Your Heritage - p.3

Tonight we are all going to make a fresh start ... right from the beginning. No matter how much we know about metaphysics, there is magic in beginning again; the magic of freshness, of newness of a sudden, beautiful awareness -the "in God anything wonderful can happen" state of mind that is True consciousness.
I suspect that all of us know more or less what it is all about, but we are going to assume that we know nothing and we are going to start at the beginning.

Right now you, your circumstances, your health, your finances, are the outpicturing of certain ideas with which you have grown up; certain basic habits that you have built into yourself. And when you approach metaphysics the thing you do is to come away from the small end of the telescope and look through the large end.

You are going to take a good look at you.

You have wonderful equipment to work with. You have yourself.

In metaphysics, that is the only equipment you need. We are each of us our own personal laboratory, and it is within ourselves that we make these experiments, that we test the methods we hear about, and check the results.

Metaphysics gives you a purely personal spiritual and physical experience. It is the religion of the individual soul, not necessarily in the sense that it is taught by church authorities.

Of course every orthodox religion today has the symbolic picture of exactly what happens to the soul and its progress, but that is a symbolic version, without expectation of physical experience.

But there is a great difference between looking at a very beautiful painting that an artist has painted, and