THE IMPATIENT DAWN

by
Walter C. Lanyon

 

CONTENTS   

THE IMPATIENT DAWN 
JESUS IN TWEEDS  
THE TRINITY 
THE COSMIC PUNCH 
CONCEPTION 
THE ANATOMY OF HAPPINESS 
THE SHAPE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 
SOUL AND BODY 
YE DO ERR--NOT UNDERSTANDING THE SCRIPTURES
LOVE AND EMOTION
THROUGH THE CROWDS
THROUGH THE CLOUDS
DIVINE OBSTACLES ALIAS GUARDIAN ANGELS
THE BOY WHO WENT TO A PICNIC
JESUS WAS TEMPTED
JESUS AND RED GERANIUMS
JESUS AND MICHAEL ANGELO
THE GLORY OF GOD
WHERE THERE BE PROPHECIES
JESUS AND THE CENTURION
GOD WINKED
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
MAN'S EXTREMITY
THE SPACE BETWEEN
THE ARC IN THE HEAVENS
CONCERNING ANGELS AND HEAVENLY HOSTS
STAR DUST
THE PLUS VALUE
WHAT THOUGHT CAN DO TO YOU
THE SINS OF THE FATHERS
ALL THIS AND MORE
THE DIVINE LUNATIC
BUT WHY DOESN'T IT WORK?
IMPRISONED SPLENDOUR
IF THINE EYE
IMMORTALITY

THE IMPATIENT DAWN

A beautiful bird beat its lovely wings against its cage, struggling in vain to gain its inborn freedom, - only to settle on its perch, - frustrated and defeated.

Had I been granted but one wish at that moment I would have opened the door, - freeing those lovely wings which so ached with the desire to fan the cool ethers.

. . . . .

And then I realized that all about me were men and women, locked in their cages of thoughts and beliefs, - far stronger than the bars imprisoning the bird.

Many doors had been opened, - religion, psychology, hobbies, work, - all of which had been tried, but still no surcease from the beating of the soul-wings against the hateful cage. Most of them had retreated to their perches, - dejected and frustrated, like the bird.

. . . . .

Then came Jesus Christ, - not as a teacher, but a Revelator of the New-old Dimension. The clear, crystal stream of His New-old consciousness flowed through the dark subterranean passages of human belief. With a thousand and one parables and illustrations did He give to the world the Power to arise into this plus-value of life.

Now and again the up-gush of His Revelation has broken through the ground of established beliefs and spurted high into the air, as a gusher coming from the center of the earth. Man has always explained the miracle by science or human reason, -or failing that, concluded he had been duped.

But the stream continued on its urgent way, nearer and nearer the surface, -diffusing a thousand and one religious and psychological doctrines. "The Voice crying in the wilderness" of human thought is now being heard through the confusing, difficult veils of theology which has made that which was "given unto a child" something beyond the reach of man.

Man proclaims that he believes in Jesus, but finds the miracles something 'outside' his ken. Jesus insisted on the naturalness of this new dimensional teaching, eschewing any personal claim to it, -dating it before Abraham.

And again, in every word and deed He showed it was not a special GIFT to any particular man, -nor could it be learned from books, -but is discovered within each one. The invitation is to EVERY man, good, bad or indifferent.

"If ye believe", -and then follows a list of things which can only be classified under the heading of the Fourth Dimension, - entirely outside and beyond the capacities of the three-dimensional human thinking, which has a beginning and an ending.

Jesus is the first and the only Revelator who made good His every statement. In the vernacular of the streets, "He laid it on the table", -proclaiming nothing He did not produce. When He said, "Receive your sight", sight WAS, where blindness had existed as an incurable condition, -and likewise through the whole gamut of human difficulties, -indicating that we have been hypnotized by the findings of the brain-mind and by the "judging according to appearances"

All the world awaited His coming for eons of time, - and all the world looks back upon it as the most momentous and the only new and original event to ever take place.

With such startlingly simple statements as "I AM the DOOR", He gave the Keys to the Kingdom, but men have rejected the simplicity of His teaching in favor of the findings of the microscopic human mind.

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The Soul of you, -that Immortal BEing which will not die, - which cannot die, - stands pressing against the cage of human thought, even as the Impatient Dawn presses against the purple curtain of night, - waiting, - waiting, - waiting for the password.

"If any man hear My Voice", - ah, that is it! If any man HEAR My Voice", - -he will rend the temple veil. The Aurora of his Immortality will draw back the dark curtain of night and frighten the evil constellations of human beliefs into oblivion. They shall disappear as rain-drops falling upon a river. And Apollo, the Soul, will come forth, his flaming, prancing chargers breathing long rays of Light and Power which shall penetrate the darkest forests of human fears, - revealing a NEW heaven and a NEW earth. Diana, the negative subconscious embodiment, will fade, - all the brilliance and color drained from her by the understanding of LIGHT. She will vanish with her satellites, like a flock of sheep across yon mountain top, - and the Shining, NEW DAY will burst into expression.

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The restless, prancing steeds of the Impatient Dawn of your NEW Day will no longer be held in check. You must ARISE and make the gesture of Life, - the gesture which is to reach through the paralysis of human thinking and limitations, - impelled by the awakened Soul of you which can no longer be confined in the prison-house of the beliefs of men.

That Impatient Dawn is pressing against the door of your awakened consciousness, - waiting to reveal to you the secret of your BEing, - waiting to lead you into your God-given heritage, - waiting, trembling on the very brink of SELF-expression.

JESUS IN TWEEDS

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, - even the death of the cross."

THE DRAMATIC INSTINCT in man is so strong that whenever he mentions or thinks of Jesus, he automatically places Him in a theatrical background, so glorified as to set it completely apart from the remotest possibility of naturalness. He forgets that at the time of Jesus, flowing robes, purple, fine linen and long hair were the vogue of that time, just as sack suits and military haircuts are today.

There is no mention made of the robes of Jesus being outstandingly beautiful. True, there was the seamless robe, - not so much a comment on His clothes, perhaps, as an illustration of the wholeness of His teaching. In fact, Jesus asked the very pertinent question, - "What went ye out for to see", - a fashion show, or to hear a revelation. It is more than possible that the rich young man mentioned in the Bible, as well as many others, were dressed in silks and brocades.

Have we, then, been caught in the very thing against which He cautioned us? Is this beautiful teaching and revelation given us by Jesus as a usable every-day pattern of life always to be wrapped in dramatics? Will we perpetually be an audience watching a drama?

The tendency to glamorize anyone in the limelight is common to all men. It has a tremendous financial urge back of it. But as with Jesus, so with all the idols of the stage, - sooner or later lots will be cast for the robes. The sport of the human mind is to build an idol, - and then attempt to discover its clay feet.

And again, the decore and background against which Jesus moved were natural and normal to the times.

Can you imagine Jesus in a tweed suit? At first the idea shocks the sensibilities. But suppose He was with us today, - or rather, suppose your consciousness was of such a level as to permit you to see Him today, - would you want Him to go about in flowing robes True, there is yet this practice in America, a thousand and one "prophets" and "teachers" have donned robes entirely out of keeping with the times, playing on the dramatic value, - and people have followed. But Jesus was of all things, natural and normal. He said definitely, "I live in the world, but not of it". This did not set Him apart anymore then than it would now, for we find ample proof of His moving with the people, high and low. In fact, He was accused of being a friend of harlots and wine bibbers. Jesus was unafraid to live His life. He held no brief with hypocrisy and spiritual wickedness, gossip or scandal,

Can you imagine Jesus and His mother attending a wedding of a Hollywood star? Well, why not? They attended a wedding-feast in Cana, which from the record, was very spirited, to say the least, - not very much different from our present-day affairs.

There is no intent to take from the Glory of Jesus, - but rather to emphasize the fundamental Truth of His teaching. It is not difficult for one to bend the knees at the Name of Jesus, so great is our reverence for Him, - but just reverence for a dramatic or historical character is not sufficient. If Jesus ever was sad or disconsolate, it must have been when He asked the question, - "Have I been so long with you, and yet ... ?" He did not want them to set Him aside or apart in any way whatsoever. He only wanted what every true teacher and revelator wants, - namely, that the students and followers absorb and use the teachings, rather than deify the teacher. He wanted them not only to do the works He did, but to exceed Him, - assuring them they could. "The works I do, ye shall also do, - and greater than these shall ye do."

Until we take away the dramatic, emotional side of our acceptance of the beautiful Revelation, the whole endeavor is reduced to a fascinating story of a man, - and is of no practical use to us in every-day life.

You would laugh at the idea that every time you approached mathematics, you would have to put on a special garment of ancient origin and arrange yourself against a special back-ground of proper dramatic value.

We know that mathematics is not affected by race, color or creed. Neither is it more operative in one temperature than in another, nor is it more present in a magnificent university than in the little red school-house, or for that matter, the slums of a great city. All that is necessary is the recognition of the law of mathematics for the unfoldment from simple addition to the most complicated equation in relativity.

Talking of and about mathematics will not work out a problem, no matter how ever much you respect it. Unless you become a mathematician in one degree or another, nothing happens. And when you do, the stream of power comes through you, uses your body through which to express, - -proving the problem was already solved. Every mathematician knows the answers to all problems already exist, whether he is aware of the answer or not. But the recognition of it as passing through him enables him to arrive at the already established fact.

So with the Revelation of Jesus, - it is everywhere present, is no respecter of persons, is as available to the greatest criminal as to the most high priest. It is just as present in the worst hell-hole as in the lofty temple. Being everywhere, it is nowhere until it is recognized and "let" into manifestation, and it is of no value until this takes place.

Jesus, too, said the answer existed before the problem, - "Before you ask, I will answer, and while you are yet speaking, I shall give it unto you", - and again, "Thank you, Father, I knew that this was done", - in this latter instance, making concession to the mass-mind which believes something must be done. Yet He did not touch the woman who was healed in the crowds. She touched Him. The wonderful recognition in her came forth and met the perpetual agreement of His consciousness, and the answer, which always had existed, became a reality to her.

Jesus was not pleased with blood-sacrifice, - asking only the sacrifice of the human thought with its limitations and its terrific bondage. He was always looking for someone who could take it, - -always seeking a temple-body who would stand up to the point of equality with Him. That great unselfishness on His part is the God-Love within Him, and within us. He found it once in the Centurion who came boldly up to Him with recognition of the Power and who deigned to set himself on an equal level when it came to authority. "I have not seen so great a faith, - no, not in all Israel!" How would you like that to be said of you?

What do you suppose the widow's mite meant to a Man who could with impunity feed five thousand? But it was important enough to be recorded. The motive of the widow was greater than the "measure" of the rich.

As long as we continue to imprison this beautiful revelation of Jesus in garb, books, teachers and temples, it will be nothing but another philosophy. Most of Jesus' teachings were given out of doors, He went seldom in the Temple. When He did, He astounded them with His Light, - and they began the old roundelay, "How does this man speak, seeing- he has no learning". They went even farther than this in the protection of their limited views of life and were glad to shout at Him when He was going through His greatest manifestation, - "He saved others, - Himself he cannot save". Yes, and the derisive shouts, "Come down from the cross". Had He done this, - and He could have, - He would have defeated the purpose of His teachings and we would still be awaiting the Messiah who would save the world. What world? Your world, of course, - the only world you know anything about.

A thousand religions have been hung upon Him, like barnacles on a ship. This is no diatribe against any of them, but nevertheless, there can be only ONE interpretation of the Truth that two times two are four. True, you can write it in Roman numerals or even signs, but the principle is ONE and remains unchanged and eternal, - regardless of opinions to the contrary.

Simpler than the laws of mathematics are the laws of Truth. A child can understand and employ them through the capacity of the unsullied mind which accepts and brings out that acceptance with apparent ease. When the child-like consciousness enters a thing; all the universe cooperates to bring it about, - all of which is foolishness to the adult mind whose greatest capacity is to commit adultery. It will endeavor to take away such beautiful laws from the child through false education. He learns to smile with tolerance or derision at the things he formerly believed possible, stumbling along through the morass of human life until finally he comes to an insurmountable hurdle. Then he may realize there is something greater than John Smith and all his intellection, plus that of all his text-books and teachers, - and perhaps he will "let go" and ('let God" into expression through his body-temple and be saved. Saved from what? His own thought creation.

The Philistines did the same thing, and finally a giant named Goliath dominated that city (state of consciousness) so completely that it was faced with destruction. Then comes the point of LIGHT, David with his sling and five pebbles, - the five senses which had been extended into the consciousness of Cod, - marking the end of Goliath.

To be of any real worth, this law cannot be a will-o-the-wisp of imagination which works sometimes, any more than can the law of mathematics. "Having eyes, ye see not, - and ears, ye hear not". Why? Because you are so blinded by the accepted appearances of your creating (your giant) that you know you are about to be destroyed by it.

It takes but one pebble, - but one sense extended beyond the human limitations, to do the trick. "Open your eyes!" You say they are open, and you are straining to see. But there is nothing to see on the outside, not yet, - the sight is within.

All the commands appear to be physical, to call for some physical action, - but unless they are heard, the physical remains helpless under the control of the limitations of its belief. When the hearing is extended to the point of acceptance, then the command becomes physical and you can and will "arise and walk".

Jesus did not see five thousand leaves and two thousand fishes with his physical eyes, neither the fields white with grain, until He saw them within, then the consciousness was projected into the realm of manifestation.

I like to think of Jesus walking through the wheat-fields and along the beaches, sandles scuffed just as ours would be. He was so natural as to be a present possibility here and now. The glorious recognition of the Presence was always waiting to come forth at every turn of the road. He constantly endeavored to ensnare men with His love, - to awaken them to their own possibilities.

The "well done thou good and faithful servant" will not come through lip service, nor yet through sacrifice, - but through going forth and doing likewise, - stepping out on the waters of human beliefs. Every time we act from the consciousness of God within, we smash patterns of human beliefs, - and so the leper is healed or made clean. One of the old prophets showed the nothingness of human disease when he put his hand in his bosom and took it out white with leprosy, and with the same gesture, brought it forth clean. How did he do it? By thinking? Saying words? Mantras? Or following a human belief? What do you say?

Why are we awed at the thought of Jesus either in tweeds or in flowing robes? Is it a false sense of modesty? The hypocritical human mind is so humble and meek when it wants anything, - and so boastful and ugly when it seems to be sailing on calm seas.

"In ALL thy ways, acknowledge HIM, and He shall (not maybe, or perhaps) bring it to pass.)' Is that good enough. It is entirely fool-proof, - there isn't the "exception which proves the rule" to the human thought. There is one hundred percent delivery of the promise.

As you read the teachings of Jesus you will see there are no pastel shades, but pure, primary colors. When He makes an experiment in the laboratory of Life, He takes the ultimate in impossibility, - never some lesser gradation. He does not work with tints, nuances and shades of color, but makes His picture "contrasty" by the use of the primary colors. Such pictures as the one of a man being born blind, - not a case of faulty eye-sight or a blindness which had come upon a man, - but a case of blindness from birth. And again, a man dead four days, with the ugly picture of putrefaction and all the beliefs, or for that matter; the absolute knowledge of the human mind.

And the indifference of it all, - such a Divine indifference which freed reality from the self-hypnosis of human thought. "Whereas, before I was blind, NOW I can see." Was it dramatic? Yes, very! But is it still the peculiar powers of one man? He has shown and said in a thousand ways that every man has the gift within him as a natural expression of Life flowing through his temple. Why will we continue to judge from appearances, following the stupid thought-pattern of saying, "I am sick but God will heal me". Does God know sickness then? And if so, by what means can He destroy it?

Nothing is destroyed because we bring Christ Jesus down to earth. As a matter of fact, He is already here, but until we have the consciousness of it, we cannot live in His presence. This has nothing to do with the psychic disturbances that bring accounts of His appearing from time to time. When He appears it is because our consciousness is on the level of His, - and then He and much more will be made plain to us.

Jesus was not psychic, - but He had the Spiritual gift of Prescience which enabled Him to see all concerning the person into whose presence He came. And the lady at the well mistook this wonderful revelation as just another fortune-telling. She was so excited by the accounts of her private life that she did not hear, "If you had asked ME, I would have given you to drink of the Waters of Life, which if a man drink thereof, he will never thirst again".

So now we have Jesus in tweeds, - going to a Hollywood wedding, just as He went to a wedding in Cana in flowing robes. We must take Him out of the "clouds" of human belief and recognize Him as the Elder Brother, born of the same Father, even as you and I, if we want to hear, "I have not seen such faith, - no, not in all Hollywood !"

He would probably be offered a movie contract. He was offered the kingdoms of the world if He would perform a certain 'stunt' that would amaze the groundlings, - such a little feat as turning stones into bread. And I am sure He would smile, - He has such a magnificent sense of humor.

Let us have Jesus natural and real, - honest-to-goodness reality. Let us drop the dramatic, emotional worship and "come boldly to the throne of grace" and bear away the Gift of Life Eternal.

Let us have Jesus in tweeds!

THE TRINITY

THERE IS JESUS, - John Smith, the body-temple. There is the Christ, - your permanent identity, created in the image and likeness, the eternal, the Soul. And there is God, - the Universal, ALL-Present Power, from which everything springs into BEing.

It takes all three to fulfill the Trinity, - the three in ONE, to bring out the perfect manifestation. Jesus without his Christ, struggles against an avalanche of false teaching and doctrine, witchcraft and hellish inventions born of Adam. Christ without a body or point of manifestation lives in a symbolic world of substance which remains forever unembodied and hence non-existent to all practical purposes.

Many people who are seeking the Light live in this divided world. They live in a Heaven of symbolic wealth while the John Smith (Jesus) feeds on the crumbs under the banquet table. They know and iterate, "I am well", "I am rich", "All that the Father hath is mine", - but what good is wealth and health if not materialized? Yet, what they say is the Truth, but not factual. Until a thing becomes literal, with an embodiment of manifestation, it remains in the dream realm of the unborn.

When we see that God hath joined the Soul and body together, not to be separated, but to function as a Temple through which He can be stepped down into manifestation, then the merging of the body and Soul takes place, - the substance of flesh in its right interpretation comes into BEing and the Invisible God is stepped down to the realm of the manifest. God, the Universal, All Enveloping Substance of Life everywhere present, without a channel through which to express would remain unexpressed.

And so the Trinity, - the three in ONE:-Body (Jesus or John Smith), - Soul (the Christ), - God (the Universal), - and the merging of the three into the ONE is the "rebirth".

Then it is that "All things are possible with God", - and "I (yes, YOU) can do ALL things through Christ Jesus", - through this union.

All things thus far in manifestation have always existed. Until this is recognized, they remain unembodied. The aeroplane was just as possible at the time of Noah as the dove which was sent out on a reconnaissance voyage, - - but unrecognized and hence it remained in the unseen, awaiting birth. As soon as it was recognized, one hard, fast law after another which had been operating for so long in the world of John Smith, gave way,, and the unborn thing came to have a body, - and a constant stream of improvements are still being brought forth.

The idea you have, whether of health, happiness or prosperity, lies in that same realm of the impossible so far as your John Smith is concerned. At best, you can only dream of it in a symbolic world until you awaken to the purpose of life and cast off the old limitations and condemnations and LET the Power of God pour through your Temple-body.

Then things happen which could not otherwise take place. You "taste and see" that the teachings of Christ Jesus are beyond the pale of speculation. There is no question concerning the working of the law the moment it is given an opportunity.

Jesus stated definitely that through this merging with the Father He could raise up an apparently destroyed Jesus. He said He could "pick it up and lay it down". He went from one degree of Temple-body raising to another until He raised His own Temple.

In the world of symbology, awaiting recognition, awaiting acceptance and understanding, is this Law of Resurrection. The manifestation of God in what has been called "demonstrations" is not a special dispensation to a few, - but a natural, normal action of the Power of God through all. Through the thick veils of human thought these wonders seem impossible, - and yet, "He, every man that thirsteth, let him come to the Fount of Life, - let him drink of this Living Water, which when he drinks thereof, he will NEVER thirst again').

The possibilities that await the prodigal when he is sufficiently sated with humanism to arise with his True Dignity and return to the Father, are infinite. There is no condemnation, - no judgment, - no paying of the old accounts. True forgiveness carries nothing of the cringing sinner attitude, groveling before a tyrant. Forgiveness brings NEW BIRTH, FREEDOM, - SELF EXPRESSION!

And so you arise in "righteous indignation" to the beliefs under which you have been all these years, and you go unto your Father and release that wonderful manifestation which belongs to you, - which God is more desirous of expressing through you than you are.

What is the "substance of things hoped for" if it is not that out of which the manifest thing comes into being;. Yes, Faith (recognition) is the substance and the evidence that it is so. There is a reason for the hope that is in you, even when, to the human thought, you are yet a long way from your Father's house. You have the recognition, the evidence, the precious "lump" of substance within, - and it is casting its rays through the darkened corridors of the temple which has so long been filled with money changers and dove sellers.

If we are to take Jesus at His WORD, we must be "born again", - we must enter a new degree of consciousness. "In my Father's house are many mansions", - many degrees of on-going. We live in one degree of consciousness until we have exhausted all "degrees" of that degree, - and then it becomes a "pig-sty of prodigality" to us, - and we again ARISE and GO.

During the time of Jesus' ministry on earth, He was one against the world of evil, - but now we are beginning to see that the Power we have thought so peculiar to Him is within any and every man, when recognized.

We are told to "Call no man upon earth your Father, - but ONE is your Father, who is in Heaven". This recognition is the "NEW birth", - and we enter the NEW day, with its NEW mansion (manifestation), - and the former things are remembered no more.

Then "Go not back nor become a sluggard in the race". The race is not to the swift, - nor to the priest in the high temple, - nor to the learned one who can cite Scriptures to his purpose, - BUT TO THE PRODIGAL, - (YOU), who suddenly awakens and goes, disregarding all that has gone before, - dropping off the old habit-pattern of judging from appearances, - walking over the obstacles, the fire, the difficulties, through the crowds of jarring-sense testimony, - into the ABUNDANCE of your FATHER'S HOUSE.

Then it is that you understand your body IS the Temple of the LIVING God, and that that is the only reason it was created in the beginning. And you become a Light set on a hill which can no longer be hidden. "This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" is the benediction pronounced over you. God is pleased with every opportunity to express through His Temple-bodies. To give you good gifts, to shower you with the glorious manifestation, is the urge of God.

The stream of pure LIFE pouring through the temple will cleanse it of a thousand little thieves who have been hiding in the recesses of human teaching. You are a NEW creature in Christ Jesus, - -a NEW Light set upon a hill.

If you tell of it, no one will believe you. Too often have they passed by your darkened temple and have seen it falling to pieces with disease and limitations. The Master said, "Do not tell-but SHOW". When they SEE, they will tell.

Then YOU, the Temple filled with emanating LIGHT, can and will heal anything that comes your way for healing, - for the LIGHT is impersonal. And the only reason anything comes to you for healing is because it sees the Light in you, - and the healing is automatic as it was with Jesus. When the woman touched Him, virtue proceeded out of Him. She had come to the level of acceptance or agreement, - He was always there. The "touching" caused the thing to be established upon the earth.

Such wonderful dimensions of invisible-visible Light are now coming to the earth, - so near it is almost like the swish of Angel wings. The "peace that passeth all understanding" is enfolding you, and you relax your human thinking, - and rest. And such showers of blessings, - so many they cannot be counted, even as the sands of the sea.

Do you believe? If so, then from NOW on, the descent of all that is wonderful and lovely will take place. Or are you afraid? The galley slave, so beaten and punished by appearances, shrinks from anything so beautiful, while his Soul hungers for it. "Oh that I might find HIM"! Well, now that you have found HIM, let go of all the former things. They are passing away and shall not long be remembered, - nor come to mind any more.

"Oh taste and see that the Lord is GOOD", - not a merciless tyrant imprisoning you in a pit of torment.

Yes, today this subtle, invisible-visible Light is descending as never before. The rarified ethers of the Presence have actually pierced the outer walls of human thinking. Given the least recognition, it will burst into manifestation.

You are to stand and SEE the salvation of the Lord. That is something you have to do, - not through the offices of another, but through your own Temple. Then when the terrifying waves of belief strike, they break OVER you as against a rock, and run back into the sea of nothingness.

And so the Trinity, - BODY, SOUL, GOD! And the union which no man can again put asunder, takes place, - a wholeness, - a HOLINESS.

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, - and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

THE COSMIC PUNCH

THE COSMIC PUNCH which landed straight in the middle of the solar plexus of human beliefs and findings was the Immaculate Conception, - the ONE thing which turned upside-down and inside-out all the laws of Adam and his kin. It set aside any and all reasoning of cause and effect. It is the only reason why so-called prayer is answered, or things miraculous take place, -because all miracles are immaculately conceived.

Strange that many religionists deny the possibilities of the Immaculate Conception in one breath,and in the next say "All things are possible with God", - and still stranger that after denying this archetypal event, they pray or beseech an unknown power to do something which they have found utterly impossible of attainment through human thought and effort.

Without the radical reliance and acceptance of the Immaculate Conception, there is no basis for

prayer.

"Behold! a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel, being interpreted GOD WITH US."

"If ye ask anything IN MY NAME, I will do it."

CONCEPTION

MARY, THE VIRGINAL MIND, was over-shadowed by the Spirit, - and she conceived and brought forth Jesus. This mighty illustration is the key to ALL manifestation.

You are overshadowed by the Spirit, - the urge of God to find a Temple or a point of expression. Every desire that comes to you is that urge attempting to come into being-and all desires are good when properly interpreted.

But when the idea is passed through the thick veils of human belief it is still-born at best. The human mind places its interpretation upon the desire and in its effort to bring it to pass, descends to any level to accomplish it. Thus a bank robber's original idea to possess the substance of life is as good as yours, but his interpretation is wrong. To him, the only means of expressing that desire is to rob a bank, and the law ensues. You may be so defeated by the human belief that your idea cannot possibly take form, - and then you are sent into the wilderness of despair.

On the clear, placid surface of the waters the NEW image is formed. When the consciousness recognizes its heritage and releases all its preconceived nothings of the how, the why, the when and the where, then this wonderful over-shadowing takes place.

Mary, the Virginal Mind, could not by any means understand how she was to bring forth a child without the offices of man, - and neither can you understand how the desires of your heart can come into being.

There are helps given you, and one of them is that "Mary pondered these things in her heart". She kept the secret and contemplated the Power of the Almighty with its ways which are past finding out. And when you do likewise, the thing will take place, - the conception.

From the instant of conception, the new idea draws its embodiment unto itself. This does not have to come under the prescribed human laws of time and space. It can "look again" and see the fields are white, - in spite of all the findings of man who says it is yet four months to the harvest. The extension of the sight enables the awakened soul to see the finished product before it is visible to the eye, - just as this book is already complete while it is being written. The John Smith then lends itself as the temple through which the manifestation will come. The mechanics of the birth processes will take care of themselves.

Jesus always started with the idea that "it is consummated" before He asked. So sure was He of this fourth dimensional Power, He even thanked God for the completed and perfect manifestation before it was visible. He rested His case with the statement, "I know this is done", - making a concession to the human thought of His listeners who thought something had to be done, in the form of verbal prayer. Your affirmation, as was His, should be a statement of a finished thing, and not a process of endeavoring to create a thing. He made the affirmation because He knew the thing was already formed in the Mind of God, but awaited the recognition and acceptance of Jesus (John Smith). The moment this recognition took place, the manifestation came into being.

The teachings of Jesus were by parable-but parables which were manifested in tangible flesh-and blood. All other teachers "talked" of heaven to come. Jesus showed forth the WORDS He spoke and delivered the manifestations to the earth.

When the masculine knowing and the feminine feeling and receptivity come together, conception takes place. The secret is protected from the vagaries of human beliefs which would "laugh you to scorn", - but what can they do who see the manifestation, but fall down and worship God?

What can you do but surrender all the foolishness of human thought when you come into the Presence of God? What do you imagine you can do to change the Mind of God? Where did you get the desire you have for a NEW manifestation? Did it come out of thin air? If desire is not God pressing upon the diaphragm of your mind for greater expression, then from whence does it come and why? And if a particular desire were not peculiar to you, why would not every man have the same?

No two men having a given desire will bring out an identical manifestation. If you desired substance, the measure you bring forth would be different from the measure of every other man who desired the same thing. Each one brings out the degree they are able at that time to accept. What is wealth to one might be poverty to another, - and yet it is all one substance. No limitation is put on the measure except the degree of acceptance.

"In my Father's house are many mansions",many stages and states of manifestation. As soon as you have finished with one "mansion", you enlarge the borders of your tent and move on to another. The degree of acceptance is wholly up to you and it is not determined by your human desires, - but by your ability to accept this wonderful revelation of Christ Jesus.

"Who did hinder you, that you should not obey the Truth?" You have blamed everything from birth on to the people and conditions about you, - and will continue to do this until you discover that YOU hindered yourself. No one holds you back, - no one stops the flow of Light through your body-temple. At first this is not easy to accept. It is bitter to the taste, - but sweet to the digestion. As a good surgeon cuts deep with the first incision instead of cutting away the difficulty bit by bit, so you rid yourself of the hateful habit of blaming everything in the world for your present plight.

As you stand today, you are the sum-total of your consciousness of God. If you do not have sufficient manifestation of Life, you can do nothing about it on the outside. It MUST be done from within.

The NEW idea must and will be born when the NEW conception takes place, - when you have recognized the urge within you as God coming into expression through your temple-body. The moment this takes place, the temple is filled with LIGHT and carries out the inner instructions. If it is told to "go into a City", a NEW state of consciousness, and "there meet a man who will lead it to the banquet room", it is ready to go or to do, without question. For instance, when the book, or the picture, is conceived in the invisible, it must and will pass through the temple-body through which the mechanics must be performed.

All of this is in the deepest secrecy. "Tell no man" must be brought to us again and again, - else the Herod comes forth and attempts to destroy the idea before it is able to stand alone.

The human mind in its darkened temple believes little actual good of itself and less about you. It is a "liar and the father of it" because of the terrible fear from the acceptance of the false law that it was "born of woman, few of days and full of trouble".

The Spirit is like the "wind that listeth where it bloweth and no man (not ANY man, - teacher, priest or holy man) knoweth whither it cometh or whither it goeth". Yet the human mind will attempt to plan a way for expression of God. He will think so hard and search far and wide for a solution or a possible "wind-fall" that"might change his life pattern. But not until he enters within, - into the Virginal Mind, - will he be able to feel the overshadowing of the Spirit and know that the conception of the idea has taken place. And this 'click' or conception will be so precious that the secret will be guarded. It is the pearl of great price, which when a man finds, he sells all, he releases every former notion, - and buries this NEW LIGHT in a field, a consciousness which is Virginal and which knows that "All things are possible with God".

The understanding of the human mind concerning creation is so limited that it positively cannot accept the Word of Jesus of itself, and the "miracle" of manifestation can take place all about, but it would not be able to see or understand. "Here am I in the midst of you". The disciples saw Jesus in His resurrected state for but a few moments because they could not sustain that state of consciousness.

Conception takes place through agreement. "When two shall agree as touching any one thing,

it shall be established on the earth."

Any wonder, then, that you are commanded to "be still and know that I AM God"? When the jabbering human mind becomes quiet, then the Voice moves upon the face of the deep and out of this comes the dry land. Always the impossible, as the Immaculate Conception indicates ! Dry land coming out of wet water is enough to set the old human reasoning off at a tangent which will prove to itself the utter impossibility of such a thing taking place.

"I shall STAND upon my WATCH and SEE what the Spirit has to say unto me."

Yes, you will cease the old begging and beseeching a tribal Jehova and "be still upon your bed", - and then the blessed annunciation will be made unto you, - "A child is to be born", - a NEW and WONDERFUL, idea is to be set~upon the earth through you. It does not depend upon outward conditions. Sarah was ninety when the annunciation was made that she was to bring forth a child, - which caused Abraham to laugh long and loud. He positively knew it was impossible !

So the healing that you seek, - the old Abraham thought knows it is impossible, - that it just couldn't take place, - and yet the annunciation is made to you. Can you accept it? Will you go within and magnify the Lord instead of spending time in human thought and appearances trying to understand how such a thing could or would take place?

What you accept comes to abide with you, - good, bad or indifferent. Likewise, what you reject is passed on into the oblivion of the race consciousness. The decision is with you.

Everything works from within out. It is always in the SECRET place, the HIDDEN place that the idea is conceived. Be still, then, and KNOW (do not try to know) that I AM God. My Ways are not your ways, for My Ways are as high above yours as the heavens are above the earth, - they are past finding out. That blessed event which takes place within you and brings to you a new and more wonderful idea of Christmas than ever before, is sacred and must be a secret thing until "the child is born".

Draw close unto ME and I will draw nigh unto thee. See the naturalness of the omni-activity of Spirit in and through you. "Be not afraid, - it is I",no matter what old temples are torn down or set aside.

"Marvel not, then, ye must be born again!" The conception of your NEW-old self has again taken place in the heart. The moment it is recognized, it starts building its body. "For unto us a child is born, - and His Name (nature) shall be called Wonderful, - filled with Wonder, - the Mighty, - the Counselor, - the Everlasting".

THE ANATOMY of HAPPINESS

CONCERNING INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION

"I CAME THAT YOUR JOY might be FULL." This is the reason Jesus came with His New-old Revelation of a plus-value in LIFE.

The Anatomy of Happiness is discovered to be an invisible structure upon which all enduring things are hung.

The discovery that all manifestation in the material world is in a constant stage of change, a shuffling off or a disintegration of the successive manifestations, minimizes the importance of things. They only endure for a time, as the Power of God integrates itself in a never-ending stream of FRESHNESS and LIFE.

The "space between" the works of Jesus, - that is, from the time He was confronted with what the world called a "problem" and the manifestation of the answer to that problem, while indefinable, is a "semi-hiatus", - the immeasurable non-space between "now you see it and now you don't" of human thought, - the split second when He stood midway between the findings of the scientific mind of man and the Golden Splendour of "the fields are WHITE".

The elasticity of human thought is finally stretched to a breaking point, - and that which seemed to cover so much surface, shrinks into insignificance as does a toy balloon become nothing when pricked with a pin.

THE SHAPE of CONSCIOUSNESS

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;

But it is on the space where there is nothing

that the utility of the wheel depends.

We turn clay to make a vessel;

But it is on the space where there is nothing

that the utility of the vessel depends.

We pierce doors and windows to make a house;

And it is on these spaces where there is nothing

that the utility of the house depends.

Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is.

we should recognize the utility of what is not.

-Lao Tze

AT THE VERY OUTSET, the title seems quite ridiculous, - nevertheless necessary in order to bring out the idea of what takes place when we pray aright.

If we cut a stencil of the figure seven (7), we would remove a perfect seven (7) of opaque paper, - at the same time leaving a perfect seven in space, or a hole in the paper which would have the shape of a figure seven (7).

Now suppose we were in a dark room with no apertures, and we cut a window in the wall, - we take out a piece of material the exact shape of the window. We have not created the LIGHT that comes through the window. The light is eternally existent, waiting to be 'let' into expression, - -in whatever shape or form we choose to accept.

The size or outline of the window can be changed at will and an increased amount of light released into the room. We do not build a house around air or atmosphere. It is already there and instantly takes the shape of the room or house. Always the air in a vase takes the shape of the vase. Remove the walls of the house and you have no shape of air left, - break the vase and the shape disappears.

If we hold the stencil of the seven (7) to the light, it casts a light shaped as a seven, - but if we hold the opaque paper seven (7) which we have cut out, it will cast a shadow. Both of them are sevens, - one a shadow, the other a light. The nearer we approach the light, the greater the size of the seven (7).

So it is with the shape of consciousness, - human or Divine. "For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. "Through a glass darkly" of human thought, we receive only darkness, - no matter how ever hard we struggle for the light or illumination.

From the inside of the house we can obscure part of the light or all of it, by hanging a curtain over the window. Likewise, we can and do obscure the degree of LIGHT that comes through our lives by human thinking. We ourselves control the amount of LIGHT that comes through, since there is no limitation in LIGHT.

The old habit of trying to visualize an empty form and then attempting to "fill" it with substance lacks the "gesture" or the actual making of the window which brings the whole manifestation of light into being. On one side, we have the attempt to create, - on the other, we recognize it as already existing. The LIGHT is there at all times, - just as LIFE is eternally existent. But if there is no shape or pattern in consciousness, then it is invisible, being obscured by curtains of belief.

Without the shape of consciousness, the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things eternally present does not appear understandable to man. The diffused, general concept of Life as everywhere present gives no evidence that it is actually present unless it is manifest in some form or shape.

The stencil of the figure seven (7) is a perpetual seven as long as it is held to the light. There is no exhausting its supply. Once the figure seven is conceived in consciousness and held there, it cannot be depleted.

Whatever we shape in consciousness is immediately filled with substance and remains that way, always fresh and new, as long as there is a consciousness of it. Light is not solid, - neither is health and wealth static, - but a constant pouring through the shape of consciousness we are holding to it. A thousand persons in a lecture hall will each have a different concept or shape of health, - which in reality has nothing whatsoever to do with UNIVERSAL LIFE.

"The measure ye mete", - the consciousness you form - is all that will come back to you out of the Universal Mind-God. And everyone will have a different measure at will. No one hinders another in any way when it comes to consciousness. All are free agents. "Who did hinder you that you should not obey the Truth"-is answered with a thousand and one complaints, jealousies and fears. "Well, you see I try and try and try..." Do you try to get light from a window, or do you just get it? And does it do any good to try to force more light through the window? It can and does give only the amount that can come through the shape of consciousness you are holding to it.

From this elevation does the command "Enlarge the borders of your tent" mean anything? Why do you wish to enlarge the borders of your tent? So you can have more room. From where is this room coming? Certainly by enlarging the borders of your tent you do not create more space, since your tent is in all space, just as your body is in Universal Life and knows of itself no limitation of health. There isn't sufficient room in the tent and so you change its shape by pushing out the borders, - and you automatically have more room. You do not create the room space, - it has always been there. You are merely encompassing more of that which already is by the enlarged shape of consciousness.

All the manifestations of God-power are as effortless as light passing through the window. God is pressing against the temple-body for a "shape" of consciousness through which to manifest, - inviting you constantly to accept more and more.

Nothing limits the light in the window but your thought. The same is true of all manifestation. You can drop the curtains of disbelief, or cement it up, or complain that there is not sufficient light, - but this still does not diminish the light, except insofar as you are concerned.

This is true in all departments of Life. The moment you have a consciousness of anything, it comes through the "shape" you have of it and diffuses itself on the other side. If it is insufficient, then it is necessary to enlarge the "shape" of consciousness.

No man ever reduced the size of a window because there was not enough light to fill it. He knows the "measure ye mete" is already filled. All speculation as to who, why, when or where are entirely eschewed and set aside, - in fact, they never existed in his mind. He makes the "shape" and the rest is automatically taken care of because long since he knew that light is everywhere and only needs to be "let" into a room to make it full of light.

When he even faintly knows that LIFE is everywhere and only needs to be "let" into expression, he will understand how it is that the darkened body or temple will be flooded with health the moment there is the "shape" of health in consciousness, - or the moment he takes his health with the same ease as he takes his light, and with the same abandon. He is not asking or begging that when his window is completed, light will fill it. Jesus paid no attention to the quantity of Life in the world when He healed all who asked, - good, bad and indifferent.

That which is true of health and happiness is true of wealth and prosperity. There is only the ONE indivisible substance pouring through any consciousness which holds a "shape" up to it, - and it will continue to pour through until that conscious "shape" is destroyed.

Do you now begin to understand how it is that nothing can be taken away from you so long as you have that "shape" of consciousness, - and how it is that nothing can be lost? And do you understand how it is that "To him that hath is given"? How can it be otherwise !

And so you will be given more and more Light because you already have Light, - and you have the "shape" of consciousness which permits LIFE to take shape and form.

The Adam man, trying to pattern God and become a creator, fashions himself a figure seven (7) and holds it to the light, - but instead of casting a light, it casts a shadow. True, that shadow is the same shape as the light figure cast through the stencil, but it is opaque and in darkness. The nearer he brings it to the light, the larger the shadow becomes. The more he "tries", the less his results.

And so with the health of the body, - man's human concept of it, - he "works" and tries to hold it, only to find it constantly diminishing. When man discovers that he has filled in the very shape he wanted to reflect light, he is in despair and may try to paint it in bright colors, - but still it casts a dark shadow.

He must discover that he is in reality "hid with Christ in God", - that he is lost in the Universal LIFE of God. Then the human-thought shape of consciousness he has been working with goes down and he cuts his new stencil and LETS the Life through into manifestation of health which nothing can take from him. Just as abundantly as he will, is he able to have this health, eternally new and fresh.

Light cannot be stored and saved any more than can health. The moment man tries this he is defeated, - and yet in reality he can never be without all of it, - that is, all that can come through the shape (recognition) of consciousness he has taken unto himself. The moment he thinks to "possess" God, he finds himself without Him, - for he is possessed by God, - and eventually discovers the truth of that statement, "For in Him we live, move, breathe and have our Being."

Moving in this universal sea of substance, holding always his "shape" or measure of consciousness to the light, he will perpetually manifest the full measure he metes to God. It happens automatically, - and yet nothing happens for it is always there. "He, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, ... and drink, without price." No limit for any reason, whether he be a Holy Man or a wretch of the lowest order. It is for every man, no matter whom.

COME unto ME, all ye that labor with the human patterns of belief, and I will GIVE you Life-LIGHT. GIVE is the word. "Cast your burdens upon ME"-and "Take My yoke upon you". The yoke which binds you to God is one of LIGHT and GLORY. "He careth for you" is enough to set everything aright if the "shape" of your consciousness is right.

A complete surrender to the ONE God will cause you to throw into the Gehenna of purifying fires all the old idols and shapes of human thought you have hugged to yourself through your fears and beliefs engendered by trying to break the law, "Judge not from appearances". All these evils you see about you are the results of human consciousness casting the shadows of their self-made "shapes".

It is all so easily changed. We see the old Prophet putting his hand in his bosom and taking it out white with the most dread disease, - and then making the same motion and taking his hand out clean and fresh with health. It is somewhat like taking down the shutters which filled the shape of the window, shutting out the light, - and then putting them in place again. The very thing the human mind thought was something real turns out to be the thing which shuts out the real, - although it has the appearance of the real.

The measure you mete shall be returned to you, pressed down and running over. The measure of the human mind is the human picture of it all. It works in reverse, - "when I would do good, evil I do",because it still believes it can "create" something that is already there. The "motive" ye mete is what actually will be returned to you, pressed down and running over. If enough light is not coming into the room, then the borders must be enlarged to meet the new demand.

No man has yet been able to shut light in a box and store it for future use. It would be foolish to try. Likewise, no man has ever shut life in a body temple.

No man can create health. Health is the manifestation of life and is not produced by taking a red pill or a green pill. The pill has no more creative power than you have. Health IS. Man can appropriate it through his recognition of it as a reality, and this in any degree he will. He may produce a temporary semblance of it through a belief in a pill, - but health is an already established thing. Prayer may reveal it and cause it to come through into manifestation by the disintegration of the human thought-patterns.

It is a wonderful rest for man when he finally realizes he has no part in creation, - the work having already been accomplished and pronounced good and very good. What do you pronounce it?

And how is it we imagine we are creators or co-creators? God needs no help from man (body). When understood, the body is the reflection of Spirit, - "the temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens". When man comes out of his Adam dream, into his heritage, he finds he is a stencil of LIGHT in a world of LIGHT, - even as a transparent bottle is cast into the sea. The whole ocean may take the shape of the bottle, as it passes in and out, - and yet is never that shape.

Jesus taught by parables because His listeners were not able to grasp the wonders of His revelation. And so we go step by step into the thing called "consciousness". As we arrive at any level of consciousness, we find we have always been there, - and so we have, but did not recognize it.

"The former things are passed away and shall not be remembered nor come into mind any more"-for there is nothing in that mind which can possibly understand them. The ugly beliefs never did exist as a reality, - only as a congestion of human thought, working always from the without to the within and doomed to failure from the start, - no matter how wonderful they appeared from the outside.

Finally Noah cut a stencil in his ark. He had been floating around for a long time, - and when he cut his window, his stencil, the LIGHT flooded in, filling the entire ark with LIGHT. The waters receded and he landed on a mountain-top, - an exalted state of consciousness, - which had always been there. And from that moment he was always THERE.

"Come unto ME", - the Soul of you calling to the body to come into that great union of body and Soul, - and in that "shape" of consciousness, anything can happen through the body. Yes, the body is the reflector of Soul, coated with human beliefs which obscure the innate capacity to "rise and shine". The moment this is discovered, "thy LIGHT is come, and the GLORY of the New Day is risen upon you."

Now we see why Jesus endeavored to bring man to a state of belief in the ONE GOD. When it becomes a matter of "letting" instead of making, man will realize that all this dazzling picture is for the Glory of God and not the glorifying of a human being.

So cut your window in your ark and "let" the LIGHT stream in. Hold your "shape" of consciousness up to the ONE GOD and SEE the Glory of it all. "In a way ye know not of', your "shape" of consciousness shall be established on the earth.

SOUL and BODY

SUDDENLY THE REVELATION CAME, - -like a shaft of lightning striking a powder magazine. When the explosion of discovery was over, I realized for the first time that we, as a race of "truth-seekers" have been working in reverse.

Strange too, - since we have followed to the best of our ability the precepts laid down by Jesus Christ. But there has been such an appalling sense of failure in prayer. And such a tendency on the part of man to compromise, - first for the half loaf, - then for the slice, - and finally finding himself under the proverbial table eating the crumbs.

And then the torrent of words, - pro and con, - as to why the prayer was not answered. And the beseeching and begging and agonizing before a supposed Deity, - the groveling in the dust of human thought and words, trying to curry the smallest favor from God. All of this in spite of the fact that man has been told to "Come boldly before the Throne of Grace".

In spite of our best efforts, God seemed more human than Divine, - and at times a very "spoiled" human, whose most important activity seemed to be laying traps in which to ensnare humanity, - then gloating over the slow, tortuous punishment. Yet Jesus made it plain that God is LOVE, - and is concerned over the fall of a single sparrow, though four of them could be had for a farthing.

Everything worked for Jesus, - though at times it may have seemed that it was a special power which He alone embodied. But to counteract this idea, He invited all to "Go thou and do likewise", - and "even greater things", - greater than He had ever performed.

Well then, - why don't we at least approach in some minor degree the works He did two thousand years ago? True, - from time to time a so-called healing or miracle takes place, - but an occasional healing is no indication that a definite law is underlying it, - no more than the very occasional working out of a problem in mathematics. In mathematics we demand a hundred per cent efficiency. Is mathematics, then, more certain and definite than God? The Power which Jesus used was certain of definite results.

There is no currying of favors in mathematics. The humblest wretch, the worst sinner, the most lordly prince, all have an equal chance. There is no limitation as to the use of the law. It is not bestowed upon man as a reward of merit. It just IS, and must be accepted and entered into before it becomes alive. And in this respect, Jesus also made it plain that "God is no respecter of persons" I was listening one day to the radio, to a very prominent singer who had become almost an institution during the war years, so appealing and warm was his voice. The natural comment was, - "That man has a beautiful voice", - but suddenly I realized just the reverse was true, - that voice has a beautiful body through which to express. The song was singing him, - singing his body, - expressing through every cell and atom.

And then the LIGHT flared, - and I saw that this is exactly the difference between the manifestations of Jesus and the attempted demonstrations of man. Jesus "went within and shut the door", - and became a soul with a body through which to manifest.

The unintelligent mass of atoms called the body and named John Smith or Mabel Jones or Jesus, has been attempting to establish its power in the body, - attempting to make a singer, a dancer, a writer, a healer of John Smith, - and with mighty poor success.

But when the idea is glimpsed, - this revelation of Jesus Christ, - then man is seen to be a soul with a body, - and whatsoever he then designates the soul, that the body performs. Jesus knew that the John Smith could do nothing, when He said of His Jesus body, "I can of mine own self do nothing", - and He stopped there as far as making Jesus perform. He went within and identified Himself with Soul, - and whatsoever He designated that soul to be, that did Jesus perform, - whether speaker, healer, financier, baker or vinter. He was a soul with a body, - and not a body with a soul.

This subtle change in consciousness causes one to see the infinite possibilities. It is then easy to understand the so-called illusive financial demonstration which comes through the "no-time no-space" idea, - and to understand, too, how healings automatically take place through this recognition. The revelation of the soul as the healer releases LIFE through the Jesus with one hundred percent success. If the soul is designated as a speaker, the unintelligent body of Jesus or John Smith will speak, even though he has never learned how to speak. He draws on the infinite resources of the ALL.

"Then went He in and shut the door, - and WHATSOEVER He told the Father in secret, that was called from the housetops."

Having admitted that He could of Himself do nothing, - that the unintelligent body had taken unto itself a mass of human beliefs, none of them true and most of them evil, - Jesus made His escape from this thought congestion, into His soul. Then WHATSOEVER He designated the soul, became true, for it had a body, a perfectly pliable body, through which to express, - with no resistance, no opinions, no beliefs to hinder.

Now it is not difficult to see how "IT searches the joints and the marrow", - how it is the soul with a body can and does naturally disentangle the snarls of human thinking with its patterns of evil, poverty and disease. The body becomes the servant of the Lord. Hence, when the soul is specified as any given thing, this soul then holds the body in its grasp, causing it to manifest the desire. The body, though wholly incapable of performing of itself, does the thing it could not do, - and in less time than it could be done, - with greater success, - a sustained success.

This is the resurrection of the beseeching sinner man, - worm-of-the-dust, - born - of -woman, - full-of trouble. He leaves the pig-sty of human thinking, becoming a LIVING SOUL with an unresisting, unintelligent body through which to express. There is no argument or quibbling now from the body, - it is in its right place, - sitting at the feet of the Master.

When the body with a soul attempts to work out a problem, he runs the gamut of human emotions, from humility to hatred, - from the making of many affirmations to high powered psychology, - none of which work, even though he may have gone through a hundred courses, all of them guaranteeing positive and definite results. And this in spite of the admonition, "Be not like, the heathen, who think by repeating many words, they will gain the ear of God".

If nothing happens, he compromises, - and then, if nothing takes place, he begins to "work') things on the outside. The ignorant John Smith, never having had a consciousness of substance, does not know what money is, and is only fooling himself when he tries to imagine that he is wealthy. He has no capacity to accept that which he does not understand.

Jesus had no great earning capacity as a man. His trade was lowly, and in a small town, - and yet He became a master financier when needs be. He knew that the "Jesus" could not afford to feed five thousand men (not counting the women and children), - and yet, He did just that.

"Then went He in and shut the door", - became the soul with a body, - and WHATSOEVER He designated from that elevation, the Jesus-body carried out without comment, speculation or effort.

Every financier in the world today works through his body into manifestation. Physically, his body may not compare favorably with yours. If he had to use the body to earn a living, he would fall far short of the millionaire. But he is the soul with an unintelligent body which does not know how to make more than a bare existence, and then is in danger of having that taken from him at any time.

And to the financier is given success, - and more and more money, although he may not need it, because the law states "to him that hath (consciousness) shall be given", in like kind. The power of this "SOUL-consciousness" causes the otherwise sick or poor body to be suddenly transformed.

The moment you know you are a speaker with a body, you will speak in eloquence and with a fluidity hitherto unknown. When the soul is designated as any given thing, it not only brings that into manifestation, but all else that goes with it, - and automatically. Therefore the soul who designates himself a speaker, will find his audience, his hall, his success, - and the flow of the Bright Substance called Wisdom, pouring through him into manifestation. If he stays upon his point, he will see his words take actual shape before his eyes, - he will see the word HEALTH become embodied in well-being, - and WEALTH in the substance of things hoped for.

If the club-footed girl who wants so to dance, would recognize that she is soul, and that soul a dancer, she would find the body would move with such rhythm and beauty as to prove the "height and breadth and depth" of this thing called God, whenever it has half a chance to come through into expression. The hard, opaque walls of human thought give way, and the body becomes plastic to the touch of the soul, - and expresses in a way hitherto impossible.

If you will but grasp the idea that you are a soul with a body, and that soul is awaiting the announcement of the capacity it is to take on, then you will understand all- of the demonstrations of Jesus Christ. You will see why He invited you to partake of the same power, - so that God may be seen before men, instead of this awful human thing, born of Adam, filled with nothing but evil and death. Small wonder then, the insistent commands of "Awake, thou that Sleepest" , - "Awake, and arise from the dead","Arise and shine, for thy LIGHT has come".

Yes, - with the recognition of this wonderful truth you will arise, for the unintelligent body is now obeying the command of the soul and will carry on into expression "whatsoever you ask in My Name (nature)". WHATSOEVER! What a word! No beginning, - no ending! WHATSOEVER!

So overpowering is this revelation that at first you may well cry with Monte Cristo, - "The world is mine". But why possess the world or attempt to horde the riches of unintelligent matter, - when

within you is the ALL to be brought forth at your command? Long since you have washed your garments white of the greed for power, place or thing, - and so you may have them all because now they are for the Glory of God, - and not for your own vain-glory.

The pictures cast forth disintegrate the moment they are released. This is why Jesus said, "Loose him and let him go". Now for the first time, working from the elevation that you are a soul with a body Upon which to cast your pictures, you can understand how it is that a picture of paralysis can be "loosed" and "let go", - and all the thought-congestion of disease slip into oblivion.

When Jesus went from His body to soul and identified Himself with this Permanent Identity, He immediately recognized that everything which Jesus desired already existed. "Body" cannot understand how it is that "before you ask, I will answer, and while you are yet speaking, I shall give it unto you". Jesus never posited a problem and then try to work it out. He started always from the answer as definitely established, - and the LIGHT of this knowledge ran through the human, limited thought, - replacing the false appearances with the manifestation of the soul.

Whenever man (body) relinquishes his preconceived idea that he is a body with a soul and takes on this NEW elevation, he will find that "whatsoever he asks" is already taking place, - and that the old voluntary action is replaced by an involuntary power which carries on without the thought or suggestion of the John Smith body.

Jesus counseled, "Be absent from the body and present with the Lord". He knew He was an Immortal, with a body through which to express, - a body which He could lay down and pick up at will. Operating from this level of consciousness, it is easy to understand the miracles.

Centuries of identification with the body has caused man to accept it as an intelligent organism, which calls upon something outside of itself for help. When it is discovered that the body is but a handful of malleable clay, formed of the dust of the earth, - then it is simple to grasp the power which Jesus said He had over the body-temple. Whatever He desired to be, He became in soul, - and the unintelligent body obeyed, without comment and offering no limitations or beliefs. And so the musician who realizes that he is a musician with a body, will find the body performing effortlessly, beyond all its former limitations.

"Then went He in and shut the door" This is the key to the Kingdom of Dominion. The body is the unintelligent screen upon which the soul throws its desires and truths.

Many people attempt to demonstrate finances or health or position by working from the "body" standpoint, - demanding, affirming, declaring that God is the thing they desire. And the success is sketchy, at best. But when the Immortal YOU makes the designation, the body will of necessity carry out the details "by a way ye know not of". You stand in the place of the Christ instead of under the hypnosis of John Smith, and call upon the LORD with the knowledge that "before you ask, I will answer", - and "Thank you, Father, - -I knew this was already done". The body, John Smith, doesn't know, and thinks something has to be done.

In MY Name! What name? God has many names, - infinite angles of expression. So when you approach the Deity through the Immortal BEing of you, the answer already is, - whether it be decision, - acceptance, - agreement, - - appropriation, - or any one of the various Name-Natures of God.

Whatever NAME-Nature you designate comes into being through the unintelligent body John Smith. At last he (John Smith) has been divested of his power apart from God, his knowledge of both good and evil, - and comes under the benign influence of having had the seven devils cast out of him. So he relaxes, seated at the feet of his Divinity, clothed in his right mind.

The movement of this Immortal YOU, divinely indifferent to the beliefs of John Smith and his thought world, is always in the dimension of success. It does not try, - -it does not work for it, - it is an indigenous quality. Whenever there is an expression of this Immortal YOU, success is assured without effort and thought.

Intelligent, then, is the command, - "Take no thought of the purse, the script, the body"-and so on. Now we see why, - because operating from your Immortal Self, you do not create, or come under the laws of limitation. You release the unseen power into manifestation through the temple-body, - and John Smith, if a cripple, leaps into the air, praising God, - or he opens his blind eyes, - or he is prospered "by a way he knows not of".

YE DO ERR - NOT UNDERSTANDING THE SCRIPTURES

SHE WAS weeping hot, rather bitter tears because she had lost a "friend,"- a lady who was in the throes of poverty and a thousand and one other problems, so she had taken her in. She had fed and clothed her, becoming her constant companion and advisor, - because it was such a pitiful case.

And then one day the "thing" turned and struck at its benefactor. "What ingratitude!" "I cannot understand why she should treat me in this manner, after I have done so much for her".

Every Soul knows its own capacities. It knows the equality of birth and that it is entitled to all the wonders of heaven and earth, - even though the "John Smith" seemingly cannot bring them into manifestation with the same ease that another is bringing them forth. Daily it hears itself discounted by its benefactor, - who, feeling sorry for it, emasculates the person and makes it hopelessly dependent.

There is no friendship in pity or sympathy, - both are means of unconsciously inducing personal worship. True, sometimes this idea is so covered with human emotion that it does not recognize the bondage into which it has thrown another, - and it goes blissfully on, pitying and unwittingly discounting the so-called friend.

And so the lady discovered she had never had a friend. She had just taken something in, upon which to lavish her sympathy and pity. The human mind will accept anything it can get for nothing, - but the soul finally rises up against its "lord and master" and smites it in the only way it can to free itself. When you discover this, you will also discover that you cannot lose something which you never had.

Friendship, - that scarlet vine dropped down from heaven, - is filled with compassion, even as Jesus or the Good Samaritan, - but it will never descend to the level of pity in the human sense of the word, it will never bind the object of its compassion to it or cause it to pay tribute to a personal God.

The Good Samaritan bound up the wounds and sent the traveller on his way with sufficient to stay at the neighboring hotel until he recovered, - but he disappeared, looking not for the personal glory of having done a good deed. He received his reward elsewhere, - freeing the traveller from the ingratiating thing of fawning on the giver.

You must have a friend before you can lose one. Do not weep over something that is a fabrication of your own mind. The dramatic tendency is great in all of us, - but the curtain comes down and the "comedy (which you may call a tragedy) is finished".

Since you cannot help doing good, no special effort is required to do it. There are plenty of instructions, - "Let not your right hand know what your left hand is doing", - and so on. Give, - yes, and abundantly, - sometimes of gold and sometimes of "such as I have". But FREE your gift, - -send it forth into life so it can find its proper place of lodgment. It will return to you, freighted with increase.

So the LIGHT dawned, - the tears stopped, - and the woman who had "lost" a friend discovered she never had a friend, - only a bond-maid who ran away from the slavery of fawning on another.

LOVE and EMOTION

OVER AND OVER again we read stories about human love, based on selfishness, - jealousy, - possession. But the Love of God is no respecter of persons, - and possesses nothing because it IS all. A thousand and one references are made to the LOVE of God for man, - but measured by human standards, it is such an abstract and intangible thing as to seem of little value.

Human love is nothing but emotion, defined by Webster as a stirring perturbation or excitement of mind, - and is a sense product. Becoming emotional ov