I AM THE

ANSWER

By

Lillian DeWaters

Contents

THE ASTONISHING NEW REVELATION

THE GREAT QUESTIONS

THE NEW DAY DAWNS

THE CHRIST MESSAGE

MAN NEVER GOD

THE PURE IN HEART

OUR DIVINE DESTINY

ONE INFINITE WHOLE

ONE INDIVISIBLE CONSCIOUSNESS

ONTOLOGY

THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS

THE LIVING WATER

OUR SECURITY

EMPTY BOTTLES

THE REAL UNIVERSE

ON THE MOUNT

THIS IS THE DAY

THE CHRIST PRESENCE

EQUALITY

I AM THE LIFE

THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST

ENTER THOU

THE WEDDING GARMENT

THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH

GOD IS ALL

VIEWPOINT

I AM THAT I AM

OUR CREATION

THE LORD-SELF

THE JUDGMENT DAY

OUR LIVING IDENTITIES

DIVINE REVELATION

THE ATONEMENT

“PREACH THE GOSPEL”

“HEAL THE SICK”

“CAST OUT DEVILS”

“RAISE THE DEAD”

THE ASTONISHING NEW REVELATION

TODAY, nearly the whole world is giving attention, in

some way, to the great triangle, — the Truth (God), the

Student (man), and the Problem (human existence).

We all know that problems continually come and go

and that man changes his ideas all the time ... while to

God, the Truth, everything remains invariable, and

without shadow of turning.

Undoubtedly we have all placed ourselves as Students

endeavouring to apply the Truth to our earthly

problems. Reader, have you not done this very thing?

Suppose that all the knowledge of Truth we possessed

were inadequate to solve our problems. We might

search for more knowledge, and greater ability to make

use of it, but the demands upon us might increase, and

the problems seem never to cease. We often long for

that place where we rest, with no thought of an earthly

problem. Have we not all entertained such a wish?

Invariably it takes the flash of light to reveal the true

meaning of Life and of all things to us: nor can it be

obtained in any other way.

As the veil lifts, one moment’s sudden revelation

completely rearranges and shifts our viewpoint; and the

scene abruptly changes. In fact, this was exactly what

happened to me one day while in deep meditation. I

was considering Mathematics, its students and

problems, when suddenly it dawned upon me that the

Student-position, which I had assumed, was certainly

an unreliable and unsound one.

As this actuality burst upon me, breathlessly my heart

cried out, — Oh to be the principle instead of a student!

Instantly there followed a moment of shining light with

its electrifying transfusion, sudden and swift. As

though a curtain had been raised admitting some

startling new sight, I saw the indisputable fact with

vivid, clear distinctness, — I saw that I was the

Principle ... not a student at all!

Under this flood of blazing revelation, what else could I

do but exclaim further, — Why, this means that I am

the Truth! I am not a student trying to solve the

problems of human existence, but I am the absolute

and changeless Truth itself! The simplicity of all this

amazed and overwhelmed me. Here in this brief but

thrilling moment, I saw what years of study and

research had never given me.

Immediately, I then understood Jesus’ dynamic

statement, “I am the Truth!” Yes, this was it. I was

not a student of Truth, endeavouring to obtain and

attain certain states of consciousness, always letting go

one for another higher on the scale. No, I was the

Truth itself!

What more then could I ask? What more could be

desired? Did Truth, or true Being, have any

association with a problem? Certainly not. Neither,

then, did I!

“I am the Truth!” exuberantly I told myself again and

again, in my newly found changed relationship. I am

not trying to do, to think or to know something; but I

am doing, feeling and being the Truth, the Life, and the

Way! Oh, the blessed wonder of the Light!

I saw then that the problem of human existence could

never be solved ... but will dissolve when we take our

rightful stand as the Truth, the Life and the Way.

Now once having seen and accepted this platform, all

other speculations immediately vanished, while

beautiful verifications in Jesus’ life and teaching came

flooding my rapturous thought. How plainly now to

see that Jesus never said that he was a student of Life,

but insisted, “I am the Life!” Neither did he intimate

that he was a follower of some particular way or

system, but again and again reiterated, “I am the Way!”

No wonder he was so absolute, so compellingly certain

and sure. Never did he speak nor act as though he

were using Truth as a means to bring about certain

healing results in a material existence! His attention

was not toward conditions, states nor beliefs, but upon

that Being which is unalterable; that Principle which is

fixed and absolute; that Life which is wholeness always

... Against such there is no law.

Reader, know thyself! Learn who and what you really

are; the meaning of life and the fullness of all things.

Then for you, wars and problems will cease and be no

more; sorrows and limitations fade away; for finding

yourself as you really are, you shall be in touch with

every good and perfect thing; and shall live here on

earth a life of peace, joy and plenty.

THE GREAT QUESTIONS

WHERE shall I look for myself? When and how shall I

find myself? One of the oldest teachings in the world

is that the Way infers a road or path, in fact, a going

somewhere, as for example, a pilgrimage. So

countless ones believe that the place to find oneself is at

the end of this road, or so-called “Path of Return.”

Here, at last, they say, one may hope to find himself

and the things of the kingdom.

Again, there are those who believe the Way to be like a

ladder reaching from earth to Heaven; and so they set

out on the long climb from rung to rung. In

imagination, they climb and fall, time and time again;

yet always at the top, high in the distance, they place

the Goal.

“The Story of the Forester” may well serve to illustrate

the Way, and is told like this. All his life this man

toiled felling trees. One day some messengers came to

him saying, — You are king; you are not a forester.

He only laughed, paying no heed to their story; but they

became only more insistent in their endeavour to

convince him of his real identity.

After a while, the people whom he believed to be his

parents told him that the messengers were right; that he

was king; that when he was a baby, he had been taken

from his mother, the queen, and left with them.

Now, then, what was the Way for this forester to be

king? Did he need to make any kind of a journey or

overcome any certain obstacles? No, indeed. He

needed but to believe and accept that which was

actually the Truth about himself ... and act upon it.

This story accords with Jesus’ teaching ... I am the

Way! I am the Door! Paradoxically, then, the Way is

not in going .somewhere; nor in achieving something ...

but in discovering one’s very existence to be the

Perfection for which he is seeking.

The great Question then for us all to decide is this: Am

I believing that intrinsically I am the same Life and

Being as Jesus ... or not?

If you agree that we all have the same relation to Life

and Being as Jesus had, then you are forced to accept

that since he claimed himself to be Life and Truth, this

is exactly what we should be doing also.

Listen closely. Your Self is not an acquisition!

Anything you do to become what already you are,

keeps you from experiencing the great Answer.

Did Jesus locate Heaven at the end of a long journey ...

or at the top of some imaginary ladder? He designated

it ... “within you.”

Reader, you will find yourself when you are released

from every form of teaching which does not precisely

agree with that of the Christ … Right where you are is

the place … On the tablet of your heart shall be found

the Eternal Word, — I am the Truth.

THE NEW DAY DAWNS

“The former things are passed away. Behold, I make

all things new.” — Revelation 21:4-S.

REVELATION of our own Being does not depend

upon any particular person, church or nation; but is

available to all alike.

Inevitably, the New Day dawns. The teachings of

Christ are destined to be understood and accepted as he

gave them. Plainly and clearly he set forth his simple

teaching. But how complicated and confusing it has

become.

For instance, he prayed, “That they all may be one; as

Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee; that they also

may be one in us.” Never can we be one while we are

students of differing forms of religion: for the

student-position ever binds one to church, teacher,

book, practitioner and personal beliefs.

Only when we stop enacting the student or follower,

and accept our existence as the very Truth, may we

truly lay claim to oneness with each other.

In the New Day, the old order crumbles and falls ... the

Kingdom of Heavenly oneness, order and wholeness

comes to light.

THE CHRIST MESSAGE

“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” — John 14:6.

WHEN we find a teaching which proclaims, I am the

living Truth, then we have heard the real

Jesus-Christ-Message which is destined to free us.

Jesus taught, “I am the Truth,” while the present day

teaching regarding our self is to the contrary; for we

have been taught to believe that we are not the Truth,

— but that we are man, the student; that we are not

Life, — but that we are its expression; that we are not

the Way, — but that we are a follower of it.

What a difference it makes to us in our vision and

experience to be the Truth and the Life, rather than a

student applying the Truth to his problem! So long as

one considers himself a student shall he find himself

confronted with problems. For are not problems part

of the life of a student?

If one seeks for knowledge, what shall be the

knowledge which finally will completely satisfy him?

Surely nothing but the established-from-the-beginning

fact that he himself is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Lo, the facts which Jesus taught about himself must

inevitably be the ones which we are to see as true of our

self; else of what advantage are they to us?

Definitely, the greatest fact we can learn is the

knowledge that we are the living Truth. As we come

into the positive and luminous awareness of this eternal

verity, all lesser viewpoints are bound to completely

leave us.

As one may be certain that Mathematics is absolute and

unassailable, so sure was Jesus of himself as the Way,

the Truth and the Life, — invincible, inviolable,

infallible; absolute and complete. And most certainly

his life on earth was to teach this same fact about us all.

Jesus knew that he was the Truth Itself, the Life Itself,

the Way Itself, and he said so. He took this stand as

the fact of Being, thus nothing could ever hurt him,

affect or destroy him. Let people think they could lay

hold of him! They found themselves grasping at thin

air. Let them attempt to kill him! They saw him

walking about in their midst, unharmed.

All things may appear to change and vary; but true

Being remains ever the same. It holds Itself

invincible, infallible, indissoluble; true and absolute,

always.

Verily until we see and feel that we are the Truth ... and

not man, idea or student ... we shall always be trying to

get out of difficulties called problems.

To the Truth, all is perfection; and to the one Being, all

is the perfect Whole. Thus for us ever to be perfect,

changeless, pure and incorruptible, we must now be the

Truth, and nothing less!

MAN NEVER GOD

IN “a far country” of human and material existence,

where there appear multitudinous men, women and

children, the terms “man” and “mankind” are

frequently used generically; but to consider oneself as

“man” is a great and grave mistake. Christ gave no

such instruction. He made use of the term “man” only

when referring to the forms called persons or

personalities, as follows:

“First bind the strong man.” (Matt. 12:29). First of

all, renounce the perverse and inflexible belief that you

are man; for it is not the truth. “Call no man your

Father upon the earth: for one is your Father which is in

Heaven.” (Matt. 23:9). Man is not your Father; and

not yourself! He is of the earth ... dust to dust. One is

your Being (Father) only ... that Perfection which is

your own without beginning or end.

“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole

world ... of human accomplishments and

intellectualities ... and lose his own soul ... and neglect

discovering the great Answer to existence?” (Mark

8:36) “No man hath seen God at any time.” (John

1:18). No one as man, or personal individual, can

understand the Infinite.

“We stone thee ... for blasphemy; because that thou,

being a man, makest thyself God.” (John 10:33). In

one way their perception was correct, since man can

never be God. But they made the fatal mistake of

regarding Jesus as man. The fact was that Jesus was

laying down his life to prove to them, and to all, that we

are not multiple individual personalities, as it seems,

but infinite Spirit, Life and Being … Perfection,

Wholeness, and Immortality.

The individualistic position is destined to dust,

oblivion, inexistence, while Perfection as the Whole,

the All-in-all, remains unchangeable, from Eternity to

Eternity. The Christ identified himself with

all-inclusive Infinity ... never with limited, finite man.

Thus his Almighty power and presence.

Saith the Scriptures: “A man hath no preeminence

above a beast. All go to one place; all are of the dust,

and all turn to dust again.” (Eccl. 3.20). “The things

of God knoweth no man.” (I Cor. 2:11). “Jesus

knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of

man: for he knew what was in man.” (John 2:25).

You can see now for yourself the incongruity of the

belief that we are man! The fact is, man is not a being

of any kind, but a position of inversion, — a turning

away from Reality and Perfection. When his disciples

attempted to glorify him as “a good man,” Jesus

rebuked them saying, “None (no one, no man) is good,

save God only.”

At one time Metaphysics introduced to the world the

true idea that really we are not any kind of man at all,

but Spirit, Life and Being; that the root meaning of the

word “man” implies man-ifestation. This enlightened

instruction was in vogue for several years, then it was

removed and replaced by the teaching that we are not

Spirit, Life and Being, but spiritual man, image or idea;

and as such reflect, but do not possess, Spirit, Life and

Being. Now, then, the teaching that we are Life, Mind

and Spirit, agrees with that of the Christ: no other does.

The prevailing idea in Metaphysics today still is that

we are spiritual perfect man ... an utter impossibility ...

and one which our great Teacher never propounded.

In all Scripture there is but one mention of “spiritual

man” as in the following: “The days of visitation are

come, the days of recompense are come. Israel shall

know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is

mad.” (Hos. 9:7)

Jesus’ teaching was wholly from the true and absolute

state of Being. He spoke from the viewpoint of

sovereign Power, not as a reflection of it. Gloriously

and triumphantly he proved to all that he was Life

immortal, Power omnipotent, and Spirit immaculate

and eternal. Reader, can you doubt it?

To attempt, therefore, to spiritualize “man,” which

term means, precisely, a form of life having beginning

and end ... a form of personality and individuality

separate from the Whole ... keeps one from seeing and

accepting the spiritual requisite to let go such a

fallacious practice in order to be like him who was Lord

of Heaven and earth.

The great Teacher of all never spoke of “man” as

perfect or spiritual. He knew that, as man, we could

never reach the solution to Being, and so he stated

plainly, — “A man can receive nothing, except it be

given him from Heaven.” (John 3:27). Paul caught

this same amazing insight when he boldly declared, —

“Let God be true, but every man a liar.”

Exaltingly Jesus stressed, — “Ye are the light of the

world ... in you is the river of the water of life ... The

kingdom of God is within you … And the glory which

Thou gavest me, I have given them.” Do such words

as these suggest the slightest hint that we are lifeless,

helpless images, dependent upon some outside Power

or Being for whatever we are, or hope to become?

Decidedly not.

You may ask, what about Moses’ declaration that “God

created man in his own image”? True, here Moses

was alluding to us as man, and not Life, the

Self-existent: but he gave us as much of the Truth as he

knew at the time. Moses was not destined to give the

full Truth, for this Revelation belonged only to Jesus

Christ. He alone was “the only begotten of the Father,

full of grace and Truth” ... the only one who was aware

of his and of our inherent God-state; and the fallacy of

the assumptive man-position. Continually he referred

to our inherent state as “the Father within” ... the

pristine and genuine Reality unknown to us as

individuals, or human beings, but known and

understood as our Soul cognizes itself to be God.

Moses did not reach the promised land, proving he did

not have the perfect and complete knowledge of

himself, but taught the human footsteps ... the

Resurrection, but not the Ascension. Indeed none, as

man, shall ever reach the promised land. Only as we

are detached from that which is not the Truth of us, and

take possession of that Self, body and universe which

eternally are ours, shall we see “face to face;” and

know as we are known of God.

Imperially the Master set aside the transitory vision of

Moses, and proclaimed, — “Moses gave you not that

bread from Heaven ... I Am the bread which came down

from Heaven.”

Verily if one does not willingly accept that Being

which eternally and everlastingly he is, then, of

necessity, he will continue to imagine himself that

which he is not ... man, form, image, idea, dust.

Therefore, our only real hope for emancipation from all

such mistaken ideas is to be like Jesus, — Life, instead

of an image of Life; Truth, instead of an idea of Truth;

Power, instead of a reflection of Power; and the Way,

instead of a follower of some particular system, book,

church or person.

We should always look directly at the teaching of

Christ. Never did he intimate that he was man, an

image! Idea or expression! Then why believe it?

Why not believe exactly as he taught, — that we are all

one, and so are really the selfsame Life and Being.

The way Jesus regarded his identity with Being is the

way for us to do also, else why call him “the

Wayshower”? Furthermore, why acknowledge him to

be the Truth and the Life, and us mere reflections of it?

Unless we see exactly as he saw, and follow in his

footsteps, how do you suppose we shall ever be like

him, and do the works he commanded?

Paul caught a glimpse of this Self-revealing light when

he wrote, “We have the mind of Christ.” (1 Cor.

2:16). “Jesus Christ is in you.” (2 Cor. 13:5). And,

John, too, prophetically announced, “Beloved, now are

we (in belief) the sons of God, and it doth not yet

appear (altogether revealed to us) what we shall be; but

we know that, when he shall appear (when Truth shall

be more fully revealed), we shall be like him (Jesus

Christ); for we shall see (recognize) him as he

(actually) is, (the Way the Truth and the Life).” (I

John 3:2).

In these latter days, all falsities are to be exposed.

“There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed;

and hid, that shall not be known.” (Matt. 10:26).

“And they shall be all taught of God.” (John 6:45).

Only the Spirit of Truth can reveal to us the sublime

fact that we are God and not man. It must come as a

direct perception.

Therefore, dear Reader, as soon as you perceive that

you are not spiritual man, nor an image of any kind, nor

expression of any sort, you shall then be ready to take

possession of yourself as infinite perfect Being, and

none less. Since you are alive, you are Life; and since

Life is one indivisible Whole, then this you must be,

and are, the very same as Jesus.

For himself, and for “Whosoever-will,” he proclaimed,

“All (not part) power is given to me! I am the Life! I

am the Truth! I am the First and the Last, the

Beginning and the End.” Could he have said it any

plainer? Could he have more clearly presented the

oneness of Life and Being? Do you believe that he did

or did not include us in his vision?

Nature entitles us all to the air as a whole, since it is

indivisible; and likewise to the sunlight, since it cannot

be separated into parts. Mathematics, too, is available

to everyone, nor can it be personalized, or separated

from the Whole. In the same way, we are all entitled

to indivisible Love, indivisible Intelligence, indivisible

Perfection and Power ... and the indivisible fullness of

every good and perfect thing. As soon as we begin to

glimpse these wonderful and thrilling realities, and

simultaneously withdraw our claim to the dust-thou-art

forms, and the dust-thou-art individualities, we shall

make rapid progress toward enacting that “new

creature” which Paul prophetically mentions.

The terrific upheaval taking place everywhere on earth

today, signals the doom of all which would obstruct the

coming into view and actuality of the ever-living,

never-to-be-lost-sight-of Jesus Christ Message, and the

perfection of all things even as he foretold, — perfect

Self, perfect universe, perfect body, perfect experience

... for everyone who will take all!

When one lets go the false individualistic sense of

himself, then he may say, I am the one infinite Being, I

am Life everlasting, I am Truth immortal and eternal.

Thinking and speaking as the One and Only, he may

claim all good as his very own. But should he speak as

an individual or person, then such a claim would be

sacrilegious.

Said the Christ, “With men this is impossible; but with

God all things are possible.” When the spirit in you

comes forth and gloriously bears witness to the forever

Truth, then, only, shall you know that “I and my Father

are one” ... and understand more certainly that, “The

Father (infinite Being) is greater than I (as person, man

or individual).”

Now we see that God and man are not one; nor are they

opposites. The Infinite can have no opposite! One

(God, Perfection) is the true state, and the Eternal; the

other (man, imperfection) is an untrue position, and the

non-existent.

“I am God, and not man.” (Hos. 11:9). “I am the

Lord; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to

another.” (Isa. 42:8).

When the scales drop from our eyes, and we see the

Self in its true light, we shall love to be that which

everlastingly we are ... the Life triumphant ... the

indivisible Absolute.

In its true sense, the word individual means indivisible,

and pertains to the Divine alone. However, it is

generally understood to mean a single human being,

with a mind and body of his own. Since Life is Spirit,

not matter, it cannot be divided into human beings.

THE PURE IN HEART

“Blessed are the pure in heart.” — Matthew 3:8.

THOSE of us who are sufficiently pure in heart will

now happily take the step further, and be released from

all individualism: for to consider oneself an individual,

is automatically to set oneself apart from the Whole.

Mind or Consciousness cannot be individualized into

minds; nor Life into lives! Only as we give up a

suppositional individuality, or individualized

consciousness, may we rightfully lay claim to the

fullness of God, the Whole.

No longer need one attempt to heal minds or

individualities; diseases or inharmonies ... but seek

rather to relinquish and erase all sense of multiple

individualities and their essential restrictions or

problems, in order to consider the perfection and

completeness of Life and Being as an infinite,

indivisible Whole.

How easy to see that Spirit cannot be sick, poor,

unhappy, deluded or at war with itself. Nor could

there exist in it any imperfection, inharmony or

limitation of any kind. Limited vision shall be

swallowed up in the infinite ocean of Purity, Love and

Understanding ... and the definite knowledge of the one

indivisible Life and Being shall glorify and bless all

who will accept it, even as light illumines the darkness.

Our desire or effort to be rid of the appearance of any

personal failure or discord must now be completely

relinquished for the greater desire and effort to be pure

in heart; that is, to acknowledge Perfection as one

infinite All and Whole ... indivisible, and at hand.

Giving up the defective viewpoint which deals with

individualities, bodies and human experiences, and

placing our full vision, love and trust on perfect Being,

perfect Body and perfect Universe as one indivisible

Whole, we are bound to experience peace, harmony

and wholeness; and the abundance of every good and

perfect thing.

Those who refuse to make the great surrender shall

continue to sit in darkness; and dream of many men,

many wars, many minds and many distressing

experiences.

It takes purity to see purity. So long as we are not pure

in heart, we are destined to see problems, warfare and

suffering: for the notion of separateness and

individualism infolds all the suffering on earth. Man,

seeing man, prays for peace: but the One, seeing the

One, enjoys peace, harmony and blessedness.

“Not my will, but Thine be done,” said Jesus,

completely releasing himself from the personal sense

he had assumed for our sakes. Whenever we are

willing and ready to accept the One as all, and the All

as one, we, too, may be certain of peace, harmony and

happiness. Seeing, then, that this is what is really

required of us, in order that we take leave of “a far

country,” let us hasten to follow the Wayshower: nor

think it robbery to be equal with him.

Open the door and I will come in, is the soft insistence

of the Christ. Open your heart to admit the

astonishing new revelation that you are the

unchangeable Truth, and not the ever-changeable

student. “Be still and know that I am God:” and that

there is no other “I.”

Hereafter, seek not for statements or formulas to be

memorized; but consider the Self as able and willing to

reveal to you whatever it is your desire to know. The

one divine Mind is now your own; Self -revealing.

Believing that you are a spiritual idea, you cannot claim

to be the divine Mind; nor are you embracing Jesus’

teaching. Your every thought and reason is built upon

the mistaken premise that you are man, an individual:

not upon Christ’s teaching, “I am the Truth.”

Everything depends upon our devotion and adherence

to the one Whole which is complete in Perfection,

Harmony and Immortality. Thus shall we come into

the New Day; and partake of the fullness and the purity

of Being.

OUR DIVINE DESTINY

AS we move forward and ascend, gradually the scales

fall from our eyes and a new vision opens. Finally

there comes the immaculate understanding that I am

the Light, I am the Truth, I and my Father are identical.

Inevitably, therefore, all lesser viewpoints will be

renounced, for we are destined to know the Self as

Jesus did. Nor can such destiny be put aside.

“I come to fulfil,” proclaimed he. I come to fulfil your

destiny and bring to you the conscious awareness and

knowledge of your eternal state. As you accept my

teaching and follow me, you are bound to enter into the

resplendent light of your own Being. In this realm of

pure revelation, one simply enjoys, without thought or

struggle, the things which are his as the Truth and the

Life ... the things prepared for every one from the

foundation of the world.

It is absolutely certain that our great Exemplar never

taught that he was a student of Truth, but that he was

the Truth Itself! If you do not understand the

tremendous distinction between these two positions,

then for illustration look at the great gulf between

Mathematics and a scholar. The student position is

generally one of strife and struggle, mutation and

evolution, while Jesus contended that the Truth would

set us free from labour altogether.

It was said to him; “Thou makest thyself God.” Yes,

he did this very thing, and he further admonished,

“Follow me. The works that I do shall you do also”

when you see as I see, think as I think, speak as I speak,

make yourself God as I do: for we all are the selfsame

Being.

Now, dear friends, if Jesus is our absolutely perfect

Exemplar and Wayshower, then it is certain that we

shall arrive at the very understanding which he had ...

and ultimately make the selfsame claim and assertion.

We are the Truth only because the Truth is our Nature.

Of course it could be no credit to us, as individuals,

since we are to put off such viewpoint altogether. This

clearly explains the meaning of the words, — “By

grace are ye saved,” since now we can see that nothing

depends upon us as individuals. Already and eternally

we are in and of the indivisible Whole, which is forever

pure and perfect.

When you recognize that this is the absolute teaching

of Jesus, you will willingly and gladly accept it. And

when your desire is to put aside all other teachings

which do not agree with the Christ Message, you will

speedily understand it.

As your heart speaks to you, follow it; and if your heart

does not speak to you, then make room for this glorious

event to take place, by giving up all claims to any

separate or individual identity. No false thought nor

belief can ever prohibit the realization of our Divine

Destiny.

ONE INFINITE WHOLE

‘I can of mine own self do nothing.” — John 3:30.

AS a personality or individuality of mine own self, I am

nothing. Losing the sense of many selves in the

mighty and luminous realization of infinite Being as

one Consciousness, all-inclusive, we shall be set free

from any problem confronting us: for it is certain no

problem can exist in the one Consciousness which is

God!

We may now clearly understand the first command, —

Thou shalt have no other gods, — minds, lives,

students, beings, selves, individualities before Me ...

the one infinite Whole.

We should acknowledge, love and serve the one

Consciousness as the only Selfhood there is. Only

then shall we be able to fulfil the second command, —

“Love thy neighbour as thyself.” The infinite

indivisible Self is our only neighbour. Thus if anyone

wishes our help, he will receive it if we but eliminate

him as an independent or individual self, and see and

acknowledge the fullness, completeness, wholeness,

security and perfection of the one infinite and

indivisible Selfhood as all of him.

For those who are not yet fully persuaded to make the

full surrender of a self outside of God, this step may

seem to be too great a one to take; yet you can readily

see that it was only when the “son” wished an

independent individuality of his own that he became a

prodigal: and so are we prodigals until we accept the

one Mind and Being as our own ... and are ready and

willing to be this and to disown any other.

When the son desired to return to the Father’s house, or

accept the divine Consciousness as his very own,

immediately he entered into the abundance, peace,

glory and joy which ever abides herein. And it is

absolutely certain that when we take our place as the

divine Perfection and nothing less, we, too, shall be

filled with the fullness of all-good. After he made his

decision — and this time the right one — then he

accepted the “gift,” ... the feast of Love, filled to

satiety.

There is no way that we may be at-one with the One

except to cast aside our personal beliefs and be the

One! Eliminating our false sense of individualities,

the problems are eliminated also. We need not treat

them, nor pray for deliverance from them: for such

mental footsteps are practical only in the

student-position.

Isaiah when thinking of himself as a separate individual

said, — “I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness

of my soul.” When identifying himself with the

one-Consciousness, he proclaimed, — “I am the Lord;

that is my name, and my glory will I not give to

another. Before me there was no God made, neither

shall there be after me. Look to me, and be ye saved,

all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none

else.

Thus shall it be with every one of us when we are

willing to efface all thoughts of a self hood apart from

the One. Then shall we understand anew those

Soul-filled words ... “Thine, O Lord, is the greatness,

and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the

majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is

Thine; Thine is the Kingdom, O Lord, and thou art

exalted as head above all.” (I Chron. 29:11).

Through divine Revelation the final understanding will

come to us that we are Spirit. We are neither a human

being, a material body, nor a separate individual.

When we accept Spirit to be the only Substance, we

shall comprehend these eternal words of the Christ, —

“I and my Father are one.” (John 10:30).

ONE INDIVISIBLE CONSCIOUSNESS

THE Metaphysical system of formulating certain rights

thoughts in order to gain one’s good has been a great

and glorious improvement upon the altogether

unawakened perception of Being, nevertheless it does

not reach that insight which discerns that one will

effortlessly and truly have right thoughts, if he will but

give up the notion of individualized states and stages of

consciousness; and perceive in a new way the

indivisible wholeness of Self, body and existence.

When we think inspirationally, we are using the

God-Mind, and so are directly experiencing its

attending peace, security and happiness. Such

thinking is always accompanied by inspirational

feeling since Consciousness is both knowing and

feeling.

Accepting the new platform of one Consciousness as

whole and indivisible, we will cease to pluralize,

multiply or divide it. Such terms as minds,

mentalities, individual states of consciousness, beings,

and all similar terms, have no place in Ontology, the

practice of Reality and true Being.

Only when one releases himself from a false sense of

multiple individualities, and identifies himself with the

one Consciousness which is whole and indivisible,

does he think, feel and act as the One, and no other ...

then any troublesome problem fades away.

Can you now see that the only reason we have been in

the dark, masquerading as man with a separate

individual consciousness, is because we did not know

our entity as infinite Life and Being? Or grasp the

deep significance in Jesus’ words, ‘I and my Father are

one”?

You will be the light of your world as soon as you are

willing to waken out of the darkness of multiple

individualities and individualized consciousness, and

come to recognize, understand and accept your Self as

you really are, — the same Perfection as that of Jesus.

While one believes that he has a mind and a

consciousness of his own, he is unable to solve the

problem of human existence: for how can a sleeper

understand the things of his dream whilst he is the

dreamer of them? And when he wakens the necessity

is gone! Thus with us all. Waking to function as

Life, the complete Whole, the sleep leaves us; we are

free ... absorbed in the ocean of pure Being.

ONTOLOGY

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are

called in one hope of your calling: One Lord, one faith,

one baptism; One God and Father of all, who is above

all, and through all, and in you all.” — Ephesians

4:4-6.

THE term Ontology is derived from the Greek on

meaning being. It is neither a system nor a science of

thought or thing. It is the practice of Being. It deals

with the Universal, or Whole, as indivisible and

inseparable one infinite I-Am-all-in-all, without

begining or end.

Metaphysics overarches and transcends Physics;

likewise, Ontology overarches and transcends

Metaphysics. Moreover, as Metaphysics does not

mingle its practice with that of Physics, neither does

Ontology confound itself with the usual Metaphysical

viewpoint.

Ontology accepts one substance only, — Spirit …

therefore no matter or materiality; one Mind, infinite

and all-inclusive ... therefore no human minds; no

mortal mind; no mentalities. One indivisible Being ...

therefore no mankind; no personalities; no

individualized consciousnesses. Ontology presents

Consciousness as one whole, inclusive of Body and

Universe.

In this presentation of Being as one Infinite, indivisible

All, we accept Christ’s teaching that I am the Way, the

Truth, and the Life ... I and my Father are one.

Therefore, we are this One, and no other.

We turn our vision to the Real and the True, the

Absolute and Complete, and hold it here. We see no

corrections or adjustments to be made ... no thing or

thought to be healed or perfected. Willingly we let go

both physical and metaphysical viewpoints that, to us,

Perfection may be All in all. “And when all things

shall be subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself

be subject to him that put all things under him, that God

may be All in all.” (I Cor. 15:28).

Jesus was the name given him who, for our sakes,

assumed the form of a man, or individual. He knew

that he was God, Perfection, and not man,

imperfection. “Who, being in the form of God,

thought it not robbery to be equal with God: and took

upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the

likeness of men,” (Phil. 2:6, 7).

Embodying the eternal verity — I am the Truth and the

Life — we are verily accepting the body of Christ: for

Christ is the truth of our Being, calling, “Come to Me,”

the Christ-Reality of yourself. Take possession of it as

your very own. See no other ... Hear no other ... Speak

no other.

The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Christ, bearing witness

that I am come, I am with you always ... the Life

triumphant.

When we adopted Metaphysics, it was time for us to

put away former physical ideas and practices pertaining

to our health and wellbeing. Now, accepting

Ontology, the time is at hand to put aside the prevailing

metaphysical viewpoint which gives credence to two

worlds ... the spiritual and a material; two powers ...

right and wrong thinking; two minds ... the Divine and

a mortal; two beings … God and man. Furthermore,

and of even greater importance, we are to renounce

absolutely and altogether the belief in multiple

individualities or consciousnesses.

To be sure, eternal gratitude for every thought and

every thing which lifted us from physics to

metaphysics ever remains with us: but we know from

within that we must continue on and up ... nor ever

cease to seek until we have found our Self to be the

Truth and Way.

Adopting Ontology, we transcend the standpoint which

admits of multiple human minds and a universal mortal

mind; multiple people called mortals, mankind or

humanity, together with their respective miscalled

bodies. We do this joyously, and with no

disparagement or dispraise.

Making no attempt to spiritualize, redeem or correct

the things in an assumptional, finite world, we hold our

vision steadfastly to the Universe of Truth and Reality,

to discover such verities as “eye hath not seen, nor ear

heard, neither have entered into the heart of man: but

God hath revealed them to us by His Spirit.” (I Cor.

2:9).

The Christ Message, in its entirety, presents the

presence of Perfection, everywhere. Thus we are not

to acquire Perfection, but know that we are it; and need

only to expand our activities from this standpoint.

Perfection is the substance and reality of all Being; of

Life and of all things. “Be ye perfect even as your

Father is perfect” ... “Be ye holy as I am holy.” How

could we fulfil such admonitions unless as the one-All?

Believing otherwise restricts progress; and thus

prohibits the necessary Ascension.

The only way we can “speak with authority” it to speak

as the One; for this, only, is omnipotent. The one way

we can be perfect, is to be that Perfection which is All.

In the practice of Reality, we eliminate terminologies

pertaining to lesser viewpoints, and formulate terms

which best express the meaning of the True and the

Real. Knowing that we are Divine, and not human, we

may now outline and create according to our desires

and aims, which, emanating from this Mind, must be,

and are, pure and holy.

Our success as Mind is assured and Self-sustained. In

fact, we may now do creative work of all kinds, not as

labour, but as joyous expression of the Self. This

constitutes our Self-existence.

There is no lack of comprehension, desire or ability in

the perfect one Mind or Intelligence which we are.

What a marvellous outlook! What a profound and

all-embracing viewpoint!

Life is that substance which is Spirit, thus its forms are

forms of Spirit, not matter. In the one universal

Consciousness there are multitudinous spiritual

identities. These identities are not outside the Body of

Life, or Consciousness, but spiritual ideas included in

it, as there is no outside to that which is one All. This

explodes the theory of reflection.

Identities are not individualized, but are in and of the

one universal Consciousness which is the forever Life,

Truth and Love. In Life, the Whole, no identity can

molest or in any way harm another, for Life is

indestructible; nor can Mind misunderstand or mistake

Itself; nor Love fail to be that which it eternally is, —

Love.

Ontology discloses that we are the Kingdom of

Heaven; we are the Bible or Book of Life; we are Mind,

Body and Universe, since they are the inseparable All.

Seeing this great Reality, we should be eager and

willing to give up all contrary theories. “When that

which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall

be done away.” (I Cor. 13:10).

THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true

worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in

truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.” —

John 4:23.

ONTOLOGY honours God, the one Mind, Body,

Universe, not only above all else, but as the All-in-all.

It is not willing to divide the honour of God with any

person, book, church, method or system of thought or

thing.

The practice of Ontology is the acceptance of the

Whole as omnipresent and universal. With the Christ,

it invites, Come … Take ... Accept ... Enter thou.

Could it be simpler, Reader? Could you be asked to

do less?

The Christ-Message today, as 2000 years ago, presents

itself to receptive hearts ... for such alone will hear and

heed it. Jesus wept over Jerusalem, and many today

may weep over those who will not heed the great

Answer ... but none can say that Life is not fair, just and

altogether loving; since it asks only that we worship it

as our own; and as all there is.

How could God, the one Life and Consciousness, be

all, if there were countless human beings, each with a

mind, life, being and individuality of his own? Thus

in order for you to decide that Good and Perfection are

all, you will of necessity need to eliminate yourself,

and every one else, as separate, limited individualities.

Then, and then, only, will you be worshipping the true

God who is one universal Presence, — perfect,

complete, all-harmonious and eternal.

It was when Jesus asked Peter, “Whom say ye that I

am?” that Peter caught a glimpse of the wonder, power

and glory of Christ as the one Selfhood, in

contradistinction to the many imperfect forms of

individualities, and replied, “Thou art the Christ.”

In praise and glorification of Peter’s true viewpoint,

Jesus returned, “Blessed art thou Simon BarJona: for

flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, (you do not

discern this as an individual) but my Father which is in

Heaven (the Spirit of the Whole has revealed it to you).

And upon this rock (premise) I will build my church

(establish my Message): and the gates of hell (any

opposition) shall not prevail against it.” (Matt.

16:15-18).

What was Jesus’ mission if not to bring the Message of

oneness and allness to those who, because of the false

acceptance of themselves as individual identities, were

limited and restricted in every way?

In the God-state, or state of knowing who and what we

are, there is no choice: but while one sojourns as an

individual, he must, of necessity, choose, whether to

remain as such or be Me true worshipper who accepts

the Self as the one All.

THE LIVING WATER

DID Jesus possess infinite, almighty power, while we

have only as much as we can get together in an

infinitesimal fraction, called an individuality?

So long as you believe yourself to be a single

individual, automatically you are kept in bondage to

the false notion that Intelligence can be separated into

segments and particles, and that you are one of them.

“No man cometh to the Father, but by me,” announced

the mighty I-Am-the-Way. No one believing himself

to be an individual being, life or entity, shall be able to

let go such a perverse and disastrous stand until he sees

the oneness and allness of Life and Being as Jesus

exemplified and portrayed for us. “All power is given

to me in Heaven and on earth,” he claimed. Do such

astounding words sound like those of any

present-day-individual?

If you are at present accepting the idea that you are a

personality or individuality, then wonder no longer

why you are experiencing limitation in all directions ...

limited spiritual understanding, limited inspiration,

limited health, happiness, harmony; and limited

prosperity and success in all your affairs: for if

individualism has any significance at all, it stands for

restrictions and restraint in every way. Awaken from

such folly! From the beginning, individualism is

doomed to outer darkness and inexistence.

What do the words I-Am mean, if not one’s

present-Perfection, at-hand-Heaven, and

whereon-thou-standest-Fullness of every good and

perfect thing? Letting go all sense of acquisition and

futurity, as well as of bondage to past events or

circumstances, you may say, I-Am, and experience its

glory.

How can one truly acknowledge the oneness and

allness of Intelligence, while believing he is entitled to

a consciousness of his own, and an individualized

sense of everything? Can you see that such reasoning

is altogether unsound and illogical? If you are going

to declare that you believe in the oneness and allness of

Being, then of necessity you must declare and accept

yourself to be this very Being!

Just why did they crucify Jesus? Because his

standpoint was different from theirs. He thought,

talked and acted from the viewpoint of Perfection as

All-in-all; they from the viewpoint of imperfection and

limitation, everywhere. He spoke from the state of the

All, they from the position that Intelligence can be

broken up into multiple lives, minds and

consciousnesses. Such pernicious notion still persists

to this day.

No wonder they marvelled; — “Never man spake as

this man.” Indeed not, for only one who is not in the

man-position can do so. Yet, listen to the glorious and

gracious invitation given all, — “Whosoever will, let

him take the water of Life freely.” (Rev. 22:17). Do

you hear? Freely, fully, completely, without limit or

restriction! Oh, the glory of the Christ-Word!

“Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall~ give him

shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him

shall be in him a well of water springing up into

everlasting Life.” (John 4:14). How could such a

sublime promise as this ever have been overlooked by

us?

How could we ever have come to accept any teaching

other than the one which gives us all — all inspiration,

knowledge and understanding?

Repeatedly Jesus referred to the Father ... not as a big

man up in the sky ... nor some Mind or Principle

separate from himself. Just where did he place the

Father, — off in the distance or outside of him? No!!

Over and over again, he spoke of the Father within me.

Where then does anyone get the authority to place God,

Perfection, outside of us? Not from the Christ.

Reader, can you see this for yourself? “The Father

within” ... “The Kingdom of God within” … “Heaven

within,” said he who needed not that any man should

teach him. The Father within means Perfection

within, eternal Life within, almighty Power within,

unlimited Inspiration and the possession of every good

and perfect thing within our Consciousness.

You may say, I see this, in a way, but I cannot see or

say that I am God! Then, this is the reason: you have

not yet released yourself from the belief that you are an

individual! A spray of water from the ocean cannot

say, I am the ocean; but as the whole it can. Jesus did

not speak as an isolated spark of Life and Intelligence

... but as the indivisible Whole.

To be sure, neither the Father nor Heaven is within

man! To consider oneself as man, and still place

Perfection within, is blasphemy. Jesus was not taking

the position of man when he spoke such words. He

was speaking from the state of the One, not the many ...

the Indivisible, not the separate; in fact, he concisely

declared, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”

(John 14:9).

Therefore, dear Reader, give up your position as man,

the student, follower, seeker-after-Light, and you will

directly find the fullness of Life and Truth to be in you

... and shall know for a certainty, “I and my Father are

one.” (John 10:30).

You express Life, for you are Life: but you are not the

expression ... you are it! You manifest Intelligence,

Spirit, Truth and Love: but you are not the

manifestation ... you are the Original!

If you will but meditate upon these new ideas … and let

them enter into your heart ... you are bound to find the

Spirit “bearing witness” that the Message of Ontology

is the shining Light, ... the living Water.

OUR SECURITY

REVELATION of Being does not depend upon any

person, church or nation ... but is available to everyone

from the great Within.

Really, there is no genuine security in man’s world.

Today, as never before, this fact is fast becoming a

definitely known reality. Such a discovery and

acknowledgment is the important first step ... the

second, that we find exactly where to place our

security.

The only security for one now, or at any other time, is

the perception that he is the Truth and Life in which

abides the Kingdom of Heaven.

“Only with thine eyes ... spiritual intuition and

discernment ... shalt thou behold ... comprehend ... the

reward of the wicked ... the insecurity and futility of

human efforts to create and maintain an adequate

material defence and protection.

Because thou hast made the Lord ... thy Self thy

habitation ... possession; there shall no evil befall thee.

Of course, nothing inharmonious or destructive could

enter the spiritual world or Consciousness.

Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I

deliver him. Only because of our consuming love to

be that which eternally we are, and to abide herein,

shall we ever be able to find deliverance from “these

latter days.”

I will set him on high, because he hath known my

name.” (Psa. 91). Reader, what is the name of our

Deliverer if not I-Am-the-Life, I-Am the-Way,

I-Am-the-Door? Names of individualities will never

be sufficient to save us ... not even those carved in

letters of gold upon the very hearts of the people. No!

One name only will constitute our salvation and

deliverance ... the name, I Am! This is the Name of

the Impersonal, the Whole, the One indivisible Christ,

Mind or Consciousness.

Apropos of this subject, we find in the seventh chapter

of Matthew, in Christ’s sermon on the mount, the

following prophetic words, — “Lord, Lord, have we

not in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done

many wonderful works? And I will profess to them, I

never knew you.

Now such words as these are hard to accept without the

insight and knowledge that the name Jesus alluded to

was I Am. The phrase “I never knew you,” alludes to

any who teach and perform healing works as

individuals. No individual person will ever save us ...

so why be deceived about it? Jesus’ words — I know

you not — carry sovereign authority; and the wise

listen to, and heed them,-.---”My sheep hear my voice.”

No name of church, creed, book nor person will ever

save anyone. “By grace are ye saved, and not of

yourselves.” Already you are that which you seek ...

then why delude yourself longer? Why not now, this

instant, accept and take possession of the one Name

above all others, the only Name under Heaven whereby

we shall be saved, — I-Am-that-I-Am.

Lo, when we give our love to the right One … when we

make the great decision between the Self and man ...

when we lovingly and rejoicingly choose one Name

above all others, then have we set our love upon the

right one to deliver us, and set us on High.

Joy, peace and security shall be ours when we are able

to live altogether and absolutely in the Kingdom of

Perfection, at hand. Even one moment’s actual

possession of it shall be our present mighty deliverance

from any unhappy thought or thing.

Verily the secret place of the most High is not afar off

... never any further than where we are ... but we must

be willing and ready to turn resolutely and completely

from the false to the True; from the spectral to the Real;

and from the superficial man-position to the actual

Father-state within us: for it is the perfect state within

us which doeth the works of infinite Love, Peace and

Harmony.

One day a little girl was asked if she would be afraid to

remain alone, for a time, in a big house. “Why no,”

was her answer. Questioned further about it, she

continued, “God will be here.” “How do you know

that God will be here?” persisted her questioner.

“Because I will be here,” was the simple, but great

Answer.

When we have relinquished the false view of

separateness and division, and instead see and accept

ourself to be the One, then to us the gates of Paradise

open; and a new life begins.

In this newly found Kingdom of the Self, at last we are

ready to transcend the religion of books ... give up

teachers, organizations and doctrines ... and accept only

the great Answer of the Christ, — I Am the Way, the

Truth, and the Life.

EMPTY BOTTLES

“Put new wine into new bottles.” — Matthew 9:17.

PUT new wine into new bottles” is the imperial

command; and one of vital importance at the moment.

For instance, a distinct and unmistakably new view of

Life and Being has now come into focus. Boldly and

authoritatively it calls attention to the exact teaching of

Christ ... and insists upon the contemplation thereof.

Take specifically, the new Perception, I am not a

student but the Truth. If this were adopted as merely

another declaration to add to the store of one’s personal

knowledge, he would gain nothing from it; but rather

deprive himself of the very light and inspiration which

such new ideas bring.

When this new Light first appeared to me, I beheld it as

a startling and astonishing revelation; not merely a new

thought, but an altogether different platform. My

heart leaped to let it completely saturate me with its

significant meaning ... and absorb my whole attention.

Having sought all my life after the Truth, here I was, at

last, face to face with the astounding fact that now I had

found it to be myself! To be sure, I had many times

caught glimpses of this supreme reality, but only as

though to add another lovely idea to my present

practical knowledge or to claim it as a higher statement

of Reality. Now, all others, everything, as it were, was

swallowed up in this all-absorbing revelation, — I am

the Truth! What a new foundation it was to me, a new

platform, a new premise altogether!

Reader, does this revolutionary realism mean as much

to you? It will, if only you will heed the wisdom of

Jesus to “Put new wine into new bottles.” And if you

do not heed it, what then? You will simply be

postponing your opportunity to take your

Heaven-given security, peace and safety.

In the light of this new Revelation of Ontology, let us

see what the “bottles,” in the parable, represent.

Surely something which is perishable, finite and

material. They therefore refer to the limited, the

personal and the divided … that which begins and ends.

What, then, could they mean but such forms which

denote personalities and individualities ... limitation,

materiality, mortality ... the idiosyncrasies of those in

“a far country” ... the masquerade of many minds,

many false beliefs, many separate lives and beings?

Here, intelligence appears bottled up in human brains,

sight in eyes, hearing in ears ... and all functions of Life

conditioned, localized, circumstanced. Such forms

are supposed to contain life and substance, but they are

hollow, like a phantom or shell. They but represent

the false concepts of individualism ... separateness ...

the many, in contradiction to the One. They are dust

to dust ... for there is no Life, Intelligence nor

Substance in them! This explains the appearance

called death. The so-called individual supposedly

escapes from one “bottle,” or form, to function in

another.

Learn the difference, here and now, between multiple

material forms, and the one infinite, spiritual Body.

Rise and accept the new idea and perception that since

Life is one indivisible Whole, the body of Life is the

identical Substance. You then shall know another

kind of “bottle” altogether, — the imperishable identity

which belongs to you as the Life and the Truth.

You are infinite Life itself, thus you possess the Body

of infinite Life ... and no limited material form belongs

to you at all. The body of Life is immortal,

immutable, imperishable and eternal ... indivisible as

Spirit, God. It can never be pluralized; nor separated

into human or material forms.

This spiritual Body comprises infinite multifarious

identities, which are imperishable, omnipresent,

perfect; and tangible to Mind or Consciousness. They

represent the character of Spirit, Mind, all that is true

and perfect, such as beauty, loveliness, harmony,

wholeness and all similar qualities.

You are this very Life, Mind, Being! You are this

identical Consciousness! When you see this as the

forever Truth, and the Spirit bears witness with you,

then you will be willing to let go entirely the mistaken

belief that you are an individual, living in a human

existence.

Listen, closely. Can an idea think? An idea really is

the “think” or thought, isn’t it? It is in this sense that

we supposed ourselves to be the thoughts of God. Still

all the while we knew that we were thinking, feeling,

acting, being ... in fact, we were instructed to be

thinkers! Now, how could there be a thinking idea?

Do your ideas think? When you see your image in the

mirror does it reflect your life at all? Does it reflect

sight? hearing? thinking? Isn’t it colossal folly to

imagine such a thing? We know for a certainty that

we think, hear, see and act; and that in no way do we

resemble that image in the mirror!

Contrast this form of religious teaching with that of

Christ Jesus who wielded almighty and omnipotent

power ... and who claimed it as his very own! Who

never intimated in any way that he was depending upon

some outside original for it!

The wonder and glory, the infinite charm and

altogether loveliness of the Spirit of Truth! How it

satisfies ... how it glorifies ... how it exalts us to know

at last that we are the Thinker of divine ideas! That we

are the infinite Mind with its unlimited, almighty

power, and not the lifeless form of it in a mirror! All

such theories are “old bottles,” now to be discarded.

Resurrection denotes a progressive change in forms, —

an advancing awareness which continually expresses

itself in outlines of greater beauty, activity, vitality and

power. If all the beauty, glory and grandeur now seen

from a limited personal perception is entrancing, how

much greater shall be the wonders and glories when

seen from the luminous infinite Understanding.

Ascension is the taking possession of the Self as infinite

Spirit, God, which cannot be localized nor embraced by

any form whatsoever; but ever expresses the Body of

infinite Life, Truth and Love.

Rejoicingly we should now renounce and disown all

claim to the perishable “bottles” or forms which for so

long have restrained us ... and gloriously and

inspirationally take possession of the Body of

perfection, into which no discord of any kind can ever

come. How safe and secure we feel! Now all fear

departs ... we are at home ... we are in our Father’s

house where we enjoy our very own.

THE REAL UNIVERSE

THE spiritual Universe is the Body or Kingdom of

infinite spiritual ideas and identities ... infinite spiritual

thoughts and modes of expression of the one Universal

Mind or Consciousness.

Perfect Consciousness possesses perfect inspiration,

perfect wisdom, goodness, beauty and loveliness, and

the power of expressing them; perfect qualities,

faculties and activities.

As we glimpse this light, and continue to live and

expand in it, we discern spiritual realities in a new way;

and Revelation continuously dawns upon us. We

begin to learn more and more about our Self as Spirit,

the Perfect and Divine, as our Beloved taught; our Self

as Life, Truth and Love … immortal, infinite,

indivisible. Then, presently, we come face to face

with the awareness of the spiritual body as pure,

immortal, immutable and all-harmonious.

Such insight as this forsakes the position of mentally

changing, correcting, healing, dematerializing or

spiritualizing a spectral, unsubstantial form; and,

instead, seeks with light and glory to behold, discern

and take possession of the one body of Spirit which

belongs to everyone ... and to claim it as our very own.

“There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that

defileth ... or maketh a lie.” (Rev. 21:27).

For instance, what we now call fingers, eyes, feet, and

so on; rose, bird, lion; such exist as distinguishable

spiritual identities ... omnipresent, unchangeable,

imperishable, immortal and tangible. The infinite

body of Spirit, inclusive of its ideas and identities, can

never be corrupted, defiled, lost nor harmed in any

way.

Do not attempt to control any suppositional material

form by any manner of spiritual thinking whatsoever.

Look away from it entirely, and altogether. Look into

the Kingdom of Truth, Life and Love, and here behold

the Immutable, the Infallible, and the Absolute.

In the Kingdom-Consciousness within you abides the

eternal spiritual body which is forever yours ...

omnipresent, incorruptible, invariable, eternal,

spiritual, real and tangible. Reader will you take it?

Look now to the concept of Heaven as the perfect and

ever-present Universe, and determine for yourself what

there is to be seen here and to be discovered as your

very own. What thoughts, ideas, identities do you see?

Tell yourself ... and hold fast to such flaming,

intuitional realization. Do you not feel and appreciate

Harmony, Perfection, Changeless-ness, Completeness,

Purity, Beauty, Joy, Peace, and similar qualities of

Being? Take them ... for they are yours ... they are

you!

The Kingdom of Spirit-Life-Mind, into which you are

looking, is the holy City ... the Kingdom which Jesus

spoke of as Heaven, and around which he based so

many of his marvellous parables. Always he beheld it

as Consciousness, imploring us to let go and give up

any and all human footsteps which are a hindrance to

our acceptance of it.

Vividly, stirringly, compellingly, he set forth the

importance of our accepting Heaven ... the holy City ...

as above all material possessions. He foretold that no

labour could gain it, no personalities attain it. Purity

alone could perceive and possess it.

Why should one continue to struggle in darkness with

inconsistencies and confusions, when the joy and glory

of knowing that we are Spirit awaits us all? How

simple and easy to accept immaculate and

immeasurable Spirit to be all of us, and we to be wholly

this! Lighted with the light of our own Being, we

know that we are Self-existent and Self-complete.

ON THE MOUNT

IN THE beginning was Consciousness, and

Consciousness was God; and there was nothing made

but what was made of Consciousness ... God.

“In the beginning” means now, or any time one begins

to see things as they rightfully are; when the light of

Revelation dawns for you.

The sunshine in your garden could say, I am

undetached from the Whole; I am not here as a piece or

bit of all the sunshine there is, but since I cannot be

divided or separated from the Whole, then I am that;

nor can I be otherwise.

In the same way, you are Spirit, you are Consciousness;

I am Spirit, I am Consciousness. It is the same Spirit,

Consciousness; the same Life, Being; the same Body,

Universe. It is all one Whole.

Such was the simple teaching of the Christ; and the

reason he spoke so frequently in terms of I-Am.

Indisputably there is but the one “I,” — the “I” which is

Consciousness; the “I” which is Life; the “I” which is

the Whole. To be able to see this, is also to see the

impossibility of minds, lives, beings or individualized

consciousness: moreover, the time to give up enacting

them.

When the heart is ready, the Christ appears: for Christ,

Self-revelation, is always here, and at hand.

In the beginning was the infinite Consciousness; and all

things were made by Consciousness; and without

Consciousness was not any thing made that was made.

Reader, when will you awaken to see that you are this

Consciousness with whom all things are possible; and

in whom all things exist? And that this Consciousness

and its expression is all there is?

Accepting this Consciousness as creative Mind, we

may now begin to create or produce many new and

wonderful things. Indeed, the ability to create is our

very nature: but never as the assumptive individual.

When one claims the power and authority to create in

the name or form of man, he does so in ignorance and

darkness: and such presumption is destined to failure.

Our ability to create abundance of all good begins

when we repudiate the false position of personal

creatorship; and think as the Self, the universal Creator.

Even a glimpse of this wonder and glory thrills us; and,

of course, participation fulfils it. The marvellous new

stratoplane of today is significant of Life as the Whole,

in peace and harmony ... above the finite, above storms

and dangers; above man and his presumptions;

symbolizing the wonder and glory of the Ascension.

As people begin more clearly to comprehend that

Consciousness is the one universal, unlimited Mind,

they will more readily give up the false viewpoint of

separateness and individuality. Then limitations will

abate everywhere. A new heaven and a new earth

shall be established, where new ideas and new abilities

will be used to create the myriad of useful things which

are needed, in order that we progress into an experience

of greater and fuller joys and activities in all directions.

As the One, the power to create is present in us all.

The recognition and acceptance of this astounding

realism will open up unlimited resources, and bring

new and greater prosperity to everyone. The author,

Edward Bellamy, had vision of just such a creative new

Age when he conceived his book “Equality.” Many of

his revolutionary ideas might well be put into practical

use today.

Those now ready to give up a part for the whole, the

limited for the unlimited, many false minds, selves,

bodies and activities for the one creative Mind, and its

all-inclusive perfect ideas and abilities, will find an

new Age present; an altogether new world at hand.

Here, all shall live in peace, harmony, happiness; and

the joyous experience of every good and perfect thing.

When shall this glorious event come to pass?

Whosoever will, let him begin now to prepare himself

for it: for if he is to experience it at all, he must be the

Creator of it, as creative Mind and Creator are one.

What can you lose by accepting this new view of

Creator and creation? On the other hand, what shall

be your loss if, seeing the vast power and glory before

you, for personal reasons you reject and refuse them?

Moreover, your readiness to act upon this

Self-revealing Light will give you the strength and

ability to convert others to this glorious viewpoint.

Thus today, as of yore, we hear the clarion call of the

Christ. Repent of separateness and division! Repent

of personalities and individualism! Repent of

limitation, bondage, restriction, everywhere! Lay

down the mistaken view of the Creator as an unknown

Being, outside of you, and afar off! See and be that

which you eternally are, — this identical One!

THIS IS THE DAY

“This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will

rejoice and be glad in it.” — Psalm 118:24.

TODAY is the day of Power, Authority, Action and

Dominion. Today is the day of our Lordship, the day

when it may be said of us, “Thou shall decree a thing,

and it shall be established to thee.” (Job 22:28).

No need, then, that we look into the future for peace to

come or joy and gladness to be at hand; for wars to

cease and sorrows flee away. Nor any need to resort

to the planets for information regarding our prospects

for security and happiness.

All such wrong thinking should be renounced, as well

as the mistaken viewpoint that one needs to contend

with a “mortal mind” or “material sense” which is

supposedly attempting to sow evil suggestions

everywhere. Now is the time for you, and for all, to

take the stand as one with that Being which is all power

in Heaven and on earth ... and to believe in no other.

Only because he thinks himself isolated from the

Whole, as some weak, helpless mortal, does one accept

such superstitions and vain imaginations. Seeing that

we are Mind and not man, the Lord and not a servant,

we cease to contend with thought or thing; and

furthermore, stop believing that any personal or

impersonal evil needs to be vanquished.

Verily, this is the day, and every hour from Eternity to

Eternity is the day, to accept the glorious omnipotence

and omniscience of our Self and Being; the only power

there is or can be.

This is the time to speak with authority; to exercise

dominion and be a law to all things in and of our

Consciousness; even as commanded by the Christ.

Your willingness and readiness to give up that which

concerns your assumptional personality, or individual

identity, to think and live as the perfect Self which you

eternally are, is what entitles you to direct perception

and illumination. This is the day for you to determine

how willing and ready you are.

What a difference it makes if one toils with the various

mental practices of healing and struggles with

conflicting thoughts and efforts or if he deals

confidently with pure Spirit alone. One’s only need is

a Spiritual awakening to the sublime fact and actuality

that we are Spirit, — Self -illuminating and

Self-contained.

Corruption, limitation, disease, war and death appear

because people and nations have not yet cognized the

glorious truth of Being. Looking above all else to God

as Light and Wisdom within oneself, sets one free from

bondage to personality and incorrect teaching.

THE CHRIST PRESENCE

“I GO ... and I will come again, and receive you to

myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John

14:3). Now I am here with you, as one of you, and in a

form like yours; that you may listen to and heed me,

and come to see what is true of me, is true of you; and

what I am, you are also.

I shall come again, but my second coming will not be in

the limited form of man, but as universal Spirit and

Consciousness; and to receptive hearts, everywhere.

I, the Christ, the still, small Voice of Revelation, will

talk and walk with you, love and direct you; and

disclose to you your identicalness with me ... and the

great and mighty powers of our creative Mind and

Being. I, the Christ, shall be with you always, and

bring all things to your remembrance, so that you shall

be as I am, the light of the world.

My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. In the end,

you shall find my simple instructions to be the easiest,

as well as the single way to bring you the great Answer.

I, the Spirit of Truth, ever-present, shall bring

“Whosoever-will” to accept my Teaching as supreme

and absolute; to see Oneness as all-ness, and Allness as

oneness. I will write my words of Inspiration, Light

and Glory on the tablet of the heart; and whosoever

will, let him leave all other views of Life to accept, as

the seamless robe, the wholeness and indivisibleness of

Being.

Fear not! Fear nothing! For what is there to fear in

the world of all good, all love and all glory? Fear no

one! For who is there to harm you in the world where

you are a law to yourself? Have you not been

believing and declaring that God is all? How can God

be all to you, if you consider yourself a separate being

or entity, your neighbour another being or entity, and

so forth? Can God be indivisible Perfection if there

are multitudes of personalities who are foolish,

ignorant, sick, at war with one another, and altogether

vain? Can you reconcile that which is irreconcilable?

Can you declare infinite Good, infinite Love, infinite

Peace and Harmony, and at the same time believe that

there is evil anywhere?

Verily your misunderstanding of Being, and of

existence, shall be “likened to a foolish man, which

built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended

and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon

that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”

(Matt. 7:26).

Many lives and many minds appear only because of

ignorance, or mental darkness. They will disappear

when the one Selfhood is enthroned in the heart, and

recognized to be the Universal, excluding all

individualism.

Fear not! Fear nothing! Let not your heart be

troubled! Ye believe in God as Perfection and

Completeness, outside of you, now rise in glory to see

that this very Being which I Am, you are also.

Put away from you all your idols and idolatries, your

personal attachments to things, doctrines, and forms of

every kind and nature. Awake, O Immortal, and put

on the Seamless Robe, — the understanding that I and

my Father are one. This is the wedding garment; this,

the Christ Presence you embody when you see and

accept Perfection and Completeness to be all of you

and an assumptive self to be nothing.

Verily, the revelation of the one Being, the one Body,

and the one Universe as unlimited, immaculate

Substance-Spirit, is my second coming; my second

Presence in your midst, which, as you receive and

embody, shall usher you, as it were, into that Place

which I have prepared for you ... and to the full vision

and knowledge of your identicalness with the one

Mind, Life, Being, even as I am.

EQUALITY

THE ringing tones of him who knew the great requisite,

as well as the great Answer, still reverberate down

through the ages. “Whosoever will come after me

(take possession of the infinite All), let him deny

himself, (disclaim any form or individual selfhood);

take up his cross, (abide with this new idea) and follow

me (accept my teaching as absolute and supreme).”

(Mark 8:34).

“He that findeth his life (to be the one indivisible

Spirit) shall lose it (as man, a separate individuality):

and he that loseth his life (as man) shall find it (as the

universal Selfhood).” (Matt. 10:39).

It should now be easy for one to grasp that all earthly

troubles and problems, including the present war

conditions, appear solely because of the belief in many

individualities, each accepting a self and identity of his

own. Surely in God, the infinite One and All, there are

no such states, beliefs nor conditions.

No wonder the Christ introduced and stressed the new

Idea of emptying out the old bottles, or former

teachings, and the denial of oneself as having any

individualized sense of Life and things. Such wrong

practice alone denotes the prodigal position, the

turning away and separating of oneself from Perfection

as the Whole: and so results in a limited sense of Good

and Abundance, everywhere. Nor can such outcome

ever be surmounted, rectified, healed or overcome

individualistically.

The one and only remedy is to follow our Saviour’s

admonition to accept the Universal Self as our very

own. In this way, whosoeverwill shall come naturally

and easily into possession of the All-Good, in which

Abundance and Perfection dwell and abide.

No one needs to take up the study of physics nor

metaphysics before studying Ontology. Anyone,

anywhere, desiring to know the truth about Life and

Being, and the way to experience its peace, health,

harmony, and fullness of all good, may now take The

Great Answer, and without any previous religious

training, come face to face with the Divine and Perfect;

and prepare himself for direct perception and

illumination.

Citizens of Heaven, awake! Give up your mistaken

idea that you are an individual, and as such, entitled to

the Whole. It is not so! As an individual you are

entitled only to a part, a portion, a limited amount of

everything. This is exactly what you are falsely

claiming for your self when you claim individuality:

just like the prodigal, when he wanted to become a

distinct individual, and operate on his own.

Do you recall what happened to him? He was

unsuccessful ... he utterly failed. The time came when

“no man gave to him;” that is, he came to the end of his

individualistic possession. Then, somehow, he

remembered. The veil lifted, his viewpoint changed.

Presently, he looked toward the Infinite, the Whole, his

very Life and Substance. The longer he looked, the

greater his strides to it and the farther he placed the

form of individualism. To get to the Father, the House

of unlimited abundance ... this idea now completely

consumed him.

Strange, even the first steps toward it began to take

away some of the terrible fear and suffering which had

enveloped him. Now he rejoiced; and his heart was

warm and athrill. Just the thought of that Whole

which now he began to take as actually his very own,

quickened his steps and accelerated his speed.

Even when yet he thought he had a long distance to

cover, he felt Fullness and Perfection right at his side.

And it was so. Then he disowned all form of

individuality altogether. Rapturously, he took

possession of that Self which is the great Answer.

Reader, surely now the Spirit within you is bearing

witness to this great Realism, is it not? Your heart is

touched. You are constrained to withdraw yourself

from the mistaken position of separateness and

division. Am I right?

Then take all, and fear nothing! Rejoicingly,

devotedly and wholeheartedly abide with it for ever

and ever.

The general idea of equality is an imperfect and

incorrect one, since considered from the false

individualistic viewpoint. Here all wish to attain the

All, individually. Their ideal is to establish equal

rights for everyone as multiple individualities.

This ideal of equal rights for all is a true and correct

one: but the belief that this can be accomplished

individually is a mistaken premise. Thus continue the

forms of war, struggle, lack and limitation, everywhere.

Despite the inherent knowledge in everyone that he is

divinely entitled to all, automatically and inevitably lie

separates himself from it, because of his false

viewpoint of individualism.

Prosperity is equally available to everyone ... but not

like an apple which may be broken up into equal parts.

Should each take a part of the apple, he would

obviously receive but a limited amount, thus would

continue in want.

Now, then, the supposition that Prosperity or

Abundance is something which is divisible, like an

apple, is a postulate which is absolutely erroneous and

without foundation. This very fallacy prevents the

success and fulfilment of the idealism of equality for

which everyone clamours today.

Never can the abundance of all good be detached from

God, the infinite Whole! Attempting to separate them,

or to secure abundance of itself, must inevitably prove

futile, since Creator and creation are one.

Emphatically, and truly, everyone is divinely entitled to

all the abundance he can take, even as to all the air he

breathes: but the idea of equalization of abundance,

based on the viewpoint that all are entitled to it

separately, or individually, will ever prove futile.

Air, for instance, is an indivisible whole. Unlike the

apple, it cannot be separated into portions. Exactly so

with Life and Being. For any to obtain unlimited

abundance, he must accept the premise that it is not

something to be acquired, earned nor secured: but to

come into his possession as though it were his very own

... for such it is.

Content to be but a limited man, how dare he claim

rights to the unlimited? It is an utter impossibility for

one to gain his life without losing it! Or to enjoy

access to the blessed Whole without disowning a

separate identity!

Only when we accept the Creator of it, are we entitled

to unlimited abundance, since Creator and abundance

are one. Therefore, the single way is for us to identify

with it. When we have fulfilled Life’s requisite, then

equalization of abundance is ours for ever.

I AM THE LIFE

I AM the resurrection, and the Life” declared Jesus, on

that memorable occasion when he raised his friend,

Lazarus, from the dead.

Just previous to this authoritative statement, Martha

had voiced the prevailing belief that at a general

resurrection, or “last day,” she expected to see her

brother again. How quickly Jesus repudiated such a

theory, disdaining to place the wholeness and health of

his friend in some imaginative far-away future!

No wonder, too, that he boldly announced for himself,

and for all who would accept him, — “I am the

resurrection and the life!” I am the resurrection out of

the imaginative unreal, into the full possession of my

eternal Self as Heaven, now and always. Such

resurrection is not dependent upon times, places,

doctrines nor personalities ... nor upon a theoretical,

distant Deity; but is my Self, your Self, the one

indivisible and universal Selfhood, without shadow of

turning.

To see that we are Life itself, not shifting students of it,

the one Spirit, immutable and undefiled, precludes

death; and thus eliminates any necessity for

resurrection.

“He that believeth in me, and in my teachings, though

he were dead, asleep to Progress and Revelation, yet

shall he live,” and be aware of himself as he really is.

Always Jesus knew and identified himself with

Perfection and Completeness at hand; so should we do

likewise.

A woman, struggling for two years to pay her debts, to

find employment and keep possession of her little

home, was brought face to face with utter despair; for

on the following day certain authorities were to take

possession of her home, her belongings, everything,

leaving her penniless, homeless, — a failure.

In this crucial moment, a voice spoke to her, saying,

“They cannot touch your Being!” This was her hour

of resurrection. Instantly she saw that she might lose

every material form or thing, but never her Being!

She decided for this last night to live in Being.

She slept peacefully, and awakened happy and

refreshed, still knowing, Nothing can touch my Being!

Early a knock came upon the door, and there stood, not

the authorities, but a messenger boy who handed her a

sealed envelope. Her services were requested by a

large and important firm in that city. The work proved

permanent, and paid the highest salary she had ever

received.

She kept her home and her belongings; paid her debts;

and more important still, learned a

never-to-be-forgotten lesson, — that we are to locate

our wealth and our supply of all things in our own

Being. Identifying herself with the Being who is all,

and so possesses all, and letting go all effort to obtain

anything from man’s world of limitation and lack,

effortlessly she came into possession of her permanent

peace, security and abundance; and the enjoyment of

all needful things.

Entering the new era of today, we should welcome with

open arms the new and true understanding of the

Christ-teaching, and happily come into the experience

of all things for which we now stand in need. As

creative Mind, we shall produce everything needful

and useful.

Seeing this as the eternal Fact, will you arise and come

into the recognition and awareness of your Self and

creative Mind as identical? Will you resurrect

yourself from any dead beliefs in an outside I-Am, and

a future Heaven? Then shall you ascend into the

glorious realization that I Am the resurrection and the

life.

THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST

THE 20th chapter of Matthew, we find “The Parable of

the Labourers.” Here Jesus spoke of a householder

who hired labourers for a penny a day, paying exactly

the same amount to those who came at the eleventh

hour as they who toiled the entire day. Since such

dealing appears to be unjust and inconsistent, let us

look beneath the surface for the real meaning of this

doctrine ... and find its underlying viewpoint.

Who are the labourers? Who is the householder, and

what does the penny represent? The labourers are

those who call themselves man, mortals or

personalities, believing Life to be separated into parts.

The Householder is the Lord-Self, as the Whole. The

penny signifies Heaven, which being all there is of the

reward, none may receive more, regardless of the

length of time consumed in labouring for it. The

eleventh hour signifies the final step of awakening

which takes one out of the labouring class into that of

the Householder; out of division into Oneness.

So-called mortals, individuals, or human

consciousness, — aspiring for ways to achieve a more

complete form of peace and satisfaction, here on earth,

endeavour to change the pictures of limitation,

darkness and bondage about them into better, brighter

and more satisfactory ones. Such labour is done by

the sweat of the brow, or, with a more advanced and

spiritually progressive outlook, by the effort of

thought; nevertheless, the point of view is the same, —

certain work must be done by the individual.

While the multitudes are engaged in this fashion, others

dare to claim the same reward, yet use neither muscle

nor thought to earn it: for they see that they and the

Father are one.

Then arise dissentions among the labourers, for why,

they question, should anyone lay claim to security,

peace, health and the abundance of all good without

labouring with hands or minds to procure them?

Paradoxically, we read that the late arrivals not only

received the selfsame reward, but were paid before

those who had borne the burden of the day; and

moreover, that Jesus imperiously decreed, “The last

shall be first, and the first last.”

The first are those who believe they are individuals,

needing to earn, gain or acquire the Heavenly good.

Those who have given up the belief that they are

separate individuals, to accept the indivisibility of the

One, represent the last. Thus shall these be first to

come into the joys of the New Age, now approaching:

for renouncing the position of the labourer, they

identify the Self with the Householder, the universal

Whole.

Coming face to face with the great Reality that as the

Self, one is the Truth, and not a disciple ... the Whole,

and not an idea ... the Thinker, and not the image, he

disclaims all association with human footsteps, to be

the Way to himself, — the Way of immortal and

everlasting Life; the Way of almighty and omnipotent

Mind; verily, the Way of the Lord, or Householder; in

short, the Way of the One, the Whole.

Reader, which will you be?

“ENTER THOU”

THE Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25) carries a

similar illuminative Message. Again we find the

“servants” typifying those who, believing they are

persons or individualities, strive to gain their separate

good.

Here the “Lord” designates him who knows he is the

Whole; the one Mind which is all. The “talents,” the

new perceptions and inspirations continually

appearing. A “servant” receives as many “talents” as

his desire and acceptance thereof permit ... “according

to his several ability.”

If one receives a new revelation, for instance, and

immediately seeks to enlarge and dwell upon it,

assuredly additional light and understanding, together

with their attendant good, is given him. But if one is

given the New Idea and he heeds it not, allowing it no

root within him; but instead “buries it in the ground,”

losing sight of it altogether; he then is not only cut off

from any additional blessings but, moreover, begins to

lose the little that he has.

True, “To every one that hath genuine receptivity and

unselfish love for God, and all spiritual realities, shall

be given more understanding, and greater wealth of all

good things; and lie shall have abundance: but from

him that hat/i not made the great surrender of a

selfhood apart from the one infinite Whole, and is

unwilling to take the progressive steps forward, shall

be taken away even that little personal understanding

and wealth which he believes he hath.”

Functioning as the one all-knowing Mind, and

eliminating altogether the so-called individual

thinking, we are now and here the one Thinker, and no

other; and are literally the one Consciousness, and none

else.

THE WEDDING GARMENT

IN the 22nd chapter of Matthew, we find the stirring

parable of “The Marriage of the King’s Son.” Here,

in inimitable metaphor, Jesus presents the following

points of consideration, — The gracious invitation to

the marriage; the requisite of the wedding garment; the

exactitude of Life’s demands.

Come into the acceptance of the great Whole,

imperatively calls the Spirit to us all. Marriage,

therefore, is our full response to this call. The

wedding garment is the love and purity we Possess as

the One.

The same perversity which Jesus so stirringly and

startlingly depicted in his parable prevails to this day;

that is, many are unwilling to denounce individualism,

and wish to continue with their “merchandise,” — the

personal ideas and theories pertaining to their separate

interpretations of Being: thus reject Life’s progressive

demands.

“The wedding is ready,” — the great Answer is already

at hand. “But they which were bidden were not

worthy;” — many prefer to remain with their own

personalities, ritualism and attachments. Not only are

they unworthy to receive the reward of Progress, but

often they look with disapproval upon those who leave

the beaten path of the multitude to follow the

emancipating light of the Christ.

The more willing one is to surrender the notion of a

“becoming,” and accept the vision, I-Am, the sooner

shall he participate in the marriage with his Lord-Self;

and put on the wedding garment.

The common belief that we are to unfold into our

Heavenly state as a bud unfolds into a full bloom, is

absolutely at variance with Christ’s teaching. Said he,

“You are the Light of the world! In you is the

Kingdom of Heaven! Look and behold!” Consider

yourself man no longer. Nor continue your search for

the Truth. You are the Truth now, and never have

been otherwise.

An illuminative and helpful story is told about an

animal which was educated as a sheep, though born a

lion. Living with his foster-mother, a sheep, he took

upon himself her characteristics of timidity and

gentleness, even bleating. One day this cub-lamb

wandered off near a deep forest. There before him

stood the majestic form of a huge beast which let forth

a terrific roar. Instead of being frightened, something

within the cub-lamb stirred and wakened.

Breathlessly, he listened. Then spontaneously he

answered back with the roar of a lion.

Did this animal need to acquire the lion-nature or to

unfold into it? Or put off the qualities of a sheep?

No. He needed to be wedded to his true self and

nature. Born a lion, nothing could make him a sheep.

This story may well apply to us all. Though educated

as man, the individual, subjected to sickness, sin and all

sorts of limitations, all the while we have been Life

eternal, Truth triumphant, and the forever I-Am.

Practically all Jesus’ parables contain the same

significant lessons, mainly, — we are the One, and not

the many; we must give up separateness and

individualism; we must accept wholeness and oneness;

those who will not yield to these requirements shall

necessarily continue in limitation.

Through the light of Ontology, we can now grasp the

great teaching of Jesus clearly; and can see and

understand that nothing but the mistaken acceptance of

individualized consciousness has brought about a

reversed situation, where dishonesty, impurity and

unworthiness appear; and where limitation seems

everywhere.

To eliminate the mistaken belief in personality would

simultaneously do away with discords of every name

and nature: for no lack or inharmony exists in God, the

All.

As nothing could change the nature of the lion, nor

cause him to be other than he really was, so nothing has

actually changed us, nor caused us to be other than that

which truly we are ... but have not known.

Listen earnestly and eagerly to hear the still echoing

call of the Wayshower, — “I am the Truth!”

Spontaneously, rapturously, may there burst from your

heart the great Answer, — I am the Truth! Then shall

you be wedded to the whole ... and wear the wedding

garment.

THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH

“Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet

him.” — Matthew 25:6.

HOW shall I gain this spiritual inspiration so to leave

all and follow the Christ? “Go and buy for

yourselves,” is the answer to us each, as given in the

parable of “The ten Virgins.”

The Bridegroom typifies the Self as the Whole; thus

Heaven. The virgins represent those who claim to be

pure in heart and desirous of gaining the true

understanding. The lamps present receptivity; the oil,

the flow of divine inspiration.

Now five of the virgins accepted the Self as the one

I-Am, and kept in close touch with Progress and

Revelation. The other five heard the Message of

Oneness as only another theory, presenting to them a

new road of travel; but gave no genuine attention to it,

nor made any place for it to root in their heart. Soon

they lost sight of it altogether.

“At midnight (the hour least expected) there was a cry

made, Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to

meet him.” According to the parable, those who had

accepted the Message, abide in the one Consciousness

of indivisible Wholeness, feeling no insecurity nor

limitation of any kind.

But the foolish, they who rejected the Message, and

regarded themselves as so many separate identities,

now felt in need of more light and its co-existent supply

of good: thus they hastened to the wise, saying, “Give

us of your oil: for our lamps have gone out.”

Here Jesus depicted the general tendency to this day,

that is, to imagine one can borrow good; as though

good could ever be separated from Life, the Whole!

What happened then? Did they who had given up the

belief in separateness and division now lend their

illumination to others? What a deep and pertinent

question this is! Let us see how Jesus answered.

“The wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not

enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that

sell, and buy for yourselves.” Such a teaching as this

would sound cold and selfish unless understood from

the viewpoint of the Christ.

Could anyone borrow from Reality? Can the Truth

lend understanding to you or to me? Can the

Unlimited be separated or divided? The impossibility

of it is surely apparent. None of us can give or lend

Truth to another, inasmuch as the Truth is indivisible ...

and even now our very own.

Regardless of what true ideas one would like to give to

another, it could never satisfy: only limitless

abundance can ever completely satisfy anyone. So we

find the wise telling the foolish, Buy for yourselves.

All must go to the All. Here alone is the Fount of

abundance.

But while the foolish went about individualistically,

intent on borrowing or obtaining for their separate

selves, lo, “the Bridegroom came; and they that were

ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door

was shut.”

The Bridegroom, or perfect awareness of the universal

Self as God, the Perfection of all, may come to our

attention at any moment. Accepting Perfection to be

one Whole, impossible of separateness, simultaneously

we close the door upon the materialistic viewpoint.

To be sure, there may be those who still insist that we

open the door to them, and speak again from the old

standpoint of personality and individualism. Then the

Lord answers: “Verily I say to you, I know you not.”

The Perfect can know naught of imperfection.

Once having found our Self to be Life, Truth and Love,

which are infinite and universal, indivisible, and at

hand, let us watch that we abide herein.

GOD IS ALL

I AM the Answer to every problem; the fulfilment of

every desire. This is true and certain since our own

Being is God; and since our own Being constitutes our

security in all good.

God is neither a personal nor an impersonal Being

separate or distinct from our Self: but the Self of every

one. The knowledge of our oneness with this

all-sufficient and all-sufficing God-Being constitutes

our perfect and complete solution to problems of every

kind, — to every emergency, demand or need.

When we are fully wedded to our almighty omnipotent

Being, accepting our Self to be the very Truth instead

of an aspiring student; the dynamic Original instead of

a lifeless reflection; omniscient Mind instead of

incompetent man, then we shall experience no sickness

or limitation of any kind: for they are not in the House

of the Lord. As our awareness becomes more and

more clarified and transparent, and we sing and soar,

we shall be the living proof of the great realism — God

is All.

Considering one infinite Mind alone, it is easier for us

to adopt the vision of immaculate and irresistible

Perfection as always present, and intact in every one.

It seems natural for us to say that man sins, is sick,

incapable and utterly worthless; but raising our vision

from man to Mind, how much more natural to confess

the impossibility of us, as Mind, to see or feel other

than the perfect continuous supply of good in every

thing, and every way.

We know that the One does not see evil or lack of any

good; nor is there any circumstance, thought or thing

which can influence or persuade Mind to do so. Mind

is ever consciously aware of its irresistible and

all-harmonious action and expression; and it includes

all Being. Identified with the Divine, everyone loves

the eternal good; nor is anyone seeing or experiencing a

lack of any kind. Nothing exists to oppose its

harmonious action and expression in every direction.

“God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” (1

John 1:5). Mind is the conceiver, and the thing

conceived; and it includes all ideas and identities.

Admitting only the one Thinker and thinking, we are

bound to express the very Life which Mind is, — that

Life of Wholeness, Harmony and Success: and live in

the universe of Joy, Peace and Delight, — the universe

wherein there is no darkness at all.

Wedded to the One, and no other, we are able to

transmit this glorious and emancipating Message to

receptive hearts, everywhere. When called upon to

help, we should see Mind, not man ... Mind, perfect in

every thought and action. Since there is no reality

except that of Harmony and Perfection, we should

perceive Mind to include everyone; thus, everyone to

be this Consciousness, and no other. Truly, then, we

are worshipping a God who, to us, is all.

When we behold Jesus as the Truth and Life, instead of

a particularly good man, naturally we shall discern that

in order to be “like him,” we must be identically the

same.

In John’s gospel, the 14th chapter, we find the eternal

promise of the Christ, — “The Comforter, the Spirit of

Truth, he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.” This

Comforter is the direct perception, or spiritual

realization, that we are the Truth. Then we know that

we are not an image, a man or a reflection, — but pure

Consciousness, which is the “I” or God.

This Comforter is the very Spirit of Jesus’ teaching

which comes to you, and to me, bringing us into the

conscious awareness of the perfect Self, or Father-state,

to be intact in us all, here and now.

Lifting our vision above mortals and humanity, we

simultaneously lift it above states and levels of

consciousnesses; and admitting one state as the all and

only, we see all as in and of Perfection: and none

outside of it. We are the one Mind beholding Itself as

the First, and the Last; the Beginning, and the End.

Acknowledging the one-Consciousness to be perfect,

and to include all, we no longer deal with humans nor

personalities; nor consider how to heal, educate or

regenerate them. If we are to love everyone, then it is

imperative that we see them as they truly are; and in no

other fashion.

Any view contrary to this is a compromising one, and is

beholding as through a glass, darkly. In order to see

face to face, we must turn from the double vision which

permits of God and man; Life and death; Abundance

and limitation; Consciousness and mortal mind.

Reader, are you willing, now, to forsake all thought and

talk of planes, states and realms, in order that you may

see and accept the one state only, — the Father-Reality,

present and intact, our very Self and Being?

Verily for us to exist at all, we must be, and are, the one

Life, the one Thinker, the one Mind as the whole. As

such, we have inspiration, revelation and true thinking;

we know that the world within us is without evil of any

kind.

Listen closely: If God is there where you are, then all

good is there where you are; health, harmony, activity.

If God is there where you are, then true and right

thoughts are there where you are; fearlessness, power,

receptivity.

If God is there where you are, then peace and

understanding are there where you are; happiness,

blessedness, security. If God is there where you are,

then indivisibility is there where you are; oneness,

allness, I-Am-ness.

If God is there where you are, then nothing opposing

Him is there where you are! Nothing contrary to Him

is there where you are! Nothing unlike Him is there

where you are!

VIEWPOINT

HEALING has nothing to do with the seeming material

forms; nor with the one spiritual Body. Nothing to do

with physical symptoms, conditions, nor discords of

any kind. It has to do only with one’s viewpoint.

Often, it is as simple as for one to decide whether he

possesses a material form which is discordant, and so

needs healing ... or the Spiritual Body which is perfect,

and into which no discord can possibly come.

Disowning all claim to a finite material form, and

taking spontaneous possession of the spiritual Body

which is ours from Everlasting to Everlasting, we

cannot fail to experience the glory and wholesomeness

thereof.

Claiming possession of the spiritual Body, which needs

no healing since it is ever immaculate, perfect and

complete, we prove our Self to be the one Being and no

other. Verily our body is beautiful as the morning

star, and light as the sun. However, just to believe it to

be spiritual, perfect and ever harmonious, is not

sufficient. We are to take possession of it as our very

own.

How? you may ask. Through love and devotion ... like

a burning flame. As today one claims allegiance to

the United States with all the ardour, adoration, loyalty

and fervour of his being, in like manner are we to claim

our Self as Spirit, Truth and Intelligence; and our body

to be perfect, whole and all-harmonious.

Forms are multiple, and are claimed by those who call

themselves persons or individuals. The Body is one,

and belongs to all who will take possession of it as the

body of Perfection … the body of Life, Truth and Love.

When you glimpse the real and true state of Being,

Body and Universe, do not think that then you can

afford to stand still and rest. No! This is no time for

lethargy or mental laziness. You are to be the living

flame ... expressing, more and more, the divine ideas

and activities inherent in your Being; remembering that

the body expresses you, the perfect Life and Being.

An intellectual acceptance of this new Idea, without the

spiritually joyous activity of abiding herein,

worshipping, loving, adoring and continually soaring

to greater heights of light, power and action, will do but

little for you ... and, mayhap, even less.

The growing tendency to do away with the idea of

mental or metaphysical treatment, yet give nothing in

its place, limits and jeopardizes one’s light and

spiritually progressive activity. Having come face to

face with the Self, we have still to “Prove all things

and hold fast.”

What will be of help to us in our disassociation with

discords or limitations? The answer is, our acceptance

of, and dependence upon, the spiritual Consciousness

which we are ... the Consciousness which knows the

Self, Universe and Body to be the spiritual perfect

Whole. In fact, our whole outlook must be spiritual.

If Heaven is at hand, then just where is it? Is it in the

United States? In Europe? Jesus elucidated this

viewpoint by saying, “The Kingdom of God is within

you.” Now how far away is “you”? Right at hand,

are you not? So if you appear to be sojourning in the

United States, then right where you are lo, here is

Heaven! Or in Europe, lo, here is heaven!

You can see, Heaven is in you; you need not “go” to it.

Consciousness is Life, is Being, is body, is universe, is

Heaven. It is right at hand within you ... you.

The more we can stand upon the true nature and state of

our Self, Body and Universe, the more secure becomes

our safety, peace and prosperity. The recognition of

our activities as spiritual and perfect, and without limit

of any kind, at hand, and within our Consciousness,

aids in our emancipation from a spectral world, called a

human existence.

I AM THAT I AM

MAKE an altogether new place in your heart for the

great Answer, — I am the Truth ... all-knowing; I am

the Way ... all-sufficing; I am the Life ... immutable and

immortal; I am the Body ... incorruptible and eternal; I

Am that I Am ... there is none else.

Attempting to put a certain amount of air into an

enclosure restricts its natural power and greatness.

Exactly so with Life and Being. Any attempt we make

to personalize or individualize infinite Being, Body or

Universe, is vanity. “Verily every man at his best

state is altogether vanity.” (Psa. 39:5).

Reader, are you ready now to move from “a far

country” to the “Father’s house”? From division to

Wholeness ... from individuality to the Infinite … from

man to Consciousness, labourer to Householder, and

servant to Lord of creation?

Learn right now that never can you transpose a finite

form into the spiritual body; nor convert a material

world into the promised land. On the other hand,

know that you have never been isolated from true

Being.

Inasmuch as Heaven is our forever Reality, and is in no

way outside of us (for there is no outside at all), it is

ever with us and at hand. This gives all the

opportunity to live in it, at any time, and exactly where

we are. If Heaven were a place, there would never be

sufficient room in it for all: but as it is our own Being,

we are at liberty to partake of all its fullness, without

any limits of time, place or space.

Heaven is the spiritual state of recognition in which we

discern that since we are Spirit, Mind, we infold every

good and perfect thing; that the good alone is all.

Thus, the gracious invitation extended everyone, —

“Come ye blessed, inherit the Kingdom prepared for

you from the foundation of the world.” Since this

Kingdom of Perfection is already prepared and

Selfexistent, heirship to it rests with us, and is our

acceptance of it.

For instance, you should determine whether you

express a personal form which is physical, and in need

of healing, or the universal body of Truth, which is

spiritual, perfect and complete; whether your world is

an external earth, endangered by invasion, war, crime

and death, and in need of rehabilitation and defence, or

the inner realm of Spirit, perfectly safe, sound and

secure.

To elucidate further. First of all, recognize this

supreme and paramount fact, — your Self, Body and

Universe already exist for you, perfect and complete.

Your acceptance of this sublime and unimpeachable

realism should immediately interrupt your

contemplation of mythical finite forms and conditions;

and enable you to wholeheartedly accept the wonders

and glories of all-inclusive Being, as the I Am that I

Am.

So long as your eyes are blinded to this perfect,

complete Self, Body and Universe, which exist for you,

from Everlasting to Everlasting, and continue looking

as though they were not, so long shall you deprive

yourself of the unlimited health, peace, harmony and

good which forever abide with you.

Nearly all religious teachings of today demand that

individualistically we become more spiritually minded;

and more active in the expression of purity, goodness

and love. Surely this ideal is progressive, and far

more enlightening than the old belief that people are

the helpless victims of heredity, ignorance,

circumstance or sin. Nevertheless, such

striving-to-be-divine shall be transcended by

recognition of the eternal fact that goodness, love,

purity and uprightness are ever innate and intact in us,

the Truth and the Life.

Human footsteps appear helpful in the assumed

man-position: but the hour strikes when the

individualistic sense must be dispensed with altogether,

to make room for the sublime and unconditioned

Absolute ... which all are ... but have not known.

When I regarded myself as an individualized

consciousness, I spoke, thought and acted from this

position: but when I received the revelation that I am

the Truth, that I and my Father are one, then I refused

the individualistic viewpoint.

As the Christ, or I-Am-Life, Jesus claimed all power in

Heaven and on earth; and classified himself with the

Lord, the Householder, the Shepherd, the Father, the

I-Am: never with “man,” “labourer,” “servant.”

Because we are one with him, not individualistically

but as the same Being, we are bound to come into this

identical viewpoint and position: then we shall prove

that righteousness does not depend upon the

transformation of ourselves as individuals, but is ever

innate and intact in us, the one Being.

No method, repentance, system nor science will ever

accomplish that which is impossible with man, —

“Ever learning, and never able to come to the

knowledge of the Truth.” (II Tim. 3:7). Our

acceptance of the Truth as our own Being will prove

the single Way to wholeness, harmony and

Life-eternal.

Verily, as the One, we are eternal Good … birthless,

ageless, unimpeachable Happiness, Wholeness,

Harmony; including every good and perfect thing.

Already, and forever, the Kingdom and King are one

I-Am. “Before Abraham was, I Am.” (John 8:58).

In the twinkling of an eye, you may behold this fact to

be so. No amount of labour, strife or study can bring

you this priceless boon, — your completion and

perfection as the I Am that I Am.

OUR CREATION

JESUS’ declaration that the Kingdom of God is within

us, and Heaven at hand, pertains to us as the one

indivisible Consciousness or creative Mind; not as

multiple individualities.

This heavenly Kingdom has nothing to do with worlds,

times, places, circumstances, persons or things. It has

to do only with us as that Mind to which all things are

possible; and in which all creation begins.

The simplicity, charm and beauty of Jesus’ teaching

become more apparent to us with every opening of our

vision; and happily we are to be the living proof and

certainty of it.

You may now be thinking, — How can I follow him so

as to pay my debts, bring about my success and

prosperity, and live without a constant sense of

limitation? The Answer begins this way: “Seek ye

first the Kingdom of God.” First of all, see that your

Consciousness is your Kingdom; and the Creator of

your unlimited abundance.

Adopting the Christ viewpoint, you will see that here in

Consciousness, all good is, and abides. No longer

look, then, to some outside Power for it; rather, be that

Consciousness and Power which is, and which creates,

all.

Are not all generalities of debt involved altogether in

the notion of personality and individuality? Most

certainly they are! Surely none is found in the great

universal Consciousness which decrees, “God is light,

and in Him is no darkness at all.”

Just as soon as you leave the mistaken position of man,

and that of an individualized consciousness, and

acclaim the Self as Lord of creation, even as Jesus

portrayed for our benefit, then shall you cancel your

debts and liabilities for as the Self-revealing Light, you

will receive direct perception, and full spiritual

instruction.

Accepting Reality, you accept God, Life and

Consciousness as the whole, incapable of any

individualization whatever; therefore incapable of any

limitations, debts or liabilities of any kind. Moreover,

here you see that you are one with God, the Creator.

How important, then, to understand that only as we

relinquish individualism can we be one with the

Divine.

This new light exposes the absurdity of the theory that,

as individuals, we are each a creator. There would

then be many creators, contending with one another.

There is but one Creator: even as there is but one Mind

and Consciousness, hence, the prerogative to create is

ours only as the one indivisible Whole.

Proportionately as we accept our Lordship, as Jesus

exemplified, shall we be able to practice Being as he

did; and happily be the living proof that “All things that

the Father hath are mine.”

THE LORD-SELF

I WILL lift up mine eyes to the hills, from whence

cometh my help.” (Psalm 121:1). Today, as always,

we are to look up and ascend high above the

individualistic prodigal-position. Eliminating this

false viewpoint and practice, we see only infinite Mind

and its infinite perfection ... infinite power, authority

and dominion.

The changing of forms of government, the

revolutionizing of a world of politics, religion, laws

and idealism, even though appearing helpful, in a

measure, will never be sufficient to bring about the

millennial Kingdom, the world of unlimited Peace,

Harmony and Abundance.

Lifting our eyes from warfare with man, thought and

thing, to that Perfection which is ever fully established,

and at hand, and exercising our innate Lordship, we are

Self-sustained and Self-existent.

According to the Scriptures, the mystical universe of

Love, Peace, and Blessedness is not to be gained

through development; nor is it to be added to man’s

world as new cloth is placed onto an old garment. We

are to let go the old theories entirely, and place the new

ideas into Mind, where they belong: then “both are

preserved.”

Let us now turn our attention to some of the “miracles”

of Jesus, as recounted by Matthew. We find that early

in his ministry, “he rebuked the winds and the sea: and

there was a great calm.” (Matt. 8:26). Yes, even the

winds and the sea obeyed him, because he knew and

accepted himself as the very Truth; the Lord of

creation, possessing “all power in heaven and on

earth.”

Proportionately as we come to see that we are the same

Truth and Life, (for there is but the one) then we also

shall utilize this power and authority of Being. Such

Power must not be confounded, of course, with the

“right thinking” of so-called individuals; but abides in

us as the Lord-Self.

Later we find Jesus feeding a multitude of “four

thousand men, beside women and children.” (Matt.

15:38). Think of it, — with only seven loaves and a

few little fishes to completely satisfy a famished

multitude! Consciousness, of course, is the substance

of all things, and Jesus relied upon this, his own

Consciousness, to produce for him, and for them,

whatever was needed at the moment.

As the Christ, he declared and proved, All things that

the Father hath, are mine, at all times, and in all

places. When we are able to do this, and to exercise

our power and dominion as he did, then shall we know

for a certainty that “Nothing shall by any means harm

you;” and “No evil shall come nigh thee.” If you have

not already proved this for yourself, then begin today to

turn to the Lord Self to supply you with every good

thing.

Our Wayshower also created money when he needed it.

He did not obtain it externally, but from his own Being

as the Lord of creation. As this Being, we are all

privileged to do the same. The universal divine

Consciousness is able to bring into expression

whatever is needed, that we may have security, peace

and unlimited prosperity: but we are to lay hold of this

Realism with our whole heart; and lovingly and

trustingly depend upon its operation in all our affairs.

In the name of our Lord-Self, let us set to work to prove

the actuality of the Heavenly state.

THE JUDGMENT DAY

IN THE 25th chapter of Matthew, we find an account

of “The Last Judgment.”

Many have believed this day to apply to some

far-in-the-future period where God, as a great personal

judge or potentate, will sentence everyone, — either to

eternal happiness or everlasting doom.

“And before him shall be gathered all nations, and he

shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd

divideth his sheep from the goats.” Verily, the

judgment day is right at hand! Jesus applied the term

“goats” to the stubborn and self-willed who refuse to

let go and give up their false sense of personalities, and

personal attachments, in order to accept of their

Perfection, Wholeness, Harmony and Goodness as

already finished, and at hand.

No amount of reason, prayer, system, study, thought or

science will be able to save the goat-climbers unless

they make the great surrender of an individual

consciousness of their own. All efforts to change,

correct, educate or spiritualize them will never

transform them into the “sheep” who have dispensed

with all physical, mental and spiritual efforts to do, to

think or make over ... content just to be the One.

Accepting their pristine purity, innocence and

goodness as the one indivisible Selfhood, at hand, they

have renounced all “others” in order to have and to hold

it.

They who refuse to be that which everlastingly they

are, merely sentence themselves to “outer darkness,”

where they experience limitations of all sorts, until they

are ready and willing to give up the personal for the

One; the fraction for the Whole; and a self-constituted

independence for indivisible Perfection: from this

requisite of Life, none are exempt.

The book of Life ... the judge ... the judgment day ... are

not far off, but very close to us all. Nor can the Christ

save those whose “ears are dull of hearing, and their

eyes they have closed” to the voice of Progress and

Revelation, for it is written, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,

how often would I have gathered thy children together,

even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings,

and ye would not.” (Matt. 23:37)

The parable of the separation of the goats and the sheep

is not mere idle words, so let the reader pause to

consider just what it means to him ... remembering that

the sheep enter the door, — I Am the One and the All

— and the goats “climb up some other way.”

“Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that

ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to

pass, but the end is not yet. Nation shall rise against

nation, and kingdom against kingdom ... but he that

shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.”

(Matt. 24:6-13)

Lovingly, patiently, fervently Jesus reiterated that there

is but the one Door into the sheepfold. But they

persisted only the harder to cling to their personalities;

and to the many religions, systems and methods of their

day as by-ways to it.

Now we more clearly see and better understand the

reason Jesus alluded to himself as our Shepherd; and

why so often he is called “The Lamb of God.”

Always he guides the sheep, — the willing and ready

ones, within reach of his voice. Lovingly, tenderly,

wooingly, he bids them enter the door into the

sheepfold: nor longer delay.

Confidently, stirringly, compellingly, comes the voice

of the beloved Shepherd, down through the ages, —

“My sheep hear my voice and I know them ... and they

follow me.” (John 10th chapter). Then follows the

great and glorious promise: “And I give to them eternal

life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man

pluck them out of my hand.”

There can be no mistaking the imperial character and

absoluteness of such words as these, — “He that

climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a

robber.” Thus should one reach for that which he

already is, and accept personalities and personal

attachments as other ways whereby to attain or acquire

Heaven, he must ultimately sacrifice them, in order to

grasp the profound wealth of meaning in these simple

words ... “I am the Door.”

I am the Door, means I am Heaven: for to understand

Heaven as your very Being opens the gates of Paradise

to you. If you are not abiding in the awareness of your

perfect Self, your perfect Body and your perfect

Universe as the one Eternal Infinite, then you fail to

discern and comprehend this vital fact as the great

fundamental of the Christ ... the rock upon which to

stand ... nor deviate therefrom. Recognition of the

Self-existent Heaven is the I-Am-Door to the

sheepfold; for God is Heaven, and Heaven is God.

God is Perfection, and Perfection is God.

Listen again, and more closely, to these majestically

glorious words, — “I am the good shepherd and know

my sheep ... and other sheep I have, which are not of

this fold ... and they shall hear my voice: and there

shall be one fold, and one Shepherd.”

Let all of us who are ready and willing, now worship

here, in the sheepfold ... where one Mind, one Body,

and one Universe constitute our infinitude of Being.

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2

Cor. 3:17). All that is required is Spiritual Revelation

or Illumination, which comes through spiritual

readiness, — and a fasting from intellectualism,

personalities and incorrect teaching.

OUR LIVING IDENTITIES

SINCE the infinite Universe of Mind is one complete

Whole, then plants, animals and all living things are

included herein. They are not separate creatures or

individualized entities, but exist as our own ideas in

living expression: and as Mind, we have dominion over

them, and should exercise it.

As the one and only Consciousness, we know that our

thought, desires and actions are perfect, all-harmonious

and complete. Our ideas of beauty, wisdom, strength,

devotion, companionship and faithfulness are such

identities as we now term plants, animals, flowers, and

so forth.

Governed by us, it is our prerogative, as their Creator,

to see and to know them as ever perfect, harmonious

and incorruptible; even as we. In fact, we are to

exercise authority over everything which comprises

our universe.

Identified with our true Self and Being, we shall not

need to attain to any divine qualities, for we shall find

them to inhere in us, and be natural to us. Identified

with Love, we shall be loving, generous, kind and

considerate; and we shall see nothing to forgive or to be

forgiven.

There are no separate beings, animals or living

creatures of any kind. All life is One. At every point

of being, Life is free, flawless and absolute: but this can

be known and experienced only from the standpoint of

Self -illumination.

DIVINE REVELATION

NEVER can Truth be known except through divine

Revelation. It requires a receptive, honest heart,

willing and ready to leave all for the Christ-Way.

Self-Revelation is indeed the Truth which sets us free,

even as promised, — “And ye shall know the Truth,

and the Truth (direct divine Illumination) shall make

you free.” Spiritual Illumination or Revelation is the

fulfilment of all our desires and questionings. It

comes to those whose hearts are open to fuller light and

knowledge of the Real, the Perfect and the True. It

comes as immediate understanding and freedom.

Such Revelation is our identification with our perfect

state of Being, present and intact in the here and now.

Revelation alone shall deliver us from the dream of

materiality and its attending forms of bondage,

ignorance and limitation.

Here in his own Being as the Truth and Life one shall

find that fullness and fulfilment for which he has

searched everywhere. Spiritual existence is the only

one that we should believe in and accept, and Spiritual

body the only body or form. Never can the perfect

Spiritual existence be experienced by attempting to

place the divine Mind over or into a personal mentality

or everlasting Life into a mortal, human form.

Receiving the truth of Being through divine

Revelation, one learns that never has he been separated

from the divine Perfection, and that in his true state he,

his body and his experience are one.

Permanent deliverance from impurities and

imperfections shall follow as one lets go identification

with any kind of a mind, body or existence of his own,

personally, and accepts the One perfect Consciousness

and Being, always pure and immutable, to include all

there is of him: and he to be This, and nothing else.

If we would experience Revelation, or entrance into

Reality, then we must part with all that keeps us from it.

The greater our love for and devotion to the Perfect as

already established, both in Being and in

Manifestation, the more frequent such times in

Eternity. One can have as many changes in personal

consciousness as he will, but none of them will bring

him direct divine Illumination, since Truth is to be

known through Truth, and not through change of any

kind.

To look away from oneself as a man, a mind or a body,

to one’s perfection in, of and as Life Itself, is to get out

of the mortal and mental into Reality and Truth. So

long as one remains in the belief that he is a personal

consciousness, and so must deal with life and things

mentally, he is not seeing himself as he is in Reality

where God is all there is.

Nowhere else shall we ever find peace, rest and

happiness but in our confession, — I can of mine own

self do nothing; and in our recognition and

acknowledgment, — Both the King and the Kingdom

are within me, I and my God are one. When we depart

from physical and mental ways of healing bodies and

minds, and behold ourselves as we are in the Realm of

the Real, our need is blotted out, and the healing takes

place, not because of any change, but because we have

seen Perfection to be the All and the Only.

Just as you are, you can come into the experience of

your Perfection if you will release yourself from any

personal salvation through thing or thought, to face

Heaven as a living Reality within you now.

Perfection, Heaven, is not within you as a personal

being, it is in God alone, — God, meaning yourself as

you are in the light of Reality and Truth. The whole

creation is finished, complete, perfect and in

manifestation now in the sight of God. A perfect body

forever belongs to you, free from age, disease,

imperfection, death.

THE ATONEMENT

ATONEMENT is oneness and allness. Herein we are

redeemed from the dream of a material existence by

functioning in the state of awareness as the one Whole

and All.

Atonement is the bringing of every one and every thing

into the clear perception of purity, perfection and

reality. Together with our infinite perfect creation, we

are to live in the world of Spirit: nor ever be completely

satisfied and at peace until we do so.

As exemplified by Jesus, the atonement presents the

Self as Saviour and Redeemer; liberating itself and its

world by enforcing its true spiritual awareness, and the

power thereof; bringing all thoughts, ideas and things

into the reality of Oneness as allness; and Allness as

oneness.

As the Word is spoken not to heal nor to regenerate

someone, but in confirmation and glorification of the

Self as all power in Heaven and on earth; so atonement

is not to banish or wipe out evil as though it were some

thing, but is the justification of the Self in its right to be

a law to itself; verily, the Almighty power.

In our night dreams, our characters are wholly

fictitious; totally void of life, truth or reality. Not so

with the so-called dream of a material existence

wherein the characters appear as multiple personalities

or human beings. These are not void of reality: for

reverting to the true state of the Self, we know all to be

the Self; and no other.

Talk to yourself as the Self. Tell yourself, I am

almighty Power; I am sovereign Authority; I am

sublime Mind. In my Infinity there is no illusion of

any kind; no darkness; no dream.

I Am that I Am. I am that Perfection to which nothing

can be added nor anything taken away. I see not

many; but everything to be the One ... Myself.

I praise and glorify my Self as infinite in Being ...

encompassing infinite Life and its infinite expression.

I am aware of Life at every point to be the Self; and no

other. Life at every point to be Perfection, harmony,

peace. I love my infinite Self as the Whole. I redeem

my world by seeing everything in it bright as the

shining Light; pure as the spotless Christ.

Upon this Rock, I stand ... nor shall I do otherwise.

Upon this Rock, or Understanding, I establish the

infinitude of Being; inclusive of its identity,

everywhere; the one infinite Whole, everywhere the

same. Whereas before there appeared multiple

personalities and their discordant conditions, now

before me is the one spiritual Self hood and its perfect

spiritual identities; Mind in its true state as the infinite,

indivisible Whole.

Atonement, therefore, is Mind embracing all as the one

infinite Selfhood ... Mind seeing, thinking, feeling as

the infinite, perfect Whole. Atonement is our

relinquishment of all assumptive thinking; our return to

the Father’s house … the Self remaining perfect Mind,

for ever.

O Thou great, eternal, ever-loving, never-changing

Love! Thou art the infinite “I,” the One who is the

Whole; the One in whom there is no personality nor

individualism whatsoever. Atonement is the direct

perception of this infallible, undefiled, imperishable

and ever-existing Love which thinketh no evil; feeleth

no evil; seeth no evil of any kind.

To this Love which is all-embracing,

all-encompassing; boundless and immeasurable; all is

Peace, all is Harmony, all is Purity and Perfection

always.

Verily, I live in this Love; I think in this Love; I feel in

this Love: and all sense of individualism vanishes ...

submerged in this infinite sea of Love; of Heaven; of

Reality.

“PREACH THE GOSPEL”

INASMUCH as Christ commanded that we preach the

gospel, exactly what did he expect us to preach?

Naturally to carry on his Message.

Concisely as follows: I am the Light; ye are the Light.

I am not of this world; ye are not of this world. I and

the Father are one; we are all one in the Father. The

works that I do, ye shall do; where I am, ye may be

also.

Did Jesus establish any form of church whatever? No.

When questioned directly regarding his idea of

worship, he replied, “The hour comet/i, wizen ye shall

neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship

the Father ... The true worshippers shall worship the

Father in Spirit and in Truth.” (John 4:21-23)

Church organizations, therefore, are not in accordance

with the Christ Message: but contrary to it. In fact,

forms of any and every kind denote limitation,

restriction, bondage: from such as these, Jesus came to

save us.

Suppose we consider such forms today, — their

doctrines and destiny. Do any of them proclaim the

Message of the Christ, which was, and is, “I am the

Way, the Truth and the Life?” Do any of them teach

that Being is one and not many? That we are God and

not man? No. Based as they are upon a form of

worship not inclusive of the whole Christ Truth, they

uphold individual leaderships and authorities; and

diversified attention is given to multitudinous personal

modes and methods.

They who believe themselves to be human beings or

individuals erect churches, attend and support them:

but those of us who are willing to renounce such

position, find that we are that which we are seeking,

namely God.

Instead of the general present day doctrines of

individual regeneration, Christ taught that we are not

individuals at all, but are one indivisible Whole! Any

attempt, therefore, to become that which we are

already, is futile.

Churches then are not to be preserved nor perpetuated,

since their foundation is based on a false premise.

Furthermore, Jesus’ prophetic words are now about to

be fulfilled: “Verily, I say to you, There shall not be left

here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown

down.” (Matt. 24:2)

The upheaval apparent in the churches today signals

their time is short. Because of their failure to

recognize and expound the great truth of the gospel,

that we are not human beings to be saved or perfected,

nor individual identities to be reformed or

spiritualized, their doom is inevitable.

Since the infinite perfect Mind is not divisible, then it is

not separated into different persons, or individuals,

called men, women and children who must perfect

themselves in a material world.

Outside or beyond the belief in fear, for instance, there

is no fear, nor any suggestion of it. Such belief arises

only because we do not take full possession of the Mind

which we are, and function therefrom. Inasmuch as

there is no possibility of fear in Mind, then by virtue of

the fact that we are Mind, we have no fear; nor could

have.

Furthermore, without a belief in sin, disease and death,

they could have no chimerical appearance. The single

way to put a stop to them is for one to cease enacting

the false believer. Until then, he will be unable to

apprehend that there is no human mind, sleeper nor

dreamer.

So long as anyone personifies a sleeper, or false

believer, he is liable to limitations and restrictions; and

moreover, unable to fully discern the great truth of

Being. Nor can he release himself from such bondage

and ignorance until he unifies himself with the Divine

Mind which, of necessity, knows I am God, and there

is none else. (Isa. 45:22)

Since our substance is Spirit, not matter, it is

impossible for anyone to be free permanently from

imperfections and limitations until this paramount

principle and fact be revealed to him. Inspiration and

Illumination take place when one is willing to leave the

imperfect for the Perfect, the intellect for the Heart, and

the ways and means of the personal for identification

with that Reality which is our all-inclusive and perfect

Selfhood.

How simple and easy to see that Spirit, Soul, cannot be

sick or in pain, afflicted or disabled. Ever it is

immune, changeless and absolute. Identifying

ourselves with Soul, instead of personal sense, we shall

find the labour with thought to be over: for as light

makes darkness impossible, in the same way the

Spiritual light that we are Spirit shall prove our

sufficiency indeed.

Here in the glorious light of Spirit, no effort, no

struggle or mental work, nor even church attendance, is

required. One becomes the Way to himself. I,

Spiritual Revelation, am the Way, — a Perfection

without work or effort, a Revelation to you that you and

I are one; and that there is none else.

Identifying ourselves with Spirit, Soul, — the Reality

of oneself and “neighbour” alike — we shall be so

happily concerned with Truth and Light that there will

be no room for darkness in us.

Nor is Soul one thing, and body another. When

spiritually revealed, Soul and body shall be found to be

one Entity, one Being, always in a state of

Self-Perfection.

“HEAL THE SICK”

INASMUCH as the gospel is now preached from the

premise that we are humanity, and not Spirit;

imperfection, and not Perfection; the many, and not the

One; how then can it ever be expected to rid the world

of sin, sickness and death?

As man, we are inevitably subject to vacillation,

illusion and errors of every kind; therefore, as man, we

can never free ourselves from them. Not until we

waken to our real entity, and function in our true nature,

shall human experience cease.

The true viewpoint corrects the false, which, being

corrected, disappears. Think of the vast amount of

time, labour and effort now given toward the

destruction of sickness, sin, lack and limitations

everywhere; instead of giving all attention to the Self,

in which they do not exist. As man, you will never

have surcease from evil: but tracing your origin back to

God, the I Am, will obliterate the man-position

entirely.

The attempt to bring about improvements, or healings,

in individual minds or bodies has proved a great benefit

to mankind everywhere; nevertheless, the real need is

to ascend to the spiritual state where no healing is

required. Definitely, the human viewpoint must be

changed for the Divine; then the cause of all discord

will be removed.

No war could ever exist of itself; no sickness, sin or

death appear, but for the untruth that we are man,

instead of God. Lo, to be Spirit, to be Mind, to be Life

eternal, is the only perfect and universal remedy.

The statement, “I am God, and besides me there is

none else,” has, as it were, two sides to it, both

conveying the exact same meaning; that is, (1) I am

God. (2) There is none else. In seeing that God, the

Self or I am, is all-Perfection, all-Harmony and

all-Completeness, necessarily this view includes the

vision and knowledge that there is none else.

Likewise, in viewing any apparent discords or

limitations, we come to understand their nothingness

on the basis that the Self, the I-am-Life and

Intelligence, is all there is. Comprehending the

fullness of this statement, we (the Self) must then

“prove all things.”

Many would like to have explained to them why war,

sickness and limitations of all kinds appear in the

world, and still it be true that God fills all space. This

is absolutely impossible of comprehension or

elucidation without the superlative knowledge that

God, the I Am that I Am, is one whole, including

infinite identity.

Generic man (so styled) alone is responsible for every

war, sickness, sin, poverty and limitation appearing

today. He alone brings them into a chimerical

existence, names the forms they present, sustains and

supports them. Not until he wakens, as from death to

Life, (even as did the prodigal) will he ever understand

their total inexistence; and be free.

How is he the cause of war or sickness? He thinks he

is man, a person or individual; and not the Way, the

Truth, and the Life; the Self; ever perfect and

immaculate.

Because of this improper idea of himself, and of all

else, he becomes as it were, another being called man,

whose intelligence is limited and incomplete; whose

life is mutable and insecure; whose body is material

and mortal; whose world is finite and impermanent.

Functioning in a perverse and fabulous position, his

thoughts are imperfect and illogical; inefficient and

incorrect; confused and deranged; thus they result in

mythical forms of wars; and of discord of every sort,

kind and nature.

The formations of his thoughts truly represent his

assumptive departure from the real state. For instance,

many of the things which he invents, instead of proving

an eternal blessing to him, often, in the end, turn upon

and destroy him. None of his inventions ever reach

perfection, but always lack it; hence, the continual

discard of his own handiwork for that which will

completely satisfy.

Never shall he produce it in a world of his own making!

Never shall he achieve permanent success,

invulnerable security nor impeccable health and

wholeness, whilst to himself he remains a limited

human being or a separate individual identity.

Disowning his real entity as the almighty creative

Mind, with its unlimited power to create everything

perfect and good, he becomes, to his false belief, a

weak sinful mortal, ever seeking that perfection which

in his true Self-hood, always at hand, and within him;

yet ever finding uncertainties, wars, tribulations, death.

Not until he rises to accept his true state — the free and

unlimited Whole — shall he ever experience that which

he seeks, namely, Heaven: for Heaven and the Self are

one.

The great verity eternally remains, infinite Ego and

infinite identity are one indivisible whole; perfect,

absolute, complete. Never have I been man, neither a

material nor a spiritual one. Never am I subject to

limitations of any kind. Now and always I and my

Self are one and identical.

Waken! Be born again! Arise! Come forth! What

else is there to do? What else is there to be said? No

other directions would be of any real value to one in “a

far country.”

“CAST OUT DEVILS”

THE command — “Cast out devils” may now be put

into practice; for now we can execute it with spiritual

vision, and divine authority.

The “devils” are the generic false beliefs which have

continued since the beginning of time; of which

individualism is foremost. Christ taught that all reality

is one, without parts or differences; hence the

irreconcilableness of our Self with a human mind or

individuality. Conversely, generic man sets forth the

doctrine of apotheosis, — the deification of a human

mind.

To disclaim any allegiance to personalities and human

doctrines brings one face to face with the flaming

illumination and conviction that there is no other but

the Universal Self. This One demands our full

attention. Indeed, we need to clear our vision until

nothing is left before it but the perfect Self and its

perfect expression.

On the other hand, or from the viewpoint of seeing

there is nothing else, it is now easy to understand that

the discordant forms called disease, poverty or

inharmony of any kind, have no God in them; hence,

they have no life in them; no action nor power.

But what originates their appearance? It can be traced

directly to erring thinking and feeling; for this it is in

form. This thinking however, is altogether fabulous,

since founded upon the mistaken assumption that there

is a mind, or consciousness, other than the one which is

God; and that such evil thoughts have power.

The great realism remains intact. The only Mind or

Consciousness we have, is that which is God. Hence

there can be, and is, no discordant form; no erring

thinking; no other mind, life or being.

By virtue of the fact that God is all, and there are no

other personal thinkers, then all results attributed to

them are mythical and spectral; void of existence.

Consider the prevalent plague of Japanese beetles.

Let us see in such particular instance, what must be cast

out. Do they express or represent life? Are they one

with that life which is God, the Whole? No. To be

sure, they fly about, have pretty colours, and apparently

the same life as us. But just what do they represent?

They image the thoughts, actions and feelings of

nations and peoples at war with one another. Herein is

fulfilled the prophecy of Jesus, when he said, “For

nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against

kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences,

and earth quakes, in divers places.”

To claim that God-Life in any way includes a form of

life which is a pest, is to misinterpret existence.

Moreover, instead of giving such insects the same life

that we are, we are to cast out the form of life which

they seem to have; and disclaim any reality to it.

Taking away their semblance of life, by understanding

that they image ignorance, disobedience, darkness and

deception, which have no life or reality in them, they

fade into nothingness.

Practicing this viewpoint, the author has recently seen

such a demonstration take place. The beetles, which

were attacking trees in the garden, were found

thereupon, lifeless. A slight touch of the branch, and

they fell from the leaves onto the ground ... dust to dust.

Jeremiah proclaimed, “Every founder is confounded by

the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood,

and there is no breath in them.” Ezekiel had a similar

vision, when he wrote, “Cast away from you all your

transgressions whereby ye have transgressed; and

make you a new heart and new spirit: for why will ye

die, O house of Israel? ... They made the images of their

abominations, and of their detestable things therein.”

A plague or pestilence portrays avarice, destruction,

warfare, strife, hate, greed: all based upon the

root-error that Mind can be multiple; that Life can be

separated into human beings who can be at war with

one another.

Imprisoned in a personal mind or human intellect, one

toils with sweat and tears; he walks in darkness, sleeps

in darkness, and brings forth in darkness. This is the

“far country” in which, in belief, he moves farther and

farther from his real Mind and true state of Being until,

finally, the understanding comes to him that a personal

mind or individual mentality is not to be transformed or

trained in any way: but it is to be totally renounced.

The Bible urges that we turn our hearts to the light, for

the “heart” denotes the pure and spiritual longings,

aspirations and affections. Jesus sought the simple

and pure in heart whereunto to plant his teaching. He

knew how hardly shall they who are rich in

intellectuality enter into the Kingdom of Spirit.

Established as the One, we assert our prerogative to be

a law to our Self; that nothing can be with us that is not

wholesome, perfect and pure.

“Rejoice not that the spirits are subject to you; but

rather rejoice because your names are written in

heaven.” (Luke 10:7). Thus spake Jesus to those

whom he sent forth to preach and to heal. Rejoice not

over demonstrations; but rejoice because you have

found yourself and everyone to be the Truth and the

Life. How we should rejoice and be glad!

Jesus’ treatment was administered as the Spoken Word,

— the Word of power; the Word of command. The

Self speaks to the Self with power and authority saying,

Come forth! Joyously, the Self hears the Self and

responds.

From out the depths of Love divine, the Words comes

forth; and is fulfilled. It does not consider

personalities nor mental inhibitions; nor seek to change

any so-called consciousness. The Word springs from

the Self; and is the Self; and is the authority thereof.

The Self is without limitation of any kind; without

discrepancy or discrimination. It is power, almighty.

It sees Itself as the Unconditioned, — the free and

irresistible, always.

Know thy Self! Love thy Self! Who is there in all

heaven and earth but thy Self? Say not “I Am,” except

in the name of the One, — the Self who was; and is;

and ever shall be: in whom there is no dream nor

opposition of any kind.

I am Love, I am Understanding, I am Peace, I am

Abundance; at every point alike. I am the

demonstration of eternal good, always. Nothing can

be added to me; nor taken from me. I and my creation

are One; and fill immensity.

“And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that

day shall there be one Lord, and His name one.”

(Zech. 14:9). The Lord is the infinite Ego. His name

is one; and His identity, one. His harmony is one; His

activity, one.

“If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Rom.

8:31). No one. No thing. There is none to oppose!

None to be contrary! None to be separated! The

divine Consciousness reigns; and is all in all.

Knowing this ever-existent Fact of Being, the Christ

confidently commanded, — “Go ye into all the world,

and preach the gospel to every creature.” (Mark

16:15). Dear Friends, let us obey our Redeemer! Let

us preach the gospel of oneness and allness to everyone

who will listen to it. Let us teach the Message of

Ontology, — indivisible Perfection, Completeness,

I-Am-ness. Let us admonish all to stop thinking from

the premise of man seeking for his good; instead, take

the rightful state of the Self alive for ever more!

Once accepting our true state, we are bound to come

into increasingly fuller light and revelation until, “They

shall see His face; and His name shall be in their

foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they

need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord

God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and

ever.” (Rev. 22:4-5)

“RAISE THE DEAD”

SINCE I am the perfect Self, then I must speak as the

perfect Self; I must see as the perfect Self; I must hear

as the perfect Self; and no other.

Speaking as the perfect Self, the one Ego, what shall I

say? I shall say, I am perfect; I am complete; I am

whole, I am creative, I am prosperous, I am successful.

I am happy, fearless, glad. I am the Truth,

understanding, realization. I am Life, I am Light, I am

Love.

Seeing as the infinite Ego, the one Mind immaculate,

what do I see? I see my identity as wholeness,

harmony, immortality; beauty, loveliness, charm. I

see joyous activities, spontaneous delights, limitless

fullness, everywhere.

Hearing as the perfect One, the infinite Ego, what is it

that I hear? I hear the voice of Myself, saying, I am

all; I am free; I am triumphant; I am supreme.

Accepting infinite Ego and its infinite identity as the

one universal Whole, we rise from death into the

experience of Life, immortal and eternal. For who are

the dead? Those gone from our sight and hearing?

No! The “dead” are they who stay in darkness,

assuming identities of separate thinking individuals.

When Jesus said, “I am the Truth; All power is given to

me in Heaven and on earth,” he was speaking as the one

Ego; not as an individual thinker, or human being. He

refuted the spectrality called sin, disease or death.

With the might of the Self as the Truth and the Light, he

was the disproof thereof.

At one time while he was elucidating the subject of

mental darkness, he said, “But while men slept his

enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and

went his way.” (Matt. 13:25). So-called individual

thinkers are liable to any distressing dreams or

experiences, as long as they continue with such

assumption.

The discerner, Paul, following up his viewpoint of the

Christ, proclaimed, “Awake thou that sleepest, and

arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

(Eph. 5:14)

Inevitably, Ontology must now come. It presents the

great Reality, — infinite Self, or Ego, one and

indivisible; I and the Self, one.

How it enriches us! How it exalts us! How it

glorifies us! Truly, we are filled to satiety.

As one considers the purely Spiritual to be distinct

from both the physical and the mental, he begins to

experience a peace unknown to him before. Moreover

he will soon be aware that troublesome thoughts,

worries and fears are things of the past. In conscious

possession of Divine Light and Revelation he can walk

in freedom, health and happiness.

Revelation is the Voice of our own Being, effortless as

the shining sun, resplendent as imperishable glory ...

“Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and

thine health shall spring forth speedily.” (Isaiah 58:8)

It is in Spiritual awakening that one shouts, — Whereas

I was blind, — now I see. I was uncertain, — but now

I know; Lame, sick, sad, — but now I can walk, and am

whole and glad.

Accepting oneself to be Spirit, instead of a personal

consciousness, it is natural to come swiftly into the

clear and vivid awareness that Life is not a problem to

be solved, but a great and glorious Reality to be

experienced.

Afterword

“They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they,

but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not:

noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands,

but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not:

neither speak they through their throat.” (Psalm

115:5-7)

“They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they,

but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not;

neither is there any breath in their mouths. They that

make them are like unto them: so is every one that

trusteth in them.” (Psalm 135:16-18)

“Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for

wherein is he to be accounted of? (Isa 2:22)

“Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high

degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are

altogether lighter than vanity.” (Psa. 62:9)

A distinct and unmistakably new view of Life and

Being has now come into focus. Boldly and

authoritatively it calls attention to the exact teaching of

Christ ... and insists upon the contemplation thereof.

Take specifically, the new Perception, I am not a

student but the Truth. If this were adopted as merely

another declaration to add to the store of one’s personal

knowledge, he would gain nothing from it; but rather

deprive himself of the very light and inspiration which

such new ideas bring.

When this new Light first appeared to me, I beheld it as

a startling and astonishing revelation; not merely a new

thought, but an altogether different platform. My

heart leaped to let it completely saturate me with its

significant meaning ... and absorb my whole attention.

Having sought all my life after the Truth, here I was, at

last, face to face with the astounding fact that now I

had found it to be myself! To be sure, I had many

times caught glimpses of this supreme reality, but only

as though to add another lovely idea to my present

practical knowledge or to claim it as a higher statement

of Reality. Now, all others, everything, as it were, was

swallowed up in this all-absorbing revelation, — I am

the Truth! What a new foundation it was to me, a new

platform, a new premise altogether!

Reader, does this revolutionary realism mean as much

to you? It will, if only you will heed the wisdom of

Jesus to “Put new wine into new bottles.” And if you

do not heed it, what then? You will simply be

postponing your opportunity to take your

Heaven-given security, peace and safety.

In the light of this new Revelation of Ontology, let us

see what the “bottles,” in the parable, represent.

Surely something which is perishable, finite and

material. They therefore refer to the limited, the

personal and the divided … that which begins and ends.

What, then, could they mean but such forms which

denote personalities and individualities ... limitation,

materiality, mortality ... the idiosyncrasies of those in

“a far country” ... the masquerade of many minds,

many false beliefs, many separate lives and beings?

Here, intelligence appears bottled up in human brains,

sight in eyes, hearing in ears ... and all functions of Life

conditioned, localized, circumstanced. Such forms

are supposed to contain life and substance, but they are

hollow, like a phantom or shell. They but represent

the false concepts of individualism ... separateness ...

the many, in contradiction to the One. They are dust

to dust ... for there is no Life, Intelligence nor

Substance in them! This explains the appearance

called death. The so-called individual supposedly

escapes from one “bottle,” or form, to function in

another.

Learn the difference, here and now, between multiple

material forms, and the one infinite, spiritual Body.

Rise and accept the new idea and perception that since

Life is one indivisible Whole, the body of Life is the

identical Substance. You then shall know another

kind of “bottle” altogether, — the imperishable identity

which belongs to you as the Life and the Truth.

You are infinite Life itself, thus you possess the Body

of infinite Life ... and no limited material form belongs

to you at all. The body of Life is immortal,

immutable, imperishable and eternal ... indivisible as

Spirit, God. It can never be pluralized; nor separated

into human or material forms.

This spiritual Body comprises infinite multifarious

identities, which are imperishable, omnipresent,

perfect; and tangible to Mind or Consciousness. They

represent the character of Spirit, Mind, all that is true

and perfect, such as beauty, loveliness, harmony,

wholeness and all similar qualities.

You are this very Life, Mind, Being! You are this

identical Consciousness! When you see this as the

forever Truth, and the Spirit bears witness with you,

then you will be willing to let go entirely the mistaken

belief that you are an individual, living in a human

existence.

“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not

according to this word, it is because there is no light (of

life) in them.” Isa 8:20

Listen, closely. Can an idea think? An idea really is

the “think” or thought, isn’t it? It is in this sense that

we supposed ourselves to be the thoughts of God.

Still all the while we knew that we were thinking,

feeling, acting, being ... in fact, we were instructed to

be thinkers! Now, how could there be a thinking idea?

Do your ideas think? When you see your image in the

mirror does it reflect your life at all? Does it reflect

sight? hearing? thinking? Isn’t it colossal folly to

imagine such a thing? We know for a certainty that

we think, hear, see and act; and that in no way do we

resemble that image in the mirror!

Contrast this form of religious teaching with that of

Christ Jesus who wielded almighty and omnipotent

power ... and who claimed it as his very own! Who

never intimated in any way that he was depending upon

some outside original for it!

The wonder and glory, the infinite charm and

altogether loveliness of the Spirit of Truth! How it

satisfies ... how it glorifies ... how it exalts us to know

at last that we are the Thinker of divine ideas! That

we are the infinite Mind with its unlimited,

almighty power, and not the lifeless form of it in a

mirror! All such theories are “old bottles,” now to be

discarded.

Resurrection denotes a progressive change in forms, —

an advancing awareness which continually expresses

itself in outlines of greater beauty, activity, vitality and

power. If all the beauty, glory and grandeur now seen

from a limited personal perception is entrancing, how

much greater shall be the wonders and glories when

seen from the luminous infinite Understanding.

Ascension is the taking possession of the Self as infinite

Spirit, God, which cannot be localized nor embraced by

any form whatsoever; but ever expresses the Body of

infinite Life, Truth and Love.

Rejoicingly we should now renounce and disown all

claim to the perishable “bottles” or forms which for so

long have restrained us ... and gloriously and

inspirationally take possession of the Body of

perfection, into which no discord of any kind can ever

come. How safe and secure we feel! Now all fear

departs ... we are at home ... we are in our Father’s

house where we enjoy our very own.

Let us now turn our attention to some of the “miracles”

of Jesus, as recounted by Matthew. We find that early

in his ministry, “he rebuked the winds and the sea: and

there was a great calm.” (Matt. 8:26). Yes, even the

winds and the sea obeyed him, because he knew and

accepted himself as the very Truth; the Lord of

creation, possessing “all power in heaven and on

earth.”

Proportionately as we come to see that we are the same

Truth and Life, (for there is but the one) then we also

shall utilize this power and authority of Being. Such

Power must not be confounded, of course, with the

“right thinking” of so-called individuals; but abides in

us as the Lord-Self.

Later we find Jesus feeding a multitude of “four

thousand men, beside women and children.” (Matt.

15:38). Think of it, — with only seven loaves and a

few little fishes to completely satisfy a famished

multitude! Consciousness, of course, is the

substance of all things, and Jesus relied upon this, his

own Consciousness, to produce for him, and for

them, whatever was needed at the moment.

As the Christ, he declared and proved, All things that

the Father hath, are mine, at all times, and in all

places. When we are able to do this, and to exercise

our power and dominion as he did, then shall we know

for a certainty that “Nothing shall by any means harm

you;” and “No evil shall come nigh thee.” If you have

not already proved this for yourself, then begin today to

turn to the Lord Self to supply you with every good

thing.

Our Wayshower also created money when he needed

it. He did not obtain it externally, but from his own

Being as the Lord of creation. As this Being, we are

all privileged to do the same. The universal divine

Consciousness is able to bring into expression

whatever is needed, that we may have security, peace

and unlimited prosperity: but we are to lay hold of this

Realism with our whole heart; and lovingly and

trustingly depend upon its operation in all our affairs.

When Jesus tabernacled with men he did not teach

bondage but freedom. He did not teach limitation but

abundance. He produced bread without seedling and

harvest, without grinding and baking. He produced

fish, without bait or hook, without water or net. He

produced money, without mine or mint, without

labour or press. He produced raiment, without

hands or machinery. Ever we can hear Being say;

“The place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”

Then why should we wait longer? and for what? Have

we not been under the “law” or “schoolmaster” long

enough, and is it not high time “that we might be

justified by faith?” And further: “Who did hinder you

that ye should not obey the Truth?”

In the name of our Lord-Self, I Am, let us set to work to

prove the actuality of the Heavenly state.