THAT YE MIGHT HAVE

PART TWO OF A TRILOGY

By Walter C. Lanyon

Part One - I Came

Part Two - That Ye Might Have

Part Three - Life More Abundant

This, the second volume, continues the relation of Consciousness versus Thought. A development of the Changeless Order of Being is given together with a fuller expose of the practical application of the Principle used by Jesus in his so-called miracles.

Gradually the reader becomes aware that Consciousness is not established by "Taking Thought" but by becoming aware of Consciousness. He finds that thought emanates from Consciousness as the rays of light emanate from the SUN. He discovers the reason for many of the things said by Jesus---he begins to sense in a new way how it is that "prayer is answered before it is asked"---and that the results take place while he is asking. In short, an entirely new level of understanding is revealed.

"The Child finds its mother when it leaves her womb. When I am parted from you, thrown out from your household, I am free to see your face, and now I walk my own willful way till my very folly tempts you to my door. For I have your promise that my portion of the best in this world will come from your hands."

CONTENTS

THE HALL OF SILENCE

SUBSTANCE

IDLE GOSSIP SINKS SHIPS

THE SPREADING DAWN

THE GOD OF LOVE

DIRECT ACTION

REINCARNATION AND YOU

THE DAY OF MIRACLES

WHITE ELEPHANTS

THE INSPIRATION

EXPERIENCE - AND STAIGHTWAY THE SPIRIT

LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU

NO COMPETITION

NO WEAPON SHALL PROSPER

IF ANY MAN

THE PERMANENT IDENTITY

EVOLUTION AND GOD

BUT WHY SHOULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME?

NOTHING HIDDEN

THE YEAR OF OUR LORD

I WILL NOT LET YOU GOD

HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD

BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS HOW LONG HALT YE?

SYMBOLS

MEDITATIONS

NOT A SPARROW FALLETH

ADULTERY

PREPARATION

THE GODS GIVE THREAD

FIRE AND DUCK

NOTES

The Hall of Silence

Chapter One

"I GO TO PREPARE a place for you----that where I am there ye may be also." The place that is prepared is the Hall of Silence in the Temple of Peace. It is more than the "closet" referred to so often---for in this Hall of Silence the completed and perfect thing is visible ere it goes down through the temple of your body to take on a material form and shape. It becomes an actual place of experience---a laboratory.

Shambala, Shangri La---even Tibet (as far as it is anything to you) are merely states of consciousness. All of them attainable by you and leading many times to bringing out a materialization of these places. I cannot understand why if your mind can go to such places, your body should not accompany it---especially if you have experienced the Union of Body and soul---God and man. Do you see why, when you have chosen the alone path you are free to go just as fast as you wish---free to "call upon Me," and to know and experience the "sustaining" Principle, in direct proportion to your acceptance?

"He shall prepare a table before ME in the presence of mine enemies." Quite a lovely promise---is it any good? Can you avail yourself of it? If not, why not?

Coming to this consciousness there are:

"No contortions, and twistings of the body in Yoga practices. No hundreds of mantras each day---repeated monotonously---no turning of prayer wheels! Just a simplicity of Nature---like the birds, the bees and the flowers. Just a natural and sweet return to God."

And so you, standing in the Hall of Silence in the Temple of Peace, are able to travel out through the Light to reach the consciousness which is calling unto you on his level of understanding, and to stimulate you to "drink deeper" of the Truth. And as the color or order of his coming intensifies, it finally reaches the great White Light of Self-revelation. Silence is the first sign of real wisdom. Any real spiritual experience is too sacred to be profaned by words "Do you see why?" You can give it all to the world, and keep it all, but you cannot tell a thing you have experienced in the Hall of Silence, lest you find the door closed to you. "Then went he in and shut the door"---and what happened? And what will happen to you when you have, like the Arab "silently stolen away" into this Hall of Silence, and discovered the secret pattern ---the matrix, the model of that which is about to appear on the earth. It is too sacred to set down on paper that which is to be shown to you ---how it is that you can perform the whole thing in the place of Consciousness and send it forth to take on a body and form.

There is no limit to what can be accomplished through completing the recognition in the Place of Silence. Even a surgical operation, no matter how ever difficult, could be perfectly consummated and finished---so that the light passing through the various degrees could guide the hands of the one actually performing it in the operating room. And too, an operation could be so perfectly done that it would pass through into manifestation without the aid of outside hands. Do you begin to see how Jesus "went unto His Father" and accomplished His miracles before the light was stepped down from the Hall of Silence into actual embodiment in the flesh? All this I write to you from the Plane of Revelation---you must read between the lines.

In this Hall of Silence, which is within your consciousness do you find the Secret---and you can release it in whatever form necessary. All this seems strange and vague---perhaps a little foolish as I write the words (all the wisdom of God is foolishness in the eyes of man) ---and yet YOU will understand---a real secret laboratory of the soul, which you will boldly enter and possess. "Come boldly to the throne of grace," for now you come not to get but to let the light flow from the throne of God straight though the human temple of you into expression.

"My sheep hear my voice"-do you?

"Put thou a seal upon my lips."

"Thou fool, do you not know that a seed must first fall into the ground and rot before it shall be made alive," and it means just that. Silence is absolutely necessary for the germination of any new idea, just as it is for the seed. It lies in the secret, silent place----in the darkness---hid from the prying eyes of human thought which with all its science and intellect has not yet discovered just what it is that brings about the miracle of birth. You are told to "Tell no man----show John"---but if you find you know better than Jesus did or does, then you must uncover every wonderful thing and expose it to the curious minds of unbelief and bring forth a still-born. "See that ye tell no man"---that is a hard task for the old talking human thought. It wants to tell everything it hears, knows or even suspects, but the moment a thing is told it begins to lose power---just as the moment a valve is opened an engine loses steam. The thing that is held in secrecy within you gains momentum---builds its body in silence, and is protected from the curious unbelieving thought.

If you are an invalid and have been one for years, no one believes you are going to be healed. They may be charitable enough to want you to be well---I am not too awfully sure of this, but let us be generous and say they do---but one thing is sure, they don't believe it. You are just another of those Poor Things who are so much to be pitied.

I once heard a lady talking about how she was going to be rich---she seemed almost inspired. She told the entire law of how it was taking place---what she had learned and how she was going to gain her wealth through demonstration. As she talked the crowd gathered, half-carried away with the fervor of her words. Then all of a sudden something happened----the same thing that happens to champagne when it stands uncorked too long --- suddenly everybody seemed to feel that she was just talking and they began to titter---and she went on baring her very soul until it became almost shameful. She never got rich and finally she had to turn corners to avoid meeting some of her former listeners who always greeted her with, "Well, have the riches come yet?"

I think you will find that in this Spiritual progress, Jesus knew exactly what He was talking about when He said, "Tell nothing"---and that advice must be followed if anything is to be brought into manifestation. Magnifying the Power of God within you until it actually becomes you is the way of automatic expression. The trained athlete does not have to force his expression of strength. A baby may have to push with all his might and main to move a ball from the table, while an athlete may brush aside an obstacle which would cause other men to put forth great effort. Why? Because of the Consciousness of Strength and Power within. It has become effortless because he is aware of the Power within his body-temple. While this illustration is a poor picture compared with the POWER within you, which can and will do the "impossible" even through your weakness"---yet it will give you something of the "feel" of what is meant by the Prayer, "Be still and know that I am God." That the very I AM within you is God in essence, and is only awaiting the opportunity of expression. It only needs to be recognized. Saying, "I recognize the Power of God within me," does no more for you than saying, "I am rich," will do to a poor man, and will only bring the derision of the crowd upon your head. But becoming conscious of God in the midst of you is another story, and this is only done by Silence and secrecy. Every time the secret is, told you are deprived of the manifestation, and must go again the rounds of preparing the ground and planting the seed, and you will continue this monotonous repetition until you put the seal upon your lips and magnify the Power of the Lord within you.

I know people may talk and wonder what you are doing, and they may offer advice and help; but just wait---a day will come perhaps much sooner than you think---a day wherein you have filled the chalice of your consciousness with God --- to the brim --- and then "All shall be changed in the twinkling" and you can show. The mystery of this lovely working of power within you is that which brings forth the Light.

You are also told in this lesson of secrecy to "Salute no man you pass on the Highway of Life," because he is just the one to open up all the valves of the Engine and let out all the Steam. And when the boiler is cold and empty, the one "whose breath is in his nostrils" leaves a parting word with you, "Why, of course, my dear, I always knew there was nothing to it." And don't forget---that the one "whose breath is in his nostrils" may attend thousands of lectures on Truth and read every book written on the subject. If the breath has gotten no farther than his nostrils, he only chatters words and ideas---and has yet to experience the deep inbreathing of the Breath of the Lord.

Little people running about "talking truth" are like so many cotton-tails bobbing up here and there all over the place, and they want nothing more than a nice head of cabbage for dinner. I said to you, "feed my sheep''---and let the cottontails alone.

Remember you cannot prove a single word of Jesus Christ just to satisfy the curiosity of a human mind. The immovable nature of the Law makes it imperative that you come up to it before it apparently comes down to you. As you merge into this Presence you are less and less concerned about the "spreading of Truth" and more and more interested in the "letting" of the Light so shine before men, etc.

The Red flag of danger is waved in your face when it comes to talking---"FLEE" from the short-lived human inbreathed thing "whose breath is in his nostrils." Do you begin to see the difference in the awakened soul and the one who is still wandering in a dream of evil? One has his breath in his nostrils---it has not yet gone deeper---he is capable of all evil and only evil---no matter what amount of "good" he apparently accomplishes for the moment. The Other is Inbreathed with the breath of Life---he has become a LIVING Soul which cannot and does not die. Do you begin to see that when you are inbreathed with the Breath of Life you are for the first time at the portals of immortality?

"FLEE"---it is a sudden warning and danger signal. Don't tell a thing. Agree with him instantly, even if he says there is no God, for that is true to him, and you are only agreeing with his state of mind. "Agree with thine adversary" --- the short-breathed thing which knows evil, and denies, even when he is acknowledging ---God. The agreement with his evil will give him the chance of handling it in his own way.

"Let the earth keep silent before me and renew her strength." If your earth or body has been all shot to pieces by the years of talking of and about the Truth, presently you will feel the great soft folds of silence enveloping you. And presently you will feel the "renewing" of your earth-body and affairs. The Power is as gentle as the shepherd leading "those that are with young." You are with young---a great flock of new and lovely ideas which are to be brought out ---but you must stay out of the highways and byways of human thought and talk. You can do this even while you are apparently in the midst of it, by placing the Seal upon your lips.

So many souls awaken in the midst of such Bedlam that it seems almost hopeless to extricate themselves---fighting, arguing and beating against circumstances will do nothing. Presently in the deep place of secrecy is found the place of recognition. On the outside the whirl of evil continues, but it receives no more life-substance from you---you are judging not from appearances but righteous judgment, and are magnifying in silence "these things in your heart." And then one day---perhaps the very next---the door is suddenly sprung open and you go free into the new day of expression. Silence is the first indication of real understanding. People who know the deep mysteries do not talk about them. Can you imagine Jesus advertising all sorts of new ideas and tricks to be given at His next talk? Can you see that the more and larger the benefits advertised, the farther the whole thing is from the Truth of Jesus Christ? "The fame of Him went abroad over all Israel." There were no radios, loud speakers or amplifiers---(the still small voice does not need to be amplified), no newspapers, no cinemas, no "Believe it -or Nots"----there was just---What? Just the same thing which is at this moment welling up in you----there was and is just GOD---waiting for the opportunity to express through you. When He Knows, then the world knows---so "See that you tell no man"---the "Fame of you (if necessary) will go abroad in all Israel." You cannot fail on this secret mission, because that which is known of God is known of man as manifestation. And that which you tell in secret shall be called from the housetops. It is wonderful and glorious this sudden coming into the place of secrecy and silence. "Keep silent before ME." And presently you will "Stand upon your watch and see what the Spirit has to say unto you." It has plenty to say unto you---it has the plan for the Father's business, which is to be carried out through your temple.

This secrecy does not imply a withdrawing from the world or from people---"In the world but not of it." In the midst of the most noisy turmoil---yet not of it, or far away from it all. This Secrecy does not make you strange and different, but it makes you unconsciously powerful, and you will have this verified at the strangest moments of your on-going. Someone will "See the Light" in you and put it into some kind of words---a little acknowledgment along the highway of Life.

Note how it was that Jesus never helped or healed anyone unless they came first to Him and acknowledged the God within Him---and then He spoke freely what the Spirit had to say unto that individual. You remember, too, that "You need but open your mouth---I will supply the words" will give you the exact or unique word of help or releasement to say to the one who is asking. But be sure they are asking.

Once you are over the first "hurdle" of holding your tongue and keeping within the good things you know, there will come a positive joy in the new secrecy which possesses you. You will listen, and listen and listen---and my, oh my, what you will hear! And presently you will begin to "hear" something as you listen, and it will enable you to diagnose everything that comes to you without difficulty.

When the boiler can hold no more steam and the pressure has reached its maximum, then something has got to take place. So keep every valve closed. Don't tell anyone---not even your Spiritual Adviser ---about the deep and lovely desires and secrets that are within your soul. No one is safe with the Annunciation message but you, so keep it locked within your soul. You have much to accomplish before it comes into manifestation, but nothing that cannot take place easily and naturally if you have kept silent. As you wait upon ME, sometimes the old human mind gets excited and worried, but the voice within says, "The time is not yet," "Be still and Know that I AM God" -and again you magnify the Power and wait in the Holy Silence with this glorious assurance in you, "It is Done," it is gathering a body together for expression.

Nothing can come through the confusion of human thinking, because the moment an idea is placed on earth the Herod-thought tries to kill it---the human thought will kill every "Male child" you try to bring to earth. So don't be a "wise man" and tell where the event is to take place---"Keep silent before Me."

Did you ever think of what great trouble the Wise Men actually caused because they ran about telling of things to come? Two thousand children were killed as a result of it. I imagine it was time for them to leave town after starting that sort of thing---don't you? Don't be a "Wise Man" literally---and yet symbolically you are the Wise Man and see the Lovely Star in the East that leads you to the very spot where your manifestation is taking place and that "Spot" is within you. How wonderful it all is---so filled with glory and light and so fraught with power.

So are you cloaked in silence and secrecy---knowing that when you speak, you speak no longer of yourself, "but of Him that sent ME," into expression. When you are thus speaking, you are speaking in the first person and the present tense, otherwise you are speaking of and about truth---either past or future ---and nothing happens. When you speak the WORD of God it does not return unto you void, but does accomplish whereunto it is sent---but when you speak the "words" of man they scatter like the host of troubles released from the Pandora Box and bring only evil to you.

"Put thou a seal upon my lips----."

Substance

Chapter Two

AN EAGER student of Truth once went to India to study the ways of the far east under a great teacher, who was reputed to hold Truth above everything else in the world.

Having whole-heartedly accepted the world's dictum that poverty and asceticism must go hand in hand with spirituality, the student had long since taken the vow of poverty. What was his horror to find the Master, not sitting in a loin cloth under a banyan tree, but living in ease and comfort in a marble palace, surrounded by treasures that beggared the splendors of the Arabian Nights. Further, the Master was beautifully dressed --- in Oriental fashion --- and wore magnificent jewels.

The student was unable to restrain his amazement, and spoke at some length of his views on the fleshpots of Egypt and the uselessness of material possessions. The Master sat quietly by on his luxurious divan, waiting for the student to finish his tirade against riches, luxury and worldly goods. And then he spoke:

"It is not the possession of things, but the possession by them that counts---I have no interest in things for their worldly value, but for the beauty and comfort they give me."

This did not please the young student, who argued that if the Master had no interest in them, he should renounce them all. Even while he spoke, an alarm of fire was heard in the palace, and through the wide-open portals of the spacious rooms could be seen the flames, hungrily devouring at the precious works of art. As the Master seemed quite unperturbed, the student jumped into action, shouting frantic orders to the servants as to how the furnishings and art treasures should be saved.

The Teacher sat quietly by. The student rushed over to him: "Get up and help---all these wonderful and valuable things are being destroyed." But still the Teacher sat and smiled. Finally, worn out with his efforts, the breathless student once more implored the Master: "For the love of God, do something to save all this wealth," and the Teacher answered: "I am not concerned. I possess it now, and can always replace it, but as `wealth' it has no value to me. Yet you, who have come all this way to tell me how you have renounced wealth, are in a terrible state of excitement and rage over the destruction of that which you have repeatedly told me was nothing." Then, as the astounded student looked about him, he saw that the fire had receded, and had left no trace of damage.

There is a difference in possessing things and being possessed by them---and so watch out that your condemnation of money and wealth is not motivated by the sad knowledge that you cannot attract it. Many people who claim that "things do not matter" only say so because they cannot get things. And many a person has taken the poverty vow because he already had so much poverty in his life that he knew nothing else to worship.

As long as you have to have a chair, it might just as well be the type and kind which pleases you most. The value being put on it by man makes it valueless to God. I have seen the chair that a so-called famous personage sat in raised to such value that one could have bought perhaps a thousand chairs of the same make and age for the price. And the bed of a French Court favorite has brought such a fabulous price that it was fantastic---yet the bed and the chair were comparatively worthless in materials---the only value was that placed on them by man. Rosewood is burned for firewood in some parts of the world---and yet rosewood in some places is very valuable. Do you begin to see how it is that before any sense of substance can come through to you the value of things must be taken away from them---this does not imply disrespect for works of art or even things for everyday use---but it breaks down one of the great barriers between you and the manifestation. Do you possess things or do they possess you?

The apparent failure of prayers for substance is due to the fact that man has mistakenly placed the idea of substance in the "thing" instead of in what is back of it. The substance is not in the symbol of money but in what is back of it---as has been so clearly demonstrated by the various inflations and failures of monetary systems? It is a big step towards the possession of substance when the LOVE of things and money is taken away. Then nothing is found to be wrong with the money or things, and the recognition of the primal substance is placed in God instead of in the shadow of matter cast for the moment into expression. Feathers and beads were given in exchange for much land---yet of what value are those feathers and beads today?

Are you fooled in your understanding of the Truth to the extent that you say one thing with your lips and feel another with your heart? I often hear people say, "I want no money except for the bare necessities of life." That is subterfuge---if you don't believe it, while that one is talking drop a dime on the pavement and see what happens! If you don't want money in a land where money is absolutely essential for the convenience of exchange it is time you checked on your honesty of purpose. Don't fool yourself in wanting to serve the world when you cannot serve yourself. Do you begin to understand why the Master has given such strict and meager---yet elaborate---instructions for it all. "He that hath eyes let HIM see what the scriptures say unto the churches" (temples-bodies). What the Scriptures say unto your church-body is for you and only for you, and through this Temple service are you able to "let your light so shine" that there will be "enough and to spare" of everything necessary for you to carry on the expression of the John Smith incarnation you have taken on at this time. Until you can see this "substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen" you can expect few and small financial returns from affirmations and following organizational instructions of how to "get what you want."

The "Hand-writing on the wall" is plain. When you begin to "watch" with the single eye you will detect the spurious from the true. Jesus offered no courses in "how to get health, wealth and happiness" in twenty-five lessons for so many dollars. He held no secret KEY to the Truth for which he charged a price. He made it especially clear that no man had a special dispensation, or enjoyed any preferred rights that all men did not have the same opportunity to appropriate. There is only one mediator, remember. Location has nothing to do with God---and so, He is as much present in the worst sump-hole of so-called iniquity as He is on the most lofty mountain or temple dedicated to HIM. If God is all-present HE is---or else HE isn't. Choose ye this day whom you will serve----for when you serve God He "will give YOU (not you and some secret method or group---but you) the desires of your heart." It says the desires of YOUR heart---and it does not qualify those desires; and it also says that windows will be opened in Heaven (your consciousness) and blessings will be poured out to such an extent that you cannot receive them. The John Smith incarnation has never dreamed of such things---in fact he cannot think of it because it is not possible on the three-dimensional plane of his thinking. But nevertheless it is so, and it is true.

Once the old idea of demonstrating money is destroyed in you, you will see that substance is as natural and normal as anything else in life. Your breathing is natural and normal until you get the human thought in the way of it---and then it becomes congested and produces a stoppage. So is it with substance. The impossible becomes the possible when you stop trying to make it happen, and find it NATURAL. The going unto the Father----the blending into the ONENESS of God---the recognition of your permanent identity---all these things bring you to understand that substance is natural and real; and is not at the beck and call of human thought. A woman told me she had "worker" as a practitioner for God for twenty years, and yet she did not have carfare home. She was worthy and she was apparently honest, but the fly in the ointment was that she imagined she had been "working for God" when she collected all fees and lived from them, and also when she wondered (of course as she explained it was none of her business, nor was she criticizing) how her friend who "did not work for God," but lived joyously and happily, could have everything, and live a life of silken dalliance. Well, the harder you "work" for money the poorer you get---and the more you stop "working" for money the greater the possibility of the LIFE element functioning through your temple-being. It is all contrary to your course o twenty-five lessons for twenty-five dollars---but everything in God's kingdom is contrary to the laws of man for the simple reason that "the WISDOM of man (and that includes your twenty-five lessons at twenty-five dollars) is foolishness in the eyes of God." If it is all "foolishness," then what can you expect to do about it? And will you find yourself caught in the same false equation in which the student in India found himself---saying one thing but believing another? As a man "thinketh (feels) in his heart so is he."

How do you feel about money anyway? Don't tell me---tell yourself---perhaps you will be surprised at what you hear.

Of course at the heart of the "love" of money is the fear that something might cut things off for you and that you would eventually die for want of bread. This fear is backed up by plenty of tangible evidence ---there are plenty of appearances to justify the fear ---that is why Jesus said, "He that loseth his LIFE shall find it." He that loses his individual separate life shall find the Universal Life, which is not at any time deprived of its manifestation. It is only the thought of separation which causes the idea of lack to manifest in the world of matter.

The contemplation of Oneness fills you with light and revitalizes all fear of lack. Arising from this "touch" with Oneness, this recognition of the ALL, causes man to experience the manifestation of substance in whatever degree he can "take it." There are thousands of degrees of substance and what is wealth to one is poverty to another---yet it makes no difference about that---your degree is your own---and if it is not large enough to meet the needs amply and beautifully, it is time for you to push out from the shores of your former limitations---to launch out onto the deeper waters---to enlarge the borders of your tent.

Such a wonderful new vista opens before the individual when he even touches the ONENESS of Life. He begins to sense-feel dimensions of God which cannot be easily set down in black and white. He looks again and sees things taking place which cannot happen---and by a way which is natural and normal, instead of supernatural, as it was in the days of waiting for miracles or magic to happen.

It is recorded that "their clothes waxed not old----nor their shoes," etc.---and they had been using them for forty years. See anything in this? How does it fit in with the law of friction, deterioration, age and all the rest of the man-science laws? Just cannot be, can it? Well, of course not. You have never seen it happen and no man can prove it---so it must be foolishness---and so it is in the eyes of man. But why in heaven's name will that very same man try to "demonstrate" money or jobs or health, since they are all quite as impossible.

Remember, too, that just because you have never seen a thing done does not mean that it cannot be done ---and also that you will never see it done as long as you indulge in any curiosity, for curiosity is merely disbelief which hopes to get by and "peep" into the holies of holies. Remember there are "no peepers allowed" in the Kingdom of Heaven---for nothing is going to profane the works and the powers of God. "All Power is given unto me"---and when you begin to sense this, "Look again, the fields are white," you will also begin to understand why the "grain of mustard" can also do the works---and so on down the line of Life.

You have been told that a "rich man cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven," and have misunderstood this to mean a man with many possessions; yet it could mean a man possessed of the love of money, while yet wanting for love of anything else. It is merely an attempt to show you that the worship of anything other than God is one of the ways to keep you out of this consciousness of ease and substance. The rich man referred to may be "RICH" in many things---that is, he may have an abundance of evil in his soul, or judging, condemning, criticizing, and the like---and he may also have a large bank account. But the "rich man" is many times the poor man when it comes to actual dollars and cents. The "RICH YOUNG MAN" could not let go of his worship of money as a power apart from God--- hence he could not enter in, for he depended on things and not on God. Do you begin to see how it is that the value placed on money is what keeps it away from you; and how it is that the "trying" to demonstrate it only puts you in the power of the gods of man's creating? Money is the chief god of this thought-taking world, and if you fall down and worship this god you must commit your ways unto him and be directed by him in order to attain money. When a person sets out to demonstrate a fortune---he immediately runs into the battle with the gods of this world, and naturally he is going to be defeated.

"Render unto Caesar, the things that are Caesar's." Do you begin to understand a little of the laws of Substance?

"You shall ask whatsoever you will and it shall be done unto you"---that is a pretty large order, but it is true---your "whatsoever" is what you ask for and that is all you can get, no matter how much another takes by the same asking. "Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee light---awake and arise from the dead!"

The vacuum created by human want increases until it fills all space in the human thinking and brings with it the manifestation of this thought. The vacuum created by the belief in lack with the five thousand was as real to Jesus as it was to any of the men. He recognized their law of hunger and lack---and fatigue---He said something to the effect that they had been three days without bread---etc.---etc.---but notice what happened. "Then lifted He His eyes to Heaven and gave thanks." We see Him, right before their eyes blending with the ONE and giving thanks for the Presence---and instantly there was the inrush of Substance that filled the vacuum of human thinking. In a little while the belief in hunger was gone---and a surplus left of twelve hampers of scraps! I mention these twelve hampers because they should have been sizeable---and where did they come from? Ever think about all the things that are sandwiched in between the lines of the Bible for those who have "eyes"? The manifestation of twelve hampers to hold so much bread would be a man-sized job in itself, and quite as wonderful as the production of bread and fishes!

The wonder of it all was to happen the next morning when they came to Him again for bread, and He said to them: "You seek Me for the Bread, but you cannot find Me---did you not see the MIRACLE"----in other words, did you not "get on" to the working of the law of Christ Jesus and would therefore be able to do the same thing yourself ? And this surprised question was addressed not only to his disciples and especially close followers, but also to the simple man in the street---indicating that all could have done the same thing if they had so much as glimpsed the LAW. Isn't it wonderful how simple it all was to Jesus, and isn't it revealing to you to note the surprise He always expressed that the man in the street did not follow His example, after being shown the way. Well, it is enough to make your heart burn within you to know that we are now approaching the wonderful Revelation of Jesus Christ---even though it has been two thousand years. The point of attack with Jesus seemed to be, "None of these things (appearances) move Me"---not any of them---that was His first reaction. He simply was not affected by appearances. He did not demonstrate over them---He did not recognize them. He moved into the next dimension of Life where the things of the lesser dimension had no power or reality---and invited you to do the same thing, saying that it was all possible to a child.

Yes, it is necessary to go over and over the wonder of it all, and to note from time to time that you were Created-(not born) a little lower than the angels, and given dominion over everything on, over and under the earth, skies, and waters. That's the fact of your case---and the sooner you hark back to that place of Power, the sooner you will find many of the "inventions and creations" of mankind fading into the nothingness of yesterday. The sooner you make your assumption of your Oneness with God, as something more than an affirmation of truth, you will change the face of many things. Remembering all the while that you were given dominion over everything and that means EVERYTHING. What say? Do you begin to understand how it is that the little symbol of money, which today is and tomorrow is not, cannot control you nor regulate your life, nor stop your life from its functioning, as long as you are "hid with Christ (your consciousness) in God."

"He openeth His Hand and satisfieth the desires of every living thing." Do you hear?

Idle Gossip Sinks Ships

Chapter Three

I RECEIVED a letter today.---The information printed on the envelope by the U. S. Government, sounded not unlike some of the words of Jesus Christ. And yet you say that "words" are not powerful! I question the use of "idle" in front of gossip, for in my opinion there is no other kind. But the whole thing tells a story too important to be missed.

The WORD of God goes through into manifestation whenever spoken in the NATURE (name of Jesus Christ), and in like manner the "words" of the human mind accomplish their degree of evil with the same apparent ease. The Human mind is concerned with "words," the Divine has the "WORD" and while to some this may seem a play on "words," yet to the one who has "eyes to see" there is something of great import.

Gradually we are beginning to see that, "as in Christ all shall be made alive, so in Adam all shall die." That is, as in the WORD of God all goodness and heaven shall come into being---so by the words of Adam (human thought all shall die---be killed. The Word of God is quick and Powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword, and that is why Jesus counseled us to be alert to this WORD, and to flee from the man who is filled with "words": opinions, beliefs, gossip, scandal. Do you begin to see what is taking place in the world of "words"---in the level of human thought?

It is recorded that harlots, thieves, murderers, liars, etc., all go into kingdom of heaven before the scandal-monger. And that is because it is easier to justify any of those crimes, than it is the crime of gossip and scandal. I am sure the scandal-monger who has caused something terrible to happen by his talk has a very difficult job getting into the kingdom of Heaven-----into the state of Consciousness where Contentment and Peace abide.

Some time ago a girl returned from the east and brought with her a baby---she said she had been married secretly. Six months afterwards they found her dead in her home---the doctor could find no apparent cause for her death. Can you?

She had been stoned to death---silently pelted with pity, sympathy and downright murderous thoughts, which she didn't know how to escape. There was a good deal of wailing at the funeral, and it is reported that half a hundred wonderful people came forward and offered to see that the little mite had a good home. But you know how it is. Or do you?

If you are Hid with Christ in God, you begin to know that there is no such thing as an illegitimate creation---how could there be? And this is not to condone irregularities in the human code, but to prove to you that when the Urge of Spirit comes to express itself in a new temple it will supply the way and means. And the thought that God's creation has to be stamped "illegitimate" is too grotesque to stand the simple honest light of day. All of us are illegitimate, for that matter, until we suddenly claim the same Father Jesus had ---"Call no man your Father." Why? Because if you do, you have all the damning inheritance of the illegitimate son---the bastard. There is the son of the bond-woman, and the Son of the Free---and all these things are for you to contemplate.

Many people who profess to believe in the Bible exclaim, of course, "I believe that God is my Father." Well, that changes the whole picture if you do---for in that case you have ceased the inheritance of the Adam affair and have begun to call upon ME---to look unto ME---and to ask of ME---and as surely as the material father would supply you with good Gifts, I can much more supply you with the Kingdom of Heaven.

Do you begin to see how everything that is not born of God is illegitimate and must come under the condemnation of the illegitimate? No wonder that so many things you try to do go wrong---you are stoned, too, in one way or another because of this illegitimacy. All this will reveal itself to you. We are beginning to see and sense what it is to be born of God---it means we are experiencing in a degree the immaculate conception---we are beginning to "call no man our father," and to look---actually and practically---to God as the source of LIFE and everything necessary for Life.

All the human patterns differ in various countries ---what is sin in one place is not in another---but what is sin in the eyes of God is always a sin in any climate, country or time. What is a traffic law in one city is not in another, but God's laws are not of such material---they are the same and just as operative in one place as another. That is why there is just as much substance in the Sahara Desert as there is in the Bank of England---if you know it--- (not if you try to demonstrate it---but if you KNOW it). A little while ago I might have said, "There is just as much gold buried in Kentucky as there is in the Bank of England," and been laughed at---but---"Behold, I make all things new"---is all enough, or do you want more? And here comes that monotonous question again: "Do you believe it?" "Why, of course I believe (aside), but why don't I see it?" Do you understand a little? Are you peeping through the keyhole to the door of Heaven and beginning to see that "words" are nothing when it comes to Spiritual revelation? Do you believe that your Father is God? Are you a child of Love, or are you one of that grand army of unwanted people? You know what I mean, don't you? And you are beginning to see all about this illegitimate idea, too---and that it is not giving anybody license to handle with impunity the code of decency. But you see, don't you? And now you have this lovely word for just the right moment.

Coming across the country once, a young boy asked for a ride. The conversation drifted to home and parents. He suddenly turned sour and vindictive on the subject, and finally in a burst of emotion said he was one of "those" creatures without legitimacy. I was as thrilled completely, for suddenly through me I heard the Voice speaking the whole truth to this Son of God. It thrilled me as much as it did him---we rode on and miles of country passed by unnoticed as he stepped right up into his place, freed from the whole belief. So many things were said to that one which cannot be put on paper---but the Voice will speak through you and give you such lovely illustrations and ideas, and the "Glory of the Lord" will fill your whole house.

Presently we came to the place of parting, and when he left he held out his hand and said, "I'll never say that again, and I'll never feel that again"---and was gone. What I want to say to you is that WE are the Speakers of the WORD---we represent no organization or person or book---we do not need to be known. We are the Temples of the living God---and until you become this Legitimate Temple of The Living God you will be the illegitimate product of Adam.

And gradually you will place the seal upon your lips when someone tries to explain. You will be able to bring the something to that situation which will lift it out of its self-condemnation and fear. It must be terrible, the cold dark nights that people suffer from the "Idle Gossip which sinks ships." "My grace is sufficient for thee"---do you hear---you don't have to have a formula---you don't have to give a talk or a treatment---you only have to open your mouth and the Word will be supplied---the word which will release as it corrects.

Doesn't seem possible, when you think of a huge battleship with all the men and engines, etc., that it could be sunk by a few careless words---to say nothing of the malicious words which are often issued intentionally. But it has happened, so watch----

It shouldn't be difficult when we actually begin to participate in the life of Jesus Christ---it isn't a "withholding"---it is a getting to the place in Consciousness where there is nothing to withhold.

You are a Son of the Living God NOW because you have dropped off all the beliefs of a human father ---there is a lot of rejoicing over you when the rightful heir returns to his place, about his Father's business. Selah!

The Spreading Dawn

Chapter Four

"HE IS COMING" ---He is coming whose place it is to Rule---He is overturning and overturning until finally not one stone remains upon another, for the new thing has to be raised up. I am not talking about the world---I am talking about you and your temple-body. I am talking about the Dawn of Revelation which is coming to YOU. The realization of your Permanent Identity. Like the Dawn which slowly reaches out its slender white fingers through the dark night of human thought and draws all these misunderstandings and beliefs into the light of the Full noonday. So this Light within you is gradually permeating your whole body and mind. You are being changed as the leaven changes the whole measure of meal until it is all leaven.

At a moment you think not, it happens---it has been going on so silently---even as a thief in the night---and yet it has been going on, undermining the superstructure of human thinking and its beliefs, and bringing in place the realization of the Temple not made with hands---eternal in the heavens---Eternal in the Mind of God Who created it in His image and likeness.

Beloved, do you begin to SEE just what is going on within you? When you begin actually to appropriate the Jesus Christ Consciousness and are unafraid to take off at that new level you will begin to experience this ever-increasing Dawn--- this Spreading dawn which is revealing a newness and wonder of life not recorded by man.

"Eyes have not seen---ears have not heard---neither has it entered into the heart of man the things that are prepared for them that love the Lord." You cannot see these things, for the light of the eye has been so obscured by the human thinking that you have been looking through the glass of your personality which is filled with the Adam belief of race, color, creed, and even human family inheritance. And you cannot hear beyond the screeching of the human voice which is offering life for sale---yet Life is a Gift from God!

As the termite unseen eats away the joists and rafters of an apparently solid house, which one day collapses---so the Recognition of the Consciousness of Jesus Christ undermines the most difficult human situation. Sometimes it may seem that nothing is being done and that the old building stands there as adamant as ever---day after day the contemplation of the Presence and the recognition of your Permanent Identity is made with no visible outward sign.---But one day---Ah! that One day when the spreading dawn begins---in the twinkling of an eye,---the thing which seemed so utterly beyond help or hope, caves in---collapses and goes down like a house of cards in a hurricane---and the place thereof is no more. And NOW the degree of recognizing the thing as done and finished---before there are any appearances of it on the outside---is becoming more possible. We take off from the level of, "It is consummated---it is finished"---and actually begin to sense---know that the signs follow, they do not precede---and so in the face of the apparent no-change in condition, we stand---and eventually we see with the outer eye that which we find true with the inner. Isn't it thrilling? Though you stumble and fall you are not discouraged, and you will find within yourself a native ability to pick up more quickly each time you fall. For presently---yes, promptly---the Spreading Dawn comes---it radiates all around you ----- it covers the earth --- your earth---your manifest kingdom, and reveals the wonders of it all. It reveals to you things which have been hidden for ages. They were always there, yet in the darkness of human thought you could not see them. No wonder the command, "take no thought."

Human mind wants to fight this issue, for it seems so silly, and so it is---the wisdom of God as given by Jesus Christ was utter foolishness to the average listener---they even "laughed him to scorn" sometimes when he revealed more than they could grasp. How about you, and how about keeping it all secret until you can in the Spreading Dawn reveal it in all its glory? Don't try to show anything in the darkness of human thought, for even if you are able to "sense" it as true and real, the other one may not. When this Spreading Dawn of recognition comes to any situation and clarifies it, you will never revert to that level of life again---there is no going back---it is wiped out forever. This Lovely Light breaking through the density of material thinking neutralizes the supposed intensity and power of the relative law, disintegrating the human picture. Many times it will literally go to pieces, and always it will be passed out of the picture, for it is a shadow of human thinking and has nothing to support it in the Light of the Presence of God. When the Morning comes, when the Spreading Dawn appears, you loose the old belief and let it go because it is only a shadow. With the coming of Dawn--- Recognition--- it no longer has power. No evil thing can stand the Light of day---and certainly the Dawn of recognition of the Presence in which you live, move, breathe, and have your being, will take the Power out of the Ghost. Have you ever heard of a ghost story that took place at mid-day in the out-of-doors? You know why, don't you---you can SEE, and so you are not afraid. And it is just this extended vision---the coming of the Christ within you as the Father---that gives you the Power over darkness ---ignorance.

"Call upon me and I will answer you." I did not say perhaps or maybe. But you can't call upon ME---(your Divinity) until you know without question that I AM GOD. Neither can you see or experience a ghost unless you are thoroughly sold on the idea there is such a thing---and then you can make it appear---but it cannot stand the LIGHT for it is a creation of human thinking, and is sustained by it.

When once you come to the place of seeking the Kingdom of God---not for things, but because you have at last found that it is the only worthwhile thing in the whole universe---then you will find all of the promises being fulfilled without effort and without any atmosphere of the miraculous---it will be natural and normal and real to you.

Body and soul at last.being re-united after the long years of separation, makes the complete Temple through which the Invisible is to be stepped down into visibility. This body which you formerly found subjected to disease, fear and lack, this body which was so dark with discord and unhappiness,---suddenly by the Union with its soul becomes the Temple of the Living God, a place through which the Power can be stepped down into visibility. Everything that is coming into your life will have to be embodied through you --- or else it will be a symbolical thing without body,---or a body without life. It is wonderful when you begin to accept this position of the resurrected Body-Temple.

And now through the Revelation of the Jesus Christ Consciousness the dawn is beginning to spread through the darkened passages of your life. As this light filters through you begin to find that an actual searching of the joints and marrow is taking place. As you come into union with your Divinity you experience the change in body and affairs in an almost startling fashion. Old disease- and age-laden cells of your body are suddenly stirred to healthy Life. And as the thieves and money-changers are driven from the temple, so the inheritance from a worldly father---the Adam dream---is cast out, for the human inheritance is mostly evil, based upon the idea of, "when I would do good I do evil"' and "He is a Liar and the Father of it." Entering into this Fatherhood degree---(the Father within) and actually living in the Temple-body of God, you begin to understand how the so-called miraculous things which happened to Jesus can and must happen to you. It becomes natural and not a miracle---it is your Nature that does the work and not just the name of a man back in history---you are conscious of the Presence in such a degree that the sick are instantly healed by the shedding of the Light from within you. "Who touched me" becomes a daily experience, for whether the human wants to heal another or not---when the Divine in you is touched, the "virtue" goes out and the healing takes place. When a person touches this state of consciousness and causes the Spreading Dawn of revelation suddenly to illumine the temple-body it does not mean that this person is elevated to the consciousness of Jesus Christ in its entirety---unless he accepts the consciousness and seeks the fulfillment of it within himself he returns sooner or later to his former state. There were ten lepers healed, but only one returned to make the recognition--- (acknowledgment) of it as something other than a miracle. The others, no doubt, returned to their leper friends, who quickly disposed of the miracle as hypnotism---and again looking on the loathsome manifestation, the healed one more than likely returned to his former state---having experienced at best a momentary sense of freedom. The testimony and proof offered by his former associates would be sufficient to disabuse him of any understanding. And so, "WHAT IS THAT TO THEE"---You give the Light---because you cannot hold back, not because you want to---whenever anything calls upon you, recognizing the Jesus Christ Consciousness within you to the extent that he believes,---then you "give" forth the healing. If he takes it, all well and good; if he does not take it "all well and good too." When Jesus made not many mighty healings it was not because His power failed---it was because His hearers could not accept it as real---for there is nothing in the human mind which can accept the God dimension of Life. It is too good to be true---it is impossible---that is why it is possible to God. "Shake the dust from off your feet"---that is all. Jesus did not go about seeking to heal ---He went about with this Light so that all might see and accept it, if they would. He was not trying to convert when He preached the kingdom---He was revealing. The more we "preach" the word of God the more we drive people from the very thing we want to give them ---but the more we show the fulfillment of it all, and LET them come into the Spreading Dawn of the new day---the more we are approximating the teaching of Jesus Christ. It is interesting that the very thing we try to do, we fail in doing---but the thing that is "let" to happen is the thing that quite naturally takes place. Jesus was the Revelator of the Heaven within---so wonderful and glorious and so far beyond anything man had ever conceived. So, Beloved, with you ---you are a revelator.

"THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN THAT SHALL NOT BE UNCOVERED" to the consciousness which understands the Jesus Christ blending---the body and soul oneness---the station between the seen and the unseen---the temple of the Living God---you.

Sometimes in the midst of it all your contemplation of ME will be so wonderful that you will literally experience the Spreading Dawn which is rushing on to the full noonday of expression; and in this lovely Light of the Presence you will see everything "that offendeth and maketh a lie" and every enemy and every hateful thing. What a thrill you will get when you see them for the first time and the old false faces tumble off and the true thing is revealed! What a lot of healing you will do in such moments when you meet ME in the Spreading Dawn!

Life will take on a new interest---many troubled souls and people personally unknown to you will touch you and many of them in their despair will be reaching up for something or somebody to help them. And even though you do not know them and may never contact them personally, you can and will in this Spreading Dawn of revelation give out such help as to make glad the heavy heart-and many times you will see the results---though they may know not from what Temple the Light has shone.

This Spreading Dawn of which I speak is the coming of the Lord and Master of Life to His own vineyard. You remember in the parable how he first sent the steward, whom the servants killed---then he tried sending the son and heir and they killed him---and then he said, "I will go and destroy out of the vineyard all that maketh Evil." That is what is taking place with you. The coming of this Master to His own Vineyard is the Coming of your Father-Consciousness to His own embodiment---His Temple--and He will kill the unfaithful servants and drive the rest from the vineyard. It is wonderful when you contemplate it all.

In the days of living in the mental plane you were told you were a co-creator with God---that makes God a Liar---because He said the Creation was finished and done in six days and on the seventh He rested. Many people seem to think they know better and are still trying to create and work out inventions, most of which kill them in the end. Well, either you with your co-creating ideas are right, or God, who pronounced it finished and done, knows what He is talking about. You choose this day whom you will serve ---whether you will enter now into the thing that is consummated and finished, awaiting your acceptance---or whether you will take centuries to learn by the painful method of attempting to create a universe which functions in evil and disease.

Recognizing this finished mystery and working from that basis brings the results of which Jesus spoke and proved---and of which He said, "Go thou and do likewise." What man could do likewise from this co-creating plan? What man could produce five thousand loaves and fishes---or for that matter five? This all seems vague and foolish to the human mind, and so it is. All the wisdom of God is foolishness in the eyes of man. And likewise the wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of God--and unless you want to work from that basis there is little hope of doing things which are entirely outside of that wisdom.

Remembering always that because you cannot make a thing happen with your best efforts does not say anything for or against the law governing such things. When you begin to see the way of Jesus, you will stop looking for some other channel for good to come to you but will first manifest it within yourself --- and then you will not have to worry about the actual materialization. It will take place. "Go into a city (a state of consciousness) ---and meet a man''---but how will I know him? "He will have a water jug on his head"---that "on his head." ---Have you ever stopped to think about the secret Doctrine that is hidden away in the Bible? In the Orient men never carry water---only women do it---yet this man you are to meet has a jug of water on his head! Any danger of your missing it when you have the sign ---the password? Well, that is just the way the thing works---there is always something which gives you the key. Can you take it? Can you believe---and can you keep silent before Me? It's wonderful---more than that---it is all that the spiritual name implies---filled with light---filled with surprise---filled with hidden beauties and secret things of which you have never dreamed or imagined. But no matter how hard you try to demonstrate this wonderful Truth, nothing happens---for you are trying to "prove" it because you don't actually believe it. When you BELIEVE, you do a thing not to prove it---but it is proven because you do it---and so it goes. If the thing you are trying to do through the time-space-consciousness of human thought is actually done, and you can quit your struggle and enter into the Jesus Christ Consciousness (the unity of Body and Soul), then you can do exactly as Jesus did when He lifted up His eyes to heaven and gave thanks for the finished, completed thing. The manner of its appearance was entirely out of his hands as it will be out of yours---but you will know exactly what is to be done in order to make the unmanifest appear. When the Light of this Jesus Christ-Consciousness spreads over your universe it searches out the hidden things of the human mind and thereby eradicates many unconscious defects from your universe. You will begin to feel the "weight" of personality falling away from you. Your mind will become dehypnotized from many things of which you are now unconscious. Man can become so hypnotized by an idea that it becomes a part of him. I know a young American who took the name of a gentleman of standing and education who had passed on. He had known this man, and consequently took on his mannerisms and made a perfect job of it---but the payoff came when he got his first job on the stage. Although he was handsome, manly, had a good, well-modulated voice, in fact everything to make him ideal material for a leading man---yet he failed hopelessly in every part he attempted to essay. Eventually it was realized that in all his waking hours he was constantly playing a character, and that character could not play another character. Do you see that the character you are playing has not the ability to play another character---no more than if Ethel Barrymore should imagine she were actually Lady Macbeth and would try to get a job in another play to enact the character of Joan of Arc? Lady Macbeth is only a character and not real---and could not possibly play anything else---but the moment Ethel Barrymore dropped the character which she had assumed and returned to her real self she could then play any character she desired. Do you get any light from this? When you drop this personality-character which you are playing and return to the basic character of your true self there is a possibility of bringing out a new and different manifestation. If you are hypnotized by some hereditary disease or other family failing you cannot hope to superimpose upon this false character the idea of healing or getting well, for the character you are playing has no power of its own. It lives wholly by the thought-substance you are feeding it. So with poverty. People assume false characters of poverty and play them so well that they become hypnotized, and then try by affirmations or words to superimpose upon this character of poverty, the idea of wealth---but it is impossible. You must return to your native self----the creation of God---made in the Image and Likeness of God, if you wish to bring out the new and lovely patterns of your Divine Destiny which are even now awaiting the call or the recognition. Upon the clean screen can be thrown the new picture---and more wonderful than all is the fact that when the Dawn of this Lovely Christ-Consciousness comes to you---you find the Screen of your Life has not been changed by the hypnotic character-studies you have thrown upon it. Do you understand then the comand, "Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall Give thee Light"? The Spreading Dawn of realization will show you hidden things in your human thinking of which you did not know---and it will reveal in the storehouse of God the wonders that are to come forth through the temple of your body. As we awaken from this hypnotism by coming into actual being of the Christ-Consciousness, we begin to see we are merely revelators of the finished mystery. We are here for the glory of God.

If you found yourself in a darkened art gallery and turned on the Light, revealing priceless works of art, you wouldn't think of claiming that you had created them---you would merely say you had discovered them. And so when Jesus was confronted by the darkened consciousness of human lack and limitation he "went unto his Father" and when that Light was turned on he discovered the abundance of substance in the form and shape necessary to neutralize the pictures of evil. He did not create the bread as it apparently increased---neither did he add to the fish as he passed out five thousand of them. But all this is foolishness to the wisdom of man, and so again your attention is called to the law of Secrecy which must govern anything you contemplate or perceive in the Mind of God.

Don't argue---"Agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou art in the way with him." If he believes that sickness is incurable, who are you to argue that you know better? He might ask you to prove it---and you could not, for remember, the God-power is not given in order that you may intrigue and amuse the curious.

And don't explain. No one will believe you anyway --- He who knows needs no explanation --- he wants inspiration. He wants the Spreading Dawn of revelation wherein he can live and be clean.

Just because you cannot do now the things which Jesus did, does not mean that they cannot be done. Perhaps you cannot play a Brahms rhapsody at sight ---but there are those who can.

"When the student is ready the master will appear" is true---and can be made manifest. When you are ready to LET Me come into your consciousness and operate I will do so---for I am your permanent Identity, waiting for you to hear Me at the door so that I may come in and break bread---(substance) with you.

It is wonderful in this new dawning Light to find that you are through with creating things or trying to help God. It is wonderful because then you find out what is the Father's business, which you are supposed to do. Beloved, it is so filled with the joy of expression that nothing which has gone before is worth a moment's consideration. Every man who hears My voice begins to live in a new Fashion. It makes no difference where he is standing in the scale of things---he may be on the top of the stack---he may be on the bottom---he may be sitting in the pigsty---it is all the same. The moment he "hears My Voice" he will automatically arise from poverty, filth, disease, chronic or acute beliefs in evil--- and walk right down the Highway of Life into the Father's house---(consciousness) and hear the rejoicing and see the banquet table and feel the soft folds of the cloak. It is all true actually and literally---"Oh, taste and see that the LORD is Good." Not the little "good" for the moment, but Good in the great universal ways of life---good in a way you have never dreamed as possible, good in a measure that has no material counterpart. But to the jaded human palate, long since killed by the strong flavors of the world's cuisine, the taste is not noticeable. Jesus knew that nothing but evil could come from human thinking and He therefore "made Himself as God"---and we are told, "As He is, so are we in this present world." The very same thing---the identical substance and life. Do you begin to see that when you make your assumption as the Child of God you are taking only what belongs to you, and it is only in this assumption that the so-called miracles can be done?

All this lovely transition is done in the secret place and you may return many, many times to the model---"the picture which is shown to you on the mount"---but every time you return thereunto you come away with a greater degree of its naturalness. It is natural and true and not some supernatural thing when you once recognize the true nature of man. And when you understand even in a degree that your body---yes, this very funny, old body, aged, diseased, filled with heavy scars of battle---filled with fears and limitations---is the actual, literal Temple of the Living God---and is to be used for the purpose of showing forth the Light of God, there is some reason for your existence.

In this realm of the Father-Consciousness wherein man contacts God --- the universal substance ---- man perceives the finished thing---he sees now how it is that the ploughman shall overtake the harvester---and that the plant is already in the field before rain or man to till the soil. And this very revelation enables him to cast the shadow into the manifest world---which man will call matter. This book was done and completed before I put the first piece of paper into the machine ---but I have had to return many times to the "picture shown to you on the Mount" before I could cast the shadow into the relative world---and that shadow you are now holding in your hand as a book. Even, as I write this on the paper the shadow of the book you now hold does not yet exist in the outer realm---but it is complete and perfect in the realm of God. Do you begin to see the truth back of all these parables and illustrations, none of which is adequate to give one millionth part of the wonder of it all? So in the Light of the Spreading Dawn you will SEE---yea, you will BEHOLD!

In the Jesus Christ-Consciousness Light shines forth and reveals the Kingdom of Heaven intact and perfect, and the glimpsing of this Perfect Permanent Idea is what brings the change in the physical realm. Can you imagine any physical change taking place literally, from a physical standpoint, which would have supplied eyes with perfect sight to a man born blind---that is without eye-balls, or muscles to operate them? Think about this a moment and you will see that Jesus was not healing in the ordinary sense of the word, although it seemed so to the human sense. In reality He was revealing that which already existed, and that which was visible in the LIGHT of the Christ-Consciousness---and when you awaken to this understanding, even in a degree, you will rest from your labors and "lean on Me"---the day of the hard taskmaster of trying to understand Life will be over in favor of the Revelation of a law of a Higher dimension than anything yet put into words. Do you begin to SEE, in the Spreading dawn of this lovely revelation, what you do when you "heal" yourself or another---and why it is stated that "anything is possible to God"?

Imagine being asked---if you had been born blind ---"will you receive your sight?" Face a like question in your own life---"Will you be prospered?" What could you answer? Especially if you had been born blind and never had known what sight was, or if you had always been so deep in the picture of poverty that you never had known any ease or comfort? What would you say? The human mind would say "yes"---but the aside would be---"but I don't believe it possible"---and so it would not be possible. Why? Because you would be looking for ways and means of the incoming wealth or sight, and if you heard only from the human standpoint you would be as much in the dark as ever about just how this utterly unknown thing could take place. The moment human reasoning comes into the picture the inspiration goes out. For there is no reason to the Christ Law. It is over and above all human law, science and understanding. But there it stands---"Will you receive your sight?" If Jesus could not have revealed it to the blind man do you suppose for one moment He would have asked that question? Then why do you suppose He asks you the same questions over and over again. "Will you be whole, prospered, happy, etc.?" What can you say? What can you do? Hope that it will come to pass?

The more you are "still" and contemplate God the greater will be the manifestation in the physical world. The alignment of yourself with the spiritual Laws of Life causes the distorted human laws to disappear---they are all put to flight.

When you see that you are a Revelator you will also understand that through the contemplation of this perfection you are bringing into manifestation something which is original and different and which assures its success and power in the relative world. A thousand composers could contemplate God and each one bring out distinctive music, original enough to make it instantly successful---so with you.

When you pray, you are actually contemplating the flower before the seed---and while all this seems foolish and worthless to the human thinking, it is exactly what you are told to do---to get the answer before the problem. And it is all so paradoxically stated that it throws dust in the eyes of the "wise" man.

I see where some learned Professor has discovered that the Bible is true because it works out according to a certain chain of numbers---but can he with his numbers heal a sick man---or raise the dead---or even produce five thousand loaves of bread out of nothing? The only real interpreter of the Bible is the one who "goes and does likewise." Without works it is all talk. Without works it is nothing. But this need not discourage you---it should only cause you to dig deeper into the Consciousness of the Presence ---to blend with it. If it is possible for a child, it is possible for you also. Don't worry about your progress in Truth. In "My Father's house are many mansions"---many stages and degrees of progress---and as fast as you absorb what is in one "mansion" you will go on to another. But during this period of absorption there is much manifestation in whatever degree you may find yourself ----and the moment you have absorbed it all you will crack the shell of that degree and enter into another, just as the chick in the shell finally absorbs all the substance of the egg and breaks into another world of expression. This is a literal and practical thing---and it makes for a lovely sense of patience and revelation. Going from glory to glory instead of experience to experience is the reward of recognizing the Inspiration of Jesus Christ. It is wonderful for the "I" always goes ahead and makes ready the new place of expression for you---"I go before you to prepare a place for you"---that is the word. The place of expression you are entering is already prepared for you---you are going in to possess it---but you cannot possess it until you have absorbed everything in the former degree. Open wide the portals of your consciousness and receive, and give forth thanksgiving for everything just as it is at this moment---for when this is done the blessings will descend and the appearances of bondage will fall away automatically --- the shell will crack and you will step out into your new day. From Glory to Glory---think on these things for a little while. And so in this spreading dawn of the new day if you are to "do the works that I do and even greater" you must appropriate all the working equipment that goes with it. This is not acquired through the development of Spiritual qualities, nor by long, hard study, but by the appropriation of your Divinity---by the recognition of your permanent Divinity as a Reality. The assumption of this is not nearly so difficult as it seems, once you actually believe in God and in the Divine Pattern Jesus Christ. It comes over you gradually---you find yourself becoming conscious of new capacities --- which perhaps you cannot put into words, but you have a "feeling" that it is possible. You begin in a way to see "the man under the fig tree" and all that he has ever done and is doing, and with this SIGHT you can understand and handle each situation as it arises. Not by the old method of preaching or lessons, but by direct Revelation. You can and will put your finger on the spot and relieve the tension. Do you begin to understand a little? This Dawn is actually taking place---so don't get excited about the Full noon-day of expression. You are IN THE LIGHT and it is increasing in intensity all the while.

Slowly but surely it is coming to you why Jesus "made Himself as God." He knew there was no other way of manifesting the works of God. If you have to bring God down through the limited human thought you have little hope of doing anything but a sort of "touch and go" manifestation, because you will always be fighting evil.

None of the works performed by Jesus were done by human methods, or the consulting of human intellection. Over and over we hear "My ways are not your ways" until finally we begin to "hear" and the light immediately begins to sift through. "Be of good cheer" --- says the Voice when you are tempted to turn again to the outside and see what has been done "I have overcome the world" --- and then that pleading Voice goes on to invite you to "do the works that I do and even greater."

When this God-Consciousness arrives, all the half-gods of human belief and law "flee before the brightness of His coming."

Take all then, take the gift which is given unto you. Can you? Do you dare to assume the "Clear seeing" to which Jesus so often referred? This gift of Sight is one of the things which "eyes have not seen" --- it is one of the things which thousands may have caught in some way and turned into all sorts of channels of human fortune-telling and divining. A thousand and one prophets proclaim the coming of the Millenium and the New Day---yet it goes on from century to century, and we are in the midst of the most terrible holocaust ever recorded in history. The prophets are using every possible argument to prove that God is on their side. Digging in the archives of dead papyrus and monuments, and listening to "old wives' tales" from the dark ages, and proclaiming that God spoke through all these. Well, they must have something to start the human ball rolling. But the message of Jesus was from the Living God and not from some dusty material centuries old. Do you begin to see that the power of the Jesus Christ-Consciousness is indigenous to every man who will accept it. He doesn't have to be the seventh son of the seventh son ---or daughter, nor must he have been born in the dark or light of the moon, or under strange conditions or circumstances. He has to recognize that he is born of God who knows all---sees all---hears all--- and holds everything in His power. He then will be able to "read" whatever is necessary for him to "read" without the aid of a card, a crystal, a talisman, or an ancient monument. Yea, without digging in the lore of the old prophets. Yea, he will "leave all and follow ME" --- leave all the old ideas and follow his Permanent Identity back into the Father-Consciousness and will there perceive and know what is revealed to him in the Spreading Dawn of Life.

The God of Love

Chapter Five

THE AIR is full of preaching and beseeching these days. Voices filled with fear, voices filled with condemnation, voices filled with prophecy. Most of them telling of the wickedness of the world and mankind and of the avenging God who is waiting for His day to reap a rich reward of punishment. What a lovely picture of God is being given to the world --- a god as terrible as is possible to paint. A despot and an old Tribal Jehovah apparently watching for only one thing---evil. Ah, ha! He has laid a snare, and lies about in the heavens watching for the poor helpless victim to get caught therein. And then --- well, then the fun begins. And so the God of Hate is presented to the world. Finally all the voices take on a more sanctimonious tone and they invite you to worship this tyrant.

When Jesus came two thousand years ago this same thing was in full swing. Priest-craft was busy getting followers by painting a God of Fear. But He came preaching a God of Love --- so lovely and so filled with understanding and mercy that people who heard wanted to worship and adore such a Being. When they entered into this Love of God, for God Himself, then came down the showers of Blessings from Heaven---not because they had been good---but because they had merged into the Consciousness of God and the manifestations took place. Just the same as merging into the consciousness of the so-called God of Fear brings forth the results of that state of things. Apparently it means deprivation of everything whatsoever that makes for happiness, and brings on that "sharp eye" which is watching another to see if he is sinning or if he is going to be punished.

When you begin to see the wonder of God and the Loveliness of Heaven you will seek them not from fear, but because their beauty is so impelling that you are drawn in automatically. The Brightness of His coming is so great that all other lights are swallowed up. Actually you are translated or carried up in a cloud of Light to the next dimension.

All this seems vague and nebulous to the person filled with the fear of God, and he glibly quotes: "The Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom," not knowing that the fear here mentioned is the same awe you find within your heart when you see the display of some wonderful power on earth. You are awe-inspired at the performance of some wonderful opera or some great scene of nature.

Again the God of Love is again coming into being, coming through the mass of false pictures of hate and revenge that are painted on the human mind. It is as if a character in a motion picture show should suddenly emerge from the screen in flesh and blood and prove to you that he was not the terrible tyrant he had been pictured on the screen. Presently through the screen of fear and revenge-through the pictures of the tyrant God---emerges the lovely Presence which suddenly and actually translates you to the new dimension wherein your lips automatically will breathe the prayer "My Lord and my God." It isn't hard or difficult to understand the perpetual adoration of such a Being, and the praying without ceasing automatically goes on when you discover the God of Love.

Yes --- through the revelation of our Jesus Christ-Consciousness --- one day you will be sitting alone (may be in a crowd) and suddenly He will come to you and will "translate you." And they shall know you no more after the fleshly mentality with which you have been identified before. It is wonderful, you are in the Presence all the time---but you have been in the dark place of the fear-God. just the same as your savage brother; you have been good because you have been afraid to be bad --- but still you are in the Presence and it keeps knocking at the door of your consciousness, and then one day you "hear my Voice and open unto ME." Yes, it is all literal and actual---you will experience this coming into your heart of the God of Love and the falling away of all the unlovely things you have taken unto yourself.

God becomes so lovely and glorious that there is no question about whether you should or should not worship Him. You cannot help it for you are worshiping LIFE.

This Love-God in the midst of you will give forth such a Light that men will glorify God (not you), and you, being lifted up to this Light or translated, as it were, will not again wonder where the daily bread comes from---but will "draw all things unto you." All things will be enough, and as you advance farther and farther into this "translation," you will see how it is that the unseen Light of the Presence can and does (when recognized) penetrates the most dense substance of human thought, disintegrates it, and finally eliminates it. This Light enters into every situation and rids it automatically of the evilly-congested substances of human thought. There is no situation, past, present or future, in your life into which this Light cannot penetrate.

Do you begin to see the protection that is given automatically to the "sheep among wolves"? A secret Light, more powerful than all the combined darkness of human evil, causes a "Secret undoing" of whatever evil situation may be manifesting. No one can explain it and the evil perpetrators of the picture begin to feel the "fear" of the WORD---and the

Brightness of His coming will take care of the rest. You are the bearer of this Light which cannot be hid ---do you begin to understand. "As many as believed were saved." Saved from their own evil beliefs, and now they are saved through Love and not through fear; for that which is saved through Love is "translated" INTO A NEW DEGREE OF CONSCIOUSNESS wherein is no darkness.

Remember, there is the "Secret undoing by the Light of God when it is cast upon any darkened condition in your life---strange and wonderful are the Ways of the Lord---past finding out. Yet gradually you are beginning to know something of this "secret undoing" of the Power of Light.

Is it worth a little being still? Is it worth a little contemplation? Presently you will come to the "breathless adoration" of the Presence---so wonderful, terrible and glorious. But see that you tell no man.

Direct Action

Chapter Six

A CHILD prodigy without training reads a difficult piece of music which takes the ordinary person years to accomplish. A genius in mathematics glances at an apparently unsolvable problem and gives the answer without a moment's hesitation. It may take a trained mathematician hours to arrive at the same point. A professional reader of books turns the pages with such rapidity that it appears impossible to grasp more than one word on a page---yet has the whole story perfectly in mind, characters, locale and all.

All this is charged off to genius. The relative slow-plodding, thought-taking mind disposes of a very troublesome manifestation with the bland words, "Born that way---genius, freak of nature, etc." If the relative mind stays too long on the subject it sees this very manifestation has possibilities of undermining its most cherished plan of life, which is to "work out your own salvation by the sweat of your brow." At the very outset man is up against an ignorance so dense and black that it takes a whole lifetime even to make a pin-prick in it with thought-taking methods. If an ordinary musician stops practicing for a few years he has completely lost his ability to perform anything worth while. He will say, "I am out of practice, etc." It is a losing game from the start. The demonstrator of health has nothing permanent---he must constantly "watch" his health---apparently the only thing permanent in the conscious-thinking mind is evil. Everything worth while, health, happiness, wealth has to be guarded from a pack of merciless laws. Life resolves itself into a grand "free for all" in which man is bound to be defeated. He has his choice of doctors, practitioners, medicine, treatments, pills or affirmations, and all of them offer only temporary relief. Old age creeps on in spite of ten million affirmations about youth, and a million pills, lotions, creams, serums, vitamins and the like.

Not a nice picture---and yet a perfect drawing of what happened to Adam when he "left" the Edenic state and wandered into a universe of his own making. A universe made of the substance of his imagination, out of which have come all the grotesque ideas of life, built up and sustained by thought, and verified by ten thousand proofs on every side.

It is not strange then that the Master said to people who apparently were awake: "Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee light---Awake and arise from the dead." That summons has fallen on deaf ears which have taken it as symbolic of a momentary stirring of thought in an effort to bring something livable to the surface. Yet was this command a literal thing. It was and is a WORD which suddenly startles the man to action. It is something that makes the highest speed which man has attained as slow, and laborious as a tortoise. When you hear this, you suddenly feel the uprising of yourself.

Many hearing this word will attempt to "put on" what they suppose to be spirituality. That is just about as effective as putting on the "appearance" of wealth or health. A few may be deceived by this false assumption---but the sad part about it all is that you are not fooled even though you are semi-hypnotized into believing that you are "getting somewhere." Presently the day of reckoning comes and you are "out." You rub your eyes and find that the "bridegroom" has already gone into the city and you have been asleep or without oil and could not see him.

In all the ways and means shown forth by the Master, Jesus Christ, we see nothing that savors of time, or of coming of things into manifestation through "thought-taking processes." It is all direct action----Do, Be, Have, Stretch forth, and a host of other wonderful releasements of the finished manifestation here and now---outside of and over all the slow ways and means of mankind and his best findings.

It makes no difference what testimony is set against the idea, "I have a way ye know not of" is sufficient to bring it to PASS in your life in face of the greatest opposition that all the conscious-thinking world can contrive. It utterly destroys every base of the human thinking and planning. It has nothing to do with brain power, for the brain, as it now is, is the instrument of thought only. It is able to catch the far reaches of the Inspiration of the Almighty, which causes all things to "Be" instead of making them appear in accordance with the findings of thought. "Dry land coming out of Water"---"Passing through fire without even the smell of it remaining"---"Drinking any deadly thing"---"Crossing the lake before you have time to get into a boat"---"Moving through a crowd without touching anybody"---"Increasing by breaking into pieces." Every one of these movements completely sets aside the highest findings of the relative mind. It is wonderful!

"Not by might, not by Power, but by my SPIRIT" ---An element enters into the whole equation which has not yet been defined, catalogued or pigeonholed by human thought, no matter how erudite.

Do you begin to sense something that is not being said or written, but which is impressing itself on your consciousness, not upon your thought? For the moment you begin to analyze it or take thought about it, it disappears like the wind, which "Bloweth where it listeth, and no man knoweth whither it cometh nor whither it goeth. So is it with the SPIRIT of man." Do you begin to see this something of which it is written, "Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man the things that are prepared for them that love the law?" Do you begin to "feel" your way out a little into this new dimension? It is a truly "Be still and KNOW (sense) that I AM GOD" state of things. "There is NO other." All this miasma of evil that is about you---with its occasional demonstration of good, becomes as naught. "There is no Other"---there is no other. It is wonderful!

"If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me." Once you conceive this consciousness of which Jesus so often spoke, you will then stop the seeking and the getting, and begin the natural appropriation and the normal assumption of LIFE which is not made up of the demonstrating of good over evil. That horse-play of the Adam life goes on generation after generation, and finally man is sick of the futility of it all. Civilization, as built up by man, comes to a crisis in highpowered war machines of death. Armed to the teeth in order that PEACE may be maintained.

Prayer and the thing ordinarily called "treatment" are as far apart as the poles. The latter is a preconceived notion that if you "please" God with certain flattery called praise, and make the right kind of combination of "words," something will happen that ordinarily would not have happened; or a power will

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come along and put to flight the picture of evil. Well, sometimes it works, especially when the supplicant suddenly "touches" consciousness---you need only to "touch the hem of the robe" to resolve instantly all the present pictures of evil into nothingness. This is not to say they will stay that way, for if you have not the continuity o f consciousness to sustain such a picture, it will disintegrate and disappear about as strangely as it came. Prayer, on the other hand, is the releasement through recognition of that which eternally is. It is like suddenly opening a floodgate. There is no need to coax the water to come through; it has been "pressing" against the gates for ages, just waiting the opportunity to pour forth. "Ye shall smite the rock and make it gush forth the Waters of Life." What do you say? Going to "demonstrate" and get your hand fearfully bruised, or are you going to "smite" the rock from the standpoint of consciousness and see the manifestation come forth both literally and symbolically. Do you believe if you were actually in a desert and perishing, that you (I speak to you, the reader) could smite the rock? Would you dare try? Would you timidly make an experiment? Or would you in the name of Jesus Christ SMITE it? Answer me! Why will you fool yourself any longer with the asinine reasoning which results finally in the "Yes, I know, but" state of affairs? Too long have you professed to accept the Christ and the Fatherhood degree of life and asked for a loaf, only to compromise for a half; and, failing in this, have pleaded, "Well, just a slice for the momentary need." Then, you have heard the ugly three-dimensional mind say to you with the utmost disrespect: "Get under the table and eat with the dogs of the crumbs!" You don't like that, do you? But such is the result of trying to use this Christ power on an old brain-foreshortened, thought-taking process.

Prayer is the manifestation of the Kingdom of Heaven here and NOW. It does not have to be kept in place, by holding it in thought. There is nothing to disturb its even tenor. Prayer is like the massing of static electricity which suddenly---quick and terrible ---bursts through and destroys false pictures. It is also as gentle and easy as the coming of Dawn. The Direct action of God is as operative through your temple-body as it is through any teacher, lecturer, or leader---Jesus even suggested that you could and would exceed His works.

To recognize the revelation of Jesus Christ in you is to cause this direct action to take place in your world and affairs, and to precipitate manifestation in spite of all the findings of the human mind and the relative ideas of life.

Touching this Power brings forth a full revelation on any given subject; causes the fool to become the genius---for "genius" is only the manifestation of being en rapport with the Presence. Everything that the human mind can possibly concoct in the way of a problem---even the so-called unsolvable ones---is perfectly known to this Consciousness. Not through a process of thinking, but by the direct action of the Power of God. Everything that is ever done on the earth in the matter of manifestation is already completed and in operation in the Invisible. Of course the old human reasoning will attempt to think this out and will say that it is "all foolishness"; and for once it is right, for everything that is true and lasting and of God is "foolishness" in the eyes of man. But remember that the reverse is also true. "The wisdom (wisdom---please note) of man is foolishness in the eyes (light) of God."

Do you begin to see why nothing is impossible to God? The human mind cannot reason beyond the confines of its own findings; it can go only so far, and it runs into the tread-mill of "the chicken and the egg, and the egg and the chicken: which came first?" Neither came first. The whole thing was, is, and always shall be in the Mind of God. The slow-thinking Adam plane of life has to evolve from egg to chick, from seed to flower, unfolding and unfolding each step. What a thunderclap when the Voice says, "Look again, the fields are white with harvest!" What must the human mind have thought of this "direct action"?

All its best learning and wisdom thrown into the scrap-heap of nothingness and foolishness. No wonder Jesus said so often, "I and my Father are one." He moved up into the "no-thought place," the consciousness which "spake and it is (present tense) done." It is wonderful! Don't let the old thought-taking process confuse you at the very moment when you are beginning to "be still and KNOW that I AM God"; when you are still in this thought-taking process, you will find out something you have been trying to know for ages.

"Only speak the WORD and my servant shall be made alive." What a command, and a sudden and almost terrific manifestation! No one saw anything take place at that moment except the person receiving the healing, yet both the Centurion and Jesus departed, dropped the subject and went on their respective ways. That is the pure, unadulterated, no-thought-taking acceptance that the Jesus Christ principle is not a speculative quantity, but an actual releasement of the Finished Kingdom. It is wonderful! "Speak the word." Would you dare to do such a thing? Notice that Jesus said, "I will come and heal him," no "maybe" or "perhaps" about it. This consciousness which was in Christ Jesus, and is potentially in you, does not have to wonder or guess or speculate whether it will be able to perform the releasement of the manifestation. It is able to "speak as one having authority," without knocking on wood or going through the silly superstitions of the human mind, trying to make it happen. It is a sure, uncompromising WORD. It is successful every time, even when nothing happens on the other end. Because had the person at the other end not been able to "accept" this Presence, nothing would have happened; but the "speaker" has nonetheless released the finished thing into being, and his part of the equation is done, completed, and finished.

To the human mind this offers a possibility of running about "speaking the word" and then saying, "Well, I've done my work, and so I am through." This very statement would show how utterly one has failed in blending sufficiently with the Fatherhood degree to release the finished manifestation. "Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." Say nothing, see nothing, do nothing, but be sure you see all, say all, and do all. "My sheep hear my voice," and that is all that is necessary. Do you hear? "Behold I make all things new." Do you hear? What would you give to have the old thought-filled brain made new? And what do you suppose would happen if it were? The new thing that takes place is an enlarged capacity, an actual change of the structure and substance of that part of your anatomy which is to receive and translate the new WORD into increase and manifestation. The genius plays the most difficult passages of a symphony with an ease impossible even to its composer, without effort, without taking thought, without struggle, and without enervating years of study. It is wonderful how a carpenter boy (Jesus) could do things that other boys could not possibly do, and how He discovered that this Fatherhood degree of consciousness was resident in every man. Though He also knew that man, until awakened, would go through the helpless infantile state, the Sonship degree (be crucified), and would lie in his tomb until he self-resurrected. After crucifixion the human has done all it can for or against, and, it is either "rise and walk" by the power of the recognized Fatherhood degree of consciousness, or lie there and remain dead. Who are you --- and when will you begin the self-resurrection from your tomb? Answer me.

"Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you, seek and ye shall find." What more could you want? Do you believe it? Or will you ask and then wait and wait and wait until you are flayed to death by thoughts of and about it all? Will you "come unto ME" and begin the direct action of the WORD, or will you go to another, or a book, or a teacher?

The New Day has come unto you. You are merging into the Fatherhood Consciousness above any further curse of the law and above any further field of experiences. The old thought-taking man has been filled with experiences, he has gone from one to another, swinging like a pendulum from good to evil, and at last he has dropped dead from its unrelenting wear and tear. Now, as he assumes his Fatherhood degree, he is experiencing "glory after glory," instead of problem after problem, he is moving into reality from which there is no return into the shadows of the thought-taking process of the human mind. And in this place of reality he will be able to speak and ask and seek and knock, and find every one of these movements fulfilled instantly. He has the flower before the seed.

Reincarnation And You

Chapter Seven

Ever since you tasted the Forbidden fruit and decided that you, too, were a creator-you have been bringing forth the "inventions" of the human mind---which though sometimes beautiful for the moment were always evil in the final analysis. All these false ideas of creation have been sustained by your belief, fed with the substance of human thinking.

You were created in the "Image and Likeness of God"----a Little lower than the Angels and given dominion over everything.

And the book of creation was closed----and nothing is to be added or taken from it. And it was called good and very good. Yes, better than good---and that is the description of YOU.

All this is a far cry from the thing "born of woman" whose days are few and full of trouble and whose entire life is supported by human thinking and not by the Light of God. Everything that is Born of the human thought is of "few days and full of trouble" and is a product of the human imagination. That is why Jesus, the CREATED One, could change any of the pictures of imagination---even death. And that is why you, when you arise to that place in consciousness, will see how it is that the so-called healing is not so miraculous after all-but natural and normal.

Under the belief in a power apart from God, man has come under a set of laws so hateful and so intricate that he sickens of it all. Everything he does brings its re-action immediately, or else a belief in karmic law causes him to re-enact the tragedies of his former life. An endless and hopeless chain of experiences which get him nowhere: He places himself under a fearful, inescapable destiny.

"Destiny waits on no man's will. Man made it, but can he change it? The sum total of his merit is arranged against the consequences of his sins, each at the end of the scale, and himself the fulcrum."

Jesus put it more simply when He said---"Man has worked out many inventions." Through a set of material laws founded on a divided power man has worked out even a law of revenge which reacts upon him either as swiftly as a striking adder or as slowly as a glacier melting through centuries into one karmic situation after another.

And in the human equation, according to the karmic law, there is no discount in the law of justice. So beautifully put by Jesus, "As a man soweth so shall he reap."

"There is no injustice---nowhere in all the universe---not for a moment. Justice----every atom of it including all the injustice! No one escapes his exact desserts or lacks his opportunity to learn.

"Those on whom the seeming injustice is inflicted, would do the same thing, or something like it---its equivalent---if they had the power and the temptation.

"They are learning the feel of the sting of injustice----learning not to inflict it. The unjust judge is reborn to a life in prison on a false charge. The usurer spends a life or two in debt. The cheat gets cheated.

"The cruel man suffers cruelty.

"Each to the fate his deeds have caused, and each one to the destiny that he himself has earned." But what's the purpose of it?

"It is true that the fool who tries to stop the wheels of destiny fulfills his destiny by being crushed under it." -Mundy.

"But what's the purpose of it?"

Can you answer that one? What's the good of it all? Experience and problems leave most of us scratched and marred and with nothing better than a humble admission that "it was good for our growth" ---yet how could Spirit grow, since it is a changeless substance---without beginning or without end----end complete and whole within itself?

Gradually we are beginning to see that Jesus came for the purpose of showing man how to de-hypnotize himself from the pictures of his various incarnations---and to show him the "way back." He finds him groaning and wondering who will deliver him from the body of this death---to-wit the redemption of the body. And yet He plainly stated, "I can of mine own self do nothing"-and He permitted Himself to function through the character of Jesus for the purpose of showing the whole gamut of human beliefs to be nothing but just that-beliefs.

When you took on your present character, unlike an actor, you did not leave the old play and character behind, but brought much of it along with you-and worst of all you brought a balance sheet showing just what had to be paid on the old karmic debt. All the while adding to the endless karma of the next re-incarnation. What a stupid picture! Bound to the wheel of life, which moving upward would throw you off into your real self-if you could but accept the simple revelation of Jesus Christ. But instead of letting go, you hug the precious old beliefs and go down again to be crushed by the wheel as it makes its eternal rounds. You either survive the horrible experience of going under the wheel, or else it kills you and you take on a new character and begin again the "dance of Life"-a giddy affair governed by the laws "as for man his clays are few and full of trouble"---and "earn your living by the sweat of your brow."

When Jesus came to the world to free it from this horrible curse and supply the grace of God-man was so hypnotized that he could not understand nor accept the gift, and so Jesus was crucified, and would be again today-because the mind is still so hypnotized with the reality of evil. That is why you are beginning to hear of the second coming of the Christ in such things as "come apart from among them"----"Lean on Me"-and a thousand and one other words which when HEARD will begin to free you from the endless chain of problems.

Jesus had to descend to the pattern of His Jesus incarnation in order to experience any evil whatsoever. That evil was all in His human destiny as Jesus ---but any time He wished to transcend He "went unto His Father"---not a locality BUT a degree of consciousness----and the thing passed by with no expression---it was a cloud without rain. The child was stillborn. Without having known or recognized His Permanent Identity---the one "made in the image and likeness" He never would have been able to set aside His human destiny. When the pictures of the false law were about to manifest He immediately side-stepped them by entering into a new dimension and staying there. He was at the other side of the lake-which was all outside of the human destiny plan for Him---and even on the way to the cross He as good as said ----"Well, if I didn't want to go through this to prove to you that even the karmic belief in death is nothing-I could call on My Father---the Permanent Identity---and twelve legions of angels would appear." Are you beginning to see why the simple teachings of Jesus Christ are the only teachings which are worth considering? All the ancient teaching in the world will not reveal one-tenth of one per cent of the Power in one single WORD of Jesus Christ.

And the wonder of it all is that He said you could do everything He could do. Not only could you do it unto yourself, but unto others-you could even raise the dead-which is "impossible"-in fact He said you could offset every human law-and every "impossible" thing could be brushed out of the picture by you.

Yes, Jesus came to show man how to transcend human destiny----but man mistook the whole lovely revelation for just another religion----and fell down and worshipped a man instead of entering into the consciousness of the Presence and becoming One with it.

You are wondering why John Smith who has been so good and true never got to first base, and why another who had nothing at all coming to her apparently skimmed the cream from the milk of Life without any effort; and now you are beginning to see the Law. Exactly what you have put into the universe you have taken out. There is no escape until you come to the revelation of Jesus Christ.

This all sounds very dour, but in reality it is only what Jesus told us---and what we are only now beginning to hear. "My sheep hear my voice"---it has taken us centuries, and we have waded through the muck and mire of hundreds of characters trying to find the way out of the maze of human inventions. .It is only when you come to the Consciousness of Jesus Christ that you begin to put an end to the human Destiny and the human reincarnation. You begin to discover your Divinity, which is only a "little lower than the angels," with Dominion over everything on the earth, under the earth and in the sea. Ridiculous when you think about "dominion" and then look about you! And yet there it stands-and only through the recognition of your Jesus Christ-Consciousness can you return to your Father's House and find again the Garden of Eden forsaken so long ago. The hour is getting late---you are an Avatar of the Word, and as you rise from the mire of human belief you may yet have much of the mud sticking to you, but as you walk into the Consciousness of your true self you will find this mud dropping from you. And having arrived at the place of BEING you will speak from the Plane of the Christ-Consciousness, dissolving the congested human beliefs.

"Come unto ME and be ye saved"----from what? Your human destiny and karmic beliefs. "Lean on Me"-the little John Smith which has been standing alone for so many centuries is finding what it means to give up and lean on ME. There is much of human interest in reincarnation. You can easily trace many of yours out into apparent reality if you have the desire to do so. The human pattern is as fixed and real as is the Divine, with this one exception-the Divine or fourth-dimensional capacity of you transcends and utterly puts to flight any Human destiny, the moment you merge with your Divinity. No matter from what cause-nor how backed-up by human testimony. It is therefore possible for a man with a so-called "short lift-line" to live to a ripe old age, or a woman with all sorts of evil configurations in the heavens (as divined by thousands of people who have never looked through a telescope) to go on her merry way as an Immortal creation of God. Either you were made in the Image and Likeness of God, or you were conceived in sin and born in iniquity----you decide that for yourself. If the former, then you are given "authority" over everything in, over and under the earth and sea; and if the latter, then you must come under the curse (for it is a curse, since it contains so much evil) of the laws of palmistry, stars, numbers, notes, colors, soles of the feet and even locations. All of them are true in the degree in which they function. So is voodoo true and as workable on its plane as anything else-but remember: "Nothing that man says is wisdom, for it is foolishness in the eyes of God." "Choose ye this day whom you will serve."

When you begin to see this you will stop the Karmic sway of false human-thinking in your life---and the cat-and-mouse game will cease. You are created -by God----eventually you will "call no man your Father"----and if you call no man your father you will have no human-father-hereditary ideas to surmount. If God is your Father you have no birthday and hence no ensuing evil from having been born on a given day at a given moment in a given locality. "THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF"----Do you believe or do you? You must answer for yourself.

Yes, I know that startling proof is offered---so was it when the wise men and magicians produced snakes which looked just like the Snake which the Prophet of God had produced----but---and there is the crux of it all---the SERPENT of the Man of God ate up the other serpents. So does the Power of God Almighty eat up all the quasi powers claimed in ancient and modern teachings of evil.

Of course this does not dispose of evil in the world at once, and it does not dispose of all the funny characteristics you see in yourself---but it does dispose of reliance on anything but God.

"But don't you believe the Moon has any effect---remember the tide, the crops, and a hundred other proofs that can be shown?" I remember ONE thing: that I was created in the Image and Likeness with Dominion over everything on the earth----over the earth, on the sea or in the sea---and as I remember that, I begin to experience the FEEL that GOD IS IN CONTROL OF THE UNIVERSE---not a star or a line or a color or a number. What say you? From some hundred stenographic reports of prophecies of every sort and from every place, I find only a minimum of them took place ---which is not discounting the gift of prophecy, but it is something to think about. The real gift of prophecy could no more be "turned on and off" like water in your swimming-pool, than could you----that funny little thing----turn God "on and off," because you made affirmations "at" Him. Prophecy cones at the precise moment it is necessary----it is revelation and light that is given, but is not to be used to find out every trifling incident in the universe of man's "wisdom." And so we begin to awaken from the dream of a power opposed to God, and to see that all this reincarnation business goes on just so long as we think that we are born English, Negro, Jew, or Chinese instead of recognizing the fact that we are BORN OF GOD, which recognition will cause us to fling off the garments of beliefs and superstition.

Do not misunderstand me---I do not discount the subject of astrology or palmistry or any other device to reveal the future. I know that "no man knoweth what a day may bring forth" is true---no man---except he to whom it is revealed for his own good purpose and reason. Do you see? On the relative plane all these pseudo sciences are true and real---but---that is on the relative plane. For every time a so-called reality is set up, another comes along and changes the whole thing with a higher degree of human teaching.

Interpretation is so broad a field that it can lead many astray. "The Letter killeth and the Spirit maketh alive"---to see in a horoscope a man passing out may be true and false at the same time-he may be passing into a new state of things and dying to the old.

"YE CAN READ THE SIGNS IN THE SKIES BUT CAN YOU READ THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES?"

When you ask for freedom from a karmic condition that is confronting you, are you willing and ready to take the consequences? Do you want to be free from a thing, and have it too? I remember well a woman who said she was so tired of her home and wanted to get rid of it. Yet she broke out in tears when she returned home after a meditation, and found it in ashes. The way of it all is not yours but God's. Be sure you want what you ask for and be sure you are ready and willing to take the consequences of your prayers. These consequences are wonderful, but sometimes they may seem a little drastic on the surface.

A grandmother of sixty repeatedly said she wanted only one thing and that was "youth"---she wanted to be eighteen again. Suppose that prayer had been answered literally. Could she have taken it? She might have been turned out 'of her own house---her twenty-year-old granddaughter certainly would have disclaimed her, and her sixty-five-year-old husband would have had her arrested as an impostor or a psychopathic case. When you ask for something, you must see that it carries with it a set of new circumstances and conditions which will entirely change the present picture. Can you stand it? Could the Grandmother stand being turned out of her own house by her own grandchild, who was now two years older than she? Think it over, and see what this deeper revelation means---and then you will see why "everything was forsaken" when one Followed ---and why this was a natural condition and not an imposed one. Many people "forsake" the outside first and hope to make the inside come up to it, but that is getting the cart before the horse. When it is done within, the outside will follow naturally, but you must be prepared to step out of the karmic condition which is about you---to step out of the astral shells of belief which have held you for lo, these many years, and enter into the new day.

All this seems rather terrible, for it makes prayer a dangerous thing. I have written it to you from inspiration, knowing that you have the wisdom of God within you sufficient to interpret just what is being said.

The Day of Miracles

Chapter Eight