Preface to 10 - Expansion Into Consciousness

In our first lesson we guided your thought to the parent Source or Infinite Being, and in all lessons have held you in unity with it.

We comprehend the parent Source to be the Infinite Spirit of love and goodness, and that it is for all and sustains all alike; and they who seek will find it, and they who ask for knowledge of that Source, to them it shall be given. That thought may be expanded into a full realization of this truth, it is necessary that we have faith that it is, and then think, speak and act in unison with that faith, without wavering or contradiction. So hold ye firmly to this all-inclusive truth, and practice without ceasing the truth perceived from day to day, and from lesson to lesson, and realization of unity with God will crown your effort.

Truth brings its realization and conviction from its own realm, that of reality; conviction is certainty; nothing wavering - it is faith, rest, peace. As like comprehends like, it is necessary that the ear of understanding be opened to the silence - the fountain of wisdom - that we may hear the unalterable truth which enlightens and subdues the senses, and removes self-made limitations, that we may realize that we are in the midst of the Infinite ocean of life and power, and learn to think as it thinks.

Just in proportion as you succeed will you truthfully apprehend the all-pervading Spirit, and be rewarded with knowledge and power. Extend your thought beyond limits; out-pass all form into the formless and silent; traverse all time, become eternity in thought, live in the ever present. Lift the thought above all heights, descend below all depths, that you may conceive of and know the Omnipresent Spirit, and the true relationship existing between the manifest and the unmanifest; and that all that is perceived is contained within the perceiver. To thus perceive and think is freedom, God perception, and true knowledge.

Christ is to us "the way, the truth and the life," in that he reveals the true relation of the "I am," or real self, to God. Not until we take our true position and maintain it as did he, have we placed ourselves in thought and consciousness where God hath placed us; nor can we demonstrate the Truth as it was demonstrated by Jesus. Therefore, they who believe in their union with God, shall be sanctified in the truth, and glorified in the realization of it, and shall do the things that Jesus did, i.e., make free by the power of Truth. If the motive be based aright you will seek to know the Spirit, that you may work as it works. This system of guiding thought, and expanding it into consciousness, casts out the beam from the eye and makes it single to truth; and the mental constitution is illumined with its light, and the individual ascends up into an high mountain as did Jesus, and from thence thought, radiant because it is truthful, flows out (fragrant with that love which applies alike to all - which has no respect to person) to the multitude below which are in darkness or mis-interpretation; and they who have an ear to hear will hear: i.e., they who in understanding are open to the Spirit, know the thought of Spirit, and in them that believe the material universe to be a plane of cause, and who therefore sit in darkness and in the region and shadow of death, light will spring up, which will be as a star guiding mentality to its parent Source - Spirit. Let your light so shine that the Spirit of Truth which is in heaven may be glorified.