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FOREWORD

To Ponder 

Each successive state of existence gives man more freedom from matter. Compare the caterpillar, who laboriously covers every inch of ground with his whole body, with his next state as a butterfly, who floats off without coming in contact with matter but ever so rarely; his silent work in the cocoon, though unseen by the outside world, was productive of huge results to himself. So it is with man, who is working diligently with thought; he may seem to have entered a cocoon state of existence, but anon he soars up higher, having cut through the walls of Jericho which bound him.

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What will dissipate criticism quicker than the question which the Master traced in the dust, "He that is without sin among you, cast the first stone"? If this be your motto, sitting in judgment on your brother will be unknown.

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Withhold not from me the roses of your love and well wishes until I have passed the portals of the great beyond. There - scatter not scented rose leaves of memory, fragrant with love, on my grave, but give to me the dew-covered petals of your appreciation and love while they are yet fresh and fair that I may drink thereof and satisfy my soul.

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Why do I call you friend? It is because your voice when you greet me calls for something from within which sends dull care and worry back into its nothingness. It is because the steady gaze of your eye searches through the mass of chaff and finds the few grains of wheat and looks well at them. It is because your love is like a mighty well that shields me from the shafts of criticism and hate. And, lastly, it is because you understand.

What more restful melody could come to you at evening after a long, long day than these simple words, "I have called you a friend"?

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On grey days take out your jewels of gratitude, for in them the sun of happy hours is yet shining.

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When the storm is upon you, "stand fast"; there is another in deeper water than you who is looking for your light. Unself yourself by helping the man farther down to get up to your level, and God will lift you both up.

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When the day is sunny, fortify yourself that when the storm breaks you will find yourself protected against sudden shafts of wrong.

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Remembering all the while, if you load seems hard and heavy, that the place you find yourself in is the place you have made by your own thinking. Think yourself out of hell by knowing "If I make my bed in hell, there is God," knowing that where God is heaven is.

The bird singing on the bleak February bough has caught the message that spring is coming, and in his heart it has already come. So man who is spiritually alert catches the messages of Divine Intelligence long before the ice of materialism melts into the sunshine of Love - and he, too, sings of the completed Word, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hath heard me."

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Why feed on the husks of hate, jealousy, envy and wrath when you might be feeding among the lilies, love, peace, calm and harmony?

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"What Went Ye Out for to See?"

Few there be who can accept the inspiration without taking the superstitions and limitations of the Teacher. The purple and fine linen are so obvious by their presence or by their lack.

"Blessed art thou when men shall curse you and revile you."

Do you believe that? Then what are you making such a fuss about all the evil stories and things said about you? If it is an indication of a blessing then you should rejoice. And that is the trick that suddenly bursts the shell of the cursing and releases the beautiful full-feathered Bird of Paradise.

More Blessings

"The wrath of man shall (not maybe or perhaps) bless you" - well what's the matter? Why don't you demand it, if that is a law. Rejoice and be glad for your redeemer draweth nigh.

"No (not any) weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper" - pretty hard on the poison pens of anonymous letters - and the violent wagging tongues. Wait and see. If you know this, you - will see. So Rejoice.

Because he has placed his Trust in ME - Isn't it wonderful when you ponder it all? Can you do it? - "the gates of hell shall not prevail" against you - and so Because -

"I bring not peace but a sword" - to all this evil thing which tries so unceasingly to destroy you. And so -

When He Comes

"When he comes whose place it is to rule." I image this forth as a cloud of Light that suddenly surrounds you the moment you enter the consciousness of the Presence. It is the invisible - visible Light which works the while. As you stand in the presence of some evil situation talking or arguing with it, this all penetrating Light is at work disintegrating the strongholds and putting life into static situations. It is wonderful, for nothing seems to be being done, and yet all of a sudden everything has changed and the evil picture fades out. The ugly manifestation has been devitalized - it is nothing but a memory of a memory now - and presently this shall pass. So "Having done all Stand and See." You have to do all these things and you will when you know "When he comes whose place it is to rule" is a real thing and not a human belief.

Page Junior

Oh Junior - I just heard a commentator on the radio say that spinach was not all it was cracked up to be, and that it wasn't especially good for little boys. Wasn't that what I heard you say too? Well, perhaps Jesus was right - "the wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of God." I told you to stay away from that "man whose breath is in his nostrils" if you didn't want to carry around a pack of lies on your back for the rest of your life. All right, Junior, you needn't make it any harder by adding "I told you so."

A Couple of Good Words

Two good words to remember are:

Jehovah Jerih

In plain English - The Lord Will Provide.

Not That Which Goeth In

Not that which goeth in - but that which cometh out makes or defiles a man. It isn't what goes into your mind, but what comes out after it has gone in. To be able to SEE a thing for what it is worth and dismiss it - is to free yourself from ugly experiences.

The experiences in a dream are soon cast aside once you are awake. Nothing more than a disturbed memory of a bad dream takes place the morning after a nightmare. And so man finally begins to handle yesterday's bad dream or ugly pictures in the same light.

I Am the Truth

Henceforth, stop using the "Truth" - exchanging this old worn out profitless habit for the Wisdom - "I am the Truth" - From that elevation of consciousness everything you say or do is automatically blessed - so it is also with the LIGHT - I do not use it - I AM the LIGHT" - there is a vast difference in the results that will follow. And of course "I AM The WAY" I do not demonstrate it any more.

If you contemplate the difference in "knowing the Truth" and "being the Truth" you will see the distinct advantage of this.

By reason of the precious revelation of Jesus Christ - "I am the Truth, etc." do you see that all the impersonal qualities of God can be embodied and become personal? Hence instead of using Love you are LOVE - "I am that I AM" what I AM? - I am Love - Truth - Light, - and with each acceptance it comes into manifestation automatically in accordance with the degree of your recognition.

What power then is yours when you "go" into expression as the embodiment of LIFE instead of the "bringer of health." And "having done all stand and see" - you have done all when you are the embodiment of the power, instead of using it.

When you glimpse the facts of Being - and go in and posses the consciousness of the Presence then you can truly "Go into all the world."

You cannot possibly raise the dead unless you are the embodiment "Life eternal" - nor can you heal the sick unless you are life instead of "health" - which after all is the human concept of Life.

A little contemplation of this wonderful revelation will cause you to achieve that which you desire. You are the power in action and the never ending source of this power pours through, as the oil poured from the three drops and continued to pour until everything empty was full.

You can "go" and you can accomplish with the nonchalance and the Divine Indifference which Jesus expressed because of this established consciousness of being the idea embodied - "I AM that I am has sent me into expression" - and the limited human thought and power are absorbed into a great Tower of Light.

Gradually we are beginning to see how it is that "All things are possible - if you believe" -

Are You at Home?

Browsing about in some Ancient Latin Translations - I found this "TERRIFIC HONESTY" - The date is 200 B.C. - the participants in this "Terrific Honesty" are Ennius, early Latin Writer and philosopher and Scipio, also an early writer. Ennius went to see Scipio and was received by the MAID who said "he is not in." Ennius went on his way - knowing full well that Scipio was at home.

The Next evening Scipio went to visit Ennius. Ennius looked out from an upper room and called "Not in." "But," said Scipio, "you are in." To which Ennius replied, "Listen - last night at your house I believed your maid when she said 'not in' - why in heaven's name cannot you believe me when I speak for myself?"

All diplomacy is deception - saying one thing and meaning another. You can mock everything but GOD - and He - (the Universal balancer and record keeper of you) cannot be mocked. So stop trying.

The other man might be fooled for a moment but "I am not mocked" will take care of the final accounting. When you move with the current of the river you flow into the universal Sea of Life - otherwise you are cast into the slough of appearances.

If you haven't enough money, health or happiness it is because you are not true enough. Sorry!

My Robe

Beliefs have been described as the grave clothes which Jesus laid aside when he resurrected himself. Woven in flimsy or intricate heavy patterns these must sooner or later be laid aside. The weight of these beliefs become too heavy unless they are transmuted into garments of Light and praise.

"They cast lots for my robe." The robe for which men cast lots and are still casting lots is the consciousness of Jesus Christ - which is bid in by a thousand merchants of truth, and sold out a thread at a time. It is not unlike the "splinters of the Cross" that one finds for sale in Jerusalem. If they were all assembled in one cross it would be several miles high. Yes, they cast lots for my robe - but they cannot buy or sell my consciousness for I am not there - I am over here - on the other side of the lake.

650 B.C.

"The fairest things in all the world some say is a company of horsemen.

And some a regiment of marching soldiers.

And some again a fleet of ships - But I say the fairest thing is the "BELOVED."

More Robes

Since they found the grave clothes of Jesus in the tomb, the head clothes in a separate pile to one side - Did Jesus go from the tomb Naked or clothed? - When you begin to really "see" there are miracles all over the place.

Resurrection

Perhaps you are prone to think only of Jesus as having resurrected? But before he did this it is recorded at the moment of his Crucifixion a great earthquake (something that rent old, fast, hard, human thought patterns) took place and graves were opened and Saints arose and where resurrected. How many? No recording, perhaps hundreds, or perhaps a few - but enough to cause you to know that resurrection is not confined to Jesus alone.

Easter

Easter is the logical New Year - for it is the time you start all over with a new embodiment - a thing, or degree of consciousness which says "touch me not" to the former rubbish and human thinking of evil which had wound you about in the grave clothes of failure and laid you to rest. All this lovely symbology becomes real when you enter in as the actor in Life instead of the spectator. "Go thou and do likewise" - follow me - all these call for embodiment of action on your part. When are you going to drop the role of spectator and enter in and be saved?

Easter Morn

It was Easter Morn. Soft, silver gray streamers of light began reaching through the dark mantle of night, when the great discovery was made "He IS Risen" - and the ETERNAL present tense of the verb makes it just as real today as then.

Some one has rolled the stone away from the tomb - and HE is risen. At last He has resurrected Himself - He has fulfilled the Law: "I have power to pick it up and lay it down.' At last He has brought it out of the tomb of His own creating.

From the time he is a baby, man starts building his own tomb. He runs through a thousand and one evil beliefs of childhood. His life is filled with don'ts and ways and means of protecting himself from the omnipotent evil of the world. All the time he is laying stone upon stone in his tomb and finally when the world of human belief has crucified him he is laid to rest and history (his story) records that he died, was crucified.

Until he resurrects himself he is going to stay there and after he has arrived at this state nothing on the outside can be done for him. It is either self resurrection or nothing.

This Easter symbology is performed in a thousand and one degrees, although it is given to use in what would be the utterly impossible, that of self resurrection from actual physical death. But there may be a thousand little deaths in your life when you discover that you are literally in a tomb of the impossible and where you recognize there is no help - when finally you REMEMBER your immortality - your permanent Identity and begin to pick it, your body, up and bring it out into the new world of "He IS Risen" - risen into a degree of consciousness above the former thing, and you are "not there" in that place anymore - it is wonderful how you leave the grave clothes there and are clothed in the new raiment of LIGHT.

Virgin Mary

No I do not worship the Virgin Mary - I do not believe in idols. Yet in a strange and wonderful way you do have to worship the Virgin Mary - for nothing new and wonderful is coming through you until you see that in order to release the new impossible picture you must have a virginal mind - a clean sheet of paper upon which is impressed the desire of your heart. The virgin mind was overshadowed by the father and conceived and brought forth. So the virgin mind, that state of consciousness which can believe, is ready for the immaculate conception to take place - and later for the child to be born.

You cannot take a picture on an already exposed camera plate -and if you do you get only confusion and chaos - neither can you superimpose this new and beautiful revelation on the evil filled human mind. Come up higher - You profess to believe with your lips -do you begin to SEE the new degrees of recognition of the established thing? "Look again the fields are white," is quite a reach past the human thought of "four months" - but that stretch or reach can and will be made through recognition. So after all, you do worship the virgin Mary consciousness.

My Word

"But the anointing which ye have received (already) abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teachest ye all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."

You see then that the inspiration of your Inner Lord will not only teach you but shall lead you into all truth - it is so written in the Law - who then can teach you? and when will you rely upon the Inner Vision of your Lord? You have already received the anointing. Do you believe? Do you seek the help of another? Do you still go a-whoring after false teachers - or will you accept the revelation of your own inner Lord? "Am I he that should come or look ye for another?" Lean not on a broken reed -but lean on Me - Where is the Me - and when are you going to believe in ME?

Light

"Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you: because the Darkness is passed (do you hear?) and the true Light NOW shineth."

"He that hath ears let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches" (Bodies/temples) - Do you hear? Do you believe? It saith - "and the true Light NOW shineth" - does it? If not, why? And when are you going to "let there be LIGHT" take place in you? "Let there be Light" - don't make it.

Concerning Teachers

"But who keepeth his word, in him is the love of God perfected; hereby know we that we are in him."

The increased importance of keeping the WORD is brought out. If your WORD is no good you can expect the word of every other man to fail.

"My Words are spirit and they are truth and they shall not return unto me void but shall accomplish that whereunto they are sent."

The rich reward of suddenly coming upon this Spiritual law of KEEPING your WORD - is the LOVE of God being perfected in you. Think what this might mean - the Love of God - the thing that never faileth - "never faileth" - that is good enough for me - a law that never faileth. So look to your word - remembering that the human mind is a "liar and the father of it."

Yea Yea and Nay Nay

You either accept the thing that is presented to you or you do not. If you accept appearances and fail to "Judge not from appearances but judge righteous judgement" then you can expect the results of your "Yea and Nay." The moment a picture is presented to you, you must have a "yea" or a "nay" for it. Watch - either Yea-Yea or Nay-Nay. Watch.

The Carpenter

Jesus was the Carpenter, Christ the Indwelling Father. The blending of these two produced Jesus Christ the consciousness, which could and did step down into visibility the unseen "finished" kingdom of God. Without this point of manifestation, how could the stream of loaves and fishes, wine, gold, health, etc., come into manifestation?

The Jesus Christ consciousness is possible to every man who professes in his heart that God has come in the flesh. The more constant the recognition of this "Flesh" wherein you SEE God, the more effortless and unlabored is the flow of the unseen substance into manifestation.

"Let that mind be in you" - a thing that is to be LET must be POSSIBLE, but only when recognized, and when the understanding of "Jesus Christ" consciousness is attained even as a grain of mustard - you will begin to experience living in the Temple of the Living God and your body Temple will be operated by the fatigueless LIGHT, and no more by the thing called health which is circumscribed within the narrow confines of human thought.

"Stir up the gift of God that is within you" - how can you do this until you recognize that such a thing is true - and how can you stir up a gift unless you know what the gift is?

"I shall arise and go to my Father" - is only another way of showing how it was that the Jesus part of us (called by your personal name) eventually "remembers" something and goes straight to the FATHER and blends with Him, changing the substance even as the leaven changes the meal. This changed substance contacts both the visible and the invisible world and passes through its temple the Light which becomes the bread from heaven.

It is so wonderful when you see this, for the LIGHT has then been set that is going to lead all men into salvation. Your Light will draw everything unto you. Presently you will experience this LIGHT of the Jesus Christ consciousness and will know. Yes, you will see the Light of another "a long way off" and there, too, you will pass by many darkened houses. Without Jesus Christ all is darkness.

Invocation

"Stab my spirit wide awake."

R.L. Stevenson.

There is that moment too when you "invoke" the Power, when the sheer feel of the Presence is so real to you that you can "Touch me and feel after ME." Then is the Spirit in you awake stabbed by the rays of revelation, descending directly from the God head into the Soul of you. Lo and Behold it is wonderful!

WARNING

Be sure you do not try to let.

REMEMBER:

Today is the only day - you are going to live today.

ALSO REMEMBER:

When you enter Jerusalem (the new dimension) choose a colt upon which not has man sat.

Jesus commanded his disciples to bring him a colt "whereon never man has set." You are to enter your kingdom not by the teachings of another, nor on the skirts of another, but on a colt - a new original concept of the Truth, upon which no person or personal teaching has been saddled. Get away from persons, organizations and things and discover the WAY within yourself, and when you have, you will begin for the first time to appreciate persons, organizations and things for what they are - many of them glorious channels for light and revelation, but just the same "go into Jerusalem on a colt whereon no man has sat." So said one of my listeners.

The Voice

I AM the Voice of one crying in the wilderness.

Could you hear a Voice from the wilderness of human thought? And would you believe it if you did?

"My sheep hear my Voice." If you cannot hear the Voice of God when it speaks from the wilderness, how will you hear it when it speaks from heaven? If you cannot accept the promises of God no matter through what source or temple they come, you cannot experience the delight of the NEW Day.

God's promises are kept. Man's promises are broken - so what went ye out for to see, a man arrayed in purple and fine linen? When you go out to hear the Voice and OBEY that Voice no matter how the man is dressed, then the temple of God is with man, and when you begin to realize this you will hear the VOICE of God speaking to you. Hence a "poor man could make you rich" even though he could not prosper himself, for any temple or manifestation can be used by God to speak to you when you are at the Listening Post of recognition. Can you take it? Or do you want to argue about the temple (body) through which the voice comes?

Call upon ME and I will answer you - not maybe or perhaps - but can you hear ME - disregarding the temple through which the voice comes? I could speak to you through the burning bush, that is, if you could take it.

So a poor man may bring to you affirmation but your human intellect might block the manifestation because it would argue how impossible it was for that man to fulfill your wish. Nothing is said about that taking place - it is just the confirmation. When you receive a wire by Western Union that a fortune has been left you, you do not argue about the Western Union giving you the money - though it is the channel through which you receive the news.

In other words, can you hear ME or are you looking at the rags and tatters or the purple and fine linen?

My sheep HEAR my voice, not human words, but my VOICE.

If the desert is to blossom as a rose, you are going to have to HEAR something which is obviously not true and is impossible, can you take the promises and the confirmation that are to come through you as a result of your recognition of ME?

Behold I stand at the DOOR and knock and if any man HEAR my voice, etc. Can you open the door of absolute receptivity and LET the manifestation in by accepting the promise and WORD irrespective of the Temple?

Meditations

Yonder in the west a lovely billowy cloud rested atop a purple mountain. A Cerulean sky made it look like a golden Viking ship coming into port. It was a lovely poem, so far beyond the reach of me - and yet I realized suddenly that lovely, evanescent cloud could be condensed into rain, and finally frozen into ice cubes in the frigidaire. So it is with Spirit - the invisible is brought down to a point of visibility - the unseen becomes the seen. The void of longing already filled with the ALL becomes suddenly complete. Recognition of the Presence and the "Way ye know not of" causes the impossible to take place. When it is understood, it will be a perfectly natural action of Spirit. Through the Temple of Man (the body) must all the mechanics take place. Until man believes in Jesus and his teachings about the Temple (body) he will be hoping for a miracle or demonstration.

Jesus did everything through His body (Temple). His references are well known, "Destroy this Temple - "I have power to pick it up," etc.

With his own beautiful hands did he break the bread to increase. His lovely slim fingers of consciousness reaching up into the invisible source of the All and drawing from that source the thing "hoped for" - tangible evidence of things not seen.

So as your Temple (body) is cleansed of the thought-taking evil you will find new and more wonderful capacities within to bring into visibility the unseen. It will be natural and normal, not mysterious and fantastic. The "way ye know not of" is the way of stepping Spirit down to a point of visibility and changing its name to - matter.

Consciousness Versus Thought

"Who by taking thought, etc." "I come at a moment you think not." All evil proceeds from human thought and is sustained by it. It is a liar and the Father of it. It judges from appearances, and not one of its senses is capable of true judgement.

When the human mind is told about a person it immediately constructs an image of him in its mind. It adds to and takes from and enjoys what it thinks is a good picture of the man. When it comes in contact with the man it discovers that almost everything it had conceived or thought about the man is entirely false. What becomes of the image it had built by thought? In an instant it disintegrates and the consciousness of the man begins to appear. The more you stay in the presence of the man the more the consciousness of him becomes established. From consciousness flows the stream of Light-thought which has a basis upon which to rest - it never creates or adds to. A deeper consciousness of the man causes more Light-thought to flow forth.

So it is with the Christ. Becoming conscious of your Divinity you begin to lose the false pictures of yourself - the Temple of the Living God begins to change and whereas before you were blind NOW you see without effort or strain.

Anything in consciousness takes place automatically and without the aid of human thought. Light-thought proceeds from consciousness. Stands immovable on its basis.

Angels

Angels are not personalities but great centers of Power and force - in other words manifestations of the Power of God stepped down to a point of visibility. Great armies of reserve Power which are at the command of the consciousness which has accepted its Divinity as the Christ within. "Think ye not that I could call upon my Father and He would send me twelve legions of Angels?" The Works that I do ye shall do also and greater, etc.

When you call for the twelve Legions of Angels they will appear and will, like the Genie of the Lamp, go into action, silently and invisibly, and will disintegrate the congealed though forces which are outpicturing such insurmountable proof of the power of evil. Nothing can withstand this invisible Power set into motion by your recognition.

Echo

When the conditions are right the echo is there - and without effort it answers automatically. Can you "Ask" knowing that the answer (echo) is already there only awaiting releasement?

Before you ask I will answer - the echo is already there the moment you set it in motion.

When you pray and believe you receive - and keep your human thought away from it all and you will have the echo or answer because it cannot help coming into being. Keep your thought out of the picture.

Adultery

If it is given to the child surely you have a chance. When you stop committing adultery with everything Spiritual you will see it appear. The business of the adult human mind is to commit adultery automatically, when it would do good it does evil because of its thought taking propensity. The child-like mind or consciousness is open to take the impossible - to accept, to recognize, to possess. Stop committing adultery.

A New Word I Give Unto You

Many of the hackneyed overworked words of Metaphysics are falling into the dust. They are so worn out all of the meaning has drained out of them.

Recently in looking over some words I wondered why we had hung on to the word "Problem."

Webster Unabridged gives this meaning for:

"Problem: A perplexing question, situation or person. A matter involving difficulty in solving, settling or handling, (as to solve a problem of how to prevent WAR").

Looks pretty hopeless and negative. But we are through with negatives and denials and have entered into the New Dimension. We do not try to work out health if we follow the revelation of Jesus, we start with the "it is done" state and travel back through the congested human thought picture disintegrating them and revealing the finished thing or project. So why not establish the new word, that you have a project to reveal, instead of a problem to work out.

According to Webster we have the definition for:

"Project - To externalize any objective. To cast the transmitting agent into the crucible and thereby bring out precious substances. To cause to fall into space."

Any one of these is enough to give you the upgush of life which will project the Project you have in mind.

Now then let us look to our PROJECT and let the Problem fall into the grave, uncoffined, unknelled and unsung.

Speak English?

Speak English? Yes, can you understand it? And without straining, trying, working, knowing the truth, without emotionalism or excitement you automatically reply - yes - and automatically ask at the same moment "can you understand me?"

"Master, will you heal me?" Yes, can you accept it? And without effort Jesus healed, raised the dead, etc., etc. From the standpoint of consciousness, manifestation automatically flows into being. It is effortless and natural. Without "taking thought" or trying to make something unnatural or impossible happen, the recognition of any degree of Life will produce in like kind its fruits or manifestation.

"Who touched me for I perceive that virtue went out of me?"

Who spoke to me for I perceived that English went out from me. It is impossible to withhold manifestation when you touch the consciousness.

Thinking you can speak English inhibits you at best. It is difficult to speak when you constantly have to think about it - about your words, letters and phrases. It is an effort, and if you manage to get out a few sentences you imagine you have worked a miracle. And you have from that level of consciousness.

"Come up higher" - you come up higher by being still and knowing that I AM (in midst of you) is God - by recognizing your own divinity - the Father within as a point where God can and does flow through into manifestation easily, naturally, unemotionally - automatically. It cannot be otherwise.

Point of Attack

Remember the old conundrum, "If a man threw a stone at you would you attack the man or the stone? If an evil thought picked a man up and threw him at you would you attack the man or the thought?"

Your decision would determine just what the outcome would be. As long as the War thought continues without being corrected it will throw nation against nation, and no matter how many millions of soldiers are uselessly mown down, the idea will flourish and reproduce itself again and again, until the thought which is causing it is eradicated.

It is of little use to smear on a hand lotion to get rid of a blood disease. Don't attack the LACK of money in your life. It is the thought back of it that needs correction or eradication.

When After

Always after you have run hither and yon and you have been defeated and disheartened do you turn unto Me and find rest for your Soul. I have asked you to call upon ME - Ask of ME - Seek ME - Lean upon ME - but not until you have tried everything else have you come to ME. Why?

Man's extremity being God's opportunity, give to ME this opportunity, relax, call, ask, seek, lean on ME and find rest.

Vision

I have not the extension of vision sufficient to see any miracle until that miracle takes place in me - and then I see it everywhere - and it is quite natural. When you are lifted up to a new state of consciousness you appropriate and take, as natural and true, everything that is manifest on that plane. When you enter a warm room your body, though almost frozen, automatically takes on the temperature of the room. No effort - it must take place. So in whatever city you enter - whatsoever state of consciousness - you immediately appropriate all that it has to offer as natural and true.

What You Take

First perform the thing within your consciousness - in the unseen call it finished and done - "My Father (Permanent Identity) worketh hitherto and I (the body of Jesus) work." And when my Father, the Permanent Identity does the WORK, the Jesus (John Smith of you), carries out the mechanics. The whole machinery is set in motion by this recognition and the invisibility is stepped down to a point of visibility. "Before you ask I will answer." There are no questions in God and no problems. Man is the one who introduces these things - and then being so bemused he starts trying to "make" an answer or to "work out" something. It is hard for him to start with the answer and dissolve the problem or question he has superimposed on Life. But that is the way Jesus did it. Why not do a right-about and go within and finish with it. "What you tell Me (the Father - your Permanent Identity) that shall (not maybe or perhaps) be called from the housetops." Do you begin to see how it is that what you TAKE you can have and only that?

Time

"A thousand years are as a day - a day is as a thousand years" - time is only the distance between two events in human thought: It is always NOW in consciousness - you have then all the time needed for the slow human thinking to get its work done and you can also telescope the thing until you "can look again and the fields will be white with harvest." You telescope and elongate the human thing called time to suit your purpose. It is one of your capacities - a gift of the Christ Mind. Do you believe?

The Gesture

You must make the gesture. "Rise and walk" is only made manifest at the instant you make the gesture of rising. "Open your eyes" can only give the fulfillment of sight when you make the gesture. So after the stage is set and the child is ready to be born there is a final gesture - the final delivery. Sometimes it is instantaneous - but it is always there.

Thrust in the sickle - reap - sounds like a pretty big effort - but everything you do in the Christ consciousness is going to seem like a Herculean task until you "make the gesture," and then you discover it is nothing. The moment you enter into a consciousness you discover you have always been there - for the former things, thoughts and beliefs are passed away - they shall not come into mind nor be remembered any more.

Finding Him

Oh that I might find Him. Well, you're never going to until you look for Him in the only place He exists: in your consciousness.

When you do this you find Him in everybody and everything. What you accept for yourself as finished and done, as consummated, can be fulfilled through any temple. Do you see this? You are the one who sets it in motion by your recognition that it is already done.

Five Bad Minutes

If you want to experience a really "bad" five minutes just try to imagine what your life would be like without the name Jesus Christ. It is something so black and hopeless, only the way of the extrovert is open. Without the name Jesus Christ there would be no more going within to the Father or Christ - all your living would have to be out in the world of things. You would have to hew down a tree and make a god of it, or melt your gold trinkets and cast an image. You would have to divert all the unseen Power of God into the power of things and beliefs.

All the other people in the universe make no difference, no historical character but whom you could do without, but this one would make such a void and such a confusion and futility it would seem like being in the menagerie of a big circus when the center pole fell down. The whole of creation would be down about your ears and the roaring and howling of the animal thing would be terrifying enough.

More Snows of Yesteryears

Years and years and years ago I remember my mother calling me to one side, when I had been bitterly criticizing another child, and saying to me:

"Son, God has spared you one very unpleasant duty - that of judging others."

And again - When I was flushed with the first Discovery of God as everywhere present and I went to her and said, "But you see, Mother, God IS here."

To which she replied, "Well, if you believe that He is here, why do you stress the word IS?" To which I replied, "Well, Mother, you just don't understand."

And so years and years and years after the soft blessing fell upon almost frozen ground I am experiencing some of the Truth of the early words - just beginning to HEAR them after all these years. The snows of yesterday are not lost, they are there waiting - transmutation into everyday LIFE.

Houses

"And God said the Houses of the Egyptians (those who believe in anything else than Jesus Christ) shall be darkened - but the houses of the true believers shall be filled with Light."

It isn't a matter of running along a street to see whether a house be lit with a million candle power light - or whether it be in darkness - it is the man you meet - you realize at once whether he is lighted with the recognition of the Immaculate Conception or whether he is still struggling in the Stygian darkness of other days.

There are LIGHT Houses and there are Dark Houses - you are meeting them daily - The word has already gone out.

In the streets, shops and market places you come upon those houses - they are either LIGHTED with the WORD or they are in darkness of the present day foolishness.

"Salute NO (not any) man you pass on the highway of life." "Flee from that man whose breath is in his nostrils." What does a man who still wants to argue, compare or discuss the Truth know about it, so flee from that one.

If You Don't Know, You Just Don't Know

I knelt at the So-called tomb of Jesus and prayed. A "Christian" standing beside me said, "Do you believe in that?" I went up the Sainted Stairway in Rome on my knees. A "Christian" beside me said, "Well of all the superstitious persons." I showed some Hollywood party crashers who came to my home one night a lovely, life sized Buddha, and said to them, "If you burn a piece of incense and say a prayer it will come true." They did - and went away telling the world that I was a worshiper of Buddha.

I burned a candle in a CATHOLIC church - knelt and prayed. A person said - what?

If you take nothing with you nothing is there - If you do not understand it doesn't matter.

Anyone who is healed at the Shrine of Lourdes takes with him the Recognition of the Truth - and so - if you don't see you just don't - too bad. "When ye pray believe that ye receive - and that is the LAW. It is not according to the ideas of man.

If you do not know God, you cannot see Him in hell. That's where you need Him most - not in a church house.

The Kingdom of Heaven

Jesus insisted that "this (right here and NOW) is the Kingdom of heaven" - well it looks like Hell most of the time - and so there must be something in the degree of Recognition which changes the appearance after we stop judging from appearances and judge righteous judgment. Is it going to be the word of Jesus or your human findings? Make up your mind - and abide by it. Thank you.

What Is It You Want?

"Go in and possess the land" - that is the only way you are going to get it. It isn't coming to you by a human miracle - it will only come when you go in and "possess" it. When you take a new state of consciousness (the land) as real and true and accept it as yours - then the miracle to the human sense will appear - and the "little ones" will say, "what a wonderful demonstration," but you will say "thank you, Father" - Understand? - Because you Believe.

I Shall Give You the Keys

Can you take them? Keys to the mysteries - do you believe? If you have nothing with which to take them you cannot have them. If there is no chalice ready, no wine will pour - if there is no vessel no oil can run - and these are not made ready in the hope they will be filled - they are made ready to receive the RECOGNIZED substance which is even now pouring into manifestation.

Know Ye Not That ....

"Ye men of Athens - know ye not that ye are gods?"

And Jesus said, "Call no man your Father, for one which is in heaven is your Father."

And the mother of Alexander the Great said to him - "You are not the child of the king Phillip but are a son of the god Ammon," and he believed it - and acted like it, and showed such perfect dimensions of this power that he conquered the world before he was thirty - and set a physical example before his men that would have been the envy of Praxiteles or a Phidias. So perfect was his body and mentality he automatically commanded attention and respect. You may still be under the thought that Alexander was a heathen, a pagan and believed in strange gods - I wonder how much stranger were his gods than those you subscribe to, in the name of the one God. But nevertheless, by believing in his Divinity he was able to bring it through on all planes of existence. When he "asked" Ammon god he got results. Do you? And if not why not? Perhaps it is because in your heart you still believe and subscribe to the teachings of the mortal mind which says you were born of woman, are of few days filled with trouble, etc.

Was Alexander then more divine than you? It would seem so. He accepted his Power as something from God (his God was called Ammon) and acted accordingly. Anyone who can accept his God heritage will discover a definite uptilt in his life and affairs.

"Flee from the man whose breath is in his nostrils, for he does not believe you were God created - but a product of physicality; and if this be the case, you have nothing but problem after problem to work out. If, however, you happen to take Jesus at His word and believe - (even in so small a degree as a grain of mustard) - you will begin to see some God-dimensions of power working in and through the confusion of human thought.

The Divine Book-Keeper

"I shall restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten."

There is a Divine Bookkeeper and "vengeance is mine" is his trademark - which means that the "statements" will be sent out at the proper time.

So turn over all your accounts to HIM - all the money you have lost, all the money that has been "stolen" from you, all the bad accounts and mistakes - and presently you will find it all coming back with interest.

Ten sheep for one is the law. Stand and see the salvation of the Lord, in matters where you have given and done in accordance with the law and then seemed to have been the dupe of an unscrupulous person or where you have lost after following your highest urge. There is no discount in God.

It is all so wonderful - not "one jot or tittle" shall be released until the Law be fulfilled.

You pass along - presently some old account returned fully paid with interest. It is wonderful - turn over everything to the BOOKKEEPER. Statements will be issued at the right time. You can lose nothing by doing good. "Vengeance is mine." I will take care of it.

And If I Go ~

(In answer to a sorrowing heart)

The autumn fires had been lighted by flaming sumac and maple - Nothing would quench this riot of color but the soft white blanket of the first snow. Yonder at the edge of the world, purple, unspeakably vivid, mountains cut sharp lines of unearthly beauty against Azure skies. Here and there a group of black green cypress stood like sentinels, yet almost as if floating in the golden haze which hung cloyingly to the green valley. It was one of those strange, weird moments in life when so much can happen - almost all can happen, and yet nothing takes place - and then it was that the Word came - "yes, he will come again."

And suddenly wadding, knee deep in the golden mist, his helmet slipped back from his fair young brow; his hands signaling from the distance, he came. In a hushed moment he parted the curtains - the veils so thin, and talked to me of wondrous, lovely things. Talked to me for eons in a single moment. And in that moment he showed me again, as did the Elder Brother that "he was and is flesh and blood" and not a vaporous spirit; - that the warm sweet blood of him, which had poured on some foreign field, had taken nothing but had given him the right to bless the land, with something so precious, it was bound to change things there. Something would be better and holier for that baptism.

"And if I go I will come again" whenever you believe in Me as a reality and not as a strange voice or vaporous manifestation, issuing from some dank, dark room or human imagination, but when you dare to believe - not in the lisping words of the babe, but the full Diapason of Life. "Thy Son liveth" - it is beyond speculation, - It was established by Jesus. It is possible to any man. Selah!

I Sing of You

"Je Chante de toi et tu peut m'acceptez pour ton pretre" - So sings Rostand - "I sing of thee and you may accept me as your high priest" - such a lovely idea - You are the Temple of the Living God through which all the wonderful things may pour. All the lovely and wonderful things you have seen in another - and yes, things that have never yet been expressed - must and will be expressed through you - the TEMPLE of the LIVING GOD. Understand the word LIVING - not something you start into expression through thought - but through recognition. You are the TEMPLE -

"I sing of thee and you may accept me as your High Priest." Isn't wonderful when you consecrate your body and life to ME? None of the old Monastic thing - but just a Living - STRAIGHT - into the Kingdom of Heaven. Can you take it and get over the limited thing called John Smith? Through you, - the TEMPLE of the LIVING God comes this wonderful LIGHT -

"I sing of thee - and you may accept me as your high Priest." After that you may expect anything - I said ANYTHING.

"I sing of thee and you may accept me as your High Priest."

Who by Taking Thought

"Who by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?"

Most midgets add several inches to their stature after passing 30, and not a few have actually grown out of the realm of migetdom - which for most theatrical purposes stops at four feet, five inches. An extraordinary case is that of Eddie Wilmot of Minneapolis, who at 18 was a star performer in the Lilliputian troupe. After a severe illness he began to grow again. Today at 28 he is over six feet tall. For some unknown reason, no midget ever becomes bald.

But the fact that it takes place as evidenced by the above portion of an article by Robt. W. Marks, Variety magazine, is enough to make one pause a little when confronted with the so-called fixities of the human body. Incurable diseases, malformations and all these more or less fixed things are no more incurable when handled by consciousness than the height of the midget above referred to. Since matter is Spirit slowed down to a point of visibility, it can change its form and shape, and assume perfect outlines when the right degree of consciousness of perfection is assumed. "Then went He in and shut the door" - and exactly what he told his Father - what he discovered as real and true, that - yes that particular thing was "called from the housetops" or in other words was made apparent to the man in the street. So don't be too sure that the apparently frozen atoms of your body cannot be thawed out, set in motion again and assume the perfect picture shown to you on the mount. If you are not a midget mentally you will not be a midget otherwise.

Feeling

You shall find Me when you FEEL after me. Where am I going to feel? In the think mind or heart?

Why do you pursue the study of Truth? Have you hypnotized yourself into believing that you believe? Do you believe or are you still wanting to make some demonstrations of manifestations? Do you believe? Because if you do you have signs, plenty of them.

One Moment Please - Answer This One

After Jesus had fed five thousand from two fishes and five loves - they were instructed to pick up the pieces - and they gathered up twelve baskets full. Where did the baskets come from? Quite sizable to hold the scraps from five thousand people - Think about it and you have a second miracle almost as big as the first. What?

Who was the man at the other gate? We only have one tiny verse about him - he was doing the same works as Jesus and speaking the same words.

It couldn't have been that the disciples reporting this could have stepped up their consciousness and were able to hear the selfsame Jesus talking to a group of more enlightened people, or could it? Giving them more enlightened Food for consciousness - in the same Fourth Dimensional Jerusalem. I think it could have been and was. The moment you are ready the Master will appear - My sheep hear my voice. Can you HEAR me?

Other Side of the Lake

If you get pressed too much by human thinking you can "go over to the other side of the lake" - That is if you can.

All these wonderful Laws are given to you if you can take them - but you cannot try to take them. Do you see?

Also you can pass through the cloud of human thoughts and thought pictures - every sharp elbow will move out of your ongoing if you will go.

You can pass through any cloud of human manifestation if you CAN.

It is no use trying to make a person into a vegetarian as long as he has a desire for meat. No matter what he thinks about it being good for him or right or the only way - it will amount to nothing and the very vegetables that help others so much will seem to harm him.

No use taking up Truth because you think it is right and want to believe, as long as you know evil and human thought is the only Truth. Just won't work, for sooner or later you will rush back to your first love - and all your efforts and straining will be for naught - may even work evil in your human thought world.

The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

Dumb as an Ox,

Don't know a thing

Not clamoring with the outside,

Just as meek as can be -

Listening and listening and listening - and not saying a word - and then the head man comes along amidst all the raucous contestants and says "Thaddeus you come down out of that tree - I am going to have diner with you today."

Well, for heaven sakes - I thought that "Loud speaker" was going to get the prize but they gave it to that funny little old thing who was as meek as anything and as dumb as an ox.

Well, goodness - what's a person going to do?

On Being Allergic

We pass through one phase after another of human belief. Once it was Coue then it was sauerkraut juice - and then it was my "Husband or my Wife" - and then it was that you were "Allergic" to everything, so that a tomato could make your body shake like a quaking aspen and you just "could not stand calling cards edged in purple." And who was to save your "precious darling from the flames" - well a lot of people tried to, some at a pretty big fee - but presently your over-ripe personality made even the doctor allergic to you - and at last you discovered that awful truth that "you were allergic to yourself" - which is a rather grand way of saying you were "utterly fed up" with yourself. A good state to find yourself in, when you begin to see that you are allergic (or in the popular vernacular, poison) to everybody else yourself included for you may bestir yourself and awaken from your bemused state of living with your selfish self - you then find out that there is infinite wisdom in the words of Jesus "Be absent from the body and present with the Lord."

Reaping

"But THIS I say, He that soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully."

If you are not getting enough of the substance for daily life - it is not because there is not plenty there, but because you are sowing sparingly. Do not try to buy the truth - do not give expecting to get returns - but give from the love of God in your heart and it shall return to you "pressed down and overflowing" - "God is not mocked" -do not make a stock exchange of Him - He is a poor investment if you are doing it for returns. Are you sowing sparingly - have you taken your stance? "God is not mocked." "He that soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully." No matter if you have sown into those who have been dishonest and vicious - never mind, everything you have given in Love will return unto you bountifully - no matter what liars - crooks - thieves and false witnesses have eaten of the bounty of your giving - you cannot lose - it is impossible. This is a Law of the Fourth Dimension. So look well to it all - How do you sow?

Receiving

"John (Love) answered and said, "A man can receive nothing (not anything) except it be given him from heaven."

Well - what will you do with it? Are you still looking to a man to give you something? You will be mistaken and find yourself in the desert of waiting, never-ending waiting. Why don't you turn to this LAW of recognition and take your gift from God?

Love of God

"The Father (within you) loveth the Son (body-temple) and hath (already) given all things into his hand.

How's that? Can you believe with the simple wonderful recognition of the Presence? Can you? He giveth all things into his hand. Is that wonderful?

Contemplate this for a moment. Are your hands empty? and if so why?

Reversal

Hold this page up to the mirror and find it reversed. In the mirror of human thought everything is reversed. "When I would do good, evil I do" - everything measured by the pattern of human thought is evil because it is seen from the reverse position of God.

Le' Chef Extraordinaire

Did you ever think of Jesus as a Chef? Well, at least he was a chef on one occasion - when the disciples had been working all night in the waters of dreary human chance and fate he appeared to them and asked them;

"Children have you any meat?"

"No" was the reply - "We have fished all night and caught nothing." Sounds just like the usual answer. "I have tried all the brands of Metaphysics - paid (pardon me) through the nose - gone to practitioners, teachers, etc., etc., and I am weary."

Well - what are we going to do about it? There is not much one can do - the same old human pattern of destiny keeps right on. The human think pattern cannot escape its Te Deum of nothingness and futility.

Don't go on talking about what you have done or left undone - wait a minute - you've admitted you have worked all night and gotten nothing. "Night" did you say - yes, that's what I thought.

And now you are going into elaborate details of what you did or did not do in the dark.

Well you couldn't see what you were doing anyway. Now that the Light is here you are going to spend all this lovely illumination telling of your mistakes and how you fished and fished and fished and so and so and so!

You won't even listen to what is being said to you - or perhaps you will.

"Well children, cast your nets on the right side." Simple isn't it?

No - you have plenty to say about how you know you have been fishing in the same waters all night and gotten nothing - how you tried and tried and tried to make things go - and have treated and treated and treated to make it "Work" - so you KNOW there is nothing for you RIGHT where you are.

But maybe you will listen and finally obey the Consciousness within you - which says: Right where you are IS everything.

Sounds like a lot of cheap Metaphysics to me. Well that's exactly what it is as long as you try to work it out by limited human thinking.

But perhaps you will stop this foolishness long enough to come under the Glory of "Believe," and then you will let down your nets on the right side of the boat.

Good heavens! (pardon me) you cannot draw them in, and then all of a sudden, like the disciples, you discover you are naked and you go overboard, because you are ashamed of your nakedness.

You ought to be ashamed, when the hypocrisy of your protested faith is exposed. And I should think you would blush (I won't be so gauche as to say your face would be "red") when you see the very same old nets so filled with fish that you cannot draw them in.

Well goodness! What' a person to do? You're not going to do anything but be forgiven again - yes seventy times seven. Until you begin to really believe in ME.

Wind

"As the wind ripples, rustles, thrills and sometimes shrieks through the trees it becomes a symphony played by Nature in one of her happy - carefree moods."

The wind listeth where it bloweth, and no man knoweth, and yet man can experience it. So it is with the Spirit of God.

When Consciousness is recognized, old words are changed and have new meanings. Traveling under the lash of delusion of a life where everything worked in reverse - "When I would do good, evil I do, etc." - suddenly through Recognition delusion became illusion. The sting and curse had been removed, and once having seen this transformation, the illusion, or veil itself, is ready to be rent.

Note the strange illiteration in word of a common meaning.

Home, Heaven, Health, Happiness, Halcyon on the positive side and Hate, Hell, Harm, Heinous, etc. Give this a little time and see what magic there is in words. "Take WORDS and return to Jehovah." Try a letter - "Peace - Plenty - Power - and Poverty, Pain, Perplexity, etc." - yes, take WORDS and return to Jehovah and set them on fire and find out what is inside of them.

The End of an Illusion

"Death is nothing but the end of an illusion."

- Talbot Mundy.

Paul said "I die daily" - and it is wonderful to understand that this "daily dying" is only the end of another illusion, and finally the last enemy shall be completely overcome and the illusion of death in the body temple will be swallowed up - will be found to be merely just the end of an illusion.

Now

NOW is the accepted time - NOW is the day of salvation. "It is always NOW, and it is NOW or Never. That which was NOW is, and none can change it. That which was not, is not, none can bring it into being. That which shall be NOW is or it could never be."

"Where there is no VISION the people perish" - Where there is no vision of the complete, finished mystery, the "before you ask it is done," state of consciousness, the people perish. They are caught on the wheel of mortal illusion. They are always looking for a future reward, a future day of fulfillment. If it were ever to come it would be NOW. So hark back to the words of the Master and begin the NOW-NESS of LIFE.

The Thing I Feared Has Come Upon Me

It has already come upon me for it is in me. It is not something from which I can run away and hide. It is omnipresent as the air you breathe, but it exists only to you. The terror lying in wait to spring at you at the slightest suggestion; a "jack-in-the-box" which is released a thousand times a day, are all in you. Face the thing first within yourself and then the manifestation. "Stand and see the salvation of the lord." Eventually as you contemplate God in the midst of you, you begin to experience the LOVE of GOD - and that does the trick for "perfect Love casts out fear" - Now you are fearless and "Jack" is back in the box of oblivion.

Patterns

All problems are merely patterns of congested thought superimposed on Wholeness. You have to make up a problem by believing in a power opposed to God.

The answer already exists and the moment you find it you have no problem.

The Mr. A, Mr. B, and Mr. C of the Old Arithmetic Days having so many dollars, apples or houses to sell create a problem which does not exist and the answer to this non existent problem is before the problem was self-imposed.

You super impose the congested thought about yourself, on your concept of God - and you then have a personal problem. The man next to you sees it as of no import - He knows the answer.

There is no reality to the problem except that given it by you.

Thought is the substance and life of all evil - and as long as you keep thinking of a problem it will remain.

Be absent from the body and present with the ONENESS.

Break the film of thought and the picture it is holding into place will disintegrate.

Change your position on the desert and the mirage disappears.

"Come up higher" and the congested thought picture does not exist and is not true.

Throw out the ballast of thought and move into a new level.

They Laughed Him to Scorn

"And they laughed him to scorn" - they are speaking about Jesus. So much that He wanted to "tell" and so desirous was He of giving us the Law to these unspeakable things that He forgot their limitations and so they laughed Him to scorn. Can you hear those devastating shouts of laughter? So you can stop talking and begin showing.

"Many things I could not tell you in Jerusalem" - but only for a season - "because of your unbelief" - you just couldn't take them. What were they?

Man has worked out many inventions - many of them interesting - but all of them temporal and subject to change without notice - and all of them merely trying to pattern the Divine.

Man was given dominion over everything. over, on and under the earth and even the elements, and when he finds this to be a state of consciousness he can and will dispense with the inventions of man. Why not?

Resist Not

Against a backdrop of flaming, flaring life comes Jesus - a whole army of picked legionnaires in their gold and scarlet dress and flashing swords become pastel and washed out against His Gentleness - His non-resistance. "Thy gentleness has made thee great."

"Resist not evil and it will flee from thee." Sometimes it is "Resist not" - And then is "Resist Evil" - and so "with all thy getting - get understanding." All these precious revelations are given to you to use at the precise moment they are needed. Ask ME and I will tell you.

Like Unto

The Presence is as tender music - as a panoply of light - as a mantle of soft feathers - enfolding you. As a cloud of exquisite perfume wafted from dew drenched flowers at morn. As feeding among the lilies. As the pungent odor of pine trees in the rain. As entering into those reaches where time is measured only by Light years. As the zest that comes from entering into Laughter.

Color

Your present degree of consciousness is the prism through which the invisible White Light of Jesus Christ is passed into manifestation. But it has to be put through the prism of your Consciousness - recognition that this is possible will cause some of these lovely colors of manifestation to appear. From celestial spaces all these lovely experiences will come.

Nothing New Under The Sun

Listening to the modern radio with its "commercials" and its new discoveries - one is prone sometimes to imagine the cliche "Their is nothing new under the sun" has become a little outmoded - yet this night as I was browsing about among books on my table I picked up a free translation of Ovid - Latin poet. Born in 32 B.C. - He gives some Emily Post advice which sounds as if it might have been fresh copy from the editors desk.

Let exercise your body brown;

Don't slobber; see your teeth are clean,

Your hair well cut and brushed quite down;

Your Toga Spotless, white and neat'

Your Sandals fitting to your feet.

Remember too your nails to pare

And keep your armpits sweet beneath.

Pluck from your nostrils every hair

With citron cure a noisome breath -

And that is all you need to know.

Translation made by F.A. Wright

Amazing, isn't it? - written years before the birth of Christ - and yet with the same ideas rigidly adhered to at this date. You begin to see the "Wheel" of human thinking moves round and round and we are bound to it until we awaken to the inner consciousness and free ourselves from the tedious picture of nothingness which apparently comes and goes as the centuries of heavy human thought moves on.

How Should Evil

"How then should evil have reached me, when the arms of my Savior (inner Lord) held me to his breast" - Raimon Lull - Saint of Mollorca, 12th Century.

This becoming conscious of the ONE-NESS of man and God through the Father consciousness eventually will take place in the struggling heart and he will understand the nearness of it all - and how it was that Jesus went immediately to HIS Father - the Savior, the Inner Power which is the point of contact between Spirit and Matter - the place where the unseen becomes transmuted and changed - condensed as it were into the heavier substance called matter, or manifestation.

Once the sense of this Oneness and nearness is recognized new and wonderful capacities come into being - "ways that ye know not of" are put into action - evil conditions and beliefs flee before the recognition of this Presence as a reality, and not as a power called into action by beseeching or begging - eventually the overtones of the lovely command "Whatsoever you ask in my name (nature) that give I unto you" - man begins to sense this - to feel it - to discover a secret well spring within - and to act from that elevation - to stand and SEE the salvation of the LORD.

Gradually as the LIGHT of this Nearness becomes a reality to you - a radiance of it floods everything and you begin to know with the Ancient Lamas that:

"Apart from one's own hallucinations, in reality there are no such things existing outside oneself as lord of death, or god or demon, or bull headed spirit of death. Act so as to recognize this."

Taken from the Tibetan book of Dead - undated - but before Christian era.

The Alabaster Box

"Why was not the ointment sold for three hundred pence - and the money given to the poor" - So the old question goes - give to charity and give to the poor - in spite of the LAW which says definitely "to the poor the Gospel is preached" - and the gospel is the Good spell which will free the poor from the terrible bondage of Poverty.

There is indeed a Catholic doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary, the birth of Christ being no less miraculous than His incarnation, a doctrine that my first Spanish catechism expressed by saying that the Christ Jesus passed from His mother's bosom into her arms as a ray of sunlight passes through a pane of glass without breaking it or straining it. This might properly be called virgin birth.

- George Santayana

Ambling Through Yesterdays

Pittakos 615 B.C. Philosopher of Lesbos Island, thought that most men were bad. One time when he was on a ship at sea which was overtaken by a terrible storm the men began to shriek and pray to the gods. Pittakos shouted at them, "Keep quiet, you fools or they will find out you are on board."

On another occasion when someone questioned him as to what was piety he remained silent. When questioned on why he remained silent he replied: "I am silent because you are putting questions about things with which you have no concern."

During a certain threatened invasion the inhabitants of the town were rushing to the sea carrying their valuables, hoping to escape by ship. They passed Pittakos empty handed and asked him why he didn't take his valuable things with him. He said, "I am taking the only valuable thing I have with me" and proceeded on his way empty-handed. SAPPHO (600 B.C.)

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You cannot bend a stiff mind.

He that is fair is fair in appearance, but he that is good will soon seem fair also.

When anger rises in the breast restrain the idly yelping tongue.

Do not meddle with pebbles (sacred things).

I Am Alpha and Omega

I am Alpha and Omega - the Alpha is the appearing Jesus and the Omega is the Christ - the completion of the circle of life which causes the Temple of God to appear in all its beauty and loveliness -

When the Christ (soul) and Jesus (body) are united then the mystic marriage takes place and Jesus Christ Consciousness takes place - the Temple which could be apparently destroyed over and over yet remain in tact.

You are the temple of the Living God when this takes place and the direct operation of the God Power likewise takes place. So raising aloft this recognition you find that you, the Jesus Christ Consciousness, are Generator and Progenitor of everything in your universe just as the man Jesus discovered and passed along to you. Everything that is coming to you is to be generated and recognized as existent within you - Everything you seek is already within the "darkened" temple of you - "I came a LIGHT, etc." and so you begin to discover and find and stir up the GIFT of God that is already within you. Do you hear?

Breathless Adoration

And sometime or other, or perhaps many times a space of Breathless adoration will come to you - that suspended golden moment when you are "there" - and at that time many things will be impressed - told to you - as a great musician hears the entire symphony in a single note, so in this Infinite second of pure recognition you will see all and perceive all - at that moment "the bread is broken with you" and you behold the glory of it all.

The Angel of His Presence may brush you ever so lightly with His Wings and you will understand.

A new Song of Songs begins to unfold within you. A new day dawns and you are "Still, still with thee when purple morning breaketh" - you are THERE.

Profanity

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord thy God will not hold him guiltless who taketh His name in vain.

Every negative and evil thing that you attach to you I AM is taking the name in vain. When you say "I AM sick" you have taken the NAME/Nature in vain for the I AM cannot experience the illusion of human thought called sickness. Illusion? Yes, witness Moses putting his hand into his bosom and taking it out white with leprosy - and again putting it in his bosom and taking it out clean.

You are not going to argue are you?

Well, not unless you are still thinking that the human intellect has something to do with God.

It is so, or it is not so.

Jesus is a Truth sayer or a liar -

Choose ye this day whom you will serve.

The terrible railing against what the world calls profanity while in the same breath the NAME/nature of God is taken in vain is childish and accomplishes nothing.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. There is only one God in consciousness - millions in thought.

"Etoile Filante Qu'il Faul Saisir au Vol"

"Shooting Star which one must grasp in flight." So it is with the lovely inspiration which "like the wind listeth where it bloweth." - the sudden inrush of Spirit that comes at certain times - the flash - the quick spurt of light in the midnight of human thinking - that is the shooting star which one must trap in its light.

A Fig for You

A fig tree is supposed to bear figs - and if it doesn't - Well? But you say it is not the season. The fig tree is supposed to bear Figs - there is no season in God - it is always the fullness of the Presence - that is if you can see it - It does not look to the botanist to find out when a flower will bloom. "Ye shall find the plant before the seed " - and so - can you step it up a little and SEE? "There was no rain or man to till the soil - and yet."

And Again;

Prayer is conception - the masculine knowing touches the feminine feeling and the new idea starts immediately to take unto itself a body and form.

The heat of an incubator must be kept steady and unvarying - and so must your contemplation of the "it is done" state of things which is to bring it out.

I have NEVER (and that is a long time) seen the righteous begging bread. No use arguing - you know the answer.

Righteous Indignation

And then there comes a time when the Righteous Indignation rises within you - and you rise and "smite" the rock and make it give forth the waters of Life.

Stop Counting Your Soldiers

Stop numbering Israel and start counting your blessings - starting of course with the three drops - and they will be as the sands of the sea. When the dam or obstruction of looking to appearances is once broken - the river of Life will flood the desert of your life and it will blossom as a rose. "The Lord MAKETH (not maybe nor perhaps) his people a hundred times more as they be." Is that enough? Do you believe? Well, why don't you answer me?

But - If

"But - if I could only see an Immortal - I would believe in immortality."

"Well, I'm sorry - you're never going to see an immortal until you arrive at immortality yourself - until you believe and become conscious of immortality you will never experience it - for it would be impossible for you to see immortality with a mortal conscience.

"What thou beest that thou seest." This old adage holds true today as of yore. Whatever you are in consciousness, you see manifested automatically all about you. When you become conscious of immortality you will see plenty of immortals all about you - and inversely when you are sick you eventually enter into a place where you see sickness all over the place.

"Come out from among them (the human thoughts) and be free." It is no good tying to "work" some system of truth to bring about immortality - you will suddenly discover it - when you believe and do not TRY to believe. There will be oceans of manifestations of any state of consciousness into which you enter. Remembering then that "in my Father's House are many mansions (many degrees of on-going) you will begin to push forward - you will begin to 'launch out into deeper waters" you will begin to try your wings for a skyward flight. You will put on the garments of Light - your Sky Robes. You will mount up with eagles wings.

Knowing then that you are not going to be given a sign - it behooves you to enter in and shut the door - and find out some of the realities of Life which will cause you to shed the rags of impoverished human thinking.

"Prove ME and see if I will not open windows in heaven (your consciousness) and pour out a blessing you cannot receive." Why cannot you receive it? Because it is so much greater than your human mind has ever dreamed of. But it says "prove me" - but don't you dare try to prove Me to see whether it will work or not, for it will not work. You prove a thing from a recognized state of consciousness.

Off With Her Head

The Queen of Hearts said, "Off with her head" and Alice was about to succumb to a fit of terror when all of a sudden she discovered something - "Why," she said:

"You're nothing but a pack of cards," and with that they all flew away.

Sometimes in your ongoing you come to just such an impasse - where Faith seems to be nothing but a sort of snow blindness without rhyme or reason and the whole pack of human thoughts array themselves against you; and then - all of a sudden, the vision gets its extension and you see through. And so "Look again" and see the time-space thing telescoped into the NOW -

Man Has Worked Out Many Inventions

But he has created nothing. For instance - what bread-machine or high-powered bakery could turn out five thousand loaves in five minutes - to say nothing of the fleet of fishing boats needed to accompany this out-put with freshly roasted fish. What high-powered machine of any description can take you "instantly on the other side of the lake"? What manner of thought transference of invention can "heal the servant in the self same hour"?

So think on these things and push out the borders of your tent a little. The Created man is beginning to appear in you and he knows all these things as natural and easy. The man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble - is that enough?

Yes, man has worked out many "inventions" - and can kill himself with most of them no matter how wonderful they are -

Be Sure You Hear What You HEAR

Our wonderful Amelia Earhart said when she met the ex-Prince of Wales, and was asked what she thought of him - "He is exactly as I thought he would be" - which amounts to saying exactly nothing as far as the listener is concerned - but two or three writers reported this statement as if Miss Earhart had said "he was wonderful". Maybe she did mean that - but LISTEN and see what you hear, when one speaks.

So Much Fortune-telling

So many people who are supposed to be prophets are merely advising their clients - "What you should do is this" but the client again hears "you are going to do so and so". Stop, look and listen. I said "Stretch forth your hand" can you hear that - or "Rise and walk" - or "Open your eyes". I am not advising, I am giving you the power to do it - if you can take it.

The Greeks Had a Word for It

The Ancient Hebrews had seventy-two names for God and used them definitely in their prayers in connection many times with the psalms. There is something mystic in the command "in my name" and when you begin to examine into this multi-named Deity it is not so remote as it may seem. We find ourselves praying to a God of Love, a God of Strength, a God of Substance - Decision, Faith, etc. There is something powerful about concentrating the entire attention on a single given phase of God.

The Greeks divided this Universal power into twelve main branches, and called upon the god representing the particular quality they desired to see into manifestation. They prayed to Aphrodite as definitely as you pray to God as Love - and at this time if we had been under the order of Ancient Greece no doubt during this war we would pray to Mars - just as we pray to the All Powerful Deity for victory.

It is interesting therefore to give some attention to this angle of Prayer, and examine a little into the nature of the name you are calling upon. There is something direct, clean cut in Decision, it is a force that cuts off all extraneous ideas and thoughts. Just as there is a relaxing consciousness which goes with Agreement and a warmth of feeling that comes from praying to God as Love.

There may be as many names as seventy-two if we were to count them - but the single track purpose of reaching that quality of God necessary to see manifested at the moment I believe is somewhat aided and abetted by singling out the particular name of God and aligning ourselves with God as that.

God as the universal everywhere present substance is somewhat nebulous - like the "wind that listeth where it bloweth and no man knoweth whither it cometh nor whither it goeth" - It is therefore possible for you to deify Him in one of his attributes - and when you go within your closet and pray for Love the ensuing manifestation must and will be in the nature of Love.

The multiplicity of ideas that always follows will likewise be in the nature of the "name."

Prayer is the capacity to recognize God - the power to align yourself with the Presence - and the power which results in manifestation. "When ye pray believe that ye shall receive and it shall be so." When you pray for success by recognizing God as Success, then it is Success that will come to you - the quality of the name-nature will take on a body and form.

The Reason

Did you ever question how it was that the servant of the Centurion was healed? Was it just a happen-stance?

Do you know of any General who would go across a continent to ask for help for his servant?

Servants and slaves were cheap in those days - one, more or less wouldn't have done much to the family budget - and yet we find this Centurion, gorgeous in his scarlet and gold - a man who had proved his worth by actual combat, coming miles (and miles were longer in those days of no airplanes) to ask for help for a servant.

Ever imagine that it was the LOVE of this Centurion for his servant that might have opened the way for instantaneous relief? There was not only authority in both of these men - (Jesus and the Centurion) who met, but there was love - and since perfect Love casteth out fear - so does it cast out the results of fear, disease.

Ouch, Sir -

"Ouch Sir" said the young sergeant who was being decorated by the Colonel before his regiment. The Colonel evidently didn't know how thin the jacket of the Sergeant was and the Sergeant had to be polite - what a terrible situation. Just like the Metaphysician who is always holding a thought - the longer you hold it the worse the situation gets. If you want it to work "let it go." If you want a seed to grow, throw it away.

Your seed must change shape - and it can never accomplish this as long as you hold it - neither can a thought get into manifestation as long as you "hold" it. "Ouch, Sir," I'm so sorry if it upsets your apple cart of antiquated metaphysics, hope there weren't many apples in it.

A Discovery

A noted psychiatrist recently said - people who are interested in the sex lives of other persons are motivated by one of three reasons - they are either repressed, suppressed or repulsed.

He also said when they speak of having a "friend" who is doing this, that or the other thing - it is more than likely they are speaking about themselves.

When they ask a question it is generally because they know the answer and want to while away a little time in a useless fashion.

When they ask advice it will not be taken.

So let your conversation be yea, yea and nay, nay. When they see the Light and call, you will hear and answer and that will be that. "My Sheep hear my voice" - others do not matter so follow ME.

Confirmation

The moment an affirmation is made it travels directly to its confirmation. The reason one makes an affirmation is that the confirmation is already established. The reason you pray or affirm a truth is because that which you are praying for is pressing towards you for expression and that is why you make the affirmation. It is a statement of a fact - already established in God, awaiting your willingness to LET it be confirmed into manifestation.

Having been warned about repetition of words you will see the difference in saying over and over pretty statements of truth, and Stating a fact. "Before you ask" - Prayer from this standpoint is an established fact.

I feel almost certain that the Affirmation-Confirmation of Life eternal was tried out in the case of Lazarus. Being the closest associate of the Master it is reasonable to believe that he knew many things regarding the Power which escaped others. It would have only been in line then for Lazarus to offer himself as a sort of human guinea-pig. A chance to see whether he could self resurrect, since they both knew that Jesus was going to under-go this same test.

Jesus was to be absent from Lazarus when he died, and in the event he could not self resurrect, or find his own confirmation of Life eternal, then Jesus would come and speak the word into being.

I was pleased therefore when I ran upon Mystic Homer Cook believing in the same idea.

The affirmation has its confirmation and if it cannot come through the opacity of your own mind, then another will bring it to you; so watch. To every affirmation there is a confirmation.

"What Went Ye Out for to See?"

Few there be who can accept the inspiration without taking the superstitions and limitations of the Teacher. The purple and fine linen are so obvious by their presence or by their lack.

"Blessed art thou when men shall curse you and revile you."

Do you believe that? Then what are you making such a fuss about all the evil stories and things said about you? If it is an indication of a blessing then you should rejoice. And that is the trick that suddenly bursts the shell of the cursing and releases the beautiful full-feathered Bird of Paradise.

More Blessings

"The wrath of man shall (not maybe or perhaps) bless you" - well what's the matter? Why don't you demand it, if that is a law. Rejoice and be glad for your redeemer draweth nigh.

"No (not any) weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper" - pretty hard on the poison pens of anonymous letters - and the violent wagging tongues. Wait and see. If you know this, you - will see. So Rejoice.

Because he has placed his Trust in ME - Isn't it wonderful when you ponder it all? Can you do it? - "the gates of hell shall not prevail" against you - and so Because -

"I bring not peace but a sword" - to all this evil thing which tries so unceasingly to destroy you. And so -

Condensation

At the spoken word of Jesus the invisible became visible - the unseen, unsuspected substance, which like the wind "listeth where it bloweth," condensed into visible manifestation. The WORD is the condenser - when this word is Spoken from the consciousness that "I am THAT I am" - that particular I AM or Temple - or Manifestation, should come into this particular situation and disintegrate the congested human thought which has made all sorts of evil pictures. It is not precipitation which is often referred to as a "top flight" indication of Secret Power. It is a natural releasing into a plane of physical sight and hearing, that which has always been.

You are told to "go thou and do likewise." Does that statement mean anything to you? More study? More seeking? more running to Messiahs and leaders, false or true? - or does it carry with it the wonderful realization that when once heard you can "Rise and Walk - and GO into all the world?"

Does the WORD in you mean anything? Are you the "WORD" made flesh - or are you trying to imitate the WORD of God or are you using the Word. Perhaps you are still a "Reflection" or a "Channel" or an "Avenue," or some other Geographical thing for God to work through - or perhaps you have left the Geography Department and gone into the Engineering Division and are now a "Co-creator" with a God who at the outset said, "It is finished - it is done" - and whose greatest purveyor of it all said the same thing. WHEN are you going to begin, to commence, to start, to try, at least to BE the WORD in action here and NOW and shove off from the limited shores of human beliefs? - Don't all speak at once.

The Gates of Dawn

And So He Did

I saw a young boy in the country poking a hornet's nest. I called to him, "Don't do that."

To which he answered, "I want to see what's in it" - and he did!

That curious looking thing hanging on somebody else's tree had better be let alone. Unless you want to find out what is in it. Pandora couldn't resist the temptation. Evil has a terrible attraction to the curious.

Subway Talk

Two women were arguing violently in a French Metro Station. A third woman approached and entered into the squabble. One of the first women moved away and took her train. Presently another woman came up and joined in. The second of the first group moved away and took her train leaving the two strange women arguing at blood heat. When last I saw them and the door of the train went closed they were hard at it, shaking their fists in each other's face. The ones who had started it were far on their way. "What is that to thee" is pretty good advice after all! What? If you are minding your own business you have plenty to mind - mind you!

Curiosity is the most unspiritual of all the faults of the human mind.

The Plus Value

We have come to a time when we must push up into a degree of consciousness which is just beyond that which the average man knows. If we are to "be in this world and not of it" we must know some plus value to life - and this we will know only by appropriation. In writing about this to a friend I got the following word:

"You spoke of a plus Value coming to us - a something just beyond the average understanding of truth - well if you push out one leg of the plus sign you have the cross - and that is probably what Jesus meant when he said "Take up your Cross and follow me."

The Cross is just the plus with an elongated leg - and that is why it carries with it such a tremendous power. A something beyond the level of the third dimension puts you up into the Fourth dimension - the "Stretch forth you hand" - the "open your eyes" - the "Look again" - all this is a "Plus value" - Take up your cross and follow ME - the inner Self - the permanent Identity - the Christ.

The Seal of Death

"The seal of death shall be broken and revelation shall become manifestation."

This is something to contemplate - all the lovely revelation of Jesus Christ shall become literal and actual manifestation. "The kingdom of heaven is at hand" - was a revelation. We see it in manifestation from time to time - but imagine it into manifestation for Good. All the revelation we have, which some times or intermittently comes into manifestation, will be established as a fact.

"The Blind shall see - the deaf hear - the lame walk," etc. - All of these things and more have we experienced in "spots" but then it shall be entirely out of the coils of human thought and evil.

Sky Robes

If you are going to descend to the level of criticism and scandal, you must first do as Milton says:

"But first I must put off my sky robes,

Spun out of Iris' woof,

And take the weeds and likeness,

of a swine."

You lay aside something beautiful when you criticize and condemn; - your heavenly blue and Iris robe of Truth must be cast down for the swine herd's rags. Is it worth it - and do you know how long it takes to wash your garments clean once you have laid aside your Sky Robes? Well, try it sometime and see.

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