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Atom-Smashing Power of Mind

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A great many passages in this book testify to Charles
Fillmore's persistent interest in what is popularly called
atomic energy and the promise held out by its development
of a better world for mankind. As he rejoiced in the
scientific achievement of its discovery so he tirelessly
devoted his thought to its guidance into the channels of
peaceful use. On every occasion he urged those having to do
with its development to make sure that this unique form of
energy, this great gift of the Father, would not be used to
worsen life and destroy mankind.

From another standpoint Charles Fillmore's mind was simply
fascinated by the idea of the atom, this infinitesimal
particle of substance, and the enormous energy locked up in
it. At times he thought of it as the most perfect
representation in the manifest world of that divine mental
or spiritual energy which pervades all things and which,
when properly expressed through the minds of His children,
serves so greatly to glorify God. At other times he thought
of it as the very essence of this mental or spiritual
energy, Spirit-mind itself! The reader will find each one
of these standpoints set forth over and over--perhaps
vaguely and mystically at times--but ever testifying to the
alertness and vitality of Charles Fillmore's mind and his
unflagging interest in everything in his world.

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As will be readily recognized by Unity readers, the
articles appearing as chapters in this book, were
originally published in Unity magazine over a period of
half a century, one of them going back as far as the year
1898.

In the last paragraph of Chapter VIII the author gives his
readers a clear formula for dealing with the problem of the
atom:

"The great and most important issue before the people today
is the development of man's spiritual mind and through it
unity with God. . . . The taproot of all our confusion is
our failure to use our mind intelligently. We can only
think as God would have us think by adjusting our thoughts
to divine ideas. Religion and all that it implies in prayer
and recognition of God in idea and manifestation is the one
and only way out of the chaos in which we find ourselves.
We must therefore begin at once to develop this unity with
the Father-Mind by incorporating divine ideas into all that
we think and speak."

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Foreword ... 3

CHAPTER

I The Atomic Age ... 9

II The Restorative Power of the Spirit ... 18

III Spiritual Obedience ... 26

IV I AM or Superconsciousness ... 36

V The Day of Judgment ... 45

VI Thou Shalt Decree a Thing ... 50

VII Thinking in the Fourth Dimension ... 56

VIII Is This God's World? ... 63

IX Demonstrating Christ Thought by Thought ... 70

X Truth Radiates Light ... 80

XI The Only Mind ... 87

XII Contact with the Christ Mind ... 98

XIII Metaphysics of Shakespeare ... 106

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XIV The Body ... 116

XV Faith Precipitations ... 125

XVI The Seed Is the Word ... 134

XVII The Resurrecting Power of the Word ... 142

XVIII Transfiguration ... 150

XIX The End of the Age ... 160

Question Helps ... 173

Index ... 189

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The Atomic Age

Chapter I

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THE MAJORITY of people have crude or distorted ideas about
the character and the location of Spirit. They think that
Spirit plays no part in mundane affairs and can be known by
a person only after his death.

"But Jesus said, 'God is Spirit'; He also said, 'The
kingdom of God is within you.' Science tells us that there
is a universal life that animates and sustains all the
forms and shapes of the universe. Science has broken into
the atom and revealed it to be charged with tremendous
energy that may be released and be made to give the
inhabitants of the earth powers beyond expression, when its
law of expression is discovered.

"Jesus evidently knew about this hidden energy in matter
and used His knowledge to perform so-called miracles.

"Our modern scientists say that a single drop of water
contains enough latent energy to blow up a ten-story
building. This energy, existence of which has been
discovered by modern scientists, is the same kind of
spiritual energy that was known to Elijah, Elisha, and
Jesus, and used by them to perform miracles.

"By the power of his thought Elijah penetrated the atoms
and precipitated an abundance of rain. By

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the same law he increased the widow's oil and meal. This
was not a miracle--that is, it was not a divine
intervention supplanting natural law--but the exploitation
of a law not ordinarily understood. Jesus used the same
dynamic power of thought to break the bonds of the atoms
composing the few loaves and fishes of a little lad's
lunch--and five thousand people were fed.

"Science is discovering the miracle-working dynamics of
religion, but science has not yet comprehended the dynamic
directive power of man's thought. All so-called miracle
workers claim that they do not of themselves produce the
marvelous results; that they are only the instruments of a
superior entity. It is written in I Kings, 'The jar of meal
wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to
the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Elijah.' Jesus
called Jehovah Father. He said, 'The works that I do in my
Father's name, these bear witness of me.'

"Jesus did not claim to have the exclusive supernatural
power that is usually credited to Him. He had explored the
ether energy, which He called the 'kingdom of the heavens';
His understanding was beyond that of the average man, but
He knew that other men could do what He did if they would
only try. He encouraged His followers to take Him as a
center of faith and use the power of thought and word. 'He
that believeth on me, the works that I do

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shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.'

"The great modern revival of divine healing is due to the
application of the same law that Jesus used. He demanded
faith on the part of those whom He healed, and with that
faith as the point of mental and spiritual contact He
released the latent energy in the atomic structure of His
patients and they were restored to life and health.

"Have faith in the power of your mind to penetrate and
release the energy that is pent up in the atoms of your
body, and you will be astounded at the response. Paralyzed
functions anywhere in the body can be restored to action by
one's speaking to the spiritual intelligence and life
within them. Jesus raised His dead bodies in this way, and
Paul says that we can raise our body in the same manner if
we have the same spiritual contact.

"What have thought concentration and discovery of the
dynamic character of the atom to do with prayer? They have
everything to do with prayer, because prayer is the opening
of communication between the mind of man and the mind of
God. Prayer is the exercise of faith in the presence and
power of the unseen God. Supplication, faith, meditation,
silence, concentration, are mental attitudes that enter
into and form part of prayer. When one understands the
spiritual character of God and adjusts himself mentally to
the omnipresent God-Mind, he has begun

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to pray aright.

"Audible prayers are often answered but the most potent are
silently uttered in the secret recesses of the soul. Jesus
warned against wordy prayers--prayer uttered to be heard of
men. He told His disciples not to be like those who pray on
the housetop. 'When thou prayest, enter into thine inner
chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who
is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall
recompense thee.'

"The times are ripe for great changes in our estimate of
the abiding place and the character of God. The six-day
creation of the universe (including man) is described in
Genesis is a symbolic story of the work of the higher
realms of mind under divine law. It is the privilege of
everyone to use his mind abilities in the superrealms, and
thereby carry out the prayer formula of Jesus: 'Seek ye
first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you.'"

The foregoing extract is from the "Health and Prosperity"
column in Unity for May, 1927. These comments are
peculiarly applicable to the present and also to a subject
that has been agitating the public mind for some time, the
atomic bomb.

Of all the comments on or discussions of the indescribable
power of the invisible force released by the atomic bomb
none that we have seen mentions its spiritual or mental
character. All commentators have

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written about it as a force external to man to be
controlled by mechanical means, with no hint that it is the
primal life that animates and interrelates man's mind and
body.

The next great achievement of science will be the
understanding of the mental and spiritual abilities latent
in man through which to develop and release these
tremendous electrons, protons, and neutrons secreted in the
trillions of cells in the physical organism. Here is
involved the secret, as Paul says, "hid for ages and
generations . . . which is Christ [superman] in you, the
hope of glory." It is through release of these hidden life
forces in his organism that man is to achieve immortal
life, and in no other way. When we finally understand the
facts of life and rid our minds of the delusion that we
shall find immortal life after we die, then we shall seek
more diligently to awaken the spiritual man within us and
strengthen and build up the spiritual domain of our being
until, like Jesus, we shall be able to control the atomic
energy in our bodies and perform so-called miracles.

The fact is that all life is based upon the interaction
between the various electrical units of the universe.
Science tells us about these activities in terms of matter
and no one understands them, because they are spiritual
entities and their realities can only be understood and
used wisely by the spiritually developed man. Electricians
do not know what electricity is, although they use it
constantly. The Christian

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uses faith and gets marvelous results, the electrician uses
electricity and also gets marvelous results, and neither of
them knows the real nature of the agent he uses so freely.

The man who called electricity faith doubtless thought that
he was making a striking comparison when in fact he was
telling a truth, that faith is of the mind and it is the
match that starts the fire in the electrons and protons of
innate Spirit forces. Faith has its degrees of voltage; the
faith of the child and the faith of the most powerful
spiritual adept are far apart in their intensity and
results. When the trillions of cells in one's body are
roused to expectancy by spiritual faith, a positive
spiritual contact results and marvelous transformations
take place. When Jesus asked His patients, "Believe ye that
I am able to do this?" He was making such a contact. Also
when He told those to whom He ministered, "Thy faith hath
made thee whole," He used the same law. When He turned
water into wine and fed five thousand by multiplying a few
loaves and fishes, He performed in a masterly and
beneficial way what our scientists made possible in a
destructive way by releasing through the atomic bomb the
pent-up forces of Spirit.

Scientists have invented a machine that records the forces
of thought. Every thought expressed by the mind radiates an
energy as it passes through the brain cells, and this
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these radiations. Sir James Jeans, the eminent British
scientist, gives a prophecy of this in one of his books. He
says in substance that it may be that the gods determining
our fate are our own minds working on our brain cells and
through them on the world about us. This will eventually be
found to be true, and the discovery of the law of release
of the electronic vitality wrapped up in matter will be the
greatest revelation of all time.

When we awake to the fact that every breath we draw is
releasing this all-potent electronic energy and it is
shaping our lives for good or ill, according to our faith,
then we shall begin to search for the law that will guide
us aright in the use of power.

People the world over were amazed and terrified when they
read of the destruction wrought on the cities and people of
Japan by two atomic bombs. But do we realize that millions
of people are killed every year by atomic force? Doctors
tell us that it is the toxin generated in our own bodies
that kills us. What produces this destructive force? It
must be our own minds, and the remedy must also be in a
change in mind. Paul expressed this when he said, "Be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind."

All persons who have dismissed the idea of miracle in the
marvelous works of Jesus and His followers, have looked
forward to a time when the law they used would be
explained, but nearly all expected

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it to come through spiritual means. But now science has
opened up a kingdom having all the possibilities of the
kingdom of heaven taught by Jesus. However Jesus said this
kingdom is within us and would be exercised constructively
through our minds under divine law. The latest discovery of
science shows that through the development of the atom a
power will be cast right into our midst that will in its
physical aspect make the earth equal to our wildest dreams
of heaven. Broadcasting stations sending out on the ether
light, heat, power, will be established the world over, and
every householder will have receiving sets which he can
turn on or off at will. The cost will be negligible.
Lighter-than-air forms of building material will be
discovered and our dwellings will float in the air and be
transported from place to place like airplanes. Even the
climate of the whole planet may be transformed, destructive
forces no longer possible, and peace reign forever. Labor
as we now have it will disappear, production will become so
easy that a man will in a week raise enough food to last
him a year. Everybody will produce abundantly. Everybody
will have everything he wants, and no one will slave for
wages. Art, science, religion, music, and the finer things
of life will be for all the people and those who do not
expand their minds to enjoy the finer things of life will
be out of step with the times.

Our men of science have found the key that unlocks

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the door to the physical realm in the kingdom of the
heavens, but the spiritual domains are yet to be found and
their doors unlocked by the multitude.

There must be a change of mind by the people of the earth
before the tremendous uplift to be wrought by atomic energy
can become beneficial and permanent. Greed and selfishness
will find a way to exploit it to boost their ambition
unless they are taught the truth. We should therefore
redouble our efforts to show man that the power that rules
the world is within him. "Greater is he that is in you than
he that is in the world."

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The Restorative Power of the Spirit

Chapter II

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NOT ONLY our Bible but the scriptures of all the nations of
the world testify to the existence of an invisible force
moving men and nature in their various activities. Not all
agree as to the character of this omnipresent force,
universal Spirit, but it serves the purpose of being their
god under whatever name it may appear. Different nations
ostensibly believe in the same scriptures, but they have
various concepts of the universal Spirit; some conceive it
to be nature and others God. Robert Browning says, "What I
call God . . . fools call Nature."

Our Bible plainly teaches that God implanted in man His
perfect image and likeness, with executive ability to carry
out all the creative plans of the Great Architect. When man
arrives at a certain point in spiritual understanding it is
his office to co-operate with the God principle in
creation. Jesus had reached this point, and He said, "My
Father worketh even until now, and I work."

It is possible for man to form states of consciousness that
are out of harmony with the God principle, but these do not
endure, and through experience man learns to adjust his
thought to that of God. "I

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will be what I will to be" is basic in all creation and it
proves itself in the face of human reason and logic. God is
free to do as He wills, and He has implanted that same
freedom in man. When we understand this ego-forming
capacity of man and even of nature, we have the key that
unlocks the many mysteries and contradictions that appear
in every walk of life.

As the animating life of all things God is a unit, but as
the mind that drives this life He is diverse. Every man is
king in his own mental domain, and his subjects are his
thoughts. When the king of Babylon called Daniel to
interpret his dream of the image with the head of gold and
feet of clay, the prophet prefaced his interpretation with
these words, which contain in essence the kingly authority
of every man:

"Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of
heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength,
and the glory; and wheresoever the children of men dwell,
the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens hath
he given into thy hand, and hath made thee to rule over
them all: thou art the head of gold."

"Thou art the head of gold" is true of every man, but in
his ignorance man thinks he is the feet of clay. This
thought of his own inefficiency darkens his mentality, and
when the Lord attempts to communicate with him in symbols
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external sources to explain them.

People in this atomic age civilization ask why God does not
reveal Himself now as He did in Bible days. The fact is
that God is talking to people everywhere, but they do not
understand the message and brush it aside as an idle dream.
We need to divest ourselves of the thought that Daniel and
Joseph, in fact all the unusually wise men of the Bible,
were especially inspired by God, that they were divinely
appointed by the Lord to do His work. Everything points to
their spiritual insight as the result of work on their part
to that end. Daniel as a youth had been taught to worship
Jehovah, the one and only God. He restrained the gross
appetites of the flesh and thereby made himself receptive
to Spirit. "But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would
not defile himself with the king's dainties, nor with the
wine which he drank." He begged that he and his companion
be allowed to eat herbs and drink water, which was granted;
and the record says that at the end of even a ten-day test
they were in better condition physically than all the
youths that ate of the king's dainties, that God gave them
knowledge and skill, and that Daniel had "understanding in
all visions and dreams."

The body is the instrument of the mind, and the mind looks
to the Spirit for its inspiration. A very little
observation shows that the purer the mind the greater its
capacity to receive and interpret the ideas

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imparted to it by the Spirit. It does not require a
doctor's diagnosis to prove that alcohol confuses the mind
and injures the body. The daily toll of automobile
accidents proves that drivers with alcohol in their
stomachs are trifling with death. Although Paul advises
that we eat what is set before us, asking no questions,
experience proves that the advice of Daniel leads to better
health and clearer thinking. Paul is credited with a giant
intellect, but when he advised Timothy to take a little
wine for his stomach's sake, we know that he was not
inspired by the Spirit of wisdom.

Not only the Scriptures that we look to for authority in
our daily living but also the experience of ourselves and
our neighbors proves that those who cultivate communion
with the Father within become conscious of a guiding light,
call it what you will.

Those who scoff at this and say that it is all the work of
the imagination are deluding themselves and ignoring a
source of instruction and progress that they need above all
things. If this sense world were the only world we shall
ever know, the attainment of its ambitions might be
sufficient for a man of meager outlook and small capacity,
but the majority of us see ourselves and the world about us
in a process of transformation that will ultimate in
conditions here on the earth far superior to those we have
imagined for heaven.

"Great is the mystery of godliness," and still

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greater is the capacity for godliness. When Spirit responds
to the seeking mind and begins to reveal the magnitude of
that undiscovered country within us, we long for a new
language with words describing glories beyond all human
comparison. Even our so-called physical body reveals a
radiant body (which Jesus referred to as sitting on the
throne of His glory) that interlaces the trillions of cells
of the organism and burns as brightly as an electric light.
Jesus gave His apostles a glimpse of this radiant body when
He was transformed before them. "And as he was praying, the
fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment
became white and dazzling."

Jesus was very advanced, and His radiant body was developed
in larger degree than that of anyone in our race, but we
all have this body, and its development is in proportion to
our spiritual culture. In Jesus this body of light glowed
"as he was praying." Jesus' body did not go down to
corruption, but He, by the intensity of His spiritual
devotion, restored every cell to its innate state of atomic
light and power. When John was in the state of spiritual
devotion Jesus appeared to him, "and his eyes were as a
flame of fire; and his feet like unto burnished brass."
Jesus lives today in that body of glorified electricity in
a kingdom that interpenetrates the earth and its
environment. He called it the kingdom of the heavens.

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We do not have to look to the many experiences recorded in
the Bible of the spiritually illumined to prove the
existence of the spiritual supersubstance. People
everywhere are discovering it, as they always have in every
age and clime. Unless it is put under control of the Christ
Mind it takes on psychic and "spooky" expressions, which
distort the soul instead of unfolding it under divine law,
and drive its victims into our psychopathic sanatoria.
However, men will continue to pray, and prayer releases the
innate glory of God-Mind, so we must be taught how to
establish our identity with the Christ and through it to
gain the mastery of the stored-up riches of the man
invisible.

The metaphysical literature of our day is very rich with
the experiences of those who have found through various
channels the existence of the radiant body. One example is
Angela Morgan's book "Behold the Angel!" Miss Morgan's
writing in this book is a radical departure from her
well-known poetical vein. She is specific and to the point
in announcing her revelations. She says in the foreword:

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This is a book about the radiant body, the living self of
every human being; the immortal structure which is the real
self even now in this moment of time. The author, through
intense conviction and the validity of recent experience,
writes in concrete terms of what to her is as real as
flesh, bones, blood, and muscle. There is, behind this
"veil of flesh," an actual flamelike structure invisible to
our everyday, limited perception. When I say it is
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I mean it literally. . . . It is vividly alive, glorious as
the

sunrise.

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She tells of numerous instances in which she saw hands and
feet and other parts of her body lighted or really
transformed by the flame invisible.

This convincing confession of Miss Morgan prompts me to
tell of my development of the radiant body, during half a
century's experience. It began when I was mentally
affirming statements of Truth. Just between my eyes, but
above, I felt a "thrill" that lasted a few moments, then
passed away. I found I could repeat this experience with
affirmations. As time went on I could set up this "thrill"
at other points in my body and finally it became a
continuous current throughout my nervous system. I called
it "the Spirit" and found that it was connected with a
universal life force whose source was the Christ. As taught
in the Bible, we have through wrong thinking and living
lost contact with the parent life. Jesus Christ incarnated
in the flesh and thereby introduced us by His Word into the
original Father life. He said, "If a man keep my word, he
shall never taste of death." I have believed that and
affirmed His words until they have become organized in my
body. Sometimes when I make this claim of Christ life in
the body I am asked if I expect to live always in this
flesh. My answer is that I realize that the flesh is being
broken down every day and its cells transformed into energy
and life, and a new body is being formed

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of a very superior quality. That new body in Christ will be
my future habitation.

I have found that the kingdom of God is within man and that
we are wasting our time and defeating the work of the
Spirit if we look for it anywhere else.

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Spiritual Obedience

Chapter III

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I fairly sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm and spring forth
with a mighty faith to do the things that ought to be done
by me.--CHARLES FILLMORE

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ZEAL is the great universal force that impels man to spring
forward in a field of endeavor and accomplish the seemingly
miraculous. It is the inward fire that urges man onward,
regardless of the intellectual mind of caution and
conversation.

Paul, the zealot whose name was first Saul, metaphysically
is a symbol of varied significance. He was born of Jewish
parents in Tarsus, Asia Minor, a city of considerable
culture and refinement. He was reared as a Pharisee and
educated as a rabbi in schools in Jerusalem. His one
conception of salvation did not go beyond that of obtaining
it through a perfect performance of the works of the law.
But in truth he was a man of deep religious character and
worshiped the living God.

He was on his way to Damascus to persecute the disciples of
Jesus, no doubt in one instant "breathing threatening and
slaughter against the disciples of the Lord" and in the
next swearing allegiance to the living God whom he
worshiped. "As he journeyed . . . suddenly there shone
round about him a light out of heaven: and he fell upon the
earth." Because of the great blaze of illumination he was

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struck temporarily blind.

Thus through the spiritual power of his own mind,
apparently by accident, he broke into the ethers where his
consciousness was flooded with spiritual light, and he
heard the voice of Jesus saying: "Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? . . . and when his eyes were opened,
he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought
him into Damascus." This experience illumined, expanded,
and enriched his whole being, and eventually led him into
his life's work: preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to
the whole Gentile world.

Paul presents a tremendous outpouring of zeal; first on the
intellectual plane as champion of the law and the prophets,
afterward as a disseminator of the freeing doctrine of the
Christ. He was a "chosen vessel" of the Lord, and "not
disobedient unto the heavenly vision." Yet on several
occasions he allowed his zeal to run away with his better
judgment and as a result suffered many things.

Zeal should be tempered with wisdom. It is possible to be
so zealously active on the intellectual plane that one's
vitality is consumed and there is nothing left for
spiritual growth. "Take time to be holy." Never neglect
your soul. To grow spiritually you should exercise your
zeal in spiritual ways.

As children of God our place is at the right hand of the
Father. When man really realizes this, he calls down upon
himself the baptism of the Holy

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Spirit. He soon learns that obedience to Spirit increases
his power to control his thoughts and thus make his world
conform to the divine standard.

When man is obedient to Spirit he will not suffer burdens.
To trust Spirit he must know of its guidance by experience.
By those who have not learned the guidance of Spirit, that
experience must be acquired. Man is spirit and must find
himself before he can communicate with universal Spirit.

Paul had his weak points, but he was a great apostle and
made Jesus' doctrine live. No doubt the light of spiritual
understanding with which his consciousness was flooded at
the time of his conversion carried him a long way in his
ministry. His fearlessness was the strong point of his
character. To him the gospel came first and the things of
the world second. This is what made him a great apostle of
the Lord. When will and understanding are joined in
consciousness man is equal to any emergency.

Without doubt the secret of Paul's great illumination at
the time of his conversion is that in previous lives he had
built up a spiritual consciousness, and on his way to
Damascus he "stirred up" the gift that was within him. The
new race that is now being born on this planet will develop
these unused resources of the mind by realization, audible
prayer, and thanksgiving and bring to the surface the
riches of both the subconscious and the superconscious mind.

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Above all other Bible writers Paul emphasizes the
importance of the mind in the transformation of character
and body. In this respect he struck a note in religion that
had been mute up to this time; that is, that spirit and
mind are akin and that man is related to God through his
thought. Paul sounds again and again in various forms this
silent but very essential chord in the unity of God and man
and man and his body. All Christian metaphysicians are
indebted to him for many quotable Scriptures that fortify
their position that the mind is the center of man's world
around which, to him, all things revolve.

Spiritual realization changes things. In scientific prayer
realization is the high point of attainment. With
concentrated spiritual attention man can affirm in faith
that God Spirit is present and that he, man, is one with
the God presence.

That there is a certain unity also between the mind and the
elements, mystics contend, and this is borne out by the
power exercised by Jesus when He stilled the wind and
stopped the storm.

The question is often asked, Does the race mind affect
nature and to what extent? Some geologists surmised that
exploding bombs might have been the cause of the Japanese
earthquake following World War II. Science cannot verify
this surmise, although it does teach the unity of all
things.

When the scientific world investigates the so-called
miracles of religion and discovers that they

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are being duplicated continually, the power of mind over
matter will be heralded as of great importance to both
religion and science.

Prayer gives spiritual poise to the ego, and it brings
forth eternal life when spiritually linked with the Christ.
"If a man keep my word, he shall never see death."

Jesus understood the realm of divine substance, and it was
obedient to His word. He will continue to draw upon this
omnipresent source of power and also include us in its
life-giving energy if we will abide with Him in the Spirit.
When we understand the innate capacity of the mind raised
to spiritual dominion we cannot but have an increase of
faith equal to doing the works of Jesus, and even greater
works, as He promised.

Machines that measure the energy used by the mind acting on
the brain cells have already been invented, but there is no
account of the brain voltage of a person in prayer. When
such measurements have been made we shall know something of
the capacity of the mind in its highest range of
expression. Jesus also called attention to the power of a
group praying with Him. "For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them."

The first mention of this dynamic power of the Spirit is
found in Acts 1 and 2, when the early followers of Jesus
were gathered in the "upper chamber."

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They all became spiritual dynamos, as revealed in the Greek
word translated "power." These disciples had been with
Jesus for over three years, but did not have the
inspiration or power that was poured out upon them at this
historical gathering, which has ever since been an
outstanding example of the marvelous spiritual experiences
of those who are of one mind and heart in their group
worship of Jesus the Christ. It is recorded that the Spirit
came upon them like a wind and sat upon each of them in
"tongues . . . of fire."

To one who gains even a meager quickening of the Spirit,
Christianity ceases to be a theory; it becomes a
demonstrable science of the mind.

We must not anticipate better social and economic
conditions until we have better men and women to institute
and sustain those conditions.

Jesus said that He was the bread and substance that came
down from heaven. When will our civilization begin to
realize and appropriate this mighty ocean of substance and
life? A finer civilization than now exists has been
conceived by many from Plato in his "Republic" to Edward
Bellamy in "Looking Backward." But a new and higher
civilization will be developed only through the efforts of
higher and finer types of men and women. Philosophers and
seers have looked forward to a time when this earth would
produce superior men and women, but save Jesus none has had
the spiritual insight to declare,

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"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass
away, until all these things be accomplished." The Greek
word genea, here translated "generation," does not mean a
little span of thirty-three years of life, but covers the
whole race history in its multitudinous births and deaths,
incarnations and reincarnations throughout the millions of
years since we began to function in creative Mind. It is
out of this race that the new race is to come forth. "Ye
are the people." The time is at hand for those who are
spiritually ripe to stand forth and realize their spiritual
identity. Jesus pointed to this when He said, "Say not ye,
There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest?
behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, and look on the
fields, that they are white already unto harvest."

Prayer, communion with God within, realization, awakens
spiritual consciousness and develops true spiritual
character. It is the only way to cleanse and perfect the
mind and thus permanently heal the body. It is good to get
still and think about the inexhaustible resources of
infinite Mind; about its presence in all its fullness and
its readiness to manifest itself when the law is complied
with. Pray with persistence and pray with understanding. Be
instant in prayer; and never allow anything to keep you
from having your daily quiet hour of communion with God,
your own indwelling Father.

One day little Billy and Johnny were climbing

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around in an old apple tree. Finally they walked out on a
limb, and were holding to the boughs above them. But the
limb on which they were standing proved to be rotten and
gave way, and the boys came tumbling down to the ground.
Johnny was hurt and began to cry. But Billy got up with a
smile on his face and began brushing the dirt off his
clothes.

"Why ain't you hurt?" moaned Johnny. "You was out further
on the limb than me."

"I prayed," was the happy reply.

"You didn't have no time to pray," retorted Johnny.

"But it didn't catch me, because I was already prayed up
ahead," explained Billy. "So I wasn't scared. I know'd I'd
be all right."

"Behold, the man!" Jesus Christ is the type of a new race
now forming in the earth. Those who incorporate into
consciousness the Christ principles are its members. Sir
Francis Galton, the father of eugenics, says: "There is
nothing either in the history of domestic animals or in
that of evolution to make us doubt that a race of sane men
may be formed, who shall be as much superior mentally and
morally, as the modern European is to the lowest of the
primitive races." It is now being revealed in the
renaissance of Christianity, which is pouring its light out
upon the world, that this new race is forming in the souls
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earth. These are "the called" of Scripture, who are being
gathered together in spiritual consciousness, and will
eventually come forth to rule the world with Jesus Christ.
Emerson says: "Great hearts send forth steadily the secret
forces that incessantly draw great events, and wherever the
mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, no matter what
the path."

Let us remember that God is Spirit and all that emanates
from God is spiritual, including man. The dominion that God
gave to man in the beginning, as recorded in Genesis, is a
dominion over spiritual ideas, which are represented in the
allegory by material symbols. Hence to exercise his
dominion man must understand the metaphysical side of
everything in existence. Mind is at the bottom of all life
and substance. The mind was not "invented" by the brain,
but it has evolved the brain as its most efficient
instrument.

Divine Mind is the one and only reality. When we
incorporate the ideas that form Divine Mind into our mind
and persevere in those ideas, a mighty strength wells up
within us. Then we have a foundation for the spiritual
body, the body not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
When the spiritual body is established in consciousness,
its strength and power is transmitted to the visible body
and to all the things that we touch in the world about us.

In the economy of the future man will not be a

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slave to money. Humanity's daily needs will be met in ways
not now thought practical.

In the new economy we shall serve for the joy of serving,
and prosperity will flow to us and through us in rippling
streams of plenty. The supply and support that love and
zeal set in motion are not yet largely used by man, but
those who have tested this method are loud in their praise
of its efficiency.

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//section Chapter 4

I AM or Superconsciousness

Chapter IV

//text

SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS is the goal toward which humanity is
working. Regardless of appearances there is an upward trend
continually active throughout all creation. The
superconsciousness is the realm of divine ideas. Its
character is impersonal. It therefore has no personal
ambitions; knows no condemnation; but is always pure,
innocent, loving, and obedient to the call of God.

The superconsciousness has been perceived by the
spiritually wise in every age, but they have not known how
to externalize it and make it an abiding state of
consciousness. Jesus accomplished this, and His method is
worthy of our adoption, because as far as we know, it is
the only method that has been successful. It is set forth
in the New Testament, and whoever adopts the life of purity
and love and power there exemplified in the experiences of
Jesus of Nazareth will in due course attain the place that
He attained.

Jesus acknowledged Himself to be the Son of God. Living in
the superconsciousness calls for nothing less on our part
than a definite recognition of ourselves as sons of God
right here and now, regardless of appearances to the
contrary. We know that we are sons of God; then why not
acknowledge it and proceed to take possession of our God
heirdom?

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That is what Jesus did in the face of the most adverse
conditions. Conditions today are not so inertly material as
they were in Jesus' time. People now know more about
themselves and their relation to God. They are familiar
with thought processes and how an idea held in mind will
manifest itself in the body and in affairs; hence they take
up this problem of spiritual realization under vastly more
favorable conditions. An idea must work out just as surely
as a mathematical problem, because it is under immutable
law. The factors are all in our possession, and the method
was demonstrated in one striking instance and is before us.
By following the method of Jesus and doing day by day work
that comes to us, we shall surely put on Christ as fully
and completely as did Jesus of Nazareth.

The method by which Jesus evolved from sense consciousness
to God consciousness was, first, the recognition of the
spiritual selfhood and a constant affirmation of its
supremacy and power. Jesus loved to make the highest
statements: "I and the Father are one." "All authority hath
been given unto me in heaven and on earth." He made these
statements, so we know that at the time He was fully aware
of their reality. Secondly, by the power of His word He
penetrated deeper into omnipresence and tapped the deepest
resources of His mind, whereby He released the light, life,
and substance of Spirit, which enabled Him to get the
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united His consciousness with the Father Mind.

In making His great overcoming Jesus applied the principles
of Being scientifically, and He instructed His followers to
do as He did. No one can get a copyright on the principles
of Truth any more than he can get a corner on the air.
Truth is free; it is Spirit, and cannot be kept from the
spiritually minded, nor can it be confined within the
bounds of any religious organization. In the light of
modern science the miracles of the Bible can be rationally
explained as Mind acting in an omnipresent spiritual field,
which is open to all men who develop spiritually. "Ye who
have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man
shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit
upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

"He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me
in my throne."

Overcoming is a change of mind from error to Truth. The way
of overcoming is first to place one's self by faith in the
realization of Sonship, and second, to demonstrate it in
every thought and act.

The Word is man's I AM. The Holy Spirit is the "outpouring"
or activity of the living Word. The work of the Holy Spirit
is the executive power of Father (mind) and Son (idea),
carrying out the creative plan. It is through the help of
the Holy Spirit that man overcomes. The Holy Spirit
reveals, helps, and directs in this overcoming. "The Spirit

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searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." It
finally leads man into the light.

The work that the overcomer does for the world is to help
establish a new race consciousness, "new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." By being true to
his highest understanding of Truth the overcomer never
swerves to the right nor left for any reason.

As an illustration, a friend of mine who lives in a large
American city, an executive of a manufacturing corporation,
dotes on standing at a bar with a group of his associates;
and after they have all ordered liquor in one form or
another, he calls out so everyone can hear, "Buttermilk!"

This has been going on for a number of years. Whenever they
undertake to joke him about his seemingly tame choice he is
overjoyed. He feels he is testifying for the Lord and is
thankful just for the opportunity. However he says that
first one and then another of his friends has come to him
privately and asked him how he has the nerve always to turn
down the drinks. He tells them he stands in the strength of
the Lord and that it is no problem at all for him. They
usually admit they wish they had as much backbone as he.
This gives him the opportunity to present a word for the
practical use of Truth.

The mind of man is built on Truth, and the clearer man's
understanding of Truth is the more substantial his mind
becomes. It is through progressive,

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step-by-step spiritual unfoldment that Truth is
demonstrated. The truths of Being are scientific, and
undoubtedly Jesus understood and taught the properties of
the cosmic ether under the name of "the kingdom of the
heavens."

Science rightly understood is of inestimable value to
religion, and Christianity in order to become the world
power that its founder envisioned, must stress the
unfoldment of the spiritual mind in man in order that he
may do the mighty works promised by Jesus.

When Jesus went up into the mount to pray He was
transfigured before His apostles Peter, James, and John.
True prayer brings about an exalted radiation of energy,
and when it is accompanied by faith, judgment, and love,
the word of Truth bursts forth in a stream of light that,
when held in mind, illumines, uplifts, and glorifies.

Jesus recognized Mind in everything and called it "Father."
He knew that there is a faith center in each atom of
so-called matter and that faith in man can move upon the
faith center in so-called matter and can remove mountains.

He developed spiritual faith in His own mind, which moved
upon the cells of His body and released the power He used
in His resurrection and ascension.

We cannot separate Jesus Christ from God or tell where man
leaves off and God begins in Him. To say that we are men as
Jesus Christ was a man is not exactly true, because He had
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consciousness by which we separate ourselves from our true
God self. He became consciously one with the absolute
principle of Being. He proved in His resurrection and
ascension that He had no consciousness separate from that
of Being, therefore He really was this Being to all intents
and purposes.

Yet He attained no more than what is expected of every one
of us. "That they may be one, even as we are" was His
prayer.

This is all accomplished through the externalization of the
superconsciousness, which is omnipresent and ever ready to
manifest itself through us as it did through Jesus. Let
"Christ be formed in you."

In Acts 1:8 Jesus said: "But ye shall receive power, when
the Holy Spirit is come upon you."

Through the Holy Spirit, man not only has power to keep the
words of Jesus but also to do the works that He did, even
"greater works."

Modern science tells us that in the trillions of cells in
our body there are imprisoned electronic energies beyond
all possibility of estimate; that a single teardrop has
within its atoms dynamic force enough to blow up a
six-story building. Man is coming into an understanding of
how to release these mighty powers and use them in
regenerating soul and body.

Jesus taught that the realities of God are capable of
expression here in this world and that man within himself
has God capacity and power.

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Jesus was crucified because He claimed to be the Son of
God. Yet the Scriptures, which the Pharisees worshiped, had
this bold proclamation, which Jesus quoted to them from
Psalms 82:

//quote

"I said, Ye are gods,

And all of you sons of the Most High."

//text

Jesus differed from other men in that He proved by His
works that He was the Son of God, while the average man is
still striving to attain that excellency.

The reports by His followers of what He taught clearly
point to two subjects that He loved to discourse upon. The
first was the Son of God: He was the Son of God. Secondly:
We might all become as He was and demonstrate our dominion
by following Him in the regeneration.

In order to follow Jesus in the regeneration we must become
better acquainted with the various phases of mind and how
they function in and through the body.

He who has caught the significance of man, and who and what
man is, never allows himself to accept any erroneous
conclusions as to his final destiny. He does however know
there is a way provided by which he can not only free
himself from the claims of materiality but also by his
efforts open the way for many others to do likewise. No
person ever demonstrated his God-given powers in even a
small way but what he helped others to do the same.

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Preaching is good, but precept is better. "I, if I be
lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself."

In Isaiah 65:17 we read: "Behold, I create new heavens
[ideals] and a new earth [manifestation]; and the former
things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."

The body that is formed in regeneration absorbs the
substance of the body of flesh, and makes out of it a new
body in divine order, under the law of the Christ Mind. In
this process the physical body dies so that the Christ body
may live; but the spiritual ego, the I AM, remains
consciously active throughout the process of development
that Paul referred to when he said: "I die daily."

In spiritual understanding we know that all the forces in
the body are directed by thought and that they work in a
constructive or a destructive way, according to the
character of the thought. Medicine, massage, and all the
material means accomplish but incomplete, unsatisfactory,
temporary results, because they work only from the outside
and do not touch the inner springs that control the forces.
The springs can only be touched by thought. There must be a
unity between the mind of man and Divine Mind so that ideas
and thoughts that work constructively unto eternal life may
be quickened in the mind and organism of man.

Jesus unfolded the consciousness of the Absolute.

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Through the quickening of the Spirit we are loosed from all
limiting ideas and are set free in the Christ consciousness
or realization of the Absolute. The consciousness of the
Lord Jesus Christ is of limitless life, strength, power,
wisdom, love, and substance that are everywhere present,
always present.

We are told in John that the world could not contain the
books that would be written if all the things that Jesus
did were put into writing. But enough is given in the story
of His life and in the writings of the apostles concerning
Him to bear witness to that which is daily being revealed
in this day of fulfillment. Those who are consecrated to
Truth and fully resolved to follow Jesus all the way are
spiritualizing the whole man, including the body, which is
being redeemed from corruption. Those who are living as
Jesus lived are becoming like Him. "God is not the God of
the dead, but of the living."

Resurrection takes place in people who are alive. One does
not go into the grave to be resurrected and to enter the
heavenly state of those raised in Christ.

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//section Chapter 5

The Day of Judgment

Chapter V

//text

AS WE COME to a realization of an entirely different
consciousness new relations are set up that it is sometimes
difficult to explain to one who believes in time and space.

In the Bible description of the "day of judgment" the Son
of man has always been represented as Jesus Christ, who is
to be surrounded by angels and sit on a throne passing
judgment after death upon the just and the unjust. But we
understand the Son of man to be the spiritual man, that
which is ideal, unlimited, and divine. We come into
entirely different relations when we affirm, "I am a divine
being." When we affirm this we begin to pass judgment. We
are the same man, but divine ideas (angels) must come into
our consciousness. Then we begin to judge and know that our
everyday thoughts are different from our divine, ideal
thoughts. We judge between our good thoughts and our evil
thoughts, our unlimited and our limited thoughts.

It is said we are to be judged after death according to
deeds done in the body, which are kept on record like books
that are balanced; and if the balance is found to be in our
favor we go up, and if against us we go down. But if we are
spiritual now--divine--this spiritual part has dominion,
and we begin to exercise this dominion. The moment we

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catch sight of this we begin to judge. We begin to put the
thoughts that are good on the right and the others on the
left. All our ideas of the attributes of our divine self we
put on the right hand of power, while the thoughts of
disease, death, limitation and lack we put on the
left--denied, cut off.

This is not to occur after death. It is to begin right now!

We don't say that all is evil; that would be mental
suicide. We just say it is a "goat thought." We do not kill
it but transform it.

After separating our innocent sheep thoughts, we begin to
have fine, high, discriminating judgment.

Then the Son of man has come in His glory, surrounded by
His angels (ideas). We know that He is limitless. "I am now
a son of God," we say. "I am divine." These angels (ideas)
take their places on the throne with the Son of man and
judgment begins immediately.

Then today is the day of judgment!

We may have the perception and may see the angels (ideas)
but we have not passed judgment. We do not judge until we
begin to deny and affirm. Judgment commences the moment you
accept the truth of your divine sonship.

"Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come,
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation of the world."

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Who is the king? The center of consciousness, the I AM, and
the I AM has power to just the extent you have the courage
to assert your power. We must all step forth and assert,
"All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on
earth." If the central spark is like the divine, then we
have all power.

We are here as the king, and we say to our true thoughts
(angels), "Come . . . inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world." Then all is ours. There
is no limit. We ask what we will and it is done unto us.
All good that we can conceive of is now ours. Is there
evidence of the oak in the acorn? No! But there is a
pattern of an oak there, and this pattern or image is what
makes the tree. The image in mind makes the condition.

Now is the time to plant the seed thought of the conditions
we desire by saying, "Come my good thoughts, let us inherit
our kingdom."

We do not fear anything, for we have separated our sheep
from the goats; we have set our true thoughts on the right
and have denied our error thoughts any power whatever.

"I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye
gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked,
and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in
prison, and ye came unto me."

We understand that our good thoughts always

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minister to us in days of despondency and discouragement.
We rest in the thought that we have done a good deed in
such and such an instance or that we have been good at such
and such a time. These are the thoughts that minister to
us. These thoughts are not conscious; but they are laying
the foundation for the coming of the Lord, so they say:
"When saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and
gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee
in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick,
or in prison, and came unto thee?"

Every thought of goodness makes a place, a form, and sets
up a friendly habit in the mind that is permanent and that
in your time of need ministers to you. You are glad to
accept this ministry, for you have done good because the
Spirit of good is working through you. Thus you reap the
benefit of all the good you have ever done or thought. Your
thoughts give back results of the same nature as
themselves. If in the silence you have earnestly held to
the pure and good you have built in you a place for the
pure and good. Every true thought has made a place in your
mind and when you are about to judge you will recognize it,
although you did not realize it at the time you sent it
forth.

We are carried along by these thoughts until we reach the
consciousness of our I AM power. We do not know we are
building ourselves, our environment, our world, until we
reach this consciousness.

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Then judgment of our world begins and is passed on our
thought creations. Suppose we have tried to cast the beam
out of our eye so that we might help our brother. This act
will answer in our judgment day, "I was that 'least' one."

Come into the kingdom of mind. Here everything that is in
Principle is yours.

These error thoughts and misconceptions of Truth are only
age-lasting, not everlasting.

Everything, all good, is to be gathered up, and everything
is good at its center. The essence of your body is good and
of true substance. When you sift your consciousness of all
but the real and true, the body becomes full of light.

The diamond owes its brilliance to the perfect arrangement
of the innumerable little prisms within it, each of which
refracts the light of the other. Man's body is made up of
centers of consciousness--of light--and if arranged so they
radiate the light within you, you will shine like the
diamond. All things are in the consciousness and you have
to learn to separate the erroneous from the true, darkness
from light. The I AM must separate the sheep from the
goats. This sifting begins right now and goes on until the
perfect child of God is manifest and you are fully rounded
out in all your Godlike attributes.

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//section Chapter 6

Thou Shalt Decree a Thing

Chapter VI

//quote

As imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

--SHAKESPEARE

//text

TO DECREE with assurance is to establish and fix an ideal
in substance. The force behind the decree is invisible,
like a promise to be fulfilled at a future time; but it
binds with its invisible chains the one who makes it. We
have only a slight conception of the strength of the
intangible. We compare and measure strength by some strong
element in nature. We say "strong as steel." But a very
little thought will convince us that mental affirmations
are far stronger than the strongest visible thing in the
world. The reason for this is that visible things lack
livingness. They are not linked with energy and
intelligence as are words. Words charged with power and
intelligence increase with use, while material things
decrease.

It is not necessary to call the attention of metaphysicians
to the fact that all visible things had their origin in the
invisible. The visible is what remains of an idea that has
gradually lost its energy. Scientists say that this
so-called solid earth under our feet was once radiant
substance. Nothing is really "solid"

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but the atomic energy latent in everything. They tell us
that it takes some six billion years for uranium to
disintegrate and become lead, and this rate of
disintegration has helped scientists determine the age of
the earth as about two billion years.

Since nothing is lost in the many transformations that
occur in nature, what becomes of the energy that is being
released in the disintegration that is going on in our
earth? The answer is that a new earth is being formed in
which matter will be replaced by atomic energy. This
process of refining matter into radiant substance is taking
place not only in the natural world but in our bodies also.
In fact the speed with which the transformation takes place
depends on the character of the thoughts that we project
into our brains and through them into our bodies and the
world about us. This is why we should spiritualize our
thoughts and refine the food we eat to correspond. The
press announces a great shortage of meat all over the
world, with alarming predictions of malnutrition and race
deterioration. Instead of a calamity this meat shortage
will prove a blessing. New and better foods will be found
to replace the corrupt flesh with which people have been
stuffing their stomachs. The call for stimulants that the
fermenting mess produces in digestion will diminish, and a
purer, sweeter body and saner mind will follow. The peoples
of Europe, forced by the economic conditions brought about
by wars, are adopting a

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simpler diet, with better health; so says the public press.
Thus what seems calamity turns out to be a source of joy.

At the present writing there is a housing shortage
everywhere and the lack of materials and competent labor
indicate that several years will elapse before the need is
met. This is counted a calamity; but is it? The inventive
genius of man is planning houses of glass and other
materials that will be much less expensive--more durable
and in every respect superior to the present homes. When
man gets his ingenious mind into action he always meets
every emergency with something better. These many examples
of the power of man's mind should make us pause when we are
tempted to consider any situation disastrous or nearly so.
Every adverse situation can be used as a spur to urge one
to greater exertion and the ultimate attainment of some
ideal that has lain dormant in the subconsciousness. The
pessimist moans, "I could make a better world than this."
The optimist sings, "Go to it; that's what God put you here
for."

People everywhere on earth are now realizing as never
before that the well-being of this world rests with its
inhabitants. It is no longer a religious dogma or a
philosophical theory that the destiny of the race is in the
hands of man. God has given all things to us to use as we
shall determine. We can use the atomic energy to destroy or
construct as we decree. "Behold, I set before you the way
of life and the

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way of death."

The dominion and authority God gave to His
image-and-likeness man has assumed such reality that even
the most trivial person can understand it and tremble at
the prospect of what might come to pass if that dominion
were used by vicious men.

Those who have recklessly gone on living without seeking
the wisdom of the source of life are now asking what shall
be done to save us from the insanity that would destroy our
world.

The one and only answer, of course, is that the moral and
spiritual standard of the race must be raised the world
over as the one and only ultimate source of safety. This
means that every person must begin on himself and, as it
dawns, let the light shine by imparting it to others. If
this method were followed universally the millennium would
be upon us in a marvelously short time.

This is not a religious question but a matter of life or
death; not a question of hell after death but of survival
here and now of everybody and everything one holds dear.
There are Hitlers still alive and others reincarnating.
They must all be educated morally and taught the nearness
of the spiritual man and the necessity of his incorporation
into the consciousness of the natural man before permanent
life can be established in the individual. This work is to
be done for our race right here on this planet, and for
this reason we who love the Lord and greatly

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desire that His law be fulfilled are calling on all people
to make haste and accept the abundant life and light that
He so freely offers.

The Bible records many instances where marvelous results
followed the observance of religious rites in which
trumpets took a leading part. The priests under Moses were
ordered to blow trumpets before the Ark; Gideon and his
three hundred overcame a large army of Midianites by
flashing lights, shouting, and blowing trumpets; the walls
of Jericho fell as the result of trumpet and voice
vibrations. Isaiah says: "And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall
come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria [the
psychic realm], and they that were outcasts in the land of
Egypt [materialism]; aud they shall worship Jehovah in the
holy mountain in Jerusalem [spirituality]."

The trumpet sets up sharp vibrations in the ether, which
cause disintegration when they impinge upon an object in
the mental or material realms. These realms Isaiah
symbolically refers to as Assyria and Egypt. Trained
metaphysicians produce like results through the spiritual
word, uttered audibly or silently or both. It is in this
field of Spirit that Unity people are destined to do a
great work in helping to educate people everywhere. By
declaring and decreeing spiritually the words of Jesus and
Jehovah we send into the ether a spiritual force that
shatters

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the fixed states of consciousness holding millions in evil
ways. In this way the doors of mental prisons will be
opened to multitudes of sin-bound souls. Anyone who has
faith in Spirit and the power of the word spoken in faith
can send it forth, and like the radio oscillation, it will
be picked up by receptive minds everywhere.

"Let your light shine before men; that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven."

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//section Chapter 7

Thinking in the Fourth Dimension

Chapter VII

//text

SCIENTISTS TELL us that the discoveries that their efforts
are revealing convince them that they are just on the verge
of stupendous truths. Christianity spiritually interpreted
shows that Jesus understood the deeper things of God's
universe. He understood exactly what the conditions were on
the invisible side of life, which is termed in His teaching
the "kingdom of God" or the "kingdom of the heavens." We
are trying to connect His teaching with modern science in
order to show the parallel; but as He said in Mark 4:23,
"if any man hath ears to hear, let him hear." This means
that we must develop a capacity for understanding in terms
of the atomic structure of the universe.

Unless we have this spiritual capacity we do not
understand. We think we have ears, but they are attuned to
materiality. They do not get the radiations from the
supermind, the Christ Mind. Physiology working with
psychology is demonstrating that hearing and seeing can be
developed in every cell in the body, independent of ears
and eyes. We hear and see with our minds working through
our bodies. This being true, the capacity to hear may
extend beyond the physical ear into the spiritual ethers,
and we should be able to hear the voice of God. This
extension of hearing is what Jesus taught. "If any man

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hath ears to hear, let him hear."

Then we are told that we must "take heed" what we hear.
Many of us have found that as we develop this inner,
spiritual hearing, we hear voices sometimes that do not
tell the truth. These deceptive voices can be hushed by
affirming the presence and power of the Lord Jesus Christ.

As you unfold your spiritual nature, you will find that it
has the same capacity for receiving vibrations of sound as
your outer, physical ear has. You do not give attention to
all that you hear in the external; you discriminate as you
listen. So in the development of this inner, spiritual ear
take heed what you hear: discriminate.

Jesus said, "For he that hath, to him shall be given: and
he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that
which he hath." How can what a man has not be taken away?
We believe in our mortal consciousness that we have
attained a great deal, but if we have not this inner,
spiritual consciousness of reality our possessions are
impermanent. Then we must be careful what we accumulate in
our consciousness, because "he that hath, to him shall be
given." The more spiritual Truth you pile up in your mind,
the more you have of reality, and the larger is your
capacity for the unlimited; but if you have nothing of a
spiritual character, what little you have of intellectual
attainment will eventually be taken away from you.

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The kingdom of the heavens, the new dimension of mind and
energy that is being unfolded today in the spiritual ethers
by the discoveries of the scientists, should not be
divorced from the kingdom of heaven taught by Jesus. Jesus
taught in parables because His listeners were not trained
in science.

We know that the kingdom of the heavens or kingdom of God
is not a place in the skies but an ideal state in creative
mind, ready to be ushered into the minds of men.

We have thought that this kingdom of God was to be
introduced into the world in a miraculous way. At the very
beginning of His ministry Jesus announced, "The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand"; but it did
not then appear. He said, "The kingdom of God cometh not
with observation." Its source is not in outer things; it
comes from sources within man. So we know that we must
develop spiritual understanding and spiritual power in some
respects exceeding that of Jesus. "He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater." Man is
the outpicturing of the infinite and creative Mind, and all
the capacity of this great Mind is his by inheritance.

Jesus taught that man is the light of God. Without man God
should be deaf and dumb and blind. Did you ever think that
you are God's ears and God's mouth and God's eyes? You have
doubtless heard these statements before, but you have taken

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them metaphorically; but it is true that man is God,
formulated.

God is Spirit, it is plainly taught, and the omnipotent,
omnipresent essence from which all things proceed. Both
science and religion agree on the fundamental fact that God
is the source of all creation. Just how God puts Himself
into His creation is not so universally understood or
accepted. But Paul says that God is in us all and through
us all and above us all; that is, God saturates us. God as
Spirit is the ether or soil in which we grow as human
plants.

Jesus compared this soil of God to the soil necessary to
the vegetable kingdom, in which seed is cast and springs up
and grows and unfolds by a series of orderly stages: "first
the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear."
This seed is the God word, and it is tremendously prolific,
much more so than any material seed.

When man points his mind toward God and allows his zeal to
run in a single channel, he may become God-intoxicated.
Peter the Hermit became intoxicated with the idea that God
wanted Jerusalem rescued from Moslem rule, and he rode up
and down Europe on his little mule shouting, "God wills
it." His fanatical zeal started the Crusades that rolled
from Europe to Palestine for nearly two hundred years.

When we recognize that great teachers and leaders of the
race have really developed and expressed

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a superconsciousness that is potential in all persons, we
have raised the hopes and the capacities of men from the
human to the divine. These scientific discoveries are
proving that God is impartial and absolutely just in all
His relations with humanity. When the natural world is
scientifically and universally revealed, a great school of
instruction in soul unfoldment will be established right
here in our midst, and its results will be beyond all our
present imaginings.

The mysteries of the supermind have always been considered
the property of certain schools of occultists and mystics
who were cautious about giving their truths to the masses
for fear that in their ignorance these might misuse them.
But now the doors are thrown wide open, and whosoever will
may enter in.

Our attention in this day is being largely called to the
revolution that is taking place in the economic world, but
a revolution of even greater worth is taking place in the
mental and spiritual worlds. A large and growing school of
metaphysicians has made its advent in this generation, and
it is radically changing the public mind toward religion.
In other words, we are developing spiritual understanding,
and this means that religion and its sources in tradition
and in man are being inquired into and its principles
applied in the development of a new cosmic mind for the
whole human family. So we need

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a larger realization of the importance of man and the
importance of every one of us in manifesting the God who is
Spirit.

We have thought that the burden rested on God alone and
that we were merely puppets in His hands; but Jesus taught
otherwise, and our science proves that man dominates nature
when he affirms his mental supremacy. We are told that
today we have invented machines that can produce faster
than we yet know how to use, that our markets may be
glutted with the products of these mechanical inventions,
and that the products may become so cheap that those who
produce them will come to want. We have wished that
everything we touched might turn to gold; it has come to
pass and we are paralyzed by the pressure of the stuff we
have piled up in our ingenuity and selfishness. We cannot
eat it ourselves, and our greed makes us fearful that we
shall lose all of it if we pass it out freely to others.

So the great need of the whole human family is to know this
one supreme law of God as Spirit manifesting itself in the
mind of man. It is then necessary that we understand our
own importance as God manifestations. We should understand
that we are not separate nor insignificant but the vital,
important, integral parts of a mighty whole. Jesus realized
the importance of the superman as a thinking power
expressing God-Mind when He said, "No one cometh unto the
Father, but by me."

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We have thought that we were to accept Jesus as our
Saviour, that He made propitiation for our sins, and that
that was what He meant when He said we could not reach the
Father except through Him. We have thought that He meant
His personality and His great sacrifice; and we now have to
admit that in its deeper, spiritual significance this is in
a measure true. But in a more personal and intimate way we
are vitally and spiritually intersphered with the Christ
Mind in God, and we cannot measure up to and express our
divinity unless we accept Jesus' standard of the importance
of man and the necessity of man in the great creative
scheme of life.

All persons in rare moments catch glimpses of this creative
plan as a whole, and of man's importance in its beauty and
perfection.

But this subject is so deep and so far-reaching that it can
be realized in small degree only by those who have
developed spiritual sight and feeling, and practice
thinking in the fourth dimension, or kingdom of God.

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//section Chapter 8

Is This God's World?

Chapter VIII

//text

WHY DOESN'T God do something about it?" This oft-repeated
query, uttered by the skeptical and unbelieving, is heard
day in and day out. Imitating the skeptics, Christian
believers everywhere are looking to God for all kinds of
reforms in every department of manifest life and also are
charging Him with death and destruction the world over.

One who thinks logically and according to sound reason
wonders at the contradictions set up by these various
queries and desires.

Is God responsible for all that occurs on this earth, and
if not all, how much of it?

The Bible states that God created the earth and all its
creatures, and last of all man, to whom He gave dominion
over everything. Observation and experience prove that man
is gaining dominion over nature wherever he applies himself
to that end. But so much remains to be gained, and he is so
small physically that man counts himself a pygmy instead of
the mental giant that he is.

All the real mastery that man attains in the world has its
roots in his mind, and when he opens up the mental realm in
his being there are no unattainables. If the conquests of
the air achieved in the last quarter of a century had been
prophesied the

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prophets would have been pronounced crazy. The fact is that
no one thinking in the old mind realm can have any
conception of the transformation of sound waves into
electromagnetic waves and back again into words and
messages of intelligence. Edison admitted that his
discovery of the phonograph was an accident and that he
never fully understood how mechanical vibrations could be
recorded and be reproduced in all forms of intelligent
communication.

Reasoning in terms of matter, no one can understand how
words and music and pictures can be carried over long
distances through space without conflict and then be
reproduced by a mechanical device with perfection and
accuracy.

Now that man has broken away from his limited
visualizations and mentally grasped the unhampered ideas of
the supermind, he is growing grandly bold and his technical
pioneers are telling him that the achievements of yesterday
are as nothing compared to those of tomorrow. For example,
an article by Harland Manchester condensed in the Reader's
Digest from Scientific American tells of the "micro-waves"
that are slated for a more spectacular career in the realm
of the unbelievable than anything that has preceded them.
This article describes in detail some of the marvels that
will evolve out of the utilization of microwaves, among
which may be mentioned "private phone calls by the hundreds
of thousands sent simultaneously over the same wave

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band without wires, poles or cables. Towns where each
citizen has his own radio frequency, over which he can get
voice, music, and television, and call any phone in the
country by dialing. Complete abolition of static and
interference from electrical devices and from other
stations. A hundred times as much 'space on the air' as we
now have in the commercial radio band. A high-definition
and color television network to cover the country. And,
perhaps most important of all, a nation-wide radar network,
geared to television, to regulate all air traffic and
furnish instantaneous visual weather reports to airfields
throughout the land."

Add to this the marvels promised by the appliers of atomic
energy and you have an array of miracles unequaled in all
the bibles of all the nations of the world.

It is admitted by those who are most familiar with the
dynamic power of these newly discovered forces that we do
not yet know how to protect our body cells from the
destructiveness of their vibrations. Very thick concrete
walls are required to protect those who experiment with
atomic forces. One scientist says that the forces released
from the bombs that were used on the Japanese cities in
1945 may affect those who were subjected to them and their
descendants for a thousand years. Experimentation proves
that we have tapped a kingdom that we do not know how to
handle safely.

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It is quite obvious that these forces, if they could be
utilized, would vastly improve our standard of living and
that they were planned for us by creative Mind. If we
cannot control them, why did God allow us to discover them?
And now that we are turning them loose in space all about
us, what are we going to do about it? Also how do we
reconcile this situation with the observation of the
Psalmist:

//quote

"Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet."

//text

The fact is that we have reached a point in race evolution
where we are forced to give attention to the refinement of
the body. Our religion has too long taught that the body is
dust and ashes and that it is its destiny to die and be
left to the worms. The deterioration of the body cells must
be arrested and a new and more powerful life force injected
into the physical organism. This is plainly part of the
teaching of Jesus. He said, "I came that they may have
life, and may have it abundantly." He told his followers
that when they went to that upper room in Jerusalem they
would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit with power.
The original Greek says that they would receive dynamic
energy. All baptisms with Spirit impart vitalizing life to
the recipient, and the joy of quickened vitality should be
felt and retained as part of the physical regeneration.

The divine unction imparted by spiritual baptism

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also contains all the healing forces of X rays, ultraviolet
rays, sunshine, and in fact all the radiant restorative
forces now so widely used as healing agents. But the energy
imparted by Spirit is so tempered that it never injures but
always heals. That this is not true of the shocks given by
mechanical generators is evidenced by the scars they often
leave. A prayer treatment by an experienced spiritual
healer is a baptism, with power proportioned to the
spiritual understanding of the healer. The lowest method of
imparting spiritual baptism is by the laying on of hands
and prayer. The highest is realizing the Holy Spirit
presence and its expression through the power of the word.
Jesus began His ministry by doing the former, but at the
end He sent His word and healed by means of it.

God created the fundamental ideas culminating in the idea
of ideal man. This ideal man has power to mold God's
creation into any manifestation he may choose. If he
consults the Father and projects his thoughts in accordance
with the law, perfect manifestation follows. As Jesus said,
"My Father worketh even until now, and I work."

One who understands this relation of man to his creator can
assert with confidence that this is man's world and always
will be. By right thinking man can have the co-operation of
God in producing manifestations and thereby can set up the
kingdom of God in the earth; or he can ignore God and
attempt

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to form a world and govern it without divine aid. We are
now living in a civilization dominated by human thought,
and confusion is the result.

How many ages and aeons have passed since man lost contact
with God no one can tell. We have about six thousand years
of history and no heavenly conditions are recorded. Caves
and sand drifts reveal the remains of man in combat with
the gorilla for half a million years, with man himself sunk
almost to the level of the monkey. When man dropped out of
the ethers and became one of the primates mortal
understanding has not yet discerned, but the distortions in
the earth and all nature bear evidence of a terrible shock.

We know that our home is not altogether on the earth but
also in the air, over which we must gain dominion before we
can have a fit dwelling place. We are now gaining this
dominion by mechanical means. This will be followed by the
development of a human organism that, unified with Spirit,
will transport us everywhere in air and on earth.

The great and most important issue before the people today
is the development of man's spiritual mind and through it
unity with God. There seem to be things in more immediate
need of being done to alleviate present conditions, but the
taproot of all this confusion is our failure to use our
minds intelligently. We can only think as God would have us
think by adjusting our thoughts to divine ideas. Religion

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and all that it implies in prayer and recognition of God in
idea and manifestation is the one and only way out of the
chaos in which we find ourselves. We must therefore begin
at once to develop this unity with the Father mind by
incorporating divine ideas into all that we think and speak.

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//section Chapter 9

Demonstrating Christ Thought by Thought

Chapter IX

//quote

Behold, what God hath wrought!

An ideal man, a mighty man--

A man supreme, who thought by thought

Must demonstrate what God hath wrought.

--CHARLES FILLMORE

//text

MANIFEST MAN, personal man, began evolving the ideal man,
that is, "putting on Christ," ages and aeons ago. We are
now nearly midway in this evolution. The age of this
evolution might be determined if we could count the
trillions of cells in our body where are inscribed the
experiences we had in the ages we have lived. However we
know by inspiration and analogy that our conscious creation
began with this earth. If science says the earth has been
two billion years in evolving, that is our age. When the
morning stars were forming we were here.

He who reads the "signs of the times" discerns spiritually
that we are now in the midst of a race transition in which
we are taking a very pronounced upward swing in the
development of the ideal man implanted in us in the
beginning. A new concept of God, man, and the universe is
upon us. We must realize all this and go upward with the
mighty urge

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for higher things. Will God take us up to an imaginary
heaven in a chariot of fire, or do we use our mind to lift
ourselves heavenward? "God helps those who help themselves"
holds good in the heavens as in the earth. We begin right
where we are to bring forth the kingdom of God within us.
Every problem of life can be successfully solved if we
begin with the use of the I AM on the various planes of
mind. It is not we alone; it is when we realize that we can
connect ourselves with the Father-Mind and prove what Jesus
said--"I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in
me doeth his works"--that our potential almightiness begins
to appear.

If you are given to worry and anxiety, think about the
fearless confidence and trust of the Spirit. This will at
once relieve your mind of the thoughts that have stirred
you, and the power of the Spirit will begin its work of
straightening out your affairs. If you are overwhelmed with
material work and the call of the outer world, stop and
concentrate in the I AM and say: "I am Spirit. I do not
believe in matter or material conditions. I have power,
because I know that all power is in Divine Mind. Divine
Mind now sets my thoughts and all my affairs in divine
order, and I rest in the confidence and peace of the
kingdom within."

You can have a well body, but you must begin to build it
with your word. Instead of laying up weak and sick words in
your body, begin now to

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speak words of strength and health--and keep at it. Do not
look at what has been. Lot's wife tried that, and she never
got beyond the past. Clear out of your mind all rubbish
about disease, and you will find that none has any lodgment
in your body. The thought makes the body and determines the
condition it lives in. Thoughts of health are living,
eternal things, and they work with the irresistible power
of almightiness to tone up the organism to their own high
state of harmony and capability.

There is but one way to establish harmony in the home, and
that is to establish it first in the individual. It is the
law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to
us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving
and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our
environment, we must establish it within ourselves. We must
faithfully and persistently deny the appearance of that
which seems to be inharmonious and silently and faithfully
affirm the omnipresent peace, love, and harmony that we
want to see manifested. That which we hold in consciousness
will be made manifest for us, therefore we should not hold
the thought of anything that we do not want to see appear.

There is a relation between thinking and eating, and as you
grow spiritually the character of your food and all that
pertains to eating may have to be changed in conformity
with the new order of things. If you will leave meat and
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your food you will see a change for the better. But above
all, keep your thought mastery and do not be controlled by
appetite. Do not fear to eat. Eat with thanksgiving and
bless your food.

If you are looking to mental science alone for help you are
certain to be disappointed; "for neither is there any other
name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must
be saved" than the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus' teaching is
something deeper and farther reaching than mere mental
science. It is not something that works things out for us
in the personal but is a power that transforms the whole
man.

Here is what Judge Troward said on this subject:

//quote

I have studied the subject (mental science) now for several
years, and have a general acquaintance with the leading
features of most of the systems which unfortunately occupy
attention in many circles at the present time, and I have
no hesitation in saying that to the best of my judgment all
sorts and descriptions of so-called occult study are in
direct opposition to the real life-giving Truth.

We hear a great deal in these days about "initiation," but
believe me, the more you try to become a so-called
"initiate," the further you will put yourself from living
life. I speak after many years of careful study and
consideration when I say that the Bible and its revelation
of Christ is the one thing really worth studying, and it is
a subject large enough in all conscience, embracing as it
does our outward life of everyday concerns, and also the
inner springs of our life and all that we can in general
terms conceive of as life.

//text

Just in proportion as a person yields willingly and
obediently to the transforming process does he

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demonstrate the Truth. All that pertains to self must be
put away as fast as it is revealed, and that which is of
the universal, the Christ, must take its place.

Be still and witness the salvation of the Lord. You
doubtless fully know that this stillness in the secret
place of the Most High is not mental torpor, but a quiet
tranquillity that holds itself in an equipoise of spiritual
security. You have done your part when your true word has
gone forth. Now rest at the center and say: "It is well;
Thy work is sure; I am satisfied." Do not argue with
anyone, nor discuss the matters that you have submitted to
Spirit; simply say, "All is well; it is finished."

Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind
what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no
difference how small or how large the thing you want to do
may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability
to do it, you will do it. Nothing can in any way impede or
defeat you. Faith is the highest expression of belief or
confidence. It is that something in man which says: "I
believe in the possibilities of things that I cannot see. I
believe in the possibility of Divine Mind doing in this
age, right now, everything that was ever done in any age."
When we believe this and hold to it, putting aside all
doubt and whatever suggests failure, the thoughts of faith
begin to accumulate substance, and fulfillment follows.

In order to realize Truth and to demonstrate it

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you must live it. If anyone appears careless, simply deny
it and affirm order and harmony. Allow nothing in the
external to disturb your poise and dominion. That is the
way of love. When you refuse to see negative things they
will disappear, and you will be surprised to see how you
will change. Your mind, body, and affairs are the
expression of your thoughts, so if you are not happy,
change your mental habits. This may not seem practical to
you at first, but if you will faithfully practice the
Golden Rule and send only thoughts of love to everyone, you
will witness practical results. You can cultivate the habit
of seeing the good, the true, the bright side of every
subject, and then with your friends you can bring this side
out in conversation, thus keeping yourself positive and
poised, and at the same time sowing the seed of Truth in
the minds of others.

The "leading of the Spirit" is not something mysterious.
When you open your mind to the wisdom of God in the
silence, you should claim in faith that you have received,
and trust that the Spirit does guide you. "Christ Jesus . .
. was made unto us wisdom"; and the more you affirm that
Christ is your wisdom the more you will realize the order
and harmony that result from the directing power of divine
wisdom. But do not be surprised and disappointed if
everything does not work out according to your old ideas.
The all-seeing Mind should not be judged by the dim and
short vision of the mortal. What may

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at first seem to you failure may prove to be a clearing
away of rubbish that will open the way in mind to a larger
life.

Jesus showed by His life and teachings that it is the will
of God for men to be well. A clear understanding of this is
necessary if one wants to demonstrate health. Where there
is a belief that God wills sickness and suffering, His love
and power are shut out of consciousness. Spiritual healing
depends on faith, and there cannot be faith while the mind
is holding thoughts directly opposed to the possibility of
healing. It is therefore very necessary to dwell much on
the love and power of God so that a steady, unwavering
faith may be established.

The subconscious realm of mind is the realm that contains
all past thoughts. First, we think consciously and this
thought becomes subconscious, carrying on its work of
building up or tearing down, according to its character.
The subconscious mind cannot take the initiative, but
depends on the conscious mind for direction. When one is
quickened of Spirit, one's true thoughts are set to work
and the subconscious states of error are broken up and
dissolved. In one's daily silence and communion with God,
thoughts from the subconsciousness come into the conscious
realm of mind to be forgiven and redeemed. Flesh heredity
is denied and inheritance from God affirmed, which enables
man consciously to draw divine ideas from the one Mind.
These ideas are established

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in consciousness and the whole mentality is at one with
Christ, the divine-man idea.

All wisdom is implanted in us by divine intelligence, which
is another name for God. In the degree that we awaken to
the consciousness of our inherent wisdom, in that degree we
are responsible to the Father and are required to render
unto Him the fruitage of our wisdom. All of us unfold
according to our understanding and realization. Whether our
understanding is small or large, we must measure up to or
demonstrate that which has been given us. "To whomsoever
much is given, of him shall much be required."

The phrase "body of Christ" has a threefold significance.
First, as regards its application to the body of Jesus, in
Matthew 26:26, 27 Jesus called the bread He had blessed His
body and the wine His blood. Out of this came the symbolic
rite of the Lord's Supper. All symbols are useful to the
extent that they point man to the realities for which they
stand. When this reality is discerned the symbols are
understood. Jesus dwelt continually in the consciousness of
being the very substance and life of God. "He that hath
seen me hath seen the Father." Through the conscious
realization of His oneness with God His body became a "body
of life," spiritual substance, His blood the life of God.
This is the body and blood He gave as a "ransom for many";
the understanding that the Christ body comes not by the

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grave but through our daily realization of the omnipresence
of substance and life and our union with it.

Secondly, the words "body of Christ" refer to man's
spiritual body. "Until Christ be formed in you." When we
appropriate words of Truth, "eat them," so to speak, we
partake of the substance and life of Spirit and build the
Christ body. This is partaking of the body and blood of
Jesus Christ, the true sacrament that vitalizes the body by
renewing the mind. Every student of Truth builds the Christ
body as he constantly abides in the Christ Mind through
daily meditation upon words of Truth.

Thirdly, the phrase "body of Christ" applies to the group
of people who find perfect unity in Spirit, free from all
the limitations and authority of creed. Such a group is
free from bondage to the letter and subject only to the
Spirit of truth. Jesus Christ is the head of this body, and
its members are joined through a recognition of universal
Spirit. This "body of Christ" is sometimes referred to as
the "church of Christ." This latter term is commonly
misunderstood in that many sects call themselves the
"church of Christ," each believing they are the chosen of
God. God is not partial and does not choose. Man exercises
that privilege, and if he chooses to conform to the "law of
the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" he becomes a member of
the church of Christ and is recognized by the Father. There
is unity only in Spirit, and "God is Spirit." All personal
opinions upon which

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creeds are based disappear before the spiritual
understanding that the only real unity is the body of
Christ, His church. All who measure up to the Christ
standard, forsaking everything pertaining to the personal,
limited self, bringing forth the unlimited fruits of the
Spirit, are members of this body, the "body of Christ."
Through this body is to come the "restoration of all
things, whereof God spake by the mouth of his holy prophets
that have been from of old."

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//section Chapter 10

Truth Radiates Light

Chapter X

//text

ALTHOUGH Paul did not demonstrate complete overcoming, as
Jesus did, he saw in man as a mystery the truth that had
been lost sight of for "ages and generations . . . which is
Christ in you, the hope of glory." We are urged by both
Jesus and Paul to glorify God in our bodies. The body is
the fruit of the mind, therefore we must become better
acquainted with the mind and with the supermind in order to
glorify the body.

The fact is that the entire theme of the Bible is man and
his various states of mind, represented as persons, tents,
tabernacles, temples. In Exodus we read, "Let them make me
a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them." It is explained
that this sanctuary was to be the meeting place of the
people and their God and eventually the dwelling place of
Jehovah. Jehovah means the I AM, which is also the meaning
of the Christ or the supermind. Where in all the universe
can man meet the supermind save in his own mind and body?

We are then compelled to conclude that the Tabernacle of
the Israelites and the Temple of Solomon are symbols of
man's body, the real meeting place of Jehovah.

Paul says, "We are a temple of the living God; even as God
said, I will dwell in them, and walk in

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them."

When Solomon was preparing to build the Temple he
soliloquized: "But who is able to build him a house, seeing
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am
I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn
incense before him?" The burning of incense in the house of
Jehovah represents the spiritualization of the fine
essences of the body through adoration and exalted
thoughts. When the mind is lifted up in meditation and
prayer the whole body glows with spiritual light.

This spiritual light transcends in glory all the laws of
matter and intellect. Even Moses could not enter the
Tabernacle when it was aglow with this transcendent light.

It is written that the Israelites did not go forward on
days when the cloud remained over the Tabernacle, but when
the cloud was taken up they went forward. This means that
there is no soul progress for man when his body is under
the shadow of a "clouded" mind, but when the cloud is
removed there is an upward and forward movement of the
whole consciousness (all the people).

We are warned of the effect of thoughts that are against or
opposed to the commandments of Jehovah. When we murmur and
complain we cloud our minds, and Divine Mind cannot reach
us or help us. Then we usually loaf until something turns
up that

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causes us to think on happier things, when we go forward
again.

Instead of giving up to circumstances and outer events we
should remember that we are all very close to a kingdom of
mind that would make us always happy and successful if we
would cultivate it and make it and its laws a vital part of
our life. "The joy of Jehovah is your strength."

You ask, "How can I feel the joy of Jehovah when I am poor,
or sick, or unhappy?"

Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest."

Here is the first step in getting out of the mental cloud
that obscures the light of Spirit. Take the promises of
Jesus as literally and spiritually true. Right in the midst
of the most desperate situation one can proclaim the
presence and power of Christ, and that is the first mental
move in dissolving the darkness. You cannot think of Jesus
without a feeling of freedom and light. Jesus taught
freedom from mortality and proclaimed His glory so
persistently that He energized our thought atmosphere into
light. This light is Spirit power, and it can be seen and
felt by anyone who will call on the name Christ and expect
it to raise him quickly out of depression and negative
states of mind into the power and zeal of an overcomer
through Christ.

The Scriptures state that when Moses came down from Mount
Sinai with the Ten Commandments his

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face shone so brilliantly that the Children of Israel and
even Aaron, his own brother, were afraid to come near him
until he put a veil over his face. The original Hebrew says
his face sent forth beams or horns of light.

The Vulgate says that Moses had "a horned face"; which
Michelangelo took literally, in his statue of Moses
representing him with a pair of horns projecting from the
head. Thus we see the ludicrous effect of reading the Bible
according to the letter.

Our men of science have experimented with the brain in
action, and they tell us that it is true that we radiate
beams when we think. The force of these beams has been
measured.

Here we have further confirmation of the many statements in
the Bible that have been taken as ridiculous and
unbelievable or as miracles.

Persons who spend much time in prayer and meditate a great
deal on spiritual things develop the same type of face that
Moses is said to have had. We say of them that their faces
fairly shine when they talk about God and His love. John
saw Jesus on the island of Patmos, and he says, "His
countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength."

I have witnessed this radiance in the faces of Truth
teachers hundreds of times. I well remember one class
lesson during which the teacher became so eloquent that
beams of light shot forth from her

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head and tongues of fire flashed through the room, very
like those which were witnessed when the followers of Jesus
were gathered in Jerusalem.

We now know that fervent words expressed in prayer and song
and eloquent proclamations of spiritual Truth release the
millions of electrons in our brain cells and through them
blend like chords of mental music with the Mind universal.

This tendency on our part to analyze and scientifically
dissect the many supposed miracles recorded in the Bible is
often regarded as sacrilegious, or at least as making
commonplaces of some of the very spectacular incidents
recorded in Scripture.

In every age preceding this the priesthood has labored
under the delusion that the common people could not
understand the real meaning of life and that they should
therefore be kept in ignorance of its inner sources; also
that the masses could not be trusted with sacred truths,
that imparting such truths to them was like casting pearls
before swine.

But now science is delving into hidden things, and it is
found that they all arise in and are sustained by universal
principles that are open to all men who seek to know and
apply them.

So the time has arrived when all shall know the Truth,
"from the least to the greatest of them." Of course there
are many sides to Truth. What we mean by Truth is concerned
with the great fundamental questions that have always
perplexed and at the same

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time engaged the profoundest attention of men: What is the
character of God? How does God create? What is the real
character of man, and what relation does he bear to his
source? What is the ultimate destiny of man and the
universe?

These are some of the fundamental questions that meet us at
every turn. They have been answered by both philosophers
and priests in every age, yet they still remain largely
unanswered in the popular estimation. Of course the priests
think they have the answer, but they offer no proof save
that of inspiration.

The philosophers and scientists are not satisfied with the
answers of the spiritually inspired. They want facts, and
they are testing the seen and the unseen for forces that
respond to certain laws without variation or deviation.
They claim that the theological explanation of creation by
Moses and the location and description of the kingdom of
heaven by Jesus are not specific enough and cannot be
definitely and scientifically proved; all of which is
approximately true. Popular religion does not attempt to
harmonize its fundamental facts with the findings of
science, and in its ignorance it fights science and thinks
that science is destroying the faith of the people in
things spiritual.

Anyone who will search for the science in religion and the
religion in science will find that they harmonize and prove
each other. The point of unity

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is the Spirit-mind common to both. So long as religion
assumes that the Spirit that creates and sustains man and
the universe can be cajoled and by prayer or some other
appeal can be induced to change its laws, it cannot hope to
be recognized by those who know that unchangeable law rules
everywhere and in everything.

Again, so long as science ignores the principle of
intelligence in the evolutionary and directive forces of
man and the universe, just so long will it fail to
understand religion and the power of thought in the changes
that are constantly taking place in the world, visible and
invisible.

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//section Chapter 11

The Only Mind

Chapter XI

//text

I SAY, "An idea comes to me." Where did it come from? It
must have had a source of like character with its own.
Ideas are not visible to the eye, they are not heard by the
ear, nor felt, nor tasted, yet we talk about them as having
existence. We recognize that they live, move, and have
being in the realm that we term mind.

This realm of mind is accepted by everybody as in some way
connected with the things that appear, but because it is
not describable in terms of length, breadth, and thickness,
it is usually passed over as something too vague for
consideration.

But those who take up the study of this thing called mind
find that it can be analyzed and its laws and modes of
operation understood.

To be ignorant of mind and its laws is to be a child
playing with fire, or a man manipulating powerful chemicals
without knowing their relation to one another. This is
universally true; and all who are not learning about mind
are in like danger, because all are dealing with the great
cause from which spring forth all the conditions that
appear in the lives of all men and women. Mind is the one
reservoir from which we draw all that we make up into our
world, and it is through the laws of mind that we form our
lives. Hence nothing is as important

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as a knowledge of mind, its inherencies, and the mode of
their expression.

The belief that mind cannot be understood is fallacious.
Man is the expression of mind, dwells in mind, and can know
more clearly and definitely about mind than about the
things that appear in the phenomenal world.

It is only from the plane of mind that one can know Truth
in an absolute sense. That which we pronounce truth from
the plane of appearances is relative only. The relative
truth is constantly changing, but the absolute Truth
endures; and what is true today always was and always will
be true.

It does not require scholastic culture to understand mind.
Persons who do not even know how to read or write may be
very adept in the realm of pure mind. It does not follow
that he who talks most fluently about mind knows the most.
He may theoretically perceive the underlying principles
without realizing their working factors in his own being.

Mind is not language; mind is not formulation. These are
outgrowths of mind; they are man's way of communicating to
his fellow man the concepts of his mind. Thus very simple
persons, from the world's standpoint, frequently know a
great deal about mind and its operation that they are
unable to express in language.

Women as a rule know more about pure mind on its own plane
than men, because they trust that inner

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faculty of pure knowing called intuition more fully than
men. The medically wise of the world today cannot
comprehend how a quiet little person who knows nothing
about physiology or medication can sit down beside their
dying patients and bring them back to health without
apparently doing anything. And they never will know until
they delve behind a knowledge of externality and learn mind
to mind the workings of Spirit.

Some persons confound the realm of knowledge about things
formulated through the intellect with pure knowledge.
Intellect and its plane of activity are not pure mind as
the realm of matter is not Spirit.

The same essences of being enter into both, but wisdom is
sadly lacking in the intellectual realm. Intellect has
formulated its conclusions from the sense side of existence
instead of from the spiritual side, and these two sides are
divergent.

No one can know about the potentialities of mind and how
they are manifested except through a study of mind itself
without any reference whatever to things or their relations.

One may logically deduce a system of being from abstract
intellectual reasoning, but it will lack the living fire
that accompanies pure mind.

Those who study mind know the same things; and though they
be dumb, they enjoy the communion that ever goes on in
thought. No one should for a

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moment imagine that because he lacks the technical
education of the world that he is therefore not fitted to
study the science of mind. No matter how ignorant you may
be of the world's ways or God's ways, if you will give your
mind to the attention of the one Mind, you will in due
season become wise. This great law of mind and Mind
recognizing each other and flowing together in unbroken
wisdom has been known in all ages and among all peoples.
The scribes and Pharisees who knew the life and lack of
scholastic advantages of Jesus, the carpenter's son,
exclaimed in amazement, "How knoweth this man letters,
having never learned?"

Mind is the great storehouse of good from which man draws
all his supplies. If you manifest life, you are confident
that it had a source. If you show forth intelligence you
know that somewhere in the economy of Being there is a
fount of intelligence. So you may go over the elements that
go to make up your being and you will find that they draw
their sustenance from an invisible and, to your limited
understanding, incomprehensible source.

This source we term Mind, because it is as such that our
comprehension is best related to it. Names are arbitrary,
and we should not stop to note differences that are merely
technical. We want to get at the substance which they
represent.

So if we call this invisible source Mind it is because it
is of like character with the thing within

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our consciousness that we call our mind. Mind is manyfold
in its manifestations. It produces all that appears. Not
that the character of all that appears is to be laid to the
volition of Mind; no, but some of its factors enter into
everything that appears. This is why it is so important to
know about Mind, and how its potentialities are made
manifest.

So we know that that which we term Mind is the reservoir of
the universe and man and that in it is stored up all that
we may desire. So it behooves us to study this great
reservoir and learn its laws. We call it Mind because
through our study it has disclosed to us a quality that is
not apprehended by those who study it in its phenomenal
aspect. The physical scientist tells us that there is a
universal energy in which all motion, light, heat, color,
and the like, have their origin.

We claim that what they have discovered is the power side
of God and that there is another factor that they have not
discovered but that is associated with the universal
energy. That factor is divine wisdom. They admit that there
is evidence of design in the varied and beautiful
manifestation of this universal energy, but they are at a
loss for a way to make the acquaintance of the designer. To
know this designer and manipulator of the substance and
energy of the universe is what our system of mind
development teaches. It instructs you how to acquaint
yourself with the qualities of Mind and

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through them to seize upon the substance and life of the
universe and bring them into harmonious relations in your
body and affairs. This is something that few learned
physical scientists have attempted, and here is a field of
discovery upon which few have yet launched forth. In fact
but few of the materialistic school have ever caught the
first ray of this light. They have, it is true, longed to
know more about the wisdom of the Creator, but it does not
seem to have dawned upon them that the wisdom of God is
just as much present everywhere as energy and substance. By
all the methods known to their science they have tested the
many elements of the formed and formless earth and air and
noted the methodical and orderly workings of each under
certain conditions. They speak of molecular attraction,
repulsion, polarity, and the like. Some have said that
every atom of matter is apparently intelligent; but as
these atoms do not speak their particular language, they
have taken for granted that they could not hold converse
with them on the plane of mind.

This is where we have set up a study that makes of every
atom in the universe a living center of wisdom as well as
life and substance.

We claim that on its plane of comprehension man may ask the
atom or the mountain the secret that it holds and it will
be revealed to him. This is the communication of mind with
Mind; hence we call Mind the universal underlying cause of
existence

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and study it from that basis.

God is Mind, and man made in the image and likeness of God
is Mind, because there is but one Mind, and that the Mind
of God. The person in sense consciousness thinks he has a
mind of his own and that he creates thought from its own
inherent substance. This is a suppositional mind that
passes away when the one and only real Mind is revealed.
This one and only Mind of God that we study is the only
creator. It is that which originates all that is permanent;
hence it is the source of all reality. Its creations are of
a character hard for the sense man to comprehend, because
his consciousness is cast in a mold of space and time.
These are changeable and transient, while the creations of
the one Mind are substantial and lasting. But it is man's
privilege to understand the creations of the one Mind, for
it is through them that he makes his world. The creations
of the one Mind are ideas. The ideas of God are potential
forces waiting to be set in motion through proper formative
vehicles. The thinking faculty in man is such a vehicle,
and it is through this that the visible universe has
existence. Man does not "create" anything if by this term
is meant the producing of something from nothing; but he
does make the formless up into form; or rather it is
through his conscious co-operation that the one Mind forms
its universe. Hence the importance of man's willing
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every thought, because unless he is very wise in his
thinking, he may be sending forth malformations that will
cause both himself and the universe trouble.

Thinking is a process in mind by and through which the
abstract is made concrete. It is the process of working up
into things those ideas in the one Mind which are not
things. God does not see things nor conditions as man sees
them, except through the thinking faculty in man
(represented by man in the Godhead).

The ideas of Divine Mind are whole and complete in their
capacity to unfold perpetually greater and more beautiful
forms according to the thinking capacity in man. Man
catches mental sight of an idea in Divine Mind and proceeds
to put it in terms comprehensible to him on his plane of
consciousness. All ideas have their origin in Divine Mind,
but their character as unfolded by man depends entirely
upon his acquaintance with God. The idea of a house as
formulated by man varies all the way from a wigwam to the
most magnificent castle. The original idea of a house, as
it exists in God's mind, cannot be anything less than the
perfected consciousness of man, of which his body is a
symbol. This is the temple "not made with hands," and it is
the only temple acceptable to God.

No man can acceptably serve God or do His will until he
understands the fundamental principles of thinking and how
thoughts are made manifest

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as forms or states of consciousness. This is revealed by
the Father to everyone who seeks to know His law and to
follow it. When man has thus sought the Father with an eye
single to His guidance, he begins to know that certain
relations exist between him and the Father and that only
through a maintenance of those relations can he come into
harmony with God and do His will.

The idea of the man separated in consciousness from Divine
Mind is that he was arbitrarily created by God, who could
have chosen or not chosen to create him, and that not being
responsible for his existence, man has a perfect right to
be rebellious and petulant if hardships come into his life.
This is a childish view of the great plan of creation, in
which man is such an important factor. It is only when man
becomes meek and lowly, an obedient receptacle for the
Spirit of God, that he sees the divine plan of creation and
his place in it. Then he becomes a willing co-operator,
because his understanding accepts the law as it is and
knows that it cannot be changed by either God or man. They
are so intimately linked together that the harmony of
existence depends upon their mutual understanding. When
this is established by man's willing obedience and
acceptance of his part of the work, a new order of things
is set up and a new creation inaugurated. The first step in
this new order is the realization by man that he is in the
world to do a specific work. As

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Jesus said at the age of twelve, "Knew ye not that I must
be in my Father's house?" and in His last prayer are these
words, "I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished
the work which thou hast given me to do."

The Father has sent each one of us out to do a certain
work. Are we doing that work? Have we asked what it is? Or
are we aimlessly wandering about the earth trying to find
satisfaction in the fleeting things of sense?

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free."

This truth is that of the relation of man to God and of how
creation is carried forward. The God-man relation is in one
sense like that of father and child; in another sense it is
like that of creator-creative instrument and creation
manifest. Man constitutes the instrument of God through
which He brings his potentialities into visibility. As such
an instrument man is in a measure a dictator as to how it
shall be done. That is, man has discretionary power or free
will. Freedom of will is illusionary however because if man
wills to carry on creation in defiance of the divine plan
and order, his creations in due time fall into chaos
through lack of coherency. God fixes the plan of the
structure and gives into the hands of man all the materials
for building. Man may also know the plan and build
according to it, or he may go ahead without consulting the
plan.

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Humanity has built age after age only to find that its
structures do not endure. They are faulty because the
divine plan has not been consulted by the builder.

Mind is the storehouse of ideas. Man draws all his ideas
from this omnipresent storehouse. The ideas of God, heaven,
hell, devils, angels, and all things have their clue in
Mind. But their form in the consciousness depends entirely
upon the plane from which man draws his mental images. If
he gets a "clue" to the character of God and then proceeds
to clothe this clue idea with images from without, he makes
God a mortal. If he looks within for the clothing of his
clue idea he knows God to be the omnipresent Spirit of
existence.

If man gets the clue idea from heaven and hell and devils
and angels and looks without for clothing for his idea, he
makes a locality in the skies and calls it heaven, and
another under the earth and calls it hell. But if he goes
to the Father for information he finds both heaven and hell
within his own consciousness, both the result of his own
thought.

So it is of the utmost importance that we know how we have
produced this state of existence which we call life; and we
should be swift to conform to the only method calculated to
bring harmony and success into our life, namely to think in
harmony with the understanding derived from communion with
the God-Mind.

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//section Chapter 12

Contact with the Christ Mind

Chapter XII

//text

WE MAY TAKE it for granted on the basis of many Scripture
passages that all of us who accept God as an associate in
life are consciously in intimate contact with the Holy
Spirit. However it will strengthen our faith and greatly
add to the effectiveness of the Holy Spirit in its work
with us if we understand its character and the law under
which it co-operates with us in the development of mind,
body, and affairs.

Theologians differ in their conceptions of the Holy Spirit.
Some define it as a principle, but the majority refer to it
as "He"; that is, as the third person of the Trinity. In
the Scriptures it is named variously. In Genesis 1:2 it is
spoken of as "the Spirit of God" moving upon the face of
the waters. We read in Job 33:4:

//quote

"The Spirit of God hath made me,

And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life."

//text

Bible authorities (Scofield, for example) say that wherever
the name El Shaddai occurs in the Hebrew Scriptures it
should have been translated "Nourisher" or
"Strength-giver," which in Hebrew is the feminine name for
God. This verse may be read:

//quote

"The Spirit of God hath made me,

And the breath of the mother giveth me life."

//text

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In Psalms 104:30 it is written, "Thou sendest forth thy
Spirit." The Spirit is omnipresent, as revealed in the
139th Psalm:

//quote

"Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?

Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?"

//text

Read all this psalm for a comprehension of the universality
of the Holy Spirit's work in the creation of man and his
evolution.

The Holy Spirit in Divine Mind corresponds to our thought
in our minds. God is Mind; God's idea of His creation is
His Son, and this Son (idea), executing the plans of God
(the original Mind) corresponds to our thinking in its work
of devising plans. We may ideate without restriction, but
when we come to the execution of our ideas we have to
respect certain laws, which we sometimes consider
restrictions. So we can ideate the unlimited Divine Mind,
but when this Mind is brought into our world or
consciousness it is limited to our conception of it.

With a clear understanding of the relation that ideas bear
to their manifestation, we can approach God with
confidence; then we have access to the real, unlimited
creative ideas, and we co-operate with the Holy Spirit and
get greater results. We can thus lay hold of a healing or a
prosperity thought and confidently affirm that in mind we
are quickened and made whole; that we are prospered, and
that we are successful in all our ways, because we are
working with and through the whole Spirit of God,

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the Holy Spirit of wisdom and love.

In Matthew Jesus asked the Pharisees, "What think ye of the
Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of
David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in the
Spirit call him Lord, saying,

//quote

"The Lord said unto my Lord,

Sit thou on my right hand,

Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet?

//text

"If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?"

This lesson, which Jesus gave to His disciples, brings out
clearly the relation that the universal or Jehovah-Mind
bears to the personal or Christ Mind. This also suggests
that David was not the forebear of Christ, but that the
Lord or Christ of David existed before the human person was
born. It follows that the Christ in Jesus existed before
the personality. This is true of all of us. Christ is the
spiritual mind in every individual, and the spiritual mind
is the offspring of the universal or Jehovah-Mind.

When Paul said, "Until Christ be formed in you," he
referred to the development in man of the super-mind.

All the divine perfection that exists in the universal
Jehovah-Mind can be brought into direct contact with its
image and likeness, the Christ, imprinted in the beginning
in each individual. As he develops spiritually man
releases, rounds out,

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and fully expresses that divine perfection which is
potentially in his soul.

The affirmation of any good statement of health puts us in
conscious contact with the Christ Mind universal and
quickens and releases the energy stored up in the
subconscious mind, and the process of rejuvenation begins
its work. This renewal of man's youth through the
recognition of Jehovah confirms Psalm 103:

//quote

Bless Jehovah, O my soul;

And all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Bless Jehovah, O my soul,

And forget not all his benefits:

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

Who healeth all thy diseases;

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;

Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Who satisfieth thy desire with good things,

So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.

//text

All those who in faith have persistently applied this law
of spiritual acknowledgment of the Christ have received
benefits that bear witness to the fact that man can
overcome sin, sickness, and old age and rise out of the
race belief in human limitation, and finally attain eternal
life as Jesus attained it.

Jesus warned us not to lay up treasure in a material way
but to be "rich toward God," as taught in the 12th chapter
of Luke. Jesus was rich toward God in that He knew how to
release the creative substance implanted in Him from the
beginning.

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This same substance is within every one of us; when
released, it makes contact with the universal substance,
and invisible currents of supply begin to carry their
riches to us. It is not necessary that we understand
scientifically all the activities of the pent-up substance
in our minds, although we shall eventually understand every
step of the way.

A simple word of blessing poured out upon that which we
have or that which we can conceive as possible for us as
sons of the all-providing God will at least begin to
release the superabundance of Spirit substance, and we
shall have an inner confidence and faith in the providence
of our Father.

Jesus warned us not to be anxious about temporal needs but
to pray, believing, and to bless and give thanks; then
right in the face of seeming insufficiency we should be
enabled to demonstrate plenty. Jesus illustrated this when
He showed how giving thanks in a devout consciousness for
this inner substance would multiply the apparently
insignificant resources (the five loaves and two fishes)
until they became sufficient to meet the hunger of more
than five thousand persons.

A textbook on the redemption or reconstruction of man
should cover every phase of human character. Human egotism
should be repressed; man's spiritual identity exalted.
Remedies for the greatest evils of humanity should be given
plentifully, and the lesser

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evils minimized.

Our Scriptures, plus the guidance of "the Spirit of truth"
recommended by Jesus, form such a textbook for Christians.
In this combination is found instruction fitted to the
needs of the multitude. The timid and fearful read, "Have
not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not
affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God
is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

How an inflated personal ego usurps and finally destroys
the spirituality of one who once was anointed king of
Israel is illustrated in the life of Saul. The stimulation
of the spiritual ego is forcefully taught and demonstrated
by prophets and great religious leaders. It is written in
the Psalms:

//quote

"I said, Ye are gods,

And all of you are sons of the Most High."

//text

Jesus reiterated this and was denounced by the Pharisees
because He declared, "I and the Father are one."

Christian metaphysicians have discovered that man can
greatly accelerate the growth in himself of the Christ Mind
by using affirmations that identify him with the Christ.
These affirmations often are so far beyond the present
attainment of the novice as to seem ridiculous, but when it
is understood that the statements are grouped about an
ideal to be attained, they seem fair and reasonable.

The spiritual man is clothed by the aspirations,

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the thoughts, and the acts of the natural or physical man.
It is here, in this realm of so-called matter, that
character is formed. By faith, prayer, meditation, and
inward resolutions man identifies himself with the
spiritual man and forms in both mind and body the things
affirmed. There was no visible evidence of Jesus' unity
with the Father when He affirmed, "I and the Father are
one." His disciples said, "Lord, show us the Father, and it
sufficeth us." So we find that we must be true to our
ideas, and clothe them with an assumption of their
tangibility even before they have appeared. We must pray,
believing that we have received and we shall receive.

States of mind established in the consciousness gather to
themselves vitamins, cells, nerves, muscles, the flesh
itself. To see oneself in mind spiritually courageous,
strong, and healthy will instill health in the primal
elements of the organism, which in due season will work to
the surface in a perfect body.

We must all learn to look to the mental man for causes. For
example, no one but a metaphysician knows the origin of
disease germs. The physician takes it for granted that
disease germs exist as an integral part of the natural
world; the metaphysician sees disease germs as the
manifested results of anger, revenge, jealousy, fear,
impurity, and many other mind activities. A change of mind
will change the character of a germ. Love, courage, peace,
strength, and good will form good character and build bodily

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structures of a nature like these qualities of mind.

The same general law is carried out in everything with
which man has to do. Financial success or failure depends
on the attitude of mind active in both those who achieve
success and those who fall under the negations of failure.
To attain prosperity, think about prosperity, industry, and
efficiency. Fill your mind to overflowing with thoughts of
success; realize that the fullness of all good belongs to
you by divine right. To this add a feeling of happiness and
joy and you h