34

body, 28, 34, 38, 50, 97, 132, 144-145, 167; envy of parts of, 54; torturing, 43

bondage, 9, 92, 135, 140, 144; freedom from through denial, 54; to false beliefs, 11; to the flesh, 2, 4, 7

books, 31, 113, 119, 139

bugaboos, 48, 55

business, 74

Center, perfect, 159

center of being, 79, 113, 115, 127, 139, 143, 153, 163

channel(s), 37, 108, 151

chemicalization, 86-88

child(ren), 30, 33, 35, 39, 48, 114, 118, 131, 165

child(ren) of God, 5-6, 52, 63, 65, 69, 162, 166-167

Christ, gospel of, 165; indwelling, 6, 31, 106, 113, 115, 118, 135, 137, 139, 152, 159, 164; mind of, 121, 125; place of meeting, 113; way of, 13

Christ Spirit, 10

circumstances, 11, 34, 55, 161; can be changed, 47; controlled by thoughts, 50

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clay, 135

closet of our being, 133

comfort, spring of, 4

Comforter, 99

communion, 128, 131, 137, 140, 166

companionship, 128, 165

concentrating, 135

conditions, denial of, 50; troublesome, 47, 59, 68-69; two, for revelation, 137-138

consciousness, awakened, 164; error, 48; human, 2-3, 8, 89, 106, 116, 121, 127, 135, 137, 154, 167; inner, 12, 74, 98, 113, 118; new, 136; of indwelling Father, 99, 101-102, 111, 113, 130, 152, 159; of Mary, 117; spiritual, 76, 100, 103, 106

contradictions, seeming, 120

conversation, idle, 8

courage, 11, 67, 149

creations of God, 21

creative cause, 21

creative energy, 17

criticism, fear of, 90

cure, 98

death, power over, 99; seeming 150; unreality of, 52

decree, 61

deliver(ance), 2, 12-13, 29, 65-66, 104, 112, 115, 139, 143, 160-162

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demand and supply, law of, 60, 77-80

demons, power to cast out, 153

demonstration, 13, 150

denial(s), 43-56, 61, 67, 104, 121, 136; how spoken, 55; of fear, 54; of four common error thoughts, 52-53; repetition of, 62; specific usefulness of, 67

denominations, 158

deprivation, 46

desire(s), 23, 34, 50, 55, 59-61, 65, 68, 76, 78-81, 99, 102, 106, 108, 114, 120, 125- 127, 134-135, 144-145, 153

destiny, 4

devil, 63, 161

difference(s), 159-160

digestion, 34

disappointment, 23, 44

disciples, 119

discouragement, 35, 73, 92, 130, 137

disease, 38

dissatisfaction, 59

Divine Mind, 29, 33

divine plan, 50

divine Presence, 144, 151

divine spark, 79

Divine, prompting of within us, 60

divine voice, 102

divinity, 106, 113

doing, 8, 60

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dominion, man's, 3, 7, 20-21, 79

doubt, 67-68, 105, 134

dream, 103

education, 19

Emerson, 81, 85, 89, 101

emotional side, 114

enduement of power, 120, 126-127

energy, 126

environment, 11-12

envy, denial of, 55, 104

equilibrium, 120

error, 62, 160

error thoughts, four common, 51-52

escape, 12

establishing the word, 61 evil(s), 36, 51, 61, 63, 66, 68, 79, 112, 115, 136, 144, 161-162

experience, 35

external, 23, 28, 36, 44, 46, 64-65, 88, 99, 104, 118, 130, 137, 163

eye, single, 161-162, 164, 169

faculties, spiritual, 100

failure, seeming, 149-151, 154, 165

faith, 66, 71-82, 102, 121-122, 134-136, 144, 148, 159; blind, 74; understanding, 74-75

faith healer, 159

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false accusation, 10

false beliefs, 5, 11, 62; about God, 48; arise only in human mind, 47; can be changed, 47;

consequence of, 47 Father, access to, 23, 115; desire of, 120; indwelling, 4, 21, 46, 64, 99-100, 101, 114, 116, 118, 125, 129, 131, 139, 144, 159, 162-163, 165-168; oneness with, 51, 65, 99, 115, 136; receiving from, 120, 138; waiting upon, 127, 137

Father-Mother God, 23, 39, 78, 165-169

fear, 35, 52, 54, 68, 82, 90, 112, 152, 154

forgiveness, 10-11, 104

formulas, healing, 113

fountain(head), 10, 23, 37, 54-55, 63

fowl, 133

freedom, 55, 69, 144, 166

fulfillment, 50, 126-127, 134-135, 167

geology, 97

geometry, 75

giant, 112, 152

gift(s), 102; spiritual, 143-154; varieties of, 147-148

giving, 78, 120

God, access to, 31; as central sun, 74; as creative cause, 21, 76, 116; as invincible, 160; as love, 18, 62-63, 65, 89, 116, 126; as Omnipotence, 19, 36, 62-63, 65, 116, 147,

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163; as perfect health, 102; as personal being, 17, 18, 22; as power, 19, 89; as principle, 22, 166, 168; as Spirit, 17; as substance, 20, 62-63, 65, 76, 165-166; as total of all good, 45, 50, 76, 106; as wisdom and intelligence, 19, 62-63, 65, 89; attitude unchanged, 64, 130; business of, 108; but one, 18; cannot be sick, hurt, afraid, 64, 166; children of, 5; coming into visibility, 85, 89-91, 93; consciousness of, 113, 163; control of our thoughts, 35; cut off from, 104; deep things of, 99, 106; desire of, 80, 125, 135; displeasure of, 38-39; expression of, 46; gifts of, 107, 150, 159; giver of all good gifts, 98, 130-131, 145; happiness, health, and power from, 54; has need of you, 93; heart of, 78; held by His own laws, 61; how He regards man, 5; human longing to know, 111; immanent, 106, 158; impersonality of, 23; indwelling, 12, 111, 114, 131, 159, 164; infinite supply of, 78; in movement, 151; inner presence of, 101; invisible, 60; law of His being, 38; manifesting Himself through us, 65-66, 104, 115, 154, 158-159; motherhood of, 168; nature of, 44; need not be beseeched, 38, 101; never changes, 39, 162, 166; not an autocrat, 3; oneness with, 63, 65-66, 92, 146, 164; our attempts to limit, 157; our

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desire and power to please, 34, 73; our relation to, 37; plans of, 63; pleasing and placating, 43; promises of, 77; pushing on divine spark, 79; quantity of, made manifest, 62; revelation of, 98, 102, 105-106, 116-117; seeking, 100, 106, 120, 126; standard of faith, 73; submission to, 48; things joined together by, 75; turning to in desperation, 45, 143; waiting upon, 120-121, 126-127, 129, 133, 137, 140, 149, 151; works in stillness, 127; wrong thoughts about, 33-34, 38, 48

Godhood, realization of, 69

God-possessed, 92

good, 19, 36, 38, 55, 61-62, 64, 68, 74, 76, 7980, 102, 106, 127, 135-136, 145, 149, 160, 162; absence of, 51; all things working together for, 11; invisible, 60; God is total of, 18, 45

gospel, 165-167

grace of God, 112, 153

grain, 150, 152

gratification, 46

growth, 36, 102, 107-108, 120, 132; through prayer, 51

guidance, 106, 149

Hale, 127

happiness, 54-55, 78, 135

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harm, safe from, 115

harmony, 10, 34, 64, 120

healer(s), 106, 140

healing, 144-149, 151, 159

health, 55, 79, 97-99, 102, 104, 113, 115-116, 125, 140, 144

heart, 35, 79-80, 98, 103, 105, 111, 131-132, 143, 148, 165

heirs, 5

Holy One, 149

Holy Spirit, 108, 127, 149, 151, 163-164

homesickness, 111

hope, 138, 140

hunger, 23, 106, 111, 125

hymn, 131

hypnotism, 98

I, 21, 23, 28, 160, 163

I AM, 121

ideas, 85

idleness, 8

ignorance, 38, 44, 63, 108, 152, 158-159

illumination, 33, 120, 127, 161

ill will, 53

immunity, 112

imperfection, 104

importuning, 64, 159

individual(ity), 27-28, 36-37, 85-94, 139, 167- 168

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inefficiency, 63, 67, 90

inharmony, 10

inheritance, 6

inlet, 5-6, 108

inner presence, 100

inner working, 111-112, 117

insight, spiritual, 108, 120-121

inspiration, 68

intellect, 3, 5, 28, 30, 32, 38, 88-89, 94, 104, 114, 118-119, 167

intellectual perception, 33, 71, 98, 100, 113

intelligence, God is, 19; no absence of, 51-52

intolerance, 67

introspection, 107, 120

intuition, 74, 98, 114, 117-118

invisible, 72, 100, 153, 159

Israel, Children of, 2

jealousy, denial of, 53, 104

Jericho, walls of, 13

Jesus, as healer, 145; as seeming failure, 150; communed with Father, 138; purpose of teachings of, 99; question based on intuition, 98; talked with Mary, 117; teachings of, 104, 107; treatments for illumination, 119; typifies divine Self or individuality, 89

John the Baptist, 89

joy, 66, 78, 106, 111, 135, 139, 162; spring of, 5, 99

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kingdom of heaven, 30, 99

knowledge, of spiritual things, 30, 59, 113-114, 138, 162; of the Father, 115, 158; source of, 19; spiritual, 7

lack, 78, 121

law, 33, 76, 81, 162, 166; divine, 3, 7, 38, 61, 63-64, 80, 82, 108, 167; of demand and supply, 60, 78, 80, 133-134

lesson, 152

let, 126, 133, 136

life, 98-99, 102, 113, 116, 119, 121, 126, 144, 151-152, 167; higher, 106; new, 10, 105, 138, 152; no absence of, 52; of God, 37-38; of Spirit, 10, 163; renewing of, 132; Source of, 63

light, 32, 74, 104-109, 114, 118, 120-121, 125-126, 158, 161, 163

limitation(s), 23, 135, 151, 158-159, 165

Lord, 139-140, 164, 168

love, 7-8, 10, 79, 81, 98-99, 104, 116, 121, 125-126, 135, 139, 144, 148-149, 167; God is, 18, 50, 126; law of 3; new, 105; of parents, 36, 167; universal, 22

man, composite, 28; deals directly with Father, 115; highest manifestation, 20; inner, 89; intellectual, 33, 46, 118; outer, 88-89, 99;

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purpose of, 120; servant or child of God, 5; ultimate aim of, 12

manhood, spiritual, 36

manifestation(s), 20, 22, 27, 50, 63-64, 76, 81, 85, 114-115, 117-118, 125-126, 134, 137-139, 144, 147, 149, 151, 153-154, 158-159, 163, 167-169

Mary, 117

mathematics, 75

mechanical steps to spiritual life, 55-56, 60

meditation, 7, 137

meekness, 10

memory, 65, 67

mental scientist, 160

mental side, 114, 121

metaphysics, 31, 85, 160, 162, 165, 168

method of studying, 1

millennium, 157-158

Mind, universal, 27, 29, 32, 36-37, 85, 157

mind(s), carnal, 29, 46; cleansing of, 51; conditions of, 76; exhilaration of, 34; human, 2, 10, 12, 21, 28, 36-37, 67, 127, 130, 134, 157, 159, 160, 167-168; Infinite, 146-147; influence of, 93; laws of, 162; of Christ, 121, 125, 135; of God, 64; spiritualizing, 43; training of, 62; unawakened, 106

mind cure, 98

miracles, 148

money, 106

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Most High, 100, 105, 111-122, 137, 140

motherhood of God, 168

music, 7

name, secret, 117

Nazarene, 9, 13, 44, 77, 85, 100

need, call of, 99

negation, 53-54

neighbor's wife, 81

nervousness, 9

new birth, 100, 106

new creation, 137

ocean, 20

offspring, of God, 22

old age, unreality of, 52

omnipotence, 19, 36, 62-63, 65, 116, 147

omnipresence, 19, 51, 62-63, 65

omniscience, 19, 62-63, 65, 147 oneness with God, 50-51, 63, 65, 66, 91-92, 99, 115, 164, 167

opinion, 31-33, 105

order, of divine law, 3

orthodox, 160-161

others, service for, 106, 108, 111, 120, 138, 164

outlet, 5, 108

outreaching, 132

outspeaking, 137

outworking, 111-112, 117, 120-121

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overconfidence, 67

oversensitiveness, 9

Oversoul, 136

pain, unreality of, 52

passivity, 133, 135

patience, 32, 118

Paul, 33, 114, 121-122, 147, 149

peace, 10, 97, 102, 104, 113

Pentecost, 108

people, two classes of, 29

personality, 11, 22, 85-94, 119, 128, 168

Pharisees, 33

physiology, 97

Pilate, 10, 150

poise, 92

possessions, 44, 81, 103, 106, 111

poverty, 52, 112, 144, 161

power, 106, 125, 136, 143-144, 167-168; adverse 63; desire for, 111; enduement of, 120, 127; God is, 19; indwelling, 118; in word of faith, 61; key to, 115; kingdom of, 99; like that of Jesus, 46; lives within us, 13; new, 105; of faith, 72; of Omnipotent Love, 65; of Spirit, 140, 164; omnipotent, 116; secret of, 7; Source of, 63, 113; spring of, 4; that spiritual understanding gives, 100; the one, 51, 161; through affirmations, 67; to bring

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invisible good into expression, 60; to heal, 145; weakened through negation, 54

practice the presence of God, 7

prayer, 51, 127, 129, 161

preaching, 121, 125

Presence, 61, 103, 134, 144

pride, 90

Principle, 22, 166-168

principle(s), 68, 80, 150

prison(er), 66-67

prodigal son, 104

projections of God, 22

promises, 77

prophecy, 148

prosperity, 115

psychic plane, 128

purpose, 147, 152

quiet, 7, 136

radiating, 37, 39, 55, 121, 164

reality, 153

realization, 13, 99-102, 130, 146

reasoning, 98, 114

receiving, 78, 101, 120, 134, 138

recognition, 144, 164-165, 168

Red Sea, 4

relationship, 22

relaxing, 133

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religious science, 161

repetition of affirmations and denials, 62, 65, 131

reservoir, 37

responsibility, 68

restlessness, 111

results, 7, 34, 76, 105, 137, 152, 159, 164

resurrection, 150, 152

revealing, 99, 113, 117

revelation, 30, 32, 102, 106, 115-118, 120, 126, 137-138

reward(s), 106-107, 143

rheumatism, 35

roots, 132

rules, 31, 69

salvation, 31, 111, 117, 121, 138

satiation, 44

Scriptures,105

secret, 116, 119-120, 125, 162

secret place of Most High, 111-122; finding, 125-140

secret spring, 78

sects, 158

seed, 132, 151

seeking, spiritual, 107, 113-114

seeking God, 100-102, 106, 108, 126, 151, 159, 162

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Self, divine, 46, 89, 114, 118, 143; ignorance of, 33-34; real, 46, 64, 79; spiritual, 3, 28

self, human, 46, 162

selfish(ness), 67, 90, 101-104, 107, 126

self-reliance, 35

sense, man, 2

senses, 29, 33, 74

separateness, 28, 159, 165

serenity, 136

Sermon on the Mount, 85

servants of the Most High, 5

service, 106, 108

shoulders, stooped, 35

sick(ness), 44, 52, 63, 65, 99, 104, 112, 140, 143-144, 151, 161

signs and wonders, 134

silence, 65, 100, 114, 127-132, 135, 137

simplicity, 85

sin, 99, 140

slaves of circumstance, 5

Solomon, 103

Son, 115, 119, 132-133

soul, 28

Source, 23, 63, 137

Spirit, 17-18, 21, 27-28, 33, 37, 64, 76, 120122, 136, 139-140, 147-148, 151-153, 160-164; as Divine Mind, 29; fulfillment of our desires, 60; manifestation of, 118; of Truth, 19, 31-32, 74, 105, 115; union

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with man, 115

spirit, 33

spirits, power to discern, 148

spiritual scientist, 159

stagnation, 37, 108

"still small voice," 90, 93

still(ness), 9, 114, 121-122, 127, 132

straining, 131-132, 135, 139

strength, 67, 102

submission, 48, 144

substance, 20, 52, 60, 72, 76, 133, 146, 165

suffer(ing), 2, 11, 47, 165, 168; freedom from, 3, 143-144

sun, 38, 49, 63, 132

supplication, 129

supply, 12, 60, 63, 66, 76-77, 79-81

taking, 80, 101, 133

talk, 10

teacher(s), 19, 45, 106, 113, 117-119, 139-140, 144, 153

temporal things, 36

thanksgiving, 80, 134, 139

theology, 158

thinking, 27-39, 130, 168; false, 34, 38

Thomas Didymus, 117

thought(s), at random, 34; centered on God, 8, 164; control bodies and circumstances, 50; negative, 34-35; of Divine Mind, 33;

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of fear and grief, 35; right, 7, 34, 121, 137, 168; seed, 119; turn away from external, 104; wrong, 27, 34-35, 168

thought images, 129-130

time, 7; fullness of, 6, 105, 108

timidity, 67, 90-91

transition periods, 152

treating, 152

trust, 81, 134

Truth, 6-7, 31-34, 45, 49, 74, 93, 98, 104-105, 108, 114, 116, 121, 137, 144-146, 152-153, 159-160, 163; knowledge of, 29-30, 144; of Being, 10; repetition of, 62; revelation of, 98; search for, 6, 125-126, 143; statement(s) of, 9, 77, 104, 113, 125

truth(s), 75

understanding, 29, 86, 114, 167; spiritual, 3, 30-31, 97-109, 135

unforgiveness, 11

unity of the Spirit, 157-169

Universe, 77, 164

unknown, power to meet, 8

unselfishness, 106

vacuum, 130

varieties of gifts, 147, 154

vessel(s), 147, 157

vine, 146-147

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vision, 157-158

vivifying, 132

water, 20

weakness, 68

whole, 20, 23, 54, 102, 127, 140, 146, 160, 166

will, free, 28; infinite, 149; of God, 64, 161

willfulness, 38, 63

wisdom, 19, 135, 140, 149; of God, 38, 85, 167; Source of, 63, 99

withdrawal, 133

word(s), 85, 104-105, 116, 119, 161; form of, 66, 131; speaking, 61, 64, 125, 137, 140, 159

works, 143, 147, 152-153

worship, 111, 162

yield, to Spirit, 149

young people, 44

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