Psychianna Part Two

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Dr. Frank B. Robinson

The Ten Lessons of Psychiana

The Psychiana Religion

Moscow, Idaho

April 16, 1930

You are to do your part in making this course of instruction as profitable to yourself as profitable to

yourself as the truths in here contained are profitable. The truths come direct from the source of all

truth. Hence they cannot be wrong, they MUST be right. They have been spiritually received, an d have

been passed on to you. There is in this course of instruction of the living God enough for you to be an

overwhelming victor in the strife of life. In fact life loses its strife when ones learns the secret of

communion with the mighty power you are soon to hear about. Jesus knew what he was talking about;

not all the things attributed to him did he say. But he did say enough for you and me to find God. Once

you and I do that we never fear anything else.

It is absolutely necessary for you discard entirely whatever theories or notions you have about what and

who God is. It is also necessary for you to disabuse yourself for your belief in a subconscious mind. if

you hold that belief. God is not mind of any kind. They have nothing in common, and the mighty life

spirit, about which you are to learn is not mind of any sort; it cannot be. So get that out theory out of

your head if it is in there. You must read this lesson quietly every day. Remember you are attempting to

contact the most dynamic unseen power in the universe. So please obey my instructions to the letter.

There is a lot of teaching in every lesson left to the student himself. Only the high places have been

touched. It would be impossible to go into much detail of a work this size. You must use your own

reason and head. THINK UPON THESE LESSONS, LET THEM BECOME A VERY PART OF YOU, and you will

find ere long, that they point the way to the greatest power you have ever known or ever will know.

THE POWER OF THE MIGHTY, UNCHANGABLE, PRESENT, LIFE GIVING, HEALING, DYNAMIC LIVING GOD.

At the very beginning of your studies you are starting at thee most important work you have ever

undertaken in your life. You are now dealing with the most dynamic power in the universe.

Little is this power understood, for if it were there would not be the misery, sickness, and poverty all

around us. The time is at hand however when the potent dynamic force about which you are to learn

will be common knowledge and the facts are as you are to learn will be universally accepted.

In dealing with the facts as I shall deal with them I warn you in advance , that you shall not be surprised

at anything I may say to you. Remember this course of instruction has not sprung into existence

overnight.

o existence overnight you may rest assured that i have tried thattrodden every step of the way you want to take before youand it may be that i had taken several steps that you will never

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i realize to the very fullthe immense responsibilityresting upon me in making known to youthe truth so this universe and of this might belike spiritthe living godand you may depend upon it i'm pretty sure background

you will find out as you progress in these lessons that no man can call karright up on this subjectand that'she knows by actual living experience of what he speaksshould want to tend to do so he would meet with inevitable disaster andfailureand i for one do not careto travel with bangspertaining to the living godothers may if they so choosei've so choose not to do sothis is my life's work because impaled over forty years of butan endeavoralong the lines of the same lessonsi had for years are initially tried

to find out the truth as a new it must existand as i had sent discovered it didand that's incensedthere have been times when i've beenliterally called upon to tread the wine press aloneand then we'll never know that dalian determination and faiththat'd be necessary in order to discover the facts as i believei have discoveredand my teeth that thing orthey wore close to me all the years i've spent danglingendeavoring to discover themthe trouble with me and not with this might be life spiritfar as such i shall all for altered allude to the living god in this corsetsof this studiesthe truths you will learn more probably started

and many of them at first may seem incomprehensible to youbut under no circumstanceswhatever mislead younor would i ever triflewith the sacred thingsof your in her lifeyou may depend upon thatat the beginning and in fact all through the entire courseyou must give me your absolute trustthat is essentialon shell in the beginning of your studies ask you to do certain thingswithout explaining to you why they must be doneor what they will complex shthe reason for that is that youcould notin the initial stages of your studies comprehend themso you must just do themfaithfully systematically and without asking meremember we are dealing with spiritual things and as such they are unseen bangsnowpresentlyyou will see themas a great truths began to donovan you you'll understand them alli hope of course you are in your home and i'm in mine and the probability isthat you will never meet me face to face


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much as i should like to meet youthat hurt you to do the things that tell you to do no matter what you may thinkof the mailand irish thisas earnestly as i canremember i'm the teacher you are the studentis of course possible from my students to read this course of studies without

getting anywhereso to speakand i can say to you nowthat unless you actually do the various exercises that i prescribethe chances are you'll get nowhereand only be a loserit is a very hardest thing i know to put spiritual truths down on paperand while i have done my very best it still remains an essential toosuccessful revelation that you give meyour undivided attention and that you're actually do what i tell you to doa little later you will realizewhy is so necessary for you to do so you will grow lights white to jake it hasseemed so hard8:40to discern the truth about unseen paintings

8:43jesus said that things which are seen or temporal8:47but the things which are unseen our eternal8:50and we are here dealing with eternal unseen paintings8:53i have no way of knowing how much you know8:56of psychology and it is quite and material to me9:00it'd be a fact that you had studied the nuke psychology to any great extent you9:05probably believe are thank you bernie9:08

into sub conscious mind9:10at this point however achha last year9:13to disabuse yourself of any such a delete such as that i'll show endeavor9:17to show you perform we have progressed very poor with our studies9:22that there is this message in mind9:24and in case you insist that there is the national asks you to try to explain it9:28and if you can then you must write and tell me just what this mind is9:34after years of research and experimentation i have been unable to9:37find it9:38or even to justify the statement i did exist

0:01i know full well with the psychologists have discovered about remarkable effects0:05of something which is supposed to be some conscious are unconscious0:10


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and which can be an is appealed to him0:13and from which almost unbelievable results have been and candy0:17securing0:18i know about that and that

0:21if no other proves that this might be like spirit can and we all and balance0:27operate even0:28when it is not recognized as being taught at all0:32the very fact that thousands of it0:34have obtained healing success and happiness0:37from the so-called subconscious mind0:40literally proves beyond a shadow of the doubt0:43

that there might be lol0:44the body of light spirit leading gone0:47but i'm teaching you about0:49actually exist0:52

just at this point i want to say to you that in the study of these lessons0:56please study them alone0:58get away from everyone in go somewhere1:00where you will not be disturbed and where you can grasp

1:03lease great scientific truths1:06as they are presented1:07without interruption1:09there is a scientific reason for this which will appear later1:12i do not want you to practice1:14any exercise in1:16bodily relax ation1:18as this is entirely unnecessary1:21although it is necessary1:22is for you to be alone1:23and to be quiet1:25it is advisable to sit in a comfortable chair with all parts of the worries of1:29


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the day put away from you1:32and instead of thinking about anything trying to think about nothing at all1:35do not try to force yourself into any unnatural mess at all1:40but just sort of

1:42the so quiet that you've seen contain yourself so-to-speak1:46at this point once more i must caution you1:49that you will never find the living god in yourself1:53so do not try to look1:54within1:56with the object of finding him bear1:59if you do you will be sadly disappointed2:02

for as i stated a little while2:05the living god is not operate they'll any part of your anatomy2:09whatsoever2:10if he did2:12then you would never die2:13and if you should die with the living god operating2:16through your writing2:17or spinal column

2:19then he could buy no possible means because i'm2:22as the power of death would prove to be superior to him2:26and would require that he quit his place of abode2:29in your physical system2:31but to entertain such at the office this would be near blasphemy2:36if it were not so level2:37so do not look for any god within your principal system the casa maddie living2:42goddess moderate in this matter2:44all statements to the contrary notwithstanding2:48neither is the leading dot possessed of mine2:51might sell operate2:53before you finish the studies you will know that he operates and far2:57


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differently in that2:59you must remember here that your antioch is also stand is as3:04is we are told3:06extended t

3:07toward god and we shall soon see that this physical system that we have3:12was brought into existence there when ac3:15about some of the disobedience toward god3:19it would therefore be very foolish for you to believe3:21that the living god has taken up his abode in the body that was brought into3:25existence3:26through disobedience3:28

to is fixed an immutable law3:31on some other markets on this here although a book could easily be written3:34upon the subject3:36so just be there a quiet and still when you study these lessons and allow no3:41outside thoughts to enter your hand at all3:44remember you are the one who is to reap the benefits of this course nylon3:49i learned its lessons long ago just to the exact degree3:53that you are

3:54internists over this entire matter3:56to that degree you will you be3:58successful in your studies4:01remember also that this might be immutable god in our kids there4:05and the very moment you learn by your own experience that it is fair4:10in that moment will you immediately want to use it4:13and when you use it4:15your life will be an entirely different thing from weight in snow4:20the lol will function whether you take advantage of it or not it has functions4:24function for millions of years now4:27and will still be functioning millions of years from now4:31in fact it will always function because it is the living in beautiful gone4:35


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so learned well4:37the lessons he as i get them to you4:39when you are nice and quiet with all your straight thoughts for removed4:43from you

4:44i want you to close your eyes and keep them closed do not know if your body at4:48all4:49

just rest there with your ice closed and do not move4:53stay in that condition for about three or four minutes and then slowly very4:57quietly4:57all over and over again stay in our whisperer5:01these warrants5:02

the living god it's making me whole5:05the living god peacemaking5:07me hole5:09repeat this statement very slowly from thirty to a hundred times5:13do not carpet5:15however at that site5:17and to you5:18that you have said it long enough

5:21the more time she repeated harper5:23and more deep and lasting will be the affected5:26then jump suddenly to your feet s_a_-three comes out loud5:30the same statement clenching your fist at the same time5:34trying to put all the carnage that you have into the statement you make when5:37you have arisen to your feet5:39do not attempt to go to sleep also units affirmation5:43when you arrived in the morning5:46say the same words over and over again as you or dressing and throughout the5:50day as many times as you can5:52left this same statement run through your head5:55it will be good exercise if your attempt to spend at least half of your waking5:59


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moments6:01repeating the statement6:03at least mentally6:04you don't try to understand now why i asked you do this

6:08the reason will be made plain to you6:10indices and so just do it that's all i ask6:14within a day or so6:16you won't feel coming i'll read you something that you cannot describe in6:19cannot explain6:21i cannot describe either although i can explain it6:24and we'll later6:26

this different feeling6:27will probably be quite market6:30and you won't know beyond any shouted out the change is coming over here6:34you will not be able to describe it6:36that you will know that it is there6:38and when you begin to6:39feel different6:41then as the time i want you to put all the powerlessness at your command

6:45into your approbation6:47this feeling will seem to pass a little6:50but in reality it will not6:53but as long as it is with you throw aldayt earnestness6:56of the entire sale into the asr occasion7:00at night upon red retiring7:02it is advisable to put all clocks and watches that you might hear taking out7:07of the room7:08i do not want you to go to sleep with a single party in your head7:11under no circumstance much she tried to carry into your sleep7:15any adio are thought of any sort7:18your sleep must be as that of the child7:21


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and it is not now7:23it very soon will be7:25i cannot give you the tiniest glimpse of the dynamic force you are now using7:30but depend upon this one thing

7:32that you are now beginning to contact7:35living god7:36himself7:38on the start of the content will be very meager and hardly discernible7:42but this new freedom and different healing7:45that have come up on you will be just the thing to stature of the almighty7:50dynamic and all-powerful like spirit7:52

read this lesson over and over again7:55many times a day it's convenient keep quiet at your work7:59you not say a single word that it's unnecessary8:03are uncalled for8:04let your whole effort be behind your statement8:08the living god8:10is making8:12you hall

8:13let your mental aditi beat that8:18expectation8:20and so insti8:22lesson


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Lesson II

THE STORY OF CREATION

Frank B. Robinson

The Ten Lessons of Psychiana

The Psychiana ReligionMoscow, Idaho

April 30, 1930

In this Lesson we have reached the point at which we begin to 'dig into' some of the

mysteries of this marvelous universe of ours. You will observe as we go along, how

the things which have puzzled religious leaders for many years assume a marvelous

simplicity when understood.

There is always a key to every so-called mystery connected with Spiritual thingswhich are seemingly unexplainable, and usually the key lies in plain sight and can be

easily seen by those who are intent on finding it. It is often to be seen so clearly that

those searching for it, obsessed by the idea that there is no key in plain sight, fail to

see it. They are so imbued with the thought that the great mysteries of God are

unfathomable, that they utterly fail to grasp the answer, even when it is given in plain,

unmistakable language.


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Such has been the case in the story of the creation of this world, and indeed, of the

entire universe. It is not necessary for me to use the Bible in giving to you the facts of

creation, but as this course of study deals with the Living God, and as the Bible is the

only one of the old books dealing exclusively with the subject of God, I have chosen

to use it. It will also make it a little easier for you to understand.

I consider the facts of creation as told in the Bible, to be AUTHENTIC IN THEIR

ENTIRETY. At no place does science clash with the scriptures. On the contrary, they

dovetail into each other perfectly when understood. Of course, the Bible cannot

possibly dovetail into the 3000 or more different sects, religions, denominations and

what not that we have today, as each of them has a habit of twisting the scriptures to

meet his own interpretations. All of them are preaching what they really believe to be

the truth about God. It certainly would be a wonderful book if it could dovetail in with

all these dogmas and beliefs. Science would be a wonderful thing also if IT could

dovetail into them all.

But neither the Bible nor science can do the impossible, and were there a God who

could meet all these various requirements and interpretations, then I am afraid that

such a God would not, nor indeed could not, command much interest from me. There

is no such a God as that, however, and the God as He is, does not operate in

accordance with these 3000 different aspects of Himself.

Running hand in hand, however, and side by side, we find science and the Bible, as

taught by the Galilean Carpenter TO BE ONE AND THE SAME THING. There are,

of course, details which to date have not been fully explained. BUT IN ALL VITAL

FACTS, SCIENCE DOES NOT DISPROVE THE BIBLE AT ALL. On the other

hand, it CORROBORATES IT IN ITS ENTIRETY.

WERE THERE EVER TO BE A CLASH BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE,

THEN THE BIBLE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE SECOND PLACE, AS SCIENCE

DEALS WITH THE FACTS OF GOD'S CREATION AS THEY ARE KNOWN TO

EXIST, WHILE THE BIBLE IS ONLY A STORY OF THINGS AS THEY WERE

SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAPPENED, AND WAS WRITTEN BY HUMAN

BEINGS, JUST LIKE YOU AND ME.

Moses wrote the Bible story of creation as it is given in the Genesis account, andwrote in the phraseology of his time. Were Moses here and telling the same story

TODAY, he would tell the facts as he understood them in a far different manner. He

lived about 6,000 years ago, while this world is proved to be in the neighborhood of

from 125,000,000-150,000,000 years old. I am given to understand that one of our

universities has a radio-active time clock which places the age of this world at about

135,000,000 years. Moses certainly was not here THEN.


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But it seems to me that I hear several good old orthodox Christian folk say to me:

'Yes, that may all be true, Dr. Robinson, but Moses had a revelation from God which

told him all the facts of creation--did he not?'

Surely he did. Exactly the same sort of a revelation that John Greenleaf Whittier had

when he penned the following immortal lines:

'I know not where His islands lift

Their fronded palms in air.

I only know I cannot drift

Beyond His love and care.' --Quoted.

He had the same sort of a revelation that Cardinal Newman had when he wrote his

beautiful hymn--the hymn that will live as long as this world endures. It is for this

reason the hymn does live:

'Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,

Lead Thou me on.

The night is dark--and I am far from home--

Lead Thou me on.

Keep Thou my feet--I do not ask to see the distant scene.

ONE STEP ENOUGH FOR ME!' --Quoted.

He had the same sort of revelation that gives me the power to sit at my typewriter and

give this message to the world. And at this point let me say to you that every single

soul who reaches the place where he is in tune with the LIVING GOD will also haverevelations. Not perhaps in the sense that some of our good orthodox Christian friends

understand them, but revelations from the LIVING GOD just the same.

I could ask no greater revelation from God than to have written those words of

Cardinal Newman--LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT. That man could not possibly have

written such verses were he not in vital touch with the Living God. Neither could

Moses have written his story of creation unless he also were in the same vital living

touch with the same God.

I want you to realize at this point that the great LIFE-SPIRIT, whom we are hereendeavoring to find and contact, NEVER CHANGES. IT IS FOR THIS REASON

THAT I SPOKE OF THIS SPIRIT AS A 'LAW.' HE CAN NOT CHANGE, AND

THEREFORE YOU ARE AS ABLE TO KNOW HIM AS WAS MOSES, OR

CARDINAL NEWMAN, or WHITTIER, or any other of the thousands on historys

scroll who MUST have known Him or they could not have given to the world the

truths which they did. NEVER FORGET THAT.


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No man has seen God at any time, the Scriptures inform us--nor indeed could he--so

whatever revelation or inspiration Moses had was received through the very same

channels through which you and I may receive our revelations or our inspiration.

Were I to go to the leaders of our great religious denominations, existing, by the way,

for the express purpose of teaching the truths about God, and were I to say to thoseleaders: 'Sirs, I want you to tell me how God made the world'; I wonder what sort of

an answer I should receive. I should, in all probability, be told that they did not know.

I should also be told, in all probability, that no one else knew either, and that it was

not given to man to know just how the created world came to be. I might also be told

that the Scriptures were silent on that point, giving us no information at all.

Ever since our present systems of religion sprang into existence, we have been taught

that it was a mystery just how God did this. But wait a minute. IF EVER A STORY

WERE PLAINLY TOLD IN ANY BOOK, THEN THE STORY OF CREATION IS

PLAINLY TOLD IN THE BIBLE. Why it should be considered such a mystery, or sohard to understand, is a greater mystery than I can fathom. Read and re-read, a million

times by ministers throughout the entire globe, and also by those teaching Bible

truths, the story seems to be clothed in impenetrable mystery to this day, and the plain

simple truth of it all seems to have been missed in its entirety. Here we find the key of

which I spoke, lying on top of the puzzle, and if Moses could have put it any plainer,

then I do not see how he could have done it.

LISTEN CAREFULLY. It is so wonderfully simple. And yet it is so wonderfully

profound. The first two verses in the Bible give us the story of the creation as it

actually happened. Now listen as I unfold it to you. Genesis 1:1 reads as follows: 'In

the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' Here we have a definite

statement to the effect that God (and we shall not concern ourselves here with what

God is) did a certain act. He performed a certain work.

The statement is in the past tense and speaks of the deed as having been actually

accomplished. IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE

EARTH. There can be no question as to what THAT means. A certain person or

power or something or other, DID A CERTAIN DEED. It was DONE. This power

CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. Nothing so very hard to understand

about that, is there?

In this sense the statement is no harder to understand than if I said to you: 'My little

boy, Alfred, made a house today.' It would only signify that SOMETHING HAD

BEEN DONE. And the statement of Moses signifies that something HAD BEEN

DONE. The heavens and the earth had been created. I believe you will grasp that. If

not, read it again and again until you do, as it is very important.


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Now watch the next statement. And mark well here that we have no way of knowing

just how long a time elapsed between the first statement and the second one.

Furthermore, it makes no difference WHETHER IT WAS ONE SECOND OR ONE

MILLION YEARS. The fact as stated, stands. The heavens and the earth had been

created. Past tense. Now listen to the next statement: 'AND THE EARTH WAS

WITHOUT FORM AND VOID.'

Now I ask you, as a man or woman of common sense, what sort of a being would you

be if YOU HAD ALREADY BEEN CREATED AND YET WERE WITHOUT

FORM AND VOID? Answer that, and you have the answer to the question: 'How did

God make the earth?' If you and I, created beings, were without form and void,

certainly we would not be visible, would we?

You cannot see anything that has no form, can you? And if the creation was without

form and void, then it COULD NOT HAVE BEEN A VISIBLE CREATION, could

it? And if it were not a visible creation or a creation that, after its creation, could NOTBE SEEN, THEN WHAT SORT OF A CREATION WAS IT?

My friend and student, THERE IS ONLY ONE SORT OF A CREATION THAT IT

POSSIBLY COULD HAVE BEEN, if the story as given by Moses is correct. And

that is, A SPIRITUAL OR INVISIBLE CREATION.

This fact is entirely foreign to the views that have been held for so long by the

exponents of the Christian religion, but it is the story of the first creation just the

same--AND TOLD EXACTLY AS THE BIBLE TELLS IT. The actual

materialization of this Spiritual or invisible creation did not take place for a long timeafter the original first creation was an accomplished fact.

If you read a little further into the Genesis account of it, you will find that it was at a

later date that the herbs, trees, etc. were called into being. You will also note that an

entirely different method was used by God in manifesting physically the things that

He already had created. Now mark me well--the point I am trying to make here is that

the creation of the earth and the actual manifestation of it were two entirely separate

and different creations, each requiring a different method of operation on the part of

the Living God.

Some good Christian folks tell us that the entire creation required six days of twenty-

four hours each. Others tell us that each day was 1000 years, and consequently the

entire operation required about 6000 years to accomplish. Science, however, entirely

disproves that statement, and again I repeat, where science and the Bible clash, the

Bible must take second place, as science deals always and only with the FACTS AS

THEY ARE KNOWN TO EXIST.


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In a future Lesson we shall find out how it came to happen that this SOMETHING

came between you and this mighty God, very effectively shutting you off from all

communication with Him. We shall further discover just how this same communion

came to be restored again; For it HAS BEEN RESTORED. Once a man learns the

secret of it, he is astounded at the remarkable simplicity of it all, and of the grandeur

of the entire scheme of things as it actually exists.

Right here may I ask you to remember once more that the Power of the mighty Life

Spirit, or Living God, is made manifest and recognized, almost invariably in the

quietness. It is the 'still, quiet, small voice of the Living God.' So please be still when

you are studying these Lessons. Put all thoughts of work or business or anything else

completely out of your mind. You can do this if you want to.

Stay quiet for an hour if you can, thinking of nothing but the facts you are here

learning. I assure you it will pay you many times over. Read the first and second

Lessons over again, and change your affirmation, or little speech to the following 'IBELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE LIVING GOD--I BELIEVE IN THE POWER

OF THE LIVING GOD.'

Dont forget to be quiet, and sort of sink into yourself, and then, slowly, very slowly,

continually repeat this sentence 20--30--40-- or 50 times, and more if you want to.

When you tire of saying this, jump suddenly to your feet and say the same sentence

three times out loud. Throughout the day, it will materially benefit you if you mentally

repeat it, the more thoroughly will the work I am prescribing be done.

Do not question it now. I know positively what I am talking about, and as I statedbefore, HAVE BEEN OVER EVERY STEP OF THE WAY BEFORE YOU. There is

a reason for these exercises and you MUST do them. This subject is too profound for

me to attempt to explain it all in the first Lesson or two. That cannot be done. So

follow me, step by step, trusting me fully, and the little twinkling of light that you are

now beginning to see will finally broaden into the full and mighty consciousness of

WHO AND WHAT YOU REALLY ARE.

And when THAT consciousness dawns upon your life, and permeates your whole

being, you will be a changed man, if you desire to be, for you will then know how to

talk intelligently to the LIVING GOD--and no man can talk personally to that mightyLife Spirit without being a changed man.

Don't Forget: -- "I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE LIVING GOD."

Lesson III

WHO AND WHAT GOD ACTUALLY IS


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Frank B. Robinson

The Ten Lessons


Moscow, Idaho

May 14, 1930

In this lesson we shall go a little further into the very profound Truth we are studying.

Let me repeat to my students that we are here dealing with the most fundamental

Truths we have ever dealt with. In no other age but this would it have been possible

for a set of Lessons like this to have been written, or for a man or woman like you to

have the ability to receive and understand this teaching and some of the marvelous

Truths it deals with.

We are not studying a fairy story by any manner of means. We are studying the

STORY OF THIS WORLD, ITS GOD, AND THE MOST MARVELOUSCREATION THIS GOD EVER MADE: MAN. If you have carried out my

instructions faithfully up to this point, you are beginning to get an insight into the

great Spiritual Truth as it exists. If you are NOT doing these things, then please start

all over again and this time DO THEM.

These Lessons are doubtless interesting from a literary standpoint, but that standpoint

will not get you to first base in the studies. However, those who WANT the Truth will

just naturally do as I instruct them, and they will find it. This Lesson may well be

called the most profound of the entire course, as it deals with GOD Himself.

I realize the utter impossibility of doing it the justice I should like to. But I realize this

fact, that unless a man could have followed me all these past years, in my search after

the Living God, he could by no manner of means have the same insight into the matter

that has rewarded my efforts. Please remember that I am only a human being, just as

you are, and with probably just as many failings as you have--maybe more. So please

follow me closely, and bear with me if my efforts seem to fall far short of dealing with

this dynamic subject as you would like to have it dealt with.

I have this one satisfaction, and it is a big satisfaction at that--I have the satisfaction of

knowing that I am giving you the very best that is in me, with what talent may havebeen given to me, and I am endeavoring to pass along to you these mighty Truths as I

have received them.

They come direct to me from the Source of all Truth, and therefore, THEY CANNOT

BE WRONG; THEY MUST BE THE TRUTH. Were I depending on what any other


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man has written, or upon what I have heard, then the element of doubt as to the truth

of these statements would be very pertinent.

As it is, FALSEHOOD CANNOT ENTER INTO THEM. Before you go any further

with this mighty Lesson, if you are not already in a quiet, restful mood, please get into

just such a mood. Concentrate on the Lesson to the exclusion of all other thoughts,and arrange so that you will not be interrupted while studying it. I also suggest that

you read this Lesson three times in succession. It will pay you to do so.

And now let us go to the actual study of this mighty, unchangeable, immutable, all-

powerful, never-changing God of ours. And let me say to you here, that the Living

God, as I shall reveal Him to you, will, in all probability, be a far different God from

what you have imagined Him to be to date.

As you progress, however, you will find that you are accepting every statement made

to you, and that the entire Lesson is corroborated by either the Bible or science, andmany chances to one, by both of them.

Only one man ever lived who claimed to be God. I mean, of course, only one man

whose claims were worthy of the consideration of a moments thought. I am not

admitting that this man WAS God at this point.

However, he did what no other man has ever been able to do either before or since, so

He is worthy of some consideration. I allude to the Galilean Carpenter, JESUS.

Three entire Lessons are devoted to him later on, so we shall not stop to go into hisclaims here. They will be gone into when we are considering them. Suffice it to say at

this point that I consider him to be essentially what he claimed to be. And considering

him to be just that, I shall take him to be an authority on God at this point. I know of

no other man qualified, up to this time even to attempt to define God. There have been

many since he came who are qualified so to speak about God.

But up to this time of Christ the world had known no such a man. Not only did he

claim to come from God, but HE ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATED THE FACT

THAT HE AT LEAST KNEW GOD. So I shall quote from him, and give him the

authority he is supposed to have claimed. I can do nothing else. So, shall we see justwhat HE had to say about what God was?

I shall ask you to go back to the story of the woman of Samaria at the well of Jacob.

You will remember that Jesus had asked her for a drink of water. In the conversation

that followed, he made the positive, definite assertion that GOD IS SPIRIT. He did

not say, 'God is A sprit.' If you will look in the authorized version of the Bible, you


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will see that the article 'A' has been italicized. This means that it was interpolated or

placed there by the translators in order to, as they thought, make sense out of the

statement. They made nonsense out of it, and shrouded it in mystery. In other words,

they translated the sentence AS THEY THOUGHT IT SHOULD BE TRANSLATED,

AND TO MAKE IT JIBE WITH THEIR OWN IDEAS OF WHAT GOD WAS. And

let me say a word to the warring church factions here, and this is it: --

If you would only understand that the men who translated this Bible were

ordinary, every day human individuals, just as you and I are. If you would only

understand that they were only educated up to the light of their time, then it

seems to me that you would not care what interpretation was placed on the

creation of man. What difference does it make, whether man's creation took

one second or ten million years? What difference does it make whether man

started as a humble amoeba, progressing through the ages until his present

stage was reached, or whether he was instantly made in one short space of

time? That is not what matters, my friends. What actually matters is: WHAT

MESSAGE HAVE YOU FROM THE LIVING GOD TO THE MAN ON THE

STREET HERE AND NOW? If you and your brethren continue to fight and

war on the interpretation of the Bible, WHAT LIGHT IS THE MAN ON THE

STREET GOING TO GET OUT OF IT? That is what matters. And there is one

thing that you can bank on, and that is that these men who deciphered this Bible

of yours were 100 percent human. And there is another thing you may bank on,

and that is the fact that the men who WROTE IT WERE ALSO 100-PERCENT

HUMAN.

And if they were, then they certainly were subject to human limitation, just as

you and I are. So quit your squabbling, and get down to basic fundamental facts

about the mighty Truths of THE LIVING GOD AS HE ACTUALLY EXISTS,

because all your squabbling will not hinder the work of the mighty Life Spirit.

What will happen is that the revelations which should come through you WILL

COME THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE WHO MAKES NO PROFESSION OF

RELIGION AT ALL.

To say 'A' spirit, would have been implying the existence of more than one spirit, and

JESUS DID NOT DO THIS. So then we have the statement from one who knew, that

GOD IS SPIRIT. A very definite, plain, and understandable statement. And how it

differs from the present accepted views of God! And how it opens up like a rose, the

entire scriptures, when fully grasped!

The next thing incumbent upon us then, in order to have an intelligent explanation of

what God is, is to find out what Spirit is. So far we have the definite assurance that

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I think Webster is the accepted authority today, so we shall quote him. His definition

is that spirit is Life, or intelligence, conceived of, or capable of existence of being

without physical form. Here we are getting down to something definite about God.

We are getting at a definition of terms. We are not accepting what someone else told

us, neither are we accepting some theory or other. We are getting down to bed-rock,

so to speak.

We have then, the statement that God is life or intelligence, capable of existence

without bodily form. And it is the best definition possible. THAT definition is

corroborated throughout the entire scriptures. So I shall take it as it stands. There are,

of course, many other things that God is, BUT BEFORE HE COULD HAVE BEEN

ANY OF THESE THINGS, HE MUST NEEDS HAVE BEEN LIFE FIRST. I wish I

could drive that statement home to you. Let me repeat it once more. BEFORE GOD

COULD HAVE BEEN ANY OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT HE IS, HE MUST

NEEDS HAVE BEEN LIFE FIRST.

And without LIFE, all of the other things that He is would be as nought. They would

be theoretical. HAD HE NOT BEEN LIFE, HE NEVER COULD HAVE BEEN

ANYTHING ELSE. So I shall concentrate on the fact we have discovered, that GOD

IS SPIRIT, and that SPIRIT IS LIFE, CAPABLE OF EXISTENCE WITHOUT

PHYSICAL FORM. When you grasp that statement to the full, you will then begin to

understand what God really is, and more than that, WHERE HE IS.

Try to imagine this Living God, the most dynamic Power in the universe, being all

around you, in the air, in the very same room in which you are reading this, BUT

INDISCERNIBLE TO YOU IN YOUR PRESENT STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

THAT IS THE EXACT FACT OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. THIS LIVING,

DYNAMIC POWER, THIS MIGHTY GOD, IS IN THE VERY AIR YOU

BREATHE, but LIVING IN IT, AND YET NOT A PART OF IT.

This statement completely revolutionizes the entire understanding of God as we have

it today. You must make a clean-cut distinction here, though, between God's actually

living in any part of your physical body, and his actual presence there. To say that

God dwells in you, as a body, is grossly wrong. For as Spirit He could not inhabit a

material body, but to say God dwells within you, and at the same time has positivelyno physical connection with you at all, is stating the Truth as it actually exists.

Many Psychologists find it hard to do this. So they immediately go on the assumption

that God Himself, or some attribute of Him, ACTUALLY LIVES AND OPERATES

THROUGH THE BRAIN, THE SPINAL COLUMN, OR SOME OTHER

PHYSICAL PART OF THE HUMAN MECHANISM. Such an interpretation is


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grossly misleading, and is false in its entirety. Furthermore, GOD HAS NO

ATTRIBUTES OF ANY KIND. HE HAS NO MIND. HE CANNOT HAVE. AND

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A 'GOD-MIND' or a 'GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS',

or a 'GOD-ANYTHING ELSE'. There cannot be because "GOD IS, NOT HAS..."

When I saw the flock of geese flying high in the sky and filling the air below withtheir honks, I saw GOD IN ACTUAL OPERATION, THROUGH AN IMMUTABLE

LAW HE MADE AGES AGO THAT GEESE SHOULD FLY. And when I saw the

little robins building their nest, I SAW GOD IN ACTUAL OPERATION THROUGH

A LAW HE PASSED AGES AGO, WHICH LAW GAVE TO THE LITTLE

ROBINS THE DESIRE TO MATE AND THE POWER TO BUILD THEIR OWN

NESTS-- And when I went into my bedroom and looked upon the sleeping form of

my little Alfred, I SAW GOD IN ACTUAL OPERATION THROUGH AN

IMMUTABLE LAW HE MADE AGES AGO, WHICH LAW ORDAINED THAT

THE HUMAN RACE SHOULD PROPAGATE THEIR OWN KIND. AND IN THE

SLEEPING FORM OF ALFRED I SAW THAT SAME LAW, THOUSANDS OF

YEARS AFTER, STILL OPERATING.

But it would be the rankest kind of untruth were I to state that either the Living God

Himself, or any of His supposed attributes, were actually living in, or operating

through the brain or spinal column of either the geese, the robins, the grain of wheat,

or the boy.

Man's entire brain was given to him to control the functions of the PHYSICAL body

only. The same thing with the brains of both the geese and the robins, and you may

depend upon it, that no GOD, AS SUCH, ever operates personally through any flesh

of any kind. As Spirit He could not possibly do that. In the body, but not of it.

Also please remember here, that this body of ours is a body of death, and were it not

for the immutable Law, made by God ages ago, this body could not even exist one

second. But it exists by Law, and in as much as God is Law, then it exists through and

by God. But in no sense of the word, can this body ever exist, either through the

indwelling God on one hand, or through and by the power of any so-called 'sub-

conscious mind,' on the other.

The point I want to send home to you now is that GOD IS INVISIBLE LIFE. "In Himwe live, and move, and have our being."

The stunning fact is, that you could not take another breath without God. Not merely

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A sparrow cannot fly to the ground without Him. The lily on the mountainside cannot

grow without Him. The wild geese would get lost without Him. The little robins might

raise baby scorpions without Him. You could not wake up in the morning without

Him--not without your 'sub-conscious mind'--but without HIM. Do you begin to see

what I mean?

This mighty Life, this mighty intelligence is EVERYWHERE. Right in the room in

which I am writing this, and so close to me that in Him I press down these typewriter

keys and send this message to you. And if I were to leave the room I would not take

Him with me out of the room, but He would still be in the room even though I was

gone.

In the next room to the one in which I am writing this, lies my little boy, Alfred. I

have just gone in and kissed the little fellow, for I love him more than I do my life.

There lies the little body, and to all intents and purposes, and as far as he is concerned,

he is as one dead. He does not know that he is asleep even. And as I stood therewatching the little breast heave and contract, just what did I see?

I call the little form I saw, Alfred--but is it? That is only a name, and I could not see a

name. So what is it that I actually saw lying there in the little bed? Shall I tell you?

Lying there on that little cot, my friends, I saw, not Alfred, but the mighty immutable

GOD IN ACTUAL OPERATION.

Some Psychologists would have us believe that every tree, every blade of grass, every

rock, every piece of steel, in fact everything in the universe is what they call a

manifestation of the universal or 'God-Mind' whatever that may be. I have explainedonce that mind has nothing whatever to do with it, and again I must ask you to

disabuse yourself of the idea, if you hold it, that any mind of any sort manifests

personally in any animate or inanimate object on this earth. That is NOT the

explanation.

The reason the trees grow is because AWAY BACK YONDER IN THE

BEGINNING, BEFORE TREES EVER GREW, GOD COMMANDED THEM TO

GROW. They can no more refuse to grow in violation of the immutable LAW, than

can you or I. The reason the lily grows on the hillside is because AWAY BACK

THERE IN THE BEGINNING,, BEFORE LILIES EVER GREW, GODCOMMANDED THEM TO GROW. Not because any power or mind or anything else

is in them, BUT BECAUSE THIS GREAT IMMUTABLE, NEVER-CHANGING

LIFE SPIRIT, CAPABLE OF EXISTENCE WITHOUT BODILY FORM,

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In other words, this great Life Spirit made an absolutely inviolable LAW, that out of

the single ear of wheat should grow the hundreds of ears. And that is the reason the

farmer knows he will not reap jack-pines or cactus.

When the first wild goose was created on this earth, the mighty Life Spirit that created

that goose implanted within it an immutable law, which immutable law guides it fromone part of the earth to another-- and THAT is the reason they cannot be fooled. And

when the first pair of red-breasted robins were placed by this mighty Life Spirit on

this earth, they were told to mate, and produce others-- and THAT is the reason they

cannot produce SCORPIONS.

And when the first two of the human race, away back yonder, lost their spiritual

estate, they were commanded to grow as we are growing today. And THAT is the

reason we are what we are-- and that is the reason we exist at all. Not because of any

little part of GOD existing in our brain or spinal column, but BECAUSE GOD

COMMANDED IT SO TO BE. Living in Him, and yet entirely separated from Him--that is the situation as it exists in the human race.

So you see the question of finding the Living God is not going to be so hard as we

imagined it on the start. The fact of the matter is that IT IS A HARDER THING TO

GET AWAY FROM GOD THAN IT IS TO FIND HIM.

Please try to grasp the idea of this LIVING GOD as being all around you, all through

you, and directly responsible for the life that manifests through you. Not as your

actions, but as the life itself. Your actions are not God. They are a very different thing,

as you will see later.

Try to grasp the idea of His being in the air, so to speak. Try to grasp the idea that you

move as you do because of the mighty command and Law He gave ages ago, and yet

try to imagine yourself not joined to this Living Power in the slightest degree, for you

are not, for the Living God Himself is not the Law He gave. Study this Lesson well.

CONTINUE THE SAME AFFIRMATION.

Lesson IV

THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN

Frank B. Robinson

The Ten Lessons


Moscow, Idaho

May 28, 1930


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This is a very important Lesson we are to study this week. It deals with the creation

and fall of man. The creation of man is not so important but the fall of man is very

important. Once more we find opinions differ as to how man was actually created.

The story as given us by Moses was that God made man from the dust of the ground.

That statement to the Scientist and trained Psychologist is probably literally correct.But not in the way it is interpreted by those who believe in the word-for-word

interpretation of this story of the creation as Moses gave it to us. I shall not take time

here to enter into a scientific discussion of this question, as it is far too deep for this

sort of a work. Those who believe in Moses' story verbatim will probably fail to see

what I mean when I state that the story is scientifically correct.

But it is so--so we shall let it go at that. We have seen so far that God is Spirit, and

there is no record to date of anyone's having seen God as such. Not even Jesus ever

saw the Living God. Furthermore, the scriptures teach that 'no man hath seen God at

any time'. Moses stated that God formed man out of the dust of the ground, but Godbeing SPIRIT, we cannot believe that He, with physical hands, moulded and shaped

the dust or earth into the shape of a physical man. And then, when the man was made

of earth, breathed into his nose the 'breath of life'. From what we have learned so far

of what God essentially is, that would have been a physical impossibility. And

besides, we shall see a little later that God does not create things in that manner.

So it seems that we must look for another explanation of the creation of man, other

than the one given to us by Moses. As far as the creation of woman goes, I personally

cannot accept that either. Moses says that God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,

and when fast asleep took a rib from his side and made a woman. It would have been

far more simple for God to have made both man and woman out of dust at the same

time, than for Him to have performed such a delicate operation as removing a rib and

then transforming the rib into a woman.

However, probably the whole story of creation as Moses wrote it was only according

to the wisdom of his day, and we shall not spend any more time discussing it,

especially when we have a subject of far greater importance to discuss in this Lesson.

We are told that after God had finished His creation of the man and woman, he

planted a garden and placed both the man and the woman in it to care for it. Nowplease remember at this point that there was not another human soul on this earth but

this couple. Then we are told, God gave to this couple certain things to do, telling

them just what they could do and just what they could NOT do.

Here they were, the man and the woman, fresh from the hand of the Living God, and

both in each other's presence, NAKED AND NOT KNOWING IT. Now I ask you to


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try to conceive of what sort of being a man and a woman would be, to be both

together and naked, AND NOT BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND THE FACT THAT

THEY WERE NAKED. For it was not until later that they knew they were naked.

Spend a little time in thought here, and try to imagine a couple so constituted that the

presence of each other in a naked condition had no effect upon them at all. In factTHEY DID NOT KNOW THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE NAKED. Now listen

a moment, please, I want to ask you a question here. Suppose for a moment that you

and I were of such a mentality that we could be placed in the same position as this

first created couple, AND NO THOUGHT OF THE PHYSICAL EVER ENTERS

OUR MINDS.

We would be a pretty spiritually minded couple, would we not? The fact of the matter

is, however, that the first created couple, as this mighty Life Spirit made them, HAD

NO SENSE OF THE PHYSICAL AT ALL.

They could not even see the physical. For had they been able to see each other as

fleshly bodies, they would have known that they were unclothed. BUT THEY KNEW

IT NOT. I am of the opinion here that they were purely Spiritual creations, having no

such thing as a physical body at all. Either that, or they possessed a physical body and

were not conscious of it, which means the same thing.

I am of the further opinion that this part of the creation of man is identical to the part

of the creation of the universe UP TO THE TIME GOD CALLED IT INTO

EXISTENCE BY WORD OF MOUTH. We have very plainly seen that the initial

creation of the earth was a mental creation. I believe the story of the creation of manup to this point to be a similar creation. It could not have been any other kind.

Now we shall see what happened to cause man to become a physical being, and what

caused that event to take place. What a pity it is that the event took place--but it did--

there is no denying that fact. The next step in the story of mans creation (for you

must remember that he is not yet in the form in which we have him today) runs about

as follows: This first created man and woman had been told by this mighty Life Spirit

which had created them that there were certain things which they MUST NOT DO.

Whether it was a literal apple tree or a literal gooseberry bush does not enter into thediscussion at all. It makes no difference whether it were such, or whether it were not.

The fact of prime importance here is the fact that GOD TOLD THIS MAN AND

THIS WOMAN THAT IF THEY DID CERTAIN THINGS, INEVITABLE DEATH

WOULD FOLLOW. That is the prime factor here. (And in passing let me call the

student's attention to the fact that instead of the opening of the eyes of the man and


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woman bringing LIFE to them, it brought DEATH. Now note carefully: THIS

DEATH IS WHAT WE CALL LIFE TODAY.)

And then we are told God left them alone. We are to presume here that both the man

and the woman BELIEVED GOD when He informed them that they would die if they

did a certain thing---disobeyed Him.

At this point there comes into the picture a sinister figure--and a figure that is

responsible for the entire suffering of the human race to date. Moses says a serpent

entered the garden. It makes no difference whether it was a snake or a porcupine that

actually entered this garden where those two created beings of God were. The whole

picture is entirely illustrative.

This snake, or whatever it might have been, speaking physically, went to the man and

the woman and asked them if it were a fact that God had told them that they would die

if they did a certain thing. It makes no difference if that thing were the eating of anapple or anything else, remember that. The actual act is beside the point.

On being told that it was a fact that God had so informed this man and woman, the

snake or something it represents, said unto the couple in effect: 'DID GOD SAY

THAT YOU WOULD DIE? WELL, THAT ISN'T SO. DON'T WORRY ABOUT

THAT. YOU WON'T DIE.' Now, beloved student, hear me well. HAD THAT MAN

AND THAT WOMAN THEN AND THERE SAID TO THE SNAKE, 'OH, YES, WE

WILL DIE! GOD SAID SO,' I should not be here writing this to you, and neither

would you be in your room reading it.

NEITHER WOULD THERE BE A SINGLE SOLITARY THING IN THE ENTIRE

UNIVERSE CONTRARY TO THE GREAT, IMMUTABLE GOD--NOT

EXCEPTING THE EARTH ITSELF--for this entire world as we have it today is in

itself, contrary to and opposed to the great Spiritual God. Had there been no

disobedience on the part of that first couple, there would be NOTHING PHYSICAL

IN THE ENTIRE CREATION. Remember that.

Had this man and woman taken THAT stand--how different it all would have been!

But they did not, and right here is the ACTUAL DEED THAT BROUGHT UPON

THIS EARTH ALL THE MISERY, POVERTY, SICKNESS, AND DEATH IT HASEVER SEEN. AND THE ACT OR DEED WHICH CAUSED IT ALL WAS THE

FACT THAT THE MAN AND WOMAN BELIEVED THE SNAKE IN

PREFERENCE TO BELIEVING GOD. Do you see that?

Not only did they choose to believe the serpent, or what it represents, but they

deliberately SHOWED THEIR DISBELIEF IN THE SPOKEN WORDS OF GOD


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BY ACTUALLY DOING THE VERY THING THAT GOD HAD COMMANDED

THEM NOT TO DO. In other words, they showed this mighty Spirit that had created

them that they would rather OBEY SOMEONE ELSE THAN HIM.

Now listen to what happened--and listen well. THE MOMENT THEY

DELIBERATELY CHOSE TO OBEY THE SNAKE RATHER THAN GOD, ANDTHE MOMENT THEY ACTUALLY DISOBEYED GOD, THEIR EYES WERE

OPENED AND THEY KNEW THEY WERE NAKED. If their eyes at this point

were opened, then it must follow that they had been closed up to this point. Now, just

what effect did the opening of their eyes have on them? Only one effect, and that

terrible in its consequences.

IT GAVE THEM THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF PHYSICAL EXISTENCE WHICH,

UP TO THAT POINT THEY HAD NEVER KNOWN. So you see, prior to the

disobedience of God there was NO SUCH A THING AS PHYSICAL

CONSCIOUSNESS. THAT came when man's eyes were opened. And I shall state, inpassing, that when the same eyes are closed that were opened in the garden, then, and

only then, can man be what he was before the fall. This, Jesus came to do, as we shall

see later.

What happened from that time on is more or less history, and we shall not concern

ourselves with it here. The purpose of this Lesson is to show you the mighty

significance of the fact of the "fall" of man, so that you may intelligently understand

it, and understand the things which are to be told you further along in your studies.

I have purposely refrained from considering the scientific explanation of the creationof man from the amoeba, etc., as it is beside the question here. Whether man was

formed in a few seconds, or whether it took ten million years to bring him to his

present state, makes no difference to the story as unfolded in this Lesson. Neither does

it make any difference whether the woman was actually taken from a man's rib

structure or not.

What a simple thing it is to listen to this story of the 'fall' of man--and yet what vital

truths are herein contained.

By this time you are beginning to grasp the truth as it has been presented to you, andas you slowly, but surely grasp it, you will most assuredly see that this earth, and

everything connected with it, is the result of unbelief. You will also begin to grasp the

truth that whatsoever we have on this earth is ONLY SECONDARY TO THINGS AS

THEY REALLY ARE. The REAL things are the UNSEEN things. The things which

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Another thing you can see is the fact that if the opening of the eyes of man to physical

things closed his eyes to spiritual things, or in other words, to THINGS AS THEY

ARE, then as long as we are physical, OUR EYES WILL STILL BE CLOSED TO

THE REAL OR THE SPIRITUAL THINGS.

This was a fact until the appearance of the Galilean Carpenter. Up to his manifestationit was NOT POSSIBLE FOR A SINGLE HUMAN SOUL TO PENETRATE THE

VEIL OF CONSCIOUSNESS NOR TO GLEAN ONE SINGLE SOLITARY TRUTH

FROM THE UNSEEN REALM.

His coming made a difference, however, as we shall see when we study about him in

some future Lessons. I shall say to you here, by way of advance, that HE CAME TO

SHOW YOU AND ME HOW TO RESTORE THE SPIRITUAL SIGHT OR VISION

THAT WAS LOST WHEN MAN'S PHYSICAL EYES WERE OPENED, away back

in the first creation. BUT, and it is a very big BUT--a lot of things have happened, and

the eternal Truth which he came to proclaim HAS BEEN UTTERLY MISSED BYTHE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE UP TO NOW. And now, nearly 2,000 years after his

message was given, and after the liberating Truths were proclaimed, is their profound

significance beginning to be understood.

I shall now show you in this Lesson how to actually SPEAK TO THE LIVING GOD.

It is all so wonderfully simple after all. And it is so charged with dynamic Power that

you will love to commune with this great Living God before you have held

conversation with Him for many weeks. For HE ANSWERS, and simple though the

fact of talking to Him may appear, let me say to you, that THE DYNAMIC POWEROF THIS MIGHTY LIFE SPIRIT WILL NOT FOOL YOU. YOU WILL RECEIVE

THE ANSWER TO YOUR PETITIONS, when you learn how to TAKE them.

You have seen from these studies up to now that God is Spirit--that is, LIFE

EXISTING WITHOUT PHYSICAL FORM, or, INVISIBLE LIFE. You have seen

further that He is everywhere. You have seen that you cannot exist without Him.

NOW, IF HE IS EVERYWHERE, HE IS IN THE VERY ROOM IN WHICH YOU

ARE SITTING, studying this Lesson. With the physical eyes you now possess, YOU

CANNOT SEE HIM.

Had not the Spiritual or mental consciousness with which man was first endowed

been SHUT OFF by the disbelief of the first created couple, YOU WOULD STILL

BE ABLE TO SEE HIM SPIRITUALLY AND TO TALK TO HIM AS THAT

FIRST CREATED COUPLE DID IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. But, although YOU

changed, NO CHANGE HAPPENED TO GOD. HE IS STILL THE SAME GOD

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FACT, YOU CAN TALK TO HIM TODAY SPIRITUALLY, JUST AS YOUR TWO

FORE-PARENTS DID, EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT SEE HIM.

Do not forget that there is still the 'sense-veil' in between, and this veil very

effectively shuts GOD off from your mortal vision. BUT HE IS ALL AROUND YOU

AND IN YOU JUST THE SAME. AND WHEN YOU BELIEVE THAT ANDSHOW YOUR BELIEF BY COMMUNING WITH OR TALKING TO HIM, YOU

WILL FIND TO YOUR EVERLASTING JOY THAT HE IS THERE.

In order to talk directly to the Living God, I want you, when the time comes for your

usual study of these Lessons and your affirmation, to be very quiet. Close the eyes as

usual, and instead of speaking to yourself, as you may think you have been doing,

SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE ACTUAL PRESENCE OF THE LIVING GOD

HIMSELF.

And you may rest assured that whatever you say to Him will be heard. You may tellHim all the things you desire to have and be. You may tell Him the thing that is

nearest to your heart, and you may bank upon it. HE IS THERE--AND HE IS

LISTENING TO YOU, PLEASED BEYOND MEASURE AT THE LITTLE BIT OF

FAITH YOU ARE MANIFESTING IN TALKING TO HIM.

A little later you will learn the Lesson of how to TAKE from Him everything that you

need. When you learn THAT, you will have learned that this mighty Life Spirit is a

very real thing to you. At this point I shall not ask you to lay any special demands

upon this mighty Living God, as you do not know at this time how to take from Him

the things you want. And the taking is the only thing that keeps you from having thesevery things--you do not know how to take them. I shall show you this later.

Let your conversation with this mighty Life Spirit at this time be along the general

line of what it is that you most desire, in a general way. Maybe it is health, and maybe

it is business success; but no matter what it is, just talk in a quiet, reverent way

directly to this unseen but very real Presence. Instead of saying: I BELIEVE IN THE

POWER OF THE LIVING GOD, you may say: "I AM IN THE PRESENCE OF THE

LIVING GOD, AND I AM TALKING TO HIM NOW." As you get used to this

affirmation you can then talk directly to Him as you would do to me if I were sitting

there in your room with you. All this may seem rather strange to you now, but I swearto you, on my honor as a man and as a Psychologist, that the mighty Life Spirit will

assuredly make His presence known to you. And to know this mighty Presence aright,

is Life, is Peace, is Health, is Joy, and is your all-sufficiency.

Here you have the Bible formula of prayer stripped of all its mysticism, and put down

on a common every-day basis, where even the simplest can understand it. This talking


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personally with God will bring you more peace of mind, and will open up the unseen

Spiritual Realm as nothing else can. So BE DILIGENT IN THIS EXERCISE.

Remember, you are dealing with the most dynamic Power in the universe.

Lesson V

SIN -- WHAT IT IS -- AND WHAT IT IS NOT

Frank B. Robinson

The Ten Lessons


Moscow, Idaho

June 11, 1930

At the beginning of this Lesson shall we pause for a moment or two and retrospect for

a little while to see just where we have progressed in these important studies. Onemistake many of my students make is to expect the things of God to be revealed to

them instantly.

This is rather an unusual expectation, because in no other course of study does one

understand the full import of it and learn all about it, instantly. If you are studying to

be a Doctor of Medicine, or a Doctor of Psychology you will have to pursue a definite

course of studies over a period of years, sometimes four or five, before you are able to

understand all that the course of instruction teaches you.

You cannot grasp the full Truth immediately. Nor can you become a competentPhysician, or Psychologist, or Lawyer, or whatever it may be, without actual

experience in the lessons as taught. The Doctor will serve as an intern in some

hospital. The Lawyer will practice free of charge in the police court. The Psychologist

will practice his Science for quite some time before he is competent to teach others.

In the study of the Living God you must not be too impatient. I realize how, when

once the student begins to grasp the tremendous import of it all, he is so staggered and

sometimes dumbfounded by the truth of the actuality of the presence of the Living

God and the immense possibilities it contains, that he immediately wants to leap into a

full knowledge of the entire Truth.

I understand this longing and desire; and it is perfectly natural for the student to feel

this. But as in Medicine, and Psychology, and Law; only actual practice will make

perfect, so it is in the study of the Living God.


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It takes actual experience and the definite and unswerving practice in the actual

contacting of Him to make one progress along the line of perfection. And while it is

true that the mighty immutable God we are learning about never changes, it is also

true that you and I are still in the fleshly form that was made manifest when the eyes

of man, by disobedience, were first opened to this same fleshly form. And just as long

as this condition is in existence, then so long will there be a "sense-veil" between youand this mighty Life Spirit. He is there, but never forget that you are in the flesh, and

not spirit. The hymn writer saw the Truth when he penned the following beautiful

lines:

Jesus--these eyes have never seen

That radiant form of Thine.

The veil of sense lies dark between

Thy blessed face and mine.

I see Thee not--I hear Thee not--Yet Thou art oft with me,

And earth has ne'er so dear a spot

As where I meet with Thee.

Like some bright dream that comes unsought

When slumbers o'er me roll,

Thine image ever fills my thought,

And charms my ravished soul.

But though I have not seen, and stillMust rest in faith alone,

I love Thee, dearest Lord, and will--

UNSEEN--BUT NOT UNKNOWN. --Quoted.

The man who wrote that hymn knew the Living God.

So I desire my students always to remember that they are in a state of physical being,

and as such are in a state of enmity towards God, being in a state of--well, shall we

say--rebellion towards Him.

YOUR ANCESTORS, away back, WERE THE VERY TWO WHO, WHEN THEY

WERE ENJOYING THE PERFECT BLISS OF PERFECT COMMUNION WITH

THE LIVING GOD, DELIBERATELY CHOSE TO THROW AWAY THAT

PERFECT LIBERTY, AND ALL THE JOYS ATTENDANT TO IT. AND IN SO

DOING, LOST THEIR COMMUNION WITH THIS GREAT GOD. AND BY SO

DOING BROUGHT DEATH, DISEASE, SICKNESS, AND POVERTY ON


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THEMSELVES--and not only on themselves, but on the entire human race--YOU

INCLUDED.

So do not expect that you will instantly be able to restore that communion. IT CAN be

restored, and I will show you how to do it, but please always remember that you are a

human, physical form, and not a spiritual or spirit being, as your two ancestors were.Away back there these two ancestors WERE spirit beings, or spiritual beings. But you

and I are a long way from being that now. So just obey me as I endeavor to instruct

you. I can assure you that I know the way. It is very simple when once understood.

The Carpenter knew it and proclaimed it, and the scriptures are full of it. All they need

is to be understood exactly as Jesus understood and taught them.

I perchance seem to hear you say that if the way is so simple, why is it that more

people have not found it? THE TRUTH THAT JESUS PROCLAIMED WAS SO

STAGGERING IN ITS IMMENSITY, AND SO DIFFERENT FROM THE IDEAS

OF GOD HELD BY THE JEWS, THAT THEY, IN THEIR UTTER IGNORANCEOF WHAT THE CARPENTER WAS TEACHING, EVEN THOUGH HE

ACCOMPANIED IT WITH MIRACLES, REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE

TEACHING, AND CRUCIFIED THE CARPENTER, AND DENOUNCED THE

ENTIRE MESSAGE AS BEING THE RAVINGS OF A CRAZY MAN. They said he

had a devil.

There was none other manifested to continue the message Jesus came to proclaim, and

so the old system of religion continued, AND ON THOSE OLD FALSE

TEACHINGS HAS BEEN BUILT THE TEACHINGS AS WE HAVE HAD THEM

TAUGHT TO US BY THOSE WHO CLAIM AUTHORITY AS AMBASSADORS

OF GOD TODAY. OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM OF RELIGIOUS TEACHING IS

FOUNDED ON THE ERROR OF OUR FOREFATHERS OR ON A

MISCONCEPTION OF THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST.

In trying to give to the world the true gospel, Jesus said, "The things that I do shall YE

do also." But do we find the present day Christians doing them?

Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out

devils; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover; if they shall eat any

deadly thing it shall not hurt them," etc. etc. But do we find the Christians doing THIStoday?

Jesus said, "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name shall be done unto you"--but do we

find this being done today? These, and many other signs were to follow those who

believed on him, according to Jesus. But where are they?


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The first thing for the student to grasp is that THERE IS ONLY ONE SIN IN THE

ENTIRE UNIVERSE--AND THAT SIN IS UNBELIEF. Never forget that. And never

forget further, that THIS WORLD, AS A WHOLE, STILL DISBELIEVES THE

SAME THING THAT ITS TWO FOREPARENTS DISBELIEVED IN THE

GARDEN OF EDEN--ALTHOUGH IN A DIFFERENT WAY.

And this sin of unbelief is entirely responsible for all the other sins in the world.

"Well," you say, "Dr. Robinson, are there no burglaries, murders, thefts, etc., and are

not these all sins?" Yes, they are all sins--AND EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM IS

DIRECTLY TRACEABLE TO THAT ONE GREAT SIN AWAY BACK YONDER

IN THE BEGINNING--THE SIN OF UNBELIEF.

If this world believed in the actual presence of the LIVING GOD, so close to it that it

could literally speak to Him and get an answer, how much sin do you think would

remain in the world, and for how long? The beauties of the Spiritual existence would

so overwhelm the so-called pleasures of THIS world that the one who fooled withthem would be the exception rather than the rule.

But BECAUSE THIS WORLD CANNOT ACTUALLY SEE GOD, IT REFUSES

TO BELIEVE THE HE EXISTS, FORGETTING ENTIRELY THAT THE EYE

WHICH COULD SEE GOD WAS CLOSED AGES AGO.

But if my students will only grasp the mighty fact that the LIVING GOD IS

PRESENT HERE AND NOW, and is vitally interested in every man's welfare--if I

can get my students to see that--then I shall have accomplished a wonderful purpose.

As I write this, my little Alfred is in the next room painting. I do not see him. But Iknow he is there, and if I call him he will answer, "What is it, Daddy?"

It is the same identical thing with God. He is here, in the very atmosphere in which we

move, and now that we understand why we cannot see Him, we shall be very foolish

if we do not comprehend the fact that He is here. It is not HIS fault that we cannot see

Him, and personally speaking, neither is it ours. It is, however, the fault of those two

fore-parents of ours away back yonder at the creation of man, and while you and I

personally had nothing whatsoever to do with the actual believing of God, WE ARE

THE DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF THE COUPLE WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE CLOSING OF THE EYES THAT ONCE COULD SEE HIM.

The Bible tells us that as by one man sin or doubt entered the world, by one man shall

it be taken away again. That is up to us to do. These Lessons are showing you how to

do your part.


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And so we see that there is only ONE sin in the world. The moment you recognize the

facts that I am teaching you about the actual presence of the Living God, just that

moment will you bend every effort to know all you can about Him. You will find that

the physical part of you is in rebellion against the spiritual part, but do not let that

worry you. It always has been since the fall to date, and always will be until you

yourself, by actual experience and practical work, learn just a little about the beauty ofthe presence of the Living God. And when you know just a little about THAT, you

will lose all interest in the shallower things of this material world.

I am not in the slightest degree religious, as the word is used today, but may I say that

to know this mighty Life Spirit is to love Him? And when you begin to know Him,

you will fall in love with Him too--you will not be able to help yourself.

The most beautiful moments I have ever experienced have been, and still are, the

moments when the Living God makes His presence felt in my life. These are moments

of extreme happiness, which is utterly unexplainable. These are moments of POWER,utterly unexplainable, and above all, these are moments of PEACE, utterly

unexplainable. Can these moments be seen by the outside world? Not at all. They are

moments of communion between my REAL SELF and its God.

SIN? There is no such thing to the man who knows the Living God, and this same

God is just enough not to impute either sin or its consequences to the man who honors

Him by acknowledging Him, and talking to Him. Never fear about THAT man ever

committing very many of the multitude of so-called sins in the universe today. THAT

man has learned where the real joys of life lie, and he follows them just as naturally as

a duck takes to the water.

At this point I shall leave you till next week. I want you now to decide what is the one

thing above all others that you most NEED (not want) in your life. I can tell you the

thing that will make all other things possible, and that is a fuller revelation of the

Presence and Power of the Living God. That may not be your idea now; it will be

later, however. But for the present, decide what it is that you most NEED from this

great Life Spirit. Then in your hour of quiet meditation, use the formula: THE

LIVING GOD IS--and then whatever it is that you need most. For instance, if your

need is of money, say: THE LIVING GOD IS BRINGING ME MONEY. If you have

some disease or other, makes no difference if it has been pronounced incurable or not,

say the following: THE LIVING GOD IS MAKING ME WELL.

Under no circumstances must you ever make the assertion that YOU are doing it. It

would be disastrous. YOU are NOT doing it, and furthermore, you never will be able

to do it. THE LIVING GOD HIMSELF DOES IT, NOT YOU.


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For instance, if you were trying to be rid of some disease or other, it would be

disastrous for you to say: "I'll get rid of this; or I'll fix this"; or anything on that order,

because if you do, you will be disappointed. Always let your assertion be that THE

LIVING GOD IS NOW DOING JUST EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT DONE.

And let me assure you, my friend, that if you never will doubt, and if you keep the

communication open between you and this immutable Living God, YOU WILLNEVER BE DISAPPOINTED, for God is immutable LAW.

Lesson VI

JESUS--WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE CAME TO DO

Frank B. RobinsonThe Ten Lessons


Moscow, Idaho

June 25, 1930

In this Lesson we are to deal with the very sweetest character that ever graced history's pages.None ever lived on this earth or on any other earth who could even approach this man we arehere to discuss, from the standpoint of sweetness of character, or from any other standpoint. I am

talking about Jesus--the Carpenter of Galilee.

And oh, how the human heart of me thrills at the prospect of writing three whole Lessons about

my best pal! For we have been pals for a long time now. And we shall be pals as long as this

world lasts. And then on the "other side" also, we shall be pals.

It will be a different sort of friendship when the last enemy of man is destroyed, and when thereis no more death. THAT friendship will continue throughout myriads of ages when there shall be

no more time, and when you and I are again restored to that same Spiritual existence that our

forefathers had in the garden, before they chose to doubt the word of the Living God.

You and I and many millions more have discovered to our sorrow that it did not pay to doubt the

spoken word of that mighty Life Spirit or God. And had [Adam and Eve] back yonder known

what the awful consequences would have been, as you and I know what they are, they wouldhave thought a second time before believing any outside suggester, as they did. It is just as

disastrous to doubt that same Life Spirit now as it was then, and I trust that before this course is

finished, that my students will have learned the utter foolishness of ever again doubting this great

Presence, whose Power is so unmistakable, right here and now.

But the Lesson had to be learned, and so it is that you and I were plunged, through the act ofanother, into a world as different as night from day, from the first creation of it.


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However, in passing may I say to my students that they may depend upon it that at the right time,

and in the right manner, that state of existence will be restored once more. And it may be that a

far more radiant state of existence than that was will be manifested. "Eye hath not seen, ear hathnot heard, neither HATH IT ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS THAT

THIS MIGHTY LIFE SPIRIT HATH PREPARED FOR THOSE THAT LOVE--OR KNOW

HIM--FOR TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM."

People sometimes ask me if I believe that we shall know each other in heaven. You will never be

in heaven as it is generally understood today, my friend. The heaven that God created is theentire space outside of this earth. The stars are in heaven, and in the sense that God is

everywhere, then He is in heaven--but in no other sense. He is not in some place where there is

any physical existence of any sort. Neither is He preparing a place for us if by that, we mean any

residence for us as we are manifestly here--in the flesh.

This physical part of us MUST die, and it is a good thing that it must. God help the human race if

they ever were to find eternal life as purely fleshly beings. I for one, would not want to be alive

on the earth if that state of affairs ever happened. But it won't. The mighty wisdom of the mightyLife Spirit prohibited that. Moses language was that man was "driven out of the garden, and

flaming swords of fire placed there to prevent his return into it." If he were telling the storytoday, he would say God made an immutable Law that man must die in order to get rid of his

body of flesh, in order that he might once more be in a condition and a position to re-enter the

Spiritual state of existence. The Bible tells us that flesh and blood cannot enter into the kingdom

of heaven. For sure they cannot. That which is FLESH IS flesh, and that which is SPIRIT ISspirit, AND THEY CAN NEVER MIX. That is what is meant when we are told that this body is

sown a corruptible body and raised a Spiritual body. It is all so simple when the revelation of the

Living God shines upon it.

We have seen now that God is SPIRIT, and while a physical manifestation was brought about bythe unbelief or doubt or sin of our forefathers in the garden, IT IS NEITHER ESSENTIAL NORDESIRABLE THAT THIS PHYSICAL EXISTENCE CONTINUE. And it WILL NOT continue

either after this earth and its inhabitants are once more manifesting on the same plane on which

they manifested prior to the fall.

What a thought! And how different from what we have been taught about this mighty Life Spirit-

-this mighty God. What a pity it is that the entire human race is so superstitious. You willremember one of the apostles walking along the road away back yonder, and seeing a sign with

wording on it, "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD". He said to them that he saw that in ALL THINGS

they were too superstitious. Then he called their attention to the sign and said to them, "HE

WHOM YE IGNORANTLY WORSHIP, THE SAME DECLARE I UNTO YOU."

And the same identical things exists today. Jesus understood it when he stood on the side of one

of the hills he loved so well and, with tears streaming down his face said, "Oh Jerusalem, how oftwould I have gathered you, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing, BUT YE

WOULD NOT." And so it is today. For 2,000 years the message, as the Galilean Carpenter came

to proclaim it, has fallen upon superstitious ears, made superstitious by their own interpretationof what the Living God should be. Superstition reigned supreme in the hearts of the Christians in


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the Carpenter's time--and it reigns supreme today in the hearts of Christians. They must have a

God who is in the sky. They must have a God whose Power will be made manifest in the future.

They must have a God whose reward is in heaven. NO WONDER THE GALILEANCARPENTER DIED OF A BROKEN HEART; NO WONDER AT ALL.

And I am not ashamed of the fact that as I write this, the eyes are beginning to dim, as into myinmost self steals a feeling of utter peace; a feeling of joy that cannot be explained nor

understood; a feeling of power that this world as it is cannot know. And if I may be pardoned for

alluding to it in this course of instruction, let me say to you that it is in just such moments as this,when the mighty Life Spirit makes His presence so vividly felt, that He is to me the most

precious being in the entire world. It is in just such moments as this that I can command disease

and sickness to leave the afflicted bodies, and have it do so. For the "sense veil" seems to be

temporarily lifted; and I KNOW, beyond any shadow of doubt, whereof I am speaking when Isay to you that the ACTUAL PRESENCE OF THIS LIVING GOD, RIGHT HERE AND NOW,

IN US, ALL ABOUT US, IS THE MOST DYNAMIC POWER IN THE UNIVERSE TODAY--

BAR NONE. There is no question about its presence, and EVERY STUDENT OF MINE MAY

ACTUALLY CONTACT AND KNOW THIS LIVING POWER, IF HE WILL DO AS I TRYTO TELL HIM.

Never fear that this mighty dynamic Power cannot be known to you, and never fear that it will

fool you. Not a sparrow can fall to the ground without this Power. And are ye not of much more

value than many sparrows? I think so.

And so it is that the Carpenter and I are Pals, and love each other. And why should I not love

him? Was it not he who first preached the message of the ACTUAL LIVING PRESENCE OF

THIS MIGHTY GOD POWER? Was it not he who first brought the story to this earth? And wasit not the same story, and that story alone, which made it possible for me to know the actual

presence, the living, marvelous Presence, of this mighty God we are learning about? None otherwas qualified to make such a revelation as he was; and had not that revelation been made, Ishould never have been able to learn the way, and neither would you for that matter; or anyone

else.

And as I look back this evening over the years, to the time when that boyhood heart of mine was

touched by the story of his rejection, I wonder, had I known then the roughness of the trail ahead

of me, whether I should attempt to tread it or not. Had I known the sharp, jagged edges againstwhich I would tear myself--had I known the loneliness of the nights spent in wrestling with God-

-had I known the almost impenetrable blackness which was to confront me for years--had I

known all this, I very much question whether or not I should have gone on, or thrown in the

towel, and denied the very existence of God at all.

You may depend upon one fact, however, and that is this: the man through whom God chooses

to make a revelation to this earth, will be a man who is WILLING TO BELIEVE AND TRUSTEVEN THOUGH HE GO TO HIS DEATH DOING SO. Through no other sort of a man CAN

any revelation from God ever come. History has proved that time and time again. And had it not

been for that Carpenter Pal of mine, I should never have been able to have come through at all.


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But he charmed me; he drew me; his story rang true; and it made no difference to me if the world

doubted him, I believe both him and in the remarkable story he came to tell; and, as is always in

the Realm of God, THE BELIEF ITSELF WAS THE ANSWER. I wish I could put that moreplainly, but I cannot. It is an immutable Law of the Living God Himself, in fact it is God Himself

that, ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH BE IT UNTO YOU, and being absolutely, unalterably

immutable in essence, THE BELIEVING PRAYER, OR DESIRE (for prayer is only anothername for desire) you may believe me when I say to you, that IT IS UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLEFOR YOU TO DESIRE TO PRAY FOR ANYTHING WITHOUT RECEIVING IT FROM THE

LIVING GOD, IF YOU BELIEVE IN HIM.

The exercises given to you are to train you to do that very thing. We have been steeped in

unbelief

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