IT IS WONDERFUL

by

Walter C. Lanyon

THOU ART THE BRIGHT MESSENGER

Chapter One

Thou art the Bright Messenger - the Shining One, the being of pure Spirit. Thou art not the man thou hast been, lo these many years. Thou art new - born, fresh, clean, and pure. Thou art not an old creature patched up by various treatments. Thou, Bright Messenger, Golden One, hast never descended to the level of belief, and therefore hast not consorted with the shadows of the play - life.

Thou art the Bright Messenger, with winged feet, who goeth where he will, and knoweth no obstruction, nor condition. Thou art the unconditioned, the untrammeled, the free - the individualized yet inseparable manifestation of the All God.

Thou art the Bright Messenger. Thou art full of light - bathed in All Light. Whithersoever thou goest is light - not consciously projected, but unconsciously conveyed; a natural effect of thy presence. Thou art the Bright Messenger. Thine eye is single to the Allness of God, the Oneness of creation. Thou therefore seest with the eye of light. Thou lookest into a universe of All Light, and seest through the shadows of belief. Thou seest the world in a world, the rose in a rose, and the Man in a man. Thou perceivest with thine eye of Light that which IS and always has been - not that which shall be changed by begging, beseeching, or praying to a tyrant called God to make whole. With the eye of Light thou seest nothing to heal, for thy sight is perfect in the understanding: " I AM of too pure eyes to behold iniquity. " Thou art the Bright Messenger - the being of light. In the touch of thy hand is light. As the warmth of Spring touches the frozen earth, so thy touch of light causes the seed to swell and burst and the flower to leap from her chalice. Thy touch of light is like the soft rain on the parched desert, which causes it to bloom as a rose. Whomsoever thou touchest - in the true sense of the word - thou transformest, instantly, gloriously, freely, joyously.

And men shall call it health, but thou shalt call it revelation. Thou art the Bright Messenger. Thou hast the golden touch which transforms everything into the gold of which Ophir never dreamed. Thy touch shall be able to take from the fish's mouth the needed symbol. Thy touch it is which gives that which is beyond price, and which makes a man rich even when the saying goes, "Silver and gold have I none, but of such as I have, I give unto thee." Such as thou hast in the touch, O Bright Messenger, is beyond the price of pearls and rubies - the transforming touch which is gentle yet firm, which is soft like the surface of the ocean, but which has the power to dash a whole fleet of evil ships into oblivion. Thou art the Bright Messenger - thy touch is Golden.

Thou art the Bright Messenger. The aroma of thy presence precedes thee. Thy passing is as the passing of a cloud of incense from the sacred lilies of the enchanted woods. In thy presence the precious perfume of the soul is sensed above the stagnant odours of human beliefs. When thou comest to the soul it is as the bridegroom before whom the lovely flowers of purity open and shed their perfume in superabundance. At thy coming the rose loosens the silken tassel of her soul and gives forth the glorious attar of her being. At thy coming the trees and minerals loosen the glorious refreshing odours of woods and stones. From thy nostrils comes the Breath of Life. From thy breath comes the appearance of the new creation. Man becomes a living soul by breathing thy breath - man lives, and moves, and breathes, and has his being in thy breath. Thy breath fans the small sparks of faith into the flame of realization. >From thy nostrils comes the flashing, dazzling fire which consumes the dross of belief. Thou art the Bright Messenger.

Thou art the Bright Messenger. Thy invitation is, "Oh, taste and see that the lord is good." Eat my body (my substance) and drink my blood (inspiration). Thy taste is Golden. The milk and honey of the universe of the All God are thine. The hidden manna (that which the eye - the human belief - cannot see) thou feedest upon.

Thy eternal drink is the Living Water. Thou shalt never be without the sustenance of Spirit, no matter whither thou goest. Thou shalt realize this all-substance, and shalt cease from thy thought-taking process of wondering wherewithal shall we be clothed and fed. Thou shalt eat, and hunger no more; drink, and thirst no more - for thou shalt feed upon the reality of life instead of the husks of material belief, with its shadow appearances.

Thou art the Bright Messenger, the bearer of Glad Tidings. Upon thy breastplate, encrusted in gold, is the motto, "Speak no evil nor listen to". Thou art of too pure ears to hear evil - thou hearest with the ear of Spirit. Thou hearest with the silent ear - closed to the din of the human relative conditions, but open to that which "eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man (human thought) the things which are prepared for them that love thy LAW." Thou hearest the word of peace and a whole ocean of fury of belief ceaseth - stilled and made calm. Thou hearest the reports of that which IS, and thou tellest of these. Thou hearest the things that "Ear hath not heard" - the ear of man whose breath is in his nostrils, and whose eye is double - and yet thou hearest the report of the Kingdom Here and Now - thou hearest the Glad Tidings of the eternal Christ walking to-day in the Garden of Attainment. Thou hearest the words "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," and thou recognizest these words as addressed to thee.

Thou art not ashamed, nor afraid because of thy nakedness; the stark tragedies of the human belief fade into the distance when thou answerest this call with the "Aye, Aye" of Spirit. Thou hearest in the truest sense of the word - in the fearless sense of the word, "Arise and shine, for thy light hath come." No need to create this light, to stimulate it, but only to recognize this light as within.

How can a man who is constantly looking for evil to heal and treat know anything of the Kingdom? How can he understand the things which cannot be seen nor heard with the human ears? How can he set right that which he has already done? And yet there are those poor deluded souls who have appointed themselves the official stone-casters for the Christ, not realizing that they are casting stones at HIM.

Thou art the Bright Messenger - the Being of Light - the Unafraid. Why should there be fear when the realization has come that thou art the Bright Messenger, the being of pure Spirit - not subject to the beliefs of the thought world, not subject to the failures and successes of thy human life, but suddenly up and above that which has always seemed so real.

Bright Messenger, Unafraid Being, Holy Creature, Son of God - arise - shine. Arise, let thy light so shine. Take no thought - if thou take thought, it will be of fear or limitation. Thou art the Bright Messenger - the Being of Light that goeth forth before the manifestation of thy human self, and maketh straight the way. Thou art the Unafraid, the Unbound, the Prometheus Unbound. Thou shalt smite the rock and make it gust forth the Living Water of Life.

Thou art the Bright Messenger, the Being of Light, the Unafraid. Thou art glorious - thou art free - thou art not bound by human limitations - "Thou art not another [a separate one] but the same one." Thou art the Christ. Hail! Soul of Me, I salute you Son of God - Christ - Bright Messenger.

ASSUMPTION

Chapter Two

"He made himself as God" - "I and my Father are One." It is natural that in making himself as God, Becoming One with the Father, Christ partook quite freely of the Divine nature. In other words, he ASSUMED the nature of God; the demonstrations of a necessity followed - "the signs follow." When man makes this ASSUMPTION, when he recognizes that all life is God, he will ASSUME the qualities of God naturally, and find them out-pictured in his life. He will not then try to demonstrate the various attributes of this Invisible Power, but, by ASSUMPTION, will be able to call them forth into manifestation at his will.

"Ye shall decree a thing and it shall come to pass" can only be true of one possessing or ASSUMING the God nature. As long as this manifestation of God seems unusual or miraculous, just so long will it be little in evidence to him. But when man comes to the place where "he makes himself as God" - not A God, but as God: of the same nature and substance - then by this ASSUMPTION the natural flow of God-expression will take place, and he will begin to understand he is "under grace." He will understand and accept the truth of the statement, "Joint heirs with Christ," and Son of the Living God. He will begin to make his ASSUMPTION in the secret place within. He will recognize that, being created of God, he must of necessity partake of the nature of God. His ASSUMPTION of his God nature will have nothing to do with the former idea of wishing and hoping for things to come to pass. Once man is conscious of his true self, hid decrees will be surrounded with confidence and abandon. He will not find it unnatural that the Son of the Living God should appropriate the gifts of the Spirit.

Assumption of the God nature, as shown by the Master, is not akin to the old idea of visualization, wherein the person composed a picture to his liking and floated it in the imagination, trying to make it come into manifestation. Assuming the "full stature of Christ" is really contemplating the "vision shown to you on the Mount." You do not create it or imagine it. It is already existent and revealed to you. Assuming the Divine nature (making yourself as God), man perceive the perfect where he formally saw the imperfect.

The assumption of the Virgin (single-minded purity of consciousness) brought forth the new idea. The word became flesh - in other words, the assumption became manifest.

From the standpoint of assumption, man finds ease more natural than dis-ease. He ceases to get rid of disease as a reality, and contemplates the Son of God living in the perfect ease of Spirit.

One moment of this realization and his disease has vanished into nothingness, for the perfect Self is thereby revealed and made manifest. From the standpoint of assumption, man gains the actual, concrete results he has failed to accomplish by the process of imagination he formerly used. Are you afraid to follow in the steps of the Master, and assume your Divine rights and see them into manifestation? Are you afraid to accept the results of consciously accepting your birthright? "The worm of the dust" finally discovers that he can do nothing to change or better himself, for he is a product of the dual belief in good and evil. Working with the body and personality is exactly the same thing.

No matter what you have been, done, or left undone, when the Christ has been recognized as your true Self, all former limitations fade away. Thousands of sincere souls, seeking the light, have spent years trying to better the condition of the "worm in the dust" - trying to make "John Smith" a better man, healthier, richer, or happier - but have accomplished little. The caterpillar can not change except from within. No good trying to make a caterpillar fly; it is impossible. a complete change has to take place, a transformation. Jesus the carpenter becomes the Christ, the Son of the Living God, with all power. The caterpillar becomes the butterfly.

Certain laws have to be heeded. If the caterpillar fails to close itself within its cocoon, it might have the desire and the capacity to become a butterfly, but would be utterly unable to do so, because it failed to heed the law of secrecy. To lose the personality, secrecy is necessary. The change would be too great for the prying, doubting Thomas to participate in the glory of it.

"See that ye tell no man" wraps a cloak about the one who suddenly begins the process of ASSUMPTION, just as the cocoon is built around the grub that is to become the butterfly. Later, that which acts as a cloak of protection becomes a hindrance and is cast off. The scaffolding is torn down finally, in order that the perfect structure can be seen. The secrecy gives up its perfect manifestation, then man may say, "Go and show John." The change that is made between the grub and the butterfly is tremendous, but it is nothing as compared to the change that takes place in the one who evolves from the "John Smith" personality (the worm of the dust) into the Son of the Living God. What was impossible to "John Smith" is divinely natural to the New Idea.

As the butterfly seeks a new mode and means of expression after it has given up its caterpillar state of existence, so the man who has ASSUMED his Son ship, and seen it out to manifestation, moves into a new heaven and a new earth. The butterfly takes no cognizance of its former expression - no worrying over its mistakes, shortcomings, omissions, and fears. They are nothing.

The new expression is so far removed from the old, it is as a dream. "The former things shall pass away - they shall be remembered no more, neither shall they come into mind." So the new Son of the Living God, moving into his NEW kingdom of expression, drops off all worries and fears, the cause and effect of the "John Smith" personality. "Be still and know that I AM God," takes on a new meaning: Be still and ASSUME the glories of this new estate. ASSUME them in the secret place - easily, naturally; ASSUME them and rest them in the silence. "Be wise as serpents - harmless as doves." Know nothing, see nothing, hear nothing, then you will know all, see all, and hear all.

Come away from the noisy personality who wants to change the "John Smith" and heal him and make him prosper. You are the Son of the Living God, and when you recognize this you are through with the foolish idea of making demonstrations, and you will see the constant out-pouring of the substance of God through the new idea by the ASSUMPTION of the Son. "One in all and All in One." Be still and serenely assume the God-given qualities, and hide them deep in the cocoon of silence. Then will they burst forth as glorious freed expressions. "Be not afraid; it is I" - the very "I" that is able to ASSUME its God inheritance is at this time speaking to you, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." It is already there, awaiting recognition. It does not need healing, prosperity, being made happy or joyous. It is already these things. Identify yourself with It. "Acquaint now thyself with HIM and be at peace." - "Know ye not that ye are gods?" Do you know it? If so, when will you ASSUME the God-like qualities and see them into manifestation? Be still - build the secret cocoon about you; presently you shall be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

I AM

Chapter Three

"I AM here, I AM there, I AM everywhere." I AM within all, within every fibre, nerve, and cell of your being. I AM in the inanimate as well as the animate - I AM everywhere.

I AM everything and everywhere; call upon ME and see if I will not open the windows of Divine substance. I AM THAT I AM - that particular I AM Consciousness which should come to this condition or situation to make its nothingness appear - to cause it to release the power that lies hidden there, and which has caused you to fear. I AM ALL IN ALL - I AM everywhere. No matter wither you go, into what locality, I AM there - I have gone before you, because I AM already there and always have been there. I have already caused myself to be so impressed upon you that you find everything already prepared before you arrive. You find everything answered before you ask. You find everything supplied before you need. It is well with you - do you hear? - irrespective of person, place, or thing. It is well with you, irrespective of teachings of any nature what-soever. I AM - I AM - I AM.

I am the lost word which is hidden within your consciousness, which IS your consciousness veiled over by a mystification of human senses. In judging from appearances you have lost true values, and have accepted shadows as realities. I AM the lost word, the Word before which the doors of the universe fly open - doors in the impassible walls of human obstacles; doors that lead out on highways never charted by the human sense because of its limitations. Doors that belong to the palaces of the kings, fly open at my coming, and the riches of that which is Caesar's are laid before me - to take and do with as I like. "I AM here, I AM there, I AM everywhere." It is well. The new voyage on which you are about to embark is already prepared - all the minutest details have been taken care of.

Arise, take no thought; all these things shall be added to the unafraid one. Do you hear? You who read this page? You? The endless planning and trying to arrange things suddenly ceases. The government shall be upon his shoulders, the government of your life, and all is well. Only the personal attitude can keep you out of this beautiful, restful experience. Be not afraid: "It is I." Why should you be afraid to accept your good here and now, instead of waiting for the harvest? Have I not told you over and over again, "Look again," the fields are white, the labourers are few. Thrust in the sickle. Reap, you who read this page. You! Reap the fullness of life everywhere present. Not one thing shall be hidden from you.

When you come to recognize the Allness of Life, there will be no place for sin, disease, and death, and you shall find a new thing working in your members which will be above both health and sickness, a new consciousness which is not the result of evil overcome, but which is the out-picturing of the Spirit, which is of too pure eyes to behold iniquity.

The healed man is perhaps better than the sick man, but he is still swinging between something and nothing. If he wishes to stop the swinging between the pair of opposites he will have to move up to the place of recognition of the All-Presence, and there abide in a state of changeless bliss. His ability, then, will not be to demonstrate the word, but to bring the living presence of the word into visibility. This is your power; it is the power which was given to the child - in consciousness - the ability to accept the Good that has been prepared for him. Do you hear? I speak the word of healing for you at this moment.

There is but the NOW - it is NOW that I write. It is NOW that you read, and at this Divine instant of the All-Now I speak from out of these pages and say, "Rise up and walk; open your eyes and see the glorious Finished Mystery; open your ears and hear the things which human lips cannot utter; stretch forth your arm of strength and accomplish that which you will. Go your way into expression. It is well with you. Be whole; be free; be newly born." You who are reading this page, do you hear? Do you hear? Do you hear? In the Glorious All-Now, it is well with you - rise and declare from the housetops your being. It is wonderful! It is wonderful! It is wonderful! Even the wrath of man shall praise thee - even the thing which has seemed so untoward shall rise and sing thy glory. The limited personal Jesus shall praise the Christ within

your consciousness. You shall call it from the housetops of your being by telling it in secret to your soul - by pure recognition of the All-Presence in the All-Now.

Human language fails to express anything like the Joy of the All-Now, but between the lines you will find the Spirit that will accomplish this for you. Be still; the unuttered word is the Word of God which shall not, cannot, and has not the ability to return unto you void. For the Word of God is fulfilment pressing toward your consciousness for expression. The word which speaks it into existence is the actual recognition of the Presence everywhere.

"I AM here, I AM there, I AM everywhere." To recognize this is to understand without further difficulty how it is that you can now reach out across the universe and touch ME in another being, and cause that being to take on the splendid sense of health, of happiness, and prosperity that you formerly tried to make happen by beseeching special favors of ME. The Sons of God shout for joy - you cannot help it - "Blessings, blessings, blessings, so many you cannot count them" - blessings so many - like the deluge of golden mist that fills the valley after a storm - you are filled with this invisible-visible substance, and the light from this consciousness causes all the evil shadows of human belief to recede. It is well with you. "Blessings, blessings, blessings, so many you cannot count them." Do you hear? Do you hear? Not the cold human words, but the Spirit of that which sets aside every human law, however conceived or made. Blessings that come from the Grace of God pouring into expression into your life in the All-Now, in the All-Presence.

Be still outwardly, and shout for joy within until it has shattered the walls of your prison. Do you see? If you once glimpse the All-Presence in the All-Now you will begin to see that I AM not only here and there and everywhere, but I Am everything and partake of the nature of everything through this great Oneness. I AM everything and everybody; I AM ALL.

I speak to you , and for this reason comes this message into your hand. From this instant I AM into manifestation in your life as a real, living factor - not as a far-off God, but as the very life of your life, the great connecting-link between you and everything manifest on the earth. It is well; be not afraid. It is I.

I have many things to show you when you can be still. One by one the clamoring voices of argument, revenge, and resentment will have screamed themselves lifeless. That which can rend you must come out of you, even though you fall as one dead, and dead you will be to human babbling. This which can rend you sore must come out of you so that you can soar to new heights which were impossible with the former baggage. Let go, give up, and call down into manifestation the blessing of the All-Now and the All-Presence. "I AM here (right while you are reading, right while I am writing), I AM there, I AM everywhere." The coming and going of things is only in the human thought. Nothing passes away in the reality of the Real. There is nothing to be destroyed or hurt or made right.

When you have ascended into heaven and glimpsed the eternal, perfect harmony of that consciousness without beginning or ending, you will descend into the hell of your human thinking and bring with you the All-Presence, and see this hell self-consumed. You will see the fire of evil wiped out by the blaze of life. You will merely bring the recognition of that which is in heaven unto earth, or out into the manifest world, and see it change. You will see a whole city appear with the evaporation of a fog of human thinking and belief, and your heaven unfold before you out of the mystification of your human thought. Right where you are is holy ground, for "I AM here, I AM there, I AM everywhere." Unlatch latchets of your sandals; let go of the human reasoning or the how, why, when, and where; let go of all systems of Truth, and drink deep of the living water of inspiration wich is wordless and unutterable. I shall impress you with that which is.

"Stand and deliver" - "He who hears obeys." "When the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" You have to answer that for yourself. Perhaps you have already answered it in the negative for the rest of the world. But it has nothing to do with the rest of the world; it has only to do with your world. When the revelation cometh to you, when I come to you and speak, even as I AM speaking at this instant, shall that I find faith - recognition on the earth - in the manifest realm of your earth? While you are looking for evil in the world to overcome, you are making so much noise you can not hear Me as I stand at your door and knock. It is well; be not afraid; one day the awakening comes, and then you take your pearl of great price and run away and bury it in a field - in a new state of consciousness - and you tell no man about it. And you know why. The deepening of consciousness takes place, and with it the glorious accompanying manifestation. Have I not said to you in many ways, "If a man lose his life he shall find it"? If you lose the personality, letting it be swallowed up in the I AM, then will you lose also all the human law pertaining to that personality; the problems of that personality will then be of no concern to you, for they will cease to exist. The personality is on the plane of cause and effect - the four months to the harvest - the "as ye sow, so shall ye reap"; but when you are lost in ME, you find your real life, the life everlasting. Literally some will find this and appropriate it, and be translated into the new and wonderous Spirit.

Remember, I have said unto you, "The last enemy that shall be overcome is death." When you lose your limited personal sense of life in the all-life, you lose the sense of disease and evil, and without disease, death cannot come into manifestation. Hence the last enemy, the last belief in a power outside of the All-Presence, is swallowed up. Death is swallowed up in Victory, in Life, and you shall say, "Whereas before I was dead, Now (the only) I AM alive."

Take away the condemnation from your world, bathe it in the new Light of Love and Life.

When you cease to look for evil, evil will cease to manifest to you. "KICK THE HELL OF RIGID THINGS FROM 'NEATH YOU FEET AND LEAP THROUGH SPACE; AND SPACE SHALL HOLD YOU WITH THE THRILLING FLUX OF LIFE ASCENDING; AND HOLD YOU MORE COMPLETE IN EVERY PART THAN DID THE RIGID COILS YE FLUNG BEHIND YOU."

The rigid coils of human thinking - the age old beliefs and laws that have seemed like the coils of a python, crushing the very life out of you! These shall finally be put from you by being divested of their power. There is that upward rising, that quickening, that going to the Father, which is the recognition which lift up to the Mount. "Underneath are the everlasting arms"; the everlasting power is with you and in you and through you. The great changelessness of the Law of God - which is, "As above, so below; As within, so without." No place can you go where I AM not. If you take the wings of the morning and fly to uttermost parts of the earth, there AM I; or into hell, there AM I. I only have to be recognized to set aflame the bush by the wayside. I have myriad ways of speaking to you - when the scales of a double universe have dropped from your eyes. I AM that I AM Do you hear? Nothing is hard to ME.

You who have struggled all night with the Angel shall at last have the bandage of human belief torn from your eyes, and you shall loose it and let it go. So many have tried this by first recognizing that the Angel had power which was working against them, and then, in trying to let go, found it practically impossible to do so. Do you not see that the only reason a problem has power is because you feed it constantly with your thought? The more your attention is upon it, the greater it becomes to you; then one day you recognize the startling fact that you are sustaining it like a parasite, which is mocking the meat it is feeding upon, and you take from it the nourishment of thought, and find that in so doing you have loosened the only hold it had upon you. Do you see? You who read this page? You? In the spaceless and timeless centre of

your soul you will see the nothingness of the dust of human existence - you will see that the thousand years have been but a day, and that you stand gloriously revealed to yourself, and it is this inner revelation which causes the human manifestation to come to higher and more perfect proportions and expression. The effect will take care of itself. The out-picturing of the state recognized within will automatically be made manifest. When the mind lets go of what is has been holding in the hand, the hand lets go and drops the article automatically, even though it was holding on with all might and main before. Do you see that the results that follow are the signs which follow, and which do not precede? When you are not looking for signs, for results, it will be because you are completely satisfied that the law of God never fails, and therefore any anxiety or thought you take regarding the outcome of the inner vision is totally wasted, and in many cases acts as a mist which obscures the truth which should appear.

I have passed you often on the highways of life, and you have failed to see or hear me, because you are eternally looking to the outward shell. Remember that I speak through any avenue that is free enough to let me into expression. I do not always come with purple and fine linen or the approval of a Church; I come in the manner in which you can best see me; but if you are hypnotized to the outside, to the appearances, then you will pass me by.

Fear not! When you are ready I will do the works through you. When you are ready to let go of the limiting sense of things about you, and the limiting personality with wich you have identified yourself, you will see ME.

"I AM here, I AM there, I AM everywhere" - Blessings, blessings, blessings, so many you cannot count them." Do you hear? You who read this page? You?

THE LAUGHTER OF GOD

Chapter Four

"God has made me to laugh, so that all that hear

will laugh with me."

Deep in my soul I hear the Laughter of God, ringing in silvery cadences through the timbers of my being, breaking the human bonds and limitations as a strong yet gentle wind in the forest sweeps aside the strands of cobweb. The hard, fast knots that I had tied slipped loose, and the snarls of beliefs broke free. The river of my human life, frozen by a thousand and one false ideas and teachings, broke joyously into expression and went bounding to the infinite sea of Life, to be lost and found at the same time. One dark cave of fear after another was illuminated by the light of this laughter, and swampy areas of sick thoughts were dried up instantly. Parched sands of hopelessness and futile efforts were drenched by the living waters, sucked in --- absorbed instantly like a wave breaking on the sands. God laughing at me, and my puny efforts to make things happen; to make heaven appear; to attain the Sonship. Not the laugh of derision, but of infinite compassion, a laughter so deep and sweet, so pure and glorious that everything in the nature of struggle gave way before it.

And the breath of that glorious laughter blew all the dirty rags of personal teaching and self-aggrandizement away from me, and at first the fierce joy that proceeded from the unheard-heard peals of laughter made me afraid --- afraid that everything worth while was being taken from me, and that I should be naked; but no sooner had the filthy rags of personality blown free than I was clothed in a panoply of light, and in this glorious raiment of light I saw for the first time the glory of the Spirit made flesh.

I stood before the infinite peals of laughter, which flowed through all creation like floods of golden mist, filled with speechless wonder at the beauty of the world I had lived in --- which had been invisible because of my separation, because of my personal ideas about attainment. I was as a child with a small measure at the seaside, trying to carry off a little water when the whole sea was at my disposal, and I understood for the first time the exhaustless sea of substance about me, and that the idea of hoarding was but a childish fear grown into a Goliath by false teaching and beliefs. I suddenly became aware that the substance was everywhere, in everything, out of everything, and the only place of lack was in the hypnotic state of belief --- and I alone created and moved in this vacuum.

And the glorious laughter rolled on, searching the very joints and marrow of me --- dislodging every belief in fear, sickness, or age. And as it swept over me and through me and round about me, I was amazed with the wonder of it --- the fierce, terrible thing which was at the same time so beautiful and free. The wonder of it kept singing through my soul as veil after veil of belief was rent asunder and new kingdoms stood revealed. And the whole thing was as if one just saw a little deeper, as one looks through the surface reflection on a river and sees the pebbles and shells below, that was all; only the Laughter made this possible, for it cleared away all the effort and straining which in its attempt to see God had been halted at the reflection on the surface, instead of gazing into the limpid, glorious depth of Infinity. The Voice, as its honeyed tones flowed out like a burst of sunshine through storm-clouds, was so unlabored, so untrammeled, and so Divinely indifferent, it seemed to envelop me with an instant realization that all was well. No matter how many struggles had been made, no matter how many mistakes, how many shortcomings, how many failures, how long the belief, or how short the hate, it was all swept aside as nothing. The glorious Divine ease with which it was expressed made disease impossible. It was the overturning an overturning that had to take place before He, the Laughing One, could come into expression. The people of God are a people of joy, and it is not until they hear this God Laughter in their souls that they have attained to their heritage. What of this race that speaks of the Kingdom and doing the Father's work, and uses all the language of the Truth, and at the same time sows seeds of fear and hellish inventions? What is this race that is always seeking evil to destroy, like a weasel seeks out a rat? What is the hopelessness they preach --- that on one hand, you are the Sons of God, and on the other, that you must fight against evil of every sort and nature? "Ah, yes, but, if, and maybe --- they roll these

stumbling-blocks under their tongues with a wise twinkle in their eyes, as much as to say, Yes, it is all true, but it comes only with hard labor and long study, and it is not for such as you, sinner and worm of the dust that you are, until you have purified yourself in the fount of my wisdom and paid me personal homage."

And it is then that the Magdalene hears the Laughter of God and is clean and free; and in an instant too; and it is when the cripple hears the Laughter of God that he leaps to his feet and runs away praising the Living God. And it is when you, no matter where you are, or what you are, no matter what you have done or left undone, hear the Laughter of the God within and the God without, that you will crash through the gates of hell and find heaven, no matter what these gates may be --- person, place, or thing.

One moment's recognition that you are the Son of the Living God, and you have attuned your ear for the Laughter of God which will put to flight all the stupid ideas of mine and thine, and free you into an expression that you have not yet dreamed of. How can you restrain the joy that fills you when you hear this laughter which, when it is heard, causes the winter of your discontent to break into full fruition, which causes you to see literally that "before they call I will answer," is not a bit of euphonious language, but a positive living, glowing fact. "I was afraid," and therefore you were driven out of the Garden of Life. You have been afraid that God will punish you -- - that it is too good to be true --- that you are not ready --- that it comes by great learning; and so you are still without the portals of your own kingdom, trying every way but the only way to re-enter. Many there be who try the way of violence, and many who expect to ride in on the skirts of another. There are some so foolish as to invite this.

Why do you not stop trying to get things, trying to learn how to get power, place? Why do you not come away from the man whose breath is in his nostrils? --- You who read this page, and go within and hear the Laughter of God, and know that "it does not matter" --- that the things which gave you great concern are all swept away into the dump heap? The sooner you learn this the sooner you will see they have no value. And one time, when you take away their value, they are possible of attainment to you. You profess to be a follower of the Master. If you in any way believe this, you will begin to listen for the Laughter of God through your whole being, and will know that the Laughter of God sets you free from the snarling discontent of the Tower of Babel in which you have been living.

Presently, as you listen for this Laughter, you will hear it, and gradually you will begin laughing --- billows of laughter, silently-audible laughter that will shatter one limitation after another; laughter filled with the Divine Indifference which knows that the Universe if filled with God and only God, and to recognize this will cause this laughter to flow into expression and shatter the belief in sin, sickness, and death. And when this belief is shattered in you, the pictures of this on your universe are dissipated and are no more, and even the place thereof is no more. You will know why there can be naught but laughter in the Kingdom of Heaven. What good of words or arguments? What in human sense is a lecture worth on the subject of Laughter, as compared to one glorious sudden peal of joy released by a God soul and picked up by all those in hearing distance?

And gradually, as you learn of the Laughter of God and join in with the Glory of the Sons of the Living God, then you will laugh at yourself. You will perhaps go back and laugh all the mistakes and faults and limitations out of existence. You will stand with your glorious feet on the mountain-tops of Self- Revelation, laughing at your universe and with your universe, and laughing in words: "It is wonderful, it is wonderful, it is wonderful."

"Let the filthy be filthy still." Some may read into the Laughter of God a belief in carelessness and indifference, and some consecrated souls may rail and tear their hair and say that it is encouraging license and making nothing of sin, in order that one may indulge in sin, and so on; and for them this message is not.

He that hath ears shall hear what the Scripture saith unto the Churches, and only he that hath a single eye is through with trying to twist meanings to suit personal ends. But he that hath the consciousness of the Son of the Living God shall not find it strange that "he that is of too pure eyes to behold iniquity" should laugh at the belief in it that has bound men for so long; and this Divine disregard does not in any way encourage license, but gives liberty to the Sons of God. It breaks up the dank morasses of human belief and reveals itself as heaven, a state of consciousness, which finds not happiness at the disposal of sin, health at the disposal of sickness, and harmony at the disposal of inharmony; but finds these pairs of opposites swept away. It finds man the individual Son of the Living God, experiencing power and wisdom such as could not be put in human language.

The impress of the Divine upon the human causes the human to express in what to the unenlightened thought may seem to be a supernatural way. The how and why and when are all vested in the limited human concept of life.

You who read this page, when are you going to start laughing the Laughter of God? When are you going to join in the glorious chorus which is already encircling the globe, and which has for its password

"It is wonderful"? You cannot stop this laughter once it is started; you will shatter the belief in disease in thousands as you go along your way --- not by a poor, half-hearted way of beseeching God, but with the ringing Laughter of God in your Soul which knows no sickness, sin, or disease, and hence cannot look upon it. And in this very knowledge it will impress the consciousness with the Eternal well-being of the Son of the Living God. The man, if he hear the Laughter --- that is, if he be willing to hear it, instead of accepting the pinched human concepts of his human reasonings --- shall break the bounds of his limitations; crash through the gates of brass; shake off the shackles of beliefs; burst through the prison bars of his own making, and find himself free, free, free, and find his soul ringing with laughter and with the song, "It is wonderful."

Whoever you are who reads this page --- you who sit in prison houses of disease, sin and unhappiness --- listen, listen, listen. I AM the door of attainment. He will "fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with rejoicing." I AM the door to this glorious Laughter of God --- I AM the way to the eternal bliss and harmony of the Sons of the Living God. No matter where this finds you; nothing is hopeless or helpless; this joyous Laughter of the recognition of God, here and now, of the Finished Kingdom --- of the sudden discovery that Jesus was not a liar, but a truth-sayer, a concrete truth-sayer, when He said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand --- it is within you" --- will cause this Kingdom to descend out of the clouds of your belief and be real. How can you help laughing silently and audibly the Laughter of God, and see its ringing notes shatter the silly arguments about life? "The wisdom of man is foolish in the eyes of God." Why try to measure the inspiration of the Almighty against any man-made teaching! "I will make you fishers of men." I, the I AM, when once discovered will make the one who discovers it a Fisher of Men. Who can resist the Laughter of God --- the fearless Laughter of God ringing through the universe, sweeping all the debris of human belief out of the way? --- no matter if it be thousands of years old, and hoary with the respect of mankind. Not one stone shall remain in place. The very foundations of the human belief shall be shaken in order that the True Cornerstone, which has been rejected up to now, shall be laid. Yes, the Stone --- the very Stone that the Master gave to us --- the philosopher's Stone if you will, which we have rejected, because to accept it would have been to have overthrown great temples of human reasoning --- will finally be made the Head Stone of the Temple of Truth. You are the Temple of the Living God, and from out the inner recesses of your being proceeds the Laughter of God. "The Sons of God shout for joy." You will shout for joy, not because of victory over evil, but because you have at last realized that the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place of overcoming evil, but of revelation which is above the belief of a divided universe. Awake, thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee Light. And I heard the Laughter of God in the Soul of my very being --- ringing in glorious cadence throughout my universe, causing me suddenly to burst into a glorious laughter which was full of praise, full of wonder --- full of wonder and amazement at that which I had missed through looking through a glass darkly. "Arise, shine, for thy light has come" --- do you hear? "It is wonderful! It is wonderful! It is wonderful!" Heaven and earth are full of Thee --- sin, sickness, and death have vanished away. I hear the Laughter of God ringing in the deep recesses of your soul, you who read this page. I see the moving finger writing across all the worries and fears of a lifetime "It does not matter," and I see this laughter writing the things of beauty over the walls of your temple and casting a glorious glistening white robe --- a seamless robe of attainment --- over you. And at last I hear you laughing from the mountain-peak as you go on your way, without thought of scrip or purse or robe or ring or upper chamber, and long before you have reached your destination the Laughter of God in your soul has gone ahead and made ready the upper chamber, and the Host has come out to receive you. Do you hear? You who read this page? You? Under the aegis of Jesus Christ you can "go" with the Laughter of God in your heart.

YOUR DIVINE HERITAGE

Chapter Five

"Claim your right and Press your claim." What is your right? Who are you? Until you fully recognize these two points, you are merely playing about with an affirmation---merely toying with some words. Thousands have spent years of their lives claiming, "All that the Father hath is mine," and had difficulty finding enough to pay for a week's lodging and food.

Beloved, how long will you wait without, seeking for that which is in plain sight? How long will you try to make God do that which is already done? When will you identify yourself with the Christ within, the Son of the Most High, and begin to see the right---the Divine Heritage---the joy that will come to you when you realize that life is not just one long, tiresome job of demonstrating God? Thousands are to-day rising each morning and getting busy, knowing the truth about God and his universe, hoping thereby to overcome some of the fiendish conditions of the flesh-and finding themselves defeated.

Who are you? Were you created by God, or by some erring human concept which has thrown you into a hell of change, and then given you a glimmer of light which says that if by your prayers you can establish the fact that there is a God, perhaps he will give you a crust of bread? You have been taught as much---conceived in sin, brought forth in iniquity, worm of the dust, miserable sinner. Where does the Divine heritage come in? Where does the Child of God find its own? Nowhere, and everywhere. Nowhere so long as you are looking for him in some far-off place, and everywhere when you recognize the presence here and now. Now are we the Sons of God---right now. When a man hears the word "now" in its true sense he finds he has been spelling it backward, and that in reality the "now" understood means "won" You have won the sonship and all that goes with it when you understand the "now" of Spirit. You are not a mixture of matter and spirit. Ice and steam are the same in essence ; but as steam the water is lighter than ice. You are not a material thing separated from God, but a being of pure Spirit. If God had been clay in the first instance, everything that he evolved would have been made of clay; but we find him as pure Spirit, all inclusive, and hence the creation must of necessity be Spirit. You, as the. highest manifestation of this power, are made of the all-inclusive substance of mind called Spirit. You are the Son or the centre of manifestation, where all the innate qualities of God pour out into expression. It is asking no special dispensation or favor of God for you, as the Son, to "claim your right and press your claim." It is merely recognizing that which innately belongs to you.

The name of the Prince of Wales is Edward David Windsor; but the power is vested in his claiming his rights as the Prince of Wales, and pressing his claim into expression. You are a prince---by the name of I AM---only you fail to recognize this, and hence beg at the open fount, wondering if, by beseeching the tyrant you worship through fear, he will give you enough to live on. The less you ask for, the harder it is to get-not because of any stinginess of the Power, but by reason of its tremendous affluence. If you hold a pint cup in Niagara halls you will come away with it empty---not because of the lack of water, but because of too much water. The force of the water dashes everything out as fast as it gets in, because the measure is too small. Your poor little vision of what belongs to you keeps you from having the abundance of Spirit. You can have all, and all be left.

"All that the Father hath is mine." Where is the Father? What is the Father? If you look at this in terms of Jesus' words, you find that the Father is within you-and you have everything or all that your Father has. Putting this through the limited beliefs of personality causes you to partake of the good, bad, or indifferent states of your consciousness. All that you have in your consciousness-all that you conceive the Father within you to be---is all that you actually have into manifestation.

If your room is ten feet square, you can have the entire radio concert, just the same as a man with a room a thousand feet square, and this can go on indefinitely and still all of it remain. The measure that you hold to the universe is all that can possibly come into manifestation. If you are dissatisfied with the results of your daily life, it cannot be rectified from without, but a better concept of the rather within---taking attention entirely away from the

appearances---will enable you to bring out what you formerly called demonstrations. You will begin to see that enlarging the borders of your tent means becoming more conscious of the Power within and discovering its unlimited capacities-which are up and beyond anything that you can think of.

All things are possible to ME, but nothing is possible to me. I doubt if a great portion of the people in the world would be affected one way or the other by the name David Windsor, but most anyone is interested in the name the Prince of Wales----and yet they are one and the same person. If he did not recognize this fact, another would certainly usurp his rights. Even though he be born to the place, yet, if he did not recognize this, he would never have the power of it. Even though you are horn the Son of God, with unlimited power and happiness within your rights, until you recognize this you function along as John Smith or some other person, ignorant of the glorious freedom of the Sons of God, and you will beg for a crust when you might be sitting at the overflowing table of the Infinite Spirit.

Joy comes when you make a clear line of demarcation between the John Smith and the Christ. You begin at once to appropriate the rights of the Son of God. In pressing your claim you do not drive a hard bargain---you do not fight; in this sense "pressing" means merely standing firm on the points that you know to be true, and turning not to the right or left. It means saluting no man as you pass along the way (saluting no belief of doubt or appearance as you go forward into expression of the Son of God).

"Claim your rights -and press your claim," says Father Divine, and shows by his magnificent example that the Son of God hath power on earth to forgive sins (to correct the ignorance of human belief). And then follow the magnificent works without number, until millions of blessings are pouring down about everybody. When I attempt to count my blessings, they are as numerous as the sands of the sea. Your blessings, Son of the Living God, are so numerous that you have no time to contemplate the lack of anything, and, when you attempt to count the blessings, you find the lack has been swallowed up in abundance, and you are free, here and now, as the Jon of the Living God.

It is wonderful! It is wonderful! It is wonderful! " Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good." Prove me and see if I will not open windows in heaven and pour out a blessing you will not be able to receive. Where is heaven? It is a state of consciousness. What is the ME? It is the I AM within you, and hence the windows that are to be opened are in your own consciousness, and the blessings that are to be poured out are the ideas which will pour out through your own mind into the manifest world of expression. "It is wonderful. Millions and millions of blessings are yours." Do You Hear, Son of God? Stop this useless trying to seek Me after the loaves and fishes, and find ME as the pure substance of Spirit, and you will hear the joyous command, "Heretofore ye have asked for nothing ; now ask, that your joy might be full." Not nearly full, but full to overflowing I Do you begin to see what the Father means when he says, "Press your claim" after having claimed your rights? You are one with the mighty sea of substance.

As the wave is one with the ocean---never for one instant separated---and rises and loses itself in the ocean, so man finds that by

Losing his life he finds it,

And by saving his life he loses it.

When you lose your little personal sense of life, you will find the One Life-that which is Wonderful---the life that is Won Now---the heaven, here and now.

What have you to worry over, beloved? A new day, a new start, a new idea. No matter where this finds you---no matter into what depths you have fallen or to what dizzy heights you have climbed---you have the wonderful chance of finding the glorious True Self within, and claiming your rights and pressing your claim as the Son of the Living God. Just imagine what this means. It means that there is no more personal effort to and to be. It means that the Father within is responsible, and it means that the I AM goes before your John Smith and makes the way clear and perfect. Do you see why you suddenly awaken to the realities of being, and begin to take your good out of the universe?

For, as the Father says, "I AM here, and I AM there, and I AM everywhere," so you find that the power in the wave is not separated from the ocean, but moves through the wave, an impersonal power; so the power in you is not a personal possession of health, happiness, or prosperity, but is an impersonal power which is merely pouring itself out into expression through the visible means supplied. Do you see, then, how all men (Sons of God) are equal? We have been hypnotized to the belief that we were body, with a little health or power shut up within; with a little capacity to earn money; with a little wit to psychologize people out of money or things. And now we are awake to the fact that the power is pouring through us, never the same and always the same. As we go toward the fountain at the distance, we have not seen the same picture two minutes in succession; the water has been changing constantly, yet has held the same form; and so it is with the Spirit. It is a constant change of changeless power coming into manifestation. You are the Son of God, and the Great Power is here and there and everywhere. If you go into the desert, you have but to recognize this to find it blossoming as a rose. "I AM here, and I AM there, and I AM everywhere." It is wonderful ---it is truly wonderful. Blessings, blessings, blessings.

Do you see, beloved, the gift---the complete---wholeness ? For this Is (right here and now) Life Eternal, that they might know me. To know the ME---the I Am ---and to identify yourself with this, is to experience the Life Eternal which needs nothing. Can you conceive of Spirit being burned, drowned, killed, aided or assisted in any way by matter? To know yourself as the Son is to experience the freedom of the Son of God---to experience the power of decreeing a thing and seeing it come to pass. The recognition---re-cognition ---cognizing again that which has always been true---the Divine remembrance of your rightful heritage, is what will restore to you the lost substance of life, is what will bring to you the robe, the ring, and the fatted calf. To him that hath shall be given, and to him that hath not shall be taken away. You have into manifestation exactly what you have in consciousness---good, bad, or indifferent. Why waste any further time trying to change the outside condition, when it is held in manifestation by the inner state of consciousness ? To him that hath shall be givenbecause he will take, be this good, bad, or indifferent manifestation. A man with a consciousness full of troubles always gets more troubles, and he finds them everywhere. It is what he finds to be true, and so he must find it into manifestation.

No wonder the prophet asked, " What have you in your house ?

"What have you in your house, your consciousness? You have just what you conceive the Father within to be, and you cannot increase this until you begin to recognize the nature of the pure substance of Spirit from which all things come into manifestation. Until you recognize the True Self, and stop trying to doctor up an old body or condition, you cannot know the glory of the Son of God. You are not an old creature patched up. You are a New Creature in Christ Jesus. You are a new, perfect manifestation ; to recognize this is to claim your rights and press your claim by the serene power of the Almighty.

Every perfect gift cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no change, neither shadow of turning. Where is the Father? How long will you look for him in some far-off locality? How long will you seek among the husks for the substance of life? Every gift that is to come to you as John Smith will proceed out of the centre of the I AM consciousness within yourself. Behold, I AM he that should come. I AM that I AM has sent me into expression. It is wonderful, it is wonderful. Blessings, blessings, blessings. I am the Son of the Living God. Claim your rights and press your claim. Son of the Living God, I salute you! Arise! Leave the filth of your human reasoning and go unto your Father within. Let the filthy be filthy still. Let all those who wish to sell the Word of God continue to do so. Let those who want to argue continue their arguments. Let those judges and spiritual busybodies cast their stones.

Go thy way; it is well with thee. The new secret has been revealed to you; do you hear? Peace be unto you. It is well. Now and always. "Claim your right and press your claim." It is well with you. Now and always. Son of the Living God, arise and go thy way into Expression. Now is the time. Now is the Day of Salvation. Now are we the Sons of God. Now are millions of blessings yours. Be still. Be still. Be still. It is wonderful, it is wonderful, it is wonderful. Blessings, blessings, blessings.

MY NAME IS WONDERFUL

Chapter Six

My name is wonderful, the mighty, the counselor, the Prince of Peace. Of my reign there shall be no end' the government shall be upon my shoulders.

Call upon my name and I shall answer thee - that is why, when you call the word wonderful, the very soul of the idea rises and shakes off its grave-clothes. To call it wonderful, though it be coated over with appearances of death and disease, of sin or poverty, is to see the sleeping Lazarus arise - not from death, but from beliefs, and shed his limiting bandages and bonds.

Call upon my name and I shall answer. My name is wonderful - the mighty - the name of the I AM - the eternally present tense of life - the ETERNAL FIRST PERSON, from which emanates the unspoken-spoken word and the invisible-visible. Call upon Me and I will answer you; yea, even before you call I will answer. I AM before all the beliefs of limiting human beliefs. Though a man were dead, yet shall he live again; though you were dead in the hypnotism of a thousand years of belief, yet shaII you live again in this truth, and wonder after wonder pass over you. Self-revelation - revelation of hidden talents of which you, the John Smith, have never dreamed - revelation of capacities and opportunities which were beyond your fondest dreams, come to the surface and are yours for the mere acceptance. It is wonderful.

'Salute no man that thou passeth upon the highway," lest he try to foist upon you a personal teaching - lest he try to turn you aside by his own holier-than-thou brand of teaching. Look within, and look away from the fleeting man those breath is in his nostrils. 'look unto a me [the Christ within] all the ends of the earth, and be saved" from the dire effects of your beliefs. Though you be red like crimson with beliefs in sin, sickness, and limitation, yet shall you be white as snow - because you were always that way, and always shall be that way. Pretty soon you shall see Me, and shall glory in the revelation, and see the glorious possibilities of the Sons of God. Then will you drink deep of the Water of Life, and go forth and smite the rock of human intelligence and make it gush forth the waters in such floods and abundance that it will cause the parched desert or your life to blossom as a rose. Do you hear? Do you heed? You are the Child of the Living God. your name is wonderful. Call upon Me and I shall answer - yes, before you call I will answer. All the human reasoning goes down like a house of cards before the self-revelation. What of this wisdom which today is true and tomorrow is found to be nothing, and cast into the furnace of oblivion? All sin is but ignorance of Me - it is the conscious or unconscious ignoring of my presence. As soon as you understand, the results of your ignorance or ignoring Me disappear, and you find harmony. As soon as you have the answer to a problem, you have no problem; you cannot have answer and problem at the same time: a problem is only a problem as long as it remains unanswered. And the problems of life remain unanswered until you realize that I AM the answer to everything, for all problems are merely the ignorance - the ignoring of ME, your inner Lord, your True Self, and the Real YOU.

My wisdom is foolishness in the eyes of man, whose breath is in his nostrils: he has only that breath for a few years, and then it gives out and he falls by the way. Verily, verily I say unto you, "you must a born again' - awakened to the Truth of Being, which will cause you to see through the limited beliefs, and make you shout to the most foreboding evil that the belief world is capable of presenting to you: "It is wonderful.' It is the name of the I AM, the Father-Mother, or Divine Neuter, or All-Complete. It is wonderful, and, when recognized, comes out into manifestation, and One with this consciousness is a Majority. Do you hear? "put up your sword" - "you do not need to fight - set yourself and see."

Be still, beloved. I am at this instant revealing My (Your) self to you - wordless impressions, nameless glories - revelation after revelation. I am bringing to your sight the lustre of the Pearl of Great Price. Once you have seen this, you will know that nothing matters and that everything matters. You will know the serenity of your soul and see the fleeting shadows of the human belief disappear, because you have but to call upon Me, then, and have the immediate answer.

And this will only be after the desire for show and fame and name have faded out and you are on the highway of life, speaking the word, not for praise, but because you cannot help speak of Me, the inner Lord. you will not go about healing, but will go about recognizing the Living Word and calling it into expression. The moment it is recognized by you it will make itself manifest. But if you enter into a state or city (consciousness) where the word is not received, and argument is offered, shake the dust of this dead belief off of you and go your way. It is the dusty, dead argument of these who have to stay behind and bury their dead fathers. All human reasoning belongs to that category. Inspiration cannot be narrowed into the limitations of human intellect. "Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither hath if entered into the heart of man, the things that prepared for them that love the law." If the eyes have not seen and ears have not heard, then why should you listen to the limiting beliefs of the human thought about the coming of your good into manifestation? Do you not see that only when a seal is put on your lips, and you go within to the Me of You and identify yourself with this, can you taste of the glories of the Kingdom' What matter what a thousand books say? What matter what a thousand sermons preach? You have entered into a reality where, having eyes, ye see, and ears, ye hear, that which the limited human sight and hearing is incapable of experiencing. You will flee then from the man whose breath is in his nostrils, who is still trying to sell you his John Smith brand of truth who is forever talking about the healings he has made or experienced: for you will be in a place where there is nothing to heal: there is only revelation to be brought out. You shall be silent and serene and joyous; a song will be singing deep in your heart that the world cannot help but see. Yea, they shall see the song and say "You are a celestial being having a happy mask. '

Then will you know that the King can play the beggar, but the poor beggar can never possibly play the King - then will you see the unlimited possibilities of the Son of the Living God, and will not think it strange that you begin the appropriation of your good; nothing shall be impossible to you. Do you hear? Do you hear? Do you hear? "Nothing is impossible to Me, the Christ.' Everything is impossible to a, John Smith. If you still have to drag the corpse of the John Smith and his history of sin and limitations with you, you cannot enter, for you are now a New Creature in a new universe, not an old creature patched up. Do you hear? Do you hear?

Be still. It is well. Well. I AM here - my name is Wonderful. Call upon me and I will answer you. I am everywhere evenly present, in the lowest dive of your human belief as well as the most lofty temple. I have but to be recognized to be made manifest. If you are in hell, there am I; call upon Me and I will answer: and judge not from the appearances, for these shall pass in a swirl or hypothetical ether. you shall look for the place thereof and it too shall be gone, for it will be as the ice upon the river when the summer has come - it has been swallowed up in the activity if the flowing, life-giving river.

Nothing shall be lost, but all shall be saved. Right where you stand is holy ground. The desert you inhabit is full of promise. You do not need to go into a far country; your Father is right there you are; but you have to arise - to recognize his presence - and go to him in consciousness to receive the All Good, even though you have already wasted it all, you are never hopeless, forlorn, or deserted. You are the Son of the Living God now and here, and you are being self-revealed. It is wonderful, it is wonderful, it is wonderful .

A new door opens before you - the old things pass away; the binding history of your past has melted into oblivion, and you stand self revealed - Son of the Living God, with the truth written in your heart. 'With God nothing is impossible" - with God consciousness - and you have this as Jesus showed he had it, by recognizing its presence and using it; not with fear and wonder, but with boldness and joy; not by thinking that he was a special favoured manifestation of the creation, but by accepting the good , the joy, and the power as natural, easy, and free. When will you arise and go unto your Father, and cease from the man whose breath is in his nostrils, and stop this wondering back and forth in the desert of human beliefs and teaching? Within lies the all - the Father.

I will speak to you out of the books of the world and through the men of the world. Fear not - it is well. No sooner are you willing and ready than I will supply the avenue through which shall pour forth such new wisdom and revelation that you will wonder - you will be filled with wonder - you will know that it is wonderful - that a new state has been won which is full of the magic of new revelation. Life shall become One, all One; not two, but One - the whole - and you, as a point of consciousness, drawing upon the infinite storehouse of the ALL. Things that cannot be written shall be told thee; things that cannot be said shall be given thee through the feeling - the wordless feeling; things that cannot be seen shall be shown thee, and thou shalt know that the old order changeth, and that thou art actually standing in the Eternal ways: and thou shalt draw from this great eternity, everything which thy heart desires not for selfish consumption, for personal gain and self-aggrandizement, but for the Selfish Consumption (the consumption of the real self) and for the personal (the Divine self) Gain, and for Self (the Son of God Self) Aggrandizement.

As the great Mozart (*) conceived his whole composition before he even heard a note heard it all at once - not note by note, but the total effect of the all - so will you express Me; so will you find that whatsoever the desire be, the expression is as sudden as is the reflection in the mirror when you pass in front of it, and as easy and as perfect, and as free from personal effort. You shall find the deep things within yourself, and know that the things which "eye hath not seen' are the things which dazzle the human thought beyond all measure. (+) "Thoughts come streaming in and at their best. Whence or how I know not, I cannot make out. Then it [the composition keeps on growing, and I keep on expanding it more distinctly, and the theme, however long it becomes indeed almost finished in my head, so that I can survey it in spirit, like a beautiful picture or a fine person, and also hear it in imagination, not indeed successively, as by and by it must come out, but altogether. That is a delight. All the invention and construction go on in me as in a fine strong dream, but the overhearing of it all at once is still the best."

The gift is not, then, so trivial that it amounts to a little prattling about the words of Jesus, or of making a few healings on the earth plane; it is the eternal going from mansion to mansion, from one glorious expression to another, in the universal consciousness. Thus will you understand how it was that I, through the man Jesus, caused any things to happen of which the world has never ceased to talk. Likewise to you I shall reveal things which will cause the doors of the palace of the kings of the earth to fly open to you, and which will finally cause the kings of the earth to seek you out and lay their gifts at your feet. What is this puny sense interpretation of me, which offers a way to treat and heal disease and to prosper a man? an it be the anti-Christ which offers my robe for sale to a lot of dirty gamblers? What do you want with the truth? To be know of man? To set up a new system:, To get the applause of the world, and to have them say to you, 'He is a holy man? What went ye out to see That which you no doubt found yourself, human or divine, out-pictured everywhere. What do you see but an infinite self division - good, bad, or indifferent? What went ye out to see? A world full of evil and hatred, of sin and disease that you, poor puny creature, went forth to dope up and set right. Perhaps ye go forth to be a martyr to the cause of me! Have I ever made this demand? And after your self-imposed martyrdom did you not find out that if was for self-glorification?

When shall you go forth as the Son of the Living God - the Bright Messenger with light which automatically dispels darkness? - not because it recognizes darkness as something to a rid of, but because it exists no longer as a reality at the coming of light. What do you bring with you when you go forth into the universe?

My name is Wonderful. I sit in the beggar's hut with the riches of the universe hidden away under the rags of the beggar; but I am unrecognized: everyone that looks at me either turns away or says: 'Poor creature! Here, take this penny and buy yourself a crust of bread." But one comes and says, 'Wonderful,' and I answer, "yea, yea,' and rise, transformed from rags to silken garments; with purple and fine linen: with the silken tassels of my purse bursting because of their inability to hold the substance which is there.

My name is Wonderful. I lie within the sick, the dumb, the blind, the maimed, awaiting recognition. I lie there, a perfect flood of vitality, a stream of consciousness, which sees without eyes, hears without ears, speaks without words, and senses a vitality which knows no limitations. I am greater than any instrument through which I express. I await recognition so that the silly garments which have been hung upon me shall be cast aside and a new, beautiful body shall be made to appear. I await the one who will come and say, 'It is Wonderful,' instead of the one who comes in pity and sympathy. I await the one who will recognize me in the hell of this physical limitation and this blinding pain of the belief world, and call me by name to rise up and cause the lame to go his way leaping for joy, the blind to see, the dumb to sing, the crooked to be made straight, and the dead to arise. I await recognition of Me - I await the command, "Rise up and walk," which follows the recognition. I await the command "Open your eyes," to cause sightless eyes to be full of light.

That one who hath the single eye shall perceive Me in the most wretched costume that human belief has put upon Me, and shall call Me out by this glorious recognition. I await the command "Be whole" - not be made whole, but be that which you eternally are. Who shall recognize Me? Who shall be the unafraid? That one shall tread upon the serpents of belief and the dragons of human sense, and nothing shall by any means hurt him. Who are you - you who read this page, you who hold this book? I speak to you alone, alone, alone - listen - listen within, within, deep within. Who are you!

If you have heard Me speaking to you, then a great cloud of joy surrounds you, and the peace which passeth all is yours, and you know that, irrespective of appearances, everything is alright - peace, peace, peace, peace. It is wonderful. A seal is placed upon your lips - see that you tell no man.

THE SPIRIT OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS

Chapter Seven

'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the presence of God is the Source of all Supply.

'The Spirit moving upon the face of the water' - the Spirit of the consciousness is that activating motive which brings into manifestation the unseen things of the spiritual world. The Word becomes flesh by reason of the eternal action of the Spirit. The quickening Spirit is that which has brought it into manifestation here and now. All people have in some degree the consciousness of the Presence of God. Many can speak volumes of words of and about this consciousness, without manifestation enough to sustain them. Ten thousand holy men, under ten thousand banyan-trees, are not able to do what one simple soul, without name or station, can do through the recognition of the Spirit of the Consciousness. Thousands may sit in meditation - in a perfect state of inward bliss - while the worms unfasten the very temple. They may proclaim 'lord, Lord' until the end of time, and may experience all sorts of Nirvana while their bodies are rotting with disease, yet until the Spirit becomes flesh it remains invisible: hence, as far as the human manifestation is concerned, useless and unreal.

What though I tell you of the riches of my Father, the King, if I drop with hunger while relating the fabulous stories? What though I tell you of the all-health of Spirit, if I die with disease as I am speaking? What though I tell you of the guiding influence of Spirit, if I cling tenaciously to a position - am looking to an organization or a salary to support my feeble voice - while I loudly proclaim, "The Lord is the source of a supply'?

Until recognition of the Spirit - the living, pulsating Spirit of the Presence of Consciousness of God - is made, man is but another fully equipped power station, with infinite possibilities to illuminate the whole universe, but with no manifestation. As a beautifully installed system of electricity remains in darkness until the wires are connected, so man, though he be fully equipped to flood his universe with light, remains in darkness, until he recognizes the presence of the Spirit. We recognize that the universe is filled with infinite music, which may be produced anywhere, at any time, yet is inaudible until this recognition. So likewise we shall come to realize the All-Presence of God, and this recognition in the ALL-NOW will produce the quickening Spirit of instantaneous accomplishment. Hitherto we have thought of music as stored up in a gramophone record, or in the soul of a person. We had no thought of its All-Presence in the ALL-NOW, but had to go to people and localities to produce it. However wonderful the manifestation was, it was always hedged about with limitations. Then suddenly came the recognition of the ALL-PRESENCE in the ALL-NOW, and at that instant it became known that it was possible anywhere, at any time, instead of in a single isolated spot. So when man comes to recognize the Spirit of the Consciousness he realizes that, instead of this magnificent power being stored up in certain spiritual teachers, books, or places, it is infinite, and is instantly available in an intensely practical way. 'If the blind lead the blind, thy both fall into a ditch." The Truth Speaker will be known by the impersonality of his words. He will not speak of himself but of the power that has sent him into expression. He will not spread himself as a peacock. or call attention to his high spiritual accomplishments. "What went ye out to see?" When are you going to see ME, the glorious Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God in the midst of YOU?

To the coward, death comes many times. "Prove Me and see" is the command. 'By their works" - not by their words - 'shall ye know them." "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" there is the multitude listening. Look about you and see. The living, pulsating, vibrating SPIRIT of the Consciousness - the glorious thing made alive. A thousand wonderful buildings dedicated to God and His work stand empty while words of, and about, the truth are poured out in any tomes. Once the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God enters in, the walls of the churches will burst with the multitude. Such a power is the Light, that leads by an invisible way, the souls that seek the Light. And this glorious manifestation is possible to you. You - do you hear? You lay aside the filthy garments or personal worship: you will flee from man "Whose breath is in his nostrils." You will cease the worship of personality, however consecrated and holy it may appear. You will thrill with the Spirit which is at last recognized within you. "you will know that it is well with ME

As the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God is recognized within you, the belief of poverty or limitation of any sort evaporates. As the mist of belief clears away, you find the Kingdom of Heaven here and now. This recognition of the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God acts not as a destroyer of evil, but as a revelator of the ALL-GOOD in the ALL-NOW, and instantly brings out the reality: "Whereas before I was blind, NOW I can see." When it is once NOW to the soul, it has ALWAYS been

As you are reading these lines I, the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence, am awaiting recognition. You - yes, you, the poor little discounted one, the one who stood farthest from the pulpit, and received scarce a sign of recognition from the consecrated souls - I have come to you, and I AM the same One who has been standing at the door of your consciousness knocking for ages. "Behold I [the Spirit] stand at the door [of your consciousness] and knock. If any [no distinction is made] man will open up to ME, I will come in and sup with him and he with ME." No matter who you are, neither the grade or the length of your teaching, nor the fears of condemnation. You who read this page, do you hear? Do you see? I AM that which will tear the veil of belief, and you shall see, not a little demonstration of supply that will last you for a week, but the fields white with substance, and you shall know that deep in the secret place of your being is the Key to the Universe. The catering to persons will drop away. You will ask no man permission to perform the work I sent you to perform. "Those that are for there are more than those that are against thee," for there is but One, the Only, the All. It is the recognition of the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God that suddenly transforms you and your universe, just as the spirit of the dance transfers an inert figure to a flying, moving thing of grace. Just as a smile transforms the entire face of a person, so the recognition of the Spirit will transform with all the ease, and none of the difficulties, of human effort, the entire life of a person. 'And the fashion of his countenance was changed." Do you hear, you who read this page, how radical the change is? The 'fashion," even the hard lines that have been with you so long, whether in body, in expression, or accomplishment, all are subject to change to the extent that you will know "the former things have passed away.

Beloved, do you see the extent of this glorious awakening? Do you see the sublime heights to which the Spirit of the Consciousness shall lead you? Not a little healing for the moment, but the revelation or the Son of the Living God here and now; and this revelation will naturally change the "fashion" of your entire expression.

What the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God "decrees", that shall come to pass, for it is merely decreeing the manifestations it sees in the Kingdom. All the human laws fade into nothingness as shadows disappear before the light. Every law is turned aside in order that the Real Lasting Grace of the Living Word shall be made manifest. Why will you bring such limited measures to the Fount of the All Present? When will you stop trying to do things and appropriate the All-Presence? Only when you have recognized the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God. Only when you stop running to and fro asking people and listening to people whose breath is in their nostrils. "I break the bread with you." "Give not that which is holy unto dogs.' Why will you argue and compare, and listen to some wise head, hash and rehash the wondrous words that I speak direct to you from my Son? Be still - be still. 'thou fool, do you not know that a seed must first fall into the ground before it can be made alive?" When are you going to let the stillness hold you in its heavenly bonds of secrecy and revelation - self-revelation - My interpretation to you, to you alone?

"The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God is the source of all supply.' Not of SOME supply, but of all supply. When you know this, you will not try to hoard there will be no need, for supply will be as much present in one locality as another. It will be wherever you are and wherever you desire it. Do you hear? You who read this page? Look between the lines; I speak to you. I cast not my pearls before swine, but I AM pouring them out to you. I AM giving you the keys to the gates of heaven, which you have sought through many avenues, and not yet found. the sordid robes of personality, name, and fame will fall finally from you, and you shall put on the glorious shimmering robes of immortality. I speak to you. Do you hear? You who read this page? When you are ready to lay down your life, then shall you find it. Then you shall find that you are alive for the first time, and, instead of the ghastly futility of trying to get enough health, happiness, and supply to live by, you will find yourself in the Presence of the All, there nothing is lacking.

That Power which you tried to produce so that you might be known of men, shall be so innately interwoven into your soul that it will be a natural manifestation. Heretofore you have said your words and done your deeds to be known of the populace. You wanted always to be sure that your name was attached to any healing or help that was given, but "then through a glass darkly, but now face to face." Face to face with the power you have sought for so long.

When you are once enveloped in the secrecy of the Spirit of the Presence, you will know why it is that "their shoes wax not old' and that the 'manna falls daily."

"The whole creation groaneth" - to wit, for the redemption of the body. We see this redemption within ourselves. Verily this has been true to our blinded eyes. A world of people writhing and twisting, begging for mercy, seeking money, health, success, happiness; eternally seeking "things," and finding only ashes. The veil shall be torn from your eyes by the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God, and you shall see that the whole creation - your creation - your heaven - rejoiceth and maketh a glad sound, for the Redeemer has come into manifestation. Do you see? You who read this page? You?

You may call ME by a thousand names, yet 1 AM One. 'you are not another, but the same One', will finally be said of you. You will realize that you are not a separate little manifestation, with certain powers stored up within you, but you are the same One. There is only THE One. It is one. It is won. It is wonderful. The limitations of human language make it almost impossible to express anything but the vaguest idea of this glorious revelation.

Behold, I make all things new" - 'I' - the Spirit of the Consciousness. I make them new to the eyes that have been seeing through the belief of birth, growth, maturity, decay. I make them new by revelation of the eternal freshness and newness of the changeless universe of God. I make You new by revealing your true self to you. The quickening Spirit of the Presence brings into manifestation power hitherto unknown. Dare you go your way with Me alone? Dare you rely on Me the Spirit? Dare you to launch out into deep waters, and to push out the borders of your tent? You, I speak to - you who read this page!

Be still, then - I AM HERE NOW - I AM the Spirit of the Consciousness. You have always had the Consciousness of the Presence of God, no matter how little you knew it, no matter how many spiritual busybodies have told you that it has to be evolved. If you were created by God and out of God, you have had the consciousness of God always, and no lying mortal man, no matter if he have a thousand diplomas to tell of his learning, shall make this false. You have this consciousness whether someone has told you, you were consecrated or damned. You are the Son or the Living God, and you are already in possession of this consciousness, and when you recognize the Spirit of the Consciousness, the instantaneous manifestation of the Kingdom is revealed to you. Do not look for a sign. I, the I AM, descend into the stagnant pool or your human belief. I descend into the dirty waters and purify them. I free you from the prison of your own making.

'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God is the Source of all Supply. The overflowing, unending, unlimited source of all supply. 'I come quickly.' 'In the twinkling of an eye all [not some, but all] shall be changed. '

"The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence or God is the Source of all Supply. thank you, Father.

PRAYER & POISON

Chapter Eight

In a newspaper recently appeared a report of a plague of grasshoppers, which were said to be destroying all the crops in a certain part of the States. A mass meeting was held, and prayers for deliverance were offered up. Quoting from a New York paper of July 28th, 1931: "PRAYERS AND POISON WERE RESORTED TO AS WEAPONS. MORE THAN A THOUSAND FARMERS KNELT AND ASKED DIVINE AID AGAINST THE SCOURGE." They prayed and then resorted to poison. There is no condemnation in mentioning this article. It is only a trite illustration of how many people pray, and what they think of the power to which they pray. They pray, and then resort to the use of poison to deliver them. They treat in the most approved manner, and then resort to all sorts of means to make things happen. They plant, and then immediately dig up the seed to see if anything has taken place. They place an egg under the hen, and then crack it open to ascertain if anything has transpired.

"O ye of little faith," why do you look for a sign? Why do you pray to a tribal god when the way of true prayer is open to you; and the way of sure success? Why will you doubt? Why will you pray and then resort to poison? Know ye not that "my ways are not your ways? My ways are as high above your ways as the heavens are above the earth." Have I not said unto you: If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ye shall say to yon mountain "Be removed," and it shall be so. I did not suggest the ways and means of brining it to pass after you had spoken the word. Have I not told you, "Thy faith hath made thee whole"? - Not NEARLY WHOLE, but whole.

If you would only take your attention away from the mountain of difficulties that has been in your way all these years, it would then be possible for your troubles to disappear.

Then would you be able to say, with a thrill of joy: "This is the Lord's doings.

It is marvelous in our eyes." Ask of me and I will show you things that are not written in any book: "THE HILLS MELTED LIKE WAX AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD OF THE WHOLE EARTH." There is nothing which can stand before the presence of this Unconditional Power. The most adamant condition you can conceive of, melts like so much wax in the fierce heat of a furnace. What is the condition that you hug to yourself as difficult and impossible of destruction? In the presence of the Unconditioned Power nothing is a condition - nothing is difficult - nothing is impossible; and this "presence" is the Lord which is in the midst of thee, NOW and always. Do you see what the power of God is? "Be not afraid; it is I." I AM - not the little god built up by a man or a nation - I AM that I AM, and I AM here NOW to deliver you - yes, you who read this line - out of the hand of your oppressor, whatever and whoever he may be.

"Open thou my eyes, that I may behold the wonderous things of the Lord," is the new prayer that fills your heart, for it is the prayer that asks to see that which is already created, and not the prayer that attempts to create, or thinks to win a special favor from a tribal God. "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold the wonderous things of the Lord." "Make a joyous noise unto the Lord, all ye lands." "Serve the Lord with gladness: come before His presence with singing." "Know ye that the Lord he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture." "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name." "For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations." The making of a joyous noise will take place when you realize the presence of God and worship Him in Spirit and in truth, instead of paying tribute to a tribal god that sits upon a throne judging the sinners of the earth. Do you see the wonderous things that are to be revealed to you, the Son of the Living God? "THY HANDS HAVE MADE ME AND FASHIONED ME: GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, THAT I MAY LEARN THY COMMANDMENTS." If for one instant you realize the magnificent truth which lies back of the statement "Thy hands have made me and fashioned me," you will see that the hand of the Potter did not shake, nor was its work distorted and full of disease and limitations.

"TURN UNTO ME, ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, AND BE SAVED" - saved from the terrible fury of the misguided beliefs which have run wild and gone prodigal in their search after things.

"THY TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL; THEREFORE DOTH MY SOUL KEEP THEM." The testimonies of the Lord are wonderful - and you will awaken to this glorious truth, and will go about in your universe calling the name of "wonderful" down upon everything. The ugly shell shall break and give forth its promise at the calling of its name; the soul of the hard parched earth shall answer and give forth her abundance of flowers and fruits; your forty years' wandering in the desert of human thought shall come to an end, and you shall see that you have been going around in circles, in a desert of your own making.

"THE ENTRANCE OF THY WORD GIVETH LIGHT; IT GIVETH UNDERSTANDING UNTO THE SIMPLE." Do you hear? The entrance of the word giveth light. Speak the word, then, and see the illumination take place. See that the deaf hear, the blind see, the lame walk; come again unto ME and tell ME. "EVEN THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT UNTO YOU" - the devils of belief.

Can you see? Can you hear? "NOW WE KNOW THAT WHAT THINGS SOEVER THE LAW SAITH, IT SAITH TO THEM WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW: THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE STOPPED AND ALL THE WORLD BECOME GUILTY BEFORE GOD."

The doctrine that man is a worm of the dust, and a sinner conceived in sin, is found herein stated. But between the lines lie the glorious pearls of truth. It saith to them who are under the law: "If ye be in the Spirit, ye are no more under the law" - you are freed from the human law of destiny and fate which hangs like an ugly black cloud over mankind, and from which you can not escape so long as you are UNDER the human law.

Presently you see that the law of human belief is put to naught, and you are no more under it; you are under grace.

"BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS." Do you note the righteousness WITHOUT the law is made manifest? Everything that Jesus did in his wonderous career was "WITHOUT THE LAW" - without the laws of the human reasoning, or of the best of the accepted laws of physics of that day or any other day.

"AND THEY SHALL SIT EVERY MAN UNDER HIS VINE AND UNDER HIS FIG-TREE; AND NONE SHALL MAKE THEM AFRAID FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD OF HOSTS HAS SPOKEN IT." Beloved, you are gradually coming into your Divine Inheritance; you shall see the wonders of the new heaven and the new earth.

"BEHOLD, ALL THEY THAT WERE INCENSED AGAINST THEE SHALL BE ASHAMED AND CONFOUNDED; THEY SHALL BE AS NOTHING; AND THEY THAT STRIVE WITH THEE SHALL PERISH." The host of evil thoughts that have seemingly tried to destroy you, no matter from what source, shall be confounded, and shall be as nothing, and one by one, as these thoughts come forth to strive with you, the Son of the Living God, they shall perish. It is wonderful. "FEAR THEM NOT; FOR I AM WITH THEE. BE NOT DISMAYED; FOR I AM THY GOD. I WILL STRENGTHEN THEE; YEA, I WILL HELP THEE; YEA, I WILL UPHOLD THEE WITH THE RIGHT HAND OF MY RIGHTEOUSNESS." If ye be upheld by the right hand of MY righteousness, ye have nothing to fear.

Therefore, beloved, when ye pray, do not resort to poison. Stand and see the salvation from the plague of evil thoughts and beliefs that is destroying your substance.

O YE OF LITTLE FAITH

Chapter Nine

One of the most glorious things said by the Master was "O ye of little faith," addressed to the disciples after they had failed to heal the sick child. It is glorious because unless the Master had know that it lay perfectly within the power of the disciples to have brought forth this healing, he would not have rebuked them for their failure. Do you see, then, how the secret doctrine is hidden away for those that have eyes? Do you see that you are never rebuked for having left undone something that you could not do? In the rebuke , the powerful encouragement comes that it was, and still is, within the scope of your possibility to perform that which you failed to do.

"Be of good cheer: I (the I AM) have overcome the world," "I" have COME OVER the world, would give a more adequate idea, for with the coming of the Christ into manifestation, the difficulties of human belief are set aside.

"His rebuke was terrible" - it is terrible because it always carries with it the fact that the one rebuked could have fulfilled perfectly, that which was before him to do.

Even in the midst of the consuming fire of the rebuke, there comes that recognition that unless you had been fully able to perform the task, you would not have been rebuked for having left it undone. A glorious something comes out of it all. The recognition that, even though you failed, still you had the power to do the thing which seemed impossible, and this is why you shall understand the saying, "The chastening of the Lord is sweet" - sweet, as a doctor might speak of a bitter drug being sweet, because of what it contained and not by reason of its flavour. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." No one wastes any time correcting a fool. His mistakes are set down to natural incapacity. The servant who is fully capable of performing the task is rebuked if he fails, and in the stinging rebuke the master really shows forth his love. He shows forth his recognition of the power being present in the one who has been rebuked.

The wise servant is not, then, turned awry by a rebuke; he spends no time nursing a feeling of injustice, but instantly causes the prickly chestnut burr (of rebuke) to reveal the food inside.

In every rebuke administered to you there lies the glorious recognition of the fact that within you is the power to perform perfectly that which you failed to do. A rebuke, when handled from this elevation, should be as a burst of light to you - a new door swinging open, a new opportunity to make your agreement with the power to accomplish that which you previously failed to perform.

Jesus's rebuke to the disciples - "O ye of little faith," - was only saying in so many words, "I recognize within you, the perfect capacity to have brought this healing into manifestation." "Despise not ,then, the chastening of the Lord." "Prove me and see" is the eternal command. As soon as a new scope of understanding comes to the individual, he must put it into practice, and if he is willing and ready to do this he will not merit the rebuke. Perhaps he will only see the rebuke, and will nurse it as a seeming injustice. Perhaps he will say, "He was doing the best he could." You will never be rebuked unless you have failed to do that which was possible for you to do.

Therefore rejoice. One moment's consciousness of this will help to clear away much underbrush from the forest of life. You will be able to destroy many old plague-spots which have been clinging to you. You have tried every means possible to drain the ugly swamps of resentment caused by some rebuke in the past, but always they remained, and at the slightest provocation they were full of stagnant waters again. There is no getting rid of the sting of rebuke unless you see that within it is the sincerest and greatest acknowldgement of your power to accomplish that which you failed to do.

A new joy will come to you. "Even the devils are subject unto us." Even the devilish thoughts that have stayed to torment us for years, suddenly give way. We have learned the manner in which the Beast is transformed into the Prince. We have discovered why we can say of the evil appearances, "IT IS WONDERFUL." We see literally why, if we make our bed in hell, God is there. Looking through appearances, we see and recognize the Power. The fiercer the rebuke, the greater the recognition of the Power. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth" might be quoted as, "Whom the Lord loveth, he calls attention always to the wonderful power within them which they failed to employ." "Arise, arise, get thee up into a high place" - get thee up to the Mount of Revelation.

See the old sores of resentment and hurt healed and vanished by the glorious recognition of what is back of them.

Enter into your temple and cleanse it of all the thieves, dove-sellers and money-changers. Whip out the robbers that steal your peace and joy. Destroy the mental bookkeeper of past evils. Overturn the tables of the money-changers who are forever trying to sell the precious word of life. The doves of purity are freed, not sold. The glory of the soul stands revealed.

"The wrath of man shall bless thee," because it will only be an indirect way of telling, and pointing out to you the fact that you failed unnecessarily. Then will come the glorious recognition that even they, your enemies, recognize that you had the power within you possible of accomplishment, only you failed to use it.

"Fear not. It is I."

BLESSINGS

Chapter Ten

'They were gathered together in one place, of their own accord, and were baptized of the Holy Ghost."

Many people do not accept the blessing of the fulfilment of the law. Time after time they are "gathered together of their own accord,' but, by failing to recognize that thy have functioned a law that is fruitful of results, they sit trying to make the goodness of God appear, instead of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost : instead of feeling the down pouring Floods of light and illumination the great engulfing inrush of blessings. To function the law of spirit is to automatically release its fulfilment.

Awake, thou that sleepeth - awake and arise from the dead, and Christ - your Inner Lord shall give thee light; and you shall suddenly and with great happiness of soul, make a joyful noise unto the Lord, for you will see and hear great floods of blessings, blessings so numerous they are as the sands of the sea. Right here and now, right throughout the blackness of your material thinking, break the floods of light that reveal the blessings as already here and now. As the coming of light in a darkened art gallery reveals thousands of treasures which were there all the time, yet invisible, so the coming of your recognition of the Presence illumes your very own universe and reveals to you the infinite blessings all about you.

'Blessings, blessings, blessings, so many you cannot count them." Right now - right here. Because you and I have at this place of at-one-ment. You, the reader, and 1, the writer, have met in this place of glorious recognition of the inner Christ, have "Done this of our accord", we are at this glorious instant functioning the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Yes, you are at this instant baptized by the Holy Ghost; the great flood of light which reveals heaven - here and now. At this instant your eyes are being bathed in pure light, and the scales of human reasoning and limitation are dropping from them. You are at this instant seeing the wonders of the Kingdom here and now. You are filled with the thrilling sense of joy, and you exclaim for the first time in your life: 'Blessings, blessings, blessings, so any you cannot count them." You exclaim from the heights of recognition the vision that is revealed to you of your true self. Blessings, blessings, blessings. They are at this instant flooding you. You are clear and free from the limitations of former beliefs. You lave in the glorious waters of Spirit. A million barnacles of belief fall) from you. Your entire being - your body - with your whole universe is permeated with the pure, glistening, pulsating substance of Life - Life of God. And you, standing in the eternal ways, are experiencing this oneness with the universal Whole - the result of having recognized that you have functioned a definite Law of Spirit. Do you see? Are you at this instant experiencing the baptism which you have brought about? You who read this page?

Phrases and words are old and trite. Repeating the wondrous words of the Bible is like stating so any platitudes to ears that hear only the letter, or like the remembrance of so any tormenting, unfulfilled promises to those who are trying to make these words come true. Attempting to record the inspiration of the Almighty in man made words is almost impossible. No wonder, then, that the Spirit says "I AM the voice of the one crying in the wilderness' (of human hope), "prepare ye the way of our Lord.' The Way of our Lord is the way that is flooded with blessings. It is the way of self-expression, the way of the Christ Self. It is a way that comes not with reason, but is IMPRESSED upon the mind, as a man who has lain down to sleep in a dark night finds that, while he slept, the new day has already burst upon him - unannounced, unheralded. Who can stay the dawn? No more can you with stay the glorious dawn of the Kingdom of Heaven, that even now is breaking over the horizon of your night of self-imposed limitations and tears. Even now you stand at the threshold of a new day, which is the day of NOW - the Day of Revelation. you who read this page, do you hear? It is DAYBREAK for you. Do you hear? The hard, ugly objects against which you stumbled in the darkness are revealed in the light of truth as glorious blessings.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not far off - it is near. Awake! It is for your acceptance. Too good to be true? Yes, to the human sense. Must take time? Yes, to the human sense. Is not practical? Not to the human sense. A thousand have tried it and failed, just because they TRIED it. There is no effort in the action of God. Unlabored, untrammeled, free into expression is its manner of appearing. "Ten thousand shall fall at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee." Believest thou this? The object in the distance does not grow in size as you move towards it, although it seems to. It has always been the same size, but as you approach it, it appears to be larger than when viewed from afar. So with the Kingdom which you perceive in the far distance of your life. Nothing can be added to it, nothing taken away from it. You are playing with the shadows of belief when you think to add or take from, the word of God. You cannot take a little of the substance of God's riches as a thief might steal a handful or money from a bank. There is no separation, and no place to take anything FROM. Everything is here and now. You cannot take anything from the sum total of a radio concert: regardless of the size of the room into which it is released, it is inside, outside, and everywhere, and inseparably joined all the time. It is only the limited human concept that stops the concert at one point and starts it the other side of a wall. In reality it is everywhere and complete. You do not grow into the Kingdom, yet to the human sense of things you SEEM to be growing more and more spiritual. What you ARE doing is becoming more and more aware of the Kingdom as here and now. Healing, then, is only becoming aware, in a more or less degree, of a spiritually perfect man. Do you not take heart at the glorious news that the Kingdom is already here, and lay aside the sin of trying to make it appear, or trying to keep others out of the glorious possibilities of the Sons of the Living God, by first telling them they are sons of perdition, and are full of evil? Awake, thou that sleepeth! When will you cease the condemnation of a Kingdom? When will you cease the stone-casting at yourself and others? Neither do I condemn thee - go, and sin no more.' 'BLESSINGS, BLESSINGS, BLESSINGS. SO MANY YOU CAN NOT COUNT THEM.' not the old concept of blessings, which is a cross between self-pity and self-righteousness, but the revelation of the Kingdom. When the word 'Blessings" is said from the vantage point of recognition, it actually floods the soul with light and glory. Speak the word. 'Only speak the word, and my servant [Body] shall be healed," and the "word" is 'I will. Bless you, bless you, bless you."

Blessings, blessings, blessings go out from this state of consciousness like million of birds loosed on a plague-ridden country. Each one shall destroy the ugly pest from off the land, and in a twinkling of an eye you shall see the land (your land) green and fresh and fair. Blessings, blessings, blessings. "My word shall not return unto Me void, but shall accomplish whereunto it is sent.' Do you hear? You who read this page? You? 'And it shall come to pass' - do you hear? This is a statement of fact. And it shall come to pass!' - it is bound to happen - 'if thou shalt harken diligently unto the voice of the Lord' (not the voice of man). "The Lord thy God [the Lord in the midst of thee will set thee on high above all nations of the earth" - above all the false law that you have functioned under on the earth.

'And all these blessings shall corn? on thee." Beloved, put up your sword. Do you not see that, even while you are fighting in the darkness, these blessings are finally bound to overtake thee? They shall come upon thee like a thief in the night. A thief in the night comes in silence, at the darkest hour. Be still, be still, be still. It is well with thee. "Blessed shalt thou be is the city and blessed shalt thou be in the field.' Wherever thou art, thou shalt see the floods of blessings about thee. Whether it be in the city or whether it be in the open field, the All-Blessing is there. There is no place where the I AM, with its full quota of blessings, is not. Do you see, then, why the command is, "Go, take no thought for the scrip, the purse, the rob, the ring, the journey?" But as long as man is still working on the personal plane, he finds his mind much occupied with the amassing of things for the journey. He says, 'I want much money, so that I can do the work of God and help others." tear off this mask of selfishness and stand free. If you want much, it is to be known of man and your charities. The Son of the Living God does not want much knowing that he has it all. He has nothing to do with possessions but to give them away. He must of necessity break the bread in order that the multitudes may be filled. Be still. Be still. Be still. That which is obvious does not need to be mentioned.

'Blessed shall be the fruits of thy body, and the fruits of thy ground, and the fruits of thy cattle. and the increase of thy kind, and the flocks of thy sheep." Everything you touch will be blessed, and the glorious universe which seemed for lo, these many years, to be a desert, parched and dried, will suddenly burst into bloom, and everything shall be blessed and glorified, while the beautiful fruits of the former desert shall be unlimited.

Do you see, beloved, the eleventh hour has struck, and floods of light are emanating from the very presence of the Kingdom, here and now, filtering through the darkness of your human belief?

Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store." Blessed shall be the increase of good that shall fill every empty place of former years, and thou shalt be the impersonal giver of all good - learning that the way of revelation of increase lies in the ability to place yourself in the role of the infinite, impersonal giver.

The world is flooding over with joy running over with the glory of this infinite downpour of blessings that you have called forth by recognition. If you lie in a bed racked with pain, the streaming light of this blessing will reveal to your human eye the perfection of the Son of the Living God, and you shall arise. Do you hear? If you sit in rags wondering where the next meal is coming from, you shall suddenly find yourself richly clothed, and know the abundance of the child of the Highest. Do you hear? Do you hear, you who read this line? Do you see that "whereas before you were blind, now you can see?" Now. Do you utter silently, 'Blessings, blessings, blessings - so any you cannot count them?' Do you?

And whithersoever thou goeth thou shalt find, "Blessed shalt thou be when thou goest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.""Be not afraid: it is I.' Be not afraid of your good - I give the Kingdom of Heaven, not to the adult, but to the child. The child can accept its world and heaven of blessings without question, without reason, without tiresome argument, or trying to make it happen. Do you see that the adult is the only one who can commit adultery? He adulterates everything, even the word of God. He places heaven at the end of a human life of misery, and makes the gateway thereunto, death - whereas I AM the LIFE. The Kingdom of Heaven shall not be taken by violence, by reason, neither shall it be entered through the portals of death. And yet YOU die daily, and YOU must be born again. You die to the human beliefs of today, no matter how high and fine they seemed to be; you die daily, to be born again to a greater and more beautiful sense of the Presence. You are becoming more and more aware of the Presence, and, as you approach it through this awareness, you see it more and more in detail. As, descending from the air in a plane, you at first see only a sell speck, which on closer examination divides and subdivides itself, until it is seen as a great and flourishing city, so will the points of truth, that you have conceived at a far distance of human thought, reveal themselves as great and glorious states of consciousness, and the idea will unfold as you approach this revelation.

After all, beloved, 'Ye have not chosen Me: I have chosen you, and ordained you that you should go forth and bring forth fruits.., and whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in My name [nature], he will give unto you." A great burst of revelation comes with, 'Ye have not chosen Me.' All these years we have thought that we did something personal when we chose to follow after the Master. We were labouring under self-hypnotism that WE were making a sacrifice, becoming a martyr: or else we were actuated by fear. Suddenly we find that this is all false and that ye did not choose Me, but I have chosen and ordained you.' This very power chose you. Do you hear, you who read this page, this line? Do you hear that you were chosen - that you were caught in the net of which the Master spoke 'I will make you fishers of men?" Caught in the net, and chosen for a glorious expression of the blessings of the Kingdom here and now! And, further, you were "ordained" - not by some person or organization. Not because someone pronounced certain words and sang songs over you were you ordained; but in spite of this, and in spite of even the condemnation that might have been cast upon you. 'I have chosen YOU, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit.' Do you hear? You who read this page? You? Do you begin to see why I have said unto you, "Be still and know that I AM God' - be still, and know, and listen to what I have to say to you?

Dare you sit, in this glorious baptism which is even at this instant going on, and accept the blessing: 'I have chosen you,' and be ready to hear the command, 'Go into all the world - preach the gospel":, Dare you be ready to go into this wretched place in which you lived - your consciousness and say, "Be of good cheer. It is I. Blessings. Blessings. Blessings" ? Dare you say to your personal devil , 'It is wonderful. Blessings. Blessings. Blessings,' knowing that there is only One, and that it is I? When you recognize Me as there, I will transform the darkness into light, and the shadows of human belief shall flee away. It is well. It is wonderful.

"Blessings. Blessings. Blessings - SO MANY YOU CANNOT COUNT THEM." Let that be IMPRESSED upon your consciousness and it will express in your daily life Blessings here and blessings there, Blessings here and blessings there, Blessings here and blessings there, Blessings everywhere -------------' shall form itself into a wondrous melody, and will go singing through your glorious day, like a host of golden butterflies darting to and fro over a field of sunny flowers. 'Blessings, Blessings, Blessings so many you cannot count them.' AT THE FEET OF

THE MASTER

Chapter Eleven

"And they found him clothed, and in his right mind, sitting at the feet of the Master." They found that maniac who had been living in the tombs; who had torn himself in anguish; who had frightened others; "clothed, and in his right mind, sitting at the feet of the Master." The story of the maniac is the story of every man. It is your story. When the Christ passes by he finds you in the tombs of the past, dwelling with dead thoughts and conditions. Living with the whited bones of past accomplishments, or fears. Hiding behind the tombs of personality. Trying to make that which is dead and done with, appear to be alive. Screaming to the passerby in a ghastly voice, swollen with pride and egotism, telling of your attainments. No wonder, then, when the voice of the Christ is heard, you call out, "What have we to do with thee? Go away and leave us alone." The old personality, with its graveyard full of pride of personal attainment, fears to give up its only claim to attention. It has built tombs, elaborate and ornate, to each of its accomplishments. It has dug deep into the stones, the records of what it has done, and it hates to see this passing into the limbo of oblivion.

Many a man has awakened to find himself in this graveyard, living the life of a maniac, fingering over the dead things, and wondering why life was so uneventful and ugly. Mentally he lives with the dead. He heeds not the injunction, 'Let the dead bury their dead." He has his tombs to which he is bound. There are, in every mental cemetery, ghastly vaults of ugly things, memories of failure, disease, and limitation. Their history is scratched deep in the cold marble.

'Let the dead bury their dead; follow thou Me," must be obeyed implicitly. Nothing in the past is worthy of consideration; nothing that you have done or left undone is worthy of remembrance. "Come out from among them and be ye separate." Come out from the graveyard of your own making, leave every tomb and be free. You give up nothing when you give up the personal idea for the Christ. The new day dawns across the cold marbles of the past, and you awaken to glorious possibilities. The Master speaks to you and says, 'It is well.

The dirty rags of personal beliefs and griefs fall away, and you are naked, stripped of your personal impediment - everything seems to go away, and then you are "clothed" in your right mind (the Christ mind), sitting at the feet of the Master (the inner Lord). At last 'the peace that passeth all understanding" enfolds you, and you rest. The floods of forgetfulness wash away the debris of yester-years, and in the place of the tombs are fields of lilies - fields of fresh attainment and glory. You are alive and the dead thing has been carried out of your life. 'Though a man were dead, yet shall he live" been made literally true for you. The new life that is surging through your being is the life that has left the past forever.

It is reported that when the maniac child is brought to the Master, his parents went into elaborate details of the evil of which he suffered: and then said 'If you possibly can, good Master, heal him." The Master replied "Why did you say 'possibly'?' Whether this is accurately recorded or not, it brings with it the strident, flaming question, Why did you say 'possibly' Why do you , who admit the all-power of God, and yourself as the Son of God, wonder whether He can possibly accomplish the trifling thing that you are seeking? 'O ye of little faith' is the rebuke that comes to us time and time again, as we see that we are constantly returning to the cemetery of past failures - looking among the dead bones of yesterday for a spark of life, whitewashing the rotten caskets of yesterday's attainments, trying to make them as new. Caught in the old beliefs, we recite the evils we have suffered at great length. We go into the ghastly details of past accomplishments. We tell what we have done to the glory of God, instead of showing forth the true consciousness of God in the present manifestation.

The Light burns high these days; the Coming of the Christ is taking place in many - not through or by some creed, but through the awakening of the 'maniac' in the tomb of dead beliefs. 'The wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of God' Then the man with this wisdom must be insane in the true sense of the word. Inversely speaking, 'the wisdom of God is foolishness in the eye of man" - and Jesus was accordingly considered a fanatic or insane man. But, once the glory of Christ steals upon you and you are ready to "rise and follow ME,' you will know the peace - the glorious peace 'that passeth all understanding." Beloved, you are not giving up anything when you leave the tomb of yesterday; when you leave the graveyard of relative thought and belief. You are coming out into the new dimension - the dimension of infinity, as it were; the place where you begin to see the naturalness of God's love toward you. This love enables you to see clearly beyond the dead beliefs into life eternal.

What a glory comes to you when you find yourself in your Right Mind. For the first time the feeling of assurance comes to you. The consciousness of peace. The beauty of balance and soundness.

Lazarus comes out of his tomb, and the grave-clothes of yester-beliefs are cut away from him. "Ye must be born again.' To be born again does not imply a process of making over an old thing. It is a casting off of the old, as it were, and an appropriation of the new. It is a conscious recognition of the agelessness of Spirit in all its glorious manifestation here and now.

Are you the maniac in the tomb? You who read? Have you the tombs of cold marble hidden away in the darkness of your mind? The master is passing; even now, as you read, I am speaking to you. I am calling to you to "come out from among them and be separate' Leave all the dead things of the past and come out into the glorious sunshine of today. You are not loosing anything by this giving up.

When the maniacal thoughts of relativity are cast from you, they are self-destroyed. They are drowned in the sea of oblivion. They are gone forever. And their name is legion. A thousand little dishonesties and conceits disappear before the searchlight of the New Idea. The coddling and petting of the human personality is cast off as so much excess baggage. You stand revealed and free - the Son of the Living God - not asking again 'if you possibly can,' but rather accepting the glorious gift of "decreeing," of "speaking the word." What is so strange and weird about the fact that, a universe evolved out of a God power, should be found in full possession of this God power? What is so magic about the fact that you should find this God power operating in your life, and bringing out the natural results of this power? As we recognize the presence more and more, we realize that its manifestation is only natural.

Drink deep, beloved, of the waters of Life----the refreshing sense of joy that comes over you when you realize that you are clothed and in your right mind, sitting at the feet of the Master. It is well. Fear not.

REVELATION

Chapter Twelve

Every man is a teacher, after one fashion or another, and many are teachers of the word of Jesus, of Buddha, of Mohammed. All teaching is of and about the subject. It is eternally the letter, dead and cold. Fused with the enthusiasm of the teacher, it becomes alive for the time, but lapses again into the dead, cold thing. Hence thousands today find themselves well stocked with the letter of truth and yet are unable to make manifest the promises that have so richly been made to man. 'Physician, heal thyself' is the command of Spirit to the teacher. 'What have ye in you house?' is the searching question. The teacher at last learns than if he will teach he must live from his own words, he must eat them, and many times he is unable to do this. He is on an endless treadmill - he traces over and over the same monotonous pattern - he hears himself reiterating the same words and phrases, year after year, and, like a worn out gramophone record, he finally gives out, never having got within sight of the goal he talked so much about. Comes the awakening to man, and if he be unafraid he will find that the Christ within is not a teacher, but a revelator of that which is and eternally has been; that, instead of teaching of and about healing, prosperity, and happiness, he is revealing these true states of mind as inescapable - yea, as inescapable as the opposite states were formerly. He then stops the silly attempting to set things right in a universe that is run by law and order, and enters in upon the process of revelation. He reveals the inner things, the secret things that have been so from the beginning of the universe. He reveals, shows forth, that which is true and perfect. He is no more concerned about the letter, knowing that when the revelation is once recognized the letter will take care of itself. He is not concerned about the outcome, knowing that a rubber ball thrown against a stone wall will return without any effort on his part. He knows that a word released from the center of his being is bound to accomplish whereunto it is sent, and, knowing this, he is not concerned or worried about the outcome.

Most of us have spent endless hours trying to make the return action something different from the sending action of the ball; but the ball can only return with the same force with which it was released. There is no chance for the word to go astray or to fail to find its own; all this is under the Divine direction, which is above the frailty of human law and order. Human law changes constantly, but the Divine Law and Order remaineth, and nothing is added to it and nothing is taken away. Gradually confidence is established in the God power which is constantly revealing itself to the one who is ready to lay aside human accouterments and accept the glorious Power of the Sons of God. Confidence to stand, having done all - having recognized the eternal rightness of the God universe - he is unafraid to rest. He pushes the borders of his tent farther out into glorious new fields of untried expression, and finds to his joyous surprise that new avenues are opening up to him. Undreamed of possibilities lie before him - for at last he has come to a place where he BELIEVES in the reality of the Kingdom as here and now, and himself a revelator.

To the revelator comes the understanding of the Unconditional Power - that indescribable thing which is seen to operate in a supernatural way, and yet which could never be anything but natural - that power which set aside the laws of the three dimensional plane without regarding them as existent.

To a child playing a game, a chalk line may represent a prison, as long as he abides under the rules of the game he will act in accord with that, and will accept it as a barrier to his freedom. When he is through with the game, however, he drops the whole thing and finds himself free, and of course realizes at the same time that he was never anything else but free. His acceptance of that which constituted a prison was all that made one for him. To the grown-up child many prisons exist in just the same way - he accepts certain limitations of health, wealth, and happiness, and is hypnotized to the bel