»■ ■ ■ i.. ASSOCIATE EDITO R )anna Russell ART DIRECTOR Stahr A. Pope COPY EDITOR Connie Fillmore McCarty ...... C IR C U LA T IO N MANAGER Roy ). Howard PRODUCTION M M li,, MANAGER Claborn Brants ...... CONTENTS AUGUST 1975 VOL. 155 NO. 8

A Message from Silent Unity 3 James Dillet Freeman H. Emilie Cady: Physician and Metaphysician (Part 1) 5 Russell A. Kemp The Loveliness of Christ 10 William E. Cameron Man: Masterpiece of God 13 Charles Getts Intuition to the Rescue 16 Glenn Clair monte Revelation: The Book of Unity (VII) 23 J. Sig Paulson and Ric Dickerson Ingredients for Vital Living 29 Hal Linger man Things to Be Remembered 31 Lowell Fillmore Prayer Power 32 Questions on the Quest 35 Marcus Bach Life Is Consciousness 39 Emmet Fox The Bread and the Wine 45 Kay Arndt The Talisman 48 Sue Sikking Being Cross with Our Crosses 53 Mary Rowe Change without Fear 55 Charles Le/ly The Supermind 56 Charles Fillmore Monthly Thoughts 57 Listen, God Is Speaking! 58 Rebecca Clark Letters to the Editor 65 Book Mark 66

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UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY, Charles R. Fillmore, President; James Dillet Freeman, First Vice- President; Otto Ami, Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Charles R. Fillmore, Chairman; Otto Arni, Claborn Brants, Zelma Cook, William B. Dale, James A. Decker, Robert L. Drescher, James Dillet Freeman, Roy Howard, Foster C. McClellan, Charles McGill, Keith McKay, J. Sig Paulson, Peter L. Rhea, Ralph Rhea, Rosemary Rhea, Martha Smock, Philip White, Robert P. Sikking (AUC Advisor). Published monthly by UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY, Unity Village, Mo. 64065. Subscription price (United States and possessions, and Canada), 1 year, $3; 2 years, $5; 3 years, $7; additional subscriptions on same order, $2 each. (Foreign add $1 extra per year or subscription.) Single copy, 35 cents. Second-class postage paid at L e e ’s Summit, Mo. ©1975 by Unity School of Christianity. (Unity School also publishes the following periodicals: Daily Word, $2 a year; La Palabra Diaria, $2 a year; Wee Wisdom, $4 a year [10 issues]. Foreign add $1 extra per year or subscription.) I am a gardener, and I love to work in my garden. But about the middle of August, my garden begins to get to be a chore. I have been sowing, weeding, digging, watering, hoeing, spraying, and all the thousand and one other things you have to do in a garden, for a long time by then and I’m getting a little bored and weary. And often i t ’s very hot and the weeds and bugs pop up and multiply at a fantastic rate, especially if th ere’s a little rain; and if there isn ’t any rain, th a t’s even worse. As I have worked in my garden, I have often thought how much life is like a garden. What we plant are thoughts and words and acts; what we harvest are habits and a nature and a way of life. My mind and spirit are fertile soil; they w o n ’t stand fallow for long. If I d o n ’t deliberately plant anything, something grows anyway. I t ’s up to me to decide between weed patch and garden spot. Most of us have times in life much as mid-August in my garden is for me. Everything seems to be slowing down and running rusty—everything, that is, but the effort we have to exert; sometimes more of that is demanded. In gardens or in life, it is most of all when the heat is on and weeds proliferate and bugs appear that we have to make an effort, even a special effort, if we ever hope to have a happy harvest time. Life is effort. But it is worth the effort. I learned this long ago, and I d o n ’t think I have ever learned anything more important. As a gardener, I have learned that a garden does not make the task impossible. I d o n ’t have to chop out every weed and eliminate every bug. I just have to see that there a ren ’t so many weeds and bugs that the plants I want never get off the ground. The plants I want to grow have the power-to-grow in them; all I have to do is give that grow-power half a chance. My plants will grow energetically and produce abundantly if I give them the opportunity. T h a t’s another thing I ’ve learned from a garden. The providing Spirit of life at the heart of the universe is not a stingy, parsimonious one; it strews its proliferating abundance in almost unbelievable prodigality. I ’ve had twenty feet of bean rows produce more beans than I could eat and give away. And I ’ve seen a single petunia plant produce more flowers than I’d care to count. So if you happen to be in a slowdown, rusty moment when the negative forces seem to be mounting, remember, life is on your side. L ife ’s positive forces, its creative, expanding powers . . . these are growing, too. Give them a little growing room, and you will find, as I have through many a dusty August, that they grow lavishly, prolifically, abundantly to bring forth a bountiful harvest of

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H. EMILIE CADY: Physician and Metaphysician

BY RUSSELL A. KEMP

Part I HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of copies School of Christianity. Because of their of U n ity ’s textbook Lessons in Truth, by clear, simple, and effective teaching, H. Emilie Cady, have been sold since its linked with a distinctly religious element, first publication in 1895. Inasmuch as her books gained wide circulation among each copy of a book of this kind is usually church people, Unity students, and read by several people, over the years liter­ readers of New Thought. She was invited ally millions of people have read Lessons to teach at Unity headquarters but never in Truth. a ccep ted the invitation. Even the How famous, how widely known an Fillmores never met her until they visited author would be today if his or her book New York in either 1926 or 1927. sold a million copies! That author would Emilie Cady was as good at shunning be on talk shows and television, lecturing publicity and keeping herself in the back­ in colleges, becoming more and more ground as she was at writing. And at widely known every day. But it is safe to writing, she was highly skilled. Her liter­ say that the thought of becoming widely ary ability, her mastery of a clear, univer­ known, famous, or rich never occurred to sal, almost timeless prose style, is evident. the author of Lessons in Truth. H. Emilie Her books were written in the nineteenth Cady just did not think in those terms. century, and most books of that era For one thing, metaphysicians of her reflect the literary tastes and styles of school of thought were very distrustful of their period. There may be flowery what they called “personality.” They speech, words strange to our ears, classical desired that their rea d er’s attention be allusions now lost on most of us. But Miss directed, not toward them, but toward Cady, like the Fillmores, wrote “plain God, or Spirit. style” for readers of all time. How did she So well did Emilie Cady succeed in this master this style? As she herself said, she respect that, as a person, little was known was divinely commissioned to write. As a about her, even to officials of Unity result, though not a line from her writings found its way into B a rtlett’s Quotations, used as a residence) where Emilie taught her message found its way into many a at one period of her life, Carolyn Cady human heart, there to influence human invited us to her home, where she had affairs for good, perhaps throughout eter­ some things of her au n t’s. She was very nity. friendly and was interested in our desire Many of those who found in her to know more about her aunt. There was a writings an answer to their life problems certain family resemblance in Carolyn to must have wondered about the author. the photographic portrait o f Dr. Cady Who was she? Where did she come from? which had a prominent place in her living Was she young or old, married or single? It room. happens that I can throw a little light on these questions, because when I was minister of the Unity Church of Truth in Syracuse, New York, in 1949, a member U n l i k e Dr. Cady, however, who of our church discovered Dr. C a d y ’s grave appeared from her picture to be a large, at Dryden, a town south of Syracuse. robust woman, Carolyn was small, almost Along with this member and two others, I frail in body; she had dark hair and eyes, made a “mini-pilgrimage” to Dryden, and features tending toward ruggedness in where we met Dr. C a d y ’s niece, Carolyn a feminine way. Some o f the indepen­ E. Cady, who was employed by the public dence of thought and adventurous dispo­ library. sition of Emilie Cady was apparent in her We introduced ourselves to her and she niece. She also shared her aunt’s attitude very kindly accompanied us to the toward publicity. cemetery. There I photographed her After my return to Syracuse, she be­ beside the large, beautifully polished came much concerned that the pictures I family tombstone, which bore the follow­ had taken might be published, and draw ing in scrip tion s: “Oliver B. Cady, curiosity seekers to her au n t’s grave. I 1815-1897. Cornelia A. Phillips, (his reassured her that the pictures would not wife), 1819-1897. Helen Cady Moore, be published, and they never were. 1846-1920. Harriet E. Cady, 1848-1941.” We learned from Carolyn that she and So the author had a long life, just seven Dr. Cady had toured Europe together. years short of the century mark. One travel souvenir which she said Dr. Cady had purchased in Italy was a large hand-colored photograph of Mt. Etna in eruption. I remember wondering what the I t appears that Dr. Cady, as an author, good doctor had found attractive in this. disguised her family connections some­ Perhaps as a teacher in the little country what by stressing her middle name, school she had taught her pupils about Emilie, instead of Harriet, by which she volcanoes, and this had satisfied her desire was known to the family. We were fortu­ for first-hand knowledge. Or, who knows? nate to have her niece for our guide. She perhaps she visualized an “eruption” of took us to the old Cady farmhouse where Truth over the earth mind! Emilie was born, lived as a child, and to At any rate, to understand the person which she liked to return for vacations who later became a distinguished meta­ from her medical practice in New York physical author and healer, one should City. know her early background. She was born After visiting the old farm and also the in rural upstate New York, a beautiful and one-room schoolhouse (at that time being prosperous part of the state. James Knox Polk was the eleventh President of the As a result, beginning in January 1892 a United States when she was born, and she number of articles by Dr. Cady appeared lived through the terms of twenty other in the magazine. The first one, “Neither Presidents, until at least the third term of Do I Condemn Thee,” later became a Franklin Delano Roosevelt! What a life chapter in the book Miscellaneous span! Evidently she shared the modem Writings (later renamed How I Used idea that the passage of time need not Truth). Subsequent articles entitled necessarily cause old age. “Oneness with G od” and “Go d ’s Hand” She was the daughter of a hardy were also included in this book. pioneer. She tells us in How I Used Truth that her father was well known and re­ spected in the neighborhood. He must have had, as a pioneer, a built-in rugged­ iA V letter written by Dr. Cady, which ness and persistence, as well as ability to appeared in the March 1892 issue of cope with whatever need developed. (I UNITY Magazine, shows that she had al­ was told that some of the old rail fences in ready established in herself a superb confi­ the neighborhood were constructed with dence in Truth principles. She led a busy wooden nails; there being no metal nails life of service, not only treating those who available, pegs whittled out of hard wood came to her for help in overcoming sick­ were used instead.) ness, discouragement, or other personal problems, but after office hours seeking to aid persons in institutions, such as homes for “bad girls.” In this letter Dr. Cady tells how, after a T h e same adventurous, self-reliant, and busy day at her office, she gave a talk at “can do” spirit must have led Emilie Cady one of these institutions to some twenty- to choose a career in medicine in the five of those she calls “the younger 1880s. Even today, nearly a hundred sisters,” giving them words of love and en­ years later, men still predominate in medi­ couragement instead of reproaches. After cine. What a drive within her it must have this talk, when as she says she was “alone taken to leave schoolteaching, one of the in her home with the Father,” a feeling of few callings other than marriage sanc­ discouragement came over her. Faithfully tioned for women at that time, and she released all the various cases to God. braving the disapproval of society, to To quote from her letter: “Dear Lord, I become a doctor of homeopathic medi­ commit all these various cases to Thee. I cine in New York City! do not know that I have helped any of And she succeeded. It was as an estab­ these troubled hearts a bit, but thou lished and successful physician that she knowest I have, in each case, given them first appeared on the Unity scene. Quite the very best I knew how to give.” on her own she had written and published Then she says, “As I looked into His a booklet, called Finding the Christ in face, great tears trickled down my own at Ourselves. This came to the attention of the thought of my weakness and insuffi­ Myrtle Fillmore, who was so impressed ciency.” How many times have you and I with it that she gave it to Charles Fillmore. felt the same way, after our best efforts to He lost no time in asking permission to help or heal another? How could we be­ print and distribute the article as a book­ lieve that we had helped them in any way? let, and invited contributions for UNITY Here is one of the most outstanding meta­ Magazine. physicians of the early Truth movement overcome by the same feelings that often the help they need, even if you never give beset us. a set treatment.” How did Emilie Cady handle this? Though she was self-effacing, neverthe­ Actually she did not handle it, nor did she less we get glimpses from her writings that overcome it. God did it for her. She says: tell of her struggles in proving her Truth “Quick as a flash, He said unto me, ‘Well principles. Her whole emphasis was pri­ done, good and faithful servant . . . enter marily on proving the Truth. In How I thou into the joy of thy Lord.’ As much as Used Truth she tells us: “We ask no one to to say, ‘My child, you went forth with believe that which is written here simply love and tried to do faithfully and unself­ because it is presented as Truth. Prove all ishly My work. Now do not waste one things for yourself; it is possible to prove moment thinking it over, for I, all unseen every statement in this book. Every state­ by you, have poured the living bread and ment given here was proved before it was water through it to my fainting, famishing written . . . but results that one obtains children. The work is Mine, not yours, and from them will depend on how faithfully it is all well finished by Me.’ ” and persistently one uses the helps given.” Truth principles never change, do they? The Master counseled persistence, in Some years ago, several scientists reported His parable of the widow and the unjust on their experiments with the power of judge, and Emilie Cady was His faithful prayer. One of the key principles estab­ disciple. We sometimes read that one lished was that each time, after making a should pray only once for any object or prayer or a treatment, there must be a purpose, and thereafter give thanks. Yet complete transfer of the problem to God, Jesus prayed three times for the same a total relinquishing of it to the Supreme purpose in the garden of Gethsemane, and Power. Emilie Cady learned this a long did He not say that men “ought always to time ago. pray and not lose h ea rt”? In her letter to Lowell Fillmore (which later became the preface to How I Used In her letter to Myrtle Fillmore she goes Truth, she says of the articles which make on to say: “We are told ‘delight thyself up the book: “Almost every one . . . was also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the born out of the travail of my soul after I desires of thy heart.’ It is not while we are had been weeks, months, sometimes worrying over results or failures that we years, trying by affirmations, by claiming get our desires, but while we are delighting the promises of Jesus, and by otherwise ourselves in Him, just resting in Him, say­ faithfully using all of the knowledge of ing, ‘Dear Father, while I am trusting Truth that I then possessed to secure Thou art working and Thou canst not deliverance of myself or others from some fail . . . ’ Hold yourself in peace and quiet­ distressing bondage that thus far had ness with Him. ‘In quietness and in confi­ defied all human help.” dence shall be your strength.’ ” Then she continues in language reminis­ cent of the chapter on “Finding the Secret Place,” in Lessons in Truth: “The m o­ Think of it: weeks, months, sometimes ment you are able to possess your soul in years of continued prayer for one particu­ patience and in harmony, you will begin lar purpose, until the desired demonstra­ without effort to radiate health and har­ tion was made! Yes, Emilie Cady was mony and all good, and whoever is look­ truly persistent. And her persistence was ing to you for help will draw from you just always rewarded. Her elderly father was exiled from his home for five years, healing of a young friend from drinking. although innocent of a charge which she For weeks, Dr. Cady tells us, she watched says was “the wicked machination of with awful anxiety as she saw him drink­ another man.” All due processes of law ing day by day, until she reached the point had failed to clear him of the false accusa­ where she could “loose him and let him tion. Years of her own prayers were fruit­ go.” When she did gain to that place in less, until one day she made an im­ consciousness where she completely passioned plea to God for his deliverance, transferred the problem to God, and and was told that she herself, acting as stood steadfast in spite of appearances, it G o d ’s agent, must decree his freedom. Un- required only a few hours before she saw questioningly she obeyed. As if by magic, him healed. So thoroughly was he set free in a few days her father came home, a free that in forty years he had never again man, his innocence clearly established. touched alcoholic liquors, or indulged in Persistence had triumphed. any form of dissipation. ® Another case in point was that of the (To be continued) BY WILLIAM E. CAMERON

AN AUTHENTIC OIL portrait of Jesus of Browning said, “Earth ’s crammed with Nazareth would certainly be a priceless Heaven, and every common bush is afire possession. Many artists have painted with God.” The real poverty of this world ren d ition s which differ, sometimes that makes it a barren place is the poverty widely. It would be extremely interesting of unawareness. If we will learn to see a to know precisely what He looked like, little more o f the beauty, the goodness, yet I am rather glad that we d o n ’t know and the glory of God every day, we will exactly. As it is, we are somewhat free to grow into Christhood. And each day, as re-create Him in answer to our needs, with Browning said, we are given abundant a personal vision that our own soul calls opportunities to do this. for and demands. If the world is barren to you in any Each of us is bom into this world to way, think of what a new vision could fulfill the highest destiny: to give expres­ mean to you, especially a vision of God. sion to the very image and likeness of God Perhaps the most alluring of the Beati­ in which we were created. We are here to tudes is, “Blessed are the pure in heart,” discover and bring forth the Christ that is because it gives the promise and the possi­ hidden in the soul of every man. Our des­ bility. “ . . . for they shall see God.” What tiny is fulfilled by growing into a vital does it mean to see God? Jesus once said, awareness of G o d ’s presence. The Christ “No one has ever seen God; the only life is the awareness of God in all. The Son, ... he has made him known.” God is great calamity of life is unawareness. The not a person or an entity we can see physi­ supreme tragedy is to leave God out. cally. “God is spirit, those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” We splendid” that saw through everything to see Him as He manifests or expresses Him­ its essential goodness. God is good, and self in His creation. G o d ’s highest expres­ that which is good is always beautiful. To sion is His “only Son,” the Christ. Jesus, Jesus, the loveliness of G o d ’s manifest the Christ, placed the image and likeness creation was constantly present. of God before us for all to see. He often spoke in colorful and poetic Since Jesus, there has never been any picture images; when He drew a picture, good reason to be confused about the His listeners saw it! But He always saw and nature or character of God because He pictured the real world. Think of all the was the revelation of God. What Jesus parables He drew from nature. He loved was, God is in expression. nature, unadorned; yet how wonderful is If all the Bible were to be lost somehow the God we meet in nature through His except for that small section known as the eyes—splendid, lovable, always a testi­ Sermon on the Mount, we would still have mony to G o d ’s infinite care and provision. the basic truths of the Bible and the dis­ Jesus took life the way it was, often tilled essence of its message. The Sermon using plain, everyday things as settings for on the Mount and the parables are an great truths. He saw God everywhere: in authentic, true-to-life portrait of Jesus mountains, seeds, brooms, stars, camels, Himself, and of the Father, and of the bushels, and meals. These are all monu­ man-to-be in each of us. It provides a mental evidence of G o d ’s law and order, portrait of the loveliness of Christ. truth and beauty. What is the nature of Christ? What is it Jesus loved the birds, trees, flowers, that can stir men to their depths and open and hillsides, but He loved men most. His the “eyes of the heart” to the presence of gospel, the “good news,” began with that God? The teachings, the vision, and the special love, that heartwarming power character of Jesus furnish the key that that was the extension of His whole opens the door to the Christ of God. The nature. His followers knew Him as friend word Christ has the same root as “crys­ and companion, and we can know Him so, tal,” meaning “clear, pure.” How well this too. describes Jesus! Our personal portrait of Jesus can come His life was filled with the nature and from others; from the Bible, the Sermon the power and the presence of God. All of on the Mount, the parables, and from this is embodied in what He teaches and artists. But we can also see the qualities of what He asks of us. We are to see and Christ for ourself in each other, through behold life as He did, with a pure heart, friendship; with a smile here and a gesture open and receptive to the evidence of there, an inflection of voice or a certain God—the loveliness of Christ. look. Have you ever seen the look in the He astonished people by His truth, His eye of someone who is full of the Spirit of insight, His honesty, His cleanness. There God? was a brightness and gaiety about Him We need to learn to identify with the that lifted people up into joy and new life. beautiful. We need to associate beauty His spirit was a glad spirit, and He lighted with our idea of God, and Jesus provided up all darkness. Think about how much us with just such a vision. He showed us Jesus saw in life! He knew life, and He the real beauty of life, the worth of the looked upon it with keen, bright eyes and individual, and the glory of our potential. loved it. He lived it fully, and everything We need to learn to respond to all the He saw and touched, He glorified. beauty. To see Jesus as He was and to see He had the “single eye,” the “vision life as He saw it will always expand and enrich our life and nourish the deep center book, a poem, a thought, a picture, music, of our being. But it calls for a single eye, a a view of nature, or a friend—especially, heart purified with positive, uplifted anything we can associate with Jesus—can Truth and love. This opens the spirit to lift us up into awareness and help us to see the influence of the creative Holy Spirit. the light that comes from the Father, “the It takes a Christlike imagination to see the true light that enlightens every man” the loveliness of Christ. loveliness of Christ. We all have the ability to think gracious It is truly a beautiful life when we are and constructive thoughts, and when we aware of the Truth, and when we know lift our thoughts even a little we open the that the Spirit of God is eternally with us. “eyes of the heart.” The Bible, a good 0

PROSPERITY MEDITATION

Abundance is mine. It stems directly from the infinite substance and attaches itself to my individuality purely as a product of my attitude and consciousness of Truth. My attitude is one of thanksgiving and appreciation; I am conscious of the reality of that all-great inexhaustible warehouse of good from which I may and do freely draw. My prosperity does not depend on what I do or have done, but strictly on how and what I think. Whatever the earthly channels through which my own substance becomes manifest, its flow is not metered or retarded. The world has no power to limit or restrict my good. My prosperity is not of the world but of God. All the wealth that I will employ is already mine in reality, and it is indeed abundant. I am now fully prosperous, and I thank God for this Truth. I desire my good, I am prepared to receive it, I know that I have it, and it materializes as mine in manifestation. Any and every thing that can be fitted constructively into my life is mine by divine decree; it is my responsibility and privilege to manifest fully the great supply that is mine in reality. I gratefully and enthusiastically embrace that responsibility, and my personal wealth appears abundantly, at an ever-increasing rate. In full realization of this great and wonderful Truth I am now prosperous beyond measure.—Fred W. Hoehler MAN: Masterpiece of GOD

BY CHARLES GETTS

AN ELDERLY AND very spiritual man, speaking, man is the astronomer.” who had spent all of his life in a large city, Emerson was aware that Divine Mind is was taken for a vacation to a national the Source of m an’s life, and he often park. There, for the first time, he saw a described it in his writings as “ ... a light huge waterfall. He stood silent, gazing at [that] shines through us on things.” the awesome plunge of water, then said John wrote of this light, too. He said, softly, “O God, You have done well . . . “The light shines in the darkness, and the very well.” darkness has not overcome it.” God indeed has done well, for all that This light forms a golden link between He has made is perfect. man and God. Into m an’s heart it brings G o d ’s perfection is described by the beautiful pulsation of love, which Charles Fillmore as “held in the mind of then radiates outward from him in rays of Being as ideas of life, love, substance, compassion, patience, kindness, faith, intelligence, Truth, and so forth. These humility, and joy. Into his soul it brings ideas may be combined in a multitude of the pure essence of Spirit, which raises his ways, producing infinite variety in the consciousness into spiritual awareness of realm of forms.” reality and his true self. Into his mind it And of all the multitude of wondrous brings the power of Divine Mind, giving things in life—from the tiniest blade of him dominion over all creation and grass to the most awesome stellar constel­ making it possible for him to do all things. lation—not one equals the masterpiece of As the image of God, man is a living God called man. idea coming continually from the cre­ A person who failed to see the master­ ative, infinite, Supreme Mind, and there­ piece that he himself was once said to fore reflecting all of its qualities, including another man, “Astronomically speaking, immortality. This eternal reflection of the man is but a tiny speck of dust in the im­ sum total of all wisdom, beauty, love, mensity of the universe.” His friend, who spirit, and happiness results in m an’s per­ knew something of his divine nature, re­ fection, which shines around him in an plied in a quiet voice. “Astronomically aura of glory. The Galilean Teacher told His followers copyists substituted the word bread as to realize their perfection and “be perfect, being more easily understood by the as your heavenly Father is perfect.” This people. does not mean to be almost perfect. To miss perfection by a fraction of an inch is the same as missing it by ten thousand miles. There is no such condition as “partly perfect.” T h e final demonstration of m an’s per­ One manifestation of perfection is per­ fection is made by the resurrection of his fect health. Since God has made all body into its spiritual nature, as was things—“and without him was not any­ accomplished by Jesus after His cruci­ thing made that was m ade”—there is noth­ fixion. ing that can disrupt or alter the perfect Our God-given power also gives us, in state of health. Anything presenting such the form of Truth, the means to destroy a claim has to be untrue and, as Jesus any claim of reality in evil. The infinity of plainly stated, “a liar and the father of good is positive proof of the nonexistence lies.” of anything unlike good. Now that we know a little of the nature of this masterpiece we are discussing, how do we go about reaching full realization that it is indeed ourself? One requirement is the purification of A second manifestation of G o d ’s per­ all thoughts. We purify and give imme­ fection (which is an intercommunion of the consciousness of man with Spirit, the diate spiritual power to our mind by fill­ ing it with the assurance that, through omnipotent power that unites all cre­ Christ (Truth), we have dominion over ation) is that it could not conceivably con­ tain any form of lack. The Master revealed every word or thought. By purifying the this in the incident of the loaves and heart and mind with affirmations of fishes, as well as in changing water to Truth, we open ourself to an influx of wine. Man can suffer no lack while he has spiritual ideas from Divine Mind. complete control over all forms of sub­ stance in life. Jesus said that His actions could be duplicated by all men, and that they could do even greater things. Jesus’ perfection- w. must not allow the sight of things of power came from food that He said He no value to drive from our mind the ate, and of which His disciples did not thoughts of things of value. We can guard know. He also referred to such food when against this if we follow the advice of He said . . . man does not live by bread Epictetus: “Think of God more often alone but by every word of God. than you breathe.” Since it is in Him we A reference to this spiritual food live, move, and have our being, this really coming from God to man was, according means simply opening our consciousness to Carl Jung, included in the L o rd ’s to His omnipresence. prayer. Jung discovered, in translating The only thing that can hinder us from from one of the ancient manuscripts, that reaching a full realization of God as omni­ the original Greek word for bread in the present is an erroneous concept of ourself. phrase, “Give us this day our daily bread,” Sometimes we miss the mark and believe meant spiritual substance, but that later that there is a self which asserts its pres- ence through qualities such as pride, one Mind, new vistas of life will appear vanity, selfishness, and self-will. As before us. What we consider as common­ Charles Fillmore explains, “As it is by an place objects in the world will be revealed exercise of the free will inherent in us that as spiritual ideas in the process of con­ we separate ourself from the Father, so it tinual unfoldment. must be through that same faculty that we When we cease to make a reality of again make conscious union with what never existed and turn to look Him.” “The personal self is the ego within ourself, we will find God . . . just around which revolve all thoughts that where we left Him, and waiting within our bind us to error.” heart for His return. A lovely Persian prayer goes: “Between Never forget that yours are the hands me and Thee, there is an ‘I am’ that grieves with which He helps those in need; yours me. Through thy ‘I AM,’ take away my ‘I are the feet He uses to go about giving love am’ from between us both.” Whoever to others; yours are the eyes through prays such a prayer is close to the king­ which He sees the perfection of His dom of heaven. world ... for you are part of His master­ As we open our consciousness to the piece called Man. 0

JUSTICE By Bill Smith

MAN’S SYSTEM OF justice is an incomplete and somewhat inaccurate imitation of cosmic justice. When we recognize what we believe to be faults in, or misapplication of, man’s system, it is good that we speak up and do what we can to make man’s system more perfect. The system, like man, must evolve, and we are part of that evolution to a higher and more accurate system. But when we allow our reactions to seeming injustice to become bitter and negative, and attempt to coerce justice as we see it, we are adding to the confusion and misapplication of man’s system. We should remember that there is a higher justice, based upon a simple scientific, universal principle: cause and effect. “ Whatsoever a man sows, that he will also reap.” What every individual puts out in thought and action comes back to him in one way or another, sooner or later. Justice is done, according to universal (God’s) law. And we should keep in mind that the law applies to us as individuals, and forever refrain from “ judging” others and feeling somehow that we must supplement the existing system of justice with our own personal brand. “ With the judgment you pronounce you will be judged.” INTUITION TO THE RESCUE BY GLENN CLAIRMONTE

SCHOLARS ARE MAKING progress in nervous system can be influenced by their search within the cosmic design for a outer conditions and that the pulsing clue to n a tu re’s effect upon our daily brain in its turn originates both alertness living. A recent discovery leads to the and fatigue. The self has got to determine report that each creature develops accord­ which it shall be. ing to its own eternal life-field that is Well, what we call the laws of nature present at the moment of birth. have been so named because of what we As Dr. Harold Burr of the Yale Univer­ have observed. We are no longer confused sity School of Medicine explains: “These as the primitives were by thunderstorms fields are the basic blueprints of all life. and forest fires, for we have found nature We are beginning to see that the universe is to be consistent and we count on it to act a profoundly meaningful and orderly dependably. We have also found by expe­ system, and so are we.” rience that prayer is the one thing to cir­ It has long been acknowledged that the cumvent the natural processes with which human brain, by means of electrochemi­ we are acquainted. No doubt prayer itself cal reaction, involves the response of is typical of natural forces, but we are not nerves and muscles. This knowledge can yet able to trace it on its journey from be applied for personal and collective here to there. No matter what it repre­ benefit, when it is realized that the sents, a “so u l’s sincere desire” does attract a result, and our object is to use it for Many of our casually accepted pursuits self-improvement. are every bit as surprising when we stop to The medical profession can now re­ consider them. For instance, everybody s strain diseases that once ravaged the admits that we think, and what could be population. Vaccines and other pre­ more stupendous than that? The mind is ventive measures protect the public something different from the brain: it is health, and many a deformity can be the mind that instructs the gray matter in corrected by new surgical procedures. order to cause it to think. Besides, scores of other difficulties that We can decide upon an action and used to be considered unavoidable calami­ secure the precise movement of the proper muscles to execute that action. With amazing dexterity our hands can execute tasks, our vocal cords can ma­ nipulate speech, and even the heartbeat and blood pressure can be hurried or slow ed by concentration upon such visceral motion. The energy we induce within us impels us to obey thought, and thought is upon a track far different from function. ties are now bridled by scientific methods. In trying to determine what motivates But it still happens that frequently we are thought, we hope to pounce upon the confronted by a situation that puzzles the secret of healing that follows prayer. best of us. Matter alone could not make such a On such an occasion, often in despera­ change, for flesh has no initiative. Al­ tion we resort to prayer. Regardless of the though tests are made to determine the words we use or the bargain we may try to obedience o f body cells, whose com­ strike by promising to be good, the value mands do they obey? of the prayer appears in the way it carves a There are countless examples of the swath through space and time, breaking way a p e rso n ’s mental propensity sways through the human barrier to reach the his physical state, and we no longer doubt reservoir of creation. Innately we enter­ the relationship between the two. Not tain a standard of rightness that we believe long ago, during a lecture, Dr. Carl Simon- everyone ought to enjoy, and by means of ton produced a series of photographs prayer we invite the ideal to assert itself in showing a cancerous growth in various tangible circumstance. stages of healing. The disease was gradu­ Even a doctor (perhaps I should say, ally eliminated while the patient worked especially a doctor who knows the at persuading himself that his b o d y ’s obstacles to cure) recognizes what is “good” cells could outnumber the ma­ temporarily called a miracle when a rauding cells in battle. When the final pic­ patient developes a “new lease on life.” ture of the series was thrown on the audi­ But to the cosmic performance there can torium screen, it showed such healthy be no mystery in restoration of normality. tissue that all the viewers vibrated in cele­ Perhaps the appearance of a wrong is bration, although the patient was a strang­ always due to human myopia. Yet until er and nameless. We were all taking it per­ now it has been hard for us to realize that sonally! the advantage of prayer coincides with the In my neighborhood there was a less so-called laws of nature. tragic but equally symbolic instance: An old woman became sick enough to spend a thinking. It is a proclivity by which, in day or two lying on a couch. I said to her some still unproven manner, we direct ten-year-old grandson, “Is your grand­ thought undeviatingly toward some re­ mother feeling better today?” He replied plenishing fountain. As far as we know, it in satisfaction, “No, but my grandfather is necessary for the ego to surrender in will be home on Sunday.” The child order to be separate from time and space understood that an improvement in his and thus become free from material ob­ grandm other’s health would take place at struction. By stepping aside from our sight of her husband, who had been absent three-dim ensional self—by releasing for several weeks. Of course he was right, self-interest—we allow the fourth dimen­ as her Sunday disposition testified. sion to take over. Then, electrically or Long after we have accepted the fact otherwise, we contact the central source that a p a tien t’s emotion affects his body, in which rightness resides. we continue to ask, “How can this be We must merely learn to avoid the true?” blockage by becoming enthusiastically Moreover, how can some thoughts not willing that the correction shall be made within the p a tie n t’s own mind govern (and willing is an active operation, not him, as in healing treatment across dis­ mere amiability). Actually, this amounts tance? Is this done by something like to a recognition of ESP, and most of us are radio frequency? Even in a social gather­ beginning to make practical use of that, ing, one guest may make us feel cheerful for there is no longer ridicule to deter us while another may depress us. The per­ from admitting our hunches. sonality of another does touch upon our The English writer, Rosalind Heywood, feelings and often upon our health. tells of the time during her pregnancy Undoubtedly thoughts are things, and when she was extremely tired with no minds are linked by some means, even apparent reason. While she gave herself the privacy to think about it, she had a sudden vision of the chalky white cliffs of Dover, along with a wordless hint that her diet lacked calcium. She followed the im plied suggestion to reprogram her meals, and soon regained her vigor. When I read this, I recalled how one morning I found myself unusually weary and doubted that I could complete the d a y ’s agenda. In asking a silent question, immediately I became aware of a word that I had at that time never before heard: though we are not yet able to explain the riboflavin. I looked it up in the dictionary, process reliably. where it was explained as a growth- “Well, then, it must be an invisible con­ promoting member of the vitamin B com­ nection.” plex. That reminded me that I had been “How do we know it is there if we ca n ’t neglecting meals for several days. After I see it?” in du lged in a hearty breakfast, my “Oh, let the results speak for them­ strength was adequate for the d a y ’s work. selves.” At that same “point in time” there was So goes the dialogue. another incident in line with health Fervent prayer is our strongest mode of through ESP. After my little wire-haired terrier had run through the poison-oak Buber warned in a wider context) every bushes, I lifted her to carry her over a tidal “revelation” is for its own particular wave and, as a result, my forearms became moment, its own peculiar situation. infected from her coat. While I was won­ A hunch to stay at home has often dering what to do, inside my head, as saved a person from being caught in a fatal though a voice were speaking there, I accident. In the same way, many a person heard the words, “carbolic acid.” That has had a silent warning not to eat a food chemical had not been mentioned in my that later turned out to be harmful for his hearing since my childhood, and now I constitution. This instinctive assistance wondered how it could be acquired. Right for the inner need is like a whispering away the inside sound changed to the through the body, and it is wiser than we name of a popular soap. usually admit. “Oh, yes, that soap does smell like My friend Lee had been out of a job carbolic acid,” I said aloud. long enough to have lost some of his self- So I rubbed some o f its suds upon my respect, and he conceived the idea of con­ forearms and had quick relief. (Unfortu­ nately the formula for that soap has been changed.) There have been numerous examples of intuitive information that led to cures, and the memories of such reports have accumulated as “folk medicine.” One man tells me that his nurse kept his child­ hood free of injuries by her loving pat and calm declaration, “It ’s all right now.” The rubbing of gold against an eye as a cure for a sty has often been called “nothing but superstition,” and yet one w om an ’s old- fashioned gold wedding ring cured many a sty on the eyes of her children and the children of her neighbors. The special worth of honey and lemon as tonic has tacting a certain rich man to ask his assis­ been justified by good dietitians, and tance in inaugurating a new career. At his there are other “common sense” remedies first bold approach to the stranger’s that are no longer scorned. office, he was secretly relieved to be told Once I read a magazine article about a that the man he asked to interview was cancer patient who received an extra­ out of town. But the connection even that sensory impression that she ought to eat close to a symbol of success brought beets. She ate beets, beets, beets for about an inner response that had evaded several weeks, her constitution welcoming him earlier: “If I should tell him my classi­ that food, to the amazement of her rela­ fications he would reply, ‘With such tives. Finally her malignant tumor dis­ values you d o n ’t need me.’ ” This was a appeared. The writer of the article cau­ realization that may always have been tioned readers not to expect such a pre­ available to Lee, but evidently its scription to have the same result for appearance in his consciousness had another. That is the beautiful thing about needed prompting. At last he was able to intuition: it pertains to one person at one go forth and rely upon himself to create moment, and (as the theologian Martin an opportunity for the use of his past experience. centuries ago, the great poet Francis The current wave of publicity that ESP Thompson would have been honored for r has been receiving has encouraged sup­ his “indolence” instead of flouted into pressed individuals to speak out. Appar­ poverty, and William B lake’s genius would ently the majority of people have been have been welcomed instead of dis­ keeping quiet about that something credited. within themselves which tries to protect It is only as late as the closing third of them from mistakes—sometimes by a the twentieth century that scientists have warning that a new acquaintance has less found the undercurrent reason for the than a good influence, sometimes by the variety in human nature. They now b o d y ’s call for extra sleep to prevent an describe the life-field that comprises the illness, sometimes by an inclination to source of direction by which each living change course and avoid danger. In a creature develops. recent assembly, nearly a thousand men “The human body,” says Joseph and women were questioned from the Goodavage, “is far, far greater than the platform: “How many here have had help­ sum of its components. Only the L-field ful instances of ESP?” More than seventy- can know the organ ism ’s needs in ad­ five per cent of those present raised their vance. Only the L-field can send the neces­ hands. sary substances to the right part of the As a people we are developing enough body at the right time and maintain the self-confidence to reap advantage from constant pattern of the body for many our most ancient faculty, now that it is at years. The human body is not some mirac­ last being invited to enter the forefront of ulous exception to the universal law of the brain. So the religious contingent will energy fields.” be justified in declaring, “Th at’s what Then is this underlying matrix the w e’ve been telling you all along.” When fountain into which prayer delves when the advice to pray is flavored with we ask urgently for the basic best of our­ denominationalism it arouses resistance, self? Is this the center upon which we can but when it is recognized as a reinforce­ rely for the mystic answer that is already ment of the inner conviction we take ours before we ask? No wonder we have heart. One proof of the new recognition is the contrivance known as the neural effi­ ciency analyzer invented by Dr. John Ertl, director of the Center of Cybernetic Studies at the University of Ottawa. By a culture-free and motivation-free tech­ nique, it measures a s u b je c t’s native ability to learn. Tests administered by means of this new method have uncovered always been secretly convinced that the a fundamental potential that has not pre­ “so u l’s sincere desire” can rescue us in any viously been ascertainable. Hereafter, the emergency. quality of life can be enhanced as we turn And, as always, nature is logical. “God sharper focus upon the innate understand­ provides” does not mean that He fails to ing that imbues each character with the grow the fruit and other foods by which power to express its unique worth within we shall be nourished. “God answers” any given environment. does not mean that He breaks the laws of If there had been knowledge of this the universe to construct a miracle. His care for us is imbedded within the Life- I do believe this is the secret: Our talent field which he devised far ahead of time to pause and listen enables us to contact and to which we have immediate access. the provision already arranged for us be­ In our moments of meditation we draw fore birth and everlastingly. No wonder, upon the ready abundance that is con­ then, that we are able through prayer to tained in the special and personal Life- take each promotion as we ask for it! No field by which each of us is guided and wonder, then, that only when we are sustained. ready for the next step do we ask for it! 0

Man only . . . becomes aware of the world in himself, and of himself in the world.—Goethe. This is the seventh of a twelve-part series on the Book of Revelation, based on dialogues between J. Sig Paulson and Ric Dickerson. Paulson is minister of Unity Village Chapel, where these dialogues were first presented. Dickerson did undergraduate work at the Universities of Kansas and Alabama, and this year will receive his MD degree and his PhD degree in neuroanatomy.

BY J. SIG PAULSON AND RIC DICKERSON

THE CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA

Revelation is more than a Now we are going to consider the book in an outer sense; it is also a process church at Philadelphia. This is a natural that takes place within and through us. It step, because as we move forward, we is orderly in its unfoldment, and we can discover that the only real authority is comprehend its structure by looking at love. Love is the ultimate authority and the letters to the various churches the ultimate energy. Even in this day and recorded in the book of Revelation. Once age, we speak of the city of Philadelphia as the revelation described in these letters is the city of brotherly love, the city of understood, the rest of the book unfolds peace. Thus the letter to the church at easily and naturally. Philadelphia is directed to the love center Our investigation has covered the or capacity within the individual. letters to the churches at Ephesus, which “And to the angel of the church in represents desire; Smyrna, substance or Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy energy; Pergamum, the intellect; Thya- one, the true one, who has the key of tira, the feeling nature; and Sardis, the David, who opens and no one shall shut, power or I AM authority of the individual. who shuts and no one opens. “ ‘I know your works. Behold, I have is the circulatory system of the universe. set before you an open door, which no The letter to the church in Philadephia one is able to shut; I know that you have begins, “The words o f the holy one, the but little power, and yet you have kept true one, who has the key of David.” The my word and have not denied my name. key of David is individual consciousness, Behold, I will make those of the syna­ the I AM that is in the process of awaken­ gogue of Satan who say that they are Jews ing to love. The letter goes on, “who and are not, but lie—behold, I will make opens and no one shall shut, who shuts them come and bow down before your and no one opens.” Think of the valves of feet, and learn that I have loved you. Be­ the heart—they are always opening and cause you have kept my word of patient closing. This can be a reference to the endurance, I will keep you from the hour circulatory system. Also, when one begins of trial which is coming on the whole to awake to love, there is a door that world, to try those who dwell upon the opens in him that no man can close. He earth. I am coming soon; hold fast what becomes a new creature, and brand-new you have, so that no one may seize your life current begins to flow through him. crown. He who conquers, I will make him Jesus says that this life current, which is a pillar in the temple o f my God; never His revelation that has been accepted by shall he go out of it, and I will write on the individual, wells up into eternal life. him the name of my God, and the name of No one can shut it off. Once we discover the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that we are love in expression, then our which comes down from my God out of heart and our whole being open up and heaven, and my own new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ ” This letter contains a fantastic message, not only from the metaphysical but also from the scientific viewpoint. Just where in the physical body is this love center? The cardiovascular system comes to mind immediately, and I think that the circulatory system, the heart and blood vessels, is the outward manifesta­ tion of the love faculty. The heart has always been the symbol of the love center because it is the force or power behind circulation. We can think of love nourish­ ing each little cell of the body. The body is a collection of many cells, and each indi­ vidual cell is supported by the circulatory system, which brings exactly the right ele­ ments to the cell and carries away the elements that the cell no longer needs. L o v e’s lesson is clearly demonstrated in this body system. In fact, as we study the body from this level of awareness, the whole thing turns into a giant love story. We might even say that love the live current of Jesus Christ is pumped an aspect of the central nervous system through us. that tells the story of love very nicely. Dick One of the first ideas that This portion is called the reticular forma­ we shared in this process of revelation was tion, and it is at the sy stem ’s very center that of the unified field of energy that or core. Every part of the central nervous underlies and supports all of creation. system sends information to the reticular Everything is an expression of that one formation, and the reticular formation field, and everything is returning to that sends information back outward. Its func­ field. As we move ahead in consciousness tion seems to be to regulate the input into and establish contact with that field, our the central nervous system. Another of its whole body begins to sing. The direct functions is to help regulate the entire experience of our unity within this field is level of consciousness. It projects outward love. The feeling of our unification with to every part of the cortex like a giant all of creation is love. fountain, and as we begin to experience Jesus was aware of this field the love of creation, the brain begins to of energy when He said, “See how the light up. It begins to come alive and to see fields are already white for harvest.” The in new dimensions. Our perception field of love has always been ready for deepens and broadens, and we start seeing harvest for those who had the conscious­ things that before we could not see. The ness to perceive it. What we are really central nervous system seems to perceive doing in this process of revelation is directly the underlying reality of creation. awakening to something that is already Ric said, “There is nothing there. We do not have to manufacture it; it new under the sun,” and I was thinking is already present, not only in a meta­ that there is nothing new in the son, or the physical and a scientific sense, but also in daughter, of God. There is only that a physical sense. Its elements are here in which has always been and which is there the physical body, and as we become for us to discover. Isn ’t it incredible to conscious of this love and it opens new think that everything we will ever be is in doors, new life currents begin to flow us right now? When we wake up to our through the body and its nature changes. potential and begin to grow, we will be­ We are already beginning come more alive and more loving. The to see the change in our personal expe­ light will be turned on in every cell of our rience. Love can cause the way the body body. operates to change. We can notice the “Behold, I have set before you an open change first in the mind, but eventually door, which no one is able to shut.” Once the whole body takes on new dimensions. we discover that we are love in self-expres­ Of course, these fields of energy have sion, nobody can close any doors in our always been here. “There is nothing new face—or our mind, or body, or experience. under the sun.” Everything that exists has Love opens everything. always been here, and man just wakes up The letter goes on to say, “I know that and discovers various aspects at various you have but little power, and yet you times. Right now we are at the onset of a have kept my word and have not denied time in which we will become even more my name.” There is no one who does not aware and rediscover the truths that have have a little understanding of love, and always been present. this understanding is going to grow and One of our themes has been that the unfold. physical body is also an expression of the There is a gland that corre­ omnipresent field of energy, and there is sponds to the activity of each of these churches, and for Philadelphia it is the we have chosen for him in the name of thymus. There are two kinds of cells in the love. We have to let him have his own ears thymus. One of these sometimes operates and his own mind. That is what this by itself, out of harmony with the other passage about the synagogue of Satan cells of the body. When this happens, it is means: in the new state of consciousness, called the killer cell, because it does more we have to release these false feelings. We damage than it does good. But once it have to be free. begins to operate in harmony with the rest Donald Hatch Andrews once told me of the b o d y ’s immunity mechanism, then that love and freedom are synonymous. it becomes a helper cell. I have found a We are all free; scientists have discovered similar situation in my own experience. that even the atoms in our body are free. Sometimes when love begins to move out­ Every atom in our body is here because it ward, it makes way for a false idea of self, loves us. It has come to serve us, to be part and it can do a lot of damage. But once it of our residence here on earth. begins to operate with a commitment to Scientists call this “cosmic the unity of the whole, then it becomes a glue,” but of course what they are talking tremendous asset. about is love. Pin...on “Behold, I will make those The letter says that the false of the synagogue of Satan who say that feelings will “learn that I have loved you.” they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, This is an echo of the Old Testament state­ I will make them come and bow down ment, “I have loved you with an everlast­ before your feet.” When love begins to ing love.” No matter how we have mis­ operate in these so-called killer cells, the understood the nature of love, there is an destructive cells of our being, they fall overriding element of love that is con­ down and worship the love center within stantly pressing its truth, its light, its us, and they are converted from killers to goodness, and its wholeness into our con­ helpers. Love is not separate from the rest sciousness. of our powers, just as the effects of one “Because you have kept my word of gland are not separate from those of patient endurance. . . . ” This process another. They all work together for con­ does require patience, d o e sn ’t it? structive purposes. Yes, patience and peace. The letters to the churches speak quite The idea of the new Jerusalem, which is often of Satan, or the synagogue of Satan, mentioned later in this passage, seems to and this refers to those elements in us that be a state of inner peace, a restful state in say they are one thing but are actually which the mind remains alert. In this state something else. For example, our first of restful alertness, the mind simply experience in loving usually contains ele­ knows, and knows that it knows. Once the ments of Satan, or aspects that we believe mind is in this restful state, then all the to be love but are not. We may have a activity of the Creator just comes no feeling of possessiveness toward another matter what is happening in the outer. person, and we say that this is love. We do One has a knowingness about the activity not allow the person to stand on his own of creation. two feet, because we are sure we know a / < Peace, which is related to better way for him to act. As we grow and meditation and relaxation, is not a state of unfold, the elements of our loving change, inertness, but a state of alertness. and we find that we can no longer hold It is a state of tremendous tightly onto people as we once did. We can alertness. The mind is more alert in that no longer steer a person along a path that state of peace or meditation than it is in any kind of activity. the healing can take place. Paulson When a person becomes ill, Dickerson I think that there is a he has a certain inertness in his system, definite trend in this direction within the either mental or physical. Healing is a medical field. The whole purpose of a matter of getting the person back into a hospital is for people to escape all needless state of peace or restful alertness. activities and to achieve some peace of Dickerson This state of restful alert­ mind so that they can get in touch with ness is the state of perfect health, perfect the healing planes of existence. Every­ love, perfect peace—of every perfection. thing is done to facilitate movement into In one of our previous dialogues, Sig that plane, even if we do not yet realize it. came up with the idea that disease is the Pan I used to know a young man result of our sitting on our potential, who worked in a greenhouse, and the which includes all our health, love, peace, plants just grew and grew under his care. I and so forth. Science is also looking for a asked him how he could make them common denominator that causes disease, respond so well, and he said, “I just give and it is considering the idea of stress. We them plenty of tender, loving care.” This do feel stress when we are holding down is what we find in hospitals. Often the our potential, and as our system strives to healing takes place not so much by medi­ get some release, a disease is created. We cation but by the tender, loving care of a still do not have one common denomi­ nurse. A nurse can be a very potent heal­ nator that we can point to, but we are ing force for the entire floor she works on. moving in that direction. If we can cen­ If she radiates love and light, then the tralize disease around some central con­ hospital staff and all the patients are influ­ cept and define the problem in very enced by her presence. simple terms, then the solution will be The letter goes on, “Because you have only a short step away. We call that solu­ kept my word of patient endurance, I will tion a state of perfect wholeness. When keep you from the hour of trial which is one is in a state of perfect wholeness, coming on the whole world, to try those disease simply is not supported. who dwell upon the earth.” Of course the /'

Ingredients for cVital li v i n g

BY HAL LINGERMAN

IT WAS THE wise teacher and philoso­ does to the general feeling within each of pher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who once us of wanting to enlarge, a longing to said that we write and live “from aspi­ expand, the divine eros that would make ration and antagonism as well as from our our earthly love more powerful, and large experience.” If we look at E m erson ’s as the infinite heart of God. To aspire is to statement and consider his words, we can feel a call from the unknown, a call to­ begin to discover that our life is largely a ward something more than we con­ blending of our responses to these three sciously know at present, the F ath er’s call essential factors: aspiration, antagonism, to the prodigal to return home again. and experience. Aspiration requires strength and the inner We all have aspirations—those dreams will to persevere. It means to live with and often fathomless urges that impel us great love and affection for everything onward toward a more complete con­ and every person around us, and it also scious understanding and expression of means to keep our eye single and centered what we were originally created to be. The on the call from the unknown. w ord aspiration literally means “to Each of us has his own aspiration, but breathe toward” or “to soar.” The word each of us also likes a certain security. All usually does not refer so much to a of us would like to soar to greater heights, specific desire or earthly ambition as it but we also like it where we are. And there are comforts that are valid expressions of ly or hostile, but a complementary oppo­ Spirit, such as good food, pleasant atmo­ sition of different forces. In biology the sphere, and beautiful objects and persons word antagonism suggests a creative inter­ to surround us. A certain comfort brings ference between two dissimilar energies. needed stability to our life; the religious We all have heard the expression, “It takes life is certainly the cultivation of the two to tangle,” and this is often held to be beautiful, but it is more. a rather unfortunate and negative varia­ Our deepest aspiration makes us realize tion on the more friendly invitation to that even the most beautiful sight or cir­ dance together: “It takes two to tango.” cumstance is a passing thing. The beauti­ O n e’s life needs opposition in order to ful is beautiful only as it moves and grows. grow. Just as the small seed in the ground Again, Emerson said it well when he called needs the soil to push against in order to it “the floating perfect.” And if we as indi­ come to flower, we find that we need the viduals put too much emphasis on useful force of “antagonism” in our own security and changeless comfort, we lose life. Left alone, with no challenge or prob­ the uncertain thrill of aspiration, the call lem, we can only wither, become isolated to move on further into the unknown, the from the world, from people, and even call to “die daily” in order to be recreated. from our own self. Too much security That which is really beautiful and inspired stifles the heart, the mind, and the emo­ is usually not stationary or predictable. tions. Such a life of an overdose of Like a sudden face in the crowd or a flash security pills may prove “safe,” but it is of light on leaves, a pattern appearing in obviously deadening and does not bring the clouds, it is unnameable and moves in joy and vitality. and out, according to its own time. Like We are sparked by Spirit from our aspi­ Spirit, it blows where it will and as it will. rations and from our antagonisms. And To behold the new, therefore, and to feel we also live more fully out of our expe­ again the deepest aspiration of our heart, rience. Experience suggests “going we often need a stimulus that will lift us through something,” and whatever we go out of our own inertia and our overly through adds significantly to the filling comfortable slumber of living. It is this out of our soul. Every moment of our life stimulus that Emerson calls the force of in some way affects the overall, changing antagonism. tone of our being. A “good” experience is The word antagonism suggests “a one which brings into our conscious contest against,” not something unfriend- knowing something new, a different angle or emphasis of movement that is helpful to our total soul development. There are ( "\ also “bad” experiences, those which go Unity Churches, Centers, against our essential inner direction; those and Teachers needlessly imposed on ourself at weak If you would like to know the location o f moments; repetitions or pointless delays your nearest Unity church or center, and that can deplete our vitality and valuable cannot find it listed in your telephone strength. There are experiences that each directory, please write to The Association of us needs, and these can be discerned o f Unity Churches, Unity Village, Mo. and prepared for only through keen obser­ 64065. They will be glad to give you any vation in the midst of our outer life and desired information about Unity churches through a constant prayerful attitude or classes in your vicinity. within. In this manner we are better able V______J to distinguish between what is essential to us and what is nonessential. We become more aware of our needs, which are not necessarily the same as what we desire. ’Th in g s tolte Our daily life, therefore, is a composite of forces, a continuous movement H gm em h em l through attractions and repulsions, and an accumulation o f our responses to aspi­ BY LOWELL FILLMORE ration and antagonism. We live, hoping in REMEMBER that although G o d ’s princi­ our activity to be more than we were ples are Spirit and cannot be seen, they are yesterday, hoping to express more of the more real than tangible things. whispering in our soul as imbued by G o d ’s principles are fundamental and Spirit. These aspirations are stimulated are infinitely more far-reaching than the and often aided by our antagonisms, the principle of mathematics. His invisible challenges that push in on us, forcing us to principles uphold that which is visible to reply, to make decisions, to live through us. Hebrews 11:3 confirms this: “By faith changes. We are moved by the beautiful, we understand that the world was created and we are moved by the ugly and the by the word of God, so that what is seen imperfect. A recent speaker, asked for his was made out of things which do not advice about life and how to live it, said, appear.” “Learn to love your problems as well as G o d ’s principles are His unchanging your comforts, for in them lies your and enduring creations, which exist in the greatest strength and creativity.” We are realm of everywhere present Spirit. moved most by the peaceful and the Human language is inadequate to de­ harmonious, but only as such harmony, scribe the power and extent of G o d ’s prin­ ambient and shifting, is achieved and re­ ciples, even though we may use the best achieved, arranged and rearranged out of words we are able to devise in an effort to challenge (antagonism), which calls for convey their good: love, wisdom, light, creative response and a certain stretching power, substance, life, peace, harmony, of ourself to meet the occasion. order, and joy, to mention a few. As we In every way that we respond, we go stir up these gifts we are able to see G o d ’s on, adding to and filling out our soul, re­ principles permeating all things. Our spiri­ shaping ourself more into the nature and tual gifts then expand within us which not plan of what we were created to be. Like only aid in helping others but ourselves as the stone being shaped by the sculptor, well. what is unessential will eventually drop away, but meanwhile the kernel comes AFFIRMATIONS FOR MEDITATION more into view—the essence of what we G o d ’s abounding love fills my con­ are and where we are going. The artist sciousness. moves to shape a masterpiece out of his G o d ’s rich principle of substance over­ own self, while beyond the biding Pres­ flows into all my affairs. ence feeds us new material, new situa­ The principle of G o d ’s life fills my tions, new possibilities to help us shape mind with renewing ideas. our life. And the force of greater light and G o d ’s wisdom guides me into all Truth. love moves in our midst to help us choose G o d ’s principle of harmony makes my our materials wisely, so that by our own way pleasant and friendly. movements and actions and by the gift of G o d ’s principle of joy makes me happy, grace, the earth and all of us may be made courageous, and contented. whole. Q PRAYER so grateful to you for your prayers. The next day the house was sold to the satis­ faction and content of all parties concerned. POWER And yesterday we saw my father-in-law at the hospital. His wounds are mostly healed, he had no pain, and for the first time in weeks we saw Excerpts from letters to Silent Unity, him joking and smiling. quoted with permission of the writers Lord bless you for your good work, and here is a little check to help you help others as you did Joined in Prayer and are helping us. Dear Friends in Unity: Three days ago I rushed We both thank you most kindly.— P.D., Cali­ fornia. by airmail a letter to you asking for your prayers. There were three problems that oppressed us. Some golden souvenirs that I treasured as Tornado Protection memories o f my godparents had disappeared. We Dear Unity: I and my loved ones are so thankful suspected theft and circumstances warranted the that we were spared the wrath of the terrible suspicion. The house we tried to sell for a few tornado that swept through our part o f the months did not sell. We definitely felt that some­ country. thing was hindering the transaction. And the God has been so very good to us, and my third and most distressing was the illness o f my prayers for health and safety have been an­ father-in-law, who is ninety-two and was suffer­ swered. I feel you are always remembering those ing terribly. o f us who trust in the Lord, and I thank Him I joined you in prayer and knew that it would every day for the many blessings He gives be answered. The rest was miraculous. First, u s Kentucky. when searching desperately for these souvenirs and going through every bit of paper or anything I had, I found Christ’s picture. It was an old re­ Unity—God’s Channel quest for donation from a denomination to Dear Silent Unity: I want to tell you how Unity which I had belonged. I dropped it aside and then helped a dear friend of ours years ago. felt ashamed: “Treat it reverently. It is our Her husband passed away, leaving her with L o rd ’s picture. Retrace your thoughts.” Then I two daughters to raise. They were in high school. reverently placed the little picture in a safe place This friend had never worked outside her home to come to it at a later date. and now she had to find employment. The very The very next moment I had an urge to con­ thought o f the business world terrified her. Her tinue the search. 1 was immediately led to the only talent was sewing, so she finally decided to back porch, to an old cardboard box which I did apply for work in the alteration department of a not even know I had. There was a little box I did store. not recognize either, but I opened it and there The day she went downtown to apply she was were the things that I had missed. very depressed and sad over the loss o f her hus­ I was happy to have them back, but most of all band and was terrified to ask for a job. A block it helped to avoid a dreadful injustice concerning away from the store she was struggling for com­ a man that already had a sad record and who posure and trying to formulate her thoughts seems to be going straight. The Lord helped me when a sheet o f paper caught on her shoe. She to avoid both a crime and a sin. That is why I am tried to kick it o ff but to no avail. She reached down to pull it o ff and something compelled her everyone said, “Yo u ’ll be lucky to get in your to read it. She said the page was smudged and new home in eight to ten months.” I would rather battered. It was an article on faith from silently affirm the truth that “God was in charge Unity. She said she leaned against the building and with Him all things were possible.” I let go and read it twice, convinced that God had placed and let God. He never fails. the paper on her shoe. It filled her with the In less than six months I was in my new home, courage she needed and she got the job. a perfect home beyond my dreams. Thank you - I ’ve heard my friend relate the story to for your prayers and thank You, Father.—E.H., others—how God used Unity to help her. Florida. Bless you, dear friends.—E.C., Florida. Prosperity Dear Friends at Unity: I wrote to you for prayers Courage through Prayer for my son-in-law, who was placed in a position Dear Friends: Unity has been a great help to me at work which made him very unhappy. over the last twenty-three years. When the going was bad and things looked When we first wrote to you, your prayers gave darkest, an opportunity came about so unex­ us the courage to immigrate to Canada from pectedly that it seemed like a miracle. He met an England, with two babies and no job or relatives old friend on the golf course who said that there to come to. was a job opening in his office that needed to be I never forgot the affirmation you sent to filled and that my son-in-law was the one for it. us: “The Spirit o f the Lord goes before me My daughter had sent to Unity for her first making easy and successful my way,” and every­ prosperity bank, and the day it came the new job thing worked out well for us. Thank you all for also came about. We are so happy about the your wonderful work.—M.H., Canada. change, which will give him more time off and a raise in salary. We want you to know we feel it couldn’t have happened without prayer. I thank Outstanding Recovery you and bless you a ll.—E.C., Pennsylvania. Dear Silent Unity: Thank you for the prayers that you said for my husband. He was very sick in the hospital and was to be operated on for cancer o f the colon. I called Silent Unity the night before his operation. His recovery has been outstanding. He is home and doing wonderful. God bless you. Enclosed is a love offer­ ing.— T. Y., Ohio.

God Is in Charge Dear Silent Unity: I wrote and asked you to pray with me for an early completion of a house I was To call for prayer help, phone (816) 524-5104. planning to have built in spite o f shortage of (If you have an urgent need and have no means of materials. paying for a call, dial our toll-free number: All around me were negative thoughts and 800-821-2935.) Sometimes I find it good to be alone— To measure self with nature and to see If mind has widened, and my soul has imes grown A little taller, as it longs to be. By Kathleen McBee Stapp THE IDEA To answer readers’ questions about anything related to increased spiritual understanding and deeper integrative growth. To discover not only what people are asking but what people are thinking about in the area of beliefs and practices in the world within Questions and without. To help others—and—us in the spiritual search. To stimulate the search Quest itself.

... with answers by Marcus Bach

Dear Dr. Bach: is also no longer the rule in certain seg­ What do you think of premarital sex? ments of society), or if you plan to get E.V. married sooner or later, why not get mar­ ried sooner? Dear E.V.: MB *I My first impulse upon reading your one-line letter was to say that the question is too explosive to answer, and that pre­ marital sex is too explosive to engage in. Dear Mr. Bach : While premarital sex relations are no I recently lost my near vision. Medical longer considered too immoral by our science cannot help me and now my only culture, I think they are still a bit too pre­ hope seems to be the Source of all good, mature. Making sex the central pursuit for God. I have been a metaphysical student marriage has complications such as the for thirty years. Have used every form of trauma of lo v e ’s true motive and its basic, prayer and meditation I know. Silent ultimate values, the debatable case for a Unity and friends have prayed. My eyes certain standard of morality and self­ are no better. I would appreciate any esteem, even though virginity is no longer suggestions you may have to give. a necessary requirement (apparently) for Mrs. G.L. happiness, and then there is the question of the whole psychology behind the satis­ Dear Mrs. G.L.: faction of the wish-fulfillment. Our Source of all good is always God, If you plan to get married at all (which whether medical science can help us or not. God works in and through many who seeks to walk with God, be he a self- channels. His wonders are performed declared, publicly declared, or undeclared through many disciplines from science to “avatar.” seemingly chance happenings. D o n ’t give Avatars often become gurus, and my up. feeling is that the greatest guru is you. By It would, of course, be unwise for me to this I mean that we should seek and realize make suggestions merely on the strength the avatar within ourself, and transfer the of your letter. However, it reached me time we devote to worshiping others to during my reading of a book on raw vege­ the development of our own inner spiri­ table juices. I took this as a sign to make a tual nature. suggestion, because the book contains an Thousands of “holy men” have walked* interesting reference to an eye condition down through the ages. All inspired (seemingly something like yours) which special devotees. Movements have grown responded miraculously to a juice diet. up around many of them: Sai Baba, If you have never looked into the field Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Sun Myung of nutritional therapy, you may wish to Moon, Gopi Krishna, Maharaj ji, Gurd- do so, while continuing your program of jieff, Pak Subah, Miki Nakayama, prayer and meditation. Tokuchika Mike, Masaharu Taniguchi, MB Father Divine, to mention just a few whose movements I have personally re­ searched. These and countless others. It would require a great deal of doing if Unity or any other established metaphysi­ Dear Mr. Bach: cal work were to recognize all avatars in a Lately I have been reading and studying special way. When the Catholic Church, about Me her Baba. He was one of the no less than the Anglican, began honoring declared avatars (1894-1969). Avatars the saints they discovered that there were are men who felt led to proclaim them­ so many that they ran out of holy days in selves sons of God, as Zoroaster, Rama, which to properly show the churches’ Krishna, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed. adoration. And these were all merely Meher Baba lived a life of service, Christian saints (or Christian avatars). physical and spiritual, to the poor of There were so many that the Catholic India. He had a circle of disciples, male Church and the Anglican Church set aside and female. He spoke several languages. another special day which they called All Centers have been established in South Saints’ Day, in which the remaining Carolina and California. He loved Jesus avatars or holy men of Christianity were and often referred to Him Much of what recognized. It can become quite involved. he said and did was similar. And also quite presumptuous, because Shouldn Y we in Unity pay a little many true saints and avatars did not wish attention to Meher Baba? Surely there is to be worshiped or even recognized. That a lot of value to be found in this was the very last thing they wanted. twentieth-century son of God! Unity, being Christ-centered, recog­ Esther nizes the potential “avatar” in everyone, including (idealistically and basically), the Dear Esther: Christ in everyone, including Meher Baba A “little attention” perhaps, but no and you and me. more than should be shown to any other MB individual who lives a life of service and Dear Dr. Bach: / \ What do you think abou t taking up collections at church services? Isn't it a somewhat worldly practice smacking of In response to Dr. Bach’s generous offer commercialism? Wouldn't it be better to answer questions from readers, his just to have baskets at the door, or not office has been flooded with hundreds of take up offerings at all, trusting in God letters. Because his busy schedule of to “offer and increase"? writing and lecturing does not leave him Kathy enough time to answer so many questions, he has asked us to ask you not to submit 'Dear Kathy: any more questions at this time. If Dr. Your name sounds young, but the Bach is able to accept more questions at a views expressed in your letter are as old as later date, we will announce this in the the hills. Pastors and people have raised magazine.—The Editor. the question about Sunday fund-raising down through the years. Many ministers ) feel it would be esthetically more appro­ V______priate not to pass the plate and, as you say, simply “trust the Lord for the in­ crease.” The inference is that these minis­ ters apparently trust the Lord but do not between God and you, giving in love, trust the people. The people need a bit of loving to give, making the offering a nudging and the sacramental offertory, beau tifu l and indispensable part of plates and all, has therefore become part worship. of the ritual. Your letter brought back two amusing U n ity ’s method of “taking the offer­ recollections out of my boyhood. One ing” has always impressed me. Unity was the remembrance of my m o th er’s looks upon this part of the service not as a annoyance when a man sitting next to her put-on but as a privilege, not as a commer­ at a service in our parental evangelical cial act but as an act of worship. Tradi­ church insisted on making change for a tional churches have wisely copied dollar bill when she passed the plate to U n ity ’s technique and are using it more him. She thought that was short-changing and more, just as they copied the use of the Lord. The other remembrance that affirmations, Silent U n ity’s prayer pro­ came to mind was of the little girl who gram, and various prosperity procedures. always referred to the offertory tray as U n ity ’s technique, as you know, is to the “connection plate.” This seemed to clasp the offering thoughtfully between me a very wise and meaningful expression. the palms of the hands, close the eyes, be MB *1 grateful for G o d ’s blessings and bounty, recognize that in the offering you are merely returning to the creative Source that which the Source has entrusted to you. Clasping your offering warmly, you Dear Dr. Bach: know that “Divine love blesses, increases, Here is my theory of spiritual healing. and multiplies all that we give and all that Please comment. we receive.” Place your love offering in 1. The subconscious mind controls the plate or basket and think, not of body functions: breathing, circu­ money, but in terms of the partnership lation, digestion, body chemistry. glandular secretions, healing of out “one, two, three, fo u r ”; He just wounds, etc. explained a built-in feature of the body: 2. The subconscious is also the realm God's holy temple. Perhaps my outline o f feeling: love, joy, sorrow, will stimulate some thinking and help hate, guilt, resentment, etc. some unbelievers. 3. Destructive emotions disturb the Marguerite B. subconscious so that it cannot properly take care of the body Dear Marguerite B: functions and disease or dis­ And some believers, too. Many of our ability results. readers will want to reread your sequences 4. Faith calms the disturbed sub­ and judge for themselves the logic, value,' conscious. The cause of body ills is and validity of your four points. Surely, it removed, proper functions are is an overview and an insight into the restored, healing takes place. Christ search for better understanding of health explained this when he said that by and well-being. faith are we healed. MB I do not think Christ worked this

LOGIC AND MIRACLES

By Nancy L. Compton

Are you a rational person? Good at the available facts indicate that a thing is logic, used to using your head? Fine—up impossible”? You see, we do not present­ to a point. ly have all the facts. There are higher laws That point is the point where rational­ not yet discovered, but they are still laws ity leaves off and faith begins. and they work, just as the laws of electric­ Sometimes it seems just impossible that ity worked before anyone discovered prayer could solve a particular problem. them. And if you are a rational, logical person, So you see that logic is not the loser that seeming impossibility can work after all. It is just that the marvelous against you. When all the available facts things that happen every day in spite of indicate that a thing is impossible, the the facts we know are happening in accor­ logical mind wants to say that it is impos­ dance with the laws we don't yet know sible. and understand! But nothing is impossible with God. When you need a so-called miracle, set God can work through things that seem your logic aside for a while. Know that a impossible to man. higher law can save you yet—in spite of Did you notice that I said, “when all the apparent facts! a f y l r i t f y c J o Mm c V LIFE IS CONSCIOUSNESS BY EMMET FOX

This article by Emmet Fox, from a lecture delivered to the Unity workers many years ago, appears in “The Unity Treasure Chest.”

THE TRUTH MOVEMENT, as we call it, is the most important A thing in the world today. The Truth movement, which centers in the belief in the omnipresence and availability of God, is the most vy important thing in the world, because it is the only thing that can A save the world. Nothing else can. Everything else has been tried. vy People have tried building up might and power, and have used it A to wreck themselves. Man has built up intellectual power; and especially since four centuries ago, since the Renaissance, edu­ A vy cation has been intellectual. People are surprised when you tell vy them that there is any other kind of education. A Those who have had the advantages of a higher education know that so-called intellectual study gives very, very little help in the vy practical business of living. This Truth movement comes along, A takes hold of people and changes them. It restores health if that has been lost, restores estate if that has been lost, restores self- A vy respect if that has been lost. It puts people on their feet, and shows them that there is something in life worth living for. x/. I think it is well for us to remind ourselves what it is that we really believe and have. The answer is that very embarrassing; so put your card inside we really have the key to life. We do not the closet. just approach life from a particular angle People come to me and say, “If you as other schools of healing do, but we have only knew the kind of family I have, if the key to life; and that key is the knowl­ you only knew the kind of people I have edge that life is a state o f consciousness. to be with and work with!” I say, “The The explanation of all your problems, law of Being says, ‘Like attracts like.’ ” the explanation of your difficulties, and The ultimate explanation of all things is the explanation of your triumphs in life that life is a state of consciousness. boil down to this: Life is a state o f con­ Take this table. You say this is solid sciousness. That is the beginning and the wood, and that is true as far as it goes. But end. That is the final step in metaphysics. the next step, going deeper, is that we find All the other steps but lead up to that. it is really made up of molecules with Isaac Pennington, the Quaker, said, great distances, relatively, between them. “All truth is a shadow, but the last truth.” So it is not solid at all. It is made up of And the last truth is that life is conscious­ molecules, and that is true as far as it goes. ness. You are and you have and you do in But these again are made up of atoms, and accordance with your consciousness. That these of electrons and protons, and so on. is the beginning and the end. There are We hear talk of vibrations, of rays, of all other ways of looking at life that are these things, and they are good descrip­ superficially correct, but ultimately the tions as far as they go; but in the ultimate, truth is that your life is a state of con­ beyond all these things, we come back to a sciousness. Your so-called physical body state of consciousness. is the embodiment of a part of your con­ sciousness. Your home is the embodiment of another part of your consciousness. The kind of work you are doing—whether D you are in work that you love, or whether efore you change your state of con­ you are doing drudgery that you hate—is sciousness nothing else can change. the expression of your consciousness at All trouble, all disappointment, all- that point. The kind of people you meet, depression, all limitation is a state of con­ the people you attract into your life, are sciousness that must be changed. People the expression of your consciousness are trying to change outer conditions but about your fellow men. leaving their consciousness unchanged, and it cannot be done. The only fundamental way to change things is to change your consciousness because you always must and always will f you came to see me and told me that get the conditions that belong to your you c o u ld n ’t get along with people, I consciousness. You cannot cheat nature. should tell you to get a card about the size You can drag to you, through will power, o f a post card, and write on it, “Like certain things that do not belong to you, attracts like, ” and then put it inside your but you can only keep them for a short closet—not where other members of your time. The moment you take your hands family will see it, because that would off they fly away. That was the real cause sometimes be embarrassing. When you are of the financial collapse of 1929. Then grumbling and finding fault they could Wall Street made its famous nose dive. point their finger at it, and that would be The prosperity that had been built up was not true prosperity. People had been then nobody else could spoil it for you.” gambling on the stock market and else­ Your body, your home, your city, your where and had attracted or dragged to country, the universe, are pictures of con­ themselves prosperity that they were not sciousness. Your private life outpictures entitled to by right of consciousness, and your own consciousness. The national life of course they could not keep it. is the outpicturing of the national con­ The same thing applies to health. You sciousness. So you see how foolish it is to can compel a certain part of the body to try to change the outer picture without picture health for a short time, but if you changing the inner consciousness. do not have the consciousness of health you cannot keep it. You “heal” a person of rheumatism and he has sciatica, you “heal” him of that and he has trouble with eople come to see me and say, “I am his sight, you “heal” his sight and his right broke. I need a thousand dollars. I need lung weakens, and so on. These are not the money.” Or, “I have had a quarrel healings. They are temporary cures, be­ with somebody,” which usually means cause they are attempts to put into the that they expect the other person to bend body something that d o e sn ’t belong there to their will and come crawling on his by right of consciousness. knees for forgiveness. They say, “Put When you want to solve your problems these things right.” I say, “Change your you can see at once that the only scientific consciousness. I do not treat for money. I way is to start in to change your con­ do not patch up quarrels like that. But I sciousness. Likewise you must change the do help you to change your conscious­ consciousness of a patient if you want to ness.” Some of them smile and say, “Oh, heal him. Nothing can come to you no, my consciousness is really quite good. securely, nothing can stay with you Other people are to blame—my mother or permanently, except what you are en­ my sister.” I answer, “No; the real trouble titled to by your consciousness. is in your consciousness; and all the time Emerson said, “No man and no institu­ you are trying to work on outer things and tion was ever ridden down or talked down leaving your consciousness unchanged no by anything but itself.” People may permanent good can come to you.” slander you, but nobody can hurt you Too often you try to change outer except yourself. Nobody can wreck a things instead of changing the inner. So church or a center or a movement or a nothing happens. But when you start to country except itself. change your consciousness, things happen. If you d o n ’t like the picture on the movie screen, change the reel. If you d id n ’t like the picture you were seeing, A and would like to see some other, you woman said, “I started a center and w o u ld n ’t get a cloth and try to rub it off as everything went beautifully until some if from a blackboard. You would take out horrible person spoiled everything.” I that reel and put in the reel you wanted. replied, “You are the horrible person who The scientific way to approach life, if spoiled your center, because if you started you do not like the picture you are get­ a center and it d id n ’t go, then you did not ting, is to change the reel. have a right consciousness for that work. How do we change the reel? By rising in You should have changed your conscious­ consciousness. The only real healers are ness until you did have a good center, and practical ones. I have met a few theoreti- cal so-called healers. I have met people word is I AM. It is the secret of life. We are who told me just how healing should be given it in Deuteronomy, and Jesus iden­ done. They understood the theory. They tified Himself with it. Jesus was a great knew how it should be done but co u ld n ’t reader of the Psalms and Isaiah and do it. They were purely theoretical. Deuteronomy. The key to life is not some­ The way to meet a problem is to raise where outside of life. You ca n ’t go up to your consciousness. If you do this, the it. No great seer or saint will go up and problem disappears. In the Bible a valley bring it down for you. It is not thousands always stands for trouble, sin, limitation; of miles across the sea. It is very nigh unto and the mount for uplifted thought, and you. It is with you all the time. I AM is the prayer for understanding. We must go up great secret. I AM is the famous lost word. the mount; raise our consciousness. Most people who have a problem con­ centrate on that problem. They take it to A bed with them and stay awake all night 11 through history mankind has felt thinking it over. Let go of the problem. intuitively that there is a way out, if only Rise above it in consciousness. How can we can find it. All the old fairy tales tell you do this? Go up quickly, in a flash if the story again and again. Aladdin had a you can; but you ca n ’t always do it that wonderful lamp. He rubbed it and re­ way. You will find that by reading the ceived the things he wanted. The lamp was Bible, or some available spiritual book, or the creative word. Cinderella was in the a Unity publication, or by repeating some kitchen, miserable and unhappy like so favorite inspirational hymn, your con­ many others, and then something hap­ sciousness is rising. If a diver goes down to pened. A pumpkin turned into a carriage, the bottom of the sea he wears lead shoes, and a pair of white rats turned into white but if he wants to come up to the surface horses, and so on. But there must have of the water quickly he kicks off the lead been a change in C inderella’s conscious­ shoes. Then he rises rapidly. When we rise ness first. in consciousness we kick off our lead Always men and women have felt shoes, and then we begin to be healed, or intuitively that there is a way out; that it is the patient begins to be healed; but it is not necessary to be angry and mean and the consciousness that you have to heal. resentful and bitter; that it is not neces­ sary to grow old and die; that it is not necessary that man should fight and grab for prosperity and food. What is life worth here is no other way. The great key to if living is to be a constant struggle for consciousness lies in the “Word,” which necessities? Men and women have always Unity has been teaching for more than known intuitively that there is a way out fifty years. “In the beginning was the if only they can find it. They have always Word, and the Word was with God, and known that God means all life to be noble the Word was God. . . . All things were and creative and joyous. And this is true. made through him and without him was The way out lies in the spoken word. In not anything made that hath been made.” the Bible the “word” means any defi­ The first chapter of John is a reflection nitely formulated thought—not just the of the first chapter of Genesis; both deal drifting thought that floats through your with creation: “God said.” John explains mind. The word is creative, and the the Logos. The Greek word Logos means strongest and most creative word is “I the great creative Word. The great creative am.” Whenever you say “I am,” you are calling upon the universe to do something Frenchman and the Englishman, and the for you and it will do it. Whenever you say Englishman gets them concerning the “I am,” you are drawing a check on the Frenchman and the German. Why pick up universe. It will be honored and cashed any prejudices? sooner or later and the proceeds will go to Then the child grows older, and of you. If you say, “I am tired, sick, poor, course his family is interested in politics. fed up, disappointed, getting old,” then Again he sets up in his mind a whole army you are drawing checks for future trouble of prejudices. He belongs to a certain and limitation. When you say, “I am party because his father does. He goes to a divine life,” “I am divine Truth,” “I am particular school or college and collects divine freedom,” I am substance,” “I am more prejudice. He should use the “I am” eternal substance,” you are drawing a to say “I am for freedom.” He should use check on the bank of heaven, and surely it to throw down the walls of resentment. that check will he honored with health It is your “I am” whatever way you use and plenty for you. it, and there is one thing that nobody can Remember you d o n ’t have to use the do for you, and that is save your soul, actual grammatical form “I am.” Every because nobody can speak the “I am” for time you associate yourself in thought you. Nobody can say “I am” for you or with anything, or think of yourself as another; he would have to say “You are” having anything, you are using a form of or “He is,” and that would not be “I am.” “I am. ” The verb “to have” is a part of the In Revelation we read, “To him who verb “to be.” In the very ancient lan­ conquers ... I will give him a white stone, guages, there is no verb “to have.” It is a with a new name written on the stone modern improvement like the radio and which no one knows except him who re­ the automobile. “I have” means “I am,” ceives it.” The white stone means the because you always have what you are, ascension of the divine nature, because of and you always do what you are. its understanding. The new name is the That is the significance of “I am,” and new character and the new life. You speak today more people have come to know for yourself and you save your own soul, about it than ever before, and this is a and it is said to be secret because only you wonderful thing. Unity has taught it. In can use it. the Truth movement in London we taught it. But few people realize what it means. Whatever you associate yourself with, that you are bringing into your conscious­ ness. What is the first thing we do when we Teachers can write books for you, they talk at all? We say, “I am this,” “I am can talk to you, but they cannot save your that.” Perhaps my father was Mr. Jones. soul, because they cannot think for you. Therefore I am a Jones. The neighbors When anyone uses “I am” for you, it be­ across the way are Robinsons. They are comes “You are.” It is your “I am” that strangers to me, because I am a Jones. must save you, and nobody on earth can Immediately the baby picks up all the use it but you. The “I am” is God in prejudices of old man Jones. Or we say, “I action. God is not a man. God is working am a Frenchman,” or “I am a German,” or through you. You are not separated from “I am an Englishman.” The Frenchman God. God does not sit far up in the sky gets a great many prejudices concerning and send you a good idea. God is the I AM the German and the Englishman, the giving you a new embodiment, a new German gets prejudices concerning the creation. Whatever you believe, that you create. You are the I AM. God knows own consciousness. You will never builc Himself in your consciousness, and that is anything into your consciousness unti knowing God. God is I AM THAT I AM, you do it in practice. Meditating an houi but you are I AM. in the morning before breakfast helps verj I want to emphasize this point. You little unless you carry the realization witl build your consciousness with your “I you into your everyday living. am .” Nobody else can do it for you, and If you lie or cheat or are selfish, ther you ca n ’t cheat. Sometimes you can cheat that is what you are building into con in business, sometimes you can cheat in sciousness. We have dwelt much or gambling, but you cannot cheat with the thought (what we call words), but w* “I am.” Appearances count for nothing. haven’t always insisted it is the practica1 Your consciousness is built with the “I conduct all day long that builds up con am.” According to your “I am” so are sciousness. People tell me that they spenc your conditions. You are not using the “I an hour every morning building up theii am” only when you think and speak affir­ consciousness, but often as soon as th« mations. Perhaps this has been a weakness hour is up they have forgotten it. in our movement, that we have tended to You build your consciousness by th( overrate affirmations. We have to use things you do all day long. It is by such them because they are a memorandum of things that we are judged. God does nol what we are to think. The class thoughts judge us. We judge ourselves by the con in UNITY Magazine are a memorandum. sciousness we build, because life is a state But you are using the “I am” in every of consciousness. Let us build true con­ action all day long. Every action that you sciousness and hasten the day of freedom do all day long you are building into your €

C jrou u n g

By Jo Ann Lewis

Last week I wrote a poem that was better than its author. But the poem taught me, as I gave it expression, that the space between the thinking and the living of high ideals is vast. So, all week long, I diminished the distance, by letting the poem rewrite me as I wrote it. BY KAY ARNDT

‘You shall eat bread at my table always” chicken and dumplings at The Breadline. 'll Sam. 9:7). You are fed also by the consciousness that pervades this unique place. T D O E SN ’T MATTER how many Truth Jack received into his consciousness the tatements you know. Memorizing defl­ idea of a “back to basics” restaurant, ations of substance, faith, power, or love employing senior citizens (another bless­ y on ’t help you too much. T h at’s only the ing!). Y ou ’ll see how it has worked out if jeginning! A necessary beginning, per- y o u ’ll take an imaginary trip with me. laps, but what really matters is whether You are in S e a ttle ’s pioneer Square, an rou believe Truth statements enough to eleven-block area that has been rehabili­ jractice them. Put them to use; live them! tated and is now a national historic site. jet me introduce you to a dynamic and Ja ck ’s restaurant is in the basement of a ireative man who is gaining a reputation deserted Gold Rush-era hotel; you go n the Pacific Northwest by doing exactly down two flights of rickety stairs and sud­ hat. denly y o u ’re on the set of a depression-era Jack Fecker is the owner of The Bread- play. Your ice water comes in a Mason jar. ine, a new restaurant in Seattle. It has The menu is chalked on a blackboard that jeople lined up around the block, waiting hangs above the kitchen area. Lights in the o get in. A new restaurant in town isn ’t all restaurant are mounted in washtubs, and hat exciting, but read Jack ’s philosophy, no two chairs are alike. You sit at tables lotice the way he puts principles to work, for four, or at long, boardinghouse tables •ejoice over the way both employees and with forty or so other strangers, wolfing he general public are blessed. down your soup or stew and bread. You d o n ’t just eat genuine homemade You may think at first that this “sce­ ;oup and stew and pie and bread and nario” is right out of the bad old days of the early 1930s, put together with a happy blend of delightful funkiness and dramatic flair. You might even suspect someone raided the neighborhood Good­ will store to furnish the place, but the hodgepodge effect is no accident. In fact, Jack Fecker and manager-cook-creative director Bill Keegan actually brought in a New York theatrical designer to recreate the period following the 1929 crash for their soup-kitchen eatery. “A restaurant should be entertaining,” Jack says. “In many respects The Bread­ line is like a play. This is a stage, not just a restaurant. And we have a cast here, not just employees.” When you look at that cast, you know Central Casting did some­ thing right. Nearly half of the seventy employees are very senior citizens. mm As you sit down, you see that your Jack Fecker waiter is dapper in an open-collar striped shirt with a big flourbag apron across his Seattle’s Department of Human Re waist. Only his sparse white hair and white sources, the Washington State Employ mustache tell you that he is in the senior- ment Security Agency, the Senior Com citizen category. Actually, he is seventy- munity Service Aids Project, and th< seven. M ayor’s office all played an integral par Back in the kitchen area, helping sort in the initial screening. Classified ads als< the cutlery, is another old-timer. He is in drew some applicants. The Breadline staf his nineties. Among the kitchen assistants did the final interviewing and selecting. are white-haired women well beyond Preparing for and learning each rok sixty-five. One of the waitresses used to be began about a week before dress re in charge of S ea ttle ’s largest department hearsals. A three-day seminar on persona s to r e ’s delicatessen. She is a Unity stu­ growth started things off with powerfu dent, and she radiates love and goodwill as ideas on building a good self-image. Next she serves her customers. Another wait­ specific times were assigned during whicl ress and sometime-hostess is a licensed groups met, discussed and practiced nev Unity teacher and counselor. Employees skills relating to their jobs. Time was spen say, “I’d work here for nothing, it ’s so learning how to write up guest checks much fun and th ere’s such a good feeling ringing up orders on the registers, makinj here.” The staff isn ’t all elderly, to be coffee, and removing corks from win< sure. The age span ranges from sixteen to bottles. Costumes were fitted an( ninety, with fifty percent falling in the modeled, and 1929 hairstyles were en sixty-plus category. Only ten percent had couraged to help round out the wardrobe any previous restaurant experience. Pre-opening parties served as dress re “Our hiring sessions were really casting hearsals to give the cast more confidence sessions,” Jack says. Screening and inter­ A day of rest was scheduled befor< viewing were done by several government “opening night.” When opening nigh organizations. Mainstay, the City of finally arrived, coinciding with the forty fifth anniversary of the stock-market your home, your business, everywhere :rash, everyone was at ease. you go. Through G o d ’s help you will Once in a great while, an employee will “become in fact that which you know you Decome discouraged. “I’m just not getting already are in Spirit.” ;he hang of it,” one might tell Jack. “Is Jack Fecker believed this and mani­ ;hat what we believe?” Jack will ask, and fested a great idea. You can do it too! © •ight away th ere’s a smiling response, a ifted head, and “the show goes on.” The walls of the restaurant are painted ■e productions of old advertising bill­ My Business Philosophy boards; th ere’s a showcase of historic Concentration: To concentrate on the nementos, some antiques for sale. And right things to do ilong with the homemade stew, soups, (rather than finding md bread, Jack displays an old wagon things to do right) with right in the middle of the restaurant. I t ’s the purpose of maxi­ oaded with fresh fruit, loaves of bread, mization of profits. rolls, and other goodies. You can buy a Needs: To know more about ten-ounce cinnamon roll, six-inches the cu sto m e r’s needs square, for ninety cents; oatmeal with than he does. raisins and cream, or the h o u se ’s own Special Service: Just service is not good ‘grain-ola” with cream and fresh fruit, is enough. Each customer ilso ninety cents. For lunch, $1.25 buys must feel he has had a ill the soup you want (potato-leek, special service that no chicken, split pea, chowder, Russian cab- one else got. sage, or vegetarian), and all the fresh Timing: It is more important to sread and butter you can eat. No wonder know when to make a ocal residents are gobbling it up! sale than how to make a You will also see Truth literature on sale. Timing is of ut­ display. Jack is building a library and most importance. promoting Truth principles right along Hope: The future holds more with the food. Who could ask for more or than the past. Memory setter nourishment for mind and body? never has as much to As a Truth student, you know that offer you as hope. metaphysically bread represents universal Recognition: Every single customer substance. Some of this daily bread you m ust receive instant Bat in the form of food. But there is also and constant recog­ substance in words of Truth, and this you nition. In turn, each ippropriate or eat through prayer and employee deserves the meditation. Wine symbolizes the vitality same. sr the life energies of Truth ideas which you allow to circulate through your con­ My Restaurant Philosophy sciousness. Right now, you can take a A restaurant is like a baby. You have to Truth idea of perfect life, abundance, har­ nurse it, baby it, feed it; y o u ’ve got to mony, guidance—whatever you need. Eat carry it. Most people treat a restaurant it, digest it with your mind. Then “drink like a horse; from the first day, they put a the w in e”—le t these ideas move through saddle on its back and expect it to carry your consciousness and out into action in them. They break its back. your affairs. Put principles to work in Jack Fecker The Talisman

BY SUE SIKKING

IF EVER THERE has been a time in the the turning of the Earth, the gravity thai history of man when we need to have holds us to the planet, the waves that wasl faith, now is the time! We need to have the shore. Yet we forget something close] faith in our country and in God. Many at hand that influences our life eacl speak disparagingly of their own country. moment. We have a national commitmeni They become entangled in the obvious, in we have inherited from our forefathers appearances, in other people who seem to We, as a nation and as individuals, have be doing this or that. They are judging been consigned and entrusted to God. We whether the action of others might be are dedicated to God, whether we know ii detrimental to the welfare of the whole. or not. This is true even when we forget ii The result is it is difficult for them to see as we become entangled in outer things beyond what is before their eyes. They are Man is always searching for a talismar not aware of the high purpose of life. that will perform great magic for him Great masses of people do not realize that And while he searches for this amulet thai we are all a part of an irrevocable destiny will make him safe, he forgets that it i; of great magnitude. Some are not aware always at hand in pocket, wallet, or purse that God makes His dwelling place in Even when he forgets it, it still has magi< every man—“Go d is over all, in all, power. It is the money of these Unitec through a ll”—n or do they know that this States, each single piece of which bear; is one of the oldest truths in the world. the words “In God We Trust.” This is oui They are not all aware that the “govern­ birthright! Do we accept it? Do we trusl ment will be upon his shoulder. ... Of the God? Or do we believe in powers in the increase of his government and of peace outer, great enough to destroy us? there will be no end.” From this day forward let us honor and sustain our relationship with our country and with God. Let us look at our world in an has been on a quest. He has beer a new light. We tend to look at the events seeking and searching for something he of the day with a skeptical eye. There are must feel and know with his heart and hi; many rumors and seemingly proof of mind. He is searching for the unknown failure of men and methods, but let us not and yet he knows it as well as he knows hi: be carried away by what seems so evident. own face, because it is something inside There are great truths we take for granted: him. He knows it and, when he touches it he becomes aware of it. Yet he seeks are here; why we are here is the half-truth. everywhere in the outer for what he can We are not here for outer accomplish­ find only in himself. We are seeking this ment, fame, and fortune alone, but to God-state deep within; we know it is there bear witness to the truth—to report it, and we cannot fail to find it, all opinions stand for it, and prove it. When we find to the contrary notwithstanding. We may the inner, the outer things that are ours by be foolish enough to say that there are divine right come according to the law of many who live and die without finding life (“all these things shall be yours as their God-self, but we who judge from the w e ll”). surface can never know about the inner The elixir of life is Truth, and Truth is workings of Spirit, or what is happening in the preserver of all humanity. Truth is the the soul within, not even in ourself. The reality of God and man, the two that are universal Power cannot fail! one. This knowledge transmits life and is We have a natural commitment to God, the quintessence of all life. Truth is the and we shall not fail. Just the act of carry­ fulfillment of everything, the highest ing these coins has a mystical power that essence in man revealed by his own aware­ the human mind does not sense nor ness. It is no longer enough to try to solve comprehend. Just to carry this decla­ problems. The time has come when we ration with us, even without conscious must know what causes the problems. thought, has a tremendous spiritual mean­ War, depression, lack, loneliness, unhappi­ ing not apparent to the senses or obvious ness, and disappointment are symptoms to the intelligence. It does the work! of the greater ailment, which is not know­ ing God and not trusting in a supreme Power. We must always trust, whether we have come to know or not. The Scripture his heritage of God is entrusted to says, “Blessed are those who have not seen every person born in this country, as well and yet believe.” If we look at problems in as to all who have found their way to our terms of problems we fail, for we are soon shores. No one is here by chance; all are lost in them, wandering around in fear, here because in some strange and un­ anxiety, and worry about what other fathomable way they belong. There has people are thinking and doing. We are been a predestined gathering of people of soon looking for temporary solutions to every race, nationality, and clime in this what we now think are permanent prob­ country for a great purpose. Only by lems. If we look at problems as assign­ following the path of God can we, indi­ ments that must be finished, life becomes vidually and as a nation or group, fulfill an adventure in living. We must know that our destiny. Sometimes we believe we are all so-called problems are part of our un­ in this consciousness to be free or to find folding and growth. wealth or to begin life again, but we are There is in every man a hidden spring: really here because we cannot help our­ the Truth of God. Every man must touch self. We have an inner rendezvous with this inner energy. The statesmen and the Spirit, and thus we are drawn into the politicians are geared to outer affairs, to magic circle of the consciousness of God. something outside the soul; the military The greatest danger in the world today leaders are geared to order and discipline. comes from half-truths. A half-truth has a The industrial leader is geared to competi­ portion of truth that can be proved, which tion and advertising. The “everyday man” causes us to accept another portion that is geared to making a living—yet every has no basis in truth. The truth is that we living person must finally know the tempo of God and become aware of this hidden the truth is all is God . . . “There is no spring within. Sooner or later each human other.” being will awaken and fulfill his purpose Today we are at the threshold of a in life, and accept what has been entrusted com pletely new world. We are here to him. whether we like it or not, or whether we We must recognize that man is an think we are ready for it or not. This is a idealist. We all have a plan of life, and this world of Spirit, a world of God, a world of is our perfect spiritual pattern! We need to thought and feeling; a world that must be be bound to our greater Cause. Our only explored by daring navigators, for this vocation is finding and knowing God, world is inside us and sometimes we must which is the good, the satisfying, the ful­ be very daring to venture within. filling of life. Everything else we do is avocation. We are here for one main and tremendous purpose: to lift ourself and others to the realization of something T here are many fascinating stories that bigger than the outer self and its limi­ make up the folklore of our country. We tation, yet including this outer self. have a national heritage, a belief in the The world is ruled by inflexible laws unseen, and our forefathers who formed w hich co n tro l the motions of the this nation believed in the guiding hand ol heavenly bodies. Everything in the uni­ God. It is even said that a mysterious, dim verse is in motion, including ourself. We figure was involved in the life of cannot resist this movement, therefore we Columbus, a counselor or advisor of some cannot prevent growth and evolution. kind. This was the outer beginning of the Man cannot resist the God-power that is new world, a world that shall know the drawing him upward today any more than unseen intimately. Today we are again a young boy can stop his arms and legs standing at the door of an even greater from growing. There is something happen- world. According to a story that has come "Just to carry this declaration with us, down to us, on July 4, 1776 the founders even without conscious thought, has a o f our country were gathered together in a tremendous spiritual meaning not appar­ room in Philadelphia. On the table before ent to the senses or obvious to the intelli­ them lay the Declaration of Indepen­ gence.” dence. It was completed but for the signatures. Every man knew that if the bid for independence failed he would be hung ing, and we are all part of it. Every breath for high treason, so there was hesitation. of life is a part of the universal action of The day wore on and many speeches our spiritual unfoldment. We are aware of ensued; Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin our breath, yet we struggle and resist the Franklin, and John Adams spoke at universal motion in the events of our life, length, but still they faltered, uncertain not knowing it is the mystical order of and undecided. The sunlight faded, the God! It is the moving Spirit that lives lower door was locked, and a guard was within us. Slowly humanity has come to posted. Suddenly a man arose and, in a recognize and understand the feeling strong, bold voice, spoke: within as the living God, yet we do not “The words o f this parchment can always connect the Spirit with the expe­ never die. The works of man may perish; riences that seem to be in our outer life, God's words, never. These words will live our friends, our family, and our work. But in the world long after our bones are dust. Sign that parchment! Sign, if the next thing, except in the heart and mind of the moment the gibbet's rope is about your individual who believes? If we can believe, neck. Sign, not only for yourselves but for “all things are possible.” Just stories? But all ages, for that parchment will be the the soul of each of us remembers. Deep in textbook o f freedom, the Bible o f the our heart is the destiny of greatness. rights o f man forever. Do not start and Superhuman perfection is the whole whisper with surprise; God proclaims it!" purpose of man. Civilization after civiliza­ Then his manner of speaking changed tion has been built by human courage and and he continued: “Methinks I see the can only be destroyed by human igno­ recording angel standing there, and God rance-ignoring the voice within, the voice speaks: lLet there be light again! Tell my of the invisible, unseen One. Without the people, the poor and oppressed, to go out true pattern we cannot bring forth the from the old world and build my altar in perfect plan of life, but this time there will the new.' With my last faint whisper I be no failure. would beg you to sign this parchment for “The time is coming when man will no the sake o f those millions whose very longer have choice ... the invisible breath is now hushed in intense expec­ essence of the universe will decide for all tation, as they look to you for the words mankind by an inner feeling and know­ ‘You are free!' " ing.” The unknown speaker dropped down into his seat and the delegates, carried away by his enthusiasm, rushed forward. live in the most exciting day—our John Hancock penned his bold signature, day! This is the day of the Lord, and we and the quill was grasped again and again have been chosen for this time, whether till every man had signed and it was done. we are aware of it or not. No man or The delegates turned to thank the un­ woman is here by chance; all human known speaker. He was not there! Who beings everywhere, whether they worship was this strange man? No one knows. His in a cathedral or a backyard, whether they name was not recorded; none present kneel or stand, or ignore the whole thing, .knew him, or if they did they did not all are important to God and His plan. acknowledge him. How had he entered Every race, every heritage is important to the locked room? How had he passed the G od at this moment—perhaps more guard, and what was the manner of his important at this period of transition than departure? Only his words remained. He at any other time in history. This is the spoke of the “rights of man,” although it time of decision for all mankind. What was thirteen years before Thomas Paine you think and feel is G o d ’s pulse and wrote his book. He mentioned “the G o d ’s breath, for there is none else. Either all-seeing eye of God,” which is on the you are a conscious power, or you are no dollar bill today. In our time there is power at all. awakening in man the revelation that Micah and Isaiah both said, “It shall God, the unseen in man, has always been come to pass in the latter days that the everywhere present! mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the moun­ tains.” They were speaking to those in exile. We have all been in exile, while our ou say this is just a story; where is the whole attention has been turned outward authority? All the experiences of life are in our great mental and material advance­ stories! Where is the authority for any­ ment. Now our exile has ended! Some- thing wonderful is happening to us all. had found on the high part of the moun­ The truth of G o d ’s Presence is in us all, tain and gave it to his father. Another and our recognition is the summit of all clim b ed to a high place upon the truth—symbolized by the unfinished mountain and brought back a curious pyramid without the capstone that is rock. The third son returned empty- shown on our dollar bills. Has not the handed, saying, “I have brought nothing truth been called the capstone of the back, but I climbed to the top and I saw pyramid, the crown or fulfillment for the seal” When you climb to the summit, man? We are no longer under human you see and know God. You cannot bring judgment, we are under the government the vision back to another man, for each of God. It does not matter what any man man must see it for himself. Then shall we says out there; all that matters to each of see the face of God in our own mirror, and us is what our soul says within our own in our fellowman. Then shall we see the bosom! Man has always had choice, but presence of a mighty Power working in the time is coming when he will no longer our life, family, loved ones, and in all have choice (“when no one can w ork”). mankind. This is the capstone of Truth. Man will no longer decide; that which is Keep your mind at this high place, and greater, the invisible essence of the uni­ you will see good everywhere. verse, will decide for all mankind by an The destiny of life is yours, and you inner feeling and knowing, an inner must see it and feel it and know it for change within all. yourself. You must climb! You cannot bring it to any man; each must climb for himself. The time has come when you will be required to look within yourself for the answer to all things. Are you brave? Are w » „ the law of God, which is good, you brave enough, bold enough spiritually will have its way for good, we will find to accept the challenge of the new age and that we are finished with many things. We the new world? This is our time. This is will no longer be that little person, that our privilege. This is our heritage. We must “poor” little person. We will not accept accept the Supreme Being in whom we that unworthy being, that unhappy trust, and refuse to let any person, group creature, that sick, tired, weary, lonely of persons, nation, condition, or situation person we have claimed ourself to be! rob us of our heritage of good. Whenever we are willing to put that kind Do not be disturbed if people some­ of person out of our mind and accept our times laugh at you, or if you laugh at relationship with God, we shall know who yourself. Once you know God, you do not we are and what we are! “The night is far mind if other people laugh, for you can gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast laugh with the joy of knowing and wit­ off the works of darkness and put on the nessing the fulfillment of life. Let us not armor of light.” Let us move toward our be drawn into the affairs of little men who true goal, and no longer loiter along the do not see the light and who are unaware way. o f the real purpose of life. Let us rather There is an old Indian legend about an lift them with our light and knowing. We aged father who had three sons. One day are called to stand because we know. We he pointed to a distant mountain and said, have the talisman in our hand; it is also in “Climb as far as you can, and bring back our heart: “In God we trust.” We accept to me a memento of your adventure.” this great truth for ourself and for all One son came back with a rare flower he mankind today. 0 BY MARY ROWE

“WE KNOW that in everything God works greatly we add to our crosses by being for good with those who love him, who cross with them!” Do you get cross with are called according to his purpose.” your crosses? But Jesus said: “If any man These are words spoken by the Apostle would come after me, let him deny him­ Paul. Perhaps we have not used them as self and take up his cross and follow me. often as we should! Perhaps we have For whoever would save his life will lose waded desperately halfway through a it, and whoever loses his life for my sake challenging situation before we have will find it. For what will it profit a man, if remembered to take our stand and affirm he gains the whole world and forfeits his that God is working for our good in every­ life?” thing. “Take up [your] cross and follow Challenges have a way of cropping up m e”—in other words, pick it up, d o n ’t get when we least expect them, and because cross with it. Just pick it up and follow the they seem constantly to surprise us, we Christ Spirit. This is a very clear instruc­ are often not prepared to handle them in tion, isn ’t it? D o n ’t sit down and complain the right way. We often “get our hackles about the situation. It has come to you for up” before we have remembered that re­ a purpose, and if you will follow the guid­ gardless of the appearances of the situa­ ance of the Christ Spirit within, you will tion, the truth is that God is there in the find that the purpose is a good one. midst of the confusion, ready and willing Human wrestling with a situation to respond to our affirmation of faith. accomplishes very little. But the spiritual -When we are not prepared, we get approach, the seeking of good in all alarmed, confused, frustrated, irritated things, will enable us to pick up the situa­ and perhaps really angry and frightened. tion, whatever it is, and carry it through to The human race seems to be a race of its perfect conclusion. resisters. We are much more ready to fight How many problems and challenges back than to take a peaceful stand, know­ have you had in the past week? How many ing that God is in charge. The spiritual of them can you remember now? Prob­ battle is not won by fighting, but by non- ably very few of them. Things do have a resistance. If we were to stand on a river way of working out, d o n ’t they? But how bank and watch the water flowing by, we much time did you spend wrestling with should see that the rock in the midst of the problem in your mind? And how soon the waters does not fight back. It stands were you able to say: “This has come for firm, letting the waters flow over or me to handle. I will pick it up, and follow around it. We, on the other hand, are the Christ guidance, and before long I inclined to shove back at situations which shall discover this situation is not a cross are strange or alarming to us. We forget to after all, but an opportunity for me to stand firm and “see the salvation of the prove the effectiveness of the Spirit of Lord.” God at work in m e”? Friedrich von Hugel once said, “How Some religious instructors would have us believe that Jesus is going to carry our coming—not because you d id n ’t like that crosses for us. Jesus d id n ’t say; “Oh, what person, but because you knew you would a shame! Put down your cross and I will be subjected to complaints and moans and carry it for you.” No, He said, in so many groans? Would you want to think others words: “Pick it up—follow me—it is your might cross the street because of your cross, but I am showing you how to carry being cross with your crosses? Do you it.” He never said that we would not have really want to annoy others with the dust to shoulder our own problems—just that and soot of your complaints? there is a way to do it that will lighten our Jesus said, “For whoever would save his load. life will lose it, and whoever loses his life John Austin wrote: “Fix Thou our for my sake will find it.” In other words,' steps, O Lord, that we stagger not at the whoever holds onto his human ego, his uneven motions of the world, but go attitude of self-righteousness, his desire to steadily on our way, neither censuring our be always in the right whatever happens, journey by the weather we meet, nor turn­ who wants to use his precious life-energy ing aside for anything that befalls us.” Fix to protect his self-esteem, is loving his our steps, so that we d o n ’t come all un­ peace o f mind, his Christ peace and done at the ups and downs of our days—so wisdom. But when one is willing to lay that we d o n ’t moan and complain about aside the desire to fight everyone and traffic jams or about being caught in the everything not agreeing with him, willing rain or about missing our bus or about the to stop being cross with his crosses be­ car needing some attention. If we keep cause he would rather follow the Christ steady during the little ups and downs, we way of peace and compassion, then he gather strength for the bigger challenges. finds his life enriched immeasurably. He We are much more likely to remember loses his consciousness of self, and finds that all things do work together for good his consciousness of the Christ self. for those who love God and attempt to We were never promised a life free of all live in the consciousness of oneness with challenges and burdens. Jesus Himself Him. acknowledged that we would be carrying It is no use trying to avoid the various burdens, but He said: “Come to me [your. experiences that come to us in life. We Christ Spirit], all who labor and are heavy need to learn how to meet them, how to laden, and I will give you rest.” If we will work through them with courage and follow the Jesus Christ way of life, the optimism, not getting cross with them. way of loving and blessing, we shall find During trying times, we need our friends our cross is not such a heavy cross, our more than ever, but if we have worn them burden is not so cumbersome, our yoke, out with our complaints and grievances, in fact, is quite easy to shoulder. we may find they are not so ready to stand Remember, when the next challenge with us when we really need them. comes, “How greatly we add to our William Osier advised: “Learn to accept in crosses by being cross with them! ” 0 silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your Do thou thyself hold thy tongue but own smoke with an extra draught of hard for one day, and on the morrow how work, so that those about you may not be much clearer are thy purposes, and duties; annoyed with the dust and soot of your what wreck and rubbish have the mute complaints.” workmen within thee swept away when Have you ever wanted to cross the intrusive noises were shut out!—Thomas street when you saw a certain person Carlyle. ■flfL' 'lieu ufiful'Wity of li f e realize, however dimly, that when he destroys n a tu re’s ability to recycle itself, it is as if he were eating his own hand be­ cause he is hungry? It is time that man looks squarely at his fear of change, and also at his ability to change and reconcile this conflict. In the Change without world today change is out of control, because man is petrified with fear of the Fear capacity he could use to control it. When one is paralyzed with fear, action ceases and death comes quickly. Only by bold, fully conscious action can one keep his V______) head and his life. Many of us have submitted to change as a power so overwhelming that we cower as BY CHARLES LELLY a dog about to be beaten. We know in Truth that mind power can change any­ thing. However attractive this possibility IT IS A curious thing that most of us resist may be to us, we seem to forget it com ­ change with a great deal of effort. Yet pletely when we look at the world around when you observe the plant and animal us. It is so vast, and we are so small! But if kingdoms, you realize that man above all we realize the hermetic axiom—as above, has the greatest capacity for change, so below—we will see that the organiza­ adaptation, and continual growth. tion of the individual is exactly the same It appears that plants and animals are as that of a galaxy. automatically programmed to manifest To confront change in the world, we their characteristics in a very specialized must first confront it within ourself— manner. Each species is prespecialized\ accept it as inevitable, but with awareness .Man seems to be free to change himself, of our innate, God-given capacity to con­ his environment, even his social habits. trol it, organize it, direct it into any chan­ But we seem to fear change as if it were a nel we wish. If we consciously become sinister thing. aware of our tremendous power to act, We have the capacity to breathe, but we fear will vanish. One is most fearful when d o n ’t fear it. We can see, but we d o n ’t he is passively awaiting disaster. Only by close our eyes in fear. consciously realizing his abilities and Perhaps the fear o f change is an ata­ acting them out can man be the master of vistic condition, since man appears to be his own destiny. relatively new on earth. But if man has In the microcosm of our own self, we acquired this unique ability to change, can begin to take control and rise to our probably at great cost, it would seem that full potentiality—to be fully alive on our the rewards for this freedom would also own terms, to be what we want to be. We be great. can become so engrossed in the activity of Can it be that man still fears this capa­ fashioning our own life that the fear of city for change and adaptation because change is turned into the power to be. intuitively he knows he is still part of Only by overcoming fear within ourself nature, and yet has the awesome power to can we help others, by showing the bright change even his source of life? Does he light of wholeness. 0 argument against their existence. Anyone who develops spiritually in any way breaks into realms of thought energy ( i rfytrlaj ‘•FUhrfpie superior to the intellectual and can incite to action subtle causes that mystify the average onlooker. For this reason every Christian metaphysician should have some acquaintance with these facts about the supermind, which occupies so great a place in all real Truth demonstrations. The question is often asked if the’ Indian medicine man or the African witch doctor uses the same force that the Chris­ tian healer does. The answer is yes. There is but one primal life in which we all exist and which we use as we will. The way in which we project this force determines whether we are Christian or pagan. If our thought is to destroy, we are pagan. If our thought is for peace, we are Christian. This law is operative not only in the nations but in every individual. As we are taught in our Bible, God originally guided man to think good only; but man was tempted and chose to be free and think f \ for himself. This freedom threw the whole race into a mental vortex of “good” and “evil,” hate and love, war and peace. THE Christ is the Prince of Peace and Satan is the devil of destruction. These good and evil states of conscious­ SUPERMIND ness form the heavens and the hells of the race, and we go in mind to heaven or hell every time we mentally project the thoughts that “chord” with that particu­ v y lar state. Only a supermastermind can overcome this law of mental affinity and I join with all the hosts o f heaven in de­ set up in our earthly discordant thought claring that only the good is true, and that atmosphere a consciousness of peace and good health everywhere is made manifest. love. Jesus was able to do this, and when we think of Him, the Christ in us “tunes THAT MAN IN his spiritual nature is in” to the Christ in Him and we are saved leagued with supermind realms is taught from the destructive forces that tear soul freely in the Scriptures and can be proved and body asunder. to the satisfaction of anyone who will sub­ The mental harmony of Jesus not only mit to the required mental discipline. radiates throughout the earth but reaches That these supermind forces are not into the heavens, where it taps the glory of always used to bring about good is no the Son of God. When we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ or decree His presence and power in our spiritual work, we effect a reunion with His super­ mind and its tremendous ramifications in •AiWff/y heaven and earth, and our own meager spiritual ability is augmented a thousand­ fold. Jesus understood and used this law of thought affinity when He claimed that ILLUMINA TION—Through prayer we become the works He did were not His but the more conscious of G o d ’s love and wisdom. We F ath er’s within Him. It was in this con­ realize we are on the way to a great outpouring of sciousness that He proclaimed, “All spirit. We need courage to develop the wonderful authority in heaven and on earth has been possibilities and we pray for more guidance, given to me.” He also affirmed alike spiri­ more initiative, and more awareness o f the great tual unity for His disciples and for all wisdom and power within. As we awaken to the those who proclaim Him as their spiritual spiritual man, we see that all things are possible, leader. His last promise was “And these there is no limit to our accomplishment. We must signs will accompany those who believe: believe, believe in G o d ’s love and guidance for us, in my name they will cast out demons; believe in ourself, and this innate spiritual man. they will speak in new tongues; they will There are no limits on God's ability to clarify pick up serpents, and if they drink any every doubt and guide me into right paths. deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they HEALING —There is in man acapacity for know­ will lay their hands on the sick, and they ing God consciously and communing with Him. will recover.” This is found in the 16th Man must learn to use the knowledge of Truth to chapter of Mark, where it is also written, sustain his consciousness of health, and to bring “And they went forth and preached forth the perfect Christ man that exists within everywhere, while the Lord worked with each o f us. We must draw on the one and only them and confirmed the message by the source o f life, God. God is Spirit. Spirit pours its signs that attended it.” quickening life into mind and body when we turn Peter and John developed marvelous within and make ourself receptive by trusting ► healing power when they spoke the magic Spirit to restore us to harmony and health. words to the lame man at the gate Beauti­ There are no limits on God's ability ful: “In the name of Jesus Christ of Naza­ to heal my mind and body. reth, walk.” “And immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. And leaping PROSPERITY—When Jesus went into the wil­ up he stood and walked.” derness He was tempted to turn stones into For two thousand years those who have bread. Many times we get our bread out of mate­ had faith in Jesus and proclaimed then- rial things (stones), when in reality it is G o d ’s faith in His name have had proof that He is word, the idea, that feeds the soul of man as well present as a dynamic life-giving force. Men as the body and affairs of man. Unless the word is and women with no previous healing recognized and appropriated, there is a lack of power have suddenly become healers of true substance. Fortunately the Father knows marvelous ability. They do not claim to that we have need of all these things, and in His understand how the healing is done. They compassion He feeds us with the substance even know only that through the exercise of while we try to assimilate the stones. faith and their word the spiritual quality There are no limits on God's ability to change in them is fused into unity with the power every appearance of lack and to of Christ and the work is marvelously prosper me abundantly. accomplished. © Listen, God Is Speaking!

BY REBECCA CLARK

PEOPLE ALL OVER the world are seek­ ing peace of mind, solutions to everyday Something wonderful happens every day. problems, better working relations with, God speaks to people in literally hundreds other people, and a more meaningful way o f ways, but most of us are so busy with of life. We are all aware of the room for our own thoughts and daily affairs that improvement in ourself and in our life, we don't take time to listen. and should exert sincere efforts to be­ come better individuals. The other day, a friend and I were talk­ ing. She is a deep and sincere person, and her outer appearance reflects the inner who seemed to have such a wonderful beauty brought about by studying the rapport and communication channel with principles of Truth and practicing what God. Back in the time of Moses, according she learns and believes. Our discussion to the Scriptures, it seemed that G o d ’s revolved around the statement, “God voice was clearly audible. From the always answers prayer.” She shared with heights of a mountaintop, God spoke; me a remark she had heard earlier: “Yes, from the fiery center of a burning bush, God answers prayer, but how do you God spoke; through significant dreams, know when the answer comes?” God spoke—and the people listened. I am This comment sparked a chain of positive that He did speak to those people, thought about the many ways God just as He speaks to you and me today. answers prayer, offers us guidance, and We do not know whether or not God tries to communicate. My thoughts actually spoke to Moses in an audible turned to the Old Testament prophets voice. In our present time, it is unneces- sary for us to wait for that kind of com­ vinced that the art of listening to the voice munication, but we do need to listen and o f God and obeying its messages is well hear God through the many other ways in worth developing. which He speaks to us. For instance, I have heard God speaking loud and clear How God Speaks to Us through my thoughts, through good How do we know when God is speaking books and expressive music, through con­ to us? When we keep in touch with God versations with other people, through my through prayer and meditation, there is a children’s activities, and through the kind of conviction that comes. It is a deep beauty and wonder of nature. inner knowing that we are in tune with the I know without a doubt when God is Lord of our being and that all is well. We' speaking. The still, small voice of Spirit are then open and receptive to every mes­ speaking within the depths of my being sage from our Creator. Something clicks sometimes manifests itself as a thundering in our mind and we simply know. How­ roar, and I listen! ever, sometimes God sends the message One afternoon I was fretting over a more than once, just to make sure we problem a neighbor was experiencing receive it. (which was really none of my business). Often, when I am trying to find the My concern for her was sincere, and I solution to a problem and have searched thought the situation could be helped by my mind for a workable answer, I simply my prayer. I loved her and was disturbed relax and let the entire situation go. I like over her upset state of mind. That eve­ to say: “Father, I ’ve done all I know to ning, shortly after dinner, my mother, do. Now i t ’s in Your hands. Please show who lived in another state, called to chat me the way.” Then I release the entire for a few minutes. Our conversation had situation and go about my activities. nothing at all to do with my disturbed Sometimes the answer will come like a thoughts. But right out of a clear sky, and lightning bolt, when my mind is thinking concerning something that had to do with about something else. Or I will find the M oth er’s own affairs, she said, “ . . . and I answer while reading a book. Some then remembered what Jesus said: ‘What sentence or phrase or word will suddenly? is that to thee? Follow thou me.’ ” I clear­ stand out from the rest, and the answer or ly understood the message. God wanted solution seems so clear that I wonder why me to let go of the concern I was feeling I d id n ’t think of it before. Perhaps the about my n e ig h b o r’s problem and take same thought or idea will be presented care of my own affairs. later in the book on another page, in After the chat with Mother, I quickly another paragraph. By this time, I feel offered a short prayer of gratitude to God pretty sure that God is trying to get a for His enlightenment and guidance. I message across to me. If I am a little reluc­ asked that His all-encompassing love go tant to accept an answer, I will be nudged out to the people involved in the dis­ again, ever so gently, and eventually re­ turbing situation, and thanked Him for quired to face myself and listen to what the awareness that I was free to release all God is saying. thoughts of anxiety and go about my way. If the message comes only once, it At that moment, I was free. I d id n ’t have comes in such a definite form that it can­ to worry about the problem any more. It not be mistaken. I remember a beautiful was in G o d ’s hands. I had listened when Saturday morning last April when God God spoke to me through my mother, and spoke to me with great emphasis. I was the answer was crystal clear. I am con­ experiencing a relaxing drive in the Allegheny mountains of West Virginia and road as far as they could without going simply absorbing all the beauty about me. over the edge of the cliff. There was about Rhododendrons covered the mountain­ three inches of space between my car and sides in a fantasy of pink, white, red, and the truck on my right, and between my purple. New growth was at the mint-green car and the car on my left. Somehow the stage of bursting forth on the trees, and man behind me had managed to stop with­ thick emerald grass covered the gentle out colliding. Had I not obeyed the voice slopes like a soft carpet. Speed-limit signs speaking to me from within and slowed cam e into my view around winding down, a serious accident could have curves. The morning was too beautiful to occurred. How much more specific could hurry through, and I was enjoying the God have been than to tell me to slow wondrous attunement I felt with the down? world. Faith Is Important Suddenly, with the clarity of a trumpet blast, a voice inside my being called, God has infinite wisdom and knowl­ “Slow down!” I glanced at the speedome­ edge to bestow upon us. Often in our igno­ ter of my car, and it read 35 miles per rance, or nonthinking, we hinder God and hour. Immediately my human reasoning stop the current of His messages. But said, “But I’m really going quite slowly; when we are permeated with a lively faith, why should I slow down more?” Again His messages of love and guidance flow came the message, and with more empha­ through us like a beautiful river that has sis it commanded, “Slow down!” Instinc­ found smooth passage through our life- tively I obeyed. stream. Rolling over and around the mountains Believe that an answer to every situa­ at thirty miles per hour seemed so slow! tion is already available. Know that the Another car came up behind me and I answer you need is now on its way into could see through my rearview mirror that perfect manifestation in your life. Faith is the driver was impatient to pass, but the the spiritual assistance that gives us the winding road did not permit him to do so, power to do the seemingly impossible. It -and I knew I had to obey that inner voice is a magnetic power that draws our h ea rt’s and maintain my speed. desire to us from the invisible spiritual Suddenly we crested a mountaintop, substance. Faith is the deep inner know­ and there coming toward me at rapid ing that the answer which is sought is speed in my lane of traffic was a large already there for the taking. It is not so tractor-trailer truck, passing three cars. much a matter of the mind as it is a matter There was no time to think, only to act. I of the heart. Sometimes when we try so remember hearing the words, “Oh, God, hard to understand God as a principle, we help us!” explode from my lips as I lose sight of Him as a presence. Let your jammed on the brakes of the car and heart hold fast to the faith that God is clutched the steering wheel. On my right present in your life, wanting and waiting was a stone embankment, and on my left to help you, and the way will be made was a drop of about seventy-five feet plain. down the mountainside. It looked like In my personal life, when I began to disaster, but after what seemed like believe and realize that I was a child of minutes, all the vehicles came to a screech­ God and an heir to all His good, I also ing halt. My car had slid into the V-shape accepted the truth that I could begin to made when the truck veered into the em­ manifest this good in my life here and now bankment, and the other cars ran off the if I listened to His guidance. Every effort brought me closer in harmony with all sary to supplicate, or to beg God for an life, and the beauty of G o d ’s magnificent answer, but it is important to become still creation filled my soul. Trees waved their and think about the inexhaustible re­ branches at me and flowers nodded their sources of infinite Mind, Its presence in all heads in the gentle breezes. I became a Its fullness, and G o d ’s constant readiness part of the air I breathed. I could feel the to manifest an answer for you when His all-pervading essence of God in every laws are obeyed. This is what Jesus meant plant, animal, person, and thing. What a when He said, “Seek first His kingdom beautiful realization! What serenity, and His righteousness, and all these things peace, and joy faith brings! shall be yours as well.” Remember that God is ever present, When seeking an answer through' and no situation arises where He cannot prayer, close the door on all thoughts and be found. If G o d ’s presence seems to be interests of the outer world and go deep lost, it is in reality our own thinking that is within to the secret place of your own misguided. When we draw back in align­ indwelling Lord. ment with our indwelling Christ Self, we realize that God was always present; He Communication through Meditation was never lost. All we need to master any Many people find their avenue of com­ situation is always available if we will munication with God through medita­ listen to hear what is given. tion. They use the spiritual approach to God by shutting out the material vision, Develop the Art of Listening and focusing their thoughts on the inner self. Our mind, through bad habits of I believe there are hundreds of ways in wandering and dissipation, often draws to which God speaks to people. Undoubt­ us circumstances and things that we do edly He is speaking to us all the time, and not really desire. That is why it is impor­ all we need to do is listen. But often most tant to be the master of our mind and of us are so involved with our everyday cultivate positive, beneficial thoughts. affairs that we d o n ’t take time to listen. If even for a few minutes each day your Then when a problem arises, we are not in eyes are closed and the golden light of. practice and ca n ’t listen, or else we fail to Spirit is visualized pouring upon you, hear the message we are given. flooding your inner and outer being, an It is necessary to keep ourself attuned unfailing law is set in motion—the law of to God so that we can hear Him when He cause and effect. The divine flame of speaks. The methods of doing this are as Truth which is in every p e rso n ’s heart is varied as people are different and unique fanned into greater manifestation. By individuals. For some, the power of lighting up the resting place of the Soul prayer opens a most effective channel. through quiet and contemplative medita­ Their communion with God takes place in tion, you open the door to spiritual sun­ the innermost part of their being. shine, and the truth of your being sends Through prayer, their mind action is forth love, kindness, and right action as a stepped up and their consciousness be­ lighted window sends forth rays of light comes synchronized with the Christ Mind. into the darkness. That light will shine God is recognized as the Father, the upon any problem with divine illumina­ Creator of all there is. We know that good tion. The call compels the answer, and always exists in Divine Mind as ideas, and God is always listening for the call! the desire is to bring this idea of solution Meditation is not something to be forth into manifestation. It is not neces­ indulged in at odd moments, but a mean- ingful practice to fill your life so that you verse as well as in our life. We begin to live in the peace and harmony resulting listen to that inner voice and use the God from close communication with God. As qualities that we have to face any situa­ you meditate on the presence of God tion that might arise. We become more within and the presence of God without, kind, more considerate and forgiving of you enter the great silence of commu­ others through listening to what God is nion—and then you experience and feel saying. Our life, as well as that of those we the allness of His light and presence. touch, is greatly enriched. Inharmony is Periods of prayer and meditation are banished, for it cannot flourish in the truly times of “food for the soul.” It is presence of God. through prayer and meditation we learn to “practice the presence,” or begin to see God, the good, in everything in the uni­ You have a need; you desire the answer

Another session of classes has been scheduled at the Unity Institute for Continuing Education-October 11-24. A variety of Biblical, historical, metaphysical, and inter­ personal studies are offered to meet individual spiritual needs EXTRAor for those wishing to become Unity lay teachers. Join visiting European Truth students, brush up on your German, and make some fascinating new friendships at the 4 Liebe Freunde Retreat (November 8-14). All classes will be • *»^ ^ held in German, but a translator will be available. Another new retreat being planned is Septemberfest (September 6-12) — a lovely, uncrowded time to take your SPECIAL vacation and enjoy Missouri's beautiful late summer weather. Other retreats for the year include: Autumn Retreat (September 20-26) Harvest Festival Retreat (October 4-10) Indian Summer Retreat (October 25-31) Thanksgiving Retreat (November 22-28) Christmas Retreat (December 21-27) For additional information and reservation forms, write to U.I.C.E. or Unity Village Retreats, Unity Village, Missouri 64065. to a question, or the solution to a prob­ ens, whirls into action, and establishes in lem. Speak the word! Declare the Truth! character the ideals of which it is the Say to yourself: “/ affirm that God is my vehicle. Every atom of creation responds source in every need. The spirit o f love, to praise. Through an inherent law of wisdom, and power is now perfectly mind action, you increase whatever you operating in all my affairs, bringing right praise. You can praise a fearful heart into answers to every situation. ” By affirming peace and trust, want into supply, sick­ Truth, you are lifted out of any false ness into radiant health, a problem into thinking into the consciousness of the the perfect solution. Give thanks always reality of Spirit. Just as physical exercise for all things, recognizing that God is all adds firmness and strength to the body, so Good, and “in everything God works for' does repeating affirmations establish the good with those who love him.” idea of manifesting good firmly in your Birds sing, flowers bloom, clouds form mind. and dissolve. You are a part of all these You have as much power from Divine things. Give praise. Be thankful. You are a Mind in any direction as you have the part of the miracle of life, and all is well. ability to grasp and use. It all depends on Brother Lawrence was an excellent you—the intent of your purpose, the example of one who stays in tune with clearness of your vision, the purity of God at all times. During all his waking your thought, and the strength of your hours, he practiced the presence by being desire. aware of God in all things about him. Be persistent! Like Jacob wrestling Consequently he was perfectly guided in with the angel, persist! Hold out your cup everything that he did. Brother Lawrence until it is filled. Pour out blessings and said that we should establish ourself in a thanks that your desire is already accom­ sense of G o d ’s presence by continually plished, although seemingly every mortal conversing with Him; that it was a shame­ thought and error tries to beset you. Go ful thing to quit a conversation with God on, go on! The answer is here now; believe to think of trifles. He was a serene and that your request is (not will be, but is) happy person, giving out warmth and love answered! to those in the monastery and to all witht Use positive words and positive whom he came in contact daily. thoughts in everything you do. Fill the If we tune our mind in to the Mind of seeming blank spaces about you with the G od each day and acknowledge His thought of God, infinite good. Then re­ presence in our life, we can give forth love member that the spoken word is like a instead of malice; we can see the good in seed. It must grow. Leave the how, when, everything around us; we can count our and where to God. Your job is to say what blessings until they number into the thou­ you want and to give forth blessings, sands; we can have the peaceful knowing knowing that the moment you have that all is right in our world. If we listen asked, you have received. Ask. Affirm. for God's guidance, we will hear when He Look to God for results; listen to His speaks. direction; then receive G o d ’s fulfillment. There are many ways in which God can communicate with us. It matters not Praise the Lord! whether He speaks audibly, or as the Be thankful. Your attitude of gratitude “still, small voice” within. What is impor­ awakens in you a higher realization of the tant is receiving a definite answer when we omnipresence and power of God. Praise is have a question. Live with calm assurance, the mental attitude that stimulates, quick­ and listen: God is speaking! © Eetteti to % 'Ettitoi'

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Personally, I think Dr. Glen is • an angel, and music her wings that we cannot see. I set myself a difficult, an impossible, task Congratulations on your fine magazine.—P.N., today. Usually I “pass on” my UNITY magazines California. people are interested in it. Meditation is for all ages. Dickerson The purpose of medita­ tion is to awaken again to our true iden­ ‘Book tity and this can only happen through direct experience . . . by turning the min$ in on itself and allowing it to move back to ' M a t h a home base. Once it is there, the mind is" impressed with the energy of that level of our organization, and automatically every level of our life begins to reflect the fact] that w e ’ve taken the time to meditate. THE MIRACLE OF CREATIVE MEDITATION by J. SigPaulson and In the dialogues, the idea is brought out Richard J. 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Listen to the dialogues, learn and of the inspiring elements of this is that apply the principles set forth. Your life they are coming together in meditation. will never be the same! Meditation is one of the most interesting As Sig says with a glint of humor in ’x* subjects that we find anywhere in the eyes, 0 world today. Our young people are inter­ “Meditate more, medicate less!” ested in it; our older and more mature —Rebecca Clark. Creative Meditation at Its Best THE MIRACLE OF CREATIVE MEDITATION

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