Chapter 8 - Ministry - p.201

The point of each chapter or lesson in Mystical Science is its practice point. The practice point of the fifth lesson for instance is not the acknowledgment of the Vicarious Jesus, but the Self recognition that He practiced and urged all mankind to practice, that each one might do something great in his own line as He Jesus of Nazareth had done in His line. His leadership in Self recognition was His credential to special acknowledgment and special praise on the part of all mankind. Self recognition follows recognition of the Angel of the Presence as Miracle-Working Nearness. "I will not let thee go except thou bless me" should be the Jacob cry of all the world, face to face as all the world is with its Jacob Deliverer.

The practice point of the sixth lesson is our own inspiration or inbreath of the Breath of Brahma. "I put my breath in you and ye shall live. I put my spirit in you and ye shall know." "Why 0 man will ye die, having power to partake of the breath of immortality?"

The practice point of the seventh lesson is recognition of the Angel of God's Presence as the original Self of every man, woman, child. Two are ever in the field, one should be taken the other left, as Jesus himself discovered.

To notice the unweighted, flawless, everlasting Self, or Angel of man is to notice the Christ Self, strong son of