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Dynamics for Living

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Foreword ... 5

Practical Christianity ... 9

God ... 29

Creation ... 36

Man ... 43

Consciousness ... 49

Thinking ... 63

The Spoken Word ... 74

Spiritual Law ... 79

Prayer ... 89

Truth Demonstrates Itself ... 109

Living Faith ... 123

Health ... 135

Music and Healing ... 169

Disease ... 175

Prosperity ... 185

Praise and Thanksgiving ... 225

Love ... 236

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Forgiveness ... 245

Adam and Eve ... 255

Conscience ... 263

Judgment and Justice ... 276

Jesus Christ ... 283

The Kingdom of Jesus Christ ... 289

The Holy Spirit ... 299

Baptism ... 309

Atonement ... 318

Transfiguration ... 325

Fulfillment ... 332

Reincarnation ... 339

Treatments for Self-Development ... 351

Golden Snowflakes ... 363

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After three decades of studying his writings, it is my
conclusion that Charles Fillmore was the greatest sage who
has been embodied in the last five hundred years. His
steadfast research into the realms of God Mind opened to
him infinite adventures. These revelations he generously
shared with all who studied in his classes or pondered over
his writings. Prayer opened this man's human consciousness
to the dynamics of Spirit.

I knew Charles Fillmore as a man with a diamond character.
His sparkling humor, his

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radiant smile, and his luminescent logic quickened the
atmosphere of every room he entered. His genuine humility,
his simplicity of requirements, and his complete dedication
to Truth were always deeply felt by everyone who was in his
presence.

Prayer and faith caused him and his wife Myrtle to be the
responsive instruments for a spiritual movement. What she
first perceived, practiced, and proved with the healing
laws of God, he examined diligently before complete
acceptance. However, when he experienced the full impact of
the practicality of spiritual science, the way was opened
for the evolvement of the Unity movement.

On August 22, 1854, at 4 a.m., Charles Fillmore was born in
a log cabin constructed on an Indian reservation near the
small community of St. Cloud, Minnesota. There was no
thought then, of course, that many people would be
transformed by his influential teachings. But the years are
proving that his consciousness of universal Truth has
established a reliable cornerstone for the spiritual growth
of hundreds of thousands of people.

What is "new" about this book is the arrangement in which
this compilation is offered. Its purpose is to present the
basic substance of Charles Fillmore's writings in a manner

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that will invite an expanded study of what he taught.

The sequence employed is a result of Charles Fillmore's own
logical thinking trends. The various sections cover
particular conceptions. Such were assembled from the
various books and articles by Mr. Fillmore so that each
unit would be complete in treating a specific subject.

It is my prayer that as you unfold your understanding of
the truth that is so beautifully and positively stated in
the following pages, you will find the same dynamics for
living that graced the life of Charles Fillmore.

Warren Meyer

November 15, 1966

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I am now in the presence of pure Being and immersed in the
Holy Spirit of life, love, and wisdom.

I acknowledge Thy presence and power, O blessed Spirit. In
Thy divine wisdom now erase my mortal limitations, and from
Thy pure substance of love bring into manifestation my
world, according to Thy perfect law.

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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.

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. Our
Bible plainly teaches that God implanted in man executive
ability to carry out all the creative plans of the Great
Architect.

The great and most important issue before

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the people today is the development of man's spiritual mind
and through it unity with God. The taproot of all confusion
is our failure to use our minds intelligently. 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.

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. We need to divest ourselves of the
thought that 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.

Thus, practical Christianity is the only system of
religions before the people today that, because of its
universal appeal to the pure reason in man, can be accepted
and applied by everyone and every nation under the sun.

Revival

Modern metaphysics is merely a revival of the philosophies
taught by an almost forgotten past. The principles that

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underlie existence are being again brought to the attention
of men. The race is again entering the cycle of knowledge.
We catch once more the light of pure reason and honest
logic.

Few people have come into the light. Pure reason is almost
an unknown quantity. When strict deductive methods are
introduced into religion, and logical conclusions are
reached from a stated premise, the average believer is at
sea. People have been taught that certain relations exist
arbitrarily no matter how opposed these relations may be to
the logic necessary to cause and effect.

In order to arrive at a mutually harmonious and correct
conclusion, the result of a logical argument, we must have
a premise or point of beginning upon which we can all
agree. Logic in its strictest sense is the only accurate
method for arriving at truth. That system of philosophy or
religious doctrine which does not admit of the rules of
perfect logic in reaching its conclucions from a stated
premise must be outside the pale of pure reason and in the
realm of manmade dogma.

To know accurately about the reality of things we must
disregard all appearances as indicated by the five senses
and go into pure reason--the Spirit from which was created
everything that has permanent existence.

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The Difference

Practical Christianity and Truth stand upon the same
foundation and are interchangeable terms. Practical
Christianity is not a theory having origin in the human
mind; nor is it a revelation to humanity from some prophet
whose word alone must be taken as unquestionable authority.
It is in this respect totally different from the other
religious systems of the world because it does not in any
respect rest its authority upon revelation. It has no
dogmas nor creeds, nor are its students expected to believe
anything which they cannot logically demonstrate to be true.

It takes as the basis of its doctrine a fundamental truth
that is known alike by savage and civilized, and from that
truth, by cold, deductive reasoning, arrives at each and
every one of the conclusions which are presented. Thus it
does not in any manner partake of the popular concept of
religion, as a vague something which has to be accepted on
faith, and believed regardless of its consistencies. On the
contrary, it invites the closest mental scrutiny. The
analytical logician will find a new world open to him in
following the sequential deductions which this science of
pure reasoning evolves.

Truth of the Ages

This system of deductions from intuitively

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ascertained facts is not new, nor are its conclusions new,
for the historian tells us that similar methods of arriving
at the fundamental truth of things were in vogue thousands
of years ago. Long before the historical period, legend and
tradition report the existence of temples where pure reason
was taught. History also tells of similar schools that
existed five thousand years before Christ.

Faithfulness

You will find, if you are faithful in following the line of
argument here presented, that a principle will be disclosed
to you which will demonstrate itself in an unmistakable
manner. The logical deductions from the premise stated may
not come to your full comprehension at once because of
certain intellectual limitations into which the race has
plunged itself. Men have been so long divorced from logic
and pure reason that they are confused when a clear-cut
proposition is stated and carried to a conclusion along the
lines of perfect sequence.

Independent Thought

To think in an independent, untrammeled way about anything
is foreign to the habit of the races of the Occident. Our
lines of thought and act are based upon precedent and

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arbitrary authority. We boast much of our freedom and
independence, but the facts are that we defer to custom and
tradition. Our whole civilization is based upon manmade
opinions. We have never thought for ourselves in religion,
consequently we do not know how to think accurately and
consecutively upon any proposition. We have not been
trained to draw conclusions each for himself from a
universal pivotal truth. Consequently, we are not competent
to pass judgment upon any statement so predicated. Our
manner of deciding whether or not certain statements are
true or false is to apply the mental bias with which
heredity, religion, or social custom has environed us, or
else fly to some manmade record as authority.

In the study of practical Christianity all such temporary
proofs of Truth are swept aside as chaff. We entertain
nothing in our statements of Truth that does not stand the
most searching analysis, nothing that cannot be practically
demonstrated.

Starting Point

In order to carry on an intelligent, rational line of
argument it is necessary to find a mutual starting point
which is universally accepted as true. There may be many
pivotal points chosen from an intellectual standpoint that
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be accepted as reasonably true. Upon close analysis they
will usually be found resting upon another and anterior
so-called truth. For instance, we might agree that
ponderable objects always fall toward the earth. Yet, the
question quickly arises, "What causes them to fall?" The
ready answer is, "Gravity, of course." "But what is
gravity?" Thus, we are led back and back until lost in
First Cause, or God.

In agreement upon a statement as the basis of an argument
of universal nature, we must be careful to get one that has
no anterior. There can be but one basis of being, and
consequently but one basis of being's movements and forms.
When we have fully agreed that everything of which we are
cognizant can be traced in its last analysis to God, and no
further, we have a basis upon which to rest a doctrine that
cannot be successfully opposed, if its deductions are
logical and can be demonstrated. This is exactly what is
claimed for this science of Christ. It is not only a system
of philosophy which cannot be disputed by the rational
mind, but it also demonstrates in the world of phenomena
that its conclusions are true.

Primal Cause

Having decided upon God, or Primal Cause, as the basis of
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upon the nature of this Primal Cause. It is safe to assert
that in all the world not a single person of intelligence
can be found who would say that God is anything but good.
It requires no exhaustive reasoning to arrive at this
conclusion, for it is the ready response of the intuitive
faculty of all mankind, which it is always safe to count as
correct.

Having agreed that God, or the Primal Cause of all things,
is the only safe basis on which to predicate an argument
that deals with life in all its sinuous windings, and that
the nature of that First Cause must necessarily be only
Good, we can by logical deduction evolve a doctrine that
must of necessity be universal in its application.

It is sometimes thought by certain people that man should
not attempt to find out the nature of God because He is so
far above and beyond the comprehension of the finite that
such attempts are sacrilegious folly. Yet when carefully
analyzed it is found that the one aim and end of man's
existence is to find God. The source of life is the great
mystery which has commanded the closest attention and study
of men in all ages, and as that source must be the
Infinite, it is thus ever inviting man to comprehend it.

The Bible says, "No man has ever seen

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God," and our physical scientists all agree that primordial
life, or First Cause, is invisible or spiritual, exhibiting
itself as an intelligent force. Hence, as corollary to the
statement that God, or First Cause, is good, we assert that
He is also Spirit.

Value to Man

Having established a basis grounded in irrefutable truth,
from which deductions may be drawn in an infinite number of
directions, the next very natural question that presents
itself is, "What good can come to man from a study of God?"

The facts are that the only good that has come to this
world has been through the study of God, notwithstanding
that the preponderance of that study has been of a nature
to preclude the discovery of God or His mode of
manifestation. People have been taught that God is a
personal being who rules the universe much after the manner
of an arbitrary monarch. This erroneous and contracted
teaching has led to a belittlement of God in the concepts
of men and they have imaged a man-god, and have also formed
a "graven image" of God, who is Spirit.

The true concept of God is that He is the Intelligent
Principle of the universe, and, like all principles,
totally impartial in His expressions. This is the concept
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come to us in this awakening age. It is not new. The wise
old sages of the Orient tell us that their ancestors
thousands of years ago, in secret temples dedicated to the
study of God, or the Primal Cause of all, found that in
certain stages of high understanding, the result of
systematic training, they came into such harmonious
relations with this primal principle, or First Cause, that
they were endowed with causing power themselves.

They did not seek God for the sake of the power over things
which might thereby accrue to them, but that they might
have wisdom and understanding of the good. They found that
by thinking right thoughts and living unselfishly, they
awakened new faculties within themselves. They sought the
good, or God, and in harmony with that law by which like
attracts like, the good, or God, sought them. They found
that when they came into right relations with the good,
they had apparently supernatural powers.

They discovered what Jesus Christ called "the kingdom of
God within," and all things were thereby added unto them.
They caused, so tradition and certain records say, rain or
sunshine, heat or cold, and produced at will all the fruits
and flowers of the field. These records state that they
could also fly through the air, having acquired an
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lies back of gravity. They, in short, controlled all the
so-called forces of nature by word or thought, and proved
conclusively that we become like that which we study. They
studied cause and became masters of the world of effects.

Transformations

They found that by coming into interior relations with the
invisible Cause, they were moved by it to give expression
both in thought and speech to certain words. When those
words were so expressed by them, wonderful transformations
took place in their surroundings. The conditions which they
had always assumed to be impossible of variation from what
are known as the laws of nature, were in the twinkling of
an eye set at naught. They had always believed that
sickness, decay, and death were part of an immutable law.
Yet, they found that certain words, which are in harmony
with the pivotal truth that First Cause, or God, is Spirit
and All-Good, heal the sick, make happy the sorrowful, and
fill the coffers of the poor.

They found that this invisible Principle of pure
intelligence expresses itself only in the words or thoughts
that produce happy results. They also found that the words
which work such wonders in transforming their surroundings
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represent those qualities which by deductive reasoning they
found can originate only with a Being or Principle of
goodness.

The Real and Unreal

They not only knew God as All-Good through the intuitive
faculty, but they proved Him so by demonstrating that He
responds to those attributes only that are representative
of the good. Hence, these words they called words of Truth
or reality.

On the other hand, they found that certain other words or
thoughts that do not correspond to or harmonize with the
attributes of a primal cause of good produce conditions of
inharmony. Under their expression people become sick,
sorrowful, and generally unhappy.

Through spiritual illumination, by comparison, logical
deduction, and practical demonstration, they definitely
arrived at words of Truth and their opposites. They knew
that the words of Truth must proceed from the cause to
which they correspond and consequently must be the Real.
They could find no tenable point of origin for the
opposites or words of error. Thus, they necessarily
classified them as the unreal, the nothings, the dropping
away from the one Principle of the universe.

They arranged and classified their words of

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reality and unreality as the electrician of our day
classifies the positive and the negative poles of
electrical action. In the realm of mind the effect of the
expressed words of Truth is fully as forcible as is the
positive power of the battery in the realm of electricity.

The effect of words is an exact science. It can be
demonstrated as such by all who will study it assiduously.
It is the science of life. Upon its understanding hinges
the happiness or unhappiness of man's existence. It is not
a science whose laws were discovered and arbitrarily
classified by those metaphysicians of the past. On the
contrary, it is universal in its unfoldment and
application. Every man works in its laboratory every day of
his life and is using its principles with every thought he
thinks and every word he speaks. He uses the law whether he
knows it or not. Hence, no one should be ignorant of the
effects which the manipulation of these hidden forces
produce in the character and surroundings of each child of
earth.

Pure Christianity

Pure Christianity is a spiritual doctrine. It has no
opposite whatsoever. In its purity it is one with the
underlying cause of all that is. It admits of no
differences among those who understand it. The modes of
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as do the characteristics of each teacher; but all its
teachers must necessarily present the same Truth, though
their words and illustrations may differ. Each individual
needs but to be given the key in order to unlock for
himself the entire metaphysical plan of the universe.

The Principle of Being is not only all good, but it is all
intelligent. It is the fount of your intelligence. When you
study it you will find yourself becoming one with the
principle of all wisdom. To be one with the principle of
All Intelligence is to know. When you know you will find
yourself so broad in judgment and understanding that you
will have charity for all who differ from you in religion,
metaphysics, and even politics.

This system of metaphysics is but another name for
universal Truth. It consequently covers the therapeutic,
ethical, and religious departments of life.

Therapeutics

Metaphysical therapeutics treats of healing by an
understanding of the reality of things. It does not in its
exact meaning teach how to heal diseases by the power of
thought. It teaches how, by the power of thought, false
conceptions may be eradicated and the divine Reality
brought into manifestation, showing forth in health and
harmony.

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This department attracts the majority of people because of
the great need of healing.

Ethics

Ethics in the curriculum of metaphysics shows the student
how the moral world may be reformed. It teaches him how he
may be wise and happy by holding in mind certain thoughts
that will bring about these conditions. It shows him how he
may attain his ideal ends in reforming society. It shows
him how a dull, stupid, or ignorant mind may be quickened
morally and brightened intellectually by the power of right
thinking.

Religion

The religion of metaphysics includes all these and adds to
them a certain and sure knowledge of man's immortality and
divine relation. The religion of metaphysics is its
crowning principle--it is this department that places it in
the category of science. Religion is a science--the science
of life. It will so demonstrate itself to the student, both
logically and practically.

When you understand it in its religious aspect you know
your true relation to the Creator, and just what that
relation must lead to. You get a revelation of your status
as a living soul that is impregnable in its logic, and you
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Cause that you know intuitively that you are not of the
flesh, but of God.

Upliftment

Nothing is too small or insignificant for God's uplifting
presence. God is not a theory of life. He is life itself.
He is the harmonious manifestation of life.

Those who have honestly studied metaphysics and applied its
rules in their daily work will tell you that it has made
them over physically, mentally, and morally. They will tell
you that they are better men and women; that life has new
zest for them, and that they can now do good and help
others where before they were helpless.

New and Old

Some will tell you that they were not able to make this
science fit into their old theories and incoherent vagaries
in matters religious and ethical. They will tell you that
its very simplicity stood in the way of their quick
acquirement of its power. They had listened all their lives
to learned and ponderous disquisitions of professors upon
the body and mind, man's relation to his Maker, etc., and
had long ago decided that only the very learned could ever
hope to fathom the depths of wisdom necessary to comprehend
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a very little of the subject. They will also tell you that
from childhood they have listened to flowery sermons by
learned ministers about God and man's duty to Him. Yet in
all this, the subjects were so encumbered with the
ponderous appearance of wisdom that they failed to connect
them with simple, everyday life.

Here we have a presentation of the deep things of God, so
simple and easy that the wise and mighty pass it by as a
religious vagary.

Problems of Life

The problem of life is getting into more and more of a
tangle among those who depend upon the material. There is
much running to and fro upon the earth by seekers for
satisfaction, yet no satisfaction is found.

Where will you find a person who will admit that he has
peace of mind, health of body, and a knowledge of Truth?
The rich admit that their possessions bring increased cares
and great mental disquietude. The poor long to be rich, not
knowing that happiness cannot be bought with money. The
learned are not satisfied with their acquirements because
when they just begin to get wisdom their bodies fail them.
So it goes among the denizens of this discontented world of
matter. Many lose faith in things ever being better.

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Happiness Here and Now

Happiness here and now is the beautiful part of Jesus'
teaching. He did not defer health nor salvation to a world
to come after death, but taught that it was attainable
right here. He taught that the kingdom of heaven is within
you. He proved by His works that it could be made to show
forth in the bodies and minds of those who follow the way
He pointed out.

Unprejudiced Mind

If you would get Truth in its purity you must listen to its
statements with the unprejudiced mind of the child. All
about you are potencies and power of which you do not
dream. Your philosophy has not grasped the faintest concept
of the wonderful, undiscovered country that lies right
within your reach, yet unseen and unknown to the mortal
senses because of their narrow range.

You live, move, and have your being in a realm elysian. Now
and then you may catch faint glimpses of its rare beauty in
your high moments of spiritual illumination. This realm is
not of matter but of Mind. It encompasses you on every side
and you contact its invisible glories, but know them not. A
false education has shut you away from God's creation.

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Do you say this is idealism? The illusions of imagination?

Here again you betray the mental congealing which
hereditary prejudices and race education have produced. Did
not that subtle fluid, electricity, exist in the invisible
before it was brought into manifestation? Does not the
modern analytical chemist tell us that our planetary
atmosphere carries in solution all the elements that go to
make up this visible world? It is rash for any man to
assert that anything is impossible.

New Era

A new era has dawned. The old is passing away. In the
advent of this new dispensation the heavens are rolled up
as a scroll, and in that process is revealed the
long-hidden realm of causes. Invisible forces are always
the most powerful. The dynamics of mind control the
universe. In mind originates all that is. By its actions
all things are moved. When man understands the laws of mind
he has solved the mysteries of the universe.

The New Testament is a sealed book to one who has no
knowledge of the laws of mind. It is a secret manual. It
reads like an ordinary narrative unless one has the key
that unlocks its hidden meaning.

Practical Christianity gives that key. He who knows all the
principles of its philosophy

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can enter the holy of holies of the Bible. He can penetrate
the mysteries of the sacred scriptures of all peoples.
There is no limit as to time, place, or personality in
Scriptural promises.

Study of Truth

In the study of Truth you are not under any circumstances
to listen to testimony of your external senses. You are
placed in the clear light of logic and reason, and are
expected to draw all of your conclusions from that
standpoint. From the premise of Spirit alone you shall
evolve the world of reality in which you live, and you can
demonstrate to your full satisfaction that you have been
deluded all these years in believing that which is not
true. You shall prove each for himself that all causation
is from Spirit, that you can make the world in which you
live conform to that which you know by clear reason to be
true.

The one Life-Intelligence is your life-intelligence. When
you let it freely flow into your consciousness, you know
that it is all good. As there can be but one Cause for all
that is, and as that Cause is All-Good, you have a pivotal
center from which you can draw conclusions that will settle
definitely all the debatable questions of existence.

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THE starting point in spiritual realization is a right
understanding of God. By describing God with words in our
human way we are but stating in the lisping syllables of
the child that which in its maturity the mind still only
faintly grasps. Words never express that which God is.
Language is the limitation of mind. Do not expect the
unlimited to leap forth into full expression through the
limited. We must drop the complex and find simplicity
before we can know God. We must become as a child.

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Being

God's name represents wholeness. He is holy, perfect. God
is Being; the Creator; the Infinite; the Eternal; the Ruler
of the universe. Being is omnipresent, omnipotent,
omniscient; it is the fullness of God. God is the absolute,
incomparable, omnipresent All-Good, the principle of divine
benevolence that permeates the universe. Being exists under
two phases: invisible and visible, abstract and concrete.
The visible comes forth from the invisible, and this coming
forth is always according to a universal method of growth.
From center to circumference is the plan of procedure
throughout the universe.

Principle

We must relieve our minds of a personal God ruling over us
in an arbitrary, manlike manner. God is not person but
Principle. By Principle is meant definite, exact,
unchangeable. It best describes the unchangeableness that
is an inherent law of Being. The fundamental basis of
practical Christianity is that God is Principle.

Divine Principle is fundamental Truth. God as Principle is
the unchangeable life, love, intelligence, and substance of
Being. It is the underlying plan by which God moves in
expressing Himself. Principle does not occupy space;
neither has it any limitations of time or matter,

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but it eternally exists as the underlying cause out of
which come forth all true ideas. Although Principle is
formless, it is that by which all form is produced. God
immanent in the universe is the great underlying Cause of
all manifestation; the Source from which form proceeds.

Law

God as law is Principle in action. Everything has its
foundation in a rule of action, a law. Divine law is the
orderly working out of the principles of Being. Divine law
cannot be broken. It places first things first. Divine
order is the first law of the universe. Indeed, there could
be no universe unless its various parts were kept in
perfect order.

Reality

God is the one harmonious Principle underlying all being
and the Reality out of which all that is eternal comes.
Reality is that which is abiding, eternal, and
unchangeable. The basic principles of mathematics and music
are real, because they are not subject to change.

Spirit

God is Spirit, the Principle of creative life, the moving
force in the universe, the omnipotent, omnipresent essence
from which all things proceed. God is life. God is in the
universe as its constant "breath." Life

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is a principle that is made manifest in living. Spirit is
not matter. Spirit is not person. Spirit cannot be analyzed
by the senses. It is beyond their grasp. In order to
perceive the essence of Being we must drop from mind the
belief that God is circumscribed in any way or has any of
the limitations usually ascribed to persons, things, or
anything having form or shape. As the animating life of all
things God is a unit, but as the Mind that drives this life
He is diverse.

Spiritual-Science

The only real science is the science of Spirit. It never
changes. By science we mean the systematic and orderly
arrangement of knowledge. Orderliness is law, and is the
test of true science. The facts of Spirit are of a
spiritual character and, when understood in their right
relation, they are orderly. The lawful truths of Spirit are
more scientific than the constantly shifting opinions based
on intellectual standards.

Mind

By the term Mind, we mean God--the universal Principle,
which includes all principles. In our talk about Mind we
are forced to leave the plane of things formed and enter
the realm of pure knowing. God is the original Mind in
which all real ideas exist. The Mind of the universe is
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archetype ideas: life, love, wisdom, substance, truth,
power, peace, and so forth. The one original Mind creates
by thought. The science of Truth is God thinking out
creation.

Truth

God as Truth is the eternal verity of the universe. He is
the underlying, unchangeable Truth. The absolute Truth is
that which accords with God as divine Principle; that which
is, has been, and ever will be; that which eternally is.
The Truth of God is reality. The verities of Being are
eternal.

Omnipresence

God as omnipresence is the only presence in the universe.
This refers to the all-pervading presence of God,
permeating the universe. God is everywhere present. There
is no place where God is not. He is in all, through all,
and around all.

Omnipotence

God is All-Power, all the power there is. God as
omnipotence is infinite power, the Almighty. All things are
possible with God, because He is infinitely all-mighty,
having all power or force to accomplish anything. All the
power, all the force, all the might of the universe are
God's. He is, in truth, Almighty God. Spiritual power is
omnipresent.

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Omniscience

God as omniscience is all-knowing, all knowledge. God is
Mind. God is omnipresent Mind enfolding and
interpenetrating all things. Mind is common to all, above
and below, within and without. God must be in His universe
as everywhere-intelligent power; otherwise it would fall to
pieces.

Substance

God is substance. This does not mean matter. Matter is
formed while God is the formless. This substance which God
is lies back of all matter and all forms. Substance is the
divine idea of the underlying reality of all things.
Substance is everywhere present, pervades all things.
Through substance all the attributes of Being are
expressed. It sustains and enriches any idea that is
projected into it. Divine substance is supply. It is that
which is the basis of all form yet enters not into any form
as finality. It cannot be seen, tasted, or touched. Yet, it
is the only "substantial" substance in the universe. God as
substance is the all-providing law which supplies
bountifully out of His own abundance.

Ideas

The real of the universe is held in the Mind of Being as
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idea in Divine Mind. In God Mind an idea is the eternal
Word or Logos, the original, primary, or unlimited thought
of Being. Ideas may be combined in a multitude of ways,
producing infinite variety in the realm of forms. There is
a right combination which constitutes the divine order.

Love

Love, in Divine Mind, is the idea of universal unity. Of
all the attributes of God, love is undoubtedly the most
beautiful. Love is the power that joins and binds in divine
harmony the universe and everything in it. Divine love is
impersonal; it loves for the sake of loving. Love is the
great harmonizer.

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//section Creation

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The Key

On every hand men are earnestly seeking to know about God,
and the origin of both the universe and themselves. They
have probed with more or less success nearly every secret
of nature, but of the origin of life they know
comparatively nothing. A right understanding of Divine Mind
is the one and only logical key. When man clearly discerns
the science of Mind, he will solve easily all the mysteries
of creation. To understand the creation of the universe by
God, we must know something of the character of God.

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Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity is known as the Father, the Son, and Holy
Spirit. Metaphysically, we understand the Trinity to refer
to mind, idea, and expression, or thinker, thought, and
action. These three are one fundamental Mind in its three
creative aspects.

Father

Father is first in the Trinity. Father is Being in the
absolute, the unlimited, the unrelated. He is the Source,
Origin, Essence, Root, Principle, Law, Spirit, All-Good,
Creator of all. Father is the name of the all-encompassing
Mind, everywhere present, forever accessible. The universal
Principle of Being (Elohim God) designed all creation.
Elohim is God in His capacity as creative power. Create
means ideate. Elohim creates the spiritual idea which is
afterward made manifest. God created not the earth as it
appears but that which produced the earth.

Son

The second in the Trinity is the Son. It is called Jehovah
{Lord} in the Old Testament and Christ in the New
Testament. The Son of God is the fullness of the
perfect-man idea in Divine Mind. He is the man that God
created in His image. The Son is Principle revealed in a
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proceeds from, is begotten of the Father, like Him in
nature, and essentially all that the Father is. The Son
ever exists in God. Father and Son are one and are
omnipresent in the universe.

Christ

Christ is the one and only complete ideal man in the mind
of the everywhere present God, the "only Son" of God. He is
the divine-idea man. He is all divine ideas, such as
intelligence, life, love, substance, and so forth. In the
architect's mind there may be one masterpiece, but that
masterpiece is the sum of all the beautiful ideas that have
come to his mind. Christ is the cosmic or Grand Man of the
universe. Christ is the name of the all-loving Mind.

The Word

The Son is also called the Logos, the Word, the anointed
One, and the I AM. He is the living Word. The Logos is the
Word of God; the divine archetype ideas that contains all
ideas. This supreme idea is the creative power formulated
by universal Principle. The law of the Logos is the law of
divine creation. It produces the order and harmony of
perfect thought. Law puts first things first. It is a rule
of action. An understanding of the Logos reveals to us the
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which all things are brought forth, the law of mind action.
Divine Mind creates by thought, through ideas.

I Am

The Son is the I AM identity of Being. I AM is eternal,
without beginning or ending: the true spiritual man whom
God made. Its home is in the realm of God ideals.

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is just what the name implies, the whole
Spirit of God in action. It is God's word in movement: the
working, moving, breathing, brooding Spirit. Holy Spirit is
the all-active manifestation. It is the executive power of
both Father and Son, carrying out the creative plan. The
Holy Spirit is the law of God in action; in that action He
appears as having individuality. It is the personality of
Being. It is neither the all of Being nor the fullness of
Christ, but is an emanation, or breath, sent forth to do a
definite work. Creation is carried forward through the
activity of the Holy Spirit.

Creative Process

Creation is the original plan of an idea in Divine Mind. In
the creative process Divine Mind ideates itself. God
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through the power of Mind, through His idea or word, the
universal creative vehicle. The vehicles of Mind are
thoughts (ideas). God is thinking the universe into
manifestation right now. Creation takes place through the
operation of the Logos. The creations of the Logos are
always spiritual, permanent, and incorruptible. The
creative processes of Mind are continuously operative;
creation is going on all the time, but the original plan,
the design of Divine Mind, is finished. The processes of
Mind enter into all creations. God is eternally in His
creation and never separate from it. Wherever there is
evidence of creative action, there God is. His avenues of
expression run in every direction.

Creative Law

The order of creation is from the formless to the formed,
from the invisible to the visible. This goes on perpetually
and there is never a beginning or an ending to the process.
The law of divine creation is perfect order and harmony.
God cannot create without law. God is the Mind force
carrying forward creation under law. First is Mind; then
the idea Mind; then the materialization of the idea. Apart
from Mind nothing can be done. Creative intelligence
forever up-builds God's universe.

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Involution and Evolution

All of God's works are created in Mind as perfect ideas. He
creates the ideas that form the things. The starting point
of every form is an idea. This is involution. Then the
ideas are made into form and shape. This is evolution.
Evolution is the working out in manifestation of what Mind
has involved. Whatever Mind commands to be brought forth
will be brought forth by and through the law of evolution
inherent in Being. This applies to the great and the small.
In Mind there is but one.

Ideation

God-Mind expresses His ideas perfectly, so that there is no
occasion for them to change. He images His ideas definitely
and in every detail. Divine idealism is God's standard of
perfection. The ideal is continually pouring itself into
its creation and lifting it high and yet higher. Divine
motherhood is the brooding, nourishing element of Divine
Mind in which spiritual ideals are brought to fruition. The
idea is the directing and controlling power. It precedes
the fulfillment.

Ideation Formed

Ideas are productive and bring forth after their kind.
Every idea has a specific function to perform. Every idea
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image and likeness, and all such ideas and structures are
grouped and associated according to their offices. All
things rest on ideas. The idea back of the flower is
beauty. The idea back of music is harmony. The idea back of
day is light or the dispensation of intelligence.

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//section Man

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MAN IS an idea in Divine Mind. He is the epitome of Being.
Man is the apex of God's creation, created in His
image-likeness. Ideal man is the perfect man, the Christ,
the offspring of Divine Mind. Before there could be a man
there must have been an idea of man. God, the Father,
Divine Mind, had an idea of man, and this idea is his Son,
the perfect-man idea, the offspring of God-Mind. This Son
is the Christ, the only begotten of the Father. The Son,
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Father, is perfect, even as the Father is perfect. All that
we find in Divine Mind we find in its offspring.

Manifest Man

Manifest man should be as the ideal. He will be when the
individual identifies himself with the Christ. When he is
identified with anything less than perfection he manifests
some degree of imperfection.

Man makes his world through the activity of ideas in his
consciousness. The realm man is the embodiment of God. All
the God-substance and the power to make it active is
inherent within him.

Image-Likeness

When we are quickened to spiritual understanding and fully
realize the true character of God and our own nature as the
image, or idea, of God we will begin to live as Jesus lived
in order that we may bring forth the likeness. To perceive
the true character of God and His attributes and then to
grasp our relationship to Him is to realize that His
attributes are our attributes. His power is our power. His
character is our character.

Man is not limited in life. He has existed with the Father
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of creation he was born into being through the Son, the
Christ, the perfect, ideal man.

Three Departments of Man

Every man asks the question at some time, "What am I?" God
answers: "Spiritually you are My idea of Myself as I see
Myself in the ideal; physically you are the law of My mind
executing that idea." Know yourself as an integral idea in
Divine Mind. The mind of God is Spirit, soul, body; that
is, mind, idea, expression. The mind of man is Spirit,
soul, body--not separate from God-Mind, but existing in it
and making it manifest in an identity peculiar to the
individual.

Every man is building into his consciousness the three
departments of God-Mind, and his success in the process is
evidenced by the harmony, in his consciousness, of Spirit,
soul, and body. If he is all body, he is but one-third
expressed. If to body he had added soul, he is two-thirds
man. If to these two he is adding Spirit, he is on the way
to the perfect manhood that God designed.

Man has neither Spirit, soul, nor body of his own--he has
identity only. He can say "I." He uses God Spirit, God
soul, and God body, as his "I" elects. If he uses them with
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which limits his capacity and dwarfs his product. In his
right relation, man is the inlet and the outlet of an
everywhere-present life, substance, and intelligence. It is
imperative that the individual understand this relation in
order to grow naturally. Conscious identification must
prevail in the whole man before he can be in right
relation. This involves not only a recognition of the
universal intelligence, life, and substance, but also their
various combinations in man's consciousness.

Spirit-Man

Spirit in man is the I AM, the individuality. The
individuality is the true self; that which is undivided
from God; our spiritual identity; the God part of us. It is
that which characterizes one as a distinct entity or
particular manifestation of divine Principle. Individuality
is eternal. It can never be destroyed. Spirit is the seat
of power. Its abode is on the invisible side of man's
nature. The I AM is the name of the spiritual self. I AM is
man's self-identity, the center around which man's system
revolves. It is established in Principle. It is divinely
guided in its acts and they are in harmony with divine law.
Spirit is the same in character as God. The Spirit is the
divine center in man and is always in the Absolute; it does
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as the creative Cause of the absolute good. It is the
indwelling Christ or spiritual nucleus within each
individual.

Soul-Man

The soul is man's consciousness. It is the underlying idea
back of any expression. In man, the soul is the many
accumulated ideas of his present expression. In its
original and true sense, the soul of man is the expressed
idea of man in Divine Mind. It is that which man has
apprehended or developed out of Spirit. The soul is not of
the realm of God ideas but is the second emanation in the
creative law. The soul touches both the inner realm of
Spirit, from which it receives direct inspiration, and the
external world, from which it receives impressions.

Body-Man

The body of man is soul expressing. Soul makes the body. It
is the outer expression of the soul, or consciousness. The
body is the precipitation of the thinking part of man. God
created the idea of the body of man as a self-perpetuating,
self-renewing organism which man reconstructs into his
personal body. God creates the body idea, or divine idea,
and man, by his thinking, makes it manifest. All thoughts
and ideas embody themselves according to their character.
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thoughts make a material body. Spiritual thoughts make a
spiritual body. The body is the outer court of the soul, an
exact representative in form of the ideals that are
revolving in the inner realms of its domain.

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//section Consciousness

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CONSCIOUSNESS is the sense of awareness, of knowing. It is
our knowing that we know. The ideas that are held in mind
are the basis of all consciousness. The nature of the ideas
upon which consciousness is formed gives character to it.
Consciousness is the knowledge or realization of any idea,
object, or condition. It is the sum total of all ideas
accumulated in and affecting man's present being. It is the
composite of ideas, thoughts, emotions, sensation, and
knowledge that makes up the conscious, subconscious, and
superconscious phases of mind. It includes all that man is
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spirit, soul, and body. The total consciousness of man is
the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious, phases of
mind working as a whole, as a unity. The harmonious working
together of these three is necessary to the bringing forth
of the latent possibilities of man.

Superconsciousness

The superconscious mind, Christ consciousness or spiritual
consciousness, is a state that is based on true ideas, upon
an understanding and realization of spiritual Truth. It is
man's only sure guide through the maze of the creative
process. By trusting to the infallibility of this guide,
man opens himself to the inspiration of the Almighty. This
phase of mind is built in accordance with the Christ ideal,
or in absolute relationship to the Father. It is the
perfect mind.

Conscious Mind

We are all well acquainted with the conscious mind. Through
its use we establish our relations with the outer realm and
recognize our individual entities. The conscious mind makes
one know of one's mental operations. It is that phase of
mind in which one is actively aware of one's thoughts. It
is the mind through which man establishes his identity. The
conscious mind should look ever to the superconscious for
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direction and instruction. The Spirit of wisdom rests in
the superconscious.

Subconsciousness

The subconscious mind, or subjective consciousness, is the
sum of all man's past thinking. It may be called memory.
The subconscious mind has no power to do original thinking.
It acts upon what is given it through the conscious or the
superconscious mind. All our involuntary, or automatic,
activities are of the subconscious. They are the result of
our having trained ourself by the conscious mind to form
certain habits and do certain things without having to
center our thought upon them consciously.

The subconscious is the vast, silent realm that lies back
of the conscious mind and between it and the
superconscious. It may be called the sensitive place of
mind. Its true office is to receive impressions from the
superconsciousness and to reproduce them upon the canvas of
the conscious mind.

Man, however, having lost the consciousness of the
indwelling Father as an ever-present reality, has reversed
the process and impresses the subconscious from the
conscious mind. In this way the former is made to register
impressions according to the thought held in conscious mind
at the time the impression is made.

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It is the purpose and the nature of the subconscious mind
to reproduce.

Twelve Centers

Inherent in the Mind of Being are twelve fundamental ideas,
which in action appear as primal creative forces. It is
possible for man to ally himself with and to use these
original forces, and thereby cooperate with the creative
law. In order to do this he must detach himself from the
outer forces and enter into the consciousness of the idea
lying back of them.

Man has twelve great centers of consciousness. They are
centers of action. Each of these has control of a certain
function in mind and body, in soul and body. These twelve
powers are all expressed and developed under the guidance
of Divine Mind.

You must keep the equipoise. You must in all the bringing
forth of the twelve realize that they come from God. They
are directed by the Word of God. The twelve centers are:
faith, strength, judgment, love, power, imagination,
understanding, will, order, zeal, renunciation (or
elimination), and life.

Faith

Faith is the perceiving power of the mind linked with the
power to shape substance. It is spiritual assurance. It is
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power to do the seemingly impossible. It is a magnetic
power that draws unto us our heart's desire from the
invisible spiritual substance. Faith is a deep inner
knowing that that which is sought is already ours for the
taking.

Faith is the foundation of all that man does. It is closely
related to the enduring, firm, unyielding forms of
substance. The development of it is a key to spiritual
realization. Faith in God is the substance of existence. To
have faith in God is to have the faith of God. We must have
faith in God as our Father and source of all the good we
desire.

Faith is more than mere belief. It is the very substance of
that which is believed. Faith working in spiritual
substance accomplishes all things. This is the faith that
cooperates with creative law. When it is exercised deep in
spiritual consciousness, it finds its abode. Here it works
under divine law, without variation. It brings results that
are seemingly miraculous.

An understanding faith functions from Principle. It is
based on knowledge of Truth. It understands the law of mind
action. Therefore, it has great strength. To know that
certain causes produce certain results gives a bedrock
foundation for faith.

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in a power higher than ourselves. Because blind faith does
not understand the principles of Being, it is liable to
discouragement and disappointment.

Strength

Strength is the energy of God. In man it causes freedom
from weakness; stability of character; power to withstand
temptation; capacity to accomplish. Strength is physical,
mental, and spiritual. All strength originates in Spirit.
Strength and faith are brothers in the mind. When this bond
of unity is established it carries one along, even though
one may encounter the most adverse experiences.

Judgment

Judgment is a faculty of the mind that can be exercised in
two ways--from sense perception or spiritual understanding.
If its action be based on sense perception its conclusions
are fallible and often condemnatory. If based on spiritual
understanding, they are safe. Judgment is a mental act of
evaluation through comparison or contrast. Spiritual
discernment is the inner voice through whose expression we
come into a larger realization of ourselves. We also call
this faculty discrimination. It is that quality in us which
carefully weighs a question and draws a conclusion.

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The prevailing tendency of judgment is toward caution,
fearfulness, criticism, and condemnation, when it draws its
conclusions from the effect side of existence. We should
therefore faithfully seek the spiritual aspect of this
faculty, the guidance and good judgment of spiritual light
and understanding.

Wisdom, justice, judgment are grouped under one head in
spiritual consciousness. Intuition, judgment, wisdom,
justice, discernment, pure knowing, and profound
understanding are natural to man. All these qualities, and
many more, belong to every one of us by and through his
divine sonship.

Love

Love is an inner quality that sees good everywhere and in
everybody. It insists that all is good, and by refusing to
see anything but good it causes that quality finally to
appear uppermost in itself, and in all things. Divine love
will bring your own to you, adjust all misunderstandings,
and make your life and affairs healthy, happy, harmonious,
and free. Like the sun, its joy is in the shining forth of
its nature.

Love is a divine attribute. It is an idea in the one Mind,
a quality in Being. The difference between divine love and
human love is that divine love is broad and unlimited, a
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and harmonizing power. Human love is based on personality.
When man expresses divine love in limited ways he makes a
separation in consciousness and his expression of love is
personal instead of universal. When love is established in
the consciousness it will draw to us all that we require to
make us happy and contented, all that really belongs to us.
Unselfish love is fearless, because of its forgetfulness of
self. A sense of oneness is a natural product of love. It
is accompanied by a consciousness of security.

Power

Man is the power of God in action. The mind and the body of
man have power to transform energy from one plane of
consciousness to another. This is the power and dominion
implanted in man from the beginning. It is man's control
over his thoughts and feelings. A quickening from on high
must precede his realization of dominion. Power is
increased through exalted ideas. The power of the voice
controls all the vibratory energies of the organism. It is
the open door between the formless and the formed worlds of
vibrations pertaining to expression. Every word that goes
forth receives its specific character from the power
faculty.

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Imagination

Every form and shape originated in the imagination. It is
through the imagination that the formless takes form. Man
is continually making and sending forth into his mind, his
body, and the world about him living thought forms embodied
and endued with his whole character. These images are
formed in the imaging faculty.

In the realm of the real, the imaging power of the mind is
innocent of error images. It is open and receptive to the
beauty and perfection of Being. This faculty makes the
great, when the soul is lifted up with spiritual fervor.
Exercised without the Christ understanding, it is personal
credulity. It is not in itself error, but may be used in
erroneous ways. In the communication of God with man this
faculty plays an important part.

Understanding

That in man which comprehends is understanding. It
comprehends and knows in wisdom. Its comparisons are not
made in the realm of form, but in the realm of ideas. It
knows how to accomplish things. Spiritual discernment
reveals that knowledge and intelligence are auxiliary to
understanding.

There are two ways of getting understanding. One is by
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that dwells within, and the other is to go blindly ahead
and learn through hard experience.

Intellectual understanding of Truth is a tremendous step in
advance of sense consciousness, and its possession brings a
temptation to use for selfish ends the wisdom and power
thereby revealed.

Spiritual understanding is the quickening of the Spirit
within. Spiritual understanding is the ability of the mind
to apprehend and realize the laws of thought and the
relation of ideas one to another.

Will

The will is the executive faculty of the mind and carries
out the edicts of the I AM. All thoughts that go in and out
of man's consciousness pass the gate at which sits the
will. If the will understands its office, the character and
value of every thought are inquired into and a certain
tribute is exacted for the benefit of the whole man. When
the will of man adheres to wisdom faithfully and carries
out in its work the plans that are idealized in wisdom, it
creates in man a consciousness of harmony and peace.

The will may be said to be the man, because it is the
directive power that determines character formation. When
man wills to do the will of God, he exercises his
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love, and spiritual understanding. He builds spiritual
character.

What man wills or decrees comes to pass in his experience.
The will is the center in mind and body around which
revolve all the activities that constitute consciousness.
It is the avenue through which the I AM expresses its
potentiality.

Order

The inner spirit of order is the spiritual way of life. The
divine idea of order is the idea of adjustment. As this is
established in man's thought, his mind and affairs will be
at one with the universal harmony. The faculty of order in
the mind holds every thought and act strictly to the Truth
of Being, regardless of circumstances or environment. The
development of man is under law. Man can never exercise
dominion until he knows who and what he is and, knowing,
brings forth that knowledge into the external by exercising
it in divine order.

Zeal

Zeal is intensity, ardor, enthusiasm; the inward fire of
the soul that urges man onward regardless of caution. It is
the affirmative impulse of existence. Its command is "Go
forward!" When zeal and judgment work together great things
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To be without zeal is to be without the zest of living.
Zeal and enthusiasm incite to glorious achievement in every
aim and ideal that the mind conceives. Energy is zeal in
motion. Energy is the forerunner of every effect. Never
repress the impulse, the force, the zeal welling up within
you. Praise it for its great energy and efficiency in
action.

Let your zeal be tempered with wisdom. Do not let your zeal
run away with judgment. Man is a dynamo of pent-up power,
but he needs judgment in its use. Always exercise zeal in
spiritual ways. Extraordinary zeal in the accomplishment of
some ideal develops what is called genius. Genius is the
accumulated zeal of the individual in some chosen field of
life action. Genius is the breaking forth of the
accumulated achievements of a man in that field of activity
for which he has been very zealous.

Renunciation

Renunciation is a letting go of old thoughts in order that
new thoughts may find a place in consciousness. A healthy
state of mind is attained when the thinker willingly lets
go the old thoughts and takes on the new. This is
illustrated by the inlet and outlet of a pool of water.
Renunciation, sometimes called elimination, carries forward
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from the mind and waste from the body.

It is just as necessary that one should learn to let go of
thoughts, conditions, and substances in consciousness,
body, and affairs, when they have served their purpose and
one no longer needs them, as it is that one should lay hold
of new ideas and new substances to meet one's daily
requirements. Therefore it is very necessary that the
eliminative faculty be quickened in one, and a right
balance between receiving and giving, laying hold and
letting go, be established.

Life

In the phenomenal world, life is the energy that propels
all forms of action. The life ego is the most subtle and
most variable of all the powers of man. It presides over
the life of the body. The pure life of God flows into man's
consciousness through the spiritual body idea. Only those
who have come into consciousness of the spiritual body idea
can feel this holy stream of life. Its nature is to vivify
with perpetual life all that it touches. It knows only to
give, give unceasingly and eternally, without restraint. To
desire to be instructed by God is the first step in
exalting the inner life force. Life is divine, spiritual.
Its source is Spirit. The river of life is within man in
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the river of life through the quickening of Spirit. He can
be truly quickened with new life and vitalized in mind and
body only by consciously contacting Spirit.

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TO MAN is given the highest power in the universe, the
conscious power of thought. There is a universal, creative
force that urges man forward to the recognition of the
creative power of his individual thought. This thought is
elemental, and all its attributes come under the dominion
of man. When he cooperates with Principle, man sits on the
throne of his authority and the elemental force is subject
to him.

Thinking is the formulating process of mind. The thinking
faculty is the inlet and the outlet of all your ideas. It
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impulsive, but not always wise. Its nature is to think, and
think it will. The thinking faculty in you makes you a free
agent, because it is your creative center. In and through
this one power you establish your consciousness--you build
your world.

Thought

Thought is a product of thinking. It is a mental vibration
or impulse. Each thought is an identity that has a central
ego around which all its elements revolve. Thoughts are
capable of expressing themselves. Every thought clothes
itself in a life form according to the character given it
by the thinker. The form is simply the conclusion of the
thought. The mind of man marshals its faculties and
literally makes into living entities the thoughts that it
entertains.

Energies (thought vibrations) are sent out by the force and
power of thought. Thought power is the moving force within
an idea that gives it expression. All structures are built
by thought power. This power is transmitted from mind to
mind and from mind to body in all living forms. The
omnipresent, invisible substance (thought-stuff) is ever
ready to take form in accordance with one's mental pattern.
The thought-stuff of the universe is more sensitive than a
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only all sounds, but even the slightest vibration of
thought.

Thought Aggregation

Like attracts like. A thought will take up its abode in our
consciousness with thoughts of like character. This law of
attraction continues until combined thoughts make a colony.
This colony of thoughts expresses itself in the cells of
the body--for good or ill. This collection or aggregation
of ideas in the mind is a thought center. They build organs
through which they manifest. The surrounding mental climate
or thought atmosphere is created by each person in
accordance with the character of his thinking. Thoughts of
negation build a discordant atmosphere. Thoughts of love,
prosperity, health, and faith create a harmonious mental
atmosphere.

Thought Control

Thought is controlled by the right use of affirmation and
denial--by the power of the mind to accept and reject. This
power of the mind is the I AM, and it is through the avenue
of I AM expression that thought control, dominion, and
mastery are obtained. Thoughts are controlled by the mind
through its power to say "yes" or "no." To "hold a thought"
is to affirm or deny

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a certain proposition both mentally and audibly until the
logic of the mind is satisfied and spiritual realization is
attained.

Denial

Human consciousness is made up of a multitude of false
personal and race beliefs. Denial is the mental process of
erasing from consciousness the false beliefs. It clears
away belief in evil as reality and thus makes room for the
establishing of Truth. Through it we get rid of the
shadows. We cleanse the mind. A denial is a relinquishment
and should not be made with vehemence. Make denials as
though you were gently sweeping away cobwebs.

Affirmation

When we poise ourselves in Divine Mind our denials and
affirmations will be made in right relation. We will know
just when to let go of a thought and when to lay hold of
another.

The purpose of affirmation is to establish in consciousness
a broad understanding of the divine principles on which all
life and existence depend. By affirming Truth we are lifted
out of false thinking into the consciousness of Spirit. An
affirmation is a positive statement of Truth. By the use of
it one claims and appropriates that which is his in Truth.
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that asserts confidently and persistently the Truth of
Being in the face of all appearances to the contrary. The
sum total of thought in all its positive aspects composes
the affirmations that bring ideas into form. They do not
have to be made in set terms, words, or statements.

Affirmations of words of Truth realized in consciousness
bring the mind into just the right attitude to receive
light, power, and guidance from Spirit. Words are the
vehicles through which ideas make themselves manifest.
Words that have in them the realization of perfect,
everywhere-present, always-present divine life, and our
oneness with this life, are dominant in the restoration of
life and health. When spiritual words abide in man's
consciousness, the word or thought formed in the human mind
must give way to the higher principles of Being.

The Decree

To decree is to command or to ordain. To decree with
assurance is to establish and to fix an ideal in substance.
The force behind the decree is invisible. It binds with
invisible power the one who makes it. We have only a slight
conception of the strength of the intangible. Affirmations
are far stronger than the strongest visible thing in the
world. Words charged with power and intelligence increase
with use.

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Thought and Word

Man cannot know how the thought or word work except through
his own consciousness. He must understand, control, and put
in order his own thought and word. Our most important study
is our own consciousness. By a right understanding, and by
using right thoughts and words, man will experience the
kingdom within him.

Thoughts are capable of expressing themselves. They think.
Man thinks. He thinks into his thoughts all that he is.
There is a difference between the original thinking and the
secondary thought. One has its animating center in Spirit;
the other, in thought. One is Son of God; the other is son
of man. If man conformed to the divine creative law, his
word would make things instantly.

Every word has its effect, though unseen and unrecognized.
What we think, we usually express in words. Our words bring
about in our life and affairs whatever we put into them. A
weak thought is followed by words of weakness. Through the
law of expression and form, words of weakness change to
weakness the character of everything that receives them.

Talk about nervousness and weakness produces corresponding
conditions. Sending forth the word of strength and
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bring about the desired strength and poise. Every time we
speak we cause the atoms of the body to tremble and change
their places. Not only do we cause the atoms of our own
body to change their position, but we raise or lower the
rate of vibration and otherwise affect the bodies of others
with whom we come in contact. Thus, every word brings forth
after its kind.

Directive Word Power

The spoken word carries vibrations through the universe and
moves the intelligence inherent in every form, animate or
inanimate. Man, the highest emanation of Divine Mind, has
great directive power and is really cooperator with God in
forming the universe. We should be speaking words of Truth
to everything. There are no secrets and no concealments.

The power of the word is given man to use. The better he
understands the character of God and his own relation to
humanity, the more unselfishly will he exercise this power.
Some are using this power in selfish ways. This should not
deter others who have a better understanding of the law
from using it in right ways. When we need things necessary
to our happiness, it is not sacrilegious to set in action
this higher law in attaining them. The word of one in
authority carries weight and produces far-reaching effects.

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If your word is selfish, that which will come to you
through its use will be unsatisfactory. Learn to speak
right words only. It is your duty as expresser of the
divine law to speak forth the Logos, the very Word of God,
to manifest for you and in you its innate perfection.

Thought and Act

Every act of man has its origin in thought, which is
expressed into the phenomenal world from a mental center
that is but a point of radiation for an energy that lies
back of it. That point of radiation is the conscious I,
which in its correct relation is one with Cause, and has at
its command all the power potential in Cause.

The conscious I can look in two directions--to the outer
world where the thoughts that rise within it give sensation
and feeling, which ultimate in a moving panorama of
visibility; or to the world within, whence all its life,
power, and intelligence are derived. When the I looks
wholly within, it loses all sense of the external. When it
looks wholly without, upon sensation and feeling, it loses
its bearings in the maze of its own thought creations. Then
it builds up a belief of separateness from, and
independence of, a causing power. Man sees only form and
makes his God a personal being located in a city of
dimensions. This belief of separateness

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leads to ignorance. When the soul thinks itself something
alone, it cuts itself off in consciousness from the fount
of inspiration. Believing himself separate from his source,
man loses sight of the divine harmony. The only walls of
separation are those built by consciousness of separation.

Thought Forms

Many factors enter into the process of thinking. The
capacity of the thinker to form thoughts, to give them
substance and force, is the great factor. The understanding
of right and wrong, truth and error, substance and shadow,
is important. Many significant conditions enter into that
mental process loosely termed thinking.

Every mental process is generative. From thinking is
evolved what is called living. Thinking is formative.
Thought clothes itself in a life form according to the
character given it by the thinker. Every thought produces a
living organism. Thought is creative and covers every phase
of life. Every life expression originated in some thought.
All of the detestable thoughts that mankind harbors,
produce living organisms after their kind.

Error Thoughts

Error thoughts represent belief in thoughts and

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beliefs not of God. They are untrue. They have no
foundation in Truth. Error thought is a product of the
fallen human consciousness. It is negation or evil. Evil is
a parasite. It has no permanent life of itself. Its whole
existence depends on the life it borrows from its parent.
When its connection with the parent is severed, nothing
remains. In Divine Mind there are no evil conditions. Such
conditions have no basis of reality. They are conjurations
of a false consciousness. Apparent evil is the result of
ignorance. When Truth is presented, the error disappears.

Man has the privilege and freedom of using God-power as he
will. When he misuses it he brings about inharmonious
conditions. These are called evil. Evil appears in the
world because man is not in spiritual understanding. He can
do away with evil by learning rightly to use the one Power.
If there were a power of evil, it could not be changed.

Experimentation

Man is a free agent. He can open his mind to divine wisdom
and know creative law, or he can work out his unfoldment
through experimentation. Our human race is in the
experimental stage. In our ignorance we transgress the law
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in, a general condition that is negative to the point of
dissolution. Then that in us which always looks obediently
to God in an extremity is awakened, and we seek divine
guidance. The human race has formed laws of physical birth
and death, laws of sickness and inability, laws that
recognize no other source of existence except the physical.
The sum total of these laws forms a race consciousness
separate from and independent of creative Mind. When
creative Mind seeks to help men spiritually, the human mind
opposes it and makes every effort to solve its problems in
its own way.

The great need of the human family is mind control. Mastery
is attained through realization of the power of Spirit.

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//section The Spoken Word

//text

IN PURE metaphysics there is but one word, the Word of God.
This is the original creative Word, or thought, of Being.
In the original it includes wisdom, judgment, power, and
all the inherent potentialities of Being.

Divine Mind creates under law; that is, mental law. First
is mind, then the idea in mind of what the act shall be,
then the act itself. In Divine Mind the idea is referred to
as the Word.

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Man is the consummation of the Word. The perfect Word of
God is Spiritual Man. It is through Spiritual Man that all
things are made. There is but one idea of man in Divine
Mind. That idea is the perfect pattern of man's character.

As an imitator of Divine Mind, man has power to form and
make manifest whatsoever he idealizes. Unless his thoughts
are unified with Divine Mind and guided in their operations
by infinite wisdom, his thought forms are perishable.

Surroundings and Thought Vibrations

The self of man is spiritual. When it is in direct
conscious unity with the Father-Mind it has permanent
formative power. Even in his ignorant use of thought, man's
mind is forming conditions, even to the changing of the
face of nature itself. Every thought that goes forth from
the brain sends vibrations into the surrounding atmosphere
and moves the realm of things to action. The effect is in
proportion to the ability of the thinker to concentrate his
mental forces.

The average thought vibration produces but temporary
results. Under intense mind activity, conditions more or
less permanent are impressed

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upon the sensitive plate of the universal. Through this
activity they are brought into physical manifestation.

Spoken Word

Every idea originating in Divine Mind is expressed in the
mind of man. Through the thought of man the Divine Mind
idea is brought to the outer plane of consciousness.
Through movement on what is termed the conscious, or most
outer, plane of action, the thought takes expression as the
spoken word. There is in the formed conscious man, or body,
a point of concentration for this word. Through this point
the word is expressed in invisible vibrations.

Following the creative law in its operation from the
formless to the formed, we can see how an idea fundamental
in Divine is grasped by the man ego, how it takes form in
his thought, and how it is later expressed through the
spoken word. If man conformed to the divine law, his word
would make things instantly. He has lost, in a measure,
knowledge of the steps in the creative process from the
within to the without.

The mental emanation and the creative word are the forces
that stimulate the receptive intelligence of nature. When
we believe what we hear, there is formed in us the
substance of the word.

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Words and Zeal

Words of Truth from a zealous man possess dynamic power to
heal and bless because the spiritual man enters into them.
This is why they move multitudes and are not stayed by
conditions of time. When the zone of Spirit, from which
healing words emanate, is unobstructed, they feed the souls
of men and are creative as well as re-creative.

This is why the sayings of the prophets and mystics have
such enduring qualities. They are attached by invisible
currents of life to the one Great Spirit. They have within
them the germ of perfect wholeness that keeps them
perpetually increasing.

The true prophet of God does not even have to write his
words down. He may speak them and through their own
inherent power of perpetuation and growth they will find
their way into the minds of men to uplift and heal. Jesus
did not write a line except in the sand, yet His words are
treasured today as the most precious that we have.

Living Words

The word of Truth has life in it. It has power to restore
and make whole. It cannot perish or grow less with the
changes that come with the fleeting years. The more
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gives forth the words the more enduring they are, and the
more powerfully the words move men the more surely they
awaken them to their divine nature.

The words of Jesus were given to common people--according
to the world's standard--by a carpenter in a remote corner
of the earth. Yet these words have moved men for more than
nineteen hundred years to realize, to dare, and to do as no
other words that were ever uttered.

The Inner Word

Jesus spoke in terms of that inner Word which creates all
things. He knew that His words were vivified with a life
essence and a moving power that would demonstrate the truth
of His statement.

These words have rung through the souls of men and set them
afire with God's Spirit throughout the ages. This is
because they are spiritual words, words that have within
them the seeds of a divine life, of a perfect wholeness.
They grow in the minds of all who give them place.

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//section Spiritual Law

//text

ALL SANE persons acknowledge the necessity of observing law
in their daily living. The great majority have a human
standard. Now the whole race is awakening to the knowledge
of a higher source of existence. More people every day are
giving attention to the law of Spirit in their life.

We find in the Scriptures constant reference, in symbols
and also in direct language, to order as a fundamental law
of the universe and of man. All peoples have observed this,
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the people of God. Paul said, "All things should be done
decently and in order."

Remedy

Suggestion is systematically used in the business world,
and unless you are strong in your own convictions as to
what your needs are, you will be loaded up with many things
for which you have no use. The remedy is to establish
yourself in the spiritual law. You will come under one or
the other of these laws, the manmade or the spiritual, and
it is for you to choose which is best.

Whatever there is in mind, body, or affairs that is out of
harmony is easily adjusted when you open the way in your
mind for the manifestation of divine order.

Jesus' Birth

The birth of Jesus was foretold and arranged beforehand. It
was not left to chance. His mother "magnified" the Lord
before He was born. This illustrates the truth that it is
necessary to have order from the very beginning. The
bringing forth of John the Baptist is an example of the
coming of another state of consciousness and of the
necessity of law and order in prenatal culture.

The same law holds good in our body and our affairs. The
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expressed in our homes. We should surround ourselves with
words suggestive of spiritual things. If words count, and
we know they do, we should be careful of every belief taken
into consciousness through the eye as well as through the
ear.

Suggestion

From their inception to their expression, words are
important. The law is fulfilled not only in mind but in
manifestation also. Every suggestion that enters the mind
brings forth like expression in act. The time is coming
when it will be unlawful to print in the daily papers any
record of crime or of anything that will bring discord into
the minds of readers.

Once I read of a man who committed a crime, and in his
pocket was found a newspaper clipping describing almost
identically the same criminal act. His crime was the fruit
of suggestion. How many such suggestions does one large
daily paper carry to its thousands of readers in its
recital of the daily horrors that make up the news?

As the world comes more and more under the spiritual law
editors and publishers will not ask their readers what they
want, but will give them what they should have for mental
food. And as the people are raised to higher

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planes of consciousness they will demand reading of an
uplifting character. They will be just as careful as
regards what they read as they are now beginning to be in
reference to food. There will be the same demand for pure
reading as for pure food. If it is against the law of the
land to adulterate food, how much more is it against the
law of right thinking to adulterate the truth! We can see
the necessity of order and law according to Spirit. If we
would demonstrate health, every deleterious thought should
be kept out of our mental atmosphere even more carefully
than harmful elements are kept out of our material food.

Food and Clothing

This spiritual law is operative in food and clothing. If we
think about order and harmony our taste in material things
will change. We shall desire the purest foods, and there
will be more harmony in the colors we choose to wear. Man
stands above all creation. He has power to clothe himself
in the richness and glory of Spirit. Out of the air we may
manufacture the things we eat and wear. This is not a
flight of fancy. It is not an assumption of theoretical
metaphysics that we may be able to make our food and
clothing from the air, but a logical conclusion that
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God as the omnipresent source of all that appears.

If you are disorderly and indefinite along any line, put
yourself at once under the order of Divine Mind by
affirming daily that the same law that swings the stars is
operative in and through your life and your affairs.

One Law

All people who have studied metaphysics and understand
somewhat the action of the mind recognize that there is one
underlying law and that through this law all things come
into expression; also that there is one universal Mind, the
source and sole origin of all real intelligence. First is
mind, then mind expresses itself in ideas, then the ideas
make themselves manifest. This is a metaphysical statement
of the divine Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The
trinity Mind, the expression of Mind, and the
manifestations of Mind are found in simple numbers and
complex combinations everywhere.

I Am

In the King James Bible the Hebrew "Jehovah" has been
translated "Lord." Lord means an external ruler. Bible
students say that Jehovah means the self-existent One, the
I AM. Then instead of reading "Lord" we should read "I AM."
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whether we think of I AM, self-existence within, or "Lord,"
master without.

All Scripture shows that Jehovah means just what God told
Moses it meant: I AM. So instead of "Lord" say "I AM"
whenever you read it and you will get a clearer
understanding and realization of what Jehovah is.

God was known to the Israelites as Jehovah-shalom: "I am
peace." You can demonstrate peace of mind by holding the
words "I am peace."

If we start any such demonstration and try to apply the I
AM to personality, we fall short. This is frequently the
cause of lack of results in carrying out the laws that all
metaphysicians recognize as fundamentally true.

The mind does not always comprehend the I AM in its
highest, neither does it discern that the all-knowing,
omnipotent One is within man. This recognition must be
cultivated, and everyone should become conscious of the I
AM presence. This consciousness will come through prayer
and meditation upon Truth. In Truth there is but one I AM,
Jehovah, the omnipotent I AM that is eternally whole and
perfect.

If you take Jehovah-shalom into your mind and hold it with
the thought of a mighty peace, you will feel a
consciousness, a harmonizing stillness, that no man can
understand. This consciousness

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is healing in itself. It must be felt, realized, and
acknowledged by your individual I AM before the supreme I
AM can pour out its power. Then you will know that you have
touched something; but you cannot explain to another just
what it is, because you have gone beyond the realm of words
and made union with the divine cause. It is the quickening
of your divinity through the power of the word. This divine
nature is in us all, waiting to be brought into expression
through our recognition of the power and might of the I AM;
to Jehovah-rapha, which is "I am he that healeth thee."

Inner and Outer

We should not fail to think always of the spiritual law
under which the I AM moves. It is possible for man to take
I AM power and apply it in external ways and leave out the
true spiritual law. We are proclaiming that man can use I
AM power to restore health and bring increased happiness;
in fact, that through righteous, lawful use of the I AM he
can have everything that he desires. But some people are
using this power in a material way, neglecting soul
culture, building up the external without taking the
intermediate step between the supreme Mind and its
manifestation in the outer.

We should remember that the soul must

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grow as well as the body. For example, a man was overtaken
with physical disability and loss of eyesight some years
ago. In his extremity he turned to the spiritual law for
help and was very faithful in its mental application. Time
passed before I saw him again; his physical condition was
unchanged, but there was a great change in his mind. He had
found the light and he was filled with inward rejoicing. He
had become blind that he might see. However his family
thought all his dependence upon Truth had been a failure
because his physical sight had not been restored. During
all these years he managed his business, and it prospered,
and his family was well provided for. He was himself for a
time disappointed and rebellious because his eyes were not
healed. Then he became glad, because through the prayers
and meditations he found the inner light. His physical
sight will be restored when he has made the complete
connection between mind and body.

If you find yourself disappointed because you do not at
once demonstrate health or success, be at peace and know
that your earnest prayers and meditations are working out
in you a soul growth that will yet become manifest beyond
your greatest hopes.

It is easier to seek the Truth willingly and be watchful
and obedient than it is to be forced

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by some severe experience. Hard experiences are not
necessary if we are obedient to the Truth that saves us
from them. Time should be given to prayer and meditation
daily. We cannot grow without them, and no man who neglects
them will successfully develop his spiritual powers.

Unification

Before you can realize the mighty power of ideas you must
unify them. All must pull together. Get your ideas in
divine order, and a mighty mind force will begin to work
for you right away. This divine order is necessary to the
upbuilding of both mind and body. This divine order is the
"kingdom of heaven" so often referred to by Jesus. To
attain this unity and harmony of mind it is necessary to
have perfect statements of Truth and to adhere to them in
thought and word.

Ideas change the race thought atmosphere. Jesus had a grasp
of divine ideas. If we believe in and follow Him we shall
come into the Christ state of mind. We become like-minded
by entering into the absolute Mind. In the absolute Mind
there is only harmony.

As man unifies his own mind forces in the one Mind his body
is lifted up into a new state of harmony. If he is not
demonstrating this principle, it is because he is not
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one great harmonious Mind. He is not expressing this Mind
as he should because he is not realizing his oneness with
it.

Resolve to become one with God through Christ. Harmonize
yourself with Him and all your world will be in harmony. Be
on the alert to see harmony everywhere. Do not magnify
seeming differences. Do not keep up any petty divisions but
continually declare the one universal harmony. This will
insure perfect order and wholeness. The Christ Mind is here
as the unifying principle of this race. We must believe in
this mind working in us and through us and know that
through it we are joined to the Father-Mind. In the
consciousness of the Father-Mind the unity of God and man
is demonstrated.

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//section Prayer

//text

IT IS unthinkable that the Creator should cause to exist a
creation so inferior to Himself as to remove it beyond the
pale of fellowship with Him. In his wise moments man knows
that this is not logical or true. It is man's exalted
concepts of God and his disparaging beliefs about himself
that have built the mental wall that separates them.

Thus man must understand the nature of

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God and awaken in himself that divine nature through which
to effect his conscious union with Him. God is Spirit. We
are the offspring of this Spirit. God is Mind: man is the
thinker. God is Life: man is the living. God is Substance:
man is form and shape. God is Power: man is powerful. God
is Wisdom: man is wise. God is Love: man is loving. God is
Truth: man is truthful.

God-Mind is a treasure field of all potentialities within
man in which is found the fulfillment of every need one can
possibly have. What we need to know above all is that there
is this place within our soul where we can consciously meet
God and receive a flood of new life into not only our mind
but also our body. With a right understanding of man's
relation to his potentialities his soul grows with infinite
capacity.

Intimate Spirit

The intimate connecting spirit that unites man and his
source is the divine Logos. It is in the highest sense an
innate spiritual umbilical cord that connects us with the
Holy Mother from whom we can receive a perpetual flow of
life. Because of this man instinctively feels and knows
from whence his help comes. In the divine Logos is the
living impetus that vitalizes the soul of man and enables
him to develop his latent powers.

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Soul Urge

The highest avenue through which God can express Himself is
man. All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based
upon the law of soul urge. The hungering for God that is
felt by man in his soul is really God hungering to express
through man. The Spirit of God in man is constantly
working, yes, steadily and persistently working, to
transmute every natural impulse of mind and soul into a
spiritual realization of life. God is always seeking to
awaken man's whole soul to His mighty presence. He is
working to satisfy man's inner craving with living
substance and intelligence, thus expanding and rounding his
soul and body consciousness, offering him opportunity to
express Divine Mind itself more fully and more perfectly.

Desire

Deep desire is essential for spiritual growth. It is the
onward impulse of the ever-evolving soul. It builds from
within outward and carries its fulfillment with it as a
necessary corollary. Man has never had a desire that could
not somewhere, in the providence of God, be fulfilled. If
this were not true, the universe would be weak at its most
vital point.

Sincere desire is a form of prayer. Every impulse or desire
of the soul for life, love, light, is a prayer. It is a
conscious expression of an upward.

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trend of nature found everywhere. Earnest, intense desire
draws the whole being up out of mortality and its transient
joys into the power to appreciate and receive real
spiritual blessings.

Prayer without desire in it, prayer without sincerity in
it, prayer without soul in it, prayer without Spirit in it
is fruitless prayer. So, when you frame your desires in
sound words and place them before your indwelling Lord, you
are using intelligently the supreme law of God in bringing
into manifestation that which He has implanted in you.

Spiritual Character

We find prayer to be many-sided; it is not only asking but
receiving, also. We must pray believing that we shall
receive. Prayer is both invocation and affirmation.
Meditation, concentration, denial, and affirmation in the
silence are all forms of what is loosely termed prayer.

Through prayer we develop the highest phase of character.
Spiritual character building is from within outward.
Spiritual character lives in man. It is what God has
engraved on man's soul, ready for development through man's
spiritual efforts. It is a reserve force of organized
victory over human thought.

Man builds spiritual character by consciously functioning
in God-Mind where, laying hold

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of spiritual ideas, he realizes the Truth they contain. He
thus weaves them into his soul consciousness and they
become a part of his very nature.

Conscious Union

All down the ages man has been making the spiritual effort
to realize conscious union with that innermost center where
Truth in all its glory abides eternally. Actually, prayer
is man's steady effort to know God. He can make conscious
contact with Spirit by turning his attention away from
material things and thinking about Spirit. Through prayer
he gains an intimate relationship with God.

The ability to merge our mind into the one Mind makes a
great man of us. When man awakens even a slight
consciousness of the cooperative Spirit, he becomes a
co-creator with God. There is a partial conscious unity
with Spirit and there is a complete conscious unity with
Spirit; however, whenever man wholly merges his mind with
the creative Mind he is in the consciousness in which his
prayers are fulfilled. He finds that he can adjust any
condition that comes into his life.

Everyone should pray. Prayer does not change God! It
changes us!

Effective prayer does not agonize. No man

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who has fused his soul with the soul of God has suffered or
agonized. The suffering comes as a result of separation and
the effort to return to the consciousness of Omnipresence.

Accept the urge to begin the practice of prayer. Through it
make contact with the Source of your being. In prayer you
are able to recognize the Source. As you practice prayer
your innate Spirit showers its life energies into your
conscious mind and a great soul expansion follows.

In your prayers you must meet God face to face and realize
that you are getting that inner assurance which is the real
answer. Your most effective prayers are those in which you
rise above all consciousness of time and space. In this
state of mind you automatically contact the Spirit of God.
When you elevate your consciousness to Spirit, the God
presence becomes meaningful to you. The God presence is an
abiding flame, a flame of life, of life everlasting in
every cell and fiber of being making you more alive,
cleansing and purifying until you become every whit
perfect. During high realizations of Truth you are
conscious of this abiding flame that works in and through
you.

In this state of at-one-ment you truly become aware of
sublimity and power. The God presence establishes you in
spiritual ideas which

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are needed factors in the unfoldment of the whole man.

Interest

In prayer what should be our attitude, our interest, as we
approach the divine presence? If we knew that right now we
were about to be ushered into the presence of Jesus, to
what extent would our spiritual expectancy be aroused? No
doubt we should be thrilled through and through at the mere
thought. Let us feel this same intense interest, this same
concern, as we approach the divine presence within ourself.
It will add much to the readiness with which we receive
Truth.

Asking

Understanding shows that prayer is more than asking God for
help in this physical world. Actually, we have become a
human race of praying beggars. Prayer is not supplication
or begging. It is more than supplication. Supplication is
impotent. Do not supplicate or beg God to give you what you
need. Prayer is a simple asking for that which we know is
waiting for us at the hands of our Father and an
affirmation of its existence.

When Jesus advised asking for what we want, He was
instructing us to be persistent in our demands. People
ignorant of the relation in which man stands to God wonder
why we

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should ask and even importune a Father who has provided all
things for us. This is explained when we perceive that God
is a great mind reservoir that has to be tapped by man's
mind and poured into visibility through his thought and
word. If the mind of man is clogged with doubt, lethargy,
or fear, he must open the way by persistent knocking and
asking. Acquire in prayer a facility in asking equal to the
mathematician's expertness in handling numbers and you will
get responses in proportion.

Undoubtedly the one thing that stands out prominently in
the teaching of Jesus is the necessity of prayer. He prayed
on the slightest pretext, or in some such manner invoked
the presence of God. He prayed over situations that most
men would deal with without the intervention of God. If He
were verily God incarnate, the skeptic often asks, why did
He so often appeal to an apparently higher God? To answer
this doubt intelligently and truly one must understand the
constitution of man.

There are always two men in each individual. The man
without is the picture that the man within paints with his
mind. This mind is the open door to the unlimited principle
of Being. When Jesus prayed He was setting into action the
various powers of His individuality in order to bring about
certain results. Within His identity

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was of God; without He was human personality.

Prayer with a Purpose

When we pray, let us pray with a purpose. Purpose gives
life a real meaning. Purpose gives joy and zest to living.
When our eye is on the goal we are not so easily perturbed.
Purpose awakens new trains of thought. Purpose directs
these trains of thought into new fields of achievement. To
succeed we must have some great purpose in mind, some goal
toward which we are to work. Above all, we must always
purpose in our heart to achieve spiritually. As we study
the one great Presence and Power, we come to know that
there is no chapter in our life that is such a failure but
has back of it a grand purpose, which purpose must
eventually somewhere, somehow work itself out in a most
ennobling manner.

Communion with God

Prayer is communion between God and man. This communion
takes place in the innermost part of man's being. It is the
only way to cleanse and perfect the consciousness.

Prayer is the most highly accelerated mind action known. It
steps up mental action until man's consciousness
synchronizes with the Christ

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Mind. It is the language of spirituality. When developed,
prayer makes man master in the realm of creative ideas.

As in all matters where we seek divine help we are free to
use any words we choose or no words at all. However, to a
person in the understanding of Truth, prayer should be an
affirmation of that which is in Being. What is the
necessity of the prayer of affirmation if Being already is?
In order that the creative law of the Word may be
fulfilled. What you earnestly desire and persistently
affirm will be yours.

The Silence

The highest form of prayer we know is quietly entering the
inner chamber within the soul, shutting the door to the
external thoughts of daily life, and seeking conscious
union with God. Prayer is man's steady effort to know God.
Through prayer we gain an intimate relationship with God.
The purpose of the silence is to still the activity of the
personal thought so that the still small voice of God may
be heard. For in the silence Spirit speaks Truth to us and
just that Truth of which we stand in need.

When entering the silence, close the eyes and ears to the
without. Go to God within and hold the mind steadily on the
word until that word illumines the whole inner
consciousness.

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Think what the mighty vitalizing energy of God releases.
Penetrate deep into God consciousness within yourself and
hold your prayer word steadily until you attain spiritual
realization and the logic of your own mind is satisfied.

To realize an idea in the silence is to clothe it with
life, substance, and intelligence. To realize a prayer is
to actualize it. To realize it is to clothe it with soul,
to know there is fulfillment.

The word of prayer has in it a living seed that is bound to
impregnate the soil of the mind and cause it to bring forth
fruit after its kind.

Intellectual and Spiritual Silence

It is man's concept of God that makes prayer intellectual
or spiritual. There is a vast difference between mere
intellectual silence and that constructive silence which
always gives the victory within the soul. The intellectual
silence, which is limited in power, is the silence where
one's whole attention is fixed on the intellect. The
intellect has thought its power supreme. While it is a
wonderful faculty, it is in truth the tool of Spirit. As
such it needs discipline if it is to be able to perform its
perfect work. The intellect is always busy, jumping from
one thing to another. Much of the time it dwells on the
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workaday world or on conditions in the world at large. The
first step in scientific silence is simply to still these
outer intellectual thoughts so that the consciousness may
become subservient to the Spirit within.

The operation of prayer saves the soul from all past and
future mistakes. In prayer we are led not to doubt,
distrust, or hate man but to love him with all our mind,
soul, and strength. Instead of fighting life and struggling
to compete with millions of others in the same foolish war,
we cooperate. Instead of wasting energy in tearing down, we
conserve in building up. Prayer shows humanity how to love
life, how to love the Author of life, and how to love
life's activities. In this state of consciousness man
automatically drops the burdens of the intellect and enters
into the freedom of real living. Man must have the
spiritual ability to discern life's perfect pattern if he
is to fulfill the requirements of scientific prayer.

By quieting the mental man, by passing through the
discipline of intellectual silence, man arrives at the very
threshold of God's workshop, the threshold of Being. As he
passes into the inner chamber he finds he is entering the
holy of holies, where noiselessly, silently, a mighty work
is always going on. God works in the stillness.

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As man comes into the presence of God with his prayer in
the form of an affirmation of Truth, holding the prayer
steadily in mind and consciously unifying his mind with the
mind of God, he is aware only of the soundlessness of God's
Word as it weaves itself in and out through the whole soul
and body consciousness, illumining, redeeming, and
restoring him according to his faith and trust, according
to his strength and power to receive.

Meditation

Persistent meditation on the Truth contained in the Word of
God opens the mind to a greater inflow of Spirit. When we
let our meditations fall on the knowing part of ourself, we
go into a higher mental state or an exalted condition of
mind, wherein we receive a higher and clearer conception of
things spiritual. Every student of Truth builds the Christ
body as he constantly abides in the Christ mind through
daily meditation upon words of Truth. Then all words become
quickening life and nourishing substance in both mind and
body.

Attention and Concentration

In prayer attention is the concentration of the mind upon a
statement of Truth. Man can take a word of Truth

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and through "one-pointed" mind concentration unite his
consciousness with the Mind of God. He can hold a realizing
prayer until the truth it contains is engrafted into the
very soul. Through the engrafted word, he becomes a strong,
positive spiritual character.

Attention is focalizing the I AM or inner entity upon a
word of prayer, until the inner meaning is realized and the
soul is aware of a definite spiritual uplift. As a lens
focalizes the sun's rays at a given point--and we know how
intense that point of light may become--concentration
focalizes the mind on a single idea until it becomes
manifest and objective.

In concentration the Holy Spirit works through the divine
mother substance to bring forth the fruits of Divine Mind.
The Holy Spirit is the teacher. The teacher and the student
use the same principles, but the teacher arouses and
inspires the student to greater achievement. The Holy
Spirit urges us to great spiritual effort.

When we direct the mental powers upon a definite idea,
faith plays its part. It is involved in concentration. As
we give attention to the idea through one-pointed mind
concentration, we break into a realm of finer mind activity.

Realization

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heart and he has the assurance that his prayer is answered
and that the law of demonstration brings forth the fruit.
The realization is written not only in the soul but in the
intellect. The intellect always perceives what has taken
place within and has power to retain its perception and to
express itself accordingly. Thus the intellect serves
Spirit, and as it unfolds it becomes more and more like
Spirit. It becomes in deed and in truth the instrument of
God.

Realization is the deep inner conviction and assurance of
the fulfillment of an ideal. It means at-one-ment,
completion, perfection, wholeness, repose, resting in God.
It is the dawning of Truth in the consciousness. When
realization takes place, one abides in the light of
God-Mind. It is the inner conviction that prayer has been
answered, although there is as yet no outer manifestation.

The supreme realization is unity with God-Mind.

Constructive thought force is a great and mighty power.
When it is realized in the silence it becomes the one and
only power in all the earth. The understanding of this
makes one an adept in the domain of scientific prayer.

Prayer and Faith

It is necessary to pray believing that we have

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received because God is all that we desire. The good always
exists in Divine Mind as ideas. We bring it into
manifestation through the prayer of faith, affirmation,
praise, and acknowledgment.

Within the deep stillness of the soul, listen first to the
innate voice of faith. Man builds up an enduring state of
faith by repeated realizations of Truth. The illumination
thus gained comes forth in man as spiritual understanding
expressed in sound words. Faith draws upon substance.
Dynamic, creative, transforming power is roused to
spiritual action when man affirms his unity with
Almightiness and his undaunted faith in its power.

Man must not only be submissive and obedient to the divine
law, but he must also realize that he is the offspring of
the Ruler of the universe. When asking the Father for that
which belongs to the Son under the divine law, man should
assume the power and dignity of the Prince of Peace. He
should not crawl and cringe before an imaginary king on a
throne. Instead he should feel that he is the image of an
invisible Being who has created him to represent His
mightiness as well as His lovingkindness.

The prayer of faith is not supplication, a begging God to
give things to man. Prayer at its highest is the entry
through faith into a realm of mind forces that when rightly
contacted

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change the character of every cell in brain and body.

Faith, the conviction of a higher providing Source, is
based upon spiritual logic or innate reason and on the
certainty that an all-wise and all-powerful Creator's plan
includes necessary provision for His offspring. When man
emerges from the limitations of human consciousness and
feels within him the stirring of Spirit, he finds that it
is supremely logical and true that Spirit has provided for
his supply and support.

When we have achieved spiritual realization of our prayer
and our innermost soul is satisfied, we have the assurance
that the thing is accomplished in Spirit and must become
manifest. We may continue in our realization of faith until
the whole consciousness responds and the instantaneous
demonstration takes place. Prayer is impotent and
unfruitful when the one who prays is without the firm
belief that his prayers are answered. When man turns
wholeheartedly to God, the prayer of faith brings forth
abundantly. Since the prayer of faith is the activity of
divine love, let us pray without ceasing, knowing that God
hears and grants our petitions.

Faith is the fire of Spirit. Faith opens the door into an
inner consciousness, where we hold the word steadily in
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substance responds to our word. Earnest, steady, and
continued attention along this line is bound to bring forth
the fruits of the Spirit in abundant measure. A steady,
unwavering devotion of heart to the Spirit develops in us
supermind qualities.

Prayer and Praise

Praise is the quality of mind that eulogizes the good. It
is one of the avenues through which spirituality expresses.
The purpose of praise is to awaken in ourself a higher
realization of the omnipresence and power of God. Prayer
and praise change man, not God. The mental attitude that
praise sets up stimulates, quickens, whirls into action,
and finally establishes in character the ideals of which it
is the vehicle. Through an inherent law of mind action we
increase whatever we praise. Make practical application of
the law of praise by giving thanks always for all things.

Prayer and Joy

No man yet knows all of life's joys, nor will he until he
has come into the full understanding of spiritual communion
with God. No man knows the fullness of life, nor its joys,
until he has prayed in meekness and thanksgiving and has
received the sweet, pure realizations of Spirit.

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True and lasting joy arises from within. The nature of the
deep inner life is revealed only to those who spiritually
penetrate into its source.

If you would feed the soul on the joys of Spirit, you must
realize them and give thanks in prayer for the more
abundant life. Then you find that a great subconscious well
of living water will begin to bubble up in your soul. You
will come to know that hitherto you have been living in the
shallows of life instead of in its mighty depths. You will
be blessed with a knowledge of the unity of all things, and
a great peace and harmony will well up within.

It is impossible to found a lasting stronghold within on
anything less than the understanding that God is a God of
joy. It is through our realization of this truth that we
drink heartily of the wine of life. Often even during
serene, yes, sober moments, the inner man is athrill with
some newborn, joyful anticipation. In prayer every high
realization that comes to us is to strengthen us for
greater achievements.

Conditions for True Prayer

These are the seven necessary conditions for true prayer:
1. God should be recognized as Father. 2. Oneness with God
should be acknowledged. 3. Prayer must be made within, in
"the secret place." 4. The door

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must be closed on all thoughts and interests of the outer
world. 5. The one who prays must believe that he has
received. 6. The kingdom of God must be desired above all
things, and sought first. 7. The mind must let go of every
unforgiving thought.

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TRUTH must be demonstrated. It defines itself. Truth is
that which is true in the pure logic of the mind,
regardless of appearances. We can talk about Truth. We can
write books describing Truth, but we must realize the
informing intelligence of the Spirit of truth. Truth is a
quickening, creative energy. Truth is established by Divine
Mind omnipresent, and the Spirit of truth is now right here.

We enter into the consciousness of the Spirit of truth by
recognizing that it is. We enter into Spirit by praying and
affirming.

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Truth demonstrates all its propositions. Jesus represented
Truth. He was Truth. He had but to call attention to His
works to prove His authority. Jesus delegated all authority
for His doctrine to the Spirit of truth.

The Truth, as demonstrated by Jesus Christ, is a
restorative power. It restores all things to their divine
order. Error has torn down the natural world, including
man. Man is God manifest. If he is not demonstrating the
perfect structure of divine life, there is ruin somewhere.
Jesus demonstrated that Truth proves itself in restoring
perfect order and wholeness.

Know the Truth

When you "know the truth" in substance, in life, in power,
in love, in all its qualities, your body will demonstrate
it. Your eyes will receive their sight, and your ears will
be opened; you will walk as you never walked before; and
that poor, sinking, empty spirit in you will have the "good
tidings" preached to it.

Jesus did not mean that people poor in worldly things would
have the gospel preached to them, and that rich people
would go without it. He meant that those who were poor in
spiritual things would, because of their open mind, eagerly
receive the words of Truth.

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power until it is understood. That is why the people whom
Jesus raised from the dead died again--they did not get the
quickened understanding of Truth. Propositions of Truth
must be thought out and lived out to be fully demonstrated.
Many people are deluded by cramming the intellect with
lessons on Truth. One Truth statement understood and
demonstrated in life is worth more than many lessons and
statements about Truth. Every mental process involves brain
action, and spiritual knowledge demands the deepest kind of
thought.

Something Intuitive

There is an intuitive something in us that tells us, when
we think, when we meditate, what Truth is. For God reveals
Himself to every one of us when we, with open mind,
listen--listen to the word of Being itself. "It is the
spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him
understand."

You can analyze God. You have a right to. Men have been
taught that they are poor, weak, and ignorant, that the
finite cannot comprehend the infinite. Inner logic and the
Spirit of truth assure that there is neither great nor
small in Divine Mind.

Man is the offspring of the one omnipresent Mind. He has
the capacity in him to know that

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Mind. He has the power to know himself as the one Divine
Mind manifest. Consequently all men can know and comprehend
God. Divine Mind is open to us through the Spirit of truth.
This understanding clears away all the fogs of personality,
ignorance, and superstition; all the wrong beliefs that we
have had about the character of God and man. When with your
I AM you pierce these limited concepts of yourself and God
that have separated you from your real being, the Spirit of
truth will open your higher understanding.

Toward Perfection

We know that the tendency of the universe is toward
perfection. Everything is striving to perfect itself. Where
does the initial force come from? We say that it comes from
nature; and nature is another name for God. Divine
perfection is making happy and joyous everything and
everybody in the universe. This is good; so we intuitively
and logically listen to our higher reason, and arrive at
the conclusion that God is good. This is the first
postulate and conclusion of Truth: God is good and good is
all.

Can you stick to that proposition in spite of all
appearances? If you can, the Spirit of truth is working
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to do to maintain your position. You will find, when you
declare this word of Truth, that there will crowd into your
mind every appearance of evil, and the voices, outer and
inner, will say to you: "Oh, yes, of course, God in
essence, in Spirit, away off somewhere in heaven, is good;
but here is a world of evil. See the evil in the world; see
the evil in man; behold the evil tendencies in yourself!"
But in the face of all error you must demonstrate: "God is
good and good is all."

God Is All-Powerful

Then you must lay hold of another quality of the infinite
good: "God is all-powerful." Now, remember that Divine Mind
is made up of ideas. Each one of these ideas must be
wheeled into line in man's mind before he can put on the
fullness of Truth. So, if we find ourself weak in our
demonstration of the allness of good, we must hold that the
good is all-powerful. It does not make any difference how
powerful the evil may seem, you must hold to the Truth.

The poor people, the lame people, the deaf people, the sick
people, do not disprove the proposition. I know that God is
good, and good is all, and good is almighty. This
knowledge, adhered to, will heal all apparent evils.

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Add this idea to your mind and you will find that a certain
clearness, a certain spiritual perception, and a power will
come to you that you never have had before, because you are
loyal to the Spirit of truth. With the realization of the
almightiness of the good there may come to you the thought
that all evil and all bad people should be destroyed at
once. Very zealous Christians have been so possessed with
this idea that they have given God the vengeful character
of the Devil, instead of the Spirit of good.

Spirit of Love

Right here all Christians should know that the greatest
idea in Divine Mind is love--"God is love."

When the Spirit of love begins to work in you, a soothing
tendency, then a forgiving grace and charity will spring
into your consciousness. The surest sign of the spiritual
mind at work is forgiveness. You will love those who have
despitefully used you. You will see unity in Spirit and
strive to establish it in the world. If God should destroy
all the evil people, what would become of the race? Why,
there would not be a baker's dozen of us left! We should be
like the man who wrote for prayer: "My wife and I do not
get along together; please treat her."

Do not let the destructive idea, the idea of

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burning up in hell-fire and the instant wiping out of all
bad people, enter into your scheme of Truth. God is
preserving His universe. He is redeeming it. He is
educating it. And if we, in our overcoming, would fall into
line with this patient regenerative process, which sets in
just the moment that we perceive Truth, we must take every
quality of God as revealed to us through Christ, and put it
into execution in its right relation in Divine Mind.

Body Building

Truth is a healing force. Truth builds up the man. Truth
restores the body. Some Christians have not fully perceived
this. When Jesus Christ was accused of healing through the
power of Beelzebub, He called attention to the
inconsistency of the proposition, a "house divided against
itself." Then He called particular attention to the
restoring power of God; that God is the only good; that God
heals man's bodies; that God is not the author of sickness.

God is not the author of evil in any of its forms. God is
the author of health, and all health comes from God.

Unpardonable Sin

In Truth there is no such thing as an "unpardonable sin"
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to God in the belief that they are sent upon us for some
good purpose, we are committing a so-called "unpardonable
sin." If you are under the thought that you have committed
such a sin, just remember that the only way to be forgiven
is to go to God and ask His forgiveness for your thought
that He was the author of evil.

You must get into your own mind a clear idea of what the
goodness of God is, and that that goodness extends into
every department of your being. If there is any evil in
you, it is the result of your own error thought. If you are
sick, do not lay it to God. Do not lay any of your ill
luck, your failures, or your shortcomings to God. Do not
think for a moment that God has sent them upon you for a
lesson.

Many people, good people, Christian people, sit down in
humility and claim that God is giving them a lesson through
some great trial, some great bodily illness. That is a
grievous sin. So long as you continue in that attitude of
mind, how can God forgive your errors and bring you back
into the kingdom? You can see that all people who stick to
such beliefs are beyond divine forgiveness.

Change Your Mind

You must change your mind. You must realize that God, the
good, demonstrates

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good only. Truth demonstrates itself in Truth. Know that
God is the omnipresent good, and that when God occupies (as
the Spirit of good) every part of your being, including
your body, then the Spirit of truth from that moment begins
to build you up. It restores your hearing. It strengthens
your eyes. It heals your lameness. It makes whole every
part of your body.

Do not let go of the proposition that God is the health of
His people. God is infinite life. Hold to the Spirit of
God, demonstrating itself in life everywhere.

That is what the scientific world is preaching today. We
cannot get away from this proposition of the omnipresence
of the one life. There is nothing else to come but the
Spirit of truth. We do not look for another. We know that
the Spirit of truth is here. It has always been here. We
have turned our faces in another direction. We have looked
somewhere else rather than to the Spirit of truth. The
Spirit of truth is in the midst of you. It is in you. You
will never have peace of mind, you will never have success
in any way, you will never have health of body, you will
never have anything satisfactory until you demonstrate its
presence and its power in your life.

Would it not be well to think about this, right now? We are
all striving for some ideal.

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I never knew a man or a woman who failed to have an ideal
deep within. Everyone desires to be something beyond his
present achievement. I tell you right now, you will never
realize that ideal until you go into partnership with God.
You must know Truth of Being. You must conform to Truth in
every thought and in every act. Then you will have success.
Then you will be satisfied. Then you will know that the
Spirit of truth does demonstrate itself in man.

Secret of Satisfaction

Many passages from the Bible come to us without force
because we apply them to a time beyond the grave instead of
to the present life. One of these misapplied texts is:
"When I awake, I shall be satisfied with beholding thy
form." The realization of omnipresence puts meaning,
substance, force, into this statement.

The foundation of the truth expressed in this text is
written in the very beginning of the Scriptures. "Then God
said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness' .
. . So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God he created him; . . . And God saw everything that he
had made, and behold, it was very good."

To awaken to the consciousness of this God-likeness is the
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of awakening measures the degree of satisfaction.

To be lost is simply to be unconscious of the divine
perfection in man. This state of consciousness is
ignorance, darkness, dissatisfaction, fear, and all that is
pictured by the word hell. There is but one way to be saved
from this condition and brought into heaven, or divine
harmony, and that is through Christ, the perfect man, the
only begotten, the image and likeness of God, the real self
of every man.

Awakening comes from the quickening power of the word of
Truth. Sense man is under a great many delusions, all
arising out of the one great misunderstanding of the true
character of man. The truth about himself will make him
free.

Wisdom must be characteristic of man, since he is the image
and likeness of God. If a man does not manifest wisdom, it
simply shows that he is not awake to his true likeness. One
must choose whether he wills to identify himself with the
real self who knows, or with the natural, sense man who
does not know.

Choice

Men do not always consider that the responsibility for this
choice rests with them. Choose this day whom you will
believe in as yourself. Choose Christ and serve

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Him by identifying yourself with Him, in the face of
appearances that deny you. This course will bring the
quickening word of Truth into your consciousness, and you
will be begotten by the Word and made a new creature in
Christ.

The creature that you have seemed to be will no longer
appear. The new man, image and likeness of God, will become
manifest when you awaken to the consciousness of it. This
new man does not appear all at once. His likeness must be
held in mind in its absolute perfection or he will not
appear at all.

The best way to prove that all wisdom and all understanding
are in man is just to believe it to be true. Coming into
the Christ consciousness is, in its first steps, all a
matter of faith. The intellect, sense mind, thinks that it
could understand if only somebody would explain Truth to
it; but it never seems to understand.

The best way to prove this is to take some statement of
Truth that is not clear. Hold it in mind. The power of the
word will quicken the understanding, and light will flash
from within. This is spiritual knowing.

Believe in the quickening power of the word. Hold the word
in mind. It will reveal itself, for wrapped in the word is
its meaning, and you, being the image and likeness of God,
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it in your inner consciousness. By planting it in
consciousness and waiting for its fruit, anyone can prove
that the word is seed.

The Eternal

Anything eternal has neither beginning nor end. We shall
never get the realization of eternal life until we see it
without beginning and without end. Jesus' words are a great
help in awakening us in the likeness of the life that never
began.

The demonstration of eternal life is open to everyone, but
it cannot be made by anyone who identifies himself with the
personal man and his limited concepts of life. Only he who
awakens to the consciousn