The Laughter of God

by Walter Lanyon

CONTENTS
THE LAUGHTER OF GOD
REJOICE, YOU BARREN ONE
SOUND OF ABUNDANT RAIN
SILVER AND GOLD
NO ENCHANTMENT
THEN WENT HE IN AND SHUT THE DOOR
BREAKING THE BREAD
POWER
CHRISTMAS
THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD
LIVING WATERS
THE NEW DAY
THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT
ABUNDANCE
THE OTHER DISCIPLE
THE MIGHTY ATOM
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD
YOU ARE THE BRIGHT MESSENGER
TRAILING CLOUDS OF GLORY
COURAGE
O COLORFUL ONE
PROSPERITY

THE LAUGHTER OF GOD

Deep in my soul I heard the laughter of God ringing in silvery cadences through the timbers
of my being, breaking the human bonds and limitation as a strong yet gentle wind in the
forest sweeping aside the strands of cobweb. The hard, fast knots that I had tried, slipped
loose, and the snarls of beliefs broke free. The river of my human life, frozen by a thousand
and one false ideas and teachings, broke joyously into expression and went bounding to the
infinite sea of Life, to be lost and found at the same time. One dark cave of fear after another
was illuminated by the light of this laughter and swampy areas of sick thoughts were dried
up instantly. Parched sands of hopelessness and futile efforts were drenched by the living
waters sucked inabsorbed instantly like a wave breaking on the sands. God laughing at me
and my puny efforts to make things happen; to make heaven appear; to attain the son-ship.
Not the laugh of derision, but of infinite compassiona laughter so deep and sweet, so pure
and glorious that every thing in the nature of struggle gave way before it.
The breath of that glorious laughter blew all the dirty rags of personal teaching and self
aggrandizement away from me, and at first the fierce joy that proceeded from the unheard,
heard peals of laughter and made me afraid. Afraid that everything worth while was being
taken from me, and that I should be naked; but no sooner had the filthy rags of personality
blown free, than I was clothed in a panoply of light, and in this glorious raiment of light I
saw for the first time the glory of the Spirit made flesh.
I stood before the infinite peals of laughter, which flowed threw all creation like floods of
golden mist, filled with speechless wonder at the beauty of the world I lived in which had
been invisible because of my separation, because of my personal ideas about attainment. I
was as a child with a small measure at the seaside, trying to carry off a little water when the
whole sea was at my disposal, and I understood for the first time the exhaustless sea of
substance about me , and that the idea of hoarding was but a childish fear grown into a
goliath by false teaching and beliefs. I suddenly became aware that the substance was
everywhere, in everything, out of everything, and the only place of lack was in the hypnotic
state of belief and I alone created and moved in this vacuum.
The glorious laughter rolled on , searching the very joints and marrow of medislodging
every belief in fear, sickness, or age. As it swept over me and through me and round about
me, I was amazed at the wonder of it-the fierce, terrible thing which was at the same time so
beautiful and free. The wonder of it kept singing through my soul as veil after veil of belief
was rent asunder and new kingdoms stood revealed. The whole thing was as if one just saw
a little deeper, as one looks through the surface reflection on a river and sees the pebbles and
shells below, that was all; only the Laughter made this possible, for it cleared away all the
effort and straining which in its attempt to see God had been halted at the reflection on the
surface, instead of gazing into the limpid, glorious depth of Infinity.
The voice, as its honeyed tones flowed out like a burst of sunshine through storm-clouds,
was so unlabored, so untrammeled, and so Divinely indifferent, it seemed to envelop me
with an instant realization that all was well. No matter how many struggles had been made,
no matter how many mistakes, how many shortcomings, how many failures, how long the

belief, or how short the hate, it was all swept aside as nothing. The glorious Divine ease with
which it was expressed made dis-ease impossible. It was the overturning and overturning
that had to take place before He, the Laughing one, could come into expression. The people
of God are a people of joy, and it is not until they hear this God Laughter in their souls that
they have attained to their heritage.
What of this race that speaks of the Kingdom and doing the Fathers work, and uses all the
language of the Truth, and at the same time sows seeds of fear and hellish inventions? What
is this race that is always seeking evil to destroy, like a weasel seeks out a rat? What is the
hopelessness they preach that on one hand, you are the sons of God, and on the other, that
you must fight against evil of every sort and nature? Ah, yes, but, if, and maybe they roll
these stumbling-blocks under their tongues with a wise twinkle in their eyes, as much as to
say, "Yes it is all true, but it comes only with hard labor and long study, and it is not for such
as you, sinner and worm of the dust that you are, until you have purified yourself in the
fount of my wisdom and paid me personal homage."
It is then that the Magdalene hears the Laughter of God and is clean and free; and in an
instant too; and it is when the cripple hears the Laughter of God that he leaps to his feet and
runs away praising the living God. It is when you, no matter where you are or what you are,
no matter what you have done or left undone, hear the Laughter of the God within and the
God without, that you will crash through the gates of hell and find heaven, no matter what
these gates may beperson, place, or thing.
One moments recognition that you are the son of the Living God, and you have attuned your
ear for the Laughter of God which will put to flight all the stupid ideas, of my and yours,
free you into an expression that you have not dreamed of. How can you restrain the joy that
fills you when you hear this laughter which, when it is heard, causes the winter of your
discontent to break into full fruition, which causes you to see literally see that " before they
call, I will answer," is not a bit of euphonious language, but a positive living, glowing fact.
"I was afraid," and therefore you were driven out of the Garden of Life. You have been afraid
that God will punish you, that it is too good to be true, that you are not ready, that it comes
by great learning; and so you are still without the portals of your own kingdom, trying every
way but the only way to re-enter. Many there be who try the way of violence, and many who
expect to ride in on the skirts of another. There are some so foolish as to invite this.
Why do you not stop trying to get things, trying to learn how to get power place? Why do
you not come away from the man whose breath is in his nostrils? You who read this page,
and go within and hear the Laughter of God, and know that " it does not matter"- that the
things which gave you great concern are all swept away into the dump heap? The sooner
you learn this the sooner you will see they have no value. Finally, one time, when you take
away their value, they are possible of attainment to you. You profess to be a follower of the
Master. If you in any way believe this, you will begin to listen for the Laughter of God
through your whole being, and you will know that the Laughter of God sets you free from
the snarling discontent of the tower of Babel in which you have been living.
Presently, as you listen for this Laughter, you will hear it, and gradually you will begin

laughingbillows of laughter, silently-audible laughter that will shatter one limitation after
another; laughter filled with the divine indifference which knows that the Universe is filled
with God and only God, and to recognize this will cause this laughter to flow into expression
and shatter the belief in sin, sickness, and death. When this belief is shattered in you, the
pictures of this on your universe are dissipated and are no more, and even the place thereof
is no more. You will know how there can be naught but laughter in the Kingdom of Heaven.
What good of words or arguments? What in humans sense is a lecture worth on the subject
of Laughter, as compared to one glorious sudden peal of joy released by a God soul and
picked up be all those in hearing distance?
Gradually, as you learn the Laughter of God and join in with the glory of the Sons of the
Living God, then you will laugh at yourself. You will perhaps go back and laugh all the
mistakes and faults and limitations out of existence You will stand with your glorious feet on
the mountain-tops of Self-Revelation, laughing at your universe and with your universe, and
laughing in words: "It is wonderful, it is wonderful, it is wonderful."
"Let the filthy be filthy still." Some may read into the Laughter of God a belief in carelessness
and indifference, and some consecrated souls may rail and tear their hair and say that it is
encouraging license and making nothing of sin, in order that one may indulge in sin, and so
on; and for them this message is not.
He that has ears shall hear what the Scripture says unto the Churches, and only he that has a
single eye is through with trying to twist meanings to suit personal ends. But he that has the
consciousness of the Son of the Living God shall not find it strange that "he that is of too
pure eyes to behold iniquity" should laugh at the belief in it that has bound men for so long;
and this Divine disregard does not in any way encourage license, but gives liberty to the
Sons of God. It breaks up the dank morasses of human belief and reveals itself as heaven, a
state of consciousness, which finds not happiness at the disposal of sin, health at the disposal
of sickness, and harmony at the disposal of in-harmony; but finds these pairs of opposites
swept away. It finds man the individual Son of the Living God, experiencing power and
wisdom such as could not be put in human language.
The impress of the Divine upon the human causes the human to express in what to the
unenlightened thought may seem to be a supernatural way. The how and why and when are
all bested in the limited human concept of life.
You who read this page, when are you going to start laughing the laughter of God? When
are you going to join in the glorious chorus which is already encircling the globe, and which
has for its password "It is wonderful"? You cannot stop this laughter once it is started; you
will shatter the belief in disease in thousands as you go along your waynot by a poor, halfhearted way of beseeching God, but with the ringing Laughter of god in your Soul which
knows no sickness, sin, or disease, and hence cannot look upon it. And in this very
knowledge it will impress the consciousness with the Eternal well-being of the Son of the
Living God. The man, if he hear the Laughterthat is, if he be willing to hear it, instead of
accepting the pinched human concepts of his human reasoningsshall break the bounds of
his limitations; crash through the gates of brass; shake off the shackles of beliefs; burst

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

REJOICE, YOU BARREN ONE

"For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bears not; break forth and cry, you that travail not;
for the desolate has many more children than she which has a husband." Gal. 4:27
Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for the Lord Omnipotent reigns. When we begin to see that
the great Universal God overshadowing the Universe causes it to bring forth in due season,
we begin to understand why it is stated, as quoted above, that "the barren and desolate shall
have many children." We begin to see that, when we contact the Father within, the old order
of trying to make things appear from the outside is done away with. The old order passes
away"Behold, I make all things new, says the Lord of Hosts."
Thousands of people have tried in every way to bring forth the manifestation of Spirit; to
make demonstrations; yea, even to help others in the name of the Lord; and have found
themselves and their lives barren as the desert, while others about them seemed to bring forth
many children; and they have wondered, and finally fallen under the belief that the
manifestation of spirit was not for them, but only for a special few; or that they were not fit
avenues, or not yet ready to express the Christ Truthhence they bore no children.
But the old order changes. The light is breaking over the dense human consciousness. Man is
awakening to know that contact with the Father within is the propagating influence which
will bring forth many more children than "she that has a husband." He is beginning to
understand that the creative force of the Universe is even at this instant at work within the
secret place of his being, and that just as soon as he is ready to "let" (through the process of
recognition), "the word will become flesh and dwell among them," and he shall say, "Let the
child be born," and the barrenness of a thousand life-times in the flesh shall be swallowed up
in the glorious expression of the flowering desert. "It shall blossom as a rose." The wellwatered garden shall take the place of the barren waste.
Martha had many cares in preparing to receive the physical Jesus. Symbolically speaking, the
most she got for her work was perhaps a "Thank You," while Mary feasted upon the hidden
manna of Spirit. The human sense would like to condone poor, long-suffering Martha. A
thousand reasons why she acted as she did are offered, but the rather uncompromising fact
stands that she was rebuked, and that the blessing was given to Mary. All this symbolism
does not mean that the Mary consciousness might not do just as much work with her hands
as the Martha, but from a different standpoint.
When we are on the outside of being, trying to bring forth, we are finally rebuked for our
barrenness, even though we have put into expression the best that seemed to being us.
Likewise, the state that dreams of perfection and dwells in a mental state of rightness and
perfection, is also rebuked for vain imaginings. The Word must become flesh. "In my flesh
shall I see God." One extreme is as bad as another. The Word must become flesh, and the
flesh must become spiritualized or resurrected, until the two become one. We then have
Jesus the Christinstead of Jesus the son of the carpenter and Christ the son of God
dwelling in one body. The two become one, and the sayings of the Scriptures are made true.
It is then that "death is swallowed up in victory," because death could only come to the one

of a divided consciousness. What is told in secret shall be called from the housetop. Thus we
see that the Christ of God decided to submit to what is known as the crucifixion in order that
the world might see the transcending power of spirit over matter, and to know that the law,
"I have power to pick it up and lay it down," was true and provable. To stay on the heights of
this law was to escape the seemingly ugly reality. Do you imagine that the Christ who was
able to open the eyes of the blind, restore lost substance to the body of Lazarus, and do a
thousand other things directly in opposition to the best accepted laws of the physical world
of that day and this could not have averted the Crucifixion? If so, then read Matt. 26:53.
"Think you that I cannot now pray to my Father,
and He shall presently give me more than twelve
legions of angels?"
Where is the Father, and how do we pray? You see, then, that the Christ decreed this to come
to pass. When he descended to the human Jesus state of consciousness, then he asked that
the "cup pass from me." We understand that what he had accepted or decreed in secret
should come to pass. So is it true with you. You will begin to see that all the unborn children
shall be released when the body and soul become one. To pray then will be to speak forth
only that which is about to appear. Prayer will not be the old idea of wondering whether god
wants to do a certain thing; it will be merely an exquisite feeling of gratitude, which says,
"Thank you, Father," because it knows that the answer exists before the question. Do you
begin to see why it is that the one who was barren of manifestation will suddenly become
fruitful? The limiting laws of the human concept of creation shall be dropped off, and the
recognition of the Father of all shall cause they barrenness to be a forgotten state. "The
former things shall pass awaythey shall not be remembered nor come into mind anymore."
Thus the barrenness shall be swallowed up in the abundance!
From the human standpoint we even admit that we have teachers of Truth or music who
cannot demonstrate for themselves but can give readily to others. From the Divine elevation
this is an utter impossibility. This state of barrenness which brings forth no manifestation
shall be fertilized with the over-shadowing influence of the Ever Presence, and what it has so
long conceived on the invisible shall come into manifestation. No more shall the world be
filled with barren ones who talk but who do not show forth the works, for they shall have
united the body and soul and resurrected the risen Christ, which hath a body and which
lives in the world, but is not of the world in so far as coming under the hateful laws of the
human mind. Death is swallowed up in victory, and with it all the things that go to bring
about or make death possible.
"Call no man your father," for "every man is a liar, and the father of it." We see what lies have
been told about us in the name of family, nationality, etc. We are burdened with hateful lies
of every sort, because we have recognized human parenthood. We have assigned to
ourselves all the limitations of human-kind, and therefore we are full of troubles, and so are
our days. "Awake, you that sleeps, and Christ shall give thee light."

Do you begin to see, O barren one, that your name shall be changed, and that you shall be as
a land flowing with milk and honey? For the Spirit of the Infinite Spirit broods over all, and
has broken the hateful bondage and set the prisoners free. Then is thy house gladsome with
the laughter and joy of many childrenyour glorious ideas that have so long remained in
the silence of your mind come forth with joy and thanksgiving.
"This is life eternal, to know ME." Where is this ME, and what will you do with this life
eternal? Do you expect to carry on this limited personality for eternity? Do you expect ot be
John smith for eternity? Only when Jesus the son of the carpenter became Jesus the Christ,
the Son of God, did he ascend above the limiting influences of beliefs that belonged to his
family, nationality, and time. When he became Jesus the Christ, and "the Word became
flesh," he transcended not only nationality, but time and space, and was able to set aside any
law of the belief world, just as the intense sunshine sets aside the dark shadows of night.
All disease and all barrenness out-pictured on your body and affairs are merely the shadows
of beliefs cast upon the screen of your life. When the light has come, the shadows disappear.
It is no good to throw a picture on a cinema screen if that screen is illuminated. So the
shadows of the belief world, that have been formerly true to the human mind, fail absolutely
to record when you have come to the place of letting "the light within so shine before men."
We do not heal the Christ, nor yet prosper him, nor yet change him. We merely recognize
him, and as we do so we bring out that which has been eternally. Thus healing is swallowed
up in victory. Were anything real to be healed, it would be utterly impossible to accomplish
it. The Christ of God needs no assistance, no help, no healing. But until the John Smith
realizes this Christ within himself, and permits it to come into manifestation, he will merely
be working on a plane of imagination. Nothing concrete nor definite can take place. So many
of us have stood about and seen the demonstrations; yea, we have even partaken of the
bread, the fish, and the wine; but we have forgotten to partake of the spirit, so when we had
consumed the manifestation we rushed back for more and found ourselves far from the
source of substance. So many people are so engrossed in listening to words that they only
bask in the light of anothers understanding, and hence miss the glorious possibility of the
command, "Go thou and do likewise." Many are asking for life free which is promised, while
still holding a misers consciousness within themselves. Do you not know, until you can give
yourself to the Universe it cannot five the ever-flowing substance to you, for the simple
reason that there is no capacity to receive it? The mind which is still hoarding cannot have
the infinity rivers of abundance poured into, else it would be destroyed; but the
consciousness that has given itself to the Infinite is an open way through which the torrents
and floods of substance can flow. It thereafter does not have to seekit receives before it
asks, for an infinite stream of substance is constantly pouring through into expression.
"It is written"so full of meaning is this statement, nothing shall retract or rub out a single
word until it be fulfilled. "Not one jot or tittle shall be removed until the law shall be
fulfilled." It is written that "the barren shall be more fruitful than she that hath a husband."
The law that is so full of promise, and so glorious to all those who have wondered and
grieved and tried to bring forth the works of the Master. "Go thou and do likewise" is a
pretty big command, but there it is. What are you going to do about it? Talk it over with
some wise one who will go into gushing phrases and words, and whose barren life is filled

with testimony of failure? Be still; be very still. Finally you will hear the command, "Go
within and shut the door," and you will let the glorious revelation take place within your
own consciousness. "Nothing shall by any means hurt you." Who are you, and what are you
going to do about?
"And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, says the Lord of
hosts." Ye, the newborn, the resurrected one. In the silence, in the tomb, in the aloneness,
shall ye know the things which ordinarily are not written nor spoken ofthings which are
neither seen nor heard by the noisy ones who are clamoring for place and power. "Behold, I
make all things new." Do you see? You who red. "all nations shall call thee blessed," for they
will recognize the Christ within you; the same glorious Christ that functioned in the man
Jesus and enabled him to go against the laws of the human mind and set them aside as nonexistent.
"None of them is lost but the son of perdition." The only thing that is lost is the memory f the
human personalitythe subconscious mindthe storehouse of all evil. The god that was.
The god of the kingdom of WAS is lost, forgotten, wiped out, and the place thereof is no
more. The Holy Presence of Christ in the eternal NOW is here. "Awake, you that sleeps, and
Christ shall give you light." The desolate barren land shall blossom as a rose.
"I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou may be rich."
It seems a strange thing to say, Buy gold in order that you may be rich. It would seem that if
you had money with which to buy gold you would already be rich. But the secret doctrine
causes the light to break over this symbology and to reveal that the complete giving up of
the symbol is the buying of the gold which will make you rich. "Sell all that thou hast and
give to the poor" is merely another way of stating that man is to take his attention awake
from the worship of symbols and place his allegiance on the Power. Awake, thou that sleeps.
"I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment
that you may be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint
your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see." Rev 3:18.
Do you begin to see the treasures incorruptible that lie within the consciousness of Christ,
awaiting the coming of the Master? Awaiting the coming of that one who will take his
Divine Heritage and assume the proportions of the Son of the Living God. The barren one
who will suddenly realize that the FatherInfinite Omnipotentbrooding over all ,has
suddenly brought into manifestation the unborn children of desire. It is wonderful!
"Who is my father, mother, sister, or brother?" is the question you will answer with deep joy.
Not to become a "holier than thou," but because you are ready to partake of the infinite
nature of your Divine Fathership. The wonder of the invisible shall be made manifest to you.
You shall begin to partake of the qualities of Spirit. As you have born the earthly image, so
shall you bear the heavenly. Do you hear? :Yet in my flesh shall I see God." It is wonderful!
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches." When you hear what
it is saying to you (for you are the Church of the Living Godthe center from which pours

this glorious white light of revelation), then you will fold your tent and steal silently away
into the new place of expression. And this shall be a natural event, not some human concept
of moving out of evil conditions, but showing forth of the God-power into expression. Do
you see why "He that travels alone travels far?" and why the command, "salute no man as
you pass along the highway," is not unfriendliness, but the essence of wisdom? :Behold I
make all [not some] things new." Do you believe that? Where is the I? What about ityou
who read these lines? Are you going to run to someone and ask them to explain this to you
or are you going to be still and let me explain, and thereby turn your barrenness to
fruitfulness and make you a gladsome land?
Just so soon as you begin to see the futility of opinions and beliefs regarding life and the
Truth, just so soon will you go within and wah in the living waters, and partake of the
hidden manna and "buy gold that has been tried by fire."
"The old order passes away" -the old order is the order of your human personality and its
destiny; the old law of cause and effect, of karma the endless karma that you have been
making and passing through. The Spirit of Life has suddenly thrown you off the wheel, and
you are freed into expression as the Son of the Living God Do you suppose that the Son of
the Living God has anything to do with the son of the carpenter? He has only this much to
do: to absorb the personal idea into the glorious impersonal nature of god, and thereby free
him of the limitations and narrow confines, yea, the barrenness of the human concept of
existence.
Hear ye, you who read this page: "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to
become the Sons of God." do you hear? Do you see? When will you appropriate the gifts of
the Spirit? Not until you can go within and shut the door, and listen not to the noisy man
whose breath is in his nostrils.
"And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." so the unborn ideas that you have
been holding in your mind, and wishing for all these many years, suddenly come into
expression, for the Christ and Jesus are one. "Whatsoever things you ask in my name, that
give I unto thee." It is well.
"For it is written, rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, thou that travail not;
for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband."
Do you believe this? If so, you are at this very instant rejoicing. The rejoicing is a command
and a statement of a fact at the same instant. You are automatically rejoicing because you
have suddenly discovered that the barren years and efforts have been turned to good
account, and the glorious ideas have all been freed into expression.
When you come to the place of belief you have come to the place of acceptance. You have
come to the place where you have accepted the Reality of Being, and you are therefore not
surprised nor are you dismayed at the appearance of the Power of Spirit which instantly
neutralizes the beliefs of the flesh. "Let the dead bury the dead" -so the old conditions and
beliefs and acts all fall from the cliff of oblivion and you stand on the heights, rejoicing in the
name of the Living God which is written on your forehead. You stand on the heights, not as

one balanced for the space of a few joyous moments, to be dashed again into the valley of
despondency, but you stand there and rest in the new understanding which has shifted the
weight of the human mind and beliefs and has freed itself from the law of human
gravitation. "If ye be in the Spirit, ye are no more under the law." You are in the Spirit when
you recognize the Christ within and act in accordance therewith.
The whole proposition is put to the one who seeks the light. When he has come to the place
that he seeks not anothers opinions and beliefs, then he has arrived at the point of: "Verily,
verily, I say unto you, he that hears my words, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath
everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death to life."
Here is a simple statement of a fact. "Believe you this?" If so, you are beginning to experience
a new life, a life that is everlasting, right here in the flesh, and the life which is now coming
into manifestation cannot come under the condemnation of the former self. You are freed
from the condemnation of the John Smith against which you fought so long. You are now
passed from the death of these thingsthese beliefs and difficultiesinto Life. Do you hear?
You who read this page.

SOUND OF ABUNDANT RAIN

"Get thee up and eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundant rain."
Thus spoke the prophet to Ahab. No one could believe such words; they were too good to be
true. Three years had the scorching sun parched the ground, and the wells were dry and the
river-beds dusty highways. The brazen sky gave no evidence of it, and yet the prophet said,
"There is sound of abundant rain."
Ahab, running back and forth, looking for a sign and finding none, is representative of the
person who is looking outside for signs and wonders. When the prophet makes a statement
of a fact, it is in face of the direct opposite, as far as the testimony of the human sense is
concerned. That is the reason for the insistence of "Be absent from the body," "Judge not from
appearances," etc. There is sound of abundant rain, the drenching downpour of spirit on to
the parched and dried life of any man. The more real the famine has been, the more
drenching rain will appear, but what good is it to tell a person "there is sound of abundant
rain" when their cistern is dry and they are subsisting on a few cups of water? No good,
because they can show you the reverse, and not only can they show you the contrary, but
they can bring a thousand individuals who will verify every word they say. Further than
this, they can even bring you men of learning who will prove by many arguments that it
cannot possibly rain.. And yet in the face of this the prophet says, "There is a sound of
abundant rain."
Finally, on the horizon of that brazen sky of despair appeared a tiny cloud, as small as a
mans hand. The prophet had spoken truly, "Faith is the substance [the very substance] of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not see." It is the evidence of the unseen, the
unheard thing that is about to be released into expression. "Without faith it is impossible to
please Him." Unless you have faith in the principles of harmony you will never become a
musician, and you will never produce melody. Unless you have Faith, which in the truest
sense of the word is Understanding, Recognition, and Acceptance of the unseen, you cannot
bring into manifestation these things. What is the good of saying, "There is a sound of
abundant rain," if you only hope there is? What is the good of prayer that only hopes it will
be answered? No more than applying the principles of mathematics in the same manner.
"Before they call, I will answer" is more than a pretty phrase. It is a statement of a fact to
those who have ears and eyesa statement that what they ask for already exists, and is
ready to come into manifestation, in spite of the hateful appearances to the contrary.
Yea, though they be piled to the very heavens, and be as adamant as the rock of Gibraltar,
asking, then, becomes a process of speaking the decreeing word. "Ye shall decree a thing and
it shall come to pass." Asking then takes on the nature of calling forth that which is.
"Let the dry land appear" is asking for something to appear which already exists in the
unseen. But there is no doubt about it appearing; there is no looking for it to appearthere is
the pure faith, or acceptance that it is so.
We are only beginning to recognize what exists in the unseen and unheard world about us.
The radio gives us ample proof of certain things which would have been emphatically

denied by our forebears. That bacteria are being destroyed by the use of vibration would
have utterly amazed our grandparents, as well as the fact that sound can be photographed,
reproduced, and recognized as the voice of a certain individual. A piece of vulcanized
rubber and a bit of steel can reproduce the voice of one long since passed from the mortal
pictures. While all these human devices are but playthings to the giant power of which we
have heard so much through the man Jesus. We are only beginning to understand that
"Judge not from appearances" is more than a religious adage.
"If you have faith you shall say to yon mountain, Be ye removed and be ye cast into the
sea." But if you have not faith, or recognition of the principle of God everywhere present,
then your saying is but idle words that are clouds without rain. But if you have faith, "you
shall say" and "it shall be so." do you hear? You who read this page? YOU?
Do you see why it is necessary to "go apart"to bide your own counsel? These things are not
to be chattered about in the market place. They are reserved for the "Upper Room" of
consciousness. If you desire them, the noisy voice must be silenced, and the asinine habit of
setting the other fellow right, while you are full of obvious evils yourself, must stop. "I AM
the way; walk you in it."
When you recognize that the substance you are asking for already exists, then you too will
be able to say to a barren earth, parched for many years with the scorching sun of failure and
lack, "There is a sound of abundant rain," and believe it. What you discover on the invisible
what you recognize as true of Godwill become true of the outer manifestation. "That
which is told in secret shall be called from the housetops." Yea, "in my flesh shall I see God."
But in order to see the manifestation of the rain, it must first be recognized in the invisible.
"Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man the
things that are prepared or them that love the Lord."
"The things that are prepared." When we recognize a thing from the spiritual standpoint of
life, we will see it manifested in the visible world.
You are fed with the hidden manna that your fathers knew not ofyour fathers,
representing the old order of thinking, the old forms of metaphysics which are dead and
which you are told to let alone. "Let the dead bury their dead." You have manna that they
knew not of, for they had to see it with their eyes, and handle it with their hands, and they
received no blessing. "Blessed are you because you have not needed a sign." You are blessed
because you recognize that the Presence is everywhere, just as much in one place as another
everything in every place at the same time. "Awake, you that sleeps, and Christ shall give
thee light.
You are feeding upon the heavenly manna, and when you do this in silence you will find
that your material body is perfectly fed and cared for, and when you realize that you are
clothed in the garments of praise and light you will find the body clothed in perfect raiment.
No wonder, then you are invited not to consider the robes of the rich Solomon, but the ways
of a lily; there is something most interesting in this. It is the manner in which the lily
appears. Out of the unseen. Out of the invisible. Out of the very substance which is about

you now.
No one thinks it strange when he plants a lily-bulb that a lily should appear in due season.
Why should it be strange, then, that prayer is actually answered?
The prayer is a thousand times surer of results than the lily-bulb, when the prayer is one of
recognition, instead of one of begging and beseeching. Why should you think it strange that
the much-needed rain should come to the desert? From the human standpoint I know there
are a thousand reasons why it should not come, and the testimony of the eye is anything but
encouraging. It searches the dome of heaven and sees not a cloud, not a possibility of
anything happening, and that is why you are told to "look not to appearances" as one of the
first laws of bringing out the answer to true prayer.
When the acceptance is made in the invisible, there comes a joyous abandon. Not a careless
abandon, or indifference, but a joyous abandon, for it has been decreed. The dark cloud as
big as a mans hand that appears in the skies is enough to produce floods of rain, and so
there is a joyous abandon. Hence, the command to poor tired servant-body, "Get thee up, eat
and drink"-in other words, rejoice and be happy, for everything is all right, and there is a
sound of abundant rain. There is a glorious feeling of letting down, or resting and relaxing,
when we have thrown the weight of our lives over on to the shoulders of the prophet the
Christ within.
Within the domain of everybody there is that something which is symbolized by "the little
cloud as large as a mans hand." You who read this page, you who have felt the hot, dry
winds of futility and lost hope, in your life that something us sufficient to produce it all, and is
within you now, awaiting recognition.
But the little cloud that is finally to produce the abundant rain has to be let alone, or else it
will turn out to be a cloud without rain. Many a person has become anxious that God could
not or would not do His work in the right manner, and has turned back the abundant rain.
Your anxiety for another, or for yourself, will only cause the famine to endure, for "I have a
way ye know not of"-the I AM has a way that you cannot possibly feel or express. "My ways
are not your waysMy ways are as high above your ways as the heaven is high above the
earth."
"My ways are past finding out." Can you see, you who read this page? YOU?
"If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed." You see then that the "little cloud" does exist in
your life. Even the tiny little faith that caused you to venture to read this book is all that is
necessary to flood your desert with the abundant rain of spirit. "Be not afraid; it is I" -the I of
Spirit is always with you, no matter where you go or what you do. It is in the hell of your
own making, awaiting recognition, and it is at the uttermost parts or ends of the earth.
Note the word "abundant" in the first mentioned idea. The expression of spirit is always
abundantit is always full, pressed down and running over. It is lavish in the
superabundance of its expression. It is wonderful! The poor little measures that you have
held to the universe are as nothingthey cannot hold the abundance of spirit that is to be

released by recognition.
Do you begin to see the Abundance of Spirit? You are a spiritual being in a universe of spirit.
The flesh becomes spiritual by recognizing your true self, and you are actually fed and
sustained by the hidden manna. Just as soon as you know you are fed by the hidden manna,
you will see the wholesome food manifested. For ":what is told in secret is called from the
housetops." Do you see? Do you hear? What, then, are you telling yourself? What you are
telling yourself is what the world is re-telling you, and many times that is what you are
fighting.
You are fighting the echo of your own voice, your silent voice which calls so loudly t the
universe that people do not hear what you are saying with your lips. You argue with your
own voice returned to you from the loud speaker of the universe. You hear your own secrets
broadcast in the universe. You fight against the injustice of your own secret findings. It is
almost ghastly to contemplate, and yet it is glorious to know that it is so, for it immediately
brings with it an opportunity of releasing.
"What you tell yourself in secret shall be called from the housetops." You are only telling
yourself what you find to be true, and most of this you have found from judging from the
appearance of things. Hence when you begin to take your attention away from things and to
be "absent from the body and present with the Lord," then will you begin to follow the
commands of the Spirit, "Be still and know that I AM God." When you are still, the still small
Voice is telling you things in secret that shall be proclaimed from the housetopsthings
which will make you thrill with joy; things which will bring out glorious new states of
expression. So little by little we are finding that the way of attainment is not by struggling
and torture, but by peace and contemplation of the Realities and the Recognition of the Allpresent God of Love.
"There is a sound of abundant rain"-this has come to you for a purpose. It has come to you to
make you know the glorious revelation that is even at this moment being made manifest to
you, the abundant rain of substance into your life. If the desert be one of sickness and lack of
strength, then the abundant rains bring, even at this instant, the flood of health, vitality, and
power. If the desert be one of loneliness and futility, then the abundant rains bring floods of
joy, thanksgiving, and attainment. Heavenly new fields of expression open before you. The
veil drops from your eyes, and you see the reason for many things; the blinding sense of
futility has passed away. If it be the desert of financial lack or limitation, then the flooding
rains will be in terms of substance suitable to meet all the needs. "Ye shall know the Truth,
and the Truth shall make you free." it will make you free from the beliefs of the human
sense, free from your own limitations; different for each man in accordance with his present
need.
It is glorious, thrilling. Listen, listen, listen, you who read this page. Listen, listen, listen;
"There is a sound of abundant rainthe downpour of spiritual substance in any form that is
necessary to neutralize the desert of your belief. Gloriousglorious truth. It is well with
thee. You are in the floods of Light and Life. On the invisible you are feeding on the manna
that is hidden, at this very instant you are clothed in the garments of light and thanksgiving.

It is wonderful. It is glorious. You are in the flood of Spirit, of Light, of Attainment. "Heaven
and earth are full of theefrom glory to glory;" you go on into more wonderful fields of
realization.
One moment of recognition, one grain of faith as big as a mustard seed, and you have
brought in the harvest of substance. If it be to that place filled with in-harmony, you will see
the floods of harmony and understanding descending. If it be to the place of pain, then the
healthful power of life shall quicken the body. It is wonderful.
Listen, listen, listen. :There is a sound of abundant rain." Even as I write , and you read, there
is a sound of abundant rain in the form that you can best appreciate and understand it.
"There is a sound of abundant rain," and the desert that is loaded with seed is to blossom as a
rose, is to run a riot of glorious colors and perfumes, where once the wind tumbled the dry
sage-brush over burning sands. Yes, it is all there; "The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."
The sound of abundant rain is at this instant audible to your inner ear. Fear not. Be not
anxious. It is wellthe downpour of Spirit is at this instant upon you.

SILVER AND GOLD

"Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I unto you. Rise up and walk."
A beggar sitting for years at a temple gate asking for silver and gold. What for? To consume,
and then ask for more. The endless getting, and using, and being obliged to get more. The
endless making of demonstrations. The endless asking for the loaf of bread which is
consumed immediately. The endless looking for symbols, instead of getting back of them.
Picture the cripple at the temple gate. For years he has been there. He has long since
accepted his infirmity as his natural heritage, so he begs for a bit of silver. Picture the
disciples knowing that if they threw him a handful of gold or silver they were only doing
what hundreds of others had done in a more or less degree, that in reality they would not
help him. At best, it would only be a temporary relief.
"Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I unto you" -and then followed the gift
of healing. How much silver and gold would it have taken to have bought that healing in the
marts of the world? More than likely, from worldly standards, it was beyond price. More
than likely the body of that cripple was in such an emaciated state that if the healing were
possible, it would have taken years to have brought the cripple back to normal. Back to
normal by the knife, by food, diet, exercise, and long, long months of convalescing. "Silver
and gold have I none, but such as I have give I unto you."
The bestowal of the gift instantly rehabilitated the disease-laden body. Instantly the cripple
accepted the priceless gift, leaped up and ran away rejoicing and singing. Picture the same
cripple with a handful of gold. His joy might be increased for a moment, but he would soon
return to his former limitation.
Note that the gift was instantly accepted and what was the gift? It was the full recognition of
the presence of the Power of God in the midst of him. Every man has the gift. He learns that
the gift is beyond the price of fine gold or rubies. Silver and gold and fine rubies become as
worthless chattels in face of the priceless gift that every man has to give to the priceless gift
that every man has to give to the worldyea, to give to himself.
Yet the world is full of cripples who sit at the gates of their own temple and beg for silver
and gold. The world passes by and throws them a copper or two; but sooner or later one
comes by and says, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I unto you," and it is
at that moment that the beggar has within his grasp complete freedom from the beggardom
he has so long accepted.
Unless, however, he accepts his gift, he will remain at the gates of his own temple begging
the crowd of human thoughts that go by for enough to live on.
Always seeking the symbol instead of what is back of it, always looking for the loaves and
fishes, makes the eye more blind and the ears more deaf.

Looking to outside conditions for help will result in defeat. After you have consumed the
loaf of bread you are hungry again and must get another, and thus goes the game of life;
devoid of charm, as crude and misshapen as a statue hacked from a block of wood with a
clumsy garden axe. Hypnotized to the human thinking, man has accepted his state as one
which cannot be helped. He blames his heredity, pre-natal influence, environment, accident,
or disease. But all or any of these might have entered into the case of the aforementioned
cripple, and still they did not act as a wall against the showing forth of the priceless gift of
Spirit. No law that man has made is a law to Spirit, and as soon as man looks away from the
symbols he will receive the gift of Spirit and will understand why the priceless gift is not in
dollars and cents, but in the substance which lies behind them.
"When the Son of Man shall come shall he find faith on the earth." When the inspiration of
the Almighty speaks to you and gives you the priceless gift, can you take it? Can you take
your good in the same degree that the cripple at the temple gate accepted that which was
given him? It was a tremendous gift that he took, from the standpoint of his bodily
condition. It meant that a great physical change had to be made instantly. It meant that the
well-nigh impossible had to happen. It meant that he had to let go of a lifetime of hypnotism
of human thought. It meant that it was opposed to every single human law, and was placed
in the category of the impossible. It meant that it was sweeping aside like so many cobwebs
laws that were hoary with age and concreted with millions of proofs. Yes, it meant all these.
And it means that the condition that you may be under can be no more difficult than this
single unstance that is given you, and it also means that the change which is necessary to
bring you from the darkness into the light will be no greater, no more difficult or impossible
of attainment, than that performed on the cripple at the temple gates.
Even at this instant, "Behold I stand at the door and knock" -the very "I" that spoke through
the disciples and said, "Silver and gold have I none" -the very revelation of your perfect
health and freedom stands offering you the gift of life and happiness, offering you freedom
from the human bondage, no matter how long it has been with you. "Is anything hard to
ME? Is there anything that is difficult for the power of the ALL-GOD within you to bring
forth into manifestation?
What is this seeming opposition that seems so much more powerful than God? Awake,
awake, awake! Arise and Shine! The thought that has been trailing its wings in the mud of
human existence will scale the heights of interstellar space.
You will note in the case of the beggar, and in the case of many others instantaneously
healed by the Master and his disciples, that the healing took place almost before they had
time to think. A gift is accepted at the instant it is presented.
When we stop for a moment to reason, "Could this happen to me?" we are lost. God has
power sufficient to instantly off-set the oldest and most terrible human concept of law, "Fear
not; it is I."
"Silver and gold have I none" does not in any sense of the word imply poverty or lack on the
part of the disciples. They might have added, "Silver and gold have I nonefor thee,"
knowing that it would not in any way help. "When they ask for bread, I will not give a

stone." The glorious help which enables a man to see his true self is more precious than a
handful of gold or a world of human sympathy.
Most people are beggars in life. Not all of them sit at the temple gates asking for gold, but
they are begging for other gifts, or the symbols of other gifts, and missing the glorious gifts
of Spirit which are poured out upon them. So hypnotized to the outside manifestation are
they that they fail to see or hear the gift that is bestowed upon them. Symbols, always
symbols, until they learn that a symbol without something back of it to animate it is nothing
but a puppet, and has no power nor life or expression.
Beggar of life, when will you begin to accept the gifts of the Father? When will you accept
your Divine Heritage, and rise from the degrading position and let the light of revelation
pour over you in flooding streams?
When will you come out of the old Pauline doctrine of "Work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling" and accept the glorious gift of God, "Fear not...it is your Fathers good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom of Heaven?" A giftyea, even a gift as large as the
Kingdom of Heaven must be accepted. Think of it, beloved, the trembling and fear, the
working out your own salvation, is suddenly all set aside by the acceptance of the gift of
God, i.e., the Kingdom of Heaven. Just as the cripple at the temple gates ran and leaped for
joy into his new state of expression, leaped out of years of belief of sickness, ugliness, and
filth, leaped into freedom and left behind him all the things that were true of the crippled
beggar, so you, son of the Living God, will make the transformation from the present state of
sickness, poverty, and unhappiness, into the perfect heaven of harmony and bliss. When will
you accept the gift?
"It is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom." Where is your Father? What did
Jesus the Master say of this? "My Father within me, He doeth the works." The Father
consciousness within you is that which will give you, the human body manifestation, the
Kingdom of Heaven here and now. Do you see that it is not something afar off that is going
to grant this favor to you? "Yet, in my flesh shall I see God", yet in the present body shall you
see the glorious revelation, because soul and body have become one, and "whom the Lord
hath joined together let no man put asunder."
"Stir up the gift of God which is within you."
In the midst of your chaotic world is the gift of God, the gift of Life Eternal, the gift of the
Infinite Riches of the Kingdom, the gift of increasing the manifestation. "Stir up the gift of
God which is within you." It is already there, the gift of beautiful life, glorious life, radiant
life.
In turn the beggar goes his way rejoicing, and giving in turn the gift. We are afraid of the
gift; we make a sickly attempt at speaking the word. We wonder if God would want us to
assume such authority and such proportions, and at the same time we acknowledge, "I am
the son of the Living God."
"When the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" This is addressed directly to

you, you who read this page; if the prayer that you asked this morning suddenly came
bounding out into expression, would you be ready and willing to accept it? If the piece of
gold that you had asked for could actually come into manifestation, would you be able to
accept it, or would you have to look to see whether it had a serial number, or whether it were
in accord with the human intellect? If you were suddenly to have the gift you were asking
for made manifest, could you have faith enough to accept it? Until the perfect acceptance can
come and the curiosity has been absorbed in the absolute faith that "all things are possible to
God." these things cannot be, no matter what a thousand voice may say pro or con on the
subject.
If you should tear the hide from a living body to see how the life was produced underneath,
you have no life. The killing of the goose that laid the golden egg is the result of curiosity. If
you are secretly cherishing in your mind such ideas, you will see nothing, for nothing shall
be there. The soul is not curious, it knows. "I have A WAY THAT YOU KNOW NOT OF."
The I AM has its wy that no human intellect can see, understand, or believe.
The whole glorious proposition lies within yourself. It is asked of you, "When the Son of
Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth [your consciousness]? You have to answer that
for yourself. It does not make any difference what the answer be so far as the outside world
is concerned; it is, however, tremendously important to you. What would you think? If the
prayer you have just asked were at this instant to be fulfilled, could you-yes you, who read
this, accept it? "Be still and know that I AM God."

NO ENCHANTMENT
"Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel"
Num. 23:23.
"I shall overturn and overturn until he comes whose place it is to rule."
This is the day when much is said about enchantment and divinationsometimes openly
under these names, but more often referred to only, or spoken of by a new modern name.
The mad enchantment of a bird and a serpent is only equaled by the enchantment that exists
between man and the serpent of human thinking. The only way for the bird to break the
spell is to take its eyes away from the fearsome thing upon which it is gazing, and the only
way for man to break the spell of disease, hate, fear, sins, and lack is to take his attention
away from appearances. "Being absent from the body and present with the Lord" and
"Judging not from appearances, but judging righteous judgment", the scriptural means of
breaking the enchantment. But few people want to follow these commands. They want their
problem clearly stated and set forth, and then they want the remedy. They want to attack the
evil and destroy it and so they are destroyed by the very thing they desire to destroy.
"But," says one, "that is the very reason I took up the study of TruthI want to destroy the
evil in my life." "there is nothing in My Kingdom that can or shall be destroyed," and the
appearance you are attempting to destroy is the out-picturing of your own belief. You are
attempting to destroy it while you are constantly creating it by gazing at the handling it, and
examining the nature of it. Many people who are seeking God are turned awry over the
appearances of a few leaves in a teacup or a few lines on the hand or other outside things.
They will ask anyone to forecast the future, and are much more willing to believe these
prognostications than to accept the fact that "God is in His Heaven [state of consciousness],
all is well with the world."
In spite of the statement, "No man knoweth what a day brings forth," in spite of all the
eloquent declarations that God is the only power, just let the idea of "fortune" be mentioned
and they are all ears, being much more willing to take the word of a person who is
prostituting the sacred gifts of Life than to have the revelation of their inner soul made
manifest to them. "The way is broad that leads to destruction." The flower-strewn way of
hearing good things that are about to happen by chance leads them on; they wade knee-deep
in glorious flower-covered fields, snatching a posy here and there, thinking how wonderful
it is that their "fortune" is so fine, perfectly unaware of the poisonous serpent that suddenly
makes itself manifest in the form of a horrid prediction. Then they want to escape it all and
fly back into the idea of Truth, and loudly proclaim that "God is ALL"; but the enchantment
has done its work.
The flowers of the spurious joy of delving into the future have withered in their hands or
turned to thistles. They shriek, "Save me." The terror of seeking those things which are an
abomination to the Lord is their portion, yet even in this time of terror, even in this time of

desolation, there is always the way of escape.

Why is it that people who profess God as the only power wish to hear of other forces which
they seem to think are actually more powerful than God? What is the insane curiosity of
looking ahead, and trying to see if something good is going to happen, but the hypnotism of
the human mind, and the failure to awaken to the glorious NOW of life? Anyone who has
awakened to the Christ consciousness is not looking for the good that is to come; he is
reveling in the glorious present of the NOW, and he does not doubt the future. He is not
wondering if things will be taken care of. He knows that as long as he stays at the point of
the NOW of God, he will not need to prepare to destroy the Devil.
If you are looking for good to come in the future, you are still where you were before you
heard the Truth; do not the Gentiles do that? What difference if you have let go of the old
idea of heaven, with angels, if you still hold on to the false idea of evil being more powerful
than God? What is this belief of a power opposed to God? Why is it that, because someone
has prophesied truly for ten thousand people who were under the enchantment of human
doctrine, you, the son of the Living God, newly awakened to the powers and the gifts of
Spirit, should come under the sway of this lie? Did not the magicians, soothsayers, and wise
men produce a serpent after the prophet had produced it as a sign, and did not the
appearances show clearly that the power used by the magicians was the same as that used
by the Man of God? Yea, it was terrific proof, enough to make the stoutest heart faint for fear
of the power of evil, but did not the serpent of the Man of God suddenly devour all the
serpents of the magicians, and is there not hidden in this the glorious proof that God is
supreme to the belief of any man or any teaching or any idea, however hoary with age and
respect they may be? "There is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination
against Israel."
"Awake, you that sleeps, and Christ shall give thee light."
Awake from the hypnotism of human belief, and break the spell it has cast over you. Realize
once for all time that "He watching over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps;" that the I AM
consciousness watching over you neither slumbers nor sleeps, and you are eternally in His
care. You are the sons of the Living God, and this glorious recognition causes the laws of the
human belief, however powerful they may have seemed, to give way before the new dawn.
Awake, awake, awake. It is well with you!
Are you true to your own word? Then the whole world (your Universe) will be true to its
word. "My words are Spirit and they are Truth, and they shall not [positively not] return
unto me void, but shall accomplish whereunto they are sent."
You may be under the enchantment of money. "How hardly can a rich man enter the
Kingdom of Heaven." Not that money is bad; it is the love of money that is spoken of as the
root of all [not some] evil. It is the enchantment again of looking upon the outside and
imagining that there is power there. There is no buying power in the symbol of money; it is
what is back of it, for, even while you hold the symbol in your hand, it may decrease in value
to a point where it is not worth the paper it is printed upon. The enchantment of money is
due to the fact that we have placed power in the symbol instead of placing it where it

belongs. Hence, the saying, "Money is power" but what of a dying man who has exhausted
the finest arts and crafts that money can buy? What about friendship? What about love?
What about anything that really matters in life? Looking on the symbol, people become
enchanted by it, then think to possess it, and end by being possessed by it; they are
destroyed by the serpent just as surely as the bird is.
Trying to demonstrate symbols of money has not proved successful. Perhaps in a few remote
cases it has been done; a handful of gold has been forthcoming, and then the terrible lapse
that has followed and the wonder how it happened, and why it does not happen again.
Keeping your attention fixed on things will keep them from you. As you pursue them, they
flee before you as the mirage in the desert that seems so real and true.
Power is not in the symbol, the substance of money is not in the dollar bill. The golden idol
with feet of clay will crash upon your own head. The worship of the golden calf seems to be
in accord with the masses of humanity, but it brings the sharp rebuke, "Thou shalt have no
[not any] other gods before ME." Where is this ME, and what is the ME that comes before all
else, except the I AM consciousness within you, which is your point of contact with the
Universal Whole?
"To him that hath shall be given" does not seem fair, and is not fair from the human standard
of things, but it is true. To him that hath the consciousness shall be added symbols of that
consciousness, not because he needs them, nor because he is receiving a special favor, but
because he is automatically functioning a law of God. "With all thy getting, get
understanding.," But most people say, "With all thy getting, get gold, then you will be able to
go into the world and take possession."
"There is no enchantment against Jacob." There is no law of poverty that is fixed over you
through which you are obliged to function. No, not if ten thousand wise men say as much.
You are the son of the Living God, the All Power, and when you recognize this then will you
understand how there can be no enchantment against Jacob.
"If you seek me after the loaves and fishes you shall not find me" is recorded as the saying of
the Master. If you are seeking the things, then you will come under the enchantment of
things, and you will reap the result of this divided allegiance.
"Who by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?" You may answer the question our
self and look over that which follows, and perhaps through the crannies you will see the
light, and hear the command "consider the lilies and the ravens and the sparrows," and
many more things, and see that you, as the Son of the Living God, are not dependent upon
the divination of the human mind.
Neither shall you be under the enchantment of disease, for the son of the Living God is a
being of pure Spirit, and is made of the substance which comes under the direct control of
God, who is of "too pure eyes to behold iniquity," Pause a moment and ask yourself whether
there possibly could be an actual law of sickness and misery, and, if so, why have you, of all
people, been singled out to manifest it? You can only answer that it is because of your

acceptance of this law as a power beside which God Himself is powerless. The more you
look at the loathsome manifestation the more real it becomes, and the more you realize the
utter impossibility of escaping it. Who can gaze at disease in its various forms and even
imagine how it could be relieved? Yet in turning away from the appearance lies a sudden
and sure escapejust as you know that the bird with two strong wings has an instantaneous
means of escape from the serpent, yet so long as it stands gazing at the object of its fear, just
so long will it be in the grip of that thing. Take your attention away from the appearance and
place it on the All God and you will find wings to escape any difficulty to which your
human thinking has brought you. Awake, thou that sleepChrist is risen. The Christ
consciousness within you has risen out of the tomb of your own making, and he comes with
all power. Turn your attention away from appearances and the enchantment will be broken.
"Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel."
Either God is all powerful, and able to do all things or else our teaching is in vain. "There is
NOW, therefore, no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus." When we begin to
read the words of light and see the inner meaning, we see that the enchantment of the
human mind is broken and that the condemnation of the evil of our beliefs is cancelled, and
we are freed into the Spirit of the sons of the Living God. When we forsake the evil in our
consciousness, then it is forgiven and released; the condemnation goes with it, and we are
feed. Awake, you who sleeps, and Christ shall give you light.
Are you looking for a lucky charm, a sign, or a miracle? Miracles do not happen only to the
human belief. The operation of the Divine Mind producing health where the human mind
sees sickness, and prosperity where the human mind sees poverty, is a natural process. It is
only unnatural to the relative world. The statement, "Signs shall follow, they shall not
precede," does not mean anything to the person who is always looking for things. He
wonders why, after years and years of serving God, he has never experienced a miracle or
revelation. Awake, you that sleeps; the signs follow, they do not precede. Do not seek me
after the loaves and fishes, because as soon as the loaves and fishes are consumed you will be
without them, and be the creature of chance again. There can be no chance in the law of god,
else the very harmony of the Universe would be destroyed. "There is no power opposed to
God."
In Nigeria, all sorts of black magic is practiced, with the most terrible results. But in every
instance the person who is to receive the baneful effects of this so-called power must be
informed that it is being used against him, and this alone tells the tale, "Not that which goes
into a man defiles him, but that which comes out." it is not what you take in that counts, but
that which comes out. If you hear evil and accept it, it comes out in the form of evil in your
universe, therefore it is that which defiles you. If disease is real, then it must come into
manifestation.
"Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel."
The only enchantment in any of the evil lies in the fact that your attention is fixed upon it,
and so it becomes real to you; but as soon as you take your attention away from it, and place

your consciousness on God, the enchantment is broken.

We look out upon a universe of our own making. "To the pure all things are pure," "Let the
filthy be filthy still," "What you be, that thou see. The one who is perpetually looking for the
clay feet of others stands on crumpling feet, and falls in his own dust. "Be thou wise as
serpents and harmless as doves," "Occupy till I come." " I come quickly" -It is well!

THEN WENT HE IN AND SHUT THE DOOR

"Then went he in and shut the door." What goes on behind the closed doors is going to be of
tremendous interest to the outside world. "that which is told in secret is called from the
housetops." When you think of the word "secret" you think of the "closed door," you think of
the "Secret place of the Most High" -in fact you think of the center of Being. Until a man
learns the law of silence he cannot leave his burning desert of human experience.
"He that travels alone shall travel far;" "He that holdeth his tongue shall take a city [a new
state of consciousness]:" and so he who learns to "come apart from among them and be
separate" is getting his feet firmly placed on the ladder that leads safely to heaven
realization.
Power is noiseless; its manifestation may make a terrific tumult, but power of itself is
noiseless. "Be still and know that I AM God" has a command which has been as little heeded
as the one, "Before they ask I will answer" -but that also bespeaks of silence accomplishing
something that noise could not. The burning coal which is placed on the lips seals them for
ever, and it is to such an one that power is given ...given because he has discovered
something in the silence that he can never discover anywhere else. He has found certain
secret springs which, when released, will cause the whole face of his universe to change, and
people sill say, "It is a miracle," but he will know differently.
Until man learns the law of silence, he will travel on in the heat of the burning desert of
experience, comparing notes with others; discussing and arguing about the vital truths
which never seem to work, and yet seem so plausible and real.
"I do not see why it is that I cannot make more progress." "I have been faithfulI have
helped manyI have heard hundreds of lecturesI have read hundreds of booksI have
given of my substanceand still am in this terrible condition."
The answer to all this is simple, yet it will be rejected by many because they like to "talk it
over" first with someone who is supposed to know more than they do; and then they want to
talk it over with God and tell Him just what to do before things will be right in the Universe.
But nothing happens and they either go down into the ditch of human failure or hear the
"still small voice" which constantly says, "Be still, be still, be still, and know that I AM God."
In the quietness and peace shall be they strength." A thousand times that is read over, and by
the very one who is seeking light and understanding, but will you obey it? Nay! Nay! You
will pass it over, and go again into the desert of human hope seeking for shade and water. In
the desert through which you are traveling is the deep secret well of silence, and when you
drink waters thereof you are refreshed, and the water there from will transform the desert
into a garden.
"Be still" Be very still and KNOW that I AM God, and you will find out something about the
Promised land you have been seeking, lo, these many years. The something you will find out
is that the Promised Land lies in your own consciousness, and the moment you are through
seeking it, and begin the process of recognizing it as here and now within the secret place of

your heart, that moment you see the transformation beginning to make itself manifest.
Do not expose the seed to the parching winds of human opinion. "Thou fool, do you not
know that a seed must first fall into the ground and rot before it shall be made alive?" Do
you not know that the seed idea must be dropped into the secret place, and there lose its
outer wrapping of human opinion and belief before the new manifestation shall come forth?
The ugly brown bulb is transformed into a cluster of lilies. What a transformation! All for the
simple following of the law. Yet this process of change is no more wonderful than the
transformation that shall go on in you. "O you of little faith." -when you can follow the law.
"Be uye transformed by the renewing of your mind." How can the mind be renewed if it be
not still? How can the earth be renewed unless it go deep into the secret place of the roots
and there restore itself or its manifestation by the substance that is stored up there? Do you
begin to see why it is that the lips shall be sealed? You who read?
The butterfly and chrysalis, the chick in the shell, and a thousand other things give you an
ample idea, but all these are inadequate to convey the power of the Word which is to work
out in you when you can be still.
The law states very clearly, "Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find: knock and
it shall be opened unto you," and yet there be thousands that will say they have done all
these things and are still without the bare necessities of life. Seeking amidst the husks of
human reasoning and opinions, among the findings of the human intellect, will not be
productive of much more than a grain or two of substance. Asking the world at large for
freedom from your sorrows will merely bring pity or ridicule on your head. Knocking at the
gates of human temples is disheartening, and yet the law continues:
"For every [no exceptions] one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that
knocks it shall be opened."
The pristine beauty of this assurance sounds forth like a glorious bell across the smooth
waters of a silver lake, or like an answered SOS to a tempest tossed ship, an yet no results
have come. Men have gone down in the ditch trying to wrench away from the Universe, a
decent living. One by one the dreams of youth are exploded because they cannot be fulfilled,
although they seemed so right and so possible of attainment.
"For everyone that asks receives." You may prove that you spend hours a day in good works
and prayer, just as a man states, and truly, that he holds an oak tree in his hand when he
shows you an acorn. In spite of the fact that you have "faith as a grain of mustard seed" that
is said to be enough to move mountains, nothing happens, and nothing is going to happen
until you enter the place of silence and set the seal on your lips.
When you are once in this place of silence you find the processes reversed. "Before you ask, I
will answer." The asking is merely voicing something that is about to be made visible. It is
the decreeing of the thing that will eventually come into manifestation. The chick in the shell,
hidden away from the world of curious human eyes, is evolving into a new state; you will
begin to see what takes place in the silence of your being, and why you are commanded to
:Be still and know that I AM God." Presently, you leave the noisy company of those traveling

in the desert and enter into your secret place, to discover that the Promised Land is not a
place, but a state of consciousness, and it exists in the NOW of time, the HERE of space.
"But the land where you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drink water of the
rain of heaven; a land which the Lord thy God cares for; the eyes of the Lord thy God cares
for; the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even
unto the end of the year.,"
Note the words, "the Lord they God," and see if the light of the governing influence of your
Christ consciousness does not blaze forth with such effulgence that the noonday is as the
twilight, and in this revelation are revealed the glorious things that heretofore were hidden
from the human mind. "Eyes have not seen," etc., etc. But it is there all the same, and makes
itself manifest when the eye becomes single and when the lips become silent and when the
recognition is made in the secret place. Here and Now does not mean more waiting, more
patience with the appearance of things, but it means a beautiful transformation that goes on
before your eyes, a coming into being of the Promised Land.
When you pause for a moment to consider that the Lord thy God is watching over this
Promised land, "where you go to possess," from "the beginning of the year even unto the end
of the year," then you can understand why you are admonished to take no thought for the
body, for the food, for the purse, scrip, or upper chamber.
"I have much to say unto you, but you could not bear it now." No one can bear the deep
Truth of Life until his lips have been sealed. No one can take the new state of consciousness
until he can hold his tongue, for it is by means of the tonguesymbolically speaking that
you shall be defiled. Watch, therefore, that you enter not into temptation to tear away the
protective coating of silence from about the new idea. Let not the manifestation be retarded
or deformed by your anxiety, for, the moment you recognize the new idea, the soul of you is
singing, no matter what the outward appearances for now the Child is born. Every idea that
has its immaculate conception in the mind of silence will come forth to rule over its domain
gloriously. Be still, be still, be still and know that I AM God.
The sign of a silent soul is serenity, poise, and power. There is a confidence and an abandon.
There is a light of joy in the consciousness.
"Serene I fold my hands and wait," -quite a different waiting from the old idea of waiting for
something to happen. It is the confident waiting for the Divine event to take place, a serene
confidence that it is done and the mechanics will be perfectly executed. Can you see why it is
necessary for you to come apart from them and be separate? Be still, be still, be still.
"Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord."
"For the froward is an abomination to the Lord; but His secret is with the righteous."
The froward is an abomination to the Lord, the same as the one who digs up the garden after
it is planted, and opens the egg after it has been placed under the bird. Abomination,

because he is destroying the manifestation that is due to appear.

Awake, you who sleep, and Christ will give you light." Awake and arise from the dead. Fold
your tent and steal silently away into the secret place where you can enlarge the borders of
your tent without asking the permission of anyone. No matter how loving the advice may
be, the things of spirit that are deep and pure will have to be found alone in the silent place,
alone with God.
All that is necessary to enter therein is willingness on the part of the student, willingness to
listen instead of to tell; willingness to accept the promises as made by the master, and to
plant the seed and let the human limitations and husks of belief rot away from it, in order
that the new life may appear. In the place of the Most High you have no favors to ask, no
special permission to gain. What you tell yourself in secret shall be called from the housetop.
The Word shall become flesh. There is a rest for the people of God. All of these beautiful
things become true to the silent soul. "Be still and know that I AM God."

BREAKING THE BREAD

Five thousand hungry men, far from food and shelter. Five thousand men in the desert,
hungry, calling for bread; and only five barley loaves. The nearest food depot miles away.
Dozen of empty vessels, all crying out to be filled. Great, yawning, ugly, black vacuums of
debt and want, and only a few drops of oil in the cruse.
Great stretches of parched desert scorched by sun and wind Dry, barren, ugly, useless.
Worthless,
Helpless, unwanted, crying for expression, and only a small desert water-hole under a
scraggy tree, half-filled with poisonous water, and a mass of bone-dry seeds buried in the
sands.
Any one of these pictures is enough to make the average strong heart quail and turn away
with a sense of helplessness. "Why does God permit such terrible things to exist if He is Allpowerful?" "Why do I have to continue always under an avalanche of debt and limitations,
with never enough to do anything with?" "Why do I lie on a bed of pain, my body racked
with loathsome disease?"
"I have tried and tried and yet no results come." "Anyone could see that five loaves would
not feed five thousand men. A loaf to a thousand? What good to even pause to consider such
an absurd idea? What good to consider the empty jars when only a few drops of oil are
visible?" "Thus man reasons, and thus he fails. Having drawn his conclusions in accordance
with the best human understanding and wisdom, he abides by the results.
The first and great law of breaking the belief of limitation is, judge not from appearances."
We have heard it often, but we have never really heard it until we can do it. When you
actually hear a word of Truth you can fulfill it. Taking your attention away from the
appearance of things, or judging not from appearances, is not merely closing the material
eyes and refusing to see that which you know in your human thinking is real. "Being absent
from the body and present with the Lord" is actually placing the attention on the Invisible
Source of All. This is neither as abstract nor as difficult as it seems at first glance. It is not a
difficult thing through the process of your imagination to possess those things which are
necessary for your well-being. It is not a difficult for you to imagine that it would be a simple
matter to the All Power to produce all the desires of your heart seeing it has already created
infinitely more right before your eyes. It is not difficult for you to place your consciousness
in the realm of Spirit, and there feel the freedom of the All Spirit, being lost in the immensity
of light, and finding the hard outlines and form of things all melting back into the infinite
ONE out of which all things came into being.
After all, a moments thought will cause you to throw much of the limiting reasoning of
human wisdom away. Just think of the infinite flow of water into the Universe. From the
single drop to the mighty torrents, where does it come from? Out of the same invisible realm
of substance we see millions of different manifestations, just as out of the same garden plot
we see a hundred varieties of seeds bringing forth as many different kinds of flowers and

fruits, all drawing on the identical substance for their life. Why does a poppy and a grain of
wheat, drawing on the same elements, bring forth such radically different manifestations?
Who can answer except with the absurd reply, "It is the nature of the seed."
Why should it seem strange, then that man should make a conscious contact with this
Infinite Power, and see it step up the process of time and bring out the instant manifestation
of whatsoever is needed, instead of seeing it put through the limiting human thought
process? Why should it be thought so absolutely outside the ken of possibility?
Further, why is it that you, the very reader of this page, will go into your garden and scatter
a handful of seeds in the ground without so much as a mental effort as to how they are going
to draw their substance out of the invisible? Pushing this idea back a little farther, you find it
is because you have a perfect confidence that it can be done, not in a way you know, but in
an unseen way. Somehow or other this tiny seed will be able will be able to select the
pigmentation of color and the qualities for its own expression. And, do you not find this
strange; it has ceased to be wonderful. It is natural. You dismiss it. The handful of seed is all
that is necessary for you presently to reap a harvest that many men with many baskets
cannot gather in.
Yet if someone said, "There are five loaves to feed five thousand hungry men," you would
immediately place it under the head of miraculous. Something outside the laws of nature
and life. Why should it be thought more difficult to increase one substance than another?
Well, you scatter your seed with abandon, and with absolute faith that its increase is
assured; you give it little or no thought after it is sown. But if you were to attempt to increase
the loaves you would be concerned to such an extent with the manifestation that the law
would not operate.
If you have five seeds and want to increase them to five thoughts and, you do not lay the five
seeds on the table and pray offer them. You do something. You cast them into the ground.
There is no wondering or questioning the action. After you have abandoned them in this
way, the work on the outside is done; the next move must be from the realm of the Invisible.
When will you, you who read this page, open your eyes and see what is going on all about
you? When will you start the flow of substance by taking your attention away from the
symbol and placing it on the substance back of the symbol? In other words, when will you
cast the seed into the ground of Spirit and let the Invisible Power of the Lord work upon it?
When you drop the seeds into the ground, you have already given thanks, perhaps not in
words, for the harvest. You have actually accepted your goodyour increaseyour
fulfillmentand yet you have seen nothing. But you have obeyed the law, you have not
asked for a signknowing that the "signs will follow, they do not precede."
When Jesus, the Master, saw the five thousand the five loaves, he said to his disciples: "Give
them to eat." The disciples, even as you and I, immediately looked at the problem before
them and in the most intelligent manner asked: "Where can we get the bread?" Over and
over the word is spoken to us, yet the deaf ears hear nothing. When the Voice commands, it
should be sufficient to cause you to move into action; for it will never say "do," "go," "be,"
"have," or any of the commands, unless wrapped up in that very word is the means of

expressing the command in its fullness.

Strange as it may seem to the human sense, man is always in possession of enough to start
the increase which will unfold or unroll until it has filled every empty thing. Hence, in the
desert, five loaves were "seed" sufficient to increase the manifestation unto the need.
Jesus took the five loaves and blessed them. His blessing was one of pure recognition of the
infinite increase, or the infinite abundance of substance. "He blessed, and brake, and gave"
He regarded absolutely all appearances, "He blessed, and brake, and gave"...and he kept on
breaking the bread until everything was filled and there was enough and to spare. His
attention being away from the appearance of things all the while and placed on the invisible.
The very invisible out of which the tremendous increase of your seed-planting took place
last spring. Only his attention was so conscious of the Presence that the time lag was wiped
out and it became the glowing, vibrating NOW of Spirit.
"Borrow vessels, not a few"-the same power blessing, recognizing the infinite source of
substance, looked away from the few drops of oil and began to pour it out just as it had
broken the bread. Presently out of the invisible source of all things the flow of oil came in
such abundance that everything was full to overflowing.
The only benefit of these parables is the direct application to your present manifestation.
Many people stand in the place, symbolically speaking, of the master with five thousand
hungry men and five loaves, or with hundreds of empty vessels and only a few drops of oil,
wondering why they do not demonstrate abundance, not heeding the urge of Spirit to "Bless
and break, and give" to recognize the presence of the Spirit ad begin the process of breaking
and giving. Wherever you are, and whatever your problems may be, you have the five
loaves necessary, or the few drops of oil, and you can "Bless, and break, and give."
All three steps are necessary. You are doing the same thing constantly in your garden,
whether consciously or unconsciously. Your garden is brought forth is just this way. You
realize that half the joy of your garden is the giving of its rich harvest to others, yet many
people in the Truth imagine that the giving is something entirely apart from the getting. It is
only by making a constant outlet for the expression of good that more can flow into your life.
It is reasonable to believe that the increase of anything would stop if it had no outlet. We
notice in the five loaves and five thousand men demonstration that bread was given as fast
as they came for it. It was not all manifested at once and then passed out. Your substance
does not have to be mountain high before you can give it out. In fact, if the flow is not kept
open, the increase stops.
It is a glorious revelation that you, just where you are, begin the process of breaking and
giving the bread of life and see the endless flow of substance making itself manifest to you
and your Universe.
You can begin to see why the command of "Silence" is so essential. Why, the great prayer is
"Be still and know that I AM God" not the human limited power, but that which can step up
the time lag and make the NOW of the manifestation appear. The power which is back of

this potent statement "You say it is four months until the harvest, but I say look again."
Only those that have eyes that have been opened to the reality of being can see the harvest
where the human sense says the planting has not yet even taken place. "Having eyes, you see
not; having ears, you hear not." "Awake, you that sleep." The new dimension is edging into
your picture.
Do you begin to see the futility of keeping the attention fixed on the few drops of oil, or the
five loaves and the hungry masses? Bring this right down to your problems and a door will
open to you. A new joy will fill you, for you will discover that you have all that is necessary
to bring out the fullness of the invisible substance.
Beloved, do not let it be said of you any more "You seek ME, not because you saw the
miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves and were filled."
Do you not see how perishable is the symbol but how unlimited is that which is back of it?
"Labor not for meat that perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life."
Why should you worry about the symbols, take your attention away from them or the lack
of them and keep breaking and giving of the precious substance. Do not invert the process
and reason thus in your hearts, "If I give I shall get," that is a losing game, give because the
overflowing substance within you seeks its level. That is, it is complete fulfillment,
automatically. You cannot help pouring out the gift of the Father when you begin to see that
the infinite flow of joy is coursing through you, and through your Universe. Rejoice and be
exceeding glad and let fall the drenching rain of recognition of the presence of God; let it fall
on the barren desert of your life and the desert will blossom as a rose, for it has the seeds of
infinite possibilities hidden away in its burning sands, awaiting recognition. It is well,
"Break your bread and five it to the hungry multitude of desires in your life."

POWER
"All power is given unto ME in heaven and in earth."
In spite of this, men still wonder if it is possible for God to set aside the evil in their lives; if it
is possible for the All power to neutralize fearful problems that have come to them.. "All
power is given unto ME in heaven and in earth." This statement is certainly not true of man,
for he seems strangely without power. In fact, everything else in the Universe seems to have
more power than man. Hence he is subject to all sorts of influences over which he seemingly
has no control, God is ruled out of His Universe and a power of evil is enthroned.
When man examines his human self to ascertain his capacities and abilities, he finds them
strangely lacking in power. He takes into account his birth, breeding, education, muscular
power, general health, etc., and knows exactly what he can do, even to his earning capacity.
This is verified by thousands of laws, statistics, and proofs, as well as the findings of the
wisdom of the world. What good is it to tell a man who has measured himself by these
standards that a power exists that can and does make everyone of his findings null and
void?
He knows he cannot lift a two-hundred pound weight, he has tried it. What is the good of
argument on this point? He can prove it to you. Yet occasionally he finds that someone, in a
moment of excitement or stress, has lifted many times his own weight and this in spite of the
best findings of human intellect. He knows it cannot be done, and yet time and again it has
been done and man says, "by a supernatural power." Exactly, and that is what he should say,
and that recognition should suddenly turn his attention away from the limited human
capacity unto the Supernatural Power.
The law by which this power is discovered and used is by taking the attention away from the
limitations of the human world, and contemplating the Real and Supernatural Universe, the
unconditioned power of God.
The following article was clipped from the New Yorker of a recent date. It was found in an
article on Zimbalist, the great violinist: "Somehow, nobody told Zimbalist that he was
supposed to play the piano too; but during the final examinations, in his eighteenth year,
they handed him a Beethoven sonata to be read at sight, in the presence of the whole faculty.
He had never touched a piano except to get his A. He sat down, however, got his breath,
played. When he finished, he was told to close the book and repeat the whole sonata from
memory; he did so. After a moment of silence the room broke unanimously into applause
an unheard of demonstration."
All the human intellect in the Universe could not conceive this possible. They would
immediately say it could not take place, and yet it did take place. Few things could be more
difficult. It bespeaks of a power which is entirely outside human capacity. Imagine reading a
difficult sonata once, and then playing it note perfect, and this on an instrument you had
never touched. Just think about it a moment, then you will begin to see what the power of
which Jesus spoke is capable of doing. It is capable of setting every human law at naught. Is
it any wonder, then that within this law lies the Kingdom of Heaven, and should it not thrill

you to know that this very law is possible of operation within your midst?
"Ah, but Zimbalist is a genius." Not being able to dispose of the Power, which upsets the
most cherished laws of the human mind, it finally disposes of the matter in that way. BUT,
presently it is confronted with another interesting new item concerning an invalid who had
been paralyzed for twenty years and was being conveyed on a stretcher to another town. In
crossing the tracks, the carriers suddenly discovered they were in the way of an on-coming
express train. Without time to go forward or backward the length of a stretcher, they did the
most natural human thing. The law of self-preservation came into play and they dropped the
stretcher and fled. From the human standpoint it was certain destruction to the invalid, who
had not walked a step for years and could not move himself. But what happened? He, the
invalid, suddenly seeing the train, leaped from the stretcher and ran. But how? Only a
moment before he could not move. A miracle had happened, said the Press, and so it had.
Something that the human mind not conceive as possible had happened, and laws of twenty
years standing were as naught. What about it? Do you think it is necessary for the God
Power to have an express train in the picture in order to operate? Do you think it is always
necessary to have some terrific thing about to happen before God is able to come into
manifestation? It does not matter whether it takes an on-rushing train , an earthquake, or
torrent to produce it, or whether you produce it in the quiet of your own soul. One thing
alone is necessary, and that one, all important point is your willingness to take your
attention away from the limited human concept of yourself. In the simple language of Jesus,
we find "that to be absent from the body and present with the Lord" is the way of great
miracles. Looking at the appearances of things only binds you to the human capacity which
is practically nil.
The story of the prophet and his servant is the story of every man. The servant, looking to
appearances, saw that they were about to be destroyed and called out in fear. But the
prophet was smiling and called the servants attention to the invisible visible power and
said, "Those that are for us are more than those that are against us." That is, the power that is
for you is greater than all the combined beliefs opposed to you. The reward is rich if you can
heed the Scriptures, "Be absent from the body and present with the Lord."
If the Lord knows your every need, and supplies it before you ask, then why not fix the
attention of the All-ness of God NOW?
"They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides for
ever."
Can you but place your Trust in the Lord, not as some mysterious power, but as the very
presence of Life within you and your Universe, then you can know the feel of instant release
from the evil of human belief. "With god all [not some] things are possible." ALL things are
possible. Do you hear, you who read this book? "Believe you this?"
"They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the Lord, even as the waters cover the sea."
We begin to see, then that Jesus was a Truth sayer when he said, "I come not to destroy, but
to fulfill." The idea that we are here for the purpose of destroying something gives way to the

truth of the redemption of everything. The fulfilling of the law is the realization of the
presence of the Power which is able to do that which the human limitation finds impossible.
"God is able to do for us exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think according to
the power that works in us." The God Power is able and willing to do that which completely
out distances human thinking with its limited idea of the possibilities of the God Power; but
note the crux of the whole thing lies in the word "according." According to your acceptance
of the God Power as everywhere present, and as omnipotent, will It be able to do more than
human thought can conceive of. The God Power reverses every human law. "Before they ask
I shall answer" is one of the interesting things to be considered. From the standpoint of
reason this is absolutely ridiculous, so inversely to the Divine Mind the "Reason of man is
foolishness in the eyes of God."
Cannot you see, you who read this page, how we are fast approaching the state of "Be still
and know that I AM God?" Can you see why the noisy chattering of the human mind must
give way to the glorious peace and poise of the Presence? If your question is answered
before it is asked, why repeat it over and over, why not stay on the finished idea?
"The former things have passed away, they shall not come into mind nor be remembered any
more."
Even the memory of the evil shall be passed through the waters of forgetfulness and man
shall arise from this glorious bath and be clothed in a cloud of perfume from an unseen
flower of spirit. He shall stand on the heights naked and be enveloped by a golden veil of
life. The former things shall have passed away and shall not be remembered any more.
"The works that I do, I do not of myself, but the Father that dwells within me, He does the
works."
Indwelling in every man is this Father which is able to do more than we ask or think, and
which is able to set aside the limitations of the human expression. Making your union with
this Father brings you to the point of which Jesus spoke: "I can of myself do nothing, but
with God all things are possible;" and a little contemplation will cause you to see that if you
will open wide the doors of your consciousness and let this Christ come into your life and
become one with you, "the Father within" will do the works.
"Behold I have received a commandment to bless, and He hath blessed and I cannot reverse
it." The capacity of the Father within is to bless, and the meaning of the word "bless" conveys
that heavenly capacity of invoking the Divine favor. It is wondrous and beautiful to
contemplate that "I have received the commandment to bless." The "I" of you hath received
the commandment to bless, to "invoke the Divine favor," It is that which sets aside the
sternest human laws and beliefs; it is the power which causes the oldest and time honored
limitations to crumple as a sand castle before a tidal wave. Nothing can revoke this Divine
blessing, when once it is recognized and called into manifestation. All that is necessary to
bring out the glorious re elation are the simple words "I bless you" spoken from the
conscious recognition of your atonement with the Father within. Remembering all the while
that this glorious teaching is given to the child. Not the child in years, but in consciousness.

The mind that can accept that God is the only Power and is everywhere present.
"All power is given unto ME in heaven and in earth." In the mind and in the body is all
power given unto the I AM. Arise and go forth with this glorious command written in gold
across your heart: "Behold I have received a command to bless [to invoke the Divine Power],
and he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it." You can go your way invoking the Divine
Power because you are the Child f the Living God, and right now and right in the place you
stand you have the power to do this.
"Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of God has risen upon you."
You are the Being of light in the Universe of Light. It is well with you NOW.

CHRISTMAS
"For unto us a child is born, and his name shall be called Wonderful, the mighty, the
counselor, the everlasting, and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and of his reign
there shall be no end."
So beloved, you who read this page, at this very instant the great folds of spiritual light are
breaking over you, the soul of you arises at the blast of the silent trumpet, and the glad
tidings are proclaimed throughout your Universe. The picture of history and legend that you
have cherished so long in your heart has suddenly come to life and the divine event takes
place within you. Within the manger of your heart. You, the poor worm of the dust, the
sinner, the outcast, are actually the lowly manger wherein the Christ is born. His name is to
be called Wonderful, and the government shall be upon his shoulders. The government of
what? The government of your life. The poor struggling sinner who has so long been under
the law of "When I would do good, I do evil," he it is who suddenly sees the star in the east
and goes towards the stable of his own heart and finds there at this glorious instant the
divine event taking place.
And the government of your life is to be upon his shoulders. All the worrying and trying and
effort falls away, "Cast your burden on Me and I shall sustain you;" "Lean on Me;" "Come
unto Me," a hundred invitations are given to the struggling man, but until the divine event
takes place, he turns a deaf ear to it all, unable to see how it can possibly take place. The
quickening of the Father within. The recognition of the Divine Sonship. The glorious
revelation of the atonement with God. "Yet in my flesh shall I see God." All these and a
hundred more testimonies hover about the new babe like angels of the lord. Enfolding the
universe of the newborn in the soft folds of their wings. It is wonderful. Heaven and earth
are full of You.
The struggle is over. "He that loses his life shall find it." He that loses his personal life, his life
of separateness, in the immensity of the All life shall find the real meaning of Life; shall find
the hidden manna and the living waters, and shall never hunger or thirst again. Then if your
will be lost in the Divine Will or if your human governing be given overt to the Christ, then
your will becomes His will and His will becomes your will, and you see the new regime
setting in.
The glorious heralds of the new Day go forth and proclaim it to the uttermost parts of your
sin-bound Universe. The prisons of thought are opened and the prisoners are set free. There
is great rejoicing in the land, for you that were dead are made alive.
"For unto us a child is born, and his name shall be called Wonderful." His name shall be
called
Wonderful. Do you hear? Do you feel it? You who read this page, you? Blessings, floods of
blessings, holiness, glorious swirls of illumination are yours, the heavenly hosts are
descended unto you. You are in a blaze of light or revelation in the glorious NOW. The soul
of you at this time is singing "Glory Hallelujah. Christ is born." Not in a far off country, not
in the dead history of yester years, but in the glorious NOW, right in the midst of the fear-

filled life. Christ is born and the government shall be upon His shoulders. The wonder of it
fills you with silence so great and powerful that you are lost in the immensity of it all.
The government shall be upon his shoulders, and it shall therefore be right and just and
good. Fear notit is well with thee. Let go of the personal striving. You are now about your
Fathers business and this is the eternal expression of harmony and joy. A new sense of
integrity will come to you. "Blessed shall you be when you come in and when you go out."
The lazy, sluggish mind shall give place to fresh streams of activity. Like a frozen river that
is suddenly touched by the hot tropic sun, the frozen river of your life shall burst forth into
expression. Or, like a flood that passes through the stagnant waters of life, this glorious
awakening shall sweep away all the scum and stagnation of human fears and thinking and
leave in its place the healthful waters of activity.
Be not anxious. The government shall be upon his shoulders, and it will be well with thee.
Fear Not!
"All the ends of the earth shall come." The ends of your universe. They shall hear of the new
birth and shall arise, and the kings shall come and lay their crowns and jewels at the feet of
the new babe. The realms of human power, of human thinking, shall finally bend their knees
to the new King.
Thus will the monarchs of Health, Wealth, and Happiness, who have been so difficult to
appease, come and lay their power down. No more shall they have dominion over you, for
your life shall be governed from now on, not by a group of tyrants doling out a little
happiness, health, and substance to you, but by the Great Central power of allthe Christ in
the midst of you, and all flesh shall see it together. "For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken
it." Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for your Redeemer draws near. The limited concept of life
shall be swept away. In place thereof is the Christ who says, "Before you ask I will answer,"
instead of the tyrants of human thinking who required sacrifice of blood and fire before they
could be moved to do ever so little for you.
"And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in
weakness." When in your weakness, when in the recognition of your inability to accomplish
the good you would, you come to the point of recognition of the Christ within, then you are
"No more under the law,"
"My grace is sufficient for thee." My grace, my divine Influence shall be sufficient for thee.
The influence of the Divine surrounds you, it is above the possibility of failure or fear or
harm. No wonder, then that you are thrilling with joy. The long years of bondage are ended.
The scorching path in the desert has terminated. You have come to the promised land. "My
grace is sufficient for thee." where is the MY of this promise and where is the thee? Do you
not see how it al goes back to the Christmas; to the new birth of that which is Wonderful and
upon whose shoulders the government shall rest? The government of the human personality
shall be upon the Christ and the Grace of the Christ shall be sufficient for the human
manifestation. Sufficient is enough. Do you hear, your who read this page? You? "My grace
is sufficient for thee." Sufficient is enough. Over and over this revelation comes to mankind,
and at last out of it he perceives the wonders of the Divine Influence. The Divine Influence is

that which causes the acorn to press its tiny shoot through the hard earth, and even through
places and under conditions that are pronounced hopeless. This same Divine Influence is
that which enables you to pass by safely. It is that which enables you to pass by safely. It is
that which opens the doors in walls that otherwise appear blank and adamant.
This glorious quality of the Divine Influence which we call grace resides in the consciousness
of the Christ Mind which you were told to "let" be in you. "Let the Child be born." In other
words, when we have the Christian celebration within our own souls, then the Christ is born
within us, then we begin to experience the law of Grace or the Divine Influence. We begin to
see the old beliefs fall away. We begin to see that the legends of Father Christmas and the
Christmas tree are truths told so that the un-initiate should not despoil them of their
precious substance. They are the pearls which are not cast before swine.
The Christmas tree is only another way of expressing the Tree of Life which lies in the midst
of the garden and upon whose branches re all good gifts, the Gifts of Spirit. Whosoever hears
the word will henceforth not be a beggar for the gifts of life, but will go within his own
garden and take his own gifts. "All that the Father has is yours." When the law of Grace is set
free the law of limitation is made null and void. You will find then that the promise "Before
they ask, I will answer" is something true and wonderful.
You are your own Christmas tree and your own Father Christmas. You are the center and
circumference of your being. You stand in the center of your universe and at the uttermost
point of our universe. Spirit is all and only when man accepts his birthright and goes
forward upon these new lines can he possibly know the joy and thrill that the truth about
Christmas brings. When you realize for an instant "For unto us a child is born and his
name shall be called Wonder, the mighty, the counselor, the everlasting, and upon his
shoulders shall be the government," then you have taken Christmas out of the symbolism
and gotten back to the soul of it. It ceases to be a day of gifts, pudding and turkey and a
possible church service thrown in with a magnanimous prayer for the poor and turns itself
into a heavenly recognition of the Presence: Flings wide the portals of a New Year, a New
life and a New field of attainment.
At the name of Christ every knee shall bend. At the nature or name of the Christ the knee of
every human belief shall bend to do Him homage. Every so called power shall bend before
the One and Only Power, who rules by Grace. "My grace is sufficient for thee." It is
wonderful.
"Joy to the world (your world)
The Lord has come
Let earth receive her king."
Joy to your worldjoy to your worldthe Lord has come. Lord of Lords and King of Kings
is born within you. Born within your consciousness. Lord of Lords and King of Kings, and
besides this there is no other. Not a little personal despot of a king, but a glorious God.

Everything is fused with the new/old idea, the birth of the Christ within you. You are filled
with light and the radiance of the New Day. It is so, and so it is. Selah

THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HAVE EATEN

"I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten." A meaningless bit of Bible language,
a scrap of Oriental poetry, and yet hidden away therein is a secret and a promise so
wonderful that it makes the interest in life flare up into reality again. "The years that the
locust have eaten" are years that are wasted. So many have found themselves looking
backward over a life of fruitless years; years of struggle; years consumed with futility and
despair; years filled with unexpressed dreams and ambitions; ugly years of vacuity and
nothingness. Hundreds of people have spent ages trying to bring out the higher
consciousness, only to arrive at a place of disappointment. Old, worn-out bodies and
insufficient funds seem to have been the reward for their years of labor. The locust of human
thought has eaten up all that was worthwhile, and left but the ghastly skeletons. Many of
these fall back on the old hateful teaching that when they "sleep" they shall waken to a new
and wonderful state of things. They only accept this because they have failed to bring out the
Presence here and now. The bitterness of failure is upon them.
"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all die, but we shall be changed, in the twinkling of
an eye at the last trump. The dead in Christ will be raised and we [the living] will be
changed."
The "last trump" that is to sound which will change you, or raise you from the mass of dead
beliefs, is not a noise that shall be heard with the human ear. It is "the still small voice" of the
Master who stands at the door and knocks. It is this glorious power that will suddenly cause
you to know that the "years which the locust has eaten " are restored, and that it is not too
late, it is not just a whitewashing of rotten timbers, but a newness, a restoration of the temple
which was almost destroyed. "Destroy this temple [body] and in three days I will raise it up."
"I have power to pick it up or lay it down." We are speaking of the temple of the body, which
is the "Temple of the Living God" and is therefore a temple of perfection. We are speaking of
the temple of life which through belief has been consumed with the locust of human thought.
Yea, these very temples that we call human bodies, these same bodies that we have called
"vile" and have begged to be delivered from, these shall be restored.
The day of platitudes is over for the one who has heard the voice of the Inner Lord. He is no
longer trying to make his old body over by repeating a lot of words or ideas. He knows that
he must be born again : He must start all new and fresh. He must give up his temporal power
and become the new fresh babe of Spirit. "you must be born again." Old Nebuchadnezzar,
when told that he must be born again, put up the same argument that you and I put forth
when we are first initiated into the inner courts and hear the wonders that must be made
manifest. No wonder we have seen so much failure and such tiresome years of earnest effort
being consumed by the locusts of failure and futility.
"He restores my soul." The substance that has been wasted in prodigality is restored in all its
freshness. The prodigality may not necessarily have been sin in the terms of what the world
calls sin, but it may have been spent in a thousand and one ways that proved futile and
availed you nothing.
"Return unto the Lord and He shall forgive your back sliding." We are just beginning to

understand that through a mistaken belief of life in the body, we have wasted our substance,
and that we have nothing but the locust-eaten years to look upon.
"Behold, I make all things new." Do you believe that? You, who read this line? Where do you
locate the "I" of which you speak? Can you see, you who read these lines, that the new day is
slowly but surely dawning and that the words of the Spirit of Truth, whoever spoken
through, are being fulfilled? "I shall restore the years that the locust has eaten."
"Yet in my flesh shall I see God." Do you believe this, you who are reading? Do you think it is
possible and do you stop to think what it will be like to "see God in your flesh?" "In my flesh
shall I see God." what would you see if you saw God in your flesh? Think it over, certainly
you would not see the "years that the locust has eaten." "His flesh shall be fresher than a
childs; he returns to the days of his youth."
The human mind cannot grasp this. It comes under the head of the seeming impossible,
therefore it comes under the scope of the I AM consciousness; the doer of the impossible.
Note the word "fresher." Why "fresher?" Because it is the spiritualized flesh. "In my flesh shall
I see God." In my flesh shall I see spirit materialized. We know that Jesus raised his body
from the death of materiality and from the material limitations, and yet he had a body which
could be touched and handled. But it was fresher even than the body of a child, or the flesh of
a child, because it had lost all earthliness and had become pure spirit. These are the deep
things of Spirit. "My words are spirit, and they are truth and they shall not return unto Me
void!" Do you hear, you who read? The deep and hidden things are being revealed to you.
"Be still and know that I AM God." This means that the human laws of birth, growth,
maturity, and decay are no more operative for you. You are the risen Lord. The Spirit has
become flesh, and the years that have been eaten by the locust are restored. They are revealed
in all their beauty and nothing is lost or found wanting.
"The Kingdom of Heaven has come near unto you." Secretly we are seeing, through the mass
of words, the power behind, and are leaving the symbols for the reality. In the seed is stored
up all the plant well need to express itself in perfection. Lost in the Life of God, you are
finding that the substance spent in riotous living is restored to you.
Do you not see that when you lose your life, the human sense of birth, growth, maturity, and
decay, you will find the eternal Life, that which will restore all which you thought was eaten
by the locusthuman belief? "For this is [present tense] Life eternal, that they might know
Thee."
Beloved, the day breaks, gradually we shall know the truth of the statement "And God shall
wipe away all tears, there shall be no more crying." The belief of human misery shall pass
away, and you shall stand revealed, the Son of the Living God. "You shall forget your misery,
and remember it as waters that pass away." Job 11:16
The hour is struck. The door is closed. We are beginning the process from within out; that
which shall change us, or reveal to us the "full stature of Christ." "Eyes have not seen." We do
not look for a pattern or model of this temple of the Living God, but we gaze inwardly to the
"Picture shown us upon the mount" and this is the picture that shall be reproduced in the

flesh. "Yet in my [my own] flesh shall I see God." Do you hear, you who read? "Do you
believe this?"

THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD

"The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit you on My right hand, till I make your enemies your
footstool." Matt 22:44
The Universal Consciousness speaks to its manifestation. The Son becomes one with the
Father as Jesus stated. "I and My Father are one." :My Father is greater that I," so man is
beginning to see and to recognize the fact that the I AM within him is the Father
consciousness which by mans acceptance becomes one with the whole. All ideas of
separation are swept away in the glorious manifestation of Light. All fear and limitation are
made null and void. Instantly you see that the Lord, the Inner Lord who has become lost in
the maze of the belief world, and is almost overcome with the seeming enemies, has to put up
his sword and "see the salvation of the Lord" - what Lord?
"Until I make your enemies your footstool." When there ceases to be retaliation; when man
cease to fight back, but steps aside as it were, the "vengeance is mine" is perfectly worked out
into expression in a way man knows not of. His enemies have reaped the whirlwind.
Whosoever tries to steady the ark of another finds his arm withered away.
If a man throws a rubber ball at a brick wall it returns to him of its own volition, but if there
happens to be a hole in the wall it goes through and does not return. So is it with evil. If your
enemies throw evil at you and you accept it, then you have to pay the ugly penalty of getting
rid of that which you have accepted. You then set about to get even with your adversary, and
the result is discord, and possibly destruction for both of you. But if you have no hole in the
wall, that is , if you refuse to accept the evil, it returns with accelerated force to its sender. You
do not have to seek revenge. "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord." the reaction of evil is its own
punishment and cure. You have no enemies except those you accept as such within your own
consciousness.
Judging from appearances and looking to people as detached, separate beings causes yo to
manifest dissension, strife, and evil. "Know you not that you are gods" has been interpreted to
mean that a personality can rise up and make itself as a god, instead of realizing that you are
a god in capacity as soon as you recognize you have within you the I AM consciousness
which has instant power to contact the Universal Lord, and to call into manifestation
unlimited and unconditioned power.
"Nothing shall by any means hurt you." is the statement of the mind that realized it is
atonement with the Universal Power. When the Inner Lord of you listens for and makes its
contact with the Lord, nothing [not anything] can just you, for you can instantly call into
manifestation legions of angels. You have but to put up your sword and see the salvation of
the Lord. This Lord or Lords who is not in any way subject to what you think or what anyone
else thinks; who acts independently of all thought. That which does the things impossible to
human law.
"You shall eat your own words." That which you send out in the way of judgment comes back
to you eventually with accelerated force and from the least expected place. So is the law of the
Cosmic Force. Little by little we are learning the protection in the command, "Judge not, lest

you be judged," and are beginning the process of seeing only that which is good. After all, the
truth of the adage, "Set a thief to catch a thief" is not so far wrong when it comes to many
other things that we see in the world.
Be not afraid of the truth. Welcome with open arms anything that will clear away the debris
of human thinking, no matter how time-honored it may be.
The quaking fear of the servant gives place to confidence, when you realize the presence of
the Inner Lord. He is above all fear, limitation, and lack. Nothing can by any means hurt you
when you recognize this fact, and "though ten thousand fall at your right hand it shall not
come near you" unless you open unto it and accept it, and then it becomes real to you.
"Agree with your adversary quickly while you art I the way." We do not fight or argue with
the adversary. Your refusing to accept the evil is silent and is not done in a whirlwind of
denial or argument. Your adversary will become your footstool, that is, he shall be placed
under the dominion of the Christ within you, and shall be as nothing the moment you step
aside and let the Lord, the great Cosmic Power of the Universe, return the evil which you did
not accept.
Once you have accepted a condition or thing, it is yours, and you will fight all night with it,
until further light comes and causes you to let go. Finally, you will have to loose it and let it go.
Then why accept it at all, however real it seems, however unjust or hateful? Just close the
door of the mind to it, and the universal Mind against which it has struck will return it to its
proper place of manifestation.
That is why Jesus was so fearless. He refused to accept evil as real. He left the penalties to the
Power of the Universal. To the Power of the God of Love. In reality, God does not hurt nor
harm any in all His Kingdom. One would not blame a door, which was blown open by a
violent wind, for injuring a man who was standing in the way thereof. Obviously the door
did nothing. You strike yourself when you strike another, and rather sharply too, provided
that other refuses to accept the blow. What you know of evil for another you know for
yourself, more especially if that other happens to know the law of non-acceptance. Watch,
take care that you enter not into temptation. "vengeance is mine" is a terrible law to set in
operation. You are the only one that can set it in operation against yourself, and that is
possible only by trying to injure another. "Judge not" is a hard, fast law, and there is no [not
any] loop hole for your superfine judgment to get through. Watch, watch, watch that you
enter not into temptation.
When this idea first came to me it was so terrible and overpowering that I had a feeling of
despair. I knew that so much judgment had already gone out in to the Universe. True, much
of it I thought I was entitled to makebut here was a hard, fast truth that could not be
compromised. I realized that enemies were merely thoughts, since one mans meat could be
anothers poison, and one mans enemy could be anothers savior.
I saw clearly how the God of Love could be, and was, the God of Vengeance. How the wrath
of God was quite natural and just. I saw that the Universal Mind merely threw back to us that
which we put into it, whether that be good, bad, or indifferent thinking, that our life was

composed of all this. I was in despair, and most everybody I knew was in the same boat. And
then the command: "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit you at My right hand until I make your
enemies your footstool."
Gradually I began to see that these evil thoughts that I had sent out were my enemies, and, if
they had not been accepted by those to whom I had directed them and were coming back to
me, I too would refuse to accept them, and when they hit against the closed door of my
consciousness, they would be dashed to pieces, since they had made the complete circle and
found no lodging; so in reality I could fee myself from the ugly kick-back of my own wrongthinking, whether done recently or years ago. I would sit by and see my enemies, "my evil
thoughts" whether expressed or unexpressed, whether new or old, made as my footstool.
That is, put into subjection, redeemed. Dashed to pieces like evil birds that have rushed
headlong against the thick glass of a lighthouse.
Yes, there was not only a sudden freedom for those whom I had judged evilly, but there was
also a freedom for myself from the ugly reaction of these thoughts that needs must come out
of the Universal Mind. No matter what the evil had been or was, no matter how deep you
had sunk into the mire of belief, repentance-refusal to participate further in the hideous game
of seeing evil in another-would bring about freedom from the manifestation of evil thinking
and action.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved." There is no ambiguity about it. This
utter casting yourself on the Inner Lord and listening for the Voice of the Universal
Consciousness will cancel all the karmic debts and fears, whether prenatal or present. The
moment the Magdalene came to this point of recognition she heard the voice saying "Neither
do I condemn thee, go and sin no more." This Voice of the Lord speaking to her Lord was
making her enemies as naught. She could not find one among all of them who could accuse
her, because she had suddenly become one with the Father and He found nothing to
condemn. This is a wonderful example of the working of the Infinite Mind, and is the door of
release for thousands of earnest souls. From the human standpoint, I suppose, there were
many in the crowd about the Magdalene who could have testified to certain things they knew
about her, but suddenly this oneness with the Spirit made it impossible for those things to be
anything but disintegrating beliefs. You see, "I have a way that you [man of the world] know
not of." It is the complete and perfect cancellation here and now by repentance. "Repent and
be saved."
O state is impossible. No state of mind is too low or too high to receive this glorious freedom
of the Sons of God. Even the thief on the cross had his chance to experience the Kingdom of
Heaven Here and Now. "This day shall you be with Me in Paradise." The instant you make
this repentance and refuse to accept the evil by virtue of its nothingness, then the cancellation
takes place. "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make your
enemies your footstool." A great inrush of glory and light comes to you, a new door is
opening, you are being freed, not only from the evils that have seemed to be directed at you
from the outside, but from the reflex action of your own evil deeds. Does this seem right? Can
a man be evil and then not pay the price? "As in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made
alive." When a man makes his alignment with the Inner lord and waits for "the still small

voice," instead of accepting evil and then trying to dispose of it, or going into the ditch
because of his inability to cope with the reaction to his evil thoughts, then suddenly his past is
wiped out. That which is scarlet shall be white as snow. We find the Magdalene, with a
history of all sorts of evil, suddenly made clean and free. How? By this very repentance, this
very coming into the Spirit of Life.
Lord said to my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool."
The Lord said to my Lord. The Lord says to your Lord exactly what the world is going to say
because it can find no guile in you. The world that had accused the Magdalene suddenly
found it impossible to accuse her, why? Because the Lord did not accuse her. "Neither do I
condemn you." Just ponder that glorious statement and what follows it. The whole debt was
wiped out, it was made nil. It was nothing, but it was the degree of absolution. "Go and sin no
more." do not imagine that you can seek refuge from your evil thoughts and ways and expect
to continue in them. The evil that is forsaken is forgiven and the person is freed.
"The wicked shall be turned into hell." We have all experienced the hell into which we have
cast ourselves because of the acceptance of evil in one form or another, but even that is not a
hopeless state; for just so soon as you recognize the fact that "If you make your bed in hell
there am I," then do you transmute the belief.
Do you not see the glorious salvation that is offered through the Christ and how it is that
"Nothing shall by any means hurt you, neither make thee afraid?" You are beginning to
understand how it is that evil must first be accepted before it can be manifested in your
universe. Many will argue, "Yes, but I never did anything to that person." It makes no
difference. God is no respecter of persons. The universal power that is throwing back that
which you have thrown out has ways and means that you know not of. Watch, watch, watch.
Repent and be saved. This is not an emotional exercise. It is just a new birthing, a new
awakening into the God world with a glorious feeling that the waters of Spirit are washing
away all that has gone before. "The former things shall not be remembered nor come into
mind." They shall have passed away into oblivion. It is glorious, it is glorious and wonderful.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Then do the sons of God leap up with new life; "You do not need to fight, set yourself and see
the salvation of the Lord." You can understand now what it is that makes this possible, I.e.
"The Lord said to my Lord." The recognition of your oneness with the Lord of Lords and King
of Kings makes you a majority, and the cancellation of sin takes place. It is wonderful and
more wonderful since it means the cancellation of the old debts and unsettled accounts for
past acts and thoughts.
"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation?" How, indeed, shall we escape if we
have to go on fighting, even with the best methods given to us through the study of
metaphysics, an endless stream of evil which is manifesting from all sorts of causes set into
action and long since forgotten by us? Acts and thoughts in this and other lives that seem to
be wholly apart from the control of anyone. "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a
salvation?" How indeed? "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy-laden." This is not
spoken so much to the physically tired, or the physically heavy-laden, but to the souls that are
burdened with false beliefs and endless meeting of evil in one form or another, most of which

they are willing to admit is the result of their own thinking. What hope is there when man
thinks himself to be under so ghastly a law as "When I would do good, then I do evil?" What
constant stream of evil manifestation must take place in his world? But remember that
complete and whole salvation awaits the one who forsakes the evil beliefs of life and turns to
God with his whole soul. He is saved from the terrible effects of his evil thinking.
"That which is told in secret is called from the housetop." that which is told in secret is what
"the Lord said to my Lord." And what the Lord says to my Lord the world at large must say
to me. The Lord is saying wonderful things. "This is My Beloved Son, in whom I AM well
pleased," is but one of them. "Be still and know that I AM God." "I come as a great flood of
waters covering the whole earth" of your human thinking, and when the floods have
subsided, then the ground is washed clean of the evil manifestation or that which was
causing it.
"To speak no evil nor to listen to." Many will speak no evil, but will listen to and think evil,
and then wonder why, having been apparently so good, they meet with so much evil.
There is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repents than over many righteous.
There will be rejoicing over you and you will hear the glorious words, "The sins are forgiven
you," and feel the cleansing floods of spirit pass over you and wash you free from the evil
effects of your present or former thinking and judging.
When the God Power forgives sins there is a total cancellation of the sin and all its effects.
Man imagines he forgives sins by holding the injustice done to him against a person for the
rest of his life, although he may say he has no hatred or resentment, but as long as he
remembers the fault he has not forgiven. Sin that is forgiven by God, by the Lord, is
completely wiped out, just as disease that is cured is completely destroyed and its
manifestation obliterated.
"Why cast you lots for part of the garment of truth?" might well have been asked. The whole
garment, the seamless robe of Christ is thrown over you as a great panoply of light and you
are create anew, revealed as new.
The attitude then of the Awakened soul is not that of tying to instruct the Divine, but one of
listening, and one which says, "Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears." The constant prayer of
such a one is "Be you expressed in me."
"Be still and know that I AM God." When you are through with accepting evil of any sort, no
matter what the appearances are, then you are ready to hear what "the Lord said unto my
Lord." You can hear something that all the prayers of the human universe cannot bring to
pass remembering that your enemies are all the beliefs of in-harmony that have been so real
to you and have harassed you, lo, these many years. A day dawns, a new day dawns, arise
and shine, for thy light has come and the glory of God has risen upon thee.
The price has already been paid for eternal Life for you; but you will still die in spite of the
entreaty "Why will you die>" until you accept the gift of Life eternal. No life can be eternal
that is sin-filled, and by sin-filled I mean filled with evil thoughts for yourself or another or
the world at large. But the gift of Life eternal is given unto all those who believe. "I have a

way you know not of." "I AM the Way, Walk You In It."
"Verily I say unto you: Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and
whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
"He that loses his life for My sake shall find it." Do you not see then, that if you bind evil on
the earth, it shall be bound in your consciousness and will constantly reproduce itself? If you
bind evil on another, you bind it to yourself like holding a poisonous asp to your breast.
Inversely speaking, what you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. If you loose the
brother that you have held captive, and a prisoner to your opinions and beliefs, you shall also
be loosed, set free. It is wonderful. Watch, Watch, Watch. What are you going to accept?
When are you going to sit in the quiet place and listen for "the still small voice?" "The Lord
said unto my Lord." When are you going to get the glorious revelation of the Lord, the
Universal Mind speaking to the individual point to expression. "Be still and know that I AM
God."
"Fear you not, for I AM with you, be not dismayed for I AM your God. I will help you, I will
uphold you with the right hand of My uprightness." Be not dismayed, do not be dismayed, I
have a way you know not of, of wiping out the evil and making your enemies as your
footstool. "Come unto ME and I will give you rest." The Lord said to my Lord."

LIVING WATERS
"For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken ME, the fountain of living
waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold not water" Jer. 2:13
In this little verse lies hidden the reason for most of the difficulties of the human race. "My
people," you and I, have forsaken the Fountains of Living Water and made cisterns of our
own broken cisterns. We have wandered far from the Living Fountains, into the parched and
dried desert of human experiences, and have stopped on some oasis and dug us wells and
made us cisterns, trying to husband the waters of human understanding, hoping thereby to
quench our thirst. But the cisterns are broken and the water does not satisfy us. The prodigal
is far removed from his fathers house, and yet he is as near to it as he will ever be.
Everything that is real and eternal is here and now and the Open Sesame is recognition.
The prodigal has been feeding and watering the outward body and has not been satisfied. His
state goes from bad to worse. The prodigal is the story of every man. The dead letter of the
word sticks in his throat. He knows that his fathers did eat bread in the wilderness and are
dead. He has come to the end of the human satisfaction. The broken cistern is dry; the
stagnant waters of human reasoning are unfit to quench the appalling thirst.
It is then, perhaps, that he heeds the admonition of the Voice: "turn you even unto ME with
all your heart and you shall find rest for your soul." It is an invitation that is many times
passed by because of the human argument" "What, am I fit to enter the rest of the righteous?
I, who have left undone so many things that should have been done, and have done so many
things that should not have been done?" But there is a beautiful insistence on the request,
"Turn you even unto ME, for MY ways are not your ways." The ways of the ME of Spirit are
not the ways of the prodigal who has spent his substance in riotous living. The "Ways of
Spirit" are not the ways of the human reasoning and wisdom; for "as the heavens are high
above the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways." So what use for you to hold out any
longer with your human understanding and reasoning. "My ways are past finding out." No
man can put the ways of God on a laboratory table and dissect them to find out how they can
set aside the human laws.
What if ten thousand people have gone down by the false law, it shall not come near you
(provided you have "turned even unto Me with your heart.") What if ever since the beginning
of time, a human law has worked out successfully, there is always the exception and that is
the time that the God Power is brought into play and the poor, puny, human intellect rears
its great head of wisdom and says "a miracle has happened," a "supernatural law." Exactly, a
miracle to the human sense, but a natural functioning of the God law.
Incurable, impossible, hopeless, improbable are all words that are in the dictionary of man.
They find no place in the courts of the Lord. The unconditioned power of god asks no
permission of the race of human thought to set aside one of its laws. The sternest, most hard
and fast law of the human wisdom is less than a bit of thistle down battering against the wall
s of China. There is no recognition of the existence of a false law that has to be set aside. There
is a simple, natural expression of the God law, the eternal harmony of itself, and when this
expresses and destroys the belief law, man says "a miracle has happened."

Feeding upon the letter which is dead is no way to attain Life everlasting. Drinking the
stagnant waters of the history of evil is no way to quench the thirst of the soul.
Gradually, we are beginning to see that "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceeds out of the mouth of God." He is gradually sensing the fact that the drinking of
the living waters and eating the hidden manna is not such an imaginary thing as it was
formerly thought to be.
"You have bread that they know not of." The awakened soul is beginning to know that he,
being a spiritual being in a universe of Spirit, must be, and is, perfectly sustained in this
medium of expression. He knows that the spiritual man must be fed with Spirit and watered
by the living waters. He then sees more into the command, "Be absent from the body and
present with the Lord." He begins experiencing the feel: "I am a spiritual being in a spiritual
Universe" and he takes his attention away from the physical manifestation and begins to
literally feed on the Spirit. His body is beautifully fed and watered, he laves in the River of
Life and is beginning to be impressed with the consciousness that if he eats this food and
drinks this water he shall never hunger and thirst again. "Never" think this over. The
statement is "never." "Hold fast to that which is good," if you, on the invisible side or in the
pure light of Spirit, partake of this food, and drink these living waters, you shall never hunger
or thirst again. "Never." What about the human body, then, never being in want of food or
drink again? Do you see what lies hidden in this wonderful revelation? Do you begin to see
that the "Word became flesh" and "In my flesh shall I see God." right into manifestation? Can
you understand that to feed and water yourself in the pure essence of Spirit, not regarding
looking for the manifestation, will cause your physical body to be properly fed and watered?
It is wonderful. You shall also find that conceiving yourself as the being of Spirit, in the
Universe of pure Spirit, eating the food and drinking the living waters of Spirit, that the
physical body will take on a finer tone, "yet in my flesh shall I see God." The soul and body of
man will become one. Even as Jesus and Christ became one; and all the glorious revelations of
the Spirit "searching the joints and marrow," the "Word becoming flesh," and "yet in my flesh
shall I see God" shall be made true to you. Your body shall be a well-watered garden. A
glorious garden, the desert of your body shall blossom as a rose.
You who read this page, do you begin to see the new idea? Do you begin to understand that
what you do on the invisible in the sacredness of Truth and the Christ consciousness shall
diffuse its shadow of expression through the material Universe and make all things new?
"Eat my body, drink my blood," is more than a bit of poetry. Relax and let go, conceive
yourself in the glowing white light of Spirit and partake of the holy meal and "eat" the body
of Christ Jesus, the substance of Life, and drink the blood of inspiration that transcends all
reason and human understanding and belief. You are the being of Light, in a universe of
Light, and you shall clothe yourself in garments of Light and of Praise, yes, literally in the
glowing silence you shall clothe yourself in the garments of Light, the garments of Praise, the
garments of Thanksgiving, and verily you shall be clothed on the human plane. Fear Not!
You go forward on the way of inspiration, the eyes of Spirit are now made flesh and the
former statement, "Having eyes you see not, and ears you hear not," is no more true for the
human eyes of fleshinto these very eyes the Spirit has come. The spirit shall be flesh, and

naturally the limitations of the human material vision are increased to a wondrous sense of
Light, and you see and hear and know "what is the height and depth and breadth."
Limitations that were true and were laws to the human sense of sight are no more true. "Yet
in my flesh shall I see God." do you believe this, you who read this page? If so, then can you
not see that, when you partake of the spiritual food in a conscious way, your physical body
will be beautifully cared for? "The bread which comes down from heaven;" where is heaven?
What is heaven? Where is the Me? The only place you can contact God is within your own
consciousness. So you are very near to the glorious revelation of the being of pure Spirit.
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man will open unto ME I will come into him
and will sup with him and he with ME." The very coming in to sup with you means the
perfect union of soul and body. The body shall be permeated with the Spirit and shall
manifest the joys of the Kingdom of Heaven here and now.
Cannot you see, you who read this, that, when you bring together the soul and body, you
cannot want again for anything, for all things are found within the soul of you? "I AM the
bread of Life." "If any man will eat thereof he shall never die."
"Be not afraid, only believe." all we need is a wholesome acceptance of the fact that there is a
god in the Universe, All Present, and willing and able to make himself manifest in any
situation or at any time. "Only believe." such a wonderful restfulness after the long journey
through the barren wastes of human reasoning and understanding - such a well of water to
the parched lips. It is wonderful.
Go thy way, "provide neither gold, nor silver, not brass in your purse, nor scrip for your
journey, neither two coasts, neither shoes, nor yet staves; for the workman is worthy of his
hire." This is the rankest kind of philosophy to the human mind, and yet so beautifully true to
the one who knows that he has the living waters and the life-giving bread always within him,
and that he is clothed in the garments of Light and Praise and Thanksgiving. Why should he
take thought of "the purse, the scrip, the journey?"
What you therefore do in silence you shall manifest in the open courts of the world. See that
you be well fed with Spirit and clothed and watered with the life-giving essence of being.
See that you make the journey in spirit first, and then the "Father works heretofore and I
work" shall be true. The invisible consciousness shall have perfected it before the body has
yet expresses it. So it is true "I go before you go on the journey, the Father consciousness has
gone before you and made straight the way, and you come along later and express the
mechanics of the trip. "My Father, My Father, works heretofore and I work," that is, "I" carry it
out into expression, and it will be perfect and complete in every detail. Remember that the
Power which knows the "number of hairs of your head" and "cares for the sparrows" has fully
taken care of every detail of the journey, nothing is too small for this glorious power, nothing
too large. It is wonderful. "Fear not, it is I." "Fear not, I AM with you always." "I will never
leave you." I, the center and circumference of all Being, am with you always.
If you, then, reader, would pause in the fury of human thinking and return to your Fathers
house (consciousness) and partake of the invisible meal and cloth yourself with the invisible

garments of Light and Praise, the starving body would go through the mechanics of eating
and be perfectly satisfied. So may you carry the idea right down the live of human wants,
until your soul shall magnify the Lord, the Giver of All Good, whose arm is not shortened.
Before this book was put down on paper it existed in its entirety in the invisible.
"I go before you and make straight the way."
"I thank You, Oh Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from
the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes."
If this be true, why waste any more time trying to make the "wise and prudent" drink the
living waters or et the bread of life? But see to it that from this day forth you are fed and
sustained on the invisible manna that comes down from heaven.

THE NEW DAY

A balloon that seeks a higher level must of necessity throw out ballast. Just as soon as ballast
is thrown overboard, the balloon automatically ascends to a new level. Suppose the balloon to
be caught in a level of air charged with poisonous gas or the belt of a terrific storm? All these
environmental laws operate upon the passengers, and while they may fortify themselves with
gas-masks and other protective aids, yet they are never for one instant out of the danger of
being overcome by them. The way of complete escape for the balloon and its passengers is to
throw our ballast. The moment this is done the balloon automatically ascends to a new level
and it and its passengers operate in an entirely new environment.
This little illustration gives an adequate idea of what takes place in man when he begins to
realize the truth of his Christ consciousness. He begins to throw out ballast that is, certain
areas of evil thinking are done away with and he rises to an environment where the laws
formerly affecting him have power no longer. He begins to see the extent to which this
ascension can take place in his life. The great statement "If you be in the Spirit you are no
more under the law," of belief, is ever at the heights, and all he has to do is to release the evil
beliefs he had accepted and to ascend. "Come up higher" is the call of Spirit.
The little leaven that leavens the whole is brought into active manifestation by the process of
recognition. As soon as we begin to recognize the Christ self and to accept the wonders of the
new life "lost in Christ" we immediately begin to see new capacities built in our
consciousness. We see through the fog of human understanding and begin to perceive the
reality of the perfect man.
As in the case of the balloon rising automatically to a new level, so man, when he recognizes
his true self and accepts the laws of Spirit as the only laws, automatically arrives at his new
place of expression. The old idea of trying to make a new place and attempting to make
things happen through struggle and fighting gives way to the glorious fact that, the moment
man recognizes the presence of Christ, he automatically rises to a new level of expression,
and that which was true and operative in his life before now ceases to have any power over
him. "The prince of this world [the world you have left, the world of belief regarding
anything] comes and finds nothing in you."
Suppose you had believed sickness to be an inescapable law, you were then subject to the
personal and the race consciousness regarding it; and, every time the prince of the world, or
the realm of sickness, came to you, you would answer back: "Here am I, speak, for Your
servant hears;" the manifestation would automatically take place and you would show forth
disease and perhaps death in accordance with the belief law. Now, through your
understanding of the Inner Lord, you find sickness can be caused by nothing as well as by a
so-called belief cause. People have dies from fright over mistaken telegrams. When you
perceive the fact that you are the son of the Living God, you are not subject to such belief any
longer. No sooner is this conquest made, than you move to a new mental environment and
automatically find that the former law is nil as far as you are concerned, and when the prince
of the negative belief comes to you there is no response.
Do you see why it is that you are commanded to take your attention away from the body and

away from appearances, and place it on the Inner Lord, the Christ within, and to be still and
know that I AM God? When you obey this command you will
Find yourself automatically rising to a new and wonderful level of expression in a place
where you are not affected by the former things.
Many people fret and worry about expression; they claim they are ready to express, but can
find no opportunity to do so. You might just as well say that, when you throw the ballast
from a balloon, the balloon would remain at the same level. It is automatic and takes care of
itself. That is why you will cease the everlasting running to and fro looking for something on
the outside, and go within your consciousness and partake of the glorious food of Spirit and
drink of the living waters, yea, both figuratively and literally.
A thorough examination will tell you exactly what is the matter. You know better than
anyone else, you may not want to face it. Few people like to look upon the Truth; it blinds
them, just as it blinded Saul. It is too wonderful and too penetrating, and calls for a letting go
of many things in order that the realities of the Kingdom can be made manifest within and
without. It does not require the sacrifice of a single thing; but, by so doing, you are given an
infinitely greater manifestation. Glorious, glorious light, dazzling and white, the very light
which is to become flesh and dwell among you.
If you are not expressing, you will find that a certain amount of ballast is to be released before
you can get to the point of expression. Just so soon as you are willing, the power works and
expresseshow?...AUTOMATICALLY! When we say automatically, it carries with it a joyous
meaning. You will begin to see that the expression then is like the coming of dawn
everything so perfect, so easy, so gloriously successful and so unique, so full of infinite
charm. Beloved, it is so wonderful, this new revelation. "Come apart from them and be you
separate." Go in and shut the door, and the Father that sees in secret will reward you openly.
Why do you try to get the reward before you drop out the ballast? You make it hard. Why do
you "kick against the pricks?" Why will you "kick against the pricks?" Why will you doubt?
Arise, awake, get you up. When you are willing and ready I will do the works and that "I" is
within you. Your very own point of consciousness where the impersonal life flows through
into expression.
Those whom God has joined together let no man put asunder. The body and soul become
one; the Word becomes flesh; you are not a body separate from your Christ. You are not
double-eyed. When you once see, the Word becomes flesh. "Yet in my flesh shall I see God."
Do you believe that right in your flesh? Do you believe that it searches the joints and
marrow? Do you see that the two becoming one, instead of having two eyes, have one?
Instead of having two opinions, have but one. When the eye is single the hole body is full of
light. When you stop believing in a material man with a Christ man in the invisible, you will
have one the resurrected and ascended Christand you will know that the resurrected
Christ had flesh and bones, and ate and drank. It is wonderful! Filled with glorious
revelation. When you contemplate this you immediately feel the overflow of spiritual
substance watering your desert [body] and bringing it into freshness and holiness,
expression, and joy.

A new day dawns. Do you hear, you who read this page? Do you hear the word of your Inner
Lord , I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will
come in to him and will sup with him and he with Me." Do you know what it means to "break
bread with the Inner Lord?" It means that the eyes of the blind are opened. When the Christ
breaks bread with the disciple, the eyes of the disciple are opened and he beholds the things
which cannot be put into words. He begins to see the revelation of that which is not caught by
the human reason and intellect. The deep things of Spirit which are filled with beauty and
holiness and glorious expression. The wonderful invitation to "come and see," not that a Spirit
has no flesh and bones, but that a Christ man is a normal, glorious, real manifestation. It is
wonderful! Do you see? Do you begin to understand the saying, "He that believes on ME has
everlasting life"? Do you believe that? And just what do you mean by the word "everlasting"?
You must begin to answer these things for yourself and seek out the deep hidden spiritual
substancethe manna that your fathers knew not, and of which if a man eat he shall never
see death.
"Memory is the only thing which grief can call its own" is the line of an old song. Memory is
the only thing that habit can call its own, or evil, or revenge, or hatred, any of the evils that
the human man is subject to. You can see why it is said, "The former things shall not come
into mind nor be remembered any more." With the introduction of the leaven of Christ in the
midst of the meal of human understanding, the whole mass begins to change its base, and to
take on a different quality, and the ballast that is thrown over is memory of evil. The
subconscious mind is the storehouse of memory of every evil thing. It is filled with all the
little hates and fears from the very beginning of the human life. You can understand why this
will eventually disintegrate and go away because it is the repository of all evil. Without it,
man would seek no revenge. Its governing law is, "When I would do good, I do evil, and
strange as it may seem, it has been given many of the qualities of the subconscious mind. We
have attributed to this subconscious mind the power to do all sorts of things that it is
thoroughly incapable of doing. "He, watching over Israel, neither slumbers nor sleeps" is
what awakens you at an appointed hour, and it is this great and glorious subconscious mind
that frees you into expression when you are ready to forget yourself. It is this glorious thing
that plays and dances, sings, and paints, and does everything that is done through millions of
avenues of expression. This is your Christ self that stands at the door of your consciousness
and knocks for admission. It is too wonderful "Be still and know that I AM God."
The old idea of getting a mental picture and then praying and begging and beseeching, yea,
even demanding that it appear has given place to the new consciousness that knows that,
before the human man asks, the super-consciousness has supplied.
We see a case of this kind in the incident of Jesus meeting the disciples at the seaside, after the
Resurrection. He asked if they had anything to eat, to which they said "No." Then Jesus
produced the cooked fish and bread for them. It is wonderful. Before they ask, Ithe I AM
the Christ consciousness will answer, but it takes pure and unadulterated belief in God to
have this take place. It does not take argument or words or listening to theories; it takes pure
and unadulterated acceptance of the Truth. A child can have it...what about you? Look to this
day. Look to your consciousness and see wherein you do err. "Who did hinder you that you
should not obey the Truth?" it is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Beloved, do you begin to

see the glorious possibilities before you? "Come eat, drink without price." Do you hear? Can
you obey by throwing over the ballast of human belief and partaking of this holy breaking of
the bread of Spirit?
No matter who you are, or how prodigal you have been, it is always the same. You, too, can
open wide the door and let this Christ into your life, into your very body-temple, into the
very joints and marrow of yourself. You, too, can make the resurrection from the tomb of
your dead beliefs and see the glorious, spiritualized flesh of the Son of the Living God.
Automatically it will work. "I come as a thief in the night." The appearance of the Christ is not
with noise nor with thinking; for, "in a moment when you think not" (when you are not trying
to demonstrate ME), then the I AM comes into expression. It is wonderful. Praise God, you
are alive and thrilling with the new substance of life, the flesh made Spirit and the Spirit
made flesh, the perfect redemption, wholeness. No more the sick body worked upon by an
outside force, but the body worked upon by an outside force, but the body of Spirit
substance, manifesting more and more of the picture shown to you on the Mount of
Transfiguration. It is too wonderful for words. You thrill with the feel of the presence of this
glorious power. Awake, you that sleeps. The spiritualized substance of the resurrected Lord
is not marked by the passage of time or memory. What was true of man in his former estate is
no longer real or effective.
With this consciousness comes the awakening of fresh capacities and talents. You become
aware of a new and wonderful power and a sense of relaxation which is the essence of
effortlessness, which enables you to give an unlabored performance of the work you have in
hand. It is glorious. It is wonderful.
"Then did their hearts burn within them." The manifestation of the burning bush takes place.
A flaming fire that destroys nothing that is real. There is found in the final analysis that
nothing is left to be destroyed, but everything to be filled with the Spirit of the Lord. Then
will the blind understand and see, and know that they have always seen. The Man of Spirit,
the Christ, has always seen all things, and when he is let into conscious expression in the life
of man he searches the joints and marrow, and the whole temple of man becomes the glorious
temple of the Living God, and from that moment onward it is a matter of revelation. One
limitation after another begins to fall away and new and more glorious precepts come to
light. You have just started on the process of self revelation and the hidden things that were
there always are beginning to come into the light of reality. Be still, be so very still and cease
from man whose breath is in his nostrils. Cease from the noisy talking individual who is
always going to tell you a system or a way or means of demonstrating. I speak direct. I speak
of Him that sent me, and I speak a varied language. I speak with unknown tongues.
Unknown to those who are still heckling about the letter of Truth. They cannot understand
because they have a house divided against itself. They have the Christ and Jesus parted
asunder. They have their body separated from their soul, and so they function under the
double law which spells disaster. The human mind is perverse, for the simple reason that it
has gone prodigal and formulated all its ideas by judging from appearances. It has seemingly
set up many hurdles over which it forces itself to jump, complaining the while that it cannot
do so. All this is done in the spirit of human bravado that looks for the "well done" of relative

world.
"Be not afraid, it is I", but they were afraid, and so is the old human self; that is why it keeps
on denying the Christ and will not open the door and let him in. It knows that much rubbish
has to go. It knows that the activity of Spirit will cause the sluggishness of procrastination
and waiting to disappear. "Be not anxious", you have but to open the door, by recognizing the
Christ within. If you are willing to do this, the rest is automatic. The Christ enters
automatically, yea, the Christ, the spiritual substance becoming flesh, enters and searches the
joints and marrow, the fibers and nerves and bones of the temple, until the whole house is
alive with the Life of Christ. It is a glory and a light set upon a hill; it cannot be hid or
destroyed. Glory be to God, it is well and so it is.
You and your risen Lord. Alone, and yet for the first time not alone. Wholeness,
completeness, contentment. It is wonderful. The Spirit has become flesh. You are free, the
ballast has been thrown overboard and you automatically ascend to the new level of
expression. It is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT

The text books of today will become the ABC books of tomorrow for all those who have eyes
to see. What a world of good came to you oft of the little ABC book which you have long
since cast aside. What secrets it contained and what mighty doors it opened to you, and yet,
you have cast it aside. Yes, you have cast it aside, even as a reference book, though not a day
goes by that you do not use the entire substance of the little ABC book. In other words, you
took the spirit of the thing and left the letter behind. It was the spirit of it that opened the
doors of the universe. By the use of it you could explore any country and language and
understand and read the thoughts of men long since gone from sight. It is a wonderful thing,
and yet only valuable when it becomes part and parcel of you.
As long as you are blundering over the letters from one to another, it is not very productive of
results, but once you have grasped the understanding and imbibed its spirit, it starts on its
magnificent unfolding and has no end. By it great avenues of contact are established. Yet, I
repeat, the actual book has gone; you care nothing for it; you do not look back upon it with
regret. So, when the letter of anything goes, the spirit comes. "If I (the personal I) go, that is,
the comforter shall come." That is, the revelation of the Spirit will come.
The one who never lets go of his ABC book is found to be either a fool or an idiot. At least he
is considered, in the parlance of the world, as subnormal.
"The letter kills, the Spirit gives light." When you begin to see this, you will begin to
understand that it is only the spirit of the Truth that will be anything to you and you will
begin to give up the dead formula.
"Ti is by My Spirit, says the Lord" not by might or power. Not by force or effort, but by "My
Spirit." By the Spirit which is hidden in the letter you shall be able to set free the new
expression. The Spirit is like the life of a seed. The shell must first fall away before the plant
can be made alive. The shell must first be destroyed before the life can come into
manifestation. So it is with the Word. The letter must drop by the way and the spirit must b
released. It is wonderful and glorious. Heaven and earth are filled with the revelation of
Almighty God. Do you hear, you who read this page?
Do you see back of the letter the Spirit shining through the Spirit which has wrapped up in it
the means of complete expression? "All that the Father has is mine" is true and is correct. But
gazing upon the letter and trying to make it so, is like expecting tropical flowers to grow in
the northern blasts. But cast the letter aside and release the Spirit and revelation comes to
you. It is like magic! Why? Because it has a way of its own. A means of coming into
manifestation that man-made laws cannot even put into words. "No man knows, nor the son,
but the Father." It is wonderful!
Beloved, why do you not release the letter from your life and see the glorious spirit work out
into expression? The signs will follow. Remember that as soon as the seed is cast into the
ground, into the secret place, the shell or letter of it starts to drop away and releases the new
life and beauty.

Faith as a grain of mustard seed is no good unless the shell of the letter is broken and cast
aside and the life of the seed allowed to appear. The glorious promises that you repeat over
and over are all filled with the possibility of manifestation. It is the adherence to the letter that
kills. Over and over, the same pattern, day after day with no results, but with the irritating
knowledge that it is all there.
When you stop trying and cast your burden on the I AM and actually are ready to let the
Spirit move in and through you, then you will see that the Spirit gives life and power and that
you are suddenly ushered into a new state. Right where you are, right in the place you stand,
right in the present surroundings, the transformation takes place, because by the power of the
Spirit are you made to see that which eternally is and always has been. For example, the
Kingdom of Heaven her and now. The Spirit of the Word reveals the concrete manifestation.
It is then that the Word becomes flesh and dwells among you. Just as you may hold in your
hand a dried rose-bush and talk for hours to a group of people about a rose. If they had never
seen one they would only have the vaguest idea what it looked like, even after you had
described it; but cast it into the ground and then your very words will become flesh and they
will see the rose which in one instant will convey more than a thousand lectures could. Do
you see, you who read this page? It takes the faith of a child, for the adult cannot let go, and
would rather talk about "how and why," and "when and where," and would rather spend
hours pointing out what is wrong with other members of the universe than spend one
moment trying to rid his own sight of the beam that is out picturing everything evil.
If I wear a pair of dark goggles, the whole world, so far as I am concerned, is gray or dark; but
that does not make it so. If you look through eyes of limitation and ugliness everything
appears so to you. Even God becomes a god of wrath, and Jesus becomes a hard task master,
regardless of the regaling statement and promise: "I came that your joy might be full," and "I
came not to destroy but to fulfill." Do you see? The Power is here, not to destroy, but to fulfill
the Law, to fulfill the glorious promises. All these little points of evil that seem to be giving
you so much trouble will be picked up into the positive expression of Good, HERE AND
NOW! It is wonderful and it is glorious! God is everywhere and beside Him there is naught
else.
"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in ME." Where is the ME?
"Believe, and you shall be saved." Do you see the power of the word believe? It is pure
acceptance of the Word, in the face of the most adverse testimony. When the appearances are
as far removed as the rosebush is from the rose, the "belief" acceptance will cause the holy
promise to be released.
Do you see why, "Then went He in and shut the door" has its importance to you as never
before? Argument and talk about these precious things will only bring the ugly futility of the
letter. The letter without the Spirit is DEAD. Do you hear? It is dead, of no use.
The books that we are reading today on Truth will be the ABC books of tomorrow, We will
have imbibed the spirit of them and dropped the letter aside. Why? Because the text books of
the future will have to do with things that we only casually mention at this time. From time to
time we hear of levitation, of Fourth Dimensional expression, of the Superman and of many
things that could not be told us back in Jerusalem. These will form the basis of the text books

of the future, for the spirit of the present teaching will be released to such an extent that
sickness, sin, and unhappiness will be unknown: It will be so generally understood that no
one will stop to marvel at the working of the law of the Absolute. There was a time when a
man who knew how to read was outstanding in a community, but today it would be an
exception to come upon one who could not. So is it with the Word. Just so soon as you release
the Spirit from the letter, the things that take place from the standpoint of Spirit are bound to
appear. "Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, goodwill toward men." It is wonderful.
"Be still, I have many things to say to you." When we learn to be still and not talk constantly
to the Divine, we are beginning to experience the deep hidden things of the Spirit. New doors
are opened to us. New avenues of expression, and the unafraid state of consciousness become
manifest to us.
"The former things shall pass away, they shall not be remembered nor come into mind any
more." The shell that releases the living plant shall be forgotten. It shall not be remembered
nor come into mind any more. You could not put the flower back into the limitations of a
state of consciousness from which he ahs freed himself. When you are freed from a certain
state of consciousness you are not subject to any of the laws which formerly operated therein.
Just as the flower which has released itself from the seed is not under any of the laws that
applied to the seed. For example, a bird or animal might have carried the seed away or it
might have been left upon the shelf and destroyed by insects. As the flower comes under the
care of the gardener it has protection and a new set of laws and environment. This
illustration, as all illustrations, is inadequate to convey the idea of the wonderful change that
goes on when the "shell" of the letter is cracked and the new idea, the Spirit, is released. "The
Lord, He it is that does go before you: He will be with you; He will not fail you." Fear not,
when you cast your burden on the Lord, he will sustain you. "For eyes have not seen and ears
have not heard, and it has not entered into the heart of man."
Do you see? Do you hear? You? "Be still, be still, be still," and listen for the revelation to be
made. Close the material eyes that are hypnotized by the serpent of appearances and see the
revelation that is coming into manifestation. "Casting all your care upon Him; for He cares for
you."
"He that abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit." If you abide in this
consciousness, the "believing" consciousness, then you shall bring forth much manifestation. It
is the following of a natural law. A law which is stated in terms of Grace, Divine intervention,
Divine influence. All knees shall bend at the name (nature) of Christ. Every temporal power
shall come tumbling to the ground. Every Golden Calf shall be brought low and the Kingdom
shall be established Here and Now. It is wonderful!

ABUNDANCE
"He which sows sparingly shall reap sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap
bountifully. Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly
or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver."
The sowing lavishly and abundantly comes from the knowledge of Infinite Substance. The
sowing for increase in order that the storehouses may be filled, and the soul may take its ease,
always results in death to the idea. The abandon of abundant sowing shows absolute faith in
the Unseen. We are beginning to see that the law of substance is diametrically reversed from
that which is usually accepted. We are first called upon to give abundantly. Give out of our
lack as it were, but give lavishly. The widows mite was more than most gifts because it was
given abundantly, it was given freely and from the heart. "The motive you mete shall be
measured to you again, and it shall be pressed down, shaken together, and running over."
The motive back of the abundant sowing will determine the harvest. If the sowing is done
with gain as the one idea in mind then the looked for results are not forthcoming.
"There is he that scatters, yet tends to increase and there is he that withholds and tends
towards poverty." We see that the symbol is a poor thing to hold on to. The more you have
your attention fixed on the symbol, the less opportunity you have of grasping the reality back
of it.
All this indication of abandoned and abundant sowing is the reslut of feaqrlessness on the
part of the sower. He that does not follow the command "Launch out into deep waters"
cannot have the big fish. He will never find them near the shore, just as a person will never
learn to swim as long as he keeps one foot on the ground and stays in shallow water. "Launch
out into deep waters." "Do, dare, and be silent." Dare to enlarge the borders of your tent. Dare
to sow abundantly and with abandon, resting in the perfect knowledge that the bread which
you have thus broken has been broken to increase. You will learn presently that only what
you give you get. A seed given to the universe gives back its usefulness and increase. An idea
given to the universe gives forth its joy, and its increase comes home to the giver. "The signs
follow, they do not precede."
Joyously abandon yourself to the Christ within, and care not for the increase. It must come of
its own volition. "Be careful about nothing" is the command to the understanding heart. This
being careful about nothing means also to be careless about nothing. The command to be
careful about nothing can only be used by one who has begun to see the superabundance of
everything in the Universe. The substance of God is everywhere present. Yet all this joyous
abandon does not imply license; it implies liberty, liberty of the Sons of God which when
once tasted and experienced, brings to the consciousness of man the true concept of th
freedom. The command goes forth, "Be not again entangled." Bo not sparingly. Sow
abundantly and reap abundantly with the glorious abandon of the Sons of the Living God.
"On the same day he saw a man working on the Sabbath Day, and said to him; Man, if you
know what you do, you are blessed, but if you know not, you are cursed and a transgressor of
the law "(Cambridge MS, Codex Bezae).

He that sows abundantly, thinking thereby to gain a thousand fold that which he sows,
knows not what he does, and is cursed insomuch as he loses all. Trying to use God as a Stock
Exchange whereby you can gain personal ends is to entirely defeat the principle of Truth so
far as you are concerned. We learn to sow abundantly because we are seeing the abundant
blessings that are poured into our life and we are coming to the point of being afraid. We are
more and more coming to the place of recognition of the presence of God as being literally the
sufficiency of all things.
Man is slowly evolving form what might be called the degree of the egg. As an egg he is
perfectly helpless, though he may contain all knowledge of the power of God. He has now
power of self locomotion. Were an egg in the path of an oncoming car, no matter how much it
knew its protection, it could not escape the dire effects of meeting with destruction. When the
chick is hatched, it may yet rest in the place, but it has power to sidestep the oncoming
danger. So man, when he first learns of the Truth, finds out many things that he knows to be
absolutely true while he is in the egg degree, yet he can only put them into practice in a very
limited degree, because of the shell of personality that is around him.
But presently he throws off the shell and comes to the degree higher, where he is able to
avoid much of the so called evil. He can step aside, as it were, and he is able to prove the
parables and promises of the Bible, instead of knowing inwardly that they are true but not
being able to see them into manifestation.
"Man, if you know what you do." If you know what you are doing as the Son of the Living
God, you shall cause the dry seed of parable and promise to crack open and give forth its
substance. You will know what it means to "be careful about nothing."
All things are possible to the awakened soul. As is recorded in Acts 2, the speaking with new
tongues took place before an infinite number of men of different races and languages, yet all
understood. Twenty different tongues understood one single voice, although they could not
understand each other. This fourth dimensional picture of the concrete use of the Law gives
us a glimpse of how the impossible become possible, and how every human law is reversed
and found to be productive of results. You will begin to see that it is useless to argue about
the real Truth underlying these great statements, for the Truth is so intangible and impossible
to reason out, it completely escapes the wisdom of man.
"Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy god. He it is
that does go with you: He will not fail you nor forsake you."
Can you, you who read this promise, accept it literally? Can you accept the fact that the Lord
your God goes with you, and that He is the One that makes twenty nations understand a
single tongue, though they cannot understand each other? Do you believe this? "I will walk in
them and talk in then." Why need you worry further about the safety of your goings and
comings? Why worry about the word that you will carry into the universe? The word that
comes from the Speaking of the Inner Lord is, "the word that shall not return to you void but
shall accomplish whereunto it is sent."
Beloved! Are you beginning to see the glorious sense of abandon and rest that is due to come

into manifestation in your life the moment you take the promises of the Lord and tear off the
hard shell of human reasoning that you have put around them?
"Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom
of Heaven." A gift must be accepted! Through the rejoicing there is recognition of the Infinite
Abundance that is manifested in ways that no man can find out, just as the message is given
by one person to twenty different races. One speaking, twenty hearers all hearing differently,
yet all understanding the Voice. Awake, you that sleeps! A new day is dawning and when I
say a new day is dawning, I do not mean the symbolic day of former years, but a wonderful
New Day of expression and abundance; wherein you will experience the glorious revelation
that the Lord is walking in you and talking in you.
Look up then, and rejoice, for, "You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness in those
that remember You in Your ways." Rejoice and be glad. The ground you stand upon is holy
ground, and you are clad in the garments of Light and Praise. A new day dawns and a new
door opens before you. It is well. Rejoice and scatter abundantly the glorious idea of Truth.
Live abundantly the Life in the inexhaustible source of All Life. Verily, if you will prove the
Law with the fearless faith of one who permits the Voice to speak through him and the Power
to walk in him, you shall see that the windows of Heaven are opened to you, and the
blessings that are poured out are too many for you to receive, so small has been your human
concept of the abundance of God. You are learning the glorious relaxation of the Prodigal
who has returned to his Fathers house and is finding again the wonderful Truth: "For I am
persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come...Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

THE OTHER DISCIPLE

"Then went in also, the other disciple." The other disciple who went in the tomb and found it
empty is, symbolically speaking, YOU. It is YOU who have experienced all the manifestations
of the Christ consciousness, the healing of sickness and sin, the transformation of one
substance into another, the supplying of all things needful, and the overcoming of
gravitation. Yes, the raising from the dead and now you have come to a place where proof is
given you of self resurrection. The swaddling clothes (bondage) of the babe become the grave
clothes eventually left in the tomb. They are the human bondages that must sooner or later be
laid aside for the robes that are white and glistening, the garments of light and praise.
Eventually you are brought face to face with the fact that in the final analysis self resurrection
will take place. "I have power to pick it up or lay it down." Until a man comes to the place of
the "other disciple" and goes in, he will be toying still with the idea that his help comes from
some other source than God. It is true that up to a certain point much help is given, but after a
while the disciple is left to himself. He must either perform the process of self resurrection,
which is put in various terminology, or go the way of all flesh. "He must be born again," and
this "born," or "birthing," must be from within out, and is something that no one else can do
for him. "Marvel not," do not be surprised when these things come to you; your eyes will not
always be "holding that you shall not know HIM!" You will not always walk to Emmaus with
the Master and fail to see Him. The scales will drop from your eyes, and you will perceive the
things which eyes have not seen and ears have not heard, and the things that you have not
yet thought of.
It take more than the human sense to recognize when anything has truly happened. The
human sense did not recognize Jesus when he presented his risen body. WHY? Because the
human sense first judges from the intellectual standpoint, which says emphatically that no
one when dead rises again. If they rise, they were not really dead, or else a miracle happened.
Go in and shut the door, and contemplate the presence, then you will see the nothingness of all
the evils to which the flesh is heir. "These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs; but the
time comes when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly."
Surely there is no ambiguity about this statement, "I will show you plainly." The one who is
ready and who has passed beyond the curious stage and who is not looking for signs and
wonders, who is not searching for the loaves and fishes, will see. He will hear the things
which could not be told because formerly he could not bear to hear them. "when the student
is ready the Master appears." "Be still and know that I AM God" is more than a statement. It is
not something to be talked aboutit is something to experience. "Then went in the other
disciple." You are standing on the threshold of the glorious experience of self resurrection.
You are at the point of receiving the revelation.
"Hitherto have you asked for nothing in Amy name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy
may be full."
How can your joy be anything else but full when you begin to see through the thick
undergrowth of human reasoning-the Garden of Eden to which you are returning? It is
enough to make you thrill with joy, for all the fond imaginations that have strayed over your

soul without expression are now understood. The single ear, the single eye, the single voice.
You have come away from the tower of Babel, that great galaxy of people who are all
shouting in their own tongue that they have the only way to reach Heaven and that you must
follow them or be lost: Who have finally succeeded in building up nothing but a tower of
jealousy, strife, and hatred. All talking different tonguesCONFUSION! Come away from it
all. Seek the Inner Lord and listen to the glorious revelation that is made to you now. "And as
we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly."
When the self resurrection takes place, you shall transform the fleshly body to one of Spirit.
"The Word shall become flesh and dwell among you." The body shall take on new properties
and you shall then be no more under the laws of the dense matter which has caused you so
much grief. "If you be in the Spirit, you are no more under the Law." You are then under
Grace. Glorious freedom and cancellation from the mistaken evils of the flesh. Why not, since
you functioned under the law, "When I would do good I do evil?" Who could blame you for
ding evil if you did it in spite of the fact that you wanted to do good? Not any just God. You
are beginning to understand why it is that repentance makes a full cancellation for the evil
that functioned in your life and how you are under Grace when you are in the Spirit. The
"other disciple" who goes in experiences the new birth; to him are revealed the hidden
mysteries.
"The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from Heaven." Where is
Heaven? According to Jesus, it is a state of consciousness. It is within you, and descending
out of this heavenly consciousness will come the Lord, the risen Lord. As the shell of a seed
fives way, life appears. As the muddy vesture of human thought that has enclosed you falls
away, the Christ comes into manifestation; is unwrapped from his grave clothes and set free.
Do not be disheartenedit is stated in the Law that "it is sown a natural body; it is raised a
spiritual body." When you are willing to let go of the human beliefs that you have massed
together by judging from appearances, then you will raise the spiritual body. That is, you will
see the Spirit become flesh and dwell among you. It is wonderful!
"Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven."
We understand that the laws of the flesh which are constantly changing and bringing in
harmony to the individual cannot inherit the Kingdom. The flesh and blood man has not the
capacity to accept so much good. He has functioned in such uncertain capacities that he
hardly knows what is right and what is wrong.
"Why seek you the living among the dead?" Why look for that which is living in the midst of
that which is dead? Why do you seek in the dead letter for the Spirit which in reality dwells
eternally within you?
"Then went the other disciple in." Be still! "I shall come as a thief in the night." It is well!

THE MIGHTY ATOM

"We are already touching, though as it were only with our fingertips, a new source of power
so great as to make us inexhaustibly wealthy."
AN ATOM is defined as a particle of matter so minute that it cannot be divided. The very
definition of it goes beyond the ken of human reason, since it is impossible for the human
mind to think of a particle of matter so small that it could not be divided; hence at the very
start we are faced with a pure mental proposition. Yet scientists tell us that the atom is made
up of an infinite number of electrons, which are further described as centers of force.
"We all know that the atoms of which everything is made up are themselves made up of a
cloud of electrons, at the center of which is a tiny heart of nucleus made up of the tightest
jam known of the smallest electric particles known."
_______Sunday Express, London, January 10th, 1932.
In spite of the definition of an atom as being indivisible, we now discover that Professor
Millikan proposes to "split the atom," and thereby change the nature of it. This is almost
beyond the imagination of the average person, and yet it seems to hark back to the abstract
idea of "faith as a grain of mustard seed" being able to move mountains, and do all sorts of
things that are impossible to the human sense.
The article from which the above quotation was taken is by Gerald Heard, and he continues
to say: "If you could knock out some of these particles you would then change the nature of
the atom, you would have made the dream of the alchemists come true, you would be able to
transmute elements, you would be able to change, if not lead, then quite possibly, mercury
into gold."
What Mr. Heard promises by "knocking out some of these particles" seems to be in perfect
alignment with the power as used by Jesus in changing one substance into another, and
changing the nature and quantity of the manifestation. Jesus changed water into wine. He
saw beyond the limitations of the human mind, and ws able to release the infinite substance
into expression in whatsoever form was needed.
Every knee shall bend to the Christ, and we shall finally see that He is King, and that His
wisdom makes the wisdom of the world as naught. One premise after another is reached in
physics and discarded, but the laws of the Master remain intact and changeless; little by little
we find it useless to try to bring them down to our level of thinking and reasoning.
The Mighty Atom which is within you is the Christ consciousness which has been bound by
the human belief. When the shell of human limitations is broken, the Mighty Atom of your
True Self comes into expression and sets aside all the laws of the human mind, no matter how
time honored they may be.
We read things in the daily papers that would have caused people to be burned as witches
not so long ago. Man is getting back to pure abstractions into the invisible and finding it more
real than the visible. Mr. Heard says, "Common sense and this is becoming commoner and

commoner as science advances has again let us down." Man is beginning to see that the
Master stated it clearly when He said, "The wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of God."
Professor Jeans declares there is no such thing as ether, and if this be true, and he seems
satisfied that he has ;proven it to be so, then another cherished basis for calculation of the
present universe has gone from under us.
"I shall overturn and overturn until He comes whose place it is to rule." The handwriting on
the wall is that not one stone of human reason shall be left upon another, and that HEthe
pure, unadulterated wisdom of Godshall come to reign in peace. That is, the reign of
harmony and order shall be made manifest despite the chaos of human thinking.
"We have kept on saying; Common sense shows that the world must have this or that, and so
this or that must be there. But when we look, we find that the things said to be necessary by
common sense have not in fact been found necessary in making this surprising world."
The recognition of this Mighty Atom at the center of your being is what causes you to take the
first step in releasing it into expression. "Behold I stand at the door and knock," the heart of
the Atom is alive and knocking against the shell of human belief, knocking to come out into
expression in your life and to bring with it the glorious power which will transcend the
human limitations.
"The Cosmic Ray"
"By giving up the ether we are taking another and a big step out of the common, dull world
we have imagined to be real, into the real world where perhaps anything is possible.
"But though, through this discovery, space has been found to be emptier than we thought
possible, through another find it has been discovered to be far fuller than we suspected.
Scientists are continuing to measure the cosmic radiation.
"This radiation is called cosmic because it comes not from any star but from out the blackness
of space where we thought there was absolutely nothingsave the ether which has failed to
materialize.
"The existence of this radiation was never suspected till quite lately, yet it is at present the
most powerful thing known in the universe. It can penetrate sixteen feet of lead, when X-rays
are easily stopped by less than an inch.
"And now Sir James Jeans has just suggested that, though it is only today that we have been
able to pick it up. It is a radiation which was sent out at the beginning of the universe."
___________G. Heard, Sunday Express, London, January 10th, 1932.
Already the radiations of the Star which is leading back to the Christ consciousness is being
felt by the scientist. Where is the light of this Cosmic Ray leading but back to the very center
of Power? Just as the wise men and shepherds symbolically followed its light to the manger,
so today the scientist and the metaphysician are following this light on to powers which are
only dreamed of at this time, of which Christ not only spoke, but demonstrated, and said

were the heritage of every man. It is through the door of acceptance and recognition of the
existence of such a power that men are willing to push forward, following the emanation of
this ray which all the time is getting brighter and more iridescent; more manifold in its
manifestation.
"I have a way that you know not of;" within you lies this possibility of bringing out this
glorious expression. There is a reason for the hope that is in us. We are following the light of
the Star, back to the very Babe that is born unto us and upon whose shoulders shall be the
government. Do you hear? You who read this page? "Come apart from among them and be
you separate." The principle of everything we see in the universe today, no matter how
wonderful it may be, has existed always, just as the principle back of the splitting of the atom,
and the further revelations that will ensue, is here today, and just as usable as it will be when
man discovers it. "You have not chosen Me, I have chosen you." The Power has chosen you to
be the glorious expression, and the only way this expression can take place is for the Mighty
Atom of your being to be set free, for the Christ to come into expression b being recognized.
The great Cosmic Ray which is beyond the stars seems to point at something that is the All
Powerful, emanating from the throne of God. It is well.
"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD"
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in
Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
Suddenly, like a burst of light that pierces the dark clouds of night, comes the revelation that
God so LOVED the world, yes, this very world that you have been calling hell; that you have
found so full of everything evil; that you have been trying to die out of, or trying to escape.
Yes, this very world
God has LOVED. It must be that we have hypnotized ourselves to something that is unlovely.
Yet we find that God so LOVED the world. If God had found it one-tenth as evil as we have
been taught to believe it is, He would certainly not have loved it; He would have destroyed it.
Can it be that we, you and I, are mistaken regarding the world. Have we been seeing through
a glass darkly and mistaking the shadows of the human belief for the reality, to such an
extent that we have come to hate that which God loved?
"Awake, you that sleeps, and Christ shall give you Light." The Light which will enable you to
start the Love Process and set yourself free from the prison house of your own making.
"If you cannot love those whom you see, how can you love God whom you do not see?" is a
question asked, and passed over lightly. The same thing might be asked, "If you cannot love
the world which you can see, how can you love the Kingdom which you cannot see?" It is
time that we awakened from the mesmeric sleep that we have cast over ourselves. We have
been stupefied by the heavy drug called procrastination. Half the people who are "knowing
the Truth" are merely waiting for something in the future to happen and are at the same time
despising the present manifestation.
There be those who will say, "Love not the world," and by the word "world" they mean just

the antithesis of what is meant when it is stated that "God so loved the world." it is made
quite clear that if we cannot love our fellow creatures we cannot love God. Eventually we
begin to see that we glorify that which we love. The power of love that is within every man is
the power to transform appearances. "Love never fails" would indicate that all else can fail.
Also, "Perfect love casts out fear." We are beginning to see the power of Love. When we love
our fellow beings, they become God like and display God like qualities. When we love the
earth as God loved it, then we transform it into heaven.
Self examination shows, however, that to most of us this world is just a battle-ground. Each
morning we rise and set forth to battle evil, always looking for ways and means of
overcoming the almost insurmountable obstacles that arise before us like a Goliath. This
fighting spirit stays with us, in spite of the command. "You do not need to fight , set yourself
and see the salvation of the Lord.
In the beautiful God loved world there is nothing to fight, but in the world of mans creating
he finds evil everywhere. It is for man to choose in which of these habitats he will live. Surely,
as soon as he sees god in man, man becomes God like and just so surely as he sees heaven
here and now the world becomes again the Garden of Eden, the very Garden that God loved.
And for this purpose he gave His Son, the Christ, and said that whosoever believed upon
Him should have everlasting life. The Son is given to each of us when we are ready to accept
the priceless gift within ourselves.
"I came not to destroy, but to fulfill," that is the message of the I AM coming into expression
in your life. I the Christ, the You of You, came not to destroy, but to fulfill the law of God, and
to fulfill and bring out the reason why "God so loved the world." We are missing it all as long
as we keep on the hunt after evil. We are missing the great and grand issue of life when we
keep pounding away at imaginary beliefs and thinking that our business in the world is to
fight evil.
"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life."
The idea of a perishing body or kingdom, then, is lost in the consciousness of the everlasting
life. Do you think for a moment that you can continue everlastingly in the same personality?
Do you see that this would be quite as impossible, as it would be for you to continue a baby
for ever? The constant revelation that is coming with this imperishable Life is such that it
drops off one belief after another and lets the perfect manifestation come into being.
Revelations, one after another, break over the universe of the newly found soul. The former
things are remembered no more; they cannot come into mind; for the mind has been made
new, and it naturally has nothing in it that answers to the former limitations and beliefs. "The
prince of this world [the ugly, hateful world you have been living in] comes and finds
nothing in you." because you have renewed your mind and there is nothing in this new state
that responds to the former evils and limitations. Do you begin to see the new day that is
dawning?
Small wonder, then, that the command came, "Go forth, heal the sick, open the prisons," etc.,
etc. How can this be done except the power is given with the command? the poser of

revelation. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," and the Spirit is everywhere and
when it is recognized in that place the limitations of the human belief are suddenly burst
asunder and the manifestation is set free.
A shell does not hold a chick one moment after it has grown to the limitations of the shell.
When you recognize the presence of God, the limitations that bound you are broken asunder
by the sudden expansion of this new knowledge. Be still, do not talk, it is well with you. "I
AM HE that should come" and you will begin to understand the difference between
overcoming and realization or revelation. Be still, be still, be still. Remember in your quiet
that God so LOVED this world that you are finding so hateful and ugly. Be still; you will see
and understand.
The presence of the very God that LOVED this world is in everything and through
everything, even in your hell, in your prison, in your problem and contains everything for the
complete satisfaction of every human desire interpreted in its truest form. Be still, be still. It is
well. Right in the midst of it all, there am I; and I am everything that you can possibly ask or
think.
For God so LOVED the worldwhat are you doing with it? Why did God so LOVE the place
that you hate and find so filled with all undesirable things? Be still, Be still, and see if the Son
which was given does not come to abide with you and make all the desires of your heart
possible by the process of revelation. God so LOVED the worldLOVED THE WORLD.

YOU ARE THE BRIGHT MESSENGER

You are the Bright Messengerthe Shining One, the being of pure Spirit. You are not the man
you have been lo these many years. You are newborn, fresh, clean, and pure. You are not an
old creature patched up by various treatments. You, Bright Messenger, Golden One, have
never descended to the level of belief and therefore has not consorted with the shadows of the
play life.
You are the Bright Messenger, with winged feet, who goes where he will and knows no
obstruction, nor condition. You are the unconditioned, the untrammelled, the free, the
individualized yet inseparable manifestation of the All God.
You are the Bright messenger. You are full of light, bathed in All Light. Wherever you go is
lightnot consciously projected, but unconsciously conveyed; a natural effect of your
presence.
You are the Bright Messenger. Your eye is single to the Allness of God, the Oneness of
creation. You therefore see with the eye of light. You look into a universe of All Light and see
through the shadows of belief. You see the World in a world, the Rose in a rose, and the Man
in a man. You perceive with your eye of Light that which is and always has beennot that
which will be changed by begging, beseeching, or praying to a tyrant called God to make
whole. With the eye of Light you see nothing to heal, for your sight is perfect in the
understanding.
"I AM of too pure eyes to behold iniquity."
If God cannot perceive it, how can the man in the street perceive it and make long prayers
over it?
You are the Bright Messengerthe being of Light. In the touch of your hand is light. As the
warmth of spring touches the frozen earth, so your touch of light causes the seed to swell and
burst and the flower to leap from her chalice. Your touch of light is like the soft rain on the
parched desert, which causes it to blossom as a rose. Whomsoever you touch, in the true
sense of the word, you transform instantly, gloriously, freely, and joyously! Men will call it
health, but you will call it revelation!
You art the Bright Messenger. You have the Golden touch which transforms everything into
the gold of which Ophir never dreamed. Your touch shall be able to take from the fishs
mouth the needed symbol. Your touch it is which gives that which is beyond price and which
makes a man rich even when the saying goes, "Silver and gold have I none, but of such as I
have, give I unto you." Such as you have in the touch, Oh Bright Messenger, is beyond the
price of pearls and rubies. The transforming touch which is gentle yet firm, which is soft like
the surface of the ocean, but which has the power to dash a whole fleet of evil ships into
oblivion. You are the Bright Messenger, your touch is Golden!
You are the Bright Messenger. The aroma of your presence precedes you. Your passing is as
the passing of a cloud of incense from the sacred lilies of the enchanted woods. In your
presence the precious perfume of the soul is sensed above the stagnant odors of human

beliefs. When you come to thesoul, it is as the bridegroom before whom thelovely flowers of
purity open and shed their perfume in superabundance. At your coming, the rose loosens the
silken tassel of her soul and gives forth the glorious attar of her being. At your coming the
trees and minerals loosen the glorious refreshing odors of woods and stones. From your
nostrils come the Breath of Life. From your breath comes the appearance of the new creation.
Man becomes a living soul by breathing your breath. Man lives and moves and breathes and
has his being in your breath. Your breath fans the small sparks of faith into the flame of
realization. From our nostrils comes the flashing, dazzling fire which consumes the dross of
belief. You are the Bright Messenger.
You are the Bright Messenger. Your invitation is, "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good." Eat
my body (my substance) and drink my blood (inspiration). Your taste is Golden! The milk
and honey of the universe of the All God are your. The hidden manna (that which the eye, the
human belief, cannot see) you feed upon. Your eternal drink is the Living Water. You shall
never be without the sustenance of Spirit, no matter where you go. You will realize this allsubstance and will cease from your thought-taking process of wondering where-withal will
we be clothed and fed. You will eat and hunger no more; drink and thirst no more, for you
shall feed upon the reality of life instead of the husks of material belief with its shadow
appearances.
You are the Bright Messenger, the bearer of "Glad Tidings."
Upon your breastplate, encrusted in gold, is the motto, "speak no evil nor listen to it." You are
of too pure ears to hear evil, you hear with the ear of Spirit. You hear with the silent ear,
closed to the din of the human relative conditions, but open to that which "eye has not seen,
ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man (human thought) the things
which are prepared for them that love your Law." You hear the word of peace and you cease
a whole ocean of fury of belief, stilled and made calm. You hear the reports of that which IS,
and you tell of these. You hear the things that "ear has not heard." the ear of man whose
breath is in his nostrils, and whose eye is double and yet you hear the report of the Kingdom
Here and NOWYou hear the Glad Tidings of the eternal Christ walking today in the
Garden of Attainment. You hear the words, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well
pleased," and you know these words to be addressed to you! You are not ashamed, nor afraid
because of your nakedness; the stark tragedies of the human belief fade into the distance
when you obey this call with the "Aye, Aye," of Spirit. You hear in the truest sense of the
word, in the fearless sense of the word, "Arise and shine, for your light has come." No need to
create this light, to stimulate it, but only to recognize this light as within.
You art the Bright Messenger, the Being of Light, the Unafraid. Why should there be fear
when the realization has come that you are the Bright Messenger, the being of pure Spirit, not
subject to the beliefs of the thought world, not subject to the failures and successes of your
human life, but suddenly up and above that which has always seemed so real.
Bright messenger, Unafraid Being, Holy Creature, Son of God, arise, shine. Arise: Let your
light so shine. Take no thought: If you take thought, it will be of fear or limitation. You are the
Bright Messenger, the Being of Light that goes before the manifestation of your human self,
and makes straight the way. You are the Unafraid, the Unbound, the Prometheus Unbound.

You will smite the rock and make it gush forth the Living Water of Life.
You are the Bright Messenger, the Being of Light, the unafraid. You are glorious, you are free,
you are not bound by human limitations. "You are not another [a separate one] but the same
One." You are the Christ. Hail! Soul of Me, I salute you; Son of God Christ Bright
Messenger

TRAILING CLOUDS OF GLORY

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our lifes star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From god, who is our home;
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!"
__Wordsworth
Trailing Clouds of Glory, sweeping the great horizon of your new heaven and earth, follow
after you, Son of the Living God, in great swirls of light and illumination. No more can you
withhold this wondrous light than day can stay its coming. No more the conscious effort to
know the truth; to make others see the truth; no more straining to have people listen to your
chatter about what is or is notno more anything but simply BEING! Why do you try tp be?
A thousand eager souls have gone down in defeat trying through every possible means to be
that which they already were. "They have taken my Lord away," is the cry of a personality
worshipper, one who looks to mankind for his salvation instead of looking to the only
possible source of such power that within his own consciousness.
Trailing Clouds of Glory follow after you, and the great illumination of their brightness goes
before you. Are you afraid to accept such a glorious picture of your True Self? Then you are
yet playing with the colored pebbles in the shallow waters of metaphysics, disobeying the
command, "Launch out into deep waters." He who has the courage to "launch out" into the
freedom of his soul, not asking of those beachcombers who hang around the shores of
personal ideas, will find nothing wanting. The rough sea will be smooth, and the calmness
shall be there, that deep stillness of being alone, and for the first time being actually free from
the soul hunger and loneliness that nothing of the human mind can satisfy.
Many who read these lines, perhaps you who are reading now, will be self-revealed, and will
find it natural for the Son of the Living God to have Glorious Trailing Clouds of Attainment
follow after him, no matter where he may go. The signs shall follow, they shall not precede.
Why look you for a signpost when I AM the way? Salute no man that you pass along lifes
highway, for he may turn you awry. Salute the soul of your True Self and be not turned aside.
"It is I" eternally I and when you begin to see Me in everything you will call Me out into
expression and that which flies at you in mad fury trying to destroy you shall be in an instant
transformed into Me. This whole process lies within the scope of you who read this page. I
have said to you, "Agree with your adversary quickly," and the agreement is made through
calling the name of the living God out of the dead Lazarus. "it is wonderful", everything is
wonderful; the only thing that is dispelled at such a moment is your belief in evil. Even hell is
made into heaven when you call upon me. Call upon Me and I will answer. Do you hear? I
said, "I will answer." Believe you this? Or are you going to argue a little, and try to prove that

it is so with a reservation? Go your way; the bridegroom passes and you have no oil because
you have not learned yet to accept your good. You are still with those who want to make it
happen, and who are looking for personal aggrandizement.
But one day, perhaps today, perhaps right now, you will shed the filthy rags of argument and
of personal teaching, and rise and go up into a high place, and descend again, not to work out
problems, but to reveal the God within you. As much as you will, that give I unto you. Do
you hear?
"Aquaint now yourself with Him, (right while you are reading is now) and be at peace;
thereby all good shall come unto you." How very simple, too simple perhaps, because you
have been hypnotized into believing that long, hard study was necessary to attain the
kingdom, and that you were full of sin that some sin cleanser had to take out of you by
special instruction that he could give you. Yet shall I call again and again to you" "Aquaint
now yourself with Him, and be at peace, thereby all good shall come unto you." Do you see
how utterly impossible it would be for you to explain the glorious feeling of "It is well" to
anyone who was trying to think it out?
You are impressed with that which descends to the plane of human thinking from the place
of Christ consciousness, the fourth dimensional realm. Do you not see what is meant by
"Aquaint now thyself with Him and be [find yourself] at peace; thereby all [the whole] good
shall come unto you." Can you understand, then that your expression of healing, of whatever
belief comes before you, is merely the light of the Trailing Clouds of Glory which
automatically emanate from your being? When you see this, that All (the whole) Good shall
come unto you; then will you know that you have the hidden well of living water and the
exhaustless substance of the manna that comes down from heaven. Do you see that you will
be self-sufficient and that your giving will in reality be only the coming of your presence? On
whomsoever your consciousness rests pours the infinite blessing and possibility of a perfect
revelation of health, prosperity, or happiness. Should they but accept it, either consciously or
unconsciously, the transformation will take place and they swill shout, "whereas before I was
blind, NOW {right NOW the ONLY) I can see" and one blindness after another shall be
healed in every man. New fields of illumination and light shall be made visible to him, and
each time he shall exclaim, "Whereas before I was blind, now I can see."
Do you see that the mere acceptance of this makes it possible for you? Until you believe it is
possible (not from a standpoint of credulity or blindly), it can never be possible to you,
however much of the letter you may know. You believe in the true fashion of the Word when
you have accepted the Finished Kingdom as here and now, and possible of expression. Then
what matter if a thousand say to you, "It is hard," "There is much work and difficulty in
attainment." I said to you many times and IAM saying to you (you who read this page, do
you hear?) at this instant that the Kingdom of Heaven is given to the Child, not in years, but
with the capacity that can accept good as real instead of endeavoring eternally to make My
Kingdom over or set things right by first believing in evil.
As soon as you take away the personal nature of evil you have it in a place of understanding,
where it can more easily be seen as nothing but belief. The thing you have been working on is
your personal devil and he is fed by the substance of your thought. Taking your attention

away from the body, being absent from the body or embodiment of your problem and
present with the Lord, is another way of putting it. When you are present with the Lord, the
Trailing Clouds of Glory sweep the horizon of your universe and find nothing there which
needs to be destroyed or killed but you find the great, glorious realm of attainment opening
wide its portals to you. ENTER!
"Where there is no vision the people perish," where there is no vision which is beyond the
thought process, the people finally fall by the way, full of dead letter and earnest effort. The
glorious Vision of the Son of the Living God is yours. You are dream drenched with the joy of
it all, the pass before your gaze as lovely realities, instead of phantoms and ghosts of dead
hopes and wishes. Deeper and deeper you go into the great clouds of light; more wonderous
are the revelations made to you as you go your eternal way of aloneness and attainment.
Nothing shall be denied you and no one shall say you nay! Do you hear? Can you talk this
glorious thing over with one who has but a mind full of thoughts or trite statements and a
house full of evil that needs attention?
You shall learn the glory of silence which is golden by its light of revelation. Stand still, very
still, stiller than any human mind can imagine.
Everything you touch shall be filled with the spirit of Light. Everything you look upon shall
be illumined with the glory. All this, not in the impractical way that most people look upon
these wondrous words, but in a way of concreteness. "Even in MY flesh shall I see God." do
you begin to see the impractical teaching is that which shows you how to get things when
there is the great "Seek you first the Kingdom of heaven [within] and all things shall be added
unto you"? Do you go any further until you have decided within yourself whether this is a lie
or the truth, why continue the self-hypnotism any further? You are on the path of attainment,
attainment of greater things than can possibly be set down in black and white.
Trailing Clouds of Glory will follow you as you go about your Fathers business and the
pygmy personality will fade out of the pictures as the new creature moves into the plane of
expression. From out the invisible will come new ideas and impressions that will cause you to
know that the way of attainment is not fraught with difficulties, but is easy and beautiful, a
way possible for the childlike consciousness which believes in its good and accepts it.
Out of the invisible comes the manifest. As a smile out-pictures a state of consciousness and is
instantly reflected by all who come in contact, thereby making the increase infinite, so the
idea which wells from the Inner Lord will come into ample expression and be reflected back
to the giver in endless ways. The whole concern is not how to make it reflect back with
increase, but to release it without thought of return. A smile is given, not to get a smile in
return, but because it is an automatic expression of the state of consciousness at that time. A
grin will not accomplish the same results. Few are fooled. Few are those who respond. The
deep, smiling consciousness of good shall be reflected back again and again in countless
ways.
"You are the light of the world."
What world? Who is referred to as "YOU"? All these glorious promises and statements of

absolute facts must at length be overtaken by the Son of the Living God; he must finally come
to cause everyone to yield its full measure of substance. It is only when the grape has been
pressed in the wine press that the hull is thrown away and it is when the inspiration has been
taken from the letter that it falls by the way.
When will you rise and leave the tatters of human reasoning and former attainment for the
open road of the Son of the Living God? Dare you, you who read this page, remembering that
taking the open road does not of necessity mean a physical voyage? He who recognized any
of the attributes of the Christ-consciousness as so and real will see them into instant
manifestation, as Peter, realizing the substance of freedom, could sing in a material prison
and cause it to open to him. I AM the way, if it takes an earthquake to do it, what of it? Those
that put you in will invite you to come out so they may be blinded by the Trailing Clouds of
Glory that follow after you. Finally you will realize that the everlasting rising to heights and
falling to depths is a matter of human belief, and that it has nothing to do with the real, the
lasting, the eternal, but is merely an emotional reaction. The Son of the Living God does not
ascend to heights and get cast off into the depth, for there is no height, depth, breadth, or
length in the ALL, and yet there are all of these as long as they are necessary for Jesus to
operate within their boundaries. There is the glory of the risen Lord gleaming through you
and the fashion of your continence shall be changed and you will be revealed in a glory of
light. Do you hear? Do you see? Do you look between the lines and grasp the hidden
meaning that is there?
Go into all the world, preach the good spell. Speak of the good spell, the wonder of goodness
that is everywhere and go not out again first to point out the evil and then hunt in your
mental satchel for a remedy, one thing for headache, one for a mortgaged house, another
thing for an inharmonious home, another for how to find money and a job. How long will
you cast lots for a part of my garment? When will you see that to know ME is life eternal? Life
eternal is not subject to disease and limitation, neither can it be made unhappy by the lack of
anything. Can you see now? You who read this page, that a thousand years being a day, and
a day as a thousand years, you can make the hypnotism of yesterday a thousand years old
and out of your way?
You shall do all these things, and the mists of earth, the beliefs of the human limitations, shall
vanish away in a cloud of light and beauty. Suddenly you will walk untrammelled and free, a
new door shall open unto you, and you will enter, and as you do, so it will close, and the
past, with its limitations and fears, will be vanished away. Do you hear? You who read this
page? You?
I speak to you: The new order of things is at hand and it is the time of its appearance. It will
be very much as the wakening from a dream that you fully intend to remember, but about
which is spun such a mist of forgetfulness that only the merest fragments remain. This is the
translation form one mansion to another in the universal consciousness. Newer and fresher
capacities will be yours; you will find yourself in possession of wisdom necessary to perform
that which you formerly thought impossible of attainment, and strange as it may seem for the
moment, you shall presently find that it is quite natural. The moment you overtake a truth or
become conscious of it, at that instant you also realize that you have always know that truth,

and that there has never been a time in your life when you did not have it actively into
expression.
When you go by the Way, be sure you leave the false modesty of the hypocrite behind; be not
afraid to assume and take for granted the power of the Son of the Living God. You are acting
within your own precincts when you realize that the power of the Christ to accomplish that
which it will is a natural thing and not something for display. It is wonderful and even as you
have been reading this word, your fear and problem have melted away, dissolved by the
Light shed from the Trailing Clouds of Glory that emanate from the Son of the Living God. It
is all right with you now, everything is all right now. The fig tree that cumbered the ground
has shriveled up and disappeared, the fig tree that did not obey the law to bring out the
whole manifestation at the instant is also pulled up by the roots. The slow process of birth,
growth, maturity, and fruition is all swallowed up in instant recognition of the perfect whole,
the flower before the seed. He that has ears, let him hear. Do you hear? The whole in perfect
manifestation, not through the slow human process of time and space.
Feeding among the lilies, considering the lilies, the effortless, unlabored action of the I AM
moving into a constant stream of expression. Rest beloved; it is well with you. You are the
glorious Being of Light in a universe of Light, you are lost in the immensity of it all. As the
candlelight is lost in the sunlight and yet retains its individuality, so you are lost in ME, in the
Spirit of the ALL and there you find nothing wanting or lacking. There you find no shadows.
There your soul is singing the song of the Son of the Living God in the eternal Now and Here,
in the eternal joy of Life, Life, Life...complete and filled with an unspeakable joy. It is so. Do
you hear?
Remember then, as you go out into your Kingdom of heaven, about your Fathers business,
that the Trailing Clouds of Glory are about you, and it is well.

COURAGE
He that has the true fear of God in his heart, has no room therein for any other fear.
___Cromwell
As every positive word has a negative counterpart and interpretation, so the word "fear,"
which is the ghastly hydra-headed monster that besets the footsteps of man from cradle to
grave. It has a thousand different titles and names, is personal and impersonal. One person
might quake with it, another thrill with joy. It is easy for a trained pilot to soar about the
heavens like a glorious bird, but the same movements may cause the untutored to be thrown
into paroxysms of terror and dismay.
So, likewise, the expression, "Fear of God," brings to the minds of many, the fear of a most
terrible tribal God who takes keen pleasure in pouncing upon them at unexpected moments
and bringing the most fiendish devices to pass, while to another it means a reverence and
security with all attending benefits.
A savage, after seeing some of the terrible things that can be done with electricity, might fear
it, and even obey its injunctions as interpreted by a savage medicine man. He might prefer to
stay by his rushlight rather than have anything to do with this fearful thing. But an
enlightened man will not deprive himself of the glorious benefits and help derived from the
proper understanding and use of the power.
There are many people who profess to be civilized and smile with derision at the so called
savage who worship, in ignorance, a God as replete with whims, moods, and fearful power as
any heathen God dared to be. While professing to worship a Father God who is mindful of
his own, they are filled with superstitious beliefs concerning him.
I heard a man, with great emotion in his voice, talking to this God regarding the need of
money, finally conclude his high flown statements of an impersonal God with, "Now, Father
God, you know if it is best for me to have this money it will be forthcoming." He was the
spirit of humility and contriteness, and was as near a pagan praying to a glorified figure of
clay as he could possibly be. Imagine praying for the invisible current of electricity to let you
have light if it thought it was well for you to have light. If you are in total darkness and have
to read, it is an obvious fact that you need light. Yet thousands are thinking to wheedle some
special favor from this God while afraid and filled with superstitious fears regarding Him, so
that their humility is nothing but a robe of hypocrisy.
"The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom."
The wisdom spoken of is the understanding of God, and the fear that is mentioned is the
reverence that one naturally has for fundamental laws. A musician, the more he awakens to
the glorious realm of harmony, the more he reverences (fears) the laws of harmony; he does
not see in them anything that will destroy him, or from which he can curry personal favors.
No matter how contrite he has been, no matter how many times he has told the principle that
he is a miserable artist, full of terrible discords and unworthy of the power to express

harmony. As an artist he knows that the moment he falls away from the laws of harmony,
chaos is produced in his playing and he will eventually completely destroy himself as a
musician if he continues to disregard these laws for long.
"The wrath of God," or electricity, or discord, then, must be in the keeping of man, no matter
what may be said to the contrary.
"The wrath of God" is mans own wrath, or his ignorance or "fear" of God in the negative
sense of the word. Many people have interpreted the fear of God as meaning a power that
constantly requires sacrifice of everything but the ordinary things of life. Others have a tribal
God who is a bestower of personal favors. Still others imagine they are one of the few chosen
to express this power that they are especially consecrated, and that all others must look up to
them. Jesus, the great Way-Shower, seeing this tendency in man, made it clear that the power
He was employing was impersonal and as available to the man in the street as it was to him.
"Call not me good." Well might He have said, "Do not worship me."
"I am wonderfully and fearfully made." Do you begin to understand the FEAR of God and
how it operates successfully over the "fearfully" made body? Do you begin to see what is
hidden in the word "fear"? Do you understand how the currents of electricity run freely over
a perfectly equipped house? Wherever there is wiring and equipment there it appears in
whatever form it is needed and that form is to neutralize a belief in a lack of some kind. So
also, the "fear" of God operates over the body, which is "wonderfully and fearfully" made.
Many an electrically equipped establishment has a system of wiring and switchboards
wonderfully and fearfully made. The most ordinary man in the street would not find it
anything unusual if told that the same power could freeze and burn at the same time, in the
same room; he would not find it strange that this power could connect him instantly with the
other end of the earth. No, he has recognized this fact and accepted it.
That the power we call God operates in the same manner is un-understandable to many
people. They want to know what "method" or what power you use to neutralize disease as
differentiated from poverty; what affirmations you say to bring about happiness as
differentiated from those used to produce prosperity as if there were a different set of
currents in an electrical wave to produce different manifestations. God is impersonal,
omnipotent, and omniscient as well as omnipresent. He is everything at the same time. The
moment you recognize the Presence of God in any place, the situation or condition of human
ignorance becomes nil.
When you begin to recognize the impersonal nature of god, great areas of fear leave you. You
realize then that it is not a matter of the power working or not, it is a question: Are you
willing to let it into manifestation? When you are ready to stop this ridiculous praying to a
man-god and come before The Presence with the glorious readiness to let The Power into
expression, then will you see and know "the words I [that I AM] speak are not of myself, but
him that sent me." The "words" are the manifestations that you five forth as the Son of the
Living God.
Do you begin to see why it is, "if you make your bed in [the] hell [of belief] I AM there"? To
recognize this is to see the darkness of hell dissipated in the light of Spirit. To the human

sense, flames may have light and a burning heat, but this is nothing as compared with the
light of Spirit. Hell is always personal and limited to the belief of a person; heaven is
universal and everywhere present and is available to everyone.
That this power has always bee, goes without saying, just as we know the principle of the
automobile always existed. Jesus might have ridden into Jerusalem in an automobile as on an
ass, as far as the existence of the principle is concerned. No one recognized the principle,
hence it did not seem to exist. In the same way you, in your human darkness, do not
recognize the presence of heaven here and now and so it does not exist to you.
Because of the limitations of human language, terms of symbology and parables are used to
bring out the hidden meaning of the visible-invisible. Yet it is ridiculous to compare the
power of God with the power of electricity.
The Power is so much beyond the limited illustrations man can give, that words utterly fail to
convey the idea, and the best illustrations only raise many queries in the mind of the reader.
Who can define the Infinite?
The first fear, then, to be eradicated is the false interpretation of the "fear of God," not the
belief in a power opposed to God. When you are unafraid of God because you are beginning
to understand the All-Now of the ALL-Presence, and are ceasing the terrible struggle to make
this Power work according to human standards; when you cease to fear him as a terrible
tyrant, meting out horrible punishments to helpless victims of his caprice, then will you begin
to know "the peace that passes all understanding," for "in the twinkling of an eye" you will
see that all fears are induced merely by the lack of understanding of God- "the fear of God" the understanding of this great Power so completely fills you that there is no room for any
other "fear."
"The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." The reverence for, and aligning of oneself with
this glorious power, is the beginning of wisdom. You will see the human fears for what they
arethe product of a double mind. A man I met, working in the service of God, was afraid
less he could not get sufficient money to keep his church in operation. What about it? Do you
suppose that this great power, desiring to express itself, fails to supply everything necessary
to make this possible, without the aid or assistance of man? Who is this man who thinks he
has to strain every nerve to bring in the Christ Kingdom? Who is this poor benighted soul
who imagines that if he does not make a place for God to express, God will not be expressed?
Where is that one who is seeking no favors, or any permission to express that which God has
given him to express? Where is the one that needs no recommendation but finds the temple
doors flung wide open to him? Is it that one who, as Cromwell says, "has the true fear of God
in his heart" to such an extent that "there is no room for any other fear"?
You who read this page, what is the nature of your fear? First, what of the fear of God? What
do you actually feel in your heart regarding this God? Are you afraid of him? Do you fear
him in the old sense of the word or do you "fear" [reverence] him as the great Impersonal
Power? If you but learn to be unafraid of this Power, you will be like the learned electrician.
Your fear and superstition regarding the truth will melt away along with the other fears of
evil, poverty, and disease.

"The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." Do you hear, you who read this line? The door
is opening to you, the door into the glorious land of understanding through which you may
enter and be free. They [your fears] may seem terrible and imminent. They may seem sure to
annihilate you until you learn that through the unafraid state of mind, they will flee. You
cannot fear anything when your heart is full of the fear of the lord, remembering that you are
wonderfully and "fearfully" made and that the power which is to activate this mechanism is
now in full manifestation.
"Come, you children, listen to ME; and I will teach you the fear of the Lord." The I AM will
reveal to the unafraid soul all the wonders that are hidden beneath the "fear." The eyes of the
blind will be opened. You will begin to see that although some may say, "Peace, peace, and
there is no peace," and some may retain "the fear of the Lord" in their hearts and suffer the
pangs of the damned, yet others may be so filled with the "fear of the Lord" that no other fear
can enter. Do you see? Do you heryou who read this line? Does not your heart suddenly
burn with a glorious joy? Are you not aflame with the glory of the new revelationyou who
read this line? You have nothing to fear because you have the "fear of God."
You will begin to read the secret doctrine and see the things that are hidden away from the
wise and prudent. You will begin to see how the letter often contradicts itself as well as
confuse. Witness this for prosperity;
"By humility and fear of the Lord
are riches and honor and life."
Interpret this from the negative meaning of the word "fear" and you have a contrary
argument to the non-fear state that appears to be necessary for the relative world of finance
today. Fear is to be ejected at all costs, and as fear so it is, but consider this with its true
meaning, with your heart full of it, and you will see that prosperity is not a matter of
demonstration, but a matter of recognition. You cannot help but manifest prosperity, any
more than an electric bulb could refuse to illuminate when the power is turned on.
"Search the Scriptures." You will learn to search the deep hidden meaning of the Word. "I will
reveal myself to you."
It is only when your heart is full of the fear of the Lord that you can truly say, "I shall fear no
evil," concluding with the glorious reason, "For you [the understanding] are with me."
"He that has the true fear of God in his heart
has no room for any other fear."
IT IS WONDERFUL!

O COLORFUL ONE
I AM the Great White Light in which all the visible and invisible color of the universe and
heaven rest. My name is o Colorful One, I am full of light that is white and glistening and at
the same time is multi-colored and many hued. My white light passes through the prism of
human thinking, reasoning, or teaching, and takes on seven distinct rays. Man, looking
through a glass darkly and with the double eye, sees many different paths all claiming to be
the truth; but so long as a man remains in the personal idea of the truth he has not yet seen
the Great White Light of his True Self in which are hidden all things, hidden only to the eye
that is double.
He may follow a single ray of color, thinking that he at last has the truth, only to find that it
terminates in disillusionment. One be one he may exhaust the paths, until finally he comes to
the Great White Light of his Soul. It is the whole garment alone that can satisfy and this
comes not by a mediator, but through the Christ within, and until man learns this, he will go
seeking in every strange place and go chasing every wil-o-the-wisp of color, hoping to find
peace and the ALL. He will find what the man finds who believes literally that a pot of gold
hangs at the end of the rainbow.
Pretty soon he begins to see the Great White Light of his Soul and, as he recognizes this, he
sees hidden in this all, the glorious colors of Soul. A million colors and tints burst upon his
startled eyes as he goes from glory to glory. For he suddenly realizes that for the first time, he
is seeing! "Having eyes, you see not," is changed to the glorious explanation, "whereas before
I was blind, now I can see." He is thrilled with the exquisite bliss of the awakening in the new
heaven (state of consciousness) and the new earth (manifestation in the flesh). He finds there
everything that he has tried for long years to demonstrate by one means or another. He finds
there overflowing abundance of the All and he is unafraid and naked. There is nothing
between him and the truth, he is lost in the great swirl of color, of light, and lost in the great
swirl of color, of light, and glory. He is bathed in its golden mists. His feet are lovely upon the
mountains of inspiration and along the still waters, limpid and blue. He lies upon the breast
of the new earth under the shifting gold dust of the sun of life. He tastes of the bliss of the
peace which passes all understanding. He is suddenly One with the universe, with the All.
He is everything and nothing at the same time. "When a man loses his life, he shall find it."
When your personal sense of trying to run the universe is ended, and you are willing to let go
of the petty personal desires, you shall taste of a fruit of life that will again admit you into the
portals of your lost Eden.
Ah, how fair it stands and has always stood, awaiting the one who could lay aside his dusty,
worn, travel clothes and put on the white, shimmering robes of the Son of the Living God.
"Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man the
glories prepared for them that love your law." What you are about to experience when you
can give up or let go of this tinsel personality, painted with the colors of effort and struggle to
be or do something personal, is so far beyond anything that has ever been written or told you
that the comparison is absurd. What you lose when you give up or let go of the personal
something is the difference between Jesus and the Christ. This giving up is not a straining
thing when once you understand the truth as taught by the Master.

Gladys Smith may have been the teachers pet, been called a pretty child, and been the pride
of her family, but Mary Pickford absorbed all of this Gladys Smith and expanded to a
creature beloved by thousands. She pushed out the border of her tent beyond anything little
Gladys would ever have dreamed. Do not be afraid that your darlingthe little personality
that has perhaps to your eyes attained such wonderful things, and wants credit for it always
is going to be lost by giving up and letting the Christ into expression. You will lose nothing
but the prison of a name and a following and find a Name and a Following a million times
greater than the little consecrated soul you thought you were when working to bring in the
millennium and to save the world.
He who travels alone travels farno man along the way can discuss these things with you.
Either you do or you do not know that within you lies this great fountain of life which gushes
up into a pure white stream - shoots far up into the azure skies and is transformed into a mist
of glorious color by the Sun of Life.
You are this fountain of pure White Light which is everything and anything. It can be that
which it will and is so chameleon-like that it can harmonize with its surrounding either for
protection, lost to the human eye, or to bring forth a glorious revelation. The great floods of
understanding will ever be able to speak in that color that is understandable to the listening
one. You are all colors, twinkling, blazing, flaring up into expression.
O Colorful One, the soul of me, only through this great at-one-ment can I ever find the
satisfaction of life. Only when the impersonal comes to be the personal can I repossess my
universe and find it heaven here and now.
Many have whitewashed themselves over with a false humility and set themselves in the
highways of the world, proclaiming in all their meekness that they are the consecrated souls
and have come to save the world from sin. They have come to save nothing, not even
themselves; they are merely selling My robe, casting lots for it in the open market of life
drawing their white garments away from Me and making themselves official stone-casters.
Do not imagine that any personal teaching, however high, will satisfy you. Nothing but the
discovery of the Great Soul of your True Self will do that.
"Let the filthy be filthy still" - let the personal teaching remain personal. You will find your
soul in due time. A filthy mind is always seeing filth. A nude statue made to represent the
truth is to him something obscene and dirty. Find out what a man is condemning and you
have a concrete picture of that man. You give yourself away when you criticize another; you
are only letting the wise man see your "self" which is hiding behind a personality.
O colorful One, the soul of you is that which makes you to know concretely right here and
now:
"I AM the light of the world [your manifest
world]; he that follows ME shall not walk
in darkness [human beliefs], but shall have
the light of life."

The I AM, the O Colorful One, will cause you to see the impossibility of walking longer in the
human beliefs and limitations of life. Many things that you formerly consigned to the "yesthey-may-be-possible-when-I-get-the-understanding," will be natural. I have things to show
you that I cannot tell you.
Dominion, dominion, dominion, not domination! That is what I give you. There is no need to
dominate in the Kingdom of Heaven, for that is only bondage. What you dominate occupies
your whole time and attention and hence dominates you indirectly. I give you dominion, for
you have the cloak of invisibility, the cloak of many colors, any color. Do you understand, O
colorful One? Yes, your soul leaps with joy with the boundless possibilities of the sons of the
Living God with the serene joy of the expression anywhere and at any time, in the manner
necessary. Not just a painter, or a lecturer, or a dancer, but an O Colorful One, who knows the
deep things and can give to every man that which he asks...not a a personal gift, but by way
of self-revelation.
I AM a pool of iridescent flame. In ME is all, without ME is nothing. When you are lost in My
will, then you automatically function from the heights of bliss, abandon, and expression.
Your individuality is not lost, it is found! The deep springs of unknown talent and
accomplishment gush forth into expression. You shall speak with new tongues, both literally
and figuratively. You shall be at that instant just exactly what you recognize yourself to be
when you do not strain to recognize it, but just are it by recognition and assumption. Very
easy, as the color of white broken up into the rainbow melts from on to another hue.
O Colorful One, is the soul of you. It plays into expression, as the light plays on the water.
There is no resistance to the light. It does not need to combat its supposed enemy, the
darkness. It finds nothing there to fight, so the human mind, when lifted to the understanding
of the Son of the Living God, will find that what it formerly considered obstacles will
disappear. What to Jesus was a problem, was nothing to the Christ. What to you, as a human
personality, may seem an impossible, insurmountable obstacle, is nothing to the soul of you.
The tiny resources which you hugged to yourself as a personality become as a drop in the
bucket compared to the overflowing of the windows that are opened in heaven when you
recognize the Power of the Son of the Living God.
Saul, going to his duty of fighting sin and evil, is blinded by the white light. So white, that the
human eye has not yet perceived it. It would blind the human eye because of its limited
capacities and because of the indescribable colors and hues. Millions of tints and nuances are
revealed, but by this very blinding is the obstruction removed, the name changed, and the
way opened. The NEW WAY! All this is just in front of you, you who read this page. Do you
hear? You? When will you lay aside the trinkets you borrowed from your masters in Egypt?
They have served you well, but they are also souvenirs of your bondage.
The letter that you study is merely a memory of your bondage to the human concept of truth.
Presently, you shall cast that aside and claim in the soul rapture of the son of god, the O
Colorful One, "I AM free born, I AM a Son of the Living God, I AM a joint heir with Christ!"
Glory, glory, glory, and a food of white light, with its billion of colors and tints, shall descend

upon you and your eyes shall be open and you will know that "It is well," and that nothing
matters but you and your soul. In finding this out, then for the first time, and in the true sense
of the word, everything matters and is your special charge and the command "Feed my
sheep," will be literally understood and not mutilated into a personal service.
I said, "Feed my sheep," not destroy my sheep with the personal fears and personal teaching.
Who are you? Standing there with that great mantle of personality about you, passing out
some tabloid statements of how to get things and how to attain spirituality by following after
you? He that sets himself up shall be abased. Remember that the master had no patience with
hypocrites, have a care that you be not classified with those who were called "vipers." To
whom will you be Judas? You may be running about smartly correcting others and thinking
thereby to win a special reward. Watch!
O Colorful One, the soul of you will cause the mantle of secrecy to envelop you. You will not
care to chatter about the findings of truth, they will be too precious. Once you have been
shown the jewel, the pearl of great price and have seen the luminous folds of color of your
real self, then you will know that nothing matters but the following of your own soul
instructions. How and where, no man knows. He that has many cares must remain with the
household of the human thought and try to set it in order and at the same time he may be a
doorkeeper and have many duties to perform.
Do not think, because you discover your True Self, that you will sit idly by and pass out
wisdom on a golden platter. You will live and release wisdom on rays of light that the whole
world will see. Fear not! If there is anything to you, your fame will find its wings. The dogs
barked at the feet of the Master as he passed through the streets of Jerusalem, the holier than
thou dogs and those who would have destroyed him. Fear not! I AM mightier than any
combination of human belief. Those that are for you are greater than those beliefs that are
against you.
O Colorful One, soul of me, shine forth, that is, the word shine forth in the particular nuance
of expression that is necessary at this instance to bring out the glories of heaven on earth. Can
you see how heretofore you have asked for nothing, for you have not know how to ask? You
have asked for some trifling thing in order that the human self might be glorified, in order
that you might gild over a human personality and make the world fall down and worship
you; but now you ask in the true way, that of appropriation. Can I speak plainer than:
"Ask, believing, you receive.
Before you ask, I will answer."
Am I then, the soul of you, a liar? Is MY word broken constantly and not fulfilled? Do you
hear? You who read this page? You? Do not ask another, ask yourself. What are you afraid
of? Letting go? Letting me direct your way? Are you going to bend it in order that it may suit
anothers idea of you, or what another thinks you should do and accomplish? Be still! Until
you can get over that , you can never know peace.
Come out from among them (human thoughts) and be free. A mans enemies are those of his
own household (consciousness). These are the only enemies you have and yet you have a
world full of them because you see your human thought reflected in a million mirrors of the

universe. What hope is there for you to change the reflection in the mirror? I said, "I AM a
new creature in Christ Jesus" I call to your attention over and over this statement, for finally
you will hear it, a new creature has no need of the old appliances, bandages, and
appurtenancesfears! Do you hear? You who read this page - Right now? You?
The open road lies before you, no matter if you are bound head and foot with human beliefs. I
say unto you, "I" the Colorful One, the soul of you. "I" say to you, to you who read this page,
to you , are you listening (feeling)? "I" say to you, "Rise up and walk."
Do you hear? You? I AM speaking to you from out the depths of your very being, I am
speaking to you form out the fount of life. I am telling you something that is already possible,
awaiting acceptance, awaiting recognition. The open road lies before you, the road upon
which all things are discovered, not created. It is the Way of Life, and it leads all over My
Universe, and goes directly to its Robe, and Ring, and Upper Chamber, and fins its purse and
scrip. Do you hear? I AM the Way, the Blaze of Life, the O Colorful One. I go before the
human manifestation and see that the way he travels is clear and that there shall be no stones
for him to stub his toe against. Are you afraid? I shall clothe you in the many colored,
seamless robes of pure white which shall be all things to all men.
"Be you transformed by the renewing of your mind." I did not say you should be patched up
and fixed up to look better and to have more of my goods, I said, "BE" now, here, at this
instant, "BE" you "transformed," not temporarily changed, glistening, shimmering, shining,
white and all colors at the same time. It is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Heaven and
earth are full of you, of you, of you, the all-inclusive, the One of which you are a point in
consciousness. All my glorious Self pours through you into expression and yet all of it is left.
No amount of hearers can ever exhaust music! Because a person listens to music he does not
destroy anything of its volume and yet he has it all! So is it with you!
So will you go into your own garden and find the eternal Christmas tree, the gift tree, the tree
of life, situated beside the inexhaustible river of Life and you will be at peace. It is wonderful,
O Colorful One. It is Glorious! You who read, do you hear? Be quiet, then let go and see the
salvation of your True Self pour out into expression. Even as I now pour out the words to you
on this page, so will I pour out to you your true and wonderous expression. It is well!
You will descend into the cleansing pool of life and there taste the bliss of heaven. It is well
with you, the myst-i-fications of the earth beliefs are even at this instant becoming more
translucent and clear. Then "through a glass darkly" is beginning to become "then face to
face." O glorious, O Colorful One with healing in your wings, with the strength that is beyond
all human limitations in your arms, with the glory of youth eternal written all over you, you
are even now stooping down to the human belief and lifting up the poor little personality
until it shall be swallowed up in the million hues of spiritual wonders of the kingdom here
and now.

PROSPERITY
I HEARD A STUDENT IN Metaphysics say to another who was sledding under a financial
problem, "Make out a check on the Bank of the Universe." The woman thus addressed looked
amazed and replied, "But I have not anything in any bank on which to draw." "Well, just
visualize a bank account, see yourself going to the bank and making a deposit, see yourself
drawing on this account." As well might she have said, "Make a check out on the Bank of
England," as the Bank of the Universe without fully explaining that in order to have a
checking account on any bank it is first necessary to make a deposit in that bank. It is true that
we can take out of any bank only what we put there, and it is particularly true of the Bank of
the Universe.
The only deposit that anyone can make in this bank is Faith; more Faith which piles up into
understanding. Its safe deposit vaults are fool and thief proof. Its vast accumulation is
consciousness. Its rules are simple and sure of results.
Before opening an account in any bank, you are interviewed. You give your name, your
address, and such other information necessary for the bank to keep in touch with you on the
shortest possible notice. You do not discuss with the banker your hopes of increase or your
state of poverty, etc. All he is interested in is the actual amount you are to deposit. You, in
turn, understand the privileges, the rate of interest, the backing of the bank, etc., and go on
your way. The symbols you have left with him you will probably never see again but this
does not worry you. You take in exchange for your money, a little book in which are written
figures. You are satisfied, secure, and at peace although you have actually let go of everything
which materially stands for money. In doing this, you are exercising Faith, not only in the
man who took your money, but also in the Institution and its ability to make an increase for
you.
After you have left the bank, in reality, the only place you have wealth, to the amount
deposited, is in your consciousness.
All the steps you have taken in actually making this deposit are those required for one who
opens an account with the Bank of the universe, or the Infinite Source of all Good. Yet many
people never open an account at this bank. They only present checks of Belief and
Imagination to a bank which has neither their name nor an account to its credit.
Faith used in the smallest degree soon evolves into Understanding. The Banker of this
Universal Institution gives you a few simple rules to follow. You are exercising every day in
the daily round of life. They are something like this:
Faith - acting and growing
Judge not from appearances
Full identification with your account
Simplicity
All the growing and evolving is actually in the human belief, for man finds sooner or later
that he is merely becoming aware of this True consciousness in which is a "sufficiency of all
things." What you have in your mind is what you bring into manifestation. A picture cord

that is perfectly attuned to a certain note of the piano will instantly sing out when that note is
struck, whether it be in a lighted or dark room, regardless of temperature or location. If
poverty or limitation is in your belief, every time that note is struck in the universe you
respond. Eventually man begins to understand what is meant by the Law, "The Prince of this
world (of belief) comes and finds nothing in me." We have already proven this to some
extent. Many things pass over you now without so much as a ripple of disturbance in the
mind. Accepting false reports, judging from appearances, rushing madly to grab at symbols
has closed the doors of many a banking institution, when, fundamentally, nothing was
wrong. Everybody who was attuned to the fear responded to it and the result was disaster for
many.
"Prove me and see if I will not open windows in heaven and pour out a blessing you shall not
be able to receive." Where is heaven? According to Jesus, it is a state of consciousness.
Understand, then, that the ideas that are to be poured out to you are not in some kingdom far
removed from you, but are to come directly out of the heavenly state of Consciousness which
is within you, awaiting recognition.
The Prodigal is a good instance of this. He sat with the swine looking for a few grains of
sustenance among the husks of belief. He had already dissipated all his symbols in riotous
living. He had gone into a far country of Belief. Most of us are prodigal, and most of us will
remember something, and when we do, we shall arise, disregard the appearances and go
directly to our Father within. No questioning, no condemning, no fearing that the past
accounts shall be checked up against us. We, too, shall remember, "My Father," according to
the Master, is within the consciousness of every man. The moment this memory takes place,
the Prodigal rises from his state of belief and at the same moment of recognition the Father
rises and comes towards him. "Oh, you of little faith." We are afraid to trust Him, because we
have Him away off in some invisible Kingdom. We are afraid He will not hear, or will not
answer, or that He will look back on the ledgers of the past and hold us up for heavy interest.
"Fear not, little flock," has a tender compassion in it that is enough to make the greatest fear
melt into nothingness. "Fear not, I AM with you always (all ways); I will never leave you."
Why will the Banker of the Universe never leave you? Because He is in the midst of you,
keeping watch over His Own. It is only the curtain of belief that we draw by looking without
and judging from appearances, that causes us to fail to see Him. We look for Him in some far
off place, "Oh, if I could only find Him." We search through books, through teachings and
into many lands for that which is within. "Behold, I stand at the door (of consciousness) and
knock. If any man will open unto me I will come into him and sup with him and he with me."
Are you afraid to open the door? Awake from this hypnotism of belief, swing wide the
portals if absolute abandon. Stand on the slippery cliff of your beliefs and say, with Job, "Even
if you slay me, yet will I say you are God." The ground you stand on is holy ground, covered
over with slimy belief, which you have amassed from appearances. When every way is closed
to you from the human standpoint, "I have a way you know not of." Where is this I, or Father?
You must bring Him down out of the skies of imagination and identify yourself with Him, as
within, as the very YOU of YOU.
All manifestation of man is made in the image and likeness of God. You and your whole
universe are fashioned after this pattern, but the human belief has plastered over the perfect

vision with fear. "Smite the rock and make it give forth the living waters." The unafraid will
find his God here and now.
Only that which you have in consciousness can be reflected on your universe, which in reality
is, symbolically speaking, a series of mirrors. Does a man ,standing in front of a mirror, give
anything of himself? Is there any intelligence in the reflection? Is there any intelligence in the
reflection? If the mirror is shattered and the reflection destroyed is anything gone? As long as
you have it in consciousness you will automatically have it into manifestation, and this holds
for good, bad, and indifferent states of mind. Power is not in the reflection. It is wholly at the
mercy of the reflector. Substance is not in the symbol of money, but something that is wholly
outside of it.
A German woman told me an interesting story of a symbol. When the first money scare took
place in Germany, she drew out her money and had it converted into a single bill of the value
of One Hundred Thousand marks (approximately $20,000 at that time). She took this home
with fear and trembling, but with a certain sense of security. She had her money in her hand.
A whole army of beliefs set to work in her mind. Fear of losing it, fear of thieves, fear of
someone finding it out. Twice her fear nearly precipitated a robbery, something that had
never happened to her before. She changed its hiding place times without number. Looking
at it carefully each time. Deflation came while she was away and before she could return with
the piece of paper it was hardly worth the paper it was printed on. What was the matter? She
still had the same piece of money which had been so valuable, but now it was worthless. She
sought no more to hide it. It lay on the dresser, soaked in tears. No more fear of thieves. No
more lying awake worrying about its safety and yet it was the same bill. Nothing had
changed as far as the symbol was concerned, and yet, it was worthless. So it is with all
symbols. They have no value in themselves but all value is determined by something unseen.
So is it with the cash of the Bank of the Universe. Its value is unseen, its manifestations are
infinite. A consciousness of abundance does not mean an eternal manifestation of gold. What
good would gold do you in the desert if you needed water and shade? Yet the Bank of the
Universe would cash a check for water and shade just as readily as for gold. "Awake You that
sleep and Christ (within you) will give you light." Light to see the Allness of the Invisible, or
as someone has called it the "visible invisible." Courage, "you shall reap if you faint not."
When one becomes a depositor in the Bank of the Universe, he learns the law of casting his
bread on the water. This illustration comes to us from the rice sower. How abandoned he is as
he wads through the paddies and casts his seed on the water. Does he pause to worry about
the insects and small water animals that might consume it? If so, he stands hugging his
measure of grain to him, which eventually he will consume, with no increase. "Come unto me
all you that labor and are heavy laden (with belief) and I (the I within you) shall give you
rest." What a heavenly invitation to abandon yourself to the God within and act upon the
guidance of this power.
Intuition evolves by leaps and bounds when man begins even in a small way to rely on his
TRUE Self.
Holding on to the symbol of life stops all activity and brings the disheartening fact to light
that the substance of the symbol is daily diminishing. No interest is paid on symbols

withheld, no increase is given, and yet we are told that the measure shall be full, shaken
together, and finally running over.
Immediately the human reasoning interposes the question, "What, am I to release all my
symbols in order to get increase?" and the answer is, "No." If you are using the Truth like a
game of chance in which you imagine the chances are all in your favor, you will lose. The
person who gives or releases with the thought of getting his money back with increase, is in
reality only playing a game of the Belief world. "The measure (motive) you mete to the
universe shall be returned to you."
As you begin to abandon yourself and your world to the God of the All Good, perception,
clear and beautiful will come forward. The scales will fall off your eyes and you will see.
"Whereas before I was blind, now I can see" for "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard the
glories that god has prepared for those who love his law." The human mind cannot believe or
accept the God-Universe; it is entirely too good to be true to know that within every man is
the voice which dictates the Way and the Truth and Light, and yet it is True. What we call
masters are men who have in some degree realized that the only place they can know God is
within themselves and are relying on the inner urge and acting upon it at once.
The law of secrecy comes into play. "That which is told in secret is called from the housetops."
That which you recognize in the invisible shall be called from the housetops of manifestation.
There is a sermon in the words, "See that you tell no man" and "show John." Tell no one, and,
when the manifestation is there, you can show John.
"Fret not yourself" - "Fear not" - "I AM with you always." "He watching over Israel neither
slumbers nor sleeps." The "He" watching over Israel is your Inner Self. He is mindful of His
own, He rests the compassionate love UPON YOU, and whispers deep in your soul, "It Is
Well with You NOW."