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Keep A True Lent
The Garden of Eden
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5th Day, Monday. Read John 14:1-12.
Man's body temple is the outer expression of the Garden of
Eden, which God gave him to keep and to trim. Man's primary
work in the earthly consciousness (the Garden) is to use
his creative power to preserve harmony and order in his
world, and to conserve his powers for divine direction.
The Garden of Eden represents a region of being within, in
which are provided all primal ideas for the production of
the beautiful. It represents the elemental life and
intelligence placed at the disposal of man, through which
he is to evolve a spiritual mind and a spiritual body.
The Garden is the spiritual body in which man dwells when
he brings forth thoughts after the pattern of the original
divine ideas. The Garden is the substance of God.
God's greatest gift to man is the power of thought, through
which he can incorporate into his consciousness the Mind of
God.
There are twelve gates which open into this wonderful
Garden of Eden. These gates are the twelve faculties of
mind: faith, strength, wisdom, love, power, imagination,
understanding, will, law or order, zeal, renunciation,
life. Each faculty, through the most accelerated mind
action, as in prayer, has been purified and therefore opens
into the very heart of the Holy City within.
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I affirm: "My body is the temple of God, cleansed,
purified, undefiled, made perfect. Praise God!"
Faith
6th Day, Tuesday. Read Hebrews 11:1-12.
Faith is the perceiving power of the mind linked with a
power to shape substance. It is spiritual assurance, the
power to do the seemingly impossible. It is a force that
draws to us our heart's desire right out of the invisible
spiritual substance. It is a deep inner knowing that that
which is sought is already ours for the taking, the
"assurance of things hoped for."
Faith working in spiritual substance accomplishes all
things. This is the faith that co-operates with creative
law. Exercised in spiritual consciousness, it finds its
abode, and without variation or disappointment it brings
results that are seemingly miraculous.
Faith in the reality of things spiritual develops the faith
center in man's brain. When the mental eye is illumined
with faith, it sheds a radiance that hovers like a halo
around the head and extends in lessening degree throughout
the whole body. "When thine eye is single, thy whole body
also is full of light."
The halo that the early artists painted around the heads of
the saints was not imaginary, but real. This illuminating
power of faith covers the whole
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constitution of man, making him master of all the forces
centering about spiritual consciousness.
I realize that my faith in the invisible is building a real
abiding substance in my mind and in my body. Spiritual
ideas grow quickly when planted in the rich soil of my
mind, and my body temple changes accordingly.
I affirm: "I have faith in the glorious infusion of the
more abundant life of Christ vitalizing me. I am lifted up
and healed."
Strength
7th Day, Wednesday. Read Matthew 4:1-11.
Strength is freedom from weakness; stability of character,
power to withstand temptation. It is the force or power to
do, capacity to accomplish. "The name of Jehovah is a
strong tower; the righteous runneth into it, and is safe."
Strength originates in Spirit; the thought and the word
spiritually expressed bring the manifestation.
Jesus is the greatest teacher. He is the type that I am
striving to follow, not only in spiritual culture and in
mind culture, but in body culture. By faithfully studying
and using the methods of Jesus I am bringing forth the very
best that is in me.
Through Christ the mind and the body of man have the power
of using strength on various planes of consciousness. I
affirm that I am steadfast and strong in thought and in
deed, and thus I am
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establishing strength in soul and in body. I refuse to let
the thought of weakness enter my consciousness, but always
ignore the suggestion and affirm myself to be a tower of
strength within and without.
Supreme strength as demonstrated by Jesus can be attained
by one who trusts in Spirit and conserves his vital
substance. The strength of Spirit is necessary to the
perpetuation of soul and body and to the overcoming of
death.
As I relax more and more and lift my consciousness to
harmonize with the ever-present perfect Mind, I am
invigorated and restored to stabilizing power. No harm can
befall me. I am made strong through Spirit.
I affirm: "The joy of the Lord is a wellspring within me,
and I am established in divine strength."
Wisdom
8th Day, Thursday. Read Matthew 7:1-12.
Wisdom is of Spirit. One can get flashes of understanding
at any time, but the clear light of the Supreme shines
steadily on us as we become obedient and receptive to the
Supreme's monitions. Jesus always listened for the "inner
voice," and was obedient to it in His meek and lowly work
among the humblest class of men.
Spiritual discernment always places wisdom above the other
faculties of mind. It is pure knowing, and comes by
kindling the inner light. "The wisdom
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that is from above is first pure, then peaceable."
This means that as I call the righteous judge into action I
may find my standards of right and wrong undergoing rapid
changes, but if I hold steadily to the Lord as my supreme
guide, I shall be led into all righteousness.
As I dwell upon this all-knowing faculty within, I become
conscious of the Christ radiance lighting my mind, and my
whole being is illumined. My thoughts are quickened through
their conscious relationship to Spirit. I am flooded with
new life, which raises my organism above the disintegrating
thought currents of the earth; and thus I am not only
redeeming my mind, but am also saving the flesh from
corruption.
Spiritual understanding reveals that the resurrection of
the body from death is not to be confined to Jesus, but is
for all men who comprehend Truth and apply it as Jesus
applied it.
Realizing that I am awakening to the reality of my higher
self, I affirm: "Christ within me is my glory. The
brightness of His presence wipes out all darkness, and I am
filled with life and light."
Love
9th Day, Friday. Read I John 4:7-21.
Love, in Divine Mind, is the idea of universal unity. In
expression, it is the power that joins and binds together
the universe and everything in it. Love is a harmonizing,
constructive power. When it
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is made active in consciousness, it conserves substance and
reconstructs, rebuilds, and restores man and his world.
As I make a perfect union between my mind and the loving
mind of the Father, I realize a goodness everlasting and
joy beyond expression. The point of contact is a
willingness and a seeking on my part. "Seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."
Love is that mighty power, that divine quality of God that
is expressing through all mankind, and cannot be suppressed
by any outside force. I now firmly declare that it is
expressing through me, and that no environment or external
condition can hinder it. Any unloving condition of the
world is no bar to my exercise of love; in fact, it is an
incentive.
I am not afraid to pour out my love on all the so-called
evil of the world. I deny the appearance of evil, and
affirm the omnipotence of love and goodness.
The word love overcomes hate, resistance, opposition,
obstinacy, anger, jealousy, and all other error states
where there is mental or physical friction. As divine love
enters into the thought process, every cell of my body is
poised and balanced in space, in right mathematical order
as to weight and relative distance.
In quietness and confidence, I affirm: "God, in His love,
fills me with new life. In His name I am cleansed,
strengthened, and healed."
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Power
10th Day, Saturday. Read Luke 4:31-44.
Man controls his thoughts and his feelings by the use of
his innate power. A quickening from on high must precede
his realization of dominion. "Ye shall receive power, when
the Holy Spirit is come upon you."
Man is the power of God in action. The power to control his
thinking is the highest gift given to man. There is a
universal, creative force that urges man forward to the
recognition of the creative power of individual thought.
The word Jehovah (Christ) is charged with spiritual power
far above and beyond any other word in human language.
The power center in the throat is the open door between the
formless and the formed worlds of vibration pertaining to
the expression of sound. When the voice has united with the
life of the soul, it takes on a sweetness and a depth that
one feels and remembers. But sweeter and deeper still is
the voice of one who has made union with Spirit and can say
with Jesus, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words
shall not pass away."
I cultivate a loving attitude of mind toward everybody, and
my voice is rich, warm, and mellow. As I pray and realize
spiritual dominion, I feel vital and energetic and my voice
is strong and vibrant and brilliant. Through these
vibrations I feel
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the power of unity with the higher self more quickly than
in any other way. "All power is given unto me in heaven
[mind] and in earth [body]."
In His name I affirm: "All the issues of my life are
stirred to action by the quickening Christ power, and I
have dominion over my thoughts and my feelings."
Imagination
2d Sunday. Read Acts 10:9-35.
The imagination is that faculty of mind which images and
forms. Everything that is manifest was first a mental
picture and was brought into expression by this forming
power. Man accumulates a mass of ideas about substance and
life, and with his imagination he molds them into shape.
Those who look to the Holy Spirit for guidance find that
its instruction is given to all who believe in Christ, and
the command is to make all things after the pattern shown
Moses on the Mount as found in Exodus 25:40.
The Spirit of truth projects into the chamber of imagery
pictures that, rightly understood, will be a sure guide for
all people who believe in the omnipresence of mind. The
imagination will carry out any idea or set of ideas that
the I AM reflects into it, hence theories are not to be
trusted. There must be evidence in works. This is
accomplished by the working power of the world.
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With my imagination I lay hold of perfect ideas and clothe
them with substance. My body is the product of my mind. In
my communication with God, the imagining power of my mind
is playing an important part. It receives divine ideas, and
in dreams and visions reflects their character in the
consciousness. According to the Scriptures this is the
opening of the heavens and the seeing the "angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of man."
With my imagination fixed on Spirit, I affirm: "In the
quietness and confidence of Spirit, I see myself as God
sees me, His perfect image and likeness."
Understanding
11th Day, Monday. Read Luke 2:40:52.
Spiritual understanding is the ability of the mind to
apprehend and realize the laws of thought and the relation
of ideas one to another. It is that something through which
we understand God and ourselves.
Understanding reveals that love and wisdom should work
together, that power should be expressed through love, and
zeal should be tempered with wisdom.
Intellectual understanding comes first in the soul's
development, then a deeper understanding of Principle
follows, until the whole man ripens into wisdom.
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Those who are being educated in Truth through the power of
the word will finally arrive at the place where the true
light from Spirit will dawn on them, and they will see with
spiritual understanding and have proof of the reality of
the Christ Mind.
I realize that God is supreme knowing. That in me which
comprehends is understanding; it knows and compares in
wisdom. Its comparisons are not made in the realm of form,
but in the realm of ideas. Understanding is that in me
which knows how to accomplish things. I claim my Christ
understanding at all times.
If willfulness of the mortal tries to take over, I gently
deny it power, and affirm for spiritual understanding. At
all times I hold for absolute freedom in the Lord. God is
the one principle; we are all as free to use God as we are
free to use the principle of mathematics or music. The
principle never interferes, but if it is to be rightly
applied, I must develop understanding.
I affirm: "Divine understanding in me unites with the Holy
Spirit, and I always know what to do."
Will
12th Day, Tuesday. Read John 1:1-18.
The will is the executive power of the mind. The
commandments of Jesus teach the Father's will. Those who
keep them are therefore at one with the will of God.
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It is possible to get very close to the kingdom of heaven
by doing good works and surrendering to Spirit the various
faculties of the mind, but we can never fully enter into
and abide in heaven, or divine harmony, without
surrendering all that makes up the personality, of which
the will is the center.
The will may be said to be the man, because it is the
directive power that determines character formation. When
man wills the will of God to be done, he forms spiritual
character. The use of the regenerate will is for the sole
purpose of spiritual unfoldment.
When the will of man adheres to wisdom faithfully, and
carries out in its work the plans that are idealized in
wisdom, it creates in man a consciousness of harmony and
peace. Spirit breathes into such an individual continually
the necessary inspiration and knowledge to give him
superior understanding.
I bring the divine will to bear in my consciousness by
understanding, by appropriating universal wisdom, by
affirming, "Not my will, but thine, be done." God is
potential, unformed will; man is manifest God will. I now
link my will with the principle of divine force in order to
develop superior executive capacity. After this manner I am
swiftly bringing forth faculties that under the slow action
of mortality would take ages to develop.
I affirm: "The will of God is uppermost in my
consciousness, and I am glorified in my understanding."
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Law
13th Day, Wednesday. Read Galatians 6:1-10, 16.
Divine law is the logical process by which divine
principle, or God, manifests. The inner spirit of the law
is the spiritual way of life that Jesus taught and lived.
Divine law is the universal something in us of which we all
are conscious, and tells us when we are doing right and
when we are doing wrong. It may be defined as the innate
knowing of right and wrong, and this knowing may be
quickened. The quickening does not come by the study of
material things, but by concentrating the mind on the
Christ. Man does not make the law; the law is, and it was
established for our benefit before the world was formed.
There is a law of spiritual and mental growth constantly at
work in the mind, raising man from sense consciousness to
spiritual consciousness. The nature of the universe is
purity and goodness. Abiding in the Christ consciousness,
man aligns himself with divine law. He becomes "the light
of the world."
Today I find I am one with the infinite law of
expansion--one with the principle of never-ceasing growth
and development toward the fulfillment of God's perfect
idea that is firmly infixed in all creation.
Divine law cannot be broken. It holds man responsible for
the result of his labors. "The law of
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the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" is the action of true
ideas working in my mind and in my body.
I affirm: "My house is set in order, and I press forward
toward the goal of perfection."
Zeal
14th Day, Thursday. Read Luke 10:30-42; 11:1-4.
Zeal is the affirmative impulse of existence; its command
is, "Go forward!" Zeal is the mighty force that incites all
things to action; the eternal urge behind all things. To be
without zeal is to be without the zest of living. Zeal and
enthusiasm incite to glorious achievement in every ideal
that the mind conceives.
Zeal should be tempered with wisdom. Some persons get so
fired with zeal when they first tackle a job, that they
quickly grow tired, and fail to carry it through to
completion. The need is for control, equalization.
Watch the pull of a giant locomotive; note how it slowly
but steadily moves forward, almost by inches at first but
gradually increasing until its mile-long train swiftly
disappears in the distance.
"The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up" means that the
zeal faculty has become so active intellectually that it
has consumed the vitality and left nothing for spiritual
growth. Excessive zeal in religious forms of worship eats
up the purely spiritual. When we become very zealous in
observing the
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rites of the church we are prone to forget the church
itself, which is Christ.
The divine command is, "Take time to be holy." I am quick
to do the bidding of Spirit and use a portion of my zeal in
establishing God's kingdom within me. I do not put all my
enthusiasm into helping others; my own unfoldment is of
great importance to me. I love to aid my brother, but I do
not allow that idea to rob me of the power to demonstrate
Truth for myself.
I affirm: "My zeal is tempered with wisdom, and I maintain
a perfect balance within and without."
Renunciation
l5th Day, Friday. Read Matthew 18:21-35.
The accumulated effects of sins of past lives, is a burden
that those who accept it expect to carry for ages, or until
they work out of it. They are weary treadmill travelers
from birth to death. There is no such hopeless note in the
doctrine of Jesus. He came to bring a full consciousness of
abundant life, complete forgiveness, redemption from all
sin, and victory over death and the grave.
The law is Truth, and the truth is that all is good. There
is no power and no reality in sin. If sin were real and
enduring, like goodness and Truth, it could not be forgiven
but would hold its victim forever. As I enter into the
understanding of the real and the unreal, a great light
dawns on me, and
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I see what Jesus meant when He said, "The Son of man hath
authority on earth to forgive sins."
The Son of man is that in me which discerns the difference
between Truth and error. As I get this understanding, I am
in position to free my soul from sin and my body from
disease, which is the effect of sin. In spiritual
understanding the I AM of man forgives or "gives" Truth
"for" error; the mind is set in order, and the body healed.
The moment man realizes this he puts himself in harmony
with the Truth of Being, and the law wipes out all his
transgressions.
In His name I affirm: "The law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus makes me free from the law of sin and of
death."
Life
16th Day, Saturday. Read John 4:1-26.
Life is a phase of Being, the expression of which manifests
as animation, activity, and vigor. The consciousness of
eternal life places one in the stream of life that never
fails.
The whole race needs a spiritual quickening of the life
principle; its origin is in Divine Mind. Life is the gift
of God. "Stir up the gift of God, which is in thee." To
think intently about life is to quicken it into action. To
talk about energy, force, power, life, will make the life
currents flow swiftly throughout the whole being.
To Jesus the God presence was an abiding flame
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--a flame of life everlasting that He felt in every cell of
His body making Him more and more alive, cleansing and
purifying Him until He became every whit perfect.
By mastering carnality Jesus opened the way for all men to
attain eternal life. During our higher realizations of
Truth we are often conscious of this abiding flame working
in and through us.
I now make alive all the cells in my organism by mentally
infusing into them the Christ consciousness. This is the
new birth, which is transforming my body and raising it to
electrical energy. This was carried to its fulfillment by
Jesus in the resurrection of His body. The next step in
divine evolution is the spiritualization of the body, or
the Ascension.
The quickening life in me is now brought into expression by
my holding and repeating this statement of Truth:
"I have the Mind of Christ. My words are spiritually
quickened and they are alive forevermore. I am filled with
the vitality and vigor and health of Jesus Christ."
Conservation
3d Sunday. Read Isaiah 55:1-13.
We should ever remember that our youth, which we love so
well, never really dies; it merely falls asleep in the
realm of the subconscious. People grow old because they let
the youth idea fall asleep. By using spiritual
understanding they can awaken it.
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The awakening of youthful energies is necessary to one in
the regeneration. The body cannot be refined and made, like
its Creator, eternal before all the thoughts necessary to
its perpetuation are revived in it.
Jesus represents man in the regeneration; that is, man in
the process of restoring his body to its pristine purity
where it will live on perpetually without old age, disease,
or death. A necessary step in this process of body
restoration is the quickening of the vitalizing energies in
the subconsciousness that feed the body and give it the
life force that renews its youth. Eternal youth is one of
the God-given ideas that man loves.
Waste of substance is the great sin that results in body
disintegration. It is the sense mind that causes all waste,
whether in the organism or in the more external realm
called the world. Jesus came to save men from sin and to
make them ready for an abundant entrance into the glorious
kingdom of Christ, which is to be established on the earth.
We can get at the subject of conservation definitely by
considering the life "hid with Christ in God," for the
hidden protected life is the conserved life.
I now make conscious union with the substance of all
spiritual attributes as I affirm:
"Through Christ the divine economy is active in me, and I
conserve the spiritual essences in all phases of my life."
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Jesus Christ Our Helper
17th Day, Monday. Read Romans 8:1-11.
If God had not planned to make Jesus a continuous working
factor in our civilization there would be no good purpose
for His having been sent, and for the great sacrifice that
He made. He came to show us "the way, and the truth, and
the life," and He promised "Lo, I am with you always." He
also promised that He would be with us as a teacher. "When
he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into
all the truth."
No one is overlooked. The helpful hand of Jesus is extended
to all. Whoever you are, wherever you are, Jesus in His
spiritual consciousness is waiting for your mental
recognition. Whatever your object, He will show you how to
attain it. "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I
do."
Jesus developed the innate powers of mind and body and
thereby became a citizen of the heavens or realms where
dwell the sons of God. He did this by the power of His
word--by releasing the imprisoned electrons of His body and
raising them to spiritual consciousness.
Why do we not see Jesus? Optics show that man's eyes are
limited in sight. They are aware of rays of light within a
very narrow range. The microscope reveals a world of living
things to which the natural eye is utterly oblivious. Both
below and above the range of human vision living entities
exist. We
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sometimes feel the presence of what we cannot see.
Affirm: "I rejoice in the restorative power of Jesus Christ
now working mightily in a new consciousness of life in my
soul and body."
Evolution
18th Day, Tuesday. Read Romans 8:18-39.
In every man the Christ, or the Word of God, is infolded;
it is an idea that contains ideas.
Evolution is the result of the development of ideas in
mind. What we are is the result of the evolution of our
consciousness, and our consciousness is the result of the
seed ideas sown in our mind. Therefore spiritual evolution
is the unfolding of the Spirit of God into expression. It
is the development achieved by man working under spiritual
law. Humanity is the garden of God, of which the soil is
the omnipresent thought substance.
The Christ, or Word (Son) of God evolution of man is
plainly taught in the New Testament as the supreme
attainment of every man. "For the earnest expectation of
the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God."
Without some evidence in us of the Christ man we are little
better than animals. When through faith in the reality of
things spiritual we begin soul evolution there is great
rejoicing; "we rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
Christianity teaches the complete law of evolution.
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"God said," and thus God created that which was to appear,
God planned man and the universe, and through His word
projected them into creation as ideal principles and
immanent energies acting behind and within all visibility.
I affirm: "I am one with the ever unfolding, ever
increasing Spirit of divine understanding. My whole
consciousness is ripening into perfection."
The Blood of Jesus
19th Day, Wednesday. Read John 6:41-65.
Through the power of His word Jesus purified and
spiritualized the natural blood in His body until it became
a spiritual life stream, into which all may enter and be
cleansed.
Through the power of His word Jesus broadcast the spiritual
electrons of His body into the race thought atmosphere,
that they may be apprehended by all who believe in Him.
This Lenten season I realize that I am baptized in His
spiritual life stream, and am purified and cleansed. The
electrons of His blood, which I appropriate, are centers of
energy and life within, and they uplift and strengthen me.
Jesus called the bread He had blessed His body and the wine
His blood. As I appropriate words of Truth, "eat them" so
to speak, I partake of the substance and life of Spirit and
build the Christ body. Thus I partake of the body and blood
of Jesus, the
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true sacrament that vitalizes the body by renewing the mind.
The blood of Jesus in me is the life contained in God. The
crown of life is attained by living eternally in the
presence of God. Attainment depends on the understanding of
the science of right thinking. My way to eternal life lies
in my acknowledgment of my oneness with the Christ of God.
In His name I am gradually transforming and regenerating my
blood and my body. Thus I am saved by Jesus Christ.
Realizing victory over every limited belief of the mortal,
I affirm: "I rejoice in the restorative power of Jesus'
blood now working mightily in me to renew, to restore, and
to make every whit whole."
The Body Temple
20th Day, Thursday. Read Matthew 6:16-34.
God created the idea of the body as a self-perpetuating,
self-renewing organism, which man reconstructs into his
personal body. God created the body idea, and man, by his
thinking manifests.
I realize that I shall have a perfect body and a perfect
world when I understand and use the perfect word, the word
that contains all the attributes of God. Therefore, I
declare that my words are being charged with a full
understanding of Divine Mind and its inhering ideas, and
that I consciously apply this understanding in all of my
feeling, thinking,
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speaking, and living and am therefore steadily putting on
the Christ in mind and body.
Overcoming step by step the limitations of material
thought, my body becomes more refined and increasingly
radiant.
The law is that my body is transformed by the renewing of
the mind. By affirmation the mind lays hold of living words
of Truth and builds them into the body. As I enter into and
abide in the Son of God consciousness I have eternal life
and my body is transformed into pure flesh manifesting the
perfection of Spirit.
To bless is to invoke good on that which is blessed. It is
to confer God's good on something or someone. Therefore I
bless my body temple, and declare its purity and strength
and beauty. I pour out upon my body temple the oil of love
and clothe it in garments of praise.
Realizing that the body of Christ in me is the result of my
spiritual thought that maintains its unity with Spirit even
in manifestation, I affirm:
"The Word of God in me quickens my mind, and my body is
transformed into the likeness of His glorious body."
The Grace of God
21st Day, Friday. Read Matthew 5:17-20, 38-48. "As far as
the east is from the west,
So far hath he removed our transgressions from us."
Grace means good will, favor, disposition to
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show mercy. Therefore, we do not hold ourselves as bond
servants of the law, but as recipients of the grace of God,
as sons of the Most High.
The grace of God extends to all people, not alone to one
sect or creed. All men are equal in favor with God.
The grace of God is greater than the laws of man. We may
make certain laws and restrictions for ourselves and "his
servants ye are whom ye obey." If we are servants of the
law, our obedience is unto death; if we are servants of
righteousness, our obedience is unto life. To become
recipients of that which the Father would bestow, we should
take the element of grace into consideration; that even
beyond what we ask, seek, earn, or deserve under the law,
God is more than willing to give.
God, as the great creative principle of the universe, will
always meet us more than half way. By becoming receptive to
the "grace of God," we receive the measure of God's
provision, which exceeds any of our imaginings.
I realize that "grace and truth came through Jesus Christ";
that is, the real saving, redeeming, transforming power
comes to me through the work that Jesus did in establishing
for the race a new and higher consciousness in the earth. I
enter into that consciousness by faith in Him and by means
of the inner spirit of the law that He taught and practiced.
I affirm: "Through the grace of God I am forgiven and
healed."
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Fourth Dimension
22d Day, Saturday. Read John 21:1-17.
The fourth dimension is that which embraces and encompasses
the other three; it is realization, the doing away with
time and space and all conditions. It is the process in
which forms lose their apartness and become one under
divine law. The human mind, with its limited reasoning
faculties, is bound by time, space, and conditions. By
itself it can get no further into the spiritual realm than
reason will take it; but when we invoke the aid of the
Christ in us we go beyond reason into the realm of pure
realization; then we have attained the consciousness of
pure be-ing, the fourth dimension of the being.
The one way to enter the realm of the fourth dimension, or
of realization, is through scientific prayer, commonly
named "the silence." First, I take with me the word Jehovah
and go within and hold it steadily in mind, until the word
illumines the whole inner consciousness. I am now
functioning in the fourth dimension, and the way is open
for concentrating on the prayer I have in mind for the
special demonstration.
I fix my attention powerfully on the consummation of an
idea until the idea has nucleated a certain amount of
thought substance, and I am assured that it will be
followed by that silent power of thought which, working
throughout my whole being, is bringing forth the thing
desired.
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When my thoughts radiate with the speed of spiritual light,
they blend with creative Mind (called by Jesus "heaven"),
and that which I ask for is done.
I affirm: "The illuminating power of Truth awakens and
quickens my consciousness, and I discern clearly."
The Sabbath
4th Sunday. Read Mark 2:23-28; 3:1-6.
The true Sabbath is the consciousness that we have
fulfilled the divine law in both thought and act.
The sabbath is a very certain, definite thing. It is a
state of mind that man enters or acquires when he goes into
the silence, into the realm of Spirit. There he finds true
rest and peace. The seventh day means the seventh or
perfect stage of one's spiritual unfoldment. Man had become
so lost in the darkness of sense consciousness that he
could not save himself, so the Saviour came. When man lays
hold of the indwelling Christ, the Saviour, he is raised
out of the Adam consciousness into the Christ
consciousness. He then enters the seventh stage of his
unfoldment, where he finds sweet rest and peace.
The Sabbath as an institution was established by man. God
does not rest from His work every seventh day, and there is
no evidence that there has ever been a moment's cessation
in the activity of the universe. We do not quarrel with our
brother over the observance
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of the Sabbath. If he says we should worship God on the
seventh day, or on the first day, in either case we
acquiesce. Not only do we do God's service in praise, song,
and thanksgiving on the seventh day and the first day, but
every day. In the true Sabbath our mind is turned to God
every moment, and we are ever ready to acknowledge His holy
presence in our heart and life. "The sabbath was made for
man, and not man for the sabbath."
I affirm: "I rest in the consciousness of the true Sabbath,
and my heart is filled with joy and satisfaction."
The Idea
23d Day, Monday. Read Luke 5:141.
In the Scriptures ideas are symbolized by fish. An idea is
the original, primary, or unlimited thought of Being: in
God-Mind, the eternal Word or Logos. In the idea are
involved all the potentialities of that which is to be
evolved through man. The idea itself becomes the evolving
power through which it makes itself manifest.
Ideas are catching. We are all heavily charged with ideas.
When ideas are released they spring forth and pass from
mind to mind, being "recorded" as they fly; when they are
expressed the whole race is lifted up--because true ideas
are charged with the uplifting Spirit. We bring divine
ideas into manifestation by making ourselves one with them,
becoming
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conscious of our indwelling Christ Mind and our oneness
with the Father.
As the son is to the father, so is the idea to the mind.
Mind is one with its ideas, so the Father--God-Mind--is one
with its offspring, the idea--the Son. Mind is coexistent
with its ideas, and there is continual interaction and
communion. The Father and the Son are one--are coexisting,
interacting, and intercommuning in will and purpose. It was
from the grand idea of divine life that Jesus healed the
sick and raised the dead.
Spiritual inspiration in me is an inflow of divine ideas;
activity of a spiritual character; understanding that comes
from God. It is the inbreathing of Spirit. The breath of
God infused into me has endowed me with super-life. "He
breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy
Spirit."
I affirm: "In the presence and power of the Christ idea in
me, I proclaim my perfection."
Healing
24th Day, Tuesday. Read Matthew 9:14-38.
Health, real health, is from within and does not have to be
manufactured in the without. It is the normal condition of
man, a condition true to the reality of his being.
The first step in all spiritual healing is the using of
faith, and the next step is to become open and receptive to
the stream of healing life. Spiritual
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healing restores to perpetual health because it erases the
error thought and cleanses the mind.
Through the exercise of faith and our word, our spiritual
quality is fused into unity with the power of Christ, and
the healing is marvelously accomplished.
It is said that the early Christians, before going forth to
do their mighty works, commanded the new life in Christ to
come forth and to imbue their consciousness with its
healing potency to such an extent that it would flow
through them and heal all those to whom they ministered.
They discovered that when they repeated over and over the
most powerful prayer Jesus ever uttered, the Lord's Prayer,
the hidden Christ within each one of them was called into
action. They further discovered that the fifteenth time
they realized the prayer the waters of tribulation as well
as all manner of diseases began to subside, and that their
realization lifted the consciousness of those who were
asking their help. All tribulation and disease dropped away.
Experience proves the power of words to bring health. In
healing myself, I talk to my body, repeating necessary
denials and affirmations. This raises my consciousness to
spiritual reality where all healing power originates.
I faithfully affirm: "Through Jesus Christ, God's
vitalizing energy floods my whole being, and I am healed."
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Peace
25th Day, Wednesday. Read Matthew 5:14-40.
"Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all
the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's Thy God's and
truth's."
--Shakespeare
The great thought waves that move the world are set into
action by deep thinkers.
Peace and understanding of spiritual realities arise in the
mind when it has made the inner contact. When we know the
work of Spirit in transforming mind and body, we shall see
that the crushing of personal ambitions releases spiritual
ideas of far-reaching influence.
Jesus went back to the very source of all discord, and
showed how all resistance and antagonism must cease. He did
not stop to argue whether the cause was just or not, but He
said, "Agree with thine adversary quickly"; "If any man
would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him
have thy cloak also." To the mortal mind this seems like
foolishness, but Jesus spoke out of the inner wisdom that
knows that it is dangerous to allow any kind of opposing
thoughts to form in consciousness. He knew that the
universal law of justice would adjust all matters, if men
would trust it and cease fighting mentally for their
rights. This is accomplished by bringing the Christ, the
Prince of Peace, to bear
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in all our affairs. "My peace I give unto you."
I praise God for the peace of my own higher self. I rejoice
and am glad in the possession of the Holy City within. With
my inner vision I see the gates open wide, and holy peace
pervades my consciousness.
I affirm: "My mind is stayed on Thee, and I rest in Thy
peace and power."
Heaven
26th Day, Thursday. Read Matthew 13:24-53.
God idealized two universal planes of consciousness, the
heaven and the earth, or more properly, "the heavens and
the earth." One is the realm of pure ideals; the other, of
thought forms. God does not create the visible universe
directly, as man makes cement pavement, but He creates the
ideas that are used by His intelligent "image" and
"likeness" to make the universe. Thus God's creations are
always spiritual. Man's creations are both material and
spiritual, according to his understanding.
Jesus, of all those claiming intimate acquaintance with
spiritual things, gave heaven definite location. "The
kingdom of God is within you." This kingdom is now ready.
"The fields . . . are white already unto harvest." The
conditions are ripe. But only those come in who are willing
to exchange for it their ideas of earthly possessions.
Every earthly link must be broken, every mortal love
crucified. This is
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the way Jesus entered this kingdom, and His way is the way
we must all employ.
Heaven is everywhere present. It is the orderly, lawful
adjustment of God's kingdom in man's mind, body, and
affairs; it is the Christ consciousness, the realm of
divine ideas, a state of consciousness in harmony with the
thoughts of God. Heaven is within every one of us; a place,
a conscious sphere of mind, having all the attractions
described or imagined as belonging to heaven.
I realize that faith in Spirit and the ultimate dominance
of the good in me will restore me to the heavenly
consciousness from which I descended.
I affirm: "Heaven within is one perfect harmonious life,
substance, and intelligence, and I rejoice."
Principle
27th Day, Friday. Read John 5:19-47.
Principle and Truth are one. Divine Principle is Truth in a
universal sense, or as it pertains to Elohim God.
Satisfaction comes to us as we live according to Principle.
Universal Principle, the oversoul of this planet, was
working its way into expression through Jesus. The same
work that Jesus accomplished is being accomplished by all
men--though perhaps very slowly.
To demonstrate Principle keep establishing yourself in
certain statements (affirmations) of the law.
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The more often you present to your mind a logical and true
proposition, the stronger become the inner feeling of
realization.
As the principle of music moves through tones, so does the
principle of mind move through ideas. Therefore God, as
Principle, moves through the expressed thought of Divine
Mind.
The mind of each individual may be consciously unified with
Divine Mind through the indwelling Christ. By affirming
at-one-ment with God-Mind, we eventually realize the
perfect mind which was in Christ Jesus.
"Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on
an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied
himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the
likeness of men."
I affirm: "Principle is Truth. I know the Truth, and the
Truth makes me free."
Miracles
28th Day, Saturday. Read Matthew 14:15-36.
The first miracle in our consciousness is the transforming
of the water of thought into the wine of thought, through
introducing into the consciousness some of the "angels of
God," or true ideas.
In reality miracles are events that take place as a result
of the application of a higher law to certain conditions.
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God never performs miracles, if by miracle is meant a
departure from universal law. Whatever the prophets did was
done by the operation of laws inherent in Being and open to
the discovery of every
man.
By the power of his thought Elijah penetrated the atoms and
precipitated an abundance of rain. Jesus used the same
dynamic power of thought to break the bonds of the atoms
composing the few loaves and fishes of a little lad's
lunch--and five thousand persons were fed.
Science is discovering the miracle-working dynamics of
religion, but science has not yet comprehended the dynamic
directive power of man's thought. All so-called miracle
workers claim that they do not of themselves produce the
marvelous results; that they are only the instruments of a
superior entity.
Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also." As I go on in the exercise of spiritual
faculties I shall strengthen them and understand them
better and I shall cease to talk about anything as
miraculous.
I affirm: "The clear unclouded mind of Jesus Christ
dominates all my thinking, and I discern the omnipresent
laws of Spirit."
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The Overcomer
5th (Passion) Sunday. Read John 20:19-31.
An overcomer is one who recognizes the Truth of his being
and is renewing his mind and body and affairs by changing
his thoughts from the old mortal beliefs to the new as he
sees them in Divine Mind. He is one who demonstrates the
divine law, not only in surface life but in innermost
consciousness. Spiritual power, mastery, and dominion are
attained by the overcomer. "He that overcometh, I will give
to him to sit down with me in my throne."
The way of overcoming is, first, to place one's self by
faith in the realization of sonship, and secondly, to
demonstrate it faithfully in every thought and act. One of
the laws of mind is that man becomes like that with which
he identifies himself. Christ is the one perfect pattern.
Everyone desires to overcome all errors. Each should,
therefore, be wise and identify himself with the Christ.
No external condition or circumstance can hold man in
bondage when he makes mental contact with God.
It was to the overcomer that Jehovah spoke when, through
one of the old prophets, He said, "I will restore to you
the years that the locust hath eaten."
We have many blessings. Begin to praise God for the
abundance of all things; your words will crack the
omnipresent ethers, and good will flow to you from every
direction.
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The work that I have to do as an overcomer for the world is
to help establish a new race consciousness, a new heaven
and a new earth, "wherein dwelleth righteousness." By being
true to my highest understanding of Truth, I never swerve
to the right nor left for any reason.
I affirm: "I am an overcomer, through Jesus Christ and I
rest in the realization of His grace and power."
Patience
29th Day, Monday. Read Hebrews 11:17-40; 12:
1-6.
Patience is a state of mind that beholds the world from the
harmony of the Christ Mind, a freedom from personal
thinking. It is an attitude of mind characterized by poise,
calmness, and a quiet restful trust, especially in the face
of trying conditions. It has its foundation in love. "Great
peace have they that love thy law; and they have no
occasion of stumbling."
The first requisite in the development of patience is
spiritual understanding. The larger our vision of life, the
more freedom we feel, and we are spared the friction and
frettings that come to those who are centered in
personality.
Whether one is patient or not depends on his view of life.
If he is selfish and self-centered and lives in a material
world, bound by his own interests,
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he lacks the qualities that go to make up patience.
We may take the gift of patience and make use of it. We may
receive it by faith, and then work it out in every
department of our being by daily practice of Truth.
Patience gives self-control. We unfold the capacity to
direct our behavior in right ways, a result of spirituality.
I realize that I am feeding my consciousness on divine
patience. When my thoughts are in harmony with divine law,
they develop my body into God's beautiful, indestructible
temple. "Let us run with patience the race that is set
before us, looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of
our faith."
I affirm: "The serene, calm, trustful Spirit now
accomplishes all the desires of my heart. I rest in peace."
Divine Judgment
30th Day, Tuesday. Read Luke 6:37-49.
Human judgment is the mental act of evaluation through
comparison or contrast. Intellectual man always judges his
fellow man. Divine judgment is of spiritual consciousness.
When we awaken to the reality of our divinity, the light
begins to break on us from within, and we know the Truth;
this is the quickening of our judgment faculty. This
faculty may be exercised in two ways: from sense perception
or spiritual understanding. If its action be based
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on sense, its conclusions are fallible and often
condemnatory; if on spiritual understanding, they are safe.
The judgment faculty discerns Truth and balances the
faculties in righteousness. In the Scriptures judgment is
often applied to the action of Divine Mind in its work of
judging, especially to the experiences that come to man
through the working of the law of justice. Man redeems this
faculty by placing it in the Absolute, by declaring and
realizing that its origin is in God and all its conclusions
are based on Truth. This gives a working center from which
the I AM begins to set our thought world in order.
I do not judge others as regards their guilt or innocence.
I consider myself and how I stand in the sight of the
Father. I begin reform with myself. The judgment seat of
Christ is within me, and a judging, or discerning between
the true and the false is going on daily in me as an
overcomer; I am daily reaping the results of my thoughts
and my deed.
I affirm: "My judgment is just, because I seek not my own
will, but the will of the Father."
Spiritual Substance
31st Day, Wednesday. Read Matthew 13: 3-9, 18-23.
There is a kingdom of abundance of all things, and it may
be found by those who seek it and are
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willing to comply with its laws. Substance exists in a
realm of ideas and is powerful when handled by one who is
familiar with its characteristics.
Spiritual substance is the source of all material wealth
and cannot suffer loss or destruction by human thought. It
is always with us, ready to be used and to make the
consciousness potent and fertile. In this connection Jesus
said, "I have meat to eat that ye know not."
Just as the earth is the universal matrix in which all
vegetation develops, so this invisible Spirit substance is
the universal matrix in which ideas of prosperity germinate
and grow and bring forth according to our faith and trust.
I know that any seed words that are planted in omnipresent
Spirit substance will germinate and grow and bring forth
fruit "after their kind." Just as the farmer selects the
best seed for planting, so I must choose the words that
will bring forth the rich harvest of plenty.
To gain control of Spirit substance I grasp it with my
mind; that is, lay hold of the idea back of it. Right
thinking is necessary in using my mind constructively to
bring about right results.
I affirm: "Divine substance flows in all its fullness into
my consciousness and through me as prosperity into all my
affairs."
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The Atonement
32d Day, Thursday. Read John 17:1-26.
Jesus played a most important part in opening the way for
mankind into the Father's kingdom. This was accomplished by
His overcoming the belief in death.
Atonement means the reconciliation between God and men
through Christ. Jesus became the way by which all who
accept Him may "pass over" to the higher consciousness. We
have atonement through Him.
"Christ . . . who his own self bare our sins in his body
upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live
unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed."
The whole race was caught in the meshes of its own thought
and, through drowsy ignorance, would have remained there
had not a break been made in the structure, and the light
of a higher way let in.
If you were held in the meshes of a great spider web, and
someone made a hole through which you could pass, you would
go where the hole was and would make your escape that way.
Jesus made this aperture in the race thought and thus threw
open wide the door into the spiritual realm.
His Christianity had a living God in it, a God that lived
in Him and spoke through Him. It is a religion of life, as
well as purity. Men are to be alive; not merely exist half
dead for a few years and
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then go out with a sputter, like a tallow dip. Christ's men
are to be lights that glow with a perpetual current from
the one omnipresent energy.
Declaring my unity with this power, I affirm: "The
redeeming word of Jesus Christ, 'I am the resurrection, and
the life,' makes me whole and perfect."
Mount of Transfiguration
33d Day, Friday. Read Matthew 17:1-13.
Transfiguration is always preceded by a change of mind. In
transfiguration, ideals are lifted from the material to the
spiritual.
Going up into the mountain to pray means an elevation of
thought and aspiration from the mortal to the spiritual
viewpoint. When the mind is exalted in prayer the rapid
radiation of mental energy causes a dazzling light
radiation from all parts of the body, and especially the
head.
Even our so-called physical body reveals a radiant body,
(which Jesus referred to as sitting on the throne of His
glory), which interlaces the trillions of cells of the
organism and burns brightly. Jesus gave His disciples a
glimpse of His radiant body when He was transfigured before
them. "His face did shine as the sun, and his garments
became white as the light."
He was very advanced in spiritual consciousness and was
developed to a larger degree than anyone else in our race.
But we all have that body of light,
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and its development is in proportion to our spiritual
culture. Jesus did not go down to corruption but, by the
intensity of His spiritual devotions, transformed every
cell into its innate divine light and power. When John was
in the spirit of devotion Jesus appeared to him and "his
eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto
burnished brass." Jesus lives today in that body of
glorified light in a kingdom that interpenetrates the earth
and its environment.
Jesus is my Way-Shower. In His name I affirm: "My mind and
body are radiant with the light of Spirit, and I am
triumphant, glorious, splendid."
Transmutation
34th Day, Saturday. Read John 2:1-11.
Transmutation--"The conversion of one element into
another."--Webster.
In consciousness transmutation is a changing in action and
character to conform to spiritual standards. It is well
said that the mind is the crucible in which the ideal is
transmuted into the real.
Jesus said that all power was given to Him in heaven and in
earth. He manifested His power in a small way by
multiplying a few loaves and fishes to feed more than five
thousand persons. In various other instances He
demonstrated that He had an understanding of the
transmutation of substance. He raised His flesh body to an
energy level far higher
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in potential life and substance than any reached before. We
see that not only the mind but also the body is affected in
the process of developing out of the natural into the
spiritual.
The leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod (Mark 8:15)
represents limited thoughts. When we attempt to confine the
divine law to the customary avenues of expression and scoff
at anything beyond, we are letting the leaven of the
Pharisees work in us. When the mind is raised up through
affirmation to God's omnipresent substance and life, we are
not only fed, but there is a surplus. This is the teaching
of Jesus, and it has always been exemplified by His
faithful followers.
I realize that through the law of transmutation every error
thought in my consciousness is transmuted into its
spiritual correspondence.
I affirm: "Spirit in me is transmuting my body into pure
spiritual substance, and my soul rejoices."
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday. Read John 12:12-50.
Palm Sunday is the Sunday preceding Easter. Jerusalem, the
Holy City, symbolizes within us the habitation of peace,
possession of peace, vision of peace, abode of prosperity
within us.
In man Jerusalem is the abiding consciousness of spiritual
peace, which is the result of continuous realizations of
spiritual power tempered with spiritual
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poise and confidence. Jerusalem symbolizes the great nerve
center just back of the heart. From this point Spirit sends
its radiance to all parts of the body.
Jesus symbolizes our I AM identity. His going up to
Jerusalem means our taking the last step in unfoldment
preparatory to the final step, when the personality is
entirely crucified and the Christ triumphs.
Jesus riding the ass into Jerusalem means the fulfillment
of the time when the spiritual I AM within us takes control
and lifts all the animal forces up to the spiritual plane
of mastery, purity, and peace.
When the I AM takes charge of the body a new order of
things is inaugurated. The vitality is no longer wasted.
Through high and pure ideals the whole consciousness is
raised to a higher standard.
The hosannas of the rejoicing multitude and the spreading
of their garments and branches of trees before Jesus,
represent joyful obedience and homage that all the thoughts
in one's consciousness give when an error state of mind is
overcome. "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord."
In the name of Jesus Christ I affirm: "The Spirit of Him
that raised up Jesus dwells in me, and I am made perfect."
The New Race
35th Day, Monday. Read Revelation 21:1-7; 22:
1-7.
"These things shall be! a loftier race
Than e'er the world hath known shall rise
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With flame of freedom in their souls,
And light of knowledge in their eyes.
* * *
"Nation with nation, land with land,
Unarmed shall live as comrades free:
In every heart and brain shall throb
The pulse of one fraternity."
The time is ripe for the advent of a new race, the advent
of the spiritualized man. This will be brought about, not
by a miracle or the fiat of God, but by the gradual
refinement of the man of the flesh into the man of Spirit.
The true overcomer is qualifying himself to become a member
of this superrace. It is well for such a one to cultivate
the childlike spirit and let go of all tense striving, even
for spiritual things. In the realization of protecting,
providing love, all the strain of fear and anxiety will be
removed and life in abundance will then find easy entrance
into the consciousness, bringing strength and health and
eternal youth and life.
Spiritual harmony in man depends largely on the right
relation of the inner and the outer realms of his
consciousness. Expression is the law of life. Whatever is
expressed becomes manifest. I realize that as an overcomer,
I am working also for the whole world, establishing a new
race consciousness, "new heavens and a new earth."
I affirm: "The redeeming law of God is awakening with me,
and I am a new man in Christ Jesus."
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The Fire of God
36th Day, Tuesday. Read Acts 2:1-21.
Fire represents the positive, affirmative state of mind, as
opposed to the negative or watery state.
The fire of God (Holy Spirit) is the Word of God in action.
It burns out the dross of negation in consciousness, and
reveals Christ. Tongues of fire represent the illumination
of thought, in demonstration of Spirit's presence and
power. The flame of fire symbolizes the light of intuition
that burns in our heart.
While the light of intuition (flame of fire) burns in our
heart, there is no loss of substance. In thinking there is
a vibratory process that uses up nerve tissue, but in the
wisdom that comes from the heart this "bush" or tissue is
not consumed. This is "holy ground," or substance in Divine
Mind. When man approaches this he must take off from his
understanding all limited thoughts of the Absolute ("put
off thy shoes from off thy feet").
Spiritual fire is a symbol of the destruction of evil and
error. The fire of Spirit never ceases its life-giving,
purifying glow. In it all error is burned up in
consciousness and the purified man then manifests this
"fire" as eternal life.
I have the assurance that I shall not be left partially
cleansed, that the purifying work will be complete. "Our
God is a consuming fire," also He is life, love, substance,
power, intelligence, Truth.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, I affirm: "The Holy Spirit
flares its cleansing, purifying flames throughout soul and
body, and I am made whole and perfect."
Holy Communion
37th Day, Wednesday. Read Luke 22:1-23.
"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed,
and brake it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take,
eat; this is my body, And he took a cup, and gave thanks,
and gave to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is
my blood of the covenant."
The first step in drinking of the blood and eating of the
body of Jesus is to resolve this whole Scripture back into
the primal ideas. The only way to appropriate these ideas
is through the very highest activity of mind as in prayer.
The benefit of taking Holy Communion is the establishing of
our acceptance of the Christ whose coming we celebrate
within our mind and heart. The bread used in the churches
symbolizes substance, which we consider the Lord's body, a
body of spiritual ideas; and the wine used symbolizes His
blood, which we consider life, or the circulation of divine
ideas in our consciousness that will purify our mind and
heart and renew our strength, freeing us from all
corruption, sin, and evil, and bringing forth in us the
abundant, unlimited life of God. Through
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the appropriation and assimilation of the substance and
life in our own consciousness, we blend our minds with the
Father-Mind and there is a harmonizing of every fiber of
our body with the Christ body, which is life and light. As
our mind and heart are cleansed of untrue thoughts and
beliefs, and as we feed on living ideas, our body takes on
the life and light of our divinity, and eventually will
become living light.
I affirm: "God's pure life and substance are constantly
renewing and rebuilding His holy temple, my body."
Gethsemane
38th Day, Thursday. Read Mark 14:32-42.
Gethsemane is symbolic of the struggle that takes place
within the consciousness when Truth is realized as the one
reality. It is a condition that man works through when he
recognizes that God is all and that he must be willing to
sacrifice all for God.
There are always deeply rooted error thoughts stored away
in the subconsciousness, and on their own account they come
forward to crucify the new unknown power, the so-called
imposter, the in-dwelling Christ. The Christ is presumably
captured by these thoughts, which try to carry out their
aims in the darkness of the subconscious mind. But error
can kill out only error. The Christ itself may be held in
obscurity for a while, but it cannot be done away
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with. That which died on the Cross when Jesus was crucified
was the personality; the Christ resurrects itself from the
very depths of the subconsciousness, and error is hanged on
the gallows it prepared for the doing away of the newborn
spiritual ego.
This breaking up and passing away of old error states of
mind and making ready for the new is a process in soul
evolution of all those who are faithfully following Jesus.
In all systems of thought concentration and spiritual
attainment, the will, the executive faculty, plays the
leading part. Therefore I prepare my consciousness for the
reception of these new ideas. I say with Jesus, "Not my
will, but thine, be done." I realize that new inspiration
is flowing steadily into my consciousness as I affirm: "Old
error thoughts are passed away. I am a new creature in
Christ."
Crucifixion
39th Day, Good Friday. Read John 19:1-42.
Jesus' crucifixion on Calvary was a final step in a work
that had been going on in Him for thirty-three years, and
when He arose He was entirely free from the carnal mind
with all its limitations. He had overcome all the carnal
tendencies which He had taken on that He might free the
race from its bondage.
The word crucifixion means the crossing out in
consciousness of certain errors that have become
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fixed states of mind; it is the enactment by a master of
the final extinction of carnal mind, the giving up of the
whole personality in order that the Christ Mind may be
expressed in all its fullness. This is represented by the
crucifixion of Jesus.
Calvary means "the place of a skull." The carnal mind has
appropriated the brain and its skull and it is here that
the final battle is fought. Every time we give up error
there is a crucifixion.
The three days Jesus was in the tomb represent the three
steps in overcoming error. First, nonresistance; second,
the taking on of divine activity, or receiving the will of
God; third, the assimilation and fulfillment of the divine
will.
I deny the self that I may unite with the selfless. I give
up the mortal that I may attain the immortal. I dissolve
the thought of the physical body that I may realize the
spiritual body. This is a mental process with a physical
effect.
I affirm: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff, they comfort
me."
Resting in God
40th Day, Saturday. Read Isaiah 11:1-10; 12:1-6.
After Jesus' crucifixion He was laid to rest in the tomb of
Joseph of Arimathea. Jesus represents the expression of the
I AM identity. Arimathea represents
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an aggregation of thoughts of lofty character, a high state
of consciousness in man. Joseph represents a state of
consciousness in which we improve in character along all
lines. We not only grow into a broader understanding but
also we increase in vitality and substance. We are resting
in God, and at the same time gathering strength for the
power of greater demonstrations to follow.
A degree of cleansing, a wiping out of sense consciousness
has been accomplished. By mentally reviewing our
experiences, we recognize that nothing is really destroyed,
but rather transmuted. Through faith we take stock of the
progress we have made and find that we are getting a
consciousness of radiant substance and of a higher life.
Nothing is lost. When sense consciousness is raised to a
higher plane all that belongs to it is saved with it.
In reality the invisible cannot be seen, touched, or
comprehended by the outer senses, yet in this realm a great
and mighty work is being accomplished.
Today I realize that the leaven that "leaveneth the whole
lump" is the Truth. The word of Truth within me is not
idle, but quietly spreading from point to point. This
process will continue until my whole consciousness is
vitalized by the Holy Spirit.
I affirm: "I rest in the consciousness of eternal life and
strength, and I am made perfect."
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The Resurrection
Easter Sunday. Read John 20:1-18.
Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Its
inner meaning and spiritual significance is the awakening
and raising to spiritual consciousness of the I AM in man,
which has been dead in trespass and sin and buried in the
tomb of materiality.
"I came that they may have life, and may have it
abundantly." The resurrection is the raising up of the
whole man--spirit, soul, and body--into the Christ
consciousness of life and wholeness. This Jesus did. The
tomb could not hold His redeemed perfected body temple.
Resurrection is accomplished by the quickening power of the
Holy Spirit.
Every time we rise to the realization of eternal,
indwelling life, making union with the Father-Mind, the
resurrection of Jesus takes place within us. All thoughts
of limitation and inevitable obedience to material law are
left in the tomb of materiality.
Jesus was born into the race thought so that He might
reconstruct it in conformity with the divine law. He thus
became our Way-Shower, our Saviour, our Helper.
Today the light of Truth is illumining my mind, and I rise
up in the majesty of my divine sonship and proclaim myself
to be the child of the Most High, free from all belief in
sin, sickness, and death.
I affirm: "In unity with Christ I realize that I am
resurrected into the life, light, and power of God."
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INDEX
abundance, 101, 183
Adam, all included in his sin,
98; ejected from Eden, 74
Adam consciousness, 61, 171
Adamic race, 130
Adam method of generation, 93
affirmations, 71, 142; used in transforming body, 168
altar, 145; as place in consciousness, 16; of Jacob, 83
Andrew, 117
angels, 155
animal nature, of man, 60
Aorist, first, 109
Apollo, 38
apostles, 113
Arimathea, represents thoughts of lofty character, 195
Ascension, the, 162
Ash Wednesday, 138, 141
atoms, 38, 69, 132
atonement, 185
at-one-ment, 53
authority, of Jesus, 29
Aven, Hebrew word, 115
baptism, source of power, 73
beholding state of mind, 44
being, equilibrium of, 43; inherencies of, 58; in
miniature, 54; powers of, 55; pure, 170; two-in-one of, 58;
where there is evidence of life, 132
Bible, 97
blessing, importance of, 80; of body temple, 168
blood of Jesus, 166; salvation through, 134; saving power
of, 28
body, as spiritual, 22; as temple of God, 10, 22, 146, 167;
attainment of perfection in, 168; cells in mathematical
order, 152; fruit of the mind, 125; healing of, 21; layers
of consciousness in, 52; man's cognizance of, 59; of man,
in relation to Divine Mind, 19; outer expression of Garden
of Eden, 147; perfect in mind, 20, 69; product of the mind,
10, 155; recognition of importance, 82; reveals radiant
body, 186; renewal of, through thought, 98; requires
spiritual quickening, 125; robbers of, 123; symbols of, in
story of Jacob and Esau, 81; thoughts on conditions of,
118; translated in chariots of fire, 69
body of Christ, 134
bread, 192
Calvary, "place of a skull," 195
Cana, "place of reeds," 75
cardiac plexus, as love center, 34
carnal mind, 195
cause and effect, 46
cells, of body, 39
change, 39
character, delusions concerning, 67; spiritual, 145
children, relation to the kingdom, 107
Christ, as atonement, 185; as God's divine idea of man, 10,
15, 53, 63; as living principle, 10, 54; as perfect body,
12, 21, 26; as point of contact with race life, 133; as the
one great Teacher, 140; as the one perfect pattern, 180; as
universal man, 110; atoms of,
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133; began series of physical incarnations, 131; body of,
134; declares power of binding and loosing, 117;
individuality of, 16; radiance, 151
Christian, mental attitude of, 76
Christianity, progressive nature
of, 37
Christians (early), experiences in healing, 174
Christ Mind, 71, 77
Christ Spirit, 28
church of Christ, 115, 160
Colorado River, 40
Comforter, 16, 17, 28
concentration, necessity for, 120
conscience, 43; how to heed, 50
consciousness, 11, 12, 15; affirmations for realization of,
77, 78; altar the center of, 145; as result of seed ideas,
165; attainment during Lent, 140; carnal, 58; control over,
in mind, 77; danger when lost, 65; foundation of, 115;
God's power incorporated in, 124; layers of, in body, 52;
makes heaven and hell, 116; of spiritual origin, 67;
primitive relation to cause, 68; resting in Spirit, 70;
satanic, 107; through righteous thinking, 141; two planes
of, 176
conservation, 162
courage, 36
covenant, of Jacob, 84
creation, of God and man, difference between, 176; man most
important factor in, 110; steps in, 19, 61
creative center, faith-thinking faculty, 114
creative source, right conception of, 25
crucifixion, 194
current(s), of universal life, 73; that animate body, 74
David, 31
death, brought on by man, 94; cause of, 19; error of belief
in, 96; how to save our body from, 21; when it came into
the world, 131
degeneration, 131
Deity, foundation of, 61
demonstration, example of, 146; hindrances to, 18; how to
make, 18
denial, 63, 141; as repentance, 141; dissolving power of,
63; how to make, 64; of self, 53, 195
Descartes, 121
desire, as form of prayer, 146
Devil, 61
disease, 22
Divine Mind, how to express in body, 21
dreams, 155
earth, universal matrix, 184
Easter, 139, 197
Eden, Garden of, 130, 147
Edenic state, 115
Edison, on atoms, 69
ego, 55
Egypt, 56
electrons, spiritual, 166
electricity, metaphor for mind action, 47-48; modern
scientific view, 132
Elijah, 3, 69; example of penitence, 138; penetrated atoms
by power of thought, 179
Elohim God, 132, 177
end of the age (world), 26, 40-42
energy, as life source, 125;
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omnipresent in atoms, 132; radiated by minds, 80; re-
lease of, 71
error, abstinence from, 141;
deeply rooted in subconscious, 193; denial of, 141; depth
of our bondage to, 127; destruction of, 191; has no power
in itself, 141; joy in overcoming, 189; necessity for
denial of, 64; three steps in overcoming, 195
Esau, 78, 79
ethers, spiritual, 11
evil, denial of, 152; destruction of, 191
evolution, race, 23, 130, 134; spiritual, 165
experience, "school of fools," 45
eye, limited in sight, 164; mental, 148
Ezekiel, 91
faculties, of mind, 147; swift development of, 157
faith, 110, 148; as result of many affirmations, 143;
center in man's brain, 148; how to develop, 72
faith-thinking, 110; food of, 119; most important power of
man, 113; nature of, 119 fasting, 4, 5, 140
Fenton, Ferrar, translation of Lord's Prayer, 108
financier, Jacob, 84
fire of God, 191
flesh, saving from corruption, 151; symbols of, in story of
Jacob and Esau, 81
fountain, of pure life, 123
forty, symbolic number, 3
fourth dimension, how to enter, 170
future, 45, 46
Galilee, "rolling energy," 75
Gethsemane, 134, 193
gift, 104
God, as absolute good, 9, 25, 68; as creative principle,
169; as Creator and ruler of universe, 9; as consuming
fire, 191; as intelligence, 61; as life-giving atom, 132;
as mind, first in Trinity, 14; as partner in man's
prosperity, 105; as potential, unformed will, 157; as
principle, 9, 14, 54; as substance, 14, 61; as supreme
knowing, 156; created ideas of body, 167; does not rest,
171; falsely conceived of as a person, 25, 28; false
impressions of character of, 24; grace of, 168; how to
worship, 123, 143; idealized two planes of consciousness,
176; loves cheerful giver, 103; man's oneness with, 53;
metaphysical understanding of, 29; never performs miracles,
179; not an angry Being, 25; of the living, 69;
omnipresence of, 11; omniscience and omnipotence of, 9, 14;
real body of, 22; soul of, 126; transcendent, 144; why
resorts to limitations of law, 131
Godhead, 112
God's idea of man, 15
God-image, 49
God-men, 130
God-Mind, 12, 17, 25
Good Friday, 139
goodness, divine, 43
grace of God, 168
Grand Canyon, 40
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Grand Man, 110
halo, 148
harmony, 111, 190
healing, 173; power of, 117; power of nature, 22; secret
of, 21; steps in, 173; through right thinking, 22
health, 173
heart, 91, 113
heaven, as creative Mind, 171; definite location of, 176;
definition of, 177; entering into, 157; here on earth, 145
Herod, represents limited thoughts, 188; symbol of
domineering will, 50
Holy City, 147, 176, 188
Holy Communion, 192
Holy Spirit, as "breath" of God, 17; as fire of God, 191;
as teacher, 16; as third in Trinity, 16; as Word of God in
action, 144; cleansing power of, 68; function of, 16; here
now, 68; inspiration of, 140; reveals lack in making
demonstration, 18
Holy Trinity, 14
Holy Week, 138
humanity, garden of God, 165
I, as potentiality and all-comprehensive, 58; as summation
of powers of Being, 55; mystery of, 56
I AM, 12, 15, 20, 121, 124, 144; as gate, 144; as link with
Father, 144; body obedient to, 21; forgives error, 161;
symbolized by Jesus, 189; symbolized in Isaac, 82; without
limit in capacity, 56
ideal(s), 172; as food of faith-thinking faculty, 119; as
source of substance, 184; catching, 172; character of, 47;
development of, 165; of God, 53; of health, 48; power of,
80; realm of, 49;
symbolized by fish, 172
identity, formed by Christ's attributes, 110
ignorance, keeps man from his own, 55
illusion, world of, 89
imagination, 154
immortality, appearance of, 68
imperfection, of man, 59
incarnation(s), 26; of Christ, 131
increase, 101
individuality, 145
Ingersoll, Robert, 24
inheritance, from God, 144
inner eye, 12
inspiration spiritual, 173
intellect, 77; rules today, 82
intuition, 191
Isaac, 78, 82
Isaiah, 39, 40
Israelites, 37
Jacob, experiences after receiving blessing, 83;
experiences with tithing, 85, 104; represents the mind, 79;
story of receiving Isaac's blessing, 78
Jacob's ladder, evidence of omnipresence, 83
James, instruction to purify heart, 92; symbol of power of
justice, 117
Jehovah, as Christ, 130; as God's idea of man, 15; as word
charged with power, 153; as word held in silence, 170;
promise to overcomer, 180
Jerusalem, as symbol of love
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center, 34; as symbol of peace and prosperity, 188;
symbolizes great nerve center, 189
Jesus, as channel for grace and truth, 169; as continuous
working factor in civilization, 164; as joint heir to
kingdom, 27; as light of the world, 128; as one of God-men,
130; as our helper, 164; as psychologist, 76; as Word of
God, 20; authority given to, 15, 29, 55, 72; available to
all, 164; blood of, 27; body offered as life transformer,
133; born to be Way-Shower, 197; brought good news of
salvation from death, 96; came to give life, 132; came to
save man from sin, 163; changed water to wine, 75; claimed
human race as His flock, 129; developed innate powers, 164;
dissolution of false will, 62; elements of His teaching,
36; entrance into Jerusalem, 139; healed sick and raised
dead, 173; laid claim to prior existence, 129; mastering
carnality, 162; mastery of two currents in body, 74;
mission of, 17; misunderstood by contemporaries, 129; on
end of the age, 26, 40; oneness with Father, 18; on
fasting, 4; on God as Spirit, 29; on God of the living, 69;
on greatest commandments, 34, 41; on physical resurrection,
21; on reincarnation, 94; on resistance and antagonism,
175; on single eye, 21; passion of, 138; prayers of, 65,
72; raised up whole man, 197; real character of, 128;
recognition of sonship and brotherhood, 32; redemptive work
of, 26; refers to Holy Spirit as Comforter, 16;
relationship to human family, 129; represents man in
regeneration, 163; resurrection of, in us, 13, 162; second
coming of, 26; taught use of affirmative, 73; three days in
tomb, 195; very God or ideal man?, 128; way to do His
works, 57; went all the way from human to divine, 127
Jews, 32, 104
John the Baptist, 50, 141
John the Mystic, as symbol of love faculty, 117; his vision
of Jesus, 187; on mystery of Jesus, 130; presiding genius
of love, 34
Joseph of Arimathea, 195
joy, 30
judgment, 182
justice, universal law of, 175
kingdom, attainment through thought, 142; how developed
within man, 30; how entered, 177; keys to, 117; relation to
children, 107; to be established here on earth, 163
labor, 107
Lamb of God, 124
larynx, 74
Last Supper, 133, 139, 192
law, active in all of nature, 131; cannot be broken, 158;
definition of, 158; of action, 47; of the All-Good, 30; of
Being, 88; of denial, 70; of
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evolution, 165; of expression, 10; of man less than grace
of God, 169; of righteous thinking, 67; of universal
balance, 43; recognition of power of, 32; transgression of
and punishment, 32; wipes out all transgressions, 161;
works within man for re-embodiment, 93
Lent, 3-5, 138, 140
life, as abiding flame in us, 162; as gift of God, 161;
center of, 123; conserved, 163; continuity of, 94;
difference between essence and living, 60; first step in
realization of, 123; higher, 126; how to appropriate more
of, 123; precious in God's sight,
125; source of, 20
life current, 123, 131; how
changed, 126; how to make flow, 161; subject to word of
man, 73
life, eternal, 122; crown of, 167; hindrance to attainment
of, 122; man's enmity with, 122; secret of inheriting, 122
light, of Divine within, 141; of Spirit, 67
limitation, false belief in, 63
locomotive (illustration of controlled zeal), 159
logic, argues against end of world, 41; of Truth, 19
Logos, 15, 172
Lord's Prayer, 72; Fenton version, 108; most powerful
prayer Jesus uttered, 174; praying fifteen times, 174
love, 30, 151; as builder of mind substance, 34; as divine
ordinance, 35; as great force, 30; as idea of universal
unity, 151; as Principle, 33; as servant, 35; definition
of, 32; directed by wisdom, 31; distinction between divine
and human, 31; dominant thoughts about, 34; obstacles to
fellowship of, 35; of fellow men, 35; purity of, 33;
unselfish qualities of, 31; value of affirming it, 34; why
not quickly developed, 33
magnet, spiritual, 133
man, 54; aligns self with law, 158; and conscience, 44;
animal nature of, 60; as architect, 46; as Being in
miniature, 54; as transformer of all things, 55; as
manifest God will, 157; as power of God in action, 153; as
will of God externalized, 61; fall of, 54; foolish beliefs
about God, 44; gives way to Christ man, 95; great
privileges of, 58; imperfection in, 59; made in image of
God, 60; of Christ, 185; office of, 119; on way to perfect
expression, 54; open to God, 51; place in God's planning,
61; potentialities of, 54; primary work of, 147; real, 56;
true estate of, 59
materiality, 20, 118
matter, 14, 66
Maundy Thursday, 139
meditation, 12, 15
memory, 89; in connection with reincarnation, 99
mental conceptions, 24
mental dominion, 68
mental pictures, 52, 154
mental renewal, 13, 17, 51
metaphysicians, logic of, 19;
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modern beliefs of, 38
mind, conscious, 87; as crucible for ideas, 39; as meeting
ground between God and man, 10; bound by time, 170; control
of consciousness in, 77; dominates the body, 80; has own
law of dynamics, 47; illusions created by, 88; man's
cognizance of, 59; subdivisions of, 17; unified with Divine
Mind in daily worship, 77, 178; use of, 87
mind, subconscious, 87; release of light and energy in, 71;
spoken of as "heart," 91; spoken of as "memory," 89; true
office of, 87
mind, superconscious, 88; as Principle, 63; instrument of
regeneration, 89; laboratory of, 116; not subject to lack,
64; opposition from mind of the flesh, 131; ready to pour
forth blessing, 88; wider horizons of, 110
miracle, definition of, 178; changing water to wine, 75
money, how to think about,
102; power of, 106; unjustly deferred to, 105
Moses, 3, 106, 138, 154
movement, 38
music, principle of, 111
Napoleon, 47
negation, 141
Nehemiah, 37
new birth, 162
Newman, Cardinal, 87
nonresistance, 30, 195
obedience, spirit of, 35
omnipresence, 83
omnipresent intelligence, 45
oneness, with life, 123
overcomer, 180, 190
overcoming, 38, 180
Palm Sunday, 139, 188
patience, 181
Paul, on all-sufficiency, 103; on cause of weakness,
sickness, and death, 19; on condemnation, 98; on law of
thought in finances, 102; on Mind of Christ in men, 111; on
mystery of Christ, 27; on peace, 6; on realization of
oneness, 11; on resurrection, 21; on scientific religion,
76; on Sonship of man, 130; on subjects for thought, 135
peace, 175; of knowing God, 9; our influence for, 5
perfection, attainment of, 18; divine idea of, 22; entering
through affirmation, 142; not out of reach, 144; of body,
19; processes to, 59
Peter, 116-120
Pharisees, 188
physical translation, 69
poverty, causes of, 101
power, 153; available to man, 54; center in throat, 155;
declared by Jesus, 73; destructive, 73; new source of, 143;
of the I AM, 145; twelve powers of Christ, 113
prayer, as language of spirituality, 10; as mind action,
10; does not change God, 146; how to pray, 71; of Jesus,
72; scientific, 170; why not always effective, 72
Principle, 177; Christ the idea of, 54; how to demonstrate,
177; legitimate outworking of, 69; of good and evil, 60;
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of mathematics or music, 14, 63, 156; of music, 111
prodigal son, 88, 133
promised land, 56, 57
prosperity, 101; key to achieving, 85; result of work, 37;
why Jews have been noted for, 104
psychology, place in religion today, 76
race beliefs, 72
race consciousness, 131, 181
race, new, 189
realization, 170
Rebekah, 78
redemption, 71, 124
re-embodiment (see reincarnation)
regeneration, by superconscious mind, 89; only safe way to
eternal life, 74; through appropriating Christ atoms, 133
reincarnation, 93; a temporary remedy, 94; partly to be
speculated on, 99; when no longer necessary, 28
renunciation, 160
repentance, 141
resurrection, 197; of body, importance of, 21; of
"damnation," 98; of Jesus in us, 13; not confined to Jesus,
151
Sabbath, 171; as institution, 171; made for man, 172
sacrament, 167
sacrifice, privilege of, 95
salvation, dependent on consciousness, 115; mystery of,
clarified, 134; not yet fully understood, 127; of all men,
93; of world, 67
Satan, 131
security, 33
self, denial of, 53, 145
self-control, 182
selfhood, 55
selflessness, day of, 52
sense, center of will, 62; delusions of, 27, 61, 114;
gratification of, 50; surrender to, 32; transmutation of,
196; when began to rule, 130
Shakespeare, 40, 175
sickness, cause of, 19
silence, 10, 16, 170
sin, 160
Son of God, 14, 114, 115
Son of man, 114
Spirit, as dominating mind force, 9; as guide (conscience),
44; as leveler, 43; frees from delusions, 66; light of, 67;
of wisdom, 12; oneness with, 11, 18; prerogative to know
future, 46; science of, 42 spiritual center, in man, 115
spiritual energy, 125
spiritual history, of man, 79
strength, 149
substance, mental, drawn from Christ, 110; nucleated by
idea, 170; part of God substance, 84; represented by money,
106; sensitive to man's thoughts, 102
substance, physical, part of God
substance, 84; waste of, 163
substance, spiritual, 11, 14, 184; everywhere present, 126;
race starving for, 133; represented by Garden of Eden, 147;
source of incorruptible body, 95
superiority, false thought of, 33, 66
talents, hindrances to expresssion
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of, 112
talk, 47
temptation, 134
Tennyson, 144
thinking, 191
thought(s), about money, 102; as greatest gift of God to
man, 147; as working power of mind, 64; control of, 74, 77,
116, 153; silent power of, 170; thinking faculty in the
head, 113; waves of, 175
throat, center of power, 153
tithing, 84, 104
transfiguration, 186
transmutation, 187
tree of knowledge, 73
Truth, as leaven, 196; discerned by judgment faculty, 182;
dissolving error, 12, 66; established in consciousness
through affirmations, 143; man cut away from, 114;
meditation on, 12; of Being, 125; worked into body through
thought, 125
twelve powers of Christ, 113
typewriting, use of subconscious mind in learning, 90
understanding, 155; first requisite for patience, 181;
fruit of Spirit's inspiration and knowledge, 157; light of,
127; two ways to get, 45
unfoldment, 171
unity, idea of, 151; with the Father, 27, 29
universal man, 110
universe, existed billions of years in past, 130; nature
of, 158
unknown God, altar to, 146
Vanderbilt, 47
vibrations, 38, 65
visions, 155
voice, 74, 153
Voltaire, 24
water of life, 124
weakness, cause of, 19; denial of, 150
will, 156; difference between seeming and pure, 62;
domineering, symbolized in Herod, 50; executive power of
mind, 156, 194; freedom of, 29, 55; highest aspect of, 145;
man, the will of Christ, 110
wine, 43
wisdom, 57, 150
word, as creative agency, 36; as creative idea in Divine
Mind, 10; as second in Trinity, 15; how to keep, 10; man
judged by, 75; of Christ, 12; of God, as revelation to man,
15; power of, 71; power to bring health, 174; relation to
ideas, 49, 154; working power of God, 15, 17, 142
work, 107
world, visible and invisible, 102
worldly fortune, 44
Yeve, Hebrew word, 111
youth, renewal of, 13, 70, 163
zeal, 159
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