TABLE OF CONTENTS.

LESSON I. 
FIRST PRINCIPLES. 
The pursuit of happiness --- Knowledge of Truth brings it ---Basic principles and axioms. --- God is the omni­sent Good. --- God is Health, Life, Love, Truth, Substance and Intelligence. --- Man, the image of God. --- practical application of the lesson • 1-11 

LESSON II. 
THE REAL AND THE UNREAL. 
is God is All. ---The whole Truth frees --- Ignorance, the cause of error --- Denial of evil and matter. --- The Absolute. -- Unlearning errors. --- Receptivity to Truth --- Old teachings about denials. --- John Baptist. --- True self-Evil, a lie. -- Senses not reliable. --- Effect of denials. -- Real baptism. --- The practice • 12-24

LESSON III. 
WORDS, THEIR USE AND POWER. 
the great cause. --- Orderly thinking --- Hell and Heaven. --- The real world --- The real 1. --- Mental words. ---Magical use of language. --- Scripture. -- --- Prayer. --- Speech. --- Practical praying • 25-36 

LESSON IV. 
FAITH. 
Unbelief ---The faith that wins --- Pioneers in mental healing ---Steadfastness to Principle. --- The faith of God. --- The clashing of Truth and error. --- All have faith. --- Medicine, magnetism, mesmerism, mediumship. --- The Word is Word is means. --- Now. --- The Will of God. --- Persistency in prayer. --- Fear and doubt driven out. • 39-50

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LESSON V. 
KNOWLEDGE AND GOOD JUDGMENT. 
“Blind faith.” --- Misunderstanding God. --- Wisdom, the principal thing. --- Intuition. ---The teacher within. --- True education. --- Inspiration and interpretation of Scriptures. --- Correspondence between things natural and spiritual. --- The Spirit of Truth. --- Judgment Day --- Origin of evil. --- The unknowable. --- Matter, the shadow of Spirit. --- Personality •51-64

LESSON VI. 
UNITY AND CONCENTRATION.
Oneness of the True and the Good --- One name. --- Spiritual mind ever unites. --- Differentiation. --- Purpose of religion.  --- The atonement. --- Jesus Christ. --- Concentration. --- Practical Christianity. --- Memory. --- The Christ­works. --- Healing.  --- The Silence --- A practice for concentration • 65-78

LESSON VII. 
OUR HEREDITY AND FREEDOM FROM SENSUALITY.
All can heal. --- All healing front God. --- Methods of healing by the Word --- Our real parentage. --- No inheritance of evil. --- The Holy Family. --- Pre-existence, not re-incarnation. --- Freedom from fleshly appetites. --- The Immaculate Conception. --- Drunkenness healed. --- First treatment in a Healing Course •79-94

LESSON VIII. 
FREEDOM FROM DELUSIONS AND DECEPTIONS. 
Spiritual Law. --- Anxiety. --- Plagues and evil associates. --- Hypnotism --- Meeting malice with love. --- Mediumship. --- Laws of health --- No thought as to diet --- --- Our defense against animals ---
Deliverance from accidents. --- sensitiveness. --- Prosperity. --- Miracles- --- Second treatment --- Healing children • 95-111

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LESSON IX. 
FORGIVENESS, THE CURE OF SIN. 
--- Anger overcome. --- Lust cast out. --- Injury and imposition overcome. --- Love your enemies. --- Ignorance, cause of sin. --- Forgiveness. --- Pity and indignation. --- Self-treatment • 112-127

LESSON X. 
OVERCOMING FEAR. 
What salvation is. --- The Mosaic law.  --- Christ-knowledge transcends destiny. --- Remorse. --- No backsliding. --- The Word of Truth like yeast. --- Fermentation in carnal mind. --- Confession. --- Fear cast out. --- The fearful classed with murderers. --- Animals and people harmless before fearless love. --- Healing fevers. --- Treatment for acute cases. --- Painless childbirth • 128-142

LESSON XI. 
DIVINE UNDERSTANDING, OUR STRENGTH. 
Discouragement and discontent. --- True self-sufficiency. --- Discernment in hearing teachers and in reading. --- Bible study. --- Explanation of contradictory texts. --- God knows no evil. --- Predestination. --- The Elect. --- No superiority --- The Cross. --- Death overcome. --- Forms and ceremonies. --- Fifth treatment • 143-159

LESSON XII. 
DIVINE COMPLETENESS, OUR SATISFACTION.
The awakened Soul. --- The devotee’s view. --- No chance. --- Love increased. --- Liability to “fall in love.” --- Office of marriage. --- The Soul complete. --- No sexuality.  --- Passing from generating to re-generating. --- Earthly marriage, a symbol. --- Paradoxes.  --- The Unnameable. --- The Mother. --- The Nothing. --- Uniting opposites. --- Perfection. --- Be still. --- Samahdi and a samyama. --- Truth is Very simple. --- Tribulations. --- ”I am satisfied.” --- The Spiritual Baptism • 160-176

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