MYSTIC WORDS
OF
MIGHTY POWER
WALTER DeVOE
Containing potent truths that have enabled many to enter the
promised land of peace and plenty and rejoice in
the fulness of health and happiness
O Thou, who in wondrous Glory shineth, In every atom Thy beauty gleams:
O Thou, who in Glory forever dwelleth, In every atom Thine Essence beams:
Shone Thou not forth in Light Celestial,
This world would still in darkness dwell,"
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COLLEGE OF FREEDOM
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
LIBRARY of CONGRESS Two Copies Received
DEC 26 1905
Copyright Entry
CLASS (K XXc, No.
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PREFACE
'THIS book was compiled by the author to place before a larger number of students of Mind Culture those articles, treatments and words of advice that have proved helpful to a few. It does not pretend to be a polished pro- duction of scholarly art. The articles were written at vari- ous times to satisfy definite needs. The reader must use his judgment in selecting for practice those things fitted to his temperament and aspirations. I have made no special effort to cast my thought into a systematic form of expression. The surge of the influx of ideas de- manded that I use the first words that responded to the thought and I have hesitated to recast sentences from the intellectual standpoint as they might not then con- vey the same fervor of spiritual meaning.
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CONTENTS.
Page.
Truth 3
Preface 5
Fourfold Nature of Man 6
MIND CULTURE.
Omnipotence Reigns 11
Ye are the Temple of the Living God 12
What God has Sown 16
The Invisible Power 20
Statement of Being 22
The Immortal Mind 23
The Power of Thought 26
Faith Formulates Good or Evil 29
A Path to Power , 32
This Moment is Divine 35
Recognition 36
The Dominion of Mind 39
Mystic Words 42
The Law of Polarity 43
Affirmations of Recognition '. 50
Evolution of Mind 51
Attaining to the Absolute 53
Realize Your Power , 54
The Law of Attraction 57
Comparisons 58
Our Point of View , 60
Attraction Individualized 61
God's Mantle of Protection 62
Life, Sensation and Intelligence in Matter 65
Matter Produces Thought and Consciousness 71
Truth is Mighty and Will Prevail 72
The Whole Truth 77
The Music of the Future 84
Health Through Music 89
Possibilities 91
Opulence 94
Enter into the Spirit of Prosperity 94
Deny Mortal, Affirm Divine Heredity 95
Outgrowing Negative Beliefs 100
The Power of the I Am 104
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HEALTH CULTURE.
Page.
Christ Our Healer 108
The Spirit of Health 109
Germs and Mental Attitude Ill
Mastery of Germ Diseases 112
Health Rays 115
Bathe in the Sunshine , 116
God's Glory is Visible 116
Words of Praise 119
Incarnate Thought 120
Healing Thoughts 121
Treatment for Deafness 122
Roaring in the Ears 123
Stuttering 124
Rheumatism 126
Lost in Thought 128
Advice to an Inebriate 130
Present with the Lord 133
The Sea of Bliss 135
I am Bathed in Bliss 137
Blissful Freedom from Colds 137
Conquering Pain 138
Pain is Lost in Bliss 139
The Power to Heal 140
Training the Imagination 141
Control of Emotions 144
Living on Air 144
Arouse the Inner Intelligence 145
Affirmations for the Heart „ 146
The Secret Spring of Health 148
SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS AND OTHERS.
The Oil of Gladness 151
The Reward of Effort is Growth 152
The Living Truth 152
Silent Influence 154
Vitality is Endless Growth 155
All Good is Yours 156
Sustain the Tone of Health 156
Potent Words 157
Strength from Resistance 158
The Word is Nigh Thee 160
Laying on of Hands 162
The Wonder- Working Quality 165
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SOUL CULTURE.
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The Victory of Faith 168
God Speaks Through the Soul 169
The Word is God 170
The River of Life 171
Soul Manifestation 172
Soul Inspiration 173
The Voice of Authority 174
The Soul is Everlasting Life , 175
We Grow Like Our Ideals 176
Chant of the Soul 178
The Immaculate Conception 179
Prayer of Praise 183
The Divine Personality 184
Christ is Your Hope of Glory 188
The Mediator 190
The Picture Method 196
Devotional Communion 200
A Spiritual Experience 201
Meditation 203
The Heavenly Influx 205
Endowment of the Spirit 205
APPENDIX. A Medical Estimate of Prayer 212
MIND CULTURE.
OMNIPOTENCE KEIGNS.
In the manifested Word of Omnipotence, which is the visible universe, are written the laws of God. His laws are unchangeable and cannot be broken by any mortal will, but they may be transgressed, and pain and sorrow are the result of transgression.
God's laws work with invariable certainty; perfectly impartial in all their operations, therefore it is written that God is no respecter of persons.
When the laws of God's nature are fulfilled they bring peace and happiness, but when they are disobeyed even unwittingly, they bring pain and discord. The fault is not in the law, for it is good and perfect in its operation; the fault lies in the one who from lack of wisdom has placed himself in an inharmonious relation to the law.
No one can succeed who does not work in conformity with the laws of Omnipotence. The laws of Omnipotence are the operation of an infinite Intelligence; they are adapted perfectly to the uses which they subserve; they are the very best method of operating that could be devised; and, as all these laws are working for a good and wise purpose, and this omnipotent purpose cannot be frus- trated or hindered, we are obliged to affirm that All is Good. The laws of God, which are the Will of God mani- festing, reign supreme throughout His universe.
In the statement that All is Good we recognize and
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glorify the omnipotent Intelligence whose presence is the life of His own vast Body, the universe.
As man's mind evolves to the comprehension of the marvelous laws of God's nature, he discovers more and more the laws of life, and this knowledge is called Science.
The laws of the material universe are discovered through the senses in combination with the reasoning mind, but the laws of the moral or spiritual universe are realized from the revelations which God gives to the soul of man, which come before his reasoning mind through soul intuition.
Jesus perceived the laws of God's nature through the illumination of his soul by the Spirit of Wisdom, and he also saw that all the sin and misery of the world was caused from a lack of understanding of these laws, and a consequent disobedience of them, and pitying but not condemning their ignorance he proclaimed, aYe shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
"YE AEE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD."
This statement from the Bible proclaims a living truth of so great an import that if its meaning were realized by humanity at large there would no longer be suffering, sor- row, disease, or the belief in death and everlasting damna- tion, nor any poverty or injustice in the world. The depth of meaning contained in this sentence has very seldom been sounded by the human mind. When the spirit of this one truth is realized it brings to pass a wonderful transforma- tion in character. The one who realizes this truth no longer believes himself to be a limited mortal, bound by earth's negatives, and compelled to suffer for all his mistakes and the error of his forefathers. He rises into the percep- tion of his inherent divinity and power as a son of the living God.
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Jesus realized that He was the temple of the living God; He realized that the Spirit of God dwelt within Him, and he made this truth so manifest in His life that the world saw and is seeing still that God was manifest in the flesh. Jesus revealed a few of the divine possibilities stored within the soul of man. Few since have even approached His realization of and faith in the Father's Presence and Power, and so the world has not seen the wonderful demon- strations which spring from so mighty a faith.
We are the manifestations of God. What does this mean? Our nature is the visibility of a power and intelli- gence that is not separate from Omnipotence. Within our nature is a spring of life bubbling forth from the ocean of infinite life, limited only by our capacity to receive of its invigorating energy. Within each one of us there slumbers an immortal soul, which may be attuned to feel and sense through all its being the impulses of divine love that flow from the very heart of God. Our soul is an individualized atom of His grand Soul. All that we as mortals are con- scious of, are but the sensations and intelligence of the body. The next step in our development is the realization of His blissful love and wisdom within our souls; the realization that He is the soul to us the body. Where shall we look for God? In His beloved — in mankind. As human parents see themselves represented in their children and love them because they are parts of their own nature, so the divine Parents — the Father-Mother God — behold their positive and negative attributes manifested in all that has life and being, and thus they love their image in all beings. Verily God is internal man. God is the life of man, the intelligence of man. Man is external God, or the intelli- gence and life of God manifesting. Man is God appearing in limited form. Man is limited, but it is only because of his ignorance of the unlimited power within him. He is not a fallen creature. He is in a process of evolution, grow- ing from the more limited condition of the animal mind to
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the freer and more powerful intelligence that partakes of the wisdom of God.
We cannot separate ourselves in thought from God without robbing ourselves of the faith which gives us great- est power to outgrow negative conditions of body or mind. We need to live in the constant realization of his unlimited Vitality as the strength and health of our life; we need to become more and more conscious of His guiding wisdom as the light of our intelligence and .the glory of our souls, in order to develop the wonderful talents and traits through which we manifest God.
How beautiful all life becomes when we recognize the truth that it is all one substance; that all matter, all sub- stance, all force, all intelligence is the very nature of the one omnipotent Being that we call God. There is no dis- tinction in his nature of good and bad; it is all his own evolving substance; it is all God. We do not judge rightly, because we are misled by appearances. We look at the slime and mud with repugnance; but God is there. We take a minute portion of the slime and examine it under a microscope, and we see the most beautiful vegetation and myriads of tiny creatures active with life and intelli- gence; we can even see their hearts palpitating, and locate the centers of intelligence in their microscopic forms. The mud reveals diatoms and crystals of so rare a beauty that if enlarged they would be fit jewels for a queen. Can we say that this is not the life and substance of God? It is all intelligence in negative and undeveloped degree. It is the universal intelligence. Who can say that this substance of life is unreal, that it is unsubstantial, without saying that the nature and life of God are unreal? All is real; not one atom of cosmic substance can be annihilated. It may be transformed, but its nature as substance of some kind will forever Be. All is perpetual. We may try to limit by name and form this universal substance, but its transitional nature defies all analysis; nevertheless
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its perpetual power is, and this perpetual power and presence, this unsearchable mystery of life, we call by the name of God.
This broader idea of universal intelligence, which reveals as brightest truth, that God is omnipresent and omnipotent, seems at the first glance to do away with the idea, held by many, of an exalted Deity of a nature so pure and holy and sublime that in it the imperfections of the animal nature have no place.
One who had held fast and faithful to his idea of God as a Being far removed from His creation, with no pur- pose now that his work of creation was finished but the condemnation of the wicked to everlasting torments, listened while a teacher expounded the beauty and good- ness of the omnipresent Intelligence and was so thoroughly convinced that God was present in all, that he thought there could be no God in a personal sense, and almost frantic over his imaginary loss, he walked the street crying within himself, "I have lost my God! I have lost my God!"
A right understanding of the truth does not take from us the true God of love and wisdom, the living Father made manifest in the person of Jesus. It does not cloud our vision to the immortal Christ living in the bosom of the Father's love, and revealing the wisdom of His love, as the supreme Image and Word of God. The truth reveals that as souls, we are one with the Wisdom and Love which Jesus called Father. The truth frees us from our limiting bonds by showing that we are related to Omnip- otence, that we are the "only begotten," that is, rightly translated, of like nature with the Father. This truth saves us from sin and the consequences of sin, by lifting our minds from the plane of our animal nature to the consciousness of our God nature, which has dominion over all things. This glorious truth makes more vivid the God in Jesus by calling us to see the God in every man. We see that the soul of man is God. Because we know
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that ignorance of this truth causes sin and crime, we lose all feelings of condemnation and in compassion for the struggling souls of mortals we proclaim the inherent wisdom and goodness of man as the son of God. Our love resurrects the God in our neighbor, in our brother, and soul with soul communes in the harmony of divine fellowship, and God's kingdom is made manifest in earth. Thus we comprehend that the universal substance, the universal Mind or Intelligence and the Soul of God, are the one infinite and eternal presence, power and con- sciousness of God as they express through these three de- grees of being from the all-conscious within to the uncon- scious without, from the fully expanded consciousness of the soul state to the undeveloped mind in matter.
WHAT GOD HAS SOWN, THAT SHALL HE ALSO
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Each grain of corn contains the possibility of a great number of grains.
There is a divine impulse within each living thing to "increase and multiply," and manifest the purpose of God lying latent within, but there are many steps in growth before the inherent intention and use of things is evolved.
The grain of corn does not produce corn immediately. The intelligence locked within goes to work in an orderly manner, first to produce the roots, stalk and leaves, and then after it has drawn from the earth and air and sun all the elements required, and formed them into a proper body, it evolves the fruit which it intended to produce from the beginning.
This method of procedure is carried out wherever the life of God comes into manifestation. God is unchange- able and his laws are unchangeable, therefore the laws of His great Mind operate in the same orderly fashion in the
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growth of a seed as in the growth of the solar system; and a race, in its evolution from animalhood to divinity, will develop to perfect fruitage in the same manner as a single soul or a grain of corn.
Scientific research has exploded the belief, held until a few years ago, that the world was created 5,000 years ago during a period of six days, for ancient records have been discovered, which show a line of kings dating back to 90,000 B. C. And any schoolboy who studies geology knows that it took tens of thousands of years for the accumulation of the various strata of rock, clay and sand that make up the earth's crust.
And from the fossil remains found imbedded in the different strata, scientists can tell exactly the kind of ani- mals that lived in the world at different periods of time.
It is now generally understood that since the planet consolidated from the nebulous fire-mist, ages of time have been taken up by the development of, first, the mineral kingdom, second, the vegetable kingdom, third, the animal kingdom, and last, the kingdom of man. So we see that it has taken what seems to us a very long time for the purpose of God, latent in the original fire-mist, to evolve into a race of beings, but the Eternal One does not take time into consideration. He has all time in which to carry out His mighty plans, and as He is the only Power, there is nothing that can frustrate His wise plans, or bring about any failure in His good purpose.
God has, through this great evolution occupying seons of time, evolved man, but the race of mankind has only reached that degree of development where it may be compared to corn in the tassel.
The divine intention of the Mighty Mind at work is to evolve mankind into the image and likeness of God; a race of beings expressing the Divine attributes of love, purity, wisdom, joy and prosperity.
This will be the ultimate attainment of each
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individual and the race as a whole; and when the planet has come to its fruitage time, as the vineyard of the Lord God, we shall have the Kingdom of harmony on earth, with all God's laws understood and practiced universally.
Nothing can stay this glorious result, for it is the purpose of Omnipotence — a purpose potential within the nature of all life. The same force that works so silently in the seed to produce a perfect fruitage is as silently but surely working in the Mind of this planet for a divine fruitage of individuals, each one of them a god.
Every soul is an individual form of that Original Force of Light and Love which we term God. Each soul is a spoken word of Divine Intelligence, sent into the world for the experience that will develop its individuality.
The body and mind are the field in which this seed of God is sown, and from this field God will reap a spiritual individual.
The hereditary tendencies, and all the qualities par- taking of the earth, are not lasting; the soul will ultimately grow through them and use all the forces of the mortal nature in the development of its own immortality. "The eternal years of God are hers," and everything of time must serve this divine end.
In the words of Paul, the soul "is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body."
When we compare the barbarous condition of the race a thousand years ago with the present degree of civiliza- tion, we see that a mysterious Power has been at work, lifting mankind many steps above the savage, and this inherent impetus toward progressive development — which is nothing less than God working through the soul of man — has overcome mighty difficulties, and gained many vie-
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tories over the gross animal nature with which the race was at first endowed.
This process of successive refinement is a law of nature, visible throughout the universal Mind in the devel- opment of the mineral into vegetable forms, and the transmutation of mineral and vegetable substances into the higher animal forms, and still finer attenuation of these elements in the organism of man. As there is no assignable limit to the expansion and purification of the elements of existence, we can comprehend how the chemical elements of the human nature are still further refined into subtle thought-forces, evolved into the invisible and spiritual nature, which is everlasting in the heavens, although still capable of infinite progression.
When the aeronaut desires his balloon to ascend to the rarefied atmosphere of space, he fills it with a gas having an affinity for the more refined levels, and the balloon is attracted upwards. In like manner, every individual soul is attracted to the positive and most intelligent heights of the Divine Mind, for God has filled each soul with Himself, and as like attracts like, mortals will forever feel an affinity for the nobler and more spiritual states of Mind, and will be attracted into sublimest paths of divine unfold- ment in their efforts to realize arid manifest God.
You are immortal! You are divine! No matter how many ages of ignorance press you down and condemn you as a sinner, or as an ignoble "worm of the dust," in the sight of God you are His own undeveloped substance. The mighty truth shall free you from all sin and every impurity, for Its power is within you; the abiding presence of ever- lasting Love enfolds you in Its saving Grace, and forever beholds you as the image and likeness of Itself.
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THE INVISIBLE POWER
You have probably handled a horseshoe magnet and watched it pick up pins and bits of steel. Did you ever stop to think that the influence which the magnet exerted was invisible ? You could not see it, yet you knew there was a magnetic power which attracted the pieces of steel, not only in the magnet but all around it, to a certain distance. You have heard, no doubt, that spiritual and mental forces are more powerful than physical elements, but you have thought, "How can there be anything wjiich I cannot see or feel, and how can such things have any power?" Now this silent and invisible power around the magnet illustrates the truth that the mental and spiritual part of existence is the most powerful. It also illustrates that there is a positive and negative side to everything. The form of the magnet is the negative part, while the force that acts through it is the positive aspect of the magnet. You only see and sense the negative side of existing things; the positive side, which is the cause, is invisible. But you can reason that it exists from the effect which is seen, just as you know from the way it influences steel that there is an invisible side to the magnet.
The trees and grasses, and even the rocks have an invisible positive influence in and around them, which is holding them in organized form and causing them to grow. It will help you to understand this to think of the positive part as the mind of things. Existence becomes more interesting when you think of everything having a mind of its own. The mind of the tree or of the grass is not so highly developed as the mind of the animal, and the animal mind is not so conscious as the mind of man, yet everything is subject to the great law of mental growth and progression. How wonderfully the mind of the acorn appropriates the warmth of the sun and the moisture of
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the earth, unfolding its dormant powers, sending roots downward for strength and sustenance and then sprouting upward into the light and air until it stands a majestic oak that produces acorns, each one of which contains the power to create an image and likeness of its parent. Yet the mind of the animal is more wonderful than that of the acorn because it has a conscious instinct which the tree does not possess. But far superior to all is man, the lord of creation, with the Godlike power of thinking and reasoning.
I wish you to realize that mind is the most actual thing in existence, although intangible to the senses; that in and around each form there is a sphere of positive force, which is the life and organizing power of the form. In and around you is the sphere of your mind, which is holding your flesh in form, pumping the blood through your heart day and night, forcing you to breathe and carrying on all the involuntary operations of your physical organism. This is the positive pole of you, your mind- body, or what the Scriptures refer to as the spiritual body. "There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body." — 1 Cor. 1:44. You are living within a sphere of mental forces which you are adding to and qualifying by your thoughts, and these thought forces which your mind generates influence every part of your body and act on other minds to influence them also.
A French scientist has succeeded in producing photographs of the sphere which encircles the human form and the pictures show radiations proceeding from the sphere like the radiations of the sun's corona which are seen and photographed during an eclipse.
You will understand from this how it is that you feel repelled by some people and attracted toward others; you feel the vibrations from their mental sphere, and they make you sad or joyful according to their quality. Your mind-body has its main center in the brain, but it
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has other centers in various parts of the physical body. This mind body is your real and immortal body, which can- not be destroyed even though your flesh be burned to ashes. It feels and sees and acts through its negative and obedient instrument, but it also thinks and feels and sees in the dream state, when the body and brain are asleep, for it is superior to the flesh-body and will continue to live and think and use its senses in the spiritual realms, or in what might properly be called the realms of Mind, when the flesh has turned to dust.
You are superior to the body and should begin to cultivate the knowledge of your Keal Self and of the potent power of thought. Many diseased conditions are caused by being too negative, subject to every mental and disturbing influence that comes along. You need to cultivate a positive state of mind, and you can do this by affirming over and over: "I am, I know I am." This simple statement constantly repeated will give you mental backbone, increasing your thought power and the ability to concentrate your mind; and it will also infuse your body with positive mental energy, which will increase your vitality and strength, helping you to resist and overcome all diseased conditions.
STATEMENT OF BEING.
God the changeless, eternal, omniscient, omnipotent Love, is the life principle, the inexhaustible source of health, strength, peace, wisdom and knowledge. He is impersonal Love, pure Spirit, divine Mind. I in my being am the created of God. As a soul I am not subject to any inheritance of the flesh, for One is my Father, even God.
By recognizing my God-derived being, and speaking the words of appropriation that declare my divine birth-
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right, I become powerful to rise above all conditions of mortal sense.
I will remember that I am spiritual, not material.
Health cannot depart from me nor strength forsake me while I keep my eye single to and fixed on the inex- haustible life and love of God.
Strength is just as much a mental energy as faith, hope or any of the attributes of mentality.
I think into existence the glory of God.
I am the embodiment of all my realizations.
I am the Limitless One.
THE IMMOKTAL MIND.
Exact science has commenced to delve into the mysteries of the immaterial and unseen world. After having made wonderful discoveries through experiment with material elements, it now turns its attention to the realm of finer or more spiritual forces, and after many years of patient research leading scientists, and religionists as well, have been convinced that knowledge may be received from intelligent beings who no longer wear the garb of flesh.
The belief in immortality has been part of the religious teaching of the world, but now that it is becoming known as a demonstrated fact by scientific investigation, much of the fear and terror of death will be removed from human minds, and the knowledge of eternal life to every human being as an unalterable fact, will make life more real and worth the while.
Everything has a positive mind-body and a negative material body. Now close your eyes to the material forms of things and imagine that you see into the realm of mind form, into the positive spiritual side of existence which surrounds all material things. You see that even the
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planet is the visible body of a great mind, and that the solar system and all those great suns, which we call stars, are every one held in the embrace of the mighty Mind of God. This makes clear the meaning of this passage of Scripture: "God is not far from every one of us; for in Him we live, and move, and have our being. For we are also His offspring."— Acts 17:27-28. The mind that rules all things is in everything that it controls as the very life and mind of each and every form. This vast universe that fills boundless space is the visible body of. God, and His infinite mind pervades the whole, giving life and intelli- gence to everything in creation; and each individual mind is being formed from the universal mind of God, which Paul calls the Spirit. "There is one body and one Spirit. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." — Eph. 4:6. Your individual mind lives in the universal mind, and cannot die, because it is a part of the everlasting mind of God. You have drawn all the life and intelligence you manifest from this Divine Mind, and you can learn to draw consciously on this inexhaustible source for all that you need.
Although the negative constantly decreases as the posi- tive increases, there will always be negative and positive in the human magnet. This is the process of growth through eternity.
The visible body of man is the negative pole. Much more wonderful than even this complex instrument is his real self, the invisible, positive pole of his being.
When the physical form is laid aside the thought- form or mind-body which surrounds the soul is the negative part.
Every mind that ever existed still lives in the bosom of the infinite Mind, and your mind-body or spiritual body is in this spiritual realm this instant. Even when the physical body is laid away this mind body continues to live in the great ocean of Mind, and is free to float off to
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any part of the spiritual worlds to which it may be attracted, and is able to receive the knowledge of divine things from any wise mind that has lived on earth.
The present duty of each one is to learn to make the most of life while on the earth, for the universe is a great school — God's school — and it is a general rule that no one can attain to a high spiritual estate except through the cultivation of his mind, for the mind is the spiritual part of the person, and in proportion as it gains knowledge from experience it becomes wise and loving and strong in the power of a perfect character. The overshadowing Mind of God is in you and around you, holding you in its everlasting love, and in its vast embrace it also holds all the loved ones who have passed from your sight. Nothing ever really dies in the Mind of God for in His merciful goodness everyone enjoys everlasting life and constantly progresses in intelligence. The all-wise, all- loving Mind is ever pouring out the living benediction of its presence upon all of its beloved humanity. It sur- rounds and blesses the wise and the unwise, the evil and the good alike with its life and intelligence, knowing that through this giving of itself to all, all will gradually grow in individuality, and sometime, somewhere, each and every mind will recognize from whence comes its life and power, and conform to the divine image that lies latent within.
As you recognize that your mind is sustained by the unlimited life and strength of the God-mind, you will feel more of life and strength, for it is the recognition of the omnipresence of God that establishes the faith which saves from disease and pain. You have believed that your life was limited, that the healing power of God was something far away in the sky, and by these beliefs you closed your mind to the mighty healing life, in you and all around you, which was able to build your nature strong and perfect with its living energy.
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Recognize the truth that the mighty forces of the God-mind, which produce health, happiness and prosperity, and cleanse from all sin and sickness, are focused upon you, and strengthen your faith by affirming over and over:
I am Life.
I am Intelligence.
I am alive with the healing life of God.
I am created in the perfect image and likeness of God, and all the beneficent influence of the Divine Mind is work- ing for my happiness and prosperity.
Eecognize only the good, for that is the dominant power in the universe, and the more you believe in the power of good, the stronger it becomes in your life and affairs. "According to your faith be it unto you."
THE POWER OF THOUGHT.
A human being is a wonderful battery of forces. The electric dynamo draws from space only one kind of force, namely, electricity, but the physical body generates elec- tricity and also magnetism, while the mind appropriates the universal thought-power to enable it to hold in organ- ization all lesser forces of its nature. All power in the universe exists for the good of humanity. All the apparent evil that man experiences comes from his mistakes, or from the misuse of the forces within and around him.
There is no limit to the power of thought. Thought is the power that God uses to guide the destiny of His great universe, and man can use the same power from the omnipotent Mind to mold his life and destiny as he will.
The act of thinking generates forces as actual as elec- tricity, and more powerful, because endowed with intel- ligence. Thoughts are living things, and spoken words give to thoughts a body of physical vibrations which makes them still stronger.
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As is well known, people have prayed intensely for some merciful favor, like the healing of some apparently incurable disease, or the lifting of the burden of poverty, and the prayer has been answered. What happened to bring about the result? The mind in the intensity of its devotion to the one desire of the prayer, came in touch with the mighty thought currents that circulate through the Divine Mind and generated a force which brought the desire into manifestation.
Many a mother, in the ardor of her love for her child, has generated thought forces by prayer that have sur- rounded the object of her affection with a mantle of pro- tection or renewed the life that was fast ebbing away.
Mortals do not know or believe that their thoughts and words bring about many of their conditions, because the results usually do not become apparent for some time after they have been conceived in the mind. For instance, a man will become very angry and curse his horse, thus creat- ing a strong mental force which acts on the mind of the horse, and long after he has forgotten about it, that same influence will suddenly exert its power, and the horse will be seized with a wild impulse to break from all restraint and "run away." The curse was a mental seed sown in the mind of the horse, and in time it grew to be so powerful that it swayed his whole nature. Persons who curse an animal need not be surprised to see it sicken and die, for they are ignorantly using a divine force to cause injury. Paul understanding this law said: "Bless, and curse not."
It was because Jesus understood the power of mind that he said: "Every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judg- ment."—Matt. 12:36. The "day of judgment" is the day when the thought bears its fruit of good or ill. It may be the same day, or it may be after many days.
Human beings, through their ignorance of the laws
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of Mind, are constantly placing many heavy burdens upon themselves, sowing thoughts of poverty and sickness and ill luck through thinking and talking about evil conditions and expecting the same, and through their faith in some evil influence or belief in the power of evil.
The truth that makes free from such false mental conditions is the knowledge that every force and power in the universe is a part of the Mind of God — the All-Good. That all the power of the all-present Mind is love, which is continually striving to heal and bless and prosper all mankind. That there is no evil power or devil in the universe working against the good of any one, because all power is an expression of God, the Almighty Good. It is contrary to the truth of His goodness to believe that His freeing spirit places any bondage or burdens of sick- ness or pain on His beloved humanity.
Much of the misery of mortals is created by their own minds, through the false belief and fear of a vengeful, fault- finding Deity, who they imagine waiting for an opportunity to punish them for some little mistake they have made in solving life's problems, whereas "He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." — Luke 6:35.
"Every man's word shall be his burden." — Jer. 23:36. There is no "score" against anyone but the words and thoughts that have been thought or spoken against him either by self or others, and these can all be overcome by the knowledge and affirmation of the truth that All is Good. "By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."— Matt. 12:37. Remem- ber that you are encompassed by the Mind of God with all its potent forces working for your good, and place your mind in unity with this mighty Goodness by affirming over and over: "God the Good is my protection, and the protection of every created thing. God is my support and the support of the whole' universe. God is my life and protection, and the health of the whole race."
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Remember to be merciful with your thoughts, "as your Father also is merciful;" to "condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned;" to "forgive, and ye shall be forgiven;" thus fulfilling the law of the Divine Mind, which will make you radiant with its mighty healing love and good will toward all mankind.
In the center of each atom, within the heart of all beings, and interpenetrating every energy, is Love, the God of all, the wisest and most powerful force in the universe. The universal love of God for all beings is the vital impulse at the root of all creation, and those who will polarize love by thinking and feeling love for insects, birds or man, will develop such a harmonious healing character as will make for them and all who come into their life a heaven on earth.
Why call upon God for mercy when you have closed your mind to mercy and compassion for humanity? The merciful love of God is not withdrawn from your mind, but you will not feel it until you exercise that quality towards others, for thus is the Divine circulation started into action, which will bless you as you become a blessing to others. "Love is the fulfilling of the law" of the omni- present Mind, whereby the individual attains the greatest growth and progresses into the divinest powers, and becomes a god among men, as was illustrated by the man who walked and talked in Galilee.
FAITH FORMULATES GOOD OR EVIL.
Like a thief in the night of Time has come the fulfill- ment of the prophecy of the ages — the second coming of Christ to humanity. We now behold the golden glory of the dawn preceding the rising of the Sun of Wisdom, which shall dissolve the clouds of ignorance and superstition, and
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illuminate the mind of the world with the joyous knowl- edge of the omnipotent Goodness that pervades all life.
The man-made beliefs of the dark ages — the deification of the devil as a being more active and prevalent than God; the worship of a vengeful, vindicative Being who would cast innocent babes into endless torment, because they were not baptized; the faith in evil and sin, and fear of disease and death — have made a grievous load for human- ity to bear. But now the Sun of Wisdom is pouring its merciful rays over the world and revealing the new faith, which the angels proclaimed would bring peace on earth and good will to men.
The churches that have taught the death and damna- tion of the soul are finding empty pews where they had fearful listeners. The blind faith of the past in a far away God of Goodness and an ever present Evil is evolving into a rational faith, founded on the scientific knowledge of the exact and unerring laws of Mind. The glad tidings of great joy are revealing the truth that the soul of man is immortal, and subject only to the law of everlasting growth and progression.
The beneficent forces of the universal Mind that forever focus on the individual are turned and directed by the individual mind for good or ill, according to its faith, for faith is the most potent mental force generated by man, and when it is founded on the Reality, and formulated from the knowledge of the All Good, it can become the most positive healing and redeeming power in the world, embodying the mercy of omnipotent Truth.
Earnest religionists have failed to overcome the apparent evils of existence because of their faith in the power of evil; to their minds evil was more real and power- ful than Good. They saw the devil running loose among mankind, while God was afar off in the sky. They believed so earnestly in the innate degeneracy of mankind that thev threw the whole mental force of their faith
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toward perpetuating the evils they were trying to over- come. By the manifesting power of faith they have turned the healing intelligence of mind to creating sin, sickness and pain, and then claimed that Infinite Love had stooped to chasten the human atoms floating in its bound- less mercy, in order to show its love. The aggregate faith of all their minds was a power so tremendous as to cover the whole race with a mantle of darkness and fear that during the dark ages hid the light of truth and hindered all progress.
But the soul of man is waking to the light of true faith, and mankind are beginning to see and understand that all life and intelligence and all power are manifesta- tions of the universal Good called God. They are thinking so much and so devotedly of the power of good that their faith is becoming a mighty regenerative force in the world. They are fixing their minds so persistently on the healing, soothing power of life, that disease and pain are overcome by their thought power, and even death is stayed by the victory of true faith. Kecognizing only the purity and goodness of the soul of the so-called sinner, their faith is stimulating and reviving that positive reality so that the senses no longer sway the nature. And standing in the realization that there is no lack nor want of any good thing in the all-bountiful Goodness, they are fulfilling the law of attraction, which draws to them the prosperity that satisfies all their needs. Thus proving that faith in the I truth that AU_is_GoQd is the key to heaven on earth.
"If ye lay bound upon the wheel of change,
And no way were of breaking from the chain,
The Heart of boundless Being is a curse, The Soul of Things fell Pain.
Ye are not bound! the Soul of Things is sweet, The Heart of Being is celestial rest;
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Stronger than woe is will: that which was Good Doth pass to Better — Best.
Before beginning, and without an end, As space eternal and as surety sure,
Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good, Only its laws endure."
— Light of Asia.
A PATH TO POWEE.
The money kings who have accumulated riches by their own efforts are all men of strong and powerful minds. The positive pole of the body — the brain — has polarized great mental force, so that their minds dominate and control, to a large degree, the minds with whom they have dealings. It has been so with all who have swayed the destiny of the race. They were all powerful minds. It is not always the king or acknowledged ruler who is guiding the ship of state, but very often a power behind the throne in a character of great mental force and energy. Mind rules. To be a leader one must have a mind more positive and intelligent than those who are led.
It is said the planets rule, but it will be noticed that the individual who seems to be favored by the stars, and who is led into a high position, is one whose brain shows a very decided development of that mental quality which the stars represent.
Look at the size and quality of the brain of a leader in the world of finance in comparison with the brain of a common laboring man, and you will see that it is the polarization of mental force that enables one to control so many less developed minds, and the lack of this intelli- gence that holds the other in his lowly state. The same mental, astrological and soul forces impinge upon both;, their ability to polarize these forces to their use deter- mines their place in evolution. If the soul of such a
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leader were awakened to the expression of a Christ- Mind, it would have more power in expression than the soul of the laboring man. One would be a mightier Christ than the other, because one has a more forceful mental magnet than the other. The soul deals with the material side of the law of attraction through an instrument composed of the elements pertaining to this plane. Therefore mental science strives to educate minds to the most posi- tive degree of faith in the Good, that they may be more powerful magnets for Good. And this positive faith in the power of Goodness organizes that Goodness into a spiritual body through which the soul can express the fullness of its grace and perfection.
If you are one of those negative characters who seem to be always on the negative side of life, whether in matters f of health or prosperity, or in the realization of any ideal, do not be discouraged but begin to cultivate a positive, intelligent mind, and as you gradually polarize mental force you will see that you are gaining dominion over your negative characteristics, which have caused you to be a down-trodden wretch or a sickly sinner.
Your soul is a potential germ from the bosom of Almighty Intelligence, capable of endless growth and development and containing the essentials for the building of a God-like character, with dominion over every living thing.
You are in the position you now occupy, not because you are a sinner upon whom God has frowned, nor because some one is holding you down, but simply because you have not polarized sufficient intelligence and character to war- rant your being elsewhere. But the supply is equal to the demand. "Ask, and it shall be given to you," when you understand that your mind is not separate or apart from the universal Mind of Jehovah.
You must understand that you are a mental magnet. To your positive pole you can draw or polarize intelligence,
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and around your negative pole you can accumulate vitality. The relative positions of beings in life are in accordance with the strength or weakness of their char- acter. "Character is destiny." The tree, the bird, the dog and the man have each polarized that degree of intel- ligence which gives them their form and their place in evolution. But man has attained to a position where he can progress consciously through the appropriation of the thought and will power of the God-Mind. He can outgrow all negative conditions by lifting his mind to a more positive degree of development. The universal Mind con- tains infinite possibilities. There is every possible quality of mind imaginable to be appropriated, from the unde- veloped state called matter, to the developed quality of omniscience, and every being, from atom to archangel, is an individualized form of the universal Mind, perpetually progressing toward the positive pole of intelligence and life — the great I AM — through cultivation of his own I Am, which is the rock of ages — the soul power that never dies.
While a person may polarize and build the character of any mental quality he pleases, yet it is easily under- stood that the highest qualities of the universal Mind are the most powerful and most conducive to the progression of the individual.
You have been living in the negative states of mind. Now lift your mind to the positive state by thinking daily the following thoughts, and you will come in touch with the angelic powers of the spiritual universe that are the mighty causes of spiritual and physical harmony, health and perfection. Think as the angels think, if you would feel the divine harmony in which they live, move and have their being:
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct tKy paths." Prov. 3 :6.
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"Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord,
And not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places
That I shall not see him? Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord."
Jer. 23:23, 24.
I know I am one unbroken stream of vital force, of Godlike vitality. This vitality is overmastering and will put out of my nature every particle of error and discord.
I am a vibrating vital force. I am not a victim of negation. I am not held in bondage by any negative thoughts or by ignorant minds.
I am unlimited freedom, because I am created in the image of Omnipotence. I am in recognition of the infinite power of Good. Every atom of my nature vibrates to the vital tone of the Christ.
All power frees. I have the freedom of God now. All power and dominion are given unto me through the love of God. I have found in Jesus Christ my refuge, my joy, my love and my freedom. Jesus Christ is my protec- tion and sustaining strength now and forever.
I am in the stillness of the secret place of the Most High. I am under the shadow of His wing, and I praise Him for His mercies.
Praises! Praises! To God the Eternal, Kuler of spirits and Master of angels — Forever and ever. Amen.
THIS MOMENT IS DIVINE.
I realize the full measure of Divinity that the present moment holds for me.
I realize the good that God offers me this moment.
I live in the now, poised in the realization of my eternal nature.
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This moment is overflowing with unlimited life.
This moment holds inexhaustible strength for me.
God is this moment blessing me with His fulness of love, wisdom and power.
I hold my mind poised this moment in the realization of the eternal truth that all the goodness and power of God are NOW mine. Thus I open the way this moment for the entrance of the Spirit of Truth. These moments of realization are precious. In them the mind grasps more and more of the GEEAT REALITY, the fadeless light of eternity. My mind is stilled in the contemplation of the Presence and Power that is always here, and bows to receive the blessing of the merciful, peaceful Spirit of Truth.
RECOGNITION.
It has taken ages for us to round out and build up our present, strong individuality. Individuality is the first grand step in the evolutionary process from atom to man. Even after we had gained the faculty of thinking, which graduated us from the animal to the human species, there remained many paths of experience for us to traverse ere we became of such intensity of character and mental texture as would cause us to aspire to a knowledge of the ideal realm above and beyond the plane of mere animal sensation.
That was an immortal and intelligent Force in us which pushed on unceasingly through all these grades of growth and enabled us to retain our individuality through all the vicissitudes of many lives and many seeming deaths.
It was the Immortal Mind of God that became indi- vidualized, and organized form after form in order to
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express its intelligence and become conscious of itself or self-conscious.
Even though when in human form beings seem more animal than man, and do wrong instead of right in their pursuit of happiness, there should be no condemnation, for the divine intelligence in them will sooner or later awaken to the fact that happiness lies in another direction. Ultimately there will come the realization that happiness comes from living the divine life, which is the growth and expression of all the finer, nobler attributes of intelligence.
We live in this great Intelligent Mind. In fact, it lives in us, and we are It.
As all physical objects exist in space, and are a modification of space, so we have our existence in the Mind of God, which fills all immensity with its great compre- hension, and surrounds and fills us with a goodness and love and life which we as yet but faintly recognize or grasp with our intellectual perception.
We have now come to the step in our unfoldment called Recognition, through which we gain the power to recognize who and what we are.
The Jews were not intelligent enough to recognize the unlimited possibilities of the Intelligence within them, and so they denied the power of God in Jesus and in themselves.
It takes a god to understand a god. We should recognize the mighty goodness of God forever present within us. He works for our benefit according to our faith or recognition of the good instead of the evil.
We can grow more Godlike in wisdom and under- standing in proportion as we cultivate ourselves in the recognition of God, the omnipresent Good, in the same manner as our artistic sense expands as we become acquainted with the genius of a Wagner or a Raphael.
This knowledge of the Divinity within our nature is ) \ inspiring and full of satisfaction.
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When we contemplate the truth that we are linked to the Almighty God; that he desires to express more and more of Himself through us forever, we feel the thrill of a new Life, for this recognition is the beginning of a new and larger Life wherein we realize our unity with God the Father, and enjoy the consciousness of an inherent nobility as the children of the Living God.
This faith or recognition fertilizes the mind and prepares it for the growth of more intelligent thoughts, thoughts that will develop the mind for the reception of that most wonderful degree of intelligence called Intuition, whereby the mind realizes its oneness with the all-knowing Mind, and draws definite knowledge from this inex- haustible Source.
Through belief in evil, man turns the forces of his mind to work against his good. He actually builds mental walls to hinder the divine mental influence from working in his behalf. His ignorance breeds a thousand fears, which make him negative and weak, where faith in the omnipresent Good would charge him with strength and courage.
Encouraging fears of sickness and dilating upon the power of disease, he makes himself negative to every dis- turbing influence, and microbes find all entrances open into his system. His mind checks the action of the healing potency inherent in all living organisms, and fosters false growths and any unnatural condition that happens to locate.
The mind that is thoroughly imbued with a living recognition of the power of the Life resident within can become so positive in the affirmation of this faith that every cell of the body will tingle in response to the quickening impulse of the thought power.
Health is an attribute of Life, and is a positive power which can be claimed and appropriated through positive intelligence, while disease is a negative condition, having
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no power in itself to endure for any length of time, unless fed and strengthened by mental belief.
The children of God will, in time, see the foolishness of their beliefs as they rise to the recognition of the good- ness and power of all life. They will overcome all evil by the knowledge that All is Good; and as all their beliefs are converted to see and affirm the Good, they will become positive individualizations of the God Substance, knowing the joy of Life free from all disturbing elements.
These thoughts of recognition will help to awaken the dormant activities of soul, mind and body.
I am an individualization of the Substance of God.
The substance of my mind and body is radiant with the vitalizing Life and Intelligence of God.
I recognize that Health, Happiness and Prosperity are the most positive and potent influences in my life and affairs.
I have faith in the inherent goodness of all beings and things, and expect to reap only good in all my ways.
I see the goodness of God expressing in all the world.
THE DOMINION OF MIND.
The human brain can generate thoughts which will kill or cure. Man stands at the head of evolved beings, because in him is vested the creative thought power of the almighty God-Mind. In his ignorance of this wonderful power, man has misused it often causing much suffering to himself and others through thinking false thoughts. But he is in the School of Life, and by his mistakes he learns which is the wrong method of thinking, and his intelligence pushes him on to find the right way.
According to the strength of your mental magnet, or in proportion as you have individualized the law of attrac- tion, will you attract persons and things from universal
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nature. Every thing in existence is a center of attraction, a mental magnet, and according to the development of magnets and according to their quality do they unceas- ingly operate the law of attraction to draw the necessities of existence to them.
Your mind has drawn to you the conditions with which you find yourself surrounded. The law of attrac- tion is working unceasingly to bring to you just what your mind attracts to you. "Like attracts like." "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." If you think of pain and poverty and sorrow, and brood over the dark and evil side of existence, you will surely multiply misery, disease and disturbances in your life. If you sow con- demnations and evil thoughts for others, you will reap of the same sort from other minds. You are living on the negative side of life and blaming God and luck for your misfortunes when you have thought the thoughts and spoken the words which picture out as false con- ditions.
How shall you be saved from your false and ignorant thinking? By the knowledge of the truth. What is the truth? It is the truth that your soul is the image and likeness of the living eternal God, and cannot sin, or be sick or sorrowful, or suffer any evil; and can never die. It is the very substance and life of God individualized. Your soul is the likeness of God; just like God in essence, wisdom and power though less in degree of unfoldment. All the possibilities of the God-Mind are imaged in your soul, and by knowing the truth of your soul, you can think the thought and speak the words which will develop the God-image latent in you, and can rise to such a positive thought power as will enable you to overcome every negative condition of mind, body or affairs.
Your soul is your real, true Self, your eternal I Am. Therefore, when you say I Am, speak the truth of your
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soul, that it may manifest its perfection in God, in this manner:
I am pure and perfect now. I am the vitality and health of God. I have the power to keep my mind and body in perfect peace and harmony. I am a mighty magnet to draw to myself the prosperity and abundant provision of the Father's goodness.
Such are the thoughts and words of the soul. It judges not from appearances, but judges righteous judg- ment. If one thinks and speaks constantly about being sick, poor, sinful, and disturbed, condemning himself and others, he is creating a false faith, and that false condition of mind does not accord with the soul life, and conse- quently there is discord and inharmony in the whole nature.
Think thoughts of health, perfection, joy and pros- perity, and you will realize the everlasting life and happi- ness of oneness with the God-Mind, which is all and in all.
The Jews condemned Jesus for making himself equal
with God when He spoke from the truth of His soul.
Although to appearances they acted like devils toward
Him, yet with the clear vision of Truth, He beheld the
God-soul of each, and quoted to them the inspiring words
of David— "Ye are Gods."
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Harmony in the body is the result of a number of atoms working in obedience to one center. When the atoms are polarized to a center they are in harmony; when that polarity is disturbed and the atoms are scattered in their movements discord reigns.
Many symptoms of disease that manifest at night while the body is negative immediately disappear when the mind awakens to conscious activity, because even the natural state of consciousness is positive enough to bring harmony out of discord.
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out of harmony it is sufficient to feel oneself consciously present in that part to restore order and peace.
The mind is master and must make its presence felt in all parts of the body. Thus the flesh becomes infused with life and intelligence and all parts are polarized to the central intelligence of the organism.
The apparent decay and disintegration of the physical proves that the polarizing ego — the soul — cannot hold the atoms of its organism in harmonious unity. Every atom in existence is being drawn by the law of attraction toward some center, and disintegration is caused by the atoms responding to a new center and leaving the old. When the soul leaves the body there is no longer a polarizing center, and the atoms are drawn from their unity toward new centers of attraction. If the mind and body were educated to a positive state of knowing and feeling, instead of living in the negative condition of mind, they would become glorified with the love and wisdom of the soul. The negative intelligence in the atoms will respond to and obey the positive, spiritual will.
Glory to God for the power of will, and the working of wisdom, whereby mankind will realize their God-given dominion over every thing of the earth-mind, and exercise their wonderful rights and privileges as sons and daughters of the mighty King of life and love.
MYSTIC WOEDS.
Build your mental body on the eternal foundation of God by true thought and your perfect structure of thought will endure for all ages. — My soul is alive with the healing Will of Omnipotence.
I have faith in the healing power of life.
Omnipresence is with me.
Omniscience is guiding me.
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Omnipotence wills my permanent health and success.
My soul is alive with the joyous life and wisdom of God.
All things around me are working for my permanent peace and prosperity.
Omnipotence is invigorating every nerve and muscle in my body.
I inbreathe the healing peace of the Holy Spirit.
The joyous, freeing peace of the Spirit is permeating my being.
God fills every atom of my flesh with life, strength and power.
God brightens my heart and my face and my affairs with His smile of everlasting joy.
The Angel of Prosperity is working to fulfill all my desires.
My flesh is alive with the life, strength and intel- ligence of the healing Spirit.
God is my Vitality. God is my Health.
God is my Happiness. God is my Prosperity. GOD IS MY ALL.
THE LAW OF POLAKITY.
God is an eternal Essence that is forever formulating itself into organized forms. God is Love and Wisdom; essence and form. The masculine and feminine principles inhere in the very essence which is pure Divinity. Polarity, the law of positive and negative, is the unchangeable law of the eternal Being.
An atom of matter is composed of a center of positive electricity, surrounded by a larger or smaller number of particles of negative electric force. On a larger scale this is the polarity of the solar system. The sun is the positive center; the planets are the negative particles.
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All life is the same from the simple polarity of an atom to the unbounded soul of God. Polarity is the basic law of Being. By its omnipotent action crystals, plants, animals and men become .organized and evolve in intelli- gence. Through the operation of polarity solar systems and universes are born and evolve. By their polarizing power minds continue to organize spiritual forms after their physical forms are cast aside. By the power of polarity spirits rise above the negative law of death into more positive realms on high. By this eternal power angels and archangels and gods eternally progressing grow mighty in wisdom and love. By the polarizing power of his mighty soul Jesus Jehovah is the supreme attraction of love in the heavens of angelic souls. Through this law the deific forms — souls in the image and likeness of God — are perpetually generated from the soul nature of the Mother-Father God. Through this wonderfully intel- ligent law of attraction — a perfect law — order and harmony are maintained throughout the whole vast cosmos. Through this law the eternal evolution of God and his negative nature proceeds. Through the operation of polarity the essentially perfect nature and essence of God express and manifest in endless growth and progression, evolution and revolution, their power and wisdom and love. God is love, the supreme attraction.
In contrast to this idea of God which I have received and hold as truth, there is the teaching that God is an eternal Isness, undefinable under any name whatsoever, so unchangeably perfect and blissful in His eternal serenity that He could not create. So infinitely all is the serene, unchangeable Presence that there is no other presence or power to create, and, therefore, no creation. How could there be any universe, any sun or world, any God or man, anything at all if God is all and unchangeable? There would be no reason for God to create if He or It were unchangeable bliss, and there were nothing else
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beside that bliss. How could there be anything else, or any place for anything else to be if such a Being were infinite and eternal? Thus is the reasoning of metaphysics brought to its logical conclusion. If we deny the reality of the negative pole of the universe, and continue logical, we shall be forced to deny the reality of the positive pole of the universe, which is God, of we shall formulate a theory of God and existence inconsistent with the facts of the material and spiritual worlds. If we deny matter, we deny spirit. How does this teaching account for exist- ence as it appears? you will ask. Well, as there was nothing else to make existence from but God, and as He would not and could not be used for "world timber," it was thought best to formulate things from pure nothing- ness. Of course there was no one with the ability to so think or to create, but the doctrine must show cause for existence. I should say it must show that there was no cause for existence, because these metaphysicians do not believe that existence exists, or that there are any causes at all; neither do they believe that they exist as individuals only as they have become self-hypnotized to so believe. Even the idea or suggestion which brought about the uni- versal hypnotism of existence, evolved from Nothingness, the mother of all things.
This philosophy can be found in the Encyclopedia Britannica under the heading Vedanta. This all may seem absurd to the reader, but it would not seem so if you had sat in a simple receptive attitude before a teacher of this philosophy whom you knew to be true and sincere, and listened to the sparkling gems of original thought as they dropped from his lips. You would feel the soul sincer- ity of the teacher, and if you had no previous conceptions of truth, would be uplifted by his earnestness, and be per- suaded to see things as he saw them.
I have given but a naked outline of the fundamental idea; he would adorn it with the grace of his imagination,
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and make it beautiful. In its entirety it is a won- derful philosophy. It 'was evolved by ancient oriental metaphysicians as a way to freedom from everlasting trans- migration and the terrible beliefs in omnipresent eviL They believed existence to be evil, and transmigration an inevitable necessity from the operation of the law of cause and effect, and so they declared existence unreal and sought to lose individuality in the bosom of the Absolute. We believe all is good, and certain to develop our individuality to the most positive degree, because only as we polarize the intelligence and vitality which are all about us can we outgrow negative conditions and exercise the free will which comes from a knowledge of the true laws of Being. That school of thought holds that man is God because, according to the philosophy, there is nothing else for him to be. They identify man with the eternal and deny the reality of the personality, and also the individuality, say- ing: "How can there be anything but the formless God, if He is unchangeable?"
Christian Science teaches that God is one and indivisible. "Man is not God. He is but a reflector of God. How can the soul contain the indivisible God? It can only reflect Him as the dewdrop reflects the sun."
Another school of thought accepts the facts of existence as they appear, teaching that man as a soul is the perfect image of God's likeness; that God is Spirit, while man is spiritual; that God is Life, man is living from that great Life. This is somewhat akin to the philosophy of Sweden - borg, which teaches that man is generated by God through physical parents as a receptacle of God's life and love, and that man did not exist as a self-conscious soul prior to the birth of his physical form, but that he will so exist throughout eternity.
These ideas of God and man are all good and meet the need of the various types of minds, otherwise they would not exist. Each teacher, in an endeavor to under-
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stand the great Reality, formulates his own conceptions of the truth according to past education. If he is faithful, no matter how crude his conception, he will come face to face with all he can realize of the Spirit, and then his mortal conceptions will be the vehicles for the carrying of the Spirit that he realizes to his pupils. But the pupils may mistake the vehicle for the Reality, the letter for the Spirit, and become lost in the mazes of intellectual philosophy. Each one of these philosophies of truth points to a living Spirit that is powerful to heal and enlighten, and those who keep their eye single to this Spirit will realize its power. Each teacher has his or her favorite way of explaining the mysteries of Godliness, leading the pupil to the understanding which will give .a perfect faith in Omnipotence.
I hold as truth that there are infinite degrees of I deific life and intelligence; that God's nature extends from the most negative atoms of electricity called matter to the positive atoms of Divine consciousness called God, and that the law of polarity in each degree of the infinite life is individualizing atoms into the forms called by the vari- ous names of cells, crystals, plants, animals, men, planets, suns, spirits, souls, angels, archangels, gods, solar systems, universe, God. There is but one life, one being, one power. All is God. God is all in all.
The real man dwelling in this tabernacle of flesh is the God-idea, perfect, pure, divine. This soul organiza- tion is polarized from the Divine Essence; the physical organization which the soul inhabits is polarized from the elements of space.
How does polarity create? An atom of Jehovah God by the law of attraction draws about it other deific atoms, and gradually in the bright glory of Divinity atoms of wisdom, love and power become organized into a soul form radiant with the Spirit of God.
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time of quickening is powerful with the forces that it has individualized in the most positive state of the God- Mind, but at first it is limited to the mere expression of life. Later from its body of physical life it develops sensa- tion and thought, and if the thoughts of the mind are developed to the positive conception of the truths of the soul-world, then the soul can gradually gain conscious expression, and the mind will polarize its power and be able to sustain such a harmonious tone as will hold all parts of the physical body in vibrant accord — in perfect health. In the present undeveloped condition of human- ity very few souls are awake to the powers that pertain to the kingdom of the soul, and consequently they are influenced and entirely controlled by the negative, astrological and mental forces that impinge upon them from the outer universe. The soul can transform the influences of Saturn into universal love, and ambition into aspiration, while acquisitiveness will become soul attractiveness that will draw abundantly from the Father's bounty.
In most people the sojil slumbers during physical incarnation. Let the mind be raised to the understanding of the eternal life, power, wisdom and love resident within the soul, and the thoughts will begin to polarize (or draw to themselves) the light of heaven. When the thoughts are lifted above the mere animal ambitions and desires, into the ideal realm of thought, then the soul begins to realize in the spiritual atmosphere of thought, some of its divine attributes, and as the more spiritual thoughts are cultivated the soul awakens gradually to somewhat of its former grandeur and glory as a son of the living God.
Souls are not all created alike. There is an infinite variety of souls, of different attributes and powers, and the possibilities of new combinations of soul attributes can never be exhausted. Each soul represents in form what
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it has polarized of Divinity. All forms of life in the material world also represent what they have polarized into an individual form of the universal intelligence. Each human being represents what he or she has polarized of life and intelligence, plus a divine soul power; but in most persons the soul power does no more than provide the element of humanity, and a slight inclination toward spiritual aspiration. If it is very strong, it may produce a feeling of great dissatisfaction because the person lives so much like an animal. This soul disease, often a source of bodily ill health and even death, is overcome when the soul is properly fed through communion with God. The fol- lowing prayer will rouse the soul to draw upon the Father for the Essence Divine:
Father! I feel Thy holy presence. I desire to incor- porate thy living substance into every part of my being. I desire that every atom of my flesh shall polarize thy holy wisdom power. By my love for thy perfect Spirit I am drawing thy heavenly love into my soul. Heavenly Father, my desires are magnets drawing upon the mighty dynamo of thy love for all that I desire. Thou art always giving. Thy Presence is forever radiant with every possibility and power of thy infinite goodness and love. Only as I understand the generosity of thy goodness and love — only as I desire to have and fulfill thy perfect nature — does my mind embrace and individualize thy Spirit.
Father, I desire to be perfect as thou art perfect. I know it is thy unceasing desire to glorify every object and every being, in every degree of development, with all the perfect graces of thy divine nature.
I desire to be pure, perfect and powerful, as was Jesus Christ.
I hold before my mind the beauty and perfection of the immaculate and immortal Christ, the mightiest Son
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of Jehovah God, and I draw into my mind and soul the glory that he realizes.
I know, O Father! that only by intense devotion to Thee, only by purity and sincerity of thought can I realize in any degree what he realized of thy blissful presence.
Only as I live above the attraction and distraction of mortal things, and fill my mind with immortal truth, may I expect to realize the peace and perfection of thy immortal nature.
Thou art my life, my strength, my immortal health and perfection. In Thee I find endless growth and eternal peace.
Thou, oh God. art my all.
AFFIRMATIONS OF RECOGNITION.
Almighty Life is all about us.
God's presence is always with us.
The Spirit of the Lord Christ is always with us.
His presence broods over our souls.
His presence awakens the divine within us.
His presence is now focused on our souls.
His mighty Mind comprehends our needs.
He is the wisdom power of eternity.
He is the guide of our souls.
He is the light of humanity.
He is guiding us onward and upward.
He is the Master of all souls.
His Spirit is within all souls.
He directs us to the Father.
He is drawing us continually.
My soul feels his presence.
I feel the presence of life.
I feel the presence of power.
I recognize goodness within me.
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I recognize that I am an immortal Spirit.
I recognize that all things good are for me.
I recognize that eternity is before me.
Yea, I live in eternity now.
There is no end to my consciousness.
My consciousness is growing greater day by day.
I shall awake in the consciousness of divinity.
I shall see God face to face.
I shall see His presence in humanity.
Nature will reveal Him to me.
My own soul will shine with His glory.
His goodness and power are in me now,
And I strive to bring them into expression.
I try to express the real spiritual self.
I try to live from my soul,
For the Almighty is my strength.
EVOLUTION OF MIND.
The upward struggle of the immortal mind is always from darkness to light, from ignorance to intelligence, from negative to positive.
The animal races made their unconscious appeals for light, and the light came. Gradually step by step they climbed the ladder of progression and reached the light, and are now holding it in the erect posture of man- hood. Every advancing step upward has increased the beauty and utility of their bodily organization. Through their unconscious prayer and appropriation they have gained the light of conscious intelligence. Thus are we here who have prayed and aspired ourselves through con- stant steps of advancement into men, and now we are consciously praying and aspiring ourselves into gods. We now have discovered the tree of the knowledge of good
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and error. We have it now in the midst of our garden in humanhood, midway between animalhood and godhood.
Now it is demanded of us to know what we are doing. We have had the knowledge given us of the fact that we are manifested or made visible by limitation. Thus as the expressed thought of God we are constantly coming in contact with something which we must overcome. It seems as though obstacles were being placed in our path by some invisible agency. Not so!
These are but our own limitations which we have not outgrown. We must meet and overcome them if we would still continue to grow and develop in knowledge. Certain of these seeming obstacles which we have not over- come circumscribe our form and render us visible externally. As time ripens conditions it is easier to over- come environment. As we become more intense as individuals, limitations become less dense and gradually yield, and the more perfect creature expresses. We have attained to the human form, but we are still limited.
Limited by what? The Overlife. The higher life not yet understood by us. The divine possibilities of God which ignorance conceals.
In the world of mind it is that which we fail to under- stand that forms our limitations, which gives us the forms that render us visible to each other.
All things are rendered visible by limitation. God alone is unlimited. He is therefore as a whole invisible.
"No man hath seen God." If we could see God we should be unlimited. There would be no more growth for us; we should be grown; we should be the whole. We should fill immensity.
How do we grow? We are the expressions of God. God means something in every expression ever made. We grow by expressing God's entirety more and more. If we could cease to express God's meaning we should lose organization, which would be to lose individuality. We
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should drift back into the original life essence that is God in possibility.
Study, think and progress through the infinite realm of possibility.
ATTAINING TO THE ABSOLUTE.
There is only one Mind. There is but one Good and all of God's children are manifestations of that Good. The universal Mind that occupies all space is the all- embracing Goodness. We have been latent in the eternal Mind forever. We have become individualized expres- sions of this Mind, drawn to coherence through the law of attraction. Our intelligence has gradually grown to its present state of individualization, where it begins to recognize its true being in God, and at times it has indis- tinct visions of a future condition of mastery which it will gain through soul unfoldment.
We have been through a long journey, through surroundings and environments when we did not know our strength, hence we were not able to control our conditions. We possessed the strength, but it was a latent power within us. We were even through our crude surround- ings developing from negative to positive, from ignorance to knowledge.
We did not then possess the knowledge that this one omnipresent Power was with us, that we were growing nearer and nearer to a wonderful unfoldment, to the degree of Eecognition.
We have risen higher and higher in the scale of intelligence until we have become awakened to a percep- tion of the I Am, the Truth. This great truth will help us to recognize and overcome all our past unbelief.
Now we are overcoming all connections as we draw near to the degree of Appropriation when we learn to make this mighty truth our own.
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The light of this truth is so illuminating to the mind that it enables us to see that GOD IS ALL, hence ALL IS GOOD, therefore in this absolute sense THEEE IS NO EVIL.
We have now gained the knowledge that our ego has survived all changes. This gives us the faith that every future condition must succumb to our will and intelligence. Therefore we exert our will to gain realization.
We will with the will of a Soul for the power that shall enable us to mold our lives and conditions as Ave will.
We* will to have established within us the conscious knowing that we shall gain the position of Mastery. Through this understanding of the mighty Truth we shall gain the mastery over all appearances of sin, sickness and death. Glory to Jehovah-Jehovah. We are housed in God.
EEALIZE YOUB POWEK.
Mental positiveness is the first step in overcoming. The intelligence that you now exercise is divine, and is already in its subjective state the cause of your human organization. Take away the intelligent YOU and the body will no longer remain a concrete unit, because your intelligence is the organizing power that enlivens and holds your body in form. Your intelligence already has dominion over every atom of your being and is exerting that dominion unceasingly. You can now gain the realization that this is true, and begin to use your power of intelligence consciously in ruling every part of your negative nature, in overcoming all the negative conditions of disease and pain which exist in your nature because of a lack of positive, harmonizing intelligence in the parts affected.
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Mind of God consists are positive, more positive than v electricity, even more positive than the mind of humanity. Your mind must be tuned to supreme positiveness if you would realize the power of life. Your faith in the power of life to overcome every negative condition must be more positive than your belief in the lack of life and health if you would polarize the intelligent^ healing power of the divine life.
Electricity flows freely through the copper wire, but when it meets the positive resistance of the wire in the glass bulb it instantly generates heat and light. The electricity glorifies that which is as positive as itself. Life will glorify you with its power of health and perfec- tion as your faith becomes as positive as life. You will become Godlike with divine powers as you develop in the strength of I AM-ness which polarizes and radiates the life, intelligence and love of the universal Father to all. Always remember that one of the conditions of divine receptivity is humility toward the supreme Power. The most Godlike realize that their strength is the strength of the Father. As the friction between the electricity and the resistant wire generates light and heat, so the vibra- tion of the wonderful forces of the universal mind against the positive center of your mind will generate the heat of divine love and the light of true wisdom which will make you a mighty power for good, a radiant center of all the divine attributes that you have developed.
Your body is an image of your mental character. Your character is the aggregation of all your past thoughts and feelings. It is your mind body and is formed from your habitual processes of thought. If there is discord or inharmony in your mind, if passion dominates your feelings, then pain and disease must show forth in the body, for every atom of flesh is obedient to some thought in the subjective body of mental energy. The mind body is the more positive and the flesh responds
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to its influence, as the iron filings respond to the magnet. Place some iron filings on a paper and put a strong magnet underneath the paper and you will see the filings climb on top of each other and also form sym- metrical curves in their efforts to follow the lines of magnetic force and produce an image of the invisible sphere of influence around the magnet. In like manner the atoms of flesh obey your sphere of mental influence in an effort to image the influence of your positive pole of thought. /Do you not begin to see what a marvelous / polarizing power you have? It is no one else than your- self that is holding these millions of atoms in organization. You are a creator, that is, you are an individualizer of atoms. That is all there is to creation; it is a process of individualization. Creation is God in the act of indi- vidualizing Himself. As He has forever been individualiz- ing and becoming manifest, so creation is a perpetual process without beginning of days or ending of years.
Who are you but that unknown power of the Eternal whom no man hath seen or comprehended fully? You are that One coming to consciousness, awakening to the realization of yourself, and just beginning to know and feel that the power of the Almighty is yours to manifest for the good of all. You are growing to Godhood through exerting the power that is inherently yours. The Being of God is your Being, the foundation for all that you are, and God is glorified in glorifying you. Who else shall he glorify but Himself made manifest? Awake! arise! proclaim your own Being the King of your nature and of your world. Assert your I Am in the quality of divine love and you will add a positive pole to your mental battery that will make you a mighty magnet, holding subject to your will all the less developed and negative forces of your nature. You can realize by constant prac- tice that your will is the focal point for the mighty energies of God. Not in a day will you realize the full
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powers of your divine being, nor will God endow you with the power from on high until you have by practice of the good and true proved your wisdom and ability to use the thunderbolts of Jove. You have been ages grow- ling to your present state of selfconscious individuality, and now you have taken the step of recognition where you see that All is Good, because all is a part of the almighty wisdom and intelligence, and by your true and persistent recognition you will appropriate the wisdom of God only, and all things will work for your good.
You are lifted above the animal plane by your ability to think. The power to think unites you to the most positive state of the divine Mind and enables you to polarize Divinity. You are the image of the Almighty, and can do whatsoever you see your Father doing. \
THE LAW OF ATTRACTION.
The Law of Attraction is the supreme power guiding the destiny of all solar systems.
The sun is a mighty electro-magnet for the generation of attractive force.
The sun does not produce light and heat by the con- sumption of its own substance. Light and heat are generated by the interaction of the sun's force upon the force generated by the earth.
The relation of the earth to the sun is not that of a' piece of soft iron to a magnet, but of a magnet to a magnet, for the earth is also a great magnet suspended in the universal currents of magnetic force.
How marvelous is the balance and adjustment of these forces which hold the suns and planets in a harmonious unity. How simple and yet how mighty is the law of attraction, the attraction of God's Presence, in holding all things in obedience to Himself.
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The statement that like attracts like seems to conflict with the statement that opposites attract each other. It will be better understood when we say that the opposite poles of like attract each other.
"Birds of a feather flock together" but the positive and negative characteristics mate. Personalities are attracted to each other, because one possesses what the other lacks.
"Familiarity breeds contempt," because there is a tendency on the part of one character to supply the deficiency in the other, and when both become positive in the same characteristics they no longer need each other, and are again attracted by those who are positive to their negative qualities.
It is according to the same law that the negative nature of God is attracted to His positive nature, and a reciprocal unity forever established.
COMPARISONS.
The universe viewed as a Whole is one mighty magnet embracing all things within the positive and negative poles of being. These two words explain the Whole, and yet they are used to describe relative, not absolute, condi- tions, and they are always relative in their application also. The WThole — all that we can gain a conception of — may be compared to one grand sliding scale of intelligence, the negative conditions growing into the positive and the positive becoming more and more positive on and on, ever and ever.
The one primal Energy is the substance of all forms of life in this world, and ranges in development from the clod of dirt to the vibrant brain cells of man. And in the worlds invisible it ranges from the dark thoughts of igno- rant minds to the luminous thoughts of Divinity, which are
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archangels of majesty and power. None of these forms is absolutely negative, none is lacking altogether in intelligence or vital power. All forms contain the pos- sibilities of progression and do progress through the unfoldment or expansion of the latent intelligence within them. This development of the simple into the complex, or of the negative into the positive, is called evolution.
The one power dwelling in all substance compels inorganic matter to organize life, as earth to change into green grass. This one power also enables the lower forms of animal life to develop into the higher, and the ignorant and weak forms of humanity to become wise and strong. This is always accomplished through the unfoldment of intelligence which is latent in all forms no matter how inert and dead they may seem. The earth is negative to the grass, the grass is negative when compared with the tree or animal. The animal is very negative and undeveloped in intelligence from the standpoint of conscious manhood, and men are but babes in intelligence beside the elder brothers of the race, those angels and archangels who stand in the Presence of the positive Sun of Divinity and work to lift themselves and all below them to a still higher plane of wisdom and power.
Man's state of positive intelligence is still negative when compared to the supremely positive intelligence that holds him and all other atoms of intelligence subjects to its organizing wisdom and power. That supremely positive Intelligence, the ultimate of all intelligence, is Almighty God, the Absolute Truth. It demands imperatively that all intelligence and every truth not absolute shall adapt itself to it, for the Abso- lute does not conform. It stands in mighty majesty, just as it has stood forever, compelling every soul that beholds it to bring every thought of his life into conformity with it. Glory to God in the Highest!
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OUK POINT OF VIEW.
We cannot truly comprehend the wonders and glories of the infinite life unless we view the universe from a high mountain of thought where our understanding is not clouded by our ideas of time or space. We should be able to see that the universe, as the manifestation of an eternal and infinite power, is not limited by time or space. It began in eternity and through endless time its evolution will proceed. It has the whole of infinity in which to grow, and there are no limitations anywhere either to the growth of the universe as a whole or to that of any one of its parts.
/The possibilities of life are unlimited. and each thing is being inspired from within to express more and more of its inherent power and intelligence. Even the lower forms of life are intelligent but the intelligence is uncon- scious. It is only when life has unfolded for itself a form sufficiently perfect to express conscious intelligence that the soul power from God becomes manifest. Then man, the creature of authority and power, enters into his ruler- ship. Then he realizes that his conscious intelligence gives him dominion over all less developed forms of intelligence. Judging from our mortal idea of time how slow is the unfoldment of intelligence. But judging correctly we must see as God sees, from the timeless state of the eternal, where life and growth are impelled to be by the quenchless Bliss of Being.
And down in the plane of time every form of life feels stirring within it that desire to be, to grow — that perpetual presence of the Eternal.
The power and wisdom that man exercises today was not given him by any arbitrary act of the Creator. The Creator has been with him and in him, leading him through a long series of development during which his
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ignorance has been outgrown, and he has gained the conquest over many crude conditions.
That mind called man is a being of eternity. It has gained much experience through previous embodiments and it is this innate knowledge and experience stored in the interior of the mind that has enabled man to over- come limiting conditions and to tread obstacles under foot. He has climbed the steep mountain of evolution, and has gained added strength with each step upward, exercising his will and all the faculties of his mind until they have become rounded out and capable of grasping somewhat of the light of Wisdom.
And now in the conscious union with the Father- Mother God he ripens his soul powers by leading others to see the Way of life in which all must walk to the journey's end.
ATTKACTION INDIVIDUALIZED.
As man applies the truth that he is organized intelli- gence and a central point in the law of attraction, that he is attraction individualized, he will realize more and more that he is a mighty magnet and all things are subject to his will.
The intelligent control of the processes of life to produce health has not been general with mankind, because they did not recognize that mind could control the digestive and other forces of the body.
Man is the manifestation of a universal Force and is glad to control it as fast as he gains the recognition of how to proceed.
He is a unit, a whole, a complete generator of power within himself.
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more and more to his innate power and realizes the fulfill- ment of the promise that all things shall be added.
The Heaven-Mind within will be brought forth as he recognizes its power, as he rises above the limiting belief in matter into the knowledge that All is Spirit.
Let everyone roll away the stone from the door of the sepulchre and pray the Christ to come forth, opening the mind to accept the truth, with all desire to do good.
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Every atom and fiber of my body being is an omnip- otent magnet which draws to me with resistless and incessant energy all my heart's wishes.
All the life, force and energy of almighty God are working to bring me prosperity.
GOD'S MANTLE OF PROTECTION IS SPREAD OVER ALL HIS CHILDREN.
Whenever an electrical storm passes over us and the fiercely flashing lightning seems to be bringing fire and death to earth, let us unite in generating a protecting influence by positively asserting the above statement.
There is a tremendous power in thought to intelli- gently direct the blind forces of nature, and when a number unite in creating a thought to that end, it stirs into activity the mighty forces in the mind of the world and results in a grand demonstration of the power of mind over material elements.
When human beings learn of the power of thought and all agree in holding such thoughts as the foregoing, it will generate a wonderful protecting power in the mental atmosphere or state about us, and their united faith will enable the Spirit of God to effectually protect His children. God needs intelligent co-workers
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in this mortal sphere of activity through whom He may work to do good to humanity. The Spirit of Love and Goodness is all about us. It enfolds us in the magnetic sphere of its gracious power, but it needs to become individualized in order to bring into manifestation the mighty goodness that it holds for humanity. God needs men and women with hearts of loje and minds of true faith through whom His power may act to save and heal and protect. God has evolved us for the very purpose that we might act for Him, and that through us He might do that which He could not do without us; that we should become the links that would join His finer sphere of wisdom and power with the grosser state of mortal life, and make God and man one united power for good.
His Spirit brooding over the darkness of material elements evolved the sun and the planets, inspired the dull elements of the earth to manifest life through gradually developing forms of crystal, vegetable, and animal; and when through a long evolution the "dust of the earth" finally arrived to the form of man, His Spirit endowed man with a self-conscious soul after His own likeness and power, and now He is trying to inspire us to use the talents with which we are endowed to the further manifestation of his divine love and wisdom as sons of the Eternal.
God manifests through the enlightened faith of humanity. When all believe in the goodness of God as the supreme motive of existence and express His good- ness in thought and act, all the destructive forces in nature will become infused with the Spirit of goodness that radiates from the mind of humanity, and the earth will manifest the goodness and glory of God.
This is a period of great tribulation to humanity because we are passing out of a cycle of old into a
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cycle of new^ thought. We are passing from the darkness of man-made creeds and false imaginations into the brightness of the light of revelation as it shines from the eternal realm of souls; but the darkness does not compre- hend the light of heaven, and the clashing of the light and the darkness is causing great disturbance in the ele- ments of Jiature as well as in the minds of men, because the elements are negative and reflect the discord in man's life.
Now, at the beginning of a new cycle of progression, thought will have a great influence in molding the future of this cycle. Now we may sow the seeds that will fruit in great good to humanity. Let us all unite in affirming the above thought and those which follow, remembering the words of the Master:
"If two of you shall agree on earth
As touching anything that they shall ask,
It shall be done for them
Of my Father who is in heaven.
For where two or three
Are gathered together in my name,
There am I in the midst of them."
The Lord God Omnipotent reigns in heaven and shall reign on earth. The supreme Will of Love shall be done, shall be made manifest in all the contending minds and forces on earth.
The truth in the world shall be quickened with the power of the Spirit of Truth and it shall gain the victory over all error and falsity.
The workers for right and justice shall be strength- ened by the power of God and they shall defeat every apparent enemy.
The light of truth must reign throughout the land and dissolve all ignorance and all the bondage begotten from ignorance.
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The Spirit of love must dissolve all greed and self- ishness and bring an era of co-operation and prosperity.
Glory to God in the highest, for Justice and Mercy must prevail in the land over which the mantle of Divine Protection is spread.
THEKE IS LIFE, SENSATION AND INTELLIGENCE
IN MATTEE.
Many believe and try to practice the teaching that there is no life, sensation or intelligence in matter. Is it not more rational to believe that if God is omnipresent substance, there is no lack of life, sensation and intel- ligence in matter?
Matter is the visibility of the God Substance. When this planet had condensed from the elementary fire mist and formed a crust of solid rock, there was nothing visible but water and rock. In the course of time the surface of the rock disintegrated and the particles recombined to form lichens and other primary exhibitions of life, and when these primary forms had disintegrated and fertilized the soil, conditions were made for still higher manifesta- tions of plant life. Through ages of time these simple types evolved and combined to produce new and more complex organisms, so that from the planet of solid granite has been produced all the forms of life, sensation and intelligence that inhabit the earth at the present time. The original matter was a substance potential with all the attributes of God, and only needed time to unfold its vast possibilities of life, sensation and intelligence.
It is the aim of God to develop the latent possibilities of matter, for it is all His nature. God's nature is sub- stantial. Whether we say that His nature is infinite matter or substance, or infinite spirit or intelligence, the same truth is expressed. If there were no substance there could be no intelligence, for all knowledge is produced by
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matter in motion. To illustrate: the optic nerve is vibrated by the waves of light, and the vibrations are imparted to the brain substance and the activity of this substance produces thought and knowledge. It is the interaction of positive and negative substances that pro- duces first, life; second, sensation; and third the vibration of thought called intelligence. Viewing matter as a living substance we can truly say that all is matter. What is thought but a more radiant and evolved condition of matter? All matter is vibration. Magnetism and electricity are produced by the chemical action of material elements, and are those elements transformed into more intense vibration. What we call physical life is the inter- action of these magnetic and electric forces. Through the vibration of the matter of our nerves sensation is pro- duced, and because the human body has evolved a larger body of nerve substance called brain, it is capable of pro- ducing the more complex vibrations of thought. To be sure there is a soul power in man that by its individual action in the physical substance enables it to produce these intelligent results. But it must be remembered that the soul of God is infused into all nature, for it is His nature, and therefore we must realize the truth that matter is not something apart from the divine life and intel- ligence and incapable of divine expression, but that the transforming power of God is forever active in all mat- ter, causing each atom to individualize and grow in the unfoldment of its inherent life and intelligence.
Thought is not an intangible something, but an energy as substantial and more intelligent than elec- tricity. Thoughts are substantial things. They are higher forms of matter — matter grown intelligent. The Mind of God is an infinite sea of divine thought substance; an ocean of radiant, intelligent energy, which fills infinity with the glory and majesty of the Eternal One.
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tions of electric and magnetic force as they mingle and blend in the atmosphere of the earth. In higher states and conditions of matter — in the spheres of spiritualized matter — the same process is transpiring. The mingling of the love and intelligence of the One with the more negative substance of the universal Mind produces the transcendent beauty, grace and harmony manifest in the heavenly spheres of God's eternal nature. The soul generates, from the body of flesh, physical life, sensation and mental energy. These forces combine to form the mind-body or spiritual counterpart of the person, which is a higher form of matter, and more lasting than the physical form in its present state of development. This spirit form is substantial although its rate of vibration cannot be perceived by the physical senses. What we term Spirit is the highest evolved condition of universal matter imaginable, and it must not be forgotten that this spiritualized essence of God's nature has its abode in the essence of each atom, and it unceasingly strives to expand as it feels the warmth of divine love. This expansion of the spirit of things is the cause for all growth and progression.
By individualizing love, and blessing the flesh with the intelligent feeling of love we can accelerate this process in our physical development, quickening the atoms with our realization of the divine Presence.
It is true that All is Mind and it is also true that All is Matter, for mind and matter are the one substantial principle in different states of unfoldment. There is but one substance, one life and one intelligence, and His name is One. There is nothing besides the Infinite and Eternal One. God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. It is necessary for us to realize that matter is the divine nature if we would learn the art of glorifying it. If the rocky structure of this planet could yield such a mar- velous array of beautiful, intelligent forms under the
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brooding Presence of the Spirit of God, how much more should we expect the highly evolved substance of our bodies to respond to the loving intelligence of our thought power to unfold its latent possibilities of life, health and perfec- tion to the highest degree. It is through recognition of the Presence of God in our negative nature that the nature yields the intelligence and power of the divine Presence. We cannot expect good results if we deny matter or flesh for by our thought power we cut away and deny that the negative pole of our being contains any possibilities of growth toward perfection. The negative pole is just as necessary in the constitution of the magnet man as the positive pole. Matter is as necessary in the constitution of the nature of God as Spirit. Without matter there could be no creation. There could be no electricity gen- erated without the negative as well as the positive pole of the battery. The positive and negative poles are necessary in the constitution of the Mind of God, and without such relative conditions life, sensation and intel- ligence would be impossible.
Humanity was generated from the marriage of heaven and earth. Swedenborg wrote that all the heavens and heavenly beings were produced from the physical side of the universe by the Spirit, and that heaven without earth would be like a house suspended in mid-air without a foundation. The marriage of the soul and body produces human self-consciousness, and the growth of the soul comes from its development of the latent possibilities in earth and earthly experiences.
Matter is often denied that the sensation of pain may be overcome. More would be accomplished by educating the flesh to express its latent healing life, than by denying its existence. The atoms of flesh are a negative form of mind and express only as much intelligence as they have unfolded. They are capable of developing a higher grade of intelligence which will yield more harmonious results
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in the physical instrument. Organs may be dominated by thoughts and desires which are antagonistic to each other, and consequently the organs fail to work in har- mony and the whole organism is disturbed. Let it be remembered that matter is always responsive to thought, according to its degree and quality of intelligence. If the soul came into the world to carry out a purpose of God, and the conscious mind is bent on accomplish- ing an unlike purpose, although the soul may not be strong enough to make its purpose known, and the mind may not be wise enough to do right, nevertheless the con- flicting motives and purposes of the soul and mind will disturb the even equilibrium of the nature. Many suffer because the soul has not free expression. Very often pain is the cry of the parts for more life and power to do their work efficiently. The wise mind will not deny this need but will immediately send the currents of love and life to strengthen and harmonize the conflicting vibrations of the matter in the physical or negative mind of the human battery.
The time was when the highest evolved species of animal on earth could not reason, but gradually as the matter of their flesh became of a finer texture and experi- ence called for the most intense exercise of the mentality so far developed, the higher faculties were born, and the enlarging cranium has marked the upward trend of evolu- tion. Now the present evolved beings are just beginning to learn that they can consciously develop every nerve center and organ in the body to a condition of perfected activities which will be as much above the diseased humanity of the present as the brain development of man is superior to the animal.
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subject to the negative vibrations of sin, sickness and death, it is then an exhibition of the divine substance — the Father made manifest.
It has been said by scientific authority that one cubic inch of matter has locked within it enough force to anni- hilate an army. Think of the immense possibilities of the living power stored in your flesh, which you can develop into a state of intelligent co-operation with your will to the expression of your growing wisdom and love. What a transforming power is yours. You take into your body the elements from external nature and your organism assimilates certain of these chemical elements and transforms them into a higher order of substance which is fashioned into a form that represents your particular character.
By knowing that matter is an expression of the Mind of God and that it is capable of yielding more abundant life, more Jiarmonious sensations and a mightier intel- ligent will that shall manifest the will of God, we lose the limiting beliefs of matter as something apart from Mind, and are able by the intelligent use of our thought power to convert the sensations of pain into the more positive sensations of peace, and to tune all the vibrations and feelings of the flesh into a body of force whose tone is the tone of the divine soul, and whose every effort is the expression of the love, wisdom, grace and beauty of the indwelling individual soul — the Self from the bosom of the Father.
Desire for the necessities of life leads through experi- ence, and experience results in mental growth. Even the animals through their desire for food gain the experiences that developed them into more positive individualities.
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MATTER PRODUCES THOUGHT AND CON- SCIOUSNESS.
Knowledge begins with perception. Substance pro- duces thought, and thought, which is a form of reaction, deals with substance.
We are made conscious of things not self and then become conscious of self. It is not the brain alone that thinks; it is the whole man. The sensory nerves reaching to all parts of the body are all a part of the thinking organism. If the eye rests on something dangerous, the optic nerve is affected, and we become conscious of the danger. Thus the eye was as much concerned in produc- ing the thought as any part of the brain. Had it not been for the eye, neither the nerves nor the brain would have been moved to action. Consciousness comes simul- taneously with perfected thought.
Sensation produces thought. Our ideas depend greatly on the character of sensation. Human knowledge is born of nature, is her offspring. To think is to have our organism acted on by matter in motion. Knowledge comes from and is produced by matter in motion. Were there no matter, there could be no motion, — hence no thought or knowledge.
All our ideas and the words we use to represent ideas were derived from experience with external things. Even our conceptions of God and of the ideal realm are but reflections of things within our personal experience. All ideas of beauty are derived from forms of matter. And if an angel messenger from God were to try to lift our minds to a higher state of thought he would of necessity use our material concepts, as Jesus did in his parables, and when he gave to the Unnamable One the name "Father" which brought Him within even the understand- ing of a little child.
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TEUTH IS MIGHTY AND WILL PEEVAIL.
Ignorance is binding in its effect upon the thought of humanity. A test of divine truth is its uplifting, inspiring and freeing quality. A truth that does not free the mind from the thought of bondage does not perfectly image the freeing Spirit of Truth.
Truth is the revelation of the love and wisdom of God, and of the beneficent goodness of all the active laws in His vast nature. And all the laws of existence when rightly seen and interpreted proclaim the inherent good- ness and wisdom of the Power that pervades existence.
The ancient Hindus were dominated by the belief that existence is evil, a product of Mara or illusion, a vast hypnotism that must be escaped by a process of counter-suggestion and absolute renunciation of mortal thought and desire. It was a common idea with them that man is in bondage to his good thoughts as well as to his evil thoughts and desires. His good thoughts bound him to dwell in heaven until the stored-up merit thus acquired was exhausted, when he was compelled to return to physical birth and acquire more merit. And by the demerit of his evil thoughts he was bound to suffer in hell and to be born in the womb of an animal or even worse. Even the gods were held in bondage to this terrible law of Karma — so it is written in their sacred books — and the only way to attain liberation from that ever-active law was through a process of renunciation of both good and evil carried on during several incarnations.
It will be noted that bondage and punishment were the dominant elements in their idea of justice. To them justice was not tempered by mercy.
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foregoing because of their depressing effect upon the mind and consequent debilitating effect in the body.
The present-day teaching of reincarnation from the standpoint of an avenging Karma is as depressing to the spiritual nature as th~e orthodox idea of hell and ever- lasting damnation; they are both built upon the founda- tion of an avenging justice.
The Hindu Masters in the celestial heaven are very positive in denying the prevailing idea of Karma.
The thought they promulgate as truth is so inspiring and uplifting, so strengthening and encouraging to the soul that it dissolves all fear and depression from the mind and gives instead a feeling of joy and praise for the wisdom and mercy of God.
Man suffers on the earth plane because he ignorantly violates natural law, not because he did an evil in a past incarnation for which he needs to receive punishment. Those who understand the laws of thought as well as the laws of nature are not so liable to violate these laws and so their knowledge saves them from harm. The good and evil suffer alike from the general ignorance of the race, and only as the whole race is gradually evolved into the knowledge of the truth and the expression of its characteristic quality of goodness and love will man- kind be free from sin and suffering. A man may be very evil in his thoughts and actions on this plane, and wiien he enters the spiritual state he may be attracted by the beauty of goodness and receive a knowledge of divine truth, which, entering his spirtual structure will gradually transform him as a spirit into the beauty of character of an angelic being, thus freeing him from all bondage to evil and from the necessity of reaping anything but good. And through the holy ministry of the angels of God the truth may likewise enter into our spiritual nature while we are yet in this mortal body and purify and spiritualize the nature to that degree that sin and the
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mental and physical effects of sin may be dissolved. Thus the truth of God's mercy overcomes ignorance and the results of ignorance in those who love and obey the Spirit of Truth.
My own experience in visiting the various spirit planes, in hearing of the personal experiences of the lower kinds of spirits as well as higher, both while in the body and out, coupled with like experiences of my friends and with the wider knowledge and experience of the Masters convinces me that there is no law in the spirit world, nor in the constitution of the nature of spirits, to compel them to reincarnate because of their evil thoughts or deeds; that spirits are not impelled to reincarnate from any inherent law of retribution or justice, but solely from a desire to gain further experience, as one would leave home and friends for the sake of the experience to be gained by traveling through a foreign land.
The belief in the law of Karma is injurious in that it weighs down the incarnate spirit with the thought that it is in bondage to an inscrutable Nemesis that may compel it to enter many dreary rounds of experience to balance up an unknown account of possibly vast propor- tions. It is a terribly depressing belief. It does not inspire with hope or courage or faith in the power of the soul to conquer. It would have us believe that the negative side of the law of cause and effect is mightier than the positive operation of wisdom and mercy. It would dethrone the freeing Spirit of Truth and enthrone a frightful Nemesis.
It continues to limit the spirit that believes in it even in the spirit world. A large number of spirits continue to hold this belief in the necessity of reincarna- tion as a means of atonement for past sins. They urge spirits to reincarnate who would be much better off did they stay in the spirit world, following up the true teach- ing until they were freed from the mortal limitations
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accumulated during their earth life, because when a spirit reincarnates before gaining wisdom and spiritual freedom, and some degree of soul awakening in the higher spheres, he will not only be weighed down by the igno- rance of his personality but the load of past sins and false beliefs will still cloud his spirit and hinder his progression in knowledge.
It is true that we reap as we sow. Our character determines our destiny, drawing to us from the universal Mind qualities like those we have incorporated into our nature. Our character is the result of the blending of the mental attributes of our parents plus the thoughts and feelings we have accumulated from experience, some- times reshaped and transformed by the awakened power of the divine indwelling soul. It is upon this law of cause and effect in the mental realm that the doctrine of Karma is founded, but the structure built on this foundation was designed by an imagination intoxicated with the belief in an eternal principle of darkness or evil. It is a metaphysical nightmare, from which the oriental mind needs to be awakened by the merciful and inspiring touch of the Mother love in God, the saving Spirit of Truth.
A soul aflame with the Mother love of God for humanity proclaimed these words: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free." When I saw those words in great letters of gold across the peristyle at the World's Fair twelve years ago, I wondered within myself what they meant. The spirit of those words was revealed to my mind soon after, and during these twelve years I have had constant cause to rejoice in the knowl- edge of the living power of the Spirit of Truth. The woes of mankind have all been born from ignorance, from a lack of true knowledge. Through a partial knowl- edge humanity suffers; with full knowledge comes peace and power. An oriental priesthood saddled humanity with the belief of Karma and transmigration that it might
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ride to the selfish heights of dominion, and the occidental priesthood accomplished the same results by holding their followers subject to the belief of a punishing God with everlasting damnation for those who strayed from the fold. But praises to the Eternal and to the merciful angels of light, we have outgrown the ignorance of the past, and the mercy of truth is now proclaimed by thou- sands of tongues and will rapidly conquer and put away forever all falsity and error in the mind of the race.
Let us turn from the consideration of the negative law of cause and effect to the recognition of the positive law of mercy and truth. We have been bound under the spell of evil by our faith in the presence and power of evil; now we may be freed from all evils by our faith in the presence and power of the Spirit of Truth. The same amount of time given to preaching and proclaiming the goodness and power and wisdom of the soul m man that has been given to teaching the inherent deviHshness of man would result in giving such a strong mental force to the indwelling soul that it would rise up in majesty and power and conquer the petty limitations of sin, sick- ness and poverty, which result from the world's igno- rance; it would evolve humanity into a race of incarnate angels. That wonderful Spirit of love, purity, joy and wisdom which exists in the higher spheres of the celestial existence transforms every spirit seeking to know and live its life, into a beautiful radiant spirit of love and perfection. That Spirit which has redeemed hosts of spirits into angels of goodness and mercy, healing them of all their diseases, giving them peace for pain, and plenty for poverty — that omnipotent Spirit of Truth — is now shedding its bright and tender rays of love into our earth land, and as fast as we receive it will it glorify our spirits even while we are pent up in form of flesh. It will transform this world as it has transformed the spirit worlds by the predominance of its quality of goodness
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and love into a land of peace and plenty. It will heal the sick, and so quicken the souls of mortals that disease and pain will no longer be a necessity to the dwellers in earth. And so glorious will the consciousness of the immortal soul of man become that he will sense and know at all times that he is an immortal son of God, and the soul in the mortal will walk and talk continually with the souls in the celestial spheres, "and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death."
All Glory to the Power of Truth!
THE WHOLE TKUTH.
Man must know the whole truth in order to live a wholesome life and manifest perfection. Students are hugging their half truths in desperation, wondering why they do not yield full results, and at the same time they turn a deaf ear toward those truths which they need to know in order to overcome their limitations.
If we stand on the foundation statement that all is truth we must hold our mind in a state of unprejudiced receptivity toward all expressions of truth in order that we may not refuse to receive some precious word of utmost value. The presence of truth is visible in all material objects, in all forms of external nature, if our eyes are but unveiled to see. Our ears may hear the voice of truth in every creed and doctrine or science and philosophy if they are not closed by bigoted opinion.
What is truth? It is the revelation of the Whole, the meaning or Spirit that pervades and expresses through every least part of the Whole. It is God revealing Himself as sensation in matter (for every atom of matter is an atom of sensation), as the venom of the serpent, as the devastat- ing power of the volcano, as the formative mind in nature,
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as the beauty and intelligence of all nature's children from amoeba to man, as the understanding and will of man, as the mercy and power of the angelic hosts, and as the love of Divinity that embraces all these degrees of truth from the very lowest to the very highest. In the absolute sense there is no ignorance. Every form is a form of intelligence and represents a degree of knowledge. Ants and bees know how to carry on a co-operative com- monwealth, the bear knows where to find the honey store- house of the bee, and man has the knowledge to overcome most of the lower forms of intelligence; each is wise in his degree of unfoldment. No one being in all the universe is all-wise or omniscient — that is, no one being knows all that every being on this planet knows in its own sphere of activity; only the Mind that senses in the rock, feels and thinks in every one of these its own manifestations, knows what they all know in the aggregate. Each plane of manifestation is one department in the Mind of the whole, and each species is a specialized faculty of the One Mind for the gaining and expressing of the truth manifest in its sphere of activity.
All is intelligent. There is One omnipresent Mind embracing all. Individualized minds evolve from lower to higher degrees in this Mind as they expand in intelli- gence. There are three general degrees of Mind — the material degree, represented by physical life; the spiritual degree, represented by the rational life in this world and in the world of spirits; and the celestial degree, represented by the soul nature in man and by the celestial worlds where souls enjoy the fullest realization and expression of soul love and wisdom.
It is less difficult for the animal to keep in health than man, because his mind is simple and there are but two degrees of his nature to be kept in harmony. Man has a more complex mind with many more disturbing thoughts than the animal, which alone would account for many of his
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physical illnesses, and he also has a soul nature that often refuses to live on bread and material thought. By living like an animal he crucifies his soul, the Christ within; the soul becomes discouraged with its personality and refuses to give its life to satisfy his mortal cravings, and the inharmony between soul and mind results in the death of the body. Therefore man must know and live a larger truth than the animal in order to be perfect. He must understand the laws of mental action and the consequence of his various moods and beliefs on his body. He must also understand the relation that exists between himself and Divinity and that Divinity is embodied in his soul if he would realize the fullest expression of life from God; and then the body must be properly cared for, and this is an art that varies with each temperament and with every mode of living.
We should like to believe that mind alone is able to heal all ailments, keep all the muscles strong whether they are used or not, and supply all deficiencies in the way of material elements, but experience teaches that while mind is a mighty healer and organizer of the physical form, it is dependent to a large degree upon what kinds of food are taken into the body and the use to which the body is put. A little alcohol will arouse the latent mental energy in the body and cause the heart to beat faster and the blood to flow swifter; a larger amount will stir the mind to fiery enthusiasm or drug it into brutish insensibility, and it will do this despite man's manner of thinking, and whether he believes it has power or not. This potency has been inherent in alcohol as its inheritance of power from the Mind of the whole, and not as a "belief of power given to alcohol by "mortal thought," as our metaphysical friends would have us believe. The mind of the poppy has learned how to extract a certain force from the universal Mind, and this manifest attribute of Mind, when prepared as
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opium and brought in contact with the mind of man by way of the blood, will overpower his mind. Thus every plant and every form of nature expresses certain potencies and attributes of the Mind of nature, which is the one Mind we call God. We condemn these things as evils and thus condemn in our short-sighted way God, the source of all these elements and powers. They are not evil in themselves; only the misuse of them by man gives rise to those hard experiences and develops a negative form of knowledge which is called evil. "Even virtue becomes vice, if misapplied," said Shakespeare. Would it not be wiser for us to praise God for the benefit that has been derived from the use of the various remedies that man has discovered and applied to the healing of physical ailments? That certain drugs have virtue in alleviating pain and restoring at least a temporary condi- tion of harmony to the body cannot be denied, but the knowledge of the effect of these chemical potencies on various temperaments is so limited that we cannot truly say that medicine is an exact science.
Every proprietary medicine placed on the market cures a certain percentage of those who use it. There may be found many genuine testimonials praising God for the blessing of health after long suffering, and after many other remedies had failed. Now it cannot be said that faith alone cured all those cases, because they had equal faith in each one of a half dozen or more different remedies, but not till they found the right remedy con- taining the mental potency that would act with just the right effect upon their mental organization were they healed. All force is at the last analysis mental force and acts upon the mind of man to produce effects, whether it acts on the mind in the body directly as a remedy or upon the body indirectly as a thought force given to the mind. If I were suffering with rheumatism, for instance, it would make little difference to me whether I were
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relieved by a doctor skilled in the use of drug potencies or by a doctor adept in the use of thought potencies. It would amount to the same thing, as both would use "remedies/' and I would thank God that someone had a knowledge of the proper remedies to bring relief. Of course there would be one drawback about the medical man that I would object to; he might possibly have some positive "beliefs" about the power of disease to overcome life accumulated from much study of the action of disease, and these silent suggestions of his I should have to combat.
Even the animals have imbibed some knowledge of the healing virtue of herbs from the Mind of nature. When a dog is sick he will seek out a certain herb and eat it, then lie down in the stillness with perfect faith that nature will accomplish his healing.
It is hard to determine when we are taking medicine and when we are taking food, because there is no line dividing foods and medicines. You may object to taking iron for your blood and at the next meal absorb a large amount of iron from a plate of beans. What we call remedies are very often elements derived from plants that would be valuable as foods if they could be properly prepared, and the healing value of the remedy consists in its supplying necessary elements to the body. Preju- dice against medicines might deter you from taking some element into your system which would be the proper one to complete your healing. Poisons are never safe unless taken in homeopathic doses.
People are sadly limited by their prejudice and bigotry, often closing the door to the mercy of God by their petty beliefs. Those who believe in medicine are prejudiced against mental and spiritual healing, and those who believe in mental and spiritual means refuse some little material aid to the sufferer in order to appear consistent in their pet theory; few are broad-minded
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enough to accept the whole truth, physical elements for the body, mental elements for the mind, and divine ele- ments for the soul.
A lack of knowledge of some little detail of truth pertaining to an essential factor in the healing prevents perfect demonstration.
A man may know truth relative to the needs of the body, he may eat the foods which his nature and disposi- tion call for, he may understand how to regulate his hours of sleep, exercise, and meals to get the best use of his body, he may have a knowledge of the power of thought and understand the relation that exists between his soul and God, and yet, through lack of desire or perseverance, he may fall short of fulfilling the truth he knows on any or all planes of his being, and his knowledge may not avail to save him from sickness and pain. "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."
Some there be who gain an intellectual comprehen- sion of the power of thought and have a deep appreciation of metaphysical subtleties, and they wonder why God does not heal them, why discord and inharmony still affect their affairs, why the new thought does not inaugurate a new order of affairs around them and satisfy them with healing peace. If they will search deep into their hearts they will often find that they are not living exponents of the truths they believe. They act deceitfully, do unjustly, live lustfully, crave mortal approbation, conspire to selfishly wrong their neighbor; the light and love of true spirituality do not manifest through them. The truth is but painted on their minds; it is not incorporated as a living, moving force in their characters.
I met one who had studied metaphysics for several years. He was schooled in the knowledge of the power of thought and was always using it to try to demonstrate wealth, hotjbarely earned enough to feed him. He wrote aTpamphlet that told just how the mind should be operated
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to open the doors of unlimited supply, but dressed like a tramp. Most of the money he received was gained through deceptive methods. He could lecture learnedly on God and one to hear him would believe that he knew all the laws of the universe and possibly even how God came to be. He believed that with his knowledge of truth when he left this mortal plane he would enter into the most intimate companionship with Divinity, and he was convinced of my lack of spiritual perception when I told him his spiritual merit was not enough to raise him above the second degree of life in the spirit world, which is the second plane of unregenerate humanity. And still he continues to think truth and do falsely, and "self illumination" blinds his eyes to the real path, and he wonders that disease and poverty hold their sway over his life.
As we live the pure life, the honest life, the true life of the soul, the inner soul nature becomes more closely united with our personal mind, and our character deter- mines our destiny, whether it shall be toward harmony and pleasantness with an abundance of health and success, or toward discord and the way of pain and defeat. We are spiritual beings now and according to our character we vibrate in unison with beings on the spiritual plane that chords with our nature. Beings in the spiritual planes of life have more wisdom and power according to the degree of their ascendency into the life and love of God. As a man attunes his life and character to the highest truth and lives a spiritual life on this plane, he draws on the deeper and higher planes of power and gains the co-operation through prayer of those divine souls who have washed their garments in the water of truth until they are glorified with the life of truth and manifest its power in their celestial lives.
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THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE.
Music is a universal language, embracing in its vocabulary all possibilities of human thought, feeling or utterance, from the crudest rhythm of the natural man — the untaught savage — to the keenest analysis of the philosopher or the deepest emotions of a soul on fire with God, wrapped in the devotional bliss engendered by direct contact with the divine Heart of Love.
In the blending of musical tones there is the possi- bility of unimagined and unfelt emotions and revelations. The ancient seers of India did not try to convey by written scroll the revelation of things celestial attained through exaltation of the soul senses to direct perception of eternal verities. The sublimity of truth and the glory and power of the emotions awakened in the soul of the seer, while attuned to spiritual realities, could only be expressed in the language of the emotions, through the modulated intonations of the human voice. The illuminated teacher intoned his revelations to his pupils, teaching them truth in mantras, every tone of which had deep spiritual signifi- cance. When the words of the mantras were written and the tone values forgotten, their spirit was lost.
The spirit of truth contained in them no longer appealed to the pupil because the emotional effect of the tones upon the soul was not felt. In other words, truth was something the soul might be led to feel were the tones sounded that embodied true emotions, or the emotions of truth, and the teacher who realized truth was able to awaken the same realizations in his pupils by clothing his interior feelings in proper musical language.
Modern music portrays in a large degree the dark side of mortal experience — the melancholy of a Chopin or the depths of darkness and sorrow felt by Bee- thoven. And even when the lives of the gods are pictured,
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they are not the gods who have evolved to the transcendent heights of immortal love and sympathy, but common mortals cast in heroic mold, full of the petty vindictive- ness, jealousy, passion and affection of beings in this mortal world.
If Chopin, Beethoven and Wagner could have lived an ideal life, apart from the petty side of mortal life, with its cares and troubles, and have realized the sublime truths revealed to the souls of the ancient seers of India; if they could have heard the songs of the cherubim and seraphim and seen the glories that the prophet Isaiah and others saw through open soul vision, or have felt the heavenly truths that John the Kevelator tried to picture in symbolic lan- guage, would they not be the mightiest teachers of heavenly verities to the soul and the most convincing that the world has known? Their musical revelations would be soul moving and soul convincing. Souls that would give them- selves to the sway of the heavenly emotions induced by their musical pictures of the joyous life of the Celestials would be awakened to the Divine Motive of existence, would be attuned to harmony with the divine nature and purpose. Such music would compel the soul to feel and see God, and once a soul felt Godlike emotions, it would forever after desire to live up to that Godlike ideal.
Music is but in its infancy. Musicians have been learning the language of the emotions — how to express in musical terms what they felt, and, as is natural, they could not express more than they felt. But as musicians gain a deeper perception of eternal truth, which is always revealed to the searching souls of mortals, they will reveal more of Divinity and less of mortality in their music, and awaken divine emotions in their hearers.
In the future the dominion of the orthodox religious beliefs of the dark ages will be cast aside, the vast processes of human evolution will be understood, the warfare and strife among nations as well as in business life will be
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done away with, and the necessity for competition and its concomitants — selfishness and hatred — will no longer exist. Man will rise above the savage in thought and action and music will not only keep pace with man's spir- itual evolution but it will be the most inspiring guide to that evolution, for, through the ability of inspired musi- cians to feel the nobler and higher sentiments of spiritual manhood — through feeling the inspiration of high ideals — musicians will make those sentiments and ideals real to their less fortunate brethren and lead them to feel and live the ideal life. Thus music will become the mightiest redeeming and transforming power in the development of character, and, through character, of the welfare of the whole race, that human evolution has produced.
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It is now positively proven that thoughts and feelings / create poisons and tonics in the flesh. Analysis of the perspiration and breath a half hour after a fit of anger, for instance, shows that anger has created a poisonous element, or vice versa, after a period of joyous emotion, the blood is enriched by a tonic element. Some eighty different elements have been traced directly to the creative power of thoughts and feelings by Prof. Elmer Gates of Wash- ington, D. C.
The composer, who understands this wonderful fact, holds the key to a new healing art, the most magical and mystical that the world has ever heard of and also the most potent. In the emotion-creating power of music we have in embryo a whole science of healing, which will yet be developed for the overcoming of discord and inharmony and the restoration of divine harmony and health in the nature of man.
The inspired musician of the future will feel the celestial emotions of love, joy and peace, and he will weave these emotions into music like that which breathes through
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all the atmosphere of the heavenly spheres of eternal life. He will evolve such music as will create health compel- ling emotions in humanity. He will make the joyous brightness and health of heaven real to spirits clad in the vestments of mortality and awaken them to the reality of their divine nature through the use of like musical emotions. With mystical minor tones he will enter into the dark recesses of their hearts, where they brood alone in "chambers of imagery/' nursing their sorrow in selfish misery, and then, when he has reached the secret chamber of their hearts and gained dominion over their feelings, he will lead them, and compel them to follow .him through the mighty magic of his music, out into the brightness of a God-lit land, in green pastures and beside still waters, away from and beyond themselves into a heavenly atmos- phere where joy perpetual reigns, where it is life to live, where living is a song of praise to the Eternal and every- thing pulsates with goodness and health. He will lead them from the bondage and darkness of their ignorant, mortal concept of life into the freedom and joy of the
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The time is not far distant when, through the discovery of more refined forces and more sensitive instruments, man will be convinced from the demonstrations of material science that the human spirit continues to exist as an intelligent entity after the death of its physical counter- part. Professor Crookes, F. K. S., Professor Alfred Kussell Wallace, Camille Flammarion and many other savants who represent the foremost achievements in exact science have arrived at this conclusion now through private investi- gation and much experimentation, but as yet a method of communication between the two degrees of life, material and spiritual, that would be as convinciDg, say, as any chemical or electrical experiment, has not been found. But more and more are those whom the world looks to as
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authority in the realm of exact knowledge, giving time to investigate the occult phenomena known to exist through the different phases of human mediumship. When the scientific world seeks with unprejudiced mind for truth from the spiritual world, it will draw the attention of those scientists and philosophers among the inhabitants of the lands of Spirit who will co-operate with the seekers in this world and use their more advanced knowledge of chemistry and more developed powers of will to bring to the world such convincing evidence of the truth of pro- gressive immortality as will leave no room for doubt.
Then, when humanity are convinced that there is- ( no death, this truth will free them from the terrible burden of sorrow that they have borne for ages. When they learn from the inhabitants of heaven (as some have already learned) that there is no wrathful God sitting on a throne of judgment, waiting to damn them to everlast- ing punishment because they were no better than they could be, and no devil to delight in their tortures, the truth will free them from fear — that fear which has enervated the manhood of the race and made humanity slaves to the\ authority of the priesthood.
Then through the power of truth woman will be emancipated from the slavery of ignorance-born subjection to man. She will use all the powers of her will and imagination, of her affection and understanding, to create a new race through a wise understanding and com- pliance with the laws of heredity. When the truth reveals that there is no death, no need for fear or sorrow, or pain or poverty, that all is good even in its present degree of unfoldment and growing better forevermore, then the music of the present, with its revelation of mortal sor- row and pain, will be but a historical relic. In its place will be a music through whose every minor strain even there will run that triumphant song of the soul vie-
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torions over sin, sickness and death that is heard in the immortal worlds where truth reigns supreme and love inspires all hearts to do the will of the Good Father.
HEALTH THROUGH MUSIC.
Music, the divinest of the arts, has begun to reveal a healing potency that, when rightly understood, will reform all present methods of healing.
Music is the language that sways the emotions and enraptures the soul with its deep mysterious message. It is the key to the deepest emotions of the soul and under its sweet compelling influence the cares and worries of life are laid aside and we become harmonized and rested.
"Out of the heart are the issues of life."
The emotions of the heart have life-enriching qualities, and as music awakens soul vitalizing emotions it becomes the key to health and happiness.
As we sit in the twilight listening to the piano or to the voice, we feel a soothing element entering our mind, the discord of the busy day fades away and a divine calmness overpowers our spirit and gives us peace.
These moments, in which we rest under the peaceful influence of music, harmonize the nature and attune us to the vitalizing Spirit of Life. Even though it is but a street piano that plays under your window, lay aside for the time being the critical intellect, close your eyes and allow yourself to vibrate with the rhythm of the music, and you will find you have become attuned to a state of unified feeling as though all the parts of your mind that had become scattered and disunited were again merged into a unity, strong for accomplishment.
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the music. You will notice that as soon as the music- begins the atmosphere becomes alive with sound waves, in like manner as the earth and air become radiant with the vitality of the sun as it charges the otherwise negative atmosphere with its electric force when it emerges from behind a cloud. Then as you sink yourself into the flood of sound proceeding from the orchestra, your emotions become harmonized and exalted, and your feelings will seem to expand to unimagined heights and depths ol sound-glory. This new emotional life is even felt thrilling through your flesh, imparting a new force and energy to the body.
A concert heard with the intellect alone is tiresome to the majority of persons, but heard in this way, and felt by the emotions, it reinvigorates the tired nature and opens up a new realm of pleasure.
In the same way, church music can become a source of healing. Enter church with the idea of becoming attuned to the devotional spirit of the music, for this devo- tional spirit speaks to the soul of the things of eternity and feeds the soul with the bread of heaven, giving it a realization of its eternal life in God.
Close the eyes and the mind to the changing fashions of the time, to the vanities of the world, and with the feel- ing that you are in a sacred place give yourself to devo- tional worship under the guidance of the deep, inspiring tones of the organ.
Rest as though in the Presence of the healing Glory of God and you will feel uplifted into a state of mind where all is peace. The all pervading Spirit of Life will become a conscious possession of your spirit, imparting to you somewhat of the joyous health of the life eternal.
The time is not far distant when the wonderful healing power of music will be so universally known that con- certs and devotional services will be held for the healing
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of the sick, thus calling into activity by united faith and expectancy on the part of the audience all the healing forces stored in the nature of man.
When the healing power of music is recognized and co-operated with, it will immediately begin to demonstrate its great value as a therapeutic agency.
POSSIBILITIES.
The first chapters of Genesis hold hidden within their deeply symbolical language the story of the creation of the true man and the evolvement of his outward semblance.*
In these first chapters it is revealed that there is a spiritual man and a material appearance of a man. We also find that all things upon the earth were created in the invisible realms before they were manifested physically.
The spiritual man pronounced "good" by the Almighty Truth when viewed from the physical sense standpoint appears fallen and degraded.
But he has within him the lofty goodness of his first estate and in his "fall" or descent into the material world he has not lost the power of his true being. What our senses tell us of man as a limited being is not the truth as seen from the height of spiritual understanding. We may cultivate our senses to a higher degree of perception.
The senses are the obedient servants of the language of man. They are not really limited by matter. When we educate the vision, for instance, to penetrate farther, to make an effort to pass present limitations, it will prove itself able to expand and extend to the infinite stretches
*Those who are interested in the interpretation of spiritual sym- bolism will find it elucidated in the Arcana Caelestia by Emanuel Swedenborg.
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of visionary power. The sight is really spiritual and able to observe the wonders of creation far beyond what it does now.
The senses are manifested in obedience to the creative force of mind. Responding as they have already, they will continue to prove themselves obedient and respond more fully to the needs of man.
We may talk to the senses, the muscles, and the various organs of the body until we educate them to that degree that they will respond to us and manifest according to our word. They will manifest more life and greater activity and intelligence as the right language is used, thus proving the dominion of language.
As we gain experience in the power of words we shall cease to condemn ourselves or others. We shall not limit ourselves or our friends with our thoughts. We shall not condemn ourselves for not being or knowing more, for we shall know that we have not held the right thoughts or used the language of Truth.
We gain dominion when we take time for contem- plation of Truth, for it endows us with words of power.
We should recognize the power of our desires. We should praise them, for they contain the possibility of fulfillment.
Take the desire for money, for instance. It is looked upon and condemned as unspiritual. Paul's condemnation of the love of money has made beggars of the spiritually minded.
The desire for money is good, for it is a prophecy of plenty. Like all things it may be cultivated unwisely.
Money as a mere medium of exchange is a symbol of value and power. It represents the obedience of things to thoughts.
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power. It is not enough to satisfy our needs or desires. We are likely to lose it." The money is obedient to mental forces. If we but believed in its possibilities, a small sum would often open the way to great opportunities.
The wise man believes in the value and possibility of little things. Large fortunes have been made by those who saw great possibilities in little things that others had passed by as insignificant.
We should praise money and help redeem it from the condemnation that has made it a source of evil to many. It is a form of mental substance groping around, as it were, under the condemnation of the thoughts of humanity. Knowing that we have dominion over all things, we rise up in the majesty of our mental power and talk more wisely to the money we already have, that it may show us its possibilities of increase.
Faith and hope can dissolve every hindrance and enable us to fly on prosperous wings. We have been sitting at the Gate of Plenty looking at poverty and lack and disease too long. We have been seeing and believing in obstacles when really there are none but what may be overcome. Let us remember that our words are capable of opening sluiceways from which we shall derive the ever- lasting prosperity of the children of God.
Arise, let us go hence in dominion! As we awaken our thoughts will rest in the innocence of the divine life. We shall contemplate vast, unnamed spaces of activities and possibilities whose unrolling will extend the youth and strength of mankind. Who shall limit the strength or the possibilities of the Man described in the first chapter of Genesis? Who shall limit the strength of God in Man?
We are the sons of the Elohim. He is Immanuel.
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OPULENCE.
The man who knows how to give and receive, how to attract and express, is living in opulence. By his actions he is preaching the value of circulation. The virtues and usefulness of many things depend on circula- tion. That which loses activity is as useless as if it were dead.
Those who are rich, and do not know how to spend their riches, are often poorer than those who have no wealth.
If we accumulate and do not give forth, we meet stagnation. A vessel that is full can hold no more. Keep emptying it and it is always ready to receive.
If we give forth of our money and our talents, letting them flow in a perpetual stream in doing good to others, we are living in the understanding of our union with the inexhaustible productiveness, which is opulence.
As we grow to understand our true relation to the Universal Mind, we must demonstrate the unlimited pos- sibilities of Being. The universal Intelligence yields its treasures to man in proportion as he makes demands upon it. By virtue of the divine Soul within us, we are joined to God the Fountain Head, and this gives us the authority to draw from this unfailing Source, life, love, wisdom and prosperity to fill our needs. There is no limit to the supply, there need be no limit to the demand.
ENTER INTO THE SPIRIT OF PROSPERITY.
Develop the thought that God wills your prosperity and health by repeating the following affirmations. Con- tinue it for weeks and months until your faith grows to that degree of power that you draw God's blessings to your aid. There is plenty for you in the world. Open your mind
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to this thought and walk in the way of Prosperity. You will realize, when you fulfill the conditions of faith, that the mighty Spirit of Prosperity is generous toward all.
Be generous in thought and actively generous and kind at all times. Cultivate hope and joy in your work and you will grow more and more attractive to the good things of life. You will make friends who will help you.
AFFIRMATIONS.
I believe there is an abundance of wealth in the world for everyone of God's children. All wealth is controlled by intelligent minds that can be influenced by intelligent thought to use their wealth for the good of all.
My faith, which is intelligent thought force, can influence the Mind of God, in which all individual minds live, and bring from this bountiful storehouse all that I need.
I will no longer interfere with the influx of prosperity by hating or condemning any of God's children.
I will feel generous good-will toward everyone.
I bless the whole world with loving thoughts and I desire that everyone may realize an abundance of health, joy and prosperity.
Omnipotent Goodness is blessing the whole world now.
DENY MORTAL, AFFIRM DIVINE HEREDITY.
When I sought to fulfill the life of the soul I was shown that the law of heredity and the belief of mortal relationships were hindrances that held me in bondage as by spiritual cables.
I find these among the denials and affirmations which I used to gain my freedom:
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DENIALS.
There is no separation in the Infinite Mind.
There are no errors in the eternal plan.
There are no earthly things or ties to limit the soul.
There is no prejudice or opposition working against
me.
I have made no sacrifice.
I deny the belief in the need of sacrifice and the power of any sacrificial Deity.
I deny all mortal gods of attraction or satisfaction.
I am not tempest tossed by wind or wave.
I do not belong to any sphere or spheres.
There are no failures in the eternal and unchangeable God.
I was not born under any laws of man and I am not subject to the laws of flesh, for I am a divine soul.
I never had any near or distant relationships, for I am the pure, innocent child of the one Father-Mother God.
I call no man Father upon earth, for one is my Father, even God.
I, an immortal soul, have no father, or mother, sisters or brothers or kinsmen upon the earth or in my mental world.
Spirit is the only true relationship and all spiritual beings are my kindred.
I never really belonged to any family.
All my ideas of family ties are now buried in oblivion's wave.
I deny the fleshly man, the true individual is not flesh but Spirit.
AFFIRMATIONS.
Kighteousness and faithfulness shall be the strength of the Christ within my heart.
I will give expression to His love and manifest Him throughout my life, for He is my all, both Lord and Christ
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I will identify my being with the Divine Nature, which brings to me an almost constant realization of the omni- present power, and makes me one with the eternal Ego, Jesus Jehovah. My heart is now filled with His love and peace and I am satisfied.
Besides my soul being there is none other being or power forever.
I am, I know I am.
After I had made these denials and affirmations a number of times, I found that my mind was stirred up and I felt enfolded in a cloud of dark thoughts like a swarm of bees. These were the dark and limiting beliefs that I had generated in my mortal mind. They lived in the cells of my physical body and shrouded my soul in darkness.
The use of denial brought them to the surface and they received the light of the true idea of divine parentage.
The reception of a new and powerful idea is usually followed by mental disturbance, as the old thoughts in the subjective nature resist and try to overcome the new idea. It is called "chemicalization" by many because of the similarity to the reaction that takes place when acid and alkaline chemicals, like vinegar and soda, are com- bined.
When this reaction occurs in the mind, the use of denial should cease for the time being. Peaceful, soothing affirmations will harmonize the disturbed thoughts and keep them from reflecting discord in the body.
The foregoing denials would seem rather harsh to anyone who made much of family ties and relationships. To many that has been a hard saying of Jesus — that all relationships should be denied if we would follow him. Jesus never compromised with the world's belief of filial duty. He recognized the true filial duty — to His soul's Father — as paramount, and he tried to lead his dis-
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ciples to the same clear vision of that truth, that had the power to free.
My problem was this: I felt the call of the Spirit to walk in the way of the Christ and preach heavenly truth. Prejudice and opposition on the part of those whom the world said I should obey interfered.
Should I follow the leading of the Voice of God in my soul or should I obey mortals? I could not disobey the divine leading.
The success of my work during the last few years has confirmed the wisdom of my way even in the eyes of those who were as a wall of opposition in my path, and I have not lost one true friend in spite of the apparent sacrifices at the time. Few souls are called to take a radical stand in regard to relationship in any way that will cause family ruptures. The path of duty usually lies very close to family and friends. But each soul is called sometime in its progression, either here or farther along, to cast aside the belief of mortal relationships in favor of the truth of the Fatherhood and Motherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man. It may be readily under- stood that this is a truth of deep import and a true per- ception of it would change the whole perspective of life. When this basic truth of being is fully grasped by humanity as a whole and brought down from the ideal realm of thought and lived, will there be hope for the kingdom of heaven and the brotherhood of man on earth.
This is a truth that opens the vision to the unity of all souls in the divine plan. It shows the unreasonableness of selfish family conservatism and the foolishness of family pride. Who that really knew of his soul's relationship to Divinity could be proud of the feeble fame of mortals?
What parent that saw the value and power of this truth and had given his life to live it, would clothe his son in royal purple and see his soul brother's son, the child of God his Father, dressed in pauper's rags?
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But there is a deeper and more occult side to this subject. When it is a question of personal health all ought to be willing to accept and practice the truth that frees and heals.
A son was born of a mother who had consumption and cancer. The doctors said that the son of such a mother would surely die of either or both of these diseases. And the growing youth seemed to fulfill the prophecy of mortal heredity. Suddenly a hidden soul force awakened within him and his constitution changed. He became a vigorous, strong man. The soul caught a gleam of immortal truth and realized that its source was the inex- haustible life and strength of God.
I know a little girl who was of a nervous, eccentric disposition, entirely unmanageable. The guardians held the thought over her that she was just like her grand- father, and so it seemed. They were intensifying his characteristics that the child had inherited until their thoughts were becoming the law and rule of her nature. We denied over and over the power of the negative law of mental heredity and affirmed the spiritual law of soul heredity from God. We dissolved the mortal law and its suggestions by denial and placed her subject to the beauti- ful truth of her free soul being, and we had the satisfaction of seeing our silent words carried out in her changed character.
In the same way the unwise impulses and tendencies to disease that lie latent in the subjective mental nature of mortals can be eradicated by the dissolving thought of denial and in their place there may be sown positive thoughts of moral and physical health.
How often we hear parents express the fear that this terrible disease or that evil propensity will show forth because the child's nature is like that of his father or great grandmother. In too many instances children are kept under constant suggestions of evil and disease, and
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that many survive and grow up healthy and uncontanii- nated is due to their souls' power of resistance. Yet many negative characters do succumb to false suggestions.
Shall we deny the power and presence of the soul or shall we have faith in the supremacy of the divine attributes of the soul and deny mortal heredity?
"According to your faith be it unto you."
The subjective mind is stored with seeds of false affirmations and beliefs that are based on the idea of the strength of mortal heredity and these seeds but wait the proper conditions of weakness to show forth in the flesh.
All these false beliefs may be rendered powerless by denial, and they must be denied over and over before true soul freedom can be realized.
Ascend the throne of your true soul being and drive from your temple the thieves that steal the substance of your life.
OUTGKOWING NEGATIVE BELIEFS.
When we see a divine truth we should grasp it with all the tenacity of the mind and by positive affirmation incorporate it into the structure of our thought so that it becomes part of our mental organization.
Affirmations of truth create faith in the power of truth. They fill negative brain cells full of the energy of positive thought. There is character and strength in affirmations. Through their persistent use the latent life and perfection of the soul may be woven into a thought structure of great beauty of character, which will grad- ually become manifest in the flesh.
We meet with students who hesitate to make affirma- tions, fearing that they will interfere with God's will or disturb the outworking of karmic law. Deeper insight into the truth reveals that the law of cause and effect
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(called Karma by students of Hindu metaphysics) acts in obedience to the thought and will of man and should never be accepted as having dominion over man. And anyone who wills and affirms the truth is not interfering with the will of God but is most powerfully co-operating with the Divine will, for God wills eternally that life, health, success and every form and attribute of His divine goodness shall become manifest on this lowest plane of manifestation and even to the least of His creatures.
The reason the goodness of God is not manifest in this world is found in the fact that the race is so immature in its development and so young in the unfoldment of its intelligence that the higher degrees of God's intelligence, called love and wisdom, have not been comprehended. The mortal nature of the race is so closely allied with the negative nature of God, the earth, that it can but faintly realize the goodness stored in God's positive nature await- ing realization, and so from no other cause than lack of knowledge the merciful will of Divinity is not manifested to any great extent.
Now that we have seen His saving grace let us shout it to the skies and proclaim in every quarter the goodness and power of our God. Thus will knowledge of His truth and power increase in the world.
God has given us dominion by planting in our nature a divine soul, an image of the wonderful activities of Omnipotence. Let us rise up into the majesty of our soul nature and cast every burden away from us by a recog- nition and positive avowal of the great truth that All is Good.
This brings forth from within the manhood of men, the womanhood of women and the Godhood of the soul. Let us deny every limiting belief evolved from the ignorance of the race, casting aside the belief in a karmic law of retribu- tion as well as the belief in the chastening hand of the Lord. God wills mercy and not punishment. There are
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no "Karmic Angels" guiding us so that we reap suffering for every evil done in the past or leading us through hard experiences for the strengthening of our souls. Every angel worthy of the name is awake to the mercy of that Power that desires with tenderest affection to make the pathway of souls incarnate a way of life and joy. Free your mind forever from the delusion that suffering is part of the divine plan of redemption. Suffering is the result of the undeveloped animal nature, born from those quali- ties that man has retained from the lower animal species. Selfishness, vindictiveness, anger, jealousy, deception, etc., are from below, not from above, and these elements in human nature result in all the diseases, pains and evil environments that man is heir to through natural heredity. These are not the attributes of divine justice conspiring to repay for an evil done in the past; they are the attributes of ignorance.
The knowledge of the love of God harmonizes and overcomes these negative causes, creating peace, thus making the goodness of God manifest. Let us deny over and over that the race has fallen from grace and is under condemnation for the sins of a mythical pair in Eden. All the facts of evolution point to the truth that man has progressed to a greater degree of intellectual individuality since the time of the simple minded Adamic race. The belief that the race was cursed by God has grown stronger through the ages, and this belief has, through the power of thought, itself been the curse that has held unnumbered souls in dreadful bondage, a source of great suffering to all who came under its influence. It had its rise at that time in the world's history when the Hebrews were led (or misled) by undeveloped spirits, who claimed to be gods, and instigated wars and curses and the many occult laws of sacrifice and condemnation written in the Old Testament, all of which Jesus repudiated when he taught the truth of love as the fulfillment of the law of God. The founders
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of the Christian religion were so hypnotized by the old Hebrew belief in sacrifice and propitiation for sin that they saw in the apparent death of Jesus the supreme sacrifice to God for the sins of the world.
We are mental creatures and through the law of heredity we come under and are bound up in all the false ideas current in the world, and we are also limited more or less by the environment that these false concepts have created in the outer world, for greed and selfishness have built a false standard of living, with which each aspirant for freedom must compromise in his effort to live to his highest. He must conform to some degree to the world's ways or become an outcast. But no matter how much we appear to be bound either by externals or by hereditary beliefs, we can find peace and very often entire freedom by recognizing that our inner immortal nature is of God, and by affirming those attributes of Divinity which we find in the soul we turn our thoughts to operating the law of heredity under its divine aspect, and we begin to realize the bliss of being true to our divine parentage even though we have to deny out of mind the ties of kinship through which the negative law operates.
There is glory and power in this wonderful truth of our sonship as souls with God, and in proportion as we affirm the divine perfection and natural freedom of the soul we are lifted into the glorious light of the eternal truth consciously and we gain the strength that nothing but this eternal truth has power to impart. But we must be faithful in making our denials ere we can gain the mastery over all the mistaken ideas that are woven into our subconscious mental nature. We must make the mind clear and free by erasing all errors, cleansing it so per- fectly and guarding it so vigilantly that no negative ideas can take root in its fertile soil.
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mistakenly planted weeds in his garden instead of flowers is obliged to let the weeds grow. We can uproot the false beliefs as the gardener uproots the weeds, thus making more and more room for the growth of the seeds of divine truth and for the development of the tree of knowledge which gives to us perfect faith in the ALL-GOOD. It is our duty to use the leaves of this tree to heal everyone that comes to us for healing, it matters not how negative or helpless, weak or undeveloped they may appear, for if we have risen to the realization of the majesty of truth and cast away every unbelief by the positive avowal that we know that All is Good, we have then educated ourselves so perfectly in this great truth of the universality of the divine nature that we realize that Good is all and contains all there is. And thus knowing the higher law of the goodness of God and through this light having gained a perfect comprehension, we shall now see things or states as they are to the Eternal, and through this knowledge, which has wiped out our own false beliefs, we can also wipe out the beliefs of those who are led to us for healing, for we have come to see that beliefs based on the eternal Keality are self-existent forces which cannot be overshadowed by the beliefs of the world, but can and do conquer all mortal beliefs and make manifest the goodness and mercy of the living God of love.
THE POWEE OF THE I AM.
The I is the man, the Self. This very short word has never yet been pronounced with even one-hundredth part of the force which belongs to it.
I must take hold of my individuality and lift it out of the earth-mire into which it has been dragged by the earth's negatives.
I must lift it up and establish its identity in the world.
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I must stamp the impress of my personality on all my environments.
My I Am is the image and likeness of the great I Am. I will claim the power of the I Am. I will attain to my highest aim, which is to hold myself in God. I will hold my I at the right hand, the positive side, of the Throne of Power.
I am the personality of Power. I have won the vic- tory by my own persistent efforts, God being my strength.
I have grown to my present degree of power out of latent Good or God.
My I Am is Master. I Am: I have gained the mastery. I have demonstrated according to my will and wisdom. I can demonstrate more and more, therefore I will not be subservient to anything.
I am the highest expression of God. I am the image of divine strength. I deny weakness; there is naught of it in me.
I have my origin in the Central Sun. I am in the warmth or love of the life of the divine Sun.
I have gained the recognition of the truth and I am positive to all things and substances that have not gained this recognition. This recognition is the key to the heal- ing of the whole world and I hold it now within my
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Healers must recognize in all patients the power of life over death, the power of positive over negative, and thus establish this positive condition within them. As they come to recognize the power of positive thought they will see that all must be taught to overcome.
Effort is necessary. Unceasing effort brings all the faculties and forces of the mind into activity.
The desire to overcome must be cultivated. The seeming difficulty of overcoming lies in the way of assum- ing the position of mastery.
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The power of habit must me broken. All who wish to gain this high position must break through the habits of their old ways of believing. This should be done by and through exercising the force of the will.
When one gains the true understanding of his position as a wielder of the power of the divine Will, he must remember to use his will in breaking all conditions, for the will is the I, and this I is so great, by virtue of the power of God vested in it, that the rest of the personality is nothing in comparison with it.
Thus I must break the fixed habit of thought which, despite the intelligent understanding, still clings to the external part. The beliefs in the power of disease held by the race, and held by the conscious mind before it became aware of its mastery, are consolidated in the sur- face mind. Those beliefs and the cells in which they reside are but negative intelligence. They may be brought into subjection and their tendencies redeemed through the exercise of the will.
I am all mind, God's Mind. My will is supreme. My will shall cast the decisive vote in the contest between the positive and negative forces within my nature. My will is Spirit active in manifesting the power of my soul.
I have climbed to a height in my evolution where I recognize that I reign supreme. I have dominion over all negative conditions. I have reached the perception of the Absolute Truth.
I will not, for I need not submit to the tyranny of any negative authority. Therefore I will not permit any disease to dominate my flesh or destroy the health and peace of my nature.
I reign supreme in this organization and I exact implicit obedience from every part.
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I deny and defy all negatives for my knowledge of absolute Truth swallows up every negative assumption.
Centered in Thee all will be mine
That I have failed to reach. This gives my soul a perfect joy;
My heart's too full for speech!
HEALTH CULTURE.
CHRIST OUR HEALEE.
A few years ago Nicola Tesla exhibited an experiment in electrical illumination in which a vacuum tube, held in a stream of invisible electrical energy, became luminous.
The mind of Jesus was like that vacuum tube. He held it empty of mortal thoughts that it might be glorified with the Thought of God— the Holy Spirit.
The beneficent Spirit of God was radiating through the world before He came, but it was invisible to the many, and unrecognized, until His clarified mind inter- cepted the divine Rays and made them visible to humanity as love and wisdom.
With His eye single to God, standing in the Rays of Divinity, He caught the mighty energy of Life in His own person and turned it to the healing of the sick. And Christ is now standing in the Almighty Presence listen- ing to our prayers and turning toward us the healing love of Divinity.
He is still the Light of the world, the Lover of humanity. Christ is still a Healer, unsurpassed in power. If those who are sick, and who have been unsuccessful in gaining relief, would ask for help from Jesus Christ, the mightiest of healers, and then abide steadfastly in communion with Him, they would feel His healing life permeating their flesh.
Jesus, the most successful healer the world has known, is a merciful manifestation of God's healing power,
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and if those in need of healing would send a mental message to him in prayer whenever they wanted the bene- fit of His treatments and would just as confidently expect to receive from Him of the life renewing energy as they would after having telephoned to a mortal healer, they would soon realize the kindness of this divine personality, provided they used affirmations of truth to appropriate the blessings focused on them. Soon their minds would become receptive to the rays from His glorified personality and they would be invigorated by His vitalizing Spirit. The light and joy of His mind would dispel their depres- sion, and discouragement, their doubt and fear, and give them holy peace. In contemplating Him as their loving healer their minds are exalted above the plane of mortal thought, their souls enter into that inner realm of peace and perfection where He abides and they begin to rejoice in the resurrecting power of His all-pervading bliss.
THE SPIRIT OF HEALTH.
The Consciousness of the Soul is the Spirit of Health. Blessed is the one who realizes the eternal life of his Soul, for such a one will cause an epidemic of spiritual health. The consciousness of health is more "catching" than any contagious disease, for it is the most positive condition, the natural expression of divine life.
Health and strength are inwrought into the very nature of the soul. Your soul is health and strength this instant, for your soul is the image and likeness of God's nature of immortal perfection. Awaken to the wonderful truth of your soul. Lift your faith from the delusions of mortal sense to the comprehension of your immortal Self that is now one with the power of divine Perfection.
Stand on the Rock that is higher than your personal I, this I AM within that was spoken forth by the Voice of
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Omnipotence; stand positive in the majesty of your true Self and express the Word of health and strength that you AKE in your eternal Being with God. Cultivate the Spirit of Health by expressing the Consciousness that your Soul IS. Mortal thought of disease and weakness is from below, of the limitations of the natural plane, but your soul consciousness of health and strength is from above, born from the unlimited life and power of God. Cultivate a positive faith in the healing life and energy of your Soul, for thus your external mind learns to think forth into manifestation the perfection that God has stored in His Word of power within you. Deny the petty cares of mortal life. Deny every feeling that is not God- like and affirm not only mentally, but by living them, the qualities of love and good-will that your soul desires to express. Your soul desires to love all with the love that will overcome the limitations of family ties, the limitations of relationship, a love so grand and deep that it will feel for all created things the same gentleness and sympathy that it feels for its best beloved. The soul is not swayed by mortal attractions, it is not limited by personal affec- tions, it feels the same impersonal tenderness toward humanity that God feels. Thus the soul is not limited in its life, for its life is the unlimited love of God, and as it finds means of expressing this divine Consciousness, its power expands as the seed in the earth expands under the benign influence of the sun, and it radiates its blessed life and strength through its physical instrument.
Be true to your soul whatever appears. Feel as it feels. Think the truth as it sees truth. In conversation with others, your language will need to be modified to their understanding, to their present limited view of life, in order to appear rational in their sight, but in the silence of your own mind be true to the vision of the majestic strength and perfection of your Self that now lives in God. Exercise His will that makes for perfection. Exercise His
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Spirit that transforms and renews the mortal form. Exer- cise yonr faith in the truth that you are a radiant, healthy son of Omnipotence and BE perfect as your Father in your Soul's sanctuary IS Perfect.
May you realize the invincible Life of God within that makes for peace and perfection. All your flesh is now filled with the glory of your immortal Soul. Your mind is pervaded with the Consciousness of life and health eternal. You now realize and are healed by the Conscious- ness that is always with you, your divine, immortal Self, the Son of God.
GEKMS AND MENTAL ATTITUDE.
It has been said truly that germs are the occasion for, not the cause of, disease. Disease germs are impotent, mere food for health germs while the mind and body are harmonious and happy. But fear of disease will paralyze the activity of the mighty life force in the nature. Fear is a weakening, disintegrative thought force. Anger, hatred, jealousy, and all other low and impure states of mind are sins against the body's well being and imme- diately create poisons which if increased by such habits of thought are sure to cause disease and death. On the other hand feelings of good-cheer and good-will with continuous brightness of thought are just as certain to create tonics in the system.
So what is gained by taking tonics if one's anxiety and care and meanness of disposition are creating poisons that sooner or later will show out in cancer or consumption?
Why travel over all the earth in search of health when the kingdom of health is within us? Shall we inject the impure virus of animals into the pure blood of children to show out later in scrofula and other diseases when there is a fountain of living, healing waters within ready
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to spring forth with germ destroying energy when properly recognized and called forth into expression?
These are not fancies but incontrovertible facts; science of the most vital sort. A great many physicians have already incorporated these facts into their experi- mental science of medicine and they testify that thought will cure where medicines produce no beneficial effect. They are learning to use the silent healing force of thought while they apply the elements which the body needs for recuperation. Medical, mental and spiritual science are all in the experimental stage, but the wonder- ful healing results attained by schooling the mind into an optimistic and more generous attitude have revealed to those that have eyes to see that mind and soul culture will hold a most important position in the healing science of the future.
MASTEEY OF GERM DISEASES.
Colds, catarrh, diphtheria, malaria, pneumonia, con- sumption, appendicitis and all diseases where bacilli invade any part of the body and destroy tissue, may be conquered by the persistent use of the will in turn- ing a mental force into the parts affected with the determination to expel and conquer the cause of the disease.
There is a physical as well as a mental side to every destructive element that enters the body and we must have an unconquerable faith in the supremacy of our will over all forms of disease, physical or mental, because, by the use of the^will, we can awaken into active resist- ance the whole vast army of cells of which the physical body is composed. The power in all cells is intelligent and they may be shown the danger and aroused to combat the invading army of bacilli.
The human will is so potent that it can conquer and
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destroy, if it is kept persistently at work, even a well intrenched army of bacilli, because the disease is foreign to the part it occupies and the strength of the whole body can be hurled against it again and again until it is dis- lodged or destroyed.
Do not at any time surrender to fear, for fear weakens the will. View the condition, of no matter how long standing, as an exercise for the development of all the powers of your soul.
Do not falter in your determination to conquer. Be patient and serene in the knowledge that your will is growing in power daily. No matter how strong the disease appears you can cultivate a stronger force because you are a soul supported by the power of omnipotence, while the disease is but a negative condition and depends for its existence upon the strength that it absorbs from your body.
Exercise and develop the power of your will by the following affirmations.
I am master of my body.
I am conscious of a force of will which I now turn against this disease to destroy it.
I will not allow my flesh to be invaded by disease germs.
I now destroy these parasites of disease.
I have no fear. Fear cannot weaken my resolve to conquer.
I will get well. I am now exercising the power that will make my health manifest.
I now exterminate all disease germs.
I will that all the intelligence and power in the whole aggregation of physical cells be turned to exterminating disease germs from this part of my physical body.
My subconscious mind recognizes the cause for this disease and now proceeds to exterminate it.
I am a body of healing intelligence.
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I turn the whole force of my healing intelligence into these parts.
Health and peace must now become manifest.
There are no elements of decay in these tissues. Con- scious life prevails.
All these disease germs are dissolved; they are all destroyed; by the power of my will I annihilate them, every one.
I say to them : "You shall not feed upon my flesh. I now kill you and eradicate your poison from my body."
When the mind becomes tired of this aggressive action, rest in the passive knowledge that the power of your spirit is now turned against the disease and is work- ing silently but surely to conquer.
As soon as new mental force is gained by rest the same positive assertive attitude should be resumed. The exhaustion following this exercise of the mind is evidence that an actual force has been directed against the disease.
Not any disease is as powerful as this living, intelli- gent force, and no disease can withstand its action, for it will search out the hidden cause and slay it.
It is a fact that disease germs enter the organism daily, but the army of health germs in the organism is usually so vital and strong that the enemy is conquered before it gains a foothold. Only when the vitality has been depleted and the resistance of the system is not up to normal is it that disease gains the upper hand.
This knowledge of the conquering power of the human spirit will some day be so prevalent that mortals will not fear disease and talk of its insidious power, thus hypnotizing into inactivity the healing forces of the body. They will know that health, peace and perfection are backed by the full power of omnipotent life and their flesh will exhibit the beauty of their true faith.
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HEALTH BAYS.
As we notice the drawn shades excluding from living rooms the vitalizing and germ-destroying rays of the sun, we wonder at human ignorance which knows not the value of sunshine.
When the sun is obscured the atmosphere is not positively charged with the electric energy and we quickly feel the lack of vital force. In some natures this will react on the mind to produce a feeling of depression, which goes to prove that the state of the body affects the mind, until the mind asserts its supremacy.
The human body was formed to live close to nature, to depend on the magnetic and electric forces of nature for its more ethereal food.
Whenever I go to the outskirts of the city where the wind blows in from off the fields and prairies, I feel that that air is charged with more vitality than the air we breathe in the city. In consumptive cases great success attends the return to nature.
The lone fisherman sitting in the sun is mentally soothed by the sound of the waves or the flowing current. The complexities of his mind unravel under the harmoniz- ing, hypnotic chant of nature's voice and he enters that state of simplicity and peace where the spontaneity of life finds free access to his being.
Worn-out city workers go to the country for a few days during the summer and return to the city refreshed and refleshed.
Sunshine is nerve food, nerve force.
W^e should live in the sunshine as much as possible, breathing deeply of its exhilarating electro-magnetic force.
Those who exclude the ozone-producing sunshine and the fresh sun-kissed air from their homes will not find a substitute in the artificial ozone sold in bottles.
Our great benefactor and physician, the sun, gives
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electric treatments, white ray, blue ray, X ray and all other ray treatments combined, without price.
This vitalizing ozone is to be had for the breathing, but the majority are so anxious about their health, or the annoyances of existence, that they fail to recognize and appropriate the marvelous healing virtue so abundant and so free.
BATHE IN THE SUNSHINE.
Whenever in the privacy of the home the opportunity offers to take sun baths, use the following words to con- sciously appropriate whatever element is needed from the sun's living rays.
Oh, Vitalizing Sun, I recognize thy beneficent radiations as life giving and disease destroying.
I welcome thy vitalizing rays into my flesh.
I draw thy soothing force into my nerves.
I am a magnet for thy vitality and strength.
Thy life and power shining there in the heavens is in my nature.
I am strong with thy unlimited life.
I am inbreathing thy vitalizing radiations.
I also am a sun of God, a soul radiant with perfect life and power.
GOD'S GLORY IS VISIBLE.
Every form in the universe is a manifestation of the power of God. We should strive to realize this truth and to look so continually for the Spirit of God in all things that His Presence will become real to us. Created things are striving to reveal and manifest, according to their several capacities, the intelligence and power of that One
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who is infinite and eternal, that One who is greater than all.
The sun is one of the grandest symbols of the pres- ence and power of God that we can see.
I like to look upon the sun poised in the western sky as a symbol of the Soul of the universe. It is like a great yellow or ruby soul made manifest to our vision. It is one of the bodies or forms through which the Soul of the universe radiates its power. Wonderful exaltation of spirit comes to me as I walk out under the sky and worship, as did the ancient Persians, the One Spirit mani- festing there in the heavens, visible to my sight, the source of life and light to all nature. As I walk along^ under the trees catching glimpses of that Splendor that glows there in boundless space, I cast aside the materialistic ideas which would separate cause and effect* the created from the Creator, and see in truth that God, the One Power, is there visible. The eternal Being is there shining forth His life to all worlds. That is the form through which His power becomes visible to my sight. Matter and material thought no longer hide from my mind the vision of the One.
Now, as I look at that outermost glory of the One, my mind is filled with reverence and adoration, and I am happy with a spiritual happiness that comes from a per- ception of the eternal truth, and I know that my joy in the realization of God's Presence will continue to grow as I see His beloved Face shining throughout all creation.
Love, faith, hope, trust, adoration, reverence, devo- tion and awe are spiritual qualities, the activity of which create the spiritual character. These are a few of the elements of the higher spiritual or soul nature. They should be cultivated for they are the heavenly qualities through which God is known.
Spiritual joy comes to whomsoever develops the activity of the faculties of the soul. Where there is no
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faith, love or trust, there cannot be spiritual joy, for these are the life and the very essence of the joyous spiritual experience.
Physical pleasure comes from the contact of the outer senses with their objects. The contact of the inner spiritual senses with beautiful and inspiring truths gives spiritual joy. These higher senses must be developed, must become active, if we would experience the growth in spirituality that satisfies.
We admire that which is attractive. We look for that which is beautiful that our sense of pleasure in the act of admiring may be stimulated. Then, when we have realized the transitoriness of earthly attractions, we find our pleasure in acts of praise and adoration, which awaken the beatific joys of the spiritual nature.
As we contemplate the presence and power of God, all the spiritual attributes of our mind are awakened, and in the activity of these qualities of mind we have an enduring peace and joy that forms the kingdom of heaven or happiness within, and we are no longer servants to that unsatisfied longing and craving which seeks gratification from external things.
Some time, after we have laid aside our gross physical form, we shall live in a more spiritual land. We shall behold the Sun of Kighteousness shining there in the sky, filling all the heavens with the glory of His love and wisdom. But if we have not cultivated our sense of the beautiful, if we have not learned to see the Spirit in the form, if our inner faculties have not been cultivated in the exercise of love and adoration, His unveiled Glory will be no more to us than the sun we see daily in the sky above our heads.
The amount of joy we experience in this or in any more spiritual state will depend upon our capacity to recognize the beauty of truth. Our joy and delight must always arise from within, the spirit within us learning
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to recognize and commune with the Spirit all about. Only