Inexhaustible Substance by Genevieve Courtney Maurer Who Is Your Mother? by Dana Gatlin MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO CHRISTIAN HEALI Devoted to Christian Healing Charles F illmore, E d ito r George E. Carpenter, Associate Editor Vol. 82 Kansas City, Mo., May, 1935 No. 5 CONTENTS The Right Use of Substance............................. 2 by Genevieve Courtney Maurer Who Is Your Mother? by Dana G atlin.............. 10 Finger Exercises, by Mildred R. W hite.............. 19 The Soul's Pentecost, by Ernest C. Wilson........ 22 Transplanting, by Elizabeth Hibarger.............. 28 God’s Idea (Part I), by Clarence E. G ray.......... 32 The Greater Love, by Eleanor Cloud.................. 42 “Ye Are Gods,” by Inez Russell.......................... 4 7 Sunday Lessons...................................................... 4 g Love (Song) ............................................................ 65 To Unity Leader’s Everywhere .......................... 66 Silent U n ity ............................................................ 67 Health and Prosperity.................................. 68 Prayers Answered.......................................... 71 Help from Silent U n ity ................................ 79 The Purpose of U n ity .......................................... 83 Entered as second-class matter. July 15, 1891, at the post office at Kansas City, Missouri, under the act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 28, 1922. ,R A - _______________ > I R i 2 Inexhaustible Substance The Right Use of Substance (B/* GENEVIEVE COURTNEY MAURER A plentiful supply depends upon an inner conscious­ ness of plenty God substance is the one source of all good, of all wealth, of all prosperity, of all supply The only way to be assured of plentiful supply at all times is to rise above conditions to the con­ scious use of the one God substance UR GREAT, PRESENT need is to understand clearly the unfailing and complete availability to man O of ever-present, unlimited substance. Mankind is everywhere striving to understand how there can be scarcity in the midst of abundance and famine side by side with feasting. Schemes and plans innumerable are being suggested as panaceas for ap­ parent conditions of lack. Doubtless some of these ideas, or similar ones, will be adopted here and there and put into operation. Indeed, this world-wide in­ terest in economic salvation marks an intriguing step in race unfoldment. For the first time in recorded history man is looking upon himself as a being of real value to himself and to the world and as such entitled to use all the good that is so evidently present. As man elevates his estimate of himself the world begins to re­ flect his attitude, and the race goes about its business of trying to improve man’s lot. As evidence of the changed attitude, we find the thought of the world preg­ nant with countless plans to enrich the substance of man’s life. But regardless of whatever outer remedial measures are suggested or put into practice, this race problem of supply will never be solved until man as an individual consciously sees and uses the universal substance of God as the real supply of the universe. The true and right key to prosperity lies in knowing that there is an unlimited substance on which man can always draw and instantly be fully supplied whether his need be a full larder, riches for his mind, or food for his starving soul. This God substance is the one source of all good, of all wealth, of all prosperity, of all supply. It is the one substance that knows no death, no inequality, no diminishing, no need that it cannot fill. This substance and this alone is the the only substance that man ever needs to touch in order to experience good as bounty. Indeed, the substance of God is blessed and bound­ less plenty. Lavish abundance is its nature. Con­ tinuously it fills everything, visible and invisible, to an overflowing fullness. It is ever pouring, pouring, pour­ ing its inexhaustible supply of riches in, upon, and through mankind. T>UT IS MAN IN GENERAL going to this unfailing, un- diminishing substance for his supply of good ? No he seems to be running everywhere else. Yet if he would only stop his outer seeking and would hold up the small cup of his desires to the universal God sub­ stance, he would find it constantly filled, brimful, with ever-present, eternal good. To be sure, a few people are consciously doing this very thing, and these few are being abundantly sup­ plied, blessed, and sustained with the true wealth of the Father. But the vast majority, pitiable in their dis­ tress, are still looking to evident and known means, such as income through individual industry or supply through massed pressure upon the government. Under our social system we need money or its equivalent. It is intended as a tool or instrument of easier living, and it is right that we should have all things that we need in as great a quantity and variety as we need them for our ease and comfort. However, 4 we maintain that neither individual work nor legisla­ tion for money in the world of effects will solve the problem of man’s supply, for what is necessary is an inner adjustment of real supply within the individual consciousness. Just as long as man continues to believe lack possible or regards his prosperity as a thing de­ pendent upon outer circumstances, he will continue to experience want. A plentiful supply depends upon an inner conscious­ ness of plenty. Unless man rids himself of his con­ sciousness of want, lack will continue to be manifest. Limitation in all its forms of expression will cease en­ tirely when he lifts his consciousness to the height where he recognizes and begins to use the one inex­ haustible substance of all good that is available to every child of God. ithin recent years, as the race has kept its vi­ Wsion steadily on outer expression, we have wit­ nessed an abundance of products along with a lack of money to buy them. By centering our attention on the need of money we may experience an abundance of money and a scarcity of products. Unfailing supply is our desire. A salary, a pension, or an assured income does not give one the supply or prosperity consciousness^ Many people who receive large salaries or sizable incomes from other sources live beyond their means; therefore they feel poor. Pensions are often more binding to the soul of the recipient than they are freeing. Because of their slavish dependence upon the monthly stipend, some have found that certain illnesses and infirmities have grown upon them barnaclelike, and it has thus become an obstacle to the rousing of the whole, perfect, inner man within them. Wealth that is free from strings of dependence reaching to outer conditions—the “whims of the boss,” economic upheavals, and political changes—is what man now wants and always has wanted, if he but real- ized it. He will want it forever, but he will not experi­ ence its possession until he comes into the realization that there is an absolutely free wealth to which he al­ ways has instant access within himself, which he can call upon at will, and which will serve him in whatso­ ever he desires. When man realizes that the universal substance is the only real source of wealth there is, he will laugh to know that throughout all the years—even though he believed that the meager supply he obtained came through the work he did, the investments he made, or “the strings he pulled”—he was nevertheless using this selfsame substance, which provides for man as scantily or abundantly as he desires. he only way to be assured of plentiful supply at Tall times is to rise above conditions to the conscious use of the one God substance, which is never affected by conditions. The “waiting adequate,” Emma Curtis Hopkins called it, because it is ever-present, waiting for man to recognize its availability and use it, and be­ cause it is adequate to every demand that man may make upon it. By individually lifting up our consciousness we can reach this understanding. As we raise it above the per­ sonal plane to that high level where we can glimpse the one substance, we hear the Christ saying within us, “I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.” So we know that with the raising of the in­ dividual consciousness the thought of supply of the whole race is lifted. The betterment of the condition of mankind is related to and interwoven with the aware­ ness of man as an individual. Therefore the first con­ cern of every one who desires the improvement of the race should be the lifting of his own thought; for each man’s elevated consciousness of true supply brings those around him to a nearer understanding of the one substance. Also, as we keep our vision firmly fixed upon the one source of all good, a true and powerful 6 May idea of the reality of this universal substance may flash through to us. We may thus become the instrument for the transmission of a great idea that will release the race into the awakened awareness of the omni­ presence of its inexhaustible resource. one of us wants an abstract idea of God substance N —too many of us already have only that. We desire a practical working plan for making use at once of this everywhere “waiting adequate” in our actual daily living. Let us examine our present individual consciousness of supply and see how nearly it accords with the wise or right use of substance.