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CHRIST IN YOU

THE DEEPER ISSUES SERIES CHRIST IN YOU A BOOK OF DEVOTION

SPIRITUAL RECONSTRUCTION By

the Author of "Christ in

You"

THE THINNING OF THE VEIL A Record of Experience By MARY BRUCE WALLACE With Foreword by J. Bruce Wallace, M.A.

PRIVATE DOWDING

plain record of the after-death ex-

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CHRIST

YOU

NEW YORK DODD,

MEAD AND COMPANY 1919

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I call

and my voice

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is to

the sons of

viii. 4.

" Blessed are your eyes, for they see and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye and to hear the things which see, and have not seen them Matt, xiii IG-IT. ye hear, and have not heard them." ;

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CONTENTS PART I— CHRIST IN YOU LESSON

PAQV

Freedom by Understanding Christ the Life Prayer The Truth of Being God All in All, Get Understanding From Glory to Glory

4 5 6

7 8

Voice from the Heights

3 6

10 14 18

22 25 29

9 Personality

The Book

11 Sin, Separateness 12

"He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father"

13 Christ in

You

—Light — The Race Man Steadfast—Immovable

46 50

14 Out of Darkness

15 Jesus Christ

16 Truth

17 Imagination

18 Idea

— The Expressed Image

19 Heaven

Growth

within You

and Unreal 21 Matter and its Relation to Spirit

Re.\l

71 77 80

CONTENTS LESSON

p^QI

22 *'My Thoughts are towards You''

The Central Life

Love

24 Omnipresence

25 Omnipresence (continued)

The Control of Self and Environment The Death of Mortal Man—Renunciation .

102

106

PART II—MIND AND SOUL: THEIR RELATION TO THE BODY 1 "Let your Light so Shine^'

113

Born of the Virgin Mind and its Possibilities

116

2 3

120

4 Personality

125

The True Self 6 The True Selfishness 7 Dwell Deep 8 Unfoldment from Within 9 The Soul

130

134 138

141 145

PART III—DIVINE HUMANITY Them Mb" "Seek and Ye shall Find"

1 I in

151

2 "Thou in

154

158

4 "The Knowledge of God shall cover the Earth" 162 5 The Will of God 167 6 Workers together with God 170 7

The Creative Energy

8 God the only Life

gavb Himself

173 176

182

PAET

CHEIST IN YOU

CHRIST

YOU

FIRST LESSON A VOICE FROM THE HEIGHTS

obliged to use your words and modes

of expression, but I

ning that they

are wholly inadequate to

convey spiritual truths.

who seem

must say at the begin-

to be in the

I long to help people

same mistaken conditions

in which I once was, for

man

does not

know

himself.

will consider together something of the

truth of being, the most essential and the of all things. visible

You

form; this

first

are not the outward and

the feeblest and the most

distant likeness of your real

self.

I will ex-

plain by illustration.

When an 1 1 Oor.

li.

artist paints

9, 10, 14.

a picture, he does not

CHRIST IN YOU

put on canvas the

reality,

copy of that n^hich

he gives you simply a

within himself.

The

real

picture is on the spiritual plane and exists there

much more

truly than on the canvas; the real

picture remains for ever, the canvas does not.

poet can give you his true poem.

does

his best to convey something of its beauty, some-

thing of

from his

its life,

ideal.

but even then

it is

far removed

That, too, is on the plane of

reality.

There

a vast amount of creative energy

working in and through the material

jjlane.

Like the picture and the poem, this energy invisible to you.

We want you to distinguish be-

tween reality and shadow.

The physical

plane,

or plane of the senses, is a shadow, a faint imitation of the spiritual

work

and the only

Your live and

real.

show forth higher laws, to breathe entirely from the plane of spirit, is to

to cre-

anew from the very centre of all life, to make one the kingdom of earth and the kingdom of heaven. You are not to think of yourself and the universe now visible to you as real. It is ate

this that constitutes the difference

between

us.

A VOICE FEOM THE HEIGHTS We

have entered into a larger consciousness of

God, whereas you are content with the shadows Just

things.

think

how

your

all

finest

thought seems to vanish with the passing of great minds from your midst, yet this case, as

you

will discover

knowledge of a

life

lifted to

not the to the

that ever progresses from

When

the unreal to the true.

permeates the w^hole

when you awake

human

this consciousness race,

you

a higher plane, for growth

will be

simply a

larger consciousness.

Heaven

not a place, but a consciousness of

God cannot be thought since God is all and in all.

God. ity,

of as a personal-

The Absolute

above and beyond the conception of yet infinitely

meek and

As you emerge true

life

finite

mind,

lowly, filling all space.

into this all-pervading love, the

becomes manifest and

always the an-

swer to the deepest and highest aspirations of the soul.

It is love fulfilling itself.

NOW.

Learn

been,

and

first

Thank God

for

and thoroughly that you have

will be, for ever.

Your present

condi-

tion is an opportunity for spiritual advancement.

Make

the

most and the best of your

life

now.

SECOND LESSON FREEDOM BY UNDERSTANDING is

wonderful to realize that we are one

ITgreat and unlimited whole.

Your

derstand this once.

you that

How

Do away

God and man

learn that

tell

You

are one.

Stand out

with your limitations.

in the strong life of God.

free

are like children

your walls and partitions, your churches

witli

and

not un-

Scriptures

things are open to the eyes of God.

all

slowly

I could ^

chapels.

We,

too,

wonder why we

w^ere so

long learning the things that have since become

God

quite clear to us.

is all life,

seen and un-

Millions on the material plane are in

seen.

bondage, yet

all

the time the doors stand open.

You

will long to tell

ns.

cost,

only do believe what

We 1 Jer.

this

are permitted to

want xvL

them

17, xxxii.

;

come

you

to help

Prov.

when you come

say,

to live v. 21,

you at some

and act upon your real

xv. 3

;

Heb.

iv.

it.

life. 13.

FREEDOM BY UNDERSTANDING Begin by obedience to the dictates of the within yourself;

man

by a

false personality,

always hedged about

a Satan of the senses

shadowy nothing must be cast behind

this

for

spirit

lead you into truth.

\\dll

not easy, as

This

it is

ity.

of the senses

It is

sometimes

much does

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

us,

and would deceive humanlike

an angel

falsity imitate reality;

of light, so

you can

al-

ways distinguish it from the spirit, however, if you remember what I say. The ^ voice of Christ is fearless, all

powerful, the voice of a conqueror;

the voice of the

shadow

of good suggests limita-

Hold

tion, sickness, death.

fast to the All-good,

the only real.

We worship God through Jesus Christ. no other

way,-^

and there never has been,

One

cept in name.

There

title for

God

ex-

Father, and

we know, but it becomes much more comprehensive as we grow in the knowledge of it is

the best

God.

You ^ have

within you, and

Him we

live

.TohH xvi. 33

Johu

xiv. 6.

;

the power of a great victory

God

continually speaking.

and move and have our

Rev.

18.

Luke

x. 19.

being.

CHKTST IN YOU

Many who

are working

among

How is

den and degraded ask

why?"

would

tell

the downtrodthis? "

And

them that every created

being must work up and through every necessary phase, evolving from the lowest point of created

Yet we know neither the day nor the hour

life.

when

the

Son

Man cometh.

Often in the deep-

est darkness of experience, illumination arises,

changing the w^hole aspect and environment.

The soul this

at once recognizes that only through

period of apparent

norance can

it evolve.

best of every experience,

them

all.

degradation

Make you

and

ig-

the most and the

will

thank God for

not weep with those

who weep,

but help them by a mighty love, pure as a mother's, for in the love of a mother is the unselfishness of

God.

Learn to become unselfed.

You

are not an atom, you are the whole.

Every true unselfish

Godhead. teaching

Above 6

all

the race nearer the

are finding channels everywhere,

over

all things,

Gal. V. 16.

life lifts

the earth

by secret ways.

walk by the spint of God as ;

FREEDOM BY UXDERSTANDING you do

this

scious of

more and more you

harmony

Keep

God and

men,

full of love to

and we

teach you much.

will

simply in

;

your

but

say, wait;

we beg you

lives.

become con-

your surroundings.

your hearts

derstand what

will

to all

you do not un-

will teach very

to realize

our teachings

THIKD LESSON CHRIST THE LIFE

THE

voice of spirit is far-reaching.

It is

the expression of omnipresence, and

both near and

of space, but for the present

Perhaps

beginnings.

far.

we must

deal with

would be as well

knows nothing to help

you at your present stage of unfoldment.

It is

absolutely necessary that you should have times

you should come out from the

of quiet/ that

business of

life for

a part of each day.

you

w^ere to wait in silence, holding the attitude of

growth and steady development, thinking above all else of

kingdom

the

God

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; your condition

should not be one of strain or of blank nothingness,

would be all

result

of the highest value to yourself

and to

these

extremes

around you.

Hold 1

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

avoid both

in your heart, the true place of under-

Matt. xiv. 23

;

Mark

35, vi. 31, 46.

CHRIST THE LIFE standing, a stillness which

is alive, like

assert themselves; crooked things

would become

All smallness and

rough places plain.

discord quietly but surely would drop

have no longer any power.

The

impossible.

activity within.

life

its silent,

We but

creative energy is constant

quietly

waste and

wait upon God, the

renews each particle of the body

orderly activity.

are not able to

we can

away and stagnation

spirit,

All outside energy

As you

hindrance.

breath of

the heart

The God powers within you would

of the rose.

straight,

tell

you

of future events,

indicate their trend, for each indi-

vidual makes the future by the thoughts and acts

You You may be

of the present. past.

are today the result of your hopeful,

your present

thought will be fully realized in the future day.

Hold the

positive attitude in all that

you under-

take for spiritual development, knowing that

God never plane,

fails.

This holds you above the sense

and you immediately function from the and only real. All must

spiritual, substantial,

be finished before the Christhood of the race 2

Job xxxiii.

CHRIST IN YOU

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; complete,

complete

The evolution of

unity.

terial is the

work

all

spirit

may

^nter into

through the ma-

of creation.

worketh in you now.

impersonal.

unselfish,

Loving God and loving man,

God

It is

that

Rejoice that you have this

knowledge, and give the utmost for the highest. Live in

breathe and walk in the innermost

spirit,

heart of yourself. I

want you

to give

some part

of the

I repeat this, as it is so

necessary, so pregnant with results. will be conscious of

First,

you

good sound judgment, a

bet-

ter understanding of

your neighbour, and clear

Afterwards, the result in your body

insight.

will be realized, for in the silence the flesh

will

spirit;

this

and balance

silent growth, thus bringing poise

into your whole being.

day to

heart of

have become one with the heart of

and thus you bring about perfect

cir-

culation of the blood.

You can understand how highly important this when I tell you that the brain is fed by the

spirit; a finer

grosser,

element has become ruler over the

and the

ÂŤ Pg. xvi. 9,

spirit of the living

margin of R.V.

;

Ps. Ixxiii.

2(>.

God

breathes

CHRIST THE LIFE througli the outer body of flesh. this clear in order to

am making

emphasize the necessity for

Later, you will not need this, as you will

quiet.

command

at all times

and in

all places,

heeding

neither environment nor discord.

not seek love

ment.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; give

it.

Will you give ear to this?

your right from your Father.

you in

to this very

moment

your hearts.

your

Awake,^

Christ shall give thee light. 4Eph.

This

V. 14.

nourish-

Take what

He who

brought

lives is

speaking

thou that sleepest.

FOURTH LESSON PRAYEE

PRAYER of

is to

It is the strongest spiritual ele-

life.

ment

us the breathing of the breath

I think

in all worlds.

discuss the subject of prayer

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as

we may now see

you have

used this powerful weapon to some extent norantly. will

You

say to some one in trouble

ig-

" I

pray for you," or you wish to help some one,

say, in Australia.

with God's

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but how

often sent with the

false idea of great separation, to a It is never lost,

most in accord with

Although something

alone,

afar

off.

itself.

done in this way, the

person you wanted to help

maid

God

but prayer of this kind enters

into the vibrations

great extent.

one

do you send forth this

The prayer

God-energy?

and you desire to bless with your

will,

whole being

You know your wish

not helped to any

Remember, Jesus spoke

when He entered 14

the

the room, saying,

PRAYER

"Talitha cumi/' and you too must be clear, positive.

Enter

definite,

into your closet, the in-

nermost of yourself, and there see the perfect for your friend â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and never see or hear anything simple faith

will of is

God accomplished

else.

Restfully,^

in the

name

Now

and without

strain, see victory

of Christ Jesus.

I will tell

you what takes place when you

speak from the God-centre of your being.

In the

strength of your calm assurance, false vibrations are withered entirely.

ness.nor depth where

There

God

neither dark-

and you bring

is not,

God instantly. You cannot esTo us it seems down in a great

the troubled spirit into touch with

have seen this

many

times.

timate the value of true prayer. as

you were

like children set

power house, not knowing the importance

of the

switches and electric forces around you, waiting for knowledge, yet ofttimes blind I use

your language so that you

words

stand, but ties.

Your

Matt.

Mark.

and

fail to

faith in

vi. 6.

xi. 24.

God

deaf.

may

xinder-

express spiritual realiis 3

your

life

Ex. xx. 21.

and power.

CHRIST IN YOU

With^ true prayer you shall ask what j'ou will, and remember, uotliiug ^ is yours unless you take and possess. We have never known true prayer

to fail.

not cast your care upon an outside

God and wait the answer

God

being within you,

not distant from the desire.

spirit within is

then can

God

for results.

God and

one with

be afar off?

advice for those

who have

Christ;

The

how

have given you this special need, but I

Thy Kingdom come" in every heart and life. For he who knows God in his own heart and in farthest space would have you pray always:

is at

one with

all nations,

north, south, east,

In your love and prayer include them

west.

Live in the thought of love tow^ard life will

all,

and all.

and your

become one unceasing prayer, a® con-

stant going forth of God.

We may

poise, that

yon

always and only in the central

life,

would help

live

to give

you

dw^elling on the plane of spirit,

the only reality.

Have done with shadow and

illusion

Matt. xxi. 22 John xvi. 24 Josh. xvi. 4, xvm. 3 1 Kings xxli. 3 Obad. 17. « Luke xvlii. 1, xxi. 36 ; Rom. xit 12 ; Eph. vL 18 4 8

T. 17.

— enter

;

1 Thesa.

PRAYER into

rest.

Cease from

member our you always

first

time

lesson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; You

Try

will be.

17 limitations.

always

are,

to realize this

Re-

and now.

Rest from your anxieties and live in the eternal.

The blessing ever.

God

with you always and for

FIFTH LESSON THE TRUTH OF BEING

THERE You ^

at all

nothing in

will

life

you need

fear.

become sure that you are safe

times and in every place.

realization will reveal to

This

you how much you Nothing

have understood of the truth of being.

can affect your real individuality.

want

these lessons to help you to enter into your

now.^

It is

wrong

own

to hope and expect grace

only at some future time. Realize that spirit is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient.

What

state here â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

spirit

there to wait for?

cannot be

less

Let

than the great-

You have been trying to make statements

est.

from without.

Let

your affirmations come

all

from within, suggested only by the inward Let it.

voice.

every other sound and sense be silent before

Let

this spiritual highest

xct

Ps.

2 Cor.

vi. 2.

you take

Ps. xxxvii.

Rom.

vUi. 11,

posses-

margin of R.V.

THE TRUTH OF BEING

The only things that

sion of your mortal body.

have ever really helped you to a higher knowl-

God have come from

edge of

be true and

Thoughts are the outbreathings of the

cause of

first

help yourself.

all.

You must

within.

Word

faithful to the

that speaks.

Word,

this

can only help you to

Eemember

through these

all

les-

sons that nothing helps from w^ithout unless

from within.

receives recognition

The

spirit

always revealing Christ, the whole and com-

plete Saviour in you, the

Your ^

ousness.

hope of glory or

entire will, thought,

glori-

and brain

are led by this holy, invisible guide into knowl-

edge of

all truth.

The moments

growth have been when the senses were hushed personalities

had ceased

had learned

to be

His Holy Temple.

and

Jolin XV. 26, xvi. 13-15

27 Gal. iv. 19. Thess. V. 23, 24.

7 1

ÂŤ

Hab.

;

ii.

20.

and

when all when you

Then^ God spoke in that you would rest from

still.

Your present phase 6

silenced,

to touch you,

your false thinking and Be

ÂŤ Col.

of healing

the unquiet voices of

all

;

a training ground, and

Gal.

12.

CHRIST IN YOU

jou can do there what would be out of place and difficult

here

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just

as you would find

cult to learn the lessons of childhood

Many

are adult.

loved ones

diffi-

when you

who dwelt with you

in the flesh have entered into the larger sphere

watch and pray with you.

Listen to Christ

Jesus the divine Man, and you will understand that His words are for you and have

That

ings.

you may have

that your bodies

may self,

life in all its fulness,

may be perfectly whole, harm and

be safe from

worst enemy

new mean-

may

that you

accident, that the

be conquered, even

death

it-

before you reach the thin veil which divides

us: all this for all the

and more

works

Tonight when you

will be revealed to you,%

God

rest,

are " very good."

do not allow the senses

to suggest weakness or weariness; instead, allow

your spiritual atmosphere within and without to enfold and invigorate you, until you are conscious of spiritual conquest before you sleep.

Your whole body

will be

renewed by this holy

baptism, and your awakening in the morning Âť

John

X. 10.

1 Cor. XV. 25, 26.

Gen. I 31.

THE TRUTH OF BEING will be a is

joy.

The

effect of this

a sweet cleansing of mind and body.

much ness.

triumph and a

done during the hours of sleep and dark-

Awake

pray

you

that

or asleep, I

may

12 Ps. cxxvii. 2,

margin of

cxxxix. 18.

li.V.

;

Ps. xyi.

truly

say:

with Thee.''

still

Cease from worry.

iÂ« Ps.

SIXTH LESSON GOD ALL IN ALL

ALREADY you are entering into a wider There are many who

understanding.

have gone on, yet in ignorance of much with which you are familiar. clearly stated the first fact

So far we have

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Who are we?

destructible spiritual beings.

The

In-

living knowl-

edge of this alters your whole mental attitude

wards

sickness,

sin,

Now we

and death.

to-

ap-

proach with reverence and humility our next consideration

The tence: still

Avhole

You

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Why am answer are,

because

contained in one sen-

God

is;

but as

man

blinded by false sense, I will endeavour to

speak from your

where you

own

standpoint.

are, there is

In the place

a work of the highest

importance to be done, and no one else can do

your work.

and place

God has brought you

to this time

in order to carry out perfect laws. 22

GOD ALL IN ALL You may never work

known

to the world, but

By your own

shall stand for ever.

your

indwell-

ing spiritual forces you will spiritualize and

make real the plane of shadow and confusion. Working from the same spiritual standpoint, there will be no separation between us and you.

reality,

there

This

division.

Your world

the only barrier between us.

falsity,

and belongs to ignorance and

You

ehaos.

sense of fear

are just where you are for the do-

ing of God's perfect work. receptivity of heart

Hold an

attitude of

and mind.

All the good around you exists for ever, and

can neve^* change or be

It is spoiled to

lost.

you, because your eyes have opened to good and bad.

The good

the only real.

of heaven is like unto leaven,

very heart of

God

The

kingdom

working from the

the Creator.

Your work

the

angels might envy, for in so far as you are true to

your unlimited and spiritual nature, you are

We earnestly watch and pray for the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth. creative.

It will be the iMatt.

xiii. 33.

awakening from shadow to sub-

CHRIST IN YOU

24 stance, to

from confusion to order, from weakness

power

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but, above

or unity of

life.

all else, to

the w^holeness

Eealize that your work

the

work that you have undertaken to do from the beginning. I would here recommend highest,

that you begin with your immediate circle, as the

See and

very next step must be the right one.

know only

the good in those nearest to you.

Speak to them, recognizing the highest

Your

trust shall beget in

every detail of your

which in very truth

life

Self.

them new hope.

know only

the good,

the only real.

not be

down by appearances, but rather maintain an attitude of steadfast hope towards all who

cast

seem at a low stage of development, seeing

al-

w^ays the goal to which they also shall attain;

work with everything that makes Your reason for being on the earth

as for yourself, for good.

now

to help on this very work.

helpers all around you.

Peace I

is in

make

all

God

There are

love incarnate.

your hearts and lives now. things new.

Behold,

SEVENTH LESSON GET UNDERSTANDING

T^HE

more we know

God, the greater

becomes our reverence and humility.

The

infinite

and eternal Wisdom has

such exquisite order for every created being; the

very stones and rocks are marvels of His good-

Even the dewdrop obeys a law and fulfils the eternal purpose. As you evolve,^ you discern ness.

these higher laws

them.

and become in harmony with

one of our most interesting studies

It is

to discover the wonderful living on each plane.

interior worlds,

and perfect laws of

you could

see the great

you would almost worship your

God has endowed you richly. You have made mistakes, because you have not known yourselves. The mighty eternal love is fellow-beings.

seeking expression everywhere.

You irroT.

ask i.

2, 3,

" ii.

What 1-11,

viii.

the most

14, ix. 10, xvi. 22,

practical xxvUi.

CHEIST IN YOU

method

of healing the

body?

Our great teacher

Jesus Christ always met the need of the people at

their

degree

exact

some would need the the spoken^

word

unfoldment.

Thus,

clay,^ or bathing; others

only.

Jesus never failed to

help in whatsoever condition or circumstance; that they came to

Him was

enough.

where so many of your healers

fail

This

either be-

cause they offer something beyond their power to or because they employ methods that

realize,

have become as words devoid of

life.

The

great

Healer, by reason of the greatness of His love,

could meet every need, and only as you love can

you sees,

really help.

Love

perceives as never

man

suggesting with infinite variety the exact

method.

are anxious that you should not

spoil the great

and beautiful work by following

any known method, but always by following your

own

loving

spiritual

instinct,

thought what ye shall say. 2

John

Matt.

viii. 8, ix,

Matt.

viii.

John

xiii. 34.

Matt.

X. 19.

ix, 7.

;

20-22.

Luke

iv.

18, 19.

taking

It^ shall be given

GET UNDERSTANDING Love

you in that hour."

with

all

your heart,

mind, and strength, and nothing

soul,

sible to you.

impos-

Jesus never failed to understand

and recognize the perfect

spiritual

body in

all

men. Your body is perfect in spirit (substance), and every part of the material body should act in obedience to the spiritual, the only

real.

When

the senses would indicate pain and dis-

remember your

order,

into manifestation

The

and

spiritual body,

by the word

call

of power.

ÂŽ

body should manifest wholeness, or you are

surely

making God seem a

Later on,

failure.

when your body functions only from the plane spirit, its

diate.

uses will be finer, its obedience imme-

The

positive spiritual

man

will

assert

himself, refusing to recognize the suggestion of

the sense man,

and

shall reign in you,

His

feet.

become

will

and

ruler.

Christ

Satan will be under

Fill the house every

day with strong,

positive health vibrations, lifting the very at7

i Cor. xiii.

Luke i. 37 R.V., iv. 32 A.V. 9 Rom. viii. 11, 19 R.V. Eph. 10 Rom. xvi. 20, 8

;

19, 20,

23 R.V.

CHRIST IN YOU

mosphere into purity and truth. good

is so

simple, so natural, for

ing in your midst and cannot 11 Ps. Ixxiv. 12.

Gix)wth into

God

fail.

work-

EIGHTH LESSON FEOM GLOEY TO GLORY

are taking the

its

cause and tracing

relationship to our present under-

You have

standing. '^

first

spirit/' " I

learned to say, It

to create."

would be

as well to understand at what period of creation

the race

now

stands, as this will

mediate work clear to in its

The race

im-

at present

childhood, just emerging into knowledge

of the great little

us.

make our

and only

of its true

life,

the I am,

knowing very

meaning and jmrpose.

You

understand that in these lessons we cannot express spiritual verities in words,

we can only

attempt to suggest the transcendental reality be-

hind the shadow.

The

finest earth-music

you

have ever heard can only suggest real music to you; the highest that

does

is to

lead you to

the heart of the composer, where you catch some-

thing of the perfect idea. 29

CHEIST IN YOU

30 1

have used this very crude illustration to

teach you something of the meaning of God.

ever beyond our highest ideal.

then, is our call to growth.

Here,

Every stage

of de-

velopment reveals more of God, and every generation of

men

finds

Him

greater than the

last.

Today the conception is higher than it has ever been, and yet you see and know only ^ as men dimly groping in darkness and mist. God ever becomes more lovely as vision clears every height ;

we climb

reveals fresh glory,

and

And

follow on with unabated eagerness.

greatness

greatest

lowliest atom,

when

it is

calls us to

yet His

in accord with the

the Father-Mother

God

lifts

the meanest thing to a place of safety in the very

heart of love.

The

realization of this

worship and adoration, for great above

night,

us with

our God

all gods.

Jesus Christ revealed need.

fills

The world,

God according

your

like children crying in the

and with no language but a

cry,

was

an-

swered by the Father; by this name you know 1

1 Cor. xiii. 12.

CJor. iii. 18.

jfc>s.

xcv. 3.

FROM GLORY TO GLORY and love

Him by this name we understand much ;

more than you do but God

;

always willing to

help you according to your need.

Present un-

derstanding reveals something of the law of endless progression,

of the fulness of

life,

of its

Jesus* revealed the

deeper, richer meanings.

Christ of God, the hidden spring, abundant, overflowing, perpetual, never ceasing, that you

might have it^ in

all

its

fulness, that^

There

might rest in hope.

flesh also

no mys-

Full, rich, glorious life should

tery in this.

every vein — for Christ

down

not draw

your

knew Himself

life

your

Jesus did

life.

from an outside God.

to be the eternal Christ of God.

think you will see more meaning in the

of Jesus as

you

live

Humanity, God's eternal

say

" It

one.''

God

is finished," is

life

from the innermost of your-

self. :

fill

and

everywhere

day

son, will one

" they

shall all be

fulfilling

Himself;

not^^ even a sparrow shall fall on the ground

without your Father. *

Jotin

John

xvii. 13,

Ps. xvi.

As Jesus

18.

20th Century N.T.

the Christ

was

Col.

John xiv. 30. John xvU. 21.

iii.

CHRIST IN YOU

unchanged by the experience called death, even so are

here, as there, ourselves, for

always been and cannot 10

Matt. X. 2y,

die.

we have

NINTH LESSON ./

PERSONALITY

TKANSITION

from the personal to the

universal does not

but

rather

mean

greater

Personality as understood by tations.

loss of identity,

man

individuality. is full of limi-

the disciples were to keep Jesus of

Nazareth, they would lose the Christ of God.

Jesus

knew

this

and put the temptation

Peter far from Him, as

He knew His

ity w^as not their greatest good.

and

veal the Father,

will

personal-

come

to re-

come and abide

with you for ever: these wonderful words were full of

power.

meaning and today come with greater Only as

their midst, could

Jesus withdrew Himself from

He come

again to

all

men

His omnipotence. I

have show^n you in our previous lessons that

John

Matt. xvi. 21-23.

â&#x20AC;˘

John

xvi. 5-7.

4 5

xiv. 7-11.

John John

xiv. 16. xvi. 7.

CHRIST IN YOU

our

spirit is

many is

first

and

channels and modes of expression, but

and only

the one

Man on

life.

infinite

wisdom

Man

of God.

mind the

has limited the

holy one, has dared to speak of

God

as person.

Man, who does not know himself, has explain the whole of God.

you must

live, think,

the plane of

sense has tried to explain with finite

spirit,

It has

real foundation.

tried to

all these

things

and speak only from the

for^ the spirit searcheth

all things.

you sink deep within yourself, a great meekness fills all

was and

You

your thoughts. is

learn of

Him who

and highest

greatest in His meekness

The true understanding

in His lowliness.

personality becomes clearer to you as you realize

your relationship to the whole. clears,

you become

mighty hope.

filled

Y'our

vision

with holy reverence and

Personality

greater than you

know, for the weakest person has the whole universe to I say

has

draw upon you

is yours.

entirely unlimited.

exist because

ii.

10.

God

People seem

The explanation

vitality. e 1 Cot,

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

is,

and

to fail for is this:

Luke

all

want

He of

each of you

xv. 31.

PERSONALITY

a trinity, living on three planes

of spirit, soul,

and body.

— the planes

In most cases there

has been an unequal existence on one or more of these planes.

You should draw

spiritual

thus feeding the

first,

and manifestation

the

Only on earth can man do work.

all

soul covering,

body must follow.

this great

and perfect

Every spiritual truth brought into mani-

festation is creative,

and

all

your future

You must

by your conquests now.

your whole being afresh to God, that

work His perfect

will,

ditions into your

life.

Dan.

from the

vii. 15,

margin.

made

consecrate

He ^ may

bringing harmonious con-

Pbil.

ii.

13.

TENTH LESSON THE BOOK

this point

will consider together

the value of your Scriptures, the collection of books called by

Books, words, selves.

you " The Bible."

letters, are all valueless in

What ^ you

secret of their value. its subtle vitality,

them-

call inspiration is the true

The

spirit

potency,

its

can take any word from any

language, on the plane of sense, and use

convey meanings, to suggest thought, and often to pierce through a wall of sense impossible to

the word of

itself.

Thus the w^ord

only the

vehicle or outer shell, hiding either the pearl of

great price or a two-edged sword.

God

quick and powerful;

it is

The

Word

also sweeter*

than the honeycomb. Inspiration, then, is the one spirit using for its 1 2

channels

many books and many methods;

2 Tim. iii. 16. Heb. iv. 12.

ÂŤ

Fa. xix. 10, cxix. 103.

THE BOOK is

eyer seeking aTenues to pour out the abundant

wealth and wisdom of God. sible to all

is pos-

That you can from the spiritual

men.

empty words,

l)lane use sense, or

come

Inspiration

so that they be-

vehicles of spiritual power, is a great

glorious truth.

and

God has

This, too, is genius, for

spoken, and the ordinary language of time and sense

made

eternal and spiritual.

In just this way, Jesus took the word

and gave

ing

bread,"

When

a holy and spiritual meaning.

Give ^ we pray we are using words :

us this day our daily bread,"

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; seeking

of great

and

significant

mean-

the nourishment that shall sus-

we are to bring reality and truth where nothingness and limitation have made chaos and darkness. Then we see the necessity for light God's first spoken word at the Creation ligiit.^ In all things

tain us in very deed.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Written words are not the only means of communication, for the

man

si)irit

comes into our outer

with great illumination, and to explain this

you have no words. 4

Matt.

Gen.

vi. i.

11;

John

vi.

pray that this

32-51.

may

CHKIST IN YOU

your experience in

It is the first

all its fulness.

The illumined

and highest expression of God.

moveL through

soul

radiating light, the

all life,

unconscious manifestation of divinity, a deep,

inward peace, a all things,

real

a light

knowledge of men and of

which cannot be

hid, for it is

conveyed in every gesture, in every spoken word.

Thus we understand an inspired or illumined

The

soul.

real value, then, of the Bible is in

the spiritual or inspired w^riter,

who has opened

your understanding to the things of God.

Added

mighty factor

to this is another

place you have given the Bible.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

It holds the

highest place amongst all your books, and

it al-

ways

wall.

Millions of people have lifted

their belief in

ing of a law it

unknown

to you.

I can best explain

as the law of transmutation.

out

as follows

You can

the highest place, until

and

purified,

In this we recognize the work-

it.

lift

The working everything into

becomes transmuted

changing into very gold the basest

metal of earth.

This

the philosopher's stone,

the transmutation into heavenly values by our faith in absolute truth.

THE BOOK I

putting this key into your hands, that

you too may begin even now to turn every perience into an opportunity to highest until

pure

this,

but

becomes

gold tried in the it

lift it

purified,

fire

transmuted;

God; and not only

returns to you a thousandfold,

with richest meanings for

This

all time.

has taken place with your Bible. given will

this place,

and your reward

filled

what

You have is

that

always reveal the highest things to you

much

;

seek

be-

Take the Holy Book and

cause of this very law.

read

ex-

into the

the spirit, not the letter, in

this as in all other things.

We things,

law

are very

and

much

earnest about these

you remember that

this beneficent

always operating you will understand the

effect in

your

any one

whom you

of blessing.

lives.

You have

the power to bring

wish to help, into this place

Every act of your

life,

every ex-

pression of your thoughts, should be lifted to-

wards the very

highest.

There will come to you

a realization of a place of sinlessness within yourselves, a place of purity 6

Rev.

iii.

18.

John

and perfection that

vi.

;

2 Cor.

iii.

CHRIST IN YOU

nothing can touch or

The Bible has become would

also have you

for

soil,

Be^ even as your Father

who

ings from the heart of

we want you

God has

that

men and women with power time, even greater things,

wonders

among you. ^^

the old to you afresh.

out

and ever fresh unfold-

Above

life.

Sam.

8 1 Âť

Josh.

iii.

iii. 5.

things,

all

and God

Rejoice in the hope.

new

The new

Have no

into the deeps of God,

Eternity

revela-

will reveal

doubts.

and fear

doing

Launch

not.

now. ;

own

to have the open vision^ today,

abounding in

tion,

inspired

to reveal, in our

for greater things are coming, ^

in Heaven.

you the Book, but

know

you have begun to is

Prov. xxix. 18.

Rom. Luke

xv. 13. v. 4.

ELEVENTH LESSON SEPARATENESS

SIN,

TRUTH

There

had

the eternal is

Word.

nothing new, for truth has

beginning.

you

unfold

you have clearer vision and wider spheres of

You cannot

action.

see

new

truth, that is im-

Whenever you enter

possible.

of spirit, prepare yourself

into the plane

by prayer and the

consecration of your whole being to God.

This

the only safeguard against false teachers.

When

there is a threefold cord

broken.

not easily

Three souls in perfect unity can do

great things for the cause of

God and

of all men.

Let the spirit within you be your only guide. It is for this

may know

yourselves.

as they enable you to

world 1

we come, that you Our words can only help do this. Our love for your

reason only that

very great.

Eccles. Iv. 12.

not lean on any out-

;

CHEIST IN YOU

however high, however good.

side help,

have alieady learned that

mind

the

man

The work

impossible for

it is

any way.

to affect Spirit in

to be

done in you

You

is of far

greater

importance than learning from any teacher. Jesus could not do His works of healing while

was thinking. There must be silence when God speaks. The Christ within you is the same yesterday,^ today, and for ever. Wait the mind 2

and repose, that Christ may speak,

in silence

may

write upon yourselves His thoughts. His

Let this mind^ be in

purposes. His designs.

you until not

but

You have known

only reality.

years, but let the old

you

the Christ of

Word

this for

your

many

speak again, until

the thrill, the newness of

feel

God

life,

the up-

springing^ of the eternal Son of God.

That ^Gen. Ezek. a *

may be

sin xviii.

lii.

;

Gal.

forgiven, there is needed a

xxiv. 63; Pa. xxxvii, 7, i.

margin of K.V.

11-17.

Heb. xiU. 8. PMl. ii. 5.

ÂŤ

Gal.

ÂŤ

John

li.

20.

iv. 14, vii. 38.

Syriac

V., "

that believeth into

Me, out of his innermost being shall flow torrents of living wat^r^."

SIN,

SEPAKATENESS

cleansing, a putting tender,

new

oft:

the old, so that the

realization of Christ

may

not be im-

Sin and

peded by the opposite of good.

must not be confused as they often

evil

Sin

are.

that great falsity connected with our outer self of the senses,

chaos.

belongs to separateness and

would dare

to set

its

king and

make its kingdom in our midst; but the Christ, now consciously real to us, as an inward fact, is greater than we know, and shall put all things under ing,

Ilis feet.

making

His very

new, or

filling

ing the soul into unity with

life in

is re-creat-

with Himself, bring-

God

;

thus, as of old,

driving out of His Father's temple

and robbers by His own right

the thieves

of possession.

There goes out from us a cry of need, a

great

want, a reaching out to the author of our being.

The

infinite love is all-sufficient,

and from that

heart of love comes the healing of forgiveness,

such greatness of love, that since

^^ all is

blotted out;

One dwells within who has conquered

and death. 7

Col.

8 1

Âť

iii.

Cor. XV. 25.

Rom.

xii. 2.

John

ii.

15.

11 Ps. xUi. 1, 2.

12 Ps. U. 1

;

Col. U. 14.

sin

CHRIST IN YOU

Learn that sin forgiven ^^

but

killed

not the end of

and the river

the end of that sin,

results

its

life

— the

into good.

suf-

be turned

on this side see something of

the compensations of

The wavs

life.

and the soul that

perfect,^^

The

flows on.

fering and results caused by sin can

root is

God

are

conscious of the

living Christ, lifted into unity with the Father,

becomes one with the w^ork of redemption,

lifting

the whole race.

Love

pressing through the very atmosphere

round about us and you. ness and

^"^

obedience,

and we are called

Are you willing

bidding.

your

sacrifice for all

men.

readi-

to do its

to obey even

That cross

the death of the cross? of

Love requires ^^

unto

the place

All must go to

Calvary, there to become one with the Father.

Greater love

hath no

man than

the atmosphere wherein

nourished and life,

i«

2 Sam,

1, 2.

xxli. 31.

that is highest is

may seem i7lsa.

vi. 7.

Rev. xxU. Gen. 1. 20.

Love

Love dwells in every human

however degraded

i«Gal. a*

fed.

all

this.

is Phil. i»

John

to you.

19.

ii.

7, 8.

xv. 13.

Love

SIN, much, and you, for cease

until

SEPAEATENESS

Christ shall do His loves your world, it

work through

and

John

It.

will never

has become the kingdom

heaven. 30 1

16-19.

Matt

vi.

TWELFTH LESSON "

HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER "

HEAVEN go, it

not a place to which you

is is

just

You can men and Good have made this discov-

where you

are.

enter heaven now.

women from ery,

time to time

and henceforth " All

^ is

They have

well.''

They

ceased to hurry, for the journey is over.

are no longer pilgrims and strangers, but chil-

dren in the Father's home.

The

understand when we awake

is,

not been any journey,

through vast spaces.

first

that there has

are just where

become

iLuke 2 â&#x20AC;˘

ours.

and

al-

evermore.

no separation from any one we

from any good that to

over

or passing

ways have been â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at home, alive for There

thing

love, or

To enter heaven

lifted into a larger consciousness of

xvii. 2.

2 Kings iv. 26; Hab. Rev. i. 18.

xvii. 17-19.

HE THAT HATH SEEN ME "

God, and in this consciousness we possess mucli

really all those

nearer to you,

There

whom we

love.

and we often talk

are

together.

no parting, but only greater unity.

and space

belief in distance

spiritual plane.

possible on the

can only remember

I wish to understand your conditions.

clearer light

we can no longer hold All

of limitation.

ours and

become spiritually-minded suggestion of

when

In the

the false idea

all is yours.

is life

the carnal mind

and peace.

can ever produce

good.

Thank God

for the secret stir of life on your

earth, like the sap in the tree, sending forth life

exultant into every part.

ing set

free, old

glorious liberty^

The captives are

opening up before you.

be-

bonds are bursting, fetters of

Be Do not hug

ancient creeds are being snapped asunder.

not dismayed, the battle is^ God's.

your chains;

let go.

Yield to the highest within

you, and so become one with the great good,

pouring forth healing and blessing through every 4

Rom.

Gal.

â&#x20AC;˘

Rom.

viii. 6. V.

19-21.

vUi. 21.

Luke iv. 18. Sam. xvii

8 1

47-

— CHRIST IN YOU

waiting channel.

Tlie

on to a higher plane.

your very midst.

whole race

being lilted

This work

going on in

are full of thanksgiving

may know

at the thought that you of the children of God.

God

The knowledge

body.

Conscious union with

your whole salvation;

man, with yourself,

the freedom

spirit, soul,

of God's oneness

and with

the open door to freedom.

Jesus came to show you the way, for Christ the

Way.

I see

you have not understood me about mind

and thinking.

This

a very wide subject.

can give you only the main points. mentality, that delicate

when

medium

has shared in falsity

truth,

and only mind.

thinking from the outer,

for spiritual

— separateness

Crammed by

from the highest source, the blood, which is Christ.

into subjection

real bread

It is the

real, fed

and

true

power to bring

all sense perceptions, all false

minds, alive in every part of the body. vl. 53.

false

should have remained

open to the divine inner and the only

John

The sense

should have been the perfect channel

for the one

2 Cor.

Every

atom

HE THAT HATH SEEN ME

your body should be under control,

lest

the hand/^ foot, or brain should gain supremacy, rule you,

and bring about confusion.

The sense

of separateness in every sense is

your great enemy. of

the Christ control.

and It

is unity.

beg you to It

let the

wisdom. It

mind

is love,

Let this mind hold you, control

you â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sweeping through the outer body of

flesh

as its lord and king; so that each breath shall

rekindle and glow.

Ay, even the very dry

bones shall reunite and breathe. die to sin

unto

shall

you

and the sense of separateness, but

live

Christ.

You

will read

and understand

in your hearts. 11 1

Cor. xu.

12 Phil.

il.

Ezek. xxxvii.

Rom.

vli. 11.

THIRTEENTH LESSON CHRIST IN YOU

you ask for practical lessons on

heal-

ing because you want immediate results?

answer your question, in order

I will

that you

may

You can

attain to the highest.

ap-

peal on the material plane and seem to get help

quickly; this

because you have been so long

under the dominion of the senses.

when seeking you

will

seem to become worse; always regard It

with falsity and shadow.

means the last fight With each attack of

enemy remember that Christ

until finally

man and

first,

health from the spiritual plane,

this as a hopeful sign.

the

you die to

live,

your

life;

putting off the old

anew and for ever, enemy through God's work is never uncer-

his dominion, to live

for you have conquered the last

the Lord Christ. tain or hurried.

ing

out

good.

It is sure,

and

" Therefore 50

steadily work-

mine

own arm

CHEIST IN YOU brought salvation."

" Therefore be steadfast,^

unmovable, always abounding/' and although

you may seem to make but

little

headway, you

are really growing, even in the darkness of night.

The great master, Jesus, unfolded in His parables^ dealing with the

heaven. is

The

little

brown seed sown

unaware of the sun,

own

its

kingdom

in the earth

comes through the

until it

darkness of matter, by

this asj^ect

inherent activity,

unfolding to receive consciously that which has

always been influencing ness; and yet

the dark earth

can best liken

not for the central attraction

Now we

within the seed.

meaning

growth in the dark-

say that even the sun would have

no power, were

of the

its

of evil is

the

understand something

and

its friendly uses,

medium

for growth

to the creation of God,

;

that

and

which

I is

called evil, always pressing into activity the hid-

den force within the seed covering.

Without the

seed,

this friendly aid

and

left to itself,

though perfect, would be non-pro-

ductive. 1 Isa.

lix.

16.

2 1 CJor. XV. 58.

Matt.

xiii.

31.

CHRIST IN YOU

The

so-called

evil

has

caused the seed to

quicken, to bring forth by its very opposition.

Look into nature, for therein

the symbol of

every creative process on the spiritual plane.

All that exists

and for ever in the which yours is but the

first

real world of spirit, of

shadow and semblance.

When

the fulness of

time comes, your world will be no longer shadow,

but substance, for Christ, the

it will

be the kingdom of the

new heavens and ^

united home.

the

new

earth, one

There shall be no parting, for

there shall be neither separation nor death, since

the former things are passed away, and

God

are one.

* Rev.

xxl

1, 4.

man and

FOURTEENTH LESSON OUT OF DARKNESS

THE

last

— LIGHT

seed covering, as explained in our

contains

lesson,

promise

— of

man

contains the seed

form of the spiritual man, with growth and expression.

all

the possibili-

would have

you remember that while the inner and is

always perfect, the outer covering

out of harmony and has

owing

to long ages

— the

the fulness of the God-

head, just as the outer

ties of

germ

the

— as

many

spiritual is

often

imperfections,

you count time

— of

ignorance and sense domination.

You

are to learn that spirit

ruler, the true

owner and

to alter conditions

king,

the rightful

Man

has tried

on the material plane,

seek help from without; this has hindered and often

prevented the real work.

itual forces

plane, the

Wherever

spir-

have been brought to the material

work

is lasting, 58

nay, eternal.

un-

CHRIST IN YOU

conquered body

an unfinished

be completed

will perfect

All must

life.

that which con-

cerneth Him.

As vou grow

understanding of the

realities,

your vision of Christ will be clearer, and vision

the beginning of attainment.

see,

must

first

Hold the highest and you will awake in His^

then become our vision.

ideal,

even Christ,

likeness.

You may ask

at this point,

how we

explain

the perfect physique of the undeveloped races.

The

difference

that you have evolved,

and

al-

though through ignorance you have not developed perfectly all round, yet

it is

a far higher thing

to have come to a knowledge of your spiritual being, even at a loss to the material.

developed

man

must learn that a force

to be

knowledge

awaken am. The

will I

reckoned with.

later,

and he too

will to be

The unbecomes

will suffer, for

born of suffering, until he comes

to the consciousness of God.

As you have

strug-

gled with the less real, so will he, and you will IPs. cxxxvui. z

Hab. U.

srs. xvU.

15.

OUT OF DARKNESS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LIGHT watch and pray with of the earth are as the

souls

us, till all the

kingdom

kingdoms

of heaven, for all

are the inheritance of God.

your suffering

So much of

unnecessary and caused by op-

posing the will of God, but there

a quality of

suffering that effects the highest good, that suf-

fering which brings into activity the three great principles of spiritual growth love. site,

The highest good

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

faith, hope,

known by

its

and every experience can be used for

mate good.

known because of the darkness of night. row is ever making channels for joy. 8

;

oppoulti-

Learn that the beauty of morning

* Fs. U.

and

Dan.

vii.

13, 14.

Sor-

FIFTEENTH LESSON JESUS CHRIST

TIIE

heart

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; THE

MAN

the place of understanding,

we would rather say, the doorway of divine wisdom Blessed ^ are the heart, for they shall see God/' The

or as

pure in heart,^

RACE

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

and not the mind, knoweth the deep things

Our

of God.

lesson can only be understood in

your own heart.

The true revelation must un-

fold from the divine heart of love, beating in uni-

son with your own.

There are

many

So near theories,

God.

many

given about the cross of Jesus.

explanations

Trust the

in-

ward and spiritual guide in all these matters, and not the mind of man. We know that the sacrifice

est

on the cross has for your world the deep-

meaning.

In that sublime act Jesus the

Christ symbolized God's highest thought for you. 1

Prov.

X. 10.

Matt.

V. 8.

Prov. U.

2, 10, iv. 23, xxii.

17.

JESUS CHKIST — THE EACE MAN You

cannot

now comprehend

Bonds were

it.

freedom.

its

meaning!

the greatness of

and your earth was given

burst,

How much we

its

have misunderstood

Let us keep reverent hearts and

hushed voices before a mystery of such high import.

It has

a wide meaning, and only divine

wisdom can interpret

From our

side

its

greatness and

its love.

something more of

see

its

results.

The

harm

principalities

you

and powers can no longer your

against

own

set free the captives

and cast

for separation between

was the

lifting

Jesus

will.

descended into the lowest® hell that

He might

off all that

God and man. humanity into

makes

The cross divinity.

Every incident in connection therewith symbolizes

some great inner

truth.

In that myste-

rious outflow of water from the side, your earth

received its chrism

Christhood.

—

holy anointing

its

—

its

worship in lowly adoration

when we remember the greatness of that work. We have much to learn about this, and you can Eph.

iii.

16-21.

6Eph.

Tl.

12.

i Pet.

iii.

19,

CHRIST IN YOU

58 never

know

the full meaning of sacrifice until

you too enter into

and

sinless

selfless

Christ-

hood.

Jesus Christ

God.

your highest conception of

chose to stand for your world from the

He alone knew all God's meaning for you. When visible in the flesh He was the God-man/ a Man beginning as the eternal Christ of God.

for all men, loving versal

Man.

God and

Him

is of

the great wholeness of

tree

and

Son

vine.

Man.

loving men, the uni-

all find relationship.

He was

life,

truly

The great unity

the sap, the very

Son of

God and

God and Man

revealed in the cross.

is 7

1 Ezek.

;

1 Oor. xv.

;

Acts

xvii. 31

;

Tim.

ii.

R.V.

SIXTEENTH LESSON TRUTH

STEADFAST

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; IMMOVABLE

receive this teaching

you must exclude

the vibrations of inharmonious person-

alities; it is highly injurious to

invasion of magnetic currents.

haustion and want of vitality. poise of spirit, never allowing

allow an

This causes ex-

Keep

perfect

any influence to

enter the spiritual innermost, while sensitive

Try

receptive.

to help people to their

and

own

in-

dwelling spiritual wealth, and do not imagine that

it is

It is far

the right thing to help

them of

yourself.

higher to help others to help themselves,

leading them to the true source of

all

good.

suggest that you do not allow any but yourself

open the door of communication between your-

self

and

right

You

us.

all

need to remember your own

to rule in every condition

and circum-

stance.

Let us consider together the meaning of the i

Isa.

XX vi. 3

;

Vs. cxii.

21 Cor.

iv. 8.

CHRIST IN YOU

personal and of the universal, for there

much

confusion of thought in your midst about these things.

Jesus was both a spiritual personal

identity

and the Christ

of God.

This

God's

meaning for you â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with Jesus the divine teacher Jesus the Christ became one

for your guide.

God when one with man.

with

Only by with-

drawing Himself from their midst as a personality could

really

come again

in that interior sense which

men

ordinary

in us

make

of these

the great apostles of the Christian

He become all,

His disciples

Only by entering into the universal

Church. could

was

the true individual in

the You, the I

of our life

them and

and

theirs.

In that w^onderful chapter of the Acts

may

you

find the record of their first glimpse of the

great cosmic consciousness, the inner illumination which will cover the whole earth as the

waters cover the

sea.

limitations of time itual freedom.

They emerged from the

and sense into a larger

Jesus was their great gain of the Christ all. ÂŤ

You

spir-

Their loss of the personality of all in

are to become one with all men, a

Acts. iv. 31.

TRUTH

STEADFAST

The words

great brotherhood and divine unity.*

At present this condawning surely we see the coming

will surely reveal the truth.

sciousness

;

man

unity of

You

with

man

no sense be

will in

will be greater in love

suffering of

in God.

some

The

and understanding.

How

the hurt of the whole.

who

beautiful are the feet of those

carry the

and goodwill toward

tidings of peace

but you

less yourself

all

men!

Silently working in the heart of the nations is

the Prince

of Peace.

that the great interior

pray for open doors

may

life

flow out and ex-

pand, the very river from the Ancient

There®

of Days.

perpetual healing wherever the river

Cometh.

Rest in age, the

Be strong^ and

hojje.

day

coming

the darkest

— the

and outermost

of good cour-

night

past.

hell

God.

There are planes below yours, some even uncon-

Every

scious of God, but all shall be redeemed.

time you make a conquest on the material plane, 4

Ps. cxxxiU.

;

John

xiii. 34.

Ezek.

xlvii. y,

12.

6 Isa. lii. 7.

»Deut. xxxi. 6; Josh.

« Isa. Ix. 6, 7.

Daa

vii. 22.

Rom.

n Ps.

xiii.

cxxxix.

12. 8,

Ixixvi. 13.

CHRIST IN YOU

you make better conditions for those below you. I repeat, every individual conquest is

a victory

for the whole race.

Pray often and love much; do not the

upward

with you.

when you Thank God for your path, for

fall,

falter

others fall

glorious oppor-

tunity here and now.

Kead

and wait

the

Sermon on the Mount

silently as the

ing to you. 12

Matt.

V. vi.

and vU.

continually,

words unfold their mean-

SEVENTEENTH LESSON IMAGINATION

HP HE

body

of spirit,

the covering and the garment

and you are learning that

At first you may not see work begins the instant you func-

spirit is ruler.

results, but the

from the spiritual plane.

tion

couraged

now

see

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as

that the

was

not be

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at not seeing

work

of healing

results.

was going

oven when things seemed at their w^orst. will

dis-

on,

You

thank God for the darkness and the struggle;

you will

])rove Iheir real

work

you

souls, the

ThinVt's

to ])i*oclaim liberty to cai)tive

opening of prison doors to them that

are bound.

ment

fnondlinoRs.

Your body

will be the beautiful gar-

of spirit, for salvation is not in part, but

wholly.

You ask

What

thought? "

Perhaps you

have missed the true understanding. is

a creative process behind 63

all

Thought

phenomena.

CHRIST IN YOU

not a mental concept, though

The thought

nue through the mentality.

never separated from the thinker.

with

myriad forms

their

all

finds its ave-

The worlds nature

thoughts expressed by the Al)solute.

the very heart of

life,

are

You

God's thought, and so you also manifest

are love.

both universal and

individual, is the well-spring of growth, from

which the

all

first

tion,

ever

true

life evolves.

cause of

but

all,

It is the only

One,

own

crea-

never outside Its

self-â&#x201A;Źfxistent,

inseparable from Itself;

making for perfection and

peace.

This

self

of life is sending out rays of intelligence through its

many

channels, outpouring itself in infinite

but

variety,

always

One.

The great outer

enemy, the senses, would pervert, making separation even of the expressed Being, until, as a result of ages of ignorance,

man

has dared to

think of himself as a complete and separate identity, looking

on the suffering of humanity as

something outside himself, looking on God as afar

off.

God life.

requires outflow from the great central

This

a law steadily working

itself

out

IMAGINATION in

the

tiniest

your

detail

Your planet holds within

earth

water, and

fire,

minerals of untold wealth, but

life.

also holds a

great invisible interior spiritual force, creative,

This

reconstructive.

the one

thought, the outcome of

breathing through stone, rock, and

life,

densest matter.

Man

limits himself by his men-

and hinders the upspringing

tal process,

divine thought.

(We

gets a glimpse of a truth

make

it concise,

from our

see

gives

;

of the

Man

side.)

he immediately begins

a form, clothes

the mental process called reasoning; thus himself closing the

whole. truth.

avenue by separation from the

No truth is a part No man can hold all

a work for

all

beliefs that

ing even

there

but one

This

the truth.

time.

You would do receiving by

;

well to unfold the capacities for

clearing the

mind

of limitations,^

have become bondage, and by becom-

as a little child.

Otherwise you can-

We see so much

not enter the kingdom.

spiritual

force imprisoned behind the closed mental doors 1

Neh. iv. 10 1 John Ui, Matt. V. 21-48. ;

Âť

Matt. xviU.

CHEIST IN YOU

God quickens

of humanity.

The

intellect, for it

becomes enlightened by the true

Open out

light.

the flower

spirit of

the **

to this hidden spiritual life, as

nourished into full bloom by

its

own

hidden forces. Consider well the flowers of the

do not

toil

become calm and

end will be a great peace

and eth is

your environment.

and the

steadfast,

they

field;

You

in order to blossom forth.

will

effect in the

both in your body*^ It is

God

that work-

to do.

Man's mentality

not the place of thought.

While the holy

seed

you to

will

and

unfolding, the

work

of creation begins in

you, as at the l)eginning of all things.

was

thought

your

planet.

upsprings within you,

When

God's

the

life

requires a place of

action to manifest.

That which you

call

imagination

the ground

for the expression of God's thought.

You

will

learn to keep the imagination pure and holy, free

from the contamination of the senses; for that

which

John

Matt.

imagined, afterwards becomes. 9, vUi. 12.

vl.

28.

ÂŤPs. cxix. 165.

Ps. xvi. 9, cxlvU. 14.

PMl.

ii.

13.

IMAGINATION Your Scriptures unfold

when they

the importance of this,

describe false imaginings,

imagining mischief.^

that you

Let the Christ have

may awake

reveal God's

meaning

and speak

pure imagination

is sometimes called " genius."

of God.

in His likeness. to

mirror

It is the

full control of this,

It will

your understanding.

Your imagination is God's best gift. The heart they and the imagination are closely related The heart and the imagination act and re-act.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

This involves real

should be pure.^^

you

You

will be richly rewarded.

thoughts

of God, your

mind

effort,

but

will have the

will reflect them,

and enriched and illuminated by the Eternal, you will be conscious of ever fresh unfoldment. will see, hear,

and know only God.

will unfold within you while

This lesson

you read.

God

the only reality for all time. 9

Ps. Ixil. 3.

Matt.

v. 8.

n Jer.

You

xxix. 11.

EIGHTEENTH LESSON IDEA

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; THE

EXPRESSED IMAGE

SUNDAY

was a day of great joy to me. The seventh day has a deep meaniDg for

your planet. to your

There

Sunday with

a correspondence

us, for the seventh

the Sabbath of the Lord our God. is

day

a great attraction to us; deep earnestness

the open door for

its

answer.

magnetism, the fulness of

its

It attracts

need.

Real prayer

is its

In our last

lesson I told you that the place of creation in the individual, the spiritual ground for the projec-

tion of thought from the divine innermost,

was

the imagination.

Our next

consideration

First,

the

eternal mind; secondly, the thought; thirdly

and

lastly, the is to

outcome of both

idea.

the idea, that which

become manifest in the outermost plane of

being.

What

are your ideas for the most part? 68

Are

•

IDEA — THE EXPKESSED IMAGE

they only and entirely the outcome of divine

thought?

want

Do you make

express the living Christ?

you the omnipotence

clear to

the divine man, and the reality of the

Try and stand with me as you read

You

out upon the earth plane.

with a longing desire to

The end

as Jesus did.

God, the end of

will leave the ninety

all

this,

and look

the law, even

—

The great Love to bring in the

shall be in the

idea.

from the beginning

and nine

God

will be filled

fulfil all ^

separation.

all

remaining one, for

kingdom

of our Lord Christ.

God's idea for your world and for you fection

and nothing

There are many who

less.

have passed from your earth false idea that

matter

long ages of sense

still

it is

Good

them

This

1 Isa.

Iv.

often

on the

They

like to

on the material

a hindrance to them,

all

ig-

8, 9.

Matt

Luke XV. 4 Ezek. xxiIt. Luke m. 6.

spirits,

still live

real.

see their thoughts expressed

plane.

clinging to the

substance, the result of

belief.

deeply reverent and noble, they material plane;

is per-

V. 17. ;

11. .

CHRIST IN YOU

norance

as they cannot unfold to the higher

is,

experiences.

Give

more time

to quiet, that

God

the reflection of

imagination, that you too for

has said

you may have

ujDon the mirror^ of your

may become God's ye holy."

idea,

The growth

of this perfect idea has become manifest to us.

As you wait

upon God a great underwork

ing on, and afterwards

^ it

is go-

beareth fruit.

Close the door of your closet against the suggestion of the senses, that God's Idea fest in your body, for "

God.

This

vitality of the

mani-

thine eye be single

thy whole body shall be full of light." life-blood pulsates

may

Full, rich

through the heart at one with

the touch of healing, because the

whole universe

no longer sepa-

rate but delights to pour itself through its

God -given

channels.

Ps. xlvi. 10.

8 Ps. Ixii. 5.

2 Cor.

Lev.

iii.

18.

xi. 44.

Mark iv. 26-20. Luke xi. 34-3G.

own

;

NINETEENTH LESSON HEAVEN

MAY

little

think you

the earth plane

experience of

know

own.

that the passing from

is different for

almost every

in-

what each one makes

it.

birth into real life should be exactly like

dividual,

The

WITHIN YOU

help you in this chapter by giving

you some I

and

is entirely

awakening on a beautiful morning when the

dawn

stealing over the land, touching every-

thing with a purity and freshness belonging only to the first hours of the day. w^e

should open our eyes and see

It is

just this simple, homely, all-familiar

into all

harmony and

may begin

you

is in

Cor.

where you

that you are,

fully into reality,

part shall

The consciousness of God 1 1

awakening

God grant

this experience

will enter the

that which

peace.

meant that

God everywhere

xiii. 10.

then

when

be done away. is

stealing over the

CHEIST IN YOU

earth, toucliing all things into purity

its

The

burning, glowing love.

and ascends, as revealed

you in the symbolic

Man has made

in your Scriptures.

of interpretation wherein

wisdom.

descends ^

All things are revealed to you

sacrifice of Abel.

medium

and truth

fire

this

book the

God

reveals

you only knew, you could read God

in every inspired work, but^ the Bible is your

and hallowed treasure.

rich

In this ancient

story you find the eternal truth of the two in One,

the place of meeting

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a place

of sacrifice.

Eead

carefully. I passed into

transition

friends.

For

the plane of realities gently.

was this I

entirely unexpected by

thank God, as

dear ones

were spared the cruel anticipation and dread of separation.

This was a great help to me, as I

soon found I could comfort and help them to

something of

joy.

What we cannot do

This

is to rid

we can

you

This you must do for yourselves.

your own, here or hereafter.

that,

you

Heb.

xi. 4.

your own Âť

do.

You can never

lose

find that

all

of false beliefs.

More than

is greater,

Ps. cxix.

your

cir-

HEAVEN

your loved ones

cle wider,

and even more

tiful

WITHIN YOU

more beau-

infinitely

familiar, for there is noth-

ing strange in love. Rejoice

Have no

that

dims the

came

to say "

from

all

that

good.

the cloud

The^ angels

vision.

Fear would keep you

Fear not." is

Fear

fear.

spiritual

It is

nothing more than

an emanation from the material

sense,

and can

be dispelled in an instant by the perfect

Man

out of the fear of

is rising

free^ from

all

that separates

love.

the fear of

evil,

The truth

God, the fear of man.

will set

man from

you

God.

The very heathen are seeking God by the lowliest

worship, for in their worship

I discovered this

was slow

when

comprehend that

aspiration.

freed from the body. I

had passed

through the experience called death to find myself

a living and breatbing

alive as then.

soul, never so

was too much for me.

much I felt

overwhelmed by the reality and the unlimited sense of things slowly it

a delicious dream? *Matt. xxviii. 8 1

John

iy. 18.

dawning upon me.

You

see,

much

ejotin vm. 32.

Was

my false

CnRIST IN TOTJ

clung to me.

belief

had expected a

tremeudous change in personality. that Jesus showed His hands

and His

same Jesus.

How

when

ready to learn, we forget

w^e are

great,

forgot

feet; the

slow we are to believe

;

all

but

error

and ignorance and enter quickly into truth which our own.

Bless and thank

God

for the knowledge of the

wholeness and unity of the race.

God has

nothing lost into w^hich

breath of

life.

I tell

you there

breathed the

had not

thouglit also that I

surely gone to Heaven, for I did not seem to be in any place. fresh

could

living

scales

much

though I

slept.

awakening?

was

God.

had fallen from

Then

to enter into.

Oh! how can

Such an awakening

The best and highest

Luke Luke

xxiv. 40. xxiv. 25.

eyes

inner

of being. it

was as

tell

will be

of the

yours

had ever imagined

nature

purest thought answered.

Spir-

realized, the deepest longing of

satisfied,

•

and love seemed the very breath

It w^as too

too!

had a new understanding, a

consciousness

The

see.

vision,

Acts

ix. 18.

HEAVEN but a part of

;

were no longer in some far distance,

itual truths

been

WITHIN YOU

very

This had always

self.

come about was

the only change that had

Now

unclouded consciousness of God.

you

why I give you my personal experience, that you may know that Heaven ^^ is indeed within. see

was as

if I

had just begun

a child with everything till

now

real

to learn,

life.

was

and from then

Ever

the unfoldment has never ceased.

fresh visions, wider horizons, reaching after a

God

richer satisfaction, to find that

enjoyment of

Love must pour

itself.

and a longing came

coming along the road

them something of the indwelling love

possess. is

and long

want you

itself out,

who were had travelled. Oh to

tell

all,

rests in

to help those

you

without

Love never

beginning and without end.

Christ.

show you what you

to understand that there

no separation between

us.

are interior

inhabitants, but there are other inter-penetrat-

ing states of existence.

Of them

I will not

now. 10

Luke

u John

xvii. 21.

XT. 4, 5; Gal. U. 20; Bph.

17; Col.

21,

speak

CHRIST IN YOU

a great joy to be able to reach yon with

It is

these thoughts.

God now.

You need

— Heaven — the Christ

God

not wait for Heaven.

whole of good

feeblest

also

fills all

12 isa. ixv. 24.

behind

space.

all

whisper

He'^ hears and thought and speech.

heard, aye, before you speak.

yours

incarnate and dwells within

your heart, so near that the answers, for

TWENTIETH LESSON GROWTH EEAL AND UNREAL

THERE

an atmosphere of

much deep

peace and

phere of love

Love

loving disciple.

Love

every law.

the one

Everything

easily enter.

joy.

rest

possible to the truly

God and man

you will see as God

sees.

fulfils

the key of all knowledge,

Dwell deep in this

God

atmos-

we can most

wisdom and power. sion of

and

Yet even

love,

and

this expres-

imitated by the false or shadow

self of the senses.

You

will learn to discriminate between infla-

tion, expansion,

Every good

real

is closely

Growth

world.

and

often

growth from the centre.

imitated in the shadow

means a great

lack, a sense

of poverty; it is never fulsomeness nor aggres-

siveness.

The I

meek

Rom.

I I

Cor.

The meek

will

teach.''

He guide in judgment. Learn the greatness

xiii. 10.

xm.

ÂŤPs. XXV.

9, cxlix. 4,

margin of R. V. 77

CHRIST IN YOU

78 of humility.*

The

little

child

gcious of its lowliness, its growth

when

the soul be

unreal, the outer

is ;

all

so also

really emerging; free

and

uncon-

must

from the

false self of the senses.

" Love seeketh not her own."

It should be

nothing to you that others seem to manifest more

You and they may be at different stages unfoldment. Be content to know that God is

of God. of

in the midst,

and learn the secret of dwelling

in friendly darkness, that your roots

deep dow^n

may go

for during the time of hiddenness

;

a great work

ÂŽ

The soul that seeks

going on.

nourishment from the true Self becomes strong.

Learn from the parable of

the house built

the sand, and let nothing hinder this deep

Know^ that

of the soul.

all is w^ell,

work

though no

result is seen.

Seek the

silence, love all

men, bless

all;

do you make right conditions for growth.

known

Un-

to you, there are outer conditions arrang-

ing themselves in

Pet. V. 5 Matt, xviii.

1 Cor. iv. 5.

Matt.

* 1

thus

;

harmony with the hidden work,

Col. iU. 12 4.

vii. 26, 27.

;

Matt.

v. 3, 5.

GROWTH REAL AND UNREAL

and your whole future depends upon the true foundation being cleared of false building mat-

wrong thinking and wrong

ter,

actions, self-ag-

grandizement, not true material.

There

other foundationÂŽ than the Christ of God, the true

That which

self.

unreal must sooner or

later be swept into nothingness.

where you are in order is the

You

do this work.

are just Spirit

only true substance, and our lessons will

teach you

how

are alive

to Christ within,

You may know

God cannot

to build.

and dead

fail if

you

to all else.

the unreal by its self-seeking, by

the desire for adulation, praise and self-glory. " 8 1

Be not Cor.

deceived, 11.

Âť

God

Rom.

vi.

is 11.

not mocked." lo Gal. vi. 7.

TWENTY-FIRST LESSON MATTER AND

THERE we

ITS RELATION TO SPIRIT

always a moment in

life

when

differentiate between the material

and the

spiritual.

happens in a va-

Thomas dropped the false belief immediately, when he saw the truth; material beliefs dropped entirely away and never ruled him afterwards. Pilate knew, when face riety of ways.

to face with Christ, that he could never touch

the

real

life,

although he delivered

He had

to the people.

Jesus over

seen the eternal Christ

The whole

w^hen alone with Him.

of truth is

beyond your present comprehension.

No man

can touch truth or stay the new vision now opening up to the eyes of men.

One

of the great hindrances to understanding

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the old

is fast slipping

away

ity of matter.

There

John XX.

Luke xxm.

belief in the solid-

no such thing as solidity s

27, 28.

25.

John

xix. 11.

MATTEE, RELATION TO SPIRIT

The instant you ceased

in or on the planet.

be vibratory, your body would disintegrate and fly off

the jjlanet.

Spirit is substance,

the key to the attraction of atoms.

whole planetary system tions, orderly terial

body

Perpetual mo-

not subservient to natural law. tion

and

The

a vortex of convolu-

True, man's ma-

and continuous.

formed of the dust of the earth,

though with eternal wisdom and harmonious

Your body holds in

wholeness.

its

material

form an Infinitesimal atom or grain of every part of the globe.

You cannot behold anything

that material world of which you are not a part.

You

are a part of the three kingdoms

vegetable,

and animal.

world has rule* over

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mineral,

Thus man

in the natural

This

not so of any

all.

other earth-life, as each animal is distinctly

only an animal, but

man

in the process of the

ages has come up through sess

and have rule over

Y^'ou

terial,

are not matter.

Gea.

all,

that he

may

pos-

all.

You cannot become ma-

and you must not be deceived by material

appearances. *

and

26.

Although the value of matter in

CHRIST IN YOU

relation to your spiritual evolution is very great,

yet I would have

not a magnificent vehicle

While

in the flesh,

itual weapons.

When you

form?

spiritual world,

made

you

will

reach out for that which

for the spiritual to use spir-

enter the interior and

know

that faith

was

you should

flesh

behind the

visible.

made your though you knew noth-

Faith, theÂŽ strongest principle,

simple trust,

perfect, for

you learn

While in the

real to you.

own by your

spiritual laws

Your body should be

are supreme. is it

you know that

ing of the reality.

Oh! the greatness might of

Have

rise to spiritual heights, is

you

to yourself.

man,

Have

faith in all good.

only by

can you

and your earth

the best, nay, the only

ence

power and

of faith, the*^

faith, for

means

faith in

experi-

of revealing

God, faith in

on this side in very

truth have found that faith can remove mountains.

It is literally true that the

whole land-

scape before your eyes can be obliterated by faith. Cor. iii. 16, 17, vi. 19. Matt. xvii. 20 Mark xi. 23, 24.

6 1

â&#x20AC;˘

THeb.

;

xl.

MATTER, RELATION TO SPIRIT This

a law

that

part

churches,

the

before

yon,

houses,

has been dimly working out a

The

itual idea.

things

now only

see

are the outcome of man's limited

etc.,

thought.

You

I will explain.

;

spir-

spiritual idea is the only fact,

and not the bricks and mortar.

There

is really

only the spiritual conception of a home, a church,

a road, and with the eye of faith you could see the real only, for I assure you again that the spiritual is the only real.

many

instances the real

the appearance. for

man

Now

It is so

ing or picture

much more

this understanding,

pathize with an artist

utterly unlike beautiful,

always working out the idea of God.

you have

idea."

faith he

who

says

you can sym^'

This build-

only the faintest conception

If he could only

have the eye of

would see before him the complete

spir-

itual thought expressed,

and he w^ould be over-

come with gladness and

delight.

Thus

at pres-

ent you see through a glass darkly, ever reaching

beyond the seen and the

felt,

that you

may

fold the spiritual perception through mist

un-

and

cloud, ever cheered by the hope of realization.

CHRIST IN YOU

a wonderful time for you now.

It is

You

are

growing wings and preparing the spiritual body for its real existence.

Now,

for your

body

eye of faith, that you

would have you use the

may

the higher spiritual law.

bring into operation

Your thought and idea

You become

become an outward manifestation. your own

who say, " Thy

but remember,

will be

done in

for the senses, but for Christ to do.

God

8 PliU.

open to the higher laws.

selves

idea,

Creation is

with you. ii.

13.

me " ^

;

you your-

It is for it is

no longer

in you, to will

God manifest

you

and

in the flesh.

TWENTY-SECOND LESSON "my thoughts SUPPOSE

people only

value of thought they

and

deed,

many

knew the true

would be amazed to

thought

that every

find

are towards you"

as powerful

than any word or weapon.

effective

far

cases

Yes,

it is

your innermost and highest thought that makes you; always remembering that thought absolute

consciousness of the

is the

You

will.

are

judged by what you are, and not by what you

seem to

be.

of yourself.

when our cast into

The judgment bar Tt is the

the innermost

judgment bar of God, and

actions are tested there, the voice will

outer darkness that which

not of

it-

self.

Thank God, you may enrich heaven, for many,

many

" Come,^ ye blessed of 1

Matt. xxil. 13.

the

kingdom of

times the voice says, Father.'' Matt. xxv. 34.

Yea, truly

CHRIST IN YOU

You

our thoughts do enter Heaven.

your treasure

where your heart

In very truth a man's treasure

outpouring of God's thought, and

God

— with God.

the continual I tell

enriched by your co-operation.

will find

you that Let His

thought be your thought, and say in the spirit of prayer

The Father and

are

one."

Read them

seem to repeat platitudes?

again in your moments of sacred consecration, until the Christ within is the only voice,

that

till all

unreal and shadowy has passed away,

even as the melted snow.

on the spiritual plane.

could only

see,

glad to meet you

You need

[n the very place

for this,

you would

find

thank God are, if

your own.

voice your prayer — " Lord, that

my sight."' You know

where you

the answer.

may

you can

receive

Jesus Christ

left every detail to you, and to the spiritually-

minded

I say:

life.

would say

ing

I "^

the

detail. 3

Matt.

vi.

Mark

to all

spirit.®

They are

Pray without

Live in

God

ceas-

in the smallest

not think the results you see are the

21.

4 .John X. 30. »

prayer.

life

His words are

« .Toliri 7

vi.

Thess.

03.

v. 17.

MY THOUGHTS

only results ; there fruitless.

The

Believe this and have courage. if

really unselfish

and pure,

immediate help. I

have come along your path, and I would

help you to

the

know

and holy

of right

not one good word that

very desire to help, is

command

Be ye

the golden, the priceless boon

until

holy, for

Pause

living.

comes from your own heart.

you

fully express this,

Consider well

As you

holy."

prayer-

will stand renewed, recre-

ated, alive to the possibilities of

God

within.

There are moments when we breathe the same

You know them. Follow the derstanding only. You now have

air.

spiritual un-

victory over

the less real, through the Christ of God.

The human race you

God's eternal Son.

to reach the highest bliss possible to

earth,

and in the

flesh

from Heaven say

whom

;

that

" This

you on

is,

to hear the voice

beloved, in

life

of Jesus, and the veil will

removed more and more, until the sublime Âť

Lev. xix.

Luke

lil.

well pleased."

Study the

Âť

want

22.

2 Cor.

iii.

15, 16.

sacri-

CHRIST IN YOU

88 flee is

revealed in all its greatness, the offering

of all to save

man

God

with

all,

complete.

greatness of surrender?

no value until are One

versal life

;

the union of

Do you What you

not see the

possess

is of

is given for the whole, for

Him and it is

make

and so

not separate from the uni-

the basis or ground of

all.

You

maimed and hurt because of sin and suffering in your brother man, and again and again must the Son of Man be crucified until the great are

at-one-ment with

God

takes place.

Your work is to co-operate with God, existing only in and drawing only from the real, the spiritual, that

you may be trees

you may out-breathe God. ural body you breathe to

of healing, that

Even live,

as in the nat-

so also

you must

take deep breaths from the spiritual centre, that

your whole being may be invigorated and ized.

So much

is in

revital-

your own hands.

must remind you that regret or sadness

ders the forgiveness of God.

God

hin-

blots out^^

the sins of the past by a fresh inflow of everlast-

ing II

love. Kev. XX.

He 2.

only asks for your need of 12 Ps. ciii. 3.

Him

that

He may

MY THOUGHTS fill ^^

to overflowing with

self.

Watch and 13

Matt.

V. 6.

pray.^^

Again 14

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; watch.

Matt. xxvi. 41.

Him-

TWENTY-THIKD LESSON THE CENTRAL LIFE

SEE

LOVE

you are theorizing: never do

let the truth

truth from

but

unfold gradually and with-

from outside.

suggestion

out

conclusions

this,

To make

the avenue and separate

is to close

Nothing outside can ever help

itself.

you or reveal anything

until

finds its

answer in

yourself.

What

You

space?

plane

thought

transference.

what

would influence?

Have you ever asked between you and the mind you Positive thought knows noth-

ing of distance.^ fered with.

learning on the

something of the rapidity of

physical

yourself

are

There

It is

cannot be broken or

nothing that can touch

current, for there really

no distance.

Sim-

good thought, sent out without any special

direction, 1

its

The only

necessity is the condition of receptivity. ple,

inter-

John

ife

caught up in the stream of good and

48, iv. 52.

THE CENTRAL LIFE

helps

Nothing

all.

Space

LOVE

in the thought world.

is lost

a false and wrong idea, belonging to

Let your hearts and minds rest un-

separation.

disturbed in the thought of the omnipresence of

Godj

even in the

until,

realize that there is

dwell in

flesh,

you may come

no space or distance, for you

God and

there

absolutely nothing

outside God.

The sense mind would cloud or hide the but

NOW you are "

High."

all

afflictions

life

the most

and refresh the

earth,

and power as they do

their

the rivers flow out

gaining fresh

work

God is with^ men." He is made to suffer.

The tabernacle

your

Even as

in " the secret place of

of purification, even so bring into the outer

the unseen

and

spiritual

substance.

every opportunity to live that which you

and

let

and

sister.

your

away by

lives flow

Rev. xxi.

Use know,

long to see your divisions swept

up in human

lives.

2 Acts xvii. 28. 3Ps. xci. 1.

out and bless every brother

the ocean of love welling

hearts and

vision,

isa. Ix. 9.

Luke

vi. 46.

TWENTY-POUKTH LESSON OMNIPRESENCE

ALL

you have ever prayed, longed, and

hoped for

You

no corruption, and

You

wealth.

your future

So mighty

exists.

are laying up treasure all

your good

your real

making your future home, and

are

by the way you

self,

live

joice that

your names are written

fill

would

good.

where there

now.

Re-

in Heaven.

you with more hope and

joy.

The

souls that have perceived something of the

lumination from the light of

all

men have been

overwhelmed by the knowledge of the ties of their

own

il-

possibili-

lives.

Let us come very near in our understanding of

omnipresence.

knows nothing

God, who^

fills

all

space,

of past or future, but is eternally

Alpha and* Omega, the same yesterday and for ever. The whole human race present.

Matt.

vi. 19.

Âť

Luke

X. 20.

8 Jer. xxili. 24.

RÂŤv. xxL

OMNIPRESENCE is

meant

Let

to understand this.

explain.

You sometimes wonder at what seems loss of memory in us. We can recall anything of good that we wish. We learn the higher spiritual laws very quickly, and there explained by the words

At once we cease from

are here this blessed truth is a great

When

who imagine they must do a

and semce becomes a

truly begin to live.

ent is enough.

Pause and think into

They

rest.

To the weary heart the live

pres-

on the spiritual plane

to live in reality, not spasmodically

Day and

amount in

the effect on

this,

renew their energies, unfold wider

prospects,

the eager souls,

certain

a given space of time, discover is

is best

and we must take our own.

part of their Heaven.

them

one that

to hurry, a great strain drops

us, all is ours,

To some who

" All time is the present.'^

and in

limits.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; How can time be divided?

night are explained to us as the inflow

and the outflow from the ocean

ent time.

It is a wise

the glorious too full to

law

of ever-pres-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the eternal present,

Now^ a rest and a joy, a satisfaction make us wish to look backward or

forward, since

we know

that all

is well.

The

CHRIST IN YOU

sufficiency is

the actual present.

your joy may be

this carefully, that

Think over full.

the present tense for all time.

This benelicent and merciful consciousness the outcome of love.

Just think a

moment what

the effect of entering into this realization would

be on your earth. direct

To draw

the very next breath

from God, with no past memory of wrongs

or sins,

filled

only with the knowledge of the the good into the

great love-life, assimilating

all

present, living the blessed

now

would mean.

This

say, " Lazarus,

think what

what Christ teaches you.

come ^

forth,"

was

to speak

from the spiritual plane, realizing only the present

life.

Do you

not see here the true secret of eternal

youth, each stage of unfoldment opening up a richer, riper

not.

truth.

youth?

the Lord,

Open your eyes and

You can be

just as

are prepared to manifest.

see this

I"^

much of God as you Even now you hold

within yourself the accumulated good of ages. Âť

ÂŁz.

Christ the Son of ill.

14.

John xL

change

wondrous

God 43.

all the

in the heart of ? iVlul.

ill.

OMNIPRESENCE humanity reaches out

man

awakes to

until he

divine consciousness.

The seven acts

of Christ

become actual

instead of belonging to a past period.

man,

ex-

periences the birth, the awakening in the Temple,

the anointing, the temptation, the crucithe

fixion,

Christ

and

resurrection,

must be

the outside, all

the

ascension.

in you; nothing avails is

from within.

Jesus Christ, " the unspeakable gift "

The evolution *^

That

they

for

of God.

of one soul exalts the whole race. all

may

The understanding would remove

man from

Thank God

one.'^

of time as a present fact

false ideas of inherited

ill.

order to bring this higher law into action on the sense plane, the

mind would

at once cease to up-

hold the working out of ignorance and sin; yet at the same time

would not

alter the effect

of past cause, seeing that only the good that

man

The sense of physical law makes both good and evil seem of equal power. Good must overcome ^^ evil by its own does has any real vitality.

ÂŤ Col. 9

2 Cor.

27.

John

xvii. 11.

ix. 15.

Dan.

iv.

;

Rom.

xil. 21.

CHRIST IN YOU

96 vitality. real.

In truth,

it iÂť

Realize the present.

understand.

Peace to

all.

the real and the only

As you read you

will

TWENTY-FIFTH LESSON OMNIPRESENCE {continued)

that you

may

the better understand ever-

make

present time, I will

which

this statement,

absolute truth no time has passed :

was and is now. Man and not God made yesterday and will make tomorrow. This is to you the seventh month in the

since our last lesson, it

year 1907. born,

It is the

and

it is

Time cannot

day on which Christ was

the only day that has ever been.

There

pass.

Man

past.

new creation by the power of the living Christ. You may not understand at once, but you will. Can you conceive of Christ ageing? Have you never

discovered

the

wonderful

the

thought of the eternal youth of the Christ?

Christ

is,

even so

yet appear

John

are we, although

to physical or

You speak 1

fact

doth not

mortal sense.

of us as the unreal.

iv. 17.

John

The truth

ill 2.

CHRIST IN YOU

We are on the only real plane,

quite the reverse.

and your physical plane or plane of the senses

to us the unreal or the shadow. vital

find

many

laws exactly the opposite of those in opera-

your plane.

tion on

You

are there to bring into

manifestation spiritual laws, and Christ showed

you

Water ^ was not

this possibility.

gulf spirit

when

able to en-

spirit w^as absolutely controlling

There shall no

the physical atoms.

evil

or ac-

cident befall thee, nor any sickness come nigh

thy tabernacle (or body)

Your

disasters, are the result of

sicknesses,

your

your descent, or rather

wrong plane of being. The Fall is a present and not a past fact. Man's real fall is that he is content with the shadow of good. He still eats of the tree of good and ^ evil, and until of your

the whole consciousness,

the Christ

fills

ever be at

war with

man

himself, his brother,

will

and his

God.

Man's understanding breaking everywhere.

Testament more 3

John

*Ps.

vi.

19.

xci. 10.

is clearer,

You can

and

light is

read your Old

intelligently, seeing in the s

Gen.

ili.

sym-

OMNIPKESENCE bols

tlie

The

inner and spiritual ideas of God.

waters of ^ Marah were bitter; this was the sult of the bitterness of the people.

re-

Man makes

the quality of the land; the flow of waters increases or decreases according to laws hidden

You have made

within yourselves.

the very form

and

of your island, England, by your thoughts

Look

inner forces. of spirit, for

man was made

The very changes ters, are in

and

until

to Eden,

to it that

you obey the voice to have dominion.'^

of climate, all seeming disas-

accord with the

man has come

and being

may

Earth, " for in that

have

Blessed be

Man and Son truth

lifted the veil that

you

God

utmost for the

for Jesus Christ, the

of God.

ÂŤ T

Ex. XV. 23. Gen. i. 26,

It is

murmuring the same today. Your

ingratitude

brought bitterness.

day

In the story of the bitterness of Marah

hidden

new

all

see the need of giving the

highest.

Son

man,

to wait for the

they shall neither hurt nor destroy in

Holy ÂŽ Mount.''

into and unto God, back

you will seem

Heaven and the new

life

and

8 isa. xi. 9,

Ixv. 25.

CHEIST IN YOU

100 thoughts,

they are the suggestions of the senses,

and

will still lead to bitterness

Even

joy.

waters shall

the milk and

very

feet,

heavenly

Learn

ashes.

and thanksgiving, the

the secret of. praise

in the wilderness experience the

be sweet. honey.

You

The

shall partake of

manna

at your

enough for each day, for Christ ^^

oil

manna.

Feed on

Him

that

in your heart

faith.

The very

gifts

abundance.

you seek are poured out in rich

Lift

up your eyes and

inasmuch as you yield

to the divine innermost,

as you live and bring forth the fruit of spirit, to that

to the children of God.

There

the heavens seem as brass.

and

You can open

the

and certain

you only knew, the closed doors are

filsa. Ixi. 3.

14 Gal. v. 22.

15 Ps.

Ex. XV. 25. Ex. in. 8. Ex. xvi. 18.

John

^^ is

is hid,^ÂŽ

floodgates by steady thanksgiving If

the

There are times

on the physical plane when the way

hope.

extent shall you have access to all

that earth and heaven can yield.

want

Just

see.

vi. 51.

xxxiv. 10.

iÂŤ Isa. xl. 27. 17 Phil. iv. 6.

OMNIPRESENCE the senses, brought

own

clay.

not

up against a wall

construction, a wall of doubt,

falsity.

them.

101

breath of the spirit of

You

and

God consumes

are greater than shadow, sense, or

Having your

slide.

of their

fear,

God

feet

on the Rock, they can-

with you.

will be realized, for

vine purpose in you.

God

Complete harmony

working out His

di-

TWENTY-SIXTH LESSON THE CONTROL OF SELF AND ENVIRONMENT

TIIE world world,

around, or rather the visible as you know, full of wonder-

is,

ful ijossibilities,

though yet imperfect,

because unconquered; illusory and shadowy only

man

because

As man

has not reached the crown of being.

evolves,

lifted into

a higher condition.

pend on God ner mind.

some

the whole material plane

The seasons

man, and are according

The world

regions, so

much

de-

to the in-

wild and lawless in

so that

the nature or world spirit.

man

subject to

Misused energy and

uncontrolled force call for lord and master, as the trees of old asked for a king

to reign over

them. If

you read

much hidden

this parable carefully,

truth.

God made man

to have all things subject to him. 1

Judg.

you

ix. 8.

102

will find

to rule

and

The world

THE CONTROL OF SELF

103

gradually learning some of these higher mysIf

teries.

you had a

its

under your

tree or plant

would respond, and assume

control, in time it

highest possible form, on condition you be-

hidden laws, and you are

came at one with

its

meant to become

this.

I merely give

world

governed by

and not by the

its

own

you

this

The physical

simple truth to lead you higher.

forces and passions,

For the

spiritual, the only real.

teaching of this very lesson Jesus stilled the

He had

storm with the word " Peace," since control over His

own

natural and physical

self,

and afterwards used the God-given right of dominion.^

You

are the channels through which

the divine will

and energy manifests

you must become

effect this

one, for the

Lord thy God

its

one

selfless

one Lord

self.

and at

and not

many. There are spiritual treasures hidden in your earth awaiting your appropriation.

These won-

ders and glories are unrevealed to the i3hysical or fallen man.

Cain stands as the symbol for

the spiritually blind; he speaks the truth 2

Mark

iv. 39.

Gen.

26.

Deut.

when vi. 4.

CHRIST IN YOU

104

he says

My ^

back to

your own.

— the

of being

truth

greater than I

Christ your Redeemer is leading

can bear."

you

punishment

You

are alive to the

omnipotence of God in

man.

You

now

are

learning that the natural and

sense body can have no control, but should mani-

wholeness and

fest

work

glorious

to all

who have

to do

your

— and

this is possible

spiritual control.

urge you

God never fails, and victory You will know exactly how to act as

yours.

a great and

done on your plant: the

work of^ healing

Christ

There

love.

to be

part.

the need arises.

Take no thought

— only in

things obey the spirit, and never for a

all

moment

allow the senses to suggest failure, fear, or doubt.

On of

occasions speak to the senses the*

all

power — " Get

God

behind

thee

waits to pour Himself out.

prove Him.

Do you

word

me,

Satan."

I say

you can

never fails or makes a mistake.

not see what a beautiful work awaits

Gen. iv. Matt. X.

Matt

13.

Luke

Matt. xvl. 23.

X. 19.

Mai.

vii. 7.

iii.

10.

THE CONTROL OP SELF you?

You

receive by giving.

bless, the greater the

Love its 11

power

The more you

of blessing.

is the greatest of all healers,

own way. Luke vL Sa

105

and

finds

TWENTY-SEVENTH LESSON THE DEATH OF MORTAL MAN the

OH,

There

inexpressible

joy

vision!

nothing higher or more

You

fying.

and heal

— EENUXCIATION

shall

in proportion as

know how

you

live

satis-

to speak

to the high-

est within you.

Renunciation liberate stand

a complete and de-

implies

abandoning

for truth,

It is the step which, once taken,

you the Christ to

else.

It is not, as supposed,

existence.

the giving up of

all

opens up before

wealth, position, and friends,

become poor and desolate;

it is

rather with-

drawal from submission and obedience to the prince of sense

this

— that

world

— the

creation of mortal

you may deliberately follow the

Christ in* every thought, renouncing all other rights over you. 1 a

Thus renunciation becomes

Matt. X. 39. Matt. xvi. 24.

196

John

2 Cor. x.

xiv. 30. 6.

ac-

THE DEATH OF MORTAL MAN You

quisition.

lay

down

in order to

107

take up,

but with a great difference.

Hitherto

has seemed a vast arena, where

life

some are winners and some

may

can fight

all

;

win

is of

that he

all,

him there

for

The

life

may become

all

who

to the

man

gives

greater than

nothing beyond.

This plane

It is the plane of death

the senses.

finality.

where

win, where the battle

In this great game of

strong. all to

losers,

and

forces of the sense jjlane control

him, and that which has happened to him

worse than death.

It is the loss of individual-

ity.

The

spiritual

man has

failed to develop in

that form, and must seek another.

Thus the

mortal has not become immortalized, and

known no more. order that you

This

is true,

ing of the death of the sinner. of

and we

may understand

tell it

the real mean-

The preservation

your individuality depends upon yourself

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

that you become the creation of God, a perfect

man, a perfect woman, depends on your coming definitely to the place of renunciation,^ 6

Jobn

X. 18.

PhU.

iil. 7,

which

CHRIST IN YOU

108 for

you the beginning

you may have

You

life,

life.

am come

that

says Christ, and not death.

You

possess nothing of the sense world.

God

are a spiritual being, sent out from

His work and

The material plane

will.

your

work commences with the dawning consciousness of God. Your Scripplace of action, and your

tures are full of this teaching; Jesus has gone

every step of the

way

There

for your guidance.

are pathfinders in your midst today.

man

Me,ÂŽ says Christ, and the spiritual and real

renounces

lift

to follow the King.

all,

How we

love your earth!

you into true

law stands for this path,

his

own

till

will

;

life,

ever.

all

long to

but the great and eternal

No man

can walk along

he has made the renunciation of

this choice

his right to divinity.

renounces

How we

man

To enter

proves to

man

into truth, he

that the world can give.

You

are

on the spiritual plane to bring the kingdom of heaven into unity with earth, that we one. T

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Thus you

John Luke

see

how important

X. 10. ix.

;

John

xxi. 22.

may

all

it is to live

THE DEATH OF MORTAL MAN every

moment

much; as you enter

teach you

in the only real.

full of that confidence

which

in,

169

hope to

you must be

the offspring of

truth.

At present you are

to conquer® the fleshly

body, ruling in love, but always ruling.

There

a beautiful work before you.

Jesus said

The

Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in Mb."

These

These were words of

may

life

and power.

be your words too, so that nothing

can touch you, hidden in God, doing His work

and willing His

will.

You may

where you no longer hear two only — that of the living Christ. •

Rom.

yiii.

11.

reach the place voices,

but one

PART

MIND AND SOUL: THEIR RELATION TO THE BODY

FIRST LESSON " LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE

have a glorious message for youir

and our words are winged.

plane,

Thej come with power and influence

You must have

to all in need. heart,

and the consecrated

channel which

God desires.

life,

singleness

and

is for

Is it not

the world of pain

for you, too

;

worth while

how

to attain.

desired,*^

and

Our

suffering,

wholeness and perfection

Our message

God's intention.

to be the pure

to voice the highest and to bear the light?

message

will teach

are

you

Every spiritual value must be

must be

Our thought

lived.

must become embodied,

lived,

for

you

manifested, ex-

The two conditions we ask, that we may teach you, are that you become willing and obedient. Your life shall help all you pressed, to all men.

meet, cannot fail to do so, because you cannot 1

Matt.

V. 8.

Matt

V. 48.

ÂŤ

113

John xiii

17.

CHRIST IN YOU

114

grow without drawing others with you.

This

Ood's perfect plan for the redemption of the whole.

The seed dies^ hidden,

Out

that

may

of darkness

and becomes

in order to live,

—

from

manifest

Out

light.

within.

weakness

—

strength.

There

a wave of disturbance, a spiritual

vol-

cano, about to discharge itself on your earth.

Be not dismayed; unrest and energy only prove that inherent

not clog.

life is

all

at work.

the wars

God's wheels must

and signs of the times,

know that the Day of the Lord is at hand, your own Lord and Christ, the indwelling and potent ^

Christ of God. of water

Marvel not, ye^ must be born

and of the

This I

spirit.

may

explain

Kingdom

to you later.

The

your hands.

Out of chaos and confusion there

will

keys of the

come peace and order

to your earth.

are in

The

wars of the nations are the birth pangs of a new era,

and the consciousness

lifted

by the pain and agony of the

4 1 Cor. XV. 36. •

of the race will be

Matt

xxiv. 6.

John

Matt xvL

refiner's fire.

Ui. 5.

19.

LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE

In the hearts of those

who have

115

attained the

Christ consciousness there will be rest and glori-

ous hope, for they shall see the new dawn arising

when Christ who is our light kingdom cometh for ever and

shall reign. ever.

His

SECOND LESSON BOllN OF

THE VIRGIN

were discussing the journey of

through matter and

knowledge

goal.

its

spirit

This

valuable to students at

You have

your stage of evolution.

learned the

truth of Being, your high calling,^ and some of the

first

ler is

When

steps in the great path.

going into strange country he

a travel-

sometimes

brought to a seeming stop by huge tracts of forest land,

tremendous

The

heights.

and

rivers,

mountainous

spiritual life has

to the pres-

ent been one shared withi others of like thought

and habit as

Some

yourselves.

you are

seek-

ing farther on, and this means that you are called

Abraham was,

alone

and in

called see the burning bush I

One

Am.^

Phil.

Gen. xU.

iii.

Only the

and hear the great

of the obstacles

you to overcome 1

faith.

we want

to help

the mystery of the IncarnaEx. iU.

14.

4Bx. 110

iii.14.

BORN OF THE VIRGIN we

tion, or, as

To woman

of the spirit.

came

stated at the first ^

— the journey

and to woman alone

and

this understanding,

117

vealed to the feminine in this

will be again re-

new

age.

Woman

having her true place in revelation and pro-

phecy, and to

woman

shall the great mystery be

made known. You have learned through previous lessons that there is perfect unity between God and man.

This consciousness

slowly and surely

Now, only by keeping this truth in mind can you comprehend our lesson. Even as God and man are one, so also there must of necessity be one only, and in dawning over the whole

this

one

the

God

channel.

all,

earth.

manifesting through every

the two in one, of both natures,

ever self -creative, and the ultimate end of our race is unity. life

All

life

of Jesus Christ in

was symbolized by the every particular.

came

of the perfect unity of the

Mary

symbolizes this truth, and here

say

—

lest

Luke

we would

any err by worship, or undue adora-

tion of type or personality 6

two natures.

38.

— that Mary was the

CHRIST IN YOU

118

body of

flesh

used for this holy manifestation, for

the teaching of the world, and not because of her

separate worth. separation,

Seeing that the outer self

cannot be known as the complete

Self.

The race

rising to a

of God, the sinlessness

knowledge of the purity

and

love,

wherein

har-

mony, and some here and there are learning that the age of passion, desire, and lust

away.

There

stealing over men's hearts the

love-nature of God.

ture that

passing

It is

through our love-na-

learn the complete allness of God.

making

of the twain one flesh

;

this is the

Jesus Christ was

marriage of the two natures.

born directly from the two in one

— as He

will-

ingly chose to take up the life on earth, from

race

— man.

and we*^ His seed

way He stands for our Jesus was^ God incarnate,

In every

the beginning.

Yes,

shall be like is in

all,

He was

Him.

the holy child

creative.

must

first

born in you ere you can comprehend this mystery. Life is a spiritual essence. • 1

Tim.

111.

John

ill. 2.

16.

Birth Gal.

iv. 19.

a spiritual

BORN OF THE VIRGIN fact, invisible at present to

of Nazareth

119

mortal eye.

Jesus

was God-Man, coming by the path

the one body of flesh.

Let us make quite clear that God has always been manifest in the world.

The coming

ÂŽ

Jesus was the symbol of the supreme wholeness

and perfection of man by the Christ of God. Learn by this wondrous life the love of God and the great unity.

When you is

and the Father are

one.

have risen out of your false belief

in separateness,

God

and know

your heart that

ALL in all, then, and then only,

will

you

glide out of the false consciousness of sin, suffering,

and pain, leaving

ment, rising into purer

life,

a worn-out gar-

renewed and regen-

erated.

Our next

lesson will be

"Mind, and

sibilities." Âť

Acts xiv.

17.

John

x. 30.

its pos-

THIRD LESSON MIND, AND ITS POSSIBILITIES

EVERY

mind always brings

condition of

about an outward manifestation even on the sense plane, and the separate self has

power over say,

its

own environment.

you think, you

Thus,

Man

you become.

act,

constantly clothing himself with

that

you ^

to the higher possibilities of the

The Psalmist, groping

Christ.

this great truth, cries out

heavy,

Who

want mind

supreme in truth; the only mind, the

mind

his thoughts,

but these truths are familiar to you, and to lead

will

O my

soul?

For

the health of

^' :

Why

art

after

thou so

Him and my

I will yet praise

countenance

God."

Around you are people ness, imperfection,

in a condition of sick-

and want, some

them Chris-

tians, as regards the following of the personal 1

Prov. xxlii.

2 Phil.

ii.

120

Ps. xliii. 5.

MIND,

AND

ITS POSSIBILITIES made

Jesus, but they have not

the great discovery

There

of the indwelling Lord.

121

no state of

ignorance too low for the renewal of life

Those who throw

health.

off the

turely are just as culpable as suicides,

norance

light is in

all

men

speaking

The vital question mind Let

from death into death

your mortal bodies.

— How to become

and dead

life spiritually,

to the

mind

but your work

you have not conquered

your body of

You have become you may manifest God,

flesh.

clothed in the flesh that

and you have

only to

right to al-

here say that you have passed

than half done in

you

for

of Christ

now

You have no

low sin and death to reign in

is less

ig-

— at some time or other the

readers of this book.

of sense?

and

not counted as innocence, since the

knowledge comes.

alive to the

and

body prema-

failed seriously if

you allow any-

thing to hide or blur the outer garment, which

should manifest wholeness and love.

Now we come

to the beginnings.

your body must suffer and 4 5

John i. 9. Rom. vt 12,

die.

You thought Cease your

« 1 Cor. xv. 26.

CHRIST IN YOU

122 thinking,

and

let Christ think.

they might have

full,

am come

abundant

rich,

that lifeJ

Wherever Jesus went, disease dissolved into nothingness; at His touch wholenessÂŽ sprang up.

down when you have learned life's lessons, and when you are ready for the interior life. You will not escape the ills of the flesh even when you kill your presYour body should be

ent body,

you have

willingly laid

failed to obtain

your earth j

experience ; for the soul has failed to use to acquire, to obey

ties,

its facul-

some divine law, and

therefore loses an opportunity to express divin-

the true purpose of incarnation.

ity,

finer school for this experience,

out to gain, than this earth

which we set

We must enter

life.

into the Christ consciousness

There

we would express

the body of wholeness.

Since the mind is the seat of pain, do you not see that unless

cannot acquire flesh

only?

plane of back.

you have the mind of Christ you it

It is

by freedom from the body of

difficult to

spirit, in fact,

you

Just where you are

conquer on the

will long to

is the

come

place to learn

; j

Jolin X. 10.

Matt

iv. 23.

AND

MIND,

we who

therefore

ITS POSSIBILITIES love

you come

to help

123

you at

your present stage, not only for your sake, but in order that the great Self, of which part,

may not

be ignorantly hidden.

Begin by opposing sense suggestion. not

bom

to suffer

There

purpose.

the great plan of

work. ficult

You

and decay, but are here for a a reason for your place in

life,

and no one

else

can do your

Reject the suggestion that you have circumstances,

tions can be

are

that

your

makes triumph impossible.

made

environment

steps of ascent; you can begin

sense suggestion

must be reasonably and carefully ignorantly denied, or

Therefore

dif-

These very condi-

now to readjust your life. Every

again.

are a

it will

crop up again and

answer with

sweet reasonableness.

You

dealt with, not

patience

and

will find that this

the very opportunity for the higher Self to

speak.

Many *

join with us, as

you read these

words, in prayer and strong encouragement that

you

fail not.

Begin as we suggest, in the sim-

plest way, to realize that it is

eth in â&#x20AC;˘

you

Heb. xiL

to 1.

wiU and

God ^^

that work-

to do. lo

2 Chron. xx.

17.

CHRIST IN YOU

124

hope to continue the teaching of the pos-

sibilities of

mind

lesson will be

in future lessons,

Personality."

subject because you

and our next

taking this

must carefully and

daily,

even hourly, as you count time, follow the suggestions given, always remembering Christ in

you, the Lord of

all.

FOURTH LESSON PEBSONALITY

HUMANITY shrinks, and rightly any thought of strangeness or

so,

from

loss,

and

any thought that occasions shrinking or pain should be quietly and peacefully dropped,

without

strife

a certainty that you just as long as

much

I can tell

or resistance. will retain

you need

longer yet.

it,

you for

your personality

and you

will need it

allowed to say to you

that the meeting with your loved ones will be

sweetly familiar, a great deal better than you

can imagine, for they and you will be enriched

by the love between you. gain.

You can

Your

loss is

always

help them by your love and

and they help you; think often of them. Bless them and become conscious of unity, which

prayer,

a blessed reality.

There

nothing untoward

or strange ; you are here just what you have made 1

Matt

V. 39.

126

CHRIST IN YOU

126

and they who love you would not have you with them until you have finished. In fact, you are near them now, but the veil or cov-

yourselves,

ering

over you at present.

Love — Love — Love.

This

a potent

force.

would not meet the demands of your present

nature to arrive suddenly at the end of being, since everything in God's plan is in perfect order.

There must be gradual unfoldment and gentle

awakening; even after the its personal form,

Paul,^

spirit ceases to

can always resume

who was allowed

need

at will.

to enter the interior

realms, tells you that the inner

man

is ^

renewed

day by day in an identity peculiarly your own,

and exactly resembling you as you appeared,

ex-

cept that you have added the spiritual qualities, refining

and defining

all

the highest

and

This, too, is a covering or resurrection body, it is

clothed in

best.

and

white raiment to appear before

mortal eyes.

As your

Scriptures

continuity of 2

2 Cor.

»2Cor.

life is

tell

you repeatedly, the

no more broken when the

xii. 2.

John xx.

12.

i?. 16.

»2Tlm. t

10.

PERSONALITY

127

breath leaves the body than is the continuity of child life broken by the incident of birth.

the means by which

becoming

life is liberated,

Memory^

intense.

exists,

It is

although

have learned the power to dissolve into nothingness

— this

But

of use.

true f orgetf ulness

—

all

that

not

would have you know that you are

greater than your form, that you have no limit, that you take limitations for purposes at present

hidden from you, that true personality fleshly

not the

form or a separate body, but, by reason

of its greatness, is best manifested in part.

Paul,

who had

learned this mystery,

tells

plainly that " the body is for the Lord,

Lord^ for the

you

and the

body,'' therefore it is quite clear

that the body or form

only a part of the great

whole, the mystic body of Christ.

him the omnipresence

Paul also had

man, as he was present in spirit with the Church of Corinth while his body® was visible in another place. revealed to

Always bear

mind that

to us there is neither

time nor space. «

Luke xvL

1 Cor. vi. 18.

28.

« 1 Cor. v. 3.

CHRIST IN YOU

128 I told

you at the beginning that your Scrip-

tures could reveal the highest, and you will find

more and more that we only present

new

light the truth

may

ning, so that you

you in a

which was from the beginsee life

from higher stand-

with renewed vision, new hopes, and

points,

moving in

loftier spheres of

thought and experi-

ence.

Now you sesses the

begin to see that the Lord Christ pos-

body of

to manifest ;

flesh,

through which you choose

and there

no reason why

should not readily respond, unless you yield to the great enemy, the false belief in separateness.

This enemy

Garden lower

God

from God.

The

would become even as the gods, though

words

symbolized in the story of the

of Eden, the separation

self

in the

—

Hear,

One Lord

—

Israel, the

Lord thy

was taught that we are

one, that separate or outer forms

never can

One God. God requires perfection, therefore if we would rise to this consciousness we must begin with our lower self to bring it into obedience and subjection to the one

finally overrule the

1 Cor.

m. ie

;

1 Oor. vL 19.

Deut

vi. 4.

PERSONALITY Ruler,

and as we do

personality

is.

this

129

learn what our true

shall not accomplish this

great purpose without constant watchfulness

and wholeheartedness/^ giving

all to

gain

ready at every turn to sacrifice the lower that 11

we may become

Mark xm.

37.

selfless

and

Mark

free. xii. 30.

all,

self,

FIFTH LESSON THE TRUE SELF him deny himself and follow

**Let

HOW

often

we have

Me"

remind you of the

truth you have already learnt

the only substance ; exactly as the sap

Spirit

the true life of the tree, so also your spiritual

being

the cause of your natural existence.

You can never impart a truth alive within yourself. tell

you about the

highest good

is to

life here,

until it has

become

have many things to but at present your

learn the truths best applic-

able to your present conditions.

When

speak of the wholeness of the race and

the mystical body,

do not want to give you

wrong ideas about your individual responsibility. Each member is a complete worker. What you see

on the plane of the senses

vague, and often meaningless. 130

is to

You

us shadowy, are to

make

THE TRUE SELF real^ to create^ to

is to

earth.

bring into exi^^tence^ spiritual

by living on the only real plane of

realities

This

131

bring in the

Your

new heaven and

the

life.

new

spiritual eyes will open gradually,

not into an unfamiliar environment, but into an intensely real

life,

wherein dwelleth

righteous-

ness.

We are

working

all

and brotherhood.

establish true unity

succeed

while?

you

over the worid in bands to

will unite

True unity

with

Is it not

us.

shall

worth

not to separate heaven

from earth, but to bring the kingdom of heaven on to earth.

For

watch and wait

—

we labour and pray and we shall never cease until

the Lord Christ has

this

come

His own, the Christ

God who spake with the lips of Jesus; Christ of God who dwells within, the great

the de-

mankind from the bondage of sin, flesh, and the world of sense. For the Son of man must indeed be lifted up,^ and the false man of liverer of

sense become as nought, that

one 1

— for

Kev. xxi.

12 Peter

all

may

Clearly you see the

Christ is God.

Ui. 13.

John xU.

32.

CHRIST IN YOU

132

importance of denying voice

and guidance

self

and following the

of Christ!

In the morning of your day commence by cleansing your heart from within (the cleansing of the body follows as his in the full sunshiae)

First cast out false think-

thoughts of sickness, fear and

ing, prejudice,

pain,

shadow follows a man

by true reasoning and simple, childlike

faith in God.

As you

rise,

your thoughts should

be of strength, love, a strong desire to

Now

bless.

follows your prayer, a free and full conse-

cration of all for good, that glorified,

a prayer of steadfast assurance

no * thought what ye put on.

God only may be

The

life is

than raiment.

your every need.

shall eat or

what ye

shall

more than meat, the body

It is true that

— Take

all

God

will supply

your thoughts and deeds,

your intercourse with personalities, remember that you are on the plane of spirit, seeking

first

the^ kingdom of God, the only reality.

Oh, you are rich beyond

Leave your chamber Matt.

vi. 25.

• Phil. iv. 19.

human language!

" strong in

Matt.

Eph. vt

the Lord

vi. 33.

10.

and

THE TRUE SELF in the

power of His might."

Let your whole be-

ing join in the only true life-work all

may

be one."

Amen, Amen, Amen. «

John

xvii. 11.

133

—" That they

SIXTH LESSON THE TRUE SELFISHNESS

of good courage, for all is well,

God

dwelleth in you, and this is the

chief eternal truth.

know you are progressing because already you can command right thoughts and dismiss I

inharmonious ones.

now you

Results will

will learn discrimination.

follow,

and

It is not

given to all to be able to judge others, but con-

when tempted to judge, with praythem, and as you evolve, your prayers

tent yourself,

ing for

will be fraught with healing, because

learning to pray aright.

you are

of good courage.

Evil is friendly and has a beneficent purpose.

Man becomes and out of the

soil.

false 1

God-like because he rises through

evil,

just as the plants emerge

Every good

is closely

from

imitated in the

dream world, and one of the imitations

Pa. xxvU.

THE

TRtTE SELFISHNESS

called selfishness.

This

a divine

135

instinct,

you cannot and should not uproot

and

but learn

it,

always that these delusions of sense have behind Let us discover the true

them a truth of God. and holy

Man's tion.

selfishness. first instinct is self-interest, self-protec-

Even

spiritual

things you are con-

You

stantly seeking to acquire for yourself.

re-

quire healing of the body, a rich mind, a true

This

life.

a God-given instinct, and you are

The true

to get, but learn that to get is to give.

law of giving

good

to benefit all,

and thus you bring

your Self; which, remember,

and only

the great

Self.

Let us begin by a simple explanation. the language of earth that you

may

use

understand,

for

you know^ already that material things have

real existence, that

their only reality.

Let us teach you

You to

your thought of them

Do you desire how

to obtain

health of body?

it,

the true way.

begin at once to send out healing currents

some one in a lower condition than yourself,

and immediately yon have made a pathway by which your own shall come to you.

Your

first

136

CHRIST IN YOU

thought, I see,

is,

The

self?

first

how can

I heal

time you try

it,

when

sick

my-

you will under-

stand that the very effort of faith required the beginning of your

own

healing,

and the larger

own

love going out to others doubles your

joy

in the long run.

True This

getting

always hy way of

a simple thing to know, but

sacrifice.

it is

the key

true healing, of mind, body, or estate; for

to all all

you have truly given you

will receive double,

but you do not render to the Lord that which costs

you nothing.

In the sight of God, no

gift

has been blessed to your own soul unless you

have willingly given from your heart and blessed the gift by your love. told,

You may have wealth

though unmanifest to mortal eye.

un-

good

practice each day is to bless and heal every one in the house.

great Self, house.

Begin at once, knowing only the

remembering the need of

Your own Lord love.

the

will reveal each need;

be resolute, be positive, and, above

hope and

all in

If the unseen

all,

become

full of

visible at

such times, include them, only send out, give, 2

Acts XX. 35.

ÂŤ

2 Sam. xxiv.

24t,

THE TRUE SELFISHNESS give, give.

ting,

I tell

you that

this is

137

your real

get-

your real healing.

The

spirit reveals to

you more and more.

helping you to one of the

richest positions; that

you may become a centre

you not see that

of healing; spirit, the pure flame, burning

up the

dross; the soul, the link, holding all the physical

powers; and the body, showing the beauty^ of the Lord, the true beauty^ of Holiness.

Again

I ask that

you put these lessons into

practice. * Ps. xc. 17.

1 Chron. xvi. 29.

SEVENTH LESSON DWELL DEEP

YOU

body.

The

the innermost, is clothed

upon

are

spirit,

by the

and

The body

soul.

manifestation.

for

soul,

Your

the vehicle

wholeness

depends

upon the one consciousness, and the active cooperation of soul and body. Knowing only God brings into operation hidden laws, at present

unknown

You

to you.

develop spiritual powers

which have hitherto lain dormant, and your whole being begins to

and the power soul

;

live.

Hearing, seeing, touch,

communicate belong to the

they are transmitted to a denser body for

a divine purpose. bilities,

ence to

The

soul has great responsi-

and everything depends upon her obedithe Lord and Master, and to her transfer

of spiritual desire to the outer body. this,

More than

by true living you send forth spiritual 138

vi-

DWELL DEEP brations, currents of blessing all

189

and

healing,

are helped by your radiant and pure environ-

ment.

Every spiritual

desire, expressed

through the

outer body, goes on and obeys a higher law ;

Never mind

you do not see

it is

results.

never

lost.

I tell

you the result of every noble thought

ex-

pressed has far-reaching effects, and you will

know one day been

that the faintest longing desire has

satisfied.

When you

meditate or pray,

it is

the soul

and

not the body that opens to the spirit; mind-

wandering or lack of earnestness means that the brain it

and

that you are definite;

think, speak, act

from the innermost of yourself. your real identity.

The and

Wherever you

make

this is not

obedience to

flesh

It is

Your

soul is

You.

soul thinks, breathes, acts from the spirit,

should

place,

See to

not co-operating with the soul.

spirit.

perfect so,

the

outer

body.

the soul has failed in its

If this disobedience takes

will find that the passing out of the

does not

mean that

the soul will then func-

tion freely; for disuse of the spiritual

medium

CHRIST IN YOU

140

means coma, arrested growth,

sleep.

Awake

* !

thou that sleepest, Christ dwells within.

When you

have ceased to need the body you

will give back the atoms, purified and trans-

muted by the divine but express

it.

There

life.

not repress

nothing either in or out

of the flesh that can hinder the disciple at one with the will of God. 1

Eph,

V. 14.

life,

who

EIGHTH LESSON UNFOLDMENT FEOM WITHIN

THE

soul has entered your present body

that

may

express

God's meaning

through this medium, also because the soul has need of certain experiences. too,

must be rightly valued, seeing that

for a divine purpose

takes

its

;

but

it is

exists

only of value when

true place in the divine order.

soul is the sheath

man, who

The

of the spirit, the clothing of

for the time veiled in flesh.

Man becomes God-like and

The body,

discipline.

only through experience

This can be understood in your

present period of

life

an innocent,

happy

age; the one

by the comparison between

child

and a happy, ripe old

ignorantly happy and the other

has matured and unfolded through knowledge

and ence 1

suffering. is

Dan*

Both are happy, but the

very great. Til. 15,

Your present earth

margin.

141

differ-

experi-

CHRIST IN YOU

142 ence

the most beneficial state for your present

healthy development.

The mind functions from the

man awakes

Before

soul.

to self-knowledge the sense

mind

All the cells in your body have their

has ruled.

centre, their

mind the grey matter ;

of the brain

not the only centre for the sensation of mind.

When

ruled by the Christ

mind they are

flooded

by the great intelligence in every part, each doing its w^ork perfectly.

in a

and a warfare of your it

But the

life

This

begins.

at which

the transitional, and

all

soul of

would help you we :

it is

stage,

own,

call

a time when you need

your faith and hope, for the body

seems for a while to

its

the very period

quently unable to respond to the

me,

man awakes

body that has formed a kingdom of

Have

fail.

new

so fre-

king,

and

faith: believe

true that once you have passed this

you gain what you will never

also rise into a higher cycle, ties for greater

you

and have opportuni-

work.

It is at this very point that,

healthy, uncivilized man, ally healthy

lose;

God-Man.

from being the

you become the

You

fail

spiritu-

perhaps to be-

UNFOLDMENT FROM WITHIN come your

ideal at once, but

you

143

will surely win.

Obey the highest within you, and never let the sense

mind

For

rule you.

this reason I say that

you cannot believe in what you see you are con;

scious that

you are about to manifest

This

anew.

a slow process, since

all

false think-

As an

ing has brought about false conditions.

melancholy or depression causes

illustration,

acidity in the blood,

opposite — joy

its

and can only be cast out by or

hope.

Kemedies

without can do good for a time only.

man ^

should be daily renewed by

reality. first.

things

It is not

The inner

spirit,

the one

meet that the last should be

Spirit rules.

prevail, not warfare

Love and harmony should and

that its highest good

Now you know

from

Teach the body

strife.

obedience to

its

enough to be able to say

Lord.

— Christ

reigns in me.

Kise in

harmony

—

spirit,

soul,

and body

reaching the eternal consciousness, which changing, holy.

You have

not the case with the lower

un-

learned that this self

;

the sense

mind

being changeful, evanescent, susceptible to other a

2 Cor.

Iv. 16.

CHKIST IN YOU

144

JSow you are whole-

influences, other minds. ness, true health

and unchanging thought.

This

the path to unity with the two worlds; Christ

You

and

immortality to

light.

will receive the inner illumination.

You

in you, bringing life

are learning what a glorious thing your unfold-

ment The

is,

warmed

into growth by the interior sun.

soul has a real

work

to do in

through the mind of Christ.

your body

Rejoice Ihat you

have burst the outer covering of the seed, that

by an immutable law you must Sit in silence,

Prayer.

rise.

and slowly repeat the Lord's

Its spiritual

meaning

will arise in you.

For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the Amen. Amen. Amen.

glory. 8

2 Tim.

10.

NINTH LESSON THE SOUL

SHOULD like to continue our discussion

the soul, for I rejoice to

that you

realize the spiritual world to be here.

You

more and more, learning that

spirit

will live in it is

know

true substance, and that you function truly

from your luminous body, holding within yourself all

you need.

Wherever you it is

God

see beauty, truth, or goodness,

finding expression, and you will see

them where you

least expect

the spiritual plane, and

much

when dwelling on that seems to the

natural eye good, beautiful, and true you will

prove to be false imitations of the art, is

real.

poetry are expressions of God.

God

Music,

All genius

revealing Himself; by the very revelation,

the soul refines the outer body, which should be

as clay in the hands of the potter.^ All states of existence, now, and in the future, 1 Jer.

xvUi.

145

CHRIST IN YOU

146

are determined by the inner sion.

sess the indwelling

Your

Christ.

life

and

its

expres-

enough to know that you pos-

It is not

power

become the eternal

real work, like that of Jesus, is

Your environment is the outcome of your mind and thought. Heaven and hell are states of existence you make for yourYour fall away from truth self here and now. to express

God.

caused by the souPs separation from God's

thought, and by following the false self-conscious-

Listen to your

ness.

own Lord and

Christ,

who

brings deliverance^ to the captive and sight to the blind,

who redeemeth thy

life

from destruc-

tion.*

The seven creative days are experiences within

God speaks the word of power when "Let there be light,' and the light shineth from within.'^ The dividing of the*

yourself.

says,

waters the

the

separation

the

divine

and

human, the firmament, symbolizing the

Heavenly-Divine, and the seas the Earthly-Hu» »

John Luke

xiy. 9.

Iv.

* Pa. clil. 4.

Gen. Gen,

6, 7.

THE SOUL

147

The separation of sea and land means the

man.

first state

of receptivity, to express clearly that

land (mind)

is free

and awaiting God's mani-

And God said, Let the earth (mind) forth, and God says within you, to your ''

festation.

bring soul

bring forth, manifest, express

thought.

Then you read God gave the two lights, the ' greater and the lesser. These symbolize the human and lights of the two understandings :

—

The seas are

divine.

fruitful

on the

fifth

day,

thus proving the creativeness of mind and the birth of ideas.

larger idea,

man

till

Then we read of larger growth, we come finally to ourselves

—

in the image of God,^^ God's idea.

You

have not entered into the seventh period

yet.^^

It is

one of great delight and triumph.

Bead

this for yourselves with the spiritual understanding.

Each

soul

makes

its

own Heaven, and

there is

a sense in which each created being augments

Heaven by Gen. Gen. • Qen.

•

1. 1.

its

own

created environment.

11.

16.

20.

Gen. Gen.

ii.

26. 2,

CHRIST IN YOU

148

your rebirth into the spiritual kingdom, Heaven itself

becomes greater.

In this sense you can

understand better what I mean when I

tell

you

that all are benefited by one, because you are a

part of

use the language of earth, but you

all.

have spiritual discernment.^^ find true language to express

since the

second

first is

subject, as it is

a state of consciousness, and the

you these three lessons on the one good for you to

divine and spiritual law.

get life

Heaven and God,

infinity.

I have given

wisdom.

When

live

With

according to

all

thy getting,

the soul sees and knows,

appears orderly, and the body of flesh sensi-

bly obedient.

be revealed.

Be ^^ patient much more shall The kingdom of heaven is open to ;

all believers.

Love, Peace, Joy. 12 1 Cor. 13

can never

Prov.

ii.

iv. 7.

14 Jas. v. 7, 8.

PART

III

DIVINE HUMANITY

FIRST LESSON IN

WANT

THBM

to unfold to

your understanding

something of the meaning of God immanent and

God

God and man

transcendent.

are not separated, and never have been.^

After

our lesson on the mind and soul you are quite

aware of the oneness and unity in every living thing.

everything that self

You

bud and

lives,

life.

You

are

are round about

You cannot

is.

from anything that

being.

You

separate your-

moves, and has

its

are in the rock, the crystal in every

twig, in all places at all times.

have always been.

The sense

false understanding,

You

of separateness is

and brings only confusion

of mind. Is not this feeling of unity

tion to

God?

breathing through

all

forms

the creator and the created? 1

Jolm xvU.

more than a

rela-

not the One speaking and

21.

151

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

all

How

Creation

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

say est thou:

CHEIST IN YOU

152 "

Show us

the Father?

hath seen the Father."

now our

He that hath

seen Me,

Oh, priceless truth,

and joy to enter into

privilege

" I

and ^ the Father are one."

How edge

are

we going

may be

to live, so that this knowl-

You

used for all?

dwell in the utter-

most parts of the earth, you have your responsibility there, here,

You

and everywhere.

are not

without a witness, and you know nothing but the one good, one will, not a union of spirit with

parent

spirit,

but an

at-one-ment.

Knowing

only one Lord — one God — one Christ — this

The race

not a mystery to you any longer. folding,

un-

and you are unfolding; and just as you

yield to truth

and

love, so all are helped.

not put this too strongly, for in

it is

to all the seeming mystery of pain

rows of

life.

Surely

I can-

the answer

and the

sor-

hath borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows, and

doing this even

now. Will you reverently consider be a limited part? «

John

Joliu X. 30.

xlv. 9.

why you seem

Is it not because you have * Isa. lUl. 4.

looked upon

God

THEM

153

as apart from yourself, thought

of the indwelling Christ as Jesus of Nazareth?

Do you been

not see for yourself

understanding?

your

upon some

how childlike has Your dependence

one, something, proved your childlike

consciousness ; and even as a child learns to say

myself, so will the whole

we now say

Me.

together:

I in

human

you and you in

This understanding

Myself.

ting Christ on the throne, lifting

race say,

Him

put-

where

deals with error and sin as a thing outside

The truth dawns, and the inner Christ

Himself. reveals to

man

his birthright, his true power,

and henceforth he becomes one with, through

and

for

Think for a moment how you

all.

honour Jesus as teacher

you hold

Him

disre-

sponsible for the forgiveness of your ignorance.

Hath He not

said

yours, is mine?

All that

the Father hath is

hath also given you the key,

the power of appropriation by faith. 5

;

Luke XV. 31 Luke x. 19.

;

John

xvi. 15

;

1 Cor.

iii.

;

Matt.

xxvm.

SECOND LESSON "thou

KEEP you all

mind

the previous chapter,

will be led

your

MB"

life is

back to

and

find that

going to teach you that

God-Man Christ is all in all. This truth has be made one with the outermost limits of cre-

the to

ation, just as a leaf learns

source its oneness tree.

There

everything that

thing about

by drawing from

its

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more than unity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with the

a condition of consciousness in lives.

itself,

The

you knows every-

but the leaf or seeming unit

can only learn slowly, by

and unfoldment,

real

its

own

of dependence

its life

place and meaning.

Every atom contains the whole.

The whole

God

to banish the

is in

Try

the blade of grass.

thought of distance or space, and know that what

you

see contains within

thought

Your

its

true life; the

within every expression.

first

movement.

and lowest consciousness of

Your highest 154

love.

life

The

was seecl

thought life

THOU

155

always hidden within every phase of

through which you merge;

moves, quick-

and brings forth seed (thought). This is true of all creation. Your first movement was ens,

in secret/ yea, in the lowest parts of the earth.

This

symbolized in every physical birth; the

whole of creation truths of

life

manifest to the

The

seer.

are simple and open.

do not

wish to cause you vain speculation, but we desire to be of real practical use to you at the stage of

unfoldment where you now in the scale of evolution

lution â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a soul

and should be This

is, it

free

However low

are.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that

is,

spiritual evo-

can be perfect of

from

sin, sickness,

our glorious message for you.

have you know yourselves.

its

kind,

and death.

We would

Get back to the

cause.

Why

are people suffering and sinful?

Be-

cause they willingly choose to dwell in a divided consciousness of good and

evil.

even a second has seen that there

passed from death to

Heaven 1

life.

Whoever is ^

2 Isa.

has

has entered the

of Heavens, he has seen God.

Ps. cxxxix. 15.

evil,

for

xxxiii. 15,

The Fall

;

CHEIST IN YOU

156 is

a thing of the present.

a false under-

It is

standing.

Why have we ing that

God cannot

never tolerated ness really;

time

;

off

The

fail?

There

it.

the

and

shadow

growth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and

you has

only one conscious-

always has been, and now it

real

deep within yourself

it is

and because of ing

tolerated this consciousness, see-

its livingness

of ignorance

know

the

you are shak-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a condition of

rising into pure being.

great process you will

all

around you

In the

that sin and ig-

norance are less than the morning mists now being dispelled by the inner sun, the love-life.

To become aware, while

fire of

the

in the shadow,

of the reality of this one true life is the solution of everything, for with this true understanding

you must know that you are one with it is lifting

well for ever.

movement means that you fulness and freedom. See

the whole race!

potent healing power everywhere you.

You

and

light.

and

That

this

are emerging into

how

all is

;

see its

we rejoice with

are entering into the kingdom of

life

Death and sin are conquered now

for ever.

THOU

In our next lesson

157

will discuss the

way

ascent from your present condition.

Peace and joy and the sweet fellowship of the heavenly host be yours, as you consider these truths.

Nothing

impossible to

him that

believeth.

THIRD LESSON "seek and ye shall

THE

question

many this

may

people

find'^

be asked

still

knowledge?

Why

are so

bondage even with

are in

earnest,

and are willing to be and do what we can. It is good for you to give your heart to the understanding of wisdom.

Knowledge

not under-

To know God we must be

standing.

God-like.

Because we long for perfection, we are already at its beginnings.

not regard any of these

things as distant or outside yourselves: that is

Let us meet the seem-

the spirit of separateness.

ing

difficulties

together, the weights

drances of your everyday set

you

life,

and

hin-

for the truth will

free.

Many

you seem to be

bondage to the

climate, to lack of heat or to unevenness of tem-

perature. fluences. 1

John

viii.

Your bodies are

subject to

I too suffered in this way,

32 1Q6

many

and

in-

would

SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND "

159

How

could

experience.

what

I needed

gladlj help you with I understand that

thought

avoid

chill,

necessary to

and

was within? be warmly clad, to

to take food to sustain

life.

could only show you for a minute a spiritual

if I

being

who has passed

beyond life,

all

this stage,

doubt that Christ

you would know

the^ bread of

the true daily bread, nourishing both soul

and body, able

to supply

your every need.

As you awake in the morning you look outside and see cold; now you both see and feel cold. You must see before you feel a truth or a falsehood

;

this is

a law.

to reverse the order.

see only God,

Your its

you

shall straightway begin

You

will feel

will look within

and

and understand God.

feeblest effort in this direction

must have

reward.

Bead this truth into every detail of the day, and live in the assurance that God cannot fail. See reality, God, behind every shadow. As you go into the outer, cast out fear. Be not anxious, and the very elements will be at one with you. This 2

Jolm

the rule of the spiritual. yi. 35.

Your whole

CHRIST IN YOU

160

supply for every need

day

is at

The

within yourself.

hand when man, on the

earth, will be a

Even now you have exthe present phase, and the

true spiritual being.

pressed yourself in

God-Man tion

;

seeking a higher form of manifesta-

but

all

must

and

co-operate,

j^ou are learn-

ing the laws of the spiritual kingdom for this

and sighing^ may

end, that sorrow

that the sons and daughters of

Your

no* more. your work

but first

The

it.

great,

but

not lose heart.

result in yourself will be

a sense of command, and later you will smile

at your old fears

home and

The work may seem slow,

good courage.

God

away,

God may hunger

responsibility

for eternity.

flee

and

limitations, for

at rest in

you

will be

any climate or circum-

stance.

Do you

not see for yourself

how your thought

has been concerned with your dependence upon material warmth, food, and sustenance?

you will

will

put these in their true place, und

open out

Isa.

Rev.

Later

XXXV.

10.

vii. 16.

its

treasure.^ 6

Deut

life

present your

xxviii. 12.

SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND

161

whole time and thought are given to caring for the daily outer

being with

its

life.

Think what the spiritual

higher faculties could enter into

you gave half as much time and thought to

the true

life

Take no anxious thought

Live simply. things of today.

Follow Me. 6

Matt. vm. 22.

Let the dead bury

within.

for the

their dead.

FOURTH LESSON "the knowledge

of god shall

covee the earth''

THE

day of the Lord

at hand, is here.

Truly the Lord Christ has come in great

The signs are in earth and sky. up your heads. The King of ^ glory has glory.

Lift

come

new

This

in.

the wonder, the silence of this

birth.

What

does

ness of Christ

mean

for you?

dawning

The supreme man Christ darkness

in every lowly heart. is

under His

The conscious-

on the throne, and

feet.

God

tells

this

blessed secret to the dwellers in the innermost,

that they

may

The Lord our God

most. Christ.

There

work, but self. 1 Ps.

carry the tidings to the very outer-

The

all

One Lord, even

something for you to do in this

good, all knowledge is within one-

real

need for help

xxiv.

162

is great.

Ps. xviii. 9.

see

THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

163

souls imprisoned in limitations, thirsting for

ing waters.

people would die for lack^ of

Man

understanding.

liv-

is divine,

and God

ever

in the midst.

Your true consciousness is the knowledge that One and One only fills all * space. When you silently think of this you will know that in this understanding, in this continual realization, true

freedom

lies.

to this; nay,

You you

will cast off everything alien will transmute the very sins

and ignorances into the pure gold and wealth of life.

These must be the healing of the

self

the Self, the forgiveness, the whole redemption

from your Christ, your indwelling Lord. are in all and through

hidden within yourself

all,

You

in every place, since

the centre of all worlds.

As you write these words we are near you, and many would like to come back and tell you the glorious news, to open your eyes that you may see in very truth

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;" There am

I in the midst.''

So far you have understood clearly the one Self of 8

all,

Hos.

when you have looked iv. 6.

* Jer. xxUi. 24.

within, but

Matt,

xviii. 20.

now we

CHRIST IN YOU

164

upon seemingly separate

will try to look out

sonalities

and

nize the one

still

see the

Lord in

One

only.

all is to lift

your

way

just

what

are.

Fear

to cast out fear.

In one

foes.

You must each

the spiritually taught are doing.

Help souls

per-

recog-

them into the

consciousness of the Christ, and this

do your part where you

one of

or another you allow this

false condition to cloud

your vision and drag

down your

rid of

self

and

for others.

Remind

There

law in action.

Christ the Lord this little

spoiling

Lord supreme.

the vine.

we may

not.

John

QaL

ii.

iv.

20.

longer,"^

reigneth.

but

See fox,

In your immediate environ-

juices.

its circulation, diges-

I only use these

words

swiftly ascend to a higher plane.

There 18.

enemy fear has done, a very

and gastric

so that

God omnipotent

ment, the body, fear affects

Fear

fear for your-

absolutely nothing

yourself constantly of your true na-

see this

tion,

Declare that the light dispels darkness,

ture.

what

Get

The indwelling Christ

to fear.

and

spirits.

none other ÂŽ God but Me. 8

Song

ii.

Âť Isa. xly.

15.

THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD "

Once

rid the race of fear;

would spring up.

Now

and

this

done in each one of you.

165

love, joy, peace,

must

positively be

fact, the

universe

has been conquered when you have won.

own

Face

life

of the I will

and circumstances with the certainty

with you and in you.

Try from

you honour God.

Only thus

this

moment

forget the small you, false and shadowy, it off

for ever.

Here

You can

Lord.

love thoughts, so

are in

Cleanse

From

and cast

the whole mentality with

fill

making a

rich

for the

soil

You have nothing God and God is in you.

would say that only love

growth of good.

You

Your

Christ has conquered sin and death.

fear.

your hearts, and not your garments.

within must the true forgiveness arise, and

not from without.

clean' eveiy whit,

whole

perfect. Be positive; know that you must make your circumstances, and not wait for events and then act. You are blind and miserable till

and

your inner

eyes, " the eyes of

ing, are opened.^' 10 Joel

ii.

Eph.

the understand-

" It is high time to

13.

;

Job xxxli. 8

;

Prov. xx. 27.

awake

CHEIST IN YOU

166 out of

sleep."

Use these God-given powers for

the good of every one.

God.

God and man

trust are 12

Rom.

There are one.

nothing outside Confidence and

the antidotes for anxiety and fear.

xiii. 11.

13 isa. xxxii. 17,

xxx.

15.

FIFTH LESSON THE WILL OF GOD

WHAT

a long time

takes us to under-

stand the will of God!

You

often use the phrase,

made up my mind." meaning,

"I have

This has a great deal of

you pause to consider

for in that

it,

very process you begin to bring into manifestation the desire of the mind. see a

wrong condition

circumstances ;

my make up my

I will

forces of the universe, seen

You lightly

mind,

You mentally

shall not be."

complish your

Thus you say

set in

mentality,

mind, this

motion the

and unseen,

to ac-

will.

see, it is

impossible to live carelessly or

on the spiritual plane, and these lessons

would be

no use to any one who has not been

aroused to true spiritual consciousness, the consciousness of the divine humanity, the I

How

can the will of

through

life,

God be

Am.

expressed except

through humanity, in the hearts and 167

CHRIST IN YOU

168

minds of beings who

know

fore

exist in Himself?

that the will of

God

There-

operative in

yourself.

Then how sire

is it

that the things

do not come to

Because

deep

us,

you may

down

thoughts, and purposes there as

will

and

de-

ask.

all is

your

desires,

an undercurrent,

were, the thought within the thought, the

desire within the desire,

and what you most truly

desire is always at the root of all your fleeting

Have

impressions and moods of the moment.

you not often

felt

that the very thing you desire

not for your eternal good?

glimmer, that faint suggestion,

you that

making your

life.

Well, that very is

from the

self of

You know within

yourself the very quality, the very experiences best suited for your highest good.

Once

j^ou

give full play to this subtle suggestion behind .all

your thinking, you are one with the will of

God, which

your own

will.

This

of the spirit, heed its w^hisperings.

the voice

not sin

against the Holy Ghost, or you will lose eye and

ear and become blind and deaf. 1 isa.

XXX. 21.

the plane

THE WILL OF GOD

169

of the senses this is most disastrous, because

you

are just where you are to do the will of God.

your meat and

drink.

delicate

subtle is this holy inner voice that

very quiet and meek,

and so

you must be

you would hear

^ it.

Let

Jesus speak to you again and again, read the Gospels until you are led more and more to

move the self.

veil

re-

which hides you from your true

have only answered your question, but

hope to speak to you again on this subject. Peace, Heavenly Grace.

your

is 2

John

God

lives in you,

life. iv. 34.

ÂŤ Ps. xxv. 9.

SIXTH LESSON WORKEES TOGETHER WITH GOD

HEBE

really is

no such thing as space.

For you, as for

us, the spiritual

law of

attraction operates, but your conscious-

ness of limitation, of distance, makes you blind

and deaf

to a great extent.

your unfoldment, to desire if

we w ish

later period of

is to possess.

Thus,

to see you, our thought is a vital force,

are in your actual presence immediately,

are so close to you. swift

;

Thought

is so potent, so

every thought of ours becomes an outward

expression ; although you

not think without a

nomena

of time

to us.

They

may not

result.

you think from the

see

Be very

it,

and sense are

you can-

careful that

spiritual plane.

The phe-

like children's toys

will be discarded as

the higher consciousness. is

At a

What

you dwell in

divides us

now

simply and only that you are not dwelling

in,

not breathing, seeing, hearing from the spiritual plane.

Every

effort to rise helps another; 170

but

WORKERS TOGETHER WITH GOD see to ful,

and

171

that you are watchful, vigilant, purposeloving.

You partake breath of God.

of the inflow

This

and outflow of the

best described as waves,

impelled by an irresistible law, and your whole planet

continually being swept over by this

mighty healing breath.

explaining this for

purposes of healing, and hope to explain later that there are periods of outflow and recall.

wish you to breathe forth your healing cur-

rents in unison with the almighty good.

Your

co-operation is necessary for individual needs.

Noon and

sunrise are good times for raising

conditions of false consciousness into the great

One, especially the conditions feverish

you as

and nervous, or the consciousness of

weakness. I see

known

Other cases I hope to explain as

you coming into contact; but previous to

the expression of your desire for the healing of

the body and a change of circumstances, hreathe

out a strong positive assurance of man's unity tcith

God,

Your highest good

is to

banish the

idea of separation from God.

Bands

of us are striving to influence

men and

CHRIST IN YOU

172

women

to free

tories,

prisons,

your land of asylums, reforma-

and similar

Their

places.

mates could be helped and healed so

in-

much more

oasily if they could be brought in contact with

those

who have

to teach.

learned the great truths

we come

do not give these lessons for any

other reason than to help your world, which

love.

hope to be of

your world from suffering, which ignorance.

i)ractical use in freeing is

caused by

we do not mean that you but how can you begin to learn

this

escape discipline,

your real purpose for being age to false conditions?

you are in bond-

God

did not purpose

that your life should be spent in overcoming false conditions.

has a magnificent purpose,

a part for you to take in His work.

God self

bless

you and keep you

and dead to

sin.

Amen.

alive unto

Him-

SEVENTH LESSON THE CREATIVE BNERGY is

the silent, creative great One, dwelling

ITin the abyss of each, in whom we have our being. the centre of

life.

live

and

being taken within

Again I am in the centre

power, but this time I remember that I have

ways

The process

of al-

of creation is

always

present, it is not a past series of events.

There

been.

no sense of past or future, but of a continu-

ous present.

silent energy

and the lack

when life

have already described the great,

in the centre, but this time the desire of

upon me, the sense

beauty and colour. the

and sound

of colour

virility

I desire

the positive one,

and

and strength of the atmosphere

around me lacks

With the

of lack.

its opposite.

desire I will,

and soon the

is the producer, directs

new power about me.

forces.

will,

which

There

great arc of light, and I become conscious of 173

surrounded by a

CHEIST IN YOU

174

heart within myself.

The

I love, I will!

arc,

which was of a varying shade of gold, slowly

be-

comes roseate and glowing; the electrons of light are no longer colourless, but softened and shaded

by pink.

Love expresses the beautiful in colour.

answered in myself.

both positive

and negative, male and female; and out of this consciousness, beauty of form and shade seem born ; yet as

write this I

has always been, though

will

and

desire.

and millions

of shades

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

and yellow.

red, blue,

know bring

that it

i)erf ection

into evidence

Colours surround me,

seem

from three

to evolve

They harmonize and sound and

blend,

and the place seems

form.

I have desired, I have willed.

full

The

col-

ours emit the sound, and soon I see the forms of flowers.

These colours cannot be seen on the

physical plane, though they are full of light and breath.

As you

see, this is

extremely

difficult

to describe, as also for you to imagine, but the

colours breathe and live, and are inter-related to

sound and form.

There seems no division be-

tween the moving shades and the appearance of elegant and delightful shapes.

Truly I

in a

THE CREATIVE ENERGY place of beauty, which is one.

There

mony

many

parts.

The great energy

ened by beauty, and love

for long,

One

out of the two in

a sense of completeness, a har-

The teacher

bom

175

speaks.

is soft-

the breath of this

life.

You could not bear

this

and the meaning

will unfold to you.

dew contains what you have The Creator is in truly, the whole of God is in the By this know that space is a

single drop of

seen with the eye of the soul. the atom.

Yes,

blade of grass.

meaningless word on the true plane of being.

Everything

in the universal soul

mind alone comprehends. ative,

The one

;

the Christ

Self is cre-

having both natures.

In heaven there in marriage. of Christ.

This

neither marrying nor giving is

the highest consciousness

EIGHTH LESSON GOD THE ONLY LIFE

WANT

to tell

you how

real,

how

true

it is,

that nothing exists outside God, and I can

best help you by the description of an ex-

perience of

own.

Life both here

and there

a constant unfoldment, always fresh, a con-

tinual revelation. I

have already told you of

and now may

the spiritual world, of

life

entrance into I

speak of one

steps into a greater fulness of God, into

more abundant?

had learnt many

things,

the spiritual faculties were quickened,

and

always learning that our especial need

was have

greater capacities for God, to do as Paul says

continually It

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; " Yield

yourselves

was most wonderful

unto

God.''

discover that

thought instantly produced an outer environ-

ment; in once. 1

Rom.

fact,

For

thought came into being at

instance, I desire quiet for medita-

vi. 13.

17^

GOD THE ONLY LIFE tion

—

instantly in a grove

ness, inviting repose.

I think

and

177 all is still-

music

— and

once I hear snblimest strains, ravishing and melodious.

when we

that awaits us

to help,

and

;

of helping

You

no secret

I desire

are climbing to their own.

Be ye holy

holy (healthy), says God.

Happiness and health and is

who

them

longing desire for you.

(healthy), for

There

music gently

are in God.

sent to people

up and oh the joy This

— the

Truly, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,

ceases. all

satisfied

initiation,

all

good

God.

no mystery in God.

only need the heart of the child to^ enter

the kingdom.

It is true in

a beautiful sense

nothing hidden which shall not be

that there

revealed.

All things are open and are yours.

You

are not always able to understand because

you are not that all

Even

sufficiently evolved;

yours, for ye are God's.

this exquisite joy

knowledge that

seem enough, and 2

Lev. xix.

»Mark

but never forget

x. 15.

around me, even the

thought made me, did not longed intensely^ for * Ps. xlii. 1.

God

CHEIST IN YOU

178

above

all else, until I realized

This thought, this

the Infinite could satisfy me. desire,

was not answered

that nothing but

in the usual way, but

one of the shining ones who go in and out among us stood beside

me and

said, "

Your prayer

the cleansing waters?

the

same time the

familiar words

for

heard."

spirit within repeated the

" Yes, yes," I said, "

Are you ready

shall

all

surely find Me."

for God," and I

knees in an attitude of prayer.

fell

Then began

the cleansing by the waters from the Kiver of

God.

From

within

made me aware

stream, that

heart.

thought

limitations

possessed

there

arose

a cleansing

of its workings in

must

relatives,

go.

friends,

who

home,

must learn that God must enlarge my heart with greater loves, more friendships. There are no limitations where God claiming

waters were

personalities.

God

all.

is,

The

bitter,

but you must do this for the

Your

ideas and thoughts are not

great gain.

God's thoughts, nor are your ways God's ways.ÂŽ

Ah, B

it is true,

Jer. xxix.

and

it will

be your eternal good to â&#x20AC;˘ Isa. 1?. 8.

GOD THE ONLY LIFE know

Everything that seemed pecul-

this now.

my own was

iarly

as nothing,

179

simply swept away until

and longing only for God.

was The

Angel spake again with great love and tenderness

—

Thou

know

shalt

ing? "

With great

thyself

this test

and know noth-

art thou content to be nothing,

faltering I answered " Yes.''

The reply came, " Know God, and thou I think there

Be.''

was a long time

shalt

of quiet.

seemed to become conscious of fresh surroundings.

seemed in the centre of the worlds, in a

place of strength; I was conscious of the heart of love, far above

and comfort

understanding

of a great strength,

pose the best description for you

God

in the atmosphere of

— wanting

but

God

yet

aware

that

understand,

saw the blindness

this

that I seemed

— knowing

would

take

Soon

shadow, in pain. tell

saw our

and aeons this

earth,

men; though dwelling

wondrous love they were content

must

nothing

good;

know and grow of

I sup-

but

heavenly consciousness. I

and yet

nothing

— the rest

to live in

"Lord, I must go to them, I

them," I thought.

The

voice of the

CHRIST IN YOU

180

Spirit spoke within

there is none

—"

else.''

God, and beside

Amen, Amen, Amen,''

I answered.

To dwell consciously in God is and outbreathe harmony and love. out limits, I revel in freedom, sin, sickness,

all,

with-

cannot think

or death except to remove them;

they have become to is all

to inbreathe

less

God

than vapour.

and no one can be outside God.

Even your very stones and rocks are interpenetrated by the God-life. " Awake, thou that sleepest, arise

from the dead

light of the world."

;

Christ

false,

mount

the

and

into

the

for a thousand voices

to proclaim the truth that nothing is but

Rise out of your

God!

shadowy consciousness consciousness

love.

He maketh my ^ feet like hinds' feet." I know that in me the Christ has ascended to His " Truly

Father; henceforth "the Father and I are one."

the Trinity of the Three are one, and yet

three.

Spirit is substance, nothing can be real except T Isa.

xlv. 18.

John

viU. 12.

Hab. UL

19.

GOD THE ONLY LIFE

181

God but

joy of joys, as I met relatives,

and dear

ones, I knew,

;

how more than

f rieuds,

ever they

were mine beyond thought of loss or separation All I had lost

thought

You

Rise, dear heart,

You

true

way

God's

are to express them.

and take your place with

may know God

Love never

God's

are yet to learn that all realities

are in God's thought.

that you

of losing,

the only reality; the world

thought.

was the fear

only, just

where you

Begin now.

faileth.

to bring in light

and

love,

This

us, are.

the

conquering

death by the sacrifice of the body of sense, to rise in

newness

I will

life.

come again.

perience only to help.

have told you of this exI

would not have done so

unless you were able to apprehend

it.

It will be

meaningless to the seekers of wonders and signs.

You must let self utterly melt away may come to His own.

that Christ

10 1 Cor. xiii. 8.

n Rom.

vi. 4.

in order

NINTH LESSON HE GAVE HIMSELF

you unfold in the consciousness of God,

many One

the purifying process of pain.

and grander

It is safer

viewed,

inexplicable things become clear.

it is

Have you

sure to perfect the soul.

the shallowness and the empti-

not sometimes

felt

ness of joy?

I tell

true joy

to suffer, because, rightly

— the

you

it is

impossible to

know

— until you

have

heights of joy

known corresponding depths

of pain.

the process called " the refiner's fire." cleansing;

it is

good, and not

the joy of Heaven being,

— should

This ^

It is

True joy

evil.

—

saturate the whole

and touch the inner consciousness with a

sense of its eternity, its everlastingness; and the suffering

enter

As I

in.

has prepared a place that joy

Learn the wisdom in these words

sorrowful, yet

Mai.

iii,

may

—

always rejoicing."

2 isa. ix. 2, 3,

182

2 Cor.

vl. 10.

HE GAVE HIMSELF Now

188

would show you the difference between

necessary suffering and useless pain, which is disorder; likewise between true joy and transient false

Divine

joy.

humanity

can

attain

throne of the universe only by the

This

Cross.

the

way

the

way

of the

not too

of sacrifice.

hurriedly dismiss the pearl in the old orthodox teaching, it served its day

When man

efficiently.

and generation most

thought of himself as a

separate and outside unit, only this teaching

could help his unfoldment, so thank

ladder of dead creeds the divine bottles

Man

the

;

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dead

arising;

new wine

God

selves.

gins,

Be-

your danger; the suffering

all

be-

that hinders the uprising of

The Son

There

much more

His approach.

to be revealed to you, but

leave these messages with you to help

Matt

come, and your very experiences of pain

and suffering are the heralds

tree.

which shall make the path by cleansing

and burning up

of life cries out for space

the divine in earth, air, and sea.

God

But now

has burst the old

and freedom, as the sap does in the ware, for here

for the

ix. 17.

you

184

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Him, and ye are

Christ's,

and Christ

THE END

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