7/30/2019 Understanding - Lillian DeWaters http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/understanding-lillian-dewaters 1/164 1 UNDERSTANDING by Lillian DeWaters . Psalm 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Proverbs 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver!
When one has the actual knowledge of himself, that is, when he knows his life
and being to be God, the one and only Selfhood, and this Self to be one andindivisible, impossible of separation into multiple personalities, then he is readyto learn how to live in this world midst what seems to be trials and tribulations,
and walk undismayed, free, and immune.
Remember this, of his personal efforts no one here on this earth can think
himself into the kingdom of Heaven, redeem himself from what seems the
necessity to make demonstrations, nor rise above the false assumption that he is
imperfect, insecure, and incomplete. Not until one discards everything that has
to do with personal efforts, personal getting, going, or demonstrating, in facteverything that has to do with becoming, shall he be able to understand with
Jesus: I Am; I have; it is done; all power is given unto Me. Many still need to
see that there is no such thing as personality, nor ever can be. Nor can one be or
ever become an individualized God. Furthermore, one needs to see that he is
never limited by time, person, place, or thing.
Let one turn absolutely and completely away from all belief that he is other than
the perfect Life now; that he is other than the one immaculate body now; other
than the one all-knowing, all-existing, all-supplying Mind now. If one findshimself unable to fulfil this divine requirement, then of necessity he needs to be born again. Just how can this be accomplished? Only through the Immaculate
Conception.
For instance, do you still make note of a certain day and place where you were
born into this world of human parents? That two human beings gave you life,and you are a product of humanity? All such false assumption must be laid
aside, for unless this is done, you are bound to continue to consider yourself a
human being, under the laws of human birth, age, and death.
Now Jesus‘ life presented the Immaculate Conception, and each must follow
him, and each must eventually conceive himself spiritually, immaculately, thatis, conceive himself to be Spirit, never having been born, never having had
existence apart from Spirit, immaculate, timeless, unconditioned, Self-luminous
and Self-complete. You must be born of the Spirit before you can actually see
and claim yourself to be Spirit! Without this rebirth, or letting go of the false
human concept to accept the Real and the True, you will unwittingly be
attempting to poultice the Immaculate Conception over the human and material,
and such attempts to gain the light of Truth will prove inconsistent and futile.
See and think only from the standpoint that Spirit is our only Substance and
Identity; never have we had another.
The one immaculate body is ours here and now; the perfect universe of Spirit is
within us, before and about us. Verily what has been called a material world
shall be known to be the city of God. One‘s body which has appeared to be physical and material shall be found to be immaculate, free from spot or blemish, the very activity of perfect Life itself.
There is nothing but Spirit! Our whole mind, body, world of affairs are Spirit.
Supply, income, abundance are Spirit.
Happiness, companionship, joy, peace are Spirit. Through the Immaculate
Conception we see the whole body to be Spirit; its actions and functions to be
Spirit. Spirit is ever-triumphant in insight, awareness, action, power, and glory.
Every second, God our true Mind, is transmitting to us an experience which is
beautiful, glorious, pure, good, wholesome, and complete; potent, invincible,
supreme.
Nevertheless, we are not only to identify ourselves with God as our very Self,
but we are also commanded to know that there is none else! Right here is
where the difficulty seems to be, and where one begins the deplorable practice
to make a demonstration over what appears to be grief, loss, sickness, suffering,or limitation of any kind, even though considering them only "false beliefs.‖What must be seen is this: there is no evil in a false belief ! Since false belief
cannot originate in God, then it cannot be at all .
Thus it cannot be associated in any way with inharmony or imperfection of any
kind.
If a belief is of God it cannot create evil or any kind; and if it is not of God it
cannot create evil of any kind – it cannot be, nor continue to seem to be. Surely
there is no imperfection in God, nor can there be any imperfection outside of
God, since the great eternal fact is that God is all , and besides Him there is none
Can you see that a belief cannot harm you if it comes from the One-Mind, and
furthermore that a belief cannot harm you if it assumes to come from somethingother than the One-Mind?? Therefore, if false belief cannot proceed from God,
and God is the all and only of Being, then there remains no origin, no cause, no
source, or means of existence for false belief of any kind. Is this not so?
Certainly, within God‘s world there is no place for evil whatsoever, and what isof more importance to see is that there is no space or place for evil outside of God‘s world.
Plainly, then, there is no place for evil, either in Truth or in falsity. A false
belief cannot affect the Truth, the true Mind, true world, or true body, nor can it
have existence in or of itself outside the Infinite, since it is absolutely certain
that there is and can be no outside to Infinity. Since what is called grief,
sorrow, or suffering of any kind, cannot come from God, nor from anything
outside of God, they cannot be, nor can they continue to seem to be.
The One-Mind said that a fountain cannot send forth both bitter water and
sweet, and pronounced all things good and perfect. Furthermore, this One-
Mind said, "Besides Me there is none else.‖ Thus we are compelled to see that
what one needs is to get rid of his belief in a false belief!! (This he does
through divine reason, insight, and understanding.)
There is no delay, nor any belief of delay in your acceptance of this profound,
potent, and powerful understanding which shall make you free indeed, in your mind, and in your body, and in your experience and affairs, in the ever-presentnow.
"I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil.‖ Could Jesus attempt to destroy
anything existing in the world of God? Could Jesus attempt to destroy anything
existing outside the world of God? Thus he came to fulfil the eternal Word that"Without Him was not anything made that was made.‖ The Truth cannot
change, nor be changed, and this Truth means that your mind, your body, and
your world are perfect, immaculate, free, flawless, and triumphant, even at this
identical moment. All action, substance, power, cause, and effect come from
the one perfect Mind or Consciousness, and from no where else.
Never will you be redeemed or spiritualized by trying in any way to redeem or
spiritualize yourself. What is your redemption? To release yourself from all
idea that you are human, material, personal, and identify yourself with God, the
one Mind, one Life, one Body, one World. From this true and real position and
viewpoint you will be able to see and understand (1) that which IS, and (2) that
Never accept the belief that the Infinite has done all the thinking, but rather
know that you are the Infinite, and you are to do such thinking which is basedupon divine knowledge, insight, and understanding.
It is the will of God, the grace and love of God, our own Being, that we see and
know how to be free, happy, and successful in this very world, and at this verytime; that we remain in this world, and be kept free from evil. (John 17.15)The Way is one of Vision, Awareness, and Understanding that all Truth is in
me, and that "there is no Truth in him.‖ (John 8:44) That problems seem to
appear, cease to be as important as that "From the gloom his brightness
streameth;" that is, the Truth shall stand revealed and experienced, here and
now, that no trouble of any kind can enter our mind, our body, our world, or our
affairs for the fact remains that there is no place for evil anywhere, either in
falsity or in Truth. Verily, each must be this understanding unto himself, not as
an individual, but as the indivisible One.
Never accept the notion that as you believe yourself to be well, prosperous, or
happy, you will become so. There is no such thing as becoming! As a
personality you do not control yourself for good or bad. You are the Self, and
no other, and in you is the full and complete knowledge and experience of
Reality and Truth, and nothing else.
Real activity of thought is based upon Truth, and is Truth, even that which is
now and eternally, never upon anything which one attempts to bring to pass;and moreover upon the fact that there is no belief of lack or loss of any good inthe totality of Being.
None will continue the attempt to "make demonstrations" after he discovers his
power and glory, his changeless and eternal Being, his immaculate body and
world, free from matter, laws, false beliefs, illusions, or delusions to hurt or toharm in all My holy Mountain; for the heart, soul, and being is full of the
knowledge of the glory of the Self, as the waters cover the sea.
Yea, we can then exclaim with our Beloved, "I Am he that liveth, and was dead;
and, behold, I Am alive for evermore."… "Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and
honour, and power, unto the Lord our God.‖ (Revelation 1:18; 19:1)
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, theyshall be as wool.‖ This eternal Promise shall be fulfilled in you, and in me; andit applies to sickness, to limitation, and to vicissitudes of any kind and every
kind. That God is all , and that there is no evil at all, must and shall be the
proven fact to each and every one.
Today it is apparent that healing through metaphysical or spiritual means is
protracted, not easily obtained – in fact, often seemingly impossible. The
reason is that we are entering a new era where, as Jesus said, "There shall no
sign be given.‖ All of us have experienced "signs and wonders" in our body,world, and affairs, and now something of greater importance is being demanded
of us.
Surely you can see that if healing became easier, more and more certain, then
we would be absolutely satisfied with healing, and so would never know or
experience the great and eternal fact that we are now perfect, without any need
of healing whatsoever.
Healing seems to be failing people everywhere. It is very disturbing to them because they cannot understand how this could be. Many say, "Years ago,healing was simple and certain. Now I read and study, and am more faithful
than ever, yet without perfect results.‖ Yes, it verily seems so.
Others say, "I accept this great Truth that I am the Self, yet the trouble, expense,
or limitation continues.‖ The reason for this is that greater understanding isnow demanded of us – not to heal diseases, loss, grief, and so on, but to see
their utter impossibility to be or to seem to be, to exist or seem to exist. It is
necessary that we abolish any and every error or discord with and by the
awareness and knowledge of its non-existence.
There is a distinction between light or revelation and that which we know asunderstanding. Light precedes understanding; that is, understanding is founded
upon light or insight. Revelation or light can come, and it can bring healing
instantaneously. It delivers joy, peace, glory, but not the power which comes
with understanding. Jesus said that we shall know the Truth, thus these lessons
are to deliver the knowledge which shall set us free.
Many have found that they cannot obtain light or revelation at will. Often the
light will dawn when they are not even seeking it, yet when in dire need or necessity, and their whole desire is for light, it does not come. This teaches us
that our need or requirement is understanding of what is so, and what is not so,
such understanding which shall be at hand, and applicable on the instant.
Light, or direct illumination and revelation, deals only with that which Is, thatis, with Reality and Truth – Perfection.
Understanding deals also with that which seems to be and is not; it is the two-
edged sword, which is "the sword of Spirit, the Word of God.‖ Light brings
deliverance instantaneously, as a flash. Understanding is based upon divine
Reason, or Insight, which perceives the non-existence of evil, no matter in what
appearance, thus proving that no evil is present; God is all.
To illustrate: You will recall that in my book, The Great Answer, I related my
experience with Japanese beetles.
When these insects first attacked my linden tree, I began knowing that as they
were of God, or life, they could not harm the tree, which was also of God, or
life; that is, life cannot prey upon or destroy life. Nevertheless, with all my
clear and certain "knowing," the beetles continued to eat up the leaves.
After several days, suddenly a new idea dawned upon me.
A question arose within me, one I had never thought of before. It was this –
could there be such a thing as life in appearance, but not in reality? That is,
could it be possible that these beetles had no life in them at all, and that they
were not of God?
The more I considered this assumption, the more certain it became to me that I
might be right. It was certainly a startling and arresting idea, as I had always
believed all life to be in and of God.
Then I began to formulate my treatment so as to cover both sides of the
question. I have told you that Light considers only one side, that which Is; butunderstanding uses the two-edged sword and sees both sides. I remembered,
too, the various mention of pestilences in the Bible, and how the prophets
destroyed them; also that Paul had thrown the viper into the fire.
Thus, I now gave my treatment as follows – "If these beetles are of God, they
cannot harm the tree; and if they are not of God they cannot harm the tree.‖Can you see this to be the exact fact? Can you see that there cannot be anything
outside of God, for the reason that God is all, thus that they could not harm
within God nor outside of God?
I had now covered the subject. With light only, I had seen that they could notharm if they were in and of God. And I had stopped right there. But when
understanding opened to me I went further than this, and based my reason upon
the fact that there is none else. Then the "miracle" took place.
Lo, the next day, their eating days were over – they fell upon the ground, to eat
no more. Now just what did I prove? I proved that they were not of God, and
that there was no life in them. Furthermore, and of even greater importance, I
proved that there was no evil present.
It requires real insight to discern this. There never was any evil there at all, for
the reason that the whole thing was spectrality, based upon the false assumption
that there is something besides God. I disproved this assumption. The
perception of their non-existence was their abolition.
Evil, error, matter, delusion, illusion, are not vulnerable as things; they are
vulnerable only as belief. Understanding sees that there is no evil in falsity, and
there is no evil in false belief. Good is all – there is none else. What seems acondition of lack, grief, or suffering of any kind, should never be thought of as acondition, but only as a false supposition or belief.
Then one should begin to question as to the origin of this belief, as follows:
Where could it come from? What could make it or cause it to appear? Could it
come from God? Could it come from anything within God? The answer willalways be No. Inherently one knows of a certainty that discord or inharmony of
any kind does not come from God. Then let one inquire, does it come from
something outside of God? Is there anything outside of the Infinite One?
Again he must answer – No, since he is fully aware that there is no outside to
God.
Through this manner of inquiry, one is bound to come face to face with the
genuine fact and truth, namely, regardless what the name of the trouble, it
CANNOT come from God; nor from anything other than God. Therefore, it has
no source, origin, substance, presence, or existence. Our perception and
understanding of these sublime realities forces the perception and
acknowledgement of the non-existence of the trouble, and this proves to be its
Only when one inquires of himself, "Where does the false belief come from?"
does he discover that there is no origin or cause for it whatsoever, either inTruth or in falsity; therefore, there is no evil in a false belief, there is no suchthing as evil ! Verily, the perception and understanding of the non-existence of
evil in false beliefs, based upon inquiry of the Self, proves the ever-present and
at-hand deliverance from beliefs of expense, suffering, or discord of any kind.
The Self is able to do all things, and as you inquire of the Self, your perfect
answer is right at hand. Identified with the Self, you can say, I am the Able-to-
do-all-things; I know the Way, I understand the Way, there is nothing and no
one to oppose me; there is no belief of anything more than God in heaven
above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. The eternal Word
is, and remains: I am God, and besides Me, there is none else.
Inquiry as to the origin, nature, substance, and existence of discord or limitationof any kind, leads to light and understanding, then the false appearance
vanishes. You see, if one is not aware of what is so, and what is not so, he will
unwittingly attempt to remove conditions through treatment.
Limitation never comes from the one Mind, which is illimitable, all sufficient,
and all sufficing. Nor can it come from any other mind, called mortal, human,
subconscious, et cetera, since the one Mind is the all and only Mind in
existence.
The subject should then be dropped as one continues to identify himself withthe Self from which he never has departed nor been separated. He then can say,
"Infinite Light fills me now; Infinite Understanding fills me now; Infinite
goodness, prosperity, wholeness, health, harmony, joy, and peace fill me now.‖
Infinite wholeness is all; there is nothing to oppose it, contradict it, nor interferewith it. Infinite Light and infinite Understanding are mine, here and now,
always and without interruption, for I am the Truth; I am the Light of the world;
I am the Power and Glory. Behold, I am the Real, the Perfect, the Absolute, and
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall
he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father.” (John 14:12)
What work do you suppose, could be greater than the healing of suffering of
any and every kind? It would be this – to understand how to remain without
any need or necessity of healing whatsoever; to be, and to remain, ever-
conscious of wholeness, completeness, happiness, prosperity, and peace as the
All and Only existence.
Our mounting vision must now rest upon the changeless, perfect Self, body ,and universe, the Self-existent, Self-supreme, Self-contained and Self-effulgent
– the All-in-all.
The Self is never deceived, nor is it subject to deception of any kind. What is
the Truth? The Self is the Truth. You, the Self, are the Truth, and you know
the Truth this very instant; any belief other than this, you can disprove. Is there
any false or human mind in you, the Truth, or true Self? Absolutely No. Is there
any such mind outside of you, the Self? No, there cannot be and is not any
mind outside the One Mind, which is the Self; no mind either to think or to be,since the One Mind is the All and Only Mind or Thinker there is.
The One Mind cannot think or believe in anything other than perfection,
harmony, and completeness always, and it knows that there is no cause, creator,
source, or origin outside Itself. You have no other mind, there is no other mind,
nor can anyone have any other mind, such as a personal or independent mind.There is no independence separate from God. Therefore there are no separate
beings, no separate or independent lives or minds whatsoever.
A false belief is really no belief at all. What is called a false belief should never
be associated with evil in any way, for there is no evil in it – there is nothing in
it. For instance, the false belief, or assumption, that two and two are five, hasnothing in it, no reality or substance or existence. Can you see this to be so?
Too often a thing is reasoned out to be "just a false belief," nevertheless it is
looked upon as evil, and thought to have power and presence. It must be seen
that a false belief, or falsity of any kind, is not evil – that which is nothing is
Evil cannot and does not exist in Mind, thought, or body, since all these are in
and of Spirit, God, and cannot exist anywhere else. Evil cannot exist asillusion, delusion, dream, spectrality, matter, deception, cause, effect, or false
belief, for the reason that such as these are utterly without substance, truth,
power, or presence, thus non-existent.
What then constitutes a "demonstration," or what is there to demonstrate over?Surely one cannot demonstrate of any condition, nor over a dream, deception, or
false belief! The need is for one to become aware of the Truth, aware that he is
the Self, and that there is nothing in or of him that can be anything else!
Never seek out new methods whereby to heal disease, griefs, or limitations.
Seek only for fuller understanding whereby to disprove their existence, and
their continuance in appearance, based upon the awareness and understanding
that evil cannot come from God, nor from anything else! "They shall be asnothing, and as a thing of naught.‖ (Is 41:12)
Truth, Reality, Perfection of Mind, thought, and body, are present, intact, at
hand, here and now; and besides this Omnipresence there is nothing else.
Therefore, Infinite Understanding fills us now. This very Self, yourself and
myself, is discovered to be the God-Self, All-knowing, All-sufficing, All-acting,
Supreme, and Absolute. The body of the Self, which is one with the Self, that
is, the body and the Self are One, is present, intact, perfect, here and now.
This is our body, and we have never had another. There is therefore no other material or human body to heal, or to be delivered from sickness or suffering of
any kind. The one body, the Self-body, without birth, age, or change, is the
only body we have; we have no other. We have no other now. Infinite
Perfection fills me now. We must and shall prove this to be the fact, and
disprove any and all contrary beliefs. (Read Romans 8:38, 39) Our feet nowstand upon the perfect, spiritual universe.
This is the eternal, everlasting fact, for there is no other world at all. If this
were not the fact, then God would not be the perfect, ever-harmonious, ever-
joyous and peaceful All. The one and only world, as it stands today, is spotless,
without the semblance of war, sin, sickness, or death. "As it was in the beginning, it is now, and ever shall be …" Lo, I Am here; I never left, nor have
I come; I Am ever-present, the Changeless and Eternal, the I Am All.
The Truth is all there is. The Truth is omniscience, omnipotence, and
There is nothing to oppose the omnipresence of Truth, as here and now, and all-
existence; nothing to contradict nor deny it. Nor is there any evil in a falseassumption. Can you see this to be so? There is nothing in it at all, neither
truth nor falsity. There is no falsity in a dream, for the reason that there is
nothing in a dream: a dream is without truth, and also without falsity.
The same insight applies to an illusion of any kind. Illusion cannot penetrateinto reality, which is present, here and now, nor can it continue to seem to be in
sight or appearance after it is perceived and understood that it has no truth in it,
nor any falsity in it.
There is none besides Me: I know not any.
There is but one state of Being, that is Perfection. There is, and can be, no other
state whatsoever. Perfection is the only state of Being there is for you, for me,for all. In spite of ignorance, false beliefs, foolish imaginations, this state of
perfect Being is present everywhere, at all times, and in all things.
When through Divine Wisdom, it is seen that there is no such thing as evil,
either in falsity or in truth, in unreality or reality, then one is able to
comprehend the deep significance in the sublime statement of King David,
"Even the night shall be light about me… the night shineth as the day; the
darkness and the light are both alike to thee.” (Ps 139:12)
We cannot afford to leave the tares and the wheat separated – leave the tares asunrealities, illusions, false beliefs, dreams. The step of separating the nay from
the yea is one of the first in vision, but finally we must come to the moment
which Jesus called "the time of harvest" when, after separating the tares from
the wheat, the nay from the yea, the night from the light, the false from the true,
there stands before us the irresistible vista of Oneness and Allness, Inseparableness and Indivisibility… then we lose sight of the "tares" altogether.
Lo, now the valley blossoms as the rose, the lion and the lamb play together in
peace and safety … "Is there a God besides Me? Yea, there is no God; I know
not any.‖ The rivers shall not overflow thee, neither shall the flames kindle
upon thee. The blind shall see, the deaf shall hear, the lame shall walk, thecrooked shall be straight, the darkness shall be light; "Before Me there was no
In the infinite invisible One-All there is nothing to be separated. There is no
separation of my life from God, since my life is God. There is no separation of my being from God, since my being is God. There is no doubt about the
unchangeableness of my perfection since my perfection is God. My being, my
life, my state of perfection is God, now and always, intact, Omnipotence,
Omniscience, Omnipresence.
Quite a number of those who have my late books, The Great Answer and Who Am I? have written me that although they see and accept the beauty, verity, and
absoluteness of the truth herein set forth, still the results in their experience are
not as perfect as they would like.
Therefore for such as these I have written this lesson. When one grasps clearly
and convincingly the unreality and nothingness of thoughts and things as
explained in this lesson, immediately he loses fear and concern, and he is freedthrough understanding. The Self will never fail you, for the Self is ever-
inspirational, ever-irresistible, all-knowing and supreme. Always turn within to
the Self, your own God-Being, for instruction, guidance, and light.
The Truth is not an abstract principle: the Truth is an Entity, a Being, which is
our very own, our Being right where we stand. Let us stand still in this Being!
The light will dawn; the way will open; the understanding will take place –
neither too little, nor too late. Ever I am the Self – Self-contained, Self-
revealing, always at hand.
NOTE: Many have written to me asking about the desirability of reading my
earlier writings at this time. It is a fact that all my books, both former and later
ones, are selling now in larger numbers than ever before; and even those who
read this lesson, and have my latest writings, will find helpful light and
understanding in rereading the earlier ones. The idea "perfect man" can easily be changed now to mean "perfect Self, God-Being.‖ For instance, in
connection with these Lessons, I suggest the restudy of my books In His Name
and The Seamless Robe. After studying this Lesson, you are bound to see
things in these two books in a clearer and more helpful way than ever before.
Having seen with light and understanding that illustrations and reflections have
no substance in them, no action, power, or presence whatsoever, therefore thatthey are void of harm of any kind, what then is the step beyond, that is, wheredoes such understanding lead? I wonder how many who read these lines have
followed through to the next illuminating and tremendous discovery? With
one‘s first perception, he deals with illusions as pictures because it is the
simplest and easiest mode of procedure whereby to behold their absolute
nothingness.
When one sees clearly, and for the first time, the nothingness of an illusion,
both in truth and in falsity, he is set free, at least for the present. If he is not free permanently, it is only that he must open his vision wider, and gain fuller
understanding. The next step would be to consider that which is responsible for
the thing called illusion, even though it is nothing, and so can do nothing.
The motion picture is most valuable here as a concrete illustration of our own
life and its experiences. One can see easily enough that the pictures on a screen
have no life in them, no action, really no presence whatsoever, and that the only
thing actually before him is the white screen.
Penetrating further into the value of things, he may now think, "Suppose I don‘twish these pictures to appear on the screen at all, suppose I wish to clear the
screen of pictures entirely, what then?" In this case he must ask himself, "What
is putting these pictures on the screen before me," for he knows that they cannot
put themselves there. He feels, rightly enough, that if he could get at the thing
which is casting the pictures, he would then have things under his control. Isthis not so? He soon discovers that back of the pictures are the films, that is, the
pictures are in the films before they reach the screen.
Let us now turn our attention to ourselves, and to our experience, to see just
how to apply this illustration. Ask yourself, first of all, what does the "white
screen" represent? You see, the pictures, though nothing in or of themselves,are cast upon the screen, so that instead of seeing this before one, he sees the
pictures. Now what does the "screen" illustrate to you in your own life? Please
Your answer should be: the pure and perfect body; the pure and perfect world.
Apparently, one looks out upon the perfect world (and there is no other) andsees instead pictures of war, grief, sorrow, tribulations of every kind. He may
look at the perfect body, and instead see pictures of age, sickness, or
incompleteness of one kind or another.
Having discerned the meaning of the "white screen" to be the perfect body andworld, what then is the meaning of the "films"? You probably have no
hesitancy in answering that they illustrate thoughts. Indeed, it is supposed in a
very large way today that according to one‘s thoughts, so are his conditions and
affairs.
Today multitudes are busy with mental-physics – the changing of thoughts,
removing one thought (film) to make use of another. They do not hear the
voice of the Christ saying – "I shall profess unto them, I never knew you.‖
The practice of thought-changing never does or ever can truly satisfy anyone.
For a time it may seem to prosper and flourish, but inevitably there comes the
time when no manner of thought-manipulation will bring success or satisfaction
– when all such thinking shall be found futile and of no avail. Then one shall
question, "What is it that is greater than thought?"
Turning back to the motion picture illustration, let us see what it is that is
greater than the films, which, as it were, stands back of them? Of course, it isthe machine or projector which contains the films which are flashed upon thescreen. Now, then, by what name does one call the "machine" which creates the
thoughts of war, grief, sorrow, sickness, fear, etc., which one may see about him
today? He knows at once that it must be mind . Surely, there can be no thinking
without mind . Therefore, why give attention to thoughts, why not attend to
mind only, since it is mind which is responsible for all the pictures of troubleand sorrow today.
As soon as one sees that illusions (discordant pictures) come from delusions,
(wrong thinking) and that all such thought must inevitably spring from mind ,
since mind is all that can think, then he is approaching near to a great discovery,
for he says to himself, "Impure thoughts must necessarily come from impuremind , for surely they cannot come from Divine Mind.
As he begins to trace the wrong thoughts, the impure and false thoughts, back to
some mind which would be their source and origin, the very place where theyare made, he comes to a sudden halt … he cannot proceed … he cannot carry
himself to that place where he can point and say, "Here, at this place, is the evil
mind from which all wrong thinking, all delusion, and ignorance proceed.‖ No,
he cannot do this, for as he leads such thinking back to its source, or starting place, which he knows must be mind , he makes the great discovery: He discerns
that no mind stands back of them at all! And, he exclaims, "There is no mind back of them whatsoever .”
It seems now that he stands alone, yes, in the holy place where all that he can
see, and take cognizance of, is the One Great Mind which is God, and which is
"of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.” (Hab 1:13)
One never knows how long he remains in this secret place, but when he walksout again, it is as though this whole vision has changed and cleared. He is free
– he has penetrated into Reality – he has discovered that God Almighty is the
only Mind there Is, or even can be, and this mind creates good and good only.
Of a certainty, the understanding is now present that there is no human or
mortal mind from which wrong thinking proceeds. There are not two gods,
neither can there be two minds, one in opposition to the other; one sending out
purity and goodness, and the other, impurities and imperfections. NO! It
cannot be!! The "mind" which has been called the mortal mind, or the humanmind, which is thought to be responsible for all wrong thinking, and also for allthe false and discordant pictures in the whole world, does not exist anywhere,
either in truth or in falsity, in reality or in unreality. Were this not the fact, there
would not be one great good and perfect Mind, one and only Creator, one only
Thinker there is, sending good, and nothing else, even as "no fountain can yield
both salt water and fresh.”
Discovering through insight and illumination that there is no mind at all from
which delusions and illusions can come, he sees that as with the removal of the
machine or projector, the films are gone also, as well as all the pictures, so now
in his own experience, lo, as soon as he discovers that there is no mortal,
human, or personal mind whatsoever, which can be a source of impure and imperfect thinking, and its results, he is in a place of absolute peace and rest,
harmony and happiness, for the wrong thoughts and their pictures have
Therefore, you need spend no time with delusions, illusions, fear, wrong
thinking, but rather ask yourself, "How many Gods are there? How many
minds?" Never has there been a source or creator for "evil," thus, never has
there been evil!! Good has always filled the entire universe, since God, good, is
All-inclusive – and there is none else.
Could the sun send forth darkness as well as light? Or could there be another sun in opposition to the real one, another sun which produces darkness? We
understand the utter impossibility of such an arrangement. Even so, and in the
same way, all belief in some big mortal mind or some little individual human
minds must be exploded. There can be no other mind or minds in opposition or
contradistinction to the one infinite God-Mind! Consider One Mind and One
Mind only. Thus, delusions and illusions, wrong thinking and discordant
picturing cannot exist, nor seem to have existence, anymore than a film could be
flashed on the moving picture screen if the projector were taken away.
Reason all imperfect thinking and imperfect manifesting out of existence. If
they have no place in God, why should you allow them place in you? Free
yourself through understanding that all your efforts to deal with your thoughts
are now ended. You are in the Light. You see and think with the Divine Mind,
How many times one has said that there is but one Mind, yet let himself believe
in other individual minds! If there is but one God, or Mind, then this Mind isthe only Thinker.
Is this not so? How then could one assume to make correction in his thinking?
Could any correction be made in mind if Mind is God? Certainly not.
That which stands between one and his acceptance of the one Mind is the belief
in the multiplicity of persons or personalities, each with a mind of his own, each
with individual thinking. Only as one beholds and understands the fact and
absoluteness of the one Mind – which is God, will he be able to cancel his belief in other personal minds, other personal thinkers.
Nor can anyone do this of himself, that is, as one of many individual thinkers.
" Except the Father draw him," it is an utter impossibility. Only God, the one
Mind, is convinced of the truth that I am the only Mind there is, and there is not,
and cannot be another.
How vain and useless for a personality, a personal mind, to attempt to instruct
or teach another personality, another personal mind! A great moment it is for anyone when, for the first time, he sees that since God is the Only Mind , thenGod is the only Thinker! Yes, the one Mind , which is the one Selfhood, and
without this Mind there is nothing thought that is thought.
Never did God create other minds. One Mind is sufficient for the whole of the
Book of Life, the whole of heaven above, of earth beneath, and of the watersunder the earth.
How utterly foolish, vain, and contemptible for anyone to weave thoughts out of
what he pleases to call his own mind, hoping by so doing to control his
experience! " Except the Lord build the house" (think the thoughts) "they labour
in vain that build it" (all thinking of the assumptive personal mind provesvanity).
Jesus discerned and announced that by his own thoughts, as an individual, he
could do nothing. Said he, "If I bear witness of myself my witness is not true.”He knew that of himself as a separate or independent thinker nothing could be
accomplished. Thus he said, "The Father in me, he doeth the work" – He
thinketh the thoughts. This one perfect, indivisible, and universal God-Mind is
present as each one of us, ever-operative, divine, and eternal; and when onediscovers this everlasting reality, he will willingly and gladly renounce claim toany individual mind or individual thinking.
This one Selfhood, which is Mind, thinks only in terms of Truth and Reality, of
Perfection and Completeness – immeasurable, immaculate, irresistible,
irreversible, ever-established and at hand. It beholds nothing but the brightness
of Its own glory, majesty, and power. Then what mind is it that thinks or
believes in incompleteness, impossibility, and imperfection? No mind at all.
To see this as the great and inflexible fact of Being is surely to partake of theliving Truth or actual understanding of Being.
First of all, one must get himself, that is, that which seems to be a self or mind
of his own, out of the way. It is imperative that the surrender of the sense of a
separate self be made, even as Jesus himself exemplified. This exactment must
be fulfilled. Secondly, one should let his whole aim and desire be to be God-
taught – to accept only the one Mind , so that this Mind will instruct and teach
him, and bring all things to his remembrance. Only then will his thinking
satisfy him, nourish and glorify, bless and enrich him.
As the author of any book of drama stands back of every single character in the
book, and is the one and only mind doing the thinking therein, so with true
discernment, one sees that there is but one Mind thinking, and one Mind
expressing Itself throughout the entire Book of Life. Verily, the only thing
which is helping anyone on earth today is the thinking of this one Mind . Whatone calls his own thinking has not a single thing to do with his real life and
living.
Everything which seems to be, yet is not of this one Selfhood and Its
expression, shall be proven utterly vain, and totally inexistent.
There are various synonyms for God, and one can of course accept and make
use of whichever words suit him best at the moment. God is the only Selfhood
or All, thus the One and only Self, Creator, Source, Mind, Life, Substance,
Principle, Being, I Am. Now whichever term brings you the greatest good, it is
yours to take and use. Within this Self, this Mind, or Thinker, is the entire
creation and full expression of Being, which from first to last is wholly mental
It is indeed this one Thinker which is upholding and maintaining your
wholeness and perfection this very instant, keeping it faultless, immutable,eternal, and preserving the world pure as crystal, without spot or blemish.
Therefore, dear friend, give up all responsibility to do, to think, or to recreate
anything of your own personal thinking. With your awareness of the one Mind
as impersonal and universal, you will find your thinking to be happy andsatisfying, supplying you with guidance in all directions and ways. This Mindis the source of all action, movement, law, enforcement, cause and effect.
Nothing can change, reverse, or interfere with Its perpetual and ever-
harmonious thinking, acting, and being.
The notion of other minds, other thinkers, is preposterous, and without truth or
reality whatsoever. Separate minds were never created by the one Creator, and
"All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that
was made.”
This one Self of all is never deluded, never discordant, never at a loss for
illumination or understanding. This Self never slumbers nor sleePs. Ever it is
absolute, invariable, immovable, immeasurable, and complete. Throughout all
eternity ring out the words of the eternal Self – I am Omnipotence, I am
Omniscience, I am Omnipresence, at every point the same; yesterday, today,
and forever. I am the only Law and Lawmaker; I am the only Thinker and
thought; I am Purity without need of any removal of impurity, Perfection
without need of any attainment or gain. Ever I am Self-illuminating and Self-known.
There is never a single instant when I am not complete, perfect, irresistible,
absolute, all.
If the surrender of a personal sense of self is to be made, who is to make it?Who is it that is required to give up the false belief in personality or individual
mind, and just how is it to be accomplished?
This seems a hard question to answer at first, nor is there any answer to it
except from the standpoint of Truth. Of course, the divine Mind cannot make
any such surrender, nor is there another mind to do so. Although such"surrender" is required, of yourself you can never accomplish it; in fact, the
more effort one makes in this direction, regardless how sincere, the more he will
need to carry on the effort, for it will have no end.
Let us take some concrete example, such as darkness.
Suppose that you are required to set aside or remove darkness out of a room.
Never can this be done while you attempt in any way to give your time andeffort in removing it, or indeed by giving it any attention whatsoever. Your
only need is to turn to the light, is it not? As you bring in a light, your desire to
do away with the darkness has been fulfilled. Now in the same way, the
necessity to be released from a false sense of individual thinking and believing,the surrender of the sense of a separate self, can take place, but never while onelabours to do this. He must turn his attention entirely away from all such effort,
and face the light of Truth; he must turn to the one and only Mind, and identify
himself with It.
When one accepts the divine Mind as his very own, understanding that he has
never actually been identified with any other, he will accomplish the
"surrender"; for the sense of a personal self will be blotted out … thus the
requirement for surrender or renunciation is fulfilled.
Can light explain whence cometh or goeth darkness? No more can the one
infinite Mind see other than Itself, Its own majesty, glory, power, and presence.
False sense, wrong thinking, personal believing, all these are swallowed up in
true identification, and in no other way.
What you cannot do or accomplish "of yourself," you can do and you can
accomplish as the perfect Self, the perfect Mind. "With men (personalities) this
is impossible … With God all things are possible.‖ Understanding and trueidentification are one, and go hand in hand.
In the final analysis, there is no bondage, and no liberation. The Self or
Absolute is alone real, and is One and Universal. As we identify with this, and
abide in the primal state of pure Being, realizing that there is no existence apart
from it, the sense of personality is lost, and That which alone is, remainsresplendent.
Steadfast abidance in the Self will surely deliver to us the understanding which
we crave. There was never a time when perfect Being, Mind, the Self, was
unknown, unrealized, or unilluminated to itself. Why then waste precious time
and labour in endless and vain repetition, denial, or efforts to destroy or attain,to surrender or achieve? Never identify yourself with an individual mind, with
wrong thinking, or with a physical body. Identify with and meditate upon only
your primal, real state of being, your absolute identity with the one Self or
The pure Self is the only Reality, the only Being. Really there is no existence
apart from this Selfhood. The Self of Perfection is alone real – it is the All , andit is the Only. It comprises all there is of Mind, thinking, and expressing.
The sense of duality, that is, the belief that there is Spirit, Mind, Life, which is
God, and which is All-in-all, yet that there is also a personal human mind and
personal human thinking, as well as personal physical body, is swallowed up in
the viewpoint that God is All, and All is God.
By seeing and understanding that God is the One and only Mind , hence the only
Thinker, and this God is the only Selfhood, without beginning or end, without birth, time, age, or death, the belief in personality, materiality, and physicality is
lost sight of, even as light dispels darkness.
Accepting no such entity as an individual mind, nor any personal thinking, since
the God-Mind is the One and Only, the truth about the body is then perceived
and understood, which is that it is not under the supervision or control of any
person or persons, or of any individual mind or group of minds whatsoever.
The belief that a single body is controlled by a single mind, as well as theatrocious belief that a single body can also be affected by other minds, must beutterly renounced and laid aside. God, the one and only Mind and Thinker is
seen to be the only Mind and thinking there is. It is pagan idolatry to believe or
worship otherwise.
"Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: Bring an offering, and comebefore Him: Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” (Read I Chron 16:8-
36) What "offering" shall we bring? What, indeed, but the confession that "I of
mine own self can do nothing.” God, the one and only Being, thinking, and
expression, is all there is in heaven above, in the earth beneath, and in the water
under the earth. Therefore freedom, harmony, peace, and blessedness are
omnipresent, universal, active, permanent, undefiled, and undefilable, both nowand forever.
From first to last the body of Mind is wholly mental, that is, the body is idea,
and not materiality. Properly, the word mental belongs to Mind, and to Mind
only. Please note this carefully. The word mental means spiritual, that which
applies to Mind or Spirit. Body, of course, is a compound idea, including many
ideas. An idea can never be material, structural; never objective, but ever in andof Mind or Spirit.
No thought or effort should ever be given toward spiritualizing a body of
materiality, or a body that is supposed to be an objectification of some personalhuman mind or thinking! What is darkness to the light, or "What is the chaff tothe wheat?" (Jer. 23:28) Do not I fill heaven and earth? Saith the Lord. As a
human or personal mind and its thinking is wholly without truth or reality, so
likewise is a human, material, or personal body. Body is ever and wholly inMind as the true mental concept of Itself; it is One, and it is Universal.
The dimension which is called Christ-Consciousness, Reality, Heaven, is
unrelated to time, to day and night, yet it is all time; it has nothing whatever to
do with materiality, or the external world of appearance, yet it can be
experienced by us in regard to body, thing, thought, or circumstance.
For some time Peter had been with his great friend and teacher, Jesus, directly
under his guidance, love, and friendship, when suddenly one day Peter lookedinto Reality, and instead of seeing the usual form of Jesus as a human being
standing before him, breathlessly he exclaimed, "Thou art the Christ," the
Presence of the Living Truth! The apostle Paul also had a similar experience,
impressing it upon us when he wrote, "Christ in you… Christ is all.” Surely
our heart‘s deepest love and purest faith and trust are in Christ, or God, as our
own Reality, to be known and experienced by us in the here and now.
The Infinite can never be known through human logic or reason. There must be
the ecstatic or spiritual approach which is above the limits of the thought, the body, or the world. Only here does one see that the meaning of life is Perfection.
External objects present us only with appearances until we are able to go back
of them to their original, and here see them as they really are. "If any man be in
Christ, (sees and experiences in the realm of the real) he is a new creature.‖Indeed, this alone is the eternal day.
The realm of the Real is the realm of "Divine Love.‖ Love is the realization of
the One as the all , and the all as the One. Yes, Love is surely the Way – love
for the Perfect; love for Reality and Truth; love for God, for Christ, for Self as
the One, the eternal Whole, present in all true being.
Thus it is absolutely certain that Life is not a mystery or problem to be solved,
but a Reality to be experienced. In the light of Reality, one‘s whole world will
seem to be changed, radiant with truth and beauty, and everything will be
joyous with new freedom. Therefore to attempt to directly change the external
This subject will be expanded, that of Christ or Christ- Consciousness – Cosmic
Consciousness. Nothing could be closer to us than this, and more necessary. It brings us a deep and true concept and understanding of Life, Truth, Love,
Heaven, Reality.
February 5th, 1944 NOTE: I trust that each reader of these Lessons will do hisor her part in generously circulating the booklet, "Our Victory," not only "over there" but right here as well. I also hope that you will all want to have the
How true it is that people, bodies, things of this world, or that of the external, all
fail us. Thoughts too, no matter how dynamic and high-sounding, if based uponthe intellect, or so-called personal mind, alas, are less than nothing; yes, even asfutile as the things of the external.
Therefore, be ye not conformed to this world of things and thoughts, of
personalities and intellects, but be ye transformed by finding and experiencing
the Kingdom of Heaven to be in that dimension of Consciousness known as the
"within"; thus to be here and now as that which you seek.
Hear again the words of the Living Light: "The care of this world and thedeceitfulness of riches (in personalities, things, and thoughts) choke the Word
(of Reality and Truth) … My Kingdom (of Heavenly Consciousness) is not of
this world … Ye (in your belief of all things to be external to you ) are of this
world; I (knowing Reality, Heaven, to be within me) am not of this world.‖
Reality is not to be created by us, nor is it determined by any of our thoughts,
feelings, or actions. Where then shall our hope rest or where shall we find that
which is Dependable, Absolute, and eternally Certain? Only in that dimension
which transcends this world of things and thoughts – the realm of the timeless,the immeasurable, and unconditioned, verily That which is ChristConsciousness, Heaven; That which is Reality Itself.
To place health and wholeness in bodies, happiness in individuals, success in
things, and understanding in thought and reason, yea, to look to "this world" for
That which is wholly apart from it, is vanity indeed: for it keeps one in perpetual search, strive, struggle, effort, and argument.
When we turn from this world to That of Truth and Reality, we experience
intuition and revelation, and we know the answers without effort or strain of
any kind.
All questions relating to cause and effect, whether dealing with the world of the
external things or the world of internal thoughts, originate in illusion. All
questions are swallowed up in the light of Reality – the Eternal Way.
That mind influences body or that body influences mind seems apparent only
outside the Realm of Truth. Laying aside questions based upon illusion, andlooking wholly toward Reality, Heaven, Christ-Light, we find it to be right with
us, at hand. Yea, so close is it to us that even our looking towards it brings us
nearer the glorious experience thereof. Our willingness to "lay down" our life,
as in or of the way of conflict with things or thoughts, externals or intellects,automatically opens to us another Realm, that of Intuition, Illumination, andRevelation, which brings us into the immediate presence of the Real, the True,
and the Eternal.
Illumination or Revelation is the flash of direct Knowledge, then the finite no
longer exists to one; materiality or things of the external have vanished. "Come
unto me (Christ Reality), all ye that labour and are heavy laden (because you
deal with things and thoughts), and I will give you rest (herein you will
experience Reality).‖
It has been written that "The intellect is but a skeleton, but to many the rattling
of its bones is as sweet a language as the voice of intuition.‖ Indeed, it does
seem that many today cannot discriminate between personal thoughts of the
intellect, or so-called human mind, and those of the divine Mind, or Christ
Consciousness. On the other hand, it is certain that many others are expanding
rapidly in spiritual awareness, and are leaving mental physics behind them,
reaching out eagerly towards the Absolute Truth, that which alone satisfies and
fulfils.
The world of Reality cannot be known in any way other than by experience. It
is well to remember this. For instance, just recently I sat down with pencil and
paper in hand to formulate some important ideas on a certain subject. There
seemed a sense of hesitancy in me as though I felt that the subject required
some particular thought on my part.
Scarcely had I started to write the first word when suddenly a burst of words
poured over me, and very rapidly I wrote them down. When I had finished the
sentences it was as if the whole of Truth had been revealed to me in about
twenty-five words. Their potency and light were so tremendous as to almost
overwhelm me. Not another word did I need to know. Everything wascontained within those few sentences.
I had not in any way sought for this particular illumination, that is, it seemed to
come to me entirely of itself, and so seemed all the more marvellous and
entrancing. The experience was certainly one of joy, ecstasy, and peace.
And the theme? Perfection is our Being, and our Being is Perfection! Always
in illumination of this kind, one loses all sense of himself in every way as a person, and enters into the experience as though he were really that One
himself.
One may have exerted great effort in his attempts to overcome some peculiar or undesirable trait, emotion, or habit, and still be altogether unsuccessful. Yetwhen he gives his deepest and purest love to that which is the Infinite One,
laying his "all" here, suddenly and effortlessly he can be set free of his burden,
whether it represents the physical, the mental, or the emotional.
We do not reach revelation or illumination by greater and greater effort, as it
might seem. Rather it is as if instead of continuing on with the mental
arguments, the struggle and labour of thought, suddenly one completely stops
everything and turns himself wholly to That which is All ; That which is above,underneath, around, and within him as the All-there-is. How instantly then one
can lose all contact with time, conditions, people, thoughts, things! A new
world stands before us, and we are entranced, drinking thirstily of its love,
beauty, and wonder; rapturously devouring its certain answer of light, truth, and
glory.
Reality, the World of the Real, contains for us fullness to satisfy our every need
or desire. The One is Its own explanation, Its own fulfilment, Its own
realization.
Revelation, realization, is clear, definite, certain; it is immediate knowledge of
Reality.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God," the realm of the Real; for here is where all
Perfection abides. This is the "labourless way in which one may leaveundesirable earthly conditions. This way is a state of Consciousness wherein
such conditions cannot exist.‖ (Science of Ascension) By the way, you are to
disregard throughout the book any reference made to "individual
consciousness," as it is clear now that Consciousness is One, and this One is
free to all.
Healing is never really accomplished through any form of healing, though it
may appear otherwise by those who consider the objective world to be the real.
Reality is not divided into Creator and creation, but is ever one complete
Infinitude of Being. Reality is Wholeness, Harmony, Peace, Love. Reality is
Christ, I Am. No words can describe it, for Reality is indescribable and
immeasurable. It is the All of Being; there is nothing else to live for.
As the truth of mathematics underlies and encompasses all there is of
mathematics, so it is with life. The Truth of life is all there is of Life.Wholeness and harmony are its realities, ever-present and intact. Do not try to
prove them, but just experience them. Anything which seems to be, yet is not
aligned with wholeness and harmony, can be found without substance or
presence. No withered arms, deaf ears, or sinful hearts could deceive Jesus. Heknew what belonged to the real Being, and he disproved all else.
Knowing his Being to be the Christ, sovereignty was his.
Even the winds and the waves held no alarm for him who knew all things to be
in and of the realm of the Real.
Indeed, he found it as simple to walk on water as on land.
We, too, are to depend upon our Being as the Christ, the I Am, the Reality
which includes all. Herein is revelation. To Christ, effort, labour, argument,
are unknown. Here is Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Omnipresence –
Infinity, illimitable Perfection. Our thought, vision, and action are spontaneous
and labourless only as we function in revelation, light, and inspiration.
When one imagines himself to be man, with a separate mind, will, and choice of
his own, naturally he is limited in all directions. In separation one is never free,
never whole, never complete. How great a mystery is life so long as oneregards himself to be dependent upon his own personal thinking! Theinequality, injustice, incompleteness are seen everywhere. Withdraw from all
such illusion to contemplate Reality which is in and of Christ Consciousness.
When we see things as they really are, we find that never have we been the
creature called man, nor the mentality called mind, nor the body called matter.Only as we experience Reality do we come to know things as they are, and find
the actuality of ourself to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
In the light of Reality, our whole world seems changed, and appears radiant
with love and beauty; all has an entirely new meaning. Verily, in Christ
To enter or experience Reality we do not withdraw from one world to another,
for it is certain that there is but one world. How we view such world, or whatour experience of it is, depends upon our realization and awareness of Reality asthe only world there is. We not only transcend the illusion of any objective
world, and of an objective time and place, but we also transcend the illusion that
we are a separate self.
Of course, this is the particular subject or theme of my two latest books,
however it must be clear that knowledge, no matter how perfect, can never
equal or take the place of the actual experience thereof. One actually knows
only according to his experiences in Reality.
When we speak of one‘s spirituality we refer to his willingness, readiness, and
ability to turn from things as they seem in the objective, and earnestly and
wholeheartedly grasp and take hold of things as they are in Reality, or the
World of the Real, where the notion of a world external or objective to oneself
is not present.
In Real experience there is no sense of distinction at all, that is, no thought of a
world either external or within; no concept of things either as spiritual or material. There is no concept whatever of sin, good and evil, of opposites, or duality. All such distinction is meaningless. The things which we now see
about us as solids, related to time and place, when we see them in Reality,
appear in another way altogether.
Moreover no one can tell or give true explanation on this subject except thosewho have had the actual experience of Reality, and even then it is not possible
for anyone to do justice to his experience.
The future is now, as well as the past and present are now.
The one time is all there is, incapable of division or separateness. I have beenasked about the advisability of purchasing things now which are only intended
for future use. When one is spiritually governed, and the urge comes to buy
something now, even though it seems to him that he does not need it at the
present moment, but only in the future, it is wisdom to follow his spiritual
inspiration. Past and future are but names we give to an experience of Reality
which is unchanging and unchangeable, every moment being the same. When
one has the true sense of time, we will naturally act accordingly.
Similarly, it is often said, "I know that I am whole now, if I can only manifest
it.‖ Knowledge and manifestation are one and the same. Cause and effect,thinking, and manifesting, these terms are used only in the plane of the
objective, having no meaning in Reality, which is ever I Am. If one would let
go all thought of the external, the objective, or manifestation, and grasp even in
a small degree the meaning or substance of the word Reality, he would enter anew experience where such terms as those dependent upon time do not exist. Inthe next lesson we will take up more along this viewpoint.
Truth or Reality cannot be investigated as though it were in and of the things
existing or appearing external to us.
Reality is not the world of things, thoughts, minds, or personalities. Nor is
Reality ever determined by anyone‘s thoughts or feelings.
"Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire
besides thee.” (Ps. 73:25) All is Mind, and there is no physicality or
materiality whatsoever. Spirit, Mind, cannot create matter or materiality
anymore than light could create darkness. The subject of Mind never gets out
of Mind, and body is the subject of Mind‘s thinking.
Thus, body is purely mental – invulnerable, indestructible, and immune.
Do not try to correct your thinking! Ask yourself, "With what mind am I thinking ? The impulse to heal or to be healed must also go. There is but oneidea of body in Mind, and this idea is omnipresent. Nothing can be added to it,
nor taken from it. It is pure, it is perfect, and it is subject to Mind alone. Verily
it is like Mind in every way. It is infinite, pure, perfect, and altogether good.
Therefore, spend no time in the attempt to heal a physical body spiritually! Neither by any kind of thought-processes.
In the Self, there is no element of darkness, ignorance, or evil whatsoever; no
erring supposition or suggestion of any kind. Thus, none to be expressed. As
God, Mind, or Spirit, cannot be mortal nor personal, but ever immortal and
ever-present as One, thus body can never be material or personal, but ever mental – the subject of Mind‘s thinking.
There are no individual minds, and no individual thinkers; no individual or
personal bodies. There is one Self-God- Spirit-Being, which is ever-present and
universal as Mary, John, Martha, David, and so on, endlessly. This one Life-
Being-God includes and comprises all that has existence.
There is no doubt or darkness in God, no fear, lack, insufficiency of any kind.
Ever there is understanding, illumination, love, purity, and perfection in God,and nothing less. This Selfhood is the only Thinker, thinking and expressing.
This Self is One and Universal – infinite and ever-present.
Understanding, wholeness, harmony, peace, perfection, are not in or of Mary or John as separate minds or persons, but ever in and of God as all there is of Maryor John. No sickness, destruction, deception, or discord of any kind exists in
God, and God is all there is of you, of me, and of anyone. Is this not so? God is
Perfection, and Perfection is God. God is your Perfection, and your Perfection
is God.
(I suggest that you read again my little book, "God is All.”)
"He that hath seen me, (Jesus) hath seen the Father … I (Jesus) am come in myFather‘s name … I (Jesus) and my Father are one … I (Jesus) do nothing of
myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.‖
Thus, we are perfect because God, our own and only Selfhood is Perfection; and
because God is all there is of us! "As for God, His way is perfect … He maketh
my way perfect.” "You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Let us now behold Reality as the One and Only, and function in this Realm of
the Real as the All-in-all. This should now and henceforth constitute our entireunderstanding, our whole universe, our only existence, besides which there isnone else. Only in this way can "steps" be swallowed up in Victory, and
"paths" entirely vanish.
Established here in the Realm of the Real as all there is in and of existence
anywhere, we take the word "Christ," for instance, and now find in it the real
and true meaning. We see that it relates to the Perfect Only, and is The Perfect
State of Being known as spiritual or Divine Consciousness.
For example, when "the heaven was opened" to Jesus, and the Spirit of God
"descended like a dove upon him," this was his experience in Cosmic
Consciousness. Again, at the scene of the transfiguration, Jesus was so
completely swallowed up in Christ that the disciples saw the glory which was
his Reality, in the plane of the Real. "And Jesus was transfigured before them;
and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.‖ This
state was that of Christ, the Light of your world and mine.
Christ is identical with God-Consciousness, in which human existence iscompletely transcended. Here there is no human or material plane whatsoever to be considered; no sin, sickness, ignorance, or death. Every time Jesus spoke
of the "Kingdom of Heaven," he was alluding to this Realm of the Real, this
Christ Consciousness. When he said, "I am the door; by me if any man enter in,
he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture," he was speaking
from the standpoint of Christ, and no other. Jesus exemplified for us all, thegoing "in and out" of Spiritual Consciousness, until finally he was completely in
Christ, and no longer visible to those existing as outside the Kingdom.
Verily, whenever Jesus alluded to himself as the Way, the Life, or the Light, he
was speaking from the Realm of the Real, from the Kingdom of Heaven; he was
in Christ – that is, he was speaking as Christ Consciousness. He was the Oneand no other. When he promised that He would be with us always, it was the
same. Christ, or Spiritual Consciousness, is ever ours to enter into, to know, to
understand, and to experience. This is indeed the Christ which is our "hope of
glory"; and without this Christ Consciousness we can do nothing. "Without Me
(Christ illumination, Divine Revelation), ye can do nothing.‖
Over and over again Jesus stressed that of himself he could not attain, he could
do nothing – I came not of myself…I speak not of myself…I do not the worksof myself…" I can of mine own self do nothing.” Thus we can be positively
certain that one cannot function in Christ until he himself be willing to make
this same confession, willing and ready to lay down his life as a personality or
individual, even as Jesus.
In no other way can anyone truly understand Christ , and be able to say with
Him, "I and my Father are One.‖ If any man be in Christ Consciousness, he
experiences Oneness and Allness.
Only through Christ Consciousness, which is that of our Self as the Whole, does
revelation come to us with its sweetness, its love and understanding, its light
and illumination, its peace and rest.
This is of course the plane of Spirit, or Reality, actually the Kingdom of God.
Nor can one enter into this lifted and lighted experience so long as he remains in
the belief that he has an individual mind or consciousness, with a choice and a
will of his own. Logic, argument, comparison, labour of thought, ideas of
healing, all pertain to that plane which Jesus called "the world," saying, "The
world cannot receive the Spirit of Truth, because it seeth Him not, neither
knoweth Him.‖
Those who are willing to be released from the world – personality and itsaccompanying ideas of self, mind, body, and world – are now ready to let Jesus be swallowed up in Christ, thence to follow him into the Kingdom of heaven,
and the Realm of the Real, where all mental labour, argument, demonstration,
cease.
Many years ago it was written that we should "get out of man into God.‖ Suchexperience however is not a matter of personal achievement, evolution, or
demonstration of any kind; nor does it depend upon personal goodness, honesty,
or any manner of thought or behaviour. How far away from us is the Realm of
the Real, the perfect Self? As close as breathing, and as near as the now and
here. Yet one can enter into and experience it only through Christ – Spiritual
revelation, Divine Consciousness, as the Way.
Moreover, "No man can come to me, except the Father draw him… except a
man be born of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God … A man
can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.” Plainly enough then,
no one can enter into the experience of Heaven, Perfection, Reality, except the
Spiritual illumination or Christ-Consciousness reveals the Truth to him. In this
way only can one be released from the so-called relative or material position.
"I, if I be lifted up! Lift up your heads! Lift up your voice! Lift up your heart!
Be ye lifted up!" Over and over again we read that Jesus raised his eyes to
heaven – he looked up and away from the personal and relative to the realm of
the One as All. He saw Life as a Reality to be experienced in all its harmony,
peace, and glory, and knew it to remain a mystery or problem only to those who
consider each to be an individual, with a will and choice of one‘s own; with amind and a body belonging to him personally, over which he is to exercisedominion and control.
Verily, verily, none can experience Divine Revelation, Cosmic Consciousness,
whilst he remains in the darkened sense of himself as an individual thinker, a
being other than God, the infinite One and Whole. All of oneself as a personal
independent thinker or individual must die; every desire, wish, or will of such
self must of necessity be as naught, that "Christ (Divine Consciousness) be
formed in you.‖ (Gal 4:19)
Right here it could be said that many pages in my book, "The Christ Within,"
will still be found helpful reading.) No one of himself as a personal mind or
being can ever learn what Christ is, what Revelation is, what Cosmic
Consciousness is. Lo, even the requirement that one lay down his life cannot be
accomplished of oneself!
First of all, one must receive the calling, hear the Voice, and open the Door.
Ever "the Father seeketh;" ever "I (Christ), stand at the door and knock.”Therefore, whosoever will , let him take and let him receive. Simultaneouslythen he will begin to fulfil the requirement to lay down the personal ego, or
relinquish the illusion that he has an individual mind, life, and consciousness of
his own.
Only to the extent that he discontinue with human or mental ways and means,and with beliefs in puffed up mastership, leadership, or personalities plus, does
he become receptive to the Light and Truth.
How true and certain it is that none can ever really learn what Reality is, what
Heaven is, except by opening the door to Christ, or direct divine illumination.
In no other way can one be without sin, without sickness, and withoutlimitations of any kind. And to this Heavenly Kingdom, only the spiritually
Just what does it mean to be spiritually minded, and upon what does such a state
depend? Spirituality has to do with things of intuition and revelation. Of necessity one must have a fitness to believe in such things in order to receive
them. This fitness is provided through his purity and meekness, the laying
down of his life as a person or individual. Said Jesus, I lay down my life as a
person, and I take it up as the One … "Many are called, but few are chosen.‖Few are ready to pay the price of Glory.
To the extent that one responds to the "call" is he able to be released from the
personal sense of life, people, and things, to behold himself to be That, without
becoming, and to be "there," without going. The demand is, deny thyself.
Through Christ, divine Consciousness, one is able to reject the illusion of
personality and individualism. None can ever slip into the Realm of the Real
except through Christ, direct inspiration, and light. Then His will becomes our will; His light, our illumination and glory.
As the light of the sun swallows up all lesser lights, so Christ, the Light of the
World, swallows up all the vain efforts, arguments, and struggles of anyone to
become That which he already is in and of the Whole.
To declare oneself to be the One, to be Truth, and Life, without having
experienced the truth of this statement through some degree of direct
illumination, is to accept and convey the audacious impression that the human isDivine, and the person, the Perfect. Therefore the Eternal challenge of theChrist, " Except a man be born of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of
God … No more can ye bear fruit except ye abide in me … No man can come
unto me, except it were given him of my Father … In Christ shall al l be made
alive.”
Never attempt to place Perfection in the plane of the material, nor in the human,
nor the mental. Perfection is only in that Realm which is The Kingdom of God,
We now take up the subject of healing from the standpoint of Christ awareness.
To understand how to help ourselves and others out of darkness, we musttranscend the plane of the relative, or finite reasoning, sufficiently to enter intoSpirit, or Spiritual Consciousness, which alone is God.
Christ awareness has nothing to do with healing person or thing, neither a finite
mind nor body, but instead conducts one into the Realm of Spiritual
Consciousness where healing is swallowed up in Wholeness, discord in
Harmony, and fear and ignorance in divine Love, Light, and Understanding.
When one reaches the point where mental and metaphysical methods have
failed him, and have been found wanting, and he is now willing to turn his heartto Truth, he is ready to enter into the Realm of Perfection where, in its radiance,
there can be no darkness whatsoever.
Inasmuch as Christ, Spiritual Consciousness, has nothing to do with the healing
of minds, consciousnesses, bodies, false beliefs, delusions, diseases, or discords
of any kind, in order then to enter into Christ one is required to lay down or
relinquish all that has to do with healing practices of any kind and every kind.
He is to utterly and absolutely surrender every thought and thing which has to
do with healing.
Even the desire to be healed should be relinquished, as well as book knowledge,
declarations of Truth, affirmations, and denials; in fact, everything that has to
do with ways and means of healing must finally be given up that one may be
ready to receive that Kingdom of Perfection and Glory which has been
"prepared from the foundation of the world.‖ (Mt. 25:34)
Remember this, none is truly ready for the Christ light, or Spiritual
Consciousness, until willing to surrender whatever has to do with personality
and finite reasoning. Everything has its price, and the surrender of the personal
is the price of admittance into the Realm of the Real where one is "made alive
in Christ.‖
To repeat, Reality of Being cannot be experienced or known in the plane of the
finite, regardless how "advanced" one‘s thinking may become, nor need one
move out of this world into another. The One and Only Way to Reality is
Christ; that is, not until one himself enters into Spiritual Consciousness can he
ever actually know and experience Reality and what it includes. The same as
that the insect while in the caterpillar position cannot experience flying.
Only when he enters into the butterfly state does he come naturally into
possession of his wings.
From the position of a personal being, with mind and body of his own, never
can one get out of man into Christ. Yet, when he is ready to leave this position,
and with Love alone, and from the depths of his heart , turns to That which is"above," quite simply he finds himself partaking of the Realm of Reality wherehe is taught of God. In other words, the Realm of the Real cannot be known or
experienced until one is ready to leave all for Christ Consciousness.
"It is the Spirit that quickeneth.” Never can one function in the Realm of the
Real until he enters this Realm, and it is then only that he can ever really
understand Christ‘s words, "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.‖ To the
extent therefore that one experiences Spiritual Consciousness does he know and
speak the truth of Being, and possess Spiritual light and glory.
From the relative plane, one sees a consciousness to be corrected, discords to be
handled, errors to be denied, material laws to be overthrown, and disease to be
healed.
However, it is not a matter of bringing Truth into the physical or material, as it
seems, but rather are we required to leave such plane of thinking altogether, to
enter into the real and true realm of Spirit, where one is able to comprehend
Spiritual things spiritually. Only here can one understand the simple and profound statement that God is all. Only here can he see how it is that I am theTruth; I and my Father are One.
From the relative viewpoint it is as useless to attempt to understand things of
the Spirit as to try to behold the light of day while remaining shut up in a cave.
"God is Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and intruth.” Therefore, to know God one must be in Spiritual Consciousness. Be
still … Be still. Take all attention from the physical and from the mental, from
people, things, thoughts, treatments, prayers, desires; from books, teachings,
body, conditions, world. Now, with Love and from the depths of your heart ,
turn to God, infinite Being.
"Feel after Him," and He, Spiritual Consciousness, will do the rest.
One will know when he has entered into this Secret Place of the most High by
his envelopment in a soft, gentle peace, and in a rest that is ineffably sweet and
altogether passing understanding. Light will completely flood his being.
Such an experience as this may be brief or prolonged. Of course there is no
limit of time in the experience itself, as it is taking place in Spirit where time isunknown. In Thee, Christ, the real and true Realm of Being, one completely
loses himself as the personal, and is swallowed up in the Infinite One. He
knows only the Peace and Love of Heaven. The desire for healing is consumed
in the exaltation of vibrant health and wholeness.
We shall all need to keep entering this Realm of the Perfect more and more
until, finally, we shall be able to make this our permanent abode. Verily, only
in Christ Consciousness shall one be able to lose all sense of personality, and
what it includes, for here we are "saved by grace," by virtue of the fact that no
sin is here.
After such an experience as this, life takes on a new meaning. One has been
born again! Unforgettable, indeed, the sweetness and glory of such moments.If tears come, then let them. Never be ashamed of tears, often they accomplish
what nothing else has been able to do toward one‘s preparation for or
appreciation of the Perfect.
How painful, and often heartbreaking, is the constant and prolonged search for
Truth. Often such looking and seeking but takes one farther away from it. Let
one be still, that Truth may seek and find him! "The Father ever seeketh!" The
Secret Place is always prepared! Yet the heart alone heareth the Voice, and
findeth the Way. Definitely, it is the "Father" that doeth the works – SpiritualConsciousness is the all of Reality; it is our life and our being; it is our Kingdom and our Heaven; it is our peace and our rest; it is our power and our
glory.
One‘s willingness and readiness to give up all desire, search, effort, struggle,
argument; in fact, to surrender and lay aside all that pertains to healing, opensthe door to the Light, where one knows Life to be a Reality to be experienced,
not a problem to be solved. Here in Spiritual Illumination, he finds his
possession of the abundance of all things. He sees that not only is he one with
Truth and Life, but that he and Truth and Life are One. He IS the One … He IS
the Light … He IS the Truth everlasting.
Using the methods of treatment, prayer, or mental treatment of one kind or
another, many today are trying to pray or think themselves into the Kingdom
where they shall find the abundance of all good things. It cannot be done. The
Way is Christ – direct spiritual awareness and illumination; and "He that
climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.‖
Nothing can satisfy the great and growing hunger for Light and Truth today, the
need for perfect health, harmony, peace, and abundance, but Spiritual
Consciousness. Christ does not mean a man or person. Jesus entered into this
state, and thus his disciples called him Christ, Lord, Master.
Once, when he was questioned directly as to the coming of the Christ, the replywas, "I am He.‖ Again, pressed by the insistence of Phillip as to the identityand whereabouts of the "Father," the amazing answer was, "He that hath seen
me hath seen the Father.‖ Abandoning oneself to God, Reality, the "healing"
will follow without thought, struggle, or effort of any kind.
When Jesus was pressed by conditions or circumstances about him, he went
alone into timeless and spaceless Consciousness. Here is all the power and light
and wisdom there is. God, in His fullness, is at every point of Being the same.
Wherever we are, turning ourselves to the One Consciousness, in which weknow our full perfection lies, we are in contact with the whole of Life, Truth,
and Love.
The entire presence of the Infinite is everywhere equally, it being one and
undividable. This we know and understand only through our actual experience
of it. Thus in the experience of Reality we are no longer ourselves, but That
which is the Whole, not our realization as a person, but as the One.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things
will be added unto you.” (Mt. 6:33) The Kingdom is Divine Consciousness,often alluded to as Cosmic Consciousness, which means that of the Whole asOne, and the One as the Whole. No sin is here, nor war, no separation of any
kind. Verily, here alone is Heaven. How shall we find this Kingdom? Through
direct, divine illumination, the actual experience of it, and in no other way.
Only as we are in this Consciousness, and this Consciousness is in us, shall we
behold Reality, and experience the "things" of the Kingdom. Here alone is
perfect peace, where joys never cease. Jesus illustrated this Kingdom
Consciousness as "leaven," as the "pearl of great price," as a glorious Citywhere "There should be time no longer," and where Consciousness supplies all
light, without need of the sun or moon.
In the experience of Cosmic Consciousness, no limits of time, space, place,
exist. Here there is no waiting, watching, treating, praying, and no separation
whatsoever.
In this Realm of the Real, we do not persist as individuals, nor do we merge into
the Whole. A unit is not union.
Multitudes of separate beings cannot combine to make the One. For instance, a
symphony is not a collection of notes grouped together, but is a whole, which is
in each note, and each note in the whole. In the experience of Reality, all exist
in That which is motivating all , and which is all.
For example, consider the simple tree. Even from the plane of the relative, how
easily it is seen that a tree operates as a unit. Not a single leaf, twig, branch can
act or live independent of the tree as a whole; and the life and substance of the
tree, in its fullness, is at every point the same. Not only is every leaf in the
whole, but the tree as a whole is in every leaf. There is nothing that a leaf can
do of itself; if it becomes separated it dies. Nor would a leaf say, I am one withthe tree, but rather, I and the tree are one.
All problems are rooted in the illusion that we are separate beings, and not the
whole. Therefore they can never be solved from the plane of finite reasoning,
no matter how "scientific" the application; nor can mental reasoning, no matter
how intriguing, transport one into the experience of the Real. Realization
proceeds from the heart alone. It is original, it is supreme. Here we are Thatwhich we know.
There is but one thing which gives us peace and joy, it is the realization in
actual experience of Reality itself.
The personal sense is always asking questions and looking for answers, always
wanting proof by way of healing. Alas, the way is just the reverse, even as we
have been told to be born again, we must find the Kingdom in an entirelydifferent way altogether. Moreover, only as one is willing to release himself form the personal consideration of self, body, world, and affairs, can he give his
heart to Spirit in full abandonment.
When one ceases to search and strive, when he stops everything which has to do
with addition or subtracting from his personality, and in the stillness of his heart
abandons himself to the Eternal, he will know the meaning promised in the
statement, "I am found of them that sought me not.” (Is 65:1)
All those who yield their heart to God, obeying Spirit within rather than
personality without, are finding constant help in the flashes of light and
illumination which continually guide and direct them. "The natural man (he
who lives in the sense that he is a part, but not the Whole), receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God.‖
Ways and means of being healed, and being regenerated and spiritualized, are
rooted in the delusion of separate personality, which can be transcended and lost
sight of only as one himself forsakes the plane of the relative, and enters that of Reality. Here we are That which we know.
It is not as though we merged into another Being, but rather we find ourselves
to be That. Only in this Spiritual Consciousness can one truly lay claim to
identification with the One, and with Spiritual Assurance say, "I am the Light; I
and my Father are one.‖ Only in and as the Truth do we learn and know theTruth, a knowledge which cometh not from books. Identification with the One
is known only in the actual experience thereof.
The abundance of good is never within individualities, thus the great difficulty
in attempting to make "demonstrations" of prosperity and abundance from such
a basis. All things that the Father hath are mine only as I am in the Father, or Divine Consciousness. Only here do we possess all things, and only here is
Heaven. As the perfection of a leaf is not in the leaf itself, but in the tree, so our
abundance of all good is not in any of us as separate thinkers and doers, but
only in us to the extent that we surrender personal sense and spiritually identify
"Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37) Those who
leave all for Christ shall surely enter into the Cosmic Sense of Being. We havesuch illustrations in the lives of Paul at his conversion and Peter while in prison.
All experiences in Reality deliver the facts of timeless, spaceless Being; of
exaltation, power, light, and inexpressible and immeasurable Realism.
Let us live for Spirit, for the Whole. Let us keep loving SpiritualConsciousness, The Kingdom of God , more than all else. Let no sacrifice of self
be too great a demand upon us. This Kingdom Consciousness is verily our Life
and Being, our only heaven, our happiness, our wealth of every peace and joy.
From no other place, and in no other way, can we obtain rest and glory but from
living in, and experiencing as our very own, that Consciousness which is God,
or Spirit. Here joys never cease, and here alone do we have a Knowledge that
cometh not by mental learning.
Praise, O praise ye the Lord! "That they may enter in through the gates into the
"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus.” (Phil 3:14) Those who have already been "born again" or are even nowin the "process" of such transformation, read such words as these with renewedlight and understanding.
Lesson Four should have aroused all its readers to the larger and fuller meaning
of "Jesus" and "Christ" for such understanding is the only Way and Door to
Eternal Life; to un-interrupted peace, harmony, and happiness, and the fullness
of every good. In no other way can one come into the true and real
understanding of Jesus and of Christ, except through direct, divine illumination,
such as experienced in Cosmic Consciousness. Here we see and know of acertainty that Jesus was divinely sent into the world to show us through actual
portrayal how to get out of man into God; how to awaken from sleep; how to
leave the world for heaven; in fact, how to have the actual experience of our
true Self and Being in the here and now.
By degrees he rose into Spiritual Light and understanding, and this he signified
by his identification with the son of man … the Son of God … Christ, Lord, and
finally with the Father. The Christ (the term Christ), should therefore not be
coupled exclusively with Jesus. For in the larger sense it pertains to that state of Being into which all must enter in order to be liberated from belief in the dreamof a material existence. Christ is the state of Actuality, or the actual experience
of ourselves in our real and true state – the state of Spiritual awareness of
Perfection, Heaven. Jesus entered into this state, or estate, gradually, and so do
we all.
The state of Christ, our Perfection, is always existent, and is never in a
becoming position. Ever it is in tact, at hand, prepared, and present. Always
the possibility that we receive the knowledge and experience of our Perfection
is ever present – "I (Christ) am with you always.‖ The same as when he sleeps
in his room, yet in his dream believes himself to be elsewhere. While he sleeps,
his room remains unchanged, and his waking is ever a possibility. Where he is,is the only Reality; where he appears to be, outside his room, is wholly illusory
and fictitious. Himself awake, and in his room, illustrates Christ, where he
appears to be; outside his room, illustrates personality, or personal sense, the
dream that one is material, human, or an individual mind and consciousness.
One idea set forth today is that Spirit is to be materialized and matter is to be
spiritualized. Such theory is wholly erroneous, and not to be found in the Wordof God. Plainly it is written, "The flesh profits nothing… flesh and blood
cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven … the flesh lusteth against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other …
that which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit isSpirit.‖ Spirit does not materialize anything, for Spirit is SpiritualConsciousness alone. "Flesh" pertains to sleep, which is not to be spiritualized,
but, to the contrary, is to be transcended, or is to be cancelled in Christ
Consciousness – our awakening to our God-Being.
Repent, ye, repent, is the signal to the "high calling of God in Christ Jesus.‖
Lay down the life of the person or personal sense, for this is the "sleep" which
seems to separate us from the One and all. In the belief of separateness, or
personality, one attempts to overcome, to demonstrate, or to master conditions.But, alas, all such effort is from the standpoint of the sleeper, thus doomed to
failure. Not until one is ready to enter into the Realm of the Real through Christ
consciousness alone, can he finally comprehend the illumined statement, "For
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the
Lord. For as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.‖ No relationship whatsoever
exists between Reality and illusion; between Christ and the dream of personality
or human intellect.
Get out of man into God; out of the sleeping, into the waking state; out of personal sense into awareness of the One, which is I Am. This cannot be done
physically, mentally, nor with personal methods nor means of any kind. When
the prodigal discovered that he was finished and through with personal striving
and seeking, having gained nothing therein or thereof, and with his whole heart
yearned for the Real, the True, and the Eternal, which he remembered was evennow prepared and ready for him, suddenly he felt the Christ, or Presence, with
him. This Light enveloped him, and he knew that Life is not a problem to be
solved, but a Reality to be experienced in the here and the now.
Christ is "invisible" only to them asleep in the belief of personality. To those
who are awake, Christ is the Great Reality, verily, their Life Itself … "WhenChrist, who is our Life, shall appear (shall be made known to us), then shall we
also appear with Him in Glory.‖ (Then we shall experience the wholeness and
So long as one endeavours through mental ways and means to bring the perfect
manifestation "into visibility," or in any way connects his perfect health and lifewith his body, he is still thinking from the position of the sleeper, he has not yet
had enough of the dream. All thought and talk about demonstrating, expressing,
manifesting, et cetera, is of the personal, earthy. Take no consideration as how
to overcome, master, or solve problems of any kind, nor attempt by any mentalways to bring the good into manifestation.
Only as you find yourself to be the perfect Life now, are you entitled to its
perfect experience, and all that this includes. You will find the tenth chapter of
John most instructive and absolute on this point. Seek not to apply, utilize, or
practice the Truth. When you have had enough of all such devices and are
ready to give them up, then turn your heart to the Real, which is ever present, in
tact, and your very own; the dove of Peace will rest upon you, and you will find
the fullness of all good to be that which you eternally are, and ever have been inReality.
Matter is not to be spiritualized, nor is Spirit ever to be materialized. "They
which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God.‖ (Rom
9:8) The children of the flesh are those who are still asleep to the knowledge of
their real identity, and true experience in and as the One Life and Being. They
have not yet "Risen with the Christ.‖
There is no way to come into the knowledge of the Christ Truth except throughChrist Consciousness. "He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, (CosmicConsciousness), has both the Father (Consciousness) and the Son (Self-
Consciousness or actual experience in the Realm of the Real).‖ (2 John 9th
verse)
Wholeness, redemption, deliverance, power, and glory, are only found andunderstood in Christ, or divine Illumination. Verily, "In Christ shall all be made
alive.‖ "Without Me (Chr ist) ye can do nothing.‖ Jesus, without Christ,
illustrates the personal or human intellect. Only as Jesus renounced personal
sense through direct Divine Illumination did he think, live, and act in and of
Spirit, God, the Father. At first he taught the multitudes how to pray; he healed
them, fed them, wept over their lack of faith and understanding in the absolute,the Real and the True as here and now. He denounced sinners, liars, hypocrites.
Finally he withdrew almost completely from the multitude to remain with his
Rising higher and higher in Spiritual Light and awareness, as Christ he
declared, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life … I and my Father are One.‖When we behold Christ to be the Revelation to us of our true Identity as God-
Being, Christ then becomes the universal Way to Perfect Life and the
immediate experience thereof. Thus it is not "Lo, here is Christ, or there … in
this mountain or that", but only in throwing off all appendages, mental methods,and devices of the intellect, and entering into Reality through Christ, or Spiritual awareness, does one function in his true self and Being. Until one
actually experiences Reality, he cannot know that he is sinless, perfect, and
eternal.
Through Spirit, or Spiritual Consciousness alone, can one experience the Realm
of the Real.
The sun does not leave the heavens to come into our room, our garden, thefields, and highways. It is the Light of the sun which comes down to lighten the
whole world. Without the light of the sun the whole world would be barren,
and we, ourselves would be in total darkness. In the same way, Christ is the
Light of the Father, God, ever declaring, "I am the light of the world (the
universe of Mind) … I am the Bread (Divine Understanding), which came down
from heaven, (the Realm of Reality) … If a man eat of this Bread, he shall live
forever … I (Divine Revelation), taketh away the sins of the world (personal
sense).
"He that believeth on the Son of God (direct Divine Illumination), hath thewitness (actual experience of Reality), in himself… he that hath the Son hath
Life; and he that hath not the Son of God, hath not Life.‖ (1st John 5:10,12)
Spiritual Consciousness, Christ, Divine Revelation, Self-Consciousness, or
Cosmic Consciousness, all mean the same – our conscious awareness of Reality
as a definite experience, wherein we are That which is the One, and That whichis All.
THE HOLY TRINITY The only way that we can contact the sun is through its
rays, the light and heat of the sun, and similarly, the only way we can know
God, the Father, is through Christ, the Light and Illumination of God, our
Being. As the sunlight does not concern itself with darkness or know anythingof it, so divine Illumination is not concerned with delusion, dreams, or
problems, but only with Reality, The Finished Kingdom, the eternal Verity that
I Am That I Am – I Am all, and beside me there is none else.
Among those that are born of women (those in personality), there has not risen
greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of
heaven (he that has the least Cosmic Sense, or effortless Illumination), is greater
than he.‖ (Mt. 11:11) The next verse continues, "The kingdom of heaven
suffereth violence and the violent taketh it by force.‖ How certain is it to thisday that Heaven, Reality, Perfection, can never be experienced through any
mental effort whatever, no matter how strenuous: for all effort and struggle are
of the assumptive personality, never of Christ, or Cosmic Consciousness.
In the Light of Spiritual Understanding, the whole of this Chapter in Matthew is
clear as crystal. "Thou hast hid these things from the wise and the prudent
(intellect), and revealed them unto babes (those who come to God through the
simple way of the heart)…Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,
and to whosoever the Son will reveal him.‖
We shall enter into the actual experience of our Reality and True Being only
through Christ, Divine Illumination … Here alone the yoke is easy, and the
burden is light. Never does the Cosmic Sense appeal to "the wise and the
prudent," "those always trying to educate and develop their individual mind and
consciousness, but only to "the meek and the lowly in heart.‖ "It is given untoyou (who have come by way of the heart, and so have easily and naturally
entered into Revelation and Illumination), to know the mysteries of the
Kingdom of Heaven (to see and understand Spiritual things, spiritually); but to
them (who refuse to accept the Christ Way to be that of Spiritual Consciousness
alone) it is not given. (Mt.13:11) "Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your
Even prayer cannot attain to Spiritual Light and Understanding. "Not everyone
that sayeth unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven." …"We are not sufficient of ourselves (as personalities) to think anything of
ourselves: but our sufficiency is of God (God known is our own Self and
Being).‖ Only in Christ Light is the "veil done away," and all mysteries vanish.
Oh! The priceless Glory of Divine Light and direct Spiritual Illumination!Through our own Being as God, the One and Whole, we behold and experiencethe assurance that I Am the Truth, the Life, and the Way … I Am th e Perfect
One, the Christ, or shining Light, and I Am the Experience therein and thereof.
Mental affirmations and denials, mental prayers and statements, are all of the
assumptive intellect, or personal sense, and in the end they are bound to prove
futile.
Moreover, they prevent one‘s awakening to the actuality that the things he seeksto attain by mental effort are all ever-present and intact in his real state.
The "I" is the Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The "I" is God, the Father,
the one indivisible and inseparable Whole; Being, Consciousness. The "I" is
Christ, Spiritual Awareness or Illumination, Revelation, Cosmic Consciousness.
The "I" is the Holy Ghost, our conscious experience in Perfection, Harmony,
Heaven. Thus, the "I" or "I Am" is one and includes all .
When again reading the book "Who Am I ", more understanding andconsequently more of the Perfect experience will be yours, for I believe thatnow it will be clearer and more fully understood than before. Furthermore,
none can ever actually comprehend the "I" from the position of the intellect.
Nor will any mental declarations of the facts of Being deliver the Spiritual
sense, which alone brings the experience of Reality and Perfection.
Although the Finished Kingdom is prepared, is established, and present as the
Kingdom of Heaven within us, still it cannot be experienced except as one lays
down the false assumptive position of individual being, mind, or consciousness,
and opens his heart to let in the Truth of Being.
Right here it will be most enlightening for you to know just how it is that thereis no individual consciousness, despite the fact that individualism seems all
around us, and that Jesus‘ teaching applies to the individual; that is, he spoke to
people as though they were each an individual consciousness. All his teaching
is conditional. Over and over again he says, "Except … if … when … unless …
whosoever will.‖ He speaks to the few who receive, and of the many who do
not receive. In his parables he constantly tells of the Kingdom of Heaven
within, yet that each must enter therein. He demanded that each be born again.Of course this could never apply to the One Consciousness.
Now, how can it be that Jesus taught, "I and the Father are one" yet ever
appealed to people as individuals, to be converted or redeemed? Nothing butCosmic Consciousness can ever furnish the answer to this complex question.
No amount of mental reasoning can ever supply it, nor ever indeed understand
the answer. How is it that there is but One Mind or Consciousness, hence no
individual consciousness, yet apparently all of us are individuals who must "laydown" his or her life? How can we all be one under these conditions? Theanswer to this question will surely clear up much mystification. If you wish to
give it your consideration, and so arrive at some answer in yourself, it would be
well to do this before reading further along on this page.
It is well to know absolutely that there is nothing true but Truth. Anything that
appears to be, yet is not of the Truth, is false assumption, without any real
entity, substance, or reality whatsoever. In the night dream, many things appear
to happen which are not taking place in reality at all, and only when oneawakens does he realize this to be so. In the same way, only when one awakens
to Reality, or is born again, can he ever realize oneness and allness. The
Illumined have ever called the position of unawareness in terms such as these –
the Adam dream… the finite… mortal… human… reasoning… intellect… false
belief.
Here there can never be Divine Revelation.
There is but One Mind , in which there is no individual consciousness at all, can be known and understood in Christ alone! The only state in which Mind can beseen to be one and one only which admits to no individual consciousness
whatsoever, is in the Cosmic Sense called Cosmic Consciousness.
Thus it was that Paul, while in this Light, declared, "Ye are all one in Christ.‖
Yes, when we "put on Christ, or enter into the Realm of the Real, which isSpiritual Consciousness alone, we are one, but never until then … Those who
have not yet entered this exalted state and perfect state of divine awareness,
shall ever appear to be individuals, separated from the Kingdom. Nor can the
Absolute Instruction, or Cosmic Reality ever be comprehended by them while
in this position, since it takes the One Mind to see, know, and experience it.
When Jesus said that he and the Father were one, he was not speaking from the
standpoint of Jesus, the individual, but from that of Christ, Divine
Consciousness … "In Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.‖
In the false belief of separation from heaven, perfect Being, one ever seems to
be a person with a mind, life, and consciousness of his own; and it is here in this position that tribulations, problems, war, sin, and death appear. Nor can it be
otherwise, since they are all rooted in the illusion of a separate sense of self.
Hence the illumined teaching, "My kingdom is not of this world … Be not
conformed to this world… in the world ye shall have tribulation…
When Christ (Direct Divine Illumination), who is our Life (our real substance
and understanding), shall appear (take place in us), then shall ye also appear
with him in glory (then we shall know and experience the "I" which is the Light
of the world, the "I" which is God, and which is Heaven).
It is Christ, the Illumined Sense of Being, which alone absolves us from the
personal sense of life and whatever it includes. This Christ is ever with us as
the Way, the Truth, and the Life; indeed, it is Christ, the Cosmic Sense of Being, which alone is our Saviour, our Liberator, and Redeemer from the dream
of a material existence. Here alone, we become aware of the blessed Peace and
Freedom of the Infinite.
In the Realm of the Real, there is no separate self, and consequently no
individual mentality; no separate human beings, no free will, no sickness, death,
or re-incarnation. In the Realm of Reality, there is no separate self, and
consequently no individual mentality. Illusion is no more.
We are That. We know that we are That which is one and which is all. Weexperience Spirit or Spiritual Consciousness alone – the very God Being which
is the Divine Trinity, which is consciousness, awareness, experience. Entering
Reality we transcend individualism and our experience is that of the Whole.
"I have power to lay down my life (in the world, or as man), and I have power
to take it up again (in Christ, as God Being).‖ If I be lifted up into the ChristReality, I am no longer under the law of the many, but under the law of grace;that is, my own Being reveals to me my Perfection without beginning or end.
This "grace" is surely the high calling of God in Divine Revelation.
Outside this Revelation, or without this Living Light, there is constant turmoil,
limitation, suffering, and misunderstanding. Here none can find perfection,
completeness, or satisfaction. As a human being none can solve the problem of
human existence; none can bring an end to war, disease, sorrow, separation,
from this standpoint: for the problem itself is based upon the illusion of aselfhood which is separate and apart from God, the One and Only, the divine,
and the universal. Therefore we must all enter into a new birth and a seeing of
all things from the divine faculty which is called Cosmic Consciousness. This
Consciousness alone can comprehend the Truth of Being, in which life can be
experienced as it truly is.
It is in this Cosmic Sense that we can function as God and not as man. The
freedom of this Sense is supreme, even as Paul states in Galatians 5: "Christ
hath made us free … if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law … Yehave been called into liberty.‖ Of course, we may have this Cosmic Sense, or Living Light, to a greater or lesser degree. Nevertheless, it is here and here
alone, that we are of One Mind and One Consciousness. We know within
ourselves when the Voice speaketh to us, saying, "I have chosen you out of the
world.‖ Our entrance into Spiritual Consciousness is our entrance into Heaven,
into life without death, and into joys which are eternal.
It has been preached to the world that happiness is within us – wealth, joy,
peace are within us. Many would like this to be so but have been unable to
prove it, despite their great endeavours. Such promises are not true from the
relative sense, that is, Perfection and Completeness are not within anyone as a
separate thinking person or individuality, but only within us as the Christ. TheLiving Light reveals it to us … reveals to us the great Truth and fact that
actually we are not and never have been man, the separate self, but always we
have been, and are even now, the one Consciousness, Life, Truth, and Being.
Oh, how greatly the world about us needs to hear and heed this divine and
Living Light, and how futile and unavailing are all efforts, made from the planeof the finite. Thus it was that Jesus declared … "Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how
often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her
chickens under her wings, and ye would not! ...behold, your house is left unto
you desolate.‖ The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, the Peace and theAbundance of our Reality, are not within the ability of anyone to know or toexperience as man, separate from and other than God. Heaven, Nirvana, can
never be created by man … It is found in Christ alone.
Our happiness is within ourself, and we are a law unto ourself only if and when
we turn from the finite to the Infinite as our very own Being, and through
Spiritual Consciousness see, accept, and experience That which we eternally
are, established forever, and from which we have actually never been separated.
It is here in this lighted state that the blessed promises are all fulfilled in us …here our "soul" is restored; here our peace passeth understanding, and our joy
no man taketh from us. All that we have been unable to do "in the world," we
can now have and enjoy in the Realm of the Real.
Many wonderful letters are already arriving, telling me of the new Peace, Light,
and Glory; for instance in the following quotations:
"I find no words to describe how I feel, no walls, no materiality, as if I walked
on air, without movement … I know that I have been born again…Theselessons have the Understanding, and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost also, thelanguage and the instruction of the coming of the New Age"…
"Your latest writings have revealed more of the Light and Truth to me than has
come as a student, follower, or aspirant in the last thirty years"…
"The words you write are not just words but Living Waters as said by the
Living Christ, I let go and everything was revealed to me by the Living Christ
…I let go and everything was revealed to me by my True Self… I don‘t have to
master anything, for the Christ is the Master of All.‖
Thus to help ourself or another, we must think from the established fact of theone Consciousness. It is only from this Cosmic State that we can say we are
Whole, we are Perfect, we are free, we are changeless, complete Being.
There is but one way to have all things, and this way is to enter into the
Kingdom of the Heart, for all things are here and here alone. Where is theabiding place of Christ, the Light of the world? It is in the Kingdom of theHeart.
That which is called the "mind" or intellect typifies the flesh which profiteth
nothing. The "Heart" typifies the seat of Divine Mind or Consciousness. Force,
aggressiveness, lust, labour, and strife, as well as all effort toward
demonstration or adjustment through mental ways and means, pertain only to
the assumptive personal mind or intellect; while Spiritual receptivity, love,
humility, simplicity, and meekness are all associated with the Heart.
You, in your Heart, in your true Mind and Consciousness, are in need of
nothing to be added to you or to be subtracted from you. Here, you are Perfect
… Here, you are the Everlasting and the Imperishable.
Ever the personal mind profiteth nothing: for what shall it profit a man if he
trains and cultivates his personal thinking so as to achieve a desired health or a
wealth-consciousness, if by so doing he loses his own soul? Or what is worth
getting this way in exchange for one‘s soul? In no uncertain language Jesusgave the answer – "Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: thenwhose shall those things be which thou hast provided?" (Lk 20:12)
Moreover this very thing which today one calls "my mind," Jesus called "a liar,
and the father of it.‖ (John 8:43-44) Lo, the time has come, and it is now here,
when we must accept the challenge – "I will demand of thee, and answer thouMe.‖ (Job 38:3) Remember, "Every one of us shall give account of himself to
God," – Every one must confess whether or not he is identifying himself with a
personal mind of his own, and attempting with its thinking to uplift, renovate,
spiritualize, enrich, and transform it!
Verily, verily, those who identify themselves with a mind of their own, whichneeds their constant attention, and thereunto have set themselves the task to so
correct and transform it as thereby to arrive at Perfection, should hearken well
to the price that is to be exacted of them – "Verily, I say unto thee, Thou shall
by no means come out till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.‖ (Matt. 5:26)
Who by taking thought can comprehend that there is but one Mind, one Life,
and one Consciousness only? Who by taking thought can enter into the SecretPlace of the Most High, and hear the still, small Voice of Spirit? Who by taking
thought can receive divine Revelation, and be baptized with Divine Light and
Glory? Never can "mind" accept Perfection to be here and now and alone.
Only the Heart can see and hear and know and understand that there is but oneMind … "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.‖ When the mind
is laid aside, and the heart is willing and ready to go all the way, regardless of
principalities and powers, then one‘s thinking will be of the Kingdom of the
Heart, that of the Divine Mind.
Listen! No relationship whatever exists between what one calls "my mind" and
the Divine Mind or Consciousness. No amount of cultivation, spiritualization,
or correction of "mind" and its "thinking" will ever transform or translate it intothe pure, flawless, and perfect Mind, and its omniactive, pure, and perfect
thinking – "For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And
what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with
Belial? Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing (be no longer identified with a personal
mind and thinking); and I will receive you.‖ (II Cor 6:14-18)
Any practice to purify one‘s personal mind by attempting to rule out its wrong
thinking by its right thinking not only causes one to enter into bondage andslavery, but such a practice is contrary to the Word of God, as follows: "Hear, OIsrael: The Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shall love thy God with all thine
Heart , and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.‖ Any practice to purify
one‘s thinking admits that he is not identified with the one Divine Mind, but
with another.
You have no mind of your own to instruct, neither should you attempt to bring
it back from its wanderings, again and again, to place it upon the Truth. Alas,
all such endeavours are made upon that road which Jesus said is "wide" and
"broad," which "leadeth to destruction; and many there be which go in thereat.‖
"Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs and thistles? A good tree (the one
Mind) cannot bring forth evil fruit (wrong thinking), neither can a corrupt tree(personal mind), bring forth good fruit (right thinking).
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down, and cast into
the fire, (finally everyone must relinquish all belief in the possession of a
Imprisoned in personal mind, or intellectualism, one ever labours and toils with
sweat and tears; he walks in darkness, sleeps in darkness, brings forth out of darkness. It is the "far country" in which he moves farther and farther from his
real Mind and true and perfect Being. It is "mind" that is "ever learning and
never coming to a knowledge of the Truth.‖ It is "mind" which is ever in quest
of something, one thing or another, since never able to receive through direct,divine Illumination. Ever it chooses this practice, and that practice, of gettingand learning, rather than to lay down and give up all such seeking as hopeless,
and in full obedience to the Divine will, turn oneself wholly to the "hidden man
of the Heart ," here to partake of the Priceless Glory of Divine Light.
Sooner or later everyone must make the great confession – "I can of mine own
self (mind) do nothing.‖ The final understanding that the personal mind or
mentality is not to be transformed or trained in any way, but is to be laid aside
forever, must finally come to each of us. Not the spiritualization of mind, butits crucifixion, leads to our resurrection in Christ, where automatically "We have
the mind of Christ.” (I Cor 2:16) Yes, stripped of the veil or covering called
the personal mind, and giving the heart our full and complete attention, lo, the
perfect Mind of Christ, which is the Divine Mind, is our very own! Giving up
all belief in and all attention to the personal or human mind and thinking, and
turning to the heart completely, we find that it takes care of everything. Here
we are identified with the Divine will and the Divine Love.
It was St. Augustine who, turning completely from the human mind and humanthinking, and facing the One with his heart alone , prayed – "I ask nothing of Thee … I do not ask even Thy love … I want only divine Illumination.‖ With
the Heart, it is always easy for us to feel the One, love the One, adore and
delight in the One. Easy, too, to have all faith, trust, and confidence. The
reason today why there are so many reports of failures, frustrations,
unsuccessful treatments, is because in the field of philosophy, psychology, andmetaphysics, more and more thought and attention are given to the human and
personal mind, and less and less thought and attention is directed to the Heart.
"For God who hath commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in
our hearts."… "That Christ may dwell in your hearts." … "Commune with your
own hearts, and be still."… "Keep the heart with all diligence; for out of it arethe issues of life."… "I will praise Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart ."… "And
I will give them a heart to know Me, that I Am the Lord … for they shall return
to Me with their whole heart." … "Let not your heart be tr oubled.‖
Over and over again the Bible urges: Turn your heart to Me; since it is the heart
alone which can see and experience the Light of the Eternal. Does not even thisreading about the heart cause your heart to "burn" within you? The Perfect, the
Divine, and the Spiritual are all connected with the heart ; as well as revelation,
illumination, and Cosmic Consciousness. The Secret Place of the Most High is
indeed in the Kingdom of the Heart; not of course in a physical meaning, butwith clear spiritual perception and interpretation.
Jesus sought out the simple hearts whereunto to plant his teaching; he knew
how hardly shall they who are rich in human intellectualism enter into the
Kingdom of Heaven.
It was in the Heart that the Virgin Mary pondered the deep things of Life. It
was from the Heart that Peter said those ever marvellous words, "Thou art the
Christ!" It was from the Heart also that finally the doubting Thomas exclaimed,"My Lord and my God!" "The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on
the outward appearance (mind), but the Lord looketh on the heart.” It is the
pure in heart who see God, for here alone can glow the Cosmic glory.
Many seem to believe that "Truth" is some kind of a mental remedy or a method
of thinking to put into practical, everyday use whereby to control or governhuman experience; that is, Truth is to be applied to people‘s thoughts to healdiseases or remove discords and limitations from human experience. To nearly
all, life is full of problems to be solved in one way or another.
Many are perfectly satisfied just to be able to "demonstrate" health and
harmony, and bring some semblance of abundance into an experience which
they consider temporal and transitory. There are some however, who desire
more than this. They have discovered that Life is not a problem to be solved
through any form of demonstration, but is a Reality to be known andexperienced. Moreover, they know that there is but one World, the World of
Truth and Reality.
Problems are rooted in the illusion of an external world, as well as in the belief
that each makes or creates his experience of affairs according to his individual
beliefs, thoughts, and feelings.
People are often heard to say that the harder they try to think Truth, and the
more diligent and earnest their efforts and endeavours to "demonstrate" over conditions, the worse they seem to be. Indeed, as soon as one attempts to"apply Truth" to his mind or thoughts, to his condition and affairs, he departs
from the actuality that Truth cannot be applied!
To what could Truth be applied when Truth is ALL? Said the great Master, "…
the maid is not dead … neither hath this man sinned nor his parents.” Yettoday instead of such a viewpoint, we hear such words as these, "I have a cold
… I have a headache … I have had such and such a condition for many years.‖
Let me ask you a simple and straightforward question. Does any such thing
exist anywhere? Has anything of the kind ever been in existence anywhere?
Did you ever have such a thing or could ever have it?
Such direct question as this is arresting. It stops the clamour for healing. Ask
yourself these questions, or similar ones, and answer them! Do not answer as
many do, "Of course, I know that such things do not exist in Reality.‖ Is there
more than Reality? Would you say that four and four are nine cannot exist in
reality, but can exist in unreality? Surely you can see such utter impossibility.
That which is true is Truth, and is all that exists, all that there is of anything.
Thus, the things which are in and of Truth, or the True World, are all that haveexistence.
Nothing can not be and be at the same time. Thus we may well pause to
question ourselves regarding the appearance of any certain thing.
We often hear the expression used, "I must do my mental work.‖ Can any
mental work change the Changeless? Or can it destroy that which has no
existence either in Truth or in falsity? The teaching how to do one‘s mental
work is merely a mild form of hypnotism. It must be a simple revelation,
unmixed with toil, struggle, effort, or argument.
The true world of Being and of things is already established. Life is therefore a
Reality to be experienced.
"Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.” This was the vision of King
David as expressed in his Psalms 119:89. It takes spiritual vision, faith, and
inspiration to be able to turn from the external world to the True World of
Reality, the World in which there is no suggestion of materiality whatsoever, no
personality, no limits of time or space. If you will read again my book, "The
Science of Ascension," written in 1929, you will find some helpful and
enlightening instruction on the subject of Reality and the True World.
The cry today is for something that will "bring results;" end the world of conflict, put money into purses, health into bodies, and happiness into personal
affairs. Alas, alas, all such longing proceeds from the grossly mistaken beliefs
that each is a separate being, and all live together in a world which is external.
From such false premise one automatically excludes himself from seeing and
experiencing the True World in which Wholeness, Peace, Harmony, andHappiness forever abide.
Positively the idea that there is an external world is erroneous. Be released
therefore from such a theory! Logic or intellectual technique, do not lead to
Truth, nor to the True World. Only intuition and revelation open to us the realm
Throughout the whole of the New Testament, we read of a realm or dimension
of Consciousness called, "the Within" – for instance, "the Kingdom within, God within, Spirit within, the Father within, the Holy Ghost within, Christ within, I in you.” It is certain that Reality can be known and experienced only by a
complete reversal of viewpoint, that is, by an absolute turning from the external
and a turning to that dimension of Consciousness which is termed the "within.‖Here alone one finds the only world there is, the World of Life, Truth, andLove, in which all things exist as they truly are.
For want of a better term the word "within" is used, for it serves to abruptly and
definitely detach one from contemplating, considering, or giving attention to
external things. Really, there is no within or without to that which is ALL.
Therefore, Reality is not a place to which we must look or go, but is a state or
dimension of Consciousness in which we shall experience all things as they
really and truly are, without materiality whatsoever.
Let us now consider something which will illustrate this to you, and give you a
clear idea of just what is meant by the "external world" and the "within," or
World of Reality.
Suppose you try to think now of some simple familiar things which are
generally known and used everywhere in this world, nevertheless are not of this
visible world at all.
Think of something which can be used daily by everyone, which can be seen,though not touched. Can you think of any things which nearly the whole world
makes use of daily in an infinite variety of ways, yet such things as these cannot
be touched by hands, and have no existence whatsoever externally, or
materialistically?
Right now, as you read these very words, you are viewing one such illustration
of things which are in and of the dimension called the "within.‖ I refer to the
twenty-six letters of the alphabet! These letters which you see are tangible,
each distinct from the rest, yet all existent in the whole. They can be seen,
known, understood, and experienced without limit, yet they are without weight,
measurement, or materialism, and moreover they depend upon nothing in theexternal; in fact, they are in the world, yet not of it.
These letters also have form, yet you cannot reach out your hands to pick them
up or to handle them; you cannot buy or sell them, borrow or obtain them fromanyone. These letters are absolutely free to you and to everyone, infinite, and
ever at hand. Not a single letter could be lost, injured, or destroyed. Of course,
another similar illustration would be the mathematical numbers. These, too,
cannot be located in the external world, nothing about them is material, and tohave them, one is obliged to contact another dimension altogether.
The special question now is this: Just where do we "go" to obtain the letters or
numbers? It is absolutely certain that we make no gesture whatever toward the
external world, and that it takes no time at all for us to have and use as many of
these as we please. It is wonderful when we consider it this way, isn‘t it? It is
this very state or dimension of Consciousness which has been called "the
within.‖ Of course, it is Mind, it is Consciousness, it is the Realm of the Real
World or universe.
And, verily not only here is where we find the letters of the alphabet, and the
mathematical numbers, but here also is where our health and wholeness abide,
our happiness, wealth, and harmony; in fact, and even of greater importance
than all the rest, here is where we ourselves exist, our body, world, and entire
real and true experience.
Surely we shall make this tremendous discovery. Then, and then only, shall we
have entered the realm of the Real which has ever been called the "within.‖Then, and then only, shall we have experienced Reality.
The world of Reality, or Realm of the Real and True, indeed contains all that
exists – Wholeness, Harmony, Beauty, Rhythm, Peace, and Happiness. These
are already and eternally established, not to be recreated, but to be known and
experienced. No more can they be changed or conditioned by thoughts or feelings than can the numbers or the alphabet. Never, never can we know
Reality, until we experience it in the Realm called the "within.‖
In the state or dimension of the "Real" is everything "that was made.‖ Here is
where life is, together with its hearing and its seeing, its perfect action and form,
its illumination, revelation and glory. At this precise instant we are free to enter into this realm; it is directly where we stand. It is only necessary that we be
willing to turn from all thoughts and things to the external, and placing our
heart‘s deepest faith and truest love in God and Reality to be right at hand, just
What is the first and greatest commandment? It is this: Thou shall have no
mind or consciousness but me! And the second, and all the rest of thecommandments are like unto it, namely, Thou shall not bow down thyself to
accept or serve another mind called the personal mind or consciousness: for this is the "graven image" which thou shalt not claim nor accept, as it leadeth
unto sin, corruption and death.
Spiritual prophecy is now being fulfilled, as follows, "An evil and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign (of healing); and there shall no (such) sign be
given it.‖ "Except those days be shortened, there shall no flesh be saved: but
for the elect‘s sake those days shall be shortened.‖ The generally accepted formof belief today is that through the evolution (cultivation, spiritualization, or
regeneration), of the personal mind or consciousness, it will become Divine, or
will be transformed into the Divine Mind. This falsity is so great as to deceive
nearly the whole world. Those of us who have awakened to the enormity of
such belief and practice should do everything we can to explode so great a
delusion.
It is this very "mind of one‘s own" that is symbolized in the Bible under various
descriptions and by many names, such as the false popular god – Baal, Satan,devil, carnal mind, the flesh, serpent which deceiveth the whole world, reddragon. Today many, buffeted and battered by believing in and practicing the
sophistry of the intellect, report that they are utterly at sea, being faithful in their
efforts to heal themselves after this fashion, yet without the promised results.
Why not face the facts? Such teaching and practicing as this virtually denies
that Heaven, Christ, Perfection, are already established and present with us, andare to be found, known, and experienced in the here and now.
Never, O never, can the false become the True; nor the imperfect, the Perfect.
No more relationship or possibility of unity exists between the assumptive
personal minds and the One Divine Mind than between Dives and Lazarus.
Read this parable in Luke 16:20-31, and make your own decision. Ever the
personal mind or consciousness, regardless how it labours and tries, shall
remain outside the Kingdom, doomed to oblivion. Moreover, all attempt to
obtain the Divine Mind by way of the personal mind or thinking is but an
endeavour to serve two masters, which practice Jesus pointedly exposed and
rebuked, "No man can serve two masters… that which is highly esteemed
before men (the personal mind or consciousness), is an abomination in the sightof God.‖ (Lk 16:13-15)
This self-same consciousness or intellect Jesus denounced as a "murderer from
the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it.‖ (John 8:44)
What seems strange today is that many interpret this scripture as alluding tosome other mind which they call "the mortal mind.‖ Apparently they believe in
three minds; that is, one, which they call the Divine Mind; another, which they
allude to as their own mind or consciousness; and still a third, which they think
and talk very much about, and call "the mortal mind.‖
Emphatically and unmistakably this thing which today is called the personal or
individual mind or consciousness is the very thing that Jesus called a lie and a
liar; and as soon as teachers and students wake up to this startling reality, they
will cease thinking and talking about some other "mortal mind" as the "culprit;"and moreover will stop trying to change the thinking of their "own mind or
individual consciousness," which Jesus stated to be "the father" of all lies.
The subtle, insidious, and pernicious teaching ever advocating to put right
thoughts into one‘s own consciousness will not be accepted by those who are
awake to the Spiritual interpretation of the first commandment, Thou shall have
no mind or consciousness but me! Obviously the "me" means the One Divine
Consciousness or Mind which is God, and which needs no cultivation or
change, but is ever perfect and complete.
The fatal mistake is the belief that by improving one‘s thinking (naturally of his
own personal mind), he will thereby gain possession of the One Divine Mind.
Whereas, the true instruction is that one should by no means serve the "graven
image," or personal mind, in any way or manner, but instead should "cast it into
the fire" of oblivion, confessing to its utter unreality and nothingness,simultaneously turning one‘s Heart wholly to the One true and perfect Mind or
Consciousness and here taking possession of it as one‘s very own.
It should be clear and certain to you that in no way of "patching old garments
(minds)" or "filling old bottles (consciousnesses) with new wine (right ideas)"
can one come into possession of the One Divine Mind, but only by laying asidethe false and unreal and thinking with and as this Mind.
The erroneous idea that one is entitled to this Mind only through "reflection" or
"manifestation," should be cancelled absolutely and entirely, as it is not the
The supreme and freeing fact is that this Divine Mind is ours, and we have
never had another! Nor can one truly lay claim to this Mind, and no other,unless and until through divine Illumination, or his Heart bearing witness, he
has been shown that he is the One Life, Mind, Being, now, and has never left it,
nor been separated from it.
When one turns from all principalities, powers, and rulers of this world, andwith his whole Heart looks to God, the Perfect, it is certain that he will receive
the blessed revelation and assurance that "I and my Father are one.‖ Moreover
it will then be clear that only in Christ are we all one; that is, only those of us
are "one in Christ" (Gal 3:28) who have received and accepted the Christ
teaching, light, and illumination, and have released ourselves from any other.
Paul finally came to the place where he willingly and gladly laid down his great
intellectual learning to do "the will of God from the heart .‖ (Eph 6:5-6) Ever the Divine Mind will think and act in us, and we in it, if and when we turn to it
with all our heart , forsaking all faith, belief, and trust in any other.
The above should answer perfectly the question which many are asking today,
"How can I enter into the Christ Consciousness?" "That ye may comprehend the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height (Cosmic Consciousness); and know
the love of God; that ye might be filled with the fullness of God.‖ (Eph 3:17-
19) It is wr itten truly, "Ye are bought with a price.‖
The price is one, and it is a just and fair one… it is the same for all… Jesus paidthe price of glory for us with his life in the flesh, and in turn we pay the price of
glory with our life in personal sense … "One is our Master, even Christ.‖ "Not
with eyeservice (of the mind), as menpleasers (personalities); but as servants of
Christ, doing the will of God from the heart .‖ (Eph 6:6) "Trust in the Lord (the
one and only Mind) with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own (personal)understanding.‖ (Prov 3:5) "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will
sing and give praise.‖ (Ps 57:7)
As one begins to consider the Heart as the way to spiritual Revelation, having
turned absolutely away from all mechanics applying to the assumptive personal
mind, he soon experiences a rest and a peace unknown to him before. He alsonotices the absence of the desire to seek and strive, to apply and demonstrate the
Truth. A sense of quiet and stillness seems to envelop one, which is an
altogether happy and joyous feeling. With this rest comes also the feeling of
Moreover, one notes with joy unspeakable that the troublesome wrong thoughts
are now a thing of the past. His thinking is altogether different. Little or noattention is given to it at all now, indeed often one seems to be altogether
without thought of any kind … just a lovely, quiet rest and stillness, untroubled,
unlaboured, soft, and peaceful, like the bestowal upon one of some great luxury
or some unexpected, wonderful gift.
Walking with the Heart is walking in the Light, in the experience of Life as a
Reality, where the thoughts or problems are absent; like a cloudless sky where
only the cobalt blue greets one‘s vision; or like the hum of bees, the warbling of
birds, the sound of children‘s laughter, without a single discordant note of any
kind.
Often one feels a sudden swift rush of joy and gladness, as though he, too, were
part of this great Wonder and Glory, this one infinite Whole.
Truly, as soon as one detaches himself from the belief in a personal
consciousness of his own, abandoning himself completely to the Infinite Divine,
and no other, he finds that he is the "new creature" which he has often read
about. He sees now that he can no longer attempt to apply the Truth, for to
what would one apply it? It is simply that one abides in this Consciousness,
and herein and hereupon places his full and complete confidence, faith, trust,
love, and worship.
"Everyone that is of the Truth (giveth himself wholly to the One) heareth Myvoice.‖ (John 18:37) "He that entereth not by the door (Heart), into the
sheepfold (One Mind), but climbeth up some other way, (personal
consciousness), the same is a thief and a r obber … My sheep (those possessing
the One Mind alone), hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me…
And I give unto them eternal Life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anyman pluck them out of My hand… And other sheep I have, which are not of this
fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be
One fold and One Shepherd… I Am the Good Shepherd: the good Shepherd
giveth his life for the sheep … I and my Father are one.” (John – 10th chapter)
The Way is I Am, and therefore the one way of salvation is to be the I Am that
is the Way. Revelation of the allness of God eliminates the sense of anythingopposite. Mind, Consciousness, God, is the Whole of Being, thus includes thewhole of Revelation; Revelation is therefore whole, perfect, complete, and
indivisible.
Since Revelation is in Being, and therefore is Being, perfect and complete, then
there is nothing partial or intermittent about it; it is omniactive and ever-present;
it is effortless and natural. It is present where I Am.
everlasting Life, Truth, Being! And the way to it? Be that I Am – that is the
Way.
As the one and only Mind, all things are mine – the power to have and enjoy, to
outline and create, the power to walk in green pastures, and rest beside still
waters, to be free, happy, satisfied. An experience came to me this past week
which was like this, that is, happy, glad, and satisfying. It came about very
suddenly and unexpectedly too. I was on a little shopping trip in town and wasmaking what I thought to be my last purchase, and spending my last dollar for it; for in paying the bill I discovered that I had no money left but a few cents.
I had searched through my bag as well at the time to produce even that
necessary amount. Walking toward my car, I remembered that I had wanted a
few things at the dime store, but recalled that I had no money. Anyhow, Istopped at the curb by the side of my car and made another thorough search,
even in corners and crevices, but there was no money to be found anywhere, so
I got into the car.
Sitting alone, and quiet for a moment, suddenly some thoughts began, small,
still thoughts, and O so soft, like the moving thistledown … "What a wonderfulday I‘ve had, going into stores here and there, asking for things that they said at
first they didn‘t have; then looking again they had found them. Each one saying
that it wasn‘t in stock now, yet upon my request, looking again, and then
finding it, generally adding, "It is the last one we have.‖ What a wonderful day
The thoughts continued right on: "Now, why couldn‘t I just open my bag, look
once more, and lo, there would be a dollar bill, for this is all I need to finish upeverything and go home.‖ There was a moment when even the air about me
seemed vibrant and electrified, and I was so still as to be scarcely breathing.
Then without another thought, I snapped the bag wide open… there, right on
top, lying flat, and opened to their full size, were two one dollar bills, oneoverlapping the other. I was jubilant, and it all seemed so perfectly natural.The fact that I had two dollars, instead of the one only, made me over- joyous …
Then when I had made the purchases which I had itemized on my list, I knew
the reason – only a few pennies remained from the two dollars! Mind is all-
knowing, all-revealing, all-sufficing.
True experience is not a matter of changing thoughts, or beliefs, or minds, but
instead one of identification; that is, knowing true Being, as it is, and yourself as
this Being; knowing revelation as it is, expression as it is, result as it is:omniactive, whole, perfect, and indivisible. As the light is not some thing
which is the expression of the sun, but is the sun, and the sun and the light are
one entity, in the same way, expression, manifestation, identity, is not some
thing that is the expression of Life and Consciousness. "I and my Father are
one … He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father.‖ Inspiration, light, is
spiritual activity, the omniaction of Spirit, Mind, God. It is without labour,
effortless, having nothing to do with mental practice or human beliefs.
Illumination, light, revelation, are in and of God, Consciousness, the same aslight and heat are in and of the sun. There is but one Mind that can knowanything, and this Knowledge is omnipresent as discernment, idea, or
illumination. Identification is I Am This I Am. Any reasoning based upon the
supposition of human birth, growth, demonstration, et cetera, leads from a false
basis, a false premise, and so must be laid entirely aside in order to be the I Am
that is the Way.
One cannot be a law of perfection unto himself as man, for his law would
necessarily be according to his human belief, his training, judgment, and
individual thinking. One can only be a law of God unto himself as the one and
only Mind, the perfect Good. In conscious possession of this Mind, and as this
Mind, one can walk in freedom, light, and happiness. One‘s preparationthereunto may be slow or fast, according to his readiness to "leave all to follow
Christ;" that is, to give up faith and belief in his own personality, lay down his
life that he may take it up again as that Life which is one, indivisible, and
I can do nothing of myself, as someone besides the indivisible and perfect One.
As this Life, I am eternal, everlasting, needing no help from the human thoughtor mental practice of any kind. As Mind, I know but one kind of thinking, and
really this is the only thinking there is. I know this Mind, thinking, and result to
be One. This awareness of the oneness and allness of Being has its natural and
harmonious expression in identities right in the here and now. Being, action,embodiment, all One, and infinite All.
All that really exists is in and of the one I Am. Here, Life is disclosed to be a
Reality to be experienced, not a problem to be solved. Here, identified with this
one and only Reality, this Being, action, embodiment, this God, Christ, Heaven,
we see, we know, we think, feel, act, and experience all through the Priceless
Glory of the Divine Light. "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and
thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before
thee; and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward (rearward).‖ (Is 58:8) (
How does God describe Himself in His own words, as related in the Bible,
Exodus 3:14: God describes Himself as I AM THAT I AM, and as I AM.Further on we read, "Is there a God besides Me? Yea, there is no God; I knownot any.‖ Isaiah, 44:8. How few these words, yet how all-inclusive, all-
satisfying and absolute. Nor could they be more dynamic, nor more descriptive
of Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience.
Dear Friend, if at any time you think "Truth" to be too wordy, too complicated,
too many ideas – or, on the other hand, to be too vague, too distant or too
uncertain, then think on these words from on High, "I AM THAT I AM …
Besides Me there is none else.” Think on these words for they contain the fulland complete meaning of life, living, and existence. They describe the Living
God.
With what words did Jesus relate himself to the Christ? In a few simple words
as follows, " I that speak unto thee am He.” (John 4:26) No other answer could
be more explicit, more certain or absolute than this. How did Jesus relate
himself to the Father? In these words, "I and my Father are one.” (John 10:30)
Just six small words, yet how few in all the ages have comprehended them.
Those who desire simple Truth, dynamic Truth, absolute Truth, practical Truth,can take these words – I and my Father are one – and eat them, "Eat my flesh;"
drink them, "Drink my blood;" live with them, "Abide in Me;" believe in them,
"Believe in Me;" be satisfied with them, "The water that I shall give him shall
be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting lif e.‖ (John 4:14)
Again and again it is being asked today, "How can I make Truth practical?
How can I practice it? How can I heal with it? How can I put it to use? How
can I make it work for me? Earnest, anxious, honest questions. Nevertheless,
any answer which sets forth or provides any way as a means to this end would
be imperfect, insecure, and in the end would prove useless and futile. Truth
cannot be practiced upon untruth. Reality cannot be applied to unreality. Thatwhich is cannot be mixed with that which is not.
In seeing and accepting I AM THAT I AM, and besides Me there is none else,
one is unable to point out anything in this I-Am-All which needs healing, or see
any place where Truth needs to be applied. The statement is so final, so all-
inclusive, so absolute, as to preclude all thought or desire to heal any person or
Yea, the above statement of Reality is ever a challenge to us concerning all
matters of concern within or about us.
"And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.‖
(Genesis 1:31)… "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not
anything made that was made.‖ (John 1:3)
Can you find any room for imperfection in Perfection, or for ‗I am not in I Am,‘
or for something else in ‗There is none besides me‘? Verily Truth cannot be
practiced from the standpoint of applying it as a means to an end: for the end is
the same as the beginning, the object the same as the subject, the effect the same
as the cause.
They are one. As one learns the meaning of I am the way, he will have the only
practice of Truth there is or ever can be. Could the true fact that the earth isround be practiced upon a flat earth? Think it over, and find out why not. "Ye
shall k now the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” The I Am is the Way,
which can be practiced only from the standpoint – I Am.
"Awake thou that sleepest" – be released from all notion to "demonstrate the
Truth;" for how can you demonstrate the presence of that which is ever-present ,
or overcome the thing which is not here? I Am That is the answer to all that one
seeks. I Am That , is the way to fulfilment of every desire, ambition, or aim. I
Am That , silences every argument or question relative to demonstration,application, or practice of Truth today. Whom seekest thou? What went ye outfor to see? What hearest thou? Is there more than Me? Yea, I know not any.
Reverse yourself… Be born again. Know that I am God, and be still… Let
God, and let go. There is none else, I Am All.
Jesus did not teach metaphysics, nor was he a master metaphysician. Of himself he declared, I Am the Truth … I Am the Life … I Am the Way. He
taught no methods of healing disease or limitation of any kind. He gave no
direction as to one‘s thinking, except this, "Take ye no thought.”
Alas, how little this admonition is obeyed today! Never did he intimate himself
to be a healer of sickness or of discords of any kind. Plainly he stated, "For thiscause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the Truth.‖ Whom
say ye that I Am? A healer of diseases? A Master-mind to teach you how to
have a perfect human existence? "If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in
your sins.‖ (John 8:24) "I Am the Truth … I Am the Light … I and my Father
Do words such as these indicate a human life, human being, human existence,
or materiality of any kind? "Be ye therefore perfect , even as your Father whichis in Heaven is perfect.‖
Does this demand pertain to any one or any thing as human? Can the human
ever be perfect? Can the human ever be healed? Can the human ever be brought into a harmonious state of existence?
Now hear the answer: "The flesh profiteth nothing … Flesh and blood cannot
inherit the Kingdom of God.‖ Whence cometh a "human" being, a "human"
life, a "human" existence? Does not I-Am-All, I – made-everything, I-Am-Spirit,
preclude anyone or anything as human or physical, in heaven above, in the earth
beneath, or in the waters under the earth? Never can human or finite existence
be added to Infinite Spirit.
The perfect Truth is the simple Truth. The perfect Truth is the only Truth.
Spirit is all … Spiritual existence is all.
What does one gain even if he succeeds to some degree in making his so-called
human existence more harmonious if in the end he hears the words – I never
knew you; I know only Spirit; I know only I Am to be the Way; I know Divine
Life, Divine Existence to be all . Is existence something besides the Truth,
something other than Spirit, something more than was established from the
beginning? Yea, there is none besides me! "Let this mind be in you which wasalso in Christ Jesus.‖ What Mind is this? It is the Mind which is I Am That I Am.
There cannot be more than I am all, for "I" fill heaven and earth. Why then call
one thing Mind, another, thought, and still another, expression, manifestation,
or body? Can you tell where Mind stops and thinking begins? Or wherethinking stops and expression begins? Are you identifying yourself with
expression, but not with Mind? Or with Spiritual idea, but not with Spirit? Do
you identify yourself with man, but not with God? A hand cannot say, "I am
hand, but not body, nor can a leaf say, I am leaf, but not tree. A single ray of
light cannot be other than the sun.
Behold – Mind, thinking, expression, are one, not three! Do the words, "I am
He," suggest the speaker to be a human being or the Divine? Do the words, "I
and my Father are one," suggest the Father and Son to be different? Shall we
regard Jesus to be one identity, human, and Christ another, the divine? And the
When the words were spoken – I Am the Truth" – did Jesus speak these as a
man or as God, the Perfect One? You who read this, do you consider yourself to be within or outside of Infinity? Can you be a piece of it, or a part, if the
Infinite is indivisible? Is the drop of a water in the ocean, but not the ocean in
the drop? The Son in the Father, but not the Father in the Son? Are you in the
Infinite, but not the Infinite in you?
Such questions as these will cause you to see the answers clearly and correctly.
Every single one of us is entitled to all the air there is, and to the sunlight
without limit, likewise to infinite Harmony, Wholeness, Peace, since the Perfect
Infinite one is our Being, our Mind, and thinking, our identity, universe, and
expression: but this belongs to us in a spiritual existence only.
The word "Divine" pertains to Spirit, that which is unmixed, pure, perfect, and
present without beginning or end. The word "human" denotes the exactopposite. Never, O never is there room for these two in being or in existence!
Spiritual existence is the one and only existence there is or ever can be!
Therefore, to believe that the best we can expect of Truth today is that we make
use of it so as to enjoy a more harmonious and prosperous human existence is
preposterous, and virtually antichrist. All methods to spiritualize human minds,
human bodies, thoughts, or existence, or to materialize Spirit, are rooted in
ignorance and darkness, and not in the living God who ever declares, I am Spirit
and besides me there is none else.
"Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.” The word "earth" in thissentence means the here and now. Let the Heavenly existence be known to us
as in the here and now, rather than place it in a far away future. Heaven and
earth do not denote two states of existence, but the prayer presupposes that
Divine Revelation will make known to us that Heaven is the perfect existence in
the here and now.
When this is seen we shall not hear about spiritualizing a human existence, nor
materializing Spirit. The fish which Jesus multiplied did not come out of the
water, nor the bread from an oven, nor was the coin made by a man‘s hands.
What Mind thinks is Mind, and its identities are also Spirit, Mind. Thus the
words spiritualize and materialize have no place in The Living God.
As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O
God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the Living God.” (Ps 42:1-2) "Now wehave received the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things whichare freely given to us of God.‖ (I Cor 2:12) "They shall all be taught of God.‖
(John 6:45) Just how shall such divine teaching be accomplished today? The
answer is, through Divine Revelation alone.
Q. What is the meaning of "Revelation?"
A. The immediate consciousness, or awareness, of the Real.
Revelation is the Voice of our own real Being, "the quickening Spirit,"effortless as the shining sun, resplendent as imperishable glory. It is under the
blaze of divine Revelation 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. Revelation is our ONLY Teacher, Deliverer, Awakening, and
Awakener, verily the Light of our world.
Only in this glorious Light is our righteousness revealed to us, our perfection,
power, and glory, even as it is written, "For then shalt thou lift up thy face
without spot; yea, thou shalt be steadfast, and shall not fear: because thou shaltforget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away. And thine ageshall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the
morning… none shall make thee afraid.‖ (Job 11: 15- 19)
Through Divine Revelation, Moses found the Red Sea to be safe and harmless,
David feared not the bear, the lion, or the Philistine; and Jesus, from out his perfect Being could say, "I Am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
ending.‖ Revelation silences every doubt and fear, raising us from glory to
glory, and delivering the perfect answer without effort, thought, or labour. No
joy can equal it, nor any pen describe it. Revelation discloses Being to be ONE,
and undividable. Perhaps one has been entertaining the notion that God can be
divided up into three sections, as it were: 1, Mind; 2, thinking; 3, expression or body.
Revelation blots out any such imperfect reasoning, disclosing these three to be
one, with no sense of time, place, or interlude between; all perfect in one. Onemay also have believed that he be image, expression, form, but not Spirit, Mind;
or that he is Mind, but not expression, identity, form. Whenever we experience
Divine Revelation, all sense of division, separation, ceases, all thought of
healing anything departs, and our thinking is as clear as crystal, effortless,spontaneous, free. Everything becomes Spirit to us, even our body is found to
be within us as an object in Mind. Here Mind, thought, body, are found to be
one, and this one to be Spirit.
Now at one time we may have associated Revelation with the Christ
exclusively, as Light and Truth coming to us.
Again, we may have identified it wholly with the Holy Ghost, as Divine
Comforter, teaching us all things, and making everything known to us. We mayalso have connected the Revelation with God, the Father, only.
Whenever Revelation sufficiently lifts the veil for us, we see the All-Being as
one, incapable of divisions into beings or dispensations. Only when we see the
three to be one shall we cease to identify with any particularly, even as it is
written, "There are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and
the Holy Ghost; and these three are one.‖ (1 John 5:7)
It is clear now that thought does not create body, nor Mind, thought. Subjectand object, beginning, middle, and end are One Being , One Omnipotence,Omniscience, and Omnipresence. No suggestion of healing minds, diseases,
thoughts, or bodies ever enters into Revelation, nor is there any effort to take
away this or bring out that. Revelation deals with Spirit, and with Spirit alone.
Only through divine Revelation are we "born again," or "begotten of the
Father," very God of very God. Revelation is the word of God which is "quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword … "Ye are come unto
Mount Sion, and unto the city of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
an innumerable company of angels.‖ (Hebrews 12:22)
How shall one experience Revelation? Turn from all kinds of mental practices,
all ways of applying Truth, all aim to bring the Spiritual into the humanexperience: "for the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.‖
Revelation is "hid from the wise and prudent" and given to "the pure in heart.‖
Ye are not flesh, man, but Spirit, God, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in
you. "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his
holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up
his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.‖ (Ps 24:3-4) The pure in heart are
those who love spiritual things above all else, and who live in obedience toSpirit. They shall experience Reality.
Actually we know little or nothing of Truth, Reality, until it is revealed to us
"not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord.‖ With the adventof Jesus, the calendar soon took on a new meaning, but with the Revelation of
Self to be Spirit, one complete and indivisible Whole, "Time shall be no
longer.‖ Where the Father is, there also are both the Son and the Holy Ghost;
and where the Holy Ghost is, there also are both Son and Father. Where Spirit,Mind, is there also is spiritual thinking and embodiment. Soul, activity, form,are that one which is Spirit, God; and God is all-embracing, all-inclusive, and
without centre or circumference. Amen!
A form, or identity of Life, is no less than Life itself, since Life cannot be seen
without form. Where Life is there is form, and where form of Life is there is
Life. The "invisible" and "visible" is one, and not apart as two, by all who have
received the illumination that Spirit, Life, God, expression, identity, form, is
one unit, one all. Amen and amen.
Blessed are the meek, the humble, those who obey God rather than man. As we
know ourself to be Spirit, then it is natural for us to experience spiritual light
and revelation. In this way only do we worship in Spirit and in Truth. No one
speaking as a man can say, "I am Spirit, God;" nor can he comprehend his body
to be a form of Spirit until he himself identifies with Spirit.
As a man living in a human existence, it is written, "We are all as an unclean
thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all as an uncleanthing, and all do fade as a leaf.‖ (Isaiah 64:6) Revelation alone shows thedesert to bloom as the rose, the parched ground to be a pool, the lion and the
lamb to lie down together, and Creator and creation to be one, the Living God.
Jesus gave only one definition of God: he said, "God is Spirit.‖ Just what is
Spirit? Revelation alone can give the answer: Spirit is Divine Substance – asubstance which is wholly pure, immutable, immaculate, undefilable, and
everlasting; furthermore this substance is forever infinite.
Matter is thought to be a substance, also, but it is not, for it denotes something
which begins and ends, which is impure, impermanent, subject to time, place,
mutability, destruction, death. The Substance which is Spirit, could no more bematter than God could be devil.
Since God, Spirit, is all, then everyone and everything there truly is, is in and of
Spirit, and nothing else. Everyone who has experienced Revelation or
Illumination, at such moments knows life and body to be one and to be wholly
spiritual; knows body to be tangible and real, but not some objective thing at the
Regardless how much of Truth one claims to have brought into a "human
existence," he will still need to "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.‖ The "Father" is Spirit and Spirit Alone.
So long as one remains stubbornly inflexible in the belief that he himself is a
man, either as a consciousness or an image, he is not open to the DivineRevelation that Consciousness is not a man, but Spirit, God; and until heidentifies with this Spirit, and with Spiritual existence alone, he will ever
continue to serve two masters, and be double-minded in everything.
Detaching ourself from all belief in human existence, and identifying ourself
with Spirit alone as all the Life, Mind, thought, and existence there is – truly our
all and only Substance, we shall ascend into the house of the Lord, here to be
taught of God.
Salvation is not through labour or effort of any kind, but is direct Divine
Illumination from out of our own Being as Spirit. The Substance – immaculate
Spirit – is our life, our mind, thinking, acting, identity, and expression; verily it
is our perfect everything, right in the Here and Now.
Remember, we are to worship in Spirit and in Truth, "… comparing spiritual
things with spiritual.‖ (I Cor 2:13) Insofar as we are able, daily we are to
depart from every thought and thing, every instruction which would cause our
vision to deflect from Spirit as the one and only Substance; we are to love,serve, and obey infinite Spirit as our whole Being, our whole existence.
Take away from your thought of body all notion that it is an external or
objective thing to be controlled by thinking. Seen spiritually it is wholly an
image in Mind! Think now of some other forms which are tangible, distinct
from one another, present at all times and in all places, yet known, seen andunderstood to be purely images in Mind, not for one moment imagined to be
objective.
I refer to such forms as the letters of the alphabet, musical notes, or
mathematical numbers. How easy to see that never could any of these forms be
crippled with arthritis, destroyed by a sword, diseased, or impaired in any way.
Seen through the eyes of Spirit, our body becomes this very same way to us,
and all sense of it as ever being otherwise completely vanishes; we know Spirit
and body, Soul and form to be one entity, and one existence. As numbers and
letters are freely seen and used by us as wholly mental images, even so shall we
The story of the fishing trip, as related in the Bible, is very illuminating when
spiritually understood. We find Jesus telling his disciples to "Launch out into
the deep" (Luke 5:4), meaning that we are to come unto the infinite. It is
significant to hear their first words to Jesus, "We have toiled all the night andhave taken nothing.‖
How many of us, too, have had such a trying and bewildering experience,
perhaps toiling both night and day with words and thoughts, with books and
teachings, yet getting nothing, nor knowing why.
We read in John 21, 5th and 6th verses that Jesus said unto them, "Cast the net
on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find … and now they were not able to
draw it for the multitude of fishes.‖
Reader, can you tell just what would be the "right side of the ship," that you
may cast here also? When they followed Jesus‘ command, lo, everything was
there that they sought, and in overwhelming abundance.
Taken literally this account has no value to it at all, for the right side surely
could not have been just the other side of the ship! It has but one meaning – the
right side is the right way! By looking into the infinite we shall see ourself as
we are, and identifying with this Substance, Spirit, we are scarcely able tocontain the wonder and glory of its infinite and all-satisfying realities.
What a difference it makes if one toils with the various mental practices,
struggles with conflicting thought and effort, or if he deals confidently and
exclusively with pure Spirit? Everything he needs is now at his command,
since he himself is this Spirit, Self-existent, Self-contained and Self-sustaining.He knows each of us to be complete in ourself, each entitled to all, and all at our
command, for infinite Spirit is one indivisible Substance.
Since we are in and of the Infinite, we are and have all that the Infinite includes.
This Divine Light and Understanding is "the right side," this, alone, the right
way.
Only as Spirit, can we claim the right to all things and be secure, our body safe
from danger. Think, if it were possible to add materiality to the alphabet, how
fatal would be the result. Every letter would then be subject to accident, loss,
decay, and extinction. Think also how terrible it would be if Spirit could ever
be materialized! Immediately it would be subject to dissolution and
Truly, matter cannot be added to Spirit, nor weight and size to its spiritual ideas.
Absolutely, we are Spirit now, and ever shall be, and this living Reality awaitsthe experience of us all. On the other hand, one‘s body as matter is never more
or less than a corpse at any time. Believing one‘s form of Life to be material or
human subjects him to the darkness of false supposition, and in this sleep he
dreams of phantoms and fantasies.
Neither fire nor water can reach the letters composing the alphabet, nor sword
or pain. In exactly the same way, we can regard our body and its every part,
that is, to be purely mental, in and of Spirit, absolutely safe and secure from all
accidents, disease, and death.
Therefore, instead of attempting to heal thoughts, bodies, or diseases, give your
attention wholly to the understanding that I Am Spirit, inclusive of my body, my
universe, and my existence in full. This is indeed the body not made withhands, eternal in Spirit. As the veil lifts, the glorious vision is this, Spirit is all
and All is Spirit! Spirit is the Substance with which we think, Spirit is the
Substance which we see. Nor need we affirm any truth when once we see this
clearly and understandingly; nor deny anything which we know has no
existence anywhere, or at all.
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 immeasurable and immaculate Spirit to be all of us, and we to be wholly this.
When we are lighted with the Light of our own Being, we know we are Self-
existent and Self-contained. Beauty, music, song, colour, rhythm, and harmony
are all characteristics of Spirit, and so are spiritually mental and eternal, thus
ever at hand, ever our very own.
There is no space where Spirit is not, since Spirit is infinite and has no opposite.
Spirit is not fifty percent Spirit, and the rest of it some other substance, nor is
Spirit ninety-nine percent Spirit; but Spirit is the infinite All-in-all , besides
which there is no one or any thing else.
At every point of Being, Spirit is the same, ever free, flawless, and absolute.
Only here on this right side, in this true and perfect understanding, can we find
that which shall satisfy us, enrich, and glorify us everlastingly.
"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.‖ No effort is needed. All that
is required is Spiritual Revelation and Illumination, which comes through
spiritual readiness, and a fasting from intellectualism, personalities, and wrongteaching.
Consecrating ourself to Spirit, and to spiritual realities, we shall be obeying the
words of Christ, "Launch out into the deep! Cast the net on the right side!"Then, through love of the Perfect, for the Perfect, and by the Perfect, we shall
know and experience Spirit to be Omniscience, Omnipresence, and
Omnipotence, verily, the One, the All and the Only. Here we see nothing to
change or to be changed; to heal or to be healed.
My Peace I give unto you; My Peace which is of Spirit.
Where I am, there you may be also. Those who accept Me as I Am have life
everlasting, and none is able to pluck them out of my Father‘s hand, out of the
Realm of Spirit.
Dear friends, we are destined and predestined to know the Truth of our own
Being, and to know it in the right way.
Not for one instant have we ever really been other than I Am, each is ever
perfect and complete in himself, and in every way; and this is the Reality which
is ours to experience in the Here and Now, since we ourself are the Infinite One,
Spirit is the Substance of all living things, Spirit is Life itself. It is Spirit which
is Divine Mind and thinking, Spirit which is Divine Love and loving, Spiritwhich composes, comprises, and includes all real life and existence.
When life is found to be Spirit, thus seen to be incorruptible and everlasting, it
becomes this to us. When love is found to be Spirit, to be ever pure and
unchangeable, it becomes this to us. When Mind and thinking are found to be
in and of Spirit, they become our only mind and thinking, and we are kept in
constant and uninterrupted happiness, harmony, and peace.
Today a great deal of thought and time are given in advancing the idea that theDivine and the human are to be united or unified, and that the ever Perfect and
the ever imperfect are to merge into one, the Divine so brought into a human
existence that they will coalesce.
Nothing could be further from the Truth! Strenuous and active today the effort
to mix or combine Spiritual realities with material beliefs, instead of attending
to the Christ words: repent, turn away, be still. So persistent the effort to
combine the Spiritual with the material, the idea is even advanced that the
human is but another name for the Divine.
Most apropos, these summing up words of Jesus, "If the light that is in thee be
darkness, how great is that darkness!" If incorrect teaching regarding one‘s
identity, life, body, and existence be accepted as the genuine and true fact of
Being, how pitiful and deplorable the results!
If the Truth of one‘s identity has not yet been revealed to him from the Father
within, or Spirit Itself, of course he is not capable of right judgment relative to
existence. He does not understand that the Perfect, the Complete, and Absolute
is one-all, Self-existent and ever at hand, and any supposition other than this is
false, and never to be accepted.
The word human pertains to a kind of being and existence which is other than
the one Creator and one creation; it concerns itself with the impure, imperfect,
and incomplete, with darkness, sleep, dream, and unreality.
The parable of the Prodigal son presents this situation perfectly, and gives its
answer and solution. It can be seen that he did not succeed in bringing thethings of the Father‘s house into the far country, there to live in peace and
harmony, but that finally he was compelled to take leave of it entirely, in order
to have and experience the things of the Kingdom.
Not human betterment, human development, nor human advancement arerequired, as it seems, that the millennium appear in our midst, but quite to the
reverse, for the great necessity is a spiritual awakening, that one may enter into
the Kingdom of Spirit which has been prepared and established since the
foundation of the world.
The notion to bring the Pure into the impure, the Spiritual into the material, may
at first appear to one as a ladder leading him to better conditions and things; but
should he remain here it will prove a veritable ditch instead, a place where hewill toil and labour without end, and finally shall utterly fail.
Our life, mind, body, and existence which are established in Spirit are already
perfect, already complete, already present, and our only need is spiritual
awakening to this sublime fact and actuality, so that we identify with the Spirit
and the Divine alone. When we do this, automatically we shall come into
possession of fulfilment, the fullness of every good and perfect thing.
Corruption, limitation, disease, and death appear only because people and
nations have not received the Divine Revelation that Spirit is the onlysubstance, the only Consciousness, Life, Body, and Existence there is or ever can be.
Only Divine Revelation or illumination is able to show one the Celestial
Heights, the Kingdom of Spirit, where none gains peace, health, harmony, or
happiness through any kind of physical or metaphysical effort or practicewhatsoever, but all concern themselves with the fact of the Divine and Spiritual
existence to be the one and only, present and at hand in the Here and Now.
The price of admittance to this Kingdom of present joys and fulfilment is paid
as one departs from creeds and ritualism, incorrect teaching and personal
teachers, in fact, it is paid in full when he leaves all outward forms of worshipand servitude to accept the Light and Truth to be present within himself, yes,
even to be himself . Here in his own Being as Spirit, Life, God, he finds that
fullness and fulfilment for which he has searched everywhere.
Leaving all other gods that we may identify with and take possession of the one
Infinite Substance, which is Spirit, to be our only Self, life, consciousness,
body, and experience, we have truly entered into the Kingdom of Spirit whichhas been prepared for us since the "beginning.‖
Metaphysics as a mental practice of treating disease is but a palliative, never
can it deliver Divine health, Divine wholeness, Divine happiness and peace.Regardless how long one remains in the false belief that Metaphysics is the
True Way, he will hunger and thirst for direct light and revelation, which is
given only to those who look above systems, churches, people, and methods to
the Almighty God closer and nearer than all else. Since our substance is Spirit,not matter, then it is impossible for anyone to know himself , and be set free fromimperfections and limitations until this supreme and paramount fact is revealed
to him.
Nor can such Divine Revelation take place until one is willing to leave the
imperfect for the Perfect, the intellect for the heart, the ways and means of the
personal for identification with that "I" which is the all-inclusive and perfect
Self.
Never can Truth be known except through divine Revelation. Revelation is
indeed the Truth which sets us free, even as is promised, "And ye shall know
the Truth, and the Truth (spiritual awakening, or Divine Revelation) shall make
you free.‖ Only Revelation is the fulfilment of all our desires and questionings.
Revelation or divine illumination comes to those who are spiritually prepared
for it, whose thoughts are not intellectual, but spiritual, whose heart is ever open
to fuller knowledge of the Real, the Perfect, and the Everlasting. Revelation or
illumination is Spiritual knowing, immediate understanding, and freedom.
Today it is imperative that we turn away from all palliative remedies called physical or metaphysical to perceive that which is supreme, not because it is
higher, or even the highest, not because it is above and beyond all else, but
because it is the all and the only of Life and existence, and ever has been.
When sufficient Truth is revealed to you, you will cease attempting to purify
your mind, thought, body, or world, and once and for all you will put an end towhat has been called "doing one‘s mental work.‖
No amount of meditation or mental work will ever deliver to you your perfect
Mind, body, and existence. Permanent deliverance from impurities,
imperfections, and limitations shall follow as one lets go all claim to any kind of
a mind, life, body, or existence of his own, and accepts the one infiniteSubstance, which is Divine Life, consciousness, body, and existence, to include
all there is of him, and he to be This, and none else.
Personal demonstration, personal healing and regeneration shall cease to be
practiced when, like Jesus, we accept the Father within, or the DivineRevelation of spirit, to be our All-sufficiency, the one and only Way to our
perfect Self, body, and existence. The Spiritual awakening already in our midst
shall supersede or transcend all mental practices and systems, everything that
has to do with mental labour, mental warfare, mental demonstration, in their attempts to heal human minds and bodies, and to spiritualize a so-called humanexistence.
Labour, strife, effort, work, are all included in the "six days," or six thousand
years wherein "thou shall labour, and do thy work:" but inevitably the seventh
day appears, "wherein thou shall not do any work.‖ This seventh day is when
we cease thinking from the basis that we are mankind or personal individuals
supposed to overcome evil and demonstrate our good here in a human
existence, and let ourselves be illumined from within, and from the withinreceive the Truth and Light that there is but one "I," one Substance-Life-
Intelligence-Existence, which is at hand, perfect and complete, without need of
demonstration or attainment, and which is our true and only Being and
existence. Acting from this basis, we shall end the six days, or period of work,
work, work, and find the everlasting Peace and Joy to be at hand, and in the
Here and Now.
"He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.‖ Who is
"Me?" Not an outside God, nor an outside Divine Mind, nor Jesus as somesupernatural being.
Although it was Jesus who spoke these words, he did not refer to himself as a
man, a teacher, or healer, but he spoke as Divine Being, Divine Life, Divine
Selfhood. Therefore, whosoever believeth in this "Me" to be his own Selfhood,
life, body, and existence, though he were enshrouded in darkness and sin, yetshall he leave these as a dream, and waken in the Kingdom of Spirit, where "I"
am God, and besides Me there is none else.
"‗I‘ am the real and living Way; no one comes to the Father except by means of
‗Me.‘ If you knew ‗Me‘ ye would know my Father too. You know Him now
and have seen Him… He who has seen ‗Me‘ has seen the Father … It is theFather who remains ever in Me, who is performing His own deeds… He who
believes in Me will do the very deeds I do.‖ (Moffatt Trans. John 14:6-10)
Depart from all forms of treatment which deal with the overcoming or healing
of disease, for what kind of a body is it that could be sick? Certainly not a bodyidentified with Spirit, the Divine Mind. All healing of disease is based upon thesupposition of body to be matter or materiality.
Since Spirit, God, is all, there is therefore no matter, hence no material body to
be healed.
To identify oneself and body with Spirit would automatically free one from sin,
sickness and death, and this and this alone is the Christ Way. Revelation is
Self-realization, and as this opens to us we are delivered from the dream of materiality and its attending forms of discords and limitations. This is the
perfect Way. All Revelation needs to make Truth known to us is an honest,
earnest heart which worships God first, and before all else, which is ever ready
to leave all and follow Me.
Since there is but one God, there is but one Substance of which all consists.
Spirit is the substance of our Self or Soul, our Mind, body, and existence.
Spiritual existence is the only one that we should believe in or accept, and
spiritual body the only body or form.
One cannot enter into a perfect existence by placing the spiritual Mind into a
human mentality or everlasting life into a mortal material body. First of all one
is compelled to receive the Truth from Divine Revelation, then he is taught of
God that he is Divine Substance, divine Mind, divine Truth, Life, and Love, and
that his body and universe exists as one with himself, in fact they are himself,for himself is all.
A material body has no more existence than had the flat earth, and every
thought or effort based upon the supposition that it requires work, labour, or
treatment of one kind or another to overcome evil, or to heal disease in a human
mind or body, denotes fishing on the wrong side of the ship, where in the endnothing is gained. Verily, if you are at all – you are Spirit, immutable and
immaculate Substance, and your body and your world are Spirit also.
Each one of us as a distinct identity is the one Entity which is Self-complete,
Since Spirit is all, there is therefore no matter, hence there is no material body
to be healed or that can be healed. Only in the light shall we see light. To look into pure Substance and know this to be the one and only substance there is, is
to be identified with the one Mind or Consciousness, and to be the Self-
revealing Light. When Spirit, which is our only Mind, Life, and Being, shall
appear to us through Divine Revelation, then shall we know that we are Spirit,and never have been otherwise.
In the Spiritual realm, or Kingdom of Spirit, there is no loss, no grief, or
discord. Nothing to be denied, nothing to be demonstrated, nothing to be
healed. We are told that the former things of matter and minds, treatments and
healing methods shall pass away as one identifies himself with the one Way,
which is the Truth and the Life everlasting. The Kingdom of Spirit is complete
in Harmony, Happiness, and Wholeness.
Do you say that you have never found your freedom through Mind and
thinking? Then look to Spirit, the substance of Mind and thinking, and you will
be released from the dream that you are something other than the perfect and
incorruptible One. Spirit can and will free you, for you belong to Spirit, you
are Spirit, and you now come unto your own.
Many who have not responded to "right thinking" will accept Spirit with open
arms. Now they can think from the heart, instead of from the intellect. Now
they will be freed from holding thoughts, doing mental work, makingdemonstrations, et cetera.
How simple and easy to see that Spirit cannot be sick or in pain, afflicted nor
disabled. Ever Spirit is immune, changeless, and absolute. Identifying ourself
with Spirit, we shall find that all labour with thought is over, all means of
demonstration at an end, for as light makes darkness impossible, in the sameway the Light that we are Spirit shall prove our sufficiency indeed.
Spirit does not enter into arguments, nor teach any denials or affirmations. No
effort, or struggle, no mental work, no church attendance is required. I, Spirit,
am the Way, a Perfection without work or labour, a revelation to you that you
and I are one, and that there is none else. This is being taught of God.Identifying with Spirit, the Substance of oneself and his neighbour alike, we
shall be so happily concerned with Light and Love that there will be no room
for darkness in us. Nor is the Self or Soul one thing and the body another.
Spirit and body are one, and this one is Spirit. Spirit is ever willing and ready to
give of Its light and Its glory, and we need to be as willing to take and to
Therefore, instead of making use of meditations, mental practices, or Mind-
healing, all of which pertains to an imperfect mind and body which needschanging, correcting, or healing, place your whole attention upon Spirit, the
incorruptible Mind and body which is ever at hand, and your very own, in need
of no healing whatsoever, for into it no discord, pain, or sickness could ever
enter. No effort of thought at all is required to know this, your very Being leapsto agree. The path of Knowledge starts with the Facts of Being, and ends withthem.
One fact is that Perfection of Being, Mind, Body, and Existence can never be
achieved or experienced through any kind of healing or demonstration
whatsoever. It is not a matter of creating it, but of identifying with it as
eternally Self-existent. When this is seen, then the deplorable practice of taking
thought will begin to lessen, and shall finally cease.
What slavery to watch one‘s thoughts. What an assignment and bondage! Then
add to this a form of teaching which accepts "evil" to be some entity, and we
find many spending time and effort to "overthrow evil.‖ One might as well
battle with darkness. Light! Vision! Wisdom! What Spirit has not already
done, no recitals of affirmations or denials can accomplish; and Spirit is
eternally the one and only Substance, the one and only Consciousness, body,
universe, and existence there is or ever can be, since Spirit, God, is in all, over
all, and All. The Self is spirit, which is Wisdom, Intelligence, Power, Love, and
Glory. Step out of the tomb of darkness, and see yourself and your neighbour to be Spirit, for the One-Substance is the all and only of infinitude.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one fishes on the wrong or on the
right side of the ship. Those who are ready to leave the labour and toil, the way
called healing, demonstrating, or applying the Truth to human minds, bodies, or
conditions, representing the wrong side of Life and existence, should now givetheir heart‘s attention to the fact that the Spirit which is in them and the Spirit
which is in their neighbour is the Spirit which was in Christ Jesus, the selfsame
One. No personality can be added to it, no perfection can be subtracted from it.
When we see everyone in this true light we are then seeing and loving our
neighbour as he is in Spirit: whole, sinless, pure, and perfect. There is no possible way to do this except to see the perfect Substance, Spirit, to be the only
Life, Mind, Being there is, and to be there, and no one and nothing else to be
The light of day does not require also the help of artificial lights whereby to
keep away the darkness, it is self-complete and all sufficient, and where it is nodarkness can be. In the same way when we see Spirit to be the all and only, the
invisible Being, Life, Truth, and Love, we are in no need of human helps such
as mental practice of any sort, in fact, "If God be for us, who can be against
us?" If the infinite indivisible One be all to us then indeed we are glad andhappy to rest here and to have no other thought. Seeing perfect Being to be allthere is of our neighbour, it is simple and easy to know that Spirit cannot suffer
or be in darkness, cannot be fearful, ignorant, nor in sin. Spirit is ever pure,
whole, perfect, and complete.
Identified with our true Being, we shall not need to attain to any divine
qualities, nor ever attempt to demonstrate them, 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. Seeing the one Substance to
be infinite Love, all-embracing, perfect, and complete, we shall love to be this
One, and no other.
The one perfect Being, which we eternally are, cannot possibly feel grief,
affliction, or tribulation. Never can Spirit be contaminated or defiled, and this
Truth which we perceive and know for ourselves is the same Truth we see and
know for our neighbour, for he and I are one, the one which is Spirit, God. Inthis way we are fulfilling the command to love our neighbour as ourself. Suchglory as this can never come about through any kind of thinking, but only by
being released from it, and allowing the heart to find its own source of light to
be Spirit, the all-knowing Intelligence which supplies its own light, love,
understanding, and revelation.
The heart which looks above all else has found the only Source of knowledge
there is, and is freed from any dependence upon dogma, manual, or
organization. Only Revelation can set one free from bondage and show him
how to cast his net on the right side by looking directly to Spirit, and cutting
loose from everything pertaining to mental practice of labour and strife. In
Spiritual Revelation there is no strife or labour – perfect Creator and perfectCreation is our all.
The idea of trying to control, overcome, or to demonstrate over conditions,
thoughts, or false beliefs must be superseded by the desire to see and to acceptSpirit, perfect Being, to be the All and Only of existence. Such words asdemonstration or healing have no place in Spiritual perception, the Kingdom of
Spirit. Nor is one to watch for a change in thought, mind, or condition. We
desire a thinking which is not the result of a change anywhere, but is the
spontaneous activity of that Intelligence which is Spirit, God. Illumination
comes when our Soul or Spirit recognizes itself as God, and can say, I and God
are one.
Then the effort to apply Truth to human minds or bodies ceases.
Although the adjectives human, mortal, and material are applied to life, mind,
and being, never are they used in connection with Spirit. Spirit is not a word of
degree, no one associates planes or states with it. Thus the final understanding
that we are Spirit blots out all other viewpoints, bringing an end to mental
treatment, to everything concerned with change, healing, or demonstration.
When one sees Spirit-Life, Spirit-Being, Spirit-Body to be all, he will never
dream of giving a "treatment" to himself or to his neighbour.
Metaphysics, psychology, and psychiatry all concern themselves with mentalcause and mental cure. They are all destined to collapse and fall. The purely
Spiritual viewpoint comes as a Spiritual awakening, delivering wholeness,
harmony, peace, and blessedness through Spiritual revelation and illuminating,
the spiritual awareness of Truth and Reality to be the only Presence, Power, and
Actuality there is. Until one is ready to break away from the triad of matter,mind, and personality, he is not fit for the Kingdom of Spirit. With the
knowledge that "I" am Spirit, the body and universe will be seen from a new
viewpoint.
In Spirit, all remedies whether physical or metaphysical are done away…
"When that which is Perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be doneaway.‖ (I Cor 13:10) Not temporary healing, but permanent Wholeness is
found in the Christ-awareness – "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.‖ The
Perfect has no need for healing, the Self is ever ablaze with light, love, and
happiness, and there is no night of darkness there.
The question is asked, "Is this body which I scrub and feed the spiritual body?"
The answer is NO. "Spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have.‖ (Luke24:39) The theory that the spiritual body and the material body are one and the
same, that is, that the material body is the perfect spiritual body seen
imperfectly, is false. Accept it not.
We can best understand the answer to this question through an illustration, suchas our sleep and dream. In our dreams we appear not to have the body of our
waking state, nor to identity with it, but to have some other body altogether.
For instance, suppose one is dreaming that he is swimming in the ocean, would
you say that the body which is in the water is but a false viewpoint of the body
on the bed? Of course not. The body on the bed and the one in the ocean are
not one and identical, for the fact is clear that the one appearing in the dream,
with which the sleeper is identified, has no substance or reality whatsoever, nor is the body which is on the bed there in the water. In order for one to see and be
identified with the body on the bed he must awaken from sleep, then the body of
his dream vanishes.
Asleep to one‘s actual Self and body to be Spirit, pure Substance, he appears to
have a body of material flesh and bones which can be afflicted with pain and
disease. In the various systems of physical and metaphysical healing the aim is
to remove disease from a human or material body, or a material mind.
In the great Spiritual awakening taking place today, we shall be required tocease giving attention to the healing or correction of mind or body, and instead
identify with the Mind and body of Spirit, which has never been flesh and
bones, and which cannot be subject to imperfection. Waking to this supernal
Truth and Reality we no longer apply mental treatments to any person or thing,
but understand that there is no matter, mind, or personality; Spirit is the onlyBeing, Intelligence, and body there is.
The body which one sees as materiality, subject to pain, sickness, and death, is
not the body of Spirit, or the spiritual body, nor is it the spiritual body seen
Where you, Spirit, are, there also is your spiritual body, perfect and intact.
Waking to the knowledge that we are Spirit, God, the one perfect Mind andBeing, the dream of matter ends. Therefore, regardless how many diseases one
could heal in or of a material body, he would still be required to identify himself
with the body of Spirit into which no discord could enter. It should now be
plain that healing or demonstration is not the Way to Wholeness. Let onedecide whether he has a material body to be healed of pain and sickness or the
body of Spirit which is pure and perfect, needing no healing, since no discord
has entered it.
Identifying with the imperfect, the assumptive, and unreal, one then looks for
healing, whereas identification with the Actual, the Real, and the True, he
experiences the realities of the Kingdom of Spirit.
There are no situations, minds, bodies, or conditions to "treat.‖ There is no person to address in this treatment.
There is no outline to follow, no stated time to consider.
What we know to be true of our Self we are to know to be true of our neighbour
also. We are to see Spirit to be the only Being, Mind, body, and existence
"here" or "there," Spirit to be all , and all to be Spirit.
Where does one need to go to see this? No where – the place whereon onestands is holy ground. It is generally accepted that one must die in order toenter Heaven, the Universe of Spirit. In a sense this is true, but not in the way it
is meant. We are to die to the belief that there is matter, mind, and personality,
and awake to the Truth of Being, the Truth that revelation and illumination will
come to one when his Soul or Spirit cognizes itself to be God. "The Spirit and
In the field of mental practice today, multitudes are discovering to their dismay
that their beliefs about Truth which they have practiced faithfully, anddepending upon absolutely, now no longer support them.
There is great consternation and confusion today because the healing works are
not taking place as in times past: for the going out of the old outgrown order
and the coming in of the Great Spiritual Awakening is simultaneous.
The Bible prophesy pertaining to human history is ever in constant fulfilment,
and shall be until the end of human existence – "One jot or tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law till all be fulfilled.‖ (Matt 5:18) As the day of mentaltreatment, which flourished for a time, draws to a close, multitudes unillumined
through Self-revelation, and trusting their way blindly to personalities,
ritualism, and organization, are like the "foolish virgins" who had "lamps" but
no "oil.‖
Listen to and heed the stirring and vital words of Truth pertaining to these
times, "The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in spirit and in truth … God is a Spirit: and they that worship him
must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:23,24)
This is the Hour of Spirit, when all search for Reality comes to an end as one
finds his fulfilment in the following announcement of Christ, "The Kingdom of
God cometh not with observation (ways and means of the objective or
subjective). Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or lo there! for, behold the
kingdom of God is within you.” (Lk 17:20, 21)
Only when we shall find and experience the Kingdom of Heaven within us shall
we have found our safety and immunity, the fulfilment of all our desires, our
glory, peace, our constant delight.
Healing practices are woefully failing everywhere, because it must becomeknown that human existence can never be spiritualized. "My kingdom is not of
this world.‖ (John 18:36) "The world (of objective appearance) passeth away.‖
(I John 2:17) Imperfect teaching must give way to the perfect Spiritual Idea,
and "None can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest thou?" (Dan 4:35)
The hour is here now when those ready to accept Christ‘s words will find the
Kingdom of Heaven to be right within us, and learning what this means shall go
When the day arrived in history that the use of kerosene oil was to give place to
lighting through electricity, many prolonged their acceptance of it, even as before that day many of the slaves, set free, preferred to remain in slavery.
Though our "demonstrations" in the past have brought us great increase in good,
and we are grateful beyond measure for each and every one, still we are ever divinely compelled to come up higher until the goal is reached. Whenever anew order comes into view, the old must pass away; and the time is here for
healing to be based upon an entirely new platform, that is, we are to strike out
in a different dimension altogether, we are to find our wholeness and perfection,
our eternal Life, our perfect Mind, Soul, and body in Spirit , exactly the way that
Jesus did, within oneself.
The idea that we are a man or creature, a body or an image of something or
someone else is not the Christ-Truth. The idea that each as an individualconsciousness, is to create his own good, be the arbiter of his own fate, is also
not the Truth; as well as the idea that each has a mind, will, and body of his own
which is to be redeemed, changed, or purified.
The increased struggle to apply the Truth, to do something with the Truth, to
practice Truth upon dull minds and thoughts so as to affect sick bodies and
affairs comes to a sudden end: for the reason that Truth is what we are, and not
what anyone intends to make himself. Truth is to be known and realized as It
is, in all Its pristine purity and glory, and never to be practiced, used, or appliedto that which in Truth has no existence whatever.
Loud and insistent today, the cry for better healing, for permanent results,
greater might to overcome greater needs.
"Men‘s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which arecoming of the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.‖ (Lk 21:26)
Yes, hearts fail because the thing they trusted in no longer supports them, since
it is imperfect and incomplete in itself. "He that shall endure to the end
(knowing and understanding Reality as It is) shall be saved.‖
Those who willingly and gladly accept the advancing Light of divine Revelationshall remain safe and secure, dwelling as they do in the Kingdom of the Real
where there is no personality to limit them. (Mt. 24:13)
Permanent release from ills, discords, and confusion comes as one turns to the
Kingdom of Spirit to see things as they actually are, and have ever been sincethe "beginning.‖ Instead of greater effort needed in changing consciousness,
thoughts, or bodies, all of such mental practice should be dismissed and
banished as one finds his peace, happiness, and security, his health, wholeness,
and harmony, together with his knowledge of all things, in that Realm of theReal where they have always existed, the Kingdom of God within us.
None of the realities of Life can be known or seen so long as one concerns
himself with the practice of Truth over error, right thoughts over wrong ones,
the spiritualization of this or that, and so the colossal illusion that one must
defend himself from some secret, aggressive entity called "evil" and its various
allies.
"Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into theKingdom of God.‖ (John 3:5) Many will find obedience to this command as
difficult today as it was in Jesus‘ time.
To be born of the Spirit means to drop everything that pertains to ways and
means of correcting, adjusting, changing, spiritualizing, purifying, or healing,
any consciousness, mind, thought, or thing; to believe in nothing but Perfection,
which is to be seen and known in the Spiritual world as the all and only of
existence! Nor can one ever know what this Perfection is until he has the actual
experience of it in Self-revelation. Arise from the dead! Come out of the tomb!Sell what thou hast! Perfection already and always exists for those who willcome into its Presence. Truth is not known through any systems of ideas which
have to do with getting or changing, practicing or applying. Truth is Reality
now. None can escape the Spiritual requisite.
Spirit is the Mind which is never in any states or stages of consciousness. Spiritis Consciousness. Spirit is life eternal without any sickness, sin, or death.
The labourless way of Spirit is the only one Jesus knew or taught. Perfection
exists for all who will leave all other ways to come into its Presence. Christ
represents Light, Illumination, Revelation within oneself. Here alone can we
see and know things as they are in Reality. We do not see things as objects, butas Spiritual ideas and identities. A Spiritual idea is a thing which exists as it is,
without any objective appearance of materiality.
Only in illumination can we see spiritually, as it takes Spirit to see Spirit. Here
we are no longer the self we seem to be, but That which is all things. In That,
and as the One, we know all things. We are That to which we prayed… We are
Only when one sees the futility of all efforts to "apply the Truth" and is willing
to forget everything pertaining to mental practice, and roll it up as a scroll, shallawareness come to him from the within, that Perfection is the established fact,and all that he is asked to do is to believe in it, love it, trust it, behold it with
spiritual vision, and lo, he will be lifted up into light and glory where he will
escape the fear and desolation of these times, the uprooting and overturning of everything which would obstruct the entrance of the pure Spiritual and Perfect.Let him that is willing and ready, Come. Let him that is athirst for the living
Truth, Come. Come at this moment‘s notice, and pause not to take anything
from your house of dead ideas.
"Let the dead bury the dead.‖ Come thou, and follow Christ.
It may seem as a literal dying to give up beliefs fostered in ignorance and
accepted for many years to be the actual Truth, such as this belief that the divineMind acts upon a human mind, then through this it reaches an objective material
appearance – the following after certain leaders, books, teachings; and the
various systems of warfare with evil. All these things must go, and we must
depart from them forever, in order to fulfil the responsibility to do the "greater
works" which Jesus promised.
Foolishly it has been thought that this would be the healing of more diseases,
and instantaneously, the greater skill in uncovering hidden causes, the swifter
reconditioning of minds and consciousnesses. It means none of these things, but the reverse, in fact, it means to break loose from the very notion of healinganyone or anything or any disease, and to enter into that place which is Spirit ,
the finished Kingdom, Heaven – and here see That which is all things in
unchanging unity.
View creation as it is in the Spiritual world, and you will never attempt to givemental treatments or bring about healings. Accept Spirit, and you will see the
Reality Itself which is all things. This is the "greater work" – entrance into
Reality through Spiritual light.
Divine revelation owes nothing to human speculations. Our thoughts and
feelings, our actions or ignorance do not condition our Reality. Thank God for this! Being is not conditioned by any beliefs or practices whatsoever. Just as
you are you can come into your Perfection if you will turn from personality,
from thought and thing, in fact from the whole objective world, to face Heaven
The time for thinkers came and has passed, "and the time has come already
when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in Reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father desires. God is Spirit, and hisworshippers must worship Him in Spirit and in Reality.‖
(John 4:23, 24 – Moffatt) Through various ways of worship, finally we come to
the Door; yet here everything must be left on the outside in order that we can
now experience the within as All-sufficiency in Itself. All on the outside we
know to be temporal, but the things of the within to be eternal. (2 Cor 4:18)
None can take the things of the outside into that of the Within. His formula,church, textbook, teacher, friend, relative, all must remain without. ONE comes
alone. Yes, the price is high, but O the glory of the reward! To be free from
worry, fear, suffering, disease, inharmony, and unhappiness is surely worth any
price. Yes, we enter alone… there is no other way … I, Spirit, am the Way.
The world which we contact within is the only one there is.
Here creation is not expression, but is Life itself. We find God, Reality, to have
been with us all the time, yes, even our own Being.
To Jesus, Spirit was all, nothing else mattered. His Father was Spirit; his lifewas Spirit; he was Spirit. Only in following this Christ-Light shall our hunger
and thirst cease; and as we worship here in Spirit, we find "the world, the flesh,
and the devil" to have no meaning.
Until one has had some taste of Reality, his understanding of Life is necessarilyintellectual or theoretical. None is known to have entered into the experience of
the purely Spiritual unless he is Spiritually minded. (Roman 8:6) The reason
why the world knows so little about Spirit and Reality is because it has
experienced so little of it. It has been content to change things about in a body
and mind and to enjoy what little it can in a human existence.
If we would experience Revelation then we must part with all that keeps us
from it. The greater our love and devotion for the Perfect as already
established, the more frequent will be the times lived in Illumination. One can
have as many changes in consciousness as he will, but none of them will bring
him direct divine Illumination, because Truth is to be known through Truth, and
When the gracious invitation went out to many to come to the great supper,
saying, "Come, for all things are now ready," then all began to make excuses,and in today‘s language it might be like this: "I must first do my mental work …
go into the silence… attend to certain religious duties… consult my book or
teacher.
Read Luke 14:16-27, read also about the required "wedding garment" inMatthew 22;1-14. When the call comes, no one need pause to please or fight
for his particular church or prayer book, since "There shall not be left one stone
upon another that shall not be thrown down.‖ (Matt. 24:1,2)
The Christ-Way is destined to be the One and Only. Christ Light and
Revelation is its own church, its own royal power and glory, its own light and
understanding, its own peace, joy, and happiness.
In profuse and dramatic parables, Jesus pointed out that Heaven exists as the
eternal and established fact, and that it is even now as close to us as our own
Being. He pointed out that there was no way to it only to leave all for it, and
without any labour or effort, but in Spiritual love alone, he would find himself
worthy of it eternally. Moreover he pointed out that the way of Spirit is always
simple and easy, without work or strife… "He that is not with Me is against Me;
and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth abroad.‖ (Mt 12:30)
Greater demands are made upon us all the time. In the Light of the Real we cannow see that what is termed evolution of mind or consciousness, which seemsto take place subjectively and objectively, is but our realization of That which
we eternally are in the realm of the Real. Here all is finished without cause,
effect, or result. In the Real we are even now all that we shall ever become.
We come into the Spiritual revelation gradually, or by degrees, and it is thisconstant revealing of the Perfect which seems as an endless chain of cause and
effect, while in the world of the Real, we know all events to be the unchanging
Reality. We know that here perfect body exists now, as well as perfect Mind,
Soul, Life, and Being. Here we are all that is, since All is in each, and
everywhere everything is the Eternal One.
Those who think the "one body" to be the objective appearance they wish
healed had better discover their mistake right now. The real and true exists with
no need of healing or changing whatever! Nor is the illusion in the appearance.
For instance, if one is looking at a rope, and in the dusk mistakes it for a snake,
the illusion would certainly not be in the snake! The illusion would be in the
way one interpreted the rope; the rope of course would remain the same all the
The whole of the Bible tells that the darkness, veil, or covering is the way that
we misinterpret and misunderstand the Perfect, the complete, and ever-present
Kingdom of God within. In the illustration, the rope and the snake have no
connection, no relationship.
All that is necessary is to see the rope as it is.
The objective material appearance of the body is never the fact, nor is it real in
itself, yet it will continue until we see Reality as it is. It is written that Jesus
healed all manner of diseases and even raised the dead, but it is not written that
he took away the material appearance of the body from anyone. Evidently the
people went about as before, were sick again and died. Our body as it is, can be
seen to Spiritual sense only, and is as real and tangible to Spirit as the present
appearance is tangible to the human sense. The objective appearance need not
be denied or denounced.
When changes in appearance come about through changes in thought, the
healing often is transitory, but when healing takes place because of inner
illumination, wherein one sees Reality as it is, then the healing is permanent,
and spiritual peace, love, and harmony are known and understood. Many letters
are written me recently from the readers of these lessons, testifying to their
great freedom, happiness, harmony, and understanding.
It is written, "They that are in the flesh cannot please God.‖ (Roman 8:8) Thisrefers to those who believe in the external material appearance as the one andthe only. Again we read, "Though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet
in my flesh shall I see God.‖ (Job 19:26) Many people today love to quote this
verse, for to them it means that God actually exists right in every objective cell
of their material appearance. It means no such thing! The rope does not exist in
the appearance of the serpent, but in the rope only. Yet while one stands in thisillusion, it is possible for the illusion to vanish, and before him will be the rope
itself.
So here where one appears to be absent from the Kingdom and busily at work
mentally to bring it to him, it is possible for the illusion to leave him through an
experience in illumination or revelation, and lo, the material appearance of body
has utterly vanished to him, and though living apparently in this world, he willsee and experience the body as it is in Spirit.
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.‖ (John 1:14) The reality
of the Real was objectified materially before us in this world… yet it was never of this world, nor of materiality, anymore than we are; it was always of Reality
and Truth, and so are we. Jesus proved all ways of the flesh to be futile, and
less than nothing. To him there was nothing true but Truth Itself, there was
nothing real but Reality Itself, and there was no way to Life but to be Thatwhich is Life Eternal.
It is the appearance of materiality which is not the real, and of course it is this
which is put into the grave. The body in its perfect spiritual reality remains
with one forever, since, in Spirit, he and his body are one. Follow the advice,
"Willing to be absent from the (false sense of) body and present with the Lord
(the purely Spiritual sense of body only).‖ (2 Cor 5:8)
Inasmuch as one‘s objective appearance changes with his changed beliefs, it hascome to be accepted quite generally that the body is but one‘s expression of
consciousness, and so the only way to experience a perfect body would be to
advance toward it through development and changes in consciousness. This is a
colossal illusion! Let me assure you that your perfect spiritual body will never
arrive through any changes whatsoever. It if does not NOW exist, it is certain
that it will never exist at all.
One bit of Spiritual illumination would free you entirely from the belief that you
have now or ever had had a material, mortal body! Accept your body as it is inSpirit, and you will receive the healing which you so long for; and beside thisyou will then know that never have you had a material body, regardless of any
and all appearances; and that the perfect body you have in the Kingdom of
Heaven within you is the only body there is or ever can be.
We are to see the Self, body, and universe as they are in the Spiritual world of Reality – Heaven – seeing this with clear, spiritual vision, the illusion leaves us,
and when we look again at the objective, we find all trace of sickness gone, not
because we have changed consciousness, but because we have experienced
Reality! The more complete our Illumination, the more instantaneous the
healing. This is the Christ-healing, the raising of one‘s vision to the eternal
Reality, here to see, know, and experience the Perfect as it is in the Kingdomwithin.
Jesus Christ does not represent the objective world of things, bodies, and
personalities, where sins and diseases are healed externally, nor does herepresent the subjective world of thoughts and beliefs, where sins and diseasesare healed mentally. Jesus Christ represents one world only, The Kingdom of Spirit – one Being only, Truth and Life itself. He stands for Perfection which
needs no change to make it so, and to which ways, states, and stages have no
meaning. He referred to direct divine Illumination as "The Father Within;" this
alone was his light, power and understanding. He taught that he was the Truth
itself, and that we were to keep his sayings, and follow him.
You will not find the word "consciousness" mentioned even one time in theentire Bible, and never the word "mind" used in reference to God, but you will
find hundreds of references under the words "Spirit" and "spiritual.‖ "Spirit" is
the last synonym of the word God to come into universal recognition and
attention, and receive its proper interpretation, and all other terms of lesser
meaning shall give place to it.
When the hour has struck, so shall it be. Only by entering the Realm of Spirit
shall we ever experience release from sin, sickness, and death, for here they
have no meaning. When Spirit takes its rightful place among us then the Day of full Glory draweth nigh.
Those trained for nearly a life time in ways which deal in constant struggle with
evil in one form or another, in pagan worship of personalities and religious
ritualism, and in dire neglect to identify with Truth and Life as Jesus did, and so
live in constant Revelation of life within themselves, will find it difficult to walk away from all this with one great stride; while to others, who have no outside
God, but only the One within, it will be simple indeed, for their all-absorbing
love for the Reality and Truth will make it so.
Spirit is the Key-note today. It returns to the time of Jesus when he announced
his preaching of "The Gospel of the Kingdom," and described it as Heavenwithin Oneself. In the book of Revelation, we read again about the "The
Everlasting Gospel" which is to be preached "unto them that dwell on the earth,
and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.‖ (Rev 14:6) This
Gospel shall concern itself with the fact that Heaven is at hand for those who
are "born of Spirit"… we shall witness the going out of the old world of
appearances, and our entrance into the Spiritual World of Reality, wherein
nothing exists or ever has existed but Perfection and Truth.
Spirit suggests the "fourth dimension" because it is boundless and
immeasurable, the unconditioned Absolute.
Here alone is Freedom, here alone is Peace and Happiness, eternally. Each
must decide for himself whether or not he is ready for it. Certain it is that we
can know of Spirit and its realities supernal only through divine Illuminationand Revelation of the Kingdom within. Spirit is Life and Being as they reallyare, without any ways to them, since we ourselves can know our Reality only
through experiences in Illumination, where we come face to face with our
eternal Freedom, since ever Truth and oneself are ONE.
The Self is the Being of Truth and Reality. The body is the body of Truth and
Reality. The universe is the universe of Truth and Reality.
When it is said that one comes alone, it does not mean that we can not receivehelp and healing from another who is in this Christ-Light, for we can, and
anything we can find that is written from this realm of Reality will continue to
bless and help us.
Yet there always comes the moment when we come alone, the same as that we
each do our own eating, breathing, and drinking. No one needs fear or dread it,
because it is the most wonderful moment of our experience, and all have found
it so. It is love, deep and all-absorbing which makes the way swift and easy, a
love which finds divine peace and glory in making any sacrifice of self necessary. Healings will continue, and will be more certain, sure, and permanent when found through recognition and acceptance of perfection as the
established fact of Being, body, and world, forever and eternally.
Here we shall find our abundance also, and no fear, worry, or doubt need
concern us. As we accept the Realm of the Perfect to be the Kingdom of Heaven within us, then we find our abundance of good without any labour of
thought or effort. It is automatic and simultaneous. We are to walk in the
Spirit, live and love in the Spirit, act, feel, and worship in the Spirit. Only here
shall we ever know "the deep things of God.‖ You may recall that about two
years ago, in one of my lessons, I mentioned the experience of having a very
painful finger because a rose thorn had lodged in it deeply.
That night when the pain was very severe, suddenly a question presented itself
to me like this: Do I believe that I have a material finger into which a thorn has
entered and so needs to be removed, or do I have a finger which is spiritual and
perfect in the Real world, into which no thorn could ever enter, and so needs no
Immediately I saw Reality as it is, and the pain stopped that instant… soon
there was no swelling or discoloration, and no thorn in the objectively appearingfinger.
It was then that there came to me another Illumination, something which I had
wanted to know for many years and which perhaps many of my readers haveasked also, which is this: Why is it that when we experience a healing, eventhrough divine Light, it means only that the trouble, whatever it is, is gone, but
the material appearance of the body persists the same as ever? When shall we
be set free from the appearance called matter or materiality, and manifest in that
body which Jesus did when he vanished from view?
I found my answer in John 17:15, "I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out
of the world (of material appearance), but that Thou shouldest keep them from
the evil (sin, suffering, disease, and troubles of all kind).‖
Jesus was able to identify himself wholly and completely with Spirit, then the
objective appearance of materiality vanished entirely; it needed no burial, for it
had never been anything in itself. Jesus promised that we shall follow him
"afterwards" (John 13:36), and of that hour of our complete deliverance from
that which is termed "matter"… "knoweth no man, no, not even the angels of
heaven, but my Father only.‖ (Mt 24:36)
In the meantime we shall come into a Light and Understanding which shall beso pure and transparent that we shall be happy, free, and joyous as never before, perfect in wholeness and harmony, and in the gladness of everlasting Glory.
"The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory, past all
comparison for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen Eternal.” (2 Cor 4:18) Moffatt-translation. Only by acting in the Realm of the Real can we experience the living Truth, that is,
the world of the Real cannot be known through mental thought or practice, but
by a Spiritual Activity called Intuition or Revelation. This is an activity which
is not thinking, but BEING.
The idea that we are to climb to Heaven, as up a stairway of ever ascending
greatness is false. At any instant it is possible to enter the experience of all-
harmonious and ever-abiding BEING when we look not at thoughts which areseen in logic, but at things which are seen in Reality.
The Bible is a Book which may be read and interpreted from one of three
different viewpoints – that of the historical or literal, the metaphysical or
mental, or the purely Inspirational, which leads one gently but firmly and surely
from the unreal and transient to the Real and Eternal.
In the same sense, a house may be seen as a material structure, a mental idea, or
the way it is in its Reality. To those who cannot see beyond, the first two viewsare helpful up to a certain point, yet, if one would attain to activity in Realityand Truth, he must depart from them both.
Instead of increasing in reason which concerns itself ever with relativity, such
as good and evil, large and small, right and wrong, yesterday and tomorrow, we
advance into that Spiritual understanding which does not argue, nor attempt toanswer questions originating in illusion, but rather does it state Truth as it is in
its Reality, automatically disclosing the absurdity of all such questions.
When one escapes from himself as a separate, thinking individual, he will
spontaneously find himself to be in and of the One-All which contains within
Itself the beauty, rhythm, and harmony of the Triune LIFE-TRUTH-LOVE.
As taught in the East, the perfect world, Heaven (Nirvana) is reached by our
departure from evolution into that activity wherein there is no separate "I," but a
Unity which includes and is the one Infinite-All.
In the Western world we see on every side the aim to individualize the One into
the many, to unite and harmonize the human and the Divine, the seen and theUnseen, the unreal and the Real.
Our achievement of universal peace, harmony, and wholeness does not lie in
attainment of personal demonstration, nor in the overcoming of discords andlimitations by any human or mental means whatsoever, but by a moving out of
such evolution altogether!
A religion of means or ideas has been helpful ways to the Way, but it shouldnever be mistaken for the Way Itself, since this is altogether different andforeign to any ways preceding it.
For instance, progress in lighting did not arrive by making better candles, but by
a dropping of them for another light altogether; nor could any state of doing or
thinking promote the use and speed of the horse and buggy into that of an
automobile. Yet, today, people hope to so improve their human thinking as to
unite two worlds, heaven and earth, into one, all-satisfying Reality!
There are not two worlds, as it seems, one good and the other good and evil;
one where there is no war and the other where a world-war is raging. The
intellect cannot behold or comprehend the Real world to be the one and Only,
because it deals with things and thoughts as objective and subjective realities.
The growing use of the word "idea," for instance, may take one away from
objects as structural, yet leave him in a world of only his own ideas. The
discerning Jesus did not allow his body to become a mere idea to His disciples,
but showed It to them in all its pristine glory and light, a living and vitalPresence. (Mt. 17:2) What we need today is to experience the actual activityof Life in its multiplicity of things and creations. When we see that we are
entitled to such glories, we shall have them.
Some years ago while driving my car down a steep hill entering the City, a
problem presented itself to me which no manner of thinking or doing of myself could possibly solve. Nothing short of my experience in the Real World could
save me.
A little girl about four years old, unseen by me, had suddenly emerged from
behind a car parked at the left of me and was running directly toward my
moving car, and even before I could realize a thing, she was disappearing beforethe left hind wheel.
At that very instant, I felt myself, as a personality, being set aside, brushed
away as something or someone wholly incompetent and useless, and I wasaware of the conscious entrance of Another Being, as it were, filling my arms
with living, pulsating power and strength, seizing the steering wheel and with
lightning-like rapidity moving the wheels first one way, and then the other, yet
all the while keeping the car at the same rate of speed and in the same generaldirection. I knew this Being to see all, know all, and to control all.
I realized the things connected with the incident, were now being acted upon by
That of another dimension altogether, and now has become the only world to
me.
Then, lo, the little tot was seen to emerge into view, having passed before both
wheels safely, speed to the sidewalk and out of sight.
I saw people standing still on both sides of the street who had apparently been
viewing the "miracle.‖
Overcome with joy and relief, I brought my car to a stop at the curb, while two
men with faces shining with light and intensity of feeling, approached me.
They could scarcely speak they were so overcome with emotion, but they
managed to tell me that they had seen one wheel just about to crush the little
one, yet it didn‘t, and the same thing appeared again with the other wheel, and
they could not account for it, saying, "never have we seen such skill in driving.‖
There are not two worlds, one of Spirit and the other of matter, one of the
Absolute and the other of the relative. There is but one world, Heaven, which
from the position of a separate thinking being, seems to be composed of
multiple human beings in trouble and distress.
Here, in the illusion of separation from the One-All, one deals with multiplicity
as Unity. It was so with my experience as related above, wherein all things
work together under One Head or Power without the relative idea of time, place
or thing.
When we consider a tree, for instance, we do not lose sight of its leaves, butinclude our awareness of the leaves in our realization of the tree as a whole. A
leaf as a leaf cannot realize itself to be the tree, but as the tree, it can.
The same applies to us. We must lose sight and awareness of ourselves in order
to find ourselves to be contained within the All. A ray of light going forth fromthe sun is one with all other rays only at its centre. As a single consciousness,
we are surrounded by multiple other single consciousnesses, but moving out of
this perspective and penetrating into the Centre of our Being (The Father
within), we behold Life in its Divine Unity and Allness.
Only here, from this awareness, can we see the All to be the One, and the One
to be the All. As a separate ray, image, thinker, or consciousness, we cannot
realize or be active in the One-All, since outside of this, we are ever subject to
illusion. Only in and as That which includes All beings can we ever experience
redemption from human intellect and reason, and from their objective problems.
That which is an ever present, actual and abiding reality in my real Being as the
One-All, becomes to me a future acquisition through personal development, as
long as I consider myself a separate individuality or being.
As a man or individual, rising to the heights of perfect Being, never can I arrive
or become That which in my Reality I Am. At some time or event in my so-
called evolution or personal development I must awake from the illusion, turn
my back upon regeneration, evolution, and reincarnation, and face myself as I
am at the Centre of my Being. Never can the intellect, bound within its own
illusion, find its way out. The way out is by another way altogether – the
spiritual Way of Intuition and Revelation.
If, and when, one is willing to lay down his inflated ego called reason andintellect, spontaneously he makes himself ready for the true light "which
lighteth every man that cometh into the world.‖ (John 1:9) The Christ,
Illumination, which is Divine, belongs in and to everyone in and as the Infinite
One-All.
Life cannot be proven. Life is not reasonable or logical, nor can Life be placed
into systems of thought and practice. Life is a Living Reality to be known
through living, vital Illumination – the Christ – and to be experienced in the
Here and Now.
Light does not solve nor yet dissolve problems, nor does it answer the multitudeof questions pertaining to a world of evil, sin, sickness, and death. It leads away
from all solutions into the realm of Reality where such problems have no
meaning, and where we actually exist as That which is one complete All, beside
Strange as may seem to reason, one must advance into Glory through meekness
and humility. This is the place where many come to a standstill today, seeingthe Glory of the Resurrection, yet unwilling to undergo the crucifixion – the
confession of the Prodigal.
Jesus laid great store upon repentance as the door opening to "grace.‖ Thosewho love their own True Being more than all else, and are meek and lowly inheart, find it easy to say to others who in the past they have looked upon as
other personalities, "I am sorry;" or "forgive me," but the position is this way
and no other.
The way out of delusion is neither through a denial or through self-glorification,
but through Love alone, and this same Love is the activity culminating in the
Divine Light or Illumination and Revelation, that the One is All, and All is One.
Knowledge of the Real World is not gained by way of any thinking, but is a
knowing by Being, and is called the Christ , Revelation, or Illumination.
Regardless of our seeming separation into manifold beings in another world, we
may contact the Real world now, if we will but turn from shadows to place our
Love, Faith and Trust and Belief in that world which, in Reality, can never be
contained in a system.
Without Illumination, the World of Reality is an utter impossibility. Truth is
not a science. Science deals with cause and effect, with reason, logic, and
argument; it is the shadow of the living Truth but never can it show us how todepart from the personal unreal to the Eternal Real.
Plotinus, a Greek philosopher states, "Science implies discursive reason, and
discursive reason manifoldness. To attain utter Unity we must rise above
science. You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by
entering a state in which you are your finite self no longer.
Like can only apprehend like… when thus you cease to be finite, you become
One with the Infinite.‖ The Absolute plants us where our roots have ever been,in the Real World, as the identical Being we have been praying to, and the veryReality we have been walking towards as though a great way off.
The mind of the personal, bound in its own illusions, always demands answers
to its questions. How can I be healed of this or that or demonstrate my
perfection? The Voice of the Eternal cannot answer illusion by illusion, nor satisfy intellectual yearnings by the knowledge of the Absolute, anymore than
one can communicate with another who is asleep.
Reality can only be transmitted to those who can hear it, those willing to turn
from shadows to another world, to that world which is already perfect and
complete, and here see ourselves and others, as well as all creatures and things,as they really are, and ever have been.
Our departure has its price too, which is that of repentance and forgiveness.
This is presented in detail in Lesson No. 11. Those who would grab the Realwithout such preparation must necessarily retrace their steps, as the Way is the
same for all. The first words of the Prodigal Son, when ready to depart from
illusion, were these: "I have sinned.‖ (Lk 15:18) and Jesus in His giving up of
the "ghost," or his complete letting go of the personal, exclaimed with infiniteLove, " Forgive them.” (Luke 23:24)
The Absolute Way does not sanction the bringing of Perfection into multiple
personal minds or beings or into their assumptive imperfect bodies, nor the
acquiring of peace and harmony in some other world.
Outside of Spiritual Revelation, all sin and desire is to "apply Truth to
individual problems such as my deafness, my painful joints, my grief, my son,
my rights, and so on.
All such efforts point to another being, another body, and another world beside
the One. Thus it is not a healing of conditions in personalities which is needed,
nor yet a moving from another world into the Real, but an overcoming in our
selves of the illusion of separateness and otherness; for so long as one is lost in
such illusion, he will continue to want his body healed, his thoughts controlled
and his world changed. This basic illusion can be blotted out only by ones
activity in the acceptance of Unity.
When Jesus was confronted with problems concerning separate beings inanother world, "He raised His eyes to Heaven.‖ "He looked up" – meaning that
he did not treat nor pray over sick minds or bodies, but looked into the Real
World, to see things as they really are; then He gave thanks for them and from
this state of realization announced, "Thou art made whole.‖ "Arise and walk.‖
Reader, fix your gaze now upon the Real world, and see it governed and
controlled as One All, even as described in the book of I Chron. 29:11-13.
Looking into this world, Heaven, we cannot see war, sin, sickness, nor any
discord, thus see no necessity to heal them. Therefore, those today who suffer
in grief because of loved ones in war, will first of all need to conquer illusion inthemselves, the illusion of separate beings in another world, and this they do by
placing their loved ones in the One and Only world there is, which in truth they
have never left. It is easy to see them here as safe, secure, happy, free. Refuse
to consider them otherwise, or in any other world. As you do this, you are
bound to find conviction rising from within yourself that it is so.
The same way applies to other problems also. Stop treating yourself or
conditions, such as pains or aches or troubles of any kind; take your vision, your
thoughts, and your emotions from the pictured illusion, and look into the One
and Only world, Heaven. Immediately you will become aware of things and
beings as they are Here; nor will it be possible for you to see need of any
healing, change, or adjustment whatever. Worship this Reality, Love it aboveall else. Cleave to it with all your heart, and the illusion of separateness willleave you and with it will go the problem.
A bird may keep its eyes so fastened upon a snake as to be charmed by its gaze,
and thus forget its natural way of escape through flying. If for the briefest
fraction of a second he will but remove his eyes from the snake, spontaneously
he will remember his wings and be set free.
The illumined have all left the same report for us – that is, if we will but takeour eyes, thoughts, and emotions entirely away from the pictured trouble,
whatever it may be, to obey the Divine Edict, Look unto Me, Behold Me, and
our heart responds with Love, very soon, often instantaneously, we shall find
complete peace and satisfaction, and the illusion has vanished.
Our peace and harmony cannot be found or experienced as a separate
personality in another world other than the One. It is the Truth we see and
accept in the Real World which shall restore our souls, and set us free. As we
become active in the world of Reality, we shall escape the illusion of a personalself and its never ending personal problems, and shall have that immunity whichis born of our experience in the Real World.
Anything we feel we lack or need, we shall find in ourselves in our Reality, in
the world of the Real. Never shall we find satisfaction in any performances in
the world of individuality. The Eternal-All is past, present, and future as One Ever-Abiding Reality. This is our Being, to take, to have, to love, and to
experience always, in the Here and Now. There can be no darkness or illusion
where the Infinite Light shines in its own Glory. Always when we attend
ourselves to the perfect and the Real, the disharmony or problem vanishes.
Falsity or illusion, therefore, is dissipated by the light of one‘s own Realization
and Illumination.
It may be that some who have already accepted their identity with and as the
One, may not yet be fully satisfied with their present experience. Happily, there
is eternal revealing. It may be asked what awareness or apprehension could
possibly be more expansive than to identify oneself with the completeness and
perfection of the One? The Answer comes only through the The Voice of the
As no illustration can be considered either small or great in itself, I will relate
the experience which gave me the Answer to the above question, which lightwill shed itself upon all those who will receive it. To find a parking place for
one‘s car on a very busy street may sound inconsequential compared to locating
a suitable home for oneself today in an already overcrowded city, but the
Answer to both problems is the same. Up to a certain, I have always been ableto locate a place for my car quickly, regardless of any relative conditions,knowing who I am.
But then came an occasion as follows: I was about to drive into an open space
when the car just preceding me backed into it. This happened three different
times in succession, and all within a few minutes, so that I knew that I must find
the answer.
The First thing that came to me was this; ―the driver in each case had as muchright to that particular place as I had.‖
Then a light flashed to me that explained everything. I saw that in this case I
must not be content to see Reality for myself alone, but that I must include all,
the whole world, in my vision. I saw clearly that all were already within the All,
and so of course, there was room for all. A parking place was then immediately
available to me.
Although one‘s vision and identification of oneself with and as the One is amighty and most glorious one, there must inevitably arise an occasion when weshall be required to include the whole world in our concept of Perfection, and in
doing so, we shall find our own needs gloriously supplied.
Suppose, for instance, in looking for an apartment, that one discovers too few
places and too many seekers, and finds others to have advantages over him.
Then, instead of knowing for himself that he is in and of the One Being, who
has all, let him expand his vision to behold and include Infinity. Let him see
room for all in the All, and the all already in the All; in fact, let one see that it
takes all to have and to be the all.
The same awareness may be taken for other activities as well. Seeing
perfection, satisfaction, peace, and plenty for the whole world as the One-All,
one shall most naturally enjoy the experience of having these for himself.
Unity is not a combination of separate people or things, since every so called
nation, race, country, or individual, that is of God, is included in the Real world
There is sight for all, health and wholeness for all, harmony and joy for all,
because Infinity already includes all. With this vision and awareness, born of Illumination, one loses all sense of responsibility, and simply and naturally
functions in his real Being. Therefore, taking perfection of the whole world into
our awareness is the realization which will blot out the illusion of a "world
war," and of every thing connected with it. Surely this must be the vision for the Elect today as predicted in Matthew 24:22.
Everything that is of value to us in our appearing-world has its roots or actual
existence in the Real world, even to objects about us.
I recall a very interesting incident along this line of perception. A woman had
sent for an upholsterer to call for a chair to be covered. A few days later he
returned saying that due to a fire in his building much of his stock was
destroyed including her chair.
Positive as he was of this fact, also his willingness to pay the full value for the
chair, she was equally as positive that her chair had not been burned at all, and
that he would find it to be so. She dismissed the matter with utmost calmnessand assurance, for in her heart she knew all such objects to have their existence
in the Universe of the One-Mind, Eternal Substance, Spirit (or whatever word
relative to Reality one chooses to use as most valuable to him).
She continued knowing the reality and changelessness of the chair in the Real
world, where it remained unharmed.
Later the man returned explaining with amazement that he had located it in
another part of his building altogether, where it had remained safe anduntouched by the fire.
This is a hint to all that we should not consider things and objects about us as
perishable matter, but come to know all things in their true significance and
meaning.
All of us have no doubt had certain articles of clothing, which we liked and
enjoyed very much, remain practically impossible to wear out. What one
believes to be a world of unreality (matter) is not so at all! The Realm or World
of the Real, which is the only world which there actually is, contains things and
objects which are perfect in themselves as contained within the One-All.
What appears before me, for instance, is my particular version of the One
World, that is, I see my own interpretation of it, and if my interpretation is
incorrect, the unreality, or illusion, is not in the appearance seen before me, nor
even in my misinterpretation of the Real, but in the fact that I accept such
In such a case, what we see is not Reality, but only shadows of it. The Real
World remains necessarily the same for us all, but our interpretation of it varies,and what we see before us depends upon our awareness and understanding of
things as they really are.
We may also carry this idea into our interpretation of the body and its various parts. I have known the lame to walk, and many healings apparently to take place in the objective appearing body, through one‘s realization of some
particular organ or part of the body as it is and ever remains in the world of
Reality. This Way is very well put forth in 2 Cor 5:8, "We are willing, rather,
to be absent from the body (as it appears objectively), and to be present with the
Lord (see the body as it is in Reality in the Spiritual World.‖ Be no longer
confused by such metaphysical terms as matter, the material senses, material
beliefs, mortal mind, etc.
Simply dismiss them altogether. Furthermore, lose all sense of a responsibility
to heal yourself or another, to make a demonstration, or to prove or apply the
Truth. Concern yourself only with realities which you will see as you look into
the Real World, Heaven; and teach those who ask for your help to do the same.
We need not attempt to analyze the perfect body, but there are some definite
facts about it which we should know without shadow of doubt. We can be
certain that it is perfect in itself, in and of One Creator, God, Being, World, or
Eternal Reality.
Holding our vision and our awareness here, to the Established and Only, our thoughts and feelings will follow naturally, and we shall lose the illusion of
imperfection or incompleteness in another body. This will appear as a healing,
yet nothing has changed anywhere; we have discovered the seeming appearance
of imperfection to have had no existence whatever in the World of Being. (John
1:3)
The One consciousness in the Real World is that of us all. Here we have no
separate minds or wills, for the Mind of God, the One-All, lives, expresses, and
abides within us as a Unity. Considering oneself like a single ray of light for
instance, he sees all others as also separate rays, because he has lost the sense of
Unity or Oneness; thus here is where problems arise and where it is impossibleto solve them.
The One perfect consciousness is sole Creator and Creation as the scriptures
teach. Creation is not a thought, act, or emanation of Being, but is Being.Creation is Reality, and Reality is Creation, one and the same. Spiritual ideas or
forms, as they are in their Reality in the Real World, need no healing for they
are as perfect as God, "from everlasting to everlasting.‖ They are neither matter
nor composed of matter; they can never be subject to pain, weakness, time or discord, for these things have no meaning in the One- World. In God-Realization we know that flesh, as it is in Reality, cannot be diseased, nor blood
impure.
This lesson, as well as the previous ones should throw added light (if needed)
upon the following references from my latest book, Who Am I . "How can any
one believing that he is another being, in another place, ever find himself where
he IS? As in light there is and can be no darkness whatever, so in "ME" there is
and can be nothing physical, nothing human, nothing mortal, or imperishablewhatever.
Look to the perfect Self as your very own. When the ignorance whereby the
false identification is made, disappears, only the Self is. When one sees and
accepts his true identity, then the false and unreal will utterly vanish.
Only the Infinite will ever completely satisfy anyone.
Nothing will ever cause illusion to vanish except for us to function in our truestate.‖ An interesting letter just arrived saying, "Lesson No. 11 surely clicks for me. There seems a reluctance in claiming our wonderful identity, which is
perhaps a sacrilegious "hangover" in our consciousness.
There is a worthiness which is not a worthiness as we think of it from the
human angle, but from the abolishment of the human altogether.‖
The next subject to consider from the Mountain-Top is that called The Holy
Ghost. Now the word "Holy" means Pure; and "Ghost," Light or illumination,really, Spirit. The Holy Ghost is Spiritual Light, pure Spiritual understandingwhich consumes and envelopes us as the living fire, leaving with us the blessing
of love, understanding, and power.
Here it is not a physical nor mental experience, but a purely Spiritual one,
where Divine understanding reigns, and there is no other consciousness. The
Holy Ghost is "The Spirit of Truth," which could only be known and
experienced after Jesus’ ascension, since in his presence the disciples depended
wholly upon him as a person or personality, (and multitudes still do this to thisday). Read John 16:7.
Finally one must come to see that the Self of Jesus is the Self of each. Indeed,
he made this very plain when he said, The disciple is not above his master; but
every one that is perfect shall be as his master.” (Lk 6:40) Everyone beholding
and accepting his perfect Selfhood to be the same as that of Jesus, shall not only
be as the Master, Jesus, but shall be a law or Master unto himself.
Knowing that many still have questions they would like to see answered, I willnow ask questions, and give the answers. I suggest however that as you readthe question, you pause, and write down your answer on another paper, then
compare it with the answer given. In this way you will receive much more light
and help than by merely reading the given answer.
So now let us begin, as follows:
"How shall I regard God , and how am I related to or identified with God?"
Answer: God is the "I" of me, my Self or Being, and my Self or Being is God.
When I say the word "Self," I mean this to include my Life, Mind,
Consciousness, Thought, Body, and World. Of course, I allude only to the Real
and True, understanding "there is none else.”
Question: "What is the meaning of the word Father?"
Answer: The Perfect State of Being, the state of seeing and knowing Perfection
Only. This perfect State is ever in us and we in it. Although Jesus always
recognized the perfect state of Being to be present and intact, in his experience
For instance, did Jesus call himself the son of man? Yes. Why did he do this?
Answer: First, to establish oneness with us. Second, having been made in thelikeness of men, necessarily this was his first viewpoint; yet quickly he
advanced in Spiritual wisdom and understanding to take the next step higher,
namely, to call himself the Son of God.
Remember, these were not physical steps, but degrees in vision andunderstanding, and he took each and every one for our benefit. During this
time, he spoke of "the Father" as some inner Presence to whom he looked and
prayed for light and help. Here he called himself Christ (John 4:26), he called
himself Master and Lord. (13:13)
It was toward the end of his ministry that he began to identify himself with the
Father and as "the Father.‖ Then plainly and deliberately he began to point to
himself as the Father , saying, "Henceforth ye know him, and have seen him…hethat has seen me hath seen the Father.” (John 14:7, 9)
Verily The Father is the Perfect State of Being, the state of seeing and knowing
Perfection Only. Here, on the Mountain-Top, Jesus exemplified, personified,
and exhibited this State, speaking as perfect Being – "Before Abraham was, I
Am … I Am the Way … I Am the Truth … I Am the Life.” (John 8:58. 14:6)
"All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” (Mt. 28:18) Here he
spoke as God , and from the Father state, or Perfection Only, as the one and
only Standard or platform of Being.
Now then if you will read the references, as given in the Bible Concordance to
Jesus’ own words, under the subjects – son of man; Son, Son of God, the
Father; you should be able to differentiate and understand these steps perfectly.
Furthermore, you should now see why it is that, to this day, many persist inspeaking and writing about Jesus as the son of man. Obviously this is where
their vision is, and they do not see beyond it. The same may be said of those
who think or preach of Jesus as the Son of God… they, too, do not see beyond.
Only they who see beyond these preliminary steps in vision can truly behold
Jesus to be God, to be the Father , to be the I-Am-Truth, and to be the portrayal of our own perfect Self and Being – our perfect body, world, and experience.
From the belief that one is the son of man, he accepts that "I am material.‖
From the position that one is the son of God, he accepts that "I am what I
think.‖ Fr om the highest viewpoint one sees beyond all this to recognize and
Until Jesus identified himself with the Highest viewpoint, or that of Reality, he
spoke of others as hypocrites, liars, deceivers, goats, swine, etc. He also spokeof separation, punishment, destruction.
Have we not also experienced this same viewpoint of understanding? How
different his expressions from the Mountain-Top, or perfect State of vision andunderstanding! Here he challenged, "Who convinceth me of sin? What is that
to thee? Follow thou me … Where I am, there ye may be also…the Spirit of Truth will guide you into all Truth … I in them, and Thou in me, that they may
be made perfect in One.”
Question: "What is our relationship to Jesus Christ?"
Answer: We are intrinsically the very same Being, Life, Truth, Self. This is
perceived, however, by degrees, and accepted and experienced accordingly.
Question: "What is the difference or distinction between Jesus and Christ ?"
Positively, there is none. Those who speak otherwise are they who have not
themselves taken the full steps in vision and understanding nor have they
reached the Mountain-Top.
Here, also, there is no such thing as "at-one-ment," for there is only Oneness.
Nor is there "union with Jesus," for in Oneness there is unity, not union. "I amthe vine, ye are the branches" – I, Jesus, am the First to manifest Perfection tosight and sense, and ye are to follow me. "Feed my lambs," does not mean that
one is to remain a "lamb" forever, nor to remain on the steps and teach from this
viewpoint. No! "Feed my sheep," he said, and reiterated.
One cannot feed "sheep" or teach from the Mountain-Top until he himself hasreached this viewpoint. Confusion appears if one continues to remain a "lamb"
instead of advancing to the step beyond, or if after seeing and accepting the
higher Viewpoint, one falls back again to the "lamb" position. (Read John
21:15-17)
Never accept or believe that one is to become good, pure, or perfect. WithJesus, see I Am! Not I shall be, but ever I Am! Perfection is not to be placed in
a past state or in a future one, but in the Now and Here.
From the "steps" there appears to be growth, advancement, and continual
progress in one‘s life and affairs; but from the Mountain-Top all this ceases, for here Perfection is established from Eternity; thought and ideas change not nor fluctuate, and consciousness continually functions to Perfection as the All and
Only. Here we do not seek out new ways to demonstrate over material
conditions, nor new ideas to bring forth material health, wealth, and happiness.
We seek only to more fully know the Truth, which is, that we are the Truth, thus
automatically to enter into the expression, manifestation, or evidence which not
only is one with the Self, but actually is the Self. The Self is the world, and the
world is the Self. The Self is All.
God is your perfect being, and your perfect being is God.
God is your life, and your life is God. God is your Identity, and your Identity is
God. God is all there is of you, and all there is of you is God. There is the
eternal Fact of being; this is what is known and seen on the Mountain-Top.
Here is where Jesus said, "I have overcome the world," meaning that he had
now entirely withdrawn himself from the belief in a material world, a world of mankind, of sickness, sin, and death. Such a world no longer appeared to him,nor did he appear to such a world, and so it was reported that he "ascended.‖
Verily the "ghost" which each must finally give up is the belief that the Self is
man, that the Self is human, mortal, or material, which involves the belief that
one is born, that one can be sick, ignorant, in war, limitation, and death. On thesteps such appearances are dealt with in various ways.
Metaphysically, one seeks to overcome evil with good, to change consciousness
so as to create a better picture, to hold to a right thought or idea, to transcend
discordant conditions by accepting the oneness of God and man, to demonstrate
a healthy body and harmonious surroundings through constructive thinking, or by following a certain regime of living sanctioned by "man" as good. Yet not
one of these ideas belongs in Pure Reality, but all pertain to the false
assumptive position of imperfection which finally must be given up in its
entirety, that one may function to his genuine Identity which is I Am.
Picture-changing through so-called scientific prayer is not the Christ-Teaching.
Neither are practices which constitute "living the Truth" of any actual valuewhatsoever. Nothing that one can think or practice in the false assumptive
belief can ever re-turn him to the True and the Real; for the fact is, the "I" is
never man, and is never in any state but the One and the Only.
Not until the false belief that the Self is man is exploded, repudiated, andabandoned by the individual, and he perceives and accepts his Self and Being to
be God and not man, shall he be released form the false assumptive position,
and from all that it includes. Yea, our "Victory" has nothing to do with personal
behaviour, prayer, demonstration, or the overcoming of evil in anyway, but our
Victory is our awareness of and identification with Pure Reality – I Am the
Truth – I Am God-Being – I Am He. Then it is seen that the evidence of well-
being is not to be looked for in materiality, but in the real Self, Mind, body, and
universe.
Look not to material appearances for evidence of Spiritual Perfection, nor as
proof of your understanding of Reality! Only when you disclaim all material
evidence shall the world of Pure Reality stand intact, before you. The truth of
being can be learned in two ways – from one who knows it or from Self-
revelation. Both ways will speak the same language – I Am the Truth.
Evidence of Reality is not external, but is ever established and in expression in
the Spiritual world, which is the Self. Never expect material appearances to bechanged into Spiritual realities. The metaphysical notion to deal with thought isresponsible for the growing idea that "thought can change the world.‖ No!
Indeed, NO! Thought can do nothing in the world of "man" but change
pictures, all of which are destined to be blotted out and returned dust to dust…
nothing.
The true world cannot be created, evolved, manufactured, nor brought to pass
by any human thought, effort, or action! Why? Because of the Fact that the
True world already exists, and is now in manifestation. The only way to see
and consciously experience the perfect world is to believe in it, and be released
from all belief in a material world controlled by man.
No amount of remoulding will ever transform a human being into the radiant
Self; nor shall any amount of prayer, meditation, or treatment restore the Peace
which Jesus saw as present and at hand. What then shall you do to experience
the perfect body and perfect world which is yours eternally? Believe in them
For instance, one time while pruning rose buses, a large thorn became deeply
imbedded in one of my fingers, so that to appearances the finger was greatlyswollen and discoloured, and pained exceedingly. A neighbour upon seeing it
exclaimed, "You will need to have that thorn removed before you can expect
any change in that finger.‖ It soon came to me intuitively that if I believed my
finger to be material, into which a thorn was imbedded, then I would need tohave it taken out; but in disproof of this, if I could see my finger to be spiritual,
into which no thorn ever entered, then I had no responsibility to remove it.
Then and there I accepted with great joy my spiritual finger, and how I did love
it!! Peace and gladness enveloped me, and the next day there was found no
trace of any thorn whatsoever, and the finger was entirely normal. This
perfectly illustrates that we are to disdain, disown, and disassociate ourselves
with (from) a material body, and take glad and mighty possession of our
Spiritual body, free from all evil whatsoever.
The same idea applies to the world. Leave the world as Jesus did. Let go all
identification with it as material, infested by war, sin, and troubles of every
kind. The Perfect World already exists, and you are to see that this is so and
take possession of it; herein is no war, no sadness, or sorrow of any kind.
Verily the true world is here also, without birth, age, or materiality… the true
Mind is here, without false beliefs of any kind. What is needed is this – Know
the Truth, get the spiritual sense of Being, and let go the material. Who am I? I am Pure Reality. I am God- Being, God-Mind, and God-Consciousness … I AmThat I Am.
We do not need a restoration of Jesus‘ peace, but a recognition of Jesus‘ Reality
as evidence of our own perfect Selfhood, body, and world.
How could Jesus have "saved the world," for apparently it is in the same sin,
sorrow, and suffering now as ever? In just one way – within himself as the I
Am he saw the truth about the world, that is, he saw the One world as the Only
world, perfect from Eternity. Did Jesus "overcome" any false or evil world?
No. In Himself he overcame all belief in such a world, and knew no world but
the Kingdom of Reality, which is Perfection, always.
From the steps much is being written and said about our necessity to "see the
best in others," but I say unto you that even this rule will never satisfy you nor
deliver you to peace and harmony, since even the best of human efforts shall
The question is not, "What are you seeing and thinking about others, but Who
are you? and with what mind are you thinking? Until you see that you are the perfect Self, never having been another, the very best of your human thoughts
and endeavours shall utterly fail and perish. Once you take your true identity as
the God-Self, the perfect mind, you will need no training or ennobling of the
human mind, for to you there will be no "others," as the Self sees the Self only.This is automatic and natural, effortless, and without thought.
Judge yourself first, and before you practice judgment of another! From what
mind are you judging, and from what viewpoint do you see? If thou seest man,
personality, then thou art man, and if thou seest God, the perfect Self, thou art
God, the perfect Self. Verily, "I" judge no man! "I" see my world – perfect!
"Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? I tell thee thou shall not
depart thence until thou hast paid the very last mite.” (Lk 12:57 -59)
The time comes when everything believed in from the steps shall prove vain,
useless, and futile for no amount of mindculture or right-behaviour is sufficient
to save anyone. I say unto you, thou art made whole! There is but One Being ,
thou art That! There is but One mind and One body, thou art That! And there
is but One world, thou art That. He that believest not this eternal Truth of
Being is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of his
own Self and Being.
Listen! Never can you think true thoughts except as the true and perfect Being. Never can you let go the sense of another‘s personality until you have let go thesense of your own. Whenever you sense other than peace, love, and harmony in
another, ask yourself – Who am I? Such false impressions come to you only
because you have not identified yourself with the one "I.‖
As a person, never can you see beyond your own limited, imperfect viewpoint.Only when you see and believe, I am He, not personality, I am God, not man,
shall you find yourself, overcome the world, and "Sit down in the Kingdom of
God.” (Lk 13:29) Yea, thou shall love the Lord, Thyself, first of all; then and
then only are you able to see another as Thyself.
Whenever an imperfect sense of yourself or of another comes to you, challengethis report by asking yourself, "Who am I?" Then, without any other means or
effort, the false sense will subside and soon entirely vanish. Spirit is all, and all
is Spirit. Once you see and accept this to be so, you will think, love, and live in
a new way; you will begin to withdraw from false appearances, and in answer to
the question, Who am I? there will continually come the blessed Answer – I am
What is the greatest thing in the world? Please write down your answer before
reading further. The real answer is – Myself. To me, the greatest thing is myown Self. Why? Because my Self is all there is of me… without me therewould be nothing for me to know, see, feel, or experience.
Is this not so? Therefore, love is not first, nor life, nor consciousness, for as
Jesus said, "I" am First… "I" am the Beginning of all: and without me there
would be nothing.
Verily, to me "I" am all, and no world exists outside of me.
If I wish a greater peace, a fuller sense of wholeness, harmony, and happiness,
then I must seek out myself , and here abide. I must find myself to be my entire
world, my entire existence. I must be able to answer the question, Who am I?
and give the same answer as Jesus gave – I am the Light of the world, and I and
the Father are one … I am the First.
Is life God or man? Life is God. Is Being God or man? Being is God. Is
Consciousness God or man? Consciousness is God. Is expression God or man?
Expression of God is God. Then man is not life nor Being nor consciousnessnor expression. God is all, and all is God. There is nothing besides. "Whoever shall confess me before men, him will I confess also… but whosoever shall deny
me before men, him will I also deny.” (Mt. 10:32, 33) So long as one denies
his actuality and entity to be God , he is denied its experience. When one sees
and confesses his genuine Being to be God, and not man, he is consciously
aware of it. Surely this is self-evident and self-convincing.
The mind that believed in a flat earth did not exist. There was no such mind at
all. There is no creator of ignorance, darkness, mortality. Said Jesus, "I have
overcome the world.‖ Ultimately, each one of us must make this same
acknowledgment and confession – I have overcome all belief in a mind separate
and apart from God; I have withdrawn from all belief in a consciousness and ina world other than the Perfect, the One, and the Only. "Have faith in God" –
have faith in the Perfect as already and eternally established, intact, here and
now. "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.‖ That which is, is
forever existent, and that which is not is forever nonexistent.
Believest thou this? What then is there to you besides the perfect Self, the
perfect body, and the perfect world? Answer thou Me! Is God one being andyou another? Is God one life and you another? Is God in one world and you in
another? Is God seeing anything besides Completeness, Perfection, Wholeness,
Immortality, and Abundance?
Withdraw your attention from untruth, turn to Me, believe in Me only, love Me,have faith in Me… there is none else. Withdraw more and more from all
identification with the false assumptive state called "man," for he continually
testifies to war, labour, strife, limitation, incompleteness, mortality, death.
Who is "I" and who is "Me?" You, yourself. You are none other than the One
who is All, and who is indivisible. I, myself, am "I," and I, myself, am "Me.‖
Nor could it be otherwise.
The metaphysical field which teaches and upholds, "constructive thinking,"
directly opposes Jesus‘ divine Instruction, "Take ye no thought.” In fact, Jesus
never used the word "mind" once in such connection. You see, the more one
educates himself as man to think or act correctly or spiritually, the farther he
wanders in belief from his own perfect Selfhood, in and from which all true
thinking inheres and proceeds.
Moreover, to study and follow the direction of the apostles will never be
sufficient to bring one to Jesus‘ understanding that I myself am the Way, theTruth, and the Light. The apostles, even though taught by Jesus, neverthelesswrote from the human viewpoint about the Divine, while Jesus speaks from the
Divine, and as the Divine.
When it becomes more universally known and understood that Jesus, the Christ,
is the Only one to follow, then shall freedom, peace, and unlimited good andabundance be experienced in the here and the now.
There is no man-self to bless or to be blessed; no imperfect-self to be healed,
perfected, purified, or uplifted. There is but One Self of you, which is the God-
Self, (since God is all), and this Self is to be recognized, received, and
confessed. No amount of labour or human endeavour could change a flat earthinto the round one; all that was needed to enjoy the blessings of the round earth
was knowledge that Being is not man at all; all the time Being is God, good,
As you are obedient to the voice of Spirit, and withdraw from taking thought,
and from the belief that you are a being other than God, you will receive the blessing, for to confess yourself to be in and of the perfect Whole, the I Am that I Am, is to simultaneously and automatically receive the experience thereof.
Therefore repeat Jesus‘ sayings as your own. How different they are, and how
surpassingly helpful compared to those of "man!"
Here are a few of Jesus’ sayings. – I Am … I Am He … I Am the Resurrection … I Am the Way … I and the Father are one.
One‘s very desire, aim, and consent to now leave the thoughts of man for the
thoughts of Jesus, who represents our own true and perfect Selfhood, will surely
and immediately bring untold blessings. "If thou canst believe, (in your own
being as eternally established in perfection and glory) all things are possible to
him that believeth.” (Mk 9:23) Therefore believe only in the great truth which Jesus taught – I Am He.
Jesus could not save us as a person, and should never be considered as a
personality. Jesus is the way Universally.
He did not save us from the false belief that we are man … each must accept
this Truth as his very own, for each is a distinct identity. Verily, hear his
beloved words, "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”
We are not of man, even as Jesus was not of man. A false belief is lost sight of,and vanishes, in the acceptance of the true and the real, thus Jesus said, The
Truth shall make you free…when you accept it. Whosoever will, let him come
… Whosoever will, let him take … "Whosoever shall drink 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) "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” (John
4:35) "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me
afterwards.” (Jn 13:36)
Jesus did not go to any other place, but into a higher state of consciousness
which knows and experiences – I Am the first and the last. It was expedient thatJesus vanish to us, otherwise too much attention would be given him as a
personality; even to this day this mistake is being made continually. Said he, "I
go to prepare a place for you … I will come again.” (John 14:2,3)
In other words, his "going" prepared the opportunity that we each find ourself to
be the very same as he. While he was here in person, dependence was placedupon him; and to this very day when one looks to or sees the perfect self as
belonging to "Jesus" or "Christ" only, he fails to see that each of us, as a distinct
identity, is the identical Self, or I Am. Thou shalt follow me afterwards –
ultimately we must follow in his steps, depending not upon him, but upon our own Self, the very same as he depended upon himself … for we are all one.
There is one Entity, God, I That I Am, and in this One are infinite identities,
distinct and diversified in characteristics, form, etc. These distinct identities,
known as Jesus, Mary, John, and so on, are nevertheless the same Substance,
Spirit, Mind, and Being, the same as the air which now fills the various rooms
in your house, though distinct in each room, yet cannot be separated nor
divided, for the air is indivisible.
Now as Jesus was distinct, yet identified himself and the Father as one and not
two, and claimed all power as belonging unto him, so finally we must all do
likewise. That is, finally we must give up looking to the "divine Mind" as some
other besides ourself; and give up thinking of the identity Jesus as different
from ourself; in order to find oneself to be the selfsame Being as I Am.
This is what Jesus saw must come to pass, and this is why he said that he would
leave the world, yet come again – in order to make it possible that each should
come to know himself as the "I" and the "I" as himself. Each must finally cometo look upon the Self of Jesus, Mary, John, and so on, not as so many personalities, but as distinct identities in and of the ONE infinite Being, or I Am
that I Am.
"‗I‘ will come again and receive you unto myself.” (Jn 14:3) When?
Whenever you are ready to receive "Me" as yourself! Do you see what itmeant? Finally we must withdraw from all sense of separateness or personality
in order for us, in our world, to see the One as All, and All as On e… besides
which there is none else. Then, or "At that day, ye shall know that I am in my
Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” (Jn 14:20)
How could we ever follow Jesus to this Knowledge and Experience unless wecome to see our own identity to be the very same as his, and then look to ourself
as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, the same as he looked to himself as the
Way, the Truth, and the Life? Lo, "I" am with you always … "I" will never
leave you … Occupy till "I" come … "I" will receive you unto "My" Self … "I"
It is imperative that we come into a comprehensive understanding of God as the
one Entity or Father of the universe, including all identities; and that we have aclear perception of ourself as both Identity and Entity, both Son and Father.
To view Reality in an abstract, analytical, or mathematical manner will never
completely satisfy anyone, nor deliver the full experience of joy, peace,
harmony, and the limitless abundance of good. There must come the vision
which prompts and promotes ineffable love in our hearts, which compels our
faith, our trust, and our deepest affection for Spirit and spiritual things. One
cannot "arrive" without limitless, spiritual Love: for this alone brings the
richness and fullness of divine light, inspiration, and understanding.
Jesus‘ teaching was all based upon the one great Principle which he called the
Father , and his relation thereto. None of the disciples but John seemed to grasp
his deep meaning.
Only when we apprehend his teaching as a whole shall we be able to say with
him, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for
what things soever he doeth, these doeth the Son likewise … all things are
delivered to me of my Father… he that hath seen me hath seen the Father … My Father is greater than I … My Father is greater than all.
The familiar illustration of an author and his book is best suited to explain the
relation of Father and Son, God and expression, the one I Am That I Am, and
His infinite identities. An author‘s story book, including his characters, their
distinct characteristics and abilities, etc., all proceed from and abide in him, theauthor. He gives his characters his mind, life, being. They are nothing in and
of themselves, but are His expression.
Now, we are all identities in the Mind of God; He is our Author, Father, Life,
and Being. We express Him, and we are He, for there is nothing of us of
ourselves; we are His life, mind, substance, and being. Thus, I, an identitycalled Lillian, am in Him, and He, the only Entity, is in me. The Father and I
are One.
The Father is greater than I, yes, greater even than the identity called Jesus; in
God is the infinitude of Being, the All-inclusive, Self-existent One, including
the universe and all identities. God, infinite creative Consciousness, is theAuthor of all, one indivisible Whole, and we as distinct identities exist in
Him… thus we are He, and none else.
Nevertheless a single identity is not equal with the Father, Infinitude, even asJesus stated, for in such a case the Author would be circumscribed or containedin his identity. We each have access to the wholeness and allness of the Father,
infinite Selfhood, which is perfection, beauty, harmony, peace, understanding,
and glory; and we can say, All things that the father hath are mine.
It should be clearly understood why Jesus said, in one breath, He that hath seen
me hath seen the Father, and yet in another, The Father is greater than I. Each
identity in the Book of Life can say, I am nothing, but the Author, I express
Him, He is all of me, I am the brightness of His glory; yet He is greater that I,for He is All-inclusive, He is in all, over all, and He is all. The whole of every
identity, such as John or Mary, is God, the Author, perfect spiritual
Consciousness, and none else, yet as an identity he is not the totality of Being –
Even so Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
As identities, we did not create ourselves, nor any other identity, nor the
universe. All co-exists in the one infinite Spirit, which is divine Consciousness,
expressing good and good only. Out of His boundless Love and infinite
Perfection, Harmony, and Glory, this perfect Consciousness gives us all that weneed or could possibly desire, and we have intimate access to all thatConsciousness is. The light, the good which we give to other identities does not
proceed from us as identities, for all action is in and of the one indivisible Mind,
free to all alike. If I honour myself, my honour is nothing; it is my Father that
honours me… Before Abraham was, I Am … As the Father knoweth me, even so
know I the Father. The illustration of an author and his book characters throwsthe perfect light upon this oneness.
When the relation of Son and Father, Identity and Entity is truly understood,
one can say, "I am He," and not entertain any vain or personal sense of its
meaning; he will have the sense of meekness as well as might. Verily, the
Fountain-Head is the one eternal Consciousness, within each of us.
We draw upon it, and it sustains us, and provides us with all good. Jesus left us
that we might come into this same understanding, and not lean upon him, nor
look to him as a personal God. Yet to this day countless ones are doing this
very thing – centring God, the Father, yea the infinite Consciousness, in the
Truly the Infinite cannot be circumscribed in any single identity, any more than
anyone could contain all the air that is. We may each have all the air we need,and all have all the air they need, still the air shall remain infinite and
unconfined.
So with Consciousness. It cannot enter into nor be absorbed by any identity,yet all are free to use this Mind, and are this Mind or Consciousness, and noneelse. The Master perfectly knew and said, I Am the Truth … As my Father hathtaught me, I speak these things. The One I Am writes the Book of Life, as is the
life, mind, and being of everyone and everything in it.
Can Mind be seen except in its actions, forms, and expressions? No. Even so,
infinite divine Spirit, God, is seen in all creation, all beauty, colour, outline,
form, loveliness exists in and proceeds from Consciousness which is God and
are nothing else. Every single bird, flower, animal, and all identities as you andI, live in and are this life which is Spirit.
A blade of grass, speaking from its true position can say, "When you see me,
you see the Father, perfect creative Consciousness.‖ Thus it is written of Jesus
that he expressed the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He was the perfect
portrayal of the character who knew himself to be the Author, the Son, knowing
he as also the Father; the expression of God in full realization of Principle and
its identity to be one, inseparable and indivisible. He knew the Father, Spirit,
God, to be individually all, and universally one. Hear, O Israel; the lord our God is one Lord… and his name one. One Mind, one Spirit, one Consciousnessof all… one I That I Am.
Therefore one cannot be at all unless in and of the infinite One. Even as
"expressions" you are God, for only God expresses! Is this not so? The vanity,
the shameful arrogance to assume another mind, limited, impure, imperfect,incomplete, and then seek to educate and spiritualize it to be the Divine! The
Kingdom of Heaven is the only actual state of existence there is nor can there be
another.
The Trinity of Being is Self-existent unity, one Infinitude known as Father ,
Creative divine Consciousness, boundless Principle, Life; Son, distinct identity,known as John or Mary, existing in and governed by the Father, indivisible
spiritual Mind; never personal or existing independently; Holy Ghost, the
revelation of Being coming from Author or Father to character or Son, that
Father and Son are One and not two, that the Son or identity can say
understandingly, I Am the Truth… I Am the Life… I and the Father are One.
How plainly Jesus stated it, yet how paradoxical it sounds unless one is
spiritually illuminated. Great multitudes stand today at the place where theyclaim to be the expressions of God, but not God; ideas in Mind, but not Mind.
Could the air, for instance, be divided into air and its expression? Neither can
you be an expression of anything and not be that thing! If you are an idea in
Mind then you are Mind.
Cease belief in personality, and moreover in human minds; then the one Mind
will think and speak in you, and you will think and speak as this Mind, and no
other. There is no mind of the identity, there is only the Mind of the Father.
There are no separate minds with free will… None can create his own good.
The divine Mind writes nothing in the Book of Life but the true and the real.
The Author of all sees nothing to save, nothing to change, nothing to achieve,
obtain or improve. When we see an identity as deriving everything from God, perfect Consciousness, then we can truly see that no evil can enter into that
identity, nor can any harm come nigh him.
The creative Mind is not only in all identities but is all identities. Thus as evil is
unknown to God, it is likewise unknown to all that is contained within Him.
Therefore, there is no dream or dreamer, no false belief or false believer, no
false sense of mortality. To seek to create one‘s own heaven is vanity indeed.
The thirst for peace, harmony, wholeness, harmony, and bliss can be quenched
in but one way, I am in the Father and the Father is in me.
Consciousness is in every form the same, and outside every form the same; and
all forms are spiritual and perfect. Spirit cannot drown, nor be shot, nor become
sick, limited or incomplete. Nor is Spirit ever in a dream or false state… and
Spirit is all , since God is Spirit and God is all. I Am can say of all identities, I
am they, and they are I. There is no tree-consciousness, animal, or manconsciousness; there is but God-consciousness, in every form the same; and all
forms are spiritual. Thus there is no evil in God or in His creation.
Each identity called Mary, John, etc., has the same infinite power, light, and
understanding as the Author or divine Selfhood, for all that the Father hath is
mine…when you see me as I Am, you both know Him and have seen Him…And moreover, all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known
Absolute Truth can be known and understood in one way alone – for what it is.
The word "Absolute" means this: perfect, total, all. The Absolute is Truth Itself – the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth. The Absolute Message is theVoice of Truth, the Word of Truth, the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory of
Truth – which is the Eternal Mind.
As this Mind we know the Truth; as this Mind we are the Truth. As this Mind
we have eternal existence and know the Truth.
The Absolute speaks as follows: "God is Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in Spirit and in Truth.” (Jn 4:24) Note unforgettably: theimperative word "must .‖ Therefore it must be fulfilled. To know the Truth we
must think as Spiritual Mind. In no other way can Truth be known.
To think as Spiritual Mind we must be pure in heart, for it is written: "Thou
shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” (Mat. 4:10) –
- Meaning just this: you shall love and adore the One Spiritual Mind as your
very own Mind, your very own Life and Being, and utterly abandon the use of
the following words: mind and thinking, five corporeal senses, matter, materialsense, human consciousness, human concepts, cause, effect, result, appearance,illusion, unreality, nothingness, translate, transmute, develop, apply, control,
The above words and their facsimiles pertain to a mind and to an existenceother than that of Spirit and Truth: whereas there is none. Words betray just
where one stands, and whom he serves – even as it is written: "By thy words
thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” (Mt. 12:37)
Worshipping spiritually we shall not believe in nor discuss any other mind or
any other existence than the eternal spiritual one! The Absolute Message
pertains to the one Mind and the One existence alone. It is the message of Spirit and Truth.
The Spiritual command is that we must worship God in Spirit and in Truth!
What is Spirit ? Spirit is Spiritual Mind or Consciousness. Spirit is SpiritualPerception. Spirit is Spiritual Existence. What is Truth? Truth is OneKnowledge, One Time, One Place, One Formation, One Existence – without a
second. The Mind which is Spirit and Truth knows there is nothing true but
Truth; nothing real but Truth; nothing existing but Truth. It knows there is nohuman mind, no human thought, no human existence.
Spiritual Mind knows there are no concepts, no formations but those existing in
Its Infinite Spiritual Selfhood.
Spirit is All! Truth is Absolute! There is nothing before It – nothing beyond It
– nothing against It – nothing contrary to It – nothing in contradistinction to It –
nothing beside It. To Infinite Spirit and Truth, Itself is all there is, Itself is all it
knows, all it sees, all it feels, and all it makes known.
"There is one God: and there is none other than He.” (Mk 12:32) There is
One Mind, and there is none other than this infinite Divine Mind and Its infinite
Divine formation. To this Mind there is not anything to be changed,
transmuted, translated, handled or healed! To this Mind there is no personality,
human mind, error, or mental state! To this Mind there is no universal illusion,
mesmerism, hypnotism, or mortal mind!
Spiritual Divine Mind does not see other minds, other beings, other formationsin need of treatment. It sees no illusion or appearance to be dispelled, no goodand evil to be impersonalized, nor any thoughts or pictures to be changed. It
does not know of a mortal mind to make any claim or of an error to argue its
point. It does not see anything to be lessened or intensified, to fade out or to be
brought to light, to appear to view, or to disappear from it.
To spiritual Mind, all is Spirit. To spiritual mind, all is Truth. To spiritual
Mind, all is spiritual formation and spiritual existence. This Mind sees its
infinite spiritual Selfhood to be the One, the Alone, and the All.
God is not something – God is All! If we would obey God, and worship in
Spirit and in Truth, then we must accept the Allness of God. We must acceptGod to be Totality, Universality, Infinitude – All: and we must not accept any
other mind, power, formation, or existence than this Infinite One. The Mind
which is God , knows what is – it also knows there is none else beside what is.
This Infinite Spiritual Mind knows, sees, feels, and has cognition of all there is
It also knows that there is no mind to think, to see, to feel, or to be cognizant of
anything. It knows there is no time when Truth is not present, manifest,experienced.
In the Allness of God there is not anything physical nor anything material – not
anything mortal or mental. God is not the source of anything. God is not acause or an effect.
God is all! Our Existence is Spiritual Mind. Our Existence is Spirit and Truth.
As this Mind we know there is no humanhood – no mental influence – no
material mindedness – no traditional beliefs – no Adam-race – no personalities
or human beings – no error that has existed down the centuries – no centuries to
elapse before Truth will be universally known and expressed.
Spiritual Mind and spiritual existence is all there is! In the Universality of thisMind there is no place for a material existence, a human or a mortal existence,
or for a mental state. There is no place for a material sense of a material body,
for a mortal mind, or a mortal body, and there is no place for a mental practice.
Functioning as Spiritual Mind, our vision is single, our thoughts are pure
thoughts – natural, spontaneous, harmonious, and altogether satisfying. Our
thoughts need no watching, controlling, or reversing.
To Infinite Spirit and Truth, Itself is all there is; Itself is all it knows, all it sees,
all it feels, and all it makes known.
God does not manifest as personal minds and personal beings. God does not
build better bodies according to better mental pictures. God does not see
through a lie, nor reverse a lie. God does not need to develop, attain, translate,
overcome, or destroy anything in His Infinite Illimitable Self and Kingdom –
where He is totally, Universality – all.
God does not see the need of anyone to be healed or redeemed. God is our only
Mind and Being.
What a confusion of vision, to claim on the one hand the Allness of Perfect
Spiritual Mind and Its Perfect Spiritual Manifestation, and on the other hand, todiscuss how to deal with falsities, human concepts, mental pictures, and a
mortal mind! It is an absolute impossibility for anyone to see, to handle, or to
heal something which God knows nothing about. God – the One and Only
Mind – is "of purer eyes than to behold evil – and canst not look on iniquity.‖
This One God and One Mind is continually proclaiming: Without Me there was
not anything made that was made. Before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. Is there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God: I know
not any! To the One Mind – which is all the Mind there is now or ever can be –
there is not a thing true but Truth; there is not a thing real but Truth; there is
not a thing existing but Truth.
If there is but One God and One Mind – which is ever seeing and knowing Its
own Infinitude to be all there is – then what mind is seeing and thinking that
there is a necessity to heal, to attain, or to overcome something? What mind is
discussing appearance, falsity, and discord? If God is the One Infinite Perfect
Mind – including all Formation or Manifestation – then where is a place for
appearances and dream pictures? If the Divine Mind does not see or know of a
false sense, pain, and distress, where is the mind which reports them? Let the
mind with which you have identified yourself answer.
There is one state of Being alone – the state of Perfection, and Immortality –
without a cause, without a beginning or end. This One Absolute State of Being
is the "Father‘s House" of many mansions – Infinite Mind and Its Infinite
Illumination and Revelation; the Self-luminous, Self-revealing One, ever
proclaiming Itself to be All, beside which there is none else.
Our existence as this One Infinite Indivisible Mind is Eternal for this Mind
includes all that exists. There has never been any other existence. There is noexistence such as that of another mind. As this God-Mind we do not discusswhat we know does not exist. We know that any discussion based on another
mind and another existence, is not Truth, hence, there is no Truth in it.
Spirit and Truth is the only existence – there is no existence of matter or
mortality, of a human or a mortal mind; there is no existence of a false thoughtor thing, of an unreality, an error, an illusion, or a lie. Not anything else beside
Truth can have existence!
Dear Friend, the Way to Spirit and Truth, to Perfection and Spiritual Existence
is not by purification of mind and thinking. The Way is by purity of heart . Any
purification of mind and thinking is an absolute impossibility, since in Truththere is no such mind! Purity requires a love of the heart for God great enough
to be ready and willing to give up all belief that one has a mind of his own.
Then, spontaneously he thinks as Divine Mind – the only Mind there ever can
When one does not come to God by purity of heart, but persists in believing that
he has a mind of his own, and so must watch his own thinking, he deceivethhimself, even as it is written: "If a man think himself to be something (a mind
and thinking of his own), when he is nothing (when he has no such a mind), he
deceiveth himself (he is not thinking as the True Mind).‖ (Gal 6:3) Those of us
who have set our hearts upon the God-Mind, the One and Only Mind there is or can be, we are the True Worshippers. We know the Absolute Truth.
Light must be seen by Light; in no other way can light be seen. Likewise, Truth
must be known by the True Mind; in no other way can the Truth be known. It is
imperative that the Way to Truth be the Way of One – without a second; the
Way of Truth – without error; the Way of Reality – without unreality; the Way
of the One God alone. Then as this One, we can proclaim, "I am the Truth! I
am the True Mind! I know no other Mind and no other existence than that of
Spirit and Truth! I serve no other! I discuss no other! I love and worship theOne alone!"
To this Mind, personal minds, personal thinking and personal beings are blotted
out – they are unknown. This Mind of Infinitude and Universality, this Mind of
Omnipotence and Omnipresence declares: I, the True and Living God, Am All.
There is no mind to think falsely. I Am the All of all.
They who believe they have a mind of their own and must stand guard over this
mind since its thinking is the source of their health, harmony, and success, Jesuslikened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. (Mt. 7:26) Thishouse fell.
Finally, personal mind and personal thinking will prove of no avail, since it is
not of God, and therefore has no Truth in it. We who understand how to think
as the Divine Mind – by setting our love upon this Mind, and by rejectinganother mind – Jesus likened to the wise, who build their understanding upon a
rock.
Dear friend, if you can see that no other mind but the Divine Mind can possibly
know the Truth, then you are seeing and you are thinking as this very Mind,
right here and now. Our understanding is the "House" which is founded uponthe Rock which cannot fail, and cannot fall. This rock is Truth Itself.
Only as the Perfect Divine Mind can we ever see that there is no other mind
believing in itself. Only as the Perfect Divine Mind can we ever know that
there is no other mind believing in its own existence. None can see as this Mind
until he is pure enough in heart to believe in this Mind alone! This is indeed the
laying down of that which is nothing, to see, to accept, and to be that which isall.
Only when we are thinking as the Divine Mind do we know there is no other
mind. Only when we are thinking as the Divine Mind do we know there is nodisease, sin or discord; no demonstration, translation, or destruction in God or in
God‘s entire Universe.
Thinking as this Mind, we know there is no human need! We know there hasnever been a human existence! There has never been a mortal existence! Therehas never been a mental state or thing! Spiritual existence has always been theOne – the Alone – the All there is and ever shall be!
The reason why there seems to one to be another mind and its thinking – when
there isn‘t any – is because he had not accepted Spiritual Mind to be the Only
Mind there is. When we believe in the Divine Mind alone, and give up all
belief in any other mind, we are thinking then and there as Divine Mind; we
perceive Spiritual realities; we know Heavenly things. Thinking as this Mind,we know there has never been a human existence. We know there is no such
thing in the Entirety of God.
Our Divine Mind is Truth Itself. Our Divine Mind knows and reveals Truth. It
knows that beside Itself there is no other mind to think, to see, or to be
conscious. It knows there could never be a mind beside Itself, which is Infinity,
Entirety, and Totality. This Divine Mind and Its Formations is a Unit.
Thinking as this Mind we are Spiritual Consciousness – which is Purity.
God does not manifest Himself as a personal "you" and "me.‖ There is no wayfor God to manifest but as the Perfect Self and Perfect Formation. There is no
way to be "Me" but to believe in Me alone – and to believe in no other mind
called human, mortal, or mental. If identified as another personal mind, one
will need to repent of it, and to forsake it, if he would see and BE the Divine
Mind alone.
The Answer to every need is prepared, ready, and at hand.
Accepting no other mind than the Infinite Divine Mind, we can have no other
mind but the One – no other sense, no other thought, no other belief. Thinking
as this Mind, you will not seek healing by using healing thoughts; you will nottreat anyone or anything. Our Divine Mind remains conscious and aware of
Itself always, and always remains aware and conscious that there is none else.
Since God looketh upon the heart, and since only the heart can be pure, then the
way to God is by the heart which has yielded itself to the Purity, and tosingleness of vision and expression. The desire of the pure in heart is to knowwhat Divine Mind knows; and to know as the Divine Mind Itself, we are they
whom Jesus referred to as the True Worshippers.
As the Divine Mind, we love everything that belongs to Truth. We love the
Inspirations and Revelations of our Perfect Selfhood. We love to feel Its ever-
presence, Its endless Peace and Harmony. Our Perfect Mind includes all the
wonderful things we love to possess. Believing in the Eternal Mind alone,
seeing and thinking as this very Mind, it is simply and natural for us to knowthat there is no other mind beside this One. Our Divine Mind does not see
something else beside Itself, and then attempt to heal or to destroy it. Divine
Mind, being the Infinitude of Existence, sees Itself and Its Infinite Formation or
Manifestation as all there is. Since the words demonstrate, utilize, apply,
translate, and similar terms, all point to something beside God, then as the True
Worshippers we must no longer use these words.
That we may have an illustration which will throw new light on the subject of
demonstration and healing, let us consider "the flat earth," and the round earth.Here we gain a clear insight into what constitutes Reality and Truth; and whywe should not make use of words such as the following: error, falsity, false
belief, lie.
Did the flat earth have appearance? Did it exist in ignorance or in unreality?
Was the flat earth an illusion, error, or a lie? Just where, how, and in whom didthe flat earth have existence?
The flat earth did not have an appearance. It was not false, unreal, or a lie. It
did not exist as a false belief or an illusion. The flat earth had no existence at
all. It was never seen nor experienced by anyone. No one ever lived upon it.
It could not be corrected, healed, or destroyed. There was no flat earth!
Having existence, there was no cause for it; nor was there any cure for it.
Having no existence, nothing could be done about it.
There is now and always has been but one earth. It is spherical. The
restrictions and limitations of the flat earth could never be reached or overcome,surmounted or destroyed – because – there was no flat earth. Human existenceis comparable to the flat earth. There has never been a human existence,
anymore than there was a flat earth. Human existence is therefore not a false
existence, nor is it unreal; it does not exist as a false belief or an illusion.
Human existence is not present at all. It has never been seen or experienced by
anyone. No one has ever lived in it. There is no cause for a human existence,
nor is there any cure for it.
Having no existence, its restrictions and limitations can never be reached or
overcome, surmounted, or destroyed; nor can its problems be translated,
handled, or healed.
Existence is not human nor material! Existence is Spiritual and Perfect!
Spiritual existence is without a beginning or an end! God is Spirit! Spiritual
existence is the only world there is! It is present right here and now! The Truth
about anything is all there is about that thing.
There is not something else existing as a falsity or a lie.
Note this carefully: since falsity has no existence in Truth, falsity has no
existence at all! Never attempt to impersonalize error or falsity. Any suchnotion is as ridiculous and worthless as would be an effort to impersonalize aflat earth! Not a single thing can be done to falsity, unreality, and a lie –
because – they have no existence! There is not the existence of the Real, and
then beside this, the existence of the unreal. There is not the True, and
something else present which is untrue or false.
Truth is the only existence there is or can ever be! If a thing is not true or of the
Truth, then it has no existence anywhere or at all.
Since existence is Spiritual, not human, then nothing can be done to a human
state, a human being, a human mind, or a human condition. God is not human.
God is not mortal.
God is not mental. Existence is what God, Spirit, is – existence is Spiritual! If
a thought or a thing has no existence in Truth, it has no true existence; and
hence no existence at all. Once you see this, and admit it to be the fact, you will
understand how utterly foolish and superfluous to treat, to handle, to fear or to
attempt to heal a thing which you know does not exist in Truth.
Columbus did not instruct his people that if only they would believe in the
round earth they could go right on living on the flat earth more comfortably andwith greater success. No! The earth having been proven to be spherical,
automatically they were convinced that they had never lived upon a flat earth!
At once, they began knowing the Truth about the round earth. At once they
knew they lived in the round earth, and had been living in it all the time.
The Instruction which teaches that if only we will believe there is a Spiritual
Existence, we can then continue living in a human existence more harmoniously
and successfully is not true Instruction. The Absolute Instruction, rejecting
altogether such doctrine, declares and expounds Spiritual Existence to be one
and alone; besides which there is nothing else which can or does exist. While
God remains God, while God remains Spirit, there is not now and can never be
a human existence – there is and shall remain Spiritual Existence alone – which
includes spiritual formation, manifestation, or expression.
Human existence is neither a true existence nor a false existence. There is no
human existence at all! It had no beginning, and it will have no end, anymore
than had the flat earth. Therefore, a human existence cannot be traced to Adam,
a sleep or mist, a mortal mind.
Know the Truth, and live in it! This is the clarion call of the True Mind to all
who have ears to hear and eyes to see – and to all who have a heart to feel and
a love to perceive and understand Spiritual things.
The logic that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so, is
utterly void of Truth. Inasmuch as no one has a mind of his own, such a
statement is a denial of the Eternal Fact that our God is One God, and our God
is one Mind; there is none beside Him. Thinking did not make the earth round;
thinking did not make the earth flat.
Thinking did not make Existence Spiritual; thinking did not make existence
human. Untruth cannot be created! Eternal Truth is all!
It has been taught by some, that the paths taken by countless creeds, doctrines,
and systems of thought are like many streams of water tributaries to the sameocean; that is, all paths point in the same direction, and all ultimately reach thesame goal – heaven.
Another illustration is set forth as follows: the way of seeing Reality may be
likened to the way a picture may be viewed by many different people. The
picture is one and the same, yet the reports of it vary, due to the various angles
from which it is seen. The picture remains the same, though the ways to see it
are multiple.
In reply to such illustrations as these, the words of Paul are appropriate: "The
wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.‖ They who advance such
theories as these are the very ones embarked on hypothetical paths – en route
from one world to another; seeing from various perspectives.
Many paths, many views, testify to many minds; whereas there is One God, One
Mind, and One Way! All minds on these paths are double-visioned, double-
faced, double-tongued.
They talk about the Allness of God, yet they are constantly at work to dispel, toheal, or to destroy the things they see, and do not want to have; and to create the
things they do not see, and wish to bring to pass. They consider the existence of
two worlds; they discuss "Truth" and "error" in the same breath.
Many have a lifetime in trying to raise human consciousness – contact with God by way of personal mind – gain victory over an illusion – triumph over mortal
sense – cast out error – and overcome a mortal mind.
It is significant that never yet have we heard of anyone, on any of these paths,
announcing his arrival at the goal. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.‖ – Proverbs 16:25. " I Am theWay.‖ – John 14:6.
From beginning to end, everything in our scriptures assures us that there is but
One way to Spiritual Reality.
This Way is to behold and to accept Reality, Heaven, by the One Divine Mind.
All who see the truth this way will see it alike. Let us turn again to the simile of the "one earth.‖
Through Spiritual vision, Columbus knew that the very earth on which he lived
was spherical, not flat. There were not two earths – no path led from one to theother – the flat earth was not the round earth seen imperfectly – every
conceivable thought relating to the flat earth was worthless and void of truth.
The discovery of the earth to be round, proved that there was no flat earth. Theround earth was accepted and lived in as the only earth.
It was while I was comparing the "earth" with "existence" that suddenly I
questioned: "What about those thousands of years when the earth was believed
to be flat?" The Answer was sudden also as follows: "There were no such
years!" Then I knew that to Divine Mind there is no calendar time.
Again, I questioned: "But what about all those people who believed in the flat
earth?" Again, the instant Answer: "There were no such people!"
I saw of a certainty that if one has not the Divine Mind, he has nothing. Bible
verses came into memory – "The flesh (personal mind) profiteth nothing.‖
(John 6:63) "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing; their molten
images are wind and confusion.‖ (Isaiah 41:29)
Truth is often breathtaking in its absoluteness. The Word of Truth is, yea, yea;
nay, nay. It decrees – I Am. It also decrees there is nothing else beside what I
Am.
Those going from here to some place else, are going no where. There are no
such paths … no such minds having such beliefs… no such people … no such
times. All ways and paths concerned with mind and mental practice are as
naught.
There are no such minds, no such paths, no such people – because God is the
Only Mind there is now or ever has been. The One Mind has never ceased to be
Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience. Who dare any otherwise? The
Absolute Message presents the true and only Way to Spiritual Existence – a
Way which has nothing to do with thought-taking processes, with man,
personalities, demonstration, or destruction. This Way is the one which Jesuscalled the Narrow Way. (Mt. 7:14) It is single-visioned, single-minded,
single-tongued.
Here we understand Spirit, by Spirit; Mind, by Mind. Here we discover that we
have never been asleep, to be awakened; we have never been in a human world,
to be transported to the Spiritual; we have never had a mind of our own; there
The wondrous Light we have is The Christ. We know there is no personal mind
doing its mental work; no mind, cultivating, attaining, or destroying anything.There is no false mind, no mortal, or human mind; there is no one thinking with
a mind of his own; no one with a will of his own. Illumined by the One Mind,
we know it to be the only Mind there is – The Mind of God.
Divine Mind is not arraigned before mortal mind. God erected no firmament between Truth and error. Body is not the servant of mind or of Soul. No one
can function as a mortal. No mind can silence the clamour of its mortal
thinking. No mind can turn away from its false beliefs. No mind can give a
mental treatment. Power is not in a man.
Light is not in a mind. A man and a mind are naught.
Power belongeth unto God. Light is the Illumination of the One Divine Mind.This Mind outlines no methods to be used, no formulas to be employed. The
outlines and formulas of another mind are naught, even as the mind is naught.
God is one entirety. There is no merging, contacting, at-one-ment or becoming
in the Infinite Indivisible One.
Neither Light, Power, nor Understanding can be generated by thought-action.
There is no subconscious mind, no personal consciousness, no aggressive
mental suggestion; and there is no mind needing to defend itself against another
mind. God is not mocked! When we no longer believe that we are a man or a personal mind, and when we identify ourselves as the One Divine Mind, alone,then this God-Mind, which was in Christ Jesus, is also in us.
Let him who still talks to others about man, mind, and thinking, and still
discusses methods and thought-taking processes, give heed to Jesus’ solemn
warning, in Mark 9:42. Jesus taught One God, One Mind, One Way. "Withmen (personal minds) this is impossible.‖
Who is seeing and reporting the necessity for complete and final destruction of
error? Not God, who declares, "There is none beside me.” Not Jesus, who
declared, "I came not to destroy.”
To see need of warfare and destruction – which God does not see – one must be
identifying himself with another mind, thus believing in another power and
another world beside The Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omniscient One.
Having pointed out the many paths taken by man, the "many" as representative
of "the broad way leading to destruction," and also having pointed out the OneWay taken by the "few" who obey the One Mind, as representative of "the
Narrow Way" leading to Life, there still remains the most crucial point to be
considered, namely: How can one leave the broad way for the Narrow Way?
How can we think as the Divine Mind, live in Spiritual Existence, and be
partakers of Heavenly things right here and now?
The Answer to this momentous question begins with the following words: "Ye
must be born again.” (John 3:7) Until this Word is Spiritually heard, and
Spiritually obeyed, further enlightenment cannot be understood. A man or personal mind is absolutely blind to Spiritual Truth, and impotent to see
Spiritual Reality; he can neither obey, understand, nor please God. "Ye cannot
serve God and mammon.‖ (Mt. 6:24) We cannot accept Spirit and Spiritual
Revelation to be the Way, and also accept personal mind and thinking. Spiritual
command requires a Spiritual Perception to fulfil it.
Since a personal mind has no existence in Truth, and therefore can do nothing,
then the first Spiritual step toward obedience is for one to turn from man to
Mind, and from human thinking to reach into his heart for Light. Here he willreceive his first faint inkling of Spiritual Consciousness. Then he must beginthe purification of the Heart, since it is the pure in heart who see God. Vanity,
rebellion, unforgiveness, deceit, and stubbornness become as nothing, when in
meekness and humility one desires only to love and to please God. He will be
rewarded by the sweet whisperings of Spirit and the soft shining of the Light
upon his Way. He will pass from Vision to Vision, and from Light to moreEffulgent Light.
Jesus not only taught the Way in detail, in his various parables, but more
wonderful still, he himself was the fulfilment of this Way. The metaphor of the
Cross, the Resurrection, and the Ascension is complete verification of this fact.
The "Cross" symbolizes the pivotal prerequisite – the losing of one‘s life to findit. (Lk 17:33) It prefigures a departure from the broad way to the Narrow Way
to be no simple, ordinary undertaking. Said Jesus: "For this cause came I into
the world, that I should bear witness to the Truth.‖ (John 18:37) In every detail
It must be the same with us. Our Resurrection shall be our departure from man,
mind, and thinking, leading from Glory to Glory, to the Ascension – thesublime Revelation that there has never been a human state, a human mind, a
human existence. Spirit and Truth has always been the only existence. The
Perfect Self has never been other than the Perfect Self. Always the One is All ;
always Spirit is Spirit; besides which nothing else has ever been or can ever be.
Concern yourself with Truth Alone, not with people, not with thoughts, not with
discussions. Let your love for God, for Reality and Truth, be pure and holy.
You will then be at peace with yourself, and in your humility and purity, your
thinking will be spontaneous, natural, and perfect, like your breathing.
Fulfilling God‘s requirements of you, thinking as the One Mind, you will be
"like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.‖ (Isa.
58:11) "O Thou Eternal One, what Majesty is Thine o‘er all the world! For who is God save the Eternal? On Thee, Eternal One, I set my heart. Thou, only
Thou, art God. The Eternal shepherds me, I lack for nothing. He guides me by
true paths. Mine eyes are ever upon the Eternal, for He will clear me from
perplexities.
Make the Eternal your delight, and He will give you all your heart‘s desire.
Happy is everyone who lives His life. Whoever is walking in the dark, without
a ray of light, let him have confidence in the Eternal, and lean upon his God.
The Eternal‘s hand is not too short to save; the Eternal‘s ear is not too dull tohear! It is your own iniquities that interfere between God and you.
He will refresh you in dry places, and renew your strength, till you are like a
watered garden, like an oasis with a steadfast spring. The Eternal shines out
upon you, His splendour on you shines.‖ (Quotations from Moffatt- Translation
– Chapters – Psalms and Isaiah)
The Holy Ghost and Its Baptism is the Spirit of Inspiration, the Spirit of Divine
Revelation, which gives us Understanding and great Joy.
To receive this greatest of Spiritual Gifts, we must first have taken the Spiritual
steps (not human footsteps) as divinely set forth. Every promise in the Bible isconditional, subject to our Spiritual obedience to its command. How small the
price exacted, that the gates of Heaven be open to us! There is no devil in all
God‘s Perfect World – no hell, no deceiver, and no deception! Everything in
God‘s Allness is filled with the Perfection, and the Completeness, and the glory
Whatever the conflict, it is in us, until we give up the belief in two minds, two
powers, and two worlds. Then the conflict ends. We are not in the flesh – ahuman, mortal mind and body – if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in us – if
we are thinking as the Divine Mind Itself. Spiritual realities are not
discoverable by human logic. (Study I Cor. 2:9-16) None can be "born again"
by thinking, but only by an absorbing love for God – Spirit and Truth – and byan unconditional surrender to Him, our Eternal Being. If one would knowwhether God is conscious of him then just let him seek to please God, and lo,
his answer will be plain.
Questions are asked: How can I overcome fear? How can I find a home or
experience health and harmony? How can I realize Truth? The answer is that
as a personal mind attempting to overcome or to heal something, nothing can be
accomplished. You need not attempt to heal a single thing; it is quite useless,
inasmuch as God’s Perfection fills the Universe. Nor need you attempt to proveanything.
Rather, it is God proving you! You must not see anything to be healed, nor
consider healing anyone or anything. You must not consider anything to be
dispelled or overcome. On the many paths, not only is falsity reported as being
seen, as well as illusion and error, but one sets to work to master them by one
way or another. Falsity has no existence at all – even if one believes in it, he
cannot make falsity exist.
Existence is in Truth; and Truth never stops existing.
You must know that Divine Mind cannot feel pain, sickness, lack, or want. You
must know also that there is no other mind to be conscious of anything. This is
the Truth to be known! In this knowing is our freedom. As the Divine Mind
Itself, the Only Mind there is, you can and you shall know it: for of you it iswritten, "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” (John
8:32)
This does not mean that sickness and lack shall be healed – for how could that
which has no existence be healed? It means that you, by thinking as the One
Mind, shall be free of false beliefs. By virtue of the Eternal Fact, you are theDivine Mind; and you shall know this truth as The Divine Mind Itself! You
have nothing to do with fear, discord, or limitation: for if there is no other than
the One Divine Mind then surely there can be none of these! Do not consider
body to be other than Mind or Consciousness – Unborn, Changeless, Perfect,
As the One Divine Mind, you are to see that none of God‘s Identities are in
want, lack, or distress; that not only does every Identity have the one Mind, buthe is the Divine Mind, expressing Itself perfectly.
The Rhythm, Order, Harmony, and Perfection of Infinite Mind and its Infinite
Identities as a Unit, is as certain as Mind Itself. As the sun is the completenessof all its rays, and the rays are the fulfilment of the sun, even so, Infinite PerfectMind is the completeness of all of us as Its Identities, and we are Mind fulfilling
Itself. We are not only Identities, we are Mind, and we are the Fulfilment of
this Mind. Identities are distinct, one from another, yet all are One Mind.
We know the Truth about "John" the same as we do for ourselves. John is
Perfect Divine Mind, and John is perfectly expressing this Mind – nor can it be
otherwise. He has no mind, no thoughts, and no beliefs of his own. He is
nothing of himself. He is the fulfilment of the One Mind.
There is no other mind. All is Infinite Mind and Its infinite Identities fulfilling
Itself. Besides this One, there is none else. Power, Wisdom, Glory, and all
things, are ours – but – only – as we have lost all belief in mind, and in
mindprocesses, and are identifying ourselves, and all there is, as Infinite Divine
Mind Alone.
As this Mind, we have no doctrines, methods, practices, or creeds. We know the
Truth! Truth is our sufficiency! In this we are free! Furthermore, we shall know the Truth about our world. The Universe of the One Mind is the PerfectUniverse – the only World. We are not in the world of man, because there is
nothing human, nothing mortal, nothing mental in The Infinitude of Almighty
God. There is One World , and its name is One – The Universe of Spirit and
Truth.
See this World, believe in this World, love this World. It is the Eternal
Kingdom. "None shall injure, none shall kill, anywhere on my Sacred Hill: for
the land shall be full of the Knowledge of the Eternal as the ocean-bed is full of
water. A stainless highroad shall appear, its name "The Sacred Way.‖ No
unclean shall treat it… but on it the redeemed shall walk, those whom the
Eternal has set free.
They come home to Sion singing, crowed with an unending Joy. Their name
shall be "The Sacred People," "The Redeemed of the Eternal.‖ The Eternal
Reigns!" "All that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you.‖
Spirit, God, is one infinite, indivisible, pure and perfect Selfhood; and there can
be no personal self, being, mind or body. Spirit is our Life, our Life is Spirit.
Spirit is our Mind or Consciousness. Mind or Consciousness is our Spirit.
Spirit is our Body, our Body is Spirit.
Spirit is our only Self, I or ME — boundless, immeasurable, timeless, spaceless,
incorporeal. There is no mortal, human or material being, mind, self or body.Spirit is our only Self, I or ME — boundless, immeasurable, timeless, spaceless,
incorporeal. There is no mortal, human or material being, mind, self or body.
There is but "ME" — I AM the One who is real and present.
When this new revelation is seen and accepted, there will be no more sickness,
sorrow, disease, pain or death. As the belief and teaching that we are mortals,
humans or mankind is done away with, there will be no misbelief,misconception, erring teaching or wrong thinking.
Seeing that the One Self, "I" or "ME" reigns alone, and that there can be no
other identity — whether as mind, consciousness or body each one should reject
and discard the beliefs and teaching which identify oneself as man, humanity or mankind; for within this very identification lies the subjection to suffering,
disease and limitation. Our deliverance, therefore, is not from suffering, worry,
fear or old age, but that one ceases to believe or accept that he is a mortal or
human being, and that his body is material or physical.
The healing of disease will never be the termination of disease, nor can thehealing of suffering bring an end to suffering; nor will the denial of matter domore than continue to keep one in the belief that he is a mortal, and that his
body is material, thus prolonging his association with sickness, lack and
suffering.
This new revelation is bound to come universally. The time is here, not only for us to know the unadulterated Truth, but for us to speak it out loud. Spirit is our
only Self, Spirit is our only Body, Spirit is our only World — complete, perfect,
Because of this deeply profound revelation — that Spirit alone is all, and that
nothing else is present here and now but Spirit, God, the ONE — there mustcome an end to the belief and teaching that we are mortals, humans, humanhood
or humanity.
Perceiving that one's Self or I Am exists alone, one should forthwith renounceand relinquish all belief and teaching which keep him subject to mortality andsuffering by identifying him with another self, mind and body not the One.
In the Light of our pure, boundless, unrestricted love for Truth and Reality, and
in the certainty of our pure vision and perfect knowledge that there is one Self,
one Consciousness, and one world only, we know and we declare that there was
never a deflection of being, 'nor a creation of mortals. We know that we are not
a mortal! We know that we are not a human mind! We know we are not a
material body! We know that we do not live in a human existence!
Truth exists alone. The one I Am, the one Selfhood, is Principle, Power, Life
and Being. Let no one continue to believe that he can find out what Truth is by
reversing error or by denying material senses. Knowing by Spirit within, that
Truth IS, one simultaneously knows there are no material senses. Identified as
the One Mind only, one has no consciousness of, or belief in, error.
The fact should be evident, that only one's belief that he is separate from or
other than the one Self, Being and Mind, causes him to believe in mortal beings,material senses and error; and thus allows him to be subject to problems,vicissitudes, limitation and sorrow.
As soon as one sees and accepts the revelation that God, Spirit is the whole of
him, and the whole of all, and that he is not separated from God, nor from
Spirit, he will then know naught of material testimony, mortal belief or humanexistence.
His only remedy for sin, sickness, suffering and limitation will be his own
perfect knowledge and awareness that Spirit is his own eternal Selfhood,
present here and now as the totality of his life, being, world and existence.
No error or evil made a mortal man. No human concept ever existed. Sin did
not create a sinner, nor was sin self-created.
Self-created matter, self- destructive evil or self-constituted falsity never existed
or seemed to exist; nor will error or evil be self-destroyed. All such theories
and beliefs have as their only basis the fabulous religious doctrine of original
As long as one infinite God remains one infinite Selfhood, Mind and Universe,
there is no material creation, no mortal being, no human mind and no corporeal body.
Reader, fear not to examine carefully what you read, and what teaching you
accept; have this thought in mind: does it identify you with perfection, purity,wholeness, harmony, peace, serenity and happiness right here and now — or — does it relate you to problems, labour, struggle, suffering and limitation by
identifying you as humanity, humanhood or mankind, with a mortal, human
body, living in a human existence? Fear not to question the books you read —
even the Bible.
Why not? Let a book stand or fall upon its own statements, whether as true or
fabulous. Whatever statement is based upon Spirit, God, as our only Life,
Mind, Being, Principle, Power, Consciousness, Universe and Manifestationunconditioned, pure, perfect, invariable and eternal — is Truth. Whatever
statement identifies us with another self, mind, world and body, which are
mortal, material or human — is fabulous. There cannot be the existence of an
infinite perfect ONE, and besides this, an existence of another finite, sinful
second.
The teachings which tend to prolong our identification with problems, lack,
warfare, sickness, confusion and misunderstanding, by placing before us the
belief that we are not living in the spiritual world now, that our body is notspiritual now, and that our mind is not filled with a constant stream of light andillumination — these teachings must be dropped and for gotten. There is a
supreme Truth and Reality which is the Self, Being and Awareness of the whole
world — It is Spirit. Spirit is the real and true, existing alone.
Spirit, the one Selfhood or I Am, remains absolute, as our only Self, Being, Bodyand World — present right here and now. In this absolute truth and perfect
knowledge that Spirit is ALL — without beginning, change or end — there is
no place for contradiction, contradistinction, opposition or a suppositious
second. All the while, God Is All remaining One and Absolute.
Surrendering belief in duality, personality and mortality, as well as the belief that our body is human and material, we find that we are not different or other
than the One who is real, perfect and present. There can be neither self, mind,
form or world apart from that which is the eternal, present Self.
Let everyone cast aside as useless and unavailing the teaching of separation,
development, translation or reinstatement, if he should be free from sickness,grief, lack and tribulation. Emergence from matter into Spirit is impossible.
Matter has never existed. None can bridge a distance between us and God —
no distance exists. None can make a journey to God — God is within our own
heart. No future time or other place can ever be — God is infinite, timeless,spaceless; ever-present.
Question your Self. Take for instance these questions: Is there one mind only?
Besides the mind of God is there a human or a mortal mind? Is God the only
Power or is there also another power called evil, error or mortal mind? Face
questions squarely, and answer them with a yes or No. Until you surrender
your belief in two minds, two bodies and two worlds, you cannot experience the
joy and glory of Self-Light and Self-Awareness, for none but the One infinite,
divine Mind has knowledge of Itself. There is not anything but the Infinite,indivisible One. The one Life is our life, the one Mind is our mind, the one
Existence is our existence. It is impossible for anyone or anything to exist
except as the One who exists alone.
Everything in and of this one All is the one All Itself. No one or thing has
being, mind or existence of himself, herself, itself. Not only is our life, mind
and being God, but the whole of us is God, the Self, the I Am. In no other way
could it be truly said that God is All.
Know your Self, and you will be Self-luminous. See your Self, and you will seeGod. Surrender belief in another self, another mind, another body and world
beside the immutable, immaculate, present One, and Self-revelation and
illumination is immediate and direct. You are then free in spirit, in mind, in
body. If you accept the mistaken belief that mind and body are human or
material, you are unaware of the Truth that mind and body have always beenSpirit.
Accepting Spirit as the only presence here and now, struggle, labour and
warfare are abolished.
No fear is attached to the turning to and acceptance of this enlightenedstandpoint. Every interpretation, doctrine or practice, which would connect or
associate us with degenerate beings — humanity, humanhood or mortals — will
be swallowed up in the luminous light and perfect knowledge that the Infinite I
AM remains unseparated and alone, and I AM this I AM.
If you watch your thinking with the idea to correct, purify or control it, you are
then and there identifying yourself with a mind that does not exist. There is nomind beside the spiritual or divine Mind, and there is no self but the one infinite
Selfhood. If you would know the Truth, and experience the real Self here and
now, you must stop believing in or teaching the practice of correction,
development or translation of human minds or mortal beings. Such labour andeffort is spent in vain.
To be aware of the Truth one must be the Truth, and to know what is real and
true, one must know as the one Consciousness. Accept the one Mind only —
aware that there is no other — then your thinking will delight and inspire you.
Detach yourself from systems and methods that prevent you from knowing that
there is but the one Self, mind and thinking. Discard all practices which would
identify you as a mortal or human being, with mind, thought and will of your own; and which keep you in bondage to the fabulous belief that you are
separated from Perfection. The Truth is that one Self, one Mind, one
Consciousness or Awareness exists alone; we ARE this One.
Truth cannot be revealed unless you detach yourself from beliefs and teachings
pertaining to you as other than Spirit.
Once you face God, and turn your heart to God alone — shutting out all thought
of another world of people and things — you are in immediate Light, whichreveals to you whatever it is you should know. Since the one Being is your lifeand self, and since you can be no other, there must be therefore the renunciation
of your belief in any other Infinite God is our own infinite, perfect Life, Mind
and Being. This Selfhood excludes any other self or existence.
Omniscience excludes the presence of any other mind.
Omnipotence excludes the presence of any other power.
The infinite, perfect ONE knows Itself to be the infinite All-in-All.
The answer to the world's problems is not to be found in the healing of diseasesor in the overcoming of wars. The deep significance of this hour is that we turn
our hearts from all else to God direct for light, vision, revelation.
No treatment or demonstration will prove sufficient for this crucial hour. Light
only can reveal the way. Old beliefs and teaching shall here and now utterly
This new Light goes far beneath the surface. It reaches the very depths of the
heart. Here it discovers the deeply rooted belief and teaching that we aremortals or human beings with material bodies, living in a human existence.
None of this is true. All of it must be demolished, abolished and pass away.
The basic belief and basic teaching of all religions is that we are now separatefrom God; that God is Spirit, but that we are mortals of humanity. Light revealsthat we are not humans or mortals; that there is no mortal to be regenerated, no
body in need of healing, and no world that can be destroyed. Light reveals that
we were never separated from God! Spirit could not be present in a mortal self,
a human mind, a material body, world or existence. Spirit, the one I AM, the "I"
or Identity for all, is here now, always the same — invariable, unchangeable,
absolute. To Spirit, all is Itself, all is Spirit.
The new Light of today reveals that we are not a race of humanity, we are nothuman minds or human bodies. Every time one claims that he must put off or
put on another mind, every time he thinks he is a mortal, and that this body is
human or material, and this world is an illusion, he is claiming an existence
which does not exist. Apart from Spirit, God, there is no existence. Beside
"ME" there is no other, there was no other, there will be no other.
Nothing in or of God is human, mortal, material, unreal or illusory. God is the
entire, the totality. To be at all, we must be this ONE. God is whole — the
Whole. God is the whole of Life, Being, World and Existence. In this Wholethere is no separation; no suffering; no warfare, no destruction; no death. In thisWhole there is light, vision, revelation — constant and unending.
They who turn their hearts to God, fully and completely — surrendering and
abolishing all teachings of today which hold the world in the belief that we are
separate from or other than Spirit, God, the One — will know of God that Spiritand spiritual Existence alone is present. They will live in their own pure and
perfect Awareness or Consciousness that Spirit is all and that we can be nothing
but Spirit. The end of the world means the bringing to an end the diabolical
belief that we are mortals, humanity or mankind. It shall be that we will see this
very Self, this very Body, and this very World as the Real and True — verily, the
kingdom of Heaven Itself. Here, there is no sickness, no war, no sorrow, nodeath; for the former belief of sin and separation shall have been obliterated by
the glorious, luminous Light and Revelation that the I AM remains Total and
Alone; that "I" am the only One — there is none but "ME.‖
In the Broad way, one follows leaders, teachers, masters.
He is never the Light and Truth unto himself. His desire is to serve man, heal
man, save the world. Altruistic ideas — but never can man save man or
personality save personality. Even Jesus did not heal the world — nor can
anyone else do so. Each must take and receive for himself.
Each must be saved by the Christ-Light alone.
Identified with human existence, one is ever in need of something. Never can
he be immune from sin, sickness, limitation or death. He may desire honesty,
purity, perfection — but he cannot fulfil his desire while living as a human
being in a human existence. He will need to leave the unreal and untrue for the
Real and the True, if he is ever to find himself in THE STRAIT AND
NARROW WAY.
The Real way is narrow, because it admits none of the systems, methods and
speculations of the Wide way.
Human footsteps, human means, human mind and thinking are left Outside .
The Narrow Way is one of Spiritual Inspiration, Spiritual Illumination, Spiritual
Revelation. It is one of changeless Peace, Happiness and Abundance —
unconditioned Wholeness and Bliss. It is the Real Itself — Life, Love, Truth,
the Perfect Self Itself.
The great blindness today — like a terrible tragedy — is that one travels along
the Wide way not discerning that never will it take him to the Narrow Way of
Reality and Truth.
Though he demonstrates over this, applies the Truth to that, or rises to loftyheights in his own estimation of works and demonstrations, he is ignorant of
and unfamiliar with the imperial and authoritative words of Christ: "Many will
say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in
thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that
work iniquity.‖ — Matthew 7:22,23
It is not a question of time — of years spent in study and application — years of
fight and struggle. Any instant, one may come to the Narrow Way — which
concerns his Heart and Soul alone. The Narrow Way is the Heart Way — the
Remember this: You may train your mind and its thinking, you may heal your
ills, and make existence more comfortable for yourself — but you shall stillremain on the steps as a human being in a human state, you shall still be
imperfect, impure, insecure, outside of Heaven — until you identify yourself
with Heaven, with the Spiritual and the Perfect as the only real Existence there
is.
The Broad way never leads to the Narrow Way, nor can it ever become the
Narrow Way. No amount of progress, learning, spiritualization, practice,
healing, can ever transmute one into a Spiritual being in the Spiritual World.
He must reorientate himself! He must be born again! He must plant his feet in
the Spiritual World now — as the ONLY world or existence there is — the
World of the Father, the Realm of the Real, the True, the Absolute and the
Eternal! None can see the Narrow Way without LOVE — Love that gives
oneself wholly and completely to God, the Perfect One — as his only Mind, hisonly Life, his only Being, Body and Existence. The Heart alone can fulfil this
requirement of purity.
One's need is never that of healing. His only need is INSPIRATION,
ILLUMINATION, REVELATION — through himself, in himself, by himself.
To this, none is entitled while he keeps his nose on the grindstone of
metaphysical therapeutics.
Illumination does not come by ways of the mental, but by LOVE OF THEHEART — love for the Pure and the Perfect great enough to be all-transcendent — and pure enough to say: I do not want the wide way, but the Narrow Way, I
want only the Real, the True and the Divine — the Life, Self, Being, Body,
World of Spiritual Existence.
The vital question is not — "How shall I apply the Truth to this or thatdiscord?" The vital question is — "How shall I be able to live in Spiritual
Existence now, where I shall be free of the need of healing?" The vital question
is not how to obtain health and happiness in human existence, but how to find
oneself in Spiritual Existence where Satisfaction and Abundance abound.
How can one find himself in Spiritual Existence? He must SEE the Way, hemust TAKE the Way, he must BE the Way unto himself. This is the meaning of
the saying: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” — John 14:6
Identifying oneself with a human mind, one cannot be inspired or illumined. If
he craves Inspiration and Illumination then let him reorientate himself. Let him
identify himself as Spiritual Being now — and let him drop all identification
"Draw nigh unto Me.” Your need is Me — Pure Consciousness. I Am your
Perfect Everything ... I Am all you need ... I Am your Real Self, your Saviour and your God.
Refuse to believe that you are human - that you have a mind of your own which
must be elevated, raised or evangelized.
Refuse such beliefs altogether — they all belong in the Wide way. Refuse to
battle with some other power. To do so is to identify yourself that much longer
with human existence.
Be what you really are — the One Eternal Being; live in the only place there is
— the Spiritual Existence; identify yourself wholly with the Strait and Narrow
Way — the Real and Eternal. Do this, and you shall know and experience
Divine illumination.
The mind has its eye on results to be accomplished, demonstrations to be made,
healings to take place, statements to be held in thought, work to be done, and
battles to be fought.
The Heart has its eye on GOD — Perfect Being, Perfect Manifestation, Perfect
Universe. The Heart knows God to be one's only Life, Mind, Being,
Manifestation for ever — one's very Self here and now.
The Absolute Way says — Never can you get out of a human existence throughmental ways, methods and systems; and so long as you remain in this Wide
way, you will continue to be subject to failure and disappointment — for
Reality does not mix with human existence! Truth is not for use, for
demonstration or for practice — as though there were something beside It!
Truth is our Perfection and our Fulfilment always — to be loved, worshippedand accepted as our very Own.
The day of attempting to work, use or apply the Truth, came — and has now
passed. Come up higher! When you are called, answer — that you may be
chosen. "My Spirit shall not always strive with man.‖ — Genesis 6:3. The only
way out of the human state — with its beliefs in the healing of sin and sickness — is to perceive with the Heart that one is not in such a state, and never has
been.
The Heart can see that human existence is not a real state of Being — but an
assumptive state only — and one remains here until he wakens, or identifies
himself with Spiritual Existence, and Spiritual Being, alone. This is what is
To rise out of the imperfect teaching — that one may be set free from sin and
sickness — he must accept the Spiritual Revelation that we identify ourselveswith the Spiritual and Absolute now — giving no thought whatever to the
healing of any human being, human thinking or human body. It is the Truth
that we shall KNOW — not the false which we shall heal! This requires purity
of Heart, and a love for the Real that is strong enough to yield oneself completely, obediently and fully to It.
"Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” Matt.
4:10. If one wants to get rid of a shadow on the floor, let him remove the thing
that is casting the shadow. No amount of scrubbing will affect it. Forms of
sickness, sorrow, limitation, are shadows which can be cancelled only by the
reorientation of oneself — his abandonment of false identification with human
mind, human body, human man and human existence — and his identification
of himself as Spiritual Being in Spiritual Existence. This identification releaseshim from the false belief or dream, and spontaneously he expresses the natural
Harmony of Being.
"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness — Reality and Truth
— and all these things shall be added unto you." — Matthew 6:33. People ask
— "Do you mean for me to see my mind filled with right thoughts? Do you
mean for me to see perfection in this body which I feed, bathe and dress?" The
answer to both questions is — NO.
Look to nothing that has the appearance of imperfection and duality — look away from it. Look where Jesus looked when he "lifted up his eyes.‖ — John
11:14. Only with Spiritual Vision can one see Reality.
Where did Jesus place his attention when "he looked up to heaven"? — Luke
6:41.
Where shall we look to see the Perfect only? We shall look into Pure
Consciousness. Pure Consciousness is Heaven.
We shall see the Real by the Real, and know the Divine by the Divine.
Find God in yourself — as Pure Consciousness — then away go both the dream
and the dreamer. All the mind-training in the world will never fit one to look
into Spiritual Consciousness or to see the Real by Spiritual Consciousness. This
cannot be done until the heart is pure enough to see spiritually. In order for it to
be pure, it must be humble; and in order for it to be humble, it must be
unadulterated by beliefs in human minds and human existence — beliefs in
All are alike equipped to behold spiritually — but how many are willing to
leave the ways of thought in order to see with the Heart? Jesus said that manygo in at the Wide gate, and few there be that find the Narrow Way.
Changing wrong thoughts into right thoughts, hateful thoughts into loving
thoughts, sick thoughts into healthy thoughts, may prove elevating and beneficial for a time — but never will it take one out of human existence wheretribulation is without end. Thus he shall continue to experience frustration,
suffering and fear so long as his false identification lasts.
"Look unto Me!" — Isaiah 45:20. Does this Me refer to personal mind or body?
WHO is this ME? It is your Perfect Immaculate Self, Mind and Being — which
is unrelated to what you call your human self, human mind and human being. It
is your Perfect, Immaculate Body — which is unrelated to the one you feed,
bathe and dress.
What will stop false beliefs, wrong thoughts, sinful actions? Your identification
as Divine Mind, Divine Life, Divine Being — none else. Where is Light which
will swallow up darkness? Where is Wholeness, Harmony and Blessedness
which one craves? They are within us — within our power to see, accept,
believe, take, love and be — as the All-in-All.
"Physician, heal thyself!" — Luke 4:23. Free yourself by the Christ-Light —
True Identification — leaving the false for the True, the Broad way for the Waythat is Narrow and Strait. The time is now at hand when we shall experiencethe mighty Truth in the Promise: "He that believeth in Me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never
die.‖ — John 11:25,26.
Sin brings suffering, sorrow and death. One would consider it sinful to stealfrom another — but does he consider it a sin to be sick and in need of healing?
to be in want? to be unhappy or grieved? Generally — No. Rather does he set
about to find someone or something to take away his suffering or limitation in a
physical or mental way.
Let one look to himself — and let him consider his own state of false belief.Let him know that when he believes falsely, he is living in disobedience to his
own Being — God — accepting sinful thoughts about the Self, about Body and
World — instead of turning from these beliefs to Reality Itself — the Universe
of Pure Consciousness.
What is sin but acceptance of false beliefs and false identification? ONLY
THROUGH TRUE BELIEF AND TRUE IDENTIFICATION CAN SIN BEREMOVED.
True belief and True Identification is Christ — the Light of the World.
One speaks of "bones stiff and joints fixed.‖ How is lie to lose such belief? He
is not to treat mind, body, thoughts or disease, nor to apply Reality to unreality.
He is to know such false belief to be a sin against his Pure and Perfect Selfhood.
Let him ask himself if he wants to be sinful.
From his Heart, he will hear the right answer.
When one is willing to confess his sin, and turn from it, and when his love for
the Perfect is Pure and Strong enough, it can absorb the false belief then and
there. When we love the Real and the True as our very Own, then our Light is
great and mighty enough to completely fill us — so that there is no darkness in
us. This is the Way of the Absolute.
Reader, shall you be one to take this Way? It is a sin to believe that Life can be
sick, weak, discordant.
Said the Christ: "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin,
but now they have no cloak for their sin.” — John 15:22. If the Message of the
Absolute had not come — transcending that of Metaphysics — we would have
continued reconditioning minds and thoughts — serving other gods — not
finding the One God to be within us always.
Without the Revelation that we are Truth Itself — not students of It — that weare Life Itself, not expressions of It — one would still be looking to another
God, obeying personalities — not seeing that everyone must have Revelation
for himself — in fact, this is his ONLY way to Life Everlasting. There is no
excuse, now, for anyone. If he remains longer on the Broad way which leads to
destruction — instead of identifying himself spontaneously with the Way whichleads unto Life — he is denying his own Selfhood.
"If we deny Him, he will also deny us.” — 2 Timothy 2:12. If one refuses to
identify himself with his Real Being, and Real Existence — after he has been
shown the great necessity that he do so — he shall be denied the Freedom, Joy
and Glory of Spiritual Life and Blessedness.
No one can breathe for another, eat or drink for another.
Likewise, each shall need to make his own departure from false identification
and false beliefs — each shall need to confess his sin — and spontaneously
identify himself as the Divine Alone, the Perfect Alone, the Self which is the
Changing from one form of mental treatment to another, while still remaining in
the belief that one is an individual consciousness, living in a human existence, islike changing horses in midstream. The One-Way is to get out of the imperfect
belief into the Perfect Understanding, out of the false into the True, out of
mortal beliefs into Everlasting Life Itself — out of man into God.
In the mental way, one can declare that he is a perfect and spiritual Idea — buthe cannot know that he is Life Itself.
This Immaculate Concept comes to him only when he loves the Real and the
Absolute more than all else. There is no mental way to the Real. The only way
to the Real is by the Heart's acceptance of the Real and the Perfect as his ONLY
Existence — and his abandonment of all other beliefs.
The only Way to the Real is by being the Real. The only Way to see, hear andfeel Reality, in the Spiritual World, is to LOVE and ACCEPT this Reality as
our very Own.
Regardless what your "problem" seems to be, it exists in your belief that you are
a man, a personality or an individual living in a human existence. No one
should expect or hope to live in a human existence and enjoy the fullness and
completeness of Spiritual Existence. It is an utter impossibility.
All efforts to apply the Truth are based upon the assumptive state of humanexistence. The sooner that one discovers that never can he express the Truthfrom the state of the untrue, or manifest the Real from the state of the unreal,
the sooner will he be ready to accept the Message of the Absolute - in its
Beauty, Purity and Reality.
How shall I pay my legitimate debts? How shall I solve this or heal that? Thereis but one Answer to all such queries. It is this: Abandon the belief that you are
a man, living in human existence. Stop all identification with the human.
Live in Spiritual Existence, be Spiritual Being. Think as Divine Mind now!
Love as Divine Love now! Abide in and as the Perfect now! Not until the
prodigal left the far country did he find himself in the Father's house — and notuntil WE depart from the human by a New and Living Way — the Way of True
Identification do we find ourselves in Spiritual Existence, where "the former
things are passed away." — Revelation 21:4 Therefore, the efforts to
demonstrate — to apply — to utilize — to handle — to overcome — to heal —
must be relegated to the past if one would have and enjoy the Abundance,
Wholeness, Harmony and Effulgence of the Real, the True and the Divine.
The Absolute Way is the Christ Way. It is I AM — it is not I-will-be when I
heal or when I overcome. The words I AM signify the present tense.
Be alone with your own Being — God — long enough for you to consider this
vitally momentous question: henceforth, which way shall I take — the Broad or
the Narrow? Henceforth, with whom shall I identify myself — with theimperfect or the Perfect? The human or the Divine? The student or the Truth?The idea or Divine Mind? The reflection or the Original? The individual of the
One? Man or God?
Seek nothing in a human existence. Live and abide in the Spiritual. Here you
have everything ... you find everything. Here you are not in need of a human
companion, a material home or physical harmony. You have Spiritual
companions, Spiritual home, Spiritual Harmony, Spiritual Joy, Peace and
Abundance. When you accept this Way, when you love and abide in this Way — you are in the Christ Way, the New and Living Way, the Absolute Way.
Finally, all needs shall be cancelled, and shall be absorbed, in one Way alone —
the reorientation of oneself from the false belief that he lives in a human
existence, to the Spiritual Realization that he lives in Spiritual Existence; and
from the false belief that he is another beside the One, to the Spiritual
