April 1950 Science of Mind Magazine by Matthew Thompson

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contents The Best Is Yet To Be

Ernest Holmes Leon Knap

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What Was the Resurrection?

W. L. Bank

"From Glory to Glory"

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"Metaphysics With a Chuckle"

Raymond Charles Barker

Marguerite E. Brown

Edgar White Burrill

Gladys Goin Lent

Don Blanding

Where Will You Spend Your Eternity?

Resurrection Contrasted

The Elements of Character Samaritans Anonymous

"If Ye Then Be Risen . . . "

Elsie Grafius

Christian D. Larson

Charles Carson

Maude Allison Lathem

Stanley W. Bartlett

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How Religious Science Has Helped Me The Parents' Science of Mind Clinic .

Willa Fogle

A Hobby With Words

Grenville Kleiser

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Report of First Annual Congress

Charles Kinnear

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Directory of Religious Science Activities

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into thy hands soul to be immortal. "In my I 1 I coinmencl my spirit."Father's house are many manCai These historic words, sions." He taught that this is ascribed to Jesus at the close b ofut one of the innumerable p his mission in this life, imply-lanes for the soul on its everexpanding pathway of self-uning as they do a supreme confoldment. And today, after fidence in the universe and in two thousand years of the immortality of the soul, arnearly e history have passed between, fraught with peculiar signifit h e t h r o ngs of people who come cance to us at the Easter season. o u t t o E aster services bear eloAnd those other words, spoken q u e n t t e s timony to this man's to the woman at the empty teaching and to that hope sepulcher when she said, "They w h i c h is u ppermost in people's have taken away my Lord, and t h o u g h t — t he belief in, and the I know not where they have celebration of, the immortality laid him" — "I who speak unto of their o w n soul. you am he"; and still another thought given to his disciples Since manfirstbegan to medwhen one of them asked Jesuitate s, deeply and earnestly upon "What is God's relationship tothe spiritual meaning of life, the dead?" and Jesus answeredt,here has always been a teach"He is not a God of the dea d, that this physical plane is ing but of the living: for all livebut a dense manifestation of a unto him" — all imply that this more subde and ethereal plane, great spiritual genius had penet-hat this physical body is but a trated the mystery of birth, counterpart of an immaterial human experience and physicalbody. For, "there are bodies disintegration. He knew the celestial and bodies terrestrial --<• pafcATHER,

"THE

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ity. " H e is not a G o d of the

. . . so also is the resurrection of the dead . . . it is sown in weak-

dead, but of the living." T h i s

ness; it is raised in power: It is

answer which Jesus gave to the

sown a natural body; it is raised

inquiry, " W h a t is God's rela-

a spiritual body. T h e r e is a nat-

tionship to the dead?" is identi-

ural body, and there is a spirit-

cal with the answer we should

ual body." T h i s passage, which

expect a man to give who had

has been familiar to all of us

already plunged

since

material surface and discovered

childhood, has

beneath

the

significant meaning to us today

the spiritual Cause. In the phi-

than ever before, for today even

losophy of Jesus there was no

the scientific world is penetrat-

l o n g i n t e r m e d i a t e stage b e -

ing the mystery of the mind

tween this life and the next.

and of the soul, and, at least

D i d he not say to the one who

theoretically, has resolved

appeared

the

to die with him â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

m a t e r i a l w o r l d i n t o l i n e s of

"Today shalt thou be with me

force and energy. It is becoming

in paradise"?

increasingly difficult for a mate-

how satisfying! T h e sun cannot

rialist to find a peg upon which

set upon the glory of the soul.

to hang his hat. H e is not at h o m e i n the n e w

How

brief but

' T o d a y shalt thou be with

universe

me in paradise." Jesus implied

which science proclaims, even

that the man would carry his

as he has never been at home in

complete personality along with

the universe which spiritual in-

himâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;his ability to know and to

tuition has announced.

be known, to see and to be seen,

" F o r now we see through a

to walk, talk, commune

with

glass, darkly; but then face to

and understand his new

face: now I know in part; but

vironment. N o t only does the

then shall I know even as also

soul long for such a continuity,

I am k n o w n . " H o w true it is

but reason demands

that our objective world is but

immortality is either a principle

a faint representation of that

in the universe or it has no ex-

invisible realm where

istence.

the

it.

en-

Consequently,

Now

if im-

thought, will and imagination

ortality is a principle, it must

fused

this

be true for every living soul. It

thing which we call personal-

would not be rational to assume

into

one,

project

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that the Divine Creative Intelligence incarnates in some and then withdraws Its presence from them, nor can intelligence accept the proposition that some people are immortal while others are not. It certainly does not seem reasonable to suppose that immortality is a thing to be bargained for over some cosmic counter. How much more sane a position Robert Browning took when he said, "All that is at all, lasts ever past recall." And again when he said, "I trust that good shall come at last, alike, to all." The spiritually illumined of the ages have taught the immortality of every man, the continuity of every man's individualized stream of God-consciousness and self-awareness. We may desecrate our spiritual natures; we may temporarily dishonor or disown them; we may temporarily prolong the advent of our heaven, but since "He is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto him," somewhere, under some condition, we shall all awake from our sleep. This is the meaning of that saying, "Awake thou that sleepest, and 4

arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." "There are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial... so also is the resurrection of the dead . . . it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body." What does this mean? Mind and Spirit are not in the body. The body is within Mind and Spirit. Mind and Spirit operate through the body, but are not caught by it. "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped . . . and there shall be no more death." This physical body, which nature has provided for our use on this plane, is real enough or we would not have it, but it is not eternal. It is some part of the flux and flow of the activity of Life upon Itself on the physical plane, but it is not flesh and blood that inherit the kingdom of the next plane. This, perhaps, is what Jesus referred to when he implied that if they destroyed his physical body he would raise up another like unto it. And I presume it is what Socrates meant when

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that same door open before them as they make their entrance into the next? All of our physical senses may be reproduced in the mind alone and it is the mind and spirit which are eternal, not the body, not the human form. When we leave this plane we shall carry with us everything which makes for the warmth and color of our human personality, since "all that is at all, lasts ever past recall." The uniqueness of individual selfexpression, the charm of personal contact, are non-physical qualities of the soul and may be expressed on one plane as easily as another. That which seems death to us is really resurrection to the one who passes from this experience into the next. The principle of evolution has no backward glances; it gathers the experiences of the past and pushes these experiences into the future. Its spiral is ever upward and onward, it never retraces its steps. This is the glorious conception which we may have this Easter season when we commemorate the fidelity of one man to his idea of life, which was so complete that he demon-

he told them they would have to catch Socrates before they could kill him. There is a spiritual body and a material body, and they do not interfere with each other. It is the nature of consciousness to take form and there must be some form on every plane if there is to be self-realization. But when, by reason of any fact, this human form is no longer a fit instrument through which the soul may express on this plane, then the Spirit definitely severs Itself from this form and "passes to inherit a residence afresh." "In my Father's house are many mansions." Just as nature has provided that when we enter this life we are met by loving friends, so no one passes into the next life alone. "And with the dawn, their happy faces smile, Which we have loved long since, and lost awhile." Who is there who has passed the meridian of this experience which we call middle-age, who does not have as many friends on one plane as on the other? And though we see the door close behind them as they make their exit from this life, does not 5

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strated to his followers the indestructible reality of his own soul. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." With this in mind, should we not attach a new meaning and a new significance, a new glory to the integrity of our own soul? It seems true that wherever the logical affinity of the soul makes desirable a reunion on the next plane with those we have known on this, then such reunion is guaranteed by this affinity. Jesus brought this out very clearly to his followers, demonstrating that after he had severed his soul from his body, he remained the same personality whom they had known.

we not say with Robert Browning: "Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be, The last of life for which thefirstwas made. Our times are in His hand Who saith, 'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!' " Let us, then, seek that Divine Reality which ever enfolds us in Its eternal embrace, that Spirit which is within, around and about us, that inspiration which is the guiding star of our soul. And as we permit Eternity to make a new imprint upon our mind, to enlarge the boundaries of our spiritual horizon, to break down the intellectual barriers of our thought, then we So we are to think of our shall view the world "as one friends as faring on in the larger vast plane and one boundless life, in a more serene atmos- reach of sky," and we may walk phere, but still themselves. Can into the Light, in joy.

Let the weakest, let the humblest remember that in his daily course he can, if he will, shed around him almost a heaven. Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness â&#x20AC;&#x201D; these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;F. W. ROBERTSON 6

Cross Leon Knapp i | R ÂŁ Y O U lacking in % health, happiness or supply? If so, you are probably thinking horizontal instead of vertical. If you form your conclusions by what you see and hear, you are thinking horizontal. The appearance of things is your horizon and horizon means: "bound or limited." If you are lacking in anything, it is because you are thinking along a horizontal line, and a horizontal line is a M I N U S line. You are thinking minus God or Truth. The answer to your lack is to cross your minus line with 7

the vertical line of Truth, for vertical means verity or truth, the highest point. When you cross that minus line you immediately have a plus sign, or the symbol of Christianity, the abundant life. Jesus said: "Judge not according to the appearance," for to judge by appearances is to judge without Truth. Truth is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Your earthly horizon is changing constantly and has no stability. Your judgment, based on what you see has no support, no sustaining quality,

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no verity. Just as a cross needs a your love in service to all of vertical bar to sustain its hori- God's creation, for God can do zontal bar, we too must cross nothing for you until you reour horizontal line with the ver- lease His love. A God of Love tical line of Truth to sustain us, can only help you by working to give us support in our con- through you. He has no other tact with a changing world. way to care for His children. To If you are a business man love God is to walk the vertical who thinks first of profit, you line. When I was a boy, I lived in are thinking horizontal or minus. If your first considera- a valley city. The street I lived tion in any kind of bargaining on was very long, so I thought is service to your fellowman, you then, when I trudged off to are thinking vertical, or at the school. Then one day we had highest point, and that is think- a school picnic on the summit of ing with God Mind. Your busi- one of the great hills overlookness is then supported by ing the valley which nestled my Truth, the same now and for- little home town. I was amazed ever. If you are a clock watcher, when I looked down upon my you are living on the minus line street, so small and insignificant of lack or separation from God's and but a tiny part of the great abundance. If you put love into panorama which my eyes beyour work, give more than you held from this high point. I had are paid for, you will lose your increased my horizon, and for selfishness and find the abun- the first time in my life I realdance, or God's plus, for those ized what a wonderful and inthat love Him. Gratitude for teresting city my little home God's love carries you high up town had become. I was up high the vertical line of Truth which enough for my eyes to claim all automatically increases your the added things. When we horizon with all the added seek the Truth back of all manifestation, we are seeking the things. If you want to be loved, if Kingdom of Heaven, God, or you are lonely, if you want the Truth, the highest point. greater health, get off the minus To think vertical is to rise in line of thought by releasing consciousness of an omnipres8

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ent God, an all-wise and loving Father calling us to come ever higher that we may know there is no need to be anxious for the things of the earth, for as we rise higher in gratitude and loving service, our minus line is crossed with the vertical line of Truth and keeps expanding as we continue to rise. Here you have the analogy of cross thinking, or the proof that God has provided all things for His children. The mountain climber carries no excess weight when scal-

ing the peaks. He travels light. We too must unload the burden of resentment, worry and selfishness. These things hold us in bondage to the minus line of our small horizon. We rise higher only by giving and to give is to grow, to grow is to use what we have in loving service to all of God's creation. It is then from this high point of spiritual living that love pluses our minus line and all lack is crossed out by our new viewpoint of God's wisdom, beauty and power.

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STAFF WRITERS: Dr. Reginald C. Armor, Dr. W. L. Barth, Dr. Stanley W. Bartlett, Don Blanding, Dr. J. Lowrey Fendrich, Jr., Dr. Ernest Holmes. CONTRIBUTORS: Dr. Edgar White Burrill, Dr. Ralph Waldo Trine, Dr. Christian D. Larson, Dr. Raymond Charles Barker, Dr. Fletcher A. Harding, Dr. Dan Custer, Dr. Elmer M. Giflord, Rev. Paul Martin Brunet, Dr. Robert H . Bitzer, Hope Gould Robinson, Dr. Wila Fogle, Rabbi Ernest Trattner, Grenville Kleiser, Dr. Sheldon Shepard, Dr. Annie S. Greenwood, Eugene E. Thomas, Stella Terrill Mann, Ella Pomeroy, Derek Neville, Marguerite E. Brown.

What Was the Resurrection? W. L. Barth rr^T^C^iTHOUT question, the \ T a ? # most distinctive reli\J\J gious festival observed in our Southland is that of Easter. Perhaps in no other place are such colorful and imposing Easter pageants presented as in California. The nearby mountain areas lend themselves admirably to suggestions of the broken hills of the Holy Land and of the wondrous thing recorded to have there taken place in the early dawn of that first Easter morning of the long ago. Multiplied thousands of pilgrims of the Christian faith rise long before dawn on Easter Sunday to attend one of the many open air gatherings, where, led by great choirs of singers, they greet the dawning day with reverent worship and joyful song. Dimly, perhaps with feelings not quite understood, the great throngs of worshippers have inborn to them a sense of the 10

eternality of all life. The renewal of the the earth under the spell of the advent of spring, the awakening of nature to the newness of life and beauty, the ecstasy of birds in their morning song, the jubilant hymns of triumph of the multitude â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all these are parts of a great God-consciousness, inbreathing a hope and a faith in the life immortal, of which all the ages have dreamed. It is thus no accident that has fixed the Eastertide in the early spring of the year; for spring is to mankind the ever-renewed evidence of Life. There is no death in nature; there is only living and living again, Thus the Easter season, ever returning to the earth in the miracle of springtime, renews in human consciousness the ever-deepening wonder of Life â&#x20AC;&#x201D;that we may have Life and have It more abundantly. We sense the truth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; deeper and o u r

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more convincing than logic — that the mysterious Power and Wisdom that yearly weaves the colors and forms of the flowers and all vegetation is at the root of our own life, ever quickening it into ideals of beauty that shall never fade. Easter is thus the ever-recurring cosmic symbol of man's deepest faith in the soul's inherent immortal nature —a nature that shall at the last blossom into the richness and fullness of its original and instinctive Life. But to this somewhat instinctive faith of mankind in the deeper meaning of the Easter season, there is a specific truth of which it speaks to the enlightened heart; and that is the beatific truth enshrined in the Christian faith, that at least one of the Sons of Men transcended the power of death and the grave and returned to earth after his burial to bear witness to the deathlessness of Spirit and the immortality of human life. This startling and wellnigh unbelievable fact is, at the last, what the Easter faith means to the Christian world of today, even as it was the central fact of the unquenchable faith of the early Church. 11

The original story upon which this altogether untoward incident in the life of the race is based, is written for us with rare winsomeness and charm in the New Testament records of our Christian faith. It is the story of the most gracious of men—he whose only crime was that he went about doing good, seeking by the most rational means to bring to mankind the full, deep meaning of life — crucified on a cross as a blasphemer and malefactor. In deepest sorrow his immediate friends laid his body in a borrowed tomb, and in his burial they buried as well all their dearest hopes, for they had hoped that this was he who should restore to Israel their former national glory and establish anew the Kingdom— the dream of every enlightened Jew. But now their hopes were crushed. Their Master had died a felon's death and in bewilderment and utter despair they went back to their daily tasks, broken hearted and disillusioned. What now transfigured that story of defeat into a gospel of a triumphant and victorious faith? This — that because of

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what had been revealed to mankind has stood abashed them, beyond the peradventure and trembling, not knowing of a doubt, they believed that whether to think of all these their Master and Teacher had records as childish legends or a transcended the power of death revelation of the most tranand the grave and had made scendent truth of all the ages. himself known unto them. It is clearly evident to every Small wonder that many sin- sincere student that something cere and earnest souls have strange and startling took place since that day doubted the on this first Easter morning. truth of the Apostles' tale. May What was it? No other event they not have been deceived? in history has been subjected to May not their great love for such thorough and keen investheir dear friend have created tigation. The ablest thinkers of within them illusions which the world are fully convinced in time colored their willing that something occurred on faith? that eventful day that has inThis we know to be true: fluenced the life and thought the resurrection faith of the of the race as no other event early followers of Jesus ushered known to man. Destroy or inin a new era into the faith of validate that faith and the the ages. Men had always be- Christian faith has ceased to lieved in the immortality of the be, for the heart of the Chrishuman soul, but never before tian faith is not a crucified Jesus, but a Living Christ. had this faith been demonThe question that then prestrated to the race. Here was a body of plain, honest men who sents itself is: What is the retestified and proclaimed that ality that underlies our Easter they no longer hoped in these faith? How was this reality things; they knewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for had not manifested? In this age of their hearts thrilled with won- exact science and comparative der and joy as their friend met freedom from superstition and with them and made himself folk-lore, is there any corroboknown to them after death had rative evidence that makes this wrought its work upon him? happening of nineteen hunSmall wonder that the faith of dred years ago creditable and 12

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understandable? These ques- membered, took place at least tions are not asked in the spirit six years after the events of the of skepticism, but in a sincere first Easter morning, and Paul desire to know the truth. puts his experience to himself Perhaps the best clue to a on the same level with the clear understanding of that earlier visions of the disciples, something that transpired on as coming from the same the Easter morning of the long source and having to do with ago, is the fact that the earliest the same ineffable reality. St. written accounts of the event Paul's entire gospel message, as are not those in the four Gos- that of the other Apostles, was pels, but in the life and history a gospel of Resurrection. He of Paul, to whom the Living believed in a risen Christ beChrist was the one great reality cause he had seen him. What, of personal experience. Twenty then, was the nature of that years or more before the gospel noon-day vision that Paul exstory of the Christ was written, perienced on his way to Paul had put into writing the Damascus and which he infifteenth chapter of First Co- terpreted as an appearance of rinthians; and in this letter he the Risen Living Christ? Manstates his faith that Christ did ifestly, it was a subjective experise from the dead, that he ap- rience, a spiritual insight â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an peared to Peter, then to the unveiling of that world of Twelve, then to five hundred Reality, ever present but maniof the faithful at once. "And fest only in those all too rare fitially he was seen hy me also, human experiences when conas though I were born at the sciousness is clarified to behold wrong time." The experience that which is hidden to our to which Paul here refers was material sense. It was in this his vision on the way to sense that Paul afterward Damascus, when, "a sudden spoke of his experience: "It light flashed around him from pleased God to reveal His Son heaven" and he heard a voice, in me." which said, "I am Jesus, whom The experience, without you are persecuting." doubt, was an inner one, that This experience, be it re- of a spiritual force from the 13

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unseen, to which his inner soul life responded. That this clue is in harmony with the facts is in harmony with the impression left upon the minds of some of the immediate disciples of Jesus in that it left them in doubt, wondering what precise activity lay behind the glimpse they had of the Risen Christ. The spiritual implications inherent in this well-known Easter story are inspiring to every student of Religious Science. The psychic character of the story is manifest to every student of our present-day psychology. The vital Christian faith in a "Risen Christ" is not only unimpaired but abundantly substantiated and corroborated by innumerable psychic manifestations of like nature in which the departed unmistakably made known the fact that they were still alive and active in some higher sphere of life. "Modern science, which began by limiting the human horizon, is now enlarging it on every side. It is discovering that the instruments it uses are not so adequate as it once thought for sizing up man and his destiny. It cannot explain him by its cycle of laws. *4

At a dozen points he breaks through them into another sphere, and his history breaks through likewise." In other words, we are gradually learning the truth, known to such high spirits as Jesus and the mystics of all ages, that our universe is a spiritual order, regnant with spiritual meaning and life. Man, essentially, is Spirit, here and now, and ever and again there breaks in upon his dull, drab life of purely material activity a flash, an unveiling, a glimpse of the Real World of Spirit, bearing witness to his essential relationship to a higher world of Reality than this transient world of time and sense. The central fact of our Easter faith is that Jesus revealed himself as alive to his friends after his death on the cross, and they knew it was he. And it is this fact of the certainty of the continuity of life after the episode we call death that is the central fact being made known to our present day by the patient researchers of psychic science. Truly, if man is immortal at all, he is immortal now. Death does not usher us into eternity.

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Eternity is present with us here and now. It needs but a higher way of thinking and living to make us aware of the Power of an endless life that transcends all we have believed and feared of death. A r g u ments i n this sphere of thinking are useless. O u r logic, we know, convinces no one, but there is a realm of life where with undimmed vision we look

RESURRECTION? through the shadows of mortality into the life of the i m mortal. T h e n shall we know, wherever our paths may lead, at last they shall lead us to H i m who is our life, and i n W h o m we shall renew our fellowship with those of our dear dead, whom we have loved long since and lost awhileâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for our G o d is not the G o d of the dead, but of the Living.

Weekly Study Outline From the Revised Edition, ' T h e Science of M i n d , " Textbook Arranged by Special Church Committee A P R I L 16, 1950 Your W o r d Has Power

A P R I L 2, 1950 The March of Triumph

A p r i l 10 to 15 incl., R E F E R E N C E S :

March 27 to A p r i l 1, incl., R E F E R E N C E S : Psalm 2 3 ; Textbook, Pages 118 t o 1 2 2 , " L i m i t l e s s M e d i u m " through " C h r i s t and A n t i - C h r i s t " ; Page 494, " B e Strong In T h e L o r d " ; Questions and Answers, Page 35, " U n i fying the Self with the W h o l e . "

L u k e 4 : 3 1 - 3 7 ; Textbook, 95,

Pages 90 to

"Creative M e d i u m , Subjective Inand L a w , " Questions

telligence Answers,

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Page 118, " L a w o f N o n - r e -

sistance."

A P R I L 9, 1950 Life Is Immortal Now

A P R I L 23, 1950 Abundance Is Mine

A p r i l 3 to 8 incl., R E F E R E N C E S : John 4 : 7 - 2 1 ; Textbook, Page 371, " T h e M e a n i n g of Immortality" and Pages 372 to end of first paragraph 3 7 7 ; Questions and Answers, Page 154, "Immortality E x p l a i n e d . "

A p r i l 17 to 22 i n d . , R E F E R E N C E S : Matthew 1 4 : 1 4 - 2 1 ; Textbook, Pages 266 to 270, " N o t Something for N o t h i n g " and Page 450, " T h e Concept of a Successful M a n , " Questions and Answers, Page 32, " T h i n k i n g T h r o u g h . "

A P R I L 30, 1950 Tension or Attention A p r i l 24 to 29 incl., R E F E R E N C E S : Proverbs 3; Textbook, Pages 244 to 247, " N e r v e T r o u b l e " ; Page 579, " C o n c e n t r a t i o n " ; Questions and Answers, Page 52, " H o w T o Concentrate." r

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From Glory to Glory Raymond Charles Barker can inhibit the man who knows God, and knows Him aright. No stone can long stay before the tomb of crystallized thought, when he who is within knows Truth. Easter is the eternal symbol of the larger Man, the greater Thought and the perfect Mind. We who believe in God as a resurrecting Mind must bear witness of this in our lives. What Jesus did, we, too, can do, else we are in a world in which Law does not function, and this cannot be so. The Law says that what one man has done, any man may do, provided he can create the same conditions.

on his part lifted his consciousness beyond the belief in death to the belief in the eternal progression and unfoldment of man. His demonstration proved his teachings that the essential nature of man is consciousness, and consciousness cannot die with a body, but must move on in an endless progression of thought. Mary Magdelene and the other women came looking for a body. They had not yet grasped what the great teacher had told them for three years. Repeatedly he had said that he was Spirit and he was Truth, and that these great realities of man could not perish and be buried in a tomb. They are the free part of each of us; they are the essence and the guarantee of our eternal selfhood. All our limited states of mind, all our negative beliefs in sin, sickness and death merely delay the action of God through us, but

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they never stop it, for God will demonstrate Himself through man despite all of man's false conclusions. The tomb represents our own false beliefs, our own decisions that we are old, tired, sick and unhappy. No one places us in our mental tombs save ourselves, and no one frees us from them save ourselves. Christ in the midst of our minds stands ready to roll away the heavy stone of "I can't, I shouldn't," and seeks to release us into the possibilities of God that abide in man, but we must seek this inner One. All our self-analysis as to why we are in trouble is our cross; our conclusions based upon material facts and confused thinking is our tomb. Into these traps of mortal thought we walk, and

then suddenly we realize that we have been caught in the web of our own weaving. As we turn to the One Presence, the One Power and the One Mind and acknowledge Its omnipotence, the stone rolls away and we walk forth as free men, because we have freed ourselves of all evil. Easter is the triumph of the Divine Nature of man over his own misconceptions of what he is. It is the proof that we, too, can walk free from any problem, when we have crossed out the negatives and forgiven the trespasses of our own wrong thinking. Rise, we shall, for God is the inevitable for every man, and we are led into a higher consciousness from glory to glory, from idea to idea throughout all time to come.

There can be no science in living until one realizes that man, himself, is a creator and especially in his today is he creating his tomorrow; that the images he creates and entertains in his thought today, whether he describes those pictures in words or emphasizes them in acts or not, are the working plans which will be used by the power and intelligence that is supreme in his life in building the facts, forms and experiences of tomorrow. Tomorrow is his goal, today is his wayside and the thought life of the wayside determines the realization of the goal. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;DR. A . A . LINDSAY (Mind The Builder) 18

Marguerite E. Brown Behold, the Red Cow ow STOP T H A T ! I heard somebody say "Phooey," and saw someone wet his finger to flip this page. Don't be like that. If you do, you'll be sorry. But for those who simply must have a profound and intellectual statement to justify such a tide in the name the day I become convinced that I have served the well-being of mankind as greatly as has the red cow, on that day will I know that I have indeed not lived in vain. How about you? So there, that ought to hold you for a while. To proceed: Here we are, you and I, going along day after day, doing just exactly as

we dum-de-dum please, giving the L A W no never-you-mind whatever. A l l at once we decide we want something. So we start saying, " L A W , gimme, gimme â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and give me lots of it." Then we sourly wonder why what we get is not allgood, all-beautiful, all-bountiful . . . I know a farmer who owns a Red Cow. He gets up early in the morning to serve her. He curries and brushes and washes her. He oils her udder. He cleans house for her and waters and feeds her. On stormy winter mornings, he serves her even more; prepares a bucket of warm mash â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even heats her water so that she can drink her fill in comfort. He strokes her nose and rubs

SCIENCE OF MIND her ears. He speaks afectionate words of good cheer to her; whistles her a merry tune; sings her a sweet song. T h e n he sits down to m i l k , and she gives h i m a great brimm i n g bucket of milk. I asked, " W h y all the lovemaking and sweet noises?" He looked surprised. " A n y thing you work w i t h has got to know you're happy, that you re for it all the way. T a k e Red C o w . She relaxes a n d lets down more m i l k . Richer, too." It figured. But all day long that farmer worked for that cow; c u l t i v a t i n g , harvesting, storing up food for her. At night, out he went again to give another f u l l treatment of v a l e t s e r v i c e , m a i d service, chef's serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and w i t h music and love pats thrown i n . T h e n again he sat down and milked, and she gave h i m a great brimming bucketful of milk. I said, "Does Red C o w own you, or do you own Red Cow? Y o u serve her morning, noon and night. W h a t does she ever do for you?" "That"s a fool question," he grinned. "She gives me milk. That's what I want from her."

O n e day I said, " W h y don't you take a few days off and come on a vacation trip w i t h me?" H i s answer was immediate and decisive. "Can't do it. Can't leave Red C o w . " A g a i n I asked, " W h i c h of you owns which?" "Before you began to pester me about it, I never thought of it," he chuckled, "but now that I do think of it, I figure it this way. A n y t h i n g a man owns, anything he makes his own, well, he's got to do it all the good he knows how or it won't do h i m any good. C o m m o n sense." That's what the man said. But suppose the story went like this: T h e farmer has this Red C o w , but he doesn't pay any attention to her at a l l . All day he goes around doing just exactly as he dum - de - dum pleases. T h i s is his life. He has to take care of himself. Let Red C o w take care of herself. But all at once he decides he wants some milk, so he goes out and shouts, "Red C o w , give me m i l k . " T h e cow looks at h i m and answers, "I can't give you milk.

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It is my nature to give you milk and I want to, but I cannot. Y o u have not served me morning, noon and night. Y o u have not kept me clean, nor nourished me w i t h good things to f u l f i l l my requirements for giving milk to you." At this, the frmer waxes angry and beats her over the head a little bit, and shouts again, "Red C o w , give me milk. Give me milk, I say." But it does no good, for he has not served her in all the good ways he knows. A n d all she can give h i m is a bucketful of nothingness, strictly from hunger . . . So, all at once we shout at the LAW, " G i m m e , and gimme lots of it, and make it all good."

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T h e LAW responds, "It is my nature to give y o u full measure, heaped up and r u n n i n g over. But you have not served me morning, noon and night. Y o u have not kept me (subjective m i n d ) clean, nor have you stored up good for me, nor nourished me in the good ways you know to f u l f i l l m y r e q u i r e m e n t s for g i v i n g m u c h good to you." T h e n we wax angry and beat the LAW over the head a little bit (blame It, blame L i f e for our lack, suffering, troubles), and we demand again, "LAW, gimme, I say. Gimme." A l l we get is a lifeful of nothingness, strictly from hunger. There you are. That's a l l .

Where Will You Spend Your Eternity 1 C T " i L T H o u G H four-fifths of the two billion people y y of the world are nonChristian, practically all believe in God and in their own immortal life. Even in darkest Africa, where the natives uncontaminated by civilized theology believe in God as Spirit, as the American Indians also did, they believe in life after death. So we may assume that practically everybody believes in everlasting life. W e know that we are living in eternity now, just as we are living somewhere i n endless space. W e are citizens not only of this world, but of infinity, and shall live eternally, But where, how, is another >roblem. In the Far East milions believe in Kismet, a fatalism that refuses man any freedom whatsoever, destined as he is, they say, to be what he is and where he is, whatever he may think or do. This is not far removed from former Western

theology, which held that man was predestined to be and do what he did, and that infants were eternally damned unless they had been properly baptizcd before they died, But Kismet fatalism is not the same as Karma, which is like our Law of Cause and Effect W e do believe that as a man t h i n k s , he becomes; that thought is causative, and out of it are the issues of life; but that we can change resulting desriny by changing our thinking, W e have been both in heaven and hell on this earth. Heaven has often been defined as the place where all our dreams are realized, and we can do all the things we were not able to do on earth. Certainly few have done here what they like best, Most have been forced into earning a living in the nearest available way, and most are misfits at that. The question as to where this future Paradise is to

SCIENCE OF MIND he is something else again; yet why not right here on earth once more? Where better? Most of us have had a fair share of happiness here, and if not we shall not find it by just leaving the body behind. It will be a relief to be free henceforth from paying rent, grocery bills, or alimony, no doubt; but Jesus said that heaven was not a place, not a geographical location somewhere out beyond the stars to which we went, but within ourselves â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a state of consciousness, harmonious, serene, and full of loving kindness to all mankind. Heaven not a place, but a condition of mind; you not a body, but spiritual consciousness; the true self invisible always; the Thinker who says: I A M ; I AM SPIRIT ming a body for a while, not a body having a spirit. And so heaven possible right here and now, as well as hell, whether i n the body or out. And how shall we spend our eternity, once free of the body? Not very differendy, at first, from the way we do now. Jesus walked from h i s tomb u n changed but glorified. H e had

a body still; he said Touch me and see that I am not a spirit; and he ate food with his disciples to prove i t H e showed them his scars. The mark of the wounds was still there, though his body was more luminous, lighter even than when he had walked to them on the water. A body of Light, our garment of the next phase. Mankind has sought symbols to represent his heaven. T h e American Indian conceived it as a happy hunting ground, where plenty of venison always hung ready i n the wigwams and tecpecs. The Mohammedan, who had plurality of wives, saw it as a paradise peopled with lovely maidens. The Puritan, influenced by St. John's Revelation, took his symbolism l i t e r a l l y , p i c t u r i n g golden streets, a walled city with jewelled gates, crowns and harps and community singing. Maybe they envied the crowned heads of earth, which seemed to have better times than their own; but few of them had ever tried to play a harp. What pandemonium if we should all start learning at once. A n d crowns are very heavy, while metal streets are hard on the feet.

WHERE WILL YOU SPEND YOUR ETERNITY? Such a static heaven does not seem rational. W e made some progress here; we shall learn more there. The Oriental idea of Nirvana, therefore, does not appeal to us; for to have our identity obliterated, like a rain drop falling into the sea, is to forego all we have won through our struggles. The one thing we have learned, surely, is character, and without individuality, buttressed at first by memory, all we have won seems futile. The Law of Justice surely rewards our victories, and we know that they are infrequendy rewarded here. Character, identity, memory are all we can take with us. It is rational to believe that we shall know as we are known. Sometimes we remember here what must have happened to us heretofore. Recurrent childhood dreams of experiences not encountered in this life are not uncommon. I used to dream of being lost in a boat at sea, and, again, of dying in a burning house. I never drowned or burned here certainly, nor had any contact with such experiences at that time. A l l of us have visited places where, suddenly, it seemed like coming

home. In a foreign land, a note of far-distant memory is struck, and we exclaim: "Why, I know this place well: I have been here before." Perhaps we have indeed. H e l l itself can only be remorse for things we did or failed to do, and inharmony will persist until we have done all possible to make them good. This idea of moral reparations is expressed in purgatory, a probationary period where our conscience perceives our errors, forgives, and is forgiven. Certainly this is more reasonable than the idea of eternal damnation, as pictured in Dore's drawings for Dante's Infemo, with the condemned souls frozen fast in ice, just their eyes showing, or stewed, fried or roasted in everlasting fire. There was Tantalus also, forever denied food and drink though it was always near at hand; Ixion bound to his wheel, and that other gendeman forever p u s h i n g great boulders up a hill, only to have them always roll back when almost at the top. Modern purgatory is shown in recent films, " A Guy Named Joe," "Here Comes M r . Jordan," 'Topper," "Universal Station," etc. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a 25

SCIENCE OF MIND sort of intermediate transfer point l i k e C h i n e s e r a i l r o a d signs: 'Tour baggage delivered in all directions.' W e sometimes remember people we have known before. When we fall in love suddenly, we say, "I feel I have known you all my life." Perhaps we have, and before, too. It is no stranger that we should come back than that we came here this time. The mystery is not that we are spirits, but that we spirits s h o u l d have b u i l t us bodies for a while. That is the miracle: not the leaving of this temple of our holy spirit, but that we who are wholly spirit should have come into this body house at all. Bernard Shaw believes that children choose their own parents for the sake of some p a r t i c u l a r lesson they themselves know they need to learn, or because they are naturally drawn to them. After all, how did you choose your mate? Was there not a mystery and a miracle there also beyond your conscious control? W e may come back to a particular place or race or limited environment to strengthen our character, just as we know here that obstacles have been a help

to us in the end. For each experience adds some wisdom, expands our vision a little more. Life after life, perhaps, we gain more compassion and tolerance, show more kindness and mercy, possess a more understanding heart. Where may we better learn it than here, among suffering mankind? It is said that great souls are ancient souls; that some voluntarily return to help humanity. Jesus asked his disciples, "Whom do men say that I am ?" For many believed him to be one of their prophets reincarnated. His name Jesus was that of Joshua, with more modern spelling; and some thought Joshua to nave been the great high priest Melchizedek come back on earth. Joshua did miracles also, and was a great spiritual leader of his people. In our own time there are authenticated cases of those who came back. Not alone in India, but in Canada, England, Australia, there have been children who have unquestionably recognized parents, homes, friends, localities, of their former incarnation. Their present parents were puzzled; tests were were made, the records are authentic; they were scientific-

WHERE WILL YOU SPEND YOUR ETERNITY? ally proved. These are of course exceptional; hut perhaps we do not as a rule come right back, or not to the same locality. W h y is it that so many White people have A m e r i c a n I n d i a n "guides"? W h y , for instance, is my mentor said to be Chinese? I love and admire the Chinese people more than most Occidentals, and I recognize Confucius as a forerunner of Jesus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he who said, 500 B.C.: "Do not do unto others what you do not want them to do to you." Did I live in China generations ago? W h o shall say? Strange, is it not, that so many who believe in life hereafter have not the same belief in life heretofore? If life is continuous, eternal, why should it have just begun here in this one life for me? It is not so with the tree, the rose, the cloud, the raindrop. W e are all part of the same great process of unfoldment into a finer awareness. This, surely, is not the first time nor the last time we shall be here. W e have lived and loved too well on earth to leave it all for some remoter heaven. W e may not "go" anywhere. W e may prefer to stay here, at least for a while. W e cannot find any 27

heaven unless within ourselves, first. W e cannot go to it unless we take it with us. Yet the frustrations which troubled us so here, the inhibitions which scarred us so terribly as misunderstood children, these will be set free by some grander fulfillment later. W e can lose nothing worth while; we shall gain much. W e may progress after a little rest and review to some better plane, or after we have helped humanity more here. Or perhaps some great souls come to us on earth from finer planets to help mankind, and we at length ascend there to learn larger lessons. Surely, this tiny planet in the smallest of observable solar systems is not the only place in infinite space where the Creator placed intelligent life. How could the divine creative Principle be content to express His infinite love and wisdom in this insignificant corner of the universe alone? The astronomers are not yet sure whether Mars in our own solar orbit may not harbor intelligent life, though naturally differently formed than ours, to meet the atmospheric conditions there. The

SCIENCE OF MIND straight lines crossing at right angles, which widen when the Martian polar icecaps melt i n summer, are more akin to engineered canals than they are to Nature's irregular mountain chains or rivers. Soon we shall know. Tomorrow morning we shall awake again with all our personal characteristics intact Nothing will have been lost from them i n sleep W e shall be the same identically as when we lost consciousness a few hours before; a little better, we hope, less tired, less irritable, but essentially the same old M e and You. Whether we have been traveling all night by plane or train, and wake up in Miami or Rio, W e shall still be Us. Change of location cannot change u s . B u t change of

thought can. W e can leave hell right now, and make a heaven of earth, if we follow Jesus' teaching. How many will? Many mansions: eternal expansion, from glory unto glory, plane above plane. You are forever You: a perfect idea of Infinite M i n d , a beloved child of your heavenly Father, a spirit of His Spirit. A n d we shall be as happy, surely, as the wind that blows on a bright M a y morning through the pine trees, or the rippling brook that hurries through deep woods forever in song towards the sea, or the granite cliff that greets the sun high on a mountainside. W e shall be well and prosperous, for God will be with us still. N e w b e g i n n i n g s , another chance; but You will always be You.

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C L O T H E S at Easter are an appropriate symbol of newness of life. They will give you a sense of well-being that is important to the ego. They will give you a New Look. But they will not, however stylish or expensive, give you the Easter Look. The New Look is something you put on. The Easter Look is something you experience. The first brings a changed appearance; the second brings a changed life. The New Look conforms to the dictates of fashion; the Easter Look conforms to the dictum of Divine Law. The Easter Look is not something you have; it is something you do. It is a look within that discovers the Great Light and rolls away the stone of ignorance and limitation from the imprisoned splendor of the Spirit. The Easter Look throws a EW

new rainbow of promise across the sky of your life, and you see both past and future with clear eyes. It puts new energy in your work, a new certainty in your faith, a new song in your heartâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;because it tells you who you are. Ancient words come alive in your mind, no longer mere intellectual concepts but thrilling truth made flesh in your experience: "i A M THE

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world of your relationships. It will not give you a new car or a new dress or a new hair-do, although these may follow. It will give you a new understanding, a new outlook, a new disposition. And by some secret alchemy of the Creative Spirit within you, the Easter Look will change your face in a way that the New Look never can, for it will leave its unmistak-

able autograph upon your countenance like the mellow glow in the sky after the sun has dropped out of sight. The New Look in any year is the child of change. It belongs to Today and is the predestined casualty of Tomorrow. The Easter Look began in a garden on an early morning two thousand years ago and belongs to Eternity.

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H A V E F U N with an rw idea. Let's take a man J with the farthest-reaching-mind-in-the-world. I'd say, "Let's take Professor Einstein" but we haven't his permission, and besides, for the purpose of our idea we must have a six foot two inch man weighing about 250 pounds, a real hunk of a man with a mind which can think of a million lightyears and know what they mean; a man who can take a mathematical figure with so many zeros attached that it looks like a lariat rope, and can whirl it around his head in circles, loops and figure 8's and not get tangled in it. This man must not only be far-minded, but broad-minded, because we

are going to do something undignified with him. We'd better just invent him. Let's look at our massive hulk of a man with the farthestreaching - mind - in - the world. His thoughts are way out thereeeeeeeeee, about a million light years away from earth, visualizing some celestial item beyond the farthest beyond. Now, let's take the point of an embroidery needle, because it's about the smallest thing that we can visualize and still hold in our fingers. It's several trillion times smaller than our man. Let's jab the point of the needle, not too hard, into (let's see . . .), well, let's jab it into the tip of his big toe, because,

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in order to think easier about that celestial item out there a million light years, he has taken his shoes off. I'll bet he yells or jumps or says ouch or something appropriate, even if he is a man - with - the - farthest reaching - mind - in - the world. With a speed faster than light he brings his thoughts back from beyond beyond to that point on the end of his big toe where that embroidery needle point made contact with a nerve end.

twelve grandchildren and a flock of relatives and in-laws living in the house with him. No wonder his mind is way out a million light years away.) We're still playing with this idea for a purpose. So, we'll tell the folks in the house that the needle was soaked in some deadly poison which takes just thirty-six hours to kill a man. Let's call it cadaverine, just to make it more gruesome, and build up the idea. Clamor is added to chaos, confusion and In less than a second every alarm because of the infinitely ounce of that big man is con- small point of a needle and centrated on that tiny point an idea associated with it. several trillion times smaller Waves of action spread on and than he is. The muscles are on. This man-with-the-farthestmobilizing for action, the reaching-mind-in-the-world is nerves of his body are yelling very important to the world "help," the healing organiza- because it is rumored that he tion of his body is Red-crossing has a plan to save the world, as fast as it can â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and that is which certainly seems to need fast. The farthest-reaching- saving, and it looks as though mind is trying to find out what his plan would work if he happened and what to do lives!!! about it. The man's whole imThe wife begins calling up mediate world is also concen- people, doctors and fire-departtrated on that needle point, not ment resuscitation squads and only the man, but his wife the police department; the chil(we'll give him one) and his dren begin running on urgent six children. (We'll give him errands; the grandchildren conthem, too, and while we're be- tribute their bit by yelling their ing generous we'll give him heads off. One of the in-laws 32

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calls up Gabriel Overheater, vibrant with alarm, suspense, who immediately adds the activity and mobilization of alarming news to his broadcast. force. All because a tiny point The relatives call up congress- of an embroidery needle men and demand action. The touched a nerve-end on the toe newspapers send reporters and of the man-with-etc. photographers; the radio sends Now to make a long story newscasters and Louella Pars- longer, it is proven that the nips; the television people start needle was not dipped in cadasetting up cameras to record verine, and the point of the the last gasps of the man-withneedle didn't even make a red the-etc. Pictures of the great spot on the great man's toe. man's toe and the needle are Nevertheless, we've made a put onto telephoto and shown point with a point, and the all over the country. point is this: many men In Paris a great physician through the ages, because of leaps in a stratosphere plane egocentricity, vanity and limand rushes to America with an ited vision, have not been able, antitoxin; a chemist in Yokoor have refused to believe that hama is snatched up and put there could be an intelligence, on a super-jet-propulsion plane a universal consciousness, a with his antitoxin; all the god-mind, vast enough to swirl people who heard Overheater's suns, moons and stars in orbroadcast begin sending, spederly fashion through illimitacial delivery, remedies ranging ble and inconceivable space from snake-oil to potatoes and yet be personal enough to planted in the dark of the moon on the grave of a woman design a gnat's eye, or a sparreported by reliable authorities row's wing, or hear the small pleas of midget-mite-maw. But to be a witch. there you are; my idea is not Radio, television, telegraph, fantastic. The whole world newspapers, chemical laboracould be moved to action, tories, and a deaf old lady on awareness and dynamic the corner who is trying to find thought by a needle point as out what it's all about, are agog I have suggested. It's all a matand agag. Our whole earth is 33

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Natural History where you might see it today, and my idea of Universal Consciousness is now put in your consciousness where it may help you, if you have doubted, to develop a visualization of our relationship to the Universe and Universal Consciousness.

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Resurrection Contrasted Elsie Grafius death. It was as if Jesus said, "Look, I am going to demonstrate a truth. I do not understand this truth scientifically as it will someday be understood, but I can demonstrate that personality survives death. Not only does it survive death, but it is recognizable by those we really love. So-called death merely brings into being another aspect of the same consciousness." Let us go to the tomb of Jesus. What do we see on that Easter morning? Matthew speaks of an angel of the Lord within the tomb. Mark speaks of a young man in a white robe. Luke mentions two men, and John two angels. There is a slight variance here, but we get very definitely from all the gospels that the body of Jesus was not there, and that the angels or visions of light gave them to understand he had risen and had gone before them into Galilee. There is also the matter of grave clothes. John gives us the fullest ac-

the Easter message of our scientific-religious age bring us? Does it conform with the story of that first Easter morning? We have many times approached the empty, open tomb of our Savior with an emotional belief. Today we should like an intellectual approach. We shall start our reasoning with the assertion that we believe the open, empty tomb had a special significance. We believe that a power was demonstrated by Jesus that someday the scientific world may accept as a truth; a power just as important to our advance as was the first appearance of life, or thefirstemergence of mind. Jesus realized that the message he carried must be strong enough to influence man from that time on. His message of the brotherhood of man would have perished had he not demonstrated this equally important message of the preservation of personality after HAT

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count here. He tells of Simon Peter seeing the "linen clothes lie; And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself." Let us compare this open, empty tomb with the tomb of Lazarus. When Jesus approached that tomb he said, "Take ye away the stone" and when he had called in a loud voice for Lazarus to come out, he came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes. And Jesus said, "Loose him, and let him go." Note in this case the stone had to be rolled away. There was no open tomb as in his own case later on. Lazarus came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes. Jesus left his grave clothes neatly folded, the spices still evidently within the laden folds. Lazarus proceeded on his way using the same physical body. Jesus arose with another aspect of body. There is clearly a difference in these two cases, not only in what happened, but in the significance of the message brought. In the case of Lazarus it would seem Jesus demonstrated his power over death. In the second tomb we find not 36

only a demonstration of life over death, but a preshowing, if we may use the modern term, of the spiritual body in further development. The resurrected Jesus was a being of light, sometimes visible to a lesser degree and barely recognizable, as on the road to Emmaus, and sometimes visible with an earthly quality, as when he bade Thomas thrust his fingers in the nail prints. What happened here to make this almost unbelievable story ring down through 2000 years as a possible scientific truth? Let us go over the ground carefully. Lazarus was raised from the dead. Jesus arose. Lazarus was raised in the same physical aspect. Jesus arose in a light aspect. The miracle of Lazarus was accomplished from outside himself. The resurrection of Jesus was accomplished by some power within himself. Jesus left no physical body in the tomb. If it were a spiritual resurrection how are we going to face the question of the empty tomb? L e s l i e Weatherhead in his book After Death, posits a body that evanesced, dematerialized in

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a short space of time. If this field of physics in recent years thought is to be accepted we is the Quantum Theory. This must realize that time was theory explains that both mateliminated in changing his ma- ter and light appear sometimes terial body to energy in another as waves and sometimes as parform. We are not wholly sat- ticles. Matter may prove to be isfied with the picture pre- radiation moving with a speed sented. less than light. It may be nothing but congealed radiation Let us think again of that traveling at less than normal body of the risen Christ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that speed. Matter and radiation body seen by Mary jn the garinterchangeable forms may be den; and on the road to Emof waves. The annihilation of maus, where they knew him matter may be the unbottling not until he blessed and brake the bread. The sudden appear- of imprisoned wave energy, setance to his fearful disciples ting it free to travel in space. when he said, "Behold mv The scientist adds that no genhands and my feet, that it is I eral principle yet known can myself: handle me, and see; tell what behavior either matfor a spirit hath not flesh and ter or light will choose in any bones, as ye sec me have." The particular instance. This is a glimpse of the wave ascension where he was parted from them and carried up into theory. We may reason from heaven. Our Christian religion these statements that our is founded on these things. bodies may be in reality bodies What are we to believe about of light, and that the difference the risen body which some- between a material body and a times had a material quality light body may be due to the and sometimes the quality of speed at which the wave travlight? Can we believe that it els. A glimmer of understandwas but a different aspect oi ing seems to flash from this the same Christ? page of twentieth century sciScience today has something ence to that first Easter mornto say that may point the way to ing. Did Jesus demonstrate two a scientific explanation. One of thousand years ago a truth that the greatest discoveries in the modern science is now uncov37

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ering? Was his resurrected to be taken in both scientific body at times, radiation mov- and religious research. Science ing with the speed of light? never states anything as final. Could his body have been radi- Religion should never state ation moving with a speed lessanything as final. Both fields than light when he said to are in their infancy, but conThomas, "reach hither thy tinue to draw closer together. hand, and thrust it into my Today we can say with some side..." assurance that we have found These are searching ques- an intellectual approach as well tions. Jesus, the Christ, seems as an emotional approach to to be the forerunner of modern the empty, open tomb of our science. There are many steps Savior. Material taken from The Mysterious Universe, by Jeans; Physics and Philosophy, by Jeans, and Scientific Theory and Religion, by E. W. Barnes.

T H E E T E R N A L SON In Thee, O Christ, Thou Blessed One, I find both Father and the Son; In Thee there is one life alone Eternal sower, seed and sown; In Thee I find the promise given, Light of the earth and crown of Heaven! Hope undimmed, Vision bright, Untouched by darkness and the night, 1 lift my life above the cloud; My soul uncaught by bier or shroud Shall go beyond earth's brightest star To where Thy many mansions are. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ERNEST HOLMES

The Elements of Character Christian D. Larson Lesson 11 in The Field of Practical Psychology yT\s

H A S been said, one of the important ends ^ i ^ i and purposes of modern practical psychology is that of the discovery of the present degree of development of the several mental and emotional traits, qualities, and faculties of the individual, by analysis self conducted or else conducted by others; the classification of such data, and the subsequent deliberate process of developing, unfolding, and cultivating the desirable and positive qualities, and the deliberate process of restraining, inhibiting, and restricting the undesirable and negative qualities. These several stages of the general process constitute the work of Character-Building. By "character" is meant "the peculiar mental and emotional qualities, or the sum of such ualities, by which a person is istinguished from other persons.' Another definition is "the nature of the individual, 39

manifesting in and as the continuity of his various successive voluntary and habitual acts." Still another is "the essential principle of the nature of the individual which governs and decides his habitual mode of action, and which therefore expresses and manifests his individuality." The original meaning of the term, "character," was "a stamp, mark, or s i g n , engraved or stamped"; and when the term was applied to the sum of the mental and emotional qualities of the individual the same general implication followed it, i.e., t h e i d e a of s o m e t h i n g "stamped" upon the mind or s o u l of the person w h i c h marked him as being soand-so or such-and-such. From this and similar conceptions arose and developed the idea that a person's "character" was something stamped upon him at or before birth, and which could never t h e r e a f t e r be m a t e r i a l l y

SCIENCE OF MIND changed. I n this v i e w , the "character" of the person had been impressed upon him by the creative powers of life, and he was bound to carry it with him practically unchanged throughout his entire life. This view was a more or less disguised form of fatalism, and it undoubtedly has resulted in the failure of many persons to unfold, develop and cultivate their characters, and thus "make the best of oneself." The modern practical psychology offers a far better and a more encouraging and helpful view. Modern practical psychology holds that the "character" of the individual is the result of three fundamental and basic factors, viz., (1) heredity, (2) environment, and (3) will-power. The old psychology and the old philosophy held that heredity and environment were the sole factors involved; and there is a record of centuries of dispute concerning which of these two is the dominant factor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a dispute which was adjusted only by e x p l a n a t i o n of H e r b e r t Spencer, i.e., that heredity is merely the result of the effects of the past environment of the race, and is therefore a phase 4

of environmental influence rather than an opposing factor, The new psychology performed an important task w h e n it added to the list of influencing factors the important factor of will-power, Heredity is "the heriditary transmission of physical and psychical characteristics from ancestors to descendants." Luther Burbank says: "hercdjty means much, but what is heridity? Not some hideous ancestral spector, forever crossing the path of a human being. Heredity is simply the sum of all the effects of all the environments of all past generations on the responsive ever-moving lifeforces.' Another authority says: " M u c h that goes to make up our character is derived from the associated qualities and impressions of many generations of ancestors. Inasmuch as the individual contains within him the transmitted qualities of nearly every individual who lived several thousand years ago, it may be said that each individual is an heir to the accumulated impressions of the race; these, however, form in an almost infinite variety of combinations, the result being o

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that although the root characteristics of the race are the same in every individual, yet each individual differs in character combinations from every other individual. There are no two characters exactly alike. . . . Yet all individual characters are composed of the same basic elements, the differences resulting from different arrangements and combinations of the elemental universal factors." From the above, you will see, perhaps for the first time, that your hereditary elements and influences contain the best, as well as the worst, and all the degrees that lie in between. Special and particular combinations and arrangements of these elements undoubtedly give one a set trend, or tendency toward certain lines of thought, feeling, and conduct, when the stimuli of appropriate environment present themselves; but these tendencies, trends, and inclinations may be overcome or neutralized by the employment of scientifically directed will-power â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they may be neutralized, inhibited, and counterbalanced by the presentation of other tendencies and trends, brought forward and developed 4

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by the will of the individual. As an authority has said: "The determined will may oust from the throne of character those elements of heredity which seem to be objectionable, and may supplant them by the more desirable elements which abide in the subconscious or instinctive regions of the mind and which are merely awaiting the call or demand of environment or will." The following widely-quoted statement from the teachings of the late Professor Reuben Post Halleck, on the subject of the determining factors of character, serves to bring into plain view the several influencing elements, and to indicate the values of each. Professor Halleck says: "Character is the resultant of several factors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will, heredity, and environment. Let us take an actual case to represent these at work. Shakespeare was born of parents who could neither read nor write. There was something in the boy more than either of them. A part of that additional something was due to his will, which, by always acting in a definite way, often in the line of the greatest rcsist1

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ance, gave him stability when others were wavering like reeds in the wind. Unlike Marlowe, Shakespeare was not killed in an alehouse, although he must have felt promptings to waste his time and nervous force there, as did so many of his fellow dramatists. In resisting these tendencies, in putting the best of himself, not into revels, but into his dramatic work, he acquired character. That heredity was not all in his case is shown by the fact that he had brothers and sisters, who never climbed the heights with him. His limited earlier opportunities show that environment was not all that made him; environment did not make Shakespeares out of others born in that age. There was willpower in him that rose above heredity and environment, and ave him a character that readies forth in every play. 'There has been a tendency to over-estimate the effects of heredity and environment in forming character; but, on the other hand, we must not underestimate them. The child of a Hottentot put in Shakespeare's home, and afterward sent away to London with him, would not

have given the will sufficient material to fashion over into such a noble product. We may also suppose a case to show the great power of environment. Had a band of gypsies stolen Shakespeare at birth, carried him to Tartary, and left him among the nomads, his environment would never have allowed him to produce such plays as he placed upon the English stage. Heredity is a powerful factor, for it supplies raw materials for the will to shape. Even the will cannot make anything without material. Will acts through choice, and some kinds of environment afford far more opportunities for choice than others. Shakespeare found in London the germ of true theatrical taste, already vivified by a long line of plays. In youth he connected himself with the theatre, and his will responded powerfully to his environment. Some surroundings are rich in suggestion, affording opportunity for choice; while others are poor. The will is absolutely confined to a choice between alternatives. "Character, then, is a resultant of will-power, heredity, and

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environment. A man cannot choose his parents, but he can, to a certain extent, determine his environment. Shakespeare left Stratford and went to London. He might have chosen to go to some insignificant town where the surroundings would have been uninspiring. In middle life a man's decisions represent his character. He will be swayed by the resultant force of all his preceding choices; in other words, by his character. What has the will to do with character? Character is largely a resultant of every voluntary act from childhood to the grave. We gradually make our characters by separate acts of will, just as the blacksmith by repeated blows beats out a horseshoe or an anchor from a shapeless mass of iron. A finished anchor or a horseshoe was never the product of a single blow. A man acquires 'character' by separate voluntary acts.

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directly, or indirectly through the welfare of others. We are coins, the metal of which has been dug from the mines of our own inborn intellectual and moral faculties by the willpower. If we properly work those mines, we may find metal enough to justify a stamp of a very high value. On the other hand, though there is much unmined metal beneath the surface, we often form a character marked with a penny stamp. It may be true that circumstances stamp us to a certain extent, but it is also true that the way in which we use them stamps us indelibly."

Modern practical psychology has discovered an effective way by means of which the three elements or factors of character, i.e., heredity, environment, and will, may be harnessed and made to work effectively in the direction of Character - Building, or the art of "making one"We apply the term 'con- self over." Such knowledge duct' to those actions unified makes man, at least to a great into a whole, which relate to extent, the "Captain of his the welfare of the self, either Fate; the Master of his Soul." There is nothing more beautiful than a soul which has realized its true identity. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

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Samaritans Anonymous Charles Carson N E DAY as I was walking up a hill to the Hospital of the Good Samaritan to visit a friend, I began idly to wonder if there had ever been any bad Samaritans. If there were, it seems we never hear of them. Yet as my thoughts went back twenty centuries I knew that in those days their neighbors seldom thought of the Samaritans as being good people. The Judeans to the south and the Galileans to the north were in accord in their dislike for those who inhabited Samaria. The general feeling of the time was expressed in the words of the woman, at Jacob's well, whom Jesus asked for a drink of water. The Master was then on a journey into Galilee and had to travel through Samaria. When he stopped at the ancient well and asked the woman for a drink, she was amazed that a Judean would speak to her, for, she said, "The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." But Jesus, whose

principles transcended race and national boundary, conversed with her as one friend to another. When his disciples returned from the city they "marveled that he talked with the woman," which further emphasizes the sentiment that prevailed at the time. Then one day something happened which probably seemed insignificant at the time, but was destined to restore the good name of the Samaritans for readers of all history. Every child who has attended Sunday School knows the story of the man who went down to Jericho and fell among thieves, who robbed him and gave him a severe beating. A priest came by and refused to help him, and a Levite likewise saw him and passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan was traveling through the city, and "when he saw him he had compassion on him." The Samaritan was journeying in a province where ordinarily he would have feared to speak to a native citizen. But 44

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when a man is without money, and literally "half dead," he isn't too particular about the nationality of a friend who offers aid. This was the traveler's opportunity, and he bound up the man's wounds, put him on his beast and took him to an inn, and left money with the inn keeper for his care. This is the story of an unnamed man who helped a stranger in need. Because his act was of the essence of Christian love, it was related by Jesus, and has come down through the years to remind us that a humble man can change the mind of the world when his deed is performed unselfishly. The world has never been without its Good Samaritans, and great things are still coming to pass through the efforts of those who practice daily the Christ Principle. A case in point is a man who has helped to change the lives of approximately a hundred thousand despairing men and women, yet his name has never been in the public prints. It all began in 1934, when a man known as "Bill" lay dying of the disease of alcoholism. He had been a stock broker be45

fore the crash of 1929, but alcohol became his master. When economic conditions began to improve later in the thirties Bill realized, as he expressed it, that "the stock market would recover but I would not." At other times when he was at his lowest there had always been a glimmer of hope, but this time there was none. He was finished. His doctor had told him so, but he knew it anyway. Then one afternoon a man he had known in college came to see him. Bill had known him as a heavy drinker, but now he was sober. He told how he had been lifted from the scrap heap and given a new life, after admitting defeat and turning his life over to the care of God as he understood Him. Bill says that here sat a miracle across the table from him, shouting great tidings. Was he interested in finding what his friend had? Of course, he was interested. He had to be. The man told a simple story of how he had made amends to people he had harmed, became willing to have God remove his defects of character, and now was help-

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ing others, for by giving his blessing away he was able to keep it for himself. He set about in step-by-step fashion to aid Bill in following his path. That Bill followed the path faithfully is attested by the fact that he became founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. His friend perhaps never thought of putting his ideas into book form and passing them on to countless other sufferers. Possibly he was not even capable of doing such a work. But the man who could not help a hundred thousand could help one. He had no way of knowing that the one he carried the message to would light countless torches and dispel the darkness from what Bill calls "those caves wherein alcoholics dwell." There is no telling what one candle will do, and Bill's remarkable work would have been impossible except for the call that afternoon from an ordinary man with an extraordinary message.

found a down-and-out reporter, clothed and fed him and gave him a job, the world knew little of either of them. But the world would learn, because the humane characteristics of the publisher were a part of an innate greatness which was manifesting itself even then; and the reporter would succeed, partly because a fellowman cared. The publisher was William Allen White, owner of the Emporia Gazette, and the man he helped was Walt Mason. When I was a child I used to watch for the paper to arrive so I could read Mason's charming Rippling Rhymes, for then the feature was widely syndicated. All through my growing years I followed his column, as did thousands of other readers, but I never knew the story of Walt Mason's rescue from failure until he passed away ten years ago.

Mr. White had faith that Walt Mason could and would It isn't always the lot of a make good, and Mr. Mason Samaritan to change the world, never once let him down. As or even a country, for the good I look back now I realize that one does for an individual has there rang through all his verse its place, too. When a young the living gratitude of a man Kansas newspaper publisher who had been helped by a 46

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friend and in turn was happy the surgery I had peace. That to be a friend to all mankind. night when I regained conNo one knows how many sciousness in a private room, people he gave happiness to, an with a special nurse watching accomplishment made possible over me, I tried to orient mythrough one man caring. self. My mental processes were One morning twenty years vague, but there kept ringing ago I was in a hospital ward, in my inner thoughts, "I will being prepared for surgery. I he with thee." If those words took my belongings and placed were true, they alone could them in a box for the orderly heal meâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and they did. When I was well I knew to keep, for the outcome was in doubt and I was not sure that for me the weathering of a that I would come back to the crisis was not enough, that I ward. I had little in those days would need a life with fullness to sustain me spiritually, and and purpose. Today, when I as I lay there waiting I was have an opportunity, I drive afraid with the quiet, cold fear the thirty miles out there to of a man who faces danger visit some of the patients. As I walk down the corridors I alalone. ways vision that little Scottish Just before the stretcher nurse, who isn't there any came for me a ward nurse more, but whose memory lives stepped to my bedside. She took in the hearts of all she has my hand, pressed my fingers known. Surely it was her gently and whispered, "Don't simple words that helped me forget who it was that said, to live, and whenever I give a 'When thou passest through the waters, 1 will he with comforting word or pass on a thee." That was all she said. bit of Truth to another, it is There was no sermon, no then that her deed grows dramatics, but at least I had brighter. something I could hold to until She was one of those anonyGod gave me an opportunity to mous Samaritans who do the learn more. best they can for whomever I began to believe those they can, knowing that nothwords and when I went into ing truly noble ever dies. 47

If ye then be risen with Christ seek those thing which are above . . . Colossians 3:1 M A U D E ALLISON L A T H E M

Ahinking about Easter and the Resurrection, I am reminded of Mark Twain's definition of a weed: "A weed is a plant whose virtue has not yet been recorded." This is not implying to the thought of the Resurrection the insignificance usually attached to the weed. Rather it is suggesting that we have not as yet glimpsed the full meaning of the Resurrection, so far as we are personally concerned. The Resurrection was the greatest victory in all history; nothing ever won by man can remotely compare with it. The greatest conquests of history were won by destruction and death, while the incomparable victory won by Jesus was by overcoming this last enemy, death. Have we been guilty of thinking of Easter as celebrating a man's death? Of all times, Easter is the time to awaken to love and to sing and dance, and celebrate the gift of wondrous life. But we arc not living up to our knowledgeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the certainty that God indwells usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if we are not daily resurrecting ourselves, daily "seeking those things which are above," and this resurrection is not conditioned by prosperity or adversity. In order to rise to a higher life, we have merely to die to our lower standards. There 48

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is such a Resurrection Now; there is a triumph over death which we may have N O W . In prison, old, and bound in chains, Paul felt this. Even then he knew that he was a risen man. For years, he had turned a deaf ear to all that would drag him down and had sought "the things which are above." The resurrected life is forever an upward life. It is a daily dying to hate that we may be resurrected in love; a dying to lack that we may be resurrected to the perception of God's ever-present abundance; a dying to selfishness that we may be resurrected to the great joy of giving the self. Easter is no celebration for a dead man. Jesus had so resurrected himself day by day that the final Resurrection was but a natural step. We, too, are being regenerated to newness of life. Day by day we are listening more intently to that Divine intuition within us, by which we already know that we are immortal, by which we know that there is Something within us which has never completely incarnated in the flesh. Science of Mind reiterates the teachings of Jesus and emphasizes them. And it changes a meaningless life to a definite order. It enables us to reveal to the world, in the character of our lives, that there is a light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. It teaches that God can do for us no more than we expect, but that there is no need of man, no requirement of the soul or body of man, that God is not prepared to supply, on the condition that man has faith that it can he done. Certainly it is imperative that our belief in immortality be not disassociated from what we make of the life that now is. Certainly, Jesus believed that the life more abundant must come to us day by day, as a natural result of our resurrectionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of our effort to seek those things which are above. And our word to you this day is that the Christ makes alive today! Daily he resurrects us from the tomb of failure, doubt and dismay, quickening our every faculty, and filling us with a radiance that shines into the hearts of men. The grandeur of the outcome will repay us a thousand times, and each time that we die to our lower impulses (each time that we "seek the things that are above") we perceive that every act of our life becomes a divine enterprise. 49

A COMPLETE TREATMENT for each day of April LIFE ABUNDANT The Easter Season each year is a high consciousness point for everyone in unfoldment of spiritual, dynamic living. It acts to release us from all that binds us and keeps us dormant. Easter brings to each human soul a new impulse to greater livingness. Everybody enters into Life in degree as he thinks and purposes new and greater Life. To have Life and Life abundant, we must fully accept Life and purpose still more Life. The meditations this Easter month are keyed to the need of everyone, providing a definite statement of Truth for everyone to use. Every one dedicating himself daily to more abundant living by entering into these meditations ardently, speaking these words with heartfelt desire and sincere purpose, will demonstrate the Truth accepted in the meditations. The Great Spiritual Law of the Universe is forever activated to release Infinite Good where it is recognized and accepted. Speak your word with joyous enthusiasm and be expectant of your good. It will be done unto youl Meditations By STANLEY W . BARTLETT Dean of College Institute of Religious Science Los Angeles, California 50

INSPIRATION FOR EACH DAY OF APRIL SATURDAY, APRIL FIRST

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Looking into the Reality of Life I realize that I have a mission to perform, a responsibility to discharge. In my livingness, I enter into the Creative Process. I expect my good to manifest. I expect each day to demonstrate greater livingness, more of health, happiness and harmony. I am using Intelligence in my affairs, Unlimited and Infinite, therefore the results of my use of Intelligence are unlimited and unconditioned. My actions are harmonious and rich rewards result. My transactions are successful and satisfying. There is no unconscious desire on my part to limit my good or the good of others. I expect everyone to share in my good and my activities of this day will be mutually satisfying to everyone concerned. I act with zeal and enthusiasm. In my experience of today there is elation and joy so that all weariness or sense of fatigue is avoided. The affairs of this moment and each moment throughout the day are directed and prospered by Infinite Intelligence and I have a warm glow of appreciation for my Oneness with an Infinite Presence. Each day I have greater understanding and realize more abundant health. My road is clear before me. My pathway is straight. I achieve every purpose because I am expectant of Divine Good. And, so it is! Textbook: Page 439, paragraph 1 5i

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Golden Key: "PRAISE" Today I praise the Lord by my application of principles of creative thinking. Praise has great influence in my right thinking. Whatever I praise prospers and flourishes. My affairs unfold and expand under the lifegiving warmth of my praise. I agree with the Psalmist and obey his injunction, "Praise ye the Lord. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord." My praise carries with it my creativeness, therefore my praise of God involves everything God hath wrought. I recognize joyfully my use of God's Intelligence. I praise the Life Principle by joyful acceptance and eager experience of living. I accept my life as God's Life and enter into It more triumphantly each day. Through praise I count my many blessings. I unify with All Good by consciously praising each phase of my life. Each day is divinely blessed and prospered, and I am conscious of good ever unfolding in my life. I am praising the Lord in mind and action. I am recognizing the perfection of God's Kingdom as my perfection. I begin and complete my work in a spirit of joyousness with a song of praise in my heart and words of appreciation upon my lips. Abundant good surrounds me. I see every activity as the action of God, and through praise, I am inspired to conscious union with All that is Good. I claim that Good in this consciousness. So may it ever be! Textbook: Page 621 5

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Golden Key: "COMPLETENESS" I am aware of the completeness of the Divine Order and my completeness in that Order. I recognize that all ideas are of God, that I have access to Infinite Intelligence and I use that Intelligence to provide the perfect demonstration. What I purpose, that I shall perform. I am living my constructive ideas out into expression so there is no such thing as failure for me. I am continuously expressing my ideas. Each day I express more of Wisdom, more of Life. Today is good, but tomorrow will be even better. My goal for today is achieved, and my goals of the future will be attained. There is no incompleteness in my experience and no sense of frustration. I am walking forward with certainty, with belief, and with a realization of my completeness and my power to attain every objective. I handle each task with sureness. I am capable and alert. I am endowed with ability and I accomplish my purpose. I am aware of the Power of Mind and the certainty of the great Creative Law. With ardent desire and definite purpose I have ability to perform each task with skill and complete success. The reward in all my activities is abundant supply and greater livingness. My every relationship and activity is harmonious, constructive, rewarding. I live satisfyingly with my thoughts, my emotions and my deeds. I am whole, sound and complete. And it is good! Textbook: Page 471 53

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Today I enter into greater consciousness of the Law of my Being. I am aware of myself as a Son of God with Creative Power using a Law utterly responsive to my thought. I am putting complete reliance upon this activity of Mind. I do not worry nor am I concerned about conditions and events, because I make conscious use of the Great Law. I choose to rightly use the Creative Process by thinking clearly about my desires and purposes. Observing the Law, I find the results gratifying. I have dominion and power. I have faith in the Principle of Health. I recognize abundant health is possible for me as a Truth of my Being, therefore I demonstrate physical well being. I feel good because I recognize good health and good feelings as Truth â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Law provides the effects, I provide the casual influence. Faithfully, I think of perfect health and the Law responds by being faithful to the pattern of health. I have faith in the Law-governed nature of the Universe. I recognize its perfection, its harmony, its regularity. I do not permit doubt or confusion to disturb this faith. My faith delivers to me healthful, abundant living. I am an unlimited creature with ability, wisdom, power and steadfastness of purpose. I am faithful to the idea of unlimited consciousness, therefore my good is unlimited. I keep the faith! And it is good! Textbook: Page 160 54

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I am established today and every day in the center of peace and harmony. My mind is at peace. My emotions are peaceful. My body is a kingdom of harmonious adjustment and peaceful activity. I am demonstrating the Principle of Peace, thus my thought and action embody peaceable intention and peaceful activity. My earnest desire is to add to the peace and harmony of the universe. I want to subtract nothing from it. My consciousness is filled with ideas of wisdom, giving me counsel, direction and guidance. I am led to speak the right word and do the right thing in the right way, so that everything I undertake is prospered and leads to achievement. Under Divine Guidance I am contributing to the welfare and harmony of others. All inharmony is avoided. No one wishes me ill or thinks toward me other than in a spirit of love and helpfulness. My every activity fits into a pattern of harmony. Everyone with whom I come in contact responds to my spirit of peaceable intention and purpose, and blesses me to success and happiness. My affairs are peaceful. My own nature responds to the idea of peace. My body is peaceful. Every function and activity reflects my peace of mind. My emotions are calm and serene. Every sense of hurry and strain, every tension disappears. I am secure, safe and sound. I am harmonized and stabilized in the Peace of God's Nature. So may it be, always! Textbook: Pages 264 and 265 55

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Today I am consciously devoting myself to the idea of Truth. I am thinking of the Nature of God and realizing that I represent God and reproduce all that is Universal. My devotion to the ideal of Truth is an inner compulsion toward greater livingness. I achieve more abundantly by delivering more service into the universe. I seek ways of using Intelligence in all my affairs. I search for opportunities to intelligently act and skilfully perform. My devotion to Truth leads me ever in the direction of effectiveness and increased efficiency. I am devoted to ideas of fairness, equity, mutual understanding and common purposes. These are Truth ideas and I seek to use these ideas more and more in all my affairs. Since my nature is identical with God's I am free from all bondage. Unhappiness and disappointments cannot touch me. Illness is foreign to my nature. In Truth I am healthy, wealthy and wise. I think of health and strength. I am well, strong, capable and alert. My devotion leads me to think in terms of abundant living. I am in the midst of abundant activity, returning to me rich rewards. I have exerything I need and can use properly. I believe in abundant living, and experience it daily â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hourly. And it is good! Textbook: Page 106 56

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I am today taking time to recognize the unity of all things and all people. The universe is an harmonious whole and all things are in a Unity of All, therefore this unity includes me. All that I am is unified with All that Is. I am One with Life, Love, Wisdom, Joy and Beauty. I no longer recognize any apartness or aloneness, for I am One with the Allness of God. In my recognition of Unity I acknowledge that I am in God and God is in me. There is Personalness of God to me, within me. Since all of God is everywhere present, then All that God Is must be present where I am. What God is must be within me. I am health, happiness and success. I am Intelligence and harmony. I am unlimited Life. In all my activities I enter into every thought, every action, consciously unified with God, with God's Substance and God's Creativeness. My awareness of this Truth influences all my actions and conditions, all my affairs. I am Divinely prospered and live in peace. I am established in the very center of the Divine Order and am unified with Life and the Creative Activity of the Universe. My actions today reflect Divine Good, and success crowns my efforts. Unified with God I am invincible, victorious, triumphant. I am in partnership with my Father, and my word is His Word; His Word is my word! And it is good! Textbook: Pages 121 and 493 57

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Golden Key:

"HARMONY"

To harmonize my body, my affairs, I tune in with the Infinite. I consciously turn my attention to an Infinite Order since I recognize that my creativity is released in the direction of my attention. I dedicate my thoughts this day to Infinite Harmony, knowing it permeates, influences and adjusts all my activities. I see myself in the center of Infinite Harmony. I see this harmony outmoving from within me into all my affairs. I know this harmony brings right adjustments and satisfactory settlements. I am aware that harmony prospers my affairs, therefore I speak only words that harmonize the activities of this day. People and conditions about me respond harmoniously because I radiate harmony. In order to radiate harmony in all my affairs, from the inner depths of my being I act to demonstrate experiences of harmony. My thoughts, my desires, my purposes are good. No friction, no discord can enter into my experience. I am completely and wholly identified with an Infinite Order that is perfect, complete. Consciously I recognize the harmony underlying all the laws of creation. I understand it as rhythmic, harmonious action, therefore I adjust to it mentally, emotionally, physically. I am synchronized and harmonized. And it is good! Textbook: Pages 186-187 58

EACH DAY OF APRIL SUNDAY, APRIL NINTH

Golden Key:

"INSPIRATION"

Deep within my being there is comprehension of Truth and understanding of the Reality of Life. I am inspired by this Truth to demonstrate here and now all that is Reality. My inspiration leads me to believe in immortality of the soul as Truth of Being. I am aware that I must consciously realize this immortality and make it mine by demonstrating it this moment and every moment. I recognize that whatever I desire, definitely purpose and wholeheartedly accept as possible for me, comes into my experience. I desire abundant life and I am conscious that Eternal Lifeflowsthrough me. I am in the very midst of Life. It is mine now. I am in It and It is in me. Every part of my being is renewed and rebuilt by Spirit in this conscious recognition of Life Abundant as mine this moment. I devote myself to thoughts of greater life. I turn away from every unhappy and limited experience of the past and contemplate the newness and freshness of life. I awake each morning to greater realization of Eternal Life. I experience It now, and tomorrow still greater realization of Truth awaits me. I am illumined. I am enlightened. God is a God of Livingness and I recognize Life as a Truth of my Being. I attain conscious immortality as I demonstrate Life and use It, therefore I release myself into the activities of this day and of each day to come in full understanding that I am joyously delivering myself each day into Life Eternal. God Is. I Am! I express. And, it is good! Textbook: Pages 335 to 337 59

INSPIRATION FOR MONDAY, APRIL T E N T H

Golden Key: "JOYOUSNESS" This is a day of joyous accomplishment. I enter into it with zest and enthusiasm. Life is good, Wisdom is mine. My task is easy and my burden light. I am thinking of the affairs of today with joyful anticipation. Everything to be experienced today is part of a pattern of Divine Good, and there is nothing outside of this Good. Each individual with whom I come in contact is a joyous person. I recognize him as a Son of God, therefore my brother. I anticipate his cooperation and helpfulness. Cordial and mutually agreeable developments prevail in all my dealings with people. My joyous acceptance of Truth, conditions my affairs and prospers my every endeavor. I release my body from tension and strain. Freedom of action and harmony of being give me realization of health. This vehicle I use to express Life is perfect, whole, complete. It is Divinely organized and performs with complete and perfect action. Every cell is inspired by my consciousness to do its work in the right way, functioning with absolute harmony. Joyousness of mind and spirit gives me aliveness and youthfulness of body. My joyous acceptance of life gives me a new outlook. I see my world perfectly and walk through the events of this day with enthusiasm. I am aware that life is good, that I am expressing Infinite Life more perfectly each day. Each hour this day greater good comes into my experience and I know this process carries forward in all the tomorrows to come. Infinite Joy is mine. And, it is good! Textbook: Pages 482 and 530 60

EACH DAY OF APRIL TUESDAY, APRIL ELEVENTH

Golden Key:

"BELIEF"

I demonstrate daily my belief in the power of Good. I believe there is an Infinite Orderliness in the universe, that the Creative Law is responsive to my thought, and I am a center of this creative action. Being a part of this Good, I live courageously and unafraid. My life is good. My life is orderly. I believe in a universe of creative thought. I accept the availability to me of this Creative Process and recognize my potentiality for greater livingness. I speak my word now that my life contains everything that makes for harmony, health, happiness and prosperity. I accept for myself at this moment health of body and perfect use of Mind. My belief in the Creative Law outpictures in my experiences of each day more of Life, and all forms of greater good. Therefore, I may picture my good and accept it now. My belief provides certainty and definiteness about life. Living becomes to me daily achievement in scientific thinking. Each day I consciously declare my good into form. I speak my word for health, and happy, joyous living. I claim this good and give thanks for it. And, the Infinite Law-abiding Process of Creativity responds to my thinking and produces for me the effects I declare are mine. I believe in a Law, and this Law responds to me. It is good, very good! Textbook: Page 38 and paragraph 3 of 317 6i

INSPIRATION FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL TWELFTH

Golden Key:

"COURAGE"

Today I am giving my attention to the idea of courage. I choose the way of courage rather than a path of fear. No longer am I timid, uncertain or afraid. I realize all negative reactions are based upon lack of knowledge and failure to appreciate the true nature of the self. This moment I recognize the self of me to be unlimited and unconditioned, an Infinite Self, identified in the One Infinite Self of All. I am endowed with ability to think and there is an immediate response to my thought. I therefore recognize myself to be courageous, strong, reliant, capable and competent. I use the power of Mind to accomplish my purpose. Clear, definite and purposive thought is my right, my obligation. I decide and dare to do this. I have the courage to look deep into the nature of the universe and see Reality. The past is dead and gone. Now I dare to look at the Truth of Life and accept it as mine. It is Truth that I am alive, alert, capable and powerful. Right thinking provides me health, abundance and joyous living. I am released from every limiting thought. I am established in a state of mind befitting a Son of God. I speak my word for health and prosperity, with courage and right thinking. I walk confidently, courageously through the events of this day and the days to come. I choose my good by right thinking. And so it is! Textbook: Pages 16 and 162 62

EACH DAY OF APRIL THURSDAY, APRIL THIRTEENTH

Golden Key: "KINDLINESS" Realizing that my attitude toward life is the demonstration of my inner thought, I contemplate today the perfect attitude of mind toward my fellowman. I am established in a Unity of the Whole. I am one with everyone that is and All that Is. I am not apart from people. I am in the very center of Life and Life's Activity. The people with whom I come in contact are inspired to greater livingness by the very Truth to which I respond. Everyone is walking along the path of unfoldment with me, and I recognize my unity with them. Together we respond to the harmonious rhythms of the universe. Together we want to be and act harmonious. Everyone, therefore, is my friend. Everyone is helpful. Every person I contact inspires me to greater livingness. My need to unify with life causes me to be helpful to others. I act in kindly fashion. I demonstrate kindliness. Constantly I seek to be more friendly. I think friendliness, helpfulness, and I act kindly toward everyone. I choose this day to realize the life-giving newness and freshness of kindly living. The Universe cooperates with me and I cooperate with It. I take the key of friendliness to open the door to triumphant living. My harmonious adjustment to life is complete and gives me warmth of feeling. Friendliness is akin to Godliness, hence I live this day as a child of God, kindly and friendly to all. So may it be, always. Textbook: Page 475 63

INSPIRATION FOR FRIDAY, APRIL FOURTEENTH

Golden Key: "ENTHUSIASM" This is a day of Divine Livingness. I dedicate myself to perfect use of my creative thinking in all my affairs. Every activity of this day is influenced by Divine Inspiration. I am in God-Consciousness. My ideas are God's Ideas, and I release them in my activities with joyousness, thankfulness and enthusiasm. It is Truth that I am unlimited, unconditioned. I am a free agent in a great universe of creative activity. I enter into this activity with tremendous feeling. I am imbued with a realization of strength, health, power, and I sense the importance of entering into the activities of each day with joy and enthusiasm. I do not hold back nor stand aloof. I meet people joyously. I do things gladly. I am well, strong, creative. I have power, dominion, purpose and significance. Consciously I am aware of my relationship to God's great plan for the universe. I am needed and necessary. I have significance and importance. My activities are a part of God's Creative Process, and demonstration of my creativity gives me power and joyous living. Today I demonstrate health, strength, vigor and ability. I am inspired, joyous, and enthused. Life is for me an adventure in good thinking. And, so it is! Textbook: Page 184, paragraphs 1 and 2 6

EACH DAY OF APRIL SATURDAY, APRIL FIFTEENTH

Golden Key: "MASTERY" In my livingness of the Divine Principle of Life I recognize my need for mastery. I desire and purpose my unfoldment to mastery over life and all the events of life. I see myself as a Son of God demonstrating the consciousness of a Master. I see the falsity of believing in weakness or limited ability. No longer am I confused. My goal is clear. I am the master of my own consciousness. As a master, I use Creative Law, and the great Law responds to my thought and purpose, delivering to me all I believe is mine. I am the master of my circumstances. My mastership is based upon my recognition of God's Presence and His Law of Mind. In His Presence I am unified, integrated and harmonized. By using Mind, giving direction to my thought, I demonstrate my faith in the Creative Law. I have faith, even as Jesus had faith, in the Law of God. All Good inevitably must be attracted to me because I dwell in the consciousness of Good. I think health, happiness and prosperity. I contemplate experiencing life abundantly and it comes to pass. My use of God's Law of Creativity gives me strength and power. I am alert, capable and competent. I master my own consciousness and thus demonstrate mastery over the events and circumstances of life. I am the spiritual man, continuously remaking and remolding the physical man, and all that we call material. I know the Truth and the Truth sets me free. And, so it is! Textbook: Page 317 65

INSPIRATION FOR SUNDAY, APRIL SIXTEENTH

Golden Key: "WORSHIP" Today I serenely surrender myself to the worship of God. I am aware of God's Universal Presence and His Infinite Power. I understand God to be everywhere present, therefore within me. His Omnipresence gives me realization of Wholeness and harmony. His Omniscience provides me with intelligence. This All-Knowing Father functions through me with intelligent action, thus I am intelligent, have confidence, courage, stability and poise. Then, too, my awareness of God as an indwelling Omnipotent Power releases me from all limitation of thought and leads me to accept my own creativeness. In this consciousness I am inspired to release my creativeness and attain the fulness of life. I am a vehicle for Divine Purposeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;every activity is an achievement of right purpose and good intention. I select my thoughts and rule my actions in a spirit of worship. My task becomes easy, my burden light. I work in conscious Oneness with God, and dwell in peace and harmony. My body is well, strong and filled with energy. I think success and I am successful in all my endeavors. I am unconditioned! The Lord is in His holy temple. All that is limited and conditioned bows down before Him. In the glory and majesty of triumphant consciousness I live this day as a Son of God. I and the Father are One. And, it is very good! Textbook: Pages 362 and 363 66

EACH DAY OF APRIL MONDAY, APRIL SEVENTEENTH

Golden Key:

"UNFOLDMENT"

This day I am renewed in the spirit of my mind. I put on the new man. I am the new man. I am resurrected from everything that is negative into all that is positive. I accept the idea that whatever the mind holds to andfirmlybelieves in, forms a new pattern of thought and takes outward form in new creation. Therefore I conceive myself to be renewed, transformed into the newness and freshness of God-like being. I am a selfconscious personality, living in a stream of Eternal Life. From this stream there is no turning. I am always progressing, ever unfolding. I joyously identify myself with this constantly expanding, growing and unfolding process. Life is for me an experience of healthful, happy living. I accept ideas of aliveness, alertness, intelligent action and great accomplishments. These ideas I choose to demonstrate in my life, now and each day to come. I am released from everything that binds and limits me, into new freedom of thought and action. I am unhindered, unbound. I am alive, strong, healthy. My body is whole, well, sound. I accept Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Life Eternal. This is a day of new livingness. I have power to achieve triumphant living. It is a day of joyous acceptance of Life Abundant. I live gloriously, today and every day. And, so it is! Textbook: Page 371 67

INSPIRATION FOR TUESDAY, APRIL EIGHTEENTH

Golden Key:

"UNDERSTANDING"

My word today is directed to the development of greater consciousness. I understand the nature of Creative Mind is responsiveness, therefore my consciousness is continually out-picturing in my world of experience and effect. No longer am I satisfied to experience the negative things of life. I am established in new understanding and can envision my perfection, my wholeness and completeness. I understand that perfect health is a Truth of my Being. I realize too, that success and happiness are in the Divine Plan, that my Father's Work calls me to right-use-ness of His Law of Creativity, so I think health, prosperity and happiness, each day. My good triumphantly expresses in my home life, business affairs and social activities. I look upon my universe and find it good. All's well with the world and I adjust myself to my world. I am in the midst of plenty and demonstrate abundance. I am in the center of Intelligence and demonstrate intelligent action. I understand my relationship with the One Infinite Harmony and therefore my affairs are harmonized and prospered. I achieve greatness of consciousness, therefore I achieve greatly. My understanding leads me in paths of right-useness of Creative Law, with harmony as the keynote of my activities. And, so it is! Textbook: Pages 219 and 220 68

EACH DAY OF APRIL WEDNESDAY, APRIL NINETEENTH

Golden Key:

"ADAPTABILITY"

Today I give direction to my thoughts in order that I may adapt myself to the Divine Order. I recognize that right thinking is my adaptability to Truth. Accordingly, I erase false images of thought and allow perfect ideas to manifest in my environment. I realize that any limitation in my thought is my own inability to see that which is whole and perfect; therefore I now release myself to unlimited thought; daring to reach out to the Reality of the Universe and declare my freedom from all imperfection. I attune my thought to health. I contemplate health and thus my body is inspired to regular functioning. My body responds to my every idea of health, rhythm, regularity, harmony and right organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and so I think on these things. I take time to adapt myself to the One Perfect Life. I think of that Life as my life, here and now. I claim It. I accept It, joyously, gladly. The influence of every false belief is eliminated from my consciousness. Sickness, accident, ill health, have no influence, no power over me, for I am conscious of my sonship. I am made in the image and likeness of the Father. His Perfect Body is my body. Where he is, there I am. Wholeness and well being indwell me, and I am sound, whole, complete and perfect. I am adaptable,flexibleand adjustable. I conform to Truth by thinking about perfection and the One Perfect Life, and I become that to which I imaginatively adapt myself. This Truth I joyously accept, now and evermore. And, it is good! Textbook: Pages 196 and 197 69

INSPIRATION FOR THURSDAY, APRIL TWENTIETH

Golden Key: "SELFLESSNESS" My spiritual work this day is to completely establish myself in the perfect wholeness and harmony of God's Nature so my creative thought will individualize this perfection in all my affairs. I comprehend the nature of universal thought is All Powerful and wholly unconditioned. Accordingly, in my thinking I move out from within myself to a realization of my unconditioned thought and universal power. I am more thanfiniteperson, / am a creative thinker in a universe of power, and I speak a word that is constantly producing the effects I experience in life. I declare good health to be my Divine heritage and I demonstrate a healthy body. I voice my belief in the abundant nature of the universe and recognize that I am in the center of abundant supply. Under spiritual law, I am supplied with everything I need. My ideas are mature. I think in terms of greatness, happiness, success and well being. I discover that I am a focal point for God's Creativeness, and that outmoving from within me is Divine Power to organize form and establish effect reflecting the good of the universe; thus am I released from all imperfection and insecurity. My life has significance and meaning. I move serenely through the events of each day confident and courageous because I rely upon the GodSelf, the Universal Self of me, identified and unified with God. It is very good! Textbook: Page 454 7째

EACH DAY OF APRIL FRIDAY, APRIL TWENTY-FIRST

Golden Key: "FREEDOM" Because it seems difficult for me to release myself from the bondage of past experience, I am today devoting my attention to the idea of freedom. In the very nature of Truth I have freedom. I am free to choose the patterns of my creative thought. I have power of imagination and conceive myself to be free, powerful, creative, successful, prosperous, well and strong. I build images in my consciousness of happiness and harmony. Nothing denies me the right to perfect my thought along lines of constructive good. I imagine all that is beautiful, joyous, harmonious and satisfying. I have the power to discriminate and choose my good. I purpose health and my body is suffused with health. It functions rightly. It is a capable instrument and I recognize it as an obedient servant, a perfect vehicle for my expression of life. I am free to direct my future. By intelligent thought I prosper my business and achieve my goal. I am skillful and capable, therefore successful in my undertakings. The creative power of Mind completely frees me from all mistakes of the past. I am free to contemplate my good and to imagine it as mine. Gratefully I observe the results of my creative thought. I have freedom and power to achieve my goal. I accept my freedom of thought as a Truth of my Being. And, it is very good! Textbook: Page 108 7*

INSPIRATION FOR SATURDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SECOND

Golden Key:

"DISCRIMINATION"

Today I choose Right Thinking! Having the tight to discriminate, my choice of thought makes it possible for me to release my creativeness in spontaneous fashion. Knowing that I live in a universe of love as well as a universe of law, I respond to Life with harmonious feeling. I am joyous, happy, inspired, enthused. Life is beautiful! It is avalanching through me with a tremendous surge of vitality, giving me a sense of well being, a realization of power and triumph. I know that I may choose to think either success or failure, therefore I select the idea of success and apply it to the activities of this day and every day to come. My use of the One Infinite Intelligence gives me right direction and guidance. My affairs prosper because I make the right decision, take the right step and speak the right word. I am alert and able. I am capable and handle my affairs wisely. My consciousness is a part of an Infinite All-Knowingness that inspires me to greater efforts and more successful application of my time. I walk the way of orderliness and harmony. Right development and right reward for my activities are inevitable results of my perception and my clarity of thought. I am unconfused in the midst of confusion. I am unshaken by circumstances and events. I have stability, peace and poise, and attract all that is good because it is the nature of Creative Mind to respond to my state of consciousness. It is good, very good! Textbook: Pages 195 and 196 72

EACH DAY OF APRIL SUNDAY, APRIL TWENTY-THIRD

Golden Key: "RESPONSIVENESS" I realize the nature of Creative Mind to be responsiveness to thought, therefore I use thought consciously and with purpose to create my world of effects. I speak my creative word this day for health, happiness and prosperity. I enter into the casual influence for all Creativeness by imagining my good and definitely purposing it. My thought about this good is persistent, constructive thought. I realize that the responsiveness of Creative Mind to my thought will adjust everything that is inharmonious and make whole and complete everything that is limited and lacking. Consciously I use thought to build subjective acceptance of everything desirable and constructive. My body is renewed and rebuilt to perfect functioning as I consciously think of well being and happy living. I am well and strong. I am possessed of strength and have limitless energy. I am untiring and unwavering. I perform according to intention and purpose. I direct my thoughts and actions. Every task is accomplished with ease. I move rhythmically, harmoniously. My body is without tensions. There is no strain, no effort. My body is at ease. It is perfect body. I am confident, certain, self-reliant and adequate to every circumstance. Today I realize my complete well being â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mentally, emotionally, physically. I am responsive to God and God responds to me. And, it is good! Textbook: Page 483 73

INSPIRATION FOR MONDAY, APRIL TWENTY-FOURTH

Golden Key:

"ACCEPTANCE"

Today I determine to accept my own good. I am not apart from Godâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I am One with Him. I am in His Presence. I feel His Oneness with me. I am unified with Him, therefore my treatment is answered even as I formulate it in consciousness. As I perfect myself in right thinking I enter into the kingdom of heaven and experience all that is good and desirable. I accept the reliability of the Creative Law of Mind. I realize It is immutable and unchanging. It is a Law of cause and effect, functioning always according to Its own nature; thus I am dealing with causation as I think about right human relationships and harmonious conditions. I desire the comforts of abundant living. I desire and purpose health and happiness. I select patterns of successful achievement. I think in terms of success and joyous living. I think of others even as I think of myself, and surround everyone in my thinking with happiness and harmony. Because I am spiritualizing my consciousness and dealing rightly with Principle I know that my word is dynamic. The image in my consciousness and the desire in my heart have impact upon Creative Mind. Inevitably an effect is produced like the cause. My word is productive. It is dynamic and creative. My prayer is answered because it is scientific and true to the very nature of Creative Mind. I feel the power of this word, therefore I accept it completely and wholly as the Word of Truth. And so it is! Textbook: Page 153 74

EACH DAY OF APRIL TUESDAY, APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH

Golden Key: "SINCERITY" In speaking my word of Truth today I am building a consciousness of sincerity and belief. I realize my words are words of power. They express my ideas and my patterns of thought. No matter what my past has been, I am now released into purposive, happy living by consciously thinking and speaking out into expression my creative word. By thought and purpose I determine my experience of this day to be good. I condition every event of this day by declaring I am in the center of harmony and happiness. Everything that affects or touches me comes under the influence of happiness and harmony, so I am expectant of only happy, harmonious experiences. I am attuned to ideas of health, success and well being. I conceive health to be mine by Divine right. Perfect livingness is Divine Orderliness, and orderly, harmonious living is my goal and my desire. My consciousness is serene and undisturbed. I have sincere desire to demonstrate good for myself and for my loved ones, therefore my thought is purposive and directive. My ideas originate in the depths of my being. They are heartfelt, and are translated into images by the power of thought. They become effects by the eternal Law of Creativeness. Truly I live in the beneficent shadow of Almighty God. And so it is! Textbook: Page 188 75

INSPIRATION FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SIXTH

Golden Key:

"GRATITUDE"

Meditation is a time of quiet withdrawal from the tensions of life, relaxing into the Stillness and Allness of an Infinite Order. I specialize my consciousness now to realize deep within the self quietude of mind and ease of body. In the very center of my being I am one with all that is orderly, regular, harmonious, peaceful, rhythmical. I am thankful that I live in consciousness, and have a thankful heart, at peace with God and man. I know my undivided attention to the spiritual unity back of all things gives me a spiritualized consciousness, a body completely harmonized. All that is eternally true is Truth about me, right now. I am steeped in Infinite Love. I realize this and I am joyful, thankful and grateful. My gratitude overflows. I am grateful for my life, wisdom, happiness, prosperity; and I am grateful too, that I am in the center of activity. I am grateful that I come in contact with other people. I recognize with thankfulness that everyone with whom I come in contact is in this same universe of good. I am associated with people everywhere in a common bond of love and understanding. I am joyful as I comprehend the unity of the universe, the unity of all people. I know that my activity is an activity of good. I deny no one his good, and this realization is my joy. My consciousness of healthful living and joyous anticipation of greater good coming to me calls forth a feeling of thankfulness to God for the life and wisdom that is mine now and evermore. And, so it is! Textbook: Page 447 76

EACH DAY OF APRIL THURSDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SEVENTH

Golden Key:

"FRIENDLINESS"

My purpose this day is to realize the friendliness of the universe and demonstrate that friendliness in all my affairs. I declare my freedom from all ideas that limit and condition my life. I am released into the Divine Order of harmony and good. I realize the unity of all people and all things. I no longer need be suspicious, timid or afraid. My consciousness is attuned to trust and therefore I come in contact with trustworthy people. I trust myself and my universe so I am at peace within myself and at peace with everyone. I art with friendliness and every activity is a loving expression of my creativity. Reflecting my inner peace, my body is stimulated and inspired to perfect right action. Every function is normal, rhythmic, harmonious. My affairs are harmonious. They prosper because I deal with friendly people and my actions are harmonious. I condition every activity of this day by speaking this word of harmony and friendliness. I experience a lovely existence within my own consciousness, therefore I reflect in my life experiences of joyous friendliness. People are helpful, sympathetic and kindly toward me. I am centering my life in perfect experience by my own right thinking. I give friendship to all and everyone returns friendliness to me. No longer do I strive to get, I am eager to give, because I realize what I am in consciousness. What I deliver into the universe as right thought and perfect action cannot avoid returning a hundred fold to me under spiritual law. It is very good! Textbook: Pages 297, 298 and 299 77

INSPIRATION FOR FRIDAY, APRIL TWENTY-EIGHTH

Golden Key:

"EFFECTIVENESS"

The realization that Universal Truth is available to me to use as I release my creative ideas advances me to new comprehension of my potentialities. I give free rein to my imagination and involve my thinking in the infinite possibilities of answered prayer. I realize that God wills us to have everything goodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;healthful, happy living, harmonious and prosperous conditions. God is a God of abundance, not of limitation. I recognize that I am in a universe of abundant good and my desire and purpose is to demonstrate this good. Knowing that there is a Creative Law of Mind, I state my purpose into Mind. I speak my word for abundant living. Deep within my heart there is desire to express life triumphantly and joyously. I enter into the right activity and it rewards me bountifully. I deliver intelligence into the universe through my actions and there is right reward for this action. I believe in the Divine pattern of health for man. I accept this pattern of health and demonstrate a healthful body. Every idea in my consciousness contributes to my well being. I am directed and guided by Infinite Intelligence into the ways of healthful living. I am released into new livingnessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a life of health and happiness. Each day's experience gives me greater awareness of my effectiveness. I am efficient in the use of spiritual law. I dedicate myself this day to activities in life that contribute to the happiness and harmony of everyone. I am an effective instrument, God-Conscious, God-Inspired. And, so it is. Textbook: Page 458 78

EACH DAY OF APRIL SATURDAY, APRIL TWENTY-NINTH

Golden Key:

"ASSURANCE"

I believe in the Universal Power of the Word of God and in the Infinite Personalness of God. In this consciousness I am free from all limitation, and can give direct and definite direction to my creative thought. Leaving all uncertainty and doubt behind, I confidently walk through the experiences of each day knowing that as I speak my word the Law acts for me to produce effects of my own choosing. Accordingly, I choose to live a life of power with Infinite Intelligence directing me. Harmony prevails in all my affairs. I decide my experiences will be right and just. I accept the idea of my mastery over conditions, leaving nothing to chance, experiencing that which I purpose. My affairs prosper because that is my intention. My body is healthful because I choose to demonstrate perfect health. I have a quiet certainty and strong conviction in my belief about the Law. It works for me as I use It; therefore my thought is clear and undisturbed, definite, dynamic, powerful, creative. My environment responds to my specific and certain thinking. It is the perfect environment. I select it in Mind and purpose it deep within my heart, therefore the Law responds to me and I experience All-Good. I have power to make decisionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;right decisions. My affairs prosper and I am successful in all my undertakings. I am confident, courageous and undisturbed by outer effects. I am living triumphantly with God. I am dwelling in God-Consciousness and all is good. So be it, now and evermore. Textbook: Page 211 (last paragraph) 79

INSPIRATION FOR EACH DAY OF APRIL SUNDAY, APRIL THIRTIETH

Golden Key:

"CONTEMPLATION"

Today I am daring to believe that man re-enacts Godâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; that the conscious mind is the Spirit of God individualized. Therefore I consciously enter into communion with God by contemplating the perfection and harmony of His kingdom. I contemplate the self of me existing in the very center of God's peace, harmony and abundance. I amfilledwith joy as I accept these images of thought. My personality unfolds as my thought reflects itself into actuality. I behold myself in a new dignity, with power and significance. Perfect peace is for me all of peace I can envision. My body is peaceful, my affairs tranquil. I contemplate healthful living and I am renewed of body. I feel an inflow of strength and vitality as I contemplate the One Perfect Life and declare that It is my life right now. I discover that my consciousness abounds with new ideas as I contemplate an Infinite Intelligenceflowingthrough me. I am released into the fulness of happy, joyous living by contemplating the joyous and perfect expression of limitless potentialities. The kingdom of heaven becomes to me an idea of practical living wherein each expression in life is the reflection of Divine Intelligence. I dwell in the Kingdom. I am joyous and happy because I contemplate the Divine nature of man and the limitless possibilities of Consciousness. I am part of a pulsating, living Reality that demonstrates where I am as life triumphant. Accordingly, I live, and move and have my being in conscious unity with the Source of All. The Father and I are One. And so it is! Textbook: Page 196 80

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The Parents' Science of Mind Clinic Willa Fogle having some behavior problem with C i U A your child? Would you like to know how to handle it metaphysically? If so, write to the Science of Mind Magazine, giving the details of your problem, and it will be discussed in this column at some future date. One of the problems submitted for analysis has to do with a child's practicing on a musical instrument. How may we, through a metaphysical approach, develop in a child the right attitude toward "practicmg ? The mother submitting this problem, states: "My boy is twelve. Basically, he is a splendid child, but, like many children of that age, has a great deal of inertia. That, plus a stubborn disposition, makes it hard to guide him. He has taken music lessons a part of each year for several years, but has always rebelled against CT^RE YOU

practice. He has not begun lessons this school year, because I felt that the practice under coercion had profited him but little. I want him to begin lessons again, however. He has considerable talent. How can he be made to resume piano lessons and practice faithfully without coercion? It is not that he dislikes music, but he has set his mind against practice." When we are dealing with any parental problem, metaphysically, we go quickly to a consideration of specific universal principles. So let us analyze this case and see what principles apply in this particular problem. This mother is to be congratulated, in that she has recognized that discipline is to be administered as guidance. This is one of the basic principles, and underlies all correct parental attitudes. This mother has also realized that if guidance is the principle

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to be used in administering discipline, there can be no suggestion of coercion in the discipline. The question, then, is how to persuade the child to practice without using coercion. The mother feels that because her son likes music and has talent, there should be some way to help him prepare for an expression of it. Is there a way to make him practice, without making him practice? We can guide a youngster, and we can treat for him, but we must also release him! And an attitude of release in this case would express in the parent as a willingness to let the child make his ownfinaldecision about his music! In other words, if, over a considerable period of time, the youngster did not respond cooperatively to guidance and treatment, the parent should be willing to let him drop his pursuit of music. Sometimes, a child is started in music when he is too young. He thinks he wants to take lessons and urges his parents to let him start. But if the grind of practicing is not matched by ever-increasing inspiration, his enthusiasm may fade to disinterest. When he is 85

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older, however, he may be ready to dig in and make something of his music. Even when the child is older, it may solve the problem of practicing to let him drop lessons for a little while and devote this interval to a development of ideas which may inspire the child musically. He might be taken to concerts or shows where he would see the results of arduous practicing. Or he might be encouraged to read of the lives of successful musicians, developing the idea that music can be a tremendous joy and power in a person's life. If parents are ever confused as to the difference between guidance and a discipline that smacks of coercion, they need only remember that guidance is always inspiration. We inspire the child to constructive activity. As the parent draws the child's attention to the advantages of practicing, the good results, he should also be treating for the youngster, knowing that the child "awakens to the deep sense of harmony within him, and to the realization that

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he has the power to express harmony, in spirit, in mind, and in body. That all avenues of his expression are open to the outpouring of inner harmony." In this treatment, the parent is not trying to influence the activity of the child; he is revealing the child's true nature of being, and allowing the youngster to interpret this Truth in his own way! The child will sense the treatment. It will express as the word of Truth through him. Knowing this, we must be willing to accept the interpretation he gives it. Even when a youngster practices of his own accord, he should be given the support of

treatment. And a word of encouragement always helps. He may make a lot of mistakes, but praise should not be withheld. Every child needs a pat on the back for trying! Children, like many of us grown-ups, are rather lazy. Many of the constructive things they do (going to school, for instance) they do because they have to. It takes a "heap o' inspirin' an' treatin'" to get them to practice. If, with all that, they still don't cooperate, it means they have not chosen music as their expression. And realizing that they are spiritual beings, we must allow them their divine right to choose.

All that is in harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or late for me. —MARCUS

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. —J. M. BARR1E Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. —RALPH 86

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A Hobby With Words Grenville Kleiser tain a reputation as a good conv e r s a t i o n a l i s t , or e v e n as a writer. T h e English language contains an abundant supply of ordinary, simple words w h i c h , if carefully chosen and correctly applied, suffice to express almost any meaning, idea, or shade of thought. Naturally there are, i n addition, many words of greater length or rarity, which it is equally permissible to employ w h e n o c c a s i o n a r i s e s , since these words fulfill a special mission that no other words can a d e q u a t e l y discharge. T h e y have a subtle shade of meaning peculiar to themselves; there may be, and there are, synonyms w h i c h closely resemble them; but there is always a slight difference. It is this difference that only the diligent student of words can detect, and it is all-important.

LIZABETH and I have a

d i v e r t i n g h o b b y that might aptly be called, "Gardening i n W o r d s . " W h e n we see a word significantly used, i n a book, magazine article, or editorial, we note its meaning as given i n a dictionary and proceed to plant it i n our minds as a gardner plants his seed i n the soil. As wife and husband we are i n cordial agreement about words, their power for good or evil, and how they can be made to express infinite shades of thought and feeling when used with skill and discretion. It is only when one comes to consider words â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just words alone, apart from literary style â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that one realizes the vastness of t h e s u b j e c t , t h e i n f i n i t e variety of these little cogs i n the wheels of speech, their nice adjustment, their delicate grading, their precision and their power. There is no need to search for unusual, high-sounding or peculiar words i n order to ob-

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before a cosy log fire, Elizabeth handed to me some notes she had made during the day in reference to words, which read: "Some words transport us to the skies, others plunge us into abysmal gloom; some hold undisputed sway like absolute sovereigns, others do only menial service; some stab as with a dagger, others soothe like a mother's caress; some have the ingratiating modesty of a high-born maiden, others intrude like an unbidden guest; some sing in the memory like the lingering note of a nightingale, others haunt the mind like an ominous decree. "Some are like living personalities, others like dim memories of bygone days; some are like the dance of animated sunbeams, others like the sigh

of mournful pines; some are like a beacon light, others like a flickering candle; some are like a quivering image on water, others set as a face of flint; some are like a symphony of the stars, others like jangling notes out of tune; some are as hot as a fiery volcano, others cold as a winter blast. "Some are as soft as a whispering breeze, others loud as a cannon-peal; some are as gay as a troubador, others dull as a brooding sky; some are as nimble as dancing water, others heavy as a weary footstep; some are as beautiful as the rosy flush of dawn, others ugly as a venomous toad; some are as definite as the glance of a child, others as vague as a fitful dream." I assented.

// is a good thing to believe, it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; and as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of what he despises, so the opposite habits of admiration and enthusiastic reverence for excellence impart to ourselves a portion of the qualities we admire.

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BEYOND It seemeth such a little way to me, Across to that strange country, the beyond; A n d yet, not strange, for it has grown to be T h e home of those of w h o m I am so fond. They make it seem familiar and most dear, A s journeying friends, b r i n g distant regions near. So close it lies that when my sight is clear I think I almost see the gleaming strand, I k n o w I feel those who have gone from here Come near enough sometime to touch my hand. I often think, but for our veiled eyes, W e should find heaven right about us lies. I cannot make it seem a day to dread, W h e n from this dear earth I shall journey out T o that still dearer country of the dead, A n d join the lost ones so l o n g dreamed about. I love this w o r l d , yet shall I love to go A n d meet the friends who wait for me I know. I never stand above a bier and see T h e seal of death set on some well-loved face, But what I think, " O n e more to welcome me, W h e n I shall cross the intervening space Between this land and that one 'over there'; O n e more to make the strange beyond seem f a i r . " A n d so for me there is no sting of death, A n d so the grave hath lost its victory. It is but crossing w i t h a bated breath, A n d white, set face â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a little strip of sea, T o find the loved ones waiting on the shore, M o r e beautiful, more precious than before.

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The First Annual Congress The F i r s t A n n u a l Congress of the International Association of R e l i g i o u s Science Churches is history. W h a t a growth i n the S p i r i t of U n i t y has taken place. N o w we are t h i n k i n g and counseling, one w i t h the other, that the right S p i r i t be expressed; that the purpose of the C h u r c h Organization be definitely that of presenting the teachings and p h i l o s o p h y of the Institute of R e l i g i o u s Science a n d P h i l o s ophy at L o s Angeles, and that that purpose s h a l l be c l e a r l y stated. The Institute is to conduct the College and provide the c u r r i c u l u m , and then the Churches, through their accredited ministers and teachers, w i l l teach and p r o c l a i m this p h i l o s o p h y to the w o r l d . The f o l l o w i n g ministers were o r d a i n e d : D r . W . H e n r y M c L e a n , Santa M o n i c a , C a l i f o r n i a ; Rev. Betty Bassett, H a y w a r d , C a l i f o r n i a , and Rev. P a u l a M . Scott, San A n s e l m o , C a l i f o r n i a . Rev. E m i l C. H a r t m a n n o f St. L o u i s , M i s s o u r i , who was detained at the last minute by weather conditions, c o u l d not be present, but was ordained by D r . R a y m o n d C. B a r k e r i n St. L o u i s on J a n u a r y 22nd. A l l but six of the Churches were present to receive their new Charters i n the International Association of R e l i g i o u s Science Churches. The service of o r d i n a t i o n and presentation was closed w i t h these words of dedication: " L e t us turn to that D i v i n e Presence w i t h i n , w i t h j o y and thanksg i v i n g f o r the great idea w h i c h underlies this organization of w h i c h we are p r o u d to be a part. Let us here and now dedicate our highest efforts, and consecrate our lives, to the ultimate f u l f i l l m e n t of this idea. F o r this great idea, then, we do give thanks, and we go f o r t h f r o m this place dedicated and consecrated to the task o f spreading it wherever we go u n t i l it encircles the globe. A n d so it i s . "

Charles Kinnear, Executive Sec'y INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE CHURCHES 9

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Directory of Religious Science Practitioners Fogle, Willa—7677 Sunset Blvd., GR 8033; Res. NO 5836. Holmes, Charlotte E. — 1801 N . Kingsley Dr. HO 9-5476. Holtzman, Florence Lee — 1556 N . Laurel Ave. GR 1278. McLean, W. Henry—6630 Sunset Blvd. Tel. HE 3643. Richmond, Cathryn — 1624*4 N . Kenmore Ave. NO 8529. Rose, Mrs. Mason H . — 1310 N . Stanley Ave. HU 2-4754. PALMS •Huff, Pauline—3611 Mentone Ave. Tel. VE 8-1581. By appointment. WEST LOS A N GE L E S Fletcher, Marjorie W. — 11428 Iowa Ave. at Butler. ARizona 3-6422. Harris, Guy C — 10588 Ashton Ave. ARizona 3-0383. Harwood, Anne — 11940 Kiowa Ave. AR 3- 6974. A L H A M B R A , CALIFORNIA Briggs, Harry J . — 331 N . 2nd St. A T 4- 2935. Galbreath, Bertha M . — 2017 So. 3rd St. Tel. AT 4-5319. McPherson, Florence Ruth — 135 No. 5th St. Tel. AT 4-8762. Trowbridge, Carmelita — 507 N . Granada. AT 1-1029. A L T A D E N A , CALIFORNIA •MacKenzie, Mabel L.—2340 N . El Molina Ave. SY 7-1760. Metcalf, Virginia — 1826 N . Harding. SYcamore 4-2635. A N A H E I M , CALIFORNIA •Nelson, Gertrude—406% N . Lemon. Tel. 2375. ATASCADERO, CALIFORNIA Wentzel, Nell B. — Box 534. Tel. 282-W. B A K E E S F I E L D , CALIFORNIA Coltrin, Walter T . and Eleanor R. — 1302 Quincy St. 3-9458. B E L L A VISTA, CALIFORNIA Gregory, Erna L. — 228 S. Atlantic Blvd. ANgelus 3-5048. B E V E R L Y H I L L S , CALIFORNIA Larson, Christian D . — 357 S. Maple Dr. CR 1-0879. B U B B A N K , CALIFORNIA Carson, Pauline—632 Hollywood Way. Ret. CHarleston 8-1373. McCall, Z. Fay — 638 E. Santa Anita. C H 6-0627. CORONA D E L M A R , CALIFORNIA •Bean, Anna E. — 621 Marigold Ave. Har. 2783W. DOWNEY, CALIFORNIA Brown, Jennie Davis — 10612 Clancey Ave. Tel. TOpaz 2-8665. By appointment. EAST PASADENA, CALIFORNIA Bamhart, Ethel — 482 Woodward Blvd. SY 3-0848. E L CENTRO, CALIFORNIA Glidden, Gracelynn—660 Orange Ave. Tel. 569J. •Authorized Study Group

E L M O N T E , CALIFORNIA •Lambert, Ruth Rea — 215 Lexington Ave. FOrest 8-5518. McCormick, Viola — 203 E. Bryant Rd. FOrest 8-2205. F U L L E R T O N , CALIFORNIA •Nelson, Gertrude J. — 321 N . Pomona Ave. Wed. 8:00 P.M. Tel. Anaheim 2375. G L E N D A L E , CALIFORNIA Hewitt, Richard—524 Fischer St. CI 3-8188. Holman, Lora B. — Citrus 1-4423 or CI 3- 9270. Lester, Ruth A. — Citrus 3-1395 Loomis, Frank R. and Ethel F. — 2004 Bel Aire Drive. CH 0-1189. Penland, Maud Speir — 345A Salem St. CI 4- 1501. Vars, Florence C — 635-A W. Stocker St. •Wilcox, Flaurabelle S.—620 N . Maryland. Citrus 2-5113. Williams, Nadia — 511 So. Glendale Ave. Tel. CI 3-1213. HAYWARD, C A L I F . Baldwin, Helen — 1029 "A" Street. Tel. Lucerne 1-8603. Res. Glencourt 1-8473. Bassett, Betty — 1029 "A" Street. Lucerne 1-8603. Res. Pleasanton 4416. Hill, Gene—1029 "A" Street. Tel. Lucerne 1- 8603. Res. Pleasanton 4416. HUNTINGTON P A R K , C A L I F . Boyd, Dorothy E. — 6327 Seville Ave. LUcas 3723. Scofield, Anita—2563 Clarendon Ave. Of. LA 9517; Res. JE 5068. INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA Browne, Agnes E. — 1309Vi No. La Brea. ORchard 2-4020. Longe, Jesse V . and Hazel C. — 1019 B . Fairview Blvd. Tel. OR 8-2480. L A CRESCENTA, CALIFORNIA Chaffee, Sally and Clifford — 7541 Valmont St., Tujunga. FLorida 3-4107. L A JO I. LA, CALIFORNIA •Addington, J. E. — 6341 Dowling Drive. GLencove 5-3549; Of. JAckson 1539. Wed. 2 P.M. La Jolla Woman's Club, Silverado at Prospect. LAKEWOOD VILLAGE Prowten, Edna V . 4433 Whitewood Ave. Tel. Long Beach 525-21. LONG B E A C H , CALIFORNIA Cameron, May — 440 East 9th St. 610-325. LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA Gerlacb, Sue Ann — R. 1, Box 15. Tel. 190-J. N O R T H HOLLYWOOD, C A L I F . Dunbar, Esther Loucetta — 12755 Hortense St. SUnset 2-8875. Holtz, Bessie Stacy — 6325 Bellaire Ave. SU 3-5509. O A K L A N D , CALIFORNIA Gifford, Elmer M . — 1452 Alice St. TE 2- 7500; Res. 5924 Chabot Crest. OL 3- 3274. Gordon, Maxine — 2338 Waverly St. GL 1-4029. Hammond, Norma — 1452 Alice St. TEmplebar 2-7500; Res. KI 8999. Hopper, Lillian—1452 Alice St. T E 2-7500; 12050 Broadway Ter. PI 5-2715-W.

Directory of Religious Science Practitioners SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Addington, J . E. — 1253 University Ave. JAckson 1539; Res. GLencove 5-3549. Frederic, Del W . — Rm. 412, 441 " C " St. FRanklin 2952. Moore, Louise Lynn — 1161 Fifth Avenue. Tel. JAckson 1539; Res. F-6122. Van Hise, Elva M . — 3947Vi Third Ave. Tel. WOodcrest 2760. SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA Dwinell, Horace W . — R3, 1130 E. Collins Ave., Orange. Tel. KImberly 2-8043. SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA Baird, Thomas B.—427 Donze. Res. 1-6506. Of. 127 W . Ortega. 2-3459. SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA Hunter, Olive M.—1030 Fifth St., 5-8309. Lloyd, Ethel B. — 804 Yale St. 48312. SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA •Houpt, Renee — 4261 Cedros Ave. STate 4-2451. SOUTH GATE, CALIFORNIA Ferguson, Kathleen A . — 2647 Palm Place. LUcas 6980. Walp, Blanche Thompson—8134 California Ave. LA 6221; L U 5873. TUJUNGA, CALIFORNIA Cbaffee, Sally and Clifford—7541 Valmont St. FLorida 3-4107. VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA •Arnold, Paula Swan — 14360 Valerio St. STate 5-8179. Burtis, Warren D . — 16001 Wyandotte St. STate 5-4275. VISTA, CALIFORNIA Foote, Mabel — Rt. 1, Box 840, Plumosa Ave. Tel. 9-3671. WHITTIER, CALIFORNIA Crouch, Mrs. Y . — 2115 Rose Dr. 4-3809. Pritchard, T. Chester — 602 So. Greenleaf Ave. 4-3220. WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA Stowell, Elaine B. — 23703 So. Idabel Ave. TE 4-3690. TUCSON, ARIZONA Holloway, Winfield — 304 E. Prince Rd. 3-9132. DENVER, COLORADO Allen, Norma — 1425 Washington St. C H 9357; Of. EA 3444. Andrews, Ethyl — 1018 E. Ellsworth, Apt. 40. SPruce 3432; Of. EA 3444. Lowell, Helen M . — I960 Bell aire St. EA 2066. Of. EA 3444. Mayo, Cora B. — Of. 2205 E. Colfax Ave. EA 3444. A . M . only. Murray, Edith J . — 1540 Washington St. K E 9761; Of. EA 3444. W A S H I N G T O N , D . C. Grimm, Mae Belle — 4115 Wisconsin Ave. N . W . Woodley 6500. Wilkerson, W . Scott—1129 Vermont Ave., N . W . D I 5998. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA •Bean, E. Harry — 422 W . Gregory. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Donahue, Stephen J.—4420 Brookside Ave. W H 1347. Of. Belmont Hotel. K E 2141.

Norris, Docia W . — T E 2-7500. 1452 Alice St. j PI 5-2870-W, 416 McAuley. PACIFIC PALISADES Browne, Mrs. Elsa—1120 Embury St. Tel. Santa Monica 579-18. P A L M SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA Fendrich, J . Lowrey — Warm Sands Villa, C /o Margaret Manasse. Tel. 3775. Spence, George F.—1411 Ramon Rd. 9870. P.O. 760. PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA Blakesley, Lou — 1049 Noel Dr. DAvenport 2-9098. Dodge, Isabel C. — DAvenport 2-2078. PALOS VERDES ESTATES, CALIF. Barnum, Earl D . — 3137 Via La Selva. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA Brown, Jean McTavish—1218 N . Holliston. SY 4-9033. •Laidlaw, Virginia A . — 256 So. Madison Ave. SYcamore 2-2494. Larson, Elizabeth and Joseph — 1509 N . Harding. SY 8-3251. Leonard, Robert C. — 1295 Montecito Dr. Los Angeles 31. CA 4365. Miller, Lettie A . — 249 N . Euclid Ave. SY 3-5681. PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA Monde, Yvonne — 102 Canal St., 359-J. PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA •Bassett, Betty — Rt. 1, Box 69 Foothill Road. PL 4416. POMONA, CALIFORNIA Moore, Pearl Lady — 400 N . Gibbs St. LYcoming 2-4004. RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA Harding, Fletcher A . — 3642 Eighth St. Of. 0429; Res. 5093-R. By Appointment. Taylor, Wydif — 3864 Ridge Road. By appointment. 1727-J. SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA •Forsman, Mabel — Lenhart Hotel, Mezzanine Km. 5. 4-0800. SAN ANSELMO, CALIF. Scott, Paula M . — 74 Monterey Ave. 6519J. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Becket, Daisy May — 177 Post St. G A 1-1803. Res. M A 1-3244. Burrill, Edgar White — T U 5-0809. Of. 177 Post St., Suite 608. G A 1-1803. Custer, Dan — 177 Post St., Suite 605. YUkon 2-2818. Gregory, Julia—Rm. 608, 177 Post St. G A 1-1803; OR 3-24S8. Harris, Catherine—177 Post St. G A 1-1803. Hayler, Mollie—Rm. 608, 117 Post St. G A 1- 1803; Res. E V 6-2333. Heichert, Helen — 177 Post St., Suite 605, YUkon 2-2818; Res. EV 6-2482. Maxwell, Georgia C. — 177 Post St. Suite 608. G A 1-1803; G R 4-8364. Propper, Edith — 1482 Sutter St. Tel. PR 6-0621. Scott, Paula M . — 177 Post St. Y U k o n 2- 2818. Res. San Anselmo 6519J. Walls, Frances Archer — Of. 177 Post St., Suite 608. G A 1-1803; 1150 Greenwich, OR 3-0341. •Authorized Study Group

Directory of Religion Science Practitioners EAST ORANGE, N E W J E R S E Y Cords, Louise — 71 Carlton St., ORange 4- 2257. MONTCLAIR, N . J . Waldenburgh, Katherine M . — 117 Christopher St. Tel. Montclair 2-5420. NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Savarese, John—25 Heller Parkway. HUmboldt 2-1332. 152 Belmont Ave. BRONX, N E W YORK Ahles, Elizabeth—1915 Tenbrock Ave. TA1madge 3-5447. Henkel, Gertrude — 2100 Eastchester Road. TAlmadge 9-1063. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Hall, Flora — 641 Macon Street, GLenmore 5- 5762. Peters, Priscilla—37 Brevoort Place. MAin 3- 3397. Schmitt, Mary A. — 171 Eastern Parkway. NE 8-2927. Stringer, Charles H.—921 President Street. STerling 9-0578. BUFFALO, NEW YORK Pelly, William — 353 Richmond Ave., GArfield 4932. Wood, Margaret A. — 353 Richmond Ave. F O R E S T H I L L S , QUEENS, N E W YORK Kaplan, Sadye —76-36 113th St. Tel. BO 8-8640. Shapiro Manuell Barnett—112-06 71st Ave. Tel. Boulevard 8-0172. JACKSON H E I G H T S , N E W Y O R K Harden, Josephine — 35 - 45 78th Street. HAvenmeyer 4-3800; Ext. 178. N E W YORK, N E W Y O R K Barker, Estelle M . — 118 West 57th St. COIumbus 5-7917. Barker, R. C—Of. Great Northern Hotel, 118 West 57th St. CO 5-7917. Brehant, Ernest J. — 35 East 30th St. M U 4- 8980. Brunet, Paul M.—Of. 33 W. 42nd St., Rm. 1701. PEnn 6-4570; Res. BRy 9-7925. Cassard, Rheba — 105 West 55th St. Circle 7-6625. Few, Thomas V . — 227 E. 60th St. TE 8- 7485. Ingram, Margery L. — 76 Bank St. CHelsea 2-4318. Morgan, Alice — 230 Central Park West. SChuyler 4-5944. Parsons, Helen Hart — 871 First Ave. PLaza 5-6524. By appointment—evenings only. Treatment by mail. Rieman, Evelyn H.—Great Northern Hotel, 118 W. 57th St. Tel. COIumbus 5-7917. •Authorized Study Group

Stremm, Naomi W.—145 East 49th St. Tel. PLaza 5-5253. Wallace, Ethel — 410 E. 57th St. Tel. PL 5-9817. Wardlaw, Mena Noble—225 West 12th St. CHelsea 3-3136. Williams, Mary P. — 145 East 49th Street. PLaza 5-5253. ROCHESTER, N E W Y O R K Kintner, Wesley Wayne — Suite 2E Baptist Temple, 14 Franklin St. Barker 4485; Res. Culver 4879R. Snyder, E. Lawrence—323 Commerce Bldg. Main 1617. SYRACUSE, N E W Y O R K •Carryer, Ruth M. — Science of Mind Center, Kenyon Apts. No. 1, 601 So. Warren St. Tel. 3-7622. CINCINNATI, OHIO Hastings, Shirley Bell — 3152 Linwood Road. Ingraham, E. V . — New Thought Temple. Of. WO 6731. S A L E M , OREGON Stevens, Olive — 495 N . Cottage St. 8636. DALLAS, TEXAS Polakow, Howard — 508 Fidelity Bldg. E L PASO, T E X A S •Kaufman, Aileen R. — 4012 Chester St. 5-0143HOUSTON, T E X A S Giffin, Don E. — 3017 Wheeler. Lynchburg 9715. Lewis, Abbie Cleaver — 2401 Claremont Lane, Apt. No. 6. Keystone 3-9253. McALLEN, TEXAS McLellan, Hattie — 418 No. 11th St. — 1464R. SPOKANE, WASHINGTON D'Oyly, Fred F. — 311 - 312 Eagle Bldg. Riverside 4923; Res. MA 6322. D'Oyly, Lois — 311-312 Eagle Bldg. Riverside 4923; Res. MA 6322. WAUSAU, WISCONSIN Stein, N . S. — 610 Ethel St., Tel. 4169. CASPER, WYOMING •Green, Mary Burris—536 So. Grant. Tel. 4191. M O N T R E A L , CANADA Taylor, Ann — 1461 Mountain St. HA 2991. MT. ROYAL, CANADA Lewis, Henrietta — 155 Chester Road. Tel. EX 2543. C A P E TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA •Brunt, Hester — P. O. Box 3553. Tel. 3.0591. Brunt, Vere—P. O. Box 3553. Tel. 3.0591-

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E R N E S T H O L M E S , Speaker — Fox-Beverly Theatre, 206 N o . Beverly Drive at Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. J. L O W R E Y F E N D R I C H , JR., Speaker — Ebell Theatre, Wilshire Blvd. at Lucerne. S T A N L E Y W . B A R T L E T T , Speaker — Fox Belmont Theatre, 126 So. Vermont Ave.

Metropolitan Los Angeles EAST SIDE—Charles H . Palmer, LeaderSun. 11 A.M., Wed. 8 P.M. 4801 So. Main Street, AD 1-9085. HIGHLAND PARK—John Derek Edward, Leader—5601 Buchanan St. Cor. Ave. 56. Sun. 11 A . M . Weekday meetings. AL 8100. HOLLYWOOD—Robert H . Bitter, Leader —7677 Sunset Blvd. (at Courtney Ave.), GR 8033. Sunday and Weekdays. SOUTHWEST LOS ANGELES — Charles W. Kinnear, Leader — West Ebell Club House, 1717 W. 47th St. DU 8-2181. A X 8045. Sunday and Thursday. California A L H A M B R A — Carmelita Trowbridge, Leader—Sun. 11 A.M. San Gabriel Civic Auditorium, 320 S. Mission Drive, San Gabriel; Weekday services and all other activities, 507 No. Granada, Alhambra; AT 1-1029. BAKERSFIELD—Eleanor and Walter Coltrin. Leaders — Sun. 11 A.M. — Thurs. 8 P.M. Women's Club, 2030 18th St., Tues. 2 P.M. Healing. 1302 Quiucy St. Phone 3-9458. BURBANK—Don Bertheau, Leader—3321 West Olive St. Sun. 11 A . M . ; CHarleston 8-4158. EAST PASADENA—Ethel Barnhart, Leader—736 So. Rosemead Blvd. Sun. 11 A.M. Weekday Services. SY 3-0848. GLENDALE — Lora B. Holman, Leader — 661 N . Kenilworth (at Patterson), Citrus 1-4423. Sunday and Weekday Services. HAYWARD — Betty Bassett, Leader — 1029 "A" St., Sunday 11 A . M . Tel. Lucerne 1-8603. HUNTINGTON PARK — Anita Scofield, Leader—2563 Clarendon, LA 9517. Sunday and Weekday Services. INGLEWOOD—Jesse V . Longe, Leader— 501 So. Grevillea (at Lime). Sun. 11 A.M., Thurs., 8 P.M. Tel. OR 8-2480. LA CRESCENTA — Crescenta Valley First Chapter — Sally Chaffee, Leader; Clifford Chaffee, Asst. Leader — 3604 W. Santa Carlotta (at Dunsmore Ave. 1 block above Foothill) Sun. 11 A.M.-Wed. 8 P.M. Thurs. 11 A . M . Phone FLorida 3-4107. LONG BEACH—John Hefferlin, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M. Ebell Theatre, cor. Cerritos and 3rd. Weekday Meetings, 440 E. 9th St., 610-325.

OAKLAND—Elmer M . Gifford, Leader— 1452 Alice St., TE 2-7500. Lectures Wed. 8 P.M., Sun. 11 A . M . Oakland Club, 124 Montecito. PALO ALTO — Lou Blakesley, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M., Women's Club, Cowper & Homer Sts. Wed. 8 P.M. 312 Ramona. Tel. Davenport 2-0270. PASADENA—Elizabeth and Joseph Larson, Leaders—Sun. 11 A . M . ; Tues. 11 A . M . ; Wed. 8 P.M. All meetings 277 N . El Molino. SYcamore 2-2893; Res. SY 8-3251. POMONA VALLEY FIRST CHAPTER — Pearl Lady Moore, Leader—Sun. 11 A.M. and Weekdays, 400 N . Gibbs St., Pomona. LYcoming 2-4004. REDONDO BEACH — Earl D . Barnum, Leader—Sun. 11 A.M. Masonic Hall, 116 Ruby St. Headquarters 503 So. Catalina St. 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Tues., Thurs., Fri. Tel. Frontier 4-8331. RICHMOND — Craig Carter, Speaker — Sunday and Week-day Services, Y.W.C.A. Bldg., 12th and Nevm. 2208 Emeric Ave. Tel. Beacon 2-4018. RIVERSIDE — Fletcher Harding, Leader — Sun. 10:45 A . M . Golden State Theatre, 3745 7th St., between Main and Market. Offices and weekday activities, 3642 8th St., 210-11 Fluke Bldg. SAN ANSELMO — Paula Scott, Leader — Sun. 11 A . M . Women's Improvement Club, 167 Tunstead Ave. Thurs. Eve.— Public Library Hall. SAN BERNARDINO — Fletcher Harding, Leader — Sun. 7 :30 P.M. YWCA Auditorium, Fifth and Arrowhead. SAN DIEGO — Jack Addington, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M., San Diego Woman's Club, 3rd and Maple. All other activities at 1253 University Ave. JAckson 1539. SANTA ANA—Horace W. Dwinell, Leader—Sun. 11 A . M . , Thurs., 7:30 P.M. Ebell Club. 625 N . French St. Tel. Klmberly 2-8043. SAN FRANCISCO—Dan Custer, Regional Director — Sun. 11 A . M . Century Club, Sutter and Franklin Sts.—Weekdays, 177 Post St. YUkon 2-2818. SANTA BARBARA—Thos. B. Baird, Leader — 125-127 West Ortega St. Sun. 11 A.M., Thurs. 8 P.M. Tel. 2-3459 2-6506. SANTA MONICA — W. Henry McLean, Leader — Sun. 11 A.M., 1003 Wilshire Blvd.

Directory of Chartered Religious Science Activities and Fifth Ave. Sun. 11 A.M. and Thurs. Eve. lectures 8 P.M. at Gotham Hotel. Hdqrs. 33 W. 42nd St. PEnn. 6-4570. ROCHESTER — Kintner, Wesley Wayne, Arizona Leader — Suite 2E Baptist Temple, 14 PHOENIX—I)wight O. Benton, Speaker— Franklin St. Baker 4485. Res. Culver 702 North First St., Tel. 8-5154. Sun. 4879R. 10:30 A.M. Vista Theatre, 215 N . CenOhio tral Ave. Wed. 8 P.M. Chapter House, 702 N . First St. DAYTON—Shirley Bell Hastings, LeaderDayton New Thought Temple, 24 GrafTUCSON — Winfield Holloway, Leader — ton Ave. 304 E. Prince Kd., 3-9132. Sunday 11 A. M. Sunday Forum 8 P.M. Tucson Oregon Women's Club, 317 W. Alameda. SALEM — Olive Stevens, Leader — 495 N . Cortage. Phone 38636. Sun. 11 A . M . Colorado Women's Club, 460 N . Cottage. DENVER—Orlando Wanvig, Leader, Cora B. Mayo, Asst. Leader—Sun. 11 A . M . Texas Aladdin Theatre; Study, 659 Williams; DALLAS—Howard Polakow, Leader — 508 Of. EA 3444. Fidelity Bldg.. 1000 Main St. Sun. 11 Idaho A . M . ; Wed. 8 P.M. McALLEN — Hattie McLeUan, Leader — BOISE—Gertrude McFarland, Leader—Sun. Sun. 11 A.M., 8 P.M. Healing MeditaServices 11:30 A.M., Owyhee Hotel, Blue tion, Tues. 2 P.M. 418 No. 11th St., Tel. Room: Classes 2:30 P.M., Tues. 8 P.M. 1464R. Wed. Hdqrs. 401 Bannock St. 3151-M. Washington Minnesota SEATTLE—1st Chapter; Clyde F. McNeil, MINNEAPOLIS— Speaker—Sun. 11 A.M., Wilsonian Motel. 1936 Colfax Ave. South, Kenwood 2 1 4 1 . 47th and University Way. Tel. EMersou 8843. Missouri ST. LOUIS—Emil Clifford Hartmann, Lead- SPOKANE — Fred F. and Lois D'Oyly, Leaders—Sun. 11 A.M., 4th and Stevens er—Sunday At Weekday Services, 4024-30 Sts., Of. 311 Eagle Bldg., 506 W. RiverLindell Blvd. side. Riverside 4923. New York Canada BUFFALO— Pelly, Wm. A., Leader—Fillmore Room, MONTREAL — Henrietta Lewis, Leader — Hotel Statler. Sundays; Parlor " G " — 1461 Mountain St., Apt. 26. Harbour Thursdays, Study. 353 Richmond Ave. 2991. Public Lectures as advertised. GA 4932. Classes Tues. and Thursday. NEW YORK—Raymond C. Barker, Leader South Africa —Town Hall. 123 West 43rd St. Sun. 11 A . M . ; Hdqrs. and Weekday Services, CAPE TOWN — Hester Brunt, Leader — Great Northern Hotel, 118 West 57th 614 Groote Kerk Bldg. Ph. 3.0591. PubStreet. CO 5-7917. lic. Lectures weekday Hofmey Theatre. Sunday Rondebosch Town Hall. Aft. and 2nd Chapter; Paul Martin Brunei, Leader Eve. Classes Monday, Tues. and Wed. —Hotel Gotham, Ball Room, 55th St.

WHITTTER — Y . Crouch, Leader — 1942 See Drive. Sua 11:1$ A.M., Tues. 7:30 P.M. 826 Panorama Drive. WH 4-3809.

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