THE IMPATIENT DAWN

JESUS IN TWEEDS

THE TRINITY

THE COSMIC PUNCH

CONCEPTION

THE ANATOMY OF HAPPINESS

THE SHAPE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

SOUL AND BODY

YE DO ERR--NOT UNDERSTANDING

THE SCRIPTURES

LOVE AND EMOTION

THROUGH THE CROWDS

THROUGH THE CLOUDS

DIVINE OBSTACLES ALIAS

GUARDIAN ANGELS

THE BOY WHO WENT TO A PICNIC

JESUS WAS TEMPTED

JESUS AND RED GERANIUMS

JESUS AND MICHAEL ANGELO

THE GLORY OF GOD

WHERE THERE BE PROPHECIES

JESUS AND THE CENTURION

GOD WINKED

THE ELIXIR OF LIFE

MAN'S EXTREMITY

THE SPACE BETWEEN

THE ARC IN THE HEAVENS

CONCERNING ANGELS AND HEAVENLY HOSTS

STAR DUST

THE PLUS VALUE

WHAT THOUGHT CAN DO TO YOU

THE SINS OF THE FATHERS

ALL THIS AND MORE

THE DIVINE LUNATIC

BUT WHY DOESN'T IT WORK?

IMPRISONED SPLENDOUR

IF THINE EYE

IMMORTALITY

A beautiful bird beat its lovely wings against its cage, struggling in vain to gain its inborn freedom, - only to settle on its perch, - frustrated and defeated.

Had I been granted but one wish at that moment I would have opened the door, - freeing those lovely wings which so ached with the desire to fan the cool ethers.

And then I realized that all about me were men and women, locked in their cages of thoughts and beliefs, - far stronger than the bars imprisoning the bird.

Many doors had been opened, - religion, psychology, hobbies, work, - all of which had been tried, but still no surcease from the beating of the soul-wings against the hateful cage. Most of them had retreated to their perches, - dejected and frustrated, like the bird.

Then came Jesus Christ, - not as a teacher, but a Revelator of the New-old Dimension. The clear, crystal stream of His New-old consciousness flowed through the dark subterranean passages of human belief. With a thousand and one parables and illustrations did He give to the world the Power to arise into this plus-value of life.

Now and again the up-gush of His Revelation has broken through the ground of established beliefs and spurted high into the air, as a gusher coming from the center of the earth. Man has always explained the miracle by science or human reason, -or failing that, concluded he had been duped.

But the stream continued on its urgent way, nearer and nearer the surface, -diffusing a thousand and one religious and psychological doctrines. "The Voice crying in the wilderness" of human thought is now being heard through the confusing, difficult veils of theology which has made that which was "given unto a child" something beyond the reach of man.

Man proclaims that he believes in Jesus, but finds the miracles something 'outside' his ken. Jesus insisted on the naturalness of this new dimensional teaching, eschewing any personal claim to it, -dating it before Abraham.

And again, in every word and deed He showed it was not a special GIFT to any particular man, -nor could it be learned from books, -but is discovered within each one. The invitation is to EVERY man, good, bad or indifferent.

"If ye believe", -and then follows a list of things which can only be classified under the heading of the Fourth Dimension, - entirely outside and beyond the capacities of the three-dimensional human thinking, which has a beginning and an ending.

Jesus is the first and the only Revelator who made good His every statement. In the vernacular of the streets, "He laid it on the table", -proclaiming nothing He did not produce. When He said, "Receive your sight", sight WAS, where blindness had existed as an incurable condition, -and likewise through the whole gamut of human difficulties, -indicating that we have been hypnotized by the findings of the brain-mind and by the "judging according to appearances"

All the world awaited His coming for eons of time, - and all the world looks back upon it as the most momentous and the only new and original event to ever take place.

With such startlingly simple statements as "I AM the DOOR", He gave the Keys to the Kingdom, but men have rejected the simplicity of His teaching in favor of the findings of the microscopic human mind.

The Soul of you, -that Immortal BEing which will not die, - which cannot die, - stands pressing against the cage of human thought, even as the Impatient Dawn presses against the purple curtain of night, - waiting, - waiting, - waiting for the password.

"If any man hear My Voice", - ah, that is it! If any man HEAR My Voice", - -he will rend the temple veil. The Aurora of his Immortality will draw back the dark curtain of night and frighten the evil constellations of human beliefs into oblivion. They shall disappear as rain-drops falling upon a river. And Apollo, the Soul, will come forth, his flaming, prancing chargers breathing long rays of Light and Power which shall penetrate the darkest forests of human fears, - revealing a NEW heaven and a NEW earth. Diana, the negative subconscious embodiment, will fade, - all the brilliance and color drained from her by the understanding of LIGHT. She will vanish with her satellites, like a flock of sheep across yon mountain top, - and the Shining, NEW DAY will burst into expression.

The restless, prancing steeds of the Impatient Dawn of your NEW Day will no longer be held in check. You must ARISE and make the gesture of Life, - the gesture which is to reach through the paralysis of human thinking and limitations, - impelled by the awakened Soul of you which can no longer be confined in the prison-house of the beliefs of men.

That Impatient Dawn is pressing against the door of your awakened consciousness, - waiting to reveal to you the secret of your BEing, - waiting to lead you into your God-given heritage, - waiting, trembling on the very brink of SELF-expression.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, - even the death of the cross."

THE DRAMATIC INSTINCT in man is so strong that whenever he mentions or thinks of Jesus, he automatically places Him in a theatrical background, so glorified as to set it completely apart from the remotest possibility of naturalness. He forgets that at the time of Jesus, flowing robes, purple, fine linen and long hair were the vogue of that time, just as sack suits and military haircuts are today.

There is no mention made of the robes of Jesus being outstandingly beautiful. True, there was the seamless robe, - not so much a comment on His clothes, perhaps, as an illustration of the wholeness of His teaching. In fact, Jesus asked the very pertinent question, - "What went ye out for to see", - a fashion show, or to hear a revelation. It is more than possible that the rich young man mentioned in the Bible, as well as many others, were dressed in silks and brocades.

Have we, then, been caught in the very thing against which He cautioned us? Is this beautiful teaching and revelation given us by Jesus as a usable every-day pattern of life always to be wrapped in dramatics? Will we perpetually be an audience watching a drama?

The tendency to glamorize anyone in the limelight is common to all men. It has a tremendous financial urge back of it. But as with Jesus, so with all the idols of the stage, - sooner or later lots will be cast for the robes. The sport of the human mind is to build an idol, - and then attempt to discover its clay feet.

And again, the decore and background against which Jesus moved were natural and normal to the times.

Can you imagine Jesus in a tweed suit? At first the idea shocks the sensibilities. But suppose He was with us today, - or rather, suppose your consciousness was of such a level as to permit you to see Him today, - would you want Him to go about in flowing robes True, there is yet this practice in America, a thousand and one "prophets" and "teachers" have donned robes entirely out of keeping with the times, playing on the dramatic value, - and people have followed. But Jesus was of all things, natural and normal. He said definitely, "I live in the world, but not of it". This did not set Him apart anymore then than it would now, for we find ample proof of His moving with the people, high and low. In fact, He was accused of being a friend of harlots and wine bibbers. Jesus was unafraid to live His life. He held no brief with hypocrisy and spiritual wickedness, gossip or scandal,

Can you imagine Jesus and His mother attending a wedding of a Hollywood star? Well, why not? They attended a wedding-feast in Cana, which from the record, was very spirited, to say the least, - not very much different from our present-day affairs.

There is no intent to take from the Glory of Jesus, - but rather to emphasize the fundamental Truth of His teaching. It is not difficult for one to bend the knees at the Name of Jesus, so great is our reverence for Him, - but just reverence for a dramatic or historical character is not sufficient. If Jesus ever was sad or disconsolate, it must have been when He asked the question, - "Have I been so long with you, and yet ... ?" He did not want them to set Him aside or apart in any way whatsoever. He only wanted what every true teacher and revelator wants, - namely, that the students and followers absorb and use the teachings, rather than deify the teacher. He wanted them not only to do the works He did, but to exceed Him, - assuring them they could. "The works I do, ye shall also do, - and greater than these shall ye do."

Until we take away the dramatic, emotional side of our acceptance of the beautiful Revelation, the whole endeavor is reduced to a fascinating story of a man, - and is of no practical use to us in every-day life.

You would laugh at the idea that every time you approached mathematics, you would have to put on a special garment of ancient origin and arrange yourself against a special back-ground of proper dramatic value.

We know that mathematics is not affected by race, color or creed. Neither is it more operative in one temperature than in another, nor is it more present in a magnificent university than in the little red school-house, or for that matter, the slums of a great city. All that is necessary is the recognition of the law of mathematics for the unfoldment from simple addition to the most complicated equation in relativity.

Talking of and about mathematics will not work out a problem, no matter how ever much you respect it. Unless you become a mathematician in one degree or another, nothing happens. And when you do, the stream of power comes through you, uses your body through which to express, - -proving the problem was already solved. Every mathematician knows the answers to all problems already exist, whether he is aware of the answer or not. But the recognition of it as passing through him enables him to arrive at the already established fact.

So with the Revelation of Jesus, - it is everywhere present, is no respecter of persons, is as available to the greatest criminal as to the most high priest. It is just as present in the worst hell-hole as in the lofty temple. Being everywhere, it is nowhere until it is recognized and "let" into manifestation, and it is of no value until this takes place.

Jesus, too, said the answer existed before the problem, - "Before you ask, I will answer, and while you are yet speaking, I shall give it unto you", - and again, "Thank you, Father, I knew that this was done", - in this latter instance, making concession to the mass-mind which believes something must be done. Yet He did not touch the woman who was healed in the crowds. She touched Him. The wonderful recognition in her came forth and met the perpetual agreement of His consciousness, and the answer, which always had existed, became a reality to her.

Jesus was not pleased with blood-sacrifice, - asking only the sacrifice of the human thought with its limitations and its terrific bondage. He was always looking for someone who could take it, - -always seeking a temple-body who would stand up to the point of equality with Him. That great unselfishness on His part is the God-Love within Him, and within us. He found it once in the Centurion who came boldly up to Him with recognition of the Power and who deigned to set himself on an equal level when it came to authority. "I have not seen so great a faith, - no, not in all Israel!" How would you like that to be said of you?

What do you suppose the widow's mite meant to a Man who could with impunity feed five thousand? But it was important enough to be recorded. The motive of the widow was greater than the "measure" of the rich.

As long as we continue to imprison this beautiful revelation of Jesus in garb, books, teachers and temples, it will be nothing but another philosophy. Most of Jesus' teachings were given out of doors, He went seldom in the Temple. When He did, He astounded them with His Light, - and they began the old roundelay, "How does this man speak, seeing- he has no learning". They went even farther than this in the protection of their limited views of life and were glad to shout at Him when He was going through His greatest manifestation, - "He saved others, - Himself he cannot save". Yes, and the derisive shouts, "Come down from the cross". Had He done this, - and He could have, - He would have defeated the purpose of His teachings and we would still be awaiting the Messiah who would save the world. What world? Your world, of course, - the only world you know anything about.

A thousand religions have been hung upon Him, like barnacles on a ship. This is no diatribe against any of them, but nevertheless, there can be only ONE interpretation of the Truth that two times two are four. True, you can write it in Roman numerals or even signs, but the principle is ONE and remains unchanged and eternal, - regardless of opinions to the contrary.

Simpler than the laws of mathematics are the laws of Truth. A child can understand and employ them through the capacity of the unsullied mind which accepts and brings out that acceptance with apparent ease. When the child-like consciousness enters a thing; all the universe cooperates to bring it about, - all of which is foolishness to the adult mind whose greatest capacity is to commit adultery. It will endeavor to take away such beautiful laws from the child through false education. He learns to smile with tolerance or derision at the things he formerly believed possible, stumbling along through the morass of human life until finally he comes to an insurmountable hurdle. Then he may realize there is something greater than John Smith and all his intellection, plus that of all his text-books and teachers, - and perhaps he will "let go" and ('let God" into expression through his body-temple and be saved. Saved from what? His own thought creation.

The Philistines did the same thing, and finally a giant named Goliath dominated that city (state of consciousness) so completely that it was faced with destruction. Then comes the point of LIGHT, David with his sling and five pebbles, - the five senses which had been extended into the consciousness of Cod, - marking the end of Goliath.

To be of any real worth, this law cannot be a will-o-the-wisp of imagination which works sometimes, any more than can the law of mathematics. "Having eyes, ye see not, - and ears, ye hear not". Why? Because you are so blinded by the accepted appearances of your creating (your giant) that you know you are about to be destroyed by it.

It takes but one pebble, - but one sense extended beyond the human limitations, to do the trick. "Open your eyes!" You say they are open, and you are straining to see. But there is nothing to see on the outside, not yet, - the sight is within.

All the commands appear to be physical, to call for some physical action, - but unless they are heard, the physical remains helpless under the control of the limitations of its belief. When the hearing is extended to the point of acceptance, then the command becomes physical and you can and will "arise and walk".

Jesus did not see five thousand leaves and two thousand fishes with his physical eyes, neither the fields white with grain, until He saw them within, then the consciousness was projected into the realm of manifestation.

I like to think of Jesus walking through the wheat-fields and along the beaches, sandles scuffed just as ours would be. He was so natural as to be a present possibility here and now. The glorious recognition of the Presence was always waiting to come forth at every turn of the road. He constantly endeavored to ensnare men with His love, - to awaken them to their own possibilities.

The "well done thou good and faithful servant" will not come through lip service, nor yet through sacrifice, - but through going forth and doing likewise, - stepping out on the waters of human beliefs. Every time we act from the consciousness of God within, we smash patterns of human beliefs, - and so the leper is healed or made clean. One of the old prophets showed the nothingness of human disease when he put his hand in his bosom and took it out white with leprosy, and with the same gesture, brought it forth clean. How did he do it? By thinking? Saying words? Mantras? Or following a human belief? What do you say?

Why are we awed at the thought of Jesus either in tweeds or in flowing robes? Is it a false sense of modesty? The hypocritical human mind is so humble and meek when it wants anything, - and so boastful and ugly when it seems to be sailing on calm seas.

"In ALL thy ways, acknowledge HIM, and He shall (not maybe, or perhaps) bring it to pass.)' Is that good enough. It is entirely fool-proof, - there isn't the "exception which proves the rule" to the human thought. There is one hundred percent delivery of the promise.

As you read the teachings of Jesus you will see there are no pastel shades, but pure, primary colors. When He makes an experiment in the laboratory of Life, He takes the ultimate in impossibility, - never some lesser gradation. He does not work with tints, nuances and shades of color, but makes His picture "contrasty" by the use of the primary colors. Such pictures as the one of a man being born blind, - not a case of faulty eye-sight or a blindness which had come upon a man, - but a case of blindness from birth. And again, a man dead four days, with the ugly picture of putrefaction and all the beliefs, or for that matter; the absolute knowledge of the human mind.

And the indifference of it all, - such a Divine indifference which freed reality from the self-hypnosis of human thought. "Whereas, before I was blind, NOW I can see." Was it dramatic? Yes, very! But is it still the peculiar powers of one man? He has shown and said in a thousand ways that every man has the gift within him as a natural expression of Life flowing through his temple. Why will we continue to judge from appearances, following the stupid thought-pattern of saying, "I am sick but God will heal me". Does God know sickness then? And if so, by what means can He destroy it?

Nothing is destroyed because we bring Christ Jesus down to earth. As a matter of fact, He is already here, but until we have the consciousness of it, we cannot live in His presence. This has nothing to do with the psychic disturbances that bring accounts of His appearing from time to time. When He appears it is because our consciousness is on the level of His, - and then He and much more will be made plain to us.

Jesus was not psychic, - but He had the Spiritual gift of Prescience which enabled Him to see all concerning the person into whose presence He came. And the lady at the well mistook this wonderful revelation as just another fortune-telling. She was so excited by the accounts of her private life that she did not hear, "If you had asked ME, I would have given you to drink of the Waters of Life, which if a man drink thereof, he will never thirst again".

So now we have Jesus in tweeds, - going to a Hollywood wedding, just as He went to a wedding in Cana in flowing robes. We must take Him out of the "clouds" of human belief and recognize Him as the Elder Brother, born of the same Father, even as you and I, if we want to hear, "I have not seen such faith, - no, not in all Hollywood !"

He would probably be offered a movie contract. He was offered the kingdoms of the world if He would perform a certain 'stunt' that would amaze the groundlings, - such a little feat as turning stones into bread. And I am sure He would smile, - He has such a magnificent sense of humor.

Let us have Jesus natural and real, - honest-to-goodness reality. Let us drop the dramatic, emotional worship and "come boldly to the throne of grace" and bear away the Gift of Life Eternal.

Let us have Jesus in tweeds!

THERE IS JESUS, - John Smith, the body-temple. There is the Christ, - your permanent identity, created in the image and likeness, the eternal, the Soul. And there is God, - the Universal, ALL-Present Power, from which everything springs into BEing.

It takes all three to fulfill the Trinity, - the three in ONE, to bring out the perfect manifestation. Jesus without his Christ, struggles against an avalanche of false teaching and doctrine, witchcraft and hellish inventions born of Adam. Christ without a body or point of manifestation lives in a symbolic world of substance which remains forever unembodied and hence non-existent to all practical purposes.

Many people who are seeking the Light live in this divided world. They live in a Heaven of symbolic wealth while the John Smith (Jesus) feeds on the crumbs under the banquet table. They know and iterate, "I am well", "I am rich", "All that the Father hath is mine", - but what good is wealth and health if not materialized? Yet, what they say is the Truth, but not factual. Until a thing becomes literal, with an embodiment of manifestation, it remains in the dream realm of the unborn.

When we see that God hath joined the Soul and body together, not to be separated, but to function as a Temple through which He can be stepped down into manifestation, then the merging of the body and Soul takes place, - the substance of flesh in its right interpretation comes into BEing and the Invisible God is stepped down to the realm of the manifest. God, the Universal, All Enveloping Substance of Life everywhere present, without a channel through which to express would remain unexpressed.

And so the Trinity, - the three in ONE:-Body (Jesus or John Smith), - Soul (the Christ), - God (the Universal), - and the merging of the three into the ONE is the "rebirth".

Then it is that "All things are possible with God", - and "I (yes, YOU) can do ALL things through Christ Jesus", - through this union.

All things thus far in manifestation have always existed. Until this is recognized, they remain unembodied. The aeroplane was just as possible at the time of Noah as the dove which was sent out on a reconnaissance voyage, - - but unrecognized and hence it remained in the unseen, awaiting birth. As soon as it was recognized, one hard, fast law after another which had been operating for so long in the world of John Smith, gave way,, and the unborn thing came to have a body, - and a constant stream of improvements are still being brought forth.

The idea you have, whether of health, happiness or prosperity, lies in that same realm of the impossible so far as your John Smith is concerned. At best, you can only dream of it in a symbolic world until you awaken to the purpose of life and cast off the old limitations and condemnations and LET the Power of God pour through your Temple-body.

Then things happen which could not otherwise take place. You "taste and see" that the teachings of Christ Jesus are beyond the pale of speculation. There is no question concerning the working of the law the moment it is given an opportunity.

Jesus stated definitely that through this merging with the Father He could raise up an apparently destroyed Jesus. He said He could "pick it up and lay it down". He went from one degree of Temple-body raising to another until He raised His own Temple.

In the world of symbology, awaiting recognition, awaiting acceptance and understanding, is this Law of Resurrection. The manifestation of God in what has been called "demonstrations" is not a special dispensation to a few, - but a natural, normal action of the Power of God through all. Through the thick veils of human thought these wonders seem impossible, - and yet, "He, every man that thirsteth, let him come to the Fount of Life, - let him drink of this Living Water, which when he drinks thereof, he will NEVER thirst again').

The possibilities that await the prodigal when he is sufficiently sated with humanism to arise with his True Dignity and return to the Father, are infinite. There is no condemnation, - no judgment, - no paying of the old accounts. True forgiveness carries nothing of the cringing sinner attitude, groveling before a tyrant. Forgiveness brings NEW BIRTH, FREEDOM, - SELF EXPRESSION!

And so you arise in "righteous indignation" to the beliefs under which you have been all these years, and you go unto your Father and release that wonderful manifestation which belongs to you, - which God is more desirous of expressing through you than you are.

What is the "substance of things hoped for" if it is not that out of which the manifest thing comes into being;. Yes, Faith (recognition) is the substance and the evidence that it is so. There is a reason for the hope that is in you, even when, to the human thought, you are yet a long way from your Father's house. You have the recognition, the evidence, the precious "lump" of substance within, - and it is casting its rays through the darkened corridors of the temple which has so long been filled with money changers and dove sellers.

If we are to take Jesus at His WORD, we must be "born again", - we must enter a new degree of consciousness. "In my Father's house are many mansions", - many degrees of on-going. We live in one degree of consciousness until we have exhausted all "degrees" of that degree, - and then it becomes a "pig-sty of prodigality" to us, - and we again ARISE and GO.

During the time of Jesus' ministry on earth, He was one against the world of evil, - but now we are beginning to see that the Power we have thought so peculiar to Him is within any and every man, when recognized.

We are told to "Call no man upon earth your Father, - but ONE is your Father, who is in Heaven". This recognition is the "NEW birth", - and we enter the NEW day, with its NEW mansion (manifestation), - and the former things are remembered no more.

Then "Go not back nor become a sluggard in the race". The race is not to the swift, - nor to the priest in the high temple, - nor to the learned one who can cite Scriptures to his purpose, - BUT TO THE PRODIGAL, - (YOU), who suddenly awakens and goes, disregarding all that has gone before, - dropping off the old habit-pattern of judging from appearances, - walking over the obstacles, the fire, the difficulties, through the crowds of jarring-sense testimony, - into the ABUNDANCE of your FATHER'S HOUSE.

Then it is that you understand your body IS the Temple of the LIVING God, and that that is the only reason it was created in the beginning. And you become a Light set on a hill which can no longer be hidden. "This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" is the benediction pronounced over you. God is pleased with every opportunity to express through His Temple-bodies. To give you good gifts, to shower you with the glorious manifestation, is the urge of God.

The stream of pure LIFE pouring through the temple will cleanse it of a thousand little thieves who have been hiding in the recesses of human teaching. You are a NEW creature in Christ Jesus, - -a NEW Light set upon a hill.

If you tell of it, no one will believe you. Too often have they passed by your darkened temple and have seen it falling to pieces with disease and limitations. The Master said, "Do not tell-but SHOW". When they SEE, they will tell.

Then YOU, the Temple filled with emanating LIGHT, can and will heal anything that comes your way for healing, - for the LIGHT is impersonal. And the only reason anything comes to you for healing is because it sees the Light in you, - and the healing is automatic as it was with Jesus. When the woman touched Him, virtue proceeded out of Him. She had come to the level of acceptance or agreement, - He was always there. The "touching" caused the thing to be established upon the earth.

Such wonderful dimensions of invisible-visible Light are now coming to the earth, - so near it is almost like the swish of Angel wings. The "peace that passeth all understanding" is enfolding you, and you relax your human thinking, - and rest. And such showers of blessings, - so many they cannot be counted, even as the sands of the sea.

Do you believe? If so, then from NOW on, the descent of all that is wonderful and lovely will take place. Or are you afraid? The galley slave, so beaten and punished by appearances, shrinks from anything so beautiful, while his Soul hungers for it. "Oh that I might find HIM"! Well, now that you have found HIM, let go of all the former things. They are passing away and shall not long be remembered, - nor come to mind any more.

"Oh taste and see that the Lord is GOOD", - not a merciless tyrant imprisoning you in a pit of torment.

Yes, today this subtle, invisible-visible Light is descending as never before. The rarified ethers of the Presence have actually pierced the outer walls of human thinking. Given the least recognition, it will burst into manifestation.

You are to stand and SEE the salvation of the Lord. That is something you have to do, - not through the offices of another, but through your own Temple. Then when the terrifying waves of belief strike, they break OVER you as against a rock, and run back into the sea of nothingness.

And so the Trinity, - BODY, SOUL, GOD! And the union which no man can again put asunder, takes place, - a wholeness, - a HOLINESS.

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, - and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

THE COSMIC PUNCH which landed straight in the middle of the solar plexus of human beliefs and findings was the Immaculate Conception, - the ONE thing which turned upside-down and inside-out all the laws of Adam and his kin. It set aside any and all reasoning of cause and effect. It is the only reason why so-called prayer is answered, or things miraculous take place, -because all miracles are immaculately conceived.

Strange that many religionists deny the possibilities of the Immaculate Conception in one breath,and in the next say "All things are possible with God", - and still stranger that after denying this archetypal event, they pray or beseech an unknown power to do something which they have found utterly impossible of attainment through human thought and effort.

Without the radical reliance and acceptance of the Immaculate Conception, there is no basis for

prayer.

"Behold! a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel, being interpreted GOD WITH US."

"If ye ask anything IN MY NAME, I will do it."

MARY, THE VIRGINAL MIND, was over-shadowed by the Spirit, - and she conceived and brought forth Jesus. This mighty illustration is the key to ALL manifestation.

You are overshadowed by the Spirit, - the urge of God to find a Temple or a point of expression. Every desire that comes to you is that urge attempting to come into being-and all desires are good when properly interpreted.

But when the idea is passed through the thick veils of human belief it is still-born at best. The human mind places its interpretation upon the desire and in its effort to bring it to pass, descends to any level to accomplish it. Thus a bank robber's original idea to possess the substance of life is as good as yours, but his interpretation is wrong. To him, the only means of expressing that desire is to rob a bank, and the law ensues. You may be so defeated by the human belief that your idea cannot possibly take form, - and then you are sent into the wilderness of despair.

On the clear, placid surface of the waters the NEW image is formed. When the consciousness recognizes its heritage and releases all its preconceived nothings of the how, the why, the when and the where, then this wonderful over-shadowing takes place.

Mary, the Virginal Mind, could not by any means understand how she was to bring forth a child without the offices of man, - and neither can you understand how the desires of your heart can come into being.

There are helps given you, and one of them is that "Mary pondered these things in her heart". She kept the secret and contemplated the Power of the Almighty with its ways which are past finding out. And when you do likewise, the thing will take place, - the conception.

From the instant of conception, the new idea draws its embodiment unto itself. This does not have to come under the prescribed human laws of time and space. It can "look again" and see the fields are white, - in spite of all the findings of man who says it is yet four months to the harvest. The extension of the sight enables the awakened soul to see the finished product before it is visible to the eye, - just as this book is already complete while it is being written. The John Smith then lends itself as the temple through which the manifestation will come. The mechanics of the birth processes will take care of themselves.

Jesus always started with the idea that "it is consummated" before He asked. So sure was He of this fourth dimensional Power, He even thanked God for the completed and perfect manifestation before it was visible. He rested His case with the statement, "I know this is done", - making a concession to the human thought of His listeners who thought something had to be done, in the form of verbal prayer. Your affirmation, as was His, should be a statement of a finished thing, and not a process of endeavoring to create a thing. He made the affirmation because He knew the thing was already formed in the Mind of God, but awaited the recognition and acceptance of Jesus (John Smith). The moment this recognition took place, the manifestation came into being.

The teachings of Jesus were by parable-but parables which were manifested in tangible flesh-and blood. All other teachers "talked" of heaven to come. Jesus showed forth the WORDS He spoke and delivered the manifestations to the earth.

When the masculine knowing and the feminine feeling and receptivity come together, conception takes place. The secret is protected from the vagaries of human beliefs which would "laugh you to scorn", - but what can they do who see the manifestation, but fall down and worship God?

What can you do but surrender all the foolishness of human thought when you come into the Presence of God? What do you imagine you can do to change the Mind of God? Where did you get the desire you have for a NEW manifestation? Did it come out of thin air? If desire is not God pressing upon the diaphragm of your mind for greater expression, then from whence does it come and why? And if a particular desire were not peculiar to you, why would not every man have the same?

No two men having a given desire will bring out an identical manifestation. If you desired substance, the measure you bring forth would be different from the measure of every other man who desired the same thing. Each one brings out the degree they are able at that time to accept. What is wealth to one might be poverty to another, - and yet it is all one substance. No limitation is put on the measure except the degree of acceptance.

"In my Father's house are many mansions",many stages and states of manifestation. As soon as you have finished with one "mansion", you enlarge the borders of your tent and move on to another. The degree of acceptance is wholly up to you and it is not determined by your human desires, - but by your ability to accept this wonderful revelation of Christ Jesus.

"Who did hinder you, that you should not obey the Truth?" You have blamed everything from birth on to the people and conditions about you, - and will continue to do this until you discover that YOU hindered yourself. No one holds you back, - no one stops the flow of Light through your body-temple. At first this is not easy to accept. It is bitter to the taste, - but sweet to the digestion. As a good surgeon cuts deep with the first incision instead of cutting away the difficulty bit by bit, so you rid yourself of the hateful habit of blaming everything in the world for your present plight.

As you stand today, you are the sum-total of your consciousness of God. If you do not have sufficient manifestation of Life, you can do nothing about it on the outside. It MUST be done from within.

The NEW idea must and will be born when the NEW conception takes place, - when you have recognized the urge within you as God coming into expression through your temple-body. The moment this takes place, the temple is filled with LIGHT and carries out the inner instructions. If it is told to "go into a City", a NEW state of consciousness, and "there meet a man who will lead it to the banquet room", it is ready to go or to do, without question. For instance, when the book, or the picture, is conceived in the invisible, it must and will pass through the temple-body through which the mechanics must be performed.

All of this is in the deepest secrecy. "Tell no man" must be brought to us again and again, - else the Herod comes forth and attempts to destroy the idea before it is able to stand alone.

The human mind in its darkened temple believes little actual good of itself and less about you. It is a "liar and the father of it" because of the terrible fear from the acceptance of the false law that it was "born of woman, few of days and full of trouble".

The Spirit is like the "wind that listeth where it bloweth and no man (not ANY man, - teacher, priest or holy man) knoweth whither it cometh or whither it goeth". Yet the human mind will attempt to plan a way for expression of God. He will think so hard and search far and wide for a solution or a possible "wind-fall" that"might change his life pattern. But not until he enters within, - into the Virginal Mind, - will he be able to feel the overshadowing of the Spirit and know that the conception of the idea has taken place. And this 'click' or conception will be so precious that the secret will be guarded. It is the pearl of great price, which when a man finds, he sells all, he releases every former notion, - and buries this NEW LIGHT in a field, a consciousness which is Virginal and which knows that "All things are possible with God".

The understanding of the human mind concerning creation is so limited that it positively cannot accept the Word of Jesus of itself, and the "miracle" of manifestation can take place all about, but it would not be able to see or understand. "Here am I in the midst of you". The disciples saw Jesus in His resurrected state for but a few moments because they could not sustain that state of consciousness.

Conception takes place through agreement. "When two shall agree as touching any one thing,

it shall be established on the earth."

Any wonder, then, that you are commanded to "be still and know that I AM God"? When the jabbering human mind becomes quiet, then the Voice moves upon the face of the deep and out of this comes the dry land. Always the impossible, as the Immaculate Conception indicates ! Dry land coming out of wet water is enough to set the old human reasoning off at a tangent which will prove to itself the utter impossibility of such a thing taking place.

"I shall STAND upon my WATCH and SEE what the Spirit has to say unto me."

Yes, you will cease the old begging and beseeching a tribal Jehova and "be still upon your bed", - and then the blessed annunciation will be made unto you, - "A child is to be born", - a NEW and WONDERFUL, idea is to be set~upon the earth through you. It does not depend upon outward conditions. Sarah was ninety when the annunciation was made that she was to bring forth a child, - which caused Abraham to laugh long and loud. He positively knew it was impossible !

So the healing that you seek, - the old Abraham thought knows it is impossible, - that it just couldn't take place, - and yet the annunciation is made to you. Can you accept it? Will you go within and magnify the Lord instead of spending time in human thought and appearances trying to understand how such a thing could or would take place?

What you accept comes to abide with you, - good, bad or indifferent. Likewise, what you reject is passed on into the oblivion of the race consciousness. The decision is with you.

Everything works from within out. It is always in the SECRET place, the HIDDEN place that the idea is conceived. Be still, then, and KNOW (do not try to know) that I AM God. My Ways are not your ways, for My Ways are as high above yours as the heavens are above the earth, - they are past finding out. That blessed event which takes place within you and brings to you a new and more wonderful idea of Christmas than ever before, is sacred and must be a secret thing until "the child is born".

Draw close unto ME and I will draw nigh unto thee. See the naturalness of the omni-activity of Spirit in and through you. "Be not afraid, - it is I",no matter what old temples are torn down or set aside.

"Marvel not, then, ye must be born again!" The conception of your NEW-old self has again taken place in the heart. The moment it is recognized, it starts building its body. "For unto us a child is born, - and His Name (nature) shall be called Wonderful, - filled with Wonder, - the Mighty, - the Counselor, - the Everlasting".

"I CAME THAT YOUR JOY might be FULL." This is the reason Jesus came with His New-old Revelation of a plus-value in LIFE.

The Anatomy of Happiness is discovered to be an invisible structure upon which all enduring things are hung.

The discovery that all manifestation in the material world is in a constant stage of change, a shuffling off or a disintegration of the successive manifestations, minimizes the importance of things. They only endure for a time, as the Power of God integrates itself in a never-ending stream of FRESHNESS and LIFE.

The "space between" the works of Jesus, - that is, from the time He was confronted with what the world called a "problem" and the manifestation of the answer to that problem, while indefinable, is a "semi-hiatus", - the immeasurable non-space between "now you see it and now you don't" of human thought, - the split second when He stood midway between the findings of the scientific mind of man and the Golden Splendour of "the fields are WHITE".

The elasticity of human thought is finally stretched to a breaking point, - and that which seemed to cover so much surface, shrinks into insignificance as does a toy balloon become nothing when pricked with a pin.

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;

But it is on the space where there is nothing

that the utility of the wheel depends.

We turn clay to make a vessel;

But it is on the space where there is nothing

that the utility of the vessel depends.

We pierce doors and windows to make a house;

And it is on these spaces where there is nothing

that the utility of the house depends.

Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is.

we should recognize the utility of what is not.

-Lao Tze

AT THE VERY OUTSET, the title seems quite ridiculous, - nevertheless necessary in order to bring out the idea of what takes place when we pray aright.

If we cut a stencil of the figure seven (7), we would remove a perfect seven (7) of opaque paper, - at the same time leaving a perfect seven in space, or a hole in the paper which would have the shape of a figure seven (7).

Now suppose we were in a dark room with no apertures, and we cut a window in the wall, - we take out a piece of material the exact shape of the window. We have not created the LIGHT that comes through the window. The light is eternally existent, waiting to be 'let' into expression, - -in whatever shape or form we choose to accept.

The size or outline of the window can be changed at will and an increased amount of light released into the room. We do not build a house around air or atmosphere. It is already there and instantly takes the shape of the room or house. Always the air in a vase takes the shape of the vase. Remove the walls of the house and you have no shape of air left, - break the vase and the shape disappears.

If we hold the stencil of the seven (7) to the light, it casts a light shaped as a seven, - but if we hold the opaque paper seven (7) which we have cut out, it will cast a shadow. Both of them are sevens, - one a shadow, the other a light. The nearer we approach the light, the greater the size of the seven (7).

So it is with the shape of consciousness, - human or Divine. "For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. "Through a glass darkly" of human thought, we receive only darkness, - no matter how ever hard we struggle for the light or illumination.

From the inside of the house we can obscure part of the light or all of it, by hanging a curtain over the window. Likewise, we can and do obscure the degree of LIGHT that comes through our lives by human thinking. We ourselves control the amount of LIGHT that comes through, since there is no limitation in LIGHT.

The old habit of trying to visualize an empty form and then attempting to "fill" it with substance lacks the "gesture" or the actual making of the window which brings the whole manifestation of light into being. On one side, we have the attempt to create, - on the other, we recognize it as already existing. The LIGHT is there at all times, - just as LIFE is eternally existent. But if there is no shape or pattern in consciousness, then it is invisible, being obscured by curtains of belief.

Without the shape of consciousness, the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things eternally present does not appear understandable to man. The diffused, general concept of Life as everywhere present gives no evidence that it is actually present unless it is manifest in some form or shape.

The stencil of the figure seven (7) is a perpetual seven as long as it is held to the light. There is no exhausting its supply. Once the figure seven is conceived in consciousness and held there, it cannot be depleted.

Whatever we shape in consciousness is immediately filled with substance and remains that way, always fresh and new, as long as there is a consciousness of it. Light is not solid, - neither is health and wealth static, - but a constant pouring through the shape of consciousness we are holding to it. A thousand persons in a lecture hall will each have a different concept or shape of health, - which in reality has nothing whatsoever to do with UNIVERSAL LIFE.

"The measure ye mete", - the consciousness you form - is all that will come back to you out of the Universal Mind-God. And everyone will have a different measure at will. No one hinders another in any way when it comes to consciousness. All are free agents. "Who did hinder you that you should not obey the Truth"-is answered with a thousand and one complaints, jealousies and fears. "Well, you see I try and try and try..." Do you try to get light from a window, or do you just get it? And does it do any good to try to force more light through the window? It can and does give only the amount that can come through the shape of consciousness you are holding to it.

From this elevation does the command "Enlarge the borders of your tent" mean anything? Why do you wish to enlarge the borders of your tent? So you can have more room. From where is this room coming? Certainly by enlarging the borders of your tent you do not create more space, since your tent is in all space, just as your body is in Universal Life and knows of itself no limitation of health. There isn't sufficient room in the tent and so you change its shape by pushing out the borders, - and you automatically have more room. You do not create the room space, - it has always been there. You are merely encompassing more of that which already is by the enlarged shape of consciousness.

All the manifestations of God-power are as effortless as light passing through the window. God is pressing against the temple-body for a "shape" of consciousness through which to manifest, - inviting you constantly to accept more and more.

Nothing limits the light in the window but your thought. The same is true of all manifestation. You can drop the curtains of disbelief, or cement it up, or complain that there is not sufficient light, - but this still does not diminish the light, except insofar as you are concerned.

This is true in all departments of Life. The moment you have a consciousness of anything, it comes through the "shape" you have of it and diffuses itself on the other side. If it is insufficient, then it is necessary to enlarge the "shape" of consciousness.

No man ever reduced the size of a window because there was not enough light to fill it. He knows the "measure ye mete" is already filled. All speculation as to who, why, when or where are entirely eschewed and set aside, - in fact, they never existed in his mind. He makes the "shape" and the rest is automatically taken care of because long since he knew that light is everywhere and only needs to be "let" into a room to make it full of light.

When he even faintly knows that LIFE is everywhere and only needs to be "let" into expression, he will understand how it is that the darkened body or temple will be flooded with health the moment there is the "shape" of health in consciousness, - or the moment he takes his health with the same ease as he takes his light, and with the same abandon. He is not asking or begging that when his window is completed, light will fill it. Jesus paid no attention to the quantity of Life in the world when He healed all who asked, - good, bad and indifferent.

That which is true of health and happiness is true of wealth and prosperity. There is only the ONE indivisible substance pouring through any consciousness which holds a "shape" up to it, - and it will continue to pour through until that conscious "shape" is destroyed.

Do you now begin to understand how it is that nothing can be taken away from you so long as you have that "shape" of consciousness, - and how it is that nothing can be lost? And do you understand how it is that "To him that hath is given"? How can it be otherwise !

And so you will be given more and more Light because you already have Light, - and you have the "shape" of consciousness which permits LIFE to take shape and form.

The Adam man, trying to pattern God and become a creator, fashions himself a figure seven (7) and holds it to the light, - but instead of casting a light, it casts a shadow. True, that shadow is the same shape as the light figure cast through the stencil, but it is opaque and in darkness. The nearer he brings it to the light, the larger the shadow becomes. The more he "tries", the less his results.

And so with the health of the body, - man's human concept of it, - he "works" and tries to hold it, only to find it constantly diminishing. When man discovers that he has filled in the very shape he wanted to reflect light, he is in despair and may try to paint it in bright colors, - but still it casts a dark shadow.

He must discover that he is in reality "hid with Christ in God", - that he is lost in the Universal LIFE of God. Then the human-thought shape of consciousness he has been working with goes down and he cuts his new stencil and LETS the Life through into manifestation of health which nothing can take from him. Just as abundantly as he will, is he able to have this health, eternally new and fresh.

Light cannot be stored and saved any more than can health. The moment man tries this he is defeated, - and yet in reality he can never be without all of it, - that is, all that can come through the shape (recognition) of consciousness he has taken unto himself. The moment he thinks to "possess" God, he finds himself without Him, - for he is possessed by God, - and eventually discovers the truth of that statement, "For in Him we live, move, breathe and have our Being."

Moving in this universal sea of substance, holding always his "shape" or measure of consciousness to the light, he will perpetually manifest the full measure he metes to God. It happens automatically, - and yet nothing happens for it is always there. "He, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, ... and drink, without price." No limit for any reason, whether he be a Holy Man or a wretch of the lowest order. It is for every man, no matter whom.

COME unto ME, all ye that labor with the human patterns of belief, and I will GIVE you Life-LIGHT. GIVE is the word. "Cast your burdens upon ME"-and "Take My yoke upon you". The yoke which binds you to God is one of LIGHT and GLORY. "He careth for you" is enough to set everything aright if the "shape" of your consciousness is right.

A complete surrender to the ONE God will cause you to throw into the Gehenna of purifying fires all the old idols and shapes of human thought you have hugged to yourself through your fears and beliefs engendered by trying to break the law, "Judge not from appearances". All these evils you see about you are the results of human consciousness casting the shadows of their self-made "shapes".

It is all so easily changed. We see the old Prophet putting his hand in his bosom and taking it out white with the most dread disease, - and then making the same motion and taking his hand out clean and fresh with health. It is somewhat like taking down the shutters which filled the shape of the window, shutting out the light, - and then putting them in place again. The very thing the human mind thought was something real turns out to be the thing which shuts out the real, - although it has the appearance of the real.

The measure you mete shall be returned to you, pressed down and running over. The measure of the human mind is the human picture of it all. It works in reverse, - "when I would do good, evil I do",because it still believes it can "create" something that is already there. The "motive" ye mete is what actually will be returned to you, pressed down and running over. If enough light is not coming into the room, then the borders must be enlarged to meet the new demand.

No man has yet been able to shut light in a box and store it for future use. It would be foolish to try. Likewise, no man has ever shut life in a body temple.

No man can create health. Health is the manifestation of life and is not produced by taking a red pill or a green pill. The pill has no more creative power than you have. Health IS. Man can appropriate it through his recognition of it as a reality, and this in any degree he will. He may produce a temporary semblance of it through a belief in a pill, - but health is an already established thing. Prayer may reveal it and cause it to come through into manifestation by the disintegration of the human thought-patterns.

It is a wonderful rest for man when he finally realizes he has no part in creation, - the work having already been accomplished and pronounced good and very good. What do you pronounce it?

And how is it we imagine we are creators or co-creators? God needs no help from man (body). When understood, the body is the reflection of Spirit, - "the temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens". When man comes out of his Adam dream, into his heritage, he finds he is a stencil of LIGHT in a world of LIGHT, - even as a transparent bottle is cast into the sea. The whole ocean may take the shape of the bottle, as it passes in and out, - and yet is never that shape.

Jesus taught by parables because His listeners were not able to grasp the wonders of His revelation. And so we go step by step into the thing called "consciousness". As we arrive at any level of consciousness, we find we have always been there, - and so we have, but did not recognize it.

"The former things are passed away and shall not be remembered nor come into mind any more"-for there is nothing in that mind which can possibly understand them. The ugly beliefs never did exist as a reality, - only as a congestion of human thought, working always from the without to the within and doomed to failure from the start, - no matter how wonderful they appeared from the outside.

Finally Noah cut a stencil in his ark. He had been floating around for a long time, - and when he cut his window, his stencil, the LIGHT flooded in, filling the entire ark with LIGHT. The waters receded and he landed on a mountain-top, - an exalted state of consciousness, - which had always been there. And from that moment he was always THERE.

"Come unto ME", - the Soul of you calling to the body to come into that great union of body and Soul, - and in that "shape" of consciousness, anything can happen through the body. Yes, the body is the reflector of Soul, coated with human beliefs which obscure the innate capacity to "rise and shine". The moment this is discovered, "thy LIGHT is come, and the GLORY of the New Day is risen upon you."

Now we see why Jesus endeavored to bring man to a state of belief in the ONE GOD. When it becomes a matter of "letting" instead of making, man will realize that all this dazzling picture is for the Glory of God and not the glorifying of a human being.

So cut your window in your ark and "let" the LIGHT stream in. Hold your "shape" of consciousness up to the ONE GOD and SEE the Glory of it all. "In a way ye know not of', your "shape" of consciousness shall be established on the earth.

SUDDENLY THE REVELATION CAME, - -like a shaft of lightning striking a powder magazine. When the explosion of discovery was over, I realized for the first time that we, as a race of "truth-seekers" have been working in reverse.

Strange too, - since we have followed to the best of our ability the precepts laid down by Jesus Christ. But there has been such an appalling sense of failure in prayer. And such a tendency on the part of man to compromise, - first for the half loaf, - then for the slice, - and finally finding himself under the proverbial table eating the crumbs.

And then the torrent of words, - pro and con, - as to why the prayer was not answered. And the beseeching and begging and agonizing before a supposed Deity, - the groveling in the dust of human thought and words, trying to curry the smallest favor from God. All of this in spite of the fact that man has been told to "Come boldly before the Throne of Grace".

In spite of our best efforts, God seemed more human than Divine, - and at times a very "spoiled" human, whose most important activity seemed to be laying traps in which to ensnare humanity, - then gloating over the slow, tortuous punishment. Yet Jesus made it plain that God is LOVE, - and is concerned over the fall of a single sparrow, though four of them could be had for a farthing.

Everything worked for Jesus, - though at times it may have seemed that it was a special power which He alone embodied. But to counteract this idea, He invited all to "Go thou and do likewise", - and "even greater things", - greater than He had ever performed.

Well then, - why don't we at least approach in some minor degree the works He did two thousand years ago? True, - from time to time a so-called healing or miracle takes place, - but an occasional healing is no indication that a definite law is underlying it, - no more than the very occasional working out of a problem in mathematics. In mathematics we demand a hundred per cent efficiency. Is mathematics, then, more certain and definite than God? The Power which Jesus used was certain of definite results.

There is no currying of favors in mathematics. The humblest wretch, the worst sinner, the most lordly prince, all have an equal chance. There is no limitation as to the use of the law. It is not bestowed upon man as a reward of merit. It just IS, and must be accepted and entered into before it becomes alive. And in this respect, Jesus also made it plain that "God is no respecter of persons" I was listening one day to the radio, to a very prominent singer who had become almost an institution during the war years, so appealing and warm was his voice. The natural comment was, - "That man has a beautiful voice", - but suddenly I realized just the reverse was true, - that voice has a beautiful body through which to express. The song was singing him, - singing his body, - expressing through every cell and atom.

And then the LIGHT flared, - and I saw that this is exactly the difference between the manifestations of Jesus and the attempted demonstrations of man. Jesus "went within and shut the door", - and became a soul with a body through which to manifest.

The unintelligent mass of atoms called the body and named John Smith or Mabel Jones or Jesus, has been attempting to establish its power in the body, - attempting to make a singer, a dancer, a writer, a healer of John Smith, - and with mighty poor success.

But when the idea is glimpsed, - this revelation of Jesus Christ, - then man is seen to be a soul with a body, - and whatsoever he then designates the soul, that the body performs. Jesus knew that the John Smith could do nothing, when He said of His Jesus body, "I can of mine own self do nothing", - and He stopped there as far as making Jesus perform. He went within and identified Himself with Soul, - and whatsoever He designated that soul to be, that did Jesus perform, - whether speaker, healer, financier, baker or vinter. He was a soul with a body, - and not a body with a soul.

This subtle change in consciousness causes one to see the infinite possibilities. It is then easy to understand the so-called illusive financial demonstration which comes through the "no-time no-space" idea, - and to understand, too, how healings automatically take place through this recognition. The revelation of the soul as the healer releases LIFE through the Jesus with one hundred percent success. If the soul is designated as a speaker, the unintelligent body of Jesus or John Smith will speak, even though he has never learned how to speak. He draws on the infinite resources of the ALL.

"Then went He in and shut the door, - and WHATSOEVER He told the Father in secret, that was called from the housetops."

Having admitted that He could of Himself do nothing, - that the unintelligent body had taken unto itself a mass of human beliefs, none of them true and most of them evil, - Jesus made His escape from this thought congestion, into His soul. Then WHATSOEVER He designated the soul, became true, for it had a body, a perfectly pliable body, through which to express, - with no resistance, no opinions, no beliefs to hinder.

Now it is not difficult to see how "IT searches the joints and the marrow", - how it is the soul with a body can and does naturally disentangle the snarls of human thinking with its patterns of evil, poverty and disease. The body becomes the servant of the Lord. Hence, when the soul is specified as any given thing, this soul then holds the body in its grasp, causing it to manifest the desire. The body, though wholly incapable of performing of itself, does the thing it could not do, - and in less time than it could be done, - with greater success, - a sustained success.

This is the resurrection of the beseeching sinner man, - worm-of-the-dust, - born - of -woman, - full-of trouble. He leaves the pig-sty of human thinking, becoming a LIVING SOUL with an unresisting, unintelligent body through which to express. There is no argument or quibbling now from the body, - it is in its right place, - sitting at the feet of the Master.

When the body with a soul attempts to work out a problem, he runs the gamut of human emotions, from humility to hatred, - from the making of many affirmations to high powered psychology, - none of which work, even though he may have gone through a hundred courses, all of them guaranteeing positive and definite results. And this in spite of the admonition, "Be not like, the heathen, who think by repeating many words, they will gain the ear of God".

If nothing happens, he compromises, - and then, if nothing takes place, he begins to "work') things on the outside. The ignorant John Smith, never having had a consciousness of substance, does not know what money is, and is only fooling himself when he tries to imagine that he is wealthy. He has no capacity to accept that which he does not understand.

Jesus had no great earning capacity as a man. His trade was lowly, and in a small town, - and yet He became a master financier when needs be. He knew that the "Jesus" could not afford to feed five thousand men (not counting the women and children), - and yet, He did just that.

"Then went He in and shut the door", - became the soul with a body, - and WHATSOEVER He designated from that elevation, the Jesus-body carried out without comment, speculation or effort.

Every financier in the world today works through his body into manifestation. Physically, his body may not compare favorably with yours. If he had to use the body to earn a living, he would fall far short of the millionaire. But he is the soul with an unintelligent body which does not know how to make more than a bare existence, and then is in danger of having that taken from him at any time.

And to the financier is given success, - and more and more money, although he may not need it, because the law states "to him that hath (consciousness) shall be given", in like kind. The power of this "SOUL-consciousness" causes the otherwise sick or poor body to be suddenly transformed.

The moment you know you are a speaker with a body, you will speak in eloquence and with a fluidity hitherto unknown. When the soul is designated as any given thing, it not only brings that into manifestation, but all else that goes with it, - and automatically. Therefore the soul who designates himself a speaker, will find his audience, his hall, his success, - and the flow of the Bright Substance called Wisdom, pouring through him into manifestation. If he stays upon his point, he will see his words take actual shape before his eyes, - he will see the word HEALTH become embodied in well-being, - and WEALTH in the substance of things hoped for.

If the club-footed girl who wants so to dance, would recognize that she is soul, and that soul a dancer, she would find the body would move with such rhythm and beauty as to prove the "height and breadth and depth" of this thing called God, whenever it has half a chance to come through into expression. The hard, opaque walls of human thought give way, and the body becomes plastic to the touch of the soul, - and expresses in a way hitherto impossible.

If you will but grasp the idea that you are a soul with a body, and that soul is awaiting the announcement of the capacity it is to take on, then you will understand all- of the demonstrations of Jesus Christ. You will see why He invited you to partake of the same power, - so that God may be seen before men, instead of this awful human thing, born of Adam, filled with nothing but evil and death. Small wonder then, the insistent commands of "Awake, thou that Sleepest" , - "Awake, and arise from the dead","Arise and shine, for thy LIGHT has come".

Yes, - with the recognition of this wonderful truth you will arise, for the unintelligent body is now obeying the command of the soul and will carry on into expression "whatsoever you ask in My Name (nature)". WHATSOEVER! What a word! No beginning, - no ending! WHATSOEVER!

So overpowering is this revelation that at first you may well cry with Monte Cristo, - "The world is mine". But why possess the world or attempt to horde the riches of unintelligent matter, - when

within you is the ALL to be brought forth at your command? Long since you have washed your garments white of the greed for power, place or thing, - and so you may have them all because now they are for the Glory of God, - and not for your own vain-glory.

The pictures cast forth disintegrate the moment they are released. This is why Jesus said, "Loose him and let him go". Now for the first time, working from the elevation that you are a soul with a body Upon which to cast your pictures, you can understand how it is that a picture of paralysis can be "loosed" and "let go", - and all the thought-congestion of disease slip into oblivion.

When Jesus went from His body to soul and identified Himself with this Permanent Identity, He immediately recognized that everything which Jesus desired already existed. "Body" cannot understand how it is that "before you ask, I will answer, and while you are yet speaking, I shall give it unto you". Jesus never posited a problem and then try to work it out. He started always from the answer as definitely established, - and the LIGHT of this knowledge ran through the human, limited thought, - replacing the false appearances with the manifestation of the soul.

Whenever man (body) relinquishes his preconceived idea that he is a body with a soul and takes on this NEW elevation, he will find that "whatsoever he asks" is already taking place, - and that the old voluntary action is replaced by an involuntary power which carries on without the thought or suggestion of the John Smith body.

Jesus counseled, "Be absent from the body and present with the Lord". He knew He was an Immortal, with a body through which to express, - a body which He could lay down and pick up at will. Operating from this level of consciousness, it is easy to understand the miracles.

Centuries of identification with the body has caused man to accept it as an intelligent organism, which calls upon something outside of itself for help. When it is discovered that the body is but a handful of malleable clay, formed of the dust of the earth, - then it is simple to grasp the power which Jesus said He had over the body-temple. Whatever He desired to be, He became in soul, - and the unintelligent body obeyed, without comment and offering no limitations or beliefs. And so the musician who realizes that he is a musician with a body, will find the body performing effortlessly, beyond all its former limitations.

"Then went He in and shut the door" This is the key to the Kingdom of Dominion. The body is the unintelligent screen upon which the soul throws its desires and truths.

Many people attempt to demonstrate finances or health or position by working from the "body" standpoint, - demanding, affirming, declaring that God is the thing they desire. And the success is sketchy, at best. But when the Immortal YOU makes the designation, the body will of necessity carry out the details "by a way ye know not of". You stand in the place of the Christ instead of under the hypnosis of John Smith, and call upon the LORD with the knowledge that "before you ask, I will answer", - and "Thank you, Father, - -I knew this was already done". The body, John Smith, doesn't know, and thinks something has to be done.

In MY Name! What name? God has many names, - infinite angles of expression. So when you approach the Deity through the Immortal BEing of you, the answer already is, - whether it be decision, - acceptance, - agreement, - - appropriation, - or any one of the various Name-Natures of God.

Whatever NAME-Nature you designate comes into being through the unintelligent body John Smith. At last he (John Smith) has been divested of his power apart from God, his knowledge of both good and evil, - and comes under the benign influence of having had the seven devils cast out of him. So he relaxes, seated at the feet of his Divinity, clothed in his right mind.

The movement of this Immortal YOU, divinely indifferent to the beliefs of John Smith and his thought world, is always in the dimension of success. It does not try, - -it does not work for it, - it is an indigenous quality. Whenever there is an expression of this Immortal YOU, success is assured without effort and thought.

Intelligent, then, is the command, - "Take no thought of the purse, the script, the body"-and so on. Now we see why, - because operating from your Immortal Self, you do not create, or come under the laws of limitation. You release the unseen power into manifestation through the temple-body, - and John Smith, if a cripple, leaps into the air, praising God, - or he opens his blind eyes, - or he is prospered "by a way he knows not of".

SHE WAS weeping hot, rather bitter tears because she had lost a "friend,"- a lady who was in the throes of poverty and a thousand and one other problems, so she had taken her in. She had fed and clothed her, becoming her constant companion and advisor, - because it was such a pitiful case.

And then one day the "thing" turned and struck at its benefactor. "What ingratitude!" "I cannot understand why she should treat me in this manner, after I have done so much for her".

Every Soul knows its own capacities. It knows the equality of birth and that it is entitled to all the wonders of heaven and earth, - even though the "John Smith" seemingly cannot bring them into manifestation with the same ease that another is bringing them forth. Daily it hears itself discounted by its benefactor, - who, feeling sorry for it, emasculates the person and makes it hopelessly dependent.

There is no friendship in pity or sympathy, - both are means of unconsciously inducing personal worship. True, sometimes this idea is so covered with human emotion that it does not recognize the bondage into which it has thrown another, - and it goes blissfully on, pitying and unwittingly discounting the so-called friend.

And so the lady discovered she had never had a friend. She had just taken something in, upon which to lavish her sympathy and pity. The human mind will accept anything it can get for nothing, - but the soul finally rises up against its "lord and master" and smites it in the only way it can to free itself. When you discover this, you will also discover that you cannot lose something which you never had.

Friendship, - that scarlet vine dropped down from heaven, - is filled with compassion, even as Jesus or the Good Samaritan, - but it will never descend to the level of pity in the human sense of the word, it will never bind the object of its compassion to it or cause it to pay tribute to a personal God.

The Good Samaritan bound up the wounds and sent the traveller on his way with sufficient to stay at the neighboring hotel until he recovered, - but he disappeared, looking not for the personal glory of having done a good deed. He received his reward elsewhere, - freeing the traveller from the ingratiating thing of fawning on the giver.

You must have a friend before you can lose one. Do not weep over something that is a fabrication of your own mind. The dramatic tendency is great in all of us, - but the curtain comes down and the "comedy (which you may call a tragedy) is finished".

Since you cannot help doing good, no special effort is required to do it. There are plenty of instructions, - "Let not your right hand know what your left hand is doing", - and so on. Give, - yes, and abundantly, - sometimes of gold and sometimes of "such as I have". But FREE your gift, - -send it forth into life so it can find its proper place of lodgment. It will return to you, freighted with increase.

So the LIGHT dawned, - the tears stopped, - and the woman who had "lost" a friend discovered she never had a friend, - only a bond-maid who ran away from the slavery of fawning on another.

OVER AND OVER again we read stories about human love, based on selfishness, - jealousy, - possession. But the Love of God is no respecter of persons, - and possesses nothing because it IS all. A thousand and one references are made to the LOVE of God for man, - but measured by human standards, it is such an abstract and intangible thing as to seem of little value.

Human love is nothing but emotion, defined by Webster as a stirring perturbation or excitement of mind, - and is a sense product. Becoming emotional over the birth and death of Jesus may temporarily stimulate a sense of something mistaken for Love, but it lacks the warmth and life-giving quality of pure God-Love.

This God-Love is something different. God IS Love, - and God IS Omnipresent, - "above all, through all and in all". It cannot, therefore, be 'poured forth' toward a person, or a thing, or a situation. It has only to be recognized, - first within, and then without, - in ALL persons, places, things and situations.

How, then, can a mind which is filled with "possession" partake of this great Impersonal Love. How can it understand the magnificent statement, - "BEHOLD! What MANNER of LOVE the Father hath bestowed (already given) upon man that we should be called Sons of God"? How can it carry out the works of the Master if it becomes emotional every time it sees a sudden manifestation of God? The Divine indifference of Jesus in healing is startling to this 'emotion mind'. Leprosy-that most dreaded of ancient diseases - was brushed entirely out of the picture with such a simple question as "Will you be clean?" And what of the man born blind, - born blind, - receiving his sight by the command, "Receive your sight", - "Open your eyes". How is a man born blind to open eyes he never had, - what is going to open, - and what is going to do the opening~ Human reasoning? Judging from appearances? Human emotion? And the cripple, - how is he to RISE and WALK? Is someone going to help him drag his crippled body over the earth, - or is SOMETHING going to do the walking through the body-temple?

The same thing will cleanse the leper, open the eyes of the blind man, cause the cripple to not only walk, but leap, that brought Lazarus forth from the tomb, - the Divinity, - the LOVE of God within, which transcends any and all human beliefs or appearances.

And the Love of God enfolding you in the midst of the human pictures of danger and fear, - that cloak of invisibility which is around you in the time of human trouble, - can only be made manifest when the "Lazarus" in the tomb hears the WORD, - and is ready and willing to step out.

And this Love of Cod, - the everlasting- arms, lifts you out of the mire of emotion so that you no longer "dash thy foot against a stone",... and suddenly you "mount up with wings as eagles".You pass through all and any appearances of evil, emerging "without the smell of fire". What matter if a thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, - "it shall not come nigh thee", because you have awakened to the LOVE of God as something beyond human emotion.

You can be in a glorious temple which is pouring forth the music of the spheres and the incense of a thousand flowers or in the lowest of hovels, - you can be in Heaven or hell, - you can be in the desert or at the North Pole, - and if you are finished with "trying" to love God from a human standpoint and are conscious of this ever-present, omni-present LOVE OF GOD, all will be well with you .

Yes, the LOVE OF GOD surrounds you, - is in you and through you, - for in HIM you have your BEING, - in HIM you live and move and breathe, - that LOVE which can melt a solid wall of steel as if it were wax, if there were need of it, - but never to excite the human emotions and beliefs.

The human love is theatrical, - and this is its strongest stimulus, - it needs an audience on which to unwind its coils of possession. But when it attains its object, it is finished, - the expended emotions subside, leaving nothing but dust.

But when the Love of God enters in, there is an opening of the prison bars, - there is such a freedom, born of absolute trust, that no lock and key can hold it, - there is such a communion and agreement that the mere "touching" establishes all things on earth.

So many "little people" are starving to death for Love, even though they are in the midst of it. They are focussed on a person or thing, and the human mind leads them to almost any length in an effort to materialize that "love". But how can an omnipresent thing be directed through a little human thought pattern?

The poor, starved emotional things, endeavoring to display their tawdry talents before the world, either see this glorious GOD LOVE, - or sink into the stagnant waters of self-pity, neglect, futility.

The mockery of the human mind says, "I do not understand how it is that I am passed by, - I stand with my 'beggars' bowl', asking merely for a crust -for the least kindness, - and get only scorn". Yes, - ('you are so worthy". But are you?

Literally dying for recognition, you stand in your self-darkened temple, - but until you recognize "ME" within, - and "ME" without, - how can "I" find a way to your tent? A rose growing in the garden automatically gives out of its perfume and beauty, - and draws its beloved to it.

It all seems so abstract and impossible to the human mind, with its tearing emotions and its possessions, - and it is just that, - as impossible as the removal of a cancer without the aid of a surgeon's knife, or the healing of the born-blind eyes. They are all impossible, - never have taken place, never can take place from the point of human reasoning. Hanging on to an emotional love, it is impossible to see or experience the GOD LOVE. The old fear of letting go of the faded love letters of human thought keeps you from this beautiful experience.

When you "let go" of the effort of human thinking, all the limitations of that thought-mind are dissolved, - and God will find a way of expressing his Love in such glory and beauty as to cause you to marvel at the wonder of it. Such is the Love that surrounds you, until you know you are never alone, - and "never less alone than when alone".

Yes, God so LOVED the world that He GAVE, - Ah, there is an idea, - He, even God, is releasing His Beloved, - knowing full well that by "letting go" He would recapture Him in a thousand thousand temples, - yes, even in you.

It isn't too late, - -it isn't too early, - the old time space of human thought fades into the NOW of Spirit. NOW is the accepted time ! NOW is the day of Salvation! NOW are we, too, the Sons of God! The Son that He loved so dearly became the sons. Do you see how you have the LOVE of GOD in your heart.

And what a LOVE ! The only thing that NEVER faileth, - the ONLY thing. Isn't it worth accepting, - this fool-proof Law which NEVER faileth?

When the narrow limitations of human emotion called love are broken, then ALL-LOVE in all of its glorious forms comes to abide with you, - then surely shall you go in and out and find pastures, then surely the heart of you will rest in peace and quiet, and be a listening post for the manifestations of this LOVE through you.

The aroma of God's Presence permeates your soul, - and you are enveloped with the aroma of His LOVE.

"AND JESUS passed through the crowd." Crowd of what? - Crowd of human thoughts which was gyrating human bodies in all directions, causing them to do all manner of evil.

And to you He gave the same power, - "Go thou and do likewise". So why not accept your spot in consciousness and move through the turbulent streets of this war-torn world, filled with all manner of human invention.

Consciousness is the emanation of your God light, - and is a direct connection between you and the infinite resources which await you. When you see the differentiation between thought and consciousness, you pass through the streams of negative thinking and its resultant evils.

There is nothing strange in the occasional reports of the child prodigy. He may be only five years of age, and yet able to solve an almost unsolvable problem in mathematics, - he may play a difficult concerto before he can reach an octave, - he may answer questions which research laboratories have not as yet fathomed. And why? Because in one way or another he has a direct line of consciousness which touches the Infinite ALL-KNOWING, - and since problems are built around an already-existing answer, he is able to give the answer before it is perceived by thought.

Jesus knew this, - and we find Him constantly going to the Father within, - the Permanent Identity, created in the beginning, in the Image and Likeness, - unchanging and yet endowed with the ALL-CAPACITY of Spirit. And He tells us what He can do, we also can do.

"If you believe, - - ask WHAT you will", - - what YOU will, - and again, - "If ANY man (and this includes YOU) lack wisdom, let him ASK of God".

Yes, if you believe, - not a process of human thinliing, - not the human desire to believe, - but if you have discovered in your on-going that there is a POWER bigger than the human thought and its machine-humanity, and you believe in IT, - you, too, move through any congested crowd of thought pictures, - unhampered and undisturbed. Then why remain longer in the pig-sty of human limitations which today says one thing and tomorrow another?

It is true, many people were cured by the Coue method of suggestion, but only because the race consciousness accepted it so strongly that the force of this thought brought temporarily into manifestation what it accepted. Because it was the result of human thinking, there was no permanence to it,and today it would be difficult to find anyone advising you to tie twenty knots in a string. Yet it did work, - and it could again. But this is not the STREAM of LIGHT emanating from the "Let there be Light" consciousness, so beautifully revealed through the Temple Jesus.

Functioning from this consciousness, you pass through crowds of violent reports of evil and disease, and "it shall not touch thee", - and "if ye drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt thee", - because all the laws of thought are as nothing.

Deeper and deeper you go into the Light, and the shadows of human problems fade, absorbed into the Light, - deeper still into the place where the "former things are passed away", - dissolved by the Power of Light flooding your Temple, - and "they shall be remembered no more."

Are you beginning to see the HOW of it, - that when you have the answer, the problem is completely absorbed?

Silence is a good thing to remember at this point. "Tell no man", - for the human thought mind believes nothing good about you. How can it, when it is a liar and the Father of it?

When next you encounter a problem, begin at the "answer" end and work down through the seemingly hard-set beliefs, disintegrating them. Try this "new-old" revelation of Jesus, - look, - look again,and then look again until you SEE. Have your sickle ready, for it states, "the harvest is rich, but the laborers are few". Step right up and thrust in the sickle, - and reap. This is the TRUTH, for no man has told me.

THE WEATHER was threatening when we took off. A heavy, leaden sky blocked out every vestige of sunlight. The Pilot, a mere slip of a boy, picked up the plane, thousands of times his own weight, from the wet field and hurled it into space with more ease than a child flies a kite.

He flew straight on, hitting the ugly wall of black clouds at dead center. For the space of a few moments the plane was lost in a dense wet fog. By observation no one could tell which direction we were traveling,-and then suddenly we cut through into Elysian fields, under a sapphire dome. Great masses of clouds, snow-white now, shot with a myriad of colors, lined the heavenly fields of bright gold. It looked not unlike a picture of a field day of the gods of Mount Olympus.

The pilot sat back relaxed. He knew the only way to this heavenly state was to hit the thing that obscured it on dead center instead of trying to circumvent or avoid it.

And so does the enlightened one, by going straight up to his fear, by doing the thing he is afraid to do, find that it is composed of a mist-I-fication of human thought and gives way to the terrific on-rush of the unafraid consciousness. If you do the thing you are afraid to do, there is no fear left. "If you slay me, yet will I say you are God" will not produce death to anything but a quaking misbelief in God as a terrible tyrant. God has no capacity to kill anything other than a false belief which is better dead anyway.

And then presently after a few hours of travel, the slim young pilot set the plane on the field again, thousands of miles from where we started. He had the power "to pick it up and lay it down" - just as you have. In your case, the thing called avoirdupois is not matter, but human thought. The more you contemplate evil as something, the heavier it becomes. All gravity is in the human mind.

When next a wall of misbelief obscures your Elysian fields, pick up your plane and hurl it straight into the belief, - and you will discover it is made of the stuff of dreams.

SHE WAS a Truth student, - and a good one, too. She was on her way to the airport to catch a plane for the West Coast, to the fulfillment of a cherished dream. Life was as rosy as dawn, - a song was in her heart. Visions of a contract, signed, sealed and delivered, clustered about her like a flock of cherubs around a Murillo Madonna. Things were practically perfect until that sickening noise of a punctured tire made her heart sink. The car stopped, the driver got out and looked at the deflated tire. "Sorry, lady, but I have no spare, and the nearest station is a mile away."

From under the car a flock of inky imps rushed out shrieking with laughter, pulling at her. "Why did this happen to me?" "And why did it happen today?" "Why, - after all of my praying?" "Of what avail is the Truth if such things can take place?"and a thousand and one other thoughts flooded her mind like a dark, swift current of water in a subterranean passage. It all spelled defeat.

Back to the hotel and utter desolation, - and to bed with seven devils of torment. Finally morning, - and with it the daily paper carrying dead-black headlines telling of the crash of the very plane she was to have taken.

Nothing had happened to her, - but suddenly she was thrilling with joy and thanksgiving for the very thing she had cursed the night before.

"God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform". Sometimes when we are too dense to understand the inner voice, we are saved from our own undoing by the presence of what appears to be an obstacle, - an apparent defeat of plans, - a sudden stoppage of the way.

Yoked with the illusory fate is your Divine Destiny, - like two horses pulling side by side. One (fate) is so vicious and unpredictable it is apt to throw you without warning into some ugly and unexpected condition for apparently no purpose whatsoever, - which you are supposed to bear with fortitude and courage as part of your lesson, or charge off to a karmic debt of which you know nothing.

You continue riding this night-mare (fate) until you discover the perfect Destiny running so beautifully beside you, - and make a change. Whenever this Divine Destiny is acknowledged, the hateful pictures of human thought are neutralized. You are impressed with a desire, which is evidence of an already established thing, - but from the standpoint of fate, would have to be "worked out."

In the Divine Destiny are the things that "eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things that are prepared for those who love the Lord."

Jesus came to the earth to set aside fate, which is the heritage of the Adam man. Until man sees and accepts the fact that he is not born of the Adam father, but born of God, he will experience the hateful fate of "few days and filled with trouble." So apparently new is this absolute and radical reliance on the Truth of Jesus Christ that many times we fail to hear-see the VOICE of guidance given us, - and so the Love of God saves us with His Divine obstacle, - a Guardian Angel.

The more we believe and rely on this Inner Light, the more we will see and experience the VOICE or warning that comes before every evil fate-picture.

This interpretation does not mean that we are to accept every evil pattern that comes to us as a warning from God. Many times we rise in "righteous indignation" and put to flight the thought-congested pictures. But it does bring to us the truth that there is no "insistence" in God, and the memory of "not my way, but Thine: be done." Having your way is not conducive to bringing about the will of God. "My ways are not your ways ... "

We are told to "resist not evil" and it will flee from us, - and in this sense we do not resist it because we have come to the recognition that it has no reality, - and hence has nothing within itself to be resisted. The evil may be the ugly pattern of disease which appears very real. Resisting it will only intensify it if we are making something out of it other than human thought. At the same time we are told to "RESIST EVIL". There is nothing contradictory in these commands, - they are both the same thing. Resist the evil temptation to believe in the reality of evil, and see it flee from you.

When we resist a thing in the generally accepted sense of the word, we create something to resist, - or at least give the picture confronting us the ugly power it seems to present. When the ways of God become our ways, we stop resisting the apparent condition which seems to block the intense desire.

Relax that conscious thinking for a moment and see through the mirage of beliefs. In that very obstacle is the blessing you have been seeking. Why do you insist on having YOUR way? It is written, "Your ways are not My ways".

It is also written, "In all thy ways, acknowledge HIM and He shall bring it to pass": not maybe nor perhaps. If the acknowledgment Is made, He will bring it to pass without question and "by a way ye know not of".

"Wait patiently on HIM", - and "Stand and see". Give thanks for the only way there is. If it be through the crowded streets of confusion, or through the solid wall of fear, or through the scorching fires of evil, and it is HIS way, all the evils of these appearances will be destroyed. "If ye drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt you."

"Peace be unto you!" Stop kicking against the pricks. Why will you "persecute ME"?

"This is the Lord's doings, and it is wonderful to our eyes" pronounced over the greatest disappointment or failure will cause it to yield its blessing, as the prickly chestnut burr placed on a hot stove opens and yields its Sift.

Matthew Arnold said: "To understand that the language of the Bible is fluid, passing and literary, not rigid, fixed and scientific, - is a first step toward the right understanding of the Bible".

A glimpse of this causes us to know how it is that there are no contradictions in the Bible. It is fluidic, - covering a thousand and one interpretations, - - one of which will answer the WHY in your life. The Ten Commandments were graven in stone and are hard and fixed, - until the fluid quality of them is understood, - and then they become as warm oil on a frozen body.

Enter this fluidic stream of consciousness and you will experience untold Light and Illumination. A single word or phrase will burst open in a flood of pure golden revelation.

Yes, it is recorded, "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God", - not John Smith. The more you rely on this Inner Light, the more you will hear-see the WORD so essential to your on-going.

Water runs down hill naturally, eternally seeking the sea. And so the Soul of you feels that urge of returning unto ME, - seeking that place where it is lost in God. If you lose your narrow human

concept of life, you shall find it, - -but if you save it, you shall lose it, - it is isolated from the Great Source.

If the water, on its eternal trek to the sea, be stopped by a dam, the Sun can and will pick it up and cast it onto the bosom of the Father Waters. In like manner, there is no obstruction or obstacle in your human fate over which God cannot bear you up. There is always a way when there is God's way.

No WORD of Truth that you have actually freed in the spirit of recognition, but what must and will come into manifestation.

In the quiet of a cool oasis you have spoken many lovely words, - have freed them. Then do not faint with fear at the first ugly mirage that might show itself when you again mount your camel and go into the desert. The Words and Understanding that have gone before you have already devitalized it, - and you pass through.

You cannot miss anything that belongs to you and your kingdom. "Nothing happens but My LOVE allows." It says NOTHING. Do you believe?

That the Bible is "not scientific", as Mr. Arnold states, is proven in a thousand ways by Jesus. A Hindu fakir may be able to make a quick passage over burning coals, - but this is only a "stunt" and is not the manner in which Jesus did things. The human mind is ingenious and can simulate the Divine in an amazing degree, so that "even the elect are deceived". You see the necessity, then, of watching and entering the fluidic state of mind.

"None of these things move me", said Jesus. He knew what was behind every obstacle, even the crucifixion. "Nevertheless, - not my will be done." According to the revelation of our Precious One, we are not here to experience a series of trials as something insurmountable, - but as a proof of the ONE Power. He went through the entire category of human evils so that we would not have to do the same. We are only now faintly beginning to understand this as something other than mere words.

And so the Prophet and his servant (your soul and you) are traveling along, - and the servant is afrighted by what he sees. "Look, - the way is blocked by a thousand warriors and chariots, - we are lost". What could he do against such a picture of destruction? But the Prophet, that Soul of you which is always with you, has something to say. "Look again", - and then the mountains are filled with Angels and the Power of the Lord.

"Those that are for us are more than they that be against us". It is always that way. The recognition of the Presence always brings proof in a tangible and real form. You have only to "call upon ME", and "I will save you". But of course you have to believe before you can "call".

Faith induced by fear is not very reliable, - but is better than none. Faith that is the result of the acceptance of God in your heart as real is a sure fool-proof way of being saved from the evils.

On the surface of the clear pool, Narcissus saw his own beautiful face and fell in love with it, thinking perhaps it was a beautiful water-nymph. But he died awaiting her materialization. All he would have had to do to have discovered the truth would have been to adjust his position.

You can look through fate and see your Divine destiny, if you make the adjustment. Where does the reflected picture go, - and what was it in the first place?

And so the obstacle or the ugly picture of disease that seems so real needs only a slight adjustment to cause it to vanish. The leprous flesh becomes clean and white. You need not go anywhere to make the adjustment, - nor do you need outside help.

"Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble", - and he functions through one evil picture of fate after another until he makes the discovery, "Call no man your Father, - for ONE, God, is your Father". This recognition disintegrates the "fate" and "karma" pictures inherited from the "Adam" father, - and frees you into the "Divine Destiny" inheritance of "God, the Father".

And so, every time the distressing "just missing the plane" takes place, and you have blessed the situation, and likewise taken your blessing from it, you will join with Keats in the soul song,"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken." Rejoice and be glad! "I have overcome the world" of belief, - overcome it by resisting not, but at the same time resisting the temptation to accept it as something real. Everything is working together for the good of those who love the Lord.

THOUSANDS OF men, women and children had been following Jesus about, thrilled at the miracles He performed. He continued to show them that the Power He was using was indigenous in every man, - but they, even as we do today, found it much easier to attribute wonders to an individual, rather than BELIEVE and do likewise.

And to test his class in the outdoor laboratory of the soul, - seeing the multitude of hungry people, He posed the question to one of His students:

"Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?"

And it goes on to explain: "And He said this to prove him: for He Himself knew what He would do."

When were His followers going to shove off into the crystalline waters of pure BELIEF, into a greater power than the sum total of all man's knowledge?

Then answered one of His disciples and said; still doubting:

"There is a lad here who hath five barley leaves and two small fishes, - but what are they among so many?"

Jesus taught through parables and fables. This was the only possible way to say or show something; which could not be said or shown to the dense human thought.

It was not the spectacular demonstration of increase of bread that was so important, - but the law back of it, which could not be explained in so many words. And hence the importance of the manifestation in this case was the fact that some gamin had brought his lunch with him. I wonder why only one person of the many thousands had thought of that?

Well, if you look farther in all the out-side happenings of the Bible, you will find there was always a handful of meal, three drops of oil, five leaves, some dregs of wine, - and so on. There is always a "starter", or a sort of "pied-a-terre", - a point from which to start. But generally it is so disgustingly small that it is either overlooked or cast aside as worthless.

The significant point is this, - that every man has within his present state of existence, that "starter", however small it may be, - which if given the chance, will feed the five thousand.

It is interesting how this kid took his lunch, while all the others went empty handed.

Afterthought: There is the rather sharp rebuke regarding all this in the question Jesus posited to his followers when the next day they came back for more bread, - "Did you not see the miracle, - only the bread?" - indicating the necessity of the extension of the sense of sight.

IT IS RECORDED that Jesus was taken to a high mount and asked to perform miracles, - such insignificant things as turning stones into bread, which He could have done, - and then to a church spire and asked to cast Himself down. He was taken there by no lesser a personage than the devil.

Just what picture are you seeing as you read? A red devil fashioned after the Mephistopheles created by your memory of the Opera Faust, (who had a certain charm in spite of his satanic powers) talking to the white-robed Jesus?

What are you going to do with duality in face of the statement of Jesus that God is ALL, in ALL, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent? About the first thing we read in the Bible is the fearful excuse, "The serpent did tempt me".

How was he created, - this devil? "From walking up and down and to and fro." A very thin background as far as his forebears are concerned. What? No family tree to blame for his troublesome capacity to make mischief? No coat of arms or family escutcheon, - no psychopathic grandfather to blame? No, none of these, - and yet there he is, tempting Jesus.

It is recorded that Jesus was tempted as we are tempted. The magnificent sense of equality which is eternally established between Jesus and ourselves unhands any argument about our innate weakness and predisposition toward so-called sin.

"The fame of Him went abroad." His miracles and His conduct and His teachings were the "stuff" fame feeds upon, - and no small wonder, then, that He was tempted, - taken to a high place and shown the kingdoms of the world.

Nothing can tempt you from without if something on the inside does not recognize it. A picture-wire keyed to the same pitch as a note on the piano, will answer every time that note is struck. It cannot in reverse make a sound that would cause the piano string to respond. The original note must come from the piano. Nothing tempts from the without unless something within strikes the note.

Jesus was offered the kingdoms of the world for merely bowing down to the satanic temptation to glorify Himself instead of God. All through the Bible there are records of men wrestling with the devil of temptation, usually at night. And so Jesus wrestled with the temptation to take the world and enjoy it to the fullest, just as He wrestled with the same old devil before the crucifixion, only this time in the ugly form of pain and suffering and futility. After all, why should He go through the test of self-resurrection for a people who had taken everything and given nothing, and who had failed so miserably to understand the magnificent, simple law He had given them?

So you say, "I cannot resist the temptation that comes to me". This is because you give the power to something outside of yourself. You believe that the inanimate thing has power, or that the situation can control you. How can an inanimate thing with no power of itself influence you in any way? You endow it with the capacity to control you, yielding to the power in the situation (the power you yourself have given it), - and so you succumb.

In the Bible we constantly find the division of the ONE into two, - Jesus and the Christ, - always talking to each other under many names. We start with Cain who murders Abel, - the human thought who tries and apparently does crucify its Higher-Self. The lust for power and to-be-known-of-men is so great that it stops at nothing. And still it is within the ONE, - these two separated manifestations who need each other so utterly, - you and your Self, - body and Soul.

And so, many have been taken to the high mount and offered the Kingdoms if they would only murder the Christ within. The old personality will make a final attempt to prove Adam was right when he said he was a creator. He becomes a law unto himself for a short time, but eventually finds the kingdoms of the world destroyed and the bread which was made of stones inedible.

The Blessed One admitted being tempted. He could have hidden in His Robes of Attainment and kept this honesty from us, - but not that ONE who came with the freeing, Life-giving message. He stood His ground, and after weighing all the profits of "casting himself down", said, "Get thee behind Me, satan! Get thee behind Me in memory and reality", - and the devil was not.

And so it will be with your own personal temptation-devil that comes to you with the belief in disease, fear, lack ...... He will disappear into the limbo of the "former things" which are passed away.

Success is difficult to take-and more especially in Spiritual things-for immediately the personality thinks to set itself up and become a high priest in a temple, to be worshiped of men. When you discover that the healings that come through you are only natural, normal manifestations of the LAW of God and take place automatically, you will be finished with all this temptation to believe in a personal, creative power.

From "walking up and down and to and fro" in the world of appearances, you create the devil of belief in the reality of appearances, endowing it with power to overcome you. Once you have given in to this belief, you are cast out into outer darkness, - and there remain until you SEE the LIGHT.

One man sees a person as his benefactor, - another as his worst enemy. Is he both? Or is it the projection of something from within that does the trick? You look upon a hateful world full of all manner of evil. Jesus said it is the Kingdom of Heaven! "I AM all things to all men." ALL things, -do you hear?

Eventually you must stop fooling yourselves, and recognize that your outer world is but a projection of your consciousness, - beautiful or damned as you decree. "YE shall decree a thing and it shall come to pass!') The evil you decree, either consciously or unconsciously, manifests with great ease because you have believed in evil all these years.

When the prodigal returns home he finds everything awaiting him. And so with you, - when you return HOME into this wonderful ONE-NESS of Life, you will find all good things awaiting you.

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Man (the Jesus or John Smith of you) is the outcome of his beliefs. This may be bitter to the taste, but it is sweet to the digestion, - and if you are not experiencing the Kingdom of Heaven, you have only to exchange your human beliefs for a BELIEF in REALITIES.

The Phoenix Bird, rising from the heap of ashes of his former limited self, new and beautiful, is but a picture of you, the YOU of you that cannot die no matter what crucifixion you have experienced, rising from the ashes of the human pyre upon which you have placed yourself, -purified from all the old beliefs and for the first time, seeing, - -yes, seeing, and this time SEEING! "Even though you slay me, yet will I say you are God!" That is it, - -the absolute recognition of ONE Power. You must accept and appropriate it for it is the ONLY Truth, and arise from the ashes of a belief in two powers, - leaving in those very ashes the devil who took you to a high mount and offered you so much of the world's goods already at your command. Then you (yes, this John Smith) shall decree a thing and it SHALL come to pass.

Why does an otherwise gentle dog sometimes suddenly jump at the throat of a certain person? Is it within the dog or the person? The dog instinctively senses in the person an active quality which awakens a similar dormant quality within himself. Why does poverty, disease, unhappiness, jump at your throat when they do not attack other people in close proximity? Is it within the 'dog' or you? You "Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war" (the "war" of sin, sickness and death) because these are within your own consciousness, - otherwise there could be no objectification of them. This is difficult to admit, especially if we have been "working" to know the Truth, - but let us face it boldly.

There are no closed doors in the life of Jesus. If He chose to associate with wine-bibbers and harlots, He did not ask permission of any high priest nor offer excuses. Fearless of criticism, He freely went anywhere He chose to go. Yet He did not descend to the level of any of His associates, - He made them rise to the place where He stood. But what goes on behind the scenes today? There can be no dividing line between the audience and the teacher. And what about you? Do you lead two lives in two worlds? In your "diplomacy" have you become a hypocrite? Let us be honest with ourselves!

The greatest event in the world, - in fact, the only event of any worth, took place in a stable, - while all 'my lords and ladies' dined and wined in luxury. You may be in a "stable" right now, - but from that stable can come the GREATEST EVENT of your life, - if you will 'let' it happen. Presently the "lords and ladies" will go their way, drunken on the wines of intellectual and hyper-critical belief, - but from your stable a something is coming forth. You may, in the course of events, be taken to the high mount and there meet the devil of temptation, - but you are now strong enough to say to the tempter, "Get thee behind me" !

This old temptation-devil is not always offering you the kingdoms of this world, - sometimes he offers you the kingdoms of disease, poverty and sin. These are just as much a reality to the human mind as the kingdoms of wealth, fame and success.

And so you either "resist evil" and see it fleeing from you, - or you "resist not evil". They are both the same. If you resist evil, it is because you have risen into the consciousness of the ONE, - and if you resist not, it is because you know there is nothing to resist.

"Oh ye of little faith"-"For why will ye doubt?" Why not step out of this morass of human belief and accept your heritage? You are a NEW CREATOR, - a ONE thing, - Christ-Jesus ! Not the twins, - but the Jesus and the Christ blended into ONE, - the Temple of the LIVING GOD !

A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, after a rather lengthy lecture period in Berlin, I decided to "get away from it all" for a while, - and so arranged to vacation at Fuldaland, a number of miles from nowhere. Leaving the denser civilization behind, we struck off over the loveliest green country imaginable. On and on we went into the open, - the houses becoming fewer, - fields and hills stretching off to the skyline, - And then a tiny village hove in sight.

I had arranged through a friend to take lodging with a farmer family by the name of Krauz, - composed of an old grandmother and grandfather. Their house was a long, low white building with a passageway from front to back which divided the stables from the house. Everything was under one roof, and when we entered, the odor of fresh milk and new hay greeted us. The house was spacious, and the aisle between the stable and the living quarters was as shining and clean as the streets of a Dutch village.

The old couple showed me to a large bedroom and sitting-room at the back of the house. It was fall, - there was a tang in the air, and the grandfather had built a fire in the large porcelain stove which reached the ceiling. From the statuary and pictures, it was obvious that they were Catholics. The grandmother crossed herself as she passed the little home altar, - and then they left me alone.

Through the small paned windows could be seen the rolling green fields. There were no hedges or fences of any sort, - and when I went outdoors, it seemed as if I were standing on top of the world. Here was peace, - and unobstructed beauty! A mile to the right the Rudolph Steiner School showed forth in a tapestry-like setting of colored trees. On a hillside a village girl tended some snow-white sheep. Clouds drifted in the clear blue, headed for some distant port, - and an air of contentment filled the place. Yes, - it seemed as if heaven had come down to earth !

The old couple explained that they were poor, meaning by that, they had no money. However, money did not play a very important part in their lives, as they had abundant food, clothing and shelter. There was an "exchange market" in the village, - and the housewives would exchange produce and poultry for coffee cakes and pies at the baker's oven.

And so I "settled in". Time seemed suspended. Oftimes I would find I had been sitting in a chair for several hours, in absolute silence. The only sound in the house was the ticking of the old clock and the lowing of the cattle, - and sometimes the soft, gentle voice of the grandfather as he tended them. There were only the three of us in the house, - and I finally began thinking of it as "the Stable", - yes, "THE Stable".

And sometimes the old couple would come and sit with me for coffee, - and tell me about the pictures and statues in the rooms. And then they would tell about the Christ Child, - how it was that one day He would come into their home and heal them, for both of them suffered from old-age complications of a sort.

As the days grew colder, the grandmother brought her plants in, - little tin cans filled with geranium slips which would be ready to bloom when it was time to re-set them in the spring.

Time was forgotten, and the three of us felt a "nearness". Now they would come and sit with me for hours. Talking had virtually ceased, - we just sat there in a glowing sort of silence.

Then one morning the two of them came in with faces beaming, - bringing a tray of cake and coffee. I knew something wonderful had happened.

The grandmother could contain herself no longer. "Look!", she said, - "look, - the geraniums are all in bloom!" And when I looked around the room, there was a flash of red. The plants were literally covered with blooms, - although it was months before their time to bloom. "The Christ Child has come to this house", she continued, - "He has healed us, father and