These are books of inspiration, decoding of the WORDS of Jesus Christ. They are recorded as they came into being - with little or no change. They are for contemplation.

When a man hears, he will go within - shut out all the nonsense of human thought and when he comes forth, he will be divinely indifferent for he will know.

When these manuscripts were ready for the publisher, the urge came so strongly to lecture on them - and a series of lectures was given and recorded. It was most interesting to discover that the spoken word the lectures - seemed to have caught a certain clarity or revelation which was thought to be worthy of retention and accordingly they have been included - though they cover much of the material in the written word. The emphasis lay on repetition.

To sing, to laugh, to dream,

To walk in my own way and be alone,

Free, with an eye to see things as they are,

To fight - or write. To travel any road

Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt

If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne -

Never to make a line I have not heard

In my own heart; yet, with all modesty

To say: "My soul, be satisfied with flowers,

With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them

In the one garden you may call your own."

From Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand

Translated by Brian C. Hooker

If the thing called AGE had any REALITY, God would be hoary with years. Age is the illusion that is accrued by memory. The Countess of Patoka died at eighty. An autopsy reported her body to be eighteen. She became mentally stationery at THAT AGE, due to a great shock. This is only an incident, - and is tossed aside as a "once in a while." Yet do we see that if Age were a reality then God would be the first to record it, and all emanation from God would be decrepit and ancient. Yet is the day perpetually new, the tree, the bird, the flower. Memory then is, as the old song says, "The only thing that grief can call its own" - and it might be added that Age can call its own. The human mind is invincibly maladroit. Anything can happen if it has an excuse.

That which kept the garments new in the desert for forty years - and which RESTORES Thy Youth like the eagle's, and causes transformation and transfiguration to take place is not THOUGHT OUT, or made to appear by thinking.

It MAY be satisfying to know how to work out a GIVEN problem. A child could memorize the formulae for a problem in Euclid, - set it down and show the results - but that is the end of his manifestation. The slightest SHADE of difference in the problem leaves him helpless. Did the people who wore the garments and shoes that waxed not old, age? If so, why?

If he understood the PRINCIPLE of the law, - he could work out endless combinations called problems. All problems are only mental equations. They have no actuality. They all start with the acceptance of a false equation. Even the problems in arithmetic have to be made up, in order that you may return to the place from which you started, - the NO PROBLEM place, the One. Everything in human thought must eventually return to the ONE. Life in the raw - the undesignated substance which is everywhere present and appears when recognition takes place. Hence a man can and does produce in the desert that which cannot be produced according to the appearances of things. Clouds of words have obscured the Laws given by Jesus Christ.

How hardly then shall a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven. He is rich and loaded with beliefs and records established on the flimsy basis of that which his ancestors have accepted as Truth. When he awakens, he HEARS - "Come out from among them and be ye separate." Come out from among what? and why? and Where? It is all so much talk and meaningless until you begin to sense-feel the difference between Spirit and thought. The Place of suspended animation - the place of "Beholding" something too big for thought and utterly impossible of definition. It is the discovery of God - the universal - the ONE - the LIFE.

LIFE is that immaterial substance everywhere present; - ready to come into manifestation at the moment of recognition. It is that IMPELLING force back of you which from the moment of your creation has been with YOU, and is instantly available. Now you are becoming conscious of your immortality, and when you begin to sense this, you will see what Jesus meant when' he implied that you had never been born and consequently have never been unconscious. The eternal creation of God in all its glory and perfection has never gone through the processes of birth and death. It is eternally what it is - a creation of the Living God. As we sense this ETERNALITY of the LIFE CREATION, we begin to see how it might be likened unto a bolt of Lightning which passes through a hundred incarnations of human belief.

"Who are your father, mother, etc?" Who are you? What are you doing? Where have you been? In the land of NOD- belief in an existence apart from God, hypnotized by the Adam mesmerism, - dazed and bemused into believing that you were a matter body, a creation of man and woman, that your days were naturally filled with fear, sickness and trouble, quibbling about going to heaven even as you profess belief in Jesus Christ, who explained the Kingdom as here.

Could anything be more magnificent than the prayer "Now O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was"? What world? The world called John Smith? The world of hypnotism and belief which you have taken upon yourself, over and over, as you went wandering through the thing called reincarnation. There is the sudden remembrance, and the SUDDEN arising and the sudden going to the Father state of Life; the re-discovery that you were Created by God; - created perfect. As you sense this, perfection begins to appear; when the body is absent from the mind, the bondage of fear and disease are relaxed. The temple is cleansed and comes again to its fair proportions. It is wonderful - it is filled with wonder and Light - revelation - recognition and secrecy. It is as morning radiance filled with splendor. You will say with the Emperor Julian, after he had seen all the hellish devices to destroy the Christ Revelation fail - "Thou hast conquered, Galilean." As the Lord said to Moses - "See, I have made thee a God," so has He said to thee; - thou Golden One, made in the image and likeness - given power over all the things on the earth, under the earth, and above the earth; - created a little lower than the Angels - (the great centers of power and force emanating from the Center of Centers) - the heart of God - that which operates the universe and all its wonders from the tiniest manifestation unto the greatest.

This deeper abiding consciousness causes you to KNOW all the things that are to be added.

"The believers in ONE God change not, age not, die not; everything else: earth, men, their beliefs and opinions is subject to decay and change."

Sophocles.

"Thou hast conquered Galilean."

That is what his crucifiers had to say. What else could they say? The Galilean is still conquering.

The space between the cruse of oil and the manifestation of abundance stems from the belief there are vacuities in God. The space between is like the apparent space between electricity and equipment ... nothing can take place until a tiny fuse is inserted and the "space between" is filled. The omnipresence of God needs only this fuse (you) of complete recognition or belief to cause the oil to start flowing and from three drops come barrels of oil. It will not stop flowing as long as there is an empty measure.

All this lovely symbology is nil until man discovers that he is the fuse: - the thing which fills the space between something and nothing, and causes manifestation to take place. No wonder Jesus stressed the importance of being silent. No wonder He asked you to be absent from the body, and to come out into the ONENESS of spirit wherein you would find FREE ONENESS. Free Oneness is an Oriental expression of oneness with God. Man is then freed from all beliefs of degrees of life. It is wonderful.

So you enter into the Space Between. You are now at the place where the invisible becomes visible. No one believes this. That is why you are told to place the coal of fire on your Lips, and to go within and shut the door. This law is much disobeyed by earnest seekers of the Light who cannot understand why there are no results, and why the oil does not pour. Yes, you are to borrow vessels not a few. And it means just that. You have been living in a world of limitation.

When you enter or become the "Space between" the flow fills everything around you, - and neutralizes the belief so completely that the problem of lack and limitation does not exist in your universe.

Enter into the Place between and let the flow of light come through you and fill all measures not for the sake of self aggrandizement, but for the free oneness of you and God.

Yes, you are the space between ... Enter in and let the flow of LIFE begin to take place. You, yourself, are the answer to prayer. Free ONENESS:

Take it into the sanctuary. Take that word and return unto Jehovah, - the point of power and creation, and see what takes place in the movement of ONENESS when it is freed from the involvement of your human belief, teaching, and thought. You are suddenly a new creature in this light and understand how it is that FREE ONENESS moves by its own power, and has nothing to overcome. It suddenly arrives and IS, and so do you go within and shut the door and stop telling of and about, and begin to experience the action of FREE ONENESS in your own life. Yes, it is like the man who found the pearl of Great Price and bought a field and buried it, after he had let go of all the old worn out cliches and ideas he had picked up from the man whose breath was, and is, in his nostrils. And that buried pearl will illumine the whole earth. Go in - shut the door - put the coal of fire on the lips. IT IS WONDERFUL.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing."

With this overshadowing comes the peace that passeth ALL. An osmosis - absorption - a blending; into the ONE takes place and there is no longer question and answer, problem and solution.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing" becomes a reality. There is no limitation - no questioning whether the desire is good, bad, or indifferent - for from this elevation the desire is the shape of the idea sent straight from the heart of God, and is made alive by the pulsating heartbeat of the universe.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing" yet are you desireless, free from wanting and ready to move into a place of substance, out of the place of things and yet in the midst of them all. You are suddenly One. There is no more you and your problem, there is only you. You pass easily through the crowd of beliefs.

The Light universal keeps shining. As it intensifies, it absorbs the shadows of human belief; nothing matters, yet, everything does. It transform the Temple-body into a tenuous substance, through which it can shine forth, - assuming any attribute of God at will. Healing is not, then, some wonder projected through human thought, but rather the enveloping of the Golden Shadow. It is a natural blending with LIFE which rules out the narrow confines of health and strength in humankind. I AM suddenly submerged in a sea of LIFE - eternal, golden, and all redolent with the LOVE of God.

For the first time, the mystical becomes the intensely practical - the only real thing you have ever known. Sight becomes a capacity to peer through the dense midnight of thought, by means of the Light which projects its Golden Shadow from the "Mind which was also in Christ Jesus" and which you realize is the mind that is also in you.

No longer will you compromise with this power and put it through a thousand and one beliefs concocted by the mind of man. Instead, you permit it to take shape and form, even as the air takes the shape automatically of any vessel, yet never congeals or becomes set in that form, but lasts only for the moment of the duration of the desire.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing" - it is a carte blanche releasement of HIS Love, and it has to be received naturally and not as some special dispensation. It is as though the Golden Shadow has cleared away all obstruction between you and His Love, and you can hear, and really HEAR what is being communicated to the earth plane; now you can really know the full dimensions of His Love, and that all manifestation will take place, independent of your thought and without any effort.

As a sudden heavy rain falls upon a parched desert and is instantly absorbed, so does this descent of spirit come upon you. It instantly changes the nature of the desert and the very seeds already there begin to stir. Something is to take place - "the desert is to blossom as a rose" - because of the downpour of His Love, and because of the Recognition. You are being conditioned to a new dimension.

The Golden Shadow is the Golden Fleece which you have sought for so long and which has been guarded by the Gorgon, with her snaky locks of human devices, ways and means. Upon whomsoever this Golden Shadow rests, something - a quickening, takes place - without effort, and without any of the old ideas of healing and helping. It is entirely impersonal and natural and has nothing at all to do with human thought. Nothing can stay it, nothing can project it; it is a natural movement or urge in the mind of God passing through the temple-body (man) casting the Golden Shadow of Love and doing the things called "miraculous" by its revealing Light.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." Heaven and earth are full of thee - full, pressed down, and running over - there is not one empty vessel left, - even the borrowed ones are full. The Love of God keeps flowing until everything is satisfied. And all the while the Golden Shadow keeps revealing the intensely practical angle of it. It is not a mystical intangible thing, but something to be experienced and something to be handled with the hands and something that causes the wine of inspiration to flow through the body-temple with the rush of a pure mountain torrent. Health is absorbed into the LIFE of GOD, which knows no limitations.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." You must be ALIVE to participate in this benefit. You have to come out of the tomb of human thinking into the clean, fresh and almost fierce tides of LIFE. You have to be ALIVE in the recognition and the instant response to HIS Voice.

To human thought His word is almost unbearably stimulating, breaking its limitations. The Spirit refuses to be longer held in the narrow confines of the letter. The grandeur, the magnificence of pure Spirit leaves you speechless and bereft of all thought. "Let the earth keep silent before me and renew her strength" - the body, the temple, the earth of you is experiencing the renewing of self-revelation.

You have entered a new mansion where there are "singing masons building roofs of gold."* "Beauty, then is the destiny" ** which begins to shape itself and put to flight the FATE of human thought.

Yes, "thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desires of every living thing." Right now - stay there a moment.

"Not to desire is to have." Can you hear?

_________

* Shakespeare.

** Plato.

Transformation takes place when the Mental is released into the Spiritual. You become conditioned to reality. That which emanates from the mind of God is designated as LIGHT, GRACE, GLORY.

What comes out of the brain machine is constructed of all the limitations of judging from appearances, ancestor teachings, and superstitions.

The only possible way to escape the dire effects of thought is to pick up the force in apparent evil, merging it in the one source God, thereby depriving the manifestation of its power, hence it falls into the dust for it has nothing to support it. The thought machine stops functioning and the manifestation of evil disappears.

"Return ye even unto ME with all your hearts and ye shall find rest for your souls" - when you return to the one, you leave false mis-action of thought. "Once I was blind NOW I can see" for the moment the distorted sense of LIGHT, which is causing the blindness through taking thought is released, and the whole picture becomes NOW - the only so-called time there is. Human thought stretches in both directions from NOW - but produces nothing but so-called Maya - illusion.

When thought is resolved into LIGHT, the so-called miracle takes place; - which is only a miracle to the human limited thought, - but a natural functioning of GOD LAW.

Intuition does not stem from thought, but from God. What man makes of it or does with it in his Adam belief is different with every individual.

If the Mind is "Stayed" on HIM then the whole body is filled with LIGHT, and in some subtle manner the operation of the body becomes harmonious and perfect.

From mental action to the Spiritual BEING, from the movement of thought back to the motionless BEING is what takes place when Jesus "Goes unto the Father" - when the thought force is cast again into the Sea of Mind and has lost all its distortions, beliefs, and limitations.

Thought like the waves of the sea beats itself out on the shores - but the deeps are Still - "Be still and know that I AM GOD" - enter into the One. Pick up the loose ends of thought and return them unto the LIGHT and see the manifestation change from evil to harmony.

"Ye shall KNOW the truth," and that is something else again from "knowing the truth." You are commanded to KNOW the truth, but the human thought-taking mind wants to do something in an already created world and instead of recognizing the finished Kingdom - regardless of what he sees with the human eyes - he begins "knowing" the truth which carries with it the hope that it will happen instead of following the command, "Ye shall. KNOW the truth": that "I am the Truth." You cannot know a thing that does not already exist and the Truth IS and is to be KNOWN - recognized, instead of being put through the human thought of "knowing" or attempting to create it.

The mental action of knowing the truth is filled with effort and the overcoming of obstacles. Results are uncertain and unpredictable for it has an avalanche of beliefs to combat. To KNOW the truth is to be able to make the Gesture - "Stretch forth your hand." To KNOW the truth is to experience the instant manifestation or revelation of that which IS. Healing is in reality, - revelation.

When the mortal body shall put on immortality, the fusing as it were takes place and man is just where: he started - "The Spiritual being created in the image and likeness of God" - and he will "Call no man his father."

"We speak wisdom among them that are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught." The permanent identity - the ego remains forever intact as it was created in the beginning. "I go to prepare a place for you ... that where I AM there ye may be also." There is no ambiguity about this permanent identity - "where I am" - at the same level and height of power and fullness - "there ye may be also." It very clearly states that "Where I AM" - not in any sense inferring a time element - about where I will be or where I was at some past date - but where I AM. That is the secret WORD - the thing hidden from the wise and prudent, with its double meaning - its quality of BEING, and its location WHERE I am, The moment we enter into this I AM - the little I AM functioning as Jesus or John Smith suddenly is enveloped by the One - the thought limitations of Jesus are swallowed in the LIGHT of the I AM. That which speaks of itself and says "I can of mine own self do nothing" suddenly is doing all things and not by the thought that said "It is four months" - but by the NOW or revelation, the place of the I AM, the action of the I AM, which is always in the dimension of LIGHT. The dateless quality of the I AM throws much light on the question of Immortality. "Before Abraham was I AM" and if you blend into the I AM, you begin to discover the LIFE quality suddenly absorbing the limited idea of health and supposed power shut up in a body or a brain. I AM that I AM. I AM he that should come to this apparent situation. When I know this, the limitations of the problem break up to make way for the I AM. I AM he that should come. So when the mental is released into the Spiritual, transformation takes place. You become conditioned to reality.

You are asked a very pertinent and definite question. "Who by taking thought can ...?"

Thought is like a rope tied to a captive balloon. An Idea is borne in upon you. You either accept it, or take thought about it. If you take thought about it - nothing but frustration happens. The energy that is used in taking thought is that which would have sustained the idea into manifestation.

All this seems vague and hypothetical until you become silent and see how true it is. "Take no thought" about the idea, and you will have manifestation in due season. You are told to "go" without thought, "carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes," what you shall eat, etc. The moment the idea is accepted and forgotten, then all the energy which would have gone into thought hastens the manifestation of the IDEA.

I stood once in a London Pea Soup Fog. Had I not been told that yonder in the fog lay London, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, and a thousand and one other well known places, but as far as I was concerned there was nothing but obscurity. Yet, there it lay, and as I stood there I remembered the account of the Mist that went up and watered the face of the whole earth and that the perfect creation lay there in all its beauty. Yet through looking at the mist, I had spent many life times trying to re-create a new universe which would have to be super-imposed upon the perfect creation, and this Adam creation would be constructed on a basis of judging from appearances, and finding everything in the last analysis wrong. Even man had finally invented an instrument which would take him and his kind out of the picture, and so he hurried to try to make an agreement not to use it.

Gradually, we begin to see that the LAWS as Spoken into being by Jesus Christ are actually the laws which operate one hundred percent, and when recognized produce the manifestation out of the invisible substance.

The Mist that went up covered the whole face of the earth and hid - not destroyed - everything. What a revelation to know this, for it again substantiates the law that Creation is finished and done and called very good and this also applies to you - created in the image and likeness of God.

Now a new dimension comes into view which we are beginning to discover, not create or demonstrate, and as the mystification in your mind gets thinner, then, the IDEAS begin to show through, and if we can accept them, we will be able to see them and experience them.

The perfect creation begins to project itself through the mist of belief and the balloon is free to ascend to the higher heavens of inventions.

Who by taking thought? You answer it, and begin to see how much energy and power is expended in thinking of and about, instead of being used to substantiate the IDEA.

Enoch was translated.

We are prone to make supernatural the idea of "Translation." We are always looking for something unnatural to happen when God comes into expression. The most unpredictable things can take place and do take place all the time, - and we accept them without question. Witness the "transformation" that took place at Hiroshima at the introduction of the atomic bomb, an invention of man. Who wonders at that? A complete change of land and life taking place in a split second. Man can apparently do his "miracles" then - but with God, it is something else.

Jesus did not have any special gifts, - until He was translated by becoming aware of the Presence. He entered into a new degree of consciousness, and discovered certain capacities not known to the former state. Of Jesus He said, "I can of mine own self do nothing."

It has been whispered about that "you" are to be "transformed by the renewing of your mind." That is a form of "translation." It is a literal thing, as all the laws given by Jesus Christ are literal when understood. They are not to be demonstrated as something peculiar to a few people - but as natural laws coming into being when recognized. The action of God is in sharp focus - not in the soft focus of imagination.

Intellectual vanity is neither power nor understanding. The most wonderful thing about Jesus Christ is the fact that He materialized everything He talked about. His word was so replete with recognition it literally leaped into manifestation before the astonished eyes of His disciples. The yearning expressed in His words is moving. He wanted so to make man see the new dimension as natural and real - something that actually took place literally instead of hypothetically.

I wish He might have said of me, "I have not found so great faith - no, not in Israel" - I am wondering if some time or other the Christ is not going to say it to me and you? We are going to measure up surely to the place of absolute Faith and hear not only the, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," - the glorious statement "I have not found so great faith - no, not in Israel." It will be thrilling. It's coming. It will happen when we are translated from the present degree of "knowing the truth" into the place of "I AM the Truth." Some wonderful things are going to happen to you, - that much I can write unto you.

Every one in the Bible who "pleased God" experienced some sort of up-lilt of expression, - and so we see Elijah taking off in a fiery chariot. And all those who did these things took their bodies with them. Jesus did the same thing - He took His body with Him. What good is it to be just consciousness without a temple of expression? The question then is, "For why will ye die?" I know all the answers from the human standpoint, - but none of them good enough. The answer is, you won't when you are translated.

When you are translated "out" of the human intelligence into the Wisdom of God, you will speak with new tongues - and what you speak will take body and form.

You "please God" when you acknowledge HIM. You do not have to keep asking for things if you will let Him give you the desires of your heart. If you can do this naturally and without the foolishness of demonstrating Him, it will all take place "in the twinkling of an eye."

Do you begin to hear? - the perpetual acknowledgment of Him in everything: - devil, enemy, hell and disease, as well as friends, health and substance.

The moment a thing is manifested it is on its way out. Draw a hundred dollars from the bank and it is gone. Before you draw it out, it is there - yet it is not there - not the actual hundred dollar bill. You do it all in "your name" - and the moment it comes into manifestation it begins to disappear. It is so with all manifestation. God is the great Unmanifest - the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. The actual SUBSTANCE; the moment it is stepped down to the point of manifestation it begins to disintegrate and to return to the original substance, unless stayed by recognition.

Unless man discovers that he Lives and moves and has his being in the ONE substance at the same moment it lives and breathes and has its being in him, he is only a temporary thing which is quickly passing into oblivion by all the evil means at the disposal of the mind which believes in separation. There is no separation between me and thee - there is One - yet I am the expression (the pressed out idea) of GOD, sent for a purpose - to bring, to release the LIGHT.

How can a man "renew his youth" if he does not know that he lives in the immaterial substance, which to know aright is LIFE eternal? It is wonderful when you glimpse it, - you begin to see you are actually LIVING in the invisible and immaterial substance of God and that this knowledge is what sustains the eternal freshness and newness of manifestation. Even as their garments waxed not old. How was it - unless the immaterial substance was always present, and as long as it is recognized, so long does the manifestation stay in place. It is wonderful.

"Heaven and earth are full of thee" and this alone will disintegrate the old beliefs and the "flesh shall become new like a child" because the immaterial substance is constantly flowing into manifestation and sustaining and refreshing the form and shape Spirit has given it.

Can we take it? Not as long as we argue about it. Not as long as we do not believe - believing is not a mental effort - it is a discovery. When the discovery is made, the manifestation takes place.

If you were before Abraham even as Jesus said He was - what about it? Whence came this manifestation of three score and ten, filled with evil, and that man must work out his living by the sweat of his brow? That is the chimera of belief: the mist that went up; - the hypnotism that came upon man when he descended to the level of freewill, and decided he would create again that which had been created and called very good.

Why did Jesus always return to the Matrix" Why does the sculptor return to his idea? The more he contemplates, the more accurately he is able to bring it forth and give it a body and form. "I go unto the Father" - I in the father and the father in me - all sounds like so much talk, until the sudden, quick, almost terrible recognition of the Presence is made.

"I go unto the Father" not to the idea of some man or the desires of some man, - but to the Matrix, the Father, and in that place of unmanifest substance I am completely renewed; - that is: I lose the accumulation of beliefs that have crystalized upon me like barnacles on a ship. It is said that a ship covered with barnacles if run into sweet waters will automatically lose the barnacles, and so is it with man - the moment he runs into God, he loses the evil he has accumulated for years through the ancestor teaching and belief.

When a man is not guilty of that which he is accused - all that is necessary is to drop any effort in connection with it, and instead of taking further thought go to the Place of LIGHT. The place of LIGHT is the point of recognition. When recognition is made of the Presence then all other "presences" are as naught. The thing that comes at you in ONE way of concentrated force of human belief will flee in ten, when it comes into contact with this recognition. The heart that knows it is not guilty and has merged into the LIGHT - suddenly experiences a surge of power. He hears singing within the temple of his being

of what man can do unto you. He can do nothing the moment you are at the point of SELF recognition. You put up your sword; the battle is not yours but God's. That's good enough for any warrior - and should instantly allay any belief in two powers. The more imminent evil becomes and the greater the ramifications - the nearer it is to destruction - it is Wonderful. Then can you "Praise God from whom ALL (not some) blessings flow." There is a mental and physical relaxation in this contemplation. To be "Still" is to be STILL - and not a condition produced by taking thought - but suddenly to BE STILL. No noise that man can make with whatever instrument he may have, can compare with the "NOISE OF MANY WATERS."

The Power of the Presence of purity, the roaring of the waters through the beliefs of human thought, silence forever the NOISE of man. So do you stand in the LIGHT -"though ten thousand shall rise against thee" - yet shall your heart be not afraid, for it is only ten thousand thought formations which have nothing to sustain them but your acceptance of them as real. The moment you rise to the ONE - the LIGHT will absorb, dissipate and utterly put to flight all that which is against thee.

"I will fear NO (not any) evil for thou art with me." Appearances are for the moment; - the dust storm that obscures the sun is but a brief encounter with materialized thought which is soon blown away.

Recently a man shot at another, but the bullet hit a steel post ricocheted and finally passed through his own heart. When evil runs into Light, it has a Strange habit of returning to the point of its origin.

Man lives in God yet he does not see God - for it is written that "no man shall see God and Live." The moment he SEES the degree of God in which he lives, he discovers the nothingness of things and "dies" to them, only to arise to a higher degree of consciousness, and make new and more wonderful discoveries about the power called God. A fish does not see the water he swims in, and man does not see the air in which he lives - and he does not see God, but he sees the infinite manifestations of HIS Presence, and it is only when he comes to the NATURAL knowledge of ONENESS that he begins to assign to things their proper place. They become something to be USED and not possessed. The moment he begins to possess things, he transfers power into the manifestation which is only an illusion, and the illusion possesses him.

Heraclitus, the Greek Philosopher, believed all things were in a constant state of flow - and knew that man could not step in the same river twice. All things are in a constant state of change. The permanency of Spirit (the unseen) gives a solid basis for LIFE. Manifestation automatically takes care of itself. Every plant of the field was beheld in the mind of God before it appeared, revealing the fundamental truth that both seed and flower are at once in the mind of God. Manifestation is the shadow. All vegetation appeared before there was any rain, and before any man had time or idea of tilling the soil. So the tiller of the soil pauses, and as he pauses a moment, for a brief encounter with REALITY, he discovers a thanksgiving welling up in him.

He begins to see the "why" of "before you ask." He begins to know the "substance" and the "evidence" of the unseen must be recognized if the reflection is to be cast into the manifest world.

When are YOU going to stop TRYING to demonstrate God, and let Him have His way instead of your mistaken concept?

Your part is the being Still - with your mind stayed on reality - not on manifestation.

The Fountain at the end of the garden walk retains its shape and form - though the water is constantly changing as you walk toward it. As long as the power is on, the shape remains intact; - the moment the power is turned off, water becomes a shapeless mass ready to take any form introduced into it. So it is with the substance of consciousness - until there is a shape and form, it is void - nothingness, and remains that way until it is shapened again by the matrix.

Electricity flows endlessly through wires into manifestation of a thousand denominations, yet remains always electricity - and man watches over the powerhouse while the manifestation flows endlessly into expression. All illustrations are worthless - meaningless when it comes to actually moving into the consciousness known as the "mind which was also in Christ Jesus." When one begins to perceive this, he will also begin to arrive at the point of manifestation. But the human thought, hypnotized by thousands of aeons of belief in ancestor teaching and ideas, has the cart before the horse, and spends all its effort and time trying to "demonstrate Truth" - instead of recognizing consciousness. When you have the consciousness of a given thing, the manifestation will take place endlessly; - no matter how often it is wiped out - the consciousness will replace it with the ease that you "replace" the reflection in a mirror. You can break a mirror, but that does not destroy anything but the reflection, and never that which causes the reflection; likewise it is with consciousness - the moment you discover this, the manifestation will FOLLOW.

It is stated in the Law the "signs follow, they do not precede" - yet the Adam man, having imagined he could create, proceeds to work from the without in. He studies and works with man-made ideas or systems; all of which are founded on the teaching of Jesus Christ - but putting them through a human concept of it, he gets everything backward, so he naturally spends his time trying to make manifestations which he calls demonstrations or answers to treatments or prayers. Once he is concerned with consciousness, the signs will follow, and in my (name) NATURE shall he cast out the devils of limited human belief. By doing this, the hard, fast condensation of thought will be wiped out of the Temple - BODY and it shall be filled with LIGHT which will operate perfectly the body-temple and cause a man to KNOW LIFE, and eventually LIFE eternal - as he KNOWS ME. "This is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God." - and only as man stops trying to "demonstrate God" will he be able to see Him in the Flesh. "YET in my flesh shall I See God" - for I shall recognize Him as the natural and real instead of the demonstrated power of human thought.

Gradually, the ease with which it is accomplished will put to flight all the intellectual hunting in the archives of human wisdom - and he, too, will BELIEVE. You do not think it strange that a child - knowing nothing about life - accepts what it is told by the parent, and by doing just this without question, produces a Santa Claus; - the illustration is again absurd, but the ease with which it is done was what Jesus was referring to when He said: "Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein." Ignorant, as far as human intellection is concerned, unable to carry on an elaborate reasoning system, but able to accept without question. If you must become as a little child, why bother further with what a man has to say on how to demonstrate?

All illustrations in the Bible are of the most drastic design. Nothing can be more devastating to cloth than the burning sun and sands of the desert, and this was the test that was made. As long as anything is submerged in the ocean, it partakes of the quality of the ocean - and in like manner as long as you are "submerged" in God and are conscious of it, you partake of the quality of Spirit which is neither young nor old, but it is the glorious freshness and aliveness of God.

When Croesus, the richest of men, grew weary for other worlds to conquer, even as Alexander did, he looked toward Cyprus and Persia. Being a superstitious man, he consulted the oracle of Apollo at Delphi and was told: If he crossed the Halys Mountains, he would destroy a great empire - which he did - never dreaming it would be his Empire.

He had heard what he wanted to hear - not what was said; and so is it with the words of Jesus Christ - they are twisted to suit the desire of man. Definitely it says: "and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do "but nothing happens until it is heard; that complete assumption of the Mind of Christ Jesus is made. Until this mind is operative in man, he will do nothing other than that he finds in the limitations of his personality. The attempt to demonstrate things without consciousness is like trying to produce electricity without the knowledge of it. No wonder the instructions of prayer are so brief and have nothing to do with thinking. "When ye pray, believe" - you can get no farther than this, and until it is done, no answer will be revealed because what you have in consciousness you have in manifestation. It falls out automatically and without effort - even as the reflection appears on any surface, without effort.

Pindar, the Creek poet of 400 B.C., is asked if Excellence could be learned, to which he replied it was impossible; that it was discovered as an inborn glory, a state of consciousness, and that he who tried to learn it was a "twilight man wavering in spirit."

We see the attempts to pattern after Jesus - in spite of the fact he warns against it by saying: "Why callest thou me good?" He wished no imitators, knowing the infinite variety of God and His manifestation, and He likewise knew that all of this could and would stem from the consciousness of the Christ within. First, then, it is necessary that this Christ mind which we are told is within us, must be recognized instead of being a strange, foreign thing resident only in Jesus. As this is recognized, we begin to hear through the words - and finally we hear the WORD which is the substance of all words, no matter in what language and eternally changeless in meaning and action.

"For whosoever hath, to him shall be given," is only a natural automatic action of consciousness and not a demonstration, and to him who hath not consciousness - or recognition of his own Christ Self - it shall be taken away, for he has nothing with which to retain it. Therefore, leave the old, dead teaching of the ancestors who believed they could implore and beg God to change his mind. Nothing changes but the degree of your acceptance of that which you are saying with your lips.

The inheritance incorruptible is the Christ within you awaiting recognition. You might just as well try to be unbaptized, as one of Voltaire's characters threatens to do, as to imagine you can deny the Christ actually.

Do you like the idea of "inborn glory"?

Passing a light through a prism causes it to become manifest in many colors, which in turn break up into hundreds of shades and nuances. The same thing is true when the LIGHT of Spirit, which is invisible to the naked eye, is passed through the Temple of your body. It breaks up into all sorts of manifestations and is slowed down to a point of visibility in the thing named "matter" by man. Your body has no more intelligence than your refrigerator. When the electric current is passed through it, it produces ice cubes.

We have become so conscious of the body as a power it has taken over. The tail is wagging the dog. Presently, he begins to understand that none of the senses can be extended on the outside any more than the refrigerator can make ice cubes unless the power is flowing through it. We do not see with the human eye, literally, for the eye of a so-called dead man cognizes nothing, is not afraid, nor does it draw back from outward conditions. When we recognize that God, Spirit, is seeing through our eyes, we will begin to look beyond the surface and will also become aware of the capacity to look forward and backward at the same time, and see the whole manifestation in the present, as Jesus did, and as He stated.

"He that hath ears, let him hear" - a silly statement of itself. Nearly every creature has ears, but few can hear because they think they hear with their ears instead of with their consciousness. No wonder it is stepped down to such a slow pace.

Beyond the narrow confines of so-called ear-hearing are infinite reaches of sound - inaudible to matter, but not to Spirit.

Suddenly, when you know that it is God walking on the waves of your troubled human thought, you will begin to decode the message that is given to you in the hurricane - at any time and under any circumstances. There is no time nor place where God cannot speak to you with the "still small voice," and give you the express instructions for a free passage through the crowd of human beliefs.

"This is the way, walk ye in it" - and "turn to the right - turn to the left" - likewise, "Go into all the world." As long as you are running about trying to make demonstrations, you will never hear - the sense of hearing will have its limit of expression at the surface of things.

"My sheep HEAR my voice." The instinct of the spiritual you will hear. Even as a dog will hear his master's voice and not be fooled by a good imitation. So will you HEAR, because it is God hearing through you. You become clair-audient. The same thing is true of the vision, when you begin to see with the Power of God, then you become clairvoyant. All this is not for the purpose of telling fortunes and making yourself mysterious - but for the GLORY OF GOD.

And so the asking becomes father to the fact that the creation of that for which you have asked has already taken place.

Before the beginning of the "John Smith" world. Note the word NOW - and how it is at the point of "always" on the Cosmic Clock. "NOW is the time" - "NOW are we ..."-"NOW be glorified" - and so on. Everything becomes NOW when the discovery of the new "timeless-time system" is put into action by the awareness of the PRESENCE - this ONENESS.

Go ahead and answer it - you will blame everything and everybody for your failure to LIVE fully - until one day you discover where the hindrance is. Then will you reply, "I hindered myself." Then you have it located in such a place that it can be eliminated. The dam, or obstruction is moved away - and the River of Life flows freely and joyously to the sea. It is wonderful !

If you can accept GOD - you will experience GOD. This is not "an affirmation." This is nothing to THINK about. This is not a catch phrase of modern psychology. This is revelation. If you can accept GOD, you at that instant EXPERIENCE HIM. What is it to experience GOD? It is to find a thousand and one impossible equations solved, dissipated, absorbed. It is to see the congealed energy of thought which you call matter, resolving itself into new and correct patterns.

If you become emotional and excited every time you see the power of God active in your life, you will not see it often, for to you it is not natural. There is no emotion in God, only in the mind of man, and it has nothing to do with spiritual manifestation.

When you stop making God so unnatural, you will discover the Power emerging through the congealed energy of thought and in a subtle way changing appearances.

It is reported that the audience was made up of the intelligentsia of Greece (minds of the Golden Age) who had set up a government and such perfect living conditions that it is almost impossible to imagine. And so they stood waiting for the "Babbler" to tell them something.

Paul was the "Babbler" and he straightway addressed them in no uncertain terms. There must have been a tense silence when he uttered his famous words:

and then continued - you are worshiping at the Altar of the Unknown God: "Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." Imagine what a statement like that would do today if some voice would tell all the space hunters and men of like ilk that it was all going to be revealed to them - that the principle they worshiped and worked so hard to discover and develop was at last going to be explained and shown to them, and that the end of speculation and guessing was at hand.

I can well imagine the Athenians were all ears and filled with surprise when he told them that the GOD of which he spoke was not worshiped in temples made by hands - "as though He needed any thing, seeing he Giveth to all LIFE, and breath, and all things."

With one powerful stroke of oratory, he neatly gathered the rapt attention of the whole crowd with his "Him declare I unto you." Can you imagine what the truth of his statement "as though he (this God you ignorantly worship) needed any thing" - seeing he is the giver of all, and is not worshiped in temples made by hands. What a statement and interesting, too, that he was standing in the midst of Mars' hill in front of a group of buildings and temples that have not yet been surpassed in their purity of design and beauty. This very statement might do something today if it were heard again. Worship, in the minds of many has much to do with buildings and pageantry and men.

If he had said nothing further about this Unknown God than "seeing he giveth to all LIFE, and breath, and all things," he would have overturned a world of superstition and beliefs and opened doors to the literal and actual Kingdom of Heaven here and now.

The temple not made with hands is the temple of the body - is that upon which has been hung all the evil history and belief of the old Adam man with his distorted idea that he could create in a universe already created and done, and you and I come under the stupid superstition and hypnotism that he was right. But a Babbler has to set right, and, of course, we have to hear the Babbler, and having heard we obey and begin to experience some of the new dimensions of LIFE. It is wonderful !

The Babbler is here again, for you are beginning to hear and he may meet you almost anywhere but in the temple made by hands, though he is there too. He is the unannounced Voice of one crying in the wilderness of belief, and he passes you on the highways of Life and speaks to you "Come out from among them, and be ye separate."

Yes, the Babbler is here again - listen and you will hear him, and put the coal of fire on your lips. It is wonderful - filled with wonder.

Is it any wonder then that the Athenians suddenly declared with one accord: "The gods are come dawn to us" from Mount Olympus.

But the Babbler was not through with his revelation; he had something greater to tell them. This time it was a question which you, too, have to answer. Know ye not that, "ye are gods"? What an explosive statement made at any time, nothing but dead letters until it is heard, and it is not heard by the one who imagines that he is "God" or that swells his ego into personal power. He may flourish as a green bay tree, or like a toy balloon that gets larger and larger until it bursts of its own accord, or runs into the sharp point of the sword.

And so the voice is speaking again and saying:

"Ye men of Athens," you are worshiping an Unknown God, a man-God. You are worshiping him in temples made with hands, and are offering him all sorts of things if in turn he will prosper you - but he is worshiped in temples not made by hands eternal in the heavens - Temples not made by hands. Temples wherein there are no arguing voices professing a dozen different kinds of theology. When you enter the first law is "Lay your gift on the altar" - and that gift is the surrender of all desire and preconceived notions. The sudden silence will eventually become filled with the VOICE of Spirit, and you will hear the inaudible definition of the words you have tried for so long to demonstrate. "Be still."

AN ALLEGORY

At the first flush of dawn the pilgrims began arriving. Like so many bits of colored glass in a toy kaleidoscope, they kept making an ever-changing pattern; a riot of color, as if an artist had fallen asleep and the paint on his palette had run wild. Tension, excitement - breathless anticipation - vibrant expectancy.

It was Passion Week in the Holy City. They were again to watch for the miracle - the second coming.

"Why seek ye the living among the dead?" still went unanswered. The crowd increased and jostled one another in the narrow way. They entered through the Jaffa Gate into the teeming streets of the city. A camel train laden with merchandise and hung with rich stuffs and silks rubbed against the passers-by as they pushed up the hill. The call of the donkey boy was heard as he tried to direct his completely indifferent beasts. The hypnotic beat of the tom-toms and soothing insistent notes of the pipes made a strange eerie decor. Every eye searched each passer-by. Perhaps that might be He - who knows? He will rise again - He will come again.

Over by the Jaffa Gate sat the Arab, enfolded in his soft camel's hair burnoose - near him a pile of golden oranges. He was unconscious of the picture he was making as he sat motionless, oblivious to the excitement of the passers-by. He neither called his wares nor offered them for sale. Above his head the budding branch of a slender tree was making a network of shadow mosaic on the wall; growing darker the while as the sun rose higher in the cloudless heavens. He, too, seemed to be waiting. He seemed to have been waiting there for aeons - waiting, waiting, waiting.

One unhurried golden moment after another slipped noiselessly by like streams of wax that ran down from lighted candles in the temple - incense - the throb of distant chanting; mute - hypnotic - then disturbing-hateful. The wax from the candles kept flowing - the moments kept slipping soundlessly by into a dulcet oblivion - silently they passed like bare, perfumed dancing feet over the silken pile of a prayer rug. Time did not matter. That (time) was the illusion, the pilgrims had so little of. They were in such a vapid hurry to get out of it all they could.

When the Arab opened his eyes and let his gaze travel in a circle upon the people about him, it was like the opening of a fan. Those upon whom it rested felt the gaze, as they might have felt soft feather tips brush them ever so lightly. The gaze came from hidden places, fathomless depths, luminous darkness, accompanied by mute throbbing tones.

There was an infinite wonder and pathos in his gaze almost a pity - and the eternal question, "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" He is risen! He is coming at the precise moment you are willing to receive Him.

It was all so confusing in a way - "If I go ... I will come again" and, "I will never leave thee" - as if some hidden password or secret was given for those who had ears. How could it all be that way? Going - and yet not going - and yet coming again in the flesh.

If you followed the gaze of the Arab, it led to blinding heights of Light. There was hidden in it a wisdom which somehow might change the whole pattern of man. It was that very wisdom which made the other Arab fold his tent "and as silently steal away." It was that something akin to discovery and appropriation at the same instant.

Conception is ever silent - deep, fathomless stillness, where Stygian darkness shuts out curious human thought and reasoning, and the fearful working out of Salvation takes place. The least flutter of human thought would drive it into oblivion leaving a great void. An exquisite sensibility enfolded everything - swept it all upward as if born by angel wings into a breathless second of eternity.

And then as a crystal being shattered into a thousand pieces, the jangling noise of the Pilgrims broke the golden silence. They were fighting among themselves, trying to get into a place where they could better see Him, who would say unto them "love one another." They would not see Him even if He appeared, for they had already gone down the wrong road again. They would miss Him for they would be looking for a miracle worker. They would be looking for a man in purple and fine linen, surely not for one washing the feet of the weary. They would only know Him by His robes glistening with jewels and power - by His authority and glamour.

If I do not get in, I may miss Him. "The race is not to the swift" meant nothing, the more physical effort they put forth the nearer the possibility of personal gains. If they could get near the man who increased the leaves and fishes, this time they would find out how it was done. When HE was here a single word would do it, a single touch of His robe would accomplish what the wise physicians could not do nor understand.

Ever and anon an excited word would go forth that He had come and was giving the Secret of His Power again, but presently the excitement died down, and the whining voices of the deceived went up with a wail.

The Arab was not concerned as he heard the exciting news again and again of His coming. He was resting leisurely at the elevation of "No chance." He did not have to pursue anything; he did not have to win anything. Having to WIN was the out picturing of a consciousness which believed in limitation and in a God who was a respecter of persons. The very thought of this law of no-chance to many stimulated the greedy human thought to a point of frenzy. "Stillness" was impossible in such a seething cauldron of excitement and greed. A million sensuous dreams passed through the mind as a whirlwind on the desert flings waves of sand at the Sun.

It all seemed foolishness. If He was "coming again" why did He not come? and if He was a God of love, why would He permit war? Why would He permit the evil to have riches and the good to have nothing? Why? and why? and why? - until the whirlwind again enveloped him. And presently through the terrific noise, the machinery of desire blacked out everything.

The Arab arose, shook out the folds of his burnoose and passed through the gate leaving no one in charge of his stock in trade. His gaze had taken care of everything, just as the gaze of Jesus took care of everything upon which it rested and revealed all sorts of laws which were self-operative without the aid of human thought. As he went up the hill, he passed through the crowd with little difficulty. Something seemed to be making a way for him, though he was silent and asked for nothing. It was just that they automatically moved aside.

He went over to the Mosque of Omar - the Dome of the Rock (that beautiful jewel dropped down in the center of the Compound) - and disappeared through the door. It was dark inside except for the halo of varicolored lights cast by the band of heavily jeweled glass in the cupola, which kept changing the while as it lay upon the rock, a thing alive. No word was spoken - only silence throbbing, soft, enfolding. His white robe was smudged out by the velvety darkness. Only his eyes could be seen. He knelt and touched his forehead to the floor. Now the silence seemed strong enough to break the thin walls of the ear a tremendous and awful sound of the Presence - as if an infinite number of angels attended him.

The whir of the wings of the Heavenly Host as they dosed in near formation sounded: this was the elevation of miracle - pure revelation! This was the place of breathless adoration, wherein the silence became real - and the "BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD" was effortless, an INFLOW OF POWER, an ENTERING LIGHT. This was the restoration of the soul - like the perfect reassembling of quicksilver that had been scattered. There was no seam or jointure - there was only ONE. The soul was not joined, mended or corrected - it was ONE again as it always had been; it was restored, with all faculties alerted for the Second Coming.

And then after what seemed many aeons of time, which was only a moment, he left the soft incense-laden darkness and went to the far side of the Compound and stood near a walled-up gate. Presently you were at the gate too - still, silent, waiting - waiting for the eyes to touch you again with revelation, if you could stand it - if you could stand it.

And finally the eyes opened, the flood of LIGHT came, "This is the Golden Gate. It is walled up and will not be opened until He comes again. At His coming, the stones will crumble and He will pass through." As he said the unspoken words, the stones began to fall away and the Golden Gate was filled with Light and Fire - and HE came through the Golden Gate of your consciousness. He came again in the flesh - Your flesh - and now you SAW HIM and experienced the stones of human belief and limitations fall away - and the GLORY OF GOD revealed.

As you stood trembling in the ecstasy of it all, the Arab had disappeared as a purple shadow at sunset. Over in the valley of the Mount of Olives, a saffron mist swung like a veil in the evening sun.

What do you mean when you repeat the LAW - "Take words and return unto Jehovah." What word? Where do you take it? Until we see that the WORD exists before it is uttered, we cannot see that the fulfillment of the WORD also exists before it appears - and that takes care of the strange statement "Before you ask, I will answer." But how can a person think a thing like that through to a satisfactory conclusion? He is defeated before he starts, for all thinking proceeds from the three dimensional basis of life, and is finished before it starts - there is no permanency in it.

When the "thought word" is launched, it accomplishes nothing; when PEACE is called from the housetops with the thunder of the ages, nothing happens but confusion, wars, and rumors of wars. As far as the thinking man is concerned - because it is nothing but an inflated idea of the human mind which tries to do something by taking thought - even after he is told "take no thought," yet there is the WORD.

What, then, is the WORD that you take to Jehovah? It is the recognition of the PRESENCE which discovers that within every word is the full energy to cause it to function. The moment that recognition is made, it is exactly like the air in a small balloon expanding until it bursts the shape of the balloon and takes on the shape and form of the atmosphere. It is wonderful when you begin to see this mergence - when you begin to understand how Jesus when He went to the Father simply melted or merged into the One, and then, nothing - it says nothing - was denied.

This is not some mystical performance - not something that happens when you have studied endless courses of how and why - not something that takes place when, like the heathen, you have used many words to gain the ear of the DIVINE. It is pure recognition first of your own helplessness "I can of mine own self do nothing," and then the full recognition of the ONE who can do all things; you are through with ah the preconceived notions and ideas of any personal effort and you are at the point of action in in-action. You are ready to LET something happen. Your only part in this is complete obedience to the urge and the integrity that will not question and so the "before you ask" merely comes into manifestation automatically, and in the twinkling of an eye all is changed, or rather revealed. It is wonderful! Be still. The Energy of the word - the imprisoned splendor of it all - is a sort of pent-up energy that is in everything God urged, whether it be man, or the arts of man. It is the soul that, when recognized, will come forth. What makes a masterpiece as compared with the daubings of a rank amateur? What is this very pent-up energy that literally speaks to you?

"A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it represents." (H. Moore). That is as a modern statement of prayer, the prayer that Jesus advocated - the prayer which is before it is mentioned and is freighted with the necessary energy to come into being and take on a body and form. "Speak the word" is something more than a collection of dead letters. When the WORD is spoken, the dead letters which are holding the imprisoned splendor of it away from manifestation, break up and release the manifestation. All this which is mystical in statement is a literal, actual thing finally to be handled with your hands and experienced, so that you will know that the "eating of food" which Jesus did was only to make you see we are not talking about imagination or metaphysics in the ordinary sense of the word, but about the tangibility of spirit, which is unseen until recognized, and then becomes concrete by pure recognition. It is wonderful.

The same WORD which cannot return unto you void, once recognized and spoken is the word which you have with you always for recognition when the greed and egotism are drained from you. Why should you be greedy for possessions when you have all? You have all the air there is. What are you going to do with it? Try to hoard it? The Word takes all forms and shapes at the instant recognized, and it is "closer ... than breathing - nearer than hands and feet." It IS, and gradually this recognition will cause the false ancestor-thinking pictures to fall away - they will flee in ten ways. The moment you discover the pent-up energy in the word, and by recognizing the power, it bursts the limitations. You will see the Serpent, the wisdom of the LORD, eat up the wisdom of a thousand and one mystics and teachers of personal ideas. "Awake, thou that sleepest and CHRIST (within you) shall give thee light." It is wonderful!

The picture you are to paint is already painted, and that sounds like so much nonsense to the intellectual fool who knows better by a thousand and one tests and proofs - but nevertheless it is so. The Masterpiece that is to take shape and form is already there and waiting to be thrown onto the canvas of life: whether this be LIFE, or wealth, or joy, or whatsoever. But you will not try to superimpose the masterpiece upon a filthy piece of newsprint, which has the record of your own hopeless and vicious attempts to make God do your bidding. You will make the assumption of the virginal mind, and let the perfection of the picture fall upon the clean sheet of your mind. It is wonderful! No one believes it - so tell no one - but later on let them look at the Masterpiece and draw their own conclusions. You do not care what they think, you have gone on to another, and still another. For the substance is everywhere present in every form and you are "about your Father's business" which is the business of letting and not "trying" to let or make. Do you hear now? a little? - well then go in and shut the door. "This is the way, walk ye in it." This is the LAW - abide in quiet and peace.

Like the vortex that draws everything to it - like a mighty vacuum surrounded with the Terrific pressure of the outside atmosphere - suddenly it happens, and man begins operating from a new level of recognition, and the former things are passed away.

All the evil buds that were beginning to shoot out their ugly branches of belief are crushed and dead. NOW. So is the fate pattern suddenly destroyed before it has time to take form and shape, because you have discovered the pent-up energy of the word and have, by recognition, caused it to break the thin walls of belief which held it away from the ONE. It is wonderful. So why not take words and return unto JEHOVAH? - by yourself - alone - and see what happens.

According to Sophocles, man is a pool of resources. Sounds very much as if he might have been right, when THE Law giver, Jesus Christ comes along and makes it clear that anything could be done through that very dimension of consciousness, "I can do all things through Christ Jesus." All is enough. The language of cultured Greece puts the idea so beautifully: that within man when awakened is a pool - an inexhaustible pool - of resources, from which he could draw whatsoever he would. "Whatsoever" - that is a very comprehensive word "You ask in my name" whatsoever you find in the pool of resources within you, you can have, and not maybe nor perhaps, but Yes - that is what it says. Can you take it?

So did Sophocles along with the other magnificent Greek writers and sculptors hit upon the law. Yet were the streets full of ignorant intellectuals who denied it then, and would do the same thing today. They all want proof first before they can believe. I know it is insulting to the great, ponderous intellect - but it is so.

Digging a little more in the remains of Greece, we discover he spoke of "wind swift thought" - thought of and about, and which accomplishes nothing until it is merged into the Christ consciousness, and then like a swift flying javelin hits its mark.

Yes, there is something rather startling about the command

Give it a little contemplation - something might happen. You might suddenly awaken from the "waking" dream that goes on around you - and see through the film of ancestor lore that obscures the vision. And again you might hear something beyond the narrow confines of man. I think, quoting - Sophocles more accurately, "man was a Miracle of Resources." Take it along with you. Do not ask any man not even your greatest Master - but ask ME and keep still and listen, and then at a moment you think not, it will come through and take form and shape. It is wonderful!

One of the common questions today emanating from the greatest intellect to the lowest is "How did this ever happen to me?" and a lot of other questions about the WHY of life and existence. So we find the Epicurians explaining it all very neatly by saying that life had no rules or system of ideas but was an "accident." You may smile, but it is as good an answer as the ones I got from fifty people of normal and supernormal intelligence, to whom I asked the same question. Most of them did not have any answer except "You've got me." And from the standpoint of the Ancestor teaching, life is nothing but a series of accidents. People have been killed while on errands of mercy. I presume it was something like an atom making a fortuitous and violent encounter with another atom - and that which happened is called man. Well - anyway the Epicurians who rejected the revelation of Sophocles had their own thought out ideas.

What rejoicing should take place within the temple of your being when you recognize the Truth as given by the Beloved Jesus Christ. No more chance, no more wonder or guessing, but an ability to plunge into the Pool of Resources and come up with the right solution and answer to the question. Yes - It says:

"Awake thou that sleepest" - that is what it says.

Tone and echo; consciousness and manifestation.

The disciples were faced with five thousand problems all at once - and did not know what to do. The situation looked hopeless enough and the way out remote. It was exactly as the man who must "raise" a certain number of dollars in a given space of time - and has apparently nowhere to get them. Words, ideas, beliefs were but sterile agitations of thought. They would get nowhere.

Already the hungry men, who had followed Jesus into the desert pass for three days, were murmuring and complaining. It never occurred to them that perhaps they had something to do within themselves. They were following a "miracle worker" and expecting His miracles to go on forever. He was attempting at least to stir them to the elevation of doing the miracles.

The disciples talked among themselves as the situation grew more acute. But Jesus went away without moving physically from the whole thing. He went into the Consciousness of the Christ, which is the prerogative of every man - and presently one of the disciples came to him with the announcement:

"There is a lad here ..."

And this lad had five loaves and two fishes. There is always a lad in the offing. He is right in the midst of the problem which seems so overwhelming, but he is so little and so insignificant he is usually brushed aside in the fury of trying to get something or making something happen on a big scale.

Jesus always went away from the picture, no matter what it represented. It is of little use to superimpose a new idea on a mind already filled with evil, any more than it is to take a picture on an already used or exposed plate. When Jesus went away to the place He called "I go unto my Father," He went to the place of consciousness, the Virginal Mind of God, where upon was cast the new picture. When this was done, there was the subtle contact between the seen and the unseen - there was the "lad" with the five loaves and two fishes which turned the whole picture into harmony.

There is always the handful of meal, the three drops of oil, the dregs of wine: - there is always the point from which the new picture can take on form and shape. There is always the LIFE of GOD in the midst of thee - no matter how low the flame seems to have burned. "A mountain cannot stop the progress of a cloud." In our excitement, we fail to see the "lad." He is too insignificant - but he is the "grain of mustard" that does the work. Once this is recognized, the power of the pure consciousness of Christ - which has been entered into will take care of the manifestation. No one knows the manner of the miracle or the expression, for "I have a way ye know not of" - a way that is "past finding out." The only thing you can do is to leave the picture of confusion or lack as quickly as possible, taking nothing of it with you, and enter into the Christ Consciousness; the Virginal unsullied Mind of God. Once having seen-felt this new picture or recognition, the manifestation will come through. The "lad" will always be there with his five loaves and two fishes.

This "lad" has appeared many times. We see the same thing taking place in the case of Naaman the Leper. There is "a little maid" here - and she had the password unto the so-called miracle. Interesting that both of these keystones to the miracle should have been children. Again we see the need of the unsullied innocence; - instead of trying to operate from conclusions derived from the mind which is filled with adultery and uncleanness. The adult makes foul and then tries to cleanse. The moment you really "go unto the Father" your mind is cleansed - and the five thousand hungry men are fed.

There is "a little maid" here. She had the WORD of revelation which was mightier than all the power of Naaman, in spite of his great military prowess.

When you awaken to your true heritage, you will see there is always "a lad here" - there is always "a little maid" here. There is always that point of manifestation - no matter what the problem may present on the outside. Do you hear? There is a lad or a little maid right here NOW.

There is so much talk of and about immortality in the Bible. Jesus emphasized the idea by repetition: "This is life eternal that they might know thee, the only true God" - and "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." Yet all religions seem to end at the crucifixion. The space between immortality and the thing called life on this planet is called death. In other words, while we are repeating the words of Jesus Christ and professing to follow him, we only go as far as the crucifixion.

A man may insist that he is living only with the idea of going to heaven, and that only when he arrives there will be happy ... yet, point a loaded gun at that man which if fired would cause him to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and he will scream for help and protection. Would Jesus have been speaking the truth when he said, "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God"? - just as man says that the wisdom of God is foolishness.

Why do we stop at the crucifixion if we believe in Jesus and his revelation? He was and is the way-shower, and said very definitely, "... the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works ... " Do we believe, or are we just saying words?

And then the host of questions:

Have you ever seen an immortal?

Answer: "No" - the reason is because you do not believe. You cannot see anything you do not believe, regardless. A thousand angels and immortals could stand in your presence and you would see nothing, because you have nothing with which to see. You do not see with thought and argument; you see by recognition, and without that, nothing happens but a repetition of the ancestor teaching.

Nothing is gained by human reason, for the minute it touches inspiration, inspiration disappears. The disciples could not sustain the visible Presence of Jesus Christ because they could not believe. They wanted to make him a "spirit" or apparition concocted by human thought. So he disappeared from their sight without going anywhere; it being beyond their capacity to grasp the reality of LIFE eternal.

No one can prove it as long as he is trying to show it to another. If you are doing it to see whether it is true or not, it will not happen for it is not something that results from taking thought, but something that already is; a merging into the one thing called LIFE - which is indivisible and eternal. Nothing really happens but SELF discovery as the mystification of the "self" fades away. Self-discovery is fraught with light and with the ability to understand some of the things called miracles - such as the telescoping of time, "you say it is four months until the harvest..." There is no explaining it, and no way to prove it to satisfy the curiosity of unbelieving man. There are many other dimensions that will be revealed when the pure BELIEF is established.

The man "whose breath is in his nostrils" is behind the iron curtain of ancestor teaching - he runs through the gamut of birth, growth, maturity, and decay. There is nothing else for him, so he concocts a sort of golden-streeted heaven to which he is going and where he will have his food and lodging without working, and imagines he will be divinely happy with nothing to do all day; he fights off disease and accident, both of which would make a quick end of his misery here on earth.

This can only take place as you BELIEVE - not believe in the human sense of the word, but a pure unconscious acceptance of the Presence. I say unconscious advisedly, because until you actually become unconscious of a thing you are not fully aware of it. When you are unconscious of the air you breathe you pay no attention to it - the moment you become conscious of it, you begin to have difficulties with it - and so is it with anything. To be absent from the body and present with the LAW, or the Lord, is exactly this thing.

The discovery of LIFE is not something to be talked about. It is something to experience. Interesting about Lazarus; I think often of him. He was Jesus' best friend. He was not a disciple - yet it is recorded that Jesus spent most of his leisure time with the Lazarus family. Why? Then came the news that Lazarus was sick. Jesus tarried two days. Why? When the Centurion asked for help for his servant, whom Jesus did not know, he said, "I will" and healed the servant lying ill at a great distance in the self-same hour.

Why did he not say: "I will" in the case of Lazarus? - but he tarried. Why? Could it have been that some experiment was going on? And then two more days and the word came that "Lazarus is dead," but even that did not disturb him. Why? And then he raised him up. The moment the WORD of LIFE touched the decaying flesh, it was instantly back to life.

What became of Lazarus? Where did he go? Why did not Lazarus stay at the time of the crucifixion? He disappeared. Why? Because he was functioning on a level of immortality that men do not believe in. They know they must die or break life in order to gain immortality - and so Lazarus did the same thing as Jesus did when he resurrected himself; he almost instantly disappeared. Jesus only appeared when the belief of his disciples was stimulated to a point of recognition sufficient to see him.

The law is so simple you stumble over it. The Law is "BELIEVE" and until this takes place, you cannot see an immortal. You will have to go around the stupid pattern of reincarnation until you have exhausted the ancestor teaching and discovered you are right back where you were before you listened to the old Adam word, and started a creation of a universe that was already created and called "good." Ever since then, you have been superimposing this illusion on the real, and every time you discover the permanent identity under the layers of human teaching and belief, you have what the world calls a miracle or a sudden healing.

There are signs all over the place, but there are no signs given to the curious one.

Now around the Pool of Bethesda, there were five porches filled with the lame, the halt and the blind. It does not take a great stretch of imagination to understand that the five porches represent the five senses - and that the sick were segregated into five divisions, each coming under the affliction of one or more of the senses.

Strange as it may be, while they all had various manifestations of disease, from all sorts of causes, yet they could all be healed by the same remedy. No one would even pause for a moment to consider an eye doctor as good for a deaf man - yet all these people at Bethesda were expecting to receive healing from the same source.

Having tried every sort of "panacea" and receiving no help, we at last come to the level of consciousness wherein we believe that a miracle is the only way to change things, a quickening of the Spirit - the Presence of God. Naturally then, when the waters are troubled, we are more than anxious to step down into them and be healed.

We are willing to follow after every new fad that comes along in the hope of getting well - but again the old limitation is presented: - We must be the first to step down. There is always some catch - and so the measure of God is stopped down to the human capacity to receive which is small.

How can a healing power be turned on or off, if that power be GOD? "No good thing will He withhold" - "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters ... without money and without price."

One is blind another is deaf - another cannot breathe - and yet another is numb with pain - and another cannot earn his living. None have heard the word, "O taste and see that the Lord is good" or "Take, eat; this is my body. Drink ye ... for this is my blood" and be healed. They are all choked with the dead letter of words - manmade words, and are still looking for more words, systems, affirmations and teachers with "secrets" to assuage their hunger and thirst.

The one that is numb with pain cannot "touch ME" in the crowd until he recognizes the dynamic power of agreement, which when made by TOUCHING, shall be established on the earth - and the numbness shall pass away as the River of LIFE and LIGHT flows through him. Why do you not touch ME? NOW?

The blind having eyes or having no eyes are both the same. They cannot see because they believe that sight is in the physical eyes instead of in the power which made both eyes and sight. They do not know that I AM looking through the beautiful eyes of those who believe - and see past the time-space limitation to the harvest. VISION expands the narrow confines of sight - time and space are eliminated. Presently you begin to see what is going on and know some of the dimensions of God.

"No man (not any) cometh unto the Father, but by ME" for "I Am the door of the sheep" are the rules laid down for the sheep. If a man does not believe wholly and utterly in Jesus Christ, both actually and symbolically, he will "taste" death and all the things that lead up to death. But if he makes the recognition of the WORD, then will he discover the innate capacities which will enable him to get into the pool of healing before another, because he can enter at will.

"The pool" is the Pure Consciousness of God, which is the sixth sense, and which man is aware of from his human birth, but which he fails to enter because of the false beliefs he has established and in which he Lives. Once he enters this consciousness, he arises and goes into a never ending series of revelations. He has discovered the light within and without.

The old hypnotic pattern, "Another steppeth down before me" gives way to the overflowing Well of Salvation within. The newly discovered Consciousness is the Pool of Bethesda - and the Angel of the Lord makes himself apparent at certain times; in fact, every time he is called upon in the Name of Jesus Christ. The waters are troubled - and at this instant, anyone who touches you is healed. The descent of the Holy Ghost is the consummating operation - the quickening of the Lord - the stirring of the lethal waters of human thought into the LIVING WATERS of God.

Now you may enter the "POOL" - and be clean. Now you can!

"... He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost."

From that instant of the Divine breath, they were able to do the works. He had entered through a closed door and made it plain to them that he was something other than a vaporous spirit - manifestation: - for he asked for food, and told Thomas to thrust his hand into his wounds. All this is the dimension of immortality coming "nigh unto you" - the secret Doctrine in all its simplicity - in all its loveliness of LIFE immortal. "Many that believed" is a sweeping statement. Does it include you? With the proof your lying human mind wants, goes the "no blessing" state of affairs.

When you have accepted the WORDS of Jesus Christ, you become "a peculiar people." This does not mean a strange people affecting strange doctrines and robes in order to attract attention to your "Holiness." You are peculiar because there is a radiance and joy that emanates automatically from you. You are peculiar because you are natural and filled with Light. It is wonderful when you see that all attempts to make people believe that a "holy" one - "called" for a special service is marked with the sign of hypocrisy. By their works, and not by their words or their long hair, shall ye know them. A haircut will not do the trick either. It takes something in the nature of BELIEF. That ought not to be too hard after the things of the human mind you have believed in and seen fail.

Millions of people preach and believe that the world is coming to an end, and have believed it for aeons of time - but this is the Planet of Jesus Christ, and it is not going to come to an end, but rather is being revealed as the Kingdom of Heaven. The only world that comes to an end is the world of the little one preaching hell and damnation. He finally meets it and is consumed by it.

"Receive ye the Holy Ghost" that is the subtle power within the WORD, which causes it to release the congested thought patterns called disease and confusion. You are imbreathed with this power the moment you can accept it, without question, without equivocation, without human reason. God exists without reason. He is a perpetual state of BEING and becoming through you. "And their eyes were opened" - and a wholly new world appeared before them. You already see the world that satisfies the Human Adam mind, but while you are looking at its failure and ugliness, suddenly your eyes are opened and you see a new world, a new heaven, appearing through the mystification of the human creation.

Will you then, "Come out from among them, and be ye separated"? You are in the world and not of it. You know how it is that the bee takes the honey from the poisonous flower, so does he who has been "breathed upon" take from the world that which is fundamental and real and leaves the poison of human belief and reason where he found it. There is no argument, no proselyting - no trying to convince anybody, for the sign is there. The Sign in which He conquers. IT is the assumption of the Presence within and without everything.

He that is "Breathed upon" is fused with God; he has slipped into that Glory he had before he took on all the miasma of John Smith, and for the first time he discovers that John Smith can and does function harmoniously. He ceases to worry about the weather, the conditions and the times, for he automatically adjusts to the manifestation in which he finds himself. This adjustment - this agreeing with the adversary, as it would seem - is the means of releasing reality from the source of ALL reality. He heals without an effort because he is past the place where healing is an action - it is a revelation - it is a showing forth of the LIFE which is imbreathed with the Breath of God.

From the Koran: "But they (mankind) have broken their religion among them into sects, each sect rejoicing in its tenents."

There is Religion: "An awareness or conviction of the existence of a Supreme Being." (Webster) And then there are "religions"- (sects) all having personal bylaws and beliefs, but hung onto the same basic teachings. Truth never changes any more than the laws of mathematics how it is taught is another thing. One thing is certain, the mathematician is going to deal with self imposed problems, and after he has set up a problem, he seeks to destroy it and get rid of it - whether it be in simple addition or death. The whole problem idea stems from the consciousness of separation. Jesus showed so plainly the only solution to an unsolvable problem from the relative standpoint was to merge with the ONE, the unformed substance - the Mind which held all manifestation in its grasp. At that point, the power generated through human hypnotism or thought-taking could be picked up or diverted until the clouds would literally be without rain.

Take no teaching from a man, except the fire of inspiration pours through him until the inner ear of you automatically makes the agreement. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God" - and hear God, and follow God, and you will know whether the doctrine be of man or of God. It is a foolproof LAW - if you ask of God your information will be in the nature of LIGHT and not in the illusion of man-made words. Then "any" Man (i-festation) may be used to give those words of God an audibility.

"Thou art NOW the Blessed of the Lord !"

THIS is the HOUR - the COSMIC HOUR! THIS is the TIME! NOW is the day! "NOW are we the SONS OF GOD!"

That which we call time becomes timeless - and is defined rightly as NOW. NOW is eternity. Space becomes spaceless - and is the HERE - infinity - without beginning or ending. Eternity is substance.

In the consciousness that we "were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God," we have the HERE-NOW - the real interpretation of time and space.

"Without father, without mother,

without descent,

Having neither beginning of days,

nor end of life;

But made LIKE UNTO THE SON OF GOD."

Caught in the belief that we were "born of woman" we accept time and space as realities - and our good is pushed from the HERE to the there of belief, and from the NOW to then. All this time element passes away and is remembered no more in your consciousness of Jesus Christ.

"But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,

That one day is with the Lord as a thousand years,

And a thousand years as one day."

When we understand this timeless, spaceless Consciousness, we can and do hear the WORDS of Jesus as he spoke them in Jerusalem - because the inspiration of HIS WORD is always HERE and NOW, when we are awake. "Lo, I AM with you always."

When you accept the consciousness of Jesus Christ which is beyond the time-space manifestation, you experience the HERE-NOW of Life and find that which is real, which casts its light even unto the ends of the earth - even unto the ends of human belief.

When Jesus went unto the Father, he entered the place of No-Thought. What good would it have been to have taken thought with Him? What could have been accomplished by taking this thought of lack into the presence of Substance?

What good is it for you to take your "findings" (your problem) into the Silence? Better enter in and be saved. You discover in this place of Inner Peace, the Substance of LIFE. In the contemplation, you will see it come into manifestation, filling every empty vessel. It is WONDERFUL ! "Heaven and earth are full of Thee."

"I will lead them in paths that they have not known;

I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.

These things will I do unto them,

And not forsake them."

God must be experienced - not demonstrated. At this point of the Father Consciousness, the conceptual power is activated - and the formation of the body of the new idea takes place. It is all completed in the NOW and the HERE. Jesus perceived the idea in the MIND OF GOD - and by recognition, released it into manifestation. Leaving all appearances, and returning "unto my Father," unto a point beyond appearances, the tangled skeins of human designs are straightened and perfect manifestation follows as a natural consequence.

You are told to "acquaint NOW thyself with HIM, and be at peace." Acquaint now thyself with that which is beyond the place of thought and problem, and be at peace "Thereby (all) good shall come unto thee." ALL is enough, isn't it?

Are YOU going over "THERE" in human thought to some Master, teacher, leader, or even unto the High Himalayas, or are you going to STAY HERE with ME?

Smashing the pictures of ancestral teaching, we let go of the three hateful "fates" of Greek Mythology - those sisters who wove, measured, and cut off the life of man with impunity. Man is IMMORTAL - without beginning or ending - ETERNAL; hence the measure of the human thought is not the measure of man.

Can you by digging at the roots of a tree discover the fruit? Where is it? You cannot see it, and yet you believe in the integrity of nature. From the invisible, a miracle is stepped down to a point of human comprehension in the time-space. Why should it be so amazing, that when this element of time-space is comprehended as HERE-NOW, the instantaneous manifestation appears?

Jesus stepped up the human consciousness to a point of the finished thing. He did not do anything - but reveal that which is beyond the time-space of thought.

The human intellection appears to make the action of God impossible - yet Jesus insists that a child can do it. The adult cannot because he adulterates everything he thinks of. He muddies the virginal stream of Spirit, and hence the picture cannot be reflected into the realm of matter: - that is, cannot be objectified.

It is recorded, "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." Never is a long time. The meaning of keep has nothing to do with keeping or holding, as in the illustration of the ten talents. It is certainly not retiring into a desert place of meditation. Many people run away from life and imagine they are spiritually retreating into a sanctuary. Jesus Christ lived and operated IN the world. Do not run away from Life. A man in a prison cell can be reasonably sure he will not be run over by an auto, but the keeping of which He speaks is akin to the binding in heaven.

"And I will give unto thee the keys of

the Kingdom of Heaven:

And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth

shall be bound in heaven:

And whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth

shall be loosed in heaven."

That which you keep you have assumed as such, a natural state. The form and shape of the Word is released into manifestation. When a man shall lose his life, when he shall let go or release the WORD he is to keep, then he shall find LIFE. When he withholds it, in the human sense, he shall certainly lose it, for he has confined it into the narrow limits of human thought. Human life is confined within the parenthesis of sickness and health. Both of these bulwarks of human belief must give way before the free-flowing LIFE which searches the joints and the marrow. This becomes a natural experience. When you lose your (personal sense of) Life, you shall find it. The drop of water filled with all uncleanness merges into the sea; you have no more health, but Life.

Without provocation man can lose all of his power, health and substance. His lines of defense are brushed aside as naught. The financial world is convulsed periodically by a change in values - yet nothing actually takes place. There is never any increase or devaluation in God. It can only take place in the mind of man, in a "far country" where bits of paper and metal are regarded as substance. The same symbols become worthless even as he offers them as the fruits of his labor and a means of exchange.

Do you understand NOW what happens to you when you enter the elevation of the Christ consciousness - when you are through demonstrating it? "None of these things (appearances) move ME." No man-made reports of findings change anything but your thought about them. The human mind is a Liar and the father of it. Everything, and that means all it says, is a Lie. Everything - that includes your problem. Do you hear?

The Rock of Gibraltar would not be affected by a handful of confetti being thrown at it. You, the CHRIST OF GOD, can lose no sense of substance when once you are cognizant of your true identity. The Secret Keys are given to you by the Master. The confetti of human thought will blow away.

Nothing ever happens to SUBSTANCE - regardless. There is no shortage in God - ever - only in the mind of man. Beyond thought, is something greater. There is a higher law which causes the "increase" to take place. Substance becomes a degree of observation - the place or point in mind where man has "watched" the "one hour" and perceived the miracle, which he can by thought neither show forth or put into words - but which is THERE and becomes HERE when it is necessary.

"In returning and rest shall ye be saved;

in quietness and in confidence shall be

your Strength."

As your human consciousness, the consciousness that you are separate from God, is merged into the CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS in which Jesus operated, then indeed is "mortality ... swallowed up of LIFE" - and you are no longer under the curse of the law.

Yes, gradually you merge into the consciousness in which Jesus operated. The "curse of the law" departs. This does not in any way separate you from the world of everyday - only from the curse of the world. This sweeps you into the new heights of Observation. You are now seeing and hearing the things that ears could not hear, nor eyes see. It is as a stream of molten gold straight from the heart of God.

"They shall not hurt nor destroy

in all MY HOLY MOUNTAIN."

And where is the Holy Mountain? - the High Himalayas? The "Holy Mount" is within the individual - and has various and sundry heights, according to the degree of observation or the discovery of the SELF OF CHRIST. As we observe, we are not creating - but watching the appearance of something which already exists in the Mind of God. We let it come forth.

The degree of our observation is in direct ratio to our ability to "loose" the findings of the human thought.

It is wonderful to contemplate how this law when heeded, Destroys the foundations of evil. Where today is the purported gold of Croesus? Yet the substance from which it came remains intact - only the shadow or reflection has changed, disintegrated or disappeared entirely. Do you see why Jesus said: "Carry neither purse, nor scrip" - knowing that the CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PRESENCE would care for all manifestation? This is not inviting indigence, carelessness, or endless waiting for the Mind of God to move in your direction. It is the recognition of the PRESENCE which sees the miracle, instead of being hypnotized by the manifestation, whether it be leaves and fishes or dollars which fluctuate daily. The "now you see it, now you do not" of the Prophet, putting his hand in his bosom and taking it out, is the perfect picture of the fluctuation of symbols. They change in value with the constantly changing mind of man.

Who by seeking shall find HIM? Man does not see God any more than he can see the air. He can only experience Him. Spirit, being like the wind that "bloweth where it listeth" comes into manifestation at a moment "ye think not." God comes into being in a thousand ways as the Spirit passes through the temple-body - taking form and shape in a new design.

Where then, is disease, poverty? Where is the devil, created by walking "up and down and to and fro" in the appearance world? The very devil of accepted belief takes the form of disease or evil in you but does not affect the person near you. Why? Because he has not created him nor endowed him with power. It is wonderful when you see that you have created devils in your world, who may be even now trying to kill you. The disciples discovered they had power over them: "Even the devils are subject unto us."

The human mind, with its power to create these chimeras called devils, inflates them with conscious thinking until they destroy him. Evil pictures are thrown upon the universe. Suggestion, hypnosis, produce a chimera which acts quickly, for its day is short. It is only as long as the race consciousness believes in it. The moment the LIGHT comes into play, you hear the piercing shriek of the devils, "Why have you come here to disturb us?" When RECOGNITION of the PRESENCE is made, the effects of suggestion and hypnotism of race thought cannot hurt or harm you.

"For NOW we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord." The Christ consciousness is beyond polarity - the pairs of opposites. It is in no way affected by human thought.

"At the moment of the TOUCH, there is no power whatever to make the affirmation, there is no leisure. REASONING on the Vision is for afterwards. We may know we have had the vision when the SOUL has suddenly taken LIGHT. The LIGHT is from the Supreme and is the SUPREME. We may believe in the PRESENCE when He comes bringing light; the light is the proof of the advent.

The Soul unlit remains without Vision.

LIT, it POSSESSES that which it sought.

And this is the true end set before every SOUL -

To Take the LIGHT,

To SEE the SUPREME by the Supreme

And not by the light of any other principle -

To see the Supreme which is also the means to the VISION."

Plotinus

At the Moment you TOUCH the principle by recognition "virtue proceeds out of Me." The agreement is established. The signs follow. There is no time, nor yet need for feeble man-made affirmations. It is like declaring "Let there be Light," after the Universe is flooded with the effulgence of it. There is no time for thought taking, no leisure for human reasoning, only contemplation and revelation which are pouring over and through you.

At last we begin to comprehend that the "Light is from the Supreme and IS the Supreme" (One) "heaven and earth are full of thee." We begin in some degree, at least, to Move in HIM - in the LIGHT of the Supreme Being and find that this very recognition absorbs the limitations of human thought. We can "run and not be weary" by reason of this LIGHT. The Temple of God is operated by LIGHT and not by human thought and intellect. Presently all machinery will be operated by light and be freed from friction and wearing away. Aging that is known to man, under the "curse of the law," will cease, literally.

As this LIGHT is first recognized as coming from the Supreme and being the SUPREME, then will man begin to rise through the decaying flesh of human belief, and shall finally be freed from the grave clothes into immortality.

And so he sees that the "Soul unlit remains without vision." There is nothing but surface appearances that can be seen by the "unlit soul" - just as there is no "LIVING" in the man who is not yet inbreathed. Once he is "inbreathed," he becomes a LIVING SOUL; he moves into realms beyond all human sense and discovers reality back of shadow. At this point of consciousness, he is able to project by his recognition the Picture shown to him on the Mount, and automatically change the shadow of belief cast into the realm of matter. "None of these things (made by human belief) move me" - because none of them has any reality except the human thought, and will disintegrate the moment human thought is taken from it.

Witness the disintegration of value which takes place when a so-called masterpiece has been discovered to be a counterfeit. Although it has been accepted as real and genuine for years and been protected in every way - suddenly it is cast into the discard and no burglar, or thief, or vandal is guarded against. It "has no value" for no other reason than the thought of man.

"The soul unlit remains without Vision.

LIT, it POSSESSES that which it SOUGHT."

When there is no LIGHT there is no vision, and "Where there is no vision, the people perish." They cannot see that which IS and think to create it, or possess it, in some other way. They cannot find it, for they are not yet "LIT" by the recognition of the LIGHT within and without.

It is TRUE, then that "IF any man hear my Voice" - he will leave all (the shadows and beliefs) and follow ME into the place of realities, past all the images of belief back to the Holy of Holies where he will converge with GOD - The SUPREME LIGHT.

Words are merely signposts that point to something - but never take us there, nor go there. Unless we leave the signposts (the words) and accept their instruction and proceed toward the new City, we will never reach it. And this very thing is true of all of the words of Jesus Christ. Unless we hear them and automatically become them in consciousness and leave the letter, we shall never know them as realities - only as dead letters - sometimes beautiful, but of no value.

When the recognition is made of the ONE, then the moment of the TOUCH takes place, and you are filled with the VIRTUE of the CHRIST. A sudden invasion of LOVE has taken place and the belief in hate and evil is absorbed into the ONE. You are in the realm - where a never failing POWER operates - the Power of LOVE. "Love NEVER faileth" regardless of all the beliefs of the human mind. To enter into this realm and become love in action is to be clad in an armor of LIGHT that is literally and figuratively impervious to all human so-called forces and powers.

"When I behold HIM I possess all that I want to have and want to know, and I see an abundance of all riches. It is impossible for me even to imagine that this treasure might be separated from the soul or the soul from the treasure, and all the delight it accords."

Angela of Foligno

"Behold" is a fourth dimensional word which beggars all definition. It is something that happens when all the senses have suddenly reached their outer bourns and exploded, as it were, the bondage of human thought and reason. When we learn to see FIRST the Kingdom (consciousness) - we find that all things are not only added, but are discovered as being there, and we see that it is impossible to separate the soul from the treasure or the treasure from the soul. Hence do we begin to Live and Move in the ONE. As we "Behold" we see the hidden mysteries and treasures merge into the LIGHT of day.

Nietzche said: "Stamp the Impress of eternity on your life, for that contains more than all religions, which teach me to despise life - Teach me many times to wait for heaven in some time to come - Teach me to discount the very words of Jesus Christ - 'The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.' "

Higher dimensions of Life enter through the INSIDE - even as the oak tree enters into existence from the inside - Recognition.

All so-called growth comes from the inside out. The seed is the point of expression. From a pinpoint seed comes bushels of vegetation - flowers and seeds. From the invisible comes the revelation of the All. A seed then might be considered a point for exposure - since the flower already exists, but must come into visibility.

So-called growth is in reality merely the entry of a higher dimension. If "before you ask" - is a definite law then it is and must be recognized. As we contemplate the finished mystery, we begin to see it come into full manifestation.

The suddenness of the LAW of Jesus Christ makes it apparent that we should contemplate the LAW rather than the signs following or the mechanics.

We hear John the Baptist saying "REPENT" - which has as a true meaning - "CHANGE." Suddenly, you must CHANGE if you are to SEE what follows - "Repent ye: (Change) for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." Nothing will make it appear - nothing will cause it to appear - it is necessary to CHANGE instantly - and that is like suddenly being elevated to a point above the wall of belief which has been obstructing your view.

You create nothing, you do nothing - you recognize - and you CHANGE regardless of that which has gone before.

Change - CHANGE - Away with ah the tedious mental processes - CHANGE - in that sudden transition all the old ideas of "Repent" are swallowed up. There is no time to handle imaginary evil and conditions which have already passed away the moment you change. Change from Hate to Love and the hate conditions pass away like so many strands of cobweb in a hurricane.

The EVIDENCE of the UNSEEN comes when we Repent - Suddenly, "Change" the whole mental process and enter into the new dimension of Life - the Substance of things not SEEN - the unseen becomes the reality holding the manifestation into view. There is the mystery of awakening - of suddenly coming into the reality. CHANGE.

THE EVIDENCE

Nothing is lost because it disappears any more than anything is lost when the reflection in a mirror is no more. Nothing was given by the reflector, regardless of the number of reflections cast by it. The minute the reflector is taken away, all the images pass from view, because they have nothing upon which to sustain themselves. No invisible means of support in themselves.

So with money. The moment the consciousness of substance is taken away, money disappears or becomes worthless - yet if all the money in the world were destroyed, not one jot or tittle of SUBSTANCE would be lost. Immediately a new symbol would appear - the value of which would be affixed by the human mind. Again, consciousness and manifestation are one.

We glimpse the infinitude of God, and how it is that the things prepared for us are but states of consciousness into which we enter and find them functioning automatically. The moment this takes place, we discover it has always been - and automatically all that belongs on that level of light is ours for the accepting. Not the grabbing or the demonstration, but the accepting. To whatever level we are lifted in consciousness, we experience every bit of manifestation on that level. "Not by might, nor by power - but by MY SPIRIT."

You enter consciousness at the same time it enters you and automatically you become it. Having absorbed the substance of consciousness, it is incorporated within you as surely as a chick consumes the last vestige of the egg from which it is hatched and breaks the shell. From one "mansion" to another - finally you approximate the inner seeing of which Jesus made such good use. The gaze ceases to be outward and turns within to the eternal realities of your being. These are the pictures that are projected on the screen.

Mr. Kellogg, the famous Bird Man, had the power gained through his early association with the American Indians to make an inaudible sound seven octaves higher than any man is capable of hearing. This was not in the form of exhalation of the breath - but rather a sudden and short intake of air. He then performed this intake, and instantly a row of candles at the end of the hall, a distance of fifty feet, snuffed out. He could not explain the "breath" as he called it - but had so many uses of it that were strange to man. Turning on the ignition in my car, he made the inaudible sound and turned the motor over without stepping on the starter. His reputation has been so well established in America, it needs no argument to substantiate it. You are inbreathed by the Breath of Life, or are you?

The wonder of the intake is it links itself into the "breathing into" instead of out of. "The Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of Life: and man became a living soul." The breath entering from the God Consciousness is what made the soul ALIVE. A word so inbreathed with the inaudible sound becomes the "still small voice" of POWER which accomplished where the shouting voice of so-called "Truth" is naught but sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.

Suddenly, you appropriate this capacity and see the wonders it performs when you accept a state of consciousness instead of trying to create it, by taking thought.

Can you then "BE STILL" and let go of the thrashing about with words, systems, affirmations - and recognize that henceforth YOU, yes, you ARE THE TRUTH? Everything that emanates from this recognition is sure of fulfillment. The WORD OF GOD, being Spirit, cannot return unto you void - it SHALL accomplish. It is wonderful! John saw a NEW HEAVEN descending out of the clouds of human thought, appearing before him with all its beauty - and so will you.

All the wonderful laws given by Jesus came to life when inbreathed with pure recognition and have a body through which to function. In the twinkling of an eye all shall be changed, because the new vision sees through the mystification of human thought, however time honored and established. You have the inaudible breath of God and utter the unutterable word (for those who have ears). "Heretofore ye have asked for nothing" because you asked for everything. You thought asking was a form of begging or trying to influence God to do your bidding. Remember you are inbreathed; - you are a LIVING SOUL. The paralyzed hand can neither take nor give, as far as physical action is concerned - neither can the human consciousness of evil and good take anything of God.

Touching the CONSCIOUSNESS causes the symbolical world in which you have been day-dreaming all these years to take on reality - and you, with John, see A NEW HEAVEN, and hence a NEW EARTH appears. You are through with repetitious words with "aphorisms uncoiling like serpents," getting nowhere.

Genius stems from "will free knowledge." The human will which has tried so hard to manipulate God discovers in the final analysis it has accomplished nothing but frustration. Genius - (that strange thing which is so completely beyond human understanding) is the result of being "will free" that is being absent from the human thought-taking processes and present with the Lord, Law.

What is it that transforms a carpenter into a genius - a financial genius - a healing genius? "I can of mine own self do nothing, but." Then he went into what He designated as "Father" thereby losing the limitations of Jesus.

When we let the Christ Mind be in us, then human intellect - which judges from appearances and is perpetually under the hypnosis of ancestor teaching - evaporates. The Genius of the Christ; the doer of the impossible, the power which knows fully and without effort that prayer is answered before it is uttered. When the Will of God becomes apparent, man becomes a genius with power outside his mental limitations. Only a Genius would know how. No human thought could in any way make that happen which could not happen. Human thought could not perform the revelation of the perfected creation.

"Genius is the highest form of will-less knowledge"- nothing can be accomplished by "taking thought." The explosive question is asked, "Who by taking thought?" Genius can neither be learned, nor demonstrated. Genius is the uninhibited movement of God, and manifests in the dimension of the impossible.

While the human mind is stumbling through a labyrinth of figures, genius arrives at the answer without effort and without strain, arrives at the answer which has always existed. How does he do it?

He does it by taking "no thought." This is meaningless confusion. When man returns to the one substance, he is released from the limitations of human thinking. "Who by taking thought?" - The answer "No one."

"Genius is the highest form of will-less knowledge. The lowest forms of life are entirely made up of will, without knowledge."

When Jesus discovered "I can of mine own self do nothing" he became aware he "could do all things" through blending with the ONE. At that instant of blending, he became a genius - a worker of miracles - one who transmuted the law of the human will and mind. The human mind is willful - full of will, or personal power.

If Jesus could do nothing - what are you, with the will of the human thought, going to demonstrate? Did you ever run into 5,000 problems at once? Jesus did; he instantly merged the limited power of Jesus into the ONE.

"Ye shall decree a thing, and it shall come to pass" - is about as stupid advice as was that of Marie Antoinette - when she suggested the starving people of France eat cake if they had no bread. True Genius then is the ability to look straight into the face of God, and see from whence the reflection "you" comes, and to be willing to merge with this lovely new discovery.

"If then I be lifted up" to this consciousness of ONE - shall "draw all men" (manifestation) unto me" - even as the magnet automatically pulls the steel filings unto itself. So will you draw everything in that level of consciousness unto yourself without effort, and will show forth the "genius" which is not operated by will and force, but by God.

The Scriptures take on a new and wonderful meaning when we "Leave all." When we leave the mental bondage and hypnotism in things past, present, or future, and feel the deep undertow of power - endless wonders come from the depths. You are told to launch out. Big fish swim in deep waters; little ones splash about making a great noise in shallow waters.

The discovery of "Genius" is the discovering of your true self. Now that egotism is gone; you are a point in universal consciousness where God is free to express. Genius is self discovery, it frees you from the "self" born of woman - filled with trouble, etc., into the Son of God. This Son of God is not a glorified human being, but a lump of Luminous Substance.

"Thy will be done" is not submission, it is freedom; it is entering into the place where the Divine purpose of you has a chance to come into being. Through endless aeons of ancestor teaching of reincarnation and disease, man can do nothing but commit folly. What chance has man with all his "will" power, if he be under a hard fast law "When I would do good evil is present with me"?

SO HE MADE IT AGAIN

"The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

Arise, and go down to the potter's house and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter:

SO HE MADE IT AGAIN, another vessel."

The story goes on to tell that the malformed manifestation is remade. The substance of it is not destroyed but reduced to its primal essence and brought forth again a thing of beauty.

The analogy of the potter is common enough and the lesson back of it is deep. The great point, however, is usually overlooked, the vessel is not cast aside as worthless, and so left to harden into an ugly misshapen manifestation which is finally trampled into dust. The clay of our bodies given us so freely becomes diseased, worn-out and distorted and we are wont to carry on with the misshapened vessel until we return the clay to its source and refashion it. Yet HE MADE IT AGAIN and when you can cast the mistaken, misshapen clay back into the "no form" place of God, you will fashion it again into the lovely pattern shown to you in the beginning, and the reshaping of it will be finer.

So cast it back into its original substance and MAKE it again in the silence of your heart. Presently, the ugliness will have disappeared from sight and from memory, and the thing of beauty will come forth.

All ugliness is only congested human thought which interferes with the ongoing of the WORD in you. Do not let the misshapened thing with its accumulation of disease, hatred and revenge represent YOU. Rise in the strength which is yours. Take it all back into the ONE and fashion it again and when it comes forth, it will have dropped all the disease and ugliness and a NEW PURIFIED MANIFESTATION WILL come to thee.

MAKE IT AGAIN! MAKE IT AGAIN - MAKE IT AGAIN. He who promised is faithful - so make it again.

"Hath not the potter power over the clay?" Matter is only congealed energy after all. Return to the ONE SUBSTANCE, SPIRIT, and make it again. There is transformation, transfiguration and translation - so why not make it again?

"Enter into thy closet, and .... shut thy door." Michelangelo sometimes sat before a canvas days before he made a stroke upon it, and then it happened. The picture virtually painted itself, using his hands as a means of expression. Jesus said: "It is done" before it was started. This recognition took care of it all. We have endowed the body with intelligence so that it can destroy itself, while protesting violently about its suffering.

In all expressions of life, we find success at the place of complete relaxation. When the body is stilled and Mind is allowed to come through without taking thought, the perfect combination takes place. Marriage--that which God has joined together takes place and nothing can or will separate it. You do not need to think what you shall say - open your mouth and I will speak the words - "Take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour"-and so it is, when the complete surrender of the body, temple, is made to the Christ mind within. It is then that Jesus appears to be performing miracles, yet all that is happening is taking place through HIM, and not because of him. "I can of mine own self do nothing" - that is precisely the level man must enter when he makes the appropriation of the Christ Mind. The automatic action of the Christ will cause the Jesus to apparently perform miracles. He will set aside the laws of his world with impunity, without struggle or fight. He will walk through stone walls, and know why water cannot quench him nor flames bum; for the consciousness of that which is before both flame and water takes from the manifestation the supposed power. "I say to this man, Go, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and he cometh." It is Authority of the ONE that accomplishes without effort.

Rousseau, the French philosopher, maintained that thinking is a disease - and intellect is a treacherous thing to be avoided. It all seems mere words until we see into what paths we have been lead by thinking. What, then, is it that functions over the mechanism of the body and produces such wonders? It is the Mind of God - which has picked up the power operating in human thinking and turned it free into revelation and majesty. What we call LIFE is actually God - the Presence functioning within us--and if we make the recognition of this Presence we see why he advised not to count the soldiers - and not to look to appearances for anything other than illusion. Matter becomes inert to the degree it lacks the infusion of Light. It thereby obstructs the free flow of the Light. Matter is perpetually dying - disintegrating and falling into its native dust to be reshapen - and unless it is held in place by consciousness, it disappears entirely. To be absent from the body and present with the Lord - is to become more and more unconscious of manifestation, and more conscious of Life which completely dominates and operates it.

Michelangelo said: "One paints not with the hands but with the mind." This could be carried on farther until you can understand the action of the power of God through the temple to any degree necessary to complete the reign of harmony. To take from matter the intelligence is being absent from it - and it is then that the complete change takes place - the revelation is made of Life - and the Lazarus comes forth in all his perfection and beauty. Gradually, we leave the answer - we begin to see with GRACE that history as expressed by Rousseau, is "the art of choosing from among many lies, that one which most resembles the truth." We try to find in the bushels of chaff some grain of truth - failing in this we reshapen the old worn-out material to suit the present concept of truth.

All the evils of life come from a belief in two - a consciousness of duality. The moment the stagnant air of a cave contacts the outside air, it is purified of all its extraneous matter. When man returns to the Father, he blends into LIFE and all the limitations of health disappear automatically. Any time you touch the ONE, you lose the duality that is causing all the trouble. No matter what its name, symptoms, or race consciousness belief-it is dissolved and that which caused it is reduced to nothingness. Do you see then what might have happened if Jesus had chosen to call forth the twelve legions of angels? He who persists in recognizing evil will do one of two things: he will go with it, or be destroyed by it.

"I can do all things through Christ." Can you?

"Wake! For the Sun who scattered into flight ....." might have been said by Jesus Christ instead of the Persian Omar. And so does he give us the picture of the spreading Dawn of Life. If you have ever been on the desert at sunrise, you will know what takes place. Suddenly, at the very edge of night a fine filament of light appears and it continues with almost a fierceness until it lays down a barrage of Light that literally shoots in a fan like shape across the dark sands and turns them into gold. Then does the Sun finally arise in all its majesty and words are futile - paints are futile - there is only one thing left to do: that is to RECOGNIZE it, and to behold it.

The coming of the Christ in you is exactly the same thing. We are in a new day. A day filled with illumination, and we begin the voyage of discovery. All that which lay obscure, or partially obscured by the nighttime of ignorant belief, suddenly appears in all its splendor. It is not created; it is revealed, and so is it with you. You become self revealed and find within yourself all those things you have looked for so long on the outside.

It all sounds like some new equation of the human mind, but this is something entirely different; this is self revelation which takes place by reason of the fact you have returned to the One and found reality. It is too good to be true - and too simple to operate. The giant fly-wheel of human knowledge which is foolishness in the eyes of God, keeps on describing its endless circle, and showing a power hard to defeat in the belief world - but like a thief in the night the awakening takes place, and through the tired eyes you begin to see the thin tracery of light on the midnight of human thought. It is wonderful.

The Command - "Awake" is given - and nothing happens for you do not hear.

Then, it suddenly breaks through, and from that moment it hurries along to the complete fulfillment of SELF discovery. "I can do all things through Christ Jesus" is not something to be "Demonstrated," for man discovers he is through with the false idea that he can "demonstrate God." He has discovered that God demonstrates him - or shows forth those qualities which are unattainable by human thought. It is so simple it is difficult for the human intellect has discovered in its limited three dimensional world that it cannot be done - and it cannot - because it is already done. When you come to the elevation of "Look again," then the revelation takes place - not symbolically this time, but actually, and there is no limit to this projection. It is wonderful - filled with wonder.

When you discover LIFE, you are through with the limited concept of it which you call health - that bit of life which you have shut up in your body starts going down almost from the moment it begins. When I would do good, evil is present with me is a sample of the law of the human mind which is separated from the One.

Awake - o not try to awake, but just awake as you do in the morning after a heavy sleep. Gradually you come to the surface of the lethal waters of sleep - and open your eyes and see. No illustration is worth much, but a faint idea of the majesty of the Power begins to come forth.

So, do you begin to understand somewhat the Free Oneness of which the Oriental of High degree speaks. You are told to Live, and move and breathe and have your being in this One - and at the same time it lives, moves and breathes and has its being in you - and then the new degree of illumination takes place - Pure Revelation.

For a long time you imagined you could control God and to some extent it seemed as if you were successful, but gradually you See that your activity is finished when you Pray and Believe. At this elevation you are inactive, and the Power takes over and is able to bring into full-fledged reality all the laws laid down for you, and so can you "do all things" not some - but ALL things through this mingling of the Power - the spirit with matter - lifting it into a New substance, a substance which acts as the place where things appear.

You cannot do this if you try, or if you affirm. If affirmations had been actually effective, the whole world would have been changed lo! these many years.

Free Oneness is the gift of living in the world and not of it. It is so necessary you understand this Law today for the world is at a point of chaos as most people recognize.

So does the blare of the trumpets at the gates of dawn sound forth, and the shades of the long night give way to the prancing steeds of the chariot of the Sun, and out he rides in all his glory casting the light everywhere, transforming the whole earth into a place of revelation.

AWAKE!

We ignorantly worship God as made in the Image and Likeness of man. His capacities are limited and his mind is given to all the ugliness of human thought. "Who hath known the mind of the Lord?" The infinite reaches of His intelligence cannot be more than glimpsed by the finite mind. It is only when we begin to merge into the ONE that we discover what the "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard" - reaches of LIGHT which defy all words.

"He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies."

The wisdom of God, being foolishness in the eyes of man, is hidden from human thought. The Illumination of His Presence throws dust into the eyes of human reason. Man is blinded by the LIGHT of what he can neither understand nor yet believe. The wise and prudent cannot enter His pavilion.

God has made darkness His secret place. The LIGHT of His Presence is so intense it is unseeable to the eye relying on the human thought equation. It is or was reported that five miles above the earth is darkness, the veil of ether cannot be seen through - though the sun's rays penetrate it. Something to consider! Man keeps on discovering new levels which neutralize the former discoveries. Watch!

"My sheep" those who have recognized the VISION will follow the instructions to the sheep - and instead of arguing and trying to set someone right, will "let the filthy be filthy still." They will find other uses for pearls than casting them to dogs and swine.

The ceiling of human reasoning is reached by judging from appearances. It makes its deductions from hearsay. The moment a broadcast of evil is made, it is acted upon, accepted, and very shortly brought into manifestation after which the pattern is multiplied a thousandfold.

Recently a streetcar strike was held in a western city. No transportation on the streets except automobiles. It was surprising how many accepted the verdict and found they were unable to go anywhere. The general excuse was, "Well, I couldn't go because there was no transportation." And yet many of those people were studying to learn how to rid themselves and others of so-called incurable diseases.

"Who did hinder you?" What you accept from appearances is true to you, regardless, but to no one else. When we stop trying to demonstrate over conditions and things, there comes the consciousness and the willingness which takes shape and form after a manner unknown to human thought. You do not accept evil in any form regardless of the appearance. Presently you will find it does not exist even if it does exist, just as the lack of bread did exist and five thousand men testified to the lack - but ONE DID NOT. ONE with God is a majority is the basis from which Jesus operated. If He had not, we would have been minus any realization of God. The moment He became one with God, He disregarded any and all appearances and went through closed doors of human belief. It makes no difference if every other one of the ten thousand have fallen by a belief in disease, "it shall not come nigh thee" unless you give it a body and form and permit it power through acceptance.

Daily broadcasts of evil are always present, and you operate from that level and evil will result, or you do precisely what Jesus did and discover that literally "none of these things move me." Nothing moves ME, the Christ - everything affects the Jesus (John Smith).

Do not go out to battle the midnight and storm of human belief when you refuse to accept appearances. It is not overcoming - it is recognition of God in whom there is no obstruction - a willingness to follow through, but not to "stand praying" in the old sense of the word - an acceptance of it all, an appropriation.

Cleopatra knew plenty of human strategy and so-called diplomacy - yet she could not handle the asp. A child can. Can you? Why? The asp that a child could handle with impunity took Cleopatra out of the picture. Be sure you are not playing with spiritual powers, trying to do tricks. "The ... child shall play on the hole of the asp." Can you?

You see why God is HID in darkness. Darkness begins at the limit of your human sight. In the relative sense of things, it is called ether - yet this great envelop of darkness called ether which scientists have discovered and which is apparently void of light, is easily penetrated by the light of the heavenly bodies. There is not much use trying to hold to the darkness of human ignorance any more. "I have a way ye know not of" - no use trying to find it. You have to discover it in operation, which you will do when you are willing to accept GOD and not the beliefs of man. If a man-made law can stop the action of the child of God, what can that child do with healing?

Gradually you release the words: "Judge not from appearances" (from the shell of human thought) and find they mean just what they say.

It says "JUDGE NOT" - regardless of what the ten thousand who are going to fall by them, say. "It shall not come nigh thee" because it cannot. You have not accepted it. Your illumination comes from another source. You keep silent before ME - and, likewise before the ten thousand who are functioning in the evil belief. You follow ME into the "darkness" of SPIRITUAL LIGHT and see through the whole thing. "He made darkness his secret place."

The Unknown God whom ye ignorantly worship was declared to you, accompanied by thousands of proofs. If you must thrust your hands into His side to see, you are going to receive no blessings.

The "stigmata" which His body bore, has been reproduced by many people who have become so emotionally moved by His blessed Life, they have symbolically gone through the passions and found the "marks" visible on their bodies. It would do no more good to put your hand in the wounds made by the emotions of the human mind, than it would be to have put your hand in the wounds made by the nails in the flesh of Jesus. The blessing comes from recognition and not from regarding the manifestation. The signs that are to follow can do nothing else. They flow from consciousness through the walls of human belief, no matter what name or from what cause. Bread appears where there is not even wheat. Money appears where there is none. Life appears in the mass of physical corruption. Yet none of these things can be done to prove the TRUTH. They are proven because of the TRUTH; they are released because of recognition. The LIGHT shines in darkness and the darkness of human mind comprehends it not. It is there for those who wish to experience the darkness being dispelled.

"The ground whereon you stand is HOLY GROUND" - for it is a discovery and not something that has been redeemed from a curse of God - only the curse of human belief. Remembering "I come quickly and my reward is with me," we disregard the appearances and enter into the "darkness" of HIS LIGHT. We are hidden in this darkness (to the human belief) of HIS LIGHT. We are "hid with Christ in God." No human eye can detect or find us.

"He made darkness his SECRET PLACE!"

And this can be extended to the darkness that surrounds a given problem - and we suddenly discover HIM there instead of trying to inject Him with a hypodermic of affirmations. He is already there in the darkness - for it is written that "He made darkness his SECRET PLACE." And now you know when Jesus disappeared from their sight where He went. He entered the darkness - or that place of Light which was so intense it blinded the human vision.

"And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places."

It only takes a mustard seed in size. Have you that much?

There is only ONE operation - no matter how many times it is supposedly enacted by man, nor to what degree of belief. There is only ONE operation - and that is the OPERATION of GOD in his own universe. The moment separation takes place there are thousands of pseudo operations caused by the thought-taking human mind. The confusion that sets in motion is usually followed by disaster and failure. No wonder, then, the Master - when he found himself far afield in the beliefs and affairs of minds many - knew there was no solution but to return to the ONE. All this sounds like useless mysticism until the eyes are opened. Everybody professes God and everybody will say: "I believe in God" - but how can you believe in the law of mathematics and get anything but the solution to the problem that only you have posited. Answers before the problems are readily accepted in mathematics. The answer exists before you make up or accept the problem - and no one doubts this. Yet when Jesus made such statements he was laughed to scorn: "Before ye ask, I will answer" is the identical thing. Whether you can make it appear or not depends upon the one and only word in the Scriptures that unlocks everything, and that is "belief." Belief is not emotionalism and argument; it is not metaphysical talk and extravagant ideas and vain imaginings - it is fundamental. There it is - and the first thing that must be done is acceptance. If this is not done nothing can, or does, take place. You are not trying to make it so - It is already so.

The moment it is accepted, a blending takes place - all the filth of human thinking and belief, no matter how scientific or wonderful it appears on the surface, is washed out - the kinks of human thought give way - and the bondage of a little life shut up in a body falls to pieces and the ONE is experienced. Then it is that the OPERATION of this power takes over and flows freely into perfect manifestation, and the OPERATION is a success.

Be still, very still. You can begin to let something operate in you that is greater than thought. You can do exactly the same thing Jesus did or the mathematician does - you can go unto the Father and receive the glory that was, and is, yours since the beginning. "NOW, O Father, glorify thou me ... with the glory which I had with thee before the world was" before the beginning of the stupid thing called Adam - with all his wisdom which is foolishness, and all his ancestor teachings and beliefs.

Man says he is created of God and is the child of God, and then starts through a hellish morass of problems which, after he has hewn his way through them, leads only to decrepitude and death - a lovely picture to offer anyone. There is nothing in the WORD of Jesus to substantiate this. Returning to the Glory you had before the beginning - is suddenly to merge into the ONE and see a complete revelation and change. No matter what the picture is - whether it is a physical, incurable thing, or five thousand to be fed - it is all the same; the OPERATION of God begins immediately to take place and the patient finds he is no longer a patient, but free from the beliefs of JOHN SMITH.

We are not looking for cures any more - but for revelation of that which was created in the beginning in the image and likeness of GOD - even as the BELOVED proved it so conclusively that LETTING was the only possible way of attainment; and that the moment a person stopped trying to force issues and stopped trying to make things happen, he discovered this OPERATION of GOD passing through the temple Body searching the joints and marrow and revealing that which eternally IS.

So, the operation that you are contemplating whether that be physical or mental, body or business - when it is known to be the operation of God, suddenly causes great and magnificent changes to appear. No matter where you are, HE is there also - and that Presence becomes a MAJORITY whenever you recognize it, - and whenever you stop trying to make it a majority, and recognize there is but ONE and let it fill all the vacuity of human thought and belief. "I have a way ye know not of" - is that good enough, or do you want to add your little bit of human knowledge to it? Do you want to be more than a "majority" by adding your opinions and beliefs? Do you want the GLORY which is the proof of the Presence - or do you want the overcoming by human thought-taking? Do you want to be still and KNOW or be still and tell God just what to do?

Recently, English physicians proclaimed that cures were made by introducing a patient to the X-ray machine without turning on the power. The same article told of warts removed when nothing was materially done. If a wart why not a cancer? You answer it, you with all the knowledge of how impossible it is without the knife. "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up" literally. Do you hear?

So the operation, "MY" operation, took place and nothing happened - and nothing is going to happen but the revelation of that which is glorified by recognition of the ONE.

There is only ONE operation and only ONE operator and only ONE Majority, and you are beginning to see that you are the center of all this and are the ONE through which it takes place.

"Call unto me, and I will answer thee" - does not say maybe, nor yet perhaps. It says "I will answer thee." It is wonderful! There is only one operation, the operation of God in the Kingdom of heaven.

But I say unto you:

"Call no man your father upon the earth: for ONE is your Father, Which is in Heaven."

Now that you have taken off at the new level of Spiritual Ancestry, you will begin to experience new dimensions of power hitherto unknown. You take on some of the talents and capacities so beautifully shown by Jesus Christ, who constantly relied on His Spiritual Heritage to do those things which the material parentage could not understand, let alone perform.

Remembering his God Heritage, man performs those things which are both impossible of explanation and of accomplishment in the relative world. All action of God is miraculous to human thought. You are unborn, created instead, immaculately conceived in the mind of God out of immaterial substance.

Claim your heritage. Check the capacities shown by Jesus Christ and begin the assimilation of this heritage, the unborn. The "Before Abraham." It is wonderful! The Mind which was in Christ Jesus is literally in you - and gives you unlimited scope of expression. "Now O Father glorify thou me ... with the Glory which I had with thee" bespeaks much to the one who has ears to hear.

"Thou art confined by no bonds, and thou art the moulder and maker of thyself. Thou canst grow downward into the lower natures which are brutes. Thou canst again grow upward from thy mind's decision to the Life of higher natures which are divine." - MONTAIGNE.

Your birthright is the immaterial substance called God.

No man could possibly teach you the things that are revealed from your Spiritual Ancestry. Brushing aside the three dimensional limitations, the power moves into manifestation effortlessly and transformation takes place. As we go from one dimension to another, we instantly take on all of the powers and qualities of the new dimension. As the two dimensional photograph becomes the three dimensional statue, so does the man who moves from (the human-thought) third dimensional realm become the Christ - and instantly finds that those limitations of the former dimensions are nil. He neither overcomes them, sets them aside, or does anything with them other than to ignore them. You are the unborn, call no man father-you were created.

A chalk line may represent a prison to a two-dimensional being, if there could be such a thing - but when he raises himself up into the third dimensional consciousness, he neither works out of, overcomes, nor yet destroys the prison. Now the chalk line represents nothing to him to be overcome or destroyed. "If I be lifted up... I will draw all men unto me" is true because when you enter into the consciousness of any degree of God, you instantly appropriate all the power in that "mansion," as natural and normal - and you likewise draw all the manifestation to you of your new consciousness.

"I will arise and go to my father" is the last gesture of the human mind which man makes when he goes into a new dimension: from. the Son to the Father. And whatsoever he seeth the Father do, that can he do likewise, for now he is about his Father's business - the releasing of this wondrous LIGHT into the darkness of human existence and the results are sure and natural.

We see the power of the new dimension in the commands of Jesus Christ. When He spoke, His word carried with it the capacity of fulfillment and revelation, so do your words when they are spoken from this elevation of recognition.

It is after repeated failure to make the wisdom of man "work" that man finally turns from the human father and enters into his Spiritual Heritage, his Spiritual Ancestry - which so completely changes the pattern of life.

"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith."

As long as we are identified with the human parenthood, we partake of the foibles of that ancestry - and there are many fables and endless genealogical discussions. There are the grandfathers with their predisposition to evils from certain bloods and races. All this is cast into the discard literally, too, for you are "born again." And this being born again causes a new set of ideas and pictures to take place. The discovery that you are literally propelled by God and not by man gives you a wonderful relaxation into LIFE.

You are told to let that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. The mind of Christ Jesus is that which enables you to know without the intricacies of human reason. It is intuitive - that which is mistakenly labeled psychic.

When you consult the man whose breath is in his nostrils, you have most certainly "turned aside unto vain jangling." It is recorded of those "desiring to be teachers of the law" that they understand "neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm."

So with the NEW LIGHT, do we discover that:

"Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient."

When we enter into our Spiritual Ancestry, we are no more under the curse of the Eater, - but under grace, that indefinable quality and power which functions in luminous silence through the channels of being. It is the unseen Presence which is so necessary and which is so evident and which apparently increases in all its capacities when once recognized. The law is not made to inhibit the actions of man. It is only when he does not belong, or understand, he feels the sharp surplus of the "wrath of God" because he ignorantly or intentionally attempts to break it.

Like oxygen which is an invisible, tasteless, colorless, odorless substance within the atmosphere and which is so essential to man, so is the Grace of God, the immaterial substance which abounds for us everywhere, even in hell - and has the pouter of resuscitation and resurrection for those who recognize it.

There could not be an argument about the existence of oxygen, even though it is impossible to handle or see. Why should it be so difficult to accept the unseen power coming from the Spiritual Heritage and Ancestry of man? Why should it be thought that you can handle God, any more than you can handle oxygen? You can only move with it.

With the acceptance of Spiritual Ancestry will come the qualities and talents so long withheld.

"But as many as received Him,

to them gave He power to become

the sons of God,

even to them that believe on his name:

Which were born, not of blood,

nor of the will of the flesh,

nor of the will of man,

BUT OF GOD."

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