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wrongs are not set right now. Come, face this adversary right up. Its name is belief in time, belief that it takes time for God to work. "No," you say, "I don't mean that I think God needs to take time, but that He does take it." This is the adversary, then, belief that God always takes a long time to work out our cause for us.
Did you ever see people who, when they were in great trouble, never touched it with their thoughts, but touched only the God side? Did you ever see anybody who faced up that little sneaking fear that it would take a long time to set his affairs straight, and took the fear by the throat, saying, "I am not going to believe that the Almighty needs an instant of time, as I reckon time, to bring forth right conditions here and now." You must know by this time that it is the Jesus Christ doctrine that by a man's word he is justified and condemned. What can I expect but time, if I believe in time? What can I expect but fear, if I believe in fear? What can I expect but hatefulness, if I say hatefulness is good? All these things are my own imagination. Looking toward the Heavenly City, I talk of the desert. Lo, looking toward the joyous peace of God's presence, I talk of trouble!
The chrysoprasus is the stone which stands for your sight of the Good, where others see evil, your speech of God's blessed kindness, where you might feel deep bitterness.
It is singular how all the green-tinted stones of John bear up on seeing the True Kingdom through the false appearance. In the midst of what seems to you to be your degradation, when you look old, feel sick, fear poverty, cry at failure, if you cease to give way to all this for an instant, the green stone teaches you that the ego, the seed, the meaning of it all, is for you to know that you are a transcendent being, with transcendent powers. You were born of God. You go toward God. You know God. You have the power of God. It is the same with
