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is not originally my individual name. It is eternally the
the name of Divine Being.
The real "I" or self belongs in this Divine Being,
whose name is "I am."
There is but One I am. "I am that I am" is received
by Moses as the Divine Name. It is becoming to us
a sacred name. We have used the name "I am," as if it
belonged to us wholly, to handle as we chose; but now
we are learning to say, "Hallowed be Thy Name."
We say "I am" in this understanding of it, with reverence; for it is God's Name, it is God's Nature, it is
God's Presence, "descending upon us like a dove."
"I am" is always Life, Spirit, Love and Truth, filling
us to fulness, so that there is no lack, in that which I am.
"I am" is Wholeness, Perfection and Health, the
Mind of Good that is All in all. There are not many I
ams, but One, even God. So I understand that to say "I
am afraid, I am sick, I am weary, I am weak," is to
speak falsely; the I am is none of these things.
"I am," as I now speak it, is my "new name," because
it appeals to me with such new meaning. "I will write
upon him my new name." -- Rev. 3:12. I will give him
a new consciousness of my name.
Only my Divine Nature can say I am. I have no being apart from God, "In Him I live, move, and have my
being."
To know what I am, I must know what the All I am is. Hence, when I say "I am," I speak not of myself but
of God. It is enough to know what the Great I am is;
since It is All, It includes me. To speak truthfully then,
I silence all opinions and beliefs, in order to listen. "Be
still, and know, (for then shall we know), that I am God."
Let us conceive of the individual as being perfectly
still. In this silence of the soul, he hears the testimony
