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CHRIST IN YOU

THE DEEPER ISSUES SERIES

CHRIST IN YOU
A BOOK OF DEVOTION

SPIRITUAL RECONSTRUCTION
By
the Author of "Christ in

You"

THE THINNING OF THE VEIL A Record of Experience

By MARY BRUCE WALLACE With Foreword by J. Bruce Wallace, M.A.

PRIVATE DOWDING

plain record of the after-death ex-

periences of a soldier killed in battle

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CHRIST

IN

YOU

NEW YORK
DODD,

MEAD AND COMPANY

1919

**

Unto you, O men,

men."

Pbov.

I call

and my voice

is to

the sons of

viii. 4.

" Blessed are your eyes, for they see and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye and to hear the things which see, and have not seen them Matt, xiii IG-IT. ye hear, and have not heard them."
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CONTENTS
PART I CHRIST IN YOU
LESSON

1 2

PAQV

Voice from the Heights

3
6

4
5 6

7
8

Freedom by Understanding Christ the Life Prayer The Truth of Being God All in All, Get Understanding From Glory to Glory

10 14 18

22 25
29

9 Personality

33 36

10

The Book

11 Sin, Separateness 12

41

"He that hath seen Me, hath seen the

Father"
46
50

13 Christ in

14 Out of Darkness 15 Jesus Christ

16 Truth
is

Light The Race Man SteadfastImmovable

within You

You

53
56
59

17 Imagination

63
68 71 77 80

18 Idea

The Expressed Image

is

19 Heaven
20

and Unreal 21 Matter and its Relation to Spirit

Re.\l

Growth

CONTENTS
LESSON
p^QI

22 *'My Thoughts are towards You''

85

23

The Central Life

is

Love

90

24 Omnipresence
25 Omnipresence (continued)

92 97
.

26

27

The Control of Self and Environment The Death of Mortal ManRenunciation

102

106

PART IIMIND AND SOUL: THEIR RELATION TO THE BODY

1 "Let your Light so Shine^'
2 3

113 116
120
125

Born of the Virgin Mind and its Possibilities

4 Personality

The True Self 6 The True Selfishness 7 Dwell Deep 8 Unfoldment from Within 9 The Soul
5

130

134
138

141 145

PART IIIDIVINE HUMANITY

1 I in

2 "Thou in
3

Them Mb" "Seek and Ye shall Find"

151 154
158

4 "The Knowledge of God shall cover the Earth" 162 5 The Will of God 167 6 Workers together with God 170
7
9

The Creative Energy

173 176

8 God the only Life

Hb

gavb Himself

182

PAET

CHEIST IN YOU

CHRIST

IN

YOU

FIRST LESSON
A VOICE FROM THE HEIGHTS

AM

obliged to use your words and modes

of expression, but I

must say at the beginI long to help people

ning that they

are wholly inadequate to

convey spiritual truths.

who seem
himself.

to be in the

same mistaken conditions

in which I once was, for

man

does not

know

We

will consider together something of the

first

truth of being, the most essential and the

of all things.
visible

You
is

are not the outward and

form; this

the feeblest and the most

self.

distant likeness of your real

I will ex-

plain by illustration.

When an
1 1 Oor.
li.

artist paints

a picture, he does not

9, 10, 14.

CHRIST IN YOU
reality,
is

put on canvas the

he gives you simply a

copy of that n^hich

within himself.

The

real

picture is on the spiritual plane and exists there

much more

truly than on the canvas; the real

picture remains for ever, the canvas does not.

No

poet can give you his true poem.

He

does

his best to convey something of its beauty, some-

thing of

its life,

but even then

it is

far removed

from his
reality.

ideal.

That, too, is on the plane of

There

is

a vast amount of creative energy

jjlane.
is

working in and through the material

invisible to you.

Like the picture and the poem, this energy

We want you to distinguish beThe physical

real.

tween reality and shadow.

plane,

or plane of the senses, is a shadow, a faint imitation of the spiritual

and the only

work
ate

show forth higher laws, to breathe entirely from the plane of spirit,
is to

Your live and

to cre-

anew from the very centre of all life, to make one the kingdom of earth and the kingdom of heaven. You are not to think of yourself and the universe now visible to you as real. It is
this that constitutes the difference

between

us.

A VOICE FEOM THE HEIGHTS

We
of

have entered into a larger consciousness of

think

God, whereas you are content with the shadows

things.

Just

how

all

your

finest

thought seems to vanish with the passing of

great minds from your midst, yet this
case, as
is

not the
to the

you

will discover
life

when you awake

knowledge of a

that ever progresses from

the unreal to the true.

When
human

this consciousness
race,

permeates the w^hole

lifted to

you
is

will be

a higher plane, for growth

simply a

larger consciousness.

Heaven
God.
ity,

is

not a place, but a consciousness of

of as a personal-

God cannot be thought since God is all and in all.

meek and

The Absolute
finite

is

above and beyond the conception of

yet infinitely

mind,

lowly, filling all space.

As you emerge
true
life

into this all-pervading love, the

is

becomes manifest and

always the an-

swer to the deepest and highest aspirations of the

soul.

It is love fulfilling itself.

Thank God

for

NOW.
been,

Learn

first

and thoroughly that you have

and
the

will be, for ever.

Your present
life

condi-

tion is an opportunity for spiritual advancement.

Make

most and the best of your

now.

SECOND LESSON
FREEDOM BY UNDERSTANDING
is

ITgreat and unlimited whole.

derstand this once.

wonderful to realize that we are one

I could
^

not untell

Your

Scriptures

you that

all

things are open to the eyes of God.

How

slowly

we

learn that

God and man

You

are one.
free

Do away
witli

with your limitations.

Stand out

in the strong life of God.

are like children

your walls and partitions, your churches

chapels.

and

We,

too,

wonder why we
is all life,

w^ere so

long learning the things that have since become

quite clear to us.
seen.

God

seen and un-

Millions on the material plane are in

all

bondage, yet

the time the doors stand open.

You
ns.

will long to tell

them

this

when you come

to

to

We

are permitted to

come
say,

you at some
it.

cost,

only do believe what

we

and act upon

your real
;

We
1 Jer.

want
xvL

to help
19
;

you
Prov.

to live
v. 21,

life.
13.

17, xxxii.

xv. 3

Heb.

iv.

FREEDOM BY UNDERSTANDING
Begin by obedience to the dictates of the
within yourself;
it
\\dll

spirit

lead you into truth.

is

This

is

not easy, as

man

always hedged about

by a
this

false personality,

a Satan of the senses

shadowy nothing must be cast behind

it is

us,

for
ity.

of the senses

and would deceive humanlike

It is

sometimes

an angel

of light, so

much does

falsity imitate reality;

you can

al-

ways distinguish it from the spirit, however, if you remember what I say. The ^ voice of Christ
is fearless, all

powerful, the voice of a conqueror;

the voice of the

shadow

of good suggests limitafast to the All-good,

tion, sickness, death.

Hold

the only real.

We worship God through Jesus Christ.

is

There
ex-

no other
the best

way,-^

and there never has been,

title for

cept in name.
it is

One

God

is

Father, and

we know, but it becomes much more comprehensive as we grow in the knowledge of

God.

You ^ have
live
;

the power of a great victory

within you, and

God

is

continually speaking.
being.

In
2
3

Him we
Johu

and move and have our

i.

.TohH xvi. 33
xiv. 6.

Rev.

18.

Luke

x. 19.

CHKTST IN YOU
Many who
are working
:

among

the downtrodthis? "

den and degraded ask

"

How is

"

And

why?"

We

would

tell

them that every created

being must work up and through every necessary

phase, evolving from the lowest point of created
life.

Yet we know neither the day nor the hour

the

when

Son

of

Man cometh.

Often in the deep-

est darkness of experience, illumination arises,

changing the w^hole aspect and environment.

The soul
this

at once recognizes that only through

period of apparent
it evolve.

degradation

and

ig-

norance can

Make
you

the most and the

best of every experience,

will

thank God for

them

all.

Do

not weep with those

who weep,

but help them by a mighty love, pure as a

mother's, for in the love of a mother is the unselfishness of

God.

Learn to become unselfed.

You

are not an atom, you are the whole.

life lifts

Every true unselfish

Godhead.
teaching

the race nearer the

We
all

are finding channels everywhere,

over

the earth

by secret ways.
;

Above
6

'

all things,

walk by the spint of God as

Gal. V. 16.

FREEDOM BY UXDERSTANDING
you do
this

more and more you

in
full of love to

will

become con-

scious of

harmony

your surroundings.

Keep
men,

your hearts

God and
If

to all

and we
simply
in

will

teach you much.

you do not unwill teach very

derstand what
;

we

say, wait;

we

but

we beg you

to realize

our teachings

your

lives.

THIKD LESSON
CHRIST THE LIFE

THE
beginnings.

voice of spirit is far-reaching.

It is
is

the expression of omnipresence, and

far.

both near and

It

knows nothing
deal with
to help
It is

of space, but for the present

we must

Perhaps

it

would be as well

you at your present stage of unfoldment.

of quiet/ that

absolutely necessary that you should have times

you should come out from the

a part of each day.
If

business of

life for

you

w^ere to wait in silence, holding the attitude of

growth and steady development, thinking above

all else of

the

kingdom

of

God

your condition the

result

should not be one of strain or of blank nothingness,

avoid both

these

extremes

would be
all

of the highest value to yourself

and to

around you.
in your heart, the true place of under;

Hold
1

Matt. xiv. 23

Mark

1.

35, vi. 31, 46.

10

CHRIST THE LIFE

standing, a stillness which
of the rose.
is alive, like

11
the heart

The God powers within you would

would become
All smallness and

assert themselves; crooked things

straight,

rough places plain.

discord quietly but surely would drop

away and
stagnation

have no longer any power.

is

To

spirit,

impossible.

The

creative energy is constant

is

activity within.

All outside energy

quietly
^

waste and

hindrance.

As you
life

wait upon God, the

breath of

renews each particle of the body

by

its silent,

orderly activity.
tell

We
but

are not able to

you

of future events,

we can

indicate their trend, for each indi-

vidual makes the future by the thoughts and acts

of the present.
past.

You You may be

are today the result of your

hopeful,
as

your present

thought will be fully realized in the future day.

Hold the

positive attitude in all that

you under-

take for spiritual development, knowing that

God never
plane,

fails.

This holds you above the sense

spiritual, substantial,

and you immediately function from the and only real. All must

be finished before the Christhood of the race

2

Job xxxiii.

4.

12
is

CHRIST IN YOU
complete

complete,
work

unselfish,
all

impersonal.
^nter into

Loving God and loving man,

unity.

may
It is

The evolution of

spirit

through the ma-

terial is the

of creation.

God

that

worketh in you now.

Live in

Rejoice that you have this

knowledge, and give the utmost for the highest.

spirit,

breathe and walk in the innermost

heart of yourself.
I

want you

to give

some part

of the

day to

this

silent growth, thus bringing poise

and balance
First,

into your whole being.

I repeat this, as it is so

necessary, so pregnant with results.

will be conscious of

you
bet-

good sound judgment, a

ter understanding of
insight.

your neighbour, and clear

Afterwards, the result in your body

^

will be realized, for in the silence the

flesh

heart of

will

have become one with the heart of

cir-

spirit;

and thus you bring about perfect

culation of the blood.

is

You can understand how highly important this when I tell you that the brain is fed by the
element has become ruler over the
spirit of the living
;

spirit; a finer

grosser,

and the

God

breathes

Pg. xvi. 9,

margin of R.V.

Ps. Ixxiii.

2(>.

CHRIST THE LIFE

througli the outer body of flesh.
this clear in order to
quiet.

13

am making

emphasize the necessity for

Later, you will not need this, as you will

at all times

command

and in

all places,

heeding

neither environment nor discord.

Do
ment.

not seek love

give
of

it.

This

is

nourishis

Will you give ear to this?

Take what

your right from your Father.

He who
lives is

brought
speaking

you
in

to this very

moment

your

your hearts.

Awake,^

thou that sleepest.

Christ shall give thee light.

4Eph.
V. 14.

FOURTH LESSON
PRAYEE

PRAYER
of
life.

is to

us the breathing of the breath

It is the strongest spiritual ele-

ment

in all worlds.

I think

we may now
see

discuss the subject of prayer

as

you have
ig-

used this powerful weapon to some extent

norantly.
will

You

say to some one in trouble

" I

pray for you," or you wish to help some one,

say, in Australia.

You know your wish

is

one

with God's

will,

and you desire to bless with your

do you send forth this
is

whole being
God-energy?

but how

The prayer

often sent with the

false idea of great separation, to a

It is never lost,

God

afar

off.

but prayer of this kind enters

into the vibrations

most in accord with

is

itself.

Although something

done in this way, the

is

person you wanted to help

great extent.

not helped to any

to

Remember, Jesus spoke

14

the

maid

alone,

when He entered

the room, saying,

PRAYER
"Talitha cumi/' and you too must be
clear, positive.

15
definite,

Enter

into your closet, the in-

nermost of yourself, and there see the perfect

will of
is

for your friend this and never see or hear anything simple faith

God accomplished

else.

Restfully,^

and without

strain, see victory

in the

name

of Christ Jesus.

Now

I will tell

you what takes place when you

In the

speak from the God-centre of your being.

strength of your calm assurance, false vibrations

are withered entirely.

There

is

neither dark-

ness.nor depth where

God

is not,

and you bring

the troubled spirit into touch with

We
as

have seen this

many

times.

timate the value of true prayer.

if

you were

like children set

God instantly. You cannot esTo us it seems down in a great

of the

power house, not knowing the importance

for knowledge, yet ofttimes blind
I use

switches and electric forces around you, waiting

and

deaf.
xinder-

your language so that you

may

stand, but
ties.

words

fail to

express spiritual realiis

3

Your
vi. 6.

faith in

God

your

life

and power.

Matt.

Ex. xx. 21.

Mark.

xi. 24.

16

CHRIST IN YOU

With^ true prayer you shall ask what j'ou will, and remember, uotliiug ^ is yours unless you take and possess. We have never known true prayer
to fail.

Do

not cast your care upon an outside

for results.

God and wait

the answer
is

God

being within you,

not distant from the desire.

The

spirit within is

one with

God and
I

Christ;

how

then can

God

be afar off?

have given you this

special need, but I
^^

advice for those

who have

Thy Kingdom come" in every heart and life. For he who knows God in his own heart and in farthest space
would have you pray always:
is at

one with

all nations,

north, south, east,

and
all.

west.

In your love and prayer include them

all,

Live in the thought of love tow^ard

life will

and your

become one unceasing prayer, a conto give

stant going forth of God.

We
may

would help

you

poise, that

yon
life,

live

always and only in the central

dw^elling on the plane of spirit,

the only reality.

illusion

Have done with shadow and

4
8
;
;

enter
;

Matt. xxi. 22 John xvi. 24 Josh. xvi. 4, xvm. 3 1 Kings xxli. 3 Obad. 17. Luke xvlii. 1, xxi. 36 ; Rom. xit 12 ; Eph. vL 18
;

1 Thesa.

T. 17.

PRAYER
into
rest.

17
limitations.

Cease from
first

time

Re-

member our
you always

lesson You

always

are,

and
now.

will be.

Try

to realize this

Rest from your anxieties and live in the eternal.

The blessing
ever.

of

God

is

with you always and for

FIFTH LESSON
THE TRUTH OF BEING

THERE You
^

is

nothing in

life

you need

fear.

will

become sure that you are safe

This

at all

times and in every place.

realization will reveal to

you how much you

Nothing

have understood of the truth of being.

can affect your real individuality.

We

want

these lessons to help you to enter into your

own

now.^

It is

wrong

to hope and expect grace

only at some future time.

Realize that spirit is omnipotent, omnipresent,
omniscient.
state here
est.

What
spirit

is

there to wait for?

less

Let

me

cannot be

than the great-

You have been trying to make statements

Let
all

from without.
Let
it.
1

your affirmations come

voice.

from within, suggested only by the inward

^

every other sound and sense be silent before

^

Let
Ps.

this spiritual highest

3

you take
7,

posses-

xct
vi. 2.

Ps. xxxvii.

margin of R.V.

2 Cor.

Rom.

vUi. 11,

18

THE TRUTH OF BEING

sion of your mortal body.

19

The only things that

within.

have ever really helped you to a higher knowledge of

God have come from

faithful to the

You must
this

be true and

Word

that speaks.

Thoughts are the outbreathings of

the
first

Word,

cause of

all.

We

can only help you to

all

help yourself.

Eemember

through these

lesit

sons that nothing helps from w^ithout unless

receives recognition
is

from within.

The

spirit

always revealing Christ, the whole and com^

plete Saviour in you, the

hope of glory or

glori-

ousness.

Your ^
all truth.

entire will, thought,

and brain

are led by this holy, invisible guide into knowl-

edge of

The moments
all

of healing

and

growth have been when

the senses were hushed
personalities

the unquiet voices of

silenced,

and

had ceased
to be
still.

to touch you,

when all when you

had learned

His Holy Temple.

Oh

Then^ God spoke in that you would rest from

!

your false thinking and Be

Your present phase

6

is

a training ground, and

i.

Jolin XV. 26, xvi. 13-15

Gal.

12.

Col. 7 1

27 Gal. iv. 19. Thess. V. 23, 24.

i.
;

Hab.

ii.

20.

20

CHRIST IN YOU
here

jou can do there what would be out of place and

difficult

just

as you would find

it

diffi-

cult to learn the lessons of childhood

when you

are adult.

Many

loved ones

who dwelt with you

Listen to Christ

in the flesh have entered into the larger sphere

to

watch and pray with you.

Jesus the divine Man, and you will understand

that His words are for you and have
ings.

new meanthat you

That

you may have

life in all its fulness,

that your bodies

may be perfectly whole,

harm and
be conquered, even
^"

may
self,

be safe from

accident, that the

worst enemy

may

death

it-

before you reach the thin veil which divides

us: all this

for all the

and more
^^

will be revealed to you,%

works

of

God

are " very good."

Tonight when you

rest,

do not allow the senses

to suggest weakness or weariness; instead, allow

your spiritual atmosphere within and without to

enfold and invigorate you, until you are conscious of spiritual conquest before you sleep.

Your whole body

will be

renewed by this holy

baptism, and your awakening in the morning

John

X. 10.

11

Gen. I 31.

10

1 Cor. XV. 25, 26.

THE TRUTH OF BEING

will be a
is

21

triumph and a

joy.

The

effect of this

a sweet cleansing of mind and body.

is

So

^^

much
ness.

done during the hours of sleep and dark-

We
^^

pray

that

you

may
still

truly

say:

"

Awake

or asleep, I

am

with Thee.''

Cease from worry.

12 Ps. cxxvii. 2,
i Ps.

margin of

li.V.

Ps. xyi.

7.

cxxxix. 18.

SIXTH LESSON
GOD ALL IN ALL

ALREADY you are entering into a wider

understanding.

There are many who

have gone on, yet in ignorance of much

with which you are familiar.
clearly stated the first fact

So far we have
In-

Who are we?

The

destructible spiritual beings.

living knowlto-

edge of this alters your whole mental attitude

wards

sin,

sickness,

and death.
I?

Now we

ap-

proach with reverence and humility our next

consideration

Why am
answer
are,
is

The
tence:
still

Avhole

contained in one sen-

You

because

God

is;

but as

man

is

blinded by false sense, I will endeavour to

speak from your

own

standpoint.

In the place

where you
your work.

are, there is

a work of the highest

importance to be done, and no one else can do

God has brought you

22

to this time

and place

in order to carry out perfect laws.

GOD ALL IN ALL

You may never
work
be

23

known

to the world, but

your

shall stand for ever.

By your own

indwell-

ing spiritual forces you will spiritualize and

make real the plane of shadow and confusion. Working from the same spiritual standpoint,
there will be no separation between us and you.

In

reality,

there
is

is

no

division.

Your world

sense of fear

the only barrier between us.

This

is

falsity,

and belongs to ignorance and

ehaos.

You

are just where you are for the do-

ing of God's perfect work.

receptivity of heart

Hold an

attitude of

and mind.
It is spoiled to

All the good around you exists for ever, and

can neve^* change or be

lost.

you, because your eyes have opened to good and

bad.

The good

is

the only real.

The

kingdom
the

of heaven is like unto leaven,

working from the

very heart of

God

the Creator.

Your work

angels might envy, for in so far as you are true

to

your unlimited and spiritual nature, you are

We earnestly watch and pray for the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth.
creative.

It will be the
iMatt.
xiii. 33.

awakening from shadow to sub-

24
stance,
to

CHRIST IN YOU
from confusion to order, from weakness

power

but, above
life.

all else, to

the w^holeness
is

or unity of
highest,

Eealize that your work

the

work that you have undertaken to do from the beginning. I would here recommend
that you begin with your immediate circle, as the

very next step must be the right one.

See and

know only
Your

the good in those nearest to you.

Self.

Speak to them, recognizing the highest

trust shall beget in
life

them new hope.

In

every detail of your

know only

the good,

which in very truth

cast

is

the only real.

Do

not be

down by appearances, but rather maintain an attitude of steadfast hope towards all who
seem at a low stage of development, seeing
al-

w^ays the goal to which they also shall attain;

as for yourself,
for good.

work with everything that makes Your reason for being on the earth
There are

now

is

to help on this very work.

helpers all around you.

God

is

love incarnate.

Peace
I

is in

your hearts and lives now.

things new.

Behold,

make

all

SEVENTH LESSON
GET UNDERSTANDING

T^HE
ness.

more we know
infinite

of

God, the greater

becomes our reverence and humility.

The

and eternal Wisdom has

such exquisite order for every created being; the

very stones and rocks are marvels of His good-

Even the dewdrop obeys a law and fulfils the eternal purpose. As you evolve,^ you discern
these higher laws

and become in harmony with

and perfect laws of
see the great

them.

It is

one of our most interesting studies

to discover the wonderful

living on each plane.
If

you could

interior worlds,
fellow-beings.

you would almost worship your

God has endowed you richly. You have made mistakes, because you have not known yourselves. The mighty eternal love is
seeking expression everywhere.

You
irroT.

ask
i.

"
ii.

What
1-11,
viii.

is

the most

practical
xxvUi.
5.

2, 3,

14, ix. 10, xvi. 22,

25

26

CHEIST IN YOU
of healing the

method
at

body?

"

Our great teacher

unfoldment.

Jesus Christ always met the need of the people

their

exact

degree

of

Thus,

some would need the

the spoken^

clay,^ or bathing; others

word

only.

Jesus never failed to

help in whatsoever condition or circumstance;

that they came to

Him was

enough.
fail
:

This

is

where so many of your healers

either be-

cause they offer something beyond their power to

realize,

or because they employ methods that

life.

have become as words devoid of

The

'^

great

Healer, by reason of the greatness of His love,

could meet every need, and only as you love can

you
sees,

really help.

Love

perceives as never

man

suggesting with infinite variety the exact

method.

We

are anxious that you should not

spoil the great

and beautiful work by following

instinct,

any known method, but always by following your

own

loving

spiritual

taking

"

no

thought what ye shall say.

2
3

It^ shall be given

John
Matt.

ix, 7.
viii. 8, ix, viii.

20-22.

4
6

Matt.

16

Luke

iv.

18, 19.

John
Matt.

xiii. 34.

X. 19.

GET UNDERSTANDING
you in that hour."
soul,
sible to you.

27

Love

with

all

your heart,
is

mind, and strength, and nothing

impos-

Jesus never failed to understand

spiritual

and recognize the perfect

body in

all

men. Your body is perfect in spirit (substance), and every part of the material body
should act in obedience to the spiritual, the
only
real.

When
order,
it

the senses would indicate pain and disspiritual body,

remember your

and

call

into manifestation
^

by the word

of power.

The

body should manifest wholeness, or you are

surely

making God seem a

failure.

Later on,
of

when your body functions only from the plane

spirit, its

uses will be finer, its obedience immepositive spiritual

diate.

The

man

will

assert

himself, refusing to recognize the suggestion of

the sense man,

and

will

become

ruler.

Christ

shall reign in you,

and

^^

Satan will be under

His

feet.

Fill the house every

day with strong,

positive health vibrations, lifting the very at7

i Cor. xiii.

Luke i. 37 R.V., iv. 32 A.V. 9 Rom. viii. 11, 19 R.V. Eph. 10 Rom. xvi. 20,
8
;

i.

19, 20,

23 R.V.

28

CHRIST IN YOU
Gix)wth into
is so

mosphere into purity and truth.

good
simple, so natural, for

God

^^

is

work-

ing in your midst and cannot

11 Ps. Ixxiv. 12.

fail.

EIGHTH LESSON
FEOM GLOEY TO GLORY

WE
'^

are taking the

first

cause and tracing

its

relationship to our present under-

standing.
I

You have

learned to say,
It

am

spirit/' " I

am

to create."

would be
im-

as well to understand at what period of creation

the race

now

stands, as this will

us.

make our
is

mediate work clear to

in its

The race
the I am,

at present

childhood, just emerging into knowledge

of the great
little

and only

life,

knowing very

of its true

meaning and jmrpose.

You

understand that in these lessons we cannot express spiritual verities in words,

we can only
you

attempt to suggest the transcendental reality be-

hind the shadow.

The
it

finest earth-music

have ever heard can only suggest real music to

you; the highest that
does
is to

lead you to

the heart of the composer, where you catch some-

thing of the perfect idea.

29

30
1

CHEIST IN YOU
have used this very crude illustration to
ever beyond our highest ideal.

teach you something of the meaning of God.

He

is

Here,
of de-

then, is our call to growth.

Every stage

velopment reveals more of God, and every generation of

men

finds

Him

greater than the

last.

Today the conception is higher than it has ever been, and yet you see and know only ^ as men dimly groping in darkness and mist. God ever
becomes more lovely as vision clears every height
;

we climb
greatness

reveals fresh glory,

and

calls us to

follow on with unabated eagerness.

is

And

yet His

greatest

when

it is

in accord with the

lowliest atom,

when
The

the Father-Mother

God

lifts

the meanest thing to a place of safety in the very

heart of love.

realization of this
^

fills

us with

worship and adoration, for great

above
all gods.

is

our God

Jesus Christ revealed

need.
night,

God according
cry,

to

your

The world,

like children crying in the

and with no language but a

was

an-

swered by the Father; by this name you know

1

1 Cor. xiii. 12.

jfc>s.

xcv. 3.

CJor. iii. 18.

FROM GLORY TO GLORY

and love
;

31

Him by this name we understand much

;

more than you do but God

is

always willing to
Present un-

help you according to your need.

derstanding reveals something of the law of endless progression,

of the fulness of

life,

of its

deeper, richer meanings.

Jesus* revealed the

Christ of God, the hidden spring, abundant,

overflowing, perpetual, never ceasing, that you

might have it^ in

flesh also

all

its

fulness, that^

your

might rest in hope.

There

is

no mysfill

tery in this.

Full, rich, glorious life should

'^

every vein for Christ

is

your

life.

Jesus did

not draw

down

life

from an outside God.

He
life

knew Himself
I

to be the eternal Christ of God.

think you will see more meaning in the

of Jesus as
self.

you

live

from the innermost of yourson, will one

^

Humanity, God's eternal

" It
^

day

say

is finished,"
is

and

" they

shall all be

one.''

God

everywhere

fulfilling

Himself;

not^^ even a sparrow shall fall on the ground

without your Father.

*
5

As Jesus

the Christ
7

was

Jotin

i.

18.

Col.

iii.

4.

John

xvii. 13,
9.

20th Century N.T.

Ps. xvi.

John xiv. 30. John xvU. 21.

32

CHRIST IN YOU
we
here, as there, ourselves, for
die.

unchanged by the experience called death, even

so are

we have

always been and cannot

10

Matt. X. 2y,

NINTH LESSON
./

PERSONALITY

TKANSITION
but
rather

from the personal to the

universal does not

mean

loss of identity,

greater

individuality.
is full of limi-

Personality as understood by
tations.
If
^

man

the disciples were to keep Jesus of

Nazareth, they would lose the Christ of God.

Jesus

knew

this

and put the temptation

of

Peter far from Him, as

He knew His
I
^
^

personalto re-

ity w^as not their greatest good.

come

veal the Father,

and

will

come and abide

with you for ever: these wonderful words were

full of

meaning and today come with greater

Only as
^

power.

Jesus withdrew Himself from

their midst, could

He come

again to

all

men

in

His omnipotence.
I
1 2

have show^n you in our previous lessons that

xvi. 5-7.
4
5

John

Matt. xvi. 21-23.

John John

xiv. 16.
xvi. 7.

John

xiv. 7-11.

33

34
spirit is

CHRIST IN YOU
our
first

and

real foundation.

It has
it

many
is

channels and modes of expression, but

the one

and only

life.

Man on

the plane of

sense has tried to explain with finite

infinite

mind the
as person.
tried to

wisdom

of God.

Man

has limited the

holy one, has dared to speak of

God

Man, who does not know himself, has

explain the whole of God.

In

all these

things

you must
spirit,

live, think,

and speak only from the

all things.

for^ the spirit searcheth

As

you sink deep within yourself, a great meekness

fills all

your thoughts.
is

You

learn of

Him who
of

was and

greatest in His meekness

and highest

in His lowliness.

The true understanding

Y'our

personality becomes clearer to you as you realize

your relationship to the whole.

clears,

vision

you become

filled

with holy reverence and

is

mighty hope.

Personality

greater than you

know, for the weakest person has the whole universe to

I say

draw upon
you

is

entirely unlimited.

exist because

God

is,

and

all

'^

He
of

has

is yours.

People seem

to fail for
is this:

want

vitality.
e 1 Cot,
ii.

The explanation
10.
7

each of you

Luke

xv. 31.

PERSONALITY
is

35

a trinity, living on three planes

the planes
all

of spirit, soul,

and body.

In most cases there

has been an unequal existence on one or more of

these planes.
spiritual
first,

You should draw

thus feeding the
in
^

from the

soul covering,

and manifestation
work.

the

body must follow.

Only on earth can man do

festation is creative,

this great

and perfect
is

Every spiritual truth brought into mani-

and

all

your future

made

by your conquests now.

You must

consecrate

your whole being afresh to God, that

He ^ may

work His perfect

ditions into your

will,
life.

bringing harmonious con-

Dan.

vii. 15,

margin.

Pbil.

ii.

13.

TENTH LESSON
THE BOOK

AT
selves.

this point

we

will consider together

the value of your Scriptures, the collection of books called by

you " The Bible."

them-

Books, words,

letters, are all valueless in

What ^ you

call inspiration is the true

secret of their value.

its subtle vitality,

The

spirit

by

its

potency,

can take any word from any

it

language, on the plane of sense, and use

to

convey meanings, to suggest thought, and often

to pierce through a wall of sense impossible to

the word of

itself.

Thus the w^ord

is

only the

vehicle or outer shell, hiding either the pearl of

great price or a two-edged sword.

of

The

Word

God

is

quick and powerful;

it is

also sweeter*

than the honeycomb.

Inspiration, then, is the one spirit using for
its
1 2

channels

many books and many methods;

it

2 Tim. iii. 16. Heb. iv. 12.

Fa. xix. 10, cxix. 103.

36

THE BOOK
is

87

eyer seeking aTenues to pour out the abundant

wealth and wisdom of God.

sible to all

Inspiration

is pos-

men.

That you can from the spiritual

l)lane use sense, or

empty words,

so that they be-

come

vehicles of spiritual power, is a great

and

glorious truth.

This, too, is genius, for

God has

spoken, and the ordinary language of time and

sense
is

made
it

eternal and spiritual.

^^

In just this way, Jesus took the word

bread,"

and gave
:

a holy and spiritual meaning.

^'

When
mean-

Give ^ we pray we are using words

ing

us this day our daily bread,"

of great

and

significant

seeking

the nourishment that shall sus-

we are to bring reality and truth where nothingness and limitation have made chaos and darkness. Then we see the necessity for light God's first spoken word at the Creation ligiit.^
tain us in very deed.

In all things

Written words are not the only means of communication, for the
si)irit

comes into our outer

man
4
i

with great illumination, and to explain this

I

you have no words.

Matt.
vi.
i.

pray that this

may

be

11;

John

vi.

32-51.

Gen.

3.

38

CHKIST IN YOU
all its fulness.

your experience in

It is the first

and highest expression of God.

soul

The illumined

moveL through

all life,

radiating light, the

unconscious manifestation of divinity, a deep,

inward peace, a
all things,

real

knowledge of men and of

hid, for it is

a light

which cannot be

conveyed in every gesture, in every spoken word.

Thus we understand an inspired or illumined

soul.

The

real value, then, of the Bible is in

the spiritual or inspired w^riter,

who has opened

your understanding to the things of God.

Added

to this is another

mighty factor

the
it al-

place you have given the Bible.

It holds the

highest place amongst all your books, and

ways

wall.

Millions of people have lifted

it.

it

by

their belief in

In this we recognize the workto you.

I can best explain

ing of a law
it

unknown

as the law of transmutation.

is

The working
everything into

out

as follows

You can
it

lift

the highest place, until

becomes transmuted

and

purified,

changing into very gold the basest

This
is

metal of earth.

the philosopher's stone,

the transmutation into heavenly values by our

faith in absolute truth.

THE BOOK
I

39

am

putting this key into your hands, that

ex-

you too may begin even now to turn every

perience into an opportunity to
highest until
it

lift it

into the

becomes
fire

purified,

transmuted;

pure
this,

gold tried in the

it

of

God; and not only

filled

but

returns to you a thousandfold,

all time.

with richest meanings for

This

is

what
it

has taken place with your Bible.

given
will
it

You have
is

this place,

and your reward

that

always reveal the highest things to you

be-

cause of this very law.

Take the Holy Book and

read

it

much

seek

the spirit, not the letter, in

this as in all other things.

We
things,

are very

much

in

earnest about these

this beneficent

and

if

you remember that

law

is

always operating you will understand the

effect in

your

lives.

You have

the power to bring

any one

whom you

wish to help, into this place

life,

of blessing.

Every act of your

highest.

every ex-

pression of your thoughts, should be lifted to-

wards the very

There will come to you

a realization of a place of sinlessness within

yourselves, a place of purity
6

and perfection that

63
;

Rev.

iii.

18.

John

vi.

2 Cor.

iii.

6.

40

CHRIST IN YOU
soil,

nothing can touch or

for

you have begun to

is

Be^ even as your Father

who
to

in Heaven.
I

The Bible has become

would
also have you

you the Book, but

that

know

God has

inspired

men and women with power

time, even greater things,

to reveal, in our

own

and ever fresh unfold-

ings from the heart of

life.

Above

all

things,

we want you
wonders
tion,
^

to have the open vision^ today,

for greater things are coming,

and God

is

doing
revela-

among you.
^^

Rejoice in the
hope.

new

abounding in

The new
and fear

will reveal

the old to you afresh.

Have no

doubts.

Launch

out

^^

into the deeps of God,

is
1
;

not.

Eternity
8 1

now.
Prov. xxix. 18.
lo

Sam.

iii.

Josh.

iii. 5.

ii

Rom. Luke

xv. 13.
v. 4.

ELEVENTH LESSON
SIN,

SEPARATENESS

TRUTH
had
action.
possible.

is

the eternal
is

Word.

There

nothing new, for truth has

no

beginning.

As

you

unfold

you have clearer vision and wider spheres of

You cannot

see

new

truth, that is im-

Whenever you enter

into the plane

of spirit, prepare yourself

by prayer and the

This

consecration of your whole being to God.

is

the only safeguard against false teachers.

there is a threefold cord
it
^

When

is

not easily

broken.

Three souls in perfect unity can do

great things for the cause of

God and

of all men.

Let the spirit within you be your only guide.

It is for this

reason only that

may know
world
1

yourselves.

as they enable you to

is

we come, that you Our words can only help do this. Our love for your

very great.

Do
41

not lean on any out-

Eccles. Iv. 12.

42
side help,

CHEIST IN YOU
however high, however good.
it is

You

have alieady learned that

the

impossible for

mind

of

man

to affect Spirit in

any way.
greater

The work

to be

done in you

is of far

importance than learning from any teacher.

Jesus could not do His works of healing while

was thinking. There must be silence when God speaks. The Christ within you is the same yesterday,^ today, and for ever. Wait
the mind
2

in silence

and repose, that Christ may speak,

Let this mind^ be in

may

write upon yourselves His thoughts. His

purposes. His designs.

you until not

only reality.

I,

but

the Christ of

God

is

your

You have known

this for

many

years, but let the old

Word

speak again, until

life,

you

feel

the thrill, the newness of

the up-

springing^ of the eternal Son of God.

That
^Gen.
Ezek.
a *

lii.

sin
xviii.

may be
1,

forgiven, there is needed a

margin of K.V.

xxiv. 63; Pa. xxxvii, 7,

i.

22

Gal.

11-17.

Heb. xiU. 8. PMl. ii. 5.

Gal.
li.

20.

John

iv. 14, vii. 38.

Syriac

V., "

He

that believeth into

Me, out of his innermost being shall flow torrents of living

wat^r^."

SIN,

SEPAKATENESS
^

43

cleansing, a putting
tender,

oft:

the old, so that the

new

realization of Christ

may

not be imevil
is

peded by the opposite of good.

Sin and
are.

must not be confused as they often

of the senses,

Sin

that great falsity connected with our outer self

it

belongs to separateness and

to set

chaos.

It

would dare

up

its

king and

make its kingdom in our midst; but the Christ, now consciously real to us, as an inward fact, is greater than we know, and shall put all things
under
ing,
^

Ilis feet.
^

His very
filling

life in

us

is re-creat-

making

new, or

with Himself, bring-

ing the soul into unity with

God

thus, as of old,
^^

driving out of His Father's temple

the thieves

and robbers by His own right

of possession.
^^

There goes out from us a cry of need, a

great

want, a reaching out to the author of our being.

The

infinite love is all-sufficient,

and from that

blotted out;
sin

heart of love comes the healing of forgiveness,

such greatness of love, that

since

^^ all is

One dwells within who has conquered

iii.

and death.
7

Col.

9.

10

John

ii.

15.

8 1

Cor. XV. 25.

xii. 2.

11 Ps. xUi. 1, 2.

Rom.

12 Ps. U. 1

Col. U. 14.

44

CHRIST IN YOU
is

Learn that sin forgiven

but
^^

the end of that sin,

not the end of

its
^*

results

the
^^

root is

killed

and the river

of

life

flows on.

The

suf-

fering and results caused by sin can

into good.

be turned

We

on this side see something of

life.

the compensations of
perfect,^^

The wavs
is

of

God

are

and the soul that

conscious of the

living Christ, lifted into unity with the Father,

becomes one with the w^ork of redemption,

the whole race.

lifting

Love

is

pressing through the very atmosphere

round about us and you.

ness and
bidding.
^"^

Love requires
to obey even
is
^^

readi-

obedience,

and we are called

That cross
men.

to do its

Are you willing

sacrifice for all

unto

the death of the cross?

of

the place

your

All must go to

Calvary, there to become one with the Father.

Greater love

^^

hath no

man than
all

this.

Love

is

the atmosphere wherein

that is highest is

nourished and
life,

fed.

Love dwells in every human

it

however degraded
vi. 7.
1, 2.

may seem
i7lsa.
is Phil.
i
1.

to you.

Love

iGal.
a*
IS

19.
7, 8.

Rev. xxU. Gen. 1. 20.

ii.

John

xv. 13.

2 Sam,

xxli. 31.

SIN,
much, and
you, for
cease
^^

SEPAEATENESS
and

45

Christ shall do His

loves your world,
it

work through
will never
^^

He

until

has become the kingdom

of

heaven.
30 1

John

It.

16-19.

ai

Matt

vi.

la

TWELFTH LESSON
"

HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER "

is
is

HEAVEN
go, it
^

not a place to which you

just

where you

enter heaven now.

women from
ery,

time to time

You can men and Good have made this discovare.

well.''

and henceforth " All

^ is

They have They

ceased to hurry, for the journey is over.

are no longer pilgrims and strangers, but chil-

dren in the Father's home.

The
is,

first

thing

we
and
al-

understand when we awake

not been any journey,

that there has

or passing

over

through vast spaces.

We

are just where

^

we

ways have been at home, alive for

There
is

evermore.
love, or
is

no separation from any one we

is

from any good that

to

ours.

To enter heaven

become

lifted into a larger consciousness of

iLuke
2

xvii. 2.

2 Kings iv. 26; Hab. Rev. i. 18.

xvii. 17-19.

46

"

HE THAT HATH SEEN ME "

whom we
love.

47

God, and in this consciousness we possess mucli

more
There

really all those

We

are

nearer to you,
is

and we often talk

and space
I
is

together.

no parting, but only greater unity.

can only remember

No
when

belief in distance

possible on the
it

spiritual plane.

I wish to understand your conditions.

In the

clearer light
of limitation.

we can no longer hold

All
is

the false idea

ours and

all is yours.

To

become spiritually-minded
suggestion of
good.

is life
^

and peace.

No

the carnal mind

can ever produce

Thank God

for the secret stir of life on your

earth, like the sap in the tree, sending forth life

exultant into every part.

is

glorious liberty^
be-

opening up before you.

^

The captives are

ing set

free, old

bonds are bursting, fetters of

ancient creeds are being snapped asunder.

not dismayed, the battle is^ God's.

Be Do not hug

your chains;

let go.

Yield to the highest within

you, and so become one with the great good,

pouring forth healing and blessing through every

4
5

Rom.
Gal.

viii. 6. V.

19-21.

8 1

Luke iv. 18. Sam. xvii

47-

Rom.

vUi. 21.


48

CHRIST IN YOU
Tlie

waiting channel.

whole race
This work

is

being lilted

on to a higher plane. your very midst.

is

going on in

We

are full of thanksgiving

at the thought that you

of the children of God.

may know

the freedom

Conscious union with

spirit, soul,

God
body.

is

your whole salvation;

and
with

The knowledge
is

of God's oneness

man, with yourself,

the

the open door to freedom.

is

Jesus came to show you the way, for Christ

Way.
you have not understood me about mind
This
is

I see

and thinking.

a very wide subject.

can give you only the main points.

mentality, that delicate
truth,

The sense

medium

for spiritual

has shared in falsity

it

separateness
Crammed by
false

when

should have been the perfect channel

for the one

and only mind.

it

thinking from the outer,

should have remained

real, fed
^

open to the divine inner and the only

from the highest source, the

blood, which is Christ.

real bread

and

true

It is the

power to bring
Every

into subjection

^^

all sense perceptions, all false

minds, alive in every part of the body.

John

vl. 53.

10

2 Cor.

x.

"

HE THAT HATH SEEN ME

'^

49
lest

atom

of

your body should be under control,

the hand/^ foot, or brain should gain supremacy,

rule you,

and bring about confusion.

of separateness in every sense is

The sense
of
^^

your great enemy.

We

beg you to
It
is

let the

mind

the Christ control.

is unity.

wisdom. It

is love,

and It

Let this mind hold you, control

flesh

you sweeping through the outer body of

rekindle and glow.

as its lord and king; so that each breath shall

Ay, even the very dry

^*

bones shall reunite and breathe.

die to sin

So

shall

you
live

and the sense of separateness, but

unto

^^

Christ.

You

will read

and understand

in your hearts.
11 1

Cor. xu.
il.

13

Ezek. xxxvii.

12 Phil.

5.

1*

Rom.

vli. 11.

THIRTEENTH LESSON
CHRIST IN YOU

DO
that you

you ask for practical lessons on

heal-

ing because you want immediate results?

I will

answer your question, in order

may

attain to the highest.

You can

ap-

peal on the material plane and seem to get help

quickly; this

is

because you have been so long

under the dominion of the senses.

At

first,

when seeking
you
will

health from the spiritual plane,

seem to become worse; always regard

It

this as a hopeful sign.

with falsity and shadow.

the

means the last fight With each attack of

is

enemy remember that Christ

you die to
live,

your

life;

until finally

putting off the old

man and

his dominion, to live

for you have conquered the last

the Lord Christ.

tain or hurried.

anew and for ever, enemy through God's work is never uncerand
is

It is sure,

steadily work-

ing

out

good.

" Therefore
50

mine

own arm

CHEIST IN YOU
brought salvation."
^

51

" Therefore be steadfast,^

unmovable, always abounding/' and although

you may seem to make but

little

headway, you

are really growing, even in the darkness of night.

The great master, Jesus, unfolded

in His parables^ dealing with the

this asj^ect

kingdom

of

heaven.
is

The

little

brown seed sown

until it
its

in the earth

unaware of the sun,

comes through the

inherent activity,

darkness of matter, by

own

unfolding to receive consciously that which has

always been influencing

ness; and yet
I

its

growth in the dark-

say that even the sun would have

it

no power, were
within the seed.
of the

not for the central attraction

Now we
of evil

understand something
its friendly uses,

meaning

and

that
I
is

the dark earth

is
it

the

medium

for growth

and

can best liken

to the creation of God,

which

called evil, always pressing into activity the hid-

den force within the seed covering.

Without
the
seed,

this friendly aid

and

left to itself,

though perfect, would be non-pro-

ductive.
1 Isa.

lix.

16.

Matt.

xiii.

31.

2 1 CJor. XV. 58.

52

CHRIST IN YOU
so-called
evil

The

has

caused the seed to

quicken, to bring forth by its very opposition.

Look into nature, for therein

All that exists
is
first

is

the symbol of

every creative process on the spiritual plane.

real world of spirit, of

and for ever in the which yours is but the

shadow and semblance.

but substance, for
Christ, the
it will
^

When

the fulness of

time comes, your world will be no longer shadow,

be the kingdom of the
the

new heavens and

new

earth, one

united home.

There shall be no parting, for

there shall be neither separation nor death, since

the former things are passed away, and

man and

God

are one.
xxl
1, 4.

* Rev.

FOURTEENTH LESSON
OUT OF DARKNESS

LIGHT
the

THE
ties of

seed covering, as explained in our

lesson,

last

contains

germ

the

promise

of

the fulness of the God-

head, just as the outer

man

contains the seed

all

form of the spiritual man, with

growth and expression.

the possibili-

We

would have
spiritual
is

you remember that while the inner and

is

always perfect, the outer covering

often

out of harmony and has

many

imperfections,

owing

to long ages

as

you count time

of

ignorance and sense domination.

You

are to learn that spirit

is

the rightful

ruler, the true

owner and

king,

Man

has tried
to

to alter conditions

on the material plane,

seek help from without; this has hindered and

often

prevented the real work.

Wherever

spir-

itual forces

have been brought to the material

is lasting, 58

plane, the

work

nay, eternal.

An

un-

54

CHRIST IN YOU
is

conquered body
be completed
cerneth Him.

an unfinished
will perfect
^

life.

All must

He
in

that which con-

As vou grow
is

understanding of the

realities,
^

your vision of Christ will be clearer, and vision

the beginning of attainment.

We

must

first

see,

then become our vision. even Christ,

ideal,

Hold the highest and you will awake in His^

likeness.

You may ask

The
difference
is

at this point,

how we

explain

the perfect physique of the undeveloped races.

that you have evolved,

and

al-

though through ignorance you have not developed

perfectly all round, yet
it is

a far higher thing

to have come to a knowledge of your spiritual

being, even at a loss to the material.

The unbecomes

developed

man

will
I

must learn that

a force
to be
is

awaken am. The

later,

and he too

will to be

reckoned with.

He

will suffer, for

knowledge

born of suffering, until he comes

to the consciousness of God.

As you have

strug-

gled with the less real, so will he, and you will
IPs. cxxxvui.
z 8.

srs. xvU.

15.

Hab. U.

OUT OF DARKNESS LIGHT

watch and pray with
of the earth are as the
us, till all the

55

kingdoms

kingdom

of heaven, for all

souls

are the inheritance of God.

is

So much of
a quality of

your suffering

unnecessary and caused by opis

posing the will of God, but there

suffering that effects the highest good, that suf-

fering which brings into activity the three great

principles of spiritual growth
love.
site,

faith, hope,
its

and
ulti-

The highest good

is

known by

oppo-

and every experience can be used for

mate good.
is

Learn that the beauty of morning

Sor-

known because of the darkness of night. row is ever making channels for joy.
* Fs. U.

Dan.

vii.

13, 14.

FIFTEENTH LESSON
JESUS CHRIST

THE

RACE

MAN

TIIE
pure in
heart,^

heart

is

the place of understanding,

or as

we would rather say, the doorway of divine wisdom Blessed ^ are the heart, for they shall see God/' The

'^

and not the mind, knoweth the deep things

of God.

Our

lesson can only be understood in

your own heart.

The true revelation must unSo near

theories,
is

fold from the divine heart of love, beating in uni-

son with your own.

God.
explanations

There are

many

many

given about the cross of Jesus.

Trust the

in-

ward and spiritual guide in all these matters, and not the mind of man. We know that the
sacrifice

on the cross has for your world the deepIn that sublime act Jesus the

est

meaning.

Christ symbolized God's highest thought for you.

1

Prov.

X. 10.
V. 8.

2 8

Matt.

Prov. U.

2, 10, iv. 23, xxii.

17.

56

JESUS CHKIST THE EACE MAN

You
it.
^

57

cannot

now comprehend
burst,

the greatness of

Bonds were
freedom.

and your earth was given

have misunderstood

its
its

How much we

meaning!
It has

Let us keep reverent hearts and

hushed voices before a mystery of such high import.

a wide meaning, and only divine

its

wisdom can interpret

greatness and

its love.

From our
results.

side

we

see

something more of

its

The

principalities

and powers can no longer

your

harm

you

against

own

will.

Jesus

descended into the lowest hell that

set free the captives

He might
makes

and cast

off all that

for separation between

God and man.

humanity into
truth.

The cross
divinity.

was the
bolizes

lifting

up

of

Every incident in connection therewith sym-

some great inner

In that myste-

rious outflow of water from the side, your earth

received its chrism

its

holy anointing

its

Christhood.

We

worship in lowly adoration

when we remember the greatness of that work. We have much to learn about this, and you can
4

Eph.

iii.

16-21.
12.

i Pet.

iii.

19,

6Eph.

Tl.

58
never

CHRIST IN YOU
know
the full meaning of sacrifice until
sinless

you too enter into

hood.

and

selfless

Christ-

Jesus Christ

is

your highest conception of

God.

He

chose to stand for your world from the

He alone knew all God's meaning for you. When visible in the flesh He was the God-man/ a Man
beginning as the eternal Christ of God.
for all men, loving versal
is of

God and

loving men, the uni-

Man.

In

Him

all find relationship.

life,

He

the great wholeness of

the sap, the very

tree

and
of

vine.

He was

truly

Son
of

of

God and

Son
is
7

Man.

The great unity

God and Man

Tim.
R.V.

revealed in the cross.

1 Ezek.
;

1 Oor. xv.

47

Acts

xvii. 31

ii.

5,

SIXTEENTH LESSON
TRUTH
IS

STEADFAST

IMMOVABLE
you must exclude
allow an

TO
receptive.

receive this teaching

the vibrations of inharmonious person-

alities; it is highly injurious to

invasion of magnetic currents.

This causes ex-

haustion and want of vitality.

poise of spirit, never allowing

Keep

perfect

any influence to

enter the spiritual innermost, while sensitive

and
in-

Try

to help people to their

own

dwelling spiritual wealth, and do not imagine

that
it is

the right thing to help

them of

yourself.

It is far

higher to help others to help themselves,

all

leading them to the true source of

good.

suggest that you do not allow any but yourself

to

open the door of communication between your-

self

and
^

us.

You

all

need to remember your own

right

to rule in every condition

and circum-

stance.

Let us consider together the meaning of the

i

Isa.

XX vi. 3

Vs. cxii.

7.

21 Cor.
59

iv. 8.

60

CHRIST IN YOU
is

personal and of the universal, for there

much

confusion of thought in your midst about these

things.

Jesus was both a spiritual personal

identity

and the Christ

of God.

This

is

God's

meaning for you with Jesus the divine teacher

for your guide.

Jesus the Christ became one

with

God when one with man.

Only by withto to

drawing Himself from their midst as a personality could

He

really

come again

His disciples

in that interior sense which

was

make

of these

ordinary

men

the great apostles of the Christian

Church.
could
in us

Only by entering into the universal

the true individual in

He become
all,

them and
theirs.
^

the You, the I

am

of our life

and

In that w^onderful chapter of the Acts

you

may

find the record of their first glimpse of the

great cosmic consciousness, the inner illumination which will cover the whole earth as the

waters cover the

sea.

They emerged from the

spir-

limitations of time
itual freedom.

and sense into a larger

Their loss of the personality of

all in

Jesus was their great gain of the Christ

all.

You

are to become one with all men, a

Acts. iv. 31.

TRUTH

IS

STEADFAST

61

great brotherhood and divine unity.*

will surely reveal the truth.

The words

sciousness

is

At present this condawning surely we see the coming

;

unity of

man

with

man

in God.
less yourself

You

will in

no sense be

but you

will be greater in love

and understanding.

The

suffering of

some

is

the hurt of the whole.

How

beautiful are the feet of those

tidings of peace

who

carry the
all

and goodwill toward

men!

Silently working in the heart of the nations is

the Prince

of Peace.

We
life

pray for open doors

that the great interior

may

flow out and ex^

pand, the very river from the Ancient

of Days.

There
Cometh.

is

perpetual healing wherever the river

Rest in
age, the

hojje.
is

Be strong^ and
coming
^^

of good cour-

day

the

night
hell

is

past.

In

^^

the darkest

and outermost

is

God.

There are planes below yours, some even unconscious of God, but all shall be redeemed.

Every

time you make a conquest on the material plane,

4

Ps. cxxxiU.

John

xiii. 34.

Ezek.

xlvii. y,

12.
i.

6 Isa. lii. 7.

Deut. xxxi. 6; Josh.

10
.

7.

Isa. Ix. 6, 7.
7

Rom.

xiii.

12.
8,

Daa

vii. 22.

n Ps.

cxxxix.

Ixixvi. 13.

62

CHRIST IN YOU
a victory

you make better conditions for those below you.

I repeat, every individual conquest is

for the whole race.

Pray often and love much; do not

the

falter

on

upward

with you.

when you Thank God for your

path, for

fall,

others fall

glorious oppor-

tunity here and now.

Kead

^^

the

Sermon on the Mount

continually,

and wait

silently as the

words unfold their mean-

ing to you.
12

Matt.

V. vi.

and vU.

SEVENTEENTH LESSON
IMAGINATION

HP HE
tion

body

is

the covering and the garment

of spirit,

and you are learning that

spirit is ruler.

results, but the

At first you may not see work begins the instant you func-

from the spiritual plane.

Do

not be
results.

dis-

couraged
see

as

was

at not seeing
of healing

now

that the

work

was going

on,

oven when things seemed at their w^orst.

will

You

thank God for the darkness and the struggle;

])rove Iheir real

you will

fnondlinoRs.

ThinVt's

work

in

you

is

to ])i*oclaim liberty to cai)tive

souls, the

opening of prison doors to them that

are bound.

Your body

will be the beautiful gar-

ment

of spirit, for salvation is not in part, but

wholly.

You ask
is

"

What

is

thought? "

Perhaps you

have missed the true understanding.

Thought
It

a creative process behind

63

all

phenomena.

64
is

CHRIST IN YOU
not a mental concept, though
it

finds its aveis

nue through the mentality.

with
their

The thought
in

never separated from the thinker.

all

The worlds
nature
are
are
love.

myriad forms

thoughts expressed by the Al)solute.

You

God's thought, and so you also manifest

At
which
the

the very heart of

life,

both universal and

individual, is the well-spring of growth, from

all

true

life evolves.
all,

It is the only

One,
crea-

first

cause of

never outside Its

own

tion,

but

self-fxistent,

inseparable from Itself;

peace.

ever

making for perfection and

This

self

of life is sending out rays of intelligence through

its

many

channels, outpouring itself in infinite

variety,

but

always

One.

The great outer

enemy, the senses, would pervert, making separation even of the expressed Being, until, as a
result of ages of ignorance,

man

has dared to

think of himself as a complete and separate

identity, looking

on the suffering of humanity as

something outside himself, looking on God as

afar
off.

God
life.

requires outflow from the great central

is

This

a law steadily working

itself

out

IMAGINATION
in

65
earth
life.

the

tiniest

detail

of

your
it
fire,

Your planet holds within

water, and
also holds a

minerals of untold wealth, but

it

great invisible interior spiritual force, creative,

reconstructive.

This

is

thought, the outcome of

the one

life,

breathing through stone, rock, and

densest matter.
tal process,

Man
(We

limits himself by his menof the

and hinders the upspringing

see
;

divine thought.

from our

side.)

Man
it

gets a glimpse of a truth to

he immediately begins

make

it concise,

gives

it

a form, clothes

by

the mental process called reasoning; thus himself closing the

avenue by separation from the

;

whole.
truth.

No truth is a part No man can hold all

all

there

is

but one
This
is

the truth.

a work for

time.

You would do
receiving by
beliefs that
^

well to unfold the capacities for

clearing the

mind

of limitations,^

have become bondage, and by becomOtherwise you canspiritual

ing even

as a little child.

not enter the kingdom.

We see so much
3.

force imprisoned behind the closed mental doors

1

Neh. iv. 10 1 John Ui, Matt. V. 21-48.

;

Matt. xviU.

8.

66
of humanity.
intellect, for it
light.

CHEIST IN YOU
The
spirit of

God quickens

the
**

becomes enlightened by the true

Open out
is

to this hidden spiritual life, as

its

the flower

nourished into full bloom by

own
they
will

hidden forces.
Consider well the flowers of the
field;

do not

toil

in order to blossom forth.

steadfast,
^

You

become calm and

and the
It is

effect in the

end will be a great peace

both in your body*^

and
eth
is
^

in in

your environment.

God

that work-

you to

will

and

to do.

Man's mentality

not the place of thought.

is

While the holy

God's
life

seed

unfolding, the

work

of creation begins in

you, as at the l)eginning of all things.

thought

was

your

planet.
it

When

the

upsprings within you,

action to manifest.

requires a place of

That which you

call

imagination

is

the ground

for the expression of God's thought.

You

will

learn to keep the imagination pure and holy, free

from the contamination of the senses; for that

which
4
8

is
1.

imagined, afterwards becomes.

9, vUi. 12.
7

John
Matt.

Ps. xvi. 9, cxlvU. 14.

vl.

28.

PMl.

ii.

13.

Ps. cxix. 165.

IMAGINATION
Your Scriptures unfold

67

the importance of this,

when they
of

describe false imaginings,

and speak
mirror

imagining mischief.^

pure imagination
It is the

is sometimes called " genius."

of God.

Let the Christ have

full control of this,

that you

may awake
meaning

in His likeness.
to

It will

reveal God's

your understanding.

Your imagination is God's best gift. The heart they and the imagination are closely related The heart and the imagination act and re-act.

should be pure.^^

This involves real

effort,

but

you

will be richly rewarded.

^^

You

will have the

thoughts

of God, your

mind

will reflect them,

and enriched and illuminated by the Eternal, you

will be conscious of ever fresh unfoldment.
will see, hear,

You
is

and know only God.

This lesson

will unfold within you while

you read.

God

the only reality for all time.

9

Ps. Ixil. 3.

10

Matt.

v. 8.

n Jer.

xxix. 11.

EIGHTEENTH LESSON
IDEA

THE

EXPRESSED IMAGE

SUNDAY
to your

was a day of great joy to me. The seventh day has a deep meaniDg for
There
is

your planet.

a correspondence

Sunday with

us, for the seventh

day

is

the Sabbath of the Lord our God.

is

Real prayer
is its

a great attraction to us; deep earnestness

its

the open door for

answer.
its

It attracts

by

magnetism, the fulness of

need.

In our last

lesson I told you that the place of creation in the

individual, the spiritual ground for the projec-

tion of thought from the divine innermost,

was
the

the imagination.

Our next
lastly, the
is to

consideration

is

idea.

First,

eternal mind; secondly, the thought; thirdly

and

outcome of both

is

the idea, that which

become manifest in the outermost plane of

are your ideas for the most part?
68

being.

What

Are

IDEA THE EXPKESSED IMAGE

thought?

69
^

they only and entirely the outcome of divine

Do you
make

express the living Christ?

I of

want

to

clear to

you the omnipotence

the divine man, and the reality of the

God

idea.

Try and stand with me as you read

out upon the earth plane.

this,

and look

You

will be filled

with a longing desire to

as Jesus did.

fulfil all ^
is

the law, even

The end
all
^
^

from the beginning

God, the end of

separation.

The great Love

to bring in the

will leave the ninety

and nine

remaining one, for

of our Lord Christ.

all

shall be in the

kingdom
is per-

God's idea for your world and for you

fection

and nothing

less.

There are many who

still

have passed from your earth

false idea that

clinging to the

matter

is

substance, the result of

long ages of sense

belief.

Good
real.

spirits,

often

deeply reverent and noble, they

material plane;
it is

still live

on the
like to

to

them

They

see their thoughts expressed

on the material
all ig-

plane.
1 Isa.

This
Iv.

is

a hindrance to them,

8, 9.

Matt

V. 17.
;

Luke XV. 4 Ezek. xxiIt. Luke m. 6.

11.
.

70

CHRIST IN YOU
is,

norance

as they cannot unfold to the higher

experiences.

Give

more time

to quiet, that

you may have

idea,

the reflection of

God
"

ujDon the mirror^ of your

imagination, that you too

for

may become God's

ye holy."

He

has said

Be

"^

The growth
is go-

of this perfect idea has become manifest to us.

As you wait

upon God a great underwork

^ it

ing on, and afterwards

beareth fruit.

Close the door of your closet against the suggestion of the senses, that God's Idea
fest in your body, for "
if

may

mani^^

thine eye be single

thy whole body shall be full of light."

life-blood pulsates

Full, rich

through the heart at one with

God.

This

is

the touch of healing, because the

vitality of the

whole universe

is

no longer sepa-

rate but delights to pour itself through its

own

God -given
5

channels.
8 Ps. Ixii. 5. 9

Ps. xlvi. 10.

6
7

2 Cor.

iii.

18.

Lev.

xi. 44.

lo

Mark iv. 26-20. Luke xi. 34-3G.

NINETEENTH LESSON
HEAVEN
IS

WITHIN YOU

MAY
I

help you in this chapter by giving

little

you some

experience of

my

own.

think you

know

that the passing from

the earth plane

dividual,

is different for

almost every

init.

and

is entirely

what each one makes

The

birth into real life should be exactly like

an

awakening on a beautiful morning when the

dawn

is

stealing over the land, touching every-

thing with a purity and freshness belonging only

to the first hours of the day.
w^e

It is

meant that
awakening
that you
are,

should open our eyes and see

God everywhere

just this simple, homely, all-familiar

into
all

harmony and
will enter the
is in

peace.

God grant
where you

may begin

this experience

then

you

more

fully into reality,

^

when

that which

part shall

be done away.
is

The consciousness of God

1 1

stealing over the

Cor.

xiii. 10.

71

72

CHEIST IN YOU
and truth
descends
^

earth, toucliing all things into purity

by

its

burning, glowing love.

to

The

fire

and ascends, as revealed

sacrifice of Abel.

you in the symbolic

All things are revealed to you

in your Scriptures.

Man has made

this

book the
reveals

medium
wisdom.

of interpretation wherein
If

God

you only knew, you could read God

In this ancient

in every inspired work, but^ the Bible is your

rich

and hallowed treasure.

story you find the eternal truth of the two in One,

the place of meeting

carefully.
I passed into

a place

of sacrifice.

Eead

the plane of realities gently.

entirely unexpected by

My

transition

was
this I

my

friends.

For

thank God, as

my

dear ones

were spared the cruel anticipation and dread of

separation.

This was a great help to me, as I

soon found I could comfort and help them to

something of

my

joy.

This

we can

all

do.

What we cannot do
lose
that,
2

is to rid

you

of false beliefs.

This you must do for yourselves.

You can never

More than
your
cir-

your own, here or hereafter.

you

find that

your own

is greater,

Heb.

xi. 4.

Ps. cxix.

HEAVEN
cle wider,
tiful

IS

WITHIN YOU
infinitely

73

your loved ones

more beau-

and even more

familiar, for there is noth-

ing strange in love.

Rejoice
that
I

Have no

fear.

Fear

is

the cloud

dims the
to say "
all

spiritual

vision.

The^ angels

came
from

Fear not."
is

Fear would keep you

nothing more than
sense,

that

good.

It is

an emanation from the material

and can
^

be dispelled in an instant by the perfect

love.

Man

is rising

out of the fear of

evil,

the fear of

God, the fear of man.

free^ from
all

The truth

will set

you

that separates

man from
is

God.

The very heathen are seeking God by the lowliest

worship, for in their worship

aspiration.

I discovered this

when

freed from the body.

I

was slow
self

to

comprehend that

had passed

through the experience called death to find my-

a living and breatbing

It

soul, never so

much
I felt

alive as then.

was too much for me.

overwhelmed by the reality and the unlimited

sense of things slowly
it

dawning upon me.

Was

a delicious dream?
*Matt. xxviii.
8 1
5.

You

see,

much

of

my false

ejotin vm. 32.

John

iy. 18.

74
belief

CnRIST IN TOTJ
clung to me.
I

had expected a
I

great,
"^

tremeudous change in personality.

that Jesus showed His hands

forgot

and His

feet; the
;

same Jesus.

How

slow we are to believe

but

when
is

w^e are

ready to learn, we forget

all

error

and ignorance and enter quickly into truth which

our own.
Bless and thank

God

for the knowledge of the

I tell

wholeness and unity of the race.

is

you there

nothing lost into w^hich

life.

God has

breathed the

breath of

thouglit also that I

had not

surely gone to Heaven, for I did not seem to be

in any place. fresh
living
see.

had a new understanding, a

of

consciousness
scales
^

God.

My
my
it

eyes

could

The

had fallen from

inner

vision,

and love seemed the very breath

of being.

It w^as too

much
slept.

to enter into.

Then
I

was as
of the

though I

Oh! how can

I

tell

awakening?
too!

Such an awakening

will be

yours

The best and highest

had ever imagined

was

realized, the deepest longing of

my

nature
Spir-

satisfied,
1

my

purest thought answered.

Luke Luke

xxiv. 40. xxiv. 25.

Acts

ix. 18.

HEAVEN
itual truths

IS

WITHIN YOU
self.

75

were no longer in some far distance,

but a part of
been
;

my

very

This had always

the only change that had

come about was

my
see

unclouded consciousness of God.

Now

you

why I give you my personal experience, that you may know that Heaven ^^ is indeed within.
It

was as

if I

had just begun

real

life.

was

a child with everything

till

to learn,

and from then

now

the unfoldment has never ceased.

Ever

fresh visions, wider horizons, reaching after a

richer satisfaction, to find that

God

is

without
rests in

beginning and without end.

Love never

enjoyment of

itself.

Love must pour

to

itself out,

and a longing came

me
I

coming along the road

tell

who were had travelled. Oh to

to help those
!

them something of the indwelling

love

^^

Christ.

We
is

you
I

all,

and long

to

show you what you

possess.

want you

to understand that there

us.

no separation between

We

are interior

inhabitants, but there are other inter-penetrat-

ing states of existence.

Of them

I will not

speak

now.
10

Luke

xvii. 21.

u John

XT. 4, 5; Gal. U. 20; Bph.

m.

17; Col.

i.

21,

76
It is

CHRIST IN YOU
a great joy to be able to reach yon with

these thoughts.

You need God

not wait for Heaven.

is

God
now.

Heaven the
Christ
is

whole of good

yours

incarnate and dwells within

feeblest

your heart, so near that the

heard, aye, before you speak.

whisper

is

answers, for

He

is

behind

all

He'^ hears and thought and speech.

He

also

fills all

space.

12 isa. ixv. 24.

TWENTIETH LESSON
GROWTH EEAL AND UNREAL

THERE
easily enter.

is

an atmosphere of

rest

and

peace and

much deep
is
is

joy.

An

atmos-

phere of love

the one

we can most
fulfils
^

Everything

possible to the truly

loving disciple.

Love
is
^

to

God and man

every law.

Love

the key of all knowledge,

love,

wisdom and power.

you will see as God
sion of

Dwell deep in this

sees.

and

Yet even

this expres-

God

is

imitated by the false or shadow

self of the senses.

You

will learn to discriminate between infla-

tion, expansion,

and

real

growth from the centre.

lack, a sense

Every good
world.

is closely

imitated in the shadow

Growth
"

often

means a great
will

of poverty; it is never fulsomeness nor aggressiveness.

The meek

He guide in judgment.
Learn the greatness

The
I

meek

will

He

teach.''

Rom.
Cor.

xiii. 10.

I I

xm.
9, cxlix. 4,

Ps. XXV.

margin of R. V.
77

78
of humility.*

CHRIST IN YOU
The
little

child

is
;

all

uncon-

gcious of its lowliness, its growth

so also

must

the soul be

when

really emerging; free

from the

unreal, the outer

and

false self of the senses.

It should be

" Love seeketh not her own."

nothing to you that others seem to manifest more

of God.
of

You and they may be at different stages unfoldment. Be content to know that God is
and learn the secret of dwelling

in the midst,

in friendly darkness, that your roots

may go

deep dow^n

for during the time of hiddenness

is

a great work

going on.

The soul that seeks

"^

nourishment from the true Self becomes strong.

Learn from the parable of

of the soul.
result is seen.

the house built

on

the sand, and let nothing hinder this deep

work

Know^ that

all is w^ell,

though no

Seek the

silence, love all

men, bless

all;

thus

do you make right conditions for growth.

Un-

known

to you, there are outer conditions arrang-

ing themselves in
* 1
e

harmony with the hidden work,

;

Pet. V. 5 Matt, xviii.

Col. iU. 12
4.

Matt.

v. 3, 5.

1 Cor. iv. 5.

Matt.

vii. 26, 27.

GROWTH REAL AND UNREAL

79

and your whole future depends upon the true

foundation being cleared of false building matter,

wrong thinking and wrong

actions, self-ag-

grandizement, not true material.

There

is

no

other foundation than the Christ of God, the

true
self.

That which

is

unreal must sooner or

later be swept into nothingness.

You

are just
Spirit

where you are in order

is the

to

do this work.

only true substance, and our lessons will

teach you

how

to build.

God cannot
and dead

fail if

you

are alive

to Christ within,

to all else.

You may know

"
8 1

the unreal by its self-seeking, by

the desire for adulation, praise and self-glory.

Be not
Cor.

deceived,
11.

God

^^

is
11.

not mocked."
lo Gal. vi. 7.

m.

Rom.

vi.

TWENTY-FIRST LESSON
MATTER AND
ITS RELATION TO SPIRIT

THERE we
riety of ways.

is

always a moment in

life

when

differentiate between the material

spiritual.
^

and the

It

happens in a va-

Thomas dropped the false belief immediately, when he saw the truth; material beliefs dropped entirely away and never ruled him afterwards. Pilate knew, when face
to face with Christ, that he could never touch

the

real

life,

although he delivered

Jesus over

to the people.

He had

seen the eternal Christ

w^hen alone with Him.

The whole

of truth is

beyond your present comprehension.

ing up to the eyes of men.

No man

can touch truth or stay the new vision now open-

One

of the great hindrances to understanding

is fast slipping

away

the old
is
s

belief in the solid-

ity of matter.
1 2

There

no such thing as solidity

John
xix. 11.

John XX.

27, 28.

Luke xxm.

25.

80

MATTEE, RELATION TO SPIRIT

in or on the planet.

81
to

The instant you ceased

Spirit is substance,

be vibratory, your body would disintegrate and

fly off

the jjlanet.

and

is

not subservient to natural law.

tion
is

Perpetual mo-

the key to the attraction of atoms.

is

The

whole planetary system

tions, orderly
terial

a vortex of convoluTrue, man's ma-

and continuous.

body

is

formed of the dust of the earth,

though with eternal wisdom and harmonious

wholeness.

Your body holds in

its

material

form an Infinitesimal atom or grain of every part

of the globe.

You cannot behold anything

in

that material world of which you are not a part.

You

are a part of the three kingdoms

mineral,
and
pos-

vegetable,

and animal.

Thus man
all.

in the natural

world has rule* over

only an animal, but

This

is

not so of any

other earth-life, as each animal is distinctly

man

in the process of the

all,

ages has come up through

sess

that he

may

and have rule over

are not matter.

all.

Y^'ou

You cannot become ma-

terial,

and you must not be deceived by material

Although the value of matter in

appearances.
*

Gea.

i,

26.

82

CHRIST IN YOU
you know that
^

relation to your spiritual evolution is very great,

yet I would have

spiritual laws
perfect, for

are supreme.
is it

Your body should be

in the flesh,

not a magnificent vehicle

for the spiritual

to use spir-

form?

While

you learn

itual weapons.

When you
you
will

enter the interior and

spiritual world,

know
is

that faith
flesh

was

made

real to you.

While in the

you should
visible.

reach out for that which

behind the
is

Faith, the strongest principle,

own by your

simple trust,

made your though you knew nothpower and

it

ing of the reality.

Oh! the greatness

might of
ence
it
!

of faith, the*^

Have

faith, for

only by

can you
experi-

rise to spiritual heights,

is

and your earth

the best, nay, the only

means

of revealing

you
man,

to yourself.

Have

faith in

God, faith in

faith in all good.

We

on this side in very

whole land-

truth have found that faith can remove mountains.

It is literally true that the

scape before your eyes can be obliterated by faith.

6 1

Cor. iii. 16, 17, vi. 19. Matt. xvii. 20 Mark xi. 23, 24.
;

THeb.

xl.

MATTER, RELATION TO SPIRIT

This
in
is

83

a law

I will explain.

You

see

now only
houses,

part

that
etc.,

the

things

before

yon,

churches,

are the outcome of man's limited

thought.
itual idea.

He

has been dimly working out a

spir-

The

spiritual idea is the only fact,

and not the bricks and mortar.

There

is really

only the spiritual conception of a home, a church,

a road, and with the eye of faith you could see

the real only, for I assure you again that the
spiritual is the only real.

In

many
is

instances the real

It is so

is

utterly unlike
beautiful,

the appearance.
for

much more

man

always working out the idea of God.

this understanding,

Now

you have

you can sym^'

pathize with an artist

who

says

This build-

ing or picture
of

is

only the faintest conception

my

idea."

If he could only

have the eye of

spir-

faith he

would see before him the complete

itual thought expressed,

and he w^ould be overdelight.

come with gladness and

beyond the seen and the

Thus

at pres-

ent you see through a glass darkly, ever reaching

felt,

that you

may

un-

fold the spiritual perception through mist

and

cloud, ever cheered by the hope of realization.

84
It is

CHRIST IN YOU
a wonderful time for you now.

You

are

growing wings and preparing the spiritual body

for its real existence.

Now,

for your

body

would have you use the

bring into operation

eye of faith, that you

may

the higher spiritual law.

Your thought and idea

become an outward manifestation.

your own
selves
idea,

You become
is

but remember,

it

you youryou
no longer

to

who say, " Thy

open to the higher laws.

will be

It is for
it is

done in

me "
^

for the senses, but for Christ

to do.

in you, to will

and

Creation is

God manifest

in the flesh.

God

is

with you.
ii.

8 PliU.

13.

TWENTY-SECOND LESSON
"my thoughts
SUPPOSE
if

are towards you"

people only

knew the true

is

I
as

value of thought they

find

would be amazed to
as powerful
far
Yes,
cases

that every

thought

deed,

and

in

many

more
it is

effective

than any word or weapon.

your innermost and highest thought that makes

you; always remembering that thought
consciousness of the
absolute
will.
is the

You

are

judged by what you are, and not by what you

seem to

be.

The judgment bar

Tt is the

is

the innermost

of yourself.

judgment bar of God, and

not of

when our
cast into
self.
^

actions are tested there, the voice will

outer darkness that which

is

it-

Thank God, you may enrich

heaven, for many,

the

kingdom of
Yea, truly

many

times the voice says,

Father.''
Matt. xxv. 34.

" Come,^ ye blessed of

1

my
2

Matt. xxil. 13.

85

86

CHRIST IN YOU
You
is

our thoughts do enter Heaven.

will find

your treasure

where your heart

with God.
you that
Let His

In very truth a man's treasure

is

the continual
I tell

outpouring of God's thought, and

God

is

enriched by your co-operation.

thought be your thought, and say in the spirit of

prayer
:

"

The Father and

are

"^

one."

Do

seem to repeat platitudes?

Read them
till all

again in your moments of sacred consecration,

until the Christ within is the only voice,

that

is

unreal and shadowy has passed away,

I

even as the melted snow.

am

glad to meet you

to

on the spiritual plane.

for this,

You need
find

thank God
are, if

[n the very place

see,

where you

you
can

voice your prayer " Lord, that

could only

you would

your own.
^

may

receive

my sight."' You know

minded
life.

the answer.

Jesus Christ

left every detail to you, and to the spiritually-

I say:

His words are

to all
:

spirit.

They are
ceas-

I
"^

would say
life

Pray without

ing

the

prayer.

Live in

God

in the smallest

detail.
3

Do
vi.

not think the results you see are the

.Toliri
7

Matt.

21.

vi.

03.

4 .John X. 30.

Thess.

v. 17.

Mark

x.

5L

"

MY THOUGHTS
is

'^

87
Is

only results ; there

fruitless.

not one good word that

Believe this and have courage.

if

The

very desire to help,

is

really unselfish

and pure,

immediate help.
I

have come along your path, and I would

help you to
of right

know
until
^

the golden, the priceless boon

and holy
holy, for

living.
it

Pause

Consider well

the
^'

command

comes from your own heart.

Be ye

am

holy."

As you

prayer-

fully express this,

you

will stand renewed, recre-

ated, alive to the possibilities of

God

within.

There are moments when we breathe the same

air.

You know them. Follow the derstanding only. You now have
The human race
is

spiritual un-

victory over

the less real, through the Christ of God.

God's eternal Son.

want

you

to reach the highest bliss possible to

you on
^

earth,

and in the

flesh
:

that

is,

to hear the voice

from Heaven say

" This

is

my

beloved, in

whom

am

well pleased."
life

Study the

of Jesus, and the veil will

^^

be

removed more and more, until the sublime

sacri-

Lev. xix.

2.

lo

2 Cor.

iii.

15, 16.

Luke

lil.

22.

88
flee is

CHRIST IN YOU
revealed in all its greatness, the offering
all,

up

of all to save

and so

to

make

the union of

man

with

God

complete.

greatness of surrender?

Do you What you

not see the

possess
is of

no value until
are One
in
;

it

is given for the whole, for

we

Him and
it is

not separate from the uniall.

versal life

the basis or ground of

You

maimed and hurt because of sin and suffering in your brother man, and again and again must the Son of Man be crucified until the great
are

at-one-ment with

God

takes place.

Your work is to co-operate with God, existing only in and drawing only from the real, the spiritual, that

you may be trees

^^

of healing, that

you may out-breathe God.

ural body you breathe to

Even
live,

as in the nat-

so also

you must

take deep breaths from the spiritual centre, that

your whole being may be invigorated and

ized.

revital-

So much

is in

your own hands.

hin-

must remind you that regret or sadness

ders the forgiveness of God.

God

blots out^^

the sins of the past by a fresh inflow of everlast-

ing
II

love.
Kev. XX.

He
2.

only asks for your need of

12 Ps. ciii. 3.

Him

''

MY THOUGHTS
fill ^^

''

89

that
self.

He may

to overflowing with

Him-

Watch and
13

pray.^^

Again
14

watch.

Matt.

V. 6.

Matt. xxvi. 41.

TWENTY-THIKD LESSON
THE CENTRAL LIFE
IS

LOVE
this,

SEE

you are theorizing: never do

suggestion
is to close

but

let the truth

unfold gradually and with-

out

from outside.

To make

conclusions
truth from

the avenue and separate

itself.

Nothing outside can ever help

until
it

you or reveal anything

yourself.

finds its

answer in

What
physical

is

space?

You

are

learning on the

plane

something of the rapidity of

thought
yourself

transference.

what

is

would influence?
ing of distance.^
fered with.

Have you ever asked between you and the mind you Positive thought knows nothIt
is

cannot be broken or

interits

There

nothing that can touch

is

current, for there really

no distance.

The only
Sim-

necessity is the condition of receptivity.

ple,

good thought, sent out without any special

ife

direction,
1

caught up in the stream of good and

90

John

i.

48, iv. 52.

THE CENTRAL LIFE

helps
all.

IS

LOVE

91

Nothing

is lost

in the thought world.

Space

is

a false and wrong idea, belonging to

Let your hearts and minds rest un-

separation.

disturbed in the thought of the omnipresence of

Godj

until,

even in the

flesh,

you may come

to

realize that there is

no space or distance, for you

there
is

dwell in

God and

absolutely nothing

outside God.

The sense mind would cloud or hide the

but

vision,

NOW you are

"
all

in " the secret place of of

the most

High."

The tabernacle
afflictions
^

In

your

God is with^ men." He is made to suffer.

and refresh the
earth,
their

Even as work
life

the rivers flow out

life

gaining fresh

and power as they do

spiritual

of purification, even so bring into the outer

the unseen

and

substance.
^

Use
know,

every opportunity to live that which you

and

let

your

lives flow

out and bless every brother

and

sister.

We
lives.

long to see your divisions swept

away by

the ocean of love welling

up in human

hearts and

2 Acts xvii. 28. 3Ps. xci. 1.

isa. Ix. 9.

Luke

vi. 46.

Rev. xxi.

3,

TWENTY-POUKTH LESSON
OMNIPRESENCE

ALL
is

you have ever prayed, longed, and

exists.

hoped for

So mighty
^

is

good.

You
wealth.

are laying up treasure

all

where there
is

no corruption, and

your good

your real
now.
Re-

You

are

making your future home, and

by the way you
live
^

your future
joice that

self,

your names are written

fill

in Heaven.
joy.

We

would

you with more hope and

The
il-

souls that have perceived something of the

lumination from the light of

all

men have been

possibili-

overwhelmed by the knowledge of the

ties of their

own

lives.

Let us come very near in our understanding

of

omnipresence.

God, who^

fills

all

space,

knows nothing
present.

of past or future, but is eternally

Alpha and* Omega, the same yesterday and for ever. The whole human race
is
1

He

Matt.

vi. 19.

8 Jer. xxili. 24.

Luke

X. 20.

Rv. xxL

6.

P2

OMNIPRESENCE
is

93

meant

to understand this.

Let

me

explain.

You sometimes wonder at what seems loss of memory in us. We can recall anything of good that we wish. We learn the higher spiritual
laws very quickly, and there
explained by the words
is

one that

is best

" All time is the present.'^

At once we cease
from

to hurry, a great strain drops

us, all is ours,

and we must take our own.

To some who

are here this blessed truth is a great

part of their Heaven.

When

the eager souls,

who imagine they must do a

them
is

certain
this,

amount in

a given space of time, discover

to

the effect on

renew their energies, unfold wider

prospects,

and semce becomes a

rest.

They
presis

truly begin to live.

To the weary heart the

live

ent is enough.

To

on the spiritual plane

to live in reality, not spasmodically

and in

limits.

Pause and think

How can time be divided?

of ever-pres-

Day and
into

night are explained to us as the inflow

and the outflow from the ocean

It is a wise

ent time.

law

the eternal present,

that all
is well.

the glorious
too full to

Now^ a rest and a joy, a satisfaction make us wish to look backward or

forward, since

we know

The

94
sufficiency is

CHRIST IN YOU
the actual present.

Think over
full.
^^

this carefully, that

your joy may be

AM

^^

is

the present tense for all time.

is

This benelicent and merciful consciousness

the outcome of love.

Just think a

moment what

the effect of entering into this realization would

be on your earth.
direct

To draw

the very next breath

from God, with no past memory of wrongs

filled

or sins,

only with the knowledge of the

all

great love-life, assimilating

present, living the blessed

the good into the

:

now

think what

it

would mean.

This

is

what Christ teaches you.

forth,"

To
ent

say, " Lazarus,

come ^

was

to speak

from the spiritual plane, realizing only the preslife.

Do you

not see here the true secret of eternal

youth, each stage of unfoldment opening up a

richer, riper

youth?

am

the Lord,
see this

I"^

change

not.

Open your eyes and

wondrous

truth.

You can be

just as

are prepared to manifest.

much of God as you Even now you hold

all the

within yourself the accumulated good of

ages.

Christ the Son of

ill.

God
43.

in the heart of
? iVlul.

z.

14.

John xL

ill.

6.

OMNIPRESENCE
humanity reaches out
divine consciousness.
to

95

man

until he

awakes to

The seven acts

of Christ

become actual

to

man,
ex-

instead of belonging to a past period.

He

periences the birth, the awakening in the Temple,

the anointing, the temptation, the crucithe

^

fixion,

resurrection,

and

the

ascension.

Christ

must be

in you; nothing avails

is

man from
for
^

the outside, all

from within.

Thank God

Jesus Christ, " the unspeakable gift "

of God.

The evolution
*^

of one soul exalts the whole race.

all

That

^^

they

may

be

one.'^

The understanding
would remove

of time as a present fact

ill.

false ideas of inherited

In

order to bring this higher law into action on the

sense plane, the

mind would
it

at once cease to up-

hold the working out of ignorance and sin; yet

at the same time

would not

alter the effect

of past cause, seeing that only the good that

man

The sense of physical law makes both good and evil seem of equal power. Good must overcome ^^ evil by its own
does has any real vitality.
Col.
9
i.

27.
ix. 15.

10
ii

John
Dan.

xvii. 11.
iv.

2 Cor.

27

Rom.

xil. 21.

96
vitality.
real.

CHRIST IN YOU
In truth,
it i

the real and the only

Realize the present.

As you read you

will

understand.

Peace to

all.

TWENTY-FIFTH LESSON
OMNIPRESENCE {continued)

SO

that you

may

the better understand ever-

present time, I will

is

make
:

this statement,

which

absolute truth no time has passed

since our last lesson, it

was and is now. Man and not God made yesterday and will make tomorrow. This is to you the seventh month in the
year 1907.
born,
It is the
it is

day on which Christ was

and

the only day that has ever been.

Time cannot

pass.

There

is

no

past.

Man

is

new creation by the power of the living Christ. You may not understand at once, but you will. Can you conceive of Christ ageing? Have you
never
discovered
the

wonderful

fact

in

the

thought of the eternal youth of the Christ?

Christ
is,

As

even so
^

are we, although

it

doth not

yet appear

to physical or

mortal sense.

You speak
1

of us as the unreal.
2

The truth

is

John

iv. 17.

John

ill 2.

07

98

CHRIST IN YOU

quite the reverse.

We are on the only real plane,

is

and your physical plane or plane of the senses

to us the unreal or the shadow.
vital

We

find

many

laws exactly the opposite of those in opera-

tion on

your plane.

You

are there to bring into

manifestation spiritual laws, and Christ showed

you

this possibility.

Water ^ was not

There shall no
*

able to en-

gulf spirit

when

spirit w^as absolutely controlling

evil

the physical atoms.

or ac-

cident befall thee, nor any sickness come nigh

thy tabernacle (or body)

Your

sicknesses,

your

disasters, are the result of

your descent, or rather

wrong plane of being. The Fall is a present and not a past fact. Man's real fall is that he is content with the shadow of good. He still eats of the tree of good and ^ evil, and until
of your

the Christ
ever be at

fills

the whole consciousness,

man

will

war with

himself, his brother,

and his
light is

God.

Man's understanding
breaking everywhere.

is clearer,

and

You can
s

read your Old

Testament more
3

intelligently, seeing in the

Gen.
ili.

sym-

John

vi.

19.

*Ps.

xci. 10.

OMNIPKESENCE
bols
tlie

99

inner and spiritual ideas of God.

The
re-

waters of ^ Marah were bitter; this was the

sult of the bitterness of the people.

Man makes

the quality of the land; the flow of waters increases or decreases according to laws hidden

within yourselves.

You have made

to it that

the very form

of your island, England, by your thoughts

and

inner forces.
of spirit, for

Look

you obey the voice

to have dominion.'^

man was made

The very changes

ters, are in

of climate, all seeming disaslife

accord with the

and being

of

man,

and

until

man has come

into and unto God, back

to wait for the

to Eden,

you will seem

new
day

Heaven and the new

Holy Mount.''
I

Earth, " for in that

all

they shall neither hurt nor destroy in

My
you

have

lifted the veil that

may
Son

see the need of giving the

utmost for the

highest. of

Blessed be

God

for Jesus Christ, the

Man and Son

truth
:

of God.
is

In the story of the bitterness of Marah

hidden

ingratitude
It is

brought bitterness.

murmuring the same today. Your

and
8 isa. xi. 9,

Ex. XV. 23. Gen. i. 26,

Ixv. 25.

100
thoughts,
if

CHEIST IN YOU
they are the suggestions of the senses,

will still lead to bitterness

and

ashes.

Learn
oil

the secret of. praise

of
^

and thanksgiving, the

joy.

Even
^^

in the wilderness experience the

waters shall
the milk and

be sweet.
honey.

You
^^

shall partake of

^^

The

manna

is

at your
is

very

feet,

enough for each day, for Christ

^^

that

heavenly

manna.

Feed on

Him

in your heart

by

faith.

The very
abundance.

gifts

you seek are poured out in rich

Lift

up your eyes and

see.

Just

inasmuch as you yield

spirit, to that

to the divine innermost,

^^

as you live and bring forth the fruit of

the

extent shall you have access to all

that earth and heaven can yield.

There

^^ is

no

want

to the children of God.

There are times

is hid,^

on the physical plane when the way

the heavens seem as brass.
floodgates by steady thanksgiving
^^

and
the

You can open

and certain

hope.

If

you only knew, the closed doors are

14 Gal. v. 22. 15 Ps.

filsa. Ixi. 3.
10
11

12

Ex. XV. 25. Ex. in. 8. Ex. xvi. 18.

xxxiv. 10.

i Isa. xl. 27.

17 Phil. iv. 6.

13

John

vi. 51.

OMNIPRESENCE
the senses, brought

101
of their

up against a wall

own
them.
clay.

construction, a wall of doubt,

fear,

and

falsity.

A
You

breath of the spirit of

God consumes

are greater than shadow, sense, or

feet

Having your

on the Rock, they canComplete harmony

not

slide.

God

is

with you.

will be realized, for

God

is

working out His

di-

vine purpose in you.

TWENTY-SIXTH LESSON
THE CONTROL OF SELF AND ENVIRONMENT

TIIE world
world,
is,

around, or rather the visible

as you know, full of wonder-

ful ijossibilities,

though yet imperfect,

because unconquered; illusory and shadowy only

because

man

has not reached the crown of being.

the whole material plane
is

As man

evolves,

lifted into

a higher condition.
in

The seasons

de-

pend on God
ner mind.

man, and are according

is

to the in-

The world

wild and lawless in

some

regions, so

much

so that

man

is

subject to

the nature or world spirit.

Misused energy and

uncontrolled force call for lord and master, as

the trees of old asked for a king
^

to reign over

them.
If

you read

this parable carefully,

you

will find

much hidden

truth.

God made man

to rule

and
is

to have all things subject to him.

1

The world

Judg.

ix. 8.

102

THE CONTROL OF SELF

teries.

103

gradually learning some of these higher mysIf

you had a

tree or plant

under your

control, in time it
its

would respond, and assume

hidden laws, and you are
I merely give

highest possible form, on condition you beits

came at one with meant to become

world

this.

you

this

simple truth to lead you higher.

is

The physical

governed by

its

own

forces and passions,

and not by the

spiritual, the only real.

For the
^

teaching of this very lesson Jesus stilled the

storm with the word " Peace," since

control over His

He had
self,

own

natural and physical

and afterwards used the God-given right of dominion.^

You

are the channels through which

the divine will

and energy manifests

you must become
is

its

one

self.

To

effect this

selfless
^

and at

one, for the

Lord thy God

one Lord

and not

many.
There are spiritual treasures hidden in your
earth awaiting your appropriation.

These won-

ders and glories are unrevealed to the i3hysical or fallen man.

Cain stands as the symbol for

the spiritually blind; he speaks the truth

2

when
vi. 4.

Mark

iv. 39.

Gen.

i.

26.

Deut.

104

CHRIST IN YOU
:

he says

"

My ^

punishment

is

greater than I

can bear."

Christ your Redeemer is leading

you
man.

back to

your own.

You

are alive to the

truth

of being

the

omnipotence of God in

You
fest

are

now

learning that the natural and

sense body can have no control, but should mani-

wholeness and

love.

There

is

a great and

glorious

work

to be

done on your plant: the

Christ
to all
to do
is

work of^ healing

and

this is possible

who have
your

spiritual control.

We

urge you

yours.

God never fails, and victory You will know exactly how to act as
part.

the need arises.

Take no thought

'^

only in

all

things obey the spirit, and never for a

moment
word

allow the senses to suggest failure, fear, or doubt.

On
of

all

power " Get

^^

occasions speak to the senses the*

^

thee

behind

me,
I say

Satan."

God

waits to pour Himself out.

you can

prove Him.

He

never fails or makes a mistake.

Do you
5

not see what a beautiful work awaits

13.
8.

Gen. iv. Matt. X.

a 9

Luke
Mai.

vii. 7.

Matt. xvl. 23.

iii.

Matt

X. 19.

10

10.

THE CONTROL OP SELF

you?
Love
its
11

105

You

^^

receive by giving.

The more you

and
finds

bless, the greater the

power

of blessing.

is the greatest of all healers,

own way.
Luke vL Sa

TWENTY-SEVENTH LESSON
THE DEATH OF MORTAL MAN

EENUXCIATION
joy
of
vision!
satis-

OH,
and heal

the
is

inexpressible

There

nothing higher or more

shall

fying.

You

know how
live

to speak

in proportion as

you

up

to the high-

est within you.

Renunciation
liberate stand

implies

a complete and de-

for truth,

abandoning

all

else.

It is the step which, once taken,

opens up before

you the Christ

to

existence.
^

It is not, as supposed,

the giving up of

wealth, position, and friends,

it is

become poor and desolate;

world

rather with-

drawal from submission and obedience to the

prince of
sense
-^

this

the

creation of mortal

that

you may deliberately follow the

Christ in* every thought, renouncing all other

rights over you.
1
a

Thus renunciation becomes

s
*

ac-

Matt. X. 39. Matt. xvi. 24.

John

xiv. 30.
6.

2 Cor. x.

196

THE DEATH OF MORTAL MAN

quisition.

107

You
life

lay

down

in order to

take up,

but with a great difference.

Hitherto

has seemed a vast arena, where

losers,

some are winners and some

can fight
strong.
all to
all
;

where
is

all

who

may
all,

win, where the battle

life

to the

In this great game of

that he
is

man

gives

win

may become

greater than

for

him there

nothing beyond.

This plane

is of

the senses.

It is the plane of death

and

finality.

The

forces of the sense jjlane control

is

him, and that which has happened to him

worse than death.

ity.

It is the loss of individual-

The

spiritual

man has

failed to develop in

that form, and must seek another.

Thus the
is
tell it

mortal has not become immortalized, and

known no more.
order that you

This

is true,

and we

in

may understand

the real mean-

ing of the death of the sinner.

of

The preservation

your individuality depends upon yourself

is

that you become the creation of God, a perfect

man, a perfect woman, depends on your coming

definitely to the place of renunciation,^
6

which

Jobn

X. 18.

PhU.

iil. 7,

8.

108
for

CHRIST IN YOU
you the beginning
life,

of

life.

am come

that

you may have

says Christ, and not death.

You

possess nothing of the sense world.

You
to

are a spiritual being, sent out from

God
is

do

His work and

will.

The material plane

your

work commences with the dawning consciousness of God. Your Scripplace of action, and your tures are full of this teaching; Jesus has gone

every step of the

way

for your guidance.

There

are pathfinders in your midst today.

Follow

Me, says Christ, and the spiritual and real

man

renounces

all,

to follow the King.

How we
lift

love your earth!

life,

How we

long to

you into true

but the great and eternal

law stands for

this path,
till
;

ever.

No man

can walk along

he has made the renunciation of

his

own

will

by

this choice

man

proves to

man
are

his right to divinity.

To enter

into truth, he

renounces

all

that the world can give.

You

on the spiritual plane to bring the kingdom of

heaven into unity with earth, that we
one.
T

may

all

be

Thus you
X. 10.
ix.

see

how important

it is to live

John Luke

59

John

xxi. 22.

THE DEATH OF MORTAL MAN

every

169

moment

in the only real.

in,

We

hope to

teach you

much; as you enter

which
is

you must be

full of that confidence

the offspring of

truth.

At present you are

to conquer the fleshly

body, ruling in love, but always ruling.

There
:

is

a beautiful work before you.

in Mb."

Jesus said

"

The

Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing

These were words of

life

and power.

These

may

be your words too, so that nothing

can touch you, hidden in God, doing His work

and willing His

will.

You may

reach the place

voices,

where you no longer hear two

only that of the living Christ.

but one

Rom.

yiii.

11.

PART

II

MIND AND SOUL: THEIR RELATION TO THE BODY

FIRST LESSON
" LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE
'^

WE
heart,

have a glorious message for youir

plane,

and our words are winged.

Thej come with power and influence

to all in need.

You must have

life,

singleness

of

and the consecrated

to be the pure

channel which

God desires.

Is it not

worth while

to voice the highest and to bear the light?

Our
^

message

is for

the world of pain

;

and

suffering,

and

for you, too

wholeness and perfection

are

God's intention.

Our message
lived.

will teach

you
you

how

to attain.

Every spiritual value must be

desired,*^

must be

Our thought
lived,

for

must become embodied,

pressed, to all men.

manifested, ex-

The two conditions we ask, that we may teach you, are that you become willing and obedient. Your life shall help all you
meet, cannot fail to do so, because you cannot
1

Matt.

V. 8.

John xiii

17.

Matt

V. 48.

113

114

CHRIST IN YOU
This
is

grow without drawing others with you.

whole.

Ood's perfect plan for the redemption of the

The seed dies^

hidden,
that
it

in order to live,

and becomes
from
within.

may

manifest

Out

of darkness

light.

Out

of

weakness

strength.

There

is

a wave of disturbance, a spiritual

vol-

cano, about to discharge itself on your earth.

Be not dismayed; unrest and energy only prove

that inherent
life is

at work.

God's wheels must

not clog.
^

By

all

the wars

and signs of the times,

know that the Day of the Lord is at hand, your own Lord and Christ, the indwelling and potent
Christ of God.
of water

Marvel not, ye^ must be born

spirit.

and of the

This I

may

explain
are in

to you later.

The

keys of the

Kingdom

your hands.
will

Out of chaos and confusion there

to your earth.

come peace and order

and the consciousness

The

wars of the nations are the birth pangs of a new

era,

of the race will be

refiner's fire.

lifted

by the pain and agony of the

6 f

4 1 Cor. XV. 36.

John

Ui. 5.

Matt

xxiv. 6.

Matt xvL

19.

"

LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE

who have

''

115

In the hearts of those

attained the

Christ consciousness there will be rest and glori-

ous hope, for they shall see the new dawn arising

when Christ who is our light kingdom cometh for ever and

shall reign.
ever.

His

SECOND LESSON
BOllN OF

THE VIRGIN
spirit

WE
the
first

were discussing the journey of

its

through matter and

is

goal.

This

knowledge

valuable to students at

your stage of evolution.

You have

learned the

truth of Being, your high calling,^ and some of

steps in the great path.

When
is

a travel-

ler is

going into strange country he

sometimes

brought to a seeming stop by huge tracts of forest

land,

tremendous

rivers,

and

mountainous
to the pres-

heights.

The

spiritual life has

up
of

ent been one shared withi others of like thought

and habit as
as

yourselves.

Some
and in
^

you are

seek-

ing farther on, and this means that you are called

Abraham was,
Am.^

alone

faith.

Only the
to help

called see the burning bush

I

and hear the great

One

of the obstacles
is

we want
2.

you to overcome
1

the mystery of the Incarna8

Phil.

iii.

14.
1.

Ex. iU.

Gen. xU.

4Bx.
110

iii.14.

BORN OF THE VIRGIN

tion, or, as

117

we

stated at the first

the journey
age.

of the spirit.

To woman

and to woman alone

it

came
is

this understanding,

and

will be again re-

vealed to the feminine in this

new

Woman

having her true place in revelation and pro-

phecy, and to

woman

shall the great mystery be

made known. You have learned through previous lessons that there is perfect unity between God and
man.
This consciousness
is

slowly and surely

Now, only by keeping this truth in mind can you comprehend our lesson. Even as God and man are one, so also there must of necessity be one only, and in
dawning over the whole
earth.
this

one

is

the
is

all,

manifesting through every

channel.

God

the two in one, of both natures,

ever self -creative, and the ultimate end of our race is unity.
life

All

life

was symbolized by the

every particular.

of Jesus Christ in

He

came

of the perfect unity of the

two natures.

Mary
say

symbolizes this truth, and here

lest

we would

any err by worship, or undue adora-

tion of type or personality

6

that Mary was the

Luke

i.

38.

118

CHRIST IN YOU
flesh

body of

used for this holy manifestation, for

the teaching of the world, and not because of her

separate worth.
separation,
Self.
it

Seeing that the outer self

is

cannot be known as the complete

The race

is

rising to a

knowledge of the purity

love,

of God, the sinlessness

and

wherein

is

har-

mony, and some here and there are learning that

the age of passion, desire, and lust
is

passing

away.

There

is

stealing over men's hearts the

It is

love-nature of God.

through our love-na-

ture that

we

learn the complete allness of God.

of the twain one flesh
;

He

is

making

this is the

marriage of the two natures.

Jesus Christ was

born directly from the two in one

as He

will-

ingly chose to take up the life on earth, from

the beginning.
race

In every
Yes,

man.
is in

way He stands for our Jesus was^ God incarnate,

Him.

and we*^
His seed

shall be like

He was

creative.
first

all,

the holy child

must
is

be

born in you ere you can comprehend this mystery.

Life is a spiritual essence.
1 T

Birth
Gal.

a spiritual

Tim.

111.

16.

iv. 19.

John

ill. 2.

BORN OF THE VIRGIN

fact, invisible at present to

119
Jesus
of

mortal eye.

of Nazareth

was God-Man, coming by the path

the one body of flesh.

Let us make quite clear that God has always

been manifest in the world.

The coming

of

Jesus was the symbol of the supreme wholeness

and perfection of man by the Christ of God. Learn by this wondrous life the love of God and
the great unity.
I
^^

and the Father are

in

one.

When you
God
is

have risen out of your false belief

in separateness,

and know

your heart that

will

ALL in all, then, and then only,

you

glide out of the false consciousness of sin, suffering,

and pain, leaving

it

like

a worn-out gar-

ment, rising into purer

erated.

life,

renewed and regen-

Our next
sibilities."

lesson will be

"Mind, and

its pos-

Acts xiv.

17.

10

John

x. 30.

THIRD LESSON
MIND, AND ITS POSSIBILITIES

EVERY
power over
say,

condition of

mind always brings

about an outward manifestation even on

the sense plane, and the separate self has
its

own environment.
act,
^

Thus,

we

will
is

you think, you

you become.

Man
I

constantly clothing himself with

his thoughts,

but these truths are familiar to you, and

to lead

you
^

to the higher possibilities of the

want mind
after

that

is

supreme in truth; the only mind, the

Christ.

mind
heavy,

of

The Psalmist, groping

^'
:

this great truth, cries out

Why

art

thou so

O my

soul?

For

I will yet praise

Who
God."

is

the health of

my

countenance

Him and my

Around you are people

ness, imperfection,

in a condition of sickof

and want, some

them Chris-

tians, as regards the following of the personal

1

Prov. xxlii.
ii.

7.

Ps. xliii. 5.

2 Phil.

5.

120

MIND,

AND

ITS POSSIBILITIES made

121

Jesus, but they have not

the great discovery

is

of the indwelling Lord.

There

no state of

ignorance too low for the renewal of life

health.

and
ig-

Those who throw

off the

body prema-

turely are just as culpable as suicides,

and

norance

is
^

not counted as innocence, since the

all

light is in

men

at some time or other the

I

knowledge comes.

am

speaking

now

only to

readers of this book.

You have no
^

right to al-

low sin and death to reign in

your mortal bodies.

The vital question

alive to the

for

you

is

How to become
to the

mind
Let

of Christ

and dead

mind

of sense?

me

here say that you have passed

from death into

is less

life spiritually,
if

but your work

than half done

in

you have not conquered

flesh.

death

your body of

clothed in the flesh that

You have become you may manifest God,

you allow any-

and you have

failed seriously if

thing to hide or blur the outer garment, which

should manifest wholeness and love.

Now we come
4
5

to the beginnings.
die.

You thought
Cease your

your body must suffer and

John i. 9. Rom. vt 12,

1 Cor. xv. 26.

122
thinking,

CHRIST IN YOU
and
let Christ think.
full,

am come

that
lifeJ

they might have

rich,

abundant

Wherever Jesus went, disease dissolved into nothingness; at His touch wholeness sprang up.

down when you have learned life's lessons, and when you are ready for the interior life. You will not escape the ills of the flesh even when you kill your presYour body should be
willingly laid

ent body,

if

you have

failed to obtain

your earth
j

experience ; for the soul has failed to use

ties,

its facul-

to acquire, to obey

some divine law, and

There
is

therefore loses an opportunity to express divinity,

the true purpose of incarnation.

finer school for this experience,
life.

no

which we set

out to gain, than this earth

We must enter

into the Christ consciousness

if

we would express

the body of wholeness.

Since the mind is the seat of pain, do you not

see that unless

you have the mind of Christ you

it

cannot acquire
flesh

by freedom from the body of

difficult to

only?

It is

more

conquer on the

plane of
back.
7

spirit, in fact,

you

will long to

come
;
j

Just where you are

8

is the

place to learn

Jolin X. 10.

Matt

iv. 23.

MIND,
therefore

AND

ITS POSSIBILITIES
love

123

we who

you come

to help

you at
are a

your present stage, not only for your sake, but

in order that the great Self, of which
part,

we

may not

be ignorantly hidden.

Begin by opposing sense suggestion.

not

You

are

bom

to suffer

purpose.

There

is

and decay, but are here for a a reason for your place in and no one
that
else

the great plan of

life,

can do your
dif-

work.
ficult

Reject the suggestion that you have

circumstances,

your

environment

makes triumph impossible.

tions can be

These very condi-

made

steps of ascent; you can begin

now to readjust your life. Every

ignorantly denied, or
again.
it will

sense suggestion
dealt with, not

must be reasonably and carefully

Therefore

crop up again and

patience

answer with

and

sweet reasonableness.
is

You

will find that this

the very opportunity for the higher Self to

speak.

Many *

join with us, as

you read these

words, in prayer and strong encouragement that

you

fail not.

Begin as we suggest, in the sim-

plest way, to realize that it is

God ^^

that work-

eth in

you

to
1.

wiU and

to do.
lo

Heb. xiL

2 Chron. xx.

17.

124

CHRIST IN YOU
hope to continue the teaching of the pos-

We

sibilities of

mind
''

in future lessons,
I

and our next

taking this
daily,

lesson will be

Personality."

am

subject because you

must carefully and

even hourly, as you count time, follow the suggestions given, always remembering Christ in

you, the Lord of

all.

FOURTH LESSON
PEBSONALITY

HUMANITY shrinks, and rightly

any thought of strangeness or

so,

from

loss,

and

any thought that occasions shrinking or

pain should be quietly and peacefully dropped,

without

strife

or resistance.
will retain
it,

I can tell

you for

a certainty that you

just as long as

your personality
will need it

you need
I

and you

much

longer yet.

am

allowed to say to you

that the meeting with your loved ones will be

sweetly familiar, a great deal better than you

can imagine, for they and you will be enriched

by the love between you.

gain.

Your

loss is

always

You can

help them by your love and

prayer,

and they help you; think often of them. Bless them and become conscious of unity, which
a blessed reality.

is

There

is

nothing untoward

or strange ; you are here just what you have made

1

Matt

V. 39.

126

126
yourselves,

CHRIST IN YOU

and they who love you would not have you with them until you have finished. In fact, you are near them now, but the veil or covering
is

over you at present.

Love Love Love.

It

This

is

a potent

force.

would not meet the demands of your present

nature to arrive suddenly at the end of being,

since everything in God's plan is in perfect order.

There must be gradual unfoldment and gentle

awakening; even after the

its personal form,
it

spirit ceases to
it

need

can always resume

at will.

Paul,^

who was allowed

to enter the interior

realms, tells you that the inner

man

is ^

renewed

day by day in an identity peculiarly your own,

and exactly resembling you as you appeared,

refining

ex-

cept that you have added the spiritual qualities,

and defining
^

all

the highest

and

best.

This, too, is a covering or resurrection body,

it is

and

clothed in

white raiment to appear before

mortal eyes.

As your

Scriptures
life is
^

tell

you repeatedly, the

continuity of
2

no more broken when the

*

2 Cor.

xii. 2.
i?. 16.

John xx.

12. 10.

2Cor.

2Tlm. t

PERSONALITY
child life broken by the incident of birth.

127

breath leaves the body than is the continuity of

It is

the means by which

life is liberated,

becoming

more
ness

intense.

Memory^

exists,

although

we
not

have learned the power to dissolve into nothing-

this

is

true f orgetf ulness

all

that

is

of use.

But

would have you know that you are

greater than your form, that you have no limit,

that you take limitations for purposes at present

hidden from you, that true personality

fleshly

is

not the

form or a separate body, but, by reason

of its greatness, is best manifested in part.

Paul,

who had

learned this mystery,

tells

you

plainly that " the body is for the Lord,

and the

Lord^ for the

body,'' therefore it is quite clear

is

that the body or form

only a part of the great

whole, the mystic body of Christ.

revealed to

Paul also had

of

man, as he was present in spirit with the Church of Corinth while his body was visible in another place.

him the omnipresence

Always bear

in

mind that

to us there is neither

time nor space.

Luke xvL

28.

1 Cor. v. 3.

1 Cor. vi. 18.

128
I told

CHRIST IN YOU
you at the beginning that your Scripto

tures could reveal the highest, and you will find

more and more that we only present

you in a

new

light the truth

which was from the beginsee life

ning, so that you

points,

may

from higher stand-

with renewed vision, new hopes, and

loftier spheres of

moving in
ence.

thought and experi-

Now you
sesses the

begin to see that the Lord Christ posflesh,

body of
^

through which you choose

is

to manifest ;

and there

no reason why

it

should not readily respond, unless you yield to

the great enemy, the false belief in separateness.

This enemy

is

symbolized in the story of the

Garden
lower
in the

of Eden, the separation

from God.

The

self

would become even as the gods, though

words

''

Hear,
"

^^

Israel, the

Lord thy

God

is

One Lord

it

was taught that we are

never can

one, that separate or outer forms

finally overrule the

One God. God requires perfection, therefore if we would rise to this consciousness we must begin with our lower self to bring it into obedience and subjection to the one

1 Cor.

m. ie

1 Oor. vL 19.

'

lo

Deut

vi. 4.

PERSONALITY
Ruler,

129

and as we do
is.

this

we

learn what our true

personality

We

shall not accomplish this

^^

great purpose without constant watchfulness

and wholeheartedness/^ giving

that
11

all to

gain

all,

ready at every turn to sacrifice the lower

self,

we may become
37.

selfless
12

and
Mark

free.
xii. 30.

Mark xm.

FIFTH LESSON
THE TRUE SELF
**Let

him deny himself and follow

Me"

HOW
is

often

we have

to

remind you of the

!

truth you have already learnt

Spirit

the only substance ; exactly as the sap

is

the true life of the tree, so also your spiritual

is

being

the cause of your natural existence.

until it has

You can never impart a truth

alive within yourself.
tell

become

We

have many things to

but at present your

you about the

is to

life here,

highest good

learn the truths best applic-

able to your present conditions.

When

speak of the wholeness of the race and

I

the mystical body,

do not want to give you

wrong ideas about your individual responsibility. Each member is a complete worker. What you
see

on the plane of the senses

130

is to

us shadowy,
are to

vague, and often meaningless.

You

make

THE TRUE SELF

real^ to create^ to

131

bring into exi^^tence^ spiritual

life.

realities

by living on the only real plane of

^

This

is to

bring in the

new heaven and

the

new

earth.

Your

spiritual eyes will open gradually,

not into an unfamiliar environment, but into an

intensely real
ness.
life,

wherein dwelleth

righteous-

We are
succeed
if

working
you

all

over the worid in bands to

establish true unity

and brotherhood.
with
us.

We

shall

will unite
is

Is it not

worth

while?

True unity

not to separate heaven

from earth, but to bring the kingdom of heaven

on to earth.

For

watch and wait

of

we labour and pray and we shall never cease until

this

the Lord Christ has

come

to

His own, the Christ

the
de-

God who spake with the lips of Jesus; Christ of God who dwells within, the great

mankind from the bondage of sin, flesh, and the world of sense. For the Son of man must indeed be lifted up,^ and the false man of
liverer of

sense become as nought, that

we

all

may

be

one
1

for

Christ is God.
1.

Clearly you see the

Kev. xxi.

John xU.

32.

12 Peter

Ui. 13.

132

CHRIST IN YOU
self

importance of denying
voice

and following the

and guidance

of Christ!

In the morning of your day commence by

cleansing your heart from within (the cleansing
of the body follows as his in the full sunshiae)
ing, prejudice,
.

shadow follows a man

First cast out false think-

thoughts of sickness, fear and

pain,

by true reasoning and simple, childlike

faith in God.

As you

rise,

your thoughts should

bless.

be of strength, love, a strong desire to

Now

follows your prayer, a free and full conse-

cration of all for good, that

glorified,

God only may be

a prayer of steadfast assurance

shall eat or

Take
shall
^

no * thought what ye
put on.

what ye

The

life is

more than meat, the body

than raiment.

It is true that

God

will supply

your every need.

In

all

your thoughts and deeds,

your intercourse with personalities, remember

that you are on the plane of spirit, seeking
first

the^ kingdom of God, the only reality.

Oh, you are rich beyond

human language!
"^

Leave your chamber

Matt.
vi. 25.

" strong in

the Lord

and

Matt.

vi. 33.

Phil. iv. 19.

Eph. vt

10.

THE TRUE SELF

in the

133

power of His might."

be one."

Let your whole be-

ing join in the only true life-work

all

" That they

may
John

Amen, Amen, Amen.

xvii. 11.

SIXTH LESSON
THE TRUE SELFISHNESS

BE
I

of good courage, for all is well,

God

dwelleth in you, and this is the

chief eternal truth.

know you are progressing because already you can command right thoughts and dismiss
inharmonious ones.
Results will
follow,

and

now you

will learn discrimination.

It is not

given to all to be able to judge others, but content yourself,

ing for

when tempted to judge, with praythem, and as you evolve, your prayers
you are

will be fraught with healing, because

learning to pray aright.

Be

of good courage.

Evil is friendly and has a beneficent purpose.

Man becomes
and out of
the
soil.

God-like because he rises through

just as the plants emerge
is closely

evil,

from

Every good

imitated in the
is

false
1

dream world, and one of the imitations

14

Pa. xxvU.

THE

TRtTE SELFISHNESS
This
is

135

called selfishness.

a divine

instinct,
it,

and

you cannot and should not uproot

them a truth of God.
and holy
selfishness.

but learn

always that these delusions of sense have behind

Let us discover the true

Man's
tion.

first instinct is self-interest, self-protec-

Even

in

spiritual

things you are con-

stantly seeking to acquire for yourself.

You

re-

quire healing of the body, a rich mind, a true

life.

This

is

a God-given instinct, and you are

to get, but learn that to get is to give.

The true
the great

law of giving

is

to benefit all,

and thus you bring

is

good

to

your Self; which, remember,

Self.

and only

Let us begin by a simple explanation.

the language of earth that you
for

use

may

understand,

you know^ already that material things have

real existence, that

no

your thought of them

is

their only reality.

Do you desire
how
to obtain

health of body?

Let us teach you

it,

the true way.

You
to

begin at once to send out healing currents

some one in a lower condition than yourself,

and immediately yon have made a pathway by

which your own shall come to you.

Your

first

136
thought, I see,
self?

CHRIST IN YOU
is,

how can

I heal
it,

when

sick

my-

The

first

time you try

you will underis

stand that the very effort of faith required

the beginning of your

own

healing,

and the larger

love going out to others doubles your

in the long run.

own

joy

True
This
is

getting

is

always hy way of

sacrifice.

a simple thing to know, but

it is

the key

to all
all

true healing, of mind, body, or estate; for

will receive double,

you have truly given you

^

but you do not render to the Lord that which

costs

you nothing.

In the sight of God, no

gift

has been blessed to your own soul unless you

have willingly given from your heart and blessed

the gift by your love.
told,

You may have wealth

un-

though unmanifest to mortal eye.

good

practice each day is to bless and heal every one

in the house.

Begin at once, knowing only the

all in

great Self,
house.

remembering the need of

the

Your own Lord

love.

will reveal each need;

all,

be resolute, be positive, and, above

full of

hope and

If the unseen

become

visible at

such times, include them, only send out, give,

2

Acts XX. 35.

2 Sam. xxiv.

24t,

THE TRUE SELFISHNESS

give, give.

137
get-

I tell

you that

this is

your real

ting,

your real healing.

spirit reveals to
I

The

you more and more.

Do

you not see that

am

helping you to one of the

richest positions; that

you may become a centre

of healing; spirit, the pure flame, burning

up the

dross; the soul, the link, holding all the physical

powers; and the body, showing the beauty^ of

the Lord, the true beauty^ of Holiness.

Again
practice.

I ask that

you put these lessons into

* Ps. xc. 17.

1 Chron. xvi. 29.

SEVENTH LESSON
DWELL DEEP

YOU
for

are

spirit,

soul,

and

body.

The
upon

spirit,

the innermost, is clothed

soul.

by the

The body

is

the vehicle

manifestation.

Your

wholeness

depends

upon the one consciousness, and the active cooperation of soul and body. Knowing only God
brings into operation hidden laws, at present

unknown

to you.

You
live.

develop spiritual powers

which have hitherto lain dormant, and your whole

being begins to

Hearing, seeing, touch,

and the power

soul
;

to

communicate belong to the

they are transmitted to a denser body for

a divine purpose.
bilities,

The

soul has great responsi-

ence to

and everything depends upon her obedithe Lord and Master, and to her transfer

of spiritual desire to the outer body.

this,

More than
vi-

by true living you send forth spiritual

138

DWELL DEEP
brations, currents of blessing
all

189
healing,

and

and

are helped by your radiant and pure environ-

ment.

Every spiritual
never
I tell

desire, expressed

through the
it is

outer body, goes on and obeys a higher law ;

lost.

Never mind

if

you do not see

results.

you the result of every noble thought

ex-

pressed has far-reaching effects, and you will

know one day

been
satisfied.

that the faintest longing desire has

When you

meditate or pray,

it is

the soul

and

not the body that opens to the spirit; mind-

wandering or lack of earnestness means that the

brain
it
is

not co-operating with the soul.

See to

that you are definite;

and
You.

think, speak, act

from the innermost of yourself.

your real identity.
It is

Your

soul is

The
and

soul thinks, breathes, acts from the spirit,

should

make
spirit.

perfect
so,

the

outer

body.

Wherever
place,
flesh

this is not

the soul has failed in its

obedience to

If this disobedience takes

you

will find that the passing out of the

does not

mean that

the soul will then func-

tion freely; for disuse of the spiritual

medium

140

CHRIST IN YOU
sleep.

means coma, arrested growth,

Awake

*
!

thou that sleepest, Christ dwells within.

When you

have ceased to need the body you

will give back the atoms, purified and trans-

muted by the divine

but express
it.

life.

Do

not repress

life,

There

is

nothing either in or out

of the flesh that can hinder the disciple at one with the will of God.
1

who

is

Eph,

V. 14.

EIGHTH LESSON
UNFOLDMENT FEOM WITHIN

THE
too,
it

soul has entered your present body

it

that

may

express

God's meaning

through this medium, also because the

soul has need of certain experiences.

The body,
it

must be rightly valued, seeing that

;

exists

for a divine purpose

but

it is

only of value when

takes

its

true place in the divine order.

^

The

soul is the sheath

of the spirit, the clothing of

man, who

is

for the time veiled in flesh.

Man becomes God-like

and
discipline.

only through experience

This can be understood in your

life

present period of

by the comparison between

an innocent,
age; the one

happy
is

child

and a happy, ripe old

ignorantly happy and the other

has matured and unfolded through knowledge

and
ence
1

suffering.
is

Both are happy, but the

differ-

very great.
Til. 15,

Your present earth

141

experi-

Dan*

margin.

142
ence
is

CHRIST IN YOU
the most beneficial state for your present

healthy development.

The mind functions from the

soul.

Before

man awakes
has ruled.
centre, their
is

to self-knowledge the sense

mind

All the cells in your body have their

mind the grey matter

;

of the brain

not the only centre for the sensation of mind.

ruled by the Christ

When

mind they are

soul of

flooded

by the great intelligence in every part, each doing

its w^ork perfectly.

But the
This

man awakes
its

in a

body that has formed a kingdom of

begins.
I

own,

and a warfare
of your
it

is

the very period

:

life

at which

would help you we

it is

call

the transitional, and

a time when you need

is

all

your faith and hope, for the body

so fre-

quently unable to respond to the

new

king,

and

seems for a while to

me,
it is

fail.

Have

faith: believe

true that once you have passed this

lose;

stage,

you gain what you will never

work.

you

also rise into a higher cycle,

ties for greater

and have opportunifrom being the

spiritu-

It is at this very point that,

healthy, uncivilized man,

ally healthy

you become the

God-Man.

You

fail

perhaps to be-

UNFOLDMENT FROM WITHIN

come your
sense
ideal at once, but

143

you

will surely win.

Obey the highest within you, and never let the

mind

rule you.

For

this reason I say that

;

you cannot believe in what you see you are conscious that

you are about to manifest

is

all

things

anew.

This

a slow process, since

false think-

ing has brought about false conditions.

illustration,

As an

melancholy or depression causes

acidity in the blood,

its

and can only be cast out by

or
hope.

opposite joy

Kemedies

from

without can do good for a time only.

The inner
the one

man ^
first.

should be daily renewed by

It is not

spirit,

reality.

meet that the last should be

Spirit rules.

Love and harmony should

and
is

prevail, not warfare

strife.

Teach the body

its

that its highest good

obedience to

Lord.

Now you know

reigns in me.

enough to be able to say

Christ
is

Kise in

harmony

spirit,

soul,

and body
unis

reaching the eternal consciousness, which

changing, holy.

You have

learned that this

self
;

not the case with the lower

the sense

mind

being changeful, evanescent, susceptible to other

a

2 Cor.

Iv. 16.

144

CHKIST IN YOU
JSow you are wholeThis

influences, other minds.

ness, true health
is

and unchanging thought.

the path to unity with the two worlds; Christ

in you, bringing life

and

immortality to

light.

You
ment
The

will receive the inner illumination.

You

are learning what a glorious thing your unfoldis,

warmed

into growth by the interior sun.

soul has a real

work

to do in

your body

through the mind of Christ.

Rejoice Ihat you

have burst the outer covering of the seed, that

by an immutable law you must

Sit in silence,

rise.

and slowly repeat the Lord's

Prayer.

Its spiritual

meaning

will arise in you.

glory.
8

For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the Amen. Amen. Amen.
2 Tim.
1.

10.

NINTH LESSON
THE SOUL

SHOULD like to continue our discussion

on

I
is

the soul, for I rejoice to

know

that you

realize the spiritual world to be here.

You
spirit

will live in it

more and more, learning that

true substance, and that you function truly

from your luminous body, holding within yourself all

you need.
see beauty, truth, or goodness,

Wherever you
it is

God

finding expression, and you will see

least expect

them where you

when dwelling on
that seems to the

the spiritual plane, and

much

natural eye good, beautiful, and true you will

prove to be false imitations of the

art,
is

real.

Music,

poetry are expressions of God.

All genius

God

revealing Himself; by the very revelation,

the soul refines the outer body, which should be

as clay in the hands of the potter.^ All states of existence, now, and in the future,
1 Jer.

xvUi.

6.

145

146

CHRIST IN YOU
life

are determined by the inner

sion.

and

its

expres-

It is not

enough to know that you pos-

sess the indwelling

power

to

become the eternal

Christ.

Your
^

real work, like that of Jesus, is

Your environment is the outcome of your mind and thought. Heaven and hell are states of existence you make for yourYour fall away from truth self here and now.
to express

God.

is

caused by the souPs separation from God's

thought, and by following the false self-consciousness.

Listen to your

own Lord and

life

Christ,

who

brings deliverance^ to the captive and sight to

the blind,
tion.*

who redeemeth thy

from destruc-

The seven creative days are experiences within

yourself.

God speaks the word of power when "Let there be light,' and the light shineth from within.'^ The dividing of the*

He

says,

waters
the

is

the

separation

of

the

divine

and

human, the firmament, symbolizing the

Heavenly-Divine, and the seas the Earthly-Hu

John Luke

xiy. 9.
Iv.

la

Gen. Gen,

1.
I.

8. 6, 7.

* Pa. clil. 4.

THE SOUL
man.
first state

147

The separation of sea and land means the

of receptivity, to express clearly that
is free

land (mind)
festation.

and awaiting God's mani''

bring
soul
:

And God said, Let the earth (mind) forth, and God says within you, to your

bring forth, manifest, express

:

My

thought.

Then you read God gave the two lights, the ' greater and the lesser. These symbolize the human and lights of the two understandings

divine.

The seas are

fruitful

on the

fifth

day,

thus proving the creativeness of mind and the

birth of ideas.

larger idea,

till

Then we read of larger growth, we come finally to ourselves

man
It is

in the image of God,^^ God's idea.

You
yet.^^

have not entered into the seventh period

one of great delight and triumph.

Bead

this for yourselves with the spiritual understanding.

Each

soul

makes
its

its

own Heaven, and

there is

a sense in which each created being augments

Heaven by
T

own

created environment.
10
ii

By

Gen. Gen. Qen.

1.

11. 16.

1. 1.

Gen. Gen.

1.

26.
2,

ii.

20.

148

CHRIST IN YOU
becomes greater.
In this sense you can
tell

your rebirth into the spiritual kingdom, Heaven

itself

understand better what I mean when I

part of

you

that all are benefited by one, because you are a

all.

use the language of earth, but you

have spiritual discernment.^^

find true language to express

We

can never

Heaven and God,

since the

first is

a state of consciousness, and the

second

infinity.

I have given
subject, as it is

you these three lessons on the one

good for you to
live
all

according to

divine and spiritual law.

With

thy getting,

get
life

^^

wisdom.

When

the soul sees and knows,

appears orderly, and the body of flesh sensi-

bly obedient.

be revealed.
all believers.

Be ^^ patient much more shall The kingdom of heaven is open to

;

Love, Peace, Joy.

12 1 Cor. 13
ii.

14

14 Jas. v. 7, 8.

Prov.

iv. 7.

PART

III

DIVINE HUMANITY

FIRST LESSON
I

IN

THBM
your understanding

WANT

to unfold to

something of the meaning of God immanent and

God

transcendent.

God and man

After

are not separated, and never have been.^

our lesson on the mind and soul you are quite

aware of the oneness and unity

in every living thing.

of

life.

You

are

You
lives,

are round about

everything that
self

is.

You cannot

separate yourits

from anything that

moves, and has

being.

You

are in the rock, the crystal in every

bud and

twig, in all places at all times.

You

have always been.

The sense

of separateness is

false understanding,

and brings only confusion

of mind.
Is not this feeling of unity

more than a

rela-

tion to

God?

Is

it

not the One speaking and

breathing through

all

forms

all

Creation

the creator and the created?

1

How

say est thou:

Jolm xvU.

21.

151

152
"

CHEIST IN YOU
the Father?
''

Show us

"
^

He that hath

seen Me,

hath seen the Father."

Oh, priceless truth,

!

now our

privilege

and joy to enter into

" I

and ^ the Father are one."

How
edge

are

we going

to live, so that this knowl-

may be

used for all?

You

dwell in the utter-

most parts of the earth, you have your responsibility there, here,

and everywhere.

You

are not

without a witness, and you know nothing but

the one good, one will, not a union of spirit with

parent

spirit,

but an

at-one-ment.

Knowing
is
is

only one Lord one God one Christ this

not a mystery to you any longer.

folding,

The race

un-

and you are unfolding; and just as you

yield to truth

and

love, so all are helped.

it is

I can-

not put this too strongly, for in

the answer
sor-

to all the seeming mystery of pain

and the

rows of
now.

life.

Surely

He

hath borne our griefs

is

and carried our sorrows, and

doing this even

Will you reverently consider

be a limited part?

why you seem

to

Is it not because you have

* Isa. lUl. 4.

John

xlv. 9.

Joliu X. 30.

IN

THEM

153

looked upon

God

as apart from yourself, thought

of the indwelling Christ as Jesus of Nazareth?

Do you
been

not see for yourself

your

understanding?

how childlike has Your dependence

upon some
I

one, something, proved your childlike

consciousness ; and even as a child learns to say

am

myself, so will the whole

human

race say,

as

we now say
I

together:

I in

you and you in

is

Me.

am

Myself.

This understanding

put-

ting Christ on the throne, lifting

Him

to

where

He

deals with error and sin as a thing outside

Himself.
reveals to

The truth dawns, and the inner Christ

man

his birthright, his true power, for

and henceforth he becomes one with,

through
all.

and
disre-

Think for a moment how you

if

honour Jesus as teacher

you hold
^

Him

sponsible for the forgiveness of your ignorance.

Hath He not

said

All that

the Father hath is

yours, is mine?

He

hath also given you the key,

the power of appropriation by faith.

5

18

Luke XV. 31 Luke x. 19.

John

xvi. 15

1 Cor.

iii.

21

Matt.

xxvm.

SECOND LESSON
"thou
in

MB"
and

KEEP you
all

in

mind

the previous chapter,

will be led
life is

back to

it

and

find that

your

going to teach you that

the
to

God-Man Christ is all in all. This truth has be made one with the outermost limits of creby drawing from
its

ation, just as a leaf learns

source its oneness

tree.

more than unity with the

The
real

There

is

a condition of consciousness in
lives.

everything that

you knows everyof dependence

thing about

itself,

but the leaf or seeming unit

its life

can only learn slowly, by

and unfoldment,

its

own

place and meaning.

Every atom contains the whole.

The whole

of

God
you

is in

the blade of grass.

Try
its

to banish the

thought of distance or space, and know that what

see contains within
is

it

true life; the

thought

within every expression.

Your

first

and lowest consciousness of

life

was
seecl

movement.

Your highest
154

is

love.

The

"

THOU

IN

ME

''

155

thought
life

is

always hidden within every phase of

it

through which you merge;

moves, quick-

and brings forth seed (thought). This is true of all creation. Your first movement was
ens,

in secret/ yea, in the lowest parts of the earth.

This

is

symbolized in every physical birth; the

is

whole of creation
truths of
life

manifest to the

seer.

The

are simple and open.

do not

wish to cause you vain speculation, but we desire

to be of real practical use to you at the stage of

unfoldment where you now

in the scale of evolution

are.
is,

However low
spiritual evoits

that

lution a soul

is, it

can be perfect of
sin, sickness,

kind,

and should be
This
is

free

from

and death.

our glorious message for you.

We would

have you know yourselves.

cause.

Get back to the

Be-

Why

are people suffering and sinful?

cause they willingly choose to dwell in a divided

consciousness of good and
evil.

Whoever
is ^

for

even a second has seen that there

no

evil,

has

passed from death to

life.

He

has entered the

Heaven
1

of Heavens, he has seen God.

2 Isa.

The Fall

Ps. cxxxix. 15.

xxxiii. 15,

156
is

CHEIST IN YOU
It is

a thing of the present.

a false under-

standing.

Why have we
ing that

tolerated this consciousness, seefail?

is

God cannot
it.

The

real

you has
all

never tolerated
ness really;

There

only one consciousthe

it is

deep within yourself

is

time

it

always has been, and now

it

around you

and because of
ing
off

and

its livingness

you are shakIn the

the

shadow

of ignorance

a condition of
that sin and ig-

growth and

rising into pure being.

great process you will

know

norance are less than the morning mists now being dispelled by the inner sun, the
love-life.
fire of

the

To become aware, while

in the shadow,

of the reality of this one true life is the solution

of everything, for with this true understanding

you must know that

you are one with
this

all is

well for ever.

That

are emerging into

movement means that you fulness and freedom. See

how
you.

it is lifting

the whole race!

;

We

see its

potent healing power everywhere

we rejoice with
life

You
light.

are entering into the kingdom of

and
and

Death and sin are conquered now

for ever.

f'

THOU
we

IN

ME

''

157

In our next lesson

will discuss the

way

of

ascent from your present condition.

Peace and joy and the sweet fellowship of the

heavenly host be yours, as you consider these
truths.

Nothing

is

impossible to

him that

believeth.

THIRD LESSON
"seek and ye shall
find'^

THE
standing.

question

may

be asked
in

Why

are so

many
this

people

still

bondage even with

are in
earnest,

knowledge?

We

and are willing to be and do what we can. It is good for you to give your heart to the understanding of wisdom.

Knowledge

is

not underGod-like.

To know God we must be

Because we long for perfection, we are already

at its beginnings.

Do

not regard any of these

things as distant or outside yourselves: that is the spirit of separateness.

Let us meet the seem-

ing

difficulties

together, the weights

life,

and

hin^

drances of your everyday

set

for the truth will

you

free.

Many
perature.
fluences.
1

of

you seem to be

in

bondage to the

climate, to lack of heat or to unevenness of tem-

Your bodies are

32
1Q6

subject to

many
I

in-

I too suffered in this way,

and

would

John

viii.

''

SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND "

my
experience.
I needed

159
could

gladlj help you with

I understand that
I

How

what

thought
chill,

it

necessary to

was within? be warmly clad, to

life.

avoid
if I

and

to take food to sustain

Ah

could only show you for a minute a spiritual

being

who has passed

all

this stage,

you would know

the^ bread of

beyond
life,

doubt that Christ

is

the true daily bread, nourishing both soul

to supply

and body, able

your every need.

As you awake in the morning you look outside and see cold; now you both see and feel cold. You must see before you feel a truth or a falsehood
;

this is

a law.

We

shall straightway begin

will look within

to reverse the order.

You

and

see only God,

you

will feel

and understand God.

must have

Your
its

feeblest effort in this direction

reward.

Bead this truth into every detail of the day, and live in the assurance that God cannot fail. See reality, God, behind every shadow. As you go into the outer, cast out fear. Be not anxious, and the very elements will be at one with you.
This
2

is

the rule of the spiritual.

yi. 35.

Your whole

Jolm

160

CHRIST IN YOU
is

supply for every need

within yourself.

The

day

is at

hand when man, on the

earth, will be a

true spiritual being.

pressed yourself in

Even now you have exthe present phase, and the

and
j^ou are learn-

God-Man
tion
;

is

seeking a higher form of manifesta-

but

all

must

co-operate,

ing the laws of the spiritual kingdom for this

end, that sorrow

and sighing^ may

responsibility
is

flee

away,

that the sons and daughters of

God may hunger

great,

no* more.
your work

Your
is

but

for eternity.

Do

not lose heart.

Be
but

of

good courage.
is

The work may seem slow,

result in yourself will be

God

in

it.

The
and

first

a sense of command, and later you will smile

limitations, for

at your old fears at

you

will be

home and

at rest in

any climate or circum-

stance.

Do you

not see for yourself

how your thought

Later
life

has been concerned with your dependence upon

material warmth, food, and sustenance?

you
will
a

will

put these in their true place, und

its

open out
XXXV.
10.

treasure.^
6

At

present your

Isa.

Deut

xxviii. 12.

Rev.

vii. 16.

''

SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND

life.

''

161

whole time and thought are given to caring for

the daily outer

Think what the spiritual

being with
if

its

higher faculties could enter into

you gave half as much time and thought to

life

the true

Live simply.
things of today.

Take no anxious thought

Let the dead bury
within.
^

for the

their dead.

Follow Me.
6

am

Matt. vm. 22.

FOURTH LESSON
"the knowledge
of god shall

covee the earth''

THE
Lift

day of the Lord

is

at hand, is here.

Truly the Lord Christ has come in great

The signs are in earth and sky. up your heads. The King of ^ glory has
glory.
in.

come

This

is

the wonder, the silence of this

new

birth.

What

does

it

mean

for you?

The conscious-

ness of Christ

is

dawning

in every lowly heart.

is

The supreme man Christ

darkness
is
^

on the throne, and

under His

feet.

God

tells

this

blessed secret to the dwellers in the innermost,

that they

may

carry the tidings to the very outeris

most.
Christ.

The Lord our God

There
all
is

One Lord, even

something for you to do in this

work, but
self.
1 Ps.

good, all knowledge is within one-

The
xxiv.

real

need for help

2

is great.

We

see

Ps. xviii. 9.

162

"

THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

My

''

163
liv-

souls imprisoned in limitations, thirsting for

ing waters.

people would die for lack^ of

understanding.
in the midst.

Man

is divine,

and God

is

ever

Your true consciousness is the knowledge that One and One only fills all * space. When you silently think of this you will know that in this
understanding, in this continual realization, true

freedom

lies.

You
you

will cast off everything alien

will transmute the very sins

to this; nay,

and ignorances into the pure gold and wealth of

life.

These must be the healing of the

self

by

the Self, the forgiveness, the whole redemption

from your Christ, your indwelling Lord.

are in all and through
all,

You

in every place, since

hidden within yourself

is

the centre of all worlds.

As you write these words we are near you, and many would like to come back and tell you the glorious news, to open your eyes that you may
see in very truth

" There am
8

I in the midst.''

So far you have understood clearly the one Self

of
8

all,

when you have looked

iv. 6.

within, but
xviii. 20.

now we

Hos.

Matt,

* Jer. xxUi. 24.

164

CHRIST IN YOU
upon seemingly separate
see the
per-

will try to look out

sonalities

and

still

One

only.

To

recog-

nize the one

Lord in

all is to lift

them into the

is

consciousness of the Christ, and this

the spiritually taught are doing.

just

what

You must each

Fear
is

do your part where you

are.

Help souls
your
foes.

to cast out fear.

one of

In one

way

or another you allow this

false condition to cloud

your vision and drag

rid of
is
^

down your
self

spirits.

Get

fear for your-

and

for others.

There

absolutely nothing
is

to fear.

The indwelling Christ

Lord supreme.

Remind
ture.

yourself constantly of your true na-

Declare that the light dispels darkness,

see this

and
what

law in action.

no

longer,"^

but

Christ the Lord

this little
^

God omnipotent

reigneth.

See
fox,

enemy fear has done, a very

spoiling

the vine.

In your immediate environits circulation, diges-

ment, the body, fear affects

tion,

and gastric

juices.

I only use these

words

so that

we may

swiftly ascend to a higher plane.

is

Fear
e

not.
iv.

There
18.

none other God but Me.

8

John
ii.

Song

ii.

15.

QaL

20.

Isa. xly.

"

THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD "

rid the race of fear;

165

Once

and

love, joy, peace,

would spring up.

Now

this

must

positively be

done in each one of you.

In

fact, the

universe

has been conquered when you have won.

Your

own

Christ has conquered sin and death.

life

Face

and circumstances with the certainty

with you and in you.

of the I will

Am

Only thus

you honour God.

for ever.

Try from
I

this

moment

to

forget the small you, false and shadowy,

it off

and cast

Here

would say that only love

the whole mentality with
rich
soil

is

Lord.

You can

fill

love thoughts, so

making a

for the
to
fear.

growth of good.

You

are in

You have nothing God and God is in you.

Cleanse

^^

your hearts, and not your garments.

From
and

within must the true forgiveness arise, and

not from without.

Be

clean' eveiy whit,

whole

perfect. Be positive; know that you must make your circumstances, and not wait for events and then act. You are blind and miserable till

your inner

eyes, " the eyes of

^^

the understand-

ing, are opened.^'

10 Joel
ii.
i.

" It is high time to

awake

13.

Eph.

18

Job xxxli. 8

Prov. xx. 27.

166 out of
^^

CHEIST IN YOU
sleep."

Use these God-given powers for

There
are one.
is

the good of every one.

nothing outside
Confidence and

God.

God and man

^^

trust are
12

the antidotes for anxiety and fear.

Rom.

xiii. 11.

13 isa. xxxii. 17,

xxx.

15.

FIFTH LESSON
THE WILL OF GOD

WHAT
meaning,
if

a long time

it

takes us to under-

stand the will of God!

You

often use the phrase,

"I have

made up my mind."

This has a great deal of

it,

you pause to consider

for in that

very process you begin to bring into manifestation the desire of the mind.
see a

Thus you say

mind,

"I

wrong condition

in

my

my

circumstances ;

I will

my make up my
set in

mentality,

mind, this

shall not be."

You mentally
will.

motion the
to ac-

forces of the universe, seen

and unseen,

complish your

You
lightly

see, it is

impossible to live carelessly or

on the spiritual plane, and these lessons

of

would be

no use to any one who has not been

aroused to true spiritual consciousness, the consciousness of the divine humanity, the I

Am.

How

can the will of

life,

God be
167

expressed except

through

through humanity, in the hearts and

168

CHRIST IN YOU
exist in Himself?

minds of beings who

fore

There-

know

that the will of

God

is

operative in

yourself.

Then how
sire

is it

that the things

us,

we

will

and

de-

do not come to
deep

you may
in

ask.

Because

down

all
is

your

desires,

thoughts, and purposes there

as
it

an undercurrent,

were, the thought within the thought, the

desire within the desire,

and what you most truly

desire is always at the root of all your fleeting

impressions and moods of the moment.

Have

you not often

is

felt

that the very thing you desire

not for your eternal good?

is

Well, that very

glimmer, that faint suggestion,

from the

self of

you that

is

making your

life.

You know within

Once
j^ou
^

yourself the very quality, the very experiences

best suited for your highest good.

give full play to this subtle suggestion behind

.all

your thinking, you are one with the will of

is

God, which

your own

will.

This

is

the voice

of the spirit, heed its w^hisperings.

Do

not sin

against the Holy Ghost, or you will lose eye and

ear and become blind and deaf.

1 isa.

On

the plane

XXX. 21.

THE WILL OF GOD

of the senses this is most disastrous, because

169

you
It

are just where you are to do the will of God.

is

your meat and

drink.

So

delicate

and so
Let

subtle is this holy inner voice that

you must be
^ it.

very quiet and meek,

if

you would hear

Jesus speak to you again and again, read the

Gospels until you are led more and more to
re-

move the
self.

veil

which hides you from your true

have only answered your question, but

hope to speak to you again on this subject.

Peace, Heavenly Grace.
is
2

God

lives in you,

He

your
John

life.
iv. 34.

Ps. xxv. 9.

SIXTH LESSON
WORKEES TOGETHER WITH GOD

nr
if

HEBE

really is

no such thing as space.

us, the spiritual

For you, as for

law of

attraction operates, but your conscious-

ness of limitation, of distance, makes you blind

and deaf

to a great extent.

At a

later period of

your unfoldment, to desire

is to possess.

Thus,

we w ish

to see you, our thought is a vital force,

we

are in your actual presence immediately,

we

are so close to you.

swift
;

Thought

is so potent, so

every thought of ours becomes an outward

expression ; although you

may not

see

it,

you can-

not think without a

result.

Be very

careful that

you think from the

spiritual plane.

The phe-

nomena
to us.

of time

and sense are

like children's toys

They

will be discarded as

you dwell in

the higher consciousness.

is

What

divides us

now
in,

simply and only that you are not dwelling

not breathing, seeing, hearing from the spiritual

plane.

Every

effort to rise helps another;

170

but

WORKERS TOGETHER WITH GOD

see to
ful,
it

171

that you are watchful, vigilant, purposeloving.

and

You partake
breath of God.

of the inflow

and outflow of the

This

is

best described as waves,

impelled by an irresistible law, and your whole

planet
is

continually being swept over by this

I

mighty healing breath.

am

explaining this for

purposes of healing, and hope to explain later

that there are periods of outflow and recall.

We

wish you to breathe forth your healing cur-

rents in unison with the almighty good.

Your

co-operation is necessary for individual needs.

Noon and

sunrise are good times for raising

conditions of false consciousness into the great

One, especially the conditions

feverish

known

to

you as

and nervous, or the consciousness of

Other cases I hope to explain as

weakness.
I see

you coming into contact; but previous to

the expression of your desire for the healing of

the body and a change of circumstances, hreathe

out a strong positive assurance of man's unity

tcith

God,

Your highest good

is to

banish the

idea of separation from God.

Bands

of us are striving to influence

men and

172

CHRIST IN YOU
to free

women
tories,

your land of asylums, reforma-

prisons,

and similar

places.

Their

in-

mates could be helped and healed so

much more
we come

oasily if they could be brought in contact with

those

who have

learned the great truths

to teach.

We

do not give these lessons for any

other reason than to help your world, which

love.

we

We

hope to be of

i)ractical use in freeing

is

your world from suffering, which

ignorance.

caused by

By

this

escape discipline,

we do not mean that you but how can you begin to learn
if

your real purpose for being

age to false conditions?

you are in bonddid not purpose

God

that your life should be spent in overcoming

false conditions.

He

has a magnificent purpose,

a part for you to take in His work.

God
self

bless

you and keep you

sin.

alive unto

Him-

and dead to

Amen.

SEVENTH LESSON
THE CREATIVE BNERGY

ITin the abyss of each, in whom we

have our being.
the centre of
life.

is

the silent, creative great One, dwelling

live

and
of
al-

am

being taken within

Again I am in the centre

of creation is

power, but this time I remember that I have

ways
is

been.

The process

always
There

present, it is not a past series of events.

no sense of past or future, but of a continuI

ous present.
silent energy

have already described the great,

of colour

and the lack

and sound
I desire

when
life

in the centre, but this time the desire of

is

upon me, the sense

I

of lack.

beauty and colour.

the
virility

am

the positive one,

and

and strength of the atmosphere

its opposite.

around me lacks

With the

desire I will,

and soon the

will,

which
is

is the producer, directs

my
I

forces.

There

new power about me.

am

surrounded by a

great arc of light, and I become conscious of

173

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CHEIST IN YOU
I love, I will!

heart within myself.

The

arc,
be-

which was of a varying shade of gold, slowly

comes roseate and glowing; the electrons of light

are no longer colourless, but softened and shaded

by pink.
I

Love expresses the beautiful in colour.

I

am

answered in myself.

am

both positive

and negative, male and female; and out of this consciousness, beauty of form and shade seem
born ; yet as
I

write this I
I

know
bring

that
it

i)erf ection

has always been, though

into evidence

by

my

will

and

desire.

Colours surround me,

to evolve

and millions

of shades

seem

from three

red, blue,

and yellow.

They harmonize and

full

blend,

and the place seems

of

sound and

form.

I have desired, I have willed.

The

col-

ours emit the sound, and soon I see the forms of

flowers.

These colours cannot be seen on the

physical plane, though they are full of light and

breath.

As you

see, this is

extremely

difficult

to describe, as also for you to imagine, but the

colours breathe and live, and are inter-related to

sound and form.

There seems no division beTruly I

tween the moving shades and the appearance of

elegant and delightful shapes.

am

in a

THE CREATIVE ENERGY

place of beauty, which is
one.

175

bom

out of the two in

There
of

is

a sense of completeness, a harparts.

mony

many

The great energy

is

is softlife.

ened by beauty, and love

the breath of this

The teacher
for long,

speaks.

You could not bear

this

and the meaning

will unfold to you.

One

single drop of

seen with the eye of the soul.

the atom. Yes,

blade of grass.

dew contains what you have The Creator is in truly, the whole of God is in the By this know that space is a
in the universal soul

meaningless word on the true plane of being.

Everything

is

the Christ

mind alone comprehends.

ative,

The one

Self is cre-

having both natures.

is

In heaven there
in marriage.
of Christ.

neither marrying nor giving

is

This

the highest consciousness

EIGHTH LESSON
GOD THE ONLY LIFE

WANT

to tell

you how

real,

how

true

it is,

I
is

that nothing exists outside God, and I can

best help you by the description of an ex-

perience of

my

own.

Life both here

and there

a constant unfoldment, always fresh, a con-

tinual revelation.
I

have already told you of

my

entrance into
I

the spiritual world,

of

and now may

I

speak of one

my

steps into a greater fulness of God, into

life

more abundant?

had learnt many

is

things,
I

the spiritual faculties were quickened,

and

was
have

always learning that our especial need

to

greater capacities for God, to do as Paul says

continually
It

" Yield
my

yourselves
to

unto

God.''

was most wonderful

fact,

discover that

my

thought instantly produced an outer environ-

ment; in
once.
1

thought came into being at

For

instance, I desire quiet for medita-

Rom.

vi. 13.

17^

GOD THE ONLY LIFE

tion

177
all is still-

am

instantly in a grove
I think

and

ness, inviting repose.

music

and

at

once I hear snblimest strains, ravishing and

melodious.
ceases.
all

am

satisfied

the

music gently

Truly, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,

that awaits us

when we

are in God.

I desire

to help,
;

and
I

am

sent to people
of helping

who

are climbing
to their own.

up and oh the joy

This
is

them

my

longing desire for you.

I

Be ye holy
good
is

(healthy), for

am

holy (healthy), says God.

all

Happiness and health and

There
is

God.

no secret

initiation,

no mystery in God.
a beautiful sense

You

only need the heart of the child to^ enter

It is true in

the kingdom.
that there
revealed.
is

nothing hidden which shall not be

All things are open and are yours.

You

are not always able to understand because

sufficiently evolved;

you are not

that all
is

but never forget

yours, for ye are God's.

Even

this exquisite joy

around me, even the

knowledge that

my
I

thought made me, did not

longed intensely^ for
* Ps. xlii. 1.

seem enough, and

2

God

Lev. xix.

2.

Mark

x. 15.

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CHEIST IN YOU
all else, until I realized

above

that nothing but

the Infinite could satisfy me.

desire,

This thought, this

was not answered

in the usual way, but

one of the shining ones who go in and out among

us stood beside

me and

said, "

Are you ready

is

for

the cleansing waters?

Your prayer
shall
^

heard."

At

the

same time the

:

spirit within repeated the

familiar words

"

Ye

surely find Me."

fell

" Yes, yes," I said, "

all

for God," and I

on

my

knees in an attitude of prayer.

Then began
a cleansing

the cleansing by the waters from the Kiver of

God.

From
heart.
I

within

there

arose

stream, that

made me aware

of its workings in

my

My

limitations

must

go.

I,

who

thought

possessed

relatives,

friends,

home,

must learn that God must enlarge my heart with greater loves, more friendships.
There are no limitations where God
claiming
of
personalities.
bitter,
is,

no

God

is

all.

The

waters were
great gain.

but you must do this for the

ideas and thoughts are not

Your
and

God's thoughts, nor are your ways God's ways.

Ah,
B

it is true,

it will

be your eternal good to

Isa. 1?. 8.

Jer. xxix.

la

GOD THE ONLY LIFE

know
iarly
this now.

179

Everything that seemed peculsimply swept away until

I

my own was

as nothing,

and longing only for God.

shalt

was The

Angel spake again with great love and tenderness

^'

Thou

know

thyself

by

this test

art thou content to be nothing,

and know nothshalt

I

ing? "

With great
I think there

faltering I answered " Yes.''

The reply came, " Know God, and thou

Be.''

was a long time

of quiet.

seemed to become conscious of fresh surroundings.

I

seemed in the centre of the worlds, in a

place of strength; I was conscious of the heart

of love, far above

my

understanding

the rest
I sup-

and comfort

of a great strength,

and yet

pose the best description for you

in the atmosphere of

is

that I seemed

God

knowing
but
take

nothing

but
yet
to

God

wanting
that
to
it

nothing

good;

and
aeons
this

aware

would
Soon

me
in

understand,

know and grow

I

heavenly consciousness.
I

saw our

earth,

saw the blindness

of

men; though dwelling

in

this

wondrous love they were content

them," I thought.

to live in

shadow, in pain.

"Lord, I must go to them, I

must

tell

The

voice of the

180

CHRIST IN YOU

Spirit spoke within

"

"^

am

God, and beside

me

there is none

else.''

"

Amen, Amen, Amen,''

to inbreathe
I

I answered.

To dwell consciously in God is and outbreathe harmony and love.

out limits, I revel in freedom,
sin, sickness,
I

am

with-

cannot think

or death except to remove them;

they have become to

is all

me

less

than vapour.

God

in

all,

and no one can be outside God.

Even your very stones and rocks are interpenetrated by the God-life. " Awake, thou that
sleepest, arise

from the dead

"

^^

Christ

is

the

light of the world."

Oh

for a thousand voices

to proclaim the truth that nothing is but

God!
love.

Rise out of your

false,

shadowy consciousness
consciousness
of

and

mount

into

the

He maketh my ^ feet like hinds' feet." I know that in me the Christ has ascended to His
" Truly

Father; henceforth "the Father and I are one."

In

me

the Trinity of the Three are one, and yet

three.

Spirit is substance, nothing can be real except

T Isa.

xlv. 18.

Hab. UL

19.

John

viU. 12.

GOD THE ONLY LIFE

God but
;

181
f rieuds,

joy of joys, as I met relatives,

ones, I knew,

and dear

how more than

ever they

were mine beyond thought of loss or separation

All I had lost

was the fear

of losing,
is

God's God's

thought
thought.

is

the only reality; the world

You

are yet to learn that all realities

are in God's thought.

Rise, dear heart,

You

are to express them.

us,
are.

and take your place with

only, just

that you

may know God

^^

where you
This
is

Love never
true

faileth.

Begin now.

the

way

to bring in light

and

love,

conquering

death by the sacrifice of the body of sense, to

rise in

newness

^^

of

life.

I will

come again.

have told you of this exI

perience only to help.

would not have done so

it.

unless you were able to apprehend

It will be

meaningless to the seekers of wonders and signs.

that Christ

You must let self utterly melt away may come to His own.
n Rom.
vi. 4.

in order

10 1 Cor. xiii. 8.

NINTH LESSON
HE GAVE HIMSELF

AS
viewed,

you unfold in the consciousness of God,

inexplicable things become clear.
the purifying process of pain.
to suffer, because, rightly

many
One

is

It is safer

and grander

it is

sure to perfect the soul.

felt

Have you

not sometimes
ness of joy?
true joy

the shallowness and the empti-

I tell

you

it is

impossible to

know
have
is

the
it is

heights of joy

until you
of pain.
^

known corresponding depths

cleansing;

This

the process called " the refiner's fire."

It is

good, and not

evil.

True joy

the joy of Heaven

being,

should

saturate the whole

and touch the inner consciousness with a

2

sense of its eternity, its everlastingness; and the

suffering

has prepared a place that joy

may

enter

in.

Learn the wisdom in these words

^

"

As
I

sorrowful, yet
iii,

always rejoicing."
3

Mai.

2.

2 isa. ix. 2, 3,

2 Cor.

vl. 10.

182

HE GAVE HIMSELF
Now
I

188

would show you the difference between

necessary suffering and useless pain, which is

disorder; likewise between true joy and transient
false
joy.

Divine

humanity

can

attain

the

throne of the universe only by the

Cross.

way

of the

This

is

the

way

of sacrifice.

Do

not too

hurriedly dismiss the pearl in the old orthodox

teaching, it served its day
efficiently.

and generation most

When man

thought of himself as a

separate and outside unit, only this teaching

could help his unfoldment, so thank

God

for the

ladder of dead creeds

the divine
bottles
;

dead
He

selves.

But now
*

Man

is

arising;

has burst the old

the

new wine
is

of life cries out for space

tree.

and freedom, as the sap does in the

ware, for here
gins,

Bebe-

your danger; the suffering

which shall make the path by cleansing

all

and burning up

that hinders the uprising of

the divine in earth, air, and sea.

The Son

of

God

is

come, and your very experiences of pain

of

and suffering are the heralds

There
is

His approach.

much more

to be revealed to you, but

we
*

leave these messages with you to help

you

to

Matt

ix. 17.

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live

CHRIST IN YOU

and express the highest within you, knowing that Christ will perfect that which concerneth

Him, and ye are

Christ's,

and Christ

is God's.

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