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Atom-Smashing Power of Mind

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A great many passages in this book testify to Charles
Fillmore's persistent interest in what is popularly called
atomic energy and the promise held out by its development
of a better world for mankind. As he rejoiced in the
scientific achievement of its discovery so he tirelessly
devoted his thought to its guidance into the channels of
peaceful use. On every occasion he urged those having to do
with its development to make sure that this unique form of
energy, this great gift of the Father, would not be used to
worsen life and destroy mankind.

From another standpoint Charles Fillmore's mind was simply
fascinated by the idea of the atom, this infinitesimal
particle of substance, and the enormous energy locked up in
it. At times he thought of it as the most perfect
representation in the manifest world of that divine mental
or spiritual energy which pervades all things and which,
when properly expressed through the minds of His children,
serves so greatly to glorify God. At other times he thought
of it as the very essence of this mental or spiritual
energy, Spirit-mind itself! The reader will find each one
of these standpoints set forth over and over--perhaps
vaguely and mystically at times--but ever testifying to the
alertness and vitality of Charles Fillmore's mind and his
unflagging interest in everything in his world.

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As will be readily recognized by Unity readers, the
articles appearing as chapters in this book, were
originally published in Unity magazine over a period of
half a century, one of them going back as far as the year
1898.

In the last paragraph of Chapter VIII the author gives his
readers a clear formula for dealing with the problem of the
atom:

"The great and most important issue before the people today
is the development of man's spiritual mind and through it
unity with God. . . . The taproot of all our confusion is
our failure to use our mind intelligently. We can only
think as God would have us think by adjusting our thoughts
to divine ideas. Religion and all that it implies in prayer
and recognition of God in idea and manifestation is the one
and only way out of the chaos in which we find ourselves.
We must therefore begin at once to develop this unity with
the Father-Mind by incorporating divine ideas into all that
we think and speak."

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Foreword ... 3

CHAPTER

I The Atomic Age ... 9

II The Restorative Power of the Spirit ... 18

III Spiritual Obedience ... 26

IV I AM or Superconsciousness ... 36

V The Day of Judgment ... 45

VI Thou Shalt Decree a Thing ... 50

VII Thinking in the Fourth Dimension ... 56

VIII Is This God's World? ... 63

IX Demonstrating Christ Thought by Thought ... 70

X Truth Radiates Light ... 80

XI The Only Mind ... 87

XII Contact with the Christ Mind ... 98

XIII Metaphysics of Shakespeare ... 106

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XIV The Body ... 116

XV Faith Precipitations ... 125

XVI The Seed Is the Word ... 134

XVII The Resurrecting Power of the Word ... 142

XVIII Transfiguration ... 150

XIX The End of the Age ... 160

Question Helps ... 173

Index ... 189

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The Atomic Age

Chapter I

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THE MAJORITY of people have crude or distorted ideas about
the character and the location of Spirit. They think that
Spirit plays no part in mundane affairs and can be known by
a person only after his death.

"But Jesus said, 'God is Spirit'; He also said, 'The
kingdom of God is within you.' Science tells us that there
is a universal life that animates and sustains all the
forms and shapes of the universe. Science has broken into
the atom and revealed it to be charged with tremendous
energy that may be released and be made to give the
inhabitants of the earth powers beyond expression, when its
law of expression is discovered.

"Jesus evidently knew about this hidden energy in matter
and used His knowledge to perform so-called miracles.

"Our modern scientists say that a single drop of water
contains enough latent energy to blow up a ten-story
building. This energy, existence of which has been
discovered by modern scientists, is the same kind of
spiritual energy that was known to Elijah, Elisha, and
Jesus, and used by them to perform miracles.

"By the power of his thought Elijah penetrated the atoms
and precipitated an abundance of rain. By

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the same law he increased the widow's oil and meal. This
was not a miracle--that is, it was not a divine
intervention supplanting natural law--but the exploitation
of a law not ordinarily understood. Jesus used the same
dynamic power of thought to break the bonds of the atoms
composing the few loaves and fishes of a little lad's
lunch--and five thousand people were fed.

"Science is discovering the miracle-working dynamics of
religion, but science has not yet comprehended the dynamic
directive power of man's thought. All so-called miracle
workers claim that they do not of themselves produce the
marvelous results; that they are only the instruments of a
superior entity. It is written in I Kings, 'The jar of meal
wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to
the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Elijah.' Jesus
called Jehovah Father. He said, 'The works that I do in my
Father's name, these bear witness of me.'

"Jesus did not claim to have the exclusive supernatural
power that is usually credited to Him. He had explored the
ether energy, which He called the 'kingdom of the heavens';
His understanding was beyond that of the average man, but
He knew that other men could do what He did if they would
only try. He encouraged His followers to take Him as a
center of faith and use the power of thought and word. 'He
that believeth on me, the works that I do

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shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.'

"The great modern revival of divine healing is due to the
application of the same law that Jesus used. He demanded
faith on the part of those whom He healed, and with that
faith as the point of mental and spiritual contact He
released the latent energy in the atomic structure of His
patients and they were restored to life and health.

"Have faith in the power of your mind to penetrate and
release the energy that is pent up in the atoms of your
body, and you will be astounded at the response. Paralyzed
functions anywhere in the body can be restored to action by
one's speaking to the spiritual intelligence and life
within them. Jesus raised His dead bodies in this way, and
Paul says that we can raise our body in the same manner if
we have the same spiritual contact.

"What have thought concentration and discovery of the
dynamic character of the atom to do with prayer? They have
everything to do with prayer, because prayer is the opening
of communication between the mind of man and the mind of
God. Prayer is the exercise of faith in the presence and
power of the unseen God. Supplication, faith, meditation,
silence, concentration, are mental attitudes that enter
into and form part of prayer. When one understands the
spiritual character of God and adjusts himself mentally to
the omnipresent God-Mind, he has begun

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to pray aright.

"Audible prayers are often answered but the most potent are
silently uttered in the secret recesses of the soul. Jesus
warned against wordy prayers--prayer uttered to be heard of
men. He told His disciples not to be like those who pray on
the housetop. 'When thou prayest, enter into thine inner
chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who
is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall
recompense thee.'

"The times are ripe for great changes in our estimate of
the abiding place and the character of God. The six-day
creation of the universe (including man) is described in
Genesis is a symbolic story of the work of the higher
realms of mind under divine law. It is the privilege of
everyone to use his mind abilities in the superrealms, and
thereby carry out the prayer formula of Jesus: 'Seek ye
first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you.'"

The foregoing extract is from the "Health and Prosperity"
column in Unity for May, 1927. These comments are
peculiarly applicable to the present and also to a subject
that has been agitating the public mind for some time, the
atomic bomb.

Of all the comments on or discussions of the indescribable
power of the invisible force released by the atomic bomb
none that we have seen mentions its spiritual or mental
character. All commentators have

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written about it as a force external to man to be
controlled by mechanical means, with no hint that it is the
primal life that animates and interrelates man's mind and
body.

The next great achievement of science will be the
understanding of the mental and spiritual abilities latent
in man through which to develop and release these
tremendous electrons, protons, and neutrons secreted in the
trillions of cells in the physical organism. Here is
involved the secret, as Paul says, "hid for ages and
generations . . . which is Christ [superman] in you, the
hope of glory." It is through release of these hidden life
forces in his organism that man is to achieve immortal
life, and in no other way. When we finally understand the
facts of life and rid our minds of the delusion that we
shall find immortal life after we die, then we shall seek
more diligently to awaken the spiritual man within us and
strengthen and build up the spiritual domain of our being
until, like Jesus, we shall be able to control the atomic
energy in our bodies and perform so-called miracles.

The fact is that all life is based upon the interaction
between the various electrical units of the universe.
Science tells us about these activities in terms of matter
and no one understands them, because they are spiritual
entities and their realities can only be understood and
used wisely by the spiritually developed man. Electricians
do not know what electricity is, although they use it
constantly. The Christian

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uses faith and gets marvelous results, the electrician uses
electricity and also gets marvelous results, and neither of
them knows the real nature of the agent he uses so freely.

The man who called electricity faith doubtless thought that
he was making a striking comparison when in fact he was
telling a truth, that faith is of the mind and it is the
match that starts the fire in the electrons and protons of
innate Spirit forces. Faith has its degrees of voltage; the
faith of the child and the faith of the most powerful
spiritual adept are far apart in their intensity and
results. When the trillions of cells in one's body are
roused to expectancy by spiritual faith, a positive
spiritual contact results and marvelous transformations
take place. When Jesus asked His patients, "Believe ye that
I am able to do this?" He was making such a contact. Also
when He told those to whom He ministered, "Thy faith hath
made thee whole," He used the same law. When He turned
water into wine and fed five thousand by multiplying a few
loaves and fishes, He performed in a masterly and
beneficial way what our scientists made possible in a
destructive way by releasing through the atomic bomb the
pent-up forces of Spirit.

Scientists have invented a machine that records the forces
of thought. Every thought expressed by the mind radiates an
energy as it passes through the brain cells, and this
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these radiations. Sir James Jeans, the eminent British
scientist, gives a prophecy of this in one of his books. He
says in substance that it may be that the gods determining
our fate are our own minds working on our brain cells and
through them on the world about us. This will eventually be
found to be true, and the discovery of the law of release
of the electronic vitality wrapped up in matter will be the
greatest revelation of all time.

When we awake to the fact that every breath we draw is
releasing this all-potent electronic energy and it is
shaping our lives for good or ill, according to our faith,
then we shall begin to search for the law that will guide
us aright in the use of power.

People the world over were amazed and terrified when they
read of the destruction wrought on the cities and people of
Japan by two atomic bombs. But do we realize that millions
of people are killed every year by atomic force? Doctors
tell us that it is the toxin generated in our own bodies
that kills us. What produces this destructive force? It
must be our own minds, and the remedy must also be in a
change in mind. Paul expressed this when he said, "Be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind."

All persons who have dismissed the idea of miracle in the
marvelous works of Jesus and His followers, have looked
forward to a time when the law they used would be
explained, but nearly all expected

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it to come through spiritual means. But now science has
opened up a kingdom having all the possibilities of the
kingdom of heaven taught by Jesus. However Jesus said this
kingdom is within us and would be exercised constructively
through our minds under divine law. The latest discovery of
science shows that through the development of the atom a
power will be cast right into our midst that will in its
physical aspect make the earth equal to our wildest dreams
of heaven. Broadcasting stations sending out on the ether
light, heat, power, will be established the world over, and
every householder will have receiving sets which he can
turn on or off at will. The cost will be negligible.
Lighter-than-air forms of building material will be
discovered and our dwellings will float in the air and be
transported from place to place like airplanes. Even the
climate of the whole planet may be transformed, destructive
forces no longer possible, and peace reign forever. Labor
as we now have it will disappear, production will become so
easy that a man will in a week raise enough food to last
him a year. Everybody will produce abundantly. Everybody
will have everything he wants, and no one will slave for
wages. Art, science, religion, music, and the finer things
of life will be for all the people and those who do not
expand their minds to enjoy the finer things of life will
be out of step with the times.

Our men of science have found the key that unlocks

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the door to the physical realm in the kingdom of the
heavens, but the spiritual domains are yet to be found and
their doors unlocked by the multitude.

There must be a change of mind by the people of the earth
before the tremendous uplift to be wrought by atomic energy
can become beneficial and permanent. Greed and selfishness
will find a way to exploit it to boost their ambition
unless they are taught the truth. We should therefore
redouble our efforts to show man that the power that rules
the world is within him. "Greater is he that is in you than
he that is in the world."

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The Restorative Power of the Spirit

Chapter II

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NOT ONLY our Bible but the scriptures of all the nations of
the world testify to the existence of an invisible force
moving men and nature in their various activities. Not all
agree as to the character of this omnipresent force,
universal Spirit, but it serves the purpose of being their
god under whatever name it may appear. Different nations
ostensibly believe in the same scriptures, but they have
various concepts of the universal Spirit; some conceive it
to be nature and others God. Robert Browning says, "What I
call God . . . fools call Nature."

Our Bible plainly teaches that God implanted in man His
perfect image and likeness, with executive ability to carry
out all the creative plans of the Great Architect. When man
arrives at a certain point in spiritual understanding it is
his office to co-operate with the God principle in
creation. Jesus had reached this point, and He said, "My
Father worketh even until now, and I work."

It is possible for man to form states of consciousness that
are out of harmony with the God principle, but these do not
endure, and through experience man learns to adjust his
thought to that of God. "I

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will be what I will to be" is basic in all creation and it
proves itself in the face of human reason and logic. God is
free to do as He wills, and He has implanted that same
freedom in man. When we understand this ego-forming
capacity of man and even of nature, we have the key that
unlocks the many mysteries and contradictions that appear
in every walk of life.

As the animating life of all things God is a unit, but as
the mind that drives this life He is diverse. Every man is
king in his own mental domain, and his subjects are his
thoughts. When the king of Babylon called Daniel to
interpret his dream of the image with the head of gold and
feet of clay, the prophet prefaced his interpretation with
these words, which contain in essence the kingly authority
of every man:

"Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of
heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength,
and the glory; and wheresoever the children of men dwell,
the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens hath
he given into thy hand, and hath made thee to rule over
them all: thou art the head of gold."

"Thou art the head of gold" is true of every man, but in
his ignorance man thinks he is the feet of clay. This
thought of his own inefficiency darkens his mentality, and
when the Lord attempts to communicate with him in symbols
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external sources to explain them.

People in this atomic age civilization ask why God does not
reveal Himself now as He did in Bible days. The fact is
that God is talking to people everywhere, but they do not
understand the message and brush it aside as an idle dream.
We need to divest ourselves of the thought that Daniel and
Joseph, in fact all the unusually wise men of the Bible,
were especially inspired by God, that they were divinely
appointed by the Lord to do His work. Everything points to
their spiritual insight as the result of work on their part
to that end. Daniel as a youth had been taught to worship
Jehovah, the one and only God. He restrained the gross
appetites of the flesh and thereby made himself receptive
to Spirit. "But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would
not defile himself with the king's dainties, nor with the
wine which he drank." He begged that he and his companion
be allowed to eat herbs and drink water, which was granted;
and the record says that at the end of even a ten-day test
they were in better condition physically than all the
youths that ate of the king's dainties, that God gave them
knowledge and skill, and that Daniel had "understanding in
all visions and dreams."

The body is the instrument of the mind, and the mind looks
to the Spirit for its inspiration. A very little
observation shows that the purer the mind the greater its
capacity to receive and interpret the ideas

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imparted to it by the Spirit. It does not require a
doctor's diagnosis to prove that alcohol confuses the mind
and injures the body. The daily toll of automobile
accidents proves that drivers with alcohol in their
stomachs are trifling with death. Although Paul advises
that we eat what is set before us, asking no questions,
experience proves that the advice of Daniel leads to better
health and clearer thinking. Paul is credited with a giant
intellect, but when he advised Timothy to take a little
wine for his stomach's sake, we know that he was not
inspired by the Spirit of wisdom.

Not only the Scriptures that we look to for authority in
our daily living but also the experience of ourselves and
our neighbors proves that those who cultivate communion
with the Father within become conscious of a guiding light,
call it what you will.

Those who scoff at this and say that it is all the work of
the imagination are deluding themselves and ignoring a
source of instruction and progress that they need above all
things. If this sense world were the only world we shall
ever know, the attainment of its ambitions might be
sufficient for a man of meager outlook and small capacity,
but the majority of us see ourselves and the world about us
in a process of transformation that will ultimate in
conditions here on the earth far superior to those we have
imagined for heaven.

"Great is the mystery of godliness," and still

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greater is the capacity for godliness. When Spirit responds
to the seeking mind and begins to reveal the magnitude of
that undiscovered country within us, we long for a new
language with words describing glories beyond all human
comparison. Even our so-called physical body reveals a
radiant body (which Jesus referred to as sitting on the
throne of His glory) that interlaces the trillions of cells
of the organism and burns as brightly as an electric light.
Jesus gave His apostles a glimpse of this radiant body when
He was transformed before them. "And as he was praying, the
fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment
became white and dazzling."

Jesus was very advanced, and His radiant body was developed
in larger degree than that of anyone in our race, but we
all have this body, and its development is in proportion to
our spiritual culture. In Jesus this body of light glowed
"as he was praying." Jesus' body did not go down to
corruption, but He, by the intensity of His spiritual
devotion, restored every cell to its innate state of atomic
light and power. When John was in the state of spiritual
devotion Jesus appeared to him, "and his eyes were as a
flame of fire; and his feet like unto burnished brass."
Jesus lives today in that body of glorified electricity in
a kingdom that interpenetrates the earth and its
environment. He called it the kingdom of the heavens.

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We do not have to look to the many experiences recorded in
the Bible of the spiritually illumined to prove the
existence of the spiritual supersubstance. People
everywhere are discovering it, as they always have in every
age and clime. Unless it is put under control of the Christ
Mind it takes on psychic and "spooky" expressions, which
distort the soul instead of unfolding it under divine law,
and drive its victims into our psychopathic sanatoria.
However, men will continue to pray, and prayer releases the
innate glory of God-Mind, so we must be taught how to
establish our identity with the Christ and through it to
gain the mastery of the stored-up riches of the man
invisible.

The metaphysical literature of our day is very rich with
the experiences of those who have found through various
channels the existence of the radiant body. One example is
Angela Morgan's book "Behold the Angel!" Miss Morgan's
writing in this book is a radical departure from her
well-known poetical vein. She is specific and to the point
in announcing her revelations. She says in the foreword:

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This is a book about the radiant body, the living self of
every human being; the immortal structure which is the real
self even now in this moment of time. The author, through
intense conviction and the validity of recent experience,
writes in concrete terms of what to her is as real as
flesh, bones, blood, and muscle. There is, behind this
"veil of flesh," an actual flamelike structure invisible to
our everyday, limited perception. When I say it is
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I mean it literally. . . . It is vividly alive, glorious as
the

sunrise.

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She tells of numerous instances in which she saw hands and
feet and other parts of her body lighted or really
transformed by the flame invisible.

This convincing confession of Miss Morgan prompts me to
tell of my development of the radiant body, during half a
century's experience. It began when I was mentally
affirming statements of Truth. Just between my eyes, but
above, I felt a "thrill" that lasted a few moments, then
passed away. I found I could repeat this experience with
affirmations. As time went on I could set up this "thrill"
at other points in my body and finally it became a
continuous current throughout my nervous system. I called
it "the Spirit" and found that it was connected with a
universal life force whose source was the Christ. As taught
in the Bible, we have through wrong thinking and living
lost contact with the parent life. Jesus Christ incarnated
in the flesh and thereby introduced us by His Word into the
original Father life. He said, "If a man keep my word, he
shall never taste of death." I have believed that and
affirmed His words until they have become organized in my
body. Sometimes when I make this claim of Christ life in
the body I am asked if I expect to live always in this
flesh. My answer is that I realize that the flesh is being
broken down every day and its cells transformed into energy
and life, and a new body is being formed

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of a very superior quality. That new body in Christ will be
my future habitation.

I have found that the kingdom of God is within man and that
we are wasting our time and defeating the work of the
Spirit if we look for it anywhere else.

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Spiritual Obedience

Chapter III

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I fairly sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm and spring forth
with a mighty faith to do the things that ought to be done
by me.--CHARLES FILLMORE

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ZEAL is the great universal force that impels man to spring
forward in a field of endeavor and accomplish the seemingly
miraculous. It is the inward fire that urges man onward,
regardless of the intellectual mind of caution and
conversation.

Paul, the zealot whose name was first Saul, metaphysically
is a symbol of varied significance. He was born of Jewish
parents in Tarsus, Asia Minor, a city of considerable
culture and refinement. He was reared as a Pharisee and
educated as a rabbi in schools in Jerusalem. His one
conception of salvation did not go beyond that of obtaining
it through a perfect performance of the works of the law.
But in truth he was a man of deep religious character and
worshiped the living God.

He was on his way to Damascus to persecute the disciples of
Jesus, no doubt in one instant "breathing threatening and
slaughter against the disciples of the Lord" and in the
next swearing allegiance to the living God whom he
worshiped. "As he journeyed . . . suddenly there shone
round about him a light out of heaven: and he fell upon the
earth." Because of the great blaze of illumination he was

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struck temporarily blind.

Thus through the spiritual power of his own mind,
apparently by accident, he broke into the ethers where his
consciousness was flooded with spiritual light, and he
heard the voice of Jesus saying: "Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? . . . and when his eyes were opened,
he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought
him into Damascus." This experience illumined, expanded,
and enriched his whole being, and eventually led him into
his life's work: preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to
the whole Gentile world.

Paul presents a tremendous outpouring of zeal; first on the
intellectual plane as champion of the law and the prophets,
afterward as a disseminator of the freeing doctrine of the
Christ. He was a "chosen vessel" of the Lord, and "not
disobedient unto the heavenly vision." Yet on several
occasions he allowed his zeal to run away with his better
judgment and as a result suffered many things.

Zeal should be tempered with wisdom. It is possible to be
so zealously active on the intellectual plane that one's
vitality is consumed and there is nothing left for
spiritual growth. "Take time to be holy." Never neglect
your soul. To grow spiritually you should exercise your
zeal in spiritual ways.

As children of God our place is at the right hand of the
Father. When man really realizes this, he calls down upon
himself the baptism of the Holy

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Spirit. He soon learns that obedience to Spirit increases
his power to control his thoughts and thus make his world
conform to the divine standard.

When man is obedient to Spirit he will not suffer burdens.
To trust Spirit he must know of its guidance by experience.
By those who have not learned the guidance of Spirit, that
experience must be acquired. Man is spirit and must find
himself before he can communicate with universal Spirit.

Paul had his weak points, but he was a great apostle and
made Jesus' doctrine live. No doubt the light of spiritual
understanding with which his consciousness was flooded at
the time of his conversion carried him a long way in his
ministry. His fearlessness was the strong point of his
character. To him the gospel came first and the things of
the world second. This is what made him a great apostle of
the Lord. When will and understanding are joined in
consciousness man is equal to any emergency.

Without doubt the secret of Paul's great illumination at
the time of his conversion is that in previous lives he had
built up a spiritual consciousness, and on his way to
Damascus he "stirred up" the gift that was within him. The
new race that is now being born on this planet will develop
these unused resources of the mind by realization, audible
prayer, and thanksgiving and bring to the surface the
riches of both the subconscious and the superconscious mind.

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Above all other Bible writers Paul emphasizes the
importance of the mind in the transformation of character
and body. In this respect he struck a note in religion that
had been mute up to this time; that is, that spirit and
mind are akin and that man is related to God through his
thought. Paul sounds again and again in various forms this
silent but very essential chord in the unity of God and man
and man and his body. All Christian metaphysicians are
indebted to him for many quotable Scriptures that fortify
their position that the mind is the center of man's world
around which, to him, all things revolve.

Spiritual realization changes things. In scientific prayer
realization is the high point of attainment. With
concentrated spiritual attention man can affirm in faith
that God Spirit is present and that he, man, is one with
the God presence.

That there is a certain unity also between the mind and the
elements, mystics contend, and this is borne out by the
power exercised by Jesus when He stilled the wind and
stopped the storm.

The question is often asked, Does the race mind affect
nature and to what extent? Some geologists surmised that
exploding bombs might have been the cause of the Japanese
earthquake following World War II. Science cannot verify
this surmise, although it does teach the unity of all
things.

When the scientific world investigates the so-called
miracles of religion and discovers that they

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are being duplicated continually, the power of mind over
matter will be heralded as of great importance to both
religion and science.

Prayer gives spiritual poise to the ego, and it brings
forth eternal life when spiritually linked with the Christ.
"If a man keep my word, he shall never see death."

Jesus understood the realm of divine substance, and it was
obedient to His word. He will continue to draw upon this
omnipresent source of power and also include us in its
life-giving energy if we will abide with Him in the Spirit.
When we understand the innate capacity of the mind raised
to spiritual dominion we cannot but have an increase of
faith equal to doing the works of Jesus, and even greater
works, as He promised.

Machines that measure the energy used by the mind acting on
the brain cells have already been invented, but there is no
account of the brain voltage of a person in prayer. When
such measurements have been made we shall know something of
the capacity of the mind in its highest range of
expression. Jesus also called attention to the power of a
group praying with Him. "For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them."

The first mention of this dynamic power of the Spirit is
found in Acts 1 and 2, when the early followers of Jesus
were gathered in the "upper chamber."

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They all became spiritual dynamos, as revealed in the Greek
word translated "power." These disciples had been with
Jesus for over three years, but did not have the
inspiration or power that was poured out upon them at this
historical gathering, which has ever since been an
outstanding example of the marvelous spiritual experiences
of those who are of one mind and heart in their group
worship of Jesus the Christ. It is recorded that the Spirit
came upon them like a wind and sat upon each of them in
"tongues . . . of fire."

To one who gains even a meager quickening of the Spirit,
Christianity ceases to be a theory; it becomes a
demonstrable science of the mind.

We must not anticipate better social and economic
conditions until we have better men and women to institute
and sustain those conditions.

Jesus said that He was the bread and substance that came
down from heaven. When will our civilization begin to
realize and appropriate this mighty ocean of substance and
life? A finer civilization than now exists has been
conceived by many from Plato in his "Republic" to Edward
Bellamy in "Looking Backward." But a new and higher
civilization will be developed only through the efforts of
higher and finer types of men and women. Philosophers and
seers have looked forward to a time when this earth would
produce superior men and women, but save Jesus none has had
the spiritual insight to declare,

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"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass
away, until all these things be accomplished." The Greek
word genea, here translated "generation," does not mean a
little span of thirty-three years of life, but covers the
whole race history in its multitudinous births and deaths,
incarnations and reincarnations throughout the millions of
years since we began to function in creative Mind. It is
out of this race that the new race is to come forth. "Ye
are the people." The time is at hand for those who are
spiritually ripe to stand forth and realize their spiritual
identity. Jesus pointed to this when He said, "Say not ye,
There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest?
behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, and look on the
fields, that they are white already unto harvest."

Prayer, communion with God within, realization, awakens
spiritual consciousness and develops true spiritual
character. It is the only way to cleanse and perfect the
mind and thus permanently heal the body. It is good to get
still and think about the inexhaustible resources of
infinite Mind; about its presence in all its fullness and
its readiness to manifest itself when the law is complied
with. Pray with persistence and pray with understanding. Be
instant in prayer; and never allow anything to keep you
from having your daily quiet hour of communion with God,
your own indwelling Father.

One day little Billy and Johnny were climbing

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around in an old apple tree. Finally they walked out on a
limb, and were holding to the boughs above them. But the
limb on which they were standing proved to be rotten and
gave way, and the boys came tumbling down to the ground.
Johnny was hurt and began to cry. But Billy got up with a
smile on his face and began brushing the dirt off his
clothes.

"Why ain't you hurt?" moaned Johnny. "You was out further
on the limb than me."

"I prayed," was the happy reply.

"You didn't have no time to pray," retorted Johnny.

"But it didn't catch me, because I was already prayed up
ahead," explained Billy. "So I wasn't scared. I know'd I'd
be all right."

"Behold, the man!" Jesus Christ is the type of a new race
now forming in the earth. Those who incorporate into
consciousness the Christ principles are its members. Sir
Francis Galton, the father of eugenics, says: "There is
nothing either in the history of domestic animals or in
that of evolution to make us doubt that a race of sane men
may be formed, who shall be as much superior mentally and
morally, as the modern European is to the lowest of the
primitive races." It is now being revealed in the
renaissance of Christianity, which is pouring its light out
upon the world, that this new race is forming in the souls
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earth. These are "the called" of Scripture, who are being
gathered together in spiritual consciousness, and will
eventually come forth to rule the world with Jesus Christ.
Emerson says: "Great hearts send forth steadily the secret
forces that incessantly draw great events, and wherever the
mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, no matter what
the path."

Let us remember that God is Spirit and all that emanates
from God is spiritual, including man. The dominion that God
gave to man in the beginning, as recorded in Genesis, is a
dominion over spiritual ideas, which are represented in the
allegory by material symbols. Hence to exercise his
dominion man must understand the metaphysical side of
everything in existence. Mind is at the bottom of all life
and substance. The mind was not "invented" by the brain,
but it has evolved the brain as its most efficient
instrument.

Divine Mind is the one and only reality. When we
incorporate the ideas that form Divine Mind into our mind
and persevere in those ideas, a mighty strength wells up
within us. Then we have a foundation for the spiritual
body, the body not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
When the spiritual body is established in consciousness,
its strength and power is transmitted to the visible body
and to all the things that we touch in the world about us.

In the economy of the future man will not be a

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slave to money. Humanity's daily needs will be met in ways
not now thought practical.

In the new economy we shall serve for the joy of serving,
and prosperity will flow to us and through us in rippling
streams of plenty. The supply and support that love and
zeal set in motion are not yet largely used by man, but
those who have tested this method are loud in their praise
of its efficiency.

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//section Chapter 4

I AM or Superconsciousness

Chapter IV

//text

SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS is the goal toward which humanity is
working. Regardless of appearances there is an upward trend
continually active throughout all creation. The
superconsciousness is the realm of divine ideas. Its
character is impersonal. It therefore has no personal
ambitions; knows no condemnation; but is always pure,
innocent, loving, and obedient to the call of God.

The superconsciousness has been perceived by the
spiritually wise in every age, but they have not known how
to externalize it and make it an abiding state of
consciousness. Jesus accomplished this, and His method is
worthy of our adoption, because as far as we know, it is
the only method that has been successful. It is set forth
in the New Testament, and whoever adopts the life of purity
and love and power there exemplified in the experiences of
Jesus of Nazareth will in due course attain the place that
He attained.

Jesus acknowledged Himself to be the Son of God. Living in
the superconsciousness calls for nothing less on our part
than a definite recognition of ourselves as sons of God
right here and now, regardless of appearances to the
contrary. We know that we are sons of God; then why not
acknowledge it and proceed to take possession of our God
heirdom?

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That is what Jesus did in the face of the most adverse
conditions. Conditions today are not so inertly material as
they were in Jesus' time. People now know more about
themselves and their relation to God. They are familiar
with thought processes and how an idea held in mind will
manifest itself in the body and in affairs; hence they take
up this problem of spiritual realization under vastly more
favorable conditions. An idea must work out just as surely
as a mathematical problem, because it is under immutable
law. The factors are all in our possession, and the method
was demonstrated in one striking instance and is before us.
By following the method of Jesus and doing day by day work
that comes to us, we shall surely put on Christ as fully
and completely as did Jesus of Nazareth.

The method by which Jesus evolved from sense consciousness
to God consciousness was, first, the recognition of the
spiritual selfhood and a constant affirmation of its
supremacy and power. Jesus loved to make the highest
statements: "I and the Father are one." "All authority hath
been given unto me in heaven and on earth." He made these
statements, so we know that at the time He was fully aware
of their reality. Secondly, by the power of His word He
penetrated deeper into omnipresence and tapped the deepest
resources of His mind, whereby He released the light, life,
and substance of Spirit, which enabled Him to get the
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united His consciousness with the Father Mind.

In making His great overcoming Jesus applied the principles
of Being scientifically, and He instructed His followers to
do as He did. No one can get a copyright on the principles
of Truth any more than he can get a corner on the air.
Truth is free; it is Spirit, and cannot be kept from the
spiritually minded, nor can it be confined within the
bounds of any religious organization. In the light of
modern science the miracles of the Bible can be rationally
explained as Mind acting in an omnipresent spiritual field,
which is open to all men who develop spiritually. "Ye who
have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man
shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit
upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

"He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me
in my throne."

Overcoming is a change of mind from error to Truth. The way
of overcoming is first to place one's self by faith in the
realization of Sonship, and second, to demonstrate it in
every thought and act.

The Word is man's I AM. The Holy Spirit is the "outpouring"
or activity of the living Word. The work of the Holy Spirit
is the executive power of Father (mind) and Son (idea),
carrying out the creative plan. It is through the help of
the Holy Spirit that man overcomes. The Holy Spirit
reveals, helps, and directs in this overcoming. "The Spirit

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searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." It
finally leads man into the light.

The work that the overcomer does for the world is to help
establish a new race consciousness, "new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." By being true to
his highest understanding of Truth the overcomer never
swerves to the right nor left for any reason.

As an illustration, a friend of mine who lives in a large
American city, an executive of a manufacturing corporation,
dotes on standing at a bar with a group of his associates;
and after they have all ordered liquor in one form or
another, he calls out so everyone can hear, "Buttermilk!"

This has been going on for a number of years. Whenever they
undertake to joke him about his seemingly tame choice he is
overjoyed. He feels he is testifying for the Lord and is
thankful just for the opportunity. However he says that
first one and then another of his friends has come to him
privately and asked him how he has the nerve always to turn
down the drinks. He tells them he stands in the strength of
the Lord and that it is no problem at all for him. They
usually admit they wish they had as much backbone as he.
This gives him the opportunity to present a word for the
practical use of Truth.

The mind of man is built on Truth, and the clearer man's
understanding of Truth is the more substantial his mind
becomes. It is through progressive,

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step-by-step spiritual unfoldment that Truth is
demonstrated. The truths of Being are scientific, and
undoubtedly Jesus understood and taught the properties of
the cosmic ether under the name of "the kingdom of the
heavens."

Science rightly understood is of inestimable value to
religion, and Christianity in order to become the world
power that its founder envisioned, must stress the
unfoldment of the spiritual mind in man in order that he
may do the mighty works promised by Jesus.

When Jesus went up into the mount to pray He was
transfigured before His apostles Peter, James, and John.
True prayer brings about an exalted radiation of energy,
and when it is accompanied by faith, judgment, and love,
the word of Truth bursts forth in a stream of light that,
when held in mind, illumines, uplifts, and glorifies.

Jesus recognized Mind in everything and called it "Father."
He knew that there is a faith center in each atom of
so-called matter and that faith in man can move upon the
faith center in so-called matter and can remove mountains.

He developed spiritual faith in His own mind, which moved
upon the cells of His body and released the power He used
in His resurrection and ascension.

We cannot separate Jesus Christ from God or tell where man
leaves off and God begins in Him. To say that we are men as
Jesus Christ was a man is not exactly true, because He had
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consciousness by which we separate ourselves from our true
God self. He became consciously one with the absolute
principle of Being. He proved in His resurrection and
ascension that He had no consciousness separate from that
of Being, therefore He really was this Being to all intents
and purposes.

Yet He attained no more than what is expected of every one
of us. "That they may be one, even as we are" was His
prayer.

This is all accomplished through the externalization of the
superconsciousness, which is omnipresent and ever ready to
manifest itself through us as it did through Jesus. Let
"Christ be formed in you."

In Acts 1:8 Jesus said: "But ye shall receive power, when
the Holy Spirit is come upon you."

Through the Holy Spirit, man not only has power to keep the
words of Jesus but also to do the works that He did, even
"greater works."

Modern science tells us that in the trillions of cells in
our body there are imprisoned electronic energies beyond
all possibility of estimate; that a single teardrop has
within its atoms dynamic force enough to blow up a
six-story building. Man is coming into an understanding of
how to release these mighty powers and use them in
regenerating soul and body.

Jesus taught that the realities of God are capable of
expression here in this world and that man within himself
has God capacity and power.

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Jesus was crucified because He claimed to be the Son of
God. Yet the Scriptures, which the Pharisees worshiped, had
this bold proclamation, which Jesus quoted to them from
Psalms 82:

//quote

"I said, Ye are gods,

And all of you sons of the Most High."

//text

Jesus differed from other men in that He proved by His
works that He was the Son of God, while the average man is
still striving to attain that excellency.

The reports by His followers of what He taught clearly
point to two subjects that He loved to discourse upon. The
first was the Son of God: He was the Son of God. Secondly:
We might all become as He was and demonstrate our dominion
by following Him in the regeneration.

In order to follow Jesus in the regeneration we must become
better acquainted with the various phases of mind and how
they function in and through the body.

He who has caught the significance of man, and who and what
man is, never allows himself to accept any erroneous
conclusions as to his final destiny. He does however know
there is a way provided by which he can not only free
himself from the claims of materiality but also by his
efforts open the way for many others to do likewise. No
person ever demonstrated his God-given powers in even a
small way but what he helped others to do the same.

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Preaching is good, but precept is better. "I, if I be
lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself."

In Isaiah 65:17 we read: "Behold, I create new heavens
[ideals] and a new earth [manifestation]; and the former
things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."

The body that is formed in regeneration absorbs the
substance of the body of flesh, and makes out of it a new
body in divine order, under the law of the Christ Mind. In
this process the physical body dies so that the Christ body
may live; but the spiritual ego, the I AM, remains
consciously active throughout the process of development
that Paul referred to when he said: "I die daily."

In spiritual understanding we know that all the forces in
the body are directed by thought and that they work in a
constructive or a destructive way, according to the
character of the thought. Medicine, massage, and all the
material means accomplish but incomplete, unsatisfactory,
temporary results, because they work only from the outside
and do not touch the inner springs that control the forces.
The springs can only be touched by thought. There must be a
unity between the mind of man and Divine Mind so that ideas
and thoughts that work constructively unto eternal life may
be quickened in the mind and organism of man.

Jesus unfolded the consciousness of the Absolute.

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Through the quickening of the Spirit we are loosed from all
limiting ideas and are set free in the Christ consciousness
or realization of the Absolute. The consciousness of the
Lord Jesus Christ is of limitless life, strength, power,
wisdom, love, and substance that are everywhere present,
always present.

We are told in John that the world could not contain the
books that would be written if all the things that Jesus
did were put into writing. But enough is given in the story
of His life and in the writings of the apostles concerning
Him to bear witness to that which is daily being revealed
in this day of fulfillment. Those who are consecrated to
Truth and fully resolved to follow Jesus all the way are
spiritualizing the whole man, including the body, which is
being redeemed from corruption. Those who are living as
Jesus lived are becoming like Him. "God is not the God of
the dead, but of the living."

Resurrection takes place in people who are alive. One does
not go into the grave to be resurrected and to enter the
heavenly state of those raised in Christ.

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//section Chapter 5

The Day of Judgment

Chapter V

//text

AS WE COME to a realization of an entirely different
consciousness new relations are set up that it is sometimes
difficult to explain to one who believes in time and space.

In the Bible description of the "day of judgment" the Son
of man has always been represented as Jesus Christ, who is
to be surrounded by angels and sit on a throne passing
judgment after death upon the just and the unjust. But we
understand the Son of man to be the spiritual man, that
which is ideal, unlimited, and divine. We come into
entirely different relations when we affirm, "I am a divine
being." When we affirm this we begin to pass judgment. We
are the same man, but divine ideas (angels) must come into
our consciousness. Then we begin to judge and know that our
everyday thoughts are different from our divine, ideal
thoughts. We judge between our good thoughts and our evil
thoughts, our unlimited and our limited thoughts.

It is said we are to be judged after death according to
deeds done in the body, which are kept on record like books
that are balanced; and if the balance is found to be in our
favor we go up, and if against us we go down. But if we are
spiritual now--divine--this spiritual part has dominion,
and we begin to exercise this dominion. The moment we

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catch sight of this we begin to judge. We begin to put the
thoughts that are good on the right and the others on the
left. All our ideas of the attributes of our divine self we
put on the right hand of power, while the thoughts of
disease, death, limitation and lack we put on the
left--denied, cut off.

This is not to occur after death. It is to begin right now!

We don't say that all is evil; that would be mental
suicide. We just say it is a "goat thought." We do not kill
it but transform it.

After separating our innocent sheep thoughts, we begin to
have fine, high, discriminating judgment.

Then the Son of man has come in His glory, surrounded by
His angels (ideas). We know that He is limitless. "I am now
a son of God," we say. "I am divine." These angels (ideas)
take their places on the throne with the Son of man and
judgment begins immediately.

Then today is the day of judgment!

We may have the perception and may see the angels (ideas)
but we have not passed judgment. We do not judge until we
begin to deny and affirm. Judgment commences the moment you
accept the truth of your divine sonship.

"Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come,
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation of the world."

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Who is the king? The center of consciousness, the I AM, and
the I AM has power to just the extent you have the courage
to assert your power. We must all step forth and assert,
"All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on
earth." If the central spark is like the divine, then we
have all power.

We are here as the king, and we say to our true thoughts
(angels), "Come . . . inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world." Then all is ours. There
is no limit. We ask what we will and it is done unto us.
All good that we can conceive of is now ours. Is there
evidence of the oak in the acorn? No! But there is a
pattern of an oak there, and this pattern or image is what
makes the tree. The image in mind makes the condition.

Now is the time to plant the seed thought of the conditions
we desire by saying, "Come my good thoughts, let us inherit
our kingdom."

We do not fear anything, for we have separated our sheep
from the goats; we have set our true thoughts on the right
and have denied our error thoughts any power whatever.

"I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye
gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked,
and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in
prison, and ye came unto me."

We understand that our good thoughts always

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minister to us in days of despondency and discouragement.
We rest in the thought that we have done a good deed in
such and such an instance or that we have been good at such
and such a time. These are the thoughts that minister to
us. These thoughts are not conscious; but they are laying
the foundation for the coming of the Lord, so they say:
"When saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and
gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee
in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick,
or in prison, and came unto thee?"

Every thought of goodness makes a place, a form, and sets
up a friendly habit in the mind that is permanent and that
in your time of need ministers to you. You are glad to
accept this ministry, for you have done good because the
Spirit of good is working through you. Thus you reap the
benefit of all the good you have ever done or thought. Your
thoughts give back results of the same nature as
themselves. If in the silence you have earnestly held to
the pure and good you have built in you a place for the
pure and good. Every true thought has made a place in your
mind and when you are about to judge you will recognize it,
although you did not realize it at the time you sent it
forth.

We are carried along by these thoughts until we reach the
consciousness of our I AM power. We do not know we are
building ourselves, our environment, our world, until we
reach this consciousness.

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Then judgment of our world begins and is passed on our
thought creations. Suppose we have tried to cast the beam
out of our eye so that we might help our brother. This act
will answer in our judgment day, "I was that 'least' one."

Come into the kingdom of mind. Here everything that is in
Principle is yours.

These error thoughts and misconceptions of Truth are only
age-lasting, not everlasting.

Everything, all good, is to be gathered up, and everything
is good at its center. The essence of your body is good and
of true substance. When you sift your consciousness of all
but the real and true, the body becomes full of light.

The diamond owes its brilliance to the perfect arrangement
of the innumerable little prisms within it, each of which
refracts the light of the other. Man's body is made up of
centers of consciousness--of light--and if arranged so they
radiate the light within you, you will shine like the
diamond. All things are in the consciousness and you have
to learn to separate the erroneous from the true, darkness
from light. The I AM must separate the sheep from the
goats. This sifting begins right now and goes on until the
perfect child of God is manifest and you are fully rounded
out in all your Godlike attributes.

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//section Chapter 6

Thou Shalt Decree a Thing

Chapter VI

//quote

As imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

--SHAKESPEARE

//text

TO DECREE with assurance is to establish and fix an ideal
in substance. The force behind the decree is invisible,
like a promise to be fulfilled at a future time; but it
binds with its invisible chains the one who makes it. We
have only a slight conception of the strength of the
intangible. We compare and measure strength by some strong
element in nature. We say "strong as steel." But a very
little thought will convince us that mental affirmations
are far stronger than the strongest visible thing in the
world. The reason for this is that visible things lack
livingness. They are not linked with energy and
intelligence as are words. Words charged with power and
intelligence increase with use, while material things
decrease.

It is not necessary to call the attention of metaphysicians
to the fact that all visible things had their origin in the
invisible. The visible is what remains of an idea that has
gradually lost its energy. Scientists say that this
so-called solid earth under our feet was once radiant
substance. Nothing is really "solid"

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but the atomic energy latent in everything. They tell us
that it takes some six billion years for uranium to
disintegrate and become lead, and this rate of
disintegration has helped scientists determine the age of
the earth as about two billion years.

Since nothing is lost in the many transformations that
occur in nature, what becomes of the energy that is being
released in the disintegration that is going on in our
earth? The answer is that a new earth is being formed in
which matter will be replaced by atomic energy. This
process of refining matter into radiant substance is taking
place not only in the natural world but in our bodies also.
In fact the speed with which the transformation takes place
depends on the character of the thoughts that we project
into our brains and through them into our bodies and the
world about us. This is why we should spiritualize our
thoughts and refine the food we eat to correspond. The
press announces a great shortage of meat all over the
world, with alarming predictions of malnutrition and race
deterioration. Instead of a calamity this meat shortage
will prove a blessing. New and better foods will be found
to replace the corrupt flesh with which people have been
stuffing their stomachs. The call for stimulants that the
fermenting mess produces in digestion will diminish, and a
purer, sweeter body and saner mind will follow. The peoples
of Europe, forced by the economic conditions brought about
by wars, are adopting a

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simpler diet, with better health; so says the public press.
Thus what seems calamity turns out to be a source of joy.

At the present writing there is a housing shortage
everywhere and the lack of materials and competent labor
indicate that several years will elapse before the need is
met. This is counted a calamity; but is it? The inventive
genius of man is planning houses of glass and other
materials that will be much less expensive--more durable
and in every respect superior to the present homes. When
man gets his ingenious mind into action he always meets
every emergency with something better. These many examples
of the power of man's mind should make us pause when we are
tempted to consider any situation disastrous or nearly so.
Every adverse situation can be used as a spur to urge one
to greater exertion and the ultimate attainment of some
ideal that has lain dormant in the subconsciousness. The
pessimist moans, "I could make a better world than this."
The optimist sings, "Go to it; that's what God put you here
for."

People everywhere on earth are now realizing as never
before that the well-being of this world rests with its
inhabitants. It is no longer a religious dogma or a
philosophical theory that the destiny of the race is in the
hands of man. God has given all things to us to use as we
shall determine. We can use the atomic energy to destroy or
construct as we decree. "Behold, I set before you the way
of life and the

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way of death."

The dominion and authority God gave to His
image-and-likeness man has assumed such reality that even
the most trivial person can understand it and tremble at
the prospect of what might come to pass if that dominion
were used by vicious men.

Those who have recklessly gone on living without seeking
the wisdom of the source of life are now asking what shall
be done to save us from the insanity that would destroy our
world.

The one and only answer, of course, is that the moral and
spiritual standard of the race must be raised the world
over as the one and only ultimate source of safety. This
means that every person must begin on himself and, as it
dawns, let the light shine by imparting it to others. If
this method were followed universally the millennium would
be upon us in a marvelously short time.

This is not a religious question but a matter of life or
death; not a question of hell after death but of survival
here and now of everybody and everything one holds dear.
There are Hitlers still alive and others reincarnating.
They must all be educated morally and taught the nearness
of the spiritual man and the necessity of his incorporation
into the consciousness of the natural man before permanent
life can be established in the individual. This work is to
be done for our race right here on this planet, and for
this reason we who love the Lord and greatly

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desire that His law be fulfilled are calling on all people
to make haste and accept the abundant life and light that
He so freely offers.

The Bible records many instances where marvelous results
followed the observance of religious rites in which
trumpets took a leading part. The priests under Moses were
ordered to blow trumpets before the Ark; Gideon and his
three hundred overcame a large army of Midianites by
flashing lights, shouting, and blowing trumpets; the walls
of Jericho fell as the result of trumpet and voice
vibrations. Isaiah says: "And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall
come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria [the
psychic realm], and they that were outcasts in the land of
Egypt [materialism]; aud they shall worship Jehovah in the
holy mountain in Jerusalem [spirituality]."

The trumpet sets up sharp vibrations in the ether, which
cause disintegration when they impinge upon an object in
the mental or material realms. These realms Isaiah
symbolically refers to as Assyria and Egypt. Trained
metaphysicians produce like results through the spiritual
word, uttered audibly or silently or both. It is in this
field of Spirit that Unity people are destined to do a
great work in helping to educate people everywhere. By
declaring and decreeing spiritually the words of Jesus and
Jehovah we send into the ether a spiritual force that
shatters

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the fixed states of consciousness holding millions in evil
ways. In this way the doors of mental prisons will be
opened to multitudes of sin-bound souls. Anyone who has
faith in Spirit and the power of the word spoken in faith
can send it forth, and like the radio oscillation, it will
be picked up by receptive minds everywhere.

"Let your light shine before men; that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven."

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//section Chapter 7

Thinking in the Fourth Dimension

Chapter VII

//text

SCIENTISTS TELL us that the discoveries that their efforts
are revealing convince them that they are just on the verge
of stupendous truths. Christianity spiritually interpreted
shows that Jesus understood the deeper things of God's
universe. He understood exactly what the conditions were on
the invisible side of life, which is termed in His teaching
the "kingdom of God" or the "kingdom of the heavens." We
are trying to connect His teaching with modern science in
order to show the parallel; but as He said in Mark 4:23,
"if any man hath ears to hear, let him hear." This means
that we must develop a capacity for understanding in terms
of the atomic structure of the universe.

Unless we have this spiritual capacity we do not
understand. We think we have ears, but they are attuned to
materiality. They do not get the radiations from the
supermind, the Christ Mind. Physiology working with
psychology is demonstrating that hearing and seeing can be
developed in every cell in the body, independent of ears
and eyes. We hear and see with our minds working through
our bodies. This being true, the capacity to hear may
extend beyond the physical ear into the spiritual ethers,
and we should be able to hear the voice of God. This
extension of hearing is what Jesus taught. "If any man

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hath ears to hear, let him hear."

Then we are told that we must "take heed" what we hear.
Many of us have found that as we develop this inner,
spiritual hearing, we hear voices sometimes that do not
tell the truth. These deceptive voices can be hushed by
affirming the presence and power of the Lord Jesus Christ.

As you unfold your spiritual nature, you will find that it
has the same capacity for receiving vibrations of sound as
your outer, physical ear has. You do not give attention to
all that you hear in the external; you discriminate as you
listen. So in the development of this inner, spiritual ear
take heed what you hear: discriminate.

Jesus said, "For he that hath, to him shall be given: and
he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that
which he hath." How can what a man has not be taken away?
We believe in our mortal consciousness that we have
attained a great deal, but if we have not this inner,
spiritual consciousness of reality our possessions are
impermanent. Then we must be careful what we accumulate in
our consciousness, because "he that hath, to him shall be
given." The more spiritual Truth you pile up in your mind,
the more you have of reality, and the larger is your
capacity for the unlimited; but if you have nothing of a
spiritual character, what little you have of intellectual
attainment will eventually be taken away from you.

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The kingdom of the heavens, the new dimension of mind and
energy that is being unfolded today in the spiritual ethers
by the discoveries of the scientists, should not be
divorced from the kingdom of heaven taught by Jesus. Jesus
taught in parables because His listeners were not trained
in science.

We know that the kingdom of the heavens or kingdom of God
is not a place in the skies but an ideal state in creative
mind, ready to be ushered into the minds of men.

We have thought that this kingdom of God was to be
introduced into the world in a miraculous way. At the very
beginning of His ministry Jesus announced, "The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand"; but it did
not then appear. He said, "The kingdom of God cometh not
with observation." Its source is not in outer things; it
comes from sources within man. So we know that we must
develop spiritual understanding and spiritual power in some
respects exceeding that of Jesus. "He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater." Man is
the outpicturing of the infinite and creative Mind, and all
the capacity of this great Mind is his by inheritance.

Jesus taught that man is the light of God. Without man God
should be deaf and dumb and blind. Did you ever think that
you are God's ears and God's mouth and God's eyes? You have
doubtless heard these statements before, but you have taken

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them metaphorically; but it is true that man is God,
formulated.

God is Spirit, it is plainly taught, and the omnipotent,
omnipresent essence from which all things proceed. Both
science and religion agree on the fundamental fact that God
is the source of all creation. Just how God puts Himself
into His creation is not so universally understood or
accepted. But Paul says that God is in us all and through
us all and above us all; that is, God saturates us. God as
Spirit is the ether or soil in which we grow as human
plants.

Jesus compared this soil of God to the soil necessary to
the vegetable kingdom, in which seed is cast and springs up
and grows and unfolds by a series of orderly stages: "first
the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear."
This seed is the God word, and it is tremendously prolific,
much more so than any material seed.

When man points his mind toward God and allows his zeal to
run in a single channel, he may become God-intoxicated.
Peter the Hermit became intoxicated with the idea that God
wanted Jerusalem rescued from Moslem rule, and he rode up
and down Europe on his little mule shouting, "God wills
it." His fanatical zeal started the Crusades that rolled
from Europe to Palestine for nearly two hundred years.

When we recognize that great teachers and leaders of the
race have really developed and expressed

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a superconsciousness that is potential in all persons, we
have raised the hopes and the capacities of men from the
human to the divine. These scientific discoveries are
proving that God is impartial and absolutely just in all
His relations with humanity. When the natural world is
scientifically and universally revealed, a great school of
instruction in soul unfoldment will be established right
here in our midst, and its results will be beyond all our
present imaginings.

The mysteries of the supermind have always been considered
the property of certain schools of occultists and mystics
who were cautious about giving their truths to the masses
for fear that in their ignorance these might misuse them.
But now the doors are thrown wide open, and whosoever will
may enter in.

Our attention in this day is being largely called to the
revolution that is taking place in the economic world, but
a revolution of even greater worth is taking place in the
mental and spiritual worlds. A large and growing school of
metaphysicians has made its advent in this generation, and
it is radically changing the public mind toward religion.
In other words, we are developing spiritual understanding,
and this means that religion and its sources in tradition
and in man are being inquired into and its principles
applied in the development of a new cosmic mind for the
whole human family. So we need

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a larger realization of the importance of man and the
importance of every one of us in manifesting the God who is
Spirit.

We have thought that the burden rested on God alone and
that we were merely puppets in His hands; but Jesus taught
otherwise, and our science proves that man dominates nature
when he affirms his mental supremacy. We are told that
today we have invented machines that can produce faster
than we yet know how to use, that our markets may be
glutted with the products of these mechanical inventions,
and that the products may become so cheap that those who
produce them will come to want. We have wished that
everything we touched might turn to gold; it has come to
pass and we are paralyzed by the pressure of the stuff we
have piled up in our ingenuity and selfishness. We cannot
eat it ourselves, and our greed makes us fearful that we
shall lose all of it if we pass it out freely to others.

So the great need of the whole human family is to know this
one supreme law of God as Spirit manifesting itself in the
mind of man. It is then necessary that we understand our
own importance as God manifestations. We should understand
that we are not separate nor insignificant but the vital,
important, integral parts of a mighty whole. Jesus realized
the importance of the superman as a thinking power
expressing God-Mind when He said, "No one cometh unto the
Father, but by me."

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We have thought that we were to accept Jesus as our
Saviour, that He made propitiation for our sins, and that
that was what He meant when He said we could not reach the
Father except through Him. We have thought that He meant
His personality and His great sacrifice; and we now have to
admit that in its deeper, spiritual significance this is in
a measure true. But in a more personal and intimate way we
are vitally and spiritually intersphered with the Christ
Mind in God, and we cannot measure up to and express our
divinity unless we accept Jesus' standard of the importance
of man and the necessity of man in the great creative
scheme of life.

All persons in rare moments catch glimpses of this creative
plan as a whole, and of man's importance in its beauty and
perfection.

But this subject is so deep and so far-reaching that it can
be realized in small degree only by those who have
developed spiritual sight and feeling, and practice
thinking in the fourth dimension, or kingdom of God.

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//section Chapter 8

Is This God's World?

Chapter VIII

//text

WHY DOESN'T God do something about it?" This oft-repeated
query, uttered by the skeptical and unbelieving, is heard
day in and day out. Imitating the skeptics, Christian
believers everywhere are looking to God for all kinds of
reforms in every department of manifest life and also are
charging Him with death and destruction the world over.

One who thinks logically and according to sound reason
wonders at the contradictions set up by these various
queries and desires.

Is God responsible for all that occurs on this earth, and
if not all, how much of it?

The Bible states that God created the earth and all its
creatures, and last of all man, to whom He gave dominion
over everything. Observation and experience prove that man
is gaining dominion over nature wherever he applies himself
to that end. But so much remains to be gained, and he is so
small physically that man counts himself a pygmy instead of
the mental giant that he is.

All the real mastery that man attains in the world has its
roots in his mind, and when he opens up the mental realm in
his being there are no unattainables. If the conquests of
the air achieved in the last quarter of a century had been
prophesied the

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prophets would have been pronounced crazy. The fact is that
no one thinking in the old mind realm can have any
conception of the transformation of sound waves into
electromagnetic waves and back again into words and
messages of intelligence. Edison admitted that his
discovery of the phonograph was an accident and that he
never fully understood how mechanical vibrations could be
recorded and be reproduced in all forms of intelligent
communication.

Reasoning in terms of matter, no one can understand how
words and music and pictures can be carried over long
distances through space without conflict and then be
reproduced by a mechanical device with perfection and
accuracy.

Now that man has broken away from his limited
visualizations and mentally grasped the unhampered ideas of
the supermind, he is growing grandly bold and his technical
pioneers are telling him that the achievements of yesterday
are as nothing compared to those of tomorrow. For example,
an article by Harland Manchester condensed in the Reader's
Digest from Scientific American tells of the "micro-waves"
that are slated for a more spectacular career in the realm
of the unbelievable than anything that has preceded them.
This article describes in detail some of the marvels that
will evolve out of the utilization of microwaves, among
which may be mentioned "private phone calls by the hundreds
of thousands sent simultaneously over the same wave

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band without wires, poles or cables. Towns where each
citizen has his own radio frequency, over which he can get
voice, music, and television, and call any phone in the
country by dialing. Complete abolition of static and
interference from electrical devices and from other
stations. A hundred times as much 'space on the air' as we
now have in the commercial radio band. A high-definition
and color television network to cover the country. And,
perhaps most important of all, a nation-wide radar network,
geared to television, to regulate all air traffic and
furnish instantaneous visual weather reports to airfields
throughout the land."

Add to this the marvels promised by the appliers of atomic
energy and you have an array of miracles unequaled in all
the bibles of all the nations of the world.

It is admitted by those who are most familiar with the
dynamic power of these newly discovered forces that we do
not yet know how to protect our body cells from the
destructiveness of their vibrations. Very thick concrete
walls are required to protect those who experiment with
atomic forces. One scientist says that the forces released
from the bombs that were used on the Japanese cities in
1945 may affect those who were subjected to them and their
descendants for a thousand years. Experimentation proves
that we have tapped a kingdom that we do not know how to
handle safely.

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It is quite obvious that these forces, if they could be
utilized, would vastly improve our standard of living and
that they were planned for us by creative Mind. If we
cannot control them, why did God allow us to discover them?
And now that we are turning them loose in space all about
us, what are we going to do about it? Also how do we
reconcile this situation with the observation of the
Psalmist:

//quote

"Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet."

//text

The fact is that we have reached a point in race evolution
where we are forced to give attention to the refinement of
the body. Our religion has too long taught that the body is
dust and ashes and that it is its destiny to die and be
left to the worms. The deterioration of the body cells must
be arrested and a new and more powerful life force injected
into the physical organism. This is plainly part of the
teaching of Jesus. He said, "I came that they may have
life, and may have it abundantly." He told his followers
that when they went to that upper room in Jerusalem they
would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit with power.
The original Greek says that they would receive dynamic
energy. All baptisms with Spirit impart vitalizing life to
the recipient, and the joy of quickened vitality should be
felt and retained as part of the physical regeneration.

The divine unction imparted by spiritual baptism

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also contains all the healing forces of X rays, ultraviolet
rays, sunshine, and in fact all the radiant restorative
forces now so widely used as healing agents. But the energy
imparted by Spirit is so tempered that it never injures but
always heals. That this is not true of the shocks given by
mechanical generators is evidenced by the scars they often
leave. A prayer treatment by an experienced spiritual
healer is a baptism, with power proportioned to the
spiritual understanding of the healer. The lowest method of
imparting spiritual baptism is by the laying on of hands
and prayer. The highest is realizing the Holy Spirit
presence and its expression through the power of the word.
Jesus began His ministry by doing the former, but at the
end He sent His word and healed by means of it.

God created the fundamental ideas culminating in the idea
of ideal man. This ideal man has power to mold God's
creation into any manifestation he may choose. If he
consults the Father and projects his thoughts in accordance
with the law, perfect manifestation follows. As Jesus said,
"My Father worketh even until now, and I work."

One who understands this relation of man to his creator can
assert with confidence that this is man's world and always
will be. By right thinking man can have the co-operation of
God in producing manifestations and thereby can set up the
kingdom of God in the earth; or he can ignore God and
attempt

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to form a world and govern it without divine aid. We are
now living in a civilization dominated by human thought,
and confusion is the result.

How many ages and aeons have passed since man lost contact
with God no one can tell. We have about six thousand years
of history and no heavenly conditions are recorded. Caves
and sand drifts reveal the remains of man in combat with
the gorilla for half a million years, with man himself sunk
almost to the level of the monkey. When man dropped out of
the ethers and became one of the primates mortal
understanding has not yet discerned, but the distortions in
the earth and all nature bear evidence of a terrible shock.

We know that our home is not altogether on the earth but
also in the air, over which we must gain dominion before we
can have a fit dwelling place. We are now gaining this
dominion by mechanical means. This will be followed by the
development of a human organism that, unified with Spirit,
will transport us everywhere in air and on earth.

The great and most important issue before the people today
is the development of man's spiritual mind and through it
unity with God. There seem to be things in more immediate
need of being done to alleviate present conditions, but the
taproot of all this confusion is our failure to use our
minds intelligently. We can only think as God would have us
think by adjusting our thoughts to divine ideas. Religion

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and all that it implies in prayer and recognition of God in
idea and manifestation is the one and only way out of the
chaos in which we find ourselves. We must therefore begin
at once to develop this unity with the Father mind by
incorporating divine ideas into all that we think and speak.

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//section Chapter 9

Demonstrating Christ Thought by Thought

Chapter IX

//quote

Behold, what God hath wrought!

An ideal man, a mighty man--

A man supreme, who thought by thought

Must demonstrate what God hath wrought.

--CHARLES FILLMORE

//text

MANIFEST MAN, personal man, began evolving the ideal man,
that is, "putting on Christ," ages and aeons ago. We are
now nearly midway in this evolution. The age of this
evolution might be determined if we could count the
trillions of cells in our body where are inscribed the
experiences we had in the ages we have lived. However we
know by inspiration and analogy that our conscious creation
began with this earth. If science says the earth has been
two billion years in evolving, that is our age. When the
morning stars were forming we were here.

He who reads the "signs of the times" discerns spiritually
that we are now in the midst of a race transition in which
we are taking a very pronounced upward swing in the
development of the ideal man implanted in us in the
beginning. A new concept of God, man, and the universe is
upon us. We must realize all this and go upward with the
mighty urge

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for higher things. Will God take us up to an imaginary
heaven in a chariot of fire, or do we use our mind to lift
ourselves heavenward? "God helps those who help themselves"
holds good in the heavens as in the earth. We begin right
where we are to bring forth the kingdom of God within us.
Every problem of life can be successfully solved if we
begin with the use of the I AM on the various planes of
mind. It is not we alone; it is when we realize that we can
connect ourselves with the Father-Mind and prove what Jesus
said--"I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in
me doeth his works"--that our potential almightiness begins
to appear.

If you are given to worry and anxiety, think about the
fearless confidence and trust of the Spirit. This will at
once relieve your mind of the thoughts that have stirred
you, and the power of the Spirit will begin its work of
straightening out your affairs. If you are overwhelmed with
material work and the call of the outer world, stop and
concentrate in the I AM and say: "I am Spirit. I do not
believe in matter or material conditions. I have power,
because I know that all power is in Divine Mind. Divine
Mind now sets my thoughts and all my affairs in divine
order, and I rest in the confidence and peace of the
kingdom within."

You can have a well body, but you must begin to build it
with your word. Instead of laying up weak and sick words in
your body, begin now to

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speak words of strength and health--and keep at it. Do not
look at what has been. Lot's wife tried that, and she never
got beyond the past. Clear out of your mind all rubbish
about disease, and you will find that none has any lodgment
in your body. The thought makes the body and determines the
condition it lives in. Thoughts of health are living,
eternal things, and they work with the irresistible power
of almightiness to tone up the organism to their own high
state of harmony and capability.

There is but one way to establish harmony in the home, and
that is to establish it first in the individual. It is the
law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to
us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving
and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our
environment, we must establish it within ourselves. We must
faithfully and persistently deny the appearance of that
which seems to be inharmonious and silently and faithfully
affirm the omnipresent peace, love, and harmony that we
want to see manifested. That which we hold in consciousness
will be made manifest for us, therefore we should not hold
the thought of anything that we do not want to see appear.

There is a relation between thinking and eating, and as you
grow spiritually the character of your food and all that
pertains to eating may have to be changed in conformity
with the new order of things. If you will leave meat and
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your food you will see a change for the better. But above
all, keep your thought mastery and do not be controlled by
appetite. Do not fear to eat. Eat with thanksgiving and
bless your food.

If you are looking to mental science alone for help you are
certain to be disappointed; "for neither is there any other
name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must
be saved" than the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus' teaching is
something deeper and farther reaching than mere mental
science. It is not something that works things out for us
in the personal but is a power that transforms the whole
man.

Here is what Judge Troward said on this subject:

//quote

I have studied the subject (mental science) now for several
years, and have a general acquaintance with the leading
features of most of the systems which unfortunately occupy
attention in many circles at the present time, and I have
no hesitation in saying that to the best of my judgment all
sorts and descriptions of so-called occult study are in
direct opposition to the real life-giving Truth.

We hear a great deal in these days about "initiation," but
believe me, the more you try to become a so-called
"initiate," the further you will put yourself from living
life. I speak after many years of careful study and
consideration when I say that the Bible and its revelation
of Christ is the one thing really worth studying, and it is
a subject large enough in all conscience, embracing as it
does our outward life of everyday concerns, and also the
inner springs of our life and all that we can in general
terms conceive of as life.

//text

Just in proportion as a person yields willingly and
obediently to the transforming process does he

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demonstrate the Truth. All that pertains to self must be
put away as fast as it is revealed, and that which is of
the universal, the Christ, must take its place.

Be still and witness the salvation of the Lord. You
doubtless fully know that this stillness in the secret
place of the Most High is not mental torpor, but a quiet
tranquillity that holds itself in an equipoise of spiritual
security. You have done your part when your true word has
gone forth. Now rest at the center and say: "It is well;
Thy work is sure; I am satisfied." Do not argue with
anyone, nor discuss the matters that you have submitted to
Spirit; simply say, "All is well; it is finished."

Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind
what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no
difference how small or how large the thing you want to do
may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability
to do it, you will do it. Nothing can in any way impede or
defeat you. Faith is the highest expression of belief or
confidence. It is that something in man which says: "I
believe in the possibilities of things that I cannot see. I
believe in the possibility of Divine Mind doing in this
age, right now, everything that was ever done in any age."
When we believe this and hold to it, putting aside all
doubt and whatever suggests failure, the thoughts of faith
begin to accumulate substance, and fulfillment follows.

In order to realize Truth and to demonstrate it

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you must live it. If anyone appears careless, simply deny
it and affirm order and harmony. Allow nothing in the
external to disturb your poise and dominion. That is the
way of love. When you refuse to see negative things they
will disappear, and you will be surprised to see how you
will change. Your mind, body, and affairs are the
expression of your thoughts, so if you are not happy,
change your mental habits. This may not seem practical to
you at first, but if you will faithfully practice the
Golden Rule and send only thoughts of love to everyone, you
will witness practical results. You can cultivate the habit
of seeing the good, the true, the bright side of every
subject, and then with your friends you can bring this side
out in conversation, thus keeping yourself positive and
poised, and at the same time sowing the seed of Truth in
the minds of others.

The "leading of the Spirit" is not something mysterious.
When you open your mind to the wisdom of God in the
silence, you should claim in faith that you have received,
and trust that the Spirit does guide you. "Christ Jesus . .
. was made unto us wisdom"; and the more you affirm that
Christ is your wisdom the more you will realize the order
and harmony that result from the directing power of divine
wisdom. But do not be surprised and disappointed if
everything does not work out according to your old ideas.
The all-seeing Mind should not be judged by the dim and
short vision of the mortal. What may

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at first seem to you failure may prove to be a clearing
away of rubbish that will open the way in mind to a larger
life.

Jesus showed by His life and teachings that it is the will
of God for men to be well. A clear understanding of this is
necessary if one wants to demonstrate health. Where there
is a belief that God wills sickness and suffering, His love
and power are shut out of consciousness. Spiritual healing
depends on faith, and there cannot be faith while the mind
is holding thoughts directly opposed to the possibility of
healing. It is therefore very necessary to dwell much on
the love and power of God so that a steady, unwavering
faith may be established.

The subconscious realm of mind is the realm that contains
all past thoughts. First, we think consciously and this
thought becomes subconscious, carrying on its work of
building up or tearing down, according to its character.
The subconscious mind cannot take the initiative, but
depends on the conscious mind for direction. When one is
quickened of Spirit, one's true thoughts are set to work
and the subconscious states of error are broken up and
dissolved. In one's daily silence and communion with God,
thoughts from the subconsciousness come into the conscious
realm of mind to be forgiven and redeemed. Flesh heredity
is denied and inheritance from God affirmed, which enables
man consciously to draw divine ideas from the one Mind.
These ideas are established

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in consciousness and the whole mentality is at one with
Christ, the divine-man idea.

All wisdom is implanted in us by divine intelligence, which
is another name for God. In the degree that we awaken to
the consciousness of our inherent wisdom, in that degree we
are responsible to the Father and are required to render
unto Him the fruitage of our wisdom. All of us unfold
according to our understanding and realization. Whether our
understanding is small or large, we must measure up to or
demonstrate that which has been given us. "To whomsoever
much is given, of him shall much be required."

The phrase "body of Christ" has a threefold significance.
First, as regards its application to the body of Jesus, in
Matthew 26:26, 27 Jesus called the bread He had blessed His
body and the wine His blood. Out of this came the symbolic
rite of the Lord's Supper. All symbols are useful to the
extent that they point man to the realities for which they
stand. When this reality is discerned the symbols are
understood. Jesus dwelt continually in the consciousness of
being the very substance and life of God. "He that hath
seen me hath seen the Father." Through the conscious
realization of His oneness with God His body became a "body
of life," spiritual substance, His blood the life of God.
This is the body and blood He gave as a "ransom for many";
the understanding that the Christ body comes not by the

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grave but through our daily realization of the omnipresence
of substance and life and our union with it.

Secondly, the words "body of Christ" refer to man's
spiritual body. "Until Christ be formed in you." When we
appropriate words of Truth, "eat them," so to speak, we
partake of the substance and life of Spirit and build the
Christ body. This is partaking of the body and blood of
Jesus Christ, the true sacrament that vitalizes the body by
renewing the mind. Every student of Truth builds the Christ
body as he constantly abides in the Christ Mind through
daily meditation upon words of Truth.

Thirdly, the phrase "body of Christ" applies to the group
of people who find perfect unity in Spirit, free from all
the limitations and authority of creed. Such a group is
free from bondage to the letter and subject only to the
Spirit of truth. Jesus Christ is the head of this body, and
its members are joined through a recognition of universal
Spirit. This "body of Christ" is sometimes referred to as
the "church of Christ." This latter term is commonly
misunderstood in that many sects call themselves the
"church of Christ," each believing they are the chosen of
God. God is not partial and does not choose. Man exercises
that privilege, and if he chooses to conform to the "law of
the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" he becomes a member of
the church of Christ and is recognized by the Father. There
is unity only in Spirit, and "God is Spirit." All personal
opinions upon which

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creeds are based disappear before the spiritual
understanding that the only real unity is the body of
Christ, His church. All who measure up to the Christ
standard, forsaking everything pertaining to the personal,
limited self, bringing forth the unlimited fruits of the
Spirit, are members of this body, the "body of Christ."
Through this body is to come the "restoration of all
things, whereof God spake by the mouth of his holy prophets
that have been from of old."

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//section Chapter 10

Truth Radiates Light

Chapter X

//text

ALTHOUGH Paul did not demonstrate complete overcoming, as
Jesus did, he saw in man as a mystery the truth that had
been lost sight of for "ages and generations . . . which is
Christ in you, the hope of glory." We are urged by both
Jesus and Paul to glorify God in our bodies. The body is
the fruit of the mind, therefore we must become better
acquainted with the mind and with the supermind in order to
glorify the body.

The fact is that the entire theme of the Bible is man and
his various states of mind, represented as persons, tents,
tabernacles, temples. In Exodus we read, "Let them make me
a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them." It is explained
that this sanctuary was to be the meeting place of the
people and their God and eventually the dwelling place of
Jehovah. Jehovah means the I AM, which is also the meaning
of the Christ or the supermind. Where in all the universe
can man meet the supermind save in his own mind and body?

We are then compelled to conclude that the Tabernacle of
the Israelites and the Temple of Solomon are symbols of
man's body, the real meeting place of Jehovah.

Paul says, "We are a temple of the living God; even as God
said, I will dwell in them, and walk in

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them."

When Solomon was preparing to build the Temple he
soliloquized: "But who is able to build him a house, seeing
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am
I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn
incense before him?" The burning of incense in the house of
Jehovah represents the spiritualization of the fine
essences of the body through adoration and exalted
thoughts. When the mind is lifted up in meditation and
prayer the whole body glows with spiritual light.

This spiritual light transcends in glory all the laws of
matter and intellect. Even Moses could not enter the
Tabernacle when it was aglow with this transcendent light.

It is written that the Israelites did not go forward on
days when the cloud remained over the Tabernacle, but when
the cloud was taken up they went forward. This means that
there is no soul progress for man when his body is under
the shadow of a "clouded" mind, but when the cloud is
removed there is an upward and forward movement of the
whole consciousness (all the people).

We are warned of the effect of thoughts that are against or
opposed to the commandments of Jehovah. When we murmur and
complain we cloud our minds, and Divine Mind cannot reach
us or help us. Then we usually loaf until something turns
up that

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causes us to think on happier things, when we go forward
again.

Instead of giving up to circumstances and outer events we
should remember that we are all very close to a kingdom of
mind that would make us always happy and successful if we
would cultivate it and make it and its laws a vital part of
our life. "The joy of Jehovah is your strength."

You ask, "How can I feel the joy of Jehovah when I am poor,
or sick, or unhappy?"

Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest."

Here is the first step in getting out of the mental cloud
that obscures the light of Spirit. Take the promises of
Jesus as literally and spiritually true. Right in the midst
of the most desperate situation one can proclaim the
presence and power of Christ, and that is the first mental
move in dissolving the darkness. You cannot think of Jesus
without a feeling of freedom and light. Jesus taught
freedom from mortality and proclaimed His glory so
persistently that He energized our thought atmosphere into
light. This light is Spirit power, and it can be seen and
felt by anyone who will call on the name Christ and expect
it to raise him quickly out of depression and negative
states of mind into the power and zeal of an overcomer
through Christ.

The Scriptures state that when Moses came down from Mount
Sinai with the Ten Commandments his

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face shone so brilliantly that the Children of Israel and
even Aaron, his own brother, were afraid to come near him
until he put a veil over his face. The original Hebrew says
his face sent forth beams or horns of light.

The Vulgate says that Moses had "a horned face"; which
Michelangelo took literally, in his statue of Moses
representing him with a pair of horns projecting from the
head. Thus we see the ludicrous effect of reading the Bible
according to the letter.

Our men of science have experimented with the brain in
action, and they tell us that it is true that we radiate
beams when we think. The force of these beams has been
measured.

Here we have further confirmation of the many statements in
the Bible that have been taken as ridiculous and
unbelievable or as miracles.

Persons who spend much time in prayer and meditate a great
deal on spiritual things develop the same type of face that
Moses is said to have had. We say of them that their faces
fairly shine when they talk about God and His love. John
saw Jesus on the island of Patmos, and he says, "His
countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength."

I have witnessed this radiance in the faces of Truth
teachers hundreds of times. I well remember one class
lesson during which the teacher became so eloquent that
beams of light shot forth from her

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head and tongues of fire flashed through the room, very
like those which were witnessed when the followers of Jesus
were gathered in Jerusalem.

We now know that fervent words expressed in prayer and song
and eloquent proclamations of spiritual Truth release the
millions of electrons in our brain cells and through them
blend like chords of mental music with the Mind universal.

This tendency on our part to analyze and scientifically
dissect the many supposed miracles recorded in the Bible is
often regarded as sacrilegious, or at least as making
commonplaces of some of the very spectacular incidents
recorded in Scripture.

In every age preceding this the priesthood has labored
under the delusion that the common people could not
understand the real meaning of life and that they should
therefore be kept in ignorance of its inner sources; also
that the masses could not be trusted with sacred truths,
that imparting such truths to them was like casting pearls
before swine.

But now science is delving into hidden things, and it is
found that they all arise in and are sustained by universal
principles that are open to all men who seek to know and
apply them.

So the time has arrived when all shall know the Truth,
"from the least to the greatest of them." Of course there
are many sides to Truth. What we mean by Truth is concerned
with the great fundamental questions that have always
perplexed and at the same

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time engaged the profoundest attention of men: What is the
character of God? How does God create? What is the real
character of man, and what relation does he bear to his
source? What is the ultimate destiny of man and the
universe?

These are some of the fundamental questions that meet us at
every turn. They have been answered by both philosophers
and priests in every age, yet they still remain largely
unanswered in the popular estimation. Of course the priests
think they have the answer, but they offer no proof save
that of inspiration.

The philosophers and scientists are not satisfied with the
answers of the spiritually inspired. They want facts, and
they are testing the seen and the unseen for forces that
respond to certain laws without variation or deviation.
They claim that the theological explanation of creation by
Moses and the location and description of the kingdom of
heaven by Jesus are not specific enough and cannot be
definitely and scientifically proved; all of which is
approximately true. Popular religion does not attempt to
harmonize its fundamental facts with the findings of
science, and in its ignorance it fights science and thinks
that science is destroying the faith of the people in
things spiritual.

Anyone who will search for the science in religion and the
religion in science will find that they harmonize and prove
each other. The point of unity

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is the Spirit-mind common to both. So long as religion
assumes that the Spirit that creates and sustains man and
the universe can be cajoled and by prayer or some other
appeal can be induced to change its laws, it cannot hope to
be recognized by those who know that unchangeable law rules
everywhere and in everything.

Again, so long as science ignores the principle of
intelligence in the evolutionary and directive forces of
man and the universe, just so long will it fail to
understand religion and the power of thought in the changes
that are constantly taking place in the world, visible and
invisible.

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//section Chapter 11

The Only Mind

Chapter XI

//text

I SAY, "An idea comes to me." Where did it come from? It
must have had a source of like character with its own.
Ideas are not visible to the eye, they are not heard by the
ear, nor felt, nor tasted, yet we talk about them as having
existence. We recognize that they live, move, and have
being in the realm that we term mind.

This realm of mind is accepted by everybody as in some way
connected with the things that appear, but because it is
not describable in terms of length, breadth, and thickness,
it is usually passed over as something too vague for
consideration.

But those who take up the study of this thing called mind
find that it can be analyzed and its laws and modes of
operation understood.

To be ignorant of mind and its laws is to be a child
playing with fire, or a man manipulating powerful chemicals
without knowing their relation to one another. This is
universally true; and all who are not learning about mind
are in like danger, because all are dealing with the great
cause from which spring forth all the conditions that
appear in the lives of all men and women. Mind is the one
reservoir from which we draw all that we make up into our
world, and it is through the laws of mind that we form our
lives. Hence nothing is as important

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as a knowledge of mind, its inherencies, and the mode of
their expression.

The belief that mind cannot be understood is fallacious.
Man is the expression of mind, dwells in mind, and can know
more clearly and definitely about mind than about the
things that appear in the phenomenal world.

It is only from the plane of mind that one can know Truth
in an absolute sense. That which we pronounce truth from
the plane of appearances is relative only. The relative
truth is constantly changing, but the absolute Truth
endures; and what is true today always was and always will
be true.

It does not require scholastic culture to understand mind.
Persons who do not even know how to read or write may be
very adept in the realm of pure mind. It does not follow
that he who talks most fluently about mind knows the most.
He may theoretically perceive the underlying principles
without realizing their working factors in his own being.

Mind is not language; mind is not formulation. These are
outgrowths of mind; they are man's way of communicating to
his fellow man the concepts of his mind. Thus very simple
persons, from the world's standpoint, frequently know a
great deal about mind and its operation that they are
unable to express in language.

Women as a rule know more about pure mind on its own plane
than men, because they trust that inner

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faculty of pure knowing called intuition more fully than
men. The medically wise of the world today cannot
comprehend how a quiet little person who knows nothing
about physiology or medication can sit down beside their
dying patients and bring them back to health without
apparently doing anything. And they never will know until
they delve behind a knowledge of externality and learn mind
to mind the workings of Spirit.

Some persons confound the realm of knowledge about things
formulated through the intellect with pure knowledge.
Intellect and its plane of activity are not pure mind as
the realm of matter is not Spirit.

The same essences of being enter into both, but wisdom is
sadly lacking in the intellectual realm. Intellect has
formulated its conclusions from the sense side of existence
instead of from the spiritual side, and these two sides are
divergent.

No one can know about the potentialities of mind and how
they are manifested except through a study of mind itself
without any reference whatever to things or their relations.

One may logically deduce a system of being from abstract
intellectual reasoning, but it will lack the living fire
that accompanies pure mind.

Those who study mind know the same things; and though they
be dumb, they enjoy the communion that ever goes on in
thought. No one should for a

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moment imagine that because he lacks the technical
education of the world that he is therefore not fitted to
study the science of mind. No matter how ignorant you may
be of the world's ways or God's ways, if you will give your
mind to the attention of the one Mind, you will in due
season become wise. This great law of mind and Mind
recognizing each other and flowing together in unbroken
wisdom has been known in all ages and among all peoples.
The scribes and Pharisees who knew the life and lack of
scholastic advantages of Jesus, the carpenter's son,
exclaimed in amazement, "How knoweth this man letters,
having never learned?"

Mind is the great storehouse of good from which man draws
all his supplies. If you manifest life, you are confident
that it had a source. If you show forth intelligence you
know that somewhere in the economy of Being there is a
fount of intelligence. So you may go over the elements that
go to make up your being and you will find that they draw
their sustenance from an invisible and, to your limited
understanding, incomprehensible source.

This source we term Mind, because it is as such that our
comprehension is best related to it. Names are arbitrary,
and we should not stop to note differences that are merely
technical. We want to get at the substance which they
represent.

So if we call this invisible source Mind it is because it
is of like character with the thing within

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our consciousness that we call our mind. Mind is manyfold
in its manifestations. It produces all that appears. Not
that the character of all that appears is to be laid to the
volition of Mind; no, but some of its factors enter into
everything that appears. This is why it is so important to
know about Mind, and how its potentialities are made
manifest.

So we know that that which we term Mind is the reservoir of
the universe and man and that in it is stored up all that
we may desire. So it behooves us to study this great
reservoir and learn its laws. We call it Mind because
through our study it has disclosed to us a quality that is
not apprehended by those who study it in its phenomenal
aspect. The physical scientist tells us that there is a
universal energy in which all motion, light, heat, color,
and the like, have their origin.

We claim that what they have discovered is the power side
of God and that there is another factor that they have not
discovered but that is associated with the universal
energy. That factor is divine wisdom. They admit that there
is evidence of design in the varied and beautiful
manifestation of this universal energy, but they are at a
loss for a way to make the acquaintance of the designer. To
know this designer and manipulator of the substance and
energy of the universe is what our system of mind
development teaches. It instructs you how to acquaint
yourself with the qualities of Mind and

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through them to seize upon the substance and life of the
universe and bring them into harmonious relations in your
body and affairs. This is something that few learned
physical scientists have attempted, and here is a field of
discovery upon which few have yet launched forth. In fact
but few of the materialistic school have ever caught the
first ray of this light. They have, it is true, longed to
know more about the wisdom of the Creator, but it does not
seem to have dawned upon them that the wisdom of God is
just as much present everywhere as energy and substance. By
all the methods known to their science they have tested the
many elements of the formed and formless earth and air and
noted the methodical and orderly workings of each under
certain conditions. They speak of molecular attraction,
repulsion, polarity, and the like. Some have said that
every atom of matter is apparently intelligent; but as
these atoms do not speak their particular language, they
have taken for granted that they could not hold converse
with them on the plane of mind.

This is where we have set up a study that makes of every
atom in the universe a living center of wisdom as well as
life and substance.

We claim that on its plane of comprehension man may ask the
atom or the mountain the secret that it holds and it will
be revealed to him. This is the communication of mind with
Mind; hence we call Mind the universal underlying cause of
existence

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and study it from that basis.

God is Mind, and man made in the image and likeness of God
is Mind, because there is but one Mind, and that the Mind
of God. The person in sense consciousness thinks he has a
mind of his own and that he creates thought from its own
inherent substance. This is a suppositional mind that
passes away when the one and only real Mind is revealed.
This one and only Mind of God that we study is the only
creator. It is that which originates all that is permanent;
hence it is the source of all reality. Its creations are of
a character hard for the sense man to comprehend, because
his consciousness is cast in a mold of space and time.
These are changeable and transient, while the creations of
the one Mind are substantial and lasting. But it is man's
privilege to understand the creations of the one Mind, for
it is through them that he makes his world. The creations
of the one Mind are ideas. The ideas of God are potential
forces waiting to be set in motion through proper formative
vehicles. The thinking faculty in man is such a vehicle,
and it is through this that the visible universe has
existence. Man does not "create" anything if by this term
is meant the producing of something from nothing; but he
does make the formless up into form; or rather it is
through his conscious co-operation that the one Mind forms
its universe. Hence the importance of man's willing
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every thought, because unless he is very wise in his
thinking, he may be sending forth malformations that will
cause both himself and the universe trouble.

Thinking is a process in mind by and through which the
abstract is made concrete. It is the process of working up
into things those ideas in the one Mind which are not
things. God does not see things nor conditions as man sees
them, except through the thinking faculty in man
(represented by man in the Godhead).

The ideas of Divine Mind are whole and complete in their
capacity to unfold perpetually greater and more beautiful
forms according to the thinking capacity in man. Man
catches mental sight of an idea in Divine Mind and proceeds
to put it in terms comprehensible to him on his plane of
consciousness. All ideas have their origin in Divine Mind,
but their character as unfolded by man depends entirely
upon his acquaintance with God. The idea of a house as
formulated by man varies all the way from a wigwam to the
most magnificent castle. The original idea of a house, as
it exists in God's mind, cannot be anything less than the
perfected consciousness of man, of which his body is a
symbol. This is the temple "not made with hands," and it is
the only temple acceptable to God.

No man can acceptably serve God or do His will until he
understands the fundamental principles of thinking and how
thoughts are made manifest

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as forms or states of consciousness. This is revealed by
the Father to everyone who seeks to know His law and to
follow it. When man has thus sought the Father with an eye
single to His guidance, he begins to know that certain
relations exist between him and the Father and that only
through a maintenance of those relations can he come into
harmony with God and do His will.

The idea of the man separated in consciousness from Divine
Mind is that he was arbitrarily created by God, who could
have chosen or not chosen to create him, and that not being
responsible for his existence, man has a perfect right to
be rebellious and petulant if hardships come into his life.
This is a childish view of the great plan of creation, in
which man is such an important factor. It is only when man
becomes meek and lowly, an obedient receptacle for the
Spirit of God, that he sees the divine plan of creation and
his place in it. Then he becomes a willing co-operator,
because his understanding accepts the law as it is and
knows that it cannot be changed by either God or man. They
are so intimately linked together that the harmony of
existence depends upon their mutual understanding. When
this is established by man's willing obedience and
acceptance of his part of the work, a new order of things
is set up and a new creation inaugurated. The first step in
this new order is the realization by man that he is in the
world to do a specific work. As

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Jesus said at the age of twelve, "Knew ye not that I must
be in my Father's house?" and in His last prayer are these
words, "I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished
the work which thou hast given me to do."

The Father has sent each one of us out to do a certain
work. Are we doing that work? Have we asked what it is? Or
are we aimlessly wandering about the earth trying to find
satisfaction in the fleeting things of sense?

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free."

This truth is that of the relation of man to God and of how
creation is carried forward. The God-man relation is in one
sense like that of father and child; in another sense it is
like that of creator-creative instrument and creation
manifest. Man constitutes the instrument of God through
which He brings his potentialities into visibility. As such
an instrument man is in a measure a dictator as to how it
shall be done. That is, man has discretionary power or free
will. Freedom of will is illusionary however because if man
wills to carry on creation in defiance of the divine plan
and order, his creations in due time fall into chaos
through lack of coherency. God fixes the plan of the
structure and gives into the hands of man all the materials
for building. Man may also know the plan and build
according to it, or he may go ahead without consulting the
plan.

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Humanity has built age after age only to find that its
structures do not endure. They are faulty because the
divine plan has not been consulted by the builder.

Mind is the storehouse of ideas. Man draws all his ideas
from this omnipresent storehouse. The ideas of God, heaven,
hell, devils, angels, and all things have their clue in
Mind. But their form in the consciousness depends entirely
upon the plane from which man draws his mental images. If
he gets a "clue" to the character of God and then proceeds
to clothe this clue idea with images from without, he makes
God a mortal. If he looks within for the clothing of his
clue idea he knows God to be the omnipresent Spirit of
existence.

If man gets the clue idea from heaven and hell and devils
and angels and looks without for clothing for his idea, he
makes a locality in the skies and calls it heaven, and
another under the earth and calls it hell. But if he goes
to the Father for information he finds both heaven and hell
within his own consciousness, both the result of his own
thought.

So it is of the utmost importance that we know how we have
produced this state of existence which we call life; and we
should be swift to conform to the only method calculated to
bring harmony and success into our life, namely to think in
harmony with the understanding derived from communion with
the God-Mind.

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//section Chapter 12

Contact with the Christ Mind

Chapter XII

//text

WE MAY TAKE it for granted on the basis of many Scripture
passages that all of us who accept God as an associate in
life are consciously in intimate contact with the Holy
Spirit. However it will strengthen our faith and greatly
add to the effectiveness of the Holy Spirit in its work
with us if we understand its character and the law under
which it co-operates with us in the development of mind,
body, and affairs.

Theologians differ in their conceptions of the Holy Spirit.
Some define it as a principle, but the majority refer to it
as "He"; that is, as the third person of the Trinity. In
the Scriptures it is named variously. In Genesis 1:2 it is
spoken of as "the Spirit of God" moving upon the face of
the waters. We read in Job 33:4:

//quote

"The Spirit of God hath made me,

And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life."

//text

Bible authorities (Scofield, for example) say that wherever
the name El Shaddai occurs in the Hebrew Scriptures it
should have been translated "Nourisher" or
"Strength-giver," which in Hebrew is the feminine name for
God. This verse may be read:

//quote

"The Spirit of God hath made me,

And the breath of the mother giveth me life."

//text

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In Psalms 104:30 it is written, "Thou sendest forth thy
Spirit." The Spirit is omnipresent, as revealed in the
139th Psalm:

//quote

"Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?

Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?"

//text

Read all this psalm for a comprehension of the universality
of the Holy Spirit's work in the creation of man and his
evolution.

The Holy Spirit in Divine Mind corresponds to our thought
in our minds. God is Mind; God's idea of His creation is
His Son, and this Son (idea), executing the plans of God
(the original Mind) corresponds to our thinking in its work
of devising plans. We may ideate without restriction, but
when we come to the execution of our ideas we have to
respect certain laws, which we sometimes consider
restrictions. So we can ideate the unlimited Divine Mind,
but when this Mind is brought into our world or
consciousness it is limited to our conception of it.

With a clear understanding of the relation that ideas bear
to their manifestation, we can approach God with
confidence; then we have access to the real, unlimited
creative ideas, and we co-operate with the Holy Spirit and
get greater results. We can thus lay hold of a healing or a
prosperity thought and confidently affirm that in mind we
are quickened and made whole; that we are prospered, and
that we are successful in all our ways, because we are
working with and through the whole Spirit of God,

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the Holy Spirit of wisdom and love.

In Matthew Jesus asked the Pharisees, "What think ye of the
Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of
David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in the
Spirit call him Lord, saying,

//quote

"The Lord said unto my Lord,

Sit thou on my right hand,

Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet?

//text

"If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?"

This lesson, which Jesus gave to His disciples, brings out
clearly the relation that the universal or Jehovah-Mind
bears to the personal or Christ Mind. This also suggests
that David was not the forebear of Christ, but that the
Lord or Christ of David existed before the human person was
born. It follows that the Christ in Jesus existed before
the personality. This is true of all of us. Christ is the
spiritual mind in every individual, and the spiritual mind
is the offspring of the universal or Jehovah-Mind.

When Paul said, "Until Christ be formed in you," he
referred to the development in man of the super-mind.

All the divine perfection that exists in the universal
Jehovah-Mind can be brought into direct contact with its
image and likeness, the Christ, imprinted in the beginning
in each individual. As he develops spiritually man
releases, rounds out,

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and fully expresses that divine perfection which is
potentially in his soul.

The affirmation of any good statement of health puts us in
conscious contact with the Christ Mind universal and
quickens and releases the energy stored up in the
subconscious mind, and the process of rejuvenation begins
its work. This renewal of man's youth through the
recognition of Jehovah confirms Psalm 103:

//quote

Bless Jehovah, O my soul;

And all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Bless Jehovah, O my soul,

And forget not all his benefits:

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

Who healeth all thy diseases;

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;

Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Who satisfieth thy desire with good things,

So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.

//text

All those who in faith have persistently applied this law
of spiritual acknowledgment of the Christ have received
benefits that bear witness to the fact that man can
overcome sin, sickness, and old age and rise out of the
race belief in human limitation, and finally attain eternal
life as Jesus attained it.

Jesus warned us not to lay up treasure in a material way
but to be "rich toward God," as taught in the 12th chapter
of Luke. Jesus was rich toward God in that He knew how to
release the creative substance implanted in Him from the
beginning.

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This same substance is within every one of us; when
released, it makes contact with the universal substance,
and invisible currents of supply begin to carry their
riches to us. It is not necessary that we understand
scientifically all the activities of the pent-up substance
in our minds, although we shall eventually understand every
step of the way.

A simple word of blessing poured out upon that which we
have or that which we can conceive as possible for us as
sons of the all-providing God will at least begin to
release the superabundance of Spirit substance, and we
shall have an inner confidence and faith in the providence
of our Father.

Jesus warned us not to be anxious about temporal needs but
to pray, believing, and to bless and give thanks; then
right in the face of seeming insufficiency we should be
enabled to demonstrate plenty. Jesus illustrated this when
He showed how giving thanks in a devout consciousness for
this inner substance would multiply the apparently
insignificant resources (the five loaves and two fishes)
until they became sufficient to meet the hunger of more
than five thousand persons.

A textbook on the redemption or reconstruction of man
should cover every phase of human character. Human egotism
should be repressed; man's spiritual identity exalted.
Remedies for the greatest evils of humanity should be given
plentifully, and the lesser

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evils minimized.

Our Scriptures, plus the guidance of "the Spirit of truth"
recommended by Jesus, form such a textbook for Christians.
In this combination is found instruction fitted to the
needs of the multitude. The timid and fearful read, "Have
not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not
affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God
is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

How an inflated personal ego usurps and finally destroys
the spirituality of one who once was anointed king of
Israel is illustrated in the life of Saul. The stimulation
of the spiritual ego is forcefully taught and demonstrated
by prophets and great religious leaders. It is written in
the Psalms:

//quote

"I said, Ye are gods,

And all of you are sons of the Most High."

//text

Jesus reiterated this and was denounced by the Pharisees
because He declared, "I and the Father are one."

Christian metaphysicians have discovered that man can
greatly accelerate the growth in himself of the Christ Mind
by using affirmations that identify him with the Christ.
These affirmations often are so far beyond the present
attainment of the novice as to seem ridiculous, but when it
is understood that the statements are grouped about an
ideal to be attained, they seem fair and reasonable.

The spiritual man is clothed by the aspirations,

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the thoughts, and the acts of the natural or physical man.
It is here, in this realm of so-called matter, that
character is formed. By faith, prayer, meditation, and
inward resolutions man identifies himself with the
spiritual man and forms in both mind and body the things
affirmed. There was no visible evidence of Jesus' unity
with the Father when He affirmed, "I and the Father are
one." His disciples said, "Lord, show us the Father, and it
sufficeth us." So we find that we must be true to our
ideas, and clothe them with an assumption of their
tangibility even before they have appeared. We must pray,
believing that we have received and we shall receive.

States of mind established in the consciousness gather to
themselves vitamins, cells, nerves, muscles, the flesh
itself. To see oneself in mind spiritually courageous,
strong, and healthy will instill health in the primal
elements of the organism, which in due season will work to
the surface in a perfect body.

We must all learn to look to the mental man for causes. For
example, no one but a metaphysician knows the origin of
disease germs. The physician takes it for granted that
disease germs exist as an integral part of the natural
world; the metaphysician sees disease germs as the
manifested results of anger, revenge, jealousy, fear,
impurity, and many other mind activities. A change of mind
will change the character of a germ. Love, courage, peace,
strength, and good will form good character and build bodily

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structures of a nature like these qualities of mind.

The same general law is carried out in everything with
which man has to do. Financial success or failure depends
on the attitude of mind active in both those who achieve
success and those who fall under the negations of failure.
To attain prosperity, think about prosperity, industry, and
efficiency. Fill your mind to overflowing with thoughts of
success; realize that the fullness of all good belongs to
you by divine right. To this add a feeling of happiness and
joy and you have the recipe for abundant and lasting
prosperity.

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//section Chapter 13

Metaphysics of Shakespeare

Chapter XIII

//text

IN DISCUSSIONS of Shakespeare and his plays we hear little
about what may be termed the by-products of the great
dramatist's mind; for usually the dramatic incidents of the
plays occupy the attention of the reader to the exclusion
of the more subtle threads of philosophy and soul culture.
Shakespeare was a great teacher, and his mind grasped the
salient issues in the practical world in which he lived and
often forged away ahead into realms that modern research
and discovery pronounce miraculous.

Psychological insight is essential in discerning the
spiritual wisdom of Shakespeare. The intellectual reader
will miss entirely the references to a supermind that crop
out in all his dramas. Bible readers know that spiritual
things are spiritually discerned. This is also strikingly
true of Shakespeare's works.

In the fantasy "Midsummer Night's Dream" Shakespeare tells
how the imagination gives to airy nothings a local
habitation and a name:

//quote

I never may believe

These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,

Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend

More than cool reason ever comprehends.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet

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Are of imagination all compact:

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,

That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:

The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

Such tricks hath strong imagination,

That, if it would but apprehend some joy,

It comprehends some bringer of that joy;

Or in the night, imagining some fear,

How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

//text

In his infancy Shakespeare was baptized in the church, but
his little-known history does not testify to his devotion.
However his writings betray a very deep spiritual
understanding. Neither was he a mystic. The fine
understanding of psychology displayed by many of the
Shakespearean characters must have been gained by soul
development attained by the author in previous incarnations.

We should look for the antecedents of Shakespeare among the
early church fathers, where the spiritual man was quickened
and the culture of the soul given supreme attention. There
is no record that he was taught in any schools except those
of the village of Stratford, where he was born. Because of
this many have asked, "Where has this man gained wisdom?"

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The intellectuals have carried this lack of academic
background and evidence of great supermind ability so far
that they have assumed that some other person, notably Lord
Bacon, is the author of Shakespeare's plays. The claim
rests on very flimsy proofs and is not at all accepted by
those who discern the capacity of the soul to attain
understanding and carry it forward from one incarnation to
another.

The claim that Shakespeare was not a scholar must be
admitted. He made numerous errors of which a scholar would
not be guilty. But Shakespeare was a genius of the people,
not a pedant. He forged his way beyond the boundaries of
the cultured intellect into the realms of fantasy and
mysticism, and gave "local habitation and a name" to "airy
nothing." Let us be thankful that Shakespeare was not a
scholar.

Shakespeare portrayed every form of human character
hundreds of years before there was such a thing as
psychoanalysis, and psychologists today find in him and the
puppets of his brain their most prolific examples of the
subtleties of the mind.

Shakespeare did not write about himself, and we have no
worldly knowledge of how such an apparently unlettered man
could gain such command of language and such familiarity
with men and nature. Like Jesus, he knew what was in man.
Such discernment comes only with ages of experience, and we
are safe in asserting that Shakespeare was a

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very old soul and that he inherited from previous lives a
culture that made him a mastermind. We all have an untapped
mind of knowledge in our subconscious mind, and it requires
a mastermind to uncover it. Inspiration and rediscovery are
the positive and negative poles of the mind. Shakespeare's
writings indicate that he drew upon both these sources and
concentrated the product in thought of the highest nobility
coupled in the same scenes with shocking vulgarity.
Shakespeare wrote down both what he got from the memories
below and from the heavens above. Many persons whose normal
thoughts are pure as snow are often shocked and puzzled at
their incongruous and sometimes lascivious dreams. A
maturer development will reveal that the I AM has taken
advantage of the sleeping conscious mind and renewed
associations with things sealed up in the depths of the
subconscious mind.

That Shakespeare was familiar with a world beyond the grasp
of the sense is quite evident from the words he puts into
the mouths of his players. His statements about dreams,
visions, witches, and prophecies, and various other
references to the unseen world show that he had faith and
sight above the ordinary dweller in sense.

In the play "Julius Caesar" Calpurnia, wife of Caesar, has
a dream warning her of the impending danger to her husband,
and she begs him not to go to the senate on the fateful
day. His friends urge

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him to go, and he explains his reason for wanting to stay
at home.

//quote

Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:

She dreampt to-night she saw my statue,

Which like a foundation with an hundred spouts,

Did run pure blood, and many lusty Romans

Came smiling and did bathe their hands in it:

And these does she apply for warnings and portents

And evils imminent, and on her knee

Hath begged that I will stay at home to-day.

//text

Decius argues that the dream has been misinterpreted. He
says:

//quote

It was a vision fair and fortunate:

Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,

In which so many smiling Romans bathed,

Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck

Reviving blood, and that great men shall press

For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance.

//text

Here Shakespeare reveals an acquaintance with both the
literal and the allegorical meaning of dreams. Modern
metaphysicians have discovered by experience that the
interpretation of dreams requires the finest kind of
discrimination. Some dreams are cast in the phenomenal and
are given for enlightenment of the dreamer about outer
events, while others are parables. Calpurnia has the
discerning mind, and in the same context remarks,

//quote

There is one within

Besides the things that we have heard and seen.

//text

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The developing soul meets many situations in mind that
require superior wisdom to handle. Helps of a limited
character may be had from without, but the final and only
safe guide is the Spirit within. The breadth and depth of
Shakespeare's mind proves that he had in many lives
cultivated the habit of drawing upon the fount of all
wisdom within his own soul.

Spiritualists claim that spirit guidance was discovered by
the Fox sisters in Hydesville, New York, less than a
century ago, yet we find it portrayed in a dozen of
Shakespeare's plays. Hamlet is infuriated by the graphic
description by his father's ghost of his murder by the
king, Hamlet's uncle. He prefaces the gruesome details with
the often quoted prelude:

//quote

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,

Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,

Thy knotted and combined locks to part

And each particular hair to stand on end,

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

//text

That Shakespeare has a certain knowledge of the status of
those who have left the body is evidenced by the regrets of
the ghost of Hamlet's father at his untimely violent demise.

//quote

Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched:

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,

Unhousel'd, disappointed, unaneled;

No reckoning made, but sent to my account

With all my imperfections on my head.

//text

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That departed ones continue to live in a realm very near to
that in which we live Shakespeare accepted as a matter of
course. He makes them a vital part of so many scenes that
we cannot help concluding that their existence to him was
not open to question. The only place where there is any
doubt suggested is in Act III, Scene 3, of "The Winter's
Tale," in which Antigonus says:

//quote

I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o' the dead

May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother

Appeared to me last night, for ne'er was dream

So like a waking.

//text

Then follows a vivid description of the mother, who "in
pure white robes . . . thrice bowed before me."

Although spiritualism is not accepted by metaphysical
Christians in the terms in which it is presented by its
exclusive followers, it is a question of psychology and
must be explained by those who teach Truth. Shakespeare did
not teach religion but the facts of life as he saw them.
The continuous existence of man after death of the body is
one of the facts of man's spiritual life and should be so
recognized and its place defined in psychology. Religion is
concerned primarily with spiritual things, the psychical
world is secondary.

Although he may not have applied the law of spiritual
healing to himself he saw the possibility, and in many
forceful phrases and subtle inferences

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he exalted the inherent power of man. Although Macbeth was
cast in the role of a man of desperate and unsatisfied
ambition, Shakespeare put into his mouth a proclamation any
man can make and be strengthened by:

//quote

The mind I sway by and the heart I bear

Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.

//text

Shakespeare saw what was coming in true healing; that is,
the restoration of the mind through right thinking. On this
point he says:

//quote

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,

Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,

Raze out the written troubles of the brain,

And with some sweet oblivious antidote

Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff

Which weighs upon the heart?

//text

Shakespeare was familiar with all the superstitions of his
age. His characters are witches, seers, soothsayers,
astrologers; he shows familiarity with forces that in our
day are considered occult and spooky. They believed in
signs and omens, the control of men by the sun, moon, and
stars--astrology. Yet the fallacy of such concepts of
mortality was usually pointed out. In "King Lear" Edmund is
made to say:

//quote

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we
are sick in fortune--often the surfeit of our own
behavior--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon
and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity, fools
by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers,

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by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars and adulterers,
by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all
that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable
evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition
to the change of a star.

//text

In "Julius Caesar," where Brutus and Cassius are discussing
the dominance of Caesar, Cassius says:

//quote

Ye gods! it doth amaze me

A man of such feeble temper should

So get the start of the majestic world

And bear the palm alone. . . .

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Like a Colossus, and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep about

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

//text

The oft-discussed metaphysical question of the origin of
evil and the source of good is settled in a concise
statement by Hamlet:

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it
so."

Many years ago the London Times announced a contest to test
the value that the English people placed on Shakespeare.
The subject voted on was, in substance, What do you
consider of the greatest value to Great Britain,
Shakespeare or the Empire of India? Shakespeare won!

People the world over will readily concur in this estimate
of the mind supreme in Shakespeare.

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He was "not for a season, but for all time." He excelled as
a dramatist, but as we have shown by these few extracts, he
was also a metaphysician, a prophet, and a poet. The plots
of his many plays are largely adaptations from other
authors, but their glorification by Shakespeare's genius
transformed them and may be likened to the glorification of
the natural man by the genius of Jesus. For example,
Pythagoras taught that the universe was harmonized in a
masterful symphony, with suns, stars, and planets as notes
on the staff supreme. Shakespeare evidently got from this
his cue for the exquisite lines uttered by Lorenzo:

//quote

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!

Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony.

Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven

Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st

But in his motion like an angel sings,

Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;

Such harmony is in immortal souls;

But whilst this muddy vesture of decay

Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

//text

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//section Chapter 14

The Body

Chapter XIV

//text

A GREAT DEAL is said in the Bible about man's body. In
fact, the Bible is a mystical record of the various bodies
in which the souls of men have lived. Bodies show the
different states of mind of those who inhabit them, ranging
all the way from the Adam embodiment and environment up to
the Christ body and its freedom from environment. It is
fair to say that the Bible is the allegorical record of man
under many aliases, in many bodies.

In all the history of man he has appeared under all sorts
of masks, which he has called his bodies, ranging from a
corrupt and distorted body up to the "glorious body" of
Christ.

The resurrection of the body is the paramount theme of the
New Testament and in fact the all-embracing yet veiled
subject of the entire Bible. Immortality has been the
engrossing subject of man's thought since the record of the
race began. Passage after passage might be cited from the
Bible illustrating what man's body potentially is and how
it should be controlled and governed so as to gain for its
possessor the greatest amount of harmony in life.

Now, mark you, man is not solely his body, for man is more
than body, but without a body there could be no visible
man. Yet the body is not man, but man will forever possess
a body. If the body is

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not man and man could not be without a body, and since the
body is constantly changing, what is man?

You see at once that man is not body, but that the body is
the declaration of man, the substantial expression of his
mind. We see so many different types of men that we are
bound to admit that the body is merely the individual's
specific interpretation of himself, whatever it may be. Man
is an unknown quantity; we see merely the various ideas of
man expressed in terms of body, but not man himself. The
identification of man is determined by the individual
himself, and he expresses his conception of man in his body.

Some persons have tall bodies; some have short ones. Some
have fat bodies; some have slim ones. Some have distorted
bodies, some have symmetrical ones. Now, if the body is the
man, as claimed by sense consciousness, which of these many
bodies is man?

The Bible declares that man is made in the "image" and
after the "likeness" of God. Which of the various bodies
just enumerated is the image and likeness of God?

The New Testament maintains that man's body is the dwelling
place of the Spirit of God: "Know ye not that your body is
a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you? . . . glorify
God therefore in your body." Yet it is written that the Man
of Galilee

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casts devils out of this temple of God. How could devils
infest the temple of God?

Some persons contend that man's body is corrupt from birth,
and others affirm that it is the glorious masterpiece of
God.

We find however that those who say that they despise the
body are loath to part with it, for the reason that they
cannot adequately conceive of man without a body, and it is
better to have some kind of a body than to run the risk of
not having any. The body that these persons possess is
their only means of identifying themselves. They do not
fancy the idea of risking another, and possibly a worse
body, so they hold onto the one they have as long as they
are able, regardless of its frailties. The chances of
getting a new body seem so uncertain that we all strive to
keep the one we have.

Let us repeat that the body of man is the visible record of
his thoughts. It is the individual's interpretation of his
identity, and each individual shows in his body just what
his views of man are. The body is the corporeal record of
the mind of its owner, and there is no limit to its
infinite differentiation. The individual may become any
type of being that he elects to be. Man selects the mental
model and the body images it. So the body is the image and
likeness of the individual's idea of man. We may embody any
conception of life or being that we can conceive. The body
is the exact reproduction of the

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thoughts of its occupant. As a man thinks in his mind so is
his body.

You can be an Adam if you choose, or you can be a Christ or
any other type of being that you see fit to ideate. The
choice lies with you. The body merely executes the mandates
of the mind. The mind dictates the model according to which
the body shall be manifested. Therefore as man "thinketh
within himself [in his vital nature], so is he." Each
individual is just what he believes he is.

It is safe to say that nine hundred and ninety-nine persons
out of every thousand believe that the resurrection of the
body has something specifically to do with the getting of a
new body after death; so we find more than ninety-nine per
cent of the world's population waiting for death to get
something new in the way of a body. This belief is not
based on the principles of Truth, for there is no
ready-made-body factory in the universe, and thus none will
get the body that he expects. Waiting for death in order to
get a new body is the folly of ignorance. The thing to do
is to improve the bodies that we now have; it can be done,
and those who would follow Jesus in the regeneration must
do it.

The "resurrection" of the body has nothing whatever to do
with death, except that we may resurrect ourselves from
every dead condition into which sense ignorance has plunged
us. To be resurrected means to get out of the place that
you are in and to

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get into another place. Resurrection is a rising into new
vigor, new prosperity; a restoration to some higher state.
It is absurd to suppose that it applies only to the
resuscitation of a dead body.

Paul hints at a time when the body will be changed, and he
says it is when "death is swallowed up in victory." Here
are Paul's words: "When this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality
. . . Death is swallowed up in victory."

This transformation is worked out by the individual
himself, and is not the result of physical death but rather
of the death or annihilation of the erroneous beliefs that
ignorance has stored in the cells of the body. It is first
a mental resurrection, followed by a body demonstration.

It is the privilege of the individual to express any type
of body that he sees fit to ideate. Man may become a Christ
in mind and in body by incorporating into his every thought
the ideas given to the world by Jesus.

"But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror
the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit."

Divine mind has placed in the mind of everyone an image of
the perfect-man body. The imaging process in the mind may
well be illustrated by the picture that is made by light on
the photographic

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plate, which must be "developed" before it becomes visible.
Or man's invisible body may be compared to the blueprint of
a building that the architect delivers to the builder. Man
is a builder of flesh and blood. Jesus was a carpenter.
Also He was indeed the master mason. He restored the Lord's
body ("the temple of Jehovah") in His mind and heart (in
Jerusalem).

When we call ourselves fleshly, mortal, finite, we manifest
it bodily upon a fleshly, mortal, and finite plane. We sow
to the flesh and of the flesh reap corruption. The time has
arrived for the whole human family to repudiate the
estimate of man as corrupt and instead to think of him as
he was designed by creative Mind. "This corruptible must
put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality," said Paul.

We must stop calling the body flesh and blood, and see it
as it is in Spirit-mind, pure and incorruptible. This
realization of man's perfect body will arrest decay,
disintegration, and death.

We must rise above material thoughts into spiritual
realization, and live, move, and have our being in a divine
reality. When our views of man are elevated to spiritual
understanding, we shall begin to express bodily perfection.
Our thoughts must be perfect before we can expect to
manifest perfection in body. The issues of life are within
man; the body is merely the record of the mind of the
individual.

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Jesus demonstrated for us the highest type of embodiment.
He brought His body under the mastery of His mind. He said,
"I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again." What Jesus did we all can do, and it is fair to say
that His is the normal standard for every individual and
that every other expression of life is abnormal, the result
of insufficient Christ elements. Paul says, as quoted, "Ye
are the body of Christ," and he says this to emphasize the
fact that Christ is the one true pattern for man and that
each of us should achieve the fulfillment of the divine
design. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

Jesus was the only man who ever proclaimed with authority,
"He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." Jesus was the
divine oracle; His mind was unified with the universal Mind
principle; this same principle obtains in a degree today in
those who identify themselves with Spirit instead of with
the flesh. We need not "look . . . for another" in whom to
witness the Christ, as did John the Baptist, but we must
look for Christ in ourselves, precisely as the man Jesus
found the Christ in Himself.

The statement "Ye are the body of Christ" promises the
possibility of a universal incarnation of the Christ and
does not in any sense narrow it down to one single
individual.

Again Paul's words "Glorify God . . . in your body"
proclaim the fact that the God nature may

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become manifest in every individual. What is the chief
object of man? To glorify God in his body; this is the true
answer. Have the courage to make the heroic attempt to give
personal expression to God. And how shall we do this? By
mentally agreeing that we are potentially the Christ and
capable of making a divine presentation of ourselves to the
Father. We must rise to the conscious realization that
every thought of mind, every atom of body, every molecule
of being, every function of nature, and every force is
divine, and that all of these do and shall vibrate to the
harmonies of Spirit. This is the resurrection of man; there
is none other.

By so doing we establish our ego, our I AM identity with
Divine Mind, and enter with Jesus into joint heirship to
the heavenly inheritance of power, peace, prosperity, and
perfection.

All the so-called human or earthly spheres of operation are
reflections of the divine, and by considering them we may
gain an intellectual concept of spiritual realities, but we
should ever remember that spiritual things are "spiritually
judged." By this higher renewal of the mind we shall be
bodily transformed, and prove those things that are good,
perfect, and true.

The resurrection of the body is not dependent for its
demonstration on time, evolution, or any of the man-made
means of growth. It is the result

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of the elevation of the spiritually emancipated mind of the
individual.

Step by step, thought added to thought, spiritual emotion
added to spiritual emotion--eventually the transformation
is complete. It does not come in a day, but every high
impulse, every pure thought, every upward desire adds to
the exaltation and gradual personification of the divine in
man and to the transformation of the human. The "old man"
is constantly brought into subjection, and his deeds
forever put off, as the "new man" appears arrayed in the
vestments of divine consciousness.

All have hope and find deep consolation, aye, assurance in
the belief of the final redemption of the body; and this
universal feeling is born of the legitimacy of the faith
that this redemption must eventuate, that perfection is the
ultimate goal of man's being, and that death and separation
must disappear from human experience.

How to accomplish the resurrection of the body has been the
great stumbling block of man. The resurrection has been a
mere hope, and we have endeavored to reconcile a dying body
with a living God, but have not succeeded. No amount of
Christian submission or stoical philosophy will take away
the sting of death. But over him who is risen in Christ
"death no more hath dominion."

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//section Chapter 15

Faith Precipitations

Chapter XV

//text

WHEN ASKED what electricity is, a scientist replied that he
had often thought of it as an adjunct to faith, judging
from the way it acts.

This linking of faith and electricity seems at first glance
fantastic, but when we observe what takes place when
certain substances in solution and an electric current are
brought in conjunction, there seems to be a confirmation of
the Scripture passage: "Now faith is assurance of things
hoped for."

Just as the electric current precipitates certain metals in
solution in acid, so faith stirs into action the electrons
of man's brain; and acting concurrently with the spiritual
ethers, these electrons hasten nature and produce quickly
what ordinarily requires months of seedtime and harvest.

The widow, in the time of Elisha, was so distressed with
debt that she had even mortgaged to slavery her two
children. She appealed to the prophet, who said, "What hast
thou in the house?" She replied, "Thy handmaid hath not
anything in the house, save a pot of oil." He told her to
borrow all the empty vessels her neighbors had and then to
go into the house and shut the door, and to pour the oil in
the pot into all those vessels; which she did until they
were all full. She then paid her debts and had

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plenty left.

Jesus fed four thousand persons at one time and five
thousand at another by the same means. He also
"precipitated" the elements of wholeness many times and
healed the multitude. He required co-operation in faith on
the part of those He healed in order thus to complete the
healing circuit.

Speedy answers to prayer have always been experienced and
always will be when the right relations are established
between the mind of the one who prays and the spiritual
realm, which is like an electrical field. The power to
perform what seems to be miracles has been relegated to
some God-selected one; but now we are inquiring into the
law, since God is no respecter of persons, and we find that
the fulfillment of the law rests with man or a group of
men, when they quicken by faith the spiritual forces latent
within them.

The reason why some prayers are not answered is lack of
proper adjustment of the mind of the one who prays to the
omnipresent creative spiritual life.

Jesus was the most successful demonstrator of prayer of
whom we have any record, and He urged persistence in
prayer. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Like
Lincoln, Jesus loved to tell stories to illustrate His
point, and He emphasized the value of persistence in
prayer. He told of a woman who demanded justice of a
certain judge and importuned

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him until in sheer desperation he granted her request.

Every Christian healer has had experiences where persistent
prayer saved his patient. If he had merely said one prayer,
as if giving a prescription for the Lord to fill, he would
have fallen far short of demonstrating the law. Elijah
prayed persistently until the little cloud appeared or, as
we should say, he had a "realization"; then the
manifestation followed.

The Bible is treasured as the word of God because it
records so many of these apparent miracles; but the fact is
that all over this land enough demonstrations of the
supermind are taking place every day to fill many books of
the size of the Bible. Some of them are recorded, and
people read about them, but these are few compared with the
many that are taking place. All of which goes to prove that
there is a restorative law that, if taken advantage of,
will heal the world of all its ills.

Many of the old-school faith healers object to the
scientific explanation of the healing process. They have
believed in a personal God and that all superworld forces
are set in motion by His personal intervention. However it
is much more satisfying to logical minds to know that God
is the law and that the Spirit that we have thought of as a
projection of Him is in fact He Himself in His own
spiritual identity. This is the teaching of Jesus, and our

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men of science are proving it to be true. An understanding
of this all-accessible Truth is making seers, prophets, and
mighty men of God out of pygmies. On every hand men of
mediocre ability are becoming world leaders through
exploiting the supermind qualities that they have merely
glimpsed as existing within them.

These ephemeral Caesars have gained in inkling of the
disciplined mind's dominion and are using it to control the
negative mass thought, and through the hypnotic force of
words they evolve chaos and dark night the world over.

When men accept and understand Jesus' teaching about the
mastery of the spiritual man, all the evils that arise from
these upstart saviors will disappear. But now in the night
of mind's eclipse

//quote

"We petty men

Walk under his huge legs, and peep about

To find ourselves dishonorable graves."

//text

Then the question arises, If this supermind ability is in
every man, why is it not more widely understood and used?

There are several answers to this pertinent question, the
most plausible being the lack of human initiative. Men
prefer to let others do their thinking for them. This is
especially true in religious matters. The race thought has
been so saturated with the belief that spiritual revelation
must come through some authorized channel that the man
without an ecclesiastical

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degree is timid about expressing an opinion about God or
man's spiritual nature.

Jesus broke this hypnotic spell when without ecclesiastical
authority He claimed to be the Son of God.

We should remember that Jesus included as sons of God all
those who, as He said, are "my sheep," that is, follow Him.
He quoted Psalm 82, in which it is written,

//quote

"I said, Ye are gods,

And all of you sons of the Most High."

//text

The church elders and the people cried, "Crucify him!"
Jesus taught great truths, which were grasped by but a few
open-minded followers, and they formed a new church. After
doing mighty works for hundreds of years they in turn,
built an ecclesiastical hierarchy from which the common
people were excluded. The Church Fathers gathered and
selected certain religious manuscripts and compiled the
Bible, which they proclaimed to be the very word of God, to
be read and interpreted by those only having the authority
of the church.

Here again we see positive thought submitting to negative
thought, thereby keeping the world in darkness for ages.

As Luther started the Protestant Reformation so we are now
at the beginning of another reformation, in which the
freedom and power of man spiritually will not only be
taught but demonstrated.

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The supermind demonstrations that mark this modern
religious reformation seem so at variance with nature that
they are still looked upon as miracles, notwithstanding the
fact that logic and science shout from the housetops the
universality of law.

Those who study the spiritual import of Jesus' teaching
have revealed to them a mental technique for which no
adequate language has yet been invented.

The Jews demanded of Jesus that He tell them plainly, and
His reply was that His works would testify that He was the
Son of God and that He and the Father were one. We who have
experienced Spirit baptism freely testify to the dynamic
thrill that ripples through the nerves for days and months
and is often repeated in silent meditation for years after
the first outpour. Thus revelation, observation, and actual
experience prove that man develops spirituality according
to the divine pattern called in Genesis the image and
likeness of God.

The natural man in the physical world is merely the
beginning formation of the man planned by creative Mind.
When the natural man finishes his unfoldment he enters the
next stage, that of the Christ man illustrated by Jesus.
Jesus was the first man or "fruit" of the earth's first
age, that of the natural man. He opened the way for all
those who aspire to the attainment of immortality.

To the present time the followers of Jesus have

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been told by spiritual leaders that He taught the
immortality of the soul only. But now it is revealed that
He immortalized His body and said, "Follow me." It was
man's sins that brought death to his body, and his
redemption must include the healing of the body. When the
mind is healed of its sins the body will respond. "Your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you, which
ye have from God."

So we find as we study and apply the doctrine of Jesus that
the body must be included. Faith in the omnipresent pure
substance precipitates the substance in the body and we are
transformed.

Proofs may be found in profusion that the divine law of
body restoration is in action in a large way right here in
our midst. The literature of Unity teems with testimonials
of persons who have been healed and are grateful to God for
renewed health, strength, prosperity, and happiness. Thus
it is not necessary to strengthen your faith by reading
about the work of God in ages past; you can personally
consult your neighbor, who can doubtless tell you of
marvels fully as great as any recorded in the Bible.

The majority of cases that come to us belong to the class
of the discouraged woman told of in Luke 8:43, "who spent
all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed."
Doctors have pronounced them incurable, and as a last
resort they turn to God. The hardest part of the work in
their healing

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is to get out of their minds the verdict of the doctor that
their cases are incurable. We have discovered that there
are no incurables. "With God all things are possible." Any
experienced metaphysical healer will tell you that he has
been the instrument through which all the popular diseases
have been healed.

Some of the stories told by patients are beyond human
credence; for example, the restoration of the eyes of a man
from which they had been removed, and the growth of the
nose of a woman who had lost it by disease. These are very
rare but well authenticated in metaphysical circles. I am
not prepared to give the names of these cases, but I can
testify to my own healing of tuberculosis of the hip. When
a boy of ten I was taken with what was at first diagnosed
as rheumatism but developed into a very serious case of hip
disease. I was in bed over a year, and from that time an
invalid in constant pain for twenty-five years, or until I
began the application of the divine law. Two very large
tubercular abscesses developed at the head of the hip bone,
which the doctors said would finally drain away my life.
But I managed to get about on crutches, with a four-inch
cork-and-steel extension on the right leg. The hip bone was
out of the socket and stiff. The leg shriveled and ceased
to grow. The whole right side became involved; my right ear
was deaf and my right eye weak. From hip to knee the flesh
was a glassy adhesion with but little sensation.

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When I began applying the spiritual treatment there was for
a long time slight response in the leg, but I felt better,
and I found that I began to hear with the right ear. Then
gradually I noticed that I had more feeling in the leg.
Then as the years went by the ossified joint began to get
limber, and the shrunken flesh filled out until the right
leg was almost equal to the other. Then I discarded the
cork-and-steel extension and wore an ordinary shoe with a
double heel about an inch in height. Now the leg is almost
as large as the other, the muscles are restored, and
although the hip bone is not yet in the socket, I am
certain that it soon will be and that I shall be made
perfectly whole.

I am giving minute details of my healing because it would
be considered a medical impossibility and a miracle from a
religious standpoint. However I have watched the
restoration year after year as I applied the power of
thought, and I know it is under divine law. So I am
satisfied that here is proof of a law that the mind builds
the body and can restore it.

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//section Chapter 16

The Seed Is the Word

Chapter XVI

//text

BEING HAS two aspects: the invisible and the visible, the
abstract and the concrete. The visible comes forth from the
invisible, and this coming forth is always according to a
universal method of growth from minute generative centers.
All forms are built according to this law. From center to
circumference is the method of growth throughout the
universe. The one who studies form alone and expects to
learn from it and its transformations the secret of
existence never goes back to the "seed"; never catches
sight of the Spirit moving upon every generating center.

Causes are always invisible: spiritual. "God is spirit,"
and "the seed is the word of God." Thus that which produces
the seed is the Spirit. It is popularly presumed that the
seed produces after its kind that which appears. This is a
superficial conclusion, and a moment's logical
consideration will convince anyone that a thing so small, a
cause so insignificant as compared with the effect, could
not produce without being possessed of an anterior
principle results so large and varied. The oft-repeated
illustration of the acorn's having folded within its heart
the oak is not correct. The acorn of itself is powerless to
produce anything, but as an avenue through which interior
forces become exterior it is important.

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We should never lose sight of the fact that things are but
the evidence of intelligence and power. In and of
themselves they are without causative power in any way. The
seed is the symbol of the Word of God, and in its
generative qualities it represents the apparent
insignificance of the Word as it goes forth from its
invisibility and silence. But this Word is a generative
center with all the possibilities of God at its call. It is
the idea of God, the image and likeness. It is just like
God in its essentials, and needs only to be planted in
fertile ground to produce the living picture of which it is
the image. In its highest degree of expression this is man.
Christ is the Word of God. It was in the beginning with
God, and is now with God. It came forth from God. It became
flesh and dwelt among men. It always dwells among men; it
is the real originating center through which man draws all
his intelligence, life, love, substance. It is the one
point at which we tap the divine storehouse; it is the
inlet and outlet of God.

So the "seed," that is, "the word of God," is man; not the
external thinking personality that has a consciousness of
separation, but the internal spiritual germ. The central
seed is the generative center from which the personal man
forms himself. He draws upon the universal forces within
and without, just as the tree draws upon the invisible
Spirit, manifesting itself in earth, air, and water. He may
be totally

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unconscious of this situation in certain stages of his
building, but this does not nullify the fact. The fact that
the babe is not conscious of the method of its sustenance
during the first months of its prenatal life has no weight
with those who have observed the law.

Man is the idea of God, and the idea of God is the word of
God. Man is not a thing of small beginnings but of infinite
beginnings. His resource is the Infinite, and he draws his
substance from an inexhaustible store. He is never at a
loss for supply, be it ever so scarce in the markets of the
world.

At the heart center of everyone is the "seed . . . the word
of God." It is there as a door opening into the infinite.
Man opens this door or closes it at his will. Some open it
just a little crack and others not at all. Some open the
door wide, and they manifest such rare powers that they are
exalted, even deified, by those who have closed their own
doors. This little inner door is a door of great promise;
he who opens it wide finds on its inner side the kingdom of
God. It is the way into the kingdom. It is the Christ
Spirit speaking through those who have opened: "I am the
door."

It is strange but true that the inner "seed" of God may
have been so neglected as to have been entirely forgotten
by some people. They may have a slight recollection of
having at some remote period been in a state in which they
did not have to endure

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the burdens of self-sustenance, but this is so faint that
it is like a dim, faraway dream. When a man has thus
forgotten the seed and has sought other means of growth, he
loses his symmetry. He becomes gnarled and crooked. His
body is filled with knots, and his limbs die before their
time. This is the paralysis of nonrecognition of the
generative seed. No true growth results from earth and air
alone. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word
proceeding out of the mouth of God. This "word of God" is
the "seed"; that is, man's real self, because it is the
umbilical cord that forever connects him with the infinite
fountain of supply. No growth takes place except through
this "seed," this high idea of what man is. Any other idea
is a reflection, and there are reflections in descending
degree, until man finds himself comparing himself with his
own creations--worm of the dust.

As Emerson says:

//quote

Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his
health and erectness consists in the fidelity with which he
transmits influences from the vast and universal to the
point on which his genius can act. The ends are momentary;
they are vents for the currents of inward life which
increases as it is spent. A man's wisdom is to know that
all ends are momentary, that the best end must be
superseded by a better. But there is a mischievous tendency
in him to transfer his thoughts from the life to the ends,
to quit his agency and rest in his acts: the tools run away
with the workman, the human with the divine. I conceive a
man as always spoken to from behind, and unable to

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turn his head and see the speaker. In all the millions who
have heard the voice, none ever saw the face. As children
in their play run behind each other, and seize one by the
ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our
unseen pilot. That well-known voice speaks in all
languages, governs all men, but none ever catches a glimpse
of its form. If the man will exactly obey it, it will adopt
him, so that he shall not any longer separate it from
himself in his thought; he shall seem to be it, he shall be
it. If he listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater
wisdom is taught him; the sound swells to ravishing music,
he is borne away as with a flood, he becomes careless of
his food and of his house, he is the tool of ideas, and
leads a heavenly life. But if his eye is set on the things
to be done, and not on the truth that is still taught, and
for the sake of which the things are to be done, then the
voice grows faint, and at last is but a humming in his
ears. His health and greatness consist in his being the
channel through which heaven flows to earth, in short, in
the fullness in which an ecstatical state takes place in
him. It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to
be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine
overflowings, enriched by the circulations of omniscience
and omnipresence.

//text

Let not this seed of God within you lie fallow for want of
conscious recognition on your part. You want to express all
the possibilities of Being, which you can do if you will
acknowledge the source through which they methodically come
forth.

Many people think man grows a little differently from other
things. They are sure he is a special creation, formed by
the Lord God in a miraculous way, from the "dust of the
ground" and "set up against

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de palin's to dry"! This style of creation will do for the
backwoods preacher but not for thinking people. Man is the
creation of God. God creates in a definite manner. Man is
created in a definite manner. He comes forth into the
visible world in a regular, everyday sort of a way, through
the simple process wrapped up in the mystery of this inner
"seed."

To think that man is created in any but a methodical way is
to think without reasonable consideration. There is no
evidence anywhere of a miraculous creation of anything, and
it is folly to assume that the Almighty stepped out of His
course to make man. Man in his divine selfhood makes
himself. His process is precisely that of God's, through
the power of his word. Without the Christ word man has no
life in him. Man does not make anything that lasts unless
it has its point of departure in this inner seed idea of
the Father. Men think they are building, but they are
deceived. They may spend thousands of years rearing states
of consciousness that in the day of judgment between the
real and the evanescent must be dissolved into the vapor of
nothingness.

Every idea is a seed, and will bring forth according to its
character, modified somewhat by the kind of mind soil in
which it is planted. There is a law of growth in mind
parallel with that of earth. A thistle seed will always
produce thistles, regardless of the character of the soil;
a low ideal will likewise work out low conditions in a high
type of mind. You

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may be a giant in strength today, but if you get into your
mind the thought of sickness it will bring you down as
surely as if you were a weakling. So with every thought
that finds lodgment and at the same time credence in your
mind; it will produce fruit of its kind just as surely as
will the material seed planted in the earth. It goes
through a similar process of growth also. It does not
always spring forth at once and rapidly come to fruition,
but it goes through a methodical series of changes, from
inertness to tiny sprout, away deep down in the
consciousness, where it is not observed by the external
thinking mind. In due course it sends out a shoot in the
direction of external consciousness, which finally comes to
the surface in some discord or some harmony. The time of
planting is usually so remote that even he who knows the
law of growth from thought to thing cannot remember when he
sowed the seeds that are manifest in his consciousness as
thistles. When told that certain thoughts have produced
certain effects in his case, the patient will invariably
respond, "But I was not thinking those thoughts."

One of the first lessons to be learned by the student of
metaphysics is that the "seed is the word." The next is
that this kind of seed is hid in the darkness of the mind,
where it germinates, sprouts, and comes into visibility
with all the scientific accuracy of detail of the ordinary
plant. The fruit is a living organism too and has the power
to throw off seeds

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that find lodgment and produce crops in other receptive
minds.

But each man is a gardener who has absolute charge of his
mind and can determine just what kind of seeds shall be
planted in his domain. What he says is law in the garden of
which he has control. If he is lax, shiftless, and ignorant
of his privileges, he may let the thistle seeds from
foolish minds blow over his fence and take root in his
garden. But it is not at all necessary. By his simple word
of command he can protect his domain from all intruders.
Not all men know this, nevertheless it is true.

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//section Chapter 17

The Resurrecting Power of the Word

Chapter XVII

//text

IT IS PLAINLY taught in the Bible that God created a
spiritual, undying man; that death came into the world
through transgression of the law, called sin; that sin was
the work of one man, and that sin would be overcome by one
man. "As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made
alive." Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of that promise.

The race has so long existed in the negative mental
conditions that bring sickness and finally death that it is
very difficult to convince men that they can live forever
in their bodies. They have been taught that death is
natural, that death is part of the scheme of life, that
through death we progress to better conditions. This
negative teaching has been a part of the race thought so
long that death has been accepted as the necessary end of
existence. But such is not the teaching of Christianity.

Every organ of the body is capable of being constantly
renewed through the inflow of an unseen force called mind
or life or Spirit. Therefore we should be continually
renewing and spiritualizing the body. But we are not doing
so because of our lack of faith in our possibilities as
offspring of universal life. We find it hard to believe
that the renewing

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and spiritualizing of the body can be accomplished, yet the
history of the Hebrew race (considered as an allegory)
shows that this is possible.

We look on the wanderings of the Children of Israel in the
wilderness as typical of our wanderings through the
wilderness of materiality and ignorance on our way to the
Promised Land; but we have always put the Promised Land
away off somewhere in heaven! The teaching of Jesus is that
we can demonstrate over all the ills of the body, all the
discords and inharmonies of the flesh, and finally overcome
death as He did, here and now.

The lesson of Easter, when learned, convinces us that one
man demonstrated what has been taught throughout the
centuries in the religion of Christianity. Jesus evidently
did not know in the beginning of His life that He was to
make this great demonstration. He was a carpenter and
worked with Joseph, but for thirty years He must have been
growing in spiritual power. In meditation He doubtless
caught glimpses of the great Truth, and it dawned on Him
that He was the man who had been selected, or that through
His own demonstration He had attained the ability, to
overcome the negative thoughts, the sins that were tearing
down the bodies of the race, and that He had the power to
gain complete mastery of the human weakness called death.

When Jesus received the illumination and stepped forth as a
teacher, He found it very difficult

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to impress on others that He was anything more than one of
the common people. He claimed immortality, He claimed that
He was the Messiah they had been looking for, and they said
in effect: "This is ridiculous. We know this man. He is
Jesus, the son of Mary and Joseph. We know Him and His
brothers and His sisters. We have been brought up with Him.
It is absurd to think that a man can step right out of the
common herd and become the Messiah."

It is an adage that a great man is not without honor except
in his own country. From the physical viewpoint we are part
of the common people and we will not concede that one of
our number can by any possibility become divine. The
Scriptures plainly teach that Jesus' own followers did not
believe His claim that He was divine. They admitted that He
was a great teacher. He taught truths that they accepted in
the abstract, but they were not ready to concede that one
of their number had attained the demonstration of Truth. In
a sort of wonderment Jesus' disciples followed Him, but
they had not grasped the underlying truths that He was
teaching: that the body is the temple of the living God,
and that the man Jesus could lay it down or take it up;
that He was going to make a demonstration over death that
would satisfy not only them but the whole world; that when
He was ready He was going up to Jerusalem to be crucified
there. Christian metaphysicians

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see symbology in all this, but it actually took place.

Jesus knew that He must demonstrate over death and that He
must prepare for that test. He told all His friends that He
was going to accomplish this thing, but they were
incredulous. Peter attempted to dissuade Jesus from His
announced purpose of going to Jerusalem to be crucified,
but Jesus would not be swerved from His course. We often
think that if Jesus would only come now and make a
demonstration over death, we should all believe. Probably
only a handful of us would accept Him if He came among us
today and made such a demonstration. The newspapers would
say it was a fake, a trick. The scribes and the Pharisees
and the doubters reported that the soldiers were paid to
open the tomb and let Jesus escape. Incredulity exists
today. That is the reason why the demonstration of eternal
life is so difficult. That is the reason why after two
thousand years the world at large is not convinced that it
is possible for man to be raised out of the thought that
death is inescapable. Even after Jesus demonstrated
resurrection the disciples found it hard to believe Him.

A woman was the first person to come to Jesus' tomb after
His resurrection. Women are more receptive to Truth than
men. Women have more spirituality and faith than men, but
if today a man died who had claimed that he would resurrect
his body

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on a certain day, it is doubtful whether even the women
would go to the tomb to see that resurrection. Mary and the
other women did not go to the tomb of Jesus expecting Him
to be there alive. They did not expect to see Him come out
of the tomb; on the contrary they had spices and herbs for
the embalming of His body. The body was not there and they
began to inquire about it. The angel told them, "He is
risen"; but they could not believe it, and they looked into
the tomb. There were the grave clothes, but the body of
Jesus was gone. The disciples, when told that Jesus had
risen, were skeptical. We are told that Jesus walked with
two of them on the way to Emmaus and explained the
Scriptures to them. After a time they recognized Him; then
He disappeared from their midst.

Shortly after the incident at Emmaus Jesus appeared again
to the Eleven, and to prove to them that He had the same
body that He had had before His resurrection, He "showed
them his hands and his feet," and He ate a piece of broiled
fish. After that He disappeared again. All this would be
thought "spooky" in our day, and we cannot blame the
apostles for being "amazed."

Followers of Jesus do not understand the difference between
the astral or ghostly body of the dead and the resurrected
body of Jesus. There is a difference made by the mental
power of the individual and the way he thinks about life,
soul, spirit, and matter.

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If we believe that the body is the temple of the living
God, we shall follow Jesus in the resurrection.

Why are we not resurrecting the body? Why are we giving it
up to disintegration? Sin is the cause of death; then it
must be that through the elimination of sin we shall come
into eternal life and save the body from the disintegrating
effects of death. In fact we are all striving for the
resurrection of the body when we try to overcome its
oncreeping feebleness. But our efforts are material instead
of spiritual. We should remember that "it is the spirit
that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing." We try in
many ways to renew the life supply within us.

Some very absurd methods have been advocated by so-called
scientists to perpetuate man's life, to make him healthier,
wealthier, happier. We all want more life, more happiness,
more good; and we can have everything we want if we comply
with the divine law as Jesus did. The body is composed of
elements that are essentially perfect. We have not
understood the law of harmony and have therefore thrown
these primal perfect elements out of adjustment. By our
thoughts we are continually moving the cells of the body.
The original impetus is given by the conscious mind, hence
we must regulate our thinking to the end that harmony be
set up in the cellular life throughout the organism.

It is very evident that Jesus understood the science of
right thinking. We hate our enemies and have

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bodily disorders as a result. Jesus said, "Love your
enemies." This is but one of many laws of mind activity
that Jesus carried out in His life. We must first follow
Jesus in controlling our thoughts; then we shall be able to
follow Him in the resurrection.

Jesus controlled His thoughts by harmonizing them, by
continually thinking constructively, by continually
bringing into action in His conscious mind all the mental
factors that lead to the new life, to the understanding of
what life is. We know that the body is destroyed by
discord, by fever, and by other inharmonies. Fever is but a
clashing of the cells of the organism, a tearing down
process; but back of fever are harsh thoughts. We can trace
every ill to some thought. We must eliminate these sinning
thoughts. The sinning thought is the thought that fails to
measure up to the high calling; it is not a true thought.
We have limited our ideas to a small realm. We have thought
that sin covered only the transgressions of the moral man.
But I assure you that sin becomes visible in the physical;
hence we should look for a physical resurrection after we
have crucified the carnal mind.

Jesus laid great stress on the power of the word. The word
has two activities: One is that of the still small voice in
the silence, and the other is that of the "loud voice" that
was used by Jesus when He raised Lazarus from the dead. In
the beginning "God said, Let there be"--and there was.

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We are the offspring of God, and our words have power
proportionate to our realization of our in-dwelling
spiritual kingdom. In the world today there is ample
evidence of the power of words to move multitudes. That
same power can heal and make people happy. If you will
recognize this power and increase it and apply it in all
your thoughts and acts, the impetus given to your spoken
thought will produce a body so constructed, so harmonized
that it will renew itself and never allow you to go to the
grave. Jesus did a work of this kind. He said that a man
would be held accountable for his slightest word. Jesus
sent His word to heal people. He said, "If a man keep my
word, he shall never taste of death." What were His words?
They were words of life, of peace, or harmony. "Ye have
heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for
a tooth," but "This is my commandment, that ye love one
another." So long as we have destructive thoughts, so long
as we war in thought with our neighbor next door or on the
other side of the earth, just so long shall we have
inharmony, just so long shall we fall short of being true
followers of Jesus. We must love, we must forgive, we must
harmonize our thoughts under the divine law; then we shall
heal and resurrect the body.

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//section Chapter 18

Transfiguration

Chapter XVIII

//quote

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

//text

TRANSFIGURATION is always preceded by a change of mind. Our
ideas must be lifted from the material, the physical, to
the spiritual. But first we need to realize that it is
possible for us to be transfigured as well as to understand
the law by which transfiguration is brought about.

The meaning of the Transfiguration has never been
understood by those who read the Scriptures as history. The
transfiguration of Jesus has always been considered a
historical event, and its allegorical meaning overlooked.
To get the real meaning of the Transfiguration, we must
regard the experience of Jesus on the mount as typical of
what often takes place in those who are growing in
spiritual consciousness.

We have evidences every day of the power of thought to
transfigure the countenance. We know that it is possible
for a person to be transformed in a degree by the thoughts
that flit through his mind from moment to moment, but we do
not know his capacity for transfiguration, which is
unlimited, nor the part it plays in his attainment of the
Christ consciousness and the Christ body.

The real object of existence is to bring forth the

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perfect man and attain eternal life. Eternal life must be
earned. It is usually assumed that man does not die, and
this is true of the I AM; but how about the consciousness,
the soul? "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" is the
testimony of the Scriptures. That only lives which conforms
to the principle of eternal life.

Spirit exists eternally in God-Mind, of which we must
become conscious. This consciousness is soul and is the
tangible part of soul. God-Mind gives us the opportunity to
incorporate into our consciousness His attributes. These
attributes are spiritual life, love, wisdom, strength,
power, in fact the essence of all good, which we realize
first in mind, then in body and affairs. Thus God gives us
the spiritual perfection that we are to manifest and retain
eternally in consciousness. This is His Son or Christ.

Jesus taught that we must attain the consciousness of
eternal life, that we have no life in us until we have
attained this consciousness. Until we demonstrate over
death, the death of the body, we are in a transitory state
of existence.

Then the real object of existence is to attain the
consciousness of eternal life and to manifest all that is
potentially involved in us by our Creator. The Spirit--I AM
or ego in man is eternal, but there must be a consciousness
of this quality of eternity; there must be a consciousness
of the image-and-likeness

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man. There must be in every one of us a realization of that
Spirit which has in it--involved in its being--all that
exists in the universal. If we do not realize this, if we
do not make it ours, we must eventually go back to the
universal. Jesus was the great way-shower to the attainment
of this realization of Spirit, and we shall miss "the prize
of the high calling" if we do not enter the path that He
trod and that He pointed out in many parables,
illustrations, and experiences.

Then this overcoming or lifting up of man is a process
through which we are all passing if we have been converted
to the Christ way of life. Transfiguration plays a part and
an important part in this evolution of the soul. When we
see the parallel between our experiences and the
transfiguration of Jesus we gain confidence to go forward.

In our study and application of the Christian life we all
have times when we are spiritually uplifted. Such a time is
marked by a form of spiritual enthusiasm, which is brought
about by statements of Truth made by ourselves or
others--prayers, words of praise, songs, meditations--any
statement of Truth that exalts the spiritual realms of the
mind. Jesus was lifted up by Peter, James, and John (faith,
judgment, and love). Whenever we dwell on these virtues and
try to live up to them, they are exalted in consciousness,
and they go up with us to the mount of Transfiguration. You
may not always realize

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this. You may think that the uplifting was just a passing
exaltation, but it stamps itself on your soul and body and
marks the planting of a new idea in the upward trend of the
whole man.

What is your attitude toward these times when you feel the
mighty uplift of Spirit? Do you give them their due
importance; or when you again come down into the valley, do
you groan and question and wonder why you do not abide in
your exaltation, why there seems a falling away of the mind
from it?

Right here we must be wise and understand the relation of
the higher principles of man and their action in the
redemption of soul and body. Do not lose sight of the fact
that the whole man must be spiritualized. Some people get
into the habit of going up in spirit to the mount of
Transfiguration, and they find it so enticing that they
refuse to descend to the valley again. Then soul and body
are left to go their own way, and a separation ensues. Such
persons dwell continually on the heights and ignore the
essential unity of Spirit, soul, and body. Many delusions
arise among Christians because they lack understanding of
the law of the idea and its manifestations. All things, all
actions, all principles, are working toward the unity of
God, man, and the universe. But there must be a
readjustment and a cleansing of the whole mass. If there
are things, whether mental or physical, that are not up to
the high standard of Spirit, they must die. Jesus on the

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mount spoke of His death that was to follow. This death is
of the material perception of substance and life, which is
reflected in man's body of flesh. This must perish. The
limited concept of matter and of a material body must be
transformed so that the true spiritual body may appear.

We find that at every upward step we take in our evolution
there is a sloughing off of, a doing away with, some parts
of consciousness that do not accord with the higher
principles. Jesus referred to it as the planting of a seed
in the ground and its dying before it can bring forth the
new life. The real life chit in the seed does not die. It
lives and multiplies when rid of its husk of bondage. In
the refinement of metals the fire, which is life, fuses the
whole mass. Then the molten elements form a new base; the
precious metals go by themselves and the dross goes by
itself. The dross is poured off and thrown away, the
precious metals are saved.

Much the same thing takes place in the action of Spirit,
soul, and body when a person goes into the high
consciousness and is transfigured. Some persons call it
conversion, some illumination, some the lifting-up power of
Spirit. Whatever you call it, it is the same thing. When
the white heat of God life comes upon man, there is
exaltation and transfusion of elements. The result of soul
exaltation is a finer soul essence forming the base of a
new body substance. The passing away of the dross of
materiality

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is a form of death.

You have doubtless wondered: "Why is it that, after I have
had an uplift, after I have had a high realization, or a
strong treatment, I have to meet so many errors? It seems
to me that the negative side piles in on me the next day or
the next few weeks stronger than ever."

The cause of this is a gathering together of the evil and
the good; the day of judgment has arrived, and you are the
judge. You may even be buried for "three days" in that
material consciousness which has not yet come to the full
light. But when you know the law that Spirit is always with
you you have nothing to fear, if you hold steadily to the
Christ presence that you realized in the mount of
Transfiguration.

Having once seen Truth, having once had the illumination,
you find that the next step is to demonstrate it and not to
be cast down or discouraged by the opposite. When the
crucifixion comes and you are suffering the pangs of dying
error, you may cry out, "My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?" forgetting for the time the promises in the
mount of Transfiguration. This is when you need to realize
that you are passing through a transforming process that
will be followed by a resurrection of all that is worth
saving.

Transfiguration is an essential step in every forward
movement of men and nations. All philosophers

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have observed it in its various phases. Carlyle says: "Once
risen into this divine white heat of temper, were it only
for a season and not again, it is henceforth considerable
through all its remaining history. And no nation that has
not had such divine paroxysms at any time is apt to come to
much."

Paul saw it in its work in man, when he wrote, "For our
citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the
body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the
body of his glory." "Then shall the righteous shine forth
as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." "We know that,
if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we
shall see him even as he is." "As we have borne the image
of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly."

It is quite essential that those who are striving for "the
prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" cling to
their ideal as real. It should not be regarded in the light
of a past event or of a future achievement, but as
fulfillment here and now. This is illustrated in the
communion of Moses and Elijah with Jesus on the mount,
Moses representing the law, Elijah its fulfillment. Jesus
is the I AM, in which both the past and the future are
joined. But Peter, not understanding the lesson, wanted to
make three tabernacles, representing the tendency of man to
separate and localize that which is spiritual and

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universal.

When the voice of Principle proclaimed the spiritual man's
presence--"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased; hear ye him"--there were no promises of the past
or the future. Time has no power over one who dwells in the
mind of God. There is no time to the mind of one who
realizes omnipresence. Nothing will transfigure the race
and renew the body so rapidly as the denial of both past
and future. Persons get childish because they let their
thoughts dwell upon the past. Fear of the future weakens
the virile life, and the feet stumble. The Son of God is
vigorous with the increasing life that is perpetually
flowing forth from the Father. When man realizes the
omnipresent life his whole organism is vitalized, and the
soul is glorified. When man is in spiritual consciousness
his soul shines with an energy that electrifies the outer
clothing. Those little points of magnetic light, which we
have all observed upon removing our clothing at night, are
weak manifestations of the aura of the soul, which can be
magnified until the whole body is ablaze with it.

Some Christians teach the saving of the soul and the
perishing of the body. Jesus taught the saving of both soul
and body. It is true that this mortal body must be
transfigured; it is but a picture or symbol of the real,
the spiritual body, which is the "Lord's body." The "Lord's
body" is the body

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of Spirit, the divine idea of a perfect human body. When
one realizes this new body, the cells of the present body
will form on new planes of consciousness, they will
aggregate around new centers, and the "Lord's body" will
appear.

"But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror
the glory of our Lord, are transformed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit."

When the body is devitalized by excessive labor,
dissipation, or any loss of vital force, its aura shrinks
away and a consciousness akin to that of being unclothed is
evident. To dream of being naked or partly clothed is a
warning by Spirit that the reserve vital force has been
dissipated and the natural clothing of the body removed.
Continuous disregard of the law of conservation of vital
force is followed by various diseases and finally death.
During sleep the system, under natural law, seeks to
equalize the vital forces, and it does so if the
intellectual concentration has not been too great. A dream
of falling means that this force, which has been piled up
in the head, is falling down into the lower channels of the
body, and is restoring equilibrium at the expense of
harmonious reaction. When the mind is adjusted to the
divine law, all the vital forces flow harmoniously and the
aura glows about the body as a beautiful white light,
protecting it from all discord from without and purifying
it continually from within.

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This is the state of the perfected man described in
Revelation 1:14-16.

"And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white
as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet
like unto burnished brass . . . and his voice as the voice
of many waters. . . . and his countenance was as the sun
shineth in his strength."

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//section Chapter 19

The End of the Age

Chapter XIX

//text

IN ALL AGES and among all people, there have been legends
of prophets and saviors and predictions of their coming.
Anticipation of a messiah has not been confined to the
Occident, for several of the prominent religions of the
Orient have prophesied a messiah. The fact that all who
believe in the principle of divine incarnation have long
strained their eyes across the shining sands in an effort
to catch sight of the coming of one clothed with the power
of heaven, should make us pause and consider the cause of
such universality of opinion among peoples widely
separated. To dismiss the subject as a religious
superstition is not in harmony with unprejudiced reason. To
regard these prophecies merely as religious superstitions
rules out traditions that are as tenable and as reliable as
the facts of history. There is a cause for every effect,
and the cause underlying this almost unanimous expectation
of a messiah must have some of the omnipresence of a
universal law.

In considering a subject like this, which demonstrates
itself largely on metaphysical lines, it is necessary to
look beyond the material plane to the realm of causes.

The material universe is but the shadow of the spiritual
universe. The pulsations of the spiritual

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forces impinge upon and sway men, nations, and planets,
according to laws whose sweep in space and time is so
stupendous as to be beyond the ken or comprehension of
astronomy. But the fact should not be overlooked that
higher astronomy had its votaries in the past. The Magi and
the illumined sages of Chaldea and Egypt had astronomical
knowledge of universal scope. It was so broad, so gigantic,
so far removed from the comprehension of the common mind of
their day that it always remained the property of the few.
It was communicated in symbols, because of the poverty of
language to express its supermundane truths. In the sacred
literature of the Hindus are evidences of astronomical
erudition covering such vast periods of time that modern
philosophers cannot or do not give them credence, and they
are relegated to the domain of speculation rather than of
science. However the astronomers of the present age have
forged along on material lines until now they are beginning
to impinge upon the hidden wisdom of the mighty savants of
the past.

There is evidence that proves that the ages of the distant
past knew a higher astronomy than do we of this age, and
that they predicted the future of this planet through
cycles and aeons--its nights of mental darkness and the
dawn of its spiritual day--with the same accuracy that our
astronomers do its present-day planetary revolutions.

Jesus evidently understood this higher astronomy,

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and He knew that His work as a teacher and demonstrator of
spiritual law was related to it, yet not controlled by it.
He co-operated with the "law . . . and the prophets," as
far as they went, but He knew the higher law of the Christ
man and affirmed His supremacy in the words: "All authority
hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth."

Jesus evidently understood the aeons or ages through which
the earth passes. For example, in Matthew 13:39, our
English Bible reads: "The enemy that sowed them is the
devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the
reapers are angels." In the Diaglott version, which gives
the original Greek and a word-for-word translation, this
reads: "THAT ENEMY who SOWED them is the ADVERSARY; the
HARVEST is the End of the Age; and the REAPERS are
Messengers." In this as in many other passages where Jesus
used the word "age," it has been translated "world,"
leading the reader to believe that Jesus taught that this
planet was to be destroyed.

So we see that the almost universally accepted teaching of
the end of the world is not properly founded on the Bible.
The translators wanted to give the wicked a great scare, so
they put "the end of the world" into Jesus' mouth in
several instances where He plainly said "the end of the
age."

The Bible is a textbook of absolute Truth; but its
teachings are veiled in symbol and understood only by the
illumined. The old prophets knew that the

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earth would become spiritualized in time, and they looked
forward and saw it as a self-luminous planet. This is
plainly stated in numerous places in the Scriptures. Isaiah
says: "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory
of Jehovah is risen upon thee. . . . Violence shall no more
be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy
borders . . . The sun shall be no more thy light by day;
neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee:
but Jehovah will be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy
God thy glory." John in Revelation also saw a like
condition when he prophesied: "And there shall be night no
more; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of sun;
for the Lord God shall give them light."

Job wrote:

//quote

"Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth ['the signs of the
Zodiac' (margin)] in their season? . . .

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?

Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?"

//text

In accordance with the prophecies of the ancients, our
planetary system has just completed a journey of 2,169
years, in which there has been wonderful material progress
without its spiritual counterpart. But old conditions have
passed away and a new era has dawned. A great change is
taking place in the mentality of the race, and this change
is evidenced in literature, science, and religion. There is
a breaking

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away from old creeds and old doctrines, and there is a
tendency to form centers along lines of scientific
spiritual thought. The literature of the first half of the
twentieth century is so saturated with occultism as to be
an object of censure by conservatives, who denounce it as a
"lapse into the superstition of the past." Notwithstanding
the protests of the conservatives, on every hand are
evidences of spiritual freedom; it crops out in so many
ways that an enumeration would cover the whole field of
life.

This is surely the coming of the spirit of Christ or Truth,
just as was prophesied: "For yourselves know perfectly that
the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."
"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out
my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young
men shall see visions."

It is evident that Jesus and His predecessors had knowledge
of coming events on lines of such absolute accuracy as to
place it in the realm of truth ascertained, that is, exact
science.

That knowledge of our planet is daily becoming more
refined, is admitted by material scientists, but that it
will ever become spiritualized, as was declared by the
ancients, they do not yet admit.

The evidences of a radiant condition of matter on our
planet, are so plain that even the most skeptical are loath
to deny them, and they must eventually

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be accepted by all scientists. The physicists are rapidly
altering their viewpoint. They are working out their
researches in the mental realm. Recently one of the
greatest of them, Professor Robert Andrews Millikan, wrote
that "matter is no longer a mere game of marbles played by
blind men. An atom is now an amazingly complicated
organism, possessing many interrelated parts and exhibiting
many functions and properties--energy properties, radiation
properties, wave properties, and other properties, quite as
mysterious as any that used to masquerade under the name of
'mind.' Hence the phrase 'All is matter' and 'All is mind'
have now become mere shibboleths completely devoid of
meaning."

But these material evidences of a new era are not necessary
to the sensitive ones who feel it in the very atmosphere
and who are thrilled by the light of the Christ principle.
To those who hunger after righteousness, this Christ
principle is the elixir of eternal life; but those who are
wedded to things material would better beware! The race is
changing its vibrations to a higher rate, and the higher
types of the race must keep the equipoise by unfolding
spiritually or they will lose their hold. Cases of loss of
mental poise are now getting so numerous as to attract the
attention of the medical world, and these cases will
increase in frequency in the future, unless there is a
stronger development of the spiritual nature of men. Old
things are passing away!

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Do you belong to the old, or are you building anew from
within and keeping time with the progress of the age? The
"harvest" or "consummation of the age" pointed out by Jesus
is not far off. This is no theological scare; it is a
statement based on a law that is now being tested and
proved.

Listen to your inner voice; cultivate the good, the pure,
the God within you. Do not let your false beliefs keep you
in the darkness of error until you go out like a dying
ember. The divine spark is within you. Fan it into flame by
right thinking, right living, and right doing, and you will
find the "new Jerusalem."

That Jesus was the fulfillment in the flesh of the
long-looked-for Messiah is accepted by those who have had
spiritual illumination, and is believed by millions who
have not had this illumination. Many have not lifted up the
Son of man in themselves, but they have faith that Jesus
did. Those who study the life of Jesus in its personal
aspect, to the exclusion of the spiritual, sense the
wonderful possibilities within man and the universe. One
who does not develop his own spiritual nature cannot see
the spiritual nature in Jesus or in other men who are
following Jesus in the regeneration.

Man employs a divine-natural law of growth or evolution
before he reaches the divine spiritual. Those under the
divine-natural law are referred to in the Bible as the
"children of God." However it is

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possible for the "children of God" to forge ahead of the
average in spiritual understanding and power, and to become
those who are called "sons of God." All great spiritual
leaders have been of the latter class. They see that

//quote

"The fault . . . is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

//text

What we all need is a fuller understanding of the spiritual
laws lying back of the phenomena of existence. "It is the
spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing."
Christians should seek the undying life and law of Jesus
and the creative substance of His body instead of the
historical man of Nazareth. Abstract Truth is good as a
beginning for the aspiring man, but Truth incarnated
through a great One is a dynamic booster, and we all
intuitively unite with such a one as Jesus, and are set
free from our human limitations by the vision and
quickening that contact with the Christ gives us.

It is a strange fact that in attempts to get the world's
estimate of great men the name of Jesus has seldom been
suggested. One would think that the army of men and women
teaching the doctrines of this greatest of men, would put
His name at the head of the list. Our attention is always
called to the classifications "secular" and "religious" to
explain why Jesus is not included among the world's great
men. In fact, Jesus is not considered a man but a god, and
in this fact we find another of the many

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separations that systematized religion has made between the
spiritual and the material.

The secular world has been taught that Jesus was so
superior to mortal man that He can be thought of only as a
god. This removes Him from us all as a man whose character
we may emulate and as an example of what we may become and
places His attainments far beyond human possibilities.

But Jesus laid no claim to that superiority over other men
with which the church so persistently invests Him. His
teaching is that all who keep the divine law as He kept it
will become like Him and His disciples. "Neither for these
only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me
through their word." "I in them, and thou in me, that they
may be perfected into one; that the world may know that
thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst
me."

By separating Jesus from the rest of the race we close the
door against the real man, the man that every personal man
must progress into. "My little children, of whom I am again
in travail until Christ be formed in you," said Paul. There
is a great awakening, in all parts of the world, to the
absolute necessity and immediate possibility of a race of
men patterned after Jesus of Nazareth. Thus is germinating
the seed of the new race that Jesus sowed. "Except a grain
of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself
alone; but if it die, it beareth much

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fruit." Jesus taught the highest Truth ever given to the
world, but in addition to His doctrines He gave the race
His purified, glorified body. He purified and spiritualized
the natural blood until it became a spiritual life stream,
into which all may enter and be cleansed. He spiritualized
the cells of His corruptible body and set them free in "the
heavens," where we may all appropriate or "eat" them. The
heavenly kingdom to which Jesus so often referred is the
unlimited spiritual consciousness where mind and body are
equal in all activities. When we come into the full
consciousness of "the heavens," the body will respond
instantly to every thought; then time, space, and all the
limitations of matter will disappear. It is in this
consciousness that Jesus now lives; His "second coming"
will be the revealing to men and women everywhere that He
has not been absent at any time. "Lo, I am with you always."

The heavenly signs of the second coming of the Son of man
are in the cosmic ether, which is now known to science as
interpenetrating all things. In the invisible ether, we
shall eventually find a complete record of the history of
the race, which spiritually developed man will be able to
read as easily as he now reads the daily paper. Sir James
Jeans in his book "The Mysterious Universe" says: "We must
think of space as being drenched with almost all the cosmic
radiation which has ever been generated since the world
began. Its rays come to us as messengers

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not only from the farthest depths of space, but also from
the farthest reaches of time. And, if we read it aright,
their message seems to be that somewhere, sometime, in the
history of the universe, matter has been annihilated, and
this not in tiny, but in stupendous amounts."

Jesus named God-Mind the "KINGDOM of the HEAVENS."
According to the original Greek, as given in the Emphatic
Diaglott, He said: "Reform! because the ROYAL MAJESTY of
the HEAVENS has approached." Bible translators have not
understood the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures, and
they have nearly always translated the word "heavens" in
the singular, making it read "heaven." This error has
misled many into thinking that Jesus, in His many parables
and comparisons, referred to a place called heaven. But it
is apparent that in these parables and comparisons He was
trying to explain to His hearers the character of the
omnipresent substance and life that has all potentiality
and is the source of everything that appears on the earth.

The coming in the clouds of the heavens of the "Son of man
sitting at the right hand of Power," as Jesus told the high
priest, is the "second coming," and we should look nowhere
else for the advent of the risen Christ. Christ is today
"sitting at the right hand of Power," which represents
spiritual power expressed; the clouds of heaven being the
obscurity in which sense consciousness holds the light of
Truth.

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Let us cease expecting Christ to come in bodily form; let
us turn our attention to His risen body already with us. In
this way we shall co-operate with Him in setting up the
kingdom of the heavens on the earth. In Matthew 24-23-27
Jesus gave the strongest kind of warning against the idea
of the personal appearance of the Christ. This passage
concludes with these words: "For as the lightning cometh
forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so
shall be the coming of the Son of man." These are Jesus'
own words, and they should have greater weight than Paul's
theory that Jesus will appear with a great shout in the
clouds of heaven, which has been interpreted literally as
the personal appearance of Jesus in the sky.

The world needs the Christ consciousness. The need implies
that the attainment is near at hand. There are men and
women who gaze up into the heavens for Christ, as did the
early disciples, instead of looking within their own heart
and mind. "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into
heaven?" Only believe in the omnipresent Christ and you
will behold Him sitting on the right hand of Power within
your own being!

All who believe that Christ is here now should teach it and
preach it with all possible zeal.

The people are longing and reaching out for the healing
hand of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is great need of leadership under the Christ

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whose banner is love.

The Prince of Peace should be invited to the peace
conferences that are held by war-taxed and war-weary
peoples.

Christ righteousness should be dominant in settling the
differences between capital and labor.

Our schools in every grade need to teach the moral standard
of Christ as fundamental to all true character.

When our children have the Christ Spirit pointed out to
them as being within and as a living fount of health,
wealth, and happiness, they will quickly accept it.

Then the ambition of men will be to compete in bringing
forth Truth, goodness, and righteousness; and evil and sin,
with its sickness and poverty, will disappear from the
earth.

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//section Question Helps

Chapter I

The Atomic Age

//text

1. What great truth have our scientists revealed to man by
breaking into the atom? Tell in your own words how both
Elijah and Jesus used the same energy that was discovered
by them.

2. Did Jesus claim to have the exclusive supernatural power
that is usually credited to Him? Explain.

3. To what is the revival of the divine law of healing due?
How may the sick be restored to life and health?

4. What have thought concentration and discovery of the
dynamic character of the atom to do with prayer? Explain.

5. Of what is the six-day creation of the universe
(described in Genesis) a story? Explain how the privileges
of the superrealm are open to all.

6. What will be the next great achievement of science?

7. How is man to achieve immortal life?

8. What part does faith play in the transformation of man?

9. What does the latest discovery of science reveal?
Explain fully.

10. What must come about before mankind can truly receive
the beneficial and permanent uplift to be wrought by atomic
energy?

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CHAPTER II

THE RESTORATIVE POWER OF THE SPIRIT

1. Explain the spiritual import of Jesus' words "My Father
worketh even until now, and I work."

2. What is the meaning of "I will be what I will be"?

3. In what sense is every man a king?

4. How does man's belief in his own inefficiency hinder his
spiritual progress?

5. Why is a vegetarian diet inducive to a high state of
spiritual unfoldment?

6. How does man become conscious of the guidance of Spirit?

7. It is possible for us to develop a radiant body temple?

8. In what state of existence is Jesus manifesting Himself
today?

9. How does man save himself form unpleasant psychic or
"spooky" experiences in the process of transmuting his body
from the physical to the supersubstance state?

10. Give in your own words Charles Fillmore's account of
the development of the radiant body within himself.

CHAPTER III

SPIRITUAL OBEDIENCE

1. What is spiritual zeal?

2. While on his way to Damascus to persecute the Christians
the zealous Saul's concept of religion went through a
complete change. Explain fully.

3. Why should zeal be tempered with wisdom?

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4. Why should man be obedient to Spirit? Explain.

5. Above all other Bible writers what important point did
Paul emphasize?

6. What does prayer do for man?

7. Explain the outpouring of the dynamic power of Spirit as
recorded in Acts 1 and 2.

8. Jesus said that he was the bread and substance that came
down from heaven. When will our civilization begin to
realize and appropriate this boundless substance and life?

9. What is the dominion that God gave man in the beginning?
Explain.

10. In the economy of the future what will take place?

CHAPTER IV

I AM OR SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS

1. Define superconsciousness.

2. Explain how Jesus externalized the superconsciousness,
thus making it an abiding place for the race.

3. Explain the method by which Jesus evolved from sense to
God consciousness.

4. How does man overcome all error beliefs?

5. Explain how the mind of man is built on Truth.

6. What great truth did Jesus prove by His resurrection and
ascension?

7. What accomplishments are possible to man through the
Holy Spirit?

8. Modern science reveals that imprisoned within the cells
of man's body are electronic energies beyond possibility of
estimate. Of what practical use is this knowledge to man
today?

9. Can man free himself and others from the claim of
materiality? Explain.

10. How is man loosed from all limiting thoughts and set
free in the Christ consciousness?

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CHAPTER V

THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

1. Define the term "Son of man."

2. When do we begin to pass judgment? Explain.

3. How do we separate our good thoughts from thoughts of
disease, death, lack, and the like?

4. How do we handle our "goat" thoughts?

5. At what stage of unfoldment do we begin to have fine,
discriminating judgment?

6. "Then shall the King say unto them on the right hand,
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world." Who is the King?
Explain.

7. How do we reap the benefit of all the good we have ever
done or thought?

8. When is everything in Principle ours?

9. Explain how the body becomes full of light.

10. In this connection what is the work of the I AM?

CHAPTER VI

THOU SHALT DECREE A THING

1. How does man fix an ideal in substance?

2. Define "the visible."

3. Since nothing is really lost, what becomes of the energy
that is being released in the disintegration that is going
on in the earth?

4. How may man develop a purer, sweeter body and a saner
mind?

5. Explain how the destiny of the race is in the hands of
man.

6. What will save the race from being destroyed?

7. Name at least three instances in the Bible where

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marvelous results followed the blowing of trumpets used in
the observance of religious rites.

8. Explain how these results were accomplished.

9. How does the trained metaphysician produce like results?

10. Explain how faith plays an important part in
broadcasting messages of light to receptive minds.

CHAPTER VII

THINKING IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION

1. Do the stupendous truths science is discovering today
parallel the truths of the invisible side of life that
Jesus taught? Explain.

2. It is necessary for man in the present day to develop a
capacity for understanding in terms of the atomic structure
of the universe? Give reasons for your answer.

3. Define Jesus' words "If any man hath ears to hear, let
him hear."

4. In developing the inner ear we sometimes hear deceptive
voices. How may this situation be handled scientifically?

5. Give your interpretation of these words of Jesus: "For
unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
abundance: but from him that hath not, even that which he
hath shall be taken away."

6. Should the discoveries of science be divorced from the
kingdom of the heavens taught by Jesus? Explain.

7. Are the mysteries of the supermind open to all alike?
What is the result?

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8. Does man have power to dominate nature? Explain.

9. What is the great need of the whole human family?

10. Explain the need for a larger realization of the
importance of man in manifesting God.

CHAPTER VIII

IS THIS GOD'S WORLD?

1. Is God responsible for all that occurs on this earth,
and if not, how much?

2. "Thou makest him [man] to have dominion over the works
of thy hands: Thou hast put all things under his feet."
Explain the significance of these words of the Psalmist in
relation to the atomic bomb.

3. Eventually how may our standard of living be vastly
improved by the utilization of atomic forces?

4. Is it necessary today to give more attention to the
refinement of the body temple?

5. Explain the difference between a prayer treatment given
by an experienced spiritual healer and the shocks given by
mechanical generators.

6. Is this God's world? Give reasons for your answer.

7. Is it possible to determine how many ages have passed
since man lost contact with God? Explain.

8. Where is man's home?

9. What is the great and important issue before the people
today?

10. What is the one and only way out of the chaos?

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Chapter IX

Demonstrating Christ Thought By Thought

1. What great truth do the "signs of the times" reveal?

2. How can fear and worry and other limitations be overcome?

3. How can we demonstrate a well body?

4. What is the one way to establish harmony in the home?

5. Explain why we should yield obediently to the
transforming process of Spirit.

6. What parts do imagination and faith play in
demonstration?

7. Is it necessary to live the Truth in order to
demonstrate it? Explain.

8. Is there anything mysterious in being led by Spirit?
Explain.

9. How are errors in the subconscious mind eliminated?

10. Define the phrase "body of Christ" in its threefold
significance.

Chapter X

Truth Radiates Light

1. Define body temple and explain what is necessary in
order to glorify the body.

2. In Exodus we read, "Let them make me a sanctuary, that I
may dwell among them." Give the metaphysical meaning of
this Scripture.

3. What does it mean to burn incense in the house of
Jehovah?

4. What is the result when our mind is lifted up in prayer?

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5. The Israelites did not go forward in the wilderness on
days when the cloud remained over the Tabernacle but only
when the cloud was lifted. Give the metaphysical meaning of
this.

6. What is the first step in getting out of a mental cloud?

7. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the Ten
Commandments his countenance shone so brilliantly they had
to put a veil over his face. Explain from a scientific
viewpoint.

8. What effect do fervent words expressed in eloquent
proclamations of spiritual Truth have upon man?

9. Do you consider the tendency on the part of
metaphysicians to analyze scientifically these experiences
sacrilegious? Give reason for your answer.

10. When the student searches for the science in religion
and the religion in science what does he discover? Please
amplify.

Chapter XI

The Only Mind

1. Explain in your own language where ideas come from and
in what realm they operate.

2. Can man analyze mind and understand its laws and modes
of operation? Give reason for your answer.

3. On what plane alone can we know Truth in an absolute
sense? Explain.

4. What relation do language and formulation bear to mind?

5. Explain the difference between intellectual knowledge
and pure spiritual knowing.

6. Regardless of lack of technical education, what results
when man gives his mind to the attention of the one Mind?

7. What is the great difference between what the

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physical scientist calls "universal energy" and the
metaphysician calls God-Mind?

8. Explain how man is a co-creator with God.

9. When man seeks the Father with an eye single to His
guidance what is the result?

10. What is man's first step after he has learned spiritual
obedience?

Chapter XII

Contact With The Christ Mind

1. Is man consciously in intimate contact with the Holy
Spirit? How may an understanding of Holy Spirit activity
strengthen man's faith?

2. What is the meaning of the name El Shaddai?

3. Explain how the Holy Spirit in Divine Mind corresponds
to man's thought in his mind.

4. How may we approach God with confidence; and what is the
result?

5. Explain in your own words the relation of the universal
or Jehovah-Mind to the personal or Christ Mind.

6. How may we get into conscious contact with the Christ
Mind and demonstrate over sin, sickness, and death? Explain
fully.

7. Jesus taught that the true way to demonstrate abundance
is to be "rich toward God." Explain in your own words how
this sure law of demonstration operates.

8. Why should human egotism be repressed? Explain fully.

9. How can man greatly accelerate the formation in him of
the Christ Mind?

10. Give fully the origin of anger, revenge, fear, poverty,
failure, and the like, and explain how these error
conditions can be changed into love, courage, peace,
prosperity, and success.

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Chapter XIII

Metaphysics Of Shakespeare

1. Give in your own words an estimate of the true character
of Shakespeare.

2. What do Shakespeare's writings reveal as regards his
spiritual understanding?

3. Where would you look for the antecedents of Shakespeare?
Give reasons for your answer.

4. Every soul has an untapped mine of knowledge in the
subconscious mind, inspiration and rediscovery being the
positive and negative poles of the mind. What was the
relation of Shakespeare's thought to these sources of
knowledge? Explain.

5. In Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" what is revealed
by the two different interpretations of Calpurnia's dream?

6. In "Hamlet" Hamlet's father's ghost appears and gives a
graphic description of how he had been murdered by the
king. What does this reveal as to Shakespeare's thought?

7. Shakespeare did not teach religion but the facts of life
as he saw them. Explain.

8. Although Shakespeare may not have applied the law of
spiritual healing to himself, is there evidence that he
perceived the possibility of such healing? Give reasons for
your answer.

9. While Shakespeare was familiar with the superstitions of
his age, did he usually point out the fallacies in them?
Explain.

10. Does the genius displayed in Shakespeare's writings
belong wholly to the men and women of his time or to all
generations? Give reasons for your answer.

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Chapter XIV

The Body

1. Define the Bible in terms of the subject presented in
this chapter.

2. What is the paramount theme of the New Testament and in
fact the veiled theme of the entire Bible?

3. According to the explanation given in this chapter, what
is man? Does man really despise his body? Explain.

4. What is the body?

5. Is the belief that the resurrection of the body has to
do with the getting of a new body after death founded on
the principles of Truth? Give reasons for your answer.

6. Give explanation of Paul's words "When this corruptible
shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality . . . Death is swallowed up in victory."

7. How may men become a Christ in mind and in body?

8. Explain in your own words how a pattern of the perfect
body is stamped in every soul and how this pattern may be
brought into manifestation.

9. Explain how Jesus, who overcame death even in the body,
is our normal standard.

10. How do we establish our ego, our I AM identity with
Divine Mind, and step by step eliminate the old and put on
the new?

Chapter XV

Faith Precipitations

1. Compare the way electricity operates on the physical
plane with the way faith operates in the realm of mind.

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2. Did Jesus require co-operation in faith on the part of
those He healed in order to complete the healing circuit?
Why is this necessary?

3. (a) When are speedy answers to prayer experienced?

(b) With whom does the fulfillment of the law rest?

4. (a) Did Jesus teach persistence in prayer? Explain.

(b) What is the teaching of Jesus about God's being the law
as well as the Spirit?

5. Explain how ephemeral Caesars become world leaders
today. Explain fully.

6. If the supermind ability is in every man, why is it not
more widely understood and used?

7. When and how was the hypnotic spell of ecclesiastical
authority broken, and how long was it in abeyance? Explain.

8. Explain in your own words the reformation of which we
have today seen only the beginning.

9. Did Jesus teach the immortality of the body as well as
of the soul? Explain.

10. Are there any incurable diseases? Explain fully.

Chapter XVI

The Seed Is The Word

1. In your own words explain Being in its twofold aspect.

2. What is the word of God?

3. Do "things" have causative power? Explain.

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4. Define man and explain how he draws his substance from
the infinite storehouse.

5. Give the metaphysical meaning of the statement "I am the
door."

6. When man ceases to remember the source of his being what
is the result?

7. Interpret Jesus' words "Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
of God."

8. Is there any evidence that man is a miraculous creation?
Explain.

9. Explain in your own words the statement that every idea
is a seed and brings forth according to its character.

10. Man's mind is a garden, where he is in control and
himself determines just what kind of seed words are to grow
there. Elaborate.

Chapter XVII

The Resurrecting Power Of The Word

1. Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the promise. "As in
Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."
Explain.

2. Why is it difficult for man to realize that he can
overcome the negative conditions called sickness and death?

3. What unalterable truth does the Easter lesson reveal to
us?

4. When Jesus received His illumination and stepped forth
as a teacher did He meet with any opposition? Explain.

5. If a demonstration of resurrection were to take place
today, what would be the attitude of men in general?

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6. Explain the difference between the astral or ghostly
body of the dead and the resurrected body of Jesus.

7. How may we come into eternal life and save the body from
the disintegrating effects of death?

8. What has right thinking to do with making the
demonstration of eternal life? Explain.

9. (a) What are the two activities of the word mentioned in
this chapter?

(b) What determines the measure of power possessed by our
words?

10. Explain in your own language the meaning of the
Scripture "If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of
death."

Chapter XVIII

Transfiguration

1. What does the word "transfiguration" mean to you?

2. Do those who read the Scriptures merely as history
understand the true meaning of "transfiguration"? Explain.

3. What is the real object of existence?

4. Explain how Jesus was lifted up on the mount of
Transfiguration and how man may also be lifted up.

5. What is the result when one tries to live continually in
the high state of realization and neglects to lift up soul
and body?

6. On the mount Jesus spoke of His death which was to
follow. Explain and give illustration.

7. Why is it that after the uplift that follows a strong
spiritual realization one has to meet seeming errors of
various kinds?

8. Is transfiguration as essential step in every forward
movement of men and nations? Give reasons for your answer.

9. Has time any power over one who dwells in the mind of
God? Explain fully.

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10. (a) What does it mean when one dreams of being naked or
partly clothed?

(b) What happens when the mind is adjusted to the divine
law?

Chapter XIX

The End Of The Age

1. Throughout the ages all nations and all peoples have
been looking for the coming of One clothed with the power
of heaven. Explain this idea from a metaphysical standpoint.

2. Did Jesus understand the higher astronomy of past ages?
What was his attitude toward it?

3. Is the accepted teaching of "the end of the world"
founded on the Bible? Explain.

4. As the mentality of the race changes as evidenced in
literature, science, and religion is there a corresponding
growth in spiritual freedom? Give full explanation.

5. Explain how to hold fast to the Christ principles in
order to retain mental balance during the present time, in
which the race is changing its vibrations to a higher rate.

6. Who are the "children of God"? Who are the "sons of God"?

7. How do we enter into a fuller understanding of the
spiritual laws lying back of the phenomena of existence?

8. Explain fully why we should not separate Jesus from the
rest of the race but should look upon Him as our way-shower.

9. Give a scientific explanation of the second coming of
the Son of man. Give reasons for your answer.

10. What does the great need in the world today of the
Christ consciousness imply? Give reasons for your answer.

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//section Index

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Aaron, 83

Adam, vs. Christ, 116, 119, 142

affirmation, 71, 74; benefits received through, 101; body
"thrill" ("the Spirit") induced by, 24, 25; formation of
Christ Mind in man accelerated by use of, 103, 104;
judgment and, 45, 47; mastering worry, disease, and
inharmony by denial and, 71, 72; strength of, 50

age, dawn of new, 163-166; end of, 130, 131, 162; man's,
same as earth's, 70

air, man's home in, as well as in earth, 68

Angels (ideas), 45, 46 (see ideas)

Antigonus, in "Winter's Tale," 112

appetite, mastering, 72, 73

Ascension, 40, 41

Assyria (psychic realm), 54, 55

astrology, and Shakespeare, 113, 114

astronomy, higher, 161, 162

atom, and its law of expression, 9, 10; faith center in
each, 40; wisdom at center of, 92

atomic bomb, effects of, on Japanese cities in 1945, 65,
66; spiritual or mental character of, 12, 13

Babylon, king of, 19

Bacon, Lord Francis, 108

baptism, 28; prayer treatment as a spiritual, 67; Spirit,
130 (see Holy Spirit)

being, invisible and visible aspects of, 134

"Behold the Angel!" (Morgan), 23, 24

Bellamy, Edward ("Looking Backward"), 31, 32

Bible, and miracles, 83, 84; as allegorical record of man,
116; as textbook of absolute Truth, 162, 163; as textbook
on redemption of man, 103; man and his states of mind
represented in, 80; on death, 142

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blessing, as releaser of substance, 102

blood, of Jesus, as life of God, 77, 78, 169

body, arresting death through man's realization of perfect,
121, 122; as instrument of mind, 20; as record of man's
thoughts, 118, 119, 121, 122; as temple of living God, 81,
94, 117, 118, 131, 144, 145; "body of Christ" as man's
spiritual, 78; establishing the spiritual, 34; forces in,
directed constructively or destructively by thought, 43,
44; glorifying God in one's, 80, 123; made up of centers of
consciousness, 49; man's, as meeting place of man and
Jehovah, 80; new, 24, 25, 43, 119, 157, 158; pent-up energy
in atoms of, 11; radiant, 22, 23; refining, 66, 67;
renewing and spiritualizing, 142, 143; resurrected body of
Jesus vs. astral, 146, 147; various conceptions of man's,
116-118 (see Christ)

"body of Christ" (see church of Christ)

brain, evolved by mind, 34; faith and man's, 125 (see mind)

bread, and wine, 77

Browning, Robert (quoted), 18

Brutus, in "Julius Caesar," 114

Caesar, in "Julius Caesar," 109, 110, 114

Caesars, supermind and ephemeral, 128

Calpurnia, in "Julius Caesar," 109-111

Carlyle, Thomas (quoted), 156

Cassius, in "Julius Caesar," 114

cause and effect, 134, 135, 160

cells, brain, 14, 15, 84; electronic energy imprisoned in
body, 41; of body of Jesus, 169; transformation of body,
24, 25, 157, 158

Chaldea, and higher astronomy, 161

character, 104, 105

Children of Israel, 83, 143

Christ, 80; and prayer, 30; and the soul (consciousness),

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151; as one's wisdom, 75, 76; as source of life force, 24,
25; as spiritual mind in every individual, 100, 101; as the
image and likeness, 100, 101; as the Word of God, 135; as
true pattern for man, 122; contacting mind of, 101; man's
identity with, 23; 103, 104; new body in, 24, 25, 43; Paul
as disseminator of doctrine of, 27; putting on, 36, 37, 70;
risen, 170, 171; rising out of negative states of mind by
calling upon name of, 82; threefold significance of body
of, 77-79; universal incarnation of body of, 122 (see Jesus)

Christ consciousness, 44, 150, 151, 171

Christ man, age of, 130, 131

Christ Mind, as supermind, 56

Christianity, as demonstrable science of mind, 31;
renaissance of, 33, 34

Church Fathers, and Shakespeare, 107, 108; and the Bible,
129

church of Christ, based on unity of Spirit, not on creeds,
78, 79 communion (see prayer; silence)

conscious mind, and cellular life, 147; as director of
subconscious mind, 76, 77; off guard during sleep, 109

consciousness, as soul, 151; establishing spiritual body
in, through divine ideas, 34; evolution of Jesus from sense
consciousness to God, 37, 38; heaven and hell within man's
own, 97; making superconsciousness an abiding state of, 36;
manifesting that which is held in, 72; man's perfected, as
God's house or temple, 94; of I AM power, 48, 49; prayer
awakens spiritual, 32, 33; separating the erroneous from
the true in, 49; shattering men's fixed states of, by the
spoken word, 54, 55; thoughts manifested as states of, 94,
95 (see Christ)

conversion, 154, 155

creation, man as co-operator in God's plan of, 95-97;

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no evidence anywhere of a miraculous, 139; science and
theological explanation of, 85

Crucifixion, 42, 144, 145; of error, 155

Crusades, 59

Damascus, 26-28

Daniel, and king of Babylon, 19; and the king's dainties,
20, 21

David, not forebear of the Lord or Christ but of Jesus, 100
"

day of judgment," 45, 46, 48, 49, 155

death, as result of transgression of law (called sin), 131,
142; life or, 53, 54; overcoming, 24, 25, 124, 143-149,
151; Paul on, 120, 121

Decius, in "Julius Caesar," 110

decreeing (see affirmation; word)

demonstration, mental resurrection and body, 120; of
supermind, 127, 130; others helped in every individual, 42,
43

denial, 71, 72; judgment and, 45-47; of past and future, 157

diet, and health, 51, 52

disciples, resurrection and skepticism of, 145, 146

discrimination, 57

disease, vs. health, 71, 72

disease germs, 104

dominion, 34, 53, 63

doubt, vs. confidence, 74, 75

dreams, and the vital forces, 158; Daniel's interpretation
of, 19, 20; Shakespeare and, 109, 111; the I AM and the
subconscious mind in, 109

earth, forming of new, 51

earthquake, and race mind, 29

Easter, lesson of, 143

eating, Paul's views on, 20, 21; relation between thinking
and, 72, 73 (see diet)

economy, new, 35

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Edison, Thomas Alva, 63, 64

Edmund, in "King Lear," 113

egotism, as destroyer of spirituality, 103; repressing,
102, 103

Egypt, and higher astronomy, 161; (materialism), 54, 55

electricity, and faith, 14, 15, 125

electrons, 84, 125

elements, and mind, 29

Elijah, 9, 10, 127; (fulfillment), 156, 157

Elisha, 9, 125

El Shaddai ("Nourisher" or "Strength-giver"), 98

Emerson (quoted), 33, 34, 137, 138

Emmaus, 145, 146

Emphatic Diaglott (quoted), 162, 170

energy, and prayer, 40; atomic, 50, 51, 65; divine wisdom
and universal, 91; electronic, 14, 15; ether, 10; Holy
Spirit as dynamic 66, 67; pent-up, in body, 11; spiritual,
9, 10

Environment, thought and, 48

ether, cosmic (spiritual), as "kingdom of the heavens," 10,
11, 40, 58; effect of sending our word into, 54, 55; faith
and spiritual, 125; hearing capacity extended into
spiritual, 56, 57; signs of "second coming" in cosmic, 169,
170

eugenics, 33, 34

Europe, 59; better foods following meat shortage in, 51, 52

evil, 114, 155

evolution, age of man and this, 70; sloughing off of parts
of consciousness necessary to, 154

Exodus, 80

experiences, spiritual vs. psychic, 23

failure, 105; as way to larger life, 75, 76

faith, 10, 11, 104; center of, 40; electricity and, 14,
125; fulfillment as result of, 74, 75; represented by

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Peter, 152, 153; spiritual healing dependent on, 76

Father, cultivating communion with, 21; Jesus' recognition
of mind as, 40; oneness with, 71, 104

food, blessing one's, 72, 73; effect of, on receptivity to
Spirit, 20, 21

forces, utilizing and controlling atomic, 66

fourth dimension (kingdom of God), 62

Fox sisters, Margaret, Catharine, Leah (spiritualists), 111

free will, and creation, 96, 97

fulfillment, and faith, 74, 75; represented by Elijah, 156,
157

future, body renewal and denial of, 157

Galton, Sir Francis (quoted), 33, 34

generation, meaning of, 31, 32

Genesis, seven-day creation in, 12

Gideon, 54

goat thoughts, 46, 47

God, and man as the "image" and "likeness," 18, 53, 117; as
impartial and just, 60; as man's provider, 102; as one and
only mind, 93; as personality vs. God as law, 127, 128; as
Spirit, 34, 59-62, 78, 79, 135, 136; as the source of all
creation, 59; as unitary and as diverse, 19; as wisdom, 92;
due to character of, in man's mind, 97; daily communion
with, 30, 31; El Shaddai as feminine name for, 98; hearing
voice of, 56, 57; importance of man's willing cooperation
with, 93-96; man's lost contact with, 68; recognition of,
in idea and manifestation, 68, 69; redeeming the
subconsciousness through communion with, 76, 77;
responsibility of, toward His creation, 63

Godliness, 22

Golden Rule, practicing, 75

Good, vs. evil, 114, 155

Great Britain, 114, 115

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growth, law of: and growth from minute generative centers,
134; in mind as well as earth, 139, 140

guidance, of Spirit of truth, 103; seeking Father's, 21,
94, 95

"Hamlet" (Shakespeare), 111, 112, 114

hands, laying on of, 67

harmony, 72

healing, agents of, 67; and Shakespeare, 113; faith and,
11, 131

health, affirming, 99-101; and diet, 51, 52; as God's will;

76; states of mind and, 104; thinking and speaking, 71, 72

hearing, cellular, 56, 57; spiritual, 57

heaven, 97, 170

hell, 97

heredity, inheritance from God vs. flesh, 76, 77

Hindus, and astronomy, 161

Hitlers, still alive and to come, 53

Holy Spirit, as executive power of Father (mind) and Son
(idea), 38, 39; baptism of, 28, 66, 67; cooperating with,
99, 100; various conceptions of, 98, 99

home, establishing harmony in, 72

housing, and man's inventive genius, 52

Hydesville, New York, 111 (see Fox sisters)

I AM, 80; as center of consciousness, 47; as eternal, 151,
152; as separator of the sheep from the goats, 49; as
spiritual ego, 43; in contact with subconscious mind during
sleep, 109; power of, 47-49; represented by Jesus, 156,
157; solving one's problems by use of, 70, 71 (see Jehovah;
Jesus)

ideas, and laws governing their manifestation, 99, 100,
153, 154; (angels), 45, 46; as seeds, 139, 140; man's
dominion over spiritual, 34; mind as source of, 87, 94;
thinking faculty of man as formative

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vehicle of God's, 93, 94 (see Angels)

identity, body as means of, 118; divine, of spirit in man,
127, 128; establishing one's, with Christ, 23; I AM, 123;
man's spiritual, 32, 102-104, 122 (see Christ)

ignorance, penalty of, 87, 88

illumination, secret of Paul's, 28, 29

"image" and "likeness" (see Christ; God; man)

imaging, 47, 120, 121

immortality, 13, 116, 130, 131 (see life)

incarnation, body of Christ as universal, 122 (see
reincarnation)

incurables, no, 132, 133

India, Empire of, 114, 115

intellect, vs. pure mind, 89

intelligence, as another name for God, 77; mind as fount
of, 90

intuition, and mind, 89

Isaiah, 43, 54, 55, 162, 163

James (judgment), 152, 153

Jeans, Sir James ("The Mysterious Universe") (quoted), 14,
15, 169, 170

Jehovah, as I AM, Christ, or supermind, 80; effect of
thoughts opposed to commandments of, 81, 82; relation
between the Christ (personal) mind and mind of, 100, 101;
temple of, 120, 121

Jericho, walls of, 54

Jerusalem, 26, 66, 67, 83, 84, 120, 121, 144, 145;
(spirituality), 54, 59

Jesus, alive in body of electricity, 22-24; and body
redemption, 131; and higher astronomy, 162; and His
demonstration over death, 143, 145; and His warning against
the idea of personal appearance of Christ, 171; and man's
specific work in world, 95, 96; and salvation, 157; and
Shakespeare, 108, 109; and substance, 30, 31, 101, 102; and
the abundant

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life, 66, 67; and the "kingdom of the heavens," 56, 58,
170; and the parable of the loaves and fishes, 102; and the
parable of the seed, 59; and the power of the word, 148,
149; and the will of God, 76; as advanced soul, 22, 23; as
center of faith, 10, 11; as demonstrator of highest type of
embodiment, 122; as first "fruit" of earth's first age,
130, 131; as god vs. Jesus as man, 167, 168; as I AM, 156,
157; as master mason, 120, 121; as Saviour, 62; as Son of
God, 36, 37, 42, 129; as successful demonstrator of prayer,
126, 127; as the Messiah, 166; as transcendent soul, 24; as
type of new race, 33, 34, 168, 169; differed from other men
by proving His works, 40-42; evolution of, from sense to
God consciousness, 37, 38; glorifying God in one's body
according to, 80; importance of superman as a thinking
power realized by, 61, 62; lack of scholastic advantages of
89, 90; man's joint heirship with, 123; mental sc???nce vs.
teaching of, 73; miracles of, 9, 10; on 'he that hath to
him shall be given," 57; on the greater works expected of
man, 58; on unity with the Father, 71, 104; symbology of
body and blood of, 77, 78; taking literally promises of,
82; transfiguration of, 22, 23, 40, 150, 152-154; unfolded
consciousness of Absolute, 44 (see Christ)

Job, and the Zodiac, 163

John, 22, 23, 44, 163; (love), 152, 153

John, the Baptist, 122

Joseph, 20

Joseph (husband of Mary), 143, 144

judgment, passing, by affirmation and denial, 45-47;
relation of our thought creations to, 48, 49; represented
by James, 152, 153; today as day of, 46

"Julius Caesar" (Shakespeare), 109, 110, 114, 128

"King Lear" (Shakespeare), 113

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kingdom of God, and right thinking, 67, 68, 70, 71; way
into, 136 (see fourth dimension; "kingdom of

the heavens"

"kingdom of the heavens," 22, 23, 56, 85, 170, 171; as a
state of mind and not a place, 58; as cosmic ether or
energy, 10, 11, 40; science's key to physical realm in, 16,
17

language, and mind, 88

law, represented by Moses, 156, 157

Lazarus, Jesus and the raising of, 148, 149

life, attaining eternal, 53, 54, 101, 151, 152; mind as

source of, 90

light, spiritual, 81, 82

Lincoln Abraham, 126, 127

London Times, contest on Shakespeare, 114, 115

"Looking Backward" (Bellamy), 31, 32

Lord's body, 120, 121, 157, 158 (see Jehovah)

Lord's Supper, symbolic rite of, 77, 78

Lorenzo, in "Merchant of Venice," 115

Lot's wife, and past conditions, 71, 72

love, and health of body, 149; as a solvent of inharmony,
72, 75; represented by John, 152, 153; vs. hate, 148

Luke, 101, 102

Luther, Martin, and the Protestant Reformation, 129, 130

"Macbeth" (Shakespeare), 113

Magi, 161

man, a molder and not a creator, 93, 94; and his lost
contact with God, 68; and his many masks (bodies), 116; as
builder of flesh and blood, 120, 121; as expression of
mind, 58, 88; as gardener, 141; as king, 19, 47; as
offspring of God, 148, 149; as seed or word of God, 135,
136; as son of God, 36, 37; as spirit, 28; as the ears,
mouth, and eyes of God, 58, 59; as the "image" and
"likeness," 18, 53, 117, 122; development and expression of
superconsciousness in, 60; Holy Spirit and creation of,

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99; importance of, in scheme of life, 60-62; in midst of a
race transition, 70, 71; inventive genius of, 52; Jesus as
god vs. Jesus as, 167, 168; makes himself, 139; mental
dominion of, over nature, 61, 63; recognition by, of his
specific work in creation, 95-97; significance of, 42, 43;
spiritualizing the whole, 44, 153, 154; type of body
determined by mind of, 117, 120

Manchester, Harland ("microwaves" article quoted), 64, 65
manifestation, and mind, 90, 91; co-operation of man and
God in producing, 67, 68

Mary (Magdalene), 145, 146

masks (bodies), man and his many, 116

matter, hidden energy in, 9; intelligence in, 92; power of
mind over, 30; replaced by atomic energy, 51, 52 (see
energy)

meditation, building the Christ body through, 78 (see
prayer)

mental science, Jesus' teaching more than, 73

"Merchant of Venice" (Shakespeare), 115

Messiah, 166

Michelangelo, and statue of Moses, 83

microwaves, 64, 65

Midianites, 54

"Midsummer Night's Dream" (Shakespeare), 106

millennium, 53

Millikan, Prof. Robert Andrews (quoted), 164, 165

mind, as builder and restorer of body, 133; as center of
man's world, 29; as invisible source of good, 90, 91; as
producer of destructive force, 15; as storehouse of ideas,
97; body as executor of mandates of, 119; brain as
efficient instrument of, 34; communion of mind with, 89,
90, 92, 93; condition as image in, 47; crucifying carnal,
148; establishing one's I AM identity with Divine, 123;
"Father" as, 40; hearing and seeing with, 56, 57;
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of man's spiritual, 68, 69; importance of knowing laws of,
87, 88, 91; kingdom of, 49, 82, 87; man's inheritance of
infinite and creative, 58; necessity for unity between mind
of man and Divine, 43; Paul on importance of, 29;
perfect-man body and creative, 120, 121; permanency of good
thoughts in, 48; power of man's, in meeting adverse
situations, 52; root of man's mastery in own, 63, 64;
scholastic culture and, 88, shadow of a "clouded," 81;
various phases of, and their function in body, 42 (see
brain; ideas)

miracles, 9, 10, 13, 30, 83, 126, 127, 130; modern analysis
of Bible, 84; of modern science, 65; rationally explained,
38

Morgan, Angela ("Behold the Angel!"), 23, 24

Moses, 54, 81, 83, 85; (law), 156, 157

Moslem rule, 59

"Mysterious Universe" (Jesus), 169, 170

nature, man's dominion over, 61, 63

New Jerusalem, 166

occultism, 163, 164

"old man," vs. "new man," 124

omnipresence, time and, 157

overcoming, way of, 38, 39

Palestine, 59

past, body renewal and denial of, 157

Patmos, island of, 83

Paul, 11, 13, 15, 20, 21, 59, 100, 120, 121, 156, 168, 169,
171; conversion of, 26-29; on dying daily, 43; on
glorifying God in one's body, 80, 123; on temple of living
God, 81; teaching about unity ascribed to, 29; the zealot,
26, 27

perception, necessity of death of material, 153, 154

Peter, 145; (faith), 152, 156, 157

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Peter the Hermit, and the Crusades, 59

Pharisees, 145

Plato ("Republic"), 31, 32

plenty, importance of thanksgiving in demonstrating, 102

power, asserting one's, 47

prayer, 28, 29; and energy, 40; and facial radiance, 83,
84; and the spiritualization of the body, 81; audible and
silent, 12; believing and receiving in, 104; dynamic
character of atom and, 11, 12; gives spiritual poise, 30;
lowest vs. highest form of, 67; power of group, 30;
scientific, 29; value of persistence in, 32, 33, 126, 127
(see treatment)

Prince of Peace, 172

principle, and kingdom of mind, 49

problems, way to solve one's, 70, 71

Promised Land, 143

prosperity, 35; affirming, 99; recipe for, 105

Protestant Reformation, 129, 130

psychoanalysis, and Shakespeare, 108

psychology, and Shakespeare, 107, 108

Pythagoras, 115

race, destiny of, in hands of man, 52, 53; new, 28, 29,
32-34, 168, 169

race consciousness, 29; and death, 142; establishing a new,
39 radiance, bodily, 81; facial, 83, 84, 150, 151

Reader's Digest (periodical), 64

realization, 28, 29, 32, 33; spiritual, 29

redemption, body, 44, 124, 131; of man, 102, 103

regeneration, 66, 67; body, 43, 119; following Jesus in, 42

reincarnation, 28; and Shakespeare, 107-109, 111; of
Hitlers, 53, 54

rejuvenation, 101 (see youth)

religion, applied to development of cosmic mind for human
family, 60, 61; as way out of present chaos,

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68, 69; spiritual vs. psychical world in, 112; value of
science to, 40 (see science)

"Republic" (Plato), 31, 32

resurrection, 37, 38, 40, 41, 145, 146; body, 116, 119,
120, 123, 124, 147-149; in the living, 44; mental, 120, 121

Revelation, 159

revolution, mental and spiritual, 60, 61

salvation, 26, 74, 157, 158

Saul (see Paul)

Saul, king of Israel, 103

science, parallel between teaching of Jesus and modern, 56;
vs. religion, 85, 86

Scientific American (periodical), 64

Scofield, Rev. C. I., 98

Scriptures (see Bible)

second coming, 170, 171; signs of, 169, 170

secret place of the Most High, stillness in, 74

seed, as word of God, 135-141

seeing, cellular, 56, 57

Shakespeare, 50, 128, 167; like Jesus, an old soul, 108,
109; metaphysics and, 106-115

sheep thoughts, 46, 47

silence, 75-77; and the still small voice, 148

sin, 142; as related to disease and death, 131, 147

Sinai (mount), 83

Solomon, 81

Son of God, crucifixion of Jesus due to His claim of

being, 42

Son of man, 170, 171; as spiritual man, 45, 46; lifting up,
166

"sons of God," 166, 167

soul, as consciousness, 151; consciousness of eternity or
death of, 151, 152; Holy Spirit and evolution of, 99;
transfiguration in evolution of, 152, 153

Spirit, as eternal, 151, 152; character and location of, 9;

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dynamic power of, 30, 31; healing agents and the energy of,
67; learning workings of, 89; obedience to, 28; soul and
body, 153-155; trusting guidance of, 75, 76

Spirit of truth, 103

spiritualism, and Shakespeare, 111, 112 (see Fox sisters)

Stratford on Avon, England, 107, 108

subconscious mind (subconsciousness), attainment of dormant
ideals in, 52; and the new race, 28, 29; as storehouse and
reproducer of past thoughts, 76, 77; releasing energy
stored up in, 101; untapped mine of knowledge in, 109

substance, as supply, 101, 102; divine, 30-32, 101, 102

success, vs. failure, 105

superman, as a thinking power, 61, 62

superconscious mind (superconsciousness, supermind), 56,
57, 80; and demonstration, 127, 130; and Shakespeare, 106;
and the new race, 28, 29; exploiting qualities of, 127,
128; externalizing, 41; man's grasp of ideas of, 64;
mysteries of, now taught to masses, 60

supply, world of God and, 136, 137

Tabernacle of the Israelites, as symbol of man's body, 80,
81 Tarsus, Asia Minor, 26

temple, man's perfected consciousness as God's, 94

Temple of Solomon, as symbol of man's body, 80, 81

Ten Commandments, 83

testimonials, Unity, 131-133

Thanksgiving, 28, 29

thought, and consciousness, 94, 95; and effect, 139, 140;
as transformer of man's body and world, 51, 52; every ill
traced to sinning, 148; man related to God through, 29;
power of, 10; radiation of, 83

thoughts, good thoughts vs. evil, 45; impermanency of
error, 49; inheriting kingdom of good, 47; mind,

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body, and affairs as expression of one's, 75; ministry of
good, 48; effect of opposing, 81, 82; sheep thoughts vs.
goat, 46, 47, 49

time, powerlessness of, over those who dwell in mind of
God, 157

Timothy, 20, 21

transfiguration, 22, 40, 152; as essential step in forward
movement of men and nations, 156; meaning of, 150; mount
of, 153-155

treatment, prayer, 67

Troward, Judge Thomas (quoted), 73

Truth, and the masses, 84, 85; demonstration, 75, 155; no
copyright on principles of, 38; partaking of body and blood
of Jesus Christ by appropriating ("eating") words of, 78,
169; relative vs. absolute, 88

understanding, measuring up to one's, 77

Unity, spiritual work of, 54, 55

unity, of man and his world, 29; with God, 68, 69

upper chamber, 30, 31, 66, 67

uranium, 50, 51

vibrations, change in race, 165, 166; destructive, of
atomic forces, 65, 66; sound, 57; trumpet and voice, 54, 55

visions (see dreams)

voices, deceptive, 57

voltage, machines for measuring brain, 14, 15, 30

wine, Paul's advice about drinking, 20, 21

"Winter's Tale" (Shakespeare), 112

wisdom, 89-92; responsibility accompanying our
consciousness of, 77 woman, and intuition, 89

Word, as man's I AM, 38, 39; power of spoken, 50, 54, 55;
two activities of, 148, 149

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Word of God, seed as symbol of, 135

Worry, vs. confidence, 71

youth, affirmation and renewal of one's, 101

zeal, 26, 27; tempered with wisdom, 27