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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 74878 ***

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-  THE GAME OF LIFE

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-  AND HOW TO PLAY IT

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-  By

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-  FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN

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-  DeVorss & Company

-  P. O. Box 550

-  Marina del Rey, California 90294

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-  Copyright 1925 by

-  Florence Scovel Shinn

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-ISBN: 0-87516-257-6

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-Printed in the United States of America

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-CONTENTS

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-  THE GAME                                                             7

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-  THE LAW OF PROSPERITY                                               15

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-  THE POWER OF THE WORD                                               22

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-  THE LAW OF NONRESISTANCE                                            30

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-  THE LAW OF KARMA AND THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS                         39

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-  CASTING THE BURDEN (IMPRESSING THE SUBCONSCIOUS)                    48

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-  LOVE                                                                56

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-  INTUITION OR GUIDANCE                                               66

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-  PERFECT SELF-EXPRESSION OR THE DIVINE DESIGN                        75

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-  DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS                                            85

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-THE GAME

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-Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a

-game.

-

-It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the

-knowledge of spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the

-rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Jesus Christ taught that it

-was a great game of _Giving and Receiving_.

-

-“Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.” This means that

-whatever man sends out in word or deed, will return to him; what he

-gives, he will receive.

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-If he gives hate, he will receive hate; if he gives love, he will

-receive love; if he gives criticism, he will receive criticism; if he

-lies he will be lied to; if he cheats he will be cheated. We are taught

-also, that the imaging faculty plays a leading part in the game of life.

-

-“Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence, for out of it are

-the issues of life.” (Prov. 4:23.)

-

-This means that what man images, sooner or later externalizes in his

-affairs. I know of a man who feared a certain disease. It was a very

-rare disease and difficult to get, but he pictured it continually and

-read about it until it manifested in his body, and he died, the victim

-of distorted imagination.

-

-So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the

-imaging faculty. A person with an imaging faculty trained to image

-only good, brings into his life “every righteous desire of his

-heart”—health, wealth, love, friends, perfect self-expression, his

-highest ideals.

-

-The imagination has been called, “_The Scissors of The Mind_,” and it

-is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and

-sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world. To train

-the imagination successfully, man must understand the workings of his

-mind. The Greeks said: “Know Thyself.”

-

-There are three departments of the mind, the _subconscious, conscious

-and superconscious_. The subconscious, is simply power, without

-direction. It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is

-directed to do; it has no power of induction.

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-Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the

-subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

-

-For example: a woman I know, when a child, always “made believe” she

-was a widow. She “dressed up” in black clothes and wore a long black

-veil, and people thought she was very clever and amusing. She grew up

-and married a man with whom she was deeply in love. In a short time

-he died and she wore black and a sweeping veil for many years. The

-picture of herself as a widow was impressed upon the subconscious mind,

-and in due time worked itself out, regardless of the havoc created.

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-The conscious mind has been called mortal or carnal mind.

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-It is the human mind and sees life as it _appears to be_. It sees

-death, disaster, sickness, poverty and limitation of every kind, and it

-impresses the subconscious.

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-The _superconscious_ mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the

-realm of perfect ideas.

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-In it, is the “_perfect pattern_” spoken of by Plato, _The Divine

-Design_; for there is a _Divine Design_ for each person.

-

-“_There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill,

-something you are to do, which no one else can do._”

-

-There is a perfect picture of this in the _superconscious mind_.

-It usually flashes across the conscious as an unattainable

-ideal—“something too good to be true.”

-

-In reality it is man’s true destiny (or destination) flashed to him

-from the Infinite Intelligence which is _within himself_.

-

-Many people, however, are in ignorance of their true destinies and are

-striving for things and situations which do not belong to them, and

-would only bring failure and dissatisfaction if attained.

-

-For example: A woman came to me and asked me to “speak the word” that

-she would marry a certain man with whom she was very much in love. (She

-called him A. B.)

-

-I replied that this would be a violation of spiritual law, but that I

-would speak the word for the right man, the “divine selection,” the man

-who belonged to her by divine right.

-

-I added, “If A. B. is the right man you can’t lose him, and if he

-isn’t, you will receive his equivalent.” She saw A. B. frequently but

-no headway was made in their friendship. One evening she called, and

-said, “Do you know, for the last week, A. B. hasn’t seemed so wonderful

-to me.” I replied, “Maybe he is not the divine selection—another man

-may be the right one.” Soon after that, she met another man who fell in

-love with her at once, and who said she was his ideal. In fact, he said

-all the things that she had always wished A. B. would say to her.

-

-She remarked, “It was quite uncanny.”

-

-She soon returned his love, and lost all interest in A. B.

-

-This shows the law of substitution. A right idea was substituted for a

-wrong one, therefore there was no loss or sacrifice involved.

-

-Jesus Christ said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his

-righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you,” and he

-said the Kingdom _was within man_.

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-The Kingdom is the realm of _right ideas_, or the divine pattern.

-

-Jesus Christ taught that man’s words played a leading part in the game

-of life. “By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are

-condemned.”

-

-Many people have brought disaster into their lives through idle words.

-

-For example: A woman once asked me why her life was now one of poverty

-of limitation. Formerly she had a home, was surrounded by beautiful

-things and had plenty of money. We found she had often tired of the

-management of her home, and had said repeatedly, “I’m sick and tired of

-things—I wish I lived in a trunk,” and she added: “Today I am living in

-that trunk.” She had spoken herself into a trunk. The subconscious mind

-has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy

-experiences.

-

-For example: A woman who had a great deal of money, joked continually

-about “getting ready for the poorhouse.”

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-In a few years she was almost destitute, having impressed the

-subconscious mind with a picture of lack and limitation.

-

-Fortunately the law works both ways, and a situation of lack may be

-changed to one of plenty.

-

-For example: A woman came to me one hot summer’s day for a “treatment”

-for prosperity. She was worn out, dejected and discouraged. She said

-she possessed just eight dollars in the world. I said, “Good, we’ll

-bless the eight dollars and multiply them as Jesus Christ multiplied

-the loaves and the fishes,” for He taught that _every man_ had the

-power to bless and to multiply, to heal and to prosper.

-

-She said, “What shall I do next?”

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-I replied, “Follow intuition. Have you a ‘hunch’ to do anything, or to

-go anywhere?” Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within.

-It is man’s unerring guide, and I will deal more fully with its laws in

-a following chapter.

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-The woman replied: “I don’t know—I seem to have a ‘hunch’ to go home;

-I’ve just enough money for carfare.” Her home was in a distant city and

-was one of lack and limitation, and the reasoning mind (or intellect)

-would have said: “Stay in New York and get work and make some money.”

-I replied, “Then go home—never violate a hunch.” I spoke the following

-words for her: “_Infinite Spirit open the way for great abundance for

-——. She is an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to her by divine

-right._” I told her to repeat it continually also. She left for home

-immediately. In calling on a woman one day, she linked up with an old

-friend of her family.

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-Through this friend, she received thousands of dollars in a most

-miraculous way. She has said to me often, “Tell people about the woman

-who came to you with eight dollars and a hunch.”

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-There is always _plenty on man’s pathway_; but it can only be _brought

-into manifestation_ through desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus

-Christ brought out clearly that man must make the _first move_.

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-“_Ask_, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and

-it shall be opened unto you.” (Mat. 7:7.)

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-In the Scriptures we read:

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-“Concerning the works of my hands, command ye me.”

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-Infinite Intelligence, God, is ever ready to carry out man’s smallest

-or greatest demands.

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-Every desire, uttered or unexpressed, is a demand. We are often

-startled by having a wish suddenly fulfilled.

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-For example: One Easter, having seen many beautiful rose-trees in the

-florists’ windows, I wished I would receive one, and for an instant saw

-it mentally being carried in the door.

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-Easter came, and with it a beautiful rose-tree. I thanked my friend the

-following day, and told her it was just what I had wanted.

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-She replied, “I didn’t send you a rose-tree, I sent you lilies!”

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-The man had mixed the order, and sent me a rose-tree simply because I

-had started the law in action, and _I had to have a rose-tree_.

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-Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of

-his heart, but doubt and fear. When man can “wish without worrying,”

-every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

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-I will explain more fully in a following chapter the scientific reason

-for this and how fear must be erased from the consciousness. It is

-man’s only enemy—fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness, fear

-of loss and a feeling of _insecurity on some plane_. Jesus Christ said:

-“Why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith?” (Mat. 8:26.) So we can see

-we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it

-is faith in evil instead of good.

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-The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to

-obliterate all mental pictures of evil. This must be done by impressing

-the subconscious mind with a realization of good. A very brilliant man,

-who has attained great success, told me he had suddenly erased all

-fear from his consciousness by reading a sign which hung in a room.

-He saw printed, in large letters this statement—“_Why worry, it will

-probably never happen._” These words were stamped indelibly upon his

-subconscious mind, and he has now a firm conviction that only good can

-come into his life, therefore only _good can manifest_.

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-In the following chapter I will deal with the different methods of

-impressing the subconscious mind. It is man’s faithful servant but one

-must be careful to give it the right orders. Man has ever a silent

-listener at his side—his subconscious mind.

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-Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in

-amazing detail. It is like a singer making a record on the sensitive

-disc of the phonographic plate. Every note and tone of the singer’s

-voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is registered also.

-So let us break all the old bad records in the subconscious mind, the

-records of our lives which we do not wish to keep, and make new and

-beautiful ones.

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-Speak these words aloud, with power and conviction: “I now smash and

-demolish (by my spoken word) every untrue record in my subconscious

-mind. They shall return to the dust-heap of their native nothingness,

-for they came from my own vain imaginings. I now make my perfect

-records through the Christ within—The records of _Health, Wealth, Love

-and perfect self-Expression_.” This is the square of life, _The Game

-completed_.

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-In the following chapters, I will show how man can _change_ his

-_conditions by changing his words_. Any man who does not know the power

-of the word, is behind the times.

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-  “_Death and Life are in the power of the tongue._”

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-  (Prov. 18:21.)

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-THE LAW OF PROSPERITY

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-    “Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense

-    and thou shalt have plenty of silver.”

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-One of the greatest messages given to the race through the scriptures

-is that God is man’s supply and that man can release, _through his

-spoken word_, all that belongs to him by divine right. He must,

-however, have _perfect faith in his spoken word_.

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-Isaiah said, “My word shall not return unto me void, but shall

-accomplish that where unto it is sent.” We know now, that words and

-thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man’s body and

-affairs.

-

-A woman came to me in great distress and said she was to be sued on the

-fifteenth of the month for three thousand dollars. She knew no way of

-getting the money and was in despair.

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-I told her God was her supply, and _that there is a supply for every

-demand_.

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-_So I spoke the word!_ I gave thanks that the woman would receive three

-thousand dollars at the right time in the right way. I told her she

-must have perfect faith, and act her _perfect faith_. The fifteenth

-came but no money had materialized.

-

-She called me on the ’phone and asked what she was to do.

-

-I replied, “It is Saturday, so they won’t sue you today. Your part is

-to act rich, thereby showing perfect faith that you will receive it by

-Monday.” She asked me to lunch with her to keep up her courage. When

-I joined her at a restaurant, I said, “This is no time to economize.

-Order an expensive luncheon, act as if you have already received the

-three thousand dollars.”

-

-“All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, _believing_, ye shall

-receive.” “You must act as if you _had already received_.” The next

-morning she called me on the ’phone and asked me to stay with her

-during the day. I said “No, you are divinely protected and God is never

-too late.”

-

-In the evening she ’phoned again, greatly excited and said, “My dear,

-a miracle has happened! I was sitting in my room this morning, when

-the doorbell rang. I said to the maid: ‘Don’t let anyone in.’ The maid

-however, looked out the window and said, ‘It’s your cousin with the

-long white beard.’

-

-So I said, ‘Call him back. I would like to see him.’ He was just

-turning the corner, when he heard the maid’s voice, and _he came back_.

-

-He talked for about an hour, and just as he was leaving he said, ‘Oh,

-by the way, how are finances?’

-

-I told him I needed the money, and he said, ‘Why, my dear, I will give

-you three thousand dollars the first of the month.’

-

-I didn’t like to tell him I was going to be sued. What shall I do? I

-won’t _receive it till_ the first of the month, and I must have it

-tomorrow.” I said, “I’ll keep on ‘treating.’”

-

-I said, “Spirit is never too late. I give thanks she has received the

-money on the invisible plane and that it manifests on time.” The next

-morning her cousin called her up and said, “Come to my office this

-morning and I will give you the money.” That afternoon, she had three

-thousand dollars to her credit in the bank, and wrote checks as rapidly

-as her excitement would permit.

-

-If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the

-situation he has prepared for. For example: A man came to me asking me

-to speak the word that a certain debt would be wiped out.

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-I found he spent his time planning what he would say to the man when

-he did not pay his bill, thereby neutralizing my words. He should have

-seen himself paying the debt.

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-We have a wonderful illustration of this in the bible, relating to

-the three kings who were in the desert, without water for their men

-and horses. They consulted the prophet Elisha, who gave them this

-astonishing message:

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-“Thus saith the Lord—Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain,

-yet make this valley full of ditches.”

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-Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, _when there isn’t the

-slightest sign of it in sight_.

-

-For example: A woman found it necessary to look for an apartment during

-the year when there was a great shortage of apartments in New York. It

-was considered almost an impossibility, and her friends were sorry for

-her and said, “Isn’t it too bad, you’ll have to store your furniture

-and live in a hotel.” She replied, “_You needn’t feel sorry for me, I’m

-a superman, and I’ll get an apartment._”

-

-She spoke the words: “_Infinite Spirit, open the way for the right

-apartment._” She knew there was a supply for every demand, and that she

-was “unconditioned,” working on the spiritual plane, and that “one with

-God is a majority.”

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-She had contemplated buying new blankets, when “the tempter,” the

-adverse thought or reasoning mind, suggested, “Don’t buy the blankets,

-perhaps, after all, you won’t get an apartment and you will have no use

-for them.” She promptly replied (to herself): “I’ll dig my ditches by

-buying the blankets!” So she prepared for the apartment—acted as though

-she already had it.

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-She found one in a miraculous way, and it was given to her although

-there were over _two hundred other applicants_.

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-The blankets showed active faith.

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-It is needless to say that the ditches dug by the three kings in the

-desert were filled to over-flowing. (Read, II Kings.)

-

-Getting into the spiritual swing of things is no easy matter for the

-average person. The adverse thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the

-subconscious. They are the “army of the aliens” which must be put to

-flight. This explains why it is so often, “darkest before the dawn.”

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-A big demonstration is usually preceded by tormenting thoughts.

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-Having made a statement of high spiritual truth one challenges the old

-beliefs in the subconscious, and “error is exposed” to be put out.

-

-This is the time when one must make his affirmations of truth

-repeatedly, and rejoice and give thanks that he has already received.

-“Before ye call I shall answer.” This means that “every good and

-perfect gift” is already man’s awaiting his recognition.

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-Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

-

-The children of Israel were told that they could have all the land

-they could see. This is true of every man. He has only the land within

-his own mental vision. Every great work, every big accomplishment,

-has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision,

-and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and

-discouragement.

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-The children of Israel when they reached the “Promised Land,” were

-afraid to go in, for they said it was filled with giants who made them

-feel like grasshoppers. “And there we saw the giants and we were in our

-own sight as grasshoppers.” This is almost every man’s experience.

-

-However, the one who knows spiritual law, is undisturbed by appearance,

-and rejoices while he is “yet in captivity.” That is, he holds to his

-vision and gives thanks that the end is accomplished, he has received.

-

-Jesus Christ gave a wonderful example of this. He said to his

-disciples: “Say not ye, there are yet four months and then cometh the

-harvest? Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the

-fields; for they are ripe already to harvest.” His clear vision pierced

-the “world of matter” and he saw clearly the fourth dimensional world,

-things as they really are, perfect and complete in Divine Mind. So

-man must ever hold the vision of his journey’s end and demand the

-manifestation of that which he has already received. It may be his

-perfect health, love, supply, self-expression, home or friends.

-

-They are all finished and perfect ideas registered in Divine Mind

-(man’s own superconscious mind) and must come through him, not to him.

-For example: A man came to me asking for treatments for success. It

-was imperative that he raise, within a certain time, fifty-thousand

-dollars for his business. The time limit was almost up, when he came to

-me in despair. No one wanted to invest in his enterprise, and the bank

-had flatly refused a loan. I replied: “I suppose you lost your temper

-while at the bank, therefore your power. You can control any situation

-if you first control yourself.” “Go back to the bank,” I added, “and

-I will treat.” My treatment was: “You are identified in love with the

-spirit of everyone connected with the bank. Let the divine idea come

-out of this situation.” He replied, “Woman, you are talking about an

-impossibility. Tomorrow is Saturday; the bank closes at twelve, and my

-train won’t get me there until ten, and the time limit is up tomorrow,

-and anyway they won’t do it. It’s too late.” I replied, “God doesn’t

-need any time and is never too late. With Him all things are possible.”

-I added, “I don’t know anything about business, but I know all about

-God.” He replied: “It all sounds fine when I sit here listening to you,

-but when I go out it’s terrible.” He lived in a distant city, and I did

-not hear from him for a week, then came a letter. It read: “You were

-right. I raised the money, and will never again doubt the truth of all

-that you told me.”

-

-I saw him a few weeks later, and I said, “What happened? You evidently

-had plenty of time, after all.” He replied “My train was late, and

-I got there just fifteen minutes to twelve. I walked into the bank

-quietly and said, ‘I have come for the loan,’ and they gave it to me

-without a question.”

-

-It was the last fifteen minutes of the time allotted to him, and

-Infinite Spirit was not too late. In this instance the man could never

-have demonstrated alone. He needed someone to help him hold to the

-vision. This is what one man can do for another.

-

-Jesus Christ knew the truth of this when he said: “If two of you shall

-agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be

-done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” One gets too close to

-his own affairs and becomes doubtful and fearful.

-

-The friend or “healer” sees clearly the success, health, or prosperity,

-and never wavers, because he is not close to the situation.

-

-It is much easier to “demonstrate” for someone else than for one’s

-self, so a person should not hesitate to ask for help, if he feels

-himself wavering.

-

-A keen observer of life once said, “no man can fail, if some one person

-sees him successful.” Such is the power of the vision, and many a

-great man has owed his success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who

-“believed in him” and held without wavering to the perfect pattern!

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-

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-THE POWER OF THE WORD

-

-        “By thy words thou shalt be justified,

-    and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”

-

-

-A person knowing the power of the word, becomes very careful of his

-conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know

-that they do “not return void.” Through his spoken word, man is

-continually making laws for himself.

-

-I knew a man who said, “I always miss a car. It invariably pulls out

-just as I arrive.”

-

-His daughter said: “I always catch a car. It’s sure to come just as I

-get there.” This occurred for years. Each had made a separate law for

-himself, one of failure, one of success. This is the psychology of

-superstitions.

-

-The horseshoe or rabbit’s foot contains no power, but man’s spoken word

-and belief that it will bring him good luck creates expectancy in the

-subconscious mind, and attracts a “lucky situation.” I find however,

-this will not “work” when man has advanced spiritually and knows a

-higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away “graven images.”

-For example: Two men in my class had had great success in business

-for several months, when suddenly everything “went to smash.” We

-tried to analyze the situation, and I found, instead of making their

-affirmations and looking to God for success and prosperity, they had

-each bought a “lucky monkey.” I said: “Oh I see, you have been trusting

-in the lucky monkeys instead of God.” “Put away the lucky monkeys

-and call on the law of forgiveness,” for man has power to forgive or

-neutralize his mistakes.

-

-They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a coalhole, and all went

-well again. This does not mean, however, that one should throw away

-every “lucky” ornament or horseshoe about the house, but he must

-recognize that the power back of it is the one and only power, God, and

-that the object simply gives him a feeling of expectancy.

-

-I was with a friend, one day, who was in deep despair. In crossing the

-street, she picked up a horseshoe. Immediately, she was filled with joy

-and hope. She said God had sent her the horseshoe in order to keep up

-her courage.

-

-It was indeed, at that moment, about the only thing that could have

-registered in her consciousness. Her hope became faith, and she

-ultimately made a wonderful demonstration. I wish to make the point

-clear that the men previously mentioned were depending on the monkeys,

-alone, while this woman recognized the power back of the horseshoe.

-

-I know, in my own case, it took a long while to get out of a belief

-that a certain thing brought disappointment. If the thing happened,

-disappointment invariably followed. I found the only way I could

-make a change in the subconscious, was by asserting, “There are not

-two powers, there is only one power, God, therefore, there are no

-disappointments, and this thing means a happy surprise.” I noticed a

-change at once, and happy surprises commenced coming my way.

-

-I have a friend who said nothing could induce her to walk under a

-ladder. I said, “If you are afraid, you are giving in to a belief in

-two powers, Good and Evil, instead of one. As God is absolute, there

-can be no opposing power, unless man makes the false of evil for

-himself. To show you believe in only One Power, God, and that there

-is no power or reality in evil, walk under the next ladder you see.”

-Soon after, she went to her bank. She wished to open her box in the

-safe-deposit vault, and there stood a ladder on her pathway. It was

-impossible to reach the box without passing under the ladder. She

-quailed with fear and turned back. She could not face the lion on

-her pathway. However, when she reached the street, my words rang in

-her ears and she decided to return and walk under it. It was a big

-moment in her life, for ladders had held her in bondage for years. She

-retraced her steps to the vault, and the ladder was no longer there!

-This so often happens! If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to

-do, he does not have to.

-

-It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understood.

-

-Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a

-situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away

-of its own weight.

-

-The explanation is, that fear attracted the ladder on the woman’s

-pathway, and fearlessness removed it.

-

-_Thus the invisible forces are ever working for man who is always

-“pulling the strings” himself, though he does not know it. Owing to the

-vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.

-People who continually speak of disease, invariably attract it._

-

-After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words. For

-example: I have a friend who often says on the ’phone, “Do come to see

-me and have a fine old-fashioned chat.” This “old-fashioned chat” means

-an hour of about five hundred to a thousand destructive words, the

-principal topics being loss, lack, failure and sickness.

-

-I reply: “No, I thank you, I’ve had enough old-fashioned chats

-in my life, they are too expensive, but I will be glad to have a

-new-fashioned chat, and talk about what we want, not what we don’t

-want.” There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for

-three purposes, to “heal, bless or prosper.” What man says of others

-will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for

-himself.

-

-“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”

-

-If a man wishes someone “bad luck,” he is sure to attract bad luck

-himself. If he wishes to aid someone to success, he is wishing and

-aiding himself to success.

-

-The body may be renewed and transformed through the spoken word and

-clear vision, and disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness.

-The metaphysician knows that all disease has a mental correspondence,

-and in order to heal the body one must first “heal the soul.”

-

-The soul is the subconscious mind, and it must be “saved” from wrong

-thinking.

-

-In the twenty-third psalm, we read: “He restoreth my soul.” This means

-that the subconscious mind or soul, must be restored with the right

-ideas, and the “mystical marriage” is the marriage of the soul and

-the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious mind. They must be

-one. When the subconscious is flooded with the perfect ideas of the

-superconscious, God and man are one. “I and the Father are one.” That

-is, he is one with the realm of perfect ideas; he is the man made in

-God’s likeness and image (imagination) and is given power and dominion

-over all created things, his mind, body and affairs.

-

-It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the

-violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, “Love

-one another,” and in the Game of Life, love or good-will takes every

-trick.

-

-For example: A woman I know, had, for years an appearance of a terrible

-skin disease. The doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in

-despair. She was on the stage, and she feared she would soon have to

-give up her profession, and she had no other means of support. She,

-however, procured a good engagement, and on the opening night, made a

-great “hit.” She received flattering notices from the critics, and was

-joyful and elated. The next day she received a notice of dismissal.

-A man in the cast had been jealous of her success and had caused her

-to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment taking complete

-possession of her, and she cried out, “Oh God don’t let me hate that

-man.” That night she worked for hours “in the silence.”

-

-She said, “I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at

-peace with myself, with the man, and with the whole world. I continued

-this for two following nights, and on the third day I found I was

-healed completely of the skin disease!” In asking for love, or good

-will, she had fulfilled the law, (“for love is the fulfilling of the

-law”) and the disease (which came from subconscious resentment) was

-wiped out.

-

-Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical, inharmonious

-thoughts cause unnatural deposits in the blood, which settle in the

-joints.

-

-False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred, unforgiveness, fear,

-etc. Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease. I said once, in my

-class, “There is no use asking anyone ‘What’s the matter with you?’ we

-might just as well say, ‘Who’s the matter with you?’” Unforgiveness is

-the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver,

-and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

-

-I called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having eaten

-a poisoned oyster. I replied, “Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you

-poisoned the oyster. What’s the matter with you?” She answered, “Oh

-about nineteen people.” She had quarrelled with nineteen people and had

-become so inharmonious that she attracted the wrong oyster.

-

-Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental inharmony. “As

-the within, so the without.”

-

-Man’s only enemies are within himself. “And a man’s foes shall be

-they of his own household.” Personality is one of the last enemies

-to be overcome, as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It

-was Christ’s message—“Peace on Earth, good will towards man.” The

-enlightened man, therefore, endeavors to perfect himself upon his

-neighbor. His work is with himself, to send out good-will and blessings

-to every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he

-has no power to harm him.

-

-For example: A man came to me asking to “treat” for success in

-business. He was selling machinery, and a rival appeared on the scene

-with what he proclaimed, was a better machine, and my friend feared

-defeat. I said, “First of all, we must wipe out all fear, and know

-that God protects your interests, and that the divine idea must come

-out of the situation. That is, the right machine will be sold, by the

-right man, to the right man.” And I added, “Don’t hold one critical

-thought towards that man. Bless him all day, and be willing not to sell

-your machine, if it isn’t the divine idea.” So he went to the meeting,

-fearless and nonresistant, and blessing the other man. He said the

-outcome was very remarkable. The other man’s machine refused to work,

-and he sold his without the slightest difficulty. “But I say unto you,

-love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate

-you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you.”

-

-_Good-will produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends

-it, and “No weapon that is formed against him shall prosper.” In

-other words, love and good-will destroy the enemies within one’s self,

-therefore, one has no enemies on the external!_

-

-“_There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will to man!_”

-

-

-

-

-THE LAW OF NONRESISTANCE

-

-    “Resist not evil. Be not overcome of evil,

-        but overcome evil with good.”

-

-

-Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person.

-

-The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is

-perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before

-it.

-

-Jesus Christ said, “Resist not evil,” for He knew in reality, there

-is no evil, therefore nothing to resist. Evil has come of man’s “vain

-imagination,” or a belief in two powers, good and evil.

-

-There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of “Maya the Tree of

-Illusion,” and saw two powers instead of one power, God.

-

-_Therefore, evil is a false law man has made for himself, through

-psychoma or soul sleep._ Soul sleep means, that man’s soul has been

-hypnotized by the race belief (of sin, sickness and death, etc.) which

-is carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have outpictured his

-illusions.

-

-We have read in a preceding chapter, that man’s soul is his

-subconscious mind, and whatever he feels deeply, good or bad, is

-outpictured by that faithful servant. His body and affairs show forth

-what he has been picturing. The sick man has pictured sickness, the

-poor man, poverty, the rich man, wealth.

-

-People often say, “why does a little child attract illness, when it is

-too young even to know what it means?”

-

-I answer that children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of

-others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

-

-I heard a metaphysician once say, “If you do not run your subconscious

-mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.”

-

-Mothers often, unconsciously, attract illness and disaster to their

-children, by continually holding them in thoughts of fear, and watching

-for symptoms.

-

-For example: A friend asked a woman if her little girl had had the

-measles. She replied promptly, “not yet!” This implied that she was

-expecting the illness, and, therefore, preparing the way for what she

-did not want for herself and child.

-

-However, the man who is centered and established in right thinking,

-the man who sends out only good-will to his fellow-man, and who is

-without fear, cannot be _touched or influenced by the negative thoughts

-of others_. In fact, he could then receive only good thoughts, as he

-himself, sends forth only good thoughts.

-

-Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a “state of torment.”

-

-A metaphysician once gave me a wonderful recipe for taking every trick

-in the game of life, it is the acme of nonresistance. He gave it in

-this way; “At one time in my life, I baptized children, and of course,

-they had many names. Now I no longer baptize children, but I baptize

-events, but _I give every event the same name_. If I have a failure I

-baptize it success, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of

-the Holy Ghost!”

-

-In this, we see the great law of transmutation, founded on

-nonresistance. Through his spoken word, every failure was transmuted

-into success.

-

-For example: A woman who required money, and who knew the spiritual

-law of opulence, was thrown continually in a business-way, with a

-man who made her feel very poor. He talked lack and limitation and

-she commenced to catch his poverty thoughts, so she disliked him,

-and blamed him for her failure. She knew in order to demonstrate

-her supply, she must first feel that she _had received—a feeling of

-opulence must precede its manifestation_.

-

-It dawned upon her, one day, that she was resisting the situation, and

-seeing two powers instead of one. So she blessed the man and baptized

-the situation “Success”! She affirmed, “As there is only one power,

-God, this man is here for my good and my prosperity” (just what he

-did not seem to be there for). Soon after that she met, _through this

-man_, a woman who gave her for a service rendered, several thousand

-dollars, and the man moved to a distant city, and faded harmoniously

-from her life. Make the statement, “Every man is a golden link in the

-chain of my good,” for all men are God in manifestation, _awaiting the

-opportunity given by man, himself, to serve the divine plan of his

-life_.

-

-“Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition.” His arrows will

-be transmuted into blessings.

-

-This law is true of nations as well as individuals. Bless a nation,

-send love and good-will to every inhabitant, and it is robbed of its

-power to harm.

-

-Man can only get the right idea of nonresistance, through spiritual

-understanding. My students have often said: “I don’t want to be a

-door-mat.” I reply “when you use nonresistance with wisdom, no one will

-ever be able to walk over you.”

-

-Another example: One day I was impatiently awaiting an important

-telephone call. I resisted every call that came in and made no

-out-going calls myself, reasoning that it might interfere with the one

-I was awaiting.

-

-Instead of saying, “Divine ideas never conflict, the call will come

-at the right time,” leaving it to Infinite Intelligence to arrange, I

-commenced to manage things myself—I made the battle mine, not God’s

-and remained tense and anxious. The bell did not ring for about an

-hour, and I glanced at the ’phone and found the receiver had been off

-that length of time, and the ’phone was disconnected. My anxiety,

-fear and belief in interference, had brought on a total eclipse of

-the telephone. Realizing what I had done, I commenced blessing the

-situation at once; I baptized it “success,” and affirmed, “I cannot

-lose any call that belongs to me by divine right; I am under _grace,

-and not under law_.”

-

-A friend rushed out to the nearest telephone, to notify the Company to

-reconnect.

-

-She entered a crowded grocery, but the proprietor left his customers

-and attended to the call himself. My ’phone was connected at once, and

-two minutes later, I received a very important call, and about an hour

-afterward, the one I had been awaiting.

-

-  _One’s ships come in over a calm sea._

-

-So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he

-runs away from it, it will run after him.

-

-For example: I repeated this to a woman one day, and she replied, “How

-true that is! I was unhappy at home, I disliked my mother, who was

-critical and domineering; so I ran away and was married—but I married

-my mother, for my husband was exactly like my mother, and I had the

-same situation to face again.” “Agree with thine adversary quickly.”

-

-That means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed

-by it, and it falls away of its own weight. “None of these things move

-me,” is a wonderful affirmation.

-

-The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself.

-

-When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious

-situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.

-

-So we see man’s work is ever with himself.

-

-People have said to me, “Give treatments to change my husband, or my

-brother.” I reply, “No, I will give _treatments to change you_; when

-you change, your husband and your brother will change.”

-

-One of my students was in the habit of lying. I told her it was a

-failure method and if she lied, she would be lied to. She replied, “I

-don’t care, I can’t possibly get along without lying.”

-

-One day she was speaking on the ’phone to a man with whom she was very

-much in love. She turned to me and said, “I don’t trust him, I know

-he’s lying to me.” I replied, “Well, you lie yourself, so someone has

-to lie to you, and you will be sure it will be just the person you want

-the truth from.” Some time after that, I saw her, and she said, “I’m

-cured of lying.”

-

-I questioned: “What cured you?”

-

-She replied: “I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I

-did!”

-

-One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others.

-

-Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our

-associates.

-

-Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.

-

-Jesus Christ said, “Behold, now is the accepted time.” “Now is the day

-of Salvation.”

-

-Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.

-

-The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the

-past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future,

-knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live _fully in the

-now_.

-

-For example: A woman came to me, complaining that she had no money with

-which to buy Christmas gifts. She said, “Last year was so different;

-I had plenty of money and gave lovely presents, and this year I have

-scarcely a cent.”

-

-I replied, “You will never demonstrate money while you are pathetic

-and live in the past. Live fully in the _now_, and _get ready to give

-Christmas presents_. Dig your ditches, and the money will come.” She

-exclaimed, “I know what to do! I will buy some tinsel twine, Christmas

-seals and wrapping paper.” I replied, “Do that, and the _presents will

-come and stick themselves to the Christmas seals_.”

-

-This too, was showing financial fearlessness and faith in God, as the

-reasoning mind said, “Keep every cent you have, as you are not sure you

-will get any more.”

-

-She bought the seals, paper and twine, and a few days before Christmas,

-received a gift of several hundred dollars. Buying the seals and twine

-had impressed the subconscious with expectancy, and opened the way

-for the manifestation of the money. She purchased all the presents in

-plenty of time.

-

-Man must live suspended in the moment.

-

-“Look well, therefore, to this Day! Such is the salutation of the Dawn.”

-

-He must be spiritually alert, ever awaiting his leads, taking advantage

-of every opportunity.

-

-One day, I said continually (silently), “Infinite Spirit, don’t let

-me miss a trick,” and something very important was told to me that

-evening. It is most necessary to begin the day with right words.

-

-Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.

-

-For example:

-

-“_Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion; I give

-thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders

-shall never cease._”

-

-Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his

-life.

-

-One morning I picked up a book and read, “Look with wonder at that

-which is before you!” It seemed to be my message for the day, so I

-repeated again and again, “Look with wonder at that which is before

-you.”

-

-At about noon, a large sum of money, was given me, which I had been

-desiring for a certain purpose.

-

-In a following chapter, I will give affirmations that I have found

-most effective. However, one should never use an affirmation unless it

-is absolutely satisfying and convincing to his own consciousness, and

-often an affirmative is changed to suit different people.

-

-For example: The following has brought success to many:

-

-“I have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I give wonderful service,

-for wonderful pay!”

-

-I gave the first two lines to one of my students, and she added the

-last two.

-

-It made a _most powerful statement_, as there should always be perfect

-payment for perfect service, and a rhyme sinks easily into the

-subconscious. She went about singing it aloud and soon did receive

-wonderful work in a wonderful way, and gave wonderful service for

-wonderful pay.

-

-Another student, a business man, took it, and changed the word work to

-business.

-

-He repeated, “I have a wonderful business, in a wonderful way, and I

-give wonderful service for wonderful pay.” That afternoon he made a

-forty-one-thousand dollar deal, though there had been no activity in

-his affairs for months.

-

-Every affirmation must be carefully worded and completely “cover the

-ground.”

-

-For example: I knew a woman, who was in great need, and made a demand

-for work. She received a great deal of work, but was never paid

-anything. She now knows to add, “wonderful service for wonderful pay.”

-

-It is man’s divine right to have plenty! More than enough!

-

-“His barns should be full, and his cup should flow over!” This is God’s

-idea for man, and when man breaks down the barriers of lack in his own

-consciousness, the Golden Age will be his, and every righteous desire

-of his heart fulfilled!

-

-

-

-

-THE LAW OF KARMA

-

-and

-

-THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS

-

-

-Man receives only that which he gives. The Game of Life is a game of

-boomerangs. Man’s thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or

-later, with astounding accuracy.

-

-This is the law of Karma, which is Sanskrit for “Comeback.” “Whatsoever

-a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

-

-For example: A friend told me this story of herself, illustrating the

-law. She said, “I make all my Karma on my aunt, whatever I say to her,

-some one says to me. I am often irritable at home, and one day, said to

-my aunt, who was talking to me during dinner. ‘_No more talk, I wish to

-eat in peace._’”

-

-“The following day, I was lunching with a woman with whom I wished to

-make a great impression. I was talking animatedly, when she said: ‘_No

-more talk, I wish to eat in peace!_’”

-

-My friend is high in consciousness, so her Karma returns much more

-quickly than to one on the mental plane.

-

-The more man knows, the more he is responsible for, and a person with

-a knowledge of Spiritual Law, which he does not practice, suffers

-greatly, in consequence. “The fear of the Lord (law) is the beginning

-of wisdom.” If we read the word Lord, law, it will make many passages

-in the Bible much clearer.

-

-“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord” (law). It is the law

-which takes vengeance, not God. God sees man perfect, “created in his

-own image,” (imagination) and given “power and dominion.”

-

-This is the perfect idea of man, registered in Divine Mind, awaiting

-man’s recognition; for man can only be what he sees himself to be, and

-only attain what he sees himself attaining.

-

-“Nothing ever happens without an on-looker” is an ancient saying.

-

-Man sees first his failure or success, his joy or sorrow, before it

-swings into visibility from the scenes set in his own imagination. We

-have observed this in the mother picturing disease for her child, or a

-woman seeing success for her husband.

-

-Jesus Christ said, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall

-make you free.”

-

-So, we see freedom (from all unhappy conditions) comes through

-knowledge—a knowledge of Spiritual Law.

-

-Obedience precedes authority, and the law obeys man when he obeys the

-law. The law of electricity must be obeyed before it becomes man’s

-servant. When handled ignorantly, it becomes man’s deadly foe. _So

-with the laws of Mind!_

-

-For example: A woman with a strong personal will, wished she owned a

-house which belonged to an acquaintance, and she often made mental

-pictures of herself living in the house. In the course of time, the man

-died and she moved into the house. Several years afterwards, coming

-into the knowledge of Spiritual Law, she said to me: “Do you think I

-had anything to do with that man’s death?” I replied: “Yes, your desire

-was so strong, everything made way for it, but you paid your Karmic

-debt. Your husband, whom you loved devotedly, died soon after, and the

-house was a white elephant on your hands for years.”

-

-The original owner, however, could not have been affected by her

-thoughts had he been positive in the truth, nor her husband, but they

-were both under Karmic law. The woman should have said (feeling the

-great desire for the house), “Infinite Intelligence, give me the right

-house, equally as charming as this, the house _which is mine by divine

-right_.”

-

-The divine selection would have given perfect satisfaction and brought

-good to all. The divine pattern is the only safe pattern to work by.

-

-_Desire is a tremendous force, and must be directed in the right

-channels; or chaos ensues._

-

-In demonstrating, the most important step is the _first step, to “ask

-aright_.”

-

-Man should always demand only that which is his by _divine right_.

-

-To go back to the illustration: Had the woman taken this attitude: “If

-this house, I desire, is mine, I cannot lose it, if it is not, give me

-its equivalent,” the man might have decided to move out, harmoniously

-(had it been the divine selection for her) or another house would have

-been substituted. Anything forced into manifestation through personal

-will, is always “ill-got,” and has “ever bad success.”

-

-Man is admonished, “My will be done not thine, and the curious thing

-is, man always gets just what he desires when he does relinquish

-personal will, thereby enabling Infinite Intelligence to work through

-him.”

-

-“Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord” (law).

-

-For example: A woman came to me in great distress. Her daughter had

-determined to take a very hazardous trip, and the mother was filled

-with fear.

-

-She said she had used every argument, had pointed out the dangers to be

-encountered, and forbidden her to go, but the daughter became more and

-more rebellious and determined. I said to the mother, “You are forcing

-your personal will upon your daughter, which you have no right to do,

-and your fear of the trip is only attracting it, for man attracts what

-he fears.” I added, “Let go, and take your mental hands off; _put it

-in God’s Hands, and use this statement_:” “I put this situation in the

-hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is the Divine plan,

-I bless it and no longer resist, but if it is not divinely planned,

-I give thanks that it is now dissolved and dissipated.” A day or two

-after that, her daughter said to her, “Mother, I have given up the

-trip,” and the situation returned to its “native nothingness.”

-

-It is learning to “stand still,” which seems so difficult for man. I

-have dealt more fully with this law in the chapter on nonresistance.

-

-I will give another example of sowing and reaping, which came in the

-most curious way.

-

-A woman came to me saying, she had received a counterfeit twenty-dollar

-bill, given to her at the bank. She was much disturbed, for, she said,

-“The people at the bank will never acknowledge their mistake.”

-

-I replied, “Let us analyze the situation and find out why you attracted

-it.” She thought a few moments and exclaimed: “I know it, I sent a

-friend a lot of stagemoney, just for a joke.” So the law had sent her

-some stagemoney, for it doesn’t know anything about jokes.

-

-I said, “Now we will call on the law of forgiveness, and neutralize the

-situation.”

-

-Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness—Christ has redeemed

-us from the curse of the Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is

-his Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious conditions.

-

-So I said: “Infinite Spirit, we call on the law of forgiveness and give

-thanks that she is under grace and not under law, and cannot lose this

-twenty dollars which is hers by divine right.”

-

-“Now,” I said, “Go back to the bank and tell them, fearlessly, that it

-was given you, there by mistake.”

-

-She obeyed, and to her surprise, they apologized and gave her another

-bill, treating her most courteously.

-

-So knowledge of the Law gives man power to “rub out his mistakes.” Man

-cannot force the external to be what he is not.

-

-If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness.

-

-For example: A woman came to me asking treatment for prosperity. She

-did not take much interest in her household affairs, and her home was

-in great disorder.

-

-I said to her, “If you wish to be rich, you must be orderly. All

-men with great wealth are orderly—and order is heaven’s first law.”

-I added, “You will never become rich with a burnt match in the

-pincushion.”

-

-She had a good sense of humor and commenced immediately, putting her

-house in order. She rearranged furniture, straightened out bureau

-drawers, cleaned rugs, and soon made a big financial demonstration—a

-gift from a relative. The woman, herself, became made over, and keeps

-herself keyed-up financially, by being ever watchful of the _external

-and expecting prosperity, knowing God is her supply_.

-

-Many people are in ignorance of the fact that gifts and things are

-investments, and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.

-

-“There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that

-withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.”

-

-For example: I knew a man who wanted to buy a fur-lined overcoat. He

-and his wife went to various shops, but there was none he wanted. He

-said they were all too cheap-looking. At last, he was shown one, the

-salesman said was valued at a thousand dollars, but which the manager

-would sell him for five-hundred dollars, as it was late in the season.

-

-His financial possessions amounted to about seven hundred dollars. The

-reasoning mind would have said, “You can’t afford to spend nearly all

-you have on a coat,” but he was very intuitive and never reasoned.

-

-He turned to his wife and said, “If I get this coat, I’ll make a ton of

-money!” So his wife consented, weakly.

-

-About a month later, he received a ten-thousand-dollar commission. The

-coat made him feel so rich, it linked him with success and prosperity;

-without the coat, he would not have received the commission. It was an

-investment paying large dividends!

-

-If man ignores these leadings to spend or to give, the same amount of

-money will go in an uninteresting or unhappy way.

-

-For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving Day, she informed her

-family that they could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner. She had the

-money, but decided to save it.

-

-A few days later, someone entered her room and took from the bureau

-drawer the exact amount the dinner would have cost.

-

-The law always stands back of the man who spends fearlessly, with

-wisdom.

-

-For example: One of my students was shopping with her little nephew.

-The child clamored for a toy, which she told him she could not afford

-to buy.

-

-She realized suddenly that she was seeking lack, and not recognizing

-God as her supply!

-

-So she bought the toy, and on her way home, picked _up, in the street,

-the exact amount of money she had paid for it_.

-

-Man’s supply is inexhaustible and unfailing when fully trusted, but

-faith or trust must precede the demonstration. “According to your faith

-be it unto you.” “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the

-evidence of things not seen—” for faith holds the vision steady, and

-the adverse pictures are dissolved and dissipated, and “in due season

-we shall reap, if we faint not.”

-

-Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel) that there was a

-higher law than the law of Karma—and that that law transcends the law

-of Karma. It is the law of grace, or forgiveness. It is the law which

-_frees man from the law of cause and effect—the law of consequence.

-“Under grace, and not under law.”_

-

-We are told that on this plane, man reaps where he has not sown; the

-gifts of God are simply poured out upon him. “All that the Kingdom

-affords is his.” This continued state of bliss awaits the man who has

-overcome the race (or world) thought.

-

-In the world thought there is tribulation, but Jesus Christ said: “Be

-of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

-

-The world thought is that of sin, sickness and death. He saw their

-absolute unreality and said sickness and sorrow shall pass away and

-death itself, the last enemy, be overcome.

-

-We know now, from a scientific standpoint, that death could be overcome

-by stamping the subconscious mind with the conviction of eternal youth

-and eternal life.

-

-The subconscious, being simply power without direction, _carries out

-orders without questioning_.

-

-Working under the direction of the superconscious (the Christ or God

-within man) the “resurrection of the body” would be accomplished.

-

-Man would no longer throw off his body in death, it would be

-transformed into the “body electric,” sung by Walt Whitman, for

-Christianity is founded upon the forgiveness of sins and “an empty

-tomb.”

-

-

-

-

-CASTING THE BURDEN

-

-Impressing the Subconscious

-

-

-When man knows his own powers and the workings of his mind, his great

-desire is to find an easy and quick way to impress the subconscious

-with good, for simply an intellectual knowledge of the Truth will not

-bring results.

-

-In my own case, I found the easiest way is in “casting the burden.”

-

-A metaphysician once explained it in this manner. He said, “The only

-thing which gives anything weight in nature, is the law of gravitation,

-and if a boulder could be taken high above the planet, there would be

-no weight in that boulder; and that is what Jesus Christ meant when he

-said: ‘My yoke is easy and my burden is light.’”

-

-He had overcome the world vibration, and functioned in the fourth

-dimensional realm, where there is only perfection, completion, life and

-joy.

-

-He said: “Come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will

-give you rest.” “Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my

-burden is light.”

-

-We are also told in the fifty-fifth Psalm, to “cast thy burden upon the

-Lord.” Many passages in the Bible state that the _battle is God’s_ not

-man’s and that man is always to _“stand still” and see the Salvation of

-the Lord_.

-

-This indicates that the superconscious mind (or Christ within) is the

-department which fights man’s battle and relieves him of burdens.

-

-We see, therefore, that man violates law if he carries a burden, and

-a burden is an adverse thought or condition, and this thought or

-condition has its root in the subconscious.

-

-It seems almost impossible to make any headway directing the

-subconscious from the conscious, or reasoning mind, as the reasoning

-mind (the intellect) is limited in its conceptions, and filled with

-doubts and fears.

-

-How scientific it then is, to cast the burden upon the superconscious

-mind (or Christ within) where it is “made light,” or dissolved into its

-“native nothingness.”

-

-For example: A woman in urgent need of money, “made light” upon the

-Christ within, the superconscious, with the statement, “I cast this

-burden of lack on the Christ (within) and I go free to have plenty!”

-

-The belief in lack was her burden, and as she cast it upon the

-Superconscious with its belief of plenty, an avalanche of supply was

-the result.

-

-We read, “The Christ in you the hope of glory.”

-

-Another example: One of my students had been given a new piano, and

-there was no room in her studio for it until she had moved out the

-old one. She was in a state of perplexity. She wanted to keep the old

-piano, but knew of no place to send it. She became desperate, as the

-new piano was to be sent immediately; in fact, was on its way, with no

-place to put it. She said it came to her to repeat, “I cast this burden

-on the Christ within, and I go free.”

-

-A few moments later, her ’phone rang, and a woman friend asked if she

-might rent her old piano, and it was moved out, a few minutes before

-the new one arrived.

-

-I knew a woman, whose burden was resentment. She said, “I cast this

-burden of resentment on the Christ within, and I go free, to be

-loving, harmonious and happy.” The Almighty superconscious, flooded

-the subconscious with love, and her whole life was changed. For years,

-resentment had held her in a state of torment and imprisoned her soul

-(the subconscious mind).

-

-The statement should be made over and over and over, sometimes for

-hours at a time, silently or audibly, with quietness but determination.

-

-I have often compared it to winding-up a victrola. We must wind

-ourselves up with spoken words.

-

-I have noticed, in “casting the burden,” after a little while, one

-seems to see clearly. It is impossible to have clear vision, while in

-the throes of carnal mind. Doubts and fear poison the mind and body and

-imagination runs riot, attracting disaster and disease.

-

-In steadily repeating the affirmation, “I cast this burden on the

-Christ within, and go free,” the vision clears, and with it a feeling

-of relief, and sooner or later comes _the manifestation of good, be it

-health, happiness or supply_.

-

-One of my students once asked me to explain the “darkness before the

-dawn.” I referred in a preceding chapter to the fact that often,

-before the big demonstration “everything seems to go wrong,” and

-deep depression clouds the consciousness. It means that out of the

-subconscious are rising the doubts and fears of the ages. These old

-derelicts of the subconscious rise to the surface, _to be put out_.

-

-It is then, that man should clap his cymbals, like Jehoshaphat, and

-give thanks that he is saved, even though he seems surrounded by the

-enemy (the situation of lack or disease). The student continued, “How

-long must one remain in the dark” and I replied, “until one _can see in

-the dark_,” and “_casting the burden enables one to see in the dark_.”

-

-In order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential.

-

-“Faith without works is dead.” In these chapters I have endeavored to

-bring out this point.

-

-Jesus Christ showed active faith when “He commanded the multitude to

-sit down on the ground,” before he gave thanks for the loaves and the

-fishes.

-

-I will give another example showing how necessary this step is. In

-fact, active faith is the bridge, over which man passes to his Promised

-Land.

-

-Through misunderstanding, a woman had been separated from her husband,

-whom she loved deeply. He refused all offers of reconciliation and

-would not communicate with her in any way.

-

-Coming into the knowledge of Spiritual law, she denied the appearance

-of separation. She made this statement: “There is no separation in

-Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and

-companionship which are mine by divine right.”

-

-She showed active faith by arranging a place for him at the table

-every day; thereby impressing the subconscious with a picture of his

-_return_. Over a year passed, but she never wavered, and _one day he

-walked in_.

-

-The subconscious is often impressed through music. Music has a fourth

-dimensional quality and releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes

-wonderful things seem _possible, and easy of accomplishment_!

-

-I have a friend who uses her victrola, daily, for this purpose. It puts

-her in perfect harmony and releases the imagination.

-

-Another woman often dances while making her affirmations. The rhythm

-and harmony of music and motion carry her words forth with tremendous

-power.

-

-The student must remember also, not to despise the “day of small

-things.”

-

-Invariably, before a demonstration, come “signs of land.”

-

-Before Columbus reached America, he saw birds and twigs which showed

-him land was near. So it is with a demonstration; but often the student

-mistakes it for the demonstration itself, and is disappointed.

-

-For example: A woman had “spoken the word” for a set of dishes. Not

-long afterwards a friend gave her a dish which was old and cracked.

-

-She came to me and said, “Well, I asked for a set of dishes, and all I

-got was a cracked plate.”

-

-I replied, “The plate was only signs of land. It shows your dishes are

-coming—look upon it as birds and seaweed,” and not long afterwards the

-dishes came.

-

-Continually “making-believe,” impresses the subconscious. If one makes

-believe he is rich, and makes believe he is successful, in “due time he

-will reap.”

-

-Children are always “making believe,” and “except ye be converted, and

-become as little children, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”

-

-For example: I know of a woman who was very poor, but no one could

-make her _feel poor_. She earned a small amount of money from rich

-friends, who constantly reminded her of her poverty, and to be careful

-and saving. Regardless of their admonitions, she would spend all her

-earnings on a hat, or make someone a gift, and be in a rapturous state

-of mind. Her thoughts were always centered on beautiful clothes and

-“rings and things,” but without envying others.

-

-She lived in the world of the wondrous, and only riches seemed

-real to her. Before long she married a rich man, and the rings and

-things became visible. I do not know whether the man was the “Divine

-Selection,” but opulence had to manifest in her life, as she had imaged

-only opulence.

-

-There is no peace or happiness for man, until he has erased all fear

-from the subconscious.

-

-Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected, or transmuted into

-Faith.

-

-Jesus Christ said, “Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?” “All

-things are possible to him that believeth.”

-

-I am asked, so often by my students, “_How can I get rid of fear?_”

-

-I reply, “_By walking up to the thing you are afraid of_.”

-

-“The lion takes its fierceness from your fear.”

-

-Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he runs after

-you.

-

-I have shown in previous chapters, how the lion of lack disappeared

-when the individual spent money fearlessly, showing faith that God was

-his supply and therefore, unfailing.

-

-Many of my students have come out of the bondage of poverty, and are

-now bountifully supplied, through losing all fear of letting money go

-out. The subconscious is impressed with the truth that _God is the

-Giver and the Gift_; therefore as one is one with the Giver, he is one

-with the Gift. A splendid statement is, “I now thank God the Giver for

-God the Gift.”

-

-Man has so long separated himself from his good and his supply, through

-thoughts of separation and lack, that sometimes, it takes dynamite to

-dislodge these false ideas from the subconscious, and the dynamite is a

-big situation.

-

-We see in the foregoing illustration, how the individual was freed from

-his bondage by _showing fearlessness_.

-

-Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is

-fear or faith.

-

-“Choose ye this day whom we shall serve,” fear or faith.

-

-Perhaps one’s fear is of personality. Then do not avoid the people

-feared; be willing to meet them cheerfully, and they will either prove

-“golden links in the chain of one’s good,” or disappear harmoniously

-from one’s pathway.

-

-Perhaps one’s fear is of disease or germs. Then one should be fearless

-and undisturbed in a germ-laden situation, and he would be immune.

-

-One can only contract germs while vibrating at the same rate as the

-germ, and fear drags men down to the level of the germ. Of course, the

-disease laden germ is the product of carnal mind, as all thought must

-objectify. Germs do not exist in the superconscious or Divine Mind,

-therefore are the product of man’s “vain imagination.”

-

-“In the twinkling of an eye,” man’s release will come when he realizes

-_there is no power in evil_.

-

-The material world will fade away, and the fourth dimensional world,

-the “World of the Wondrous,” will swing into manifestation.

-

-“And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth—and there shall be no more

-death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain;

-for the former things are passed away.”

-

-

-

-

-LOVE

-

-

-Every man on this planet is taking his initiation in love. “A new

-commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.” Ouspensky

-states, in “Tertium Organum,” that “love is a cosmic phenomenon,” and

-opens to man the fourth dimensional world, “The World of the Wondrous.”

-

-Real love is selfless and free from fear. It pours itself out upon

-the object of its affection, without demanding any return. Its joy is

-in the joy of giving. Love is God in manifestation, and the strongest

-magnetic force in the universe. Pure, unselfish love _draws to itself

-its own_; it does not need to seek or demand. Scarcely anyone has the

-faintest conception of real love. Man is selfish, tyrannical or fearful

-in his affections, thereby losing the thing he loves. Jealousy is the

-worst enemy of love, for the imagination runs riot, seeing the loved

-one attracted to another, and invariably these fears objectify if they

-are not neutralized.

-

-For example: A woman came to me in deep distress. The man she loved had

-left her for other women, and said he never intended to marry her.

-She was torn with jealousy and resentment and said she hoped he would

-suffer as he had made her suffer; and added, “How could he leave me

-when I loved him so much?”

-

-I replied, “You are not loving that man, you are hating him,” and

-added, “_You can never receive what you have never given. Give a

-perfect love and you will receive a perfect love._ Perfect yourself on

-this man. Give him a perfect, _unselfish_ love, demanding nothing in

-return, do not criticise or condemn, and _bless him wherever he is_.”

-

-She replied, “No, I won’t bless him unless I know where he is!”

-

-“Well,” I said, “that is not real love.”

-

-“When you _send out real love_, real love will return to you, either

-from this man or his equivalent, for if this man is not the divine

-selection, you will not want him. As you are one with God, you are one

-with the love which belongs to you by divine right.”

-

-Several months passed, and matters remained about the same, but she

-was working conscientiously with herself. I said, “When you are no

-longer disturbed by his cruelty, he will cease to be cruel, as you are

-attracting it through your own emotions.”

-

-Then I told her of a brotherhood in India, who never said, “Good

-morning” to each other. They used these words: “_I salute the Divinity

-in you._” They saluted the divinity in every man, and in the wild

-animals in the jungle, and they were never harmed, for they _saw only

-God in every_ living thing. I said, “Salute the divinity in this man,

-and say, ‘I see your divine self only. I see you as God sees you,

-perfect, made in His image and likeness.’”

-

-She found she was becoming more poised, and gradually losing her

-resentment. He was a Captain, and she always called him “The Cap.”

-

-One day, she said, suddenly, “_God bless the Cap wherever he is._”

-

-I replied: “Now, that is real love, and when you have become a

-‘complete circle,’ and are no longer disturbed by the situation, you

-will have his love, or attract its equivalent.”

-

-I was moving at this time, and did not have a telephone, so was out of

-touch with her for a few weeks, when one morning I received a letter

-saying, “We are married.”

-

-At the earliest opportunity, I paid her a call. My first words were,

-“What happened?”

-

-“Oh,” she exclaimed, “a miracle! One day I woke up and all suffering

-had ceased. I saw him that evening and he asked me to marry him. We

-were married in about a week, and I have never seen a more devoted man.”

-

-There is an old saying: “_No man is your enemy, no man is your friend,

-every man is your teacher._”

-

-So one should become impersonal and learn what each man has to teach

-him, and soon he would learn his lessons and be free.

-

-The woman’s lover was teaching her selfless love, which every man,

-sooner or later, must learn.

-

-Suffering is not necessary for man’s development; it is the result

-of violation of spiritual law, but few people seem able to rouse

-themselves from their “soul sleep” without it. When people are happy,

-they usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma is set

-in action. Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.

-

-I knew a woman who had a very nice husband, but she said often, “I

-don’t care anything about being married, but that is nothing against my

-husband. I’m simply not interested in married life.”

-

-She had other interests, and scarcely remembered she had a husband. She

-only thought of him when she saw him. One day her husband told her he

-was in love with another woman, and left. She came to me in distress

-and resentment.

-

-I replied, “It is exactly what you spoke the word for. You said you

-didn’t care anything about being married, so the subconscious worked to

-get you unmarried.”

-

-She said, “Oh yes, I see. People get what they want, and then feel very

-much hurt.”

-

-She soon became in perfect harmony with the situation, and knew they

-were both much happier apart.

-

-When a woman becomes indifferent or critical, and ceases to be an

-inspiration to her husband, he misses the stimulus of their early

-relationship and is restless and unhappy.

-

-A man came to me dejected, miserable and poor. His wife was interested

-in the “Science of Numbers,” and had had him read. It seems the report

-was not very favorable, for he said, “My wife says I’ll never amount to

-anything because I am a two.”

-

-I replied, “I don’t care what your number is, you are a perfect idea in

-divine mind, and we will demand the success and prosperity which are

-_already planned_ for you by that Infinite Intelligence.”

-

-Within a few weeks, he had a very fine position, and a year or two

-later, he achieved a brilliant success as a writer. No man is a success

-in business unless he loves his work. The picture the artist paints

-for love (of his art) is his greatest work. The pot-boiler is always

-something to live down.

-

-No man can attract money if he despises it. Many people are kept in

-poverty by saying: “Money means nothing to me, and I have a contempt

-for people who have it.”

-

-This is the reason so many artists are poor. Their contempt for money

-separates them from it.

-

-I remember hearing one artist say of another, “He’s no good as an

-artist, he has money in the bank.”

-

-This attitude of mind, of course, separates man from his supply; he

-must be in harmony with a thing in order to attract it.

-

-Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from want and limitation, but

-it must be always kept in circulation and put to right uses. Hoarding

-and saving react with grim vengeance.

-

-This does not mean that man should not have houses and lots, stocks and

-bonds, for “the barns of the righteous man shall be full.” It means

-man should not hoard even the principal, if an occasion arises, when

-money is necessary. In letting it go out fearlessly and cheerfully he

-opens the way for more to come in, for God is man’s unfailing and

-inexhaustible supply.

-

-This is the spiritual attitude towards money and the great Bank of the

-Universal never fails!

-

-We see an example of hoarding in the film production of “Greed.” The

-woman won five thousand dollars in a lottery, but would not spend

-it. She hoarded and saved, let her husband suffer and starve, and

-eventually she scrubbed floors for a living.

-

-She loved the money itself and put it above everything, and one night

-she was murdered and the money taken from her.

-

-This is an example of where “love of money is the root of all evil.”

-Money in itself, is good and beneficial, but used for destructive

-purposes, hoarded and saved, or considered more important than love,

-brings disease and disaster, and the loss of the money itself.

-

-Follow the path of love, and all things are added, _for God is love_,

-and _God is supply_; follow the path of selfishness and greed, and the

-supply vanishes, or man is separated from it.

-

-For example; I knew the case of a very rich woman, who hoarded her

-income. She rarely gave anything away, but bought and bought and bought

-things for herself.

-

-She was very fond of necklaces, and a friend once asked her how many

-she possessed. She replied, “Sixty-seven.” She bought them and put them

-away, carefully wrapped in tissue paper. Had she used the necklaces it

-would have been quite legitimate, but she was violating “the law of

-use.” Her closets were filled with clothes she never wore, and jewels

-which never saw the light.

-

-The woman’s arms were gradually becoming paralyzed from holding on to

-things, and eventually she was considered incapable of looking after

-her affairs and her wealth was handed over to others to manage.

-

-So man, in ignorance of the law, brings about his own destruction.

-

-All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of

-love. Man’s boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back

-laden with sickness and sorrow. Love seems almost a lost art, but the

-man with the knowledge of spiritual law knows it must be regained, for

-without it, he has “become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.”

-

-For example: I had a student who came to me, month after month, to

-clean her consciousness of resentment. After a while, she arrived at

-the point where she resented only one woman, but that one woman kept

-her busy. Little by little she became poised and harmonious, and one

-day, all resentment was wiped out.

-

-She came in radiant, and exclaimed “You can’t understand how I feel!

-The woman said something to me and instead of being furious I was

-loving and kind, and she apologized and was perfectly lovely to me.

-

-No one can understand the marvelous lightness I feel within!”

-

-Love and good-will are invaluable in business.

-

-For example: A woman came to me, complaining of her employer. She said

-she was cold and critical and knew she did not want her in the position.

-

-“Well,” I replied, “Salute the Divinity in the woman and send her love.”

-

-She said “I can’t; she’s a marble woman.”

-

-I answered, “You remember the story of the sculptor who asked for a

-certain piece of marble. He was asked why he wanted it, and he replied,

-‘because there is an angel in the marble,’ and out of it he produced a

-wonderful work of art.”

-

-She said, “Very well, I’ll try it.” A week later she came back and

-said, “I did what you told me to, and now the woman is very kind, and

-took me out in her car.”

-

-People are sometimes filled with remorse for having done someone an

-unkindness, perhaps years ago.

-

-If the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be neutralized by doing

-some one a kindness _in the present_.

-

-“This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and

-reaching forth unto those things which are before.”

-

-Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison

-the atmosphere of the individual.

-

-A woman said to me in deep sorrow, “Treat me to be happy and joyous,

-for my sorrow makes me so irritable with the members of my family that

-I keep making more Karma.”

-

-I was asked to treat a woman who was mourning for her daughter. I

-denied all belief in loss and separation, and affirmed that God was the

-woman’s joy, love and peace.

-

-The woman gained her poise at once, but sent word by her son, not to

-treat any longer, because she was “so happy, it wasn’t respectable.”

-

-So “mortal mind” loves to hang on to its griefs and regrets.

-

-I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course,

-she always had something to brag about.

-

-The old idea was if a woman did not worry about her children, she was

-not a good mother.

-

-Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible for many of the diseases

-and accidents which come into the lives of children.

-

-For fear pictures vividly the disease or situation feared, and these

-pictures objectify, if not neutralized.

-

-Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that she puts her child in

-God’s hands, and _knows_ therefore, that he is divinely protected.

-

-For example: A woman awoke suddenly, in the night, feeling her brother

-was in great danger. Instead of giving in to her fears, she commenced

-making statements of Truth, saying, “Man is a perfect idea in Divine

-Mind, and is always in his right place, therefore, my brother is in his

-right place, and is divinely protected.”

-

-The next day she found that her brother had been in close proximity to

-an explosion in a mine, but had miraculously escaped.

-

-So man is his brother’s keeper (in thought) and every man should know

-that the thing he loves dwells in “the secret place of the most high,

-and abides under the shadow of the Almighty.”

-

-“There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh

-thy dwelling.”

-

-“Perfect love casteth out fear. He that feareth is not made perfect in

-love,” and “Love is the fulfilling of the Law.”

-

-

-

-

-INTUITION OR GUIDANCE

-

- “In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.”

-

-

-There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man who knows the

-power of his word, and who follows his intuitive leads. By the word he

-starts in action unseen forces and can rebuild his body or remold his

-affairs.

-

-It is, therefore, of the utmost importance to choose the right words,

-and the student carefully selects the affirmation he wishes to catapult

-into the invisible.

-

-He knows that God is his supply, that there is a supply for every

-demand, and that his spoken word releases this supply.

-

-“Ask and ye shall receive.”

-

-Man must make the first move. “Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh

-to you.”

-

-I have often been asked just how to make a demonstration.

-

-I reply: “Speak the word and then do not do anything until you get a

-definite lead.” Demand the lead, saying, “Infinite Spirit, reveal to me

-the way, let me know if there is anything for me to do.”

-

-The answer will come through intuition (or hunch); a chance remark from

-someone, or a passage in a book, etc., etc. The answers are sometimes

-quite startling in their exactness. For example: A woman desired a

-large sum of money. She spoke the words: “Infinite Spirit, open the

-way for my immediate supply, let all that is mine by divine right now

-reach me, in great avalanches of abundance.” Then she added: “Give me a

-definite lead, let me know if there is anything for me to do.”

-

-The thought came quickly, “Give a certain friend” (who had helped her

-spiritually) “a hundred dollars.” She told her friend, who said, “Wait

-and get another lead, before giving it.” So she waited, and that day

-met a woman who said to her, “I gave someone a dollar today; it was

-just as much for me, as it would be for you to give someone a hundred.”

-

-This was indeed an unmistakable lead, so she knew she was right

-in giving the hundred dollars. It was a gift which proved a great

-investment, for shortly after that, a large sum of money came to her in

-a remarkable way.

-

-Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to create activity in

-finances, one should give. Tithing or giving one-tenth of one’s income,

-is an old Jewish custom, and is sure to bring increase. Many of the

-richest men in this country have been tithers, and I have never known

-it to fail as an investment.

-

-The tenth-part goes forth and returns blessed and multiplied. But the

-gift or tithe must be given with love and cheerfulness, for “God loveth

-a cheerful giver.” Bills should be paid cheerfully; all money should

-be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.

-

-This attitude of mind makes man master of money. It is his to obey, and

-his spoken word then opens vast reservoirs of wealth.

-

-Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited vision. Sometimes the

-student has a great realization of wealth, but is afraid to act.

-

-The vision and action must go hand in hand, as in the case of the man

-who bought the fur-lined overcoat.

-

-A woman came to me asking me to “speak the word” for a position. So

-I demanded: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for this woman’s right

-position.” Never ask for just “a position”; ask for the right position,

-the place already planned in Divine Mind, as it is the only one that

-will give satisfaction.

-

-I then gave thanks that she had already received, and that it would

-manifest quickly. Very soon, she had three positions offered her,

-two in New York and one in Palm Beach, and she did not know which to

-choose. I said, “Ask for a definite lead.”

-

-The time was almost up and was still undecided, when one day, she

-telephoned, “When I woke up this morning, I could smell Palm Beach.”

-She had been there before and knew its balmy fragrance.

-

-I replied: “Well, if you can smell Palm Beach from here, it is

-certainly your lead.” She accepted the position, and it proved a great

-success. Often one’s lead comes at an unexpected time.

-

-One day, I was walking down the street, when I suddenly felt a strong

-urge to go to a certain bakery, a block or two away.

-

-The reasoning mind resisted, arguing, “There is nothing there that you

-want.”

-

-However, I had learned not to reason, so I went to the bakery, looked

-at everything, and there was certainly nothing there that I wanted, but

-coming out I encountered a woman I had thought of often, and who was in

-great need of the help which I could give her.

-

-So often, one goes for one thing and finds another.

-

-Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply

-_points the way_.

-

-A person often receives a lead during a “treatment.” The idea that

-comes may seem quite irrelevant, but some of God’s leadings are

-“mysterious.”

-

-In the class, one day, I was treating that each individual would

-receive a definite lead. A woman came to me afterwards, and said:

-“While you were treating, I got the hunch to take my furniture out

-of storage and get an apartment.” The woman had come to be treated

-for health. I told her I knew in getting a home of her own, her

-health would improve, and I added, “I believe your trouble, which is

-a congestion, has come from having things stored away. Congestion of

-things causes congestion in the body. You have violated the law of use,

-and your body is paying the penalty.”

-

-So I gave thanks that “_Divine order was established in her mind, body

-and affairs_.”

-

-People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is

-a mental correspondence for every disease. A person might receive

-instantaneous healing through the realization of his body being a

-perfect idea in Divine Mind, and, therefore, whole and perfect, but

-if he continues his destructive thinking, hoarding, hating, fearing,

-condemning, the disease will return.

-

-Jesus Christ knew that all sickness came from sin, but admonished the

-leper after the healing, to go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come

-upon him.

-

-So man’s soul (or subconscious mind) must be washed whiter than snow,

-for permanent healing; and the metaphysician is always delving deep for

-the “correspondence.”

-

-Jesus Christ said, “Condemn not lest ye also be condemned.”

-

-“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”

-

-Many people have attracted disease and unhappiness through condemnation

-of others.

-

-What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

-

-For example: A friend came to me in anger and distress, because her

-husband had deserted her for another woman. She condemned the other

-woman, and said continually, “She knew he was a married man, and had no

-right to accept his attentions.”

-

-I replied, “Stop condemning the woman, bless her, and be through

-with the situation, otherwise, you are attracting the same thing to

-yourself.”

-

-She was deaf to my words, and a year or two later, became deeply

-interested in a married man, herself.

-

-Man picks up a live-wire whenever he criticises or condemns, and may

-expect a shock.

-

-Indecision is a stumbling-block in many a pathway. In order to

-overcome it, make the statement, repeatedly, “_I am always under direct

-inspiration; I make right decisions, quickly._”

-

-These words impress the subconscious, and soon one finds himself awake

-and alert, making his right moves without hesitation. I have found it

-destructive to look to the psychic plane for guidance, as it is the

-plane of many minds and not “The One Mind.”

-

-As man opens his mind to subjectivity, he becomes a target for

-destructive forces. The psychic plane is the result of man’s mortal

-thought, and is on the “plane of opposites.” He may receive either good

-or bad messages.

-

-The science of numbers and the reading of horoscopes, keep man down on

-the mental (or mortal) plane, for they deal only with the Karmic path.

-

-I know of a man who should have been dead, years ago, according to his

-horoscope, but he is alive and a leader of one of the biggest movements

-in this country for the uplift of humanity.

-

-It takes a very strong mind to neutralize a prophecy of evil. The

-student should declare, “Every false prophecy shall come to naught;

-every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved and

-dissipated, the divine idea now comes to pass.”

-

-However, if any good message has ever been given one, of coming

-happiness, or wealth, harbor and expect it, and it will manifest sooner

-or later, through the law of expectancy.

-

-Man’s will should be used to back the universal will. “I will that the

-will of God be done.”

-

-It is God’s will to give every man, every righteous desire of his

-heart, and man’s will should be used to hold the perfect vision,

-without wavering.

-

-The prodigal son said: “I will arise and go to my Father.”

-

-It is, indeed, often an effort of the will to leave the husks and swine

-of mortal thinking. It is so much easier, for the average person, to

-have fear than faith; _so faith is an effort of the will_.

-

-As man becomes spiritually awakened he recognizes that any external

-inharmony is the correspondence of mental inharmony. If he stumbles or

-falls, he may know he is stumbling or falling in consciousness.

-

-One day, a student was walking along the street condemning someone

-in her thoughts. She was saying, mentally, “That woman is the most

-disagreeable woman on earth,” when suddenly three boy scouts rushed

-around the corner and almost knocked her over. She did not condemn

-the boy scouts, but immediately called on the law of forgiveness,

-and “saluted the divinity” in the woman. Wisdom’s ways are ways of

-pleasantness and all her paths are peace.

-

-When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for

-surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it

-is going right.

-

-For example: A woman was told that there was no loss in divine mind,

-therefore, she could not lose anything which belonged to her; anything

-lost, would be returned, or she would receive its equivalent.

-

-Several years previously, she had lost two thousand dollars. She had

-loaned the money to a relative during her lifetime, but the relative

-had died, leaving no mention of it in her will. The woman was resentful

-and angry, and as she had no written statement of the transaction,

-she never received the money, so she determined to deny the loss, and

-collect the two thousand dollars from the Bank of the Universal. She

-had to begin by forgiving the woman, as resentment and unforgiveness

-close the doors of this wonderful bank.

-

-She made this statement, “I deny loss, there is no loss in Divine Mind,

-therefore, I cannot lose the two thousand dollars, which belong to me

-by divine right.” “_As one door shuts another door opens._”

-

-She was living in an apartment house which was for sale; and in the

-lease was a clause, stating that if the house was sold, the tenants

-would be required to move out within ninety days.

-

-Suddenly, the landlord broke the leases and raised the rent. Again,

-injustice was on her pathway, but this time she was undisturbed. She

-blessed the landlord, and said, “As the rent has been raised, it means

-that I’ll be that much richer, for God is my supply.”

-

-New leases were made out for the advanced rent, but by some divine

-mistake, the ninety days clause had been forgotten. Soon after, the

-landlord had an opportunity to sell the house. On account of the

-mistake in the new leases, the tenants held possession for another year.

-

-The agent offered each tenant two hundred dollars if he would vacate.

-Several families moved; three remained, including the woman. A month

-or two passed, and the agent again appeared. This time he said to

-the woman, “Will you break your lease for the sum of fifteen hundred

-dollars?” It flashed upon her, “Here comes the two thousand dollars.”

-She remembered having said to friends in the house, “We will all act

-together if anything more is said about leaving.” So her _lead_ was to

-consult her friends.

-

-These friends said: “Well, if they have offered you fifteen hundred

-they will certainly give two thousand.” So she received a check for

-two thousand dollars for giving up the apartment. It was certainly a

-remarkable working of the law, and the apparent injustice was merely

-opening the way for her demonstration.

-

-It proved that there is no loss, and when man takes his spiritual

-stand, he collects all that is his from this great Reservoir of Good.

-

-“I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten.”

-

-The locusts are the doubts, fears, resentments and regrets of mortal

-thinking.

-

-These adverse thoughts, alone, rob man; for “No man gives to himself

-but himself, and no man takes away from himself, but himself.”

-

-Man is here to prove God and “to bear witness to the truth,” and he

-can only prove God by bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of

-injustice.

-

-“Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you

-the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be

-room enough to receive it.”

-

-

-

-

-PERFECT SELF-EXPRESSION

-

-or

-

-THE DIVINE DESIGN

-

-    “No wind can drive my bark astray

-    nor change the tide of destiny.”

-

-

-There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which

-he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do,

-which no one else can do; it is his destiny!

-

-This achievement is held, a perfect idea in Divine Mind, awaiting man’s

-recognition. As the imaging faculty is the creative faculty, it is

-necessary for man to see the idea, before it can manifest.

-

-So man’s highest demand is for the _Divine Design of his life_.

-

-He may not have the faintest conception of what it is, for there is,

-possibly, some marvelous talent, hidden deep within him.

-

-His demand should be: “_Infinite Spirit, open the way for the Divine

-Design of my life to manifest; let the genius within me now be

-released; let me see clearly the perfect plan._”

-

-The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love and perfect

-self-expression. This is the _square of life_, which brings perfect

-happiness. When one has made this demand, he may find great changes

-taking place in his life, for nearly every man has wandered far from

-the Divine Design.

-

-I know, in one woman’s case, it was as though a cyclone had struck

-her affairs, but readjustments came quickly, and new and wonderful

-conditions took the place of old ones.

-

-Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing

-interest that it will seem almost like play. The student knows, also,

-as man comes into the world financed by God, the _supply_ needed for

-his perfect self-expression will be at hand.

-

-Many a genius has struggled for years with the problem of supply, when

-his spoken word, and faith, would have released quickly, the necessary

-funds.

-

-For example: After the class, one day, a man came to me and handed me a

-cent.

-

-He said: “I have just seven cents in the world, and I’m going to give

-you one; for I have faith in the power of your spoken word. I want you

-to speak the word for my perfect self-expression and prosperity.”

-

-I “spoke the word,” and did not see him again until a year later. He

-came in one day, successful and happy, with a roll of yellow bills in

-his pocket. He said, “Immediately after you spoke the word, I had a

-position offered me in a distant city, and am now demonstrating health,

-happiness and supply.”

-

-A woman’s perfect self-expression may be in becoming a perfect wife,

-a perfect mother, a perfect home-maker and not necessarily in having a

-public career.

-

-Demand definite leads, and the way will be made easy and successful.

-

-One should not visualize or force a mental picture. When he demands

-the Divine Design to come into his conscious mind, he will receive

-flashes of inspiration, and begin to see himself making some great

-accomplishment. This is the picture, or idea, he must hold without

-wavering.

-

-The thing man seeks is seeking him—_the telephone was seeking Bell_!

-

-Parents should never force careers and professions upon their children.

-With a knowledge of spiritual Truth, the Divine Plan could be spoken

-for, early in childhood, or prenatally.

-

-A prenatal treatment should be: “Let the God in this child have perfect

-expression; let the Divine Design of his mind, body and affairs be made

-manifest throughout his life, throughout eternity.”

-

-_God’s will be done, not man’s; God’s pattern, not man’s_ pattern, is

-the command we find running through all the scriptures, and the Bible

-is a book dealing with the science of the mind. It is a book telling

-man how to release his soul (or subconscious mind) from bondage.

-

-The battles described are pictures of man waging war against mortal

-thoughts. “A man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” Every

-man is Jehoshaphat, and every man is David, who slays Goliath (mortal

-thinking) with the little white stone (faith).

-

-So man must be careful that he is not the “wicked and slothful servant”

-who buried his talent. There is a terrible penalty to be paid for not

-using one’s ability.

-

-Often fear stands between man and his perfect self-expression.

-Stage-fright has hampered many a genius. This may be overcome

-by the spoken word, or treatment. The individual then loses all

-self-consciousness, and feels simply that he is a channel for Infinite

-Intelligence to express Itself through.

-

-He is under direct inspiration, fearless, and confident; for he feels

-that it is the “Father within” him who does the work.

-

-A young boy came often to my class with his mother. He asked me to

-“speak the word” for his coming examinations at school.

-

-I told him to make the statement: “I am one with Infinite Intelligence.

-I know everything I should know on this subject.” He had an excellent

-knowledge of history, but was not sure of his arithmetic. I saw him

-afterwards, and he said: “I spoke the word for my arithmetic, and

-passed with the highest honors; but thought I could depend on myself

-for history, and got a very poor mark.” Man often receives a set-back

-when he is “too sure of himself,” which means he is trusting to his

-personality and not the “Father within.”

-

-Another one of my students gave me an example of this. She took an

-extended trip abroad one summer, visiting many countries, where she was

-ignorant of the languages. She was calling for guidance and protection

-every minute, and her affairs went smoothly and miraculously. Her

-luggage was never delayed nor lost! Accommodations were always ready

-for her at the best hotels; and she had perfect service wherever she

-went. She returned to New York. Knowing the language, she felt God was

-no longer necessary, so looked after her affairs in an ordinary manner.

-

-_Everything went wrong_, her trunks delayed, amid inharmony and

-confusion. The student must form the habit of “practicing the Presence

-of God” every minute. “_In all thy ways acknowledge him_;” nothing is

-too small or too great.

-

-Sometimes an insignificant incident may be the turning point in a man’s

-life.

-

-Robert Fulton, watching some boiling water, simmering in a tea kettle,

-saw a steamboat!

-

-I have seen a student, often, keep back his demonstration, through

-resistance, or pointing the way.

-

-He pins his faith to one channel only, and dictates just the way he

-desires the manifestation to come, which brings things to a standstill.

-

-“_My way, not your way!_” is the command of Infinite Intelligence. Like

-all Power, be it steam or electricity, it must have a nonresistant

-engine or instrument to work through, and man is that engine or

-instrument.

-

-Over and over again, man is told to “stand still”. “Oh Judah, fear not;

-but tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord will be with you. You

-shall not need to fight this battle; set yourselves, stand ye still,

-and see the salvation of the Lord with you.”

-

-We see this in the incidents of the two thousand dollars coming to

-the woman through the landlord when she became _nonresistant_ and

-_undisturbed_, and the woman who won the man’s love “after all

-suffering had ceased.”

-

-The student’s goal is _Poise!_ _Poise_ is _Power_, for it gives

-God-Power a chance to rush through man, to “will and to do Its good

-pleasure.”

-

-Poised, he thinks clearly, and makes “right decisions quickly.” “He

-never misses a trick.”

-

-Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the root of many

-diseases, and causes wrong decision leading to failure.

-

-It has been named one of the worst “sins,” as its reaction is so

-harmful. The student learns that in metaphysics sin has a much broader

-meaning than in the old teaching. “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”

-

-He finds that fear and worry are deadly sins. They are inverted faith,

-and through distorted mental pictures, bring to pass the thing he

-fears. His work is to drive out these enemies (from the subconscious

-mind). “When Man is _fearless he is finished_!” Maeterlinck says, that

-“Man is God afraid.”

-

-So, as we read in the previous chapters: Man can only vanquish fear by

-walking up to the thing he is afraid of. When Jehoshaphat and his army

-prepared to meet the enemy, singing “Praise the Lord, for his mercy

-endureth forever,” they found their enemies had destroyed each other,

-and there was nothing to fight.

-

-For example: A woman asked a friend to deliver a message to another

-friend. The woman feared to give the message, as the reasoning mind

-said, “Don’t get mixed-up in this affair, don’t give that message.”

-

-She was troubled in spirit, for she had given her promise. At last,

-she determined to “walk up to the lion,” and call on the law of divine

-protection. She met the friend to whom she was to deliver the message.

-She opened her mouth to speak it, when her friend said, “So-and-So

-has left town.” This made it unnecessary to give the message, as the

-situation depended upon the person being in town. As she was willing

-to do it, she was not obliged to; as she did not fear, the situation

-vanished.

-

-The student often delays his demonstration through a belief in

-incompletion. He should make this statement:

-

-“In Divine Mind there is only completion, therefore, my demonstration

-is completed. My perfect work, my perfect home, my perfect health.”

-Whatever he demands are perfect ideas registered in Divine Mind, and

-must manifest, “under grace in a perfect way.” He gives thanks he has

-already received on the invisible, and makes active preparation for

-receiving on the visible.

-

-One of my students was in need of a financial demonstration. She came

-to me and asked why it was not completed.

-

-I replied: “Perhaps, you are in the habit of leaving things unfinished,

-and the subconscious has gotten into the habit of not completing (as

-the without, so the within).”

-

-She said, “You are right. I often _begin things_ and never finish them.”

-

-“I’ll go home and finish something I commenced weeks ago, and I know it

-will be symbolic of my demonstration.”

-

-So she sewed assiduously, and the article was soon completed. Shortly

-after, the money came in a most curious manner.

-

-Her husband was paid his salary twice that month. He told the people of

-their mistake, and they sent word to keep it.

-

-When man asks, _believing, he must receive, for God creates His own

-channels_!

-

-I have been sometimes asked, “Suppose one has several talents, how is

-he to know which one to choose?” Demand to be shown definitely. Say:

-“Infinite Spirit, give me a definite lead, reveal to me my perfect

-self-expression, show me which talent I am to make use of now.”

-

-I have known people to suddenly enter a new line of work, and be fully

-equipped, with little or no training. So make the statement: “_I am

-fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life_,” and be fearless in

-grasping opportunities.

-

-Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers. They refuse

-gifts through pride, or some negative reason, thereby blocking their

-channels, and invariably find themselves eventually with little or

-nothing. For example: A woman who had given away a great deal of money,

-had a gift offered her of several thousand dollars. She refused to take

-it, saying she did not need it. Shortly after that, her finances were

-“tied up,” and she found herself in debt for that amount. Man should

-receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water—freely ye

-have given, freely ye shall receive.

-

-There is always the perfect balance of giving and receiving, and

-though man should give without thinking of returns, he violates law if

-he does not accept the returns which come to him; for all gifts are

-from God, man being merely the channel.

-

-A thought of lack should never be held over the giver.

-

-For example: When the man gave me the one cent, I did not say: “Poor

-man, he cannot afford to give me that.” I saw him rich and prosperous,

-with his supply pouring in. It was this thought which brought it.

-If one has been a bad receiver, he must become a good one, and take

-even a postage stamp if it is given him, and open up his channels for

-receiving.

-

-The Lord loveth a cheerful receiver, as well as a cheerful giver.

-

-I have often been asked why one man is born rich and healthy, and

-another poor and sick.

-

-Where there is an effect there is always a cause; there is no such

-thing as chance.

-

-This question is answered through the law of reincarnation. Man goes

-through many births and deaths, until he knows the truth which sets him

-free.

-

-He is drawn back to the earth plane through unsatisfied desire, to pay

-his Karmic debts, or to “fulfill his destiny.”

-

-The man born rich and healthy has had pictures in his subconscious

-mind, in his past life, of health and riches; and the poor and sick

-man, of disease and poverty. Man manifests, on any plane, the sum total

-of his subconscious beliefs.

-

-However, birth and death are man-made laws, for the “wages of sin is

-death”; the Adamic fall in consciousness through the belief in _two

-powers_. The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He

-never was born and has never died—“As he was in the beginning, he is

-now, and ever shall be!”

-

-So through the truth, man is set free from the law of Karma, sin

-and death, and manifests the man made in “His image and likeness.”

-Man’s freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny, bringing into

-manifestation the Divine Design of his life.

-

-His lord will say unto him: “Well done thou good and faithful servant,

-thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler

-over many things (death itself); enter thou into the joy of thy Lord

-(eternal life).”

-

-

-

-

-DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS

-

-

-“Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.”

-

-All the good that is to be made manifest in man’s life is already

-an accomplished fact in divine mind, and is released through man’s

-recognition, or spoken word, so he must be careful to decree that only

-the Divine Idea be made manifest, for often, he decrees, through his

-“idle words,” failure or misfortune.

-

-It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, to word one’s demands

-correctly, as stated in a previous chapter.

-

-If one desires a home, friend, position or any other good thing, make

-the demand for the “divine selection.”

-

-For example: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for my right home, my right

-friend, my right position. I give thanks _it now manifests under grace

-in a perfect way_.”

-

-The latter part of the statement is most important. For example: I

-knew a woman who demanded a thousand dollars. Her daughter was injured

-and they received a thousand dollars indemnity, so it did not come

-in a “perfect way.” The demand should have been worded in this way:

-“Infinite Spirit, I give thanks that the one thousand dollars, which is

-mine by divine right, is now released, and reaches me under grace, in a

-perfect way.”

-

-As one grows in a financial consciousness, he should demand that the

-enormous sums of money, which are his by divine right, reach him under

-grace, in perfect ways.

-

-It is impossible for man to release more than he thinks is possible,

-for one is bound by the limited expectancies of the subconscious. He

-must enlarge his expectancies in order to receive in a larger way.

-

-Man so often limits himself in his demands. For example: A student made

-the demand for six hundred dollars, by a certain date. He did receive

-it, but heard afterwards, that he came very near receiving a thousand

-dollars, but he was given just six hundred, as the result of his spoken

-word.

-

-“They limited the Holy One of Israel.” Wealth is a matter of

-consciousness. The French have a legend giving an example of this. A

-poor man was walking along a road when he met a traveler, who stopped

-him and said: “My good friend, I see you are poor. Take this gold

-nugget, sell it, and you will be rich all your days.”

-

-The man was overjoyed at his good fortune, and took the nugget home. He

-immediately found work and became so prosperous that he did not sell

-the nugget. Years passed, and he became a very rich man. One day he met

-a poor man on the road. He stopped him and said: “My good friend, I

-will give you this gold nugget, which, if you sell, will make you rich

-for life.” The mendicant took the nugget, had it valued, and found it

-was only brass. So we see, the first man became rich through feeling

-rich, thinking the nugget was gold.

-

-Every man has within himself a gold nugget; _it is his consciousness of

-gold, of opulence, which brings riches into his life_. In making his

-demands, man begins at his _journey’s end_, that is, he declares _he

-has already received_. “_Before_ ye call I shall answer.”

-

-Continually affirming establishes the belief in the subconscious.

-

-It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one

-had perfect faith! One should not plead or supplicate, but give thanks

-repeatedly, that he has received.

-

-“The desert shall _rejoice_ and blossom as the rose.” This rejoicing

-which is yet in the desert (state of consciousness) opens the way

-for release. The Lord’s Prayer is in the form of command and demand,

-“Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we

-forgive our debtors,” and ends in praise, “For thine is the Kingdom

-and the Power and the Glory, forever. Amen.” “Concerning the works of

-my hands, command ye me.” So prayer is command and demand, praise and

-thanksgiving. The student’s work is in making himself believe that

-“with God all things are possible.”

-

-This is easy enough to state in the abstract, but a little more

-difficult when confronted with a problem. For example: It was

-necessary for a woman to demonstrate a large sum of money within a

-stated time. She knew she must _do something_ to get a realization (for

-realization is manifestation), and she demanded a “lead.”

-

-She was walking through a department store, when she saw a very

-beautiful pink enamel papercutter. She felt the “pull” towards it. The

-thought came. “I haven’t a paper cutter good enough to open letters

-containing large cheques.”

-

-So she bought the papercutter, which the reasoning mind would have

-called an extravagance. When she held it in her hand, she had a flash

-of a picture of herself opening an envelope containing a large cheque,

-and in a few weeks, she received the money. The pink papercutter was

-her bridge of active faith.

-

-Many stories are told of the power of the subconscious when directed in

-faith.

-

-For example: A man was spending the night in a farmhouse. The windows

-of the room had been nailed down, and in the middle of the night he

-felt suffocated and made his way in the dark to the window. He could

-not open it, so he smashed the pane with his fist, drew in draughts of

-fine fresh air, and had a wonderful night’s sleep.

-

-The next morning, he found he had smashed the glass of a bookcase and

-the window had remained closed during the whole night. He had _supplied

-himself with oxygen, simply by his thought of oxygen_.

-

-When a student starts out to demonstrate, he should never turn back.

-“Let not that man who wavers think that he shall receive anything of

-the Lord.”

-

-A colored student once made this wonderful statement, “When I asks

-the Father for anything, I puts my foot down, and I says: Father,

-I’ll take nothing less than I’ve asked for, but more!” So man should

-never compromise: “Having done all—Stand.” This is sometimes the most

-difficult time of demonstrating. The temptation comes to give up, to

-turn back, to compromise.

-

-“He also serves who only stands and waits.”

-

-Demonstrations often come at the eleventh hour because man then lets

-go, that is, stops reasoning, and Infinite Intelligence has a chance to

-work.

-

-“Man’s dreary desires are answered drearily, and his impatient desires,

-long delayed or violently fulfilled.”

-

-For example: A woman asked me why it was she was constantly losing or

-breaking her glasses.

-

-We found she often said to herself and others with vexation, “I wish

-I could get rid of my glasses.” So her impatient desire was violently

-fulfilled. What she should have demanded was perfect eye-sight, but

-what she registered in the subconscious was simply the impatient desire

-to be rid of her glasses; so they were continually being broken or lost.

-

-Two attitudes of mind cause loss: depreciation, as in the case of the

-woman who did not appreciate her husband, _or fear of loss_, which

-makes a picture of loss in the subconscious.

-

-When a student is able to let go of his problem (cast his burden) he

-will have instantaneous manifestation.

-

-For example: A woman was out during a very stormy day and her umbrella

-was blown inside-out. She was about to make a call on some people whom

-she had never met and she did not wish to make her first appearance

-with a dilapidated umbrella. She could not throw it away, as it did not

-belong to her. So in desperation, she exclaimed: “Oh, God, you take

-charge of this umbrella, I don’t know what to do.”

-

-A moment later, a voice behind her said: “Lady, do you want your

-umbrella mended?” There stood an umbrella mender.

-

-She replied, “Indeed, I do.”

-

-The man mended the umbrella, while she went into the house to pay her

-call, and when she returned, she had a good umbrella. So there is

-always an umbrella mender at hand, on man’s pathway, when one puts the

-umbrella (or situation) in God’s Hands.

-

-One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

-

-For example: I was called on the ’phone late one night to treat a

-man whom I had never seen. He was apparently very ill. I made the

-statement: “I deny this appearance of disease. It is unreal, therefore

-cannot register in his consciousness; this man is a perfect idea in

-Divine Mind, pure substance expressing perfection.”

-

-There is no time or space, in Divine Mind, therefore the word reaches

-instantly its destination and does not “return void.” I have treated

-patients in Europe and have found that the result was instantaneous.

-

-I am asked so often the difference between visualizing and visioning.

-Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious

-mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the

-superconscious mind. The student should train his mind to receive

-these flashes of inspiration, and work out the “divine pictures,”

-through definite leads. When a man can say, “I desire only that which

-God desires for me,” his false desires fade from the consciousness,

-and a new set of blueprints is given him by the Master Architect, the

-God within. God’s plan for each man transcends the limitation of the

-reasoning mind, and is always the square of life, containing health,

-wealth, love and perfect self-expression. Many a man is building for

-himself in imagination a bungalow when he should be building a palace.

-

-If a student tries to force a demonstration (through the reasoning

-mind) he brings it to a standstill. “I will hasten it,” saith the Lord.

-He should act only through intuition, or definite leads. “Rest in the

-Lord and wait patiently. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to

-pass.”

-

-I have seen the law work in the most astonishing manner. For example: A

-student stated that it was necessary for her to have a hundred dollars

-by the following day. It was a debt of vital importance which had to be

-met. I “spoke the word,” declaring Spirit was “never too late” and that

-the supply was at hand.

-

-That evening she phoned me of the miracle. She said that the thought

-came to her to go to her safe-deposit box at the bank to examine some

-papers. She looked over the papers, and at the bottom of the box, was

-a new one hundred dollar-bill. She was astounded, and said she knew

-she had never put it there, for she had gone through the papers many

-times. It may have been a materialization, as Jesus Christ materialized

-the loaves and fishes. Man will reach the stage where his “word is

-made flesh,” or materialized, instantly. “The fields, ripe with the

-harvest,” will manifest immediately, as in all of the miracles of Jesus

-Christ.

-

-There is a tremendous power alone in the name Jesus Christ. It stands

-for _Truth Made Manifest_. He said, “Whatsoever ye ask the Father, in

-my name, he will give it to you.”

-

-The power of this name raises the student into the fourth dimension,

-where he is freed from all astral and psychic influences, and he

-becomes “unconditioned and absolute, as God Himself is unconditioned

-and absolute.”

-

-I have seen many healings accomplished by using the words, “In the name

-of Jesus Christ.”

-

-Christ was both person and principle; and the Christ within each man is

-his Redeemer and Salvation.

-

-The Christ within, is his own fourth dimensional self, the man made

-in God’s image and likeness. This is the self which has never failed,

-never known sickness or sorrow, was never born and has never died. It

-is the “resurrection and the life” of each man! “No man cometh to the

-Father save by the Son,” means, that God, the Universal, working on

-the place of the particular, becomes the Christ in man; and the Holy

-Ghost, means God-in-action. So daily, man is manifesting the Trinity of

-Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

-

-Man should make an art of thinking. The Master Thinker is an artist

-and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his

-mind; and he paints these pictures with masterly strokes of power and

-decision, having perfect faith that there is no power to mar their

-perfection and that they shall manifest in his life the ideal made real.

-

-All power is given man (through right thinking) to bring _his heaven_

-upon _his earth_, and this is the _goal of the_ “_Game of Life_.”

-

-The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

-

-May each reader be now freed from that thing which has held him in

-bondage through the ages, standing between him and his own, and “know

-the Truth which makes him free”—free to fulfill his destiny, to bring

-into manifestation the “_Divine Design of his life_, Health, Wealth,

-Love and Perfect Self-Expression.” “Be ye transformed by the renewing

-of your mind.”

-

-

-(For Prosperity)

-

-God is my unfailing supply, and large sums of money come to me quickly,

-under grace, in perfect ways.

-

-

-(For Right Conditions)

-

-Every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved and

-dissipated, and the Divine Idea now comes to pass.

-

-

-(For Right Conditions)

-

-Only that which is true of God is true of me, for I and the Father are

-ONE.

-

-

-(For Faith)

-

-As I am one with God, I am one with my good, for God is both the

-_Giver_ and the _Gift_. I cannot separate the _Giver_ from the gift.

-

-

-(For Right Conditions)

-

-Divine Love now dissolves and dissipates every wrong condition in my

-mind, body and affairs. Divine Love is the most powerful chemical in

-the universe, and _dissolves everything_ which is not of itself!

-

-

-(For Health)

-

-Divine Love floods my consciousness with health, and every cell in my

-body is filled with light.

-

-

-(For the Eyesight)

-

-My eyes are God’s eyes, I see with the eyes of spirit. I see clearly

-the open way; there are no obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the

-perfect plan.

-

-

-(For Guidance)

-

-I am divinely sensitive to my intuitive leads, and give instant

-obedience to Thy will.

-

-

-(For the Hearing)

-

-My ears are God’s ears, I hear with the ears of spirit. I am

-nonresistant and am willing to be led. I hear glad tidings of great joy.

-

-

-(For Right Work)

-

-    _I have a perfect work

-      In a perfect way;

-    I give a perfect service

-      For perfect pay._

-

-

-(For Freedom from all Bondage)

-

-_I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free!_

-

-

-

-

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-

-  “_One secret

-  of her success was that

-  she was always herself ... colloquial,

-  informal, friendly, and humorous.

-  She herself was very spiritual ...

-  and taught by familiar, practical, and

-  everyday examples._”

-

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-

-EMMET FOX

-

-—_On Florence Scovel Shinn_—

-

-

-Books by _FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN_

-

-  THE GAME OF LIFE & HOW TO PLAY IT

-  THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD

-  YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND

-  THE SECRET DOOR TO SUCCESS

-  THE WRITINGS OF FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN (_1 Vol. Edition_)

-  THE GAME OF LIFE—_Cassette Tape_

-

-

-  DEVORSS & COMPANY, _Publishers_

-  Marina del Rey, California 90294-0550

-

-

-

-

-  Transcriber’s Notes

-

-  pg 8 Changed: victim of distorted imagiation.

-            to: victim of distorted imagination.

-

-  pg 86 Changed: the Holy One of Isreal

-             to: the Holy One of Israel

-

-

-

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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 74878 ***
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+  Transcriber's Note
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+
+
+  THE GAME OF LIFE
+
+  AND HOW TO PLAY IT
+
+  By
+
+  FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
+
+  DeVorss & Company
+  P. O. Box 550
+  Marina del Rey, California 90294
+
+
+
+
+  Copyright 1925 by
+  Florence Scovel Shinn
+
+ISBN: 0-87516-257-6
+
+
+Printed in the United States of America
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+  THE GAME                                                             7
+
+  THE LAW OF PROSPERITY                                               15
+
+  THE POWER OF THE WORD                                               22
+
+  THE LAW OF NONRESISTANCE                                            30
+
+  THE LAW OF KARMA AND THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS                         39
+
+  CASTING THE BURDEN (IMPRESSING THE SUBCONSCIOUS)                    48
+
+  LOVE                                                                56
+
+  INTUITION OR GUIDANCE                                               66
+
+  PERFECT SELF-EXPRESSION OR THE DIVINE DESIGN                        75
+
+  DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS                                            85
+
+
+
+
+THE GAME
+
+
+Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a
+game.
+
+It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the
+knowledge of spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the
+rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Jesus Christ taught that it
+was a great game of _Giving and Receiving_.
+
+“Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.” This means that
+whatever man sends out in word or deed, will return to him; what he
+gives, he will receive.
+
+If he gives hate, he will receive hate; if he gives love, he will
+receive love; if he gives criticism, he will receive criticism; if he
+lies he will be lied to; if he cheats he will be cheated. We are taught
+also, that the imaging faculty plays a leading part in the game of life.
+
+“Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence, for out of it are
+the issues of life.” (Prov. 4:23.)
+
+This means that what man images, sooner or later externalizes in his
+affairs. I know of a man who feared a certain disease. It was a very
+rare disease and difficult to get, but he pictured it continually and
+read about it until it manifested in his body, and he died, the victim
+of distorted imagination.
+
+So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the
+imaging faculty. A person with an imaging faculty trained to image
+only good, brings into his life “every righteous desire of his
+heart”—health, wealth, love, friends, perfect self-expression, his
+highest ideals.
+
+The imagination has been called, “_The Scissors of The Mind_,” and it
+is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and
+sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world. To train
+the imagination successfully, man must understand the workings of his
+mind. The Greeks said: “Know Thyself.”
+
+There are three departments of the mind, the _subconscious, conscious
+and superconscious_. The subconscious, is simply power, without
+direction. It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is
+directed to do; it has no power of induction.
+
+Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the
+subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
+
+For example: a woman I know, when a child, always “made believe” she
+was a widow. She “dressed up” in black clothes and wore a long black
+veil, and people thought she was very clever and amusing. She grew up
+and married a man with whom she was deeply in love. In a short time
+he died and she wore black and a sweeping veil for many years. The
+picture of herself as a widow was impressed upon the subconscious mind,
+and in due time worked itself out, regardless of the havoc created.
+
+The conscious mind has been called mortal or carnal mind.
+
+It is the human mind and sees life as it _appears to be_. It sees
+death, disaster, sickness, poverty and limitation of every kind, and it
+impresses the subconscious.
+
+The _superconscious_ mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the
+realm of perfect ideas.
+
+In it, is the “_perfect pattern_” spoken of by Plato, _The Divine
+Design_; for there is a _Divine Design_ for each person.
+
+“_There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill,
+something you are to do, which no one else can do._”
+
+There is a perfect picture of this in the _superconscious mind_.
+It usually flashes across the conscious as an unattainable
+ideal—“something too good to be true.”
+
+In reality it is man’s true destiny (or destination) flashed to him
+from the Infinite Intelligence which is _within himself_.
+
+Many people, however, are in ignorance of their true destinies and are
+striving for things and situations which do not belong to them, and
+would only bring failure and dissatisfaction if attained.
+
+For example: A woman came to me and asked me to “speak the word” that
+she would marry a certain man with whom she was very much in love. (She
+called him A. B.)
+
+I replied that this would be a violation of spiritual law, but that I
+would speak the word for the right man, the “divine selection,” the man
+who belonged to her by divine right.
+
+I added, “If A. B. is the right man you can’t lose him, and if he
+isn’t, you will receive his equivalent.” She saw A. B. frequently but
+no headway was made in their friendship. One evening she called, and
+said, “Do you know, for the last week, A. B. hasn’t seemed so wonderful
+to me.” I replied, “Maybe he is not the divine selection—another man
+may be the right one.” Soon after that, she met another man who fell in
+love with her at once, and who said she was his ideal. In fact, he said
+all the things that she had always wished A. B. would say to her.
+
+She remarked, “It was quite uncanny.”
+
+She soon returned his love, and lost all interest in A. B.
+
+This shows the law of substitution. A right idea was substituted for a
+wrong one, therefore there was no loss or sacrifice involved.
+
+Jesus Christ said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his
+righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you,” and he
+said the Kingdom _was within man_.
+
+The Kingdom is the realm of _right ideas_, or the divine pattern.
+
+Jesus Christ taught that man’s words played a leading part in the game
+of life. “By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are
+condemned.”
+
+Many people have brought disaster into their lives through idle words.
+
+For example: A woman once asked me why her life was now one of poverty
+of limitation. Formerly she had a home, was surrounded by beautiful
+things and had plenty of money. We found she had often tired of the
+management of her home, and had said repeatedly, “I’m sick and tired of
+things—I wish I lived in a trunk,” and she added: “Today I am living in
+that trunk.” She had spoken herself into a trunk. The subconscious mind
+has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy
+experiences.
+
+For example: A woman who had a great deal of money, joked continually
+about “getting ready for the poorhouse.”
+
+In a few years she was almost destitute, having impressed the
+subconscious mind with a picture of lack and limitation.
+
+Fortunately the law works both ways, and a situation of lack may be
+changed to one of plenty.
+
+For example: A woman came to me one hot summer’s day for a “treatment”
+for prosperity. She was worn out, dejected and discouraged. She said
+she possessed just eight dollars in the world. I said, “Good, we’ll
+bless the eight dollars and multiply them as Jesus Christ multiplied
+the loaves and the fishes,” for He taught that _every man_ had the
+power to bless and to multiply, to heal and to prosper.
+
+She said, “What shall I do next?”
+
+I replied, “Follow intuition. Have you a ‘hunch’ to do anything, or to
+go anywhere?” Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within.
+It is man’s unerring guide, and I will deal more fully with its laws in
+a following chapter.
+
+The woman replied: “I don’t know—I seem to have a ‘hunch’ to go home;
+I’ve just enough money for carfare.” Her home was in a distant city and
+was one of lack and limitation, and the reasoning mind (or intellect)
+would have said: “Stay in New York and get work and make some money.”
+I replied, “Then go home—never violate a hunch.” I spoke the following
+words for her: “_Infinite Spirit open the way for great abundance for
+——. She is an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to her by divine
+right._” I told her to repeat it continually also. She left for home
+immediately. In calling on a woman one day, she linked up with an old
+friend of her family.
+
+Through this friend, she received thousands of dollars in a most
+miraculous way. She has said to me often, “Tell people about the woman
+who came to you with eight dollars and a hunch.”
+
+There is always _plenty on man’s pathway_; but it can only be _brought
+into manifestation_ through desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus
+Christ brought out clearly that man must make the _first move_.
+
+“_Ask_, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and
+it shall be opened unto you.” (Mat. 7:7.)
+
+In the Scriptures we read:
+
+“Concerning the works of my hands, command ye me.”
+
+Infinite Intelligence, God, is ever ready to carry out man’s smallest
+or greatest demands.
+
+Every desire, uttered or unexpressed, is a demand. We are often
+startled by having a wish suddenly fulfilled.
+
+For example: One Easter, having seen many beautiful rose-trees in the
+florists’ windows, I wished I would receive one, and for an instant saw
+it mentally being carried in the door.
+
+Easter came, and with it a beautiful rose-tree. I thanked my friend the
+following day, and told her it was just what I had wanted.
+
+She replied, “I didn’t send you a rose-tree, I sent you lilies!”
+
+The man had mixed the order, and sent me a rose-tree simply because I
+had started the law in action, and _I had to have a rose-tree_.
+
+Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of
+his heart, but doubt and fear. When man can “wish without worrying,”
+every desire will be instantly fulfilled.
+
+I will explain more fully in a following chapter the scientific reason
+for this and how fear must be erased from the consciousness. It is
+man’s only enemy—fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness, fear
+of loss and a feeling of _insecurity on some plane_. Jesus Christ said:
+“Why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith?” (Mat. 8:26.) So we can see
+we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it
+is faith in evil instead of good.
+
+The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to
+obliterate all mental pictures of evil. This must be done by impressing
+the subconscious mind with a realization of good. A very brilliant man,
+who has attained great success, told me he had suddenly erased all
+fear from his consciousness by reading a sign which hung in a room.
+He saw printed, in large letters this statement—“_Why worry, it will
+probably never happen._” These words were stamped indelibly upon his
+subconscious mind, and he has now a firm conviction that only good can
+come into his life, therefore only _good can manifest_.
+
+In the following chapter I will deal with the different methods of
+impressing the subconscious mind. It is man’s faithful servant but one
+must be careful to give it the right orders. Man has ever a silent
+listener at his side—his subconscious mind.
+
+Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in
+amazing detail. It is like a singer making a record on the sensitive
+disc of the phonographic plate. Every note and tone of the singer’s
+voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is registered also.
+So let us break all the old bad records in the subconscious mind, the
+records of our lives which we do not wish to keep, and make new and
+beautiful ones.
+
+Speak these words aloud, with power and conviction: “I now smash and
+demolish (by my spoken word) every untrue record in my subconscious
+mind. They shall return to the dust-heap of their native nothingness,
+for they came from my own vain imaginings. I now make my perfect
+records through the Christ within—The records of _Health, Wealth, Love
+and perfect self-Expression_.” This is the square of life, _The Game
+completed_.
+
+In the following chapters, I will show how man can _change_ his
+_conditions by changing his words_. Any man who does not know the power
+of the word, is behind the times.
+
+  “_Death and Life are in the power of the tongue._”
+
+  (Prov. 18:21.)
+
+
+
+
+THE LAW OF PROSPERITY
+
+    “Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense
+    and thou shalt have plenty of silver.”
+
+
+One of the greatest messages given to the race through the scriptures
+is that God is man’s supply and that man can release, _through his
+spoken word_, all that belongs to him by divine right. He must,
+however, have _perfect faith in his spoken word_.
+
+Isaiah said, “My word shall not return unto me void, but shall
+accomplish that where unto it is sent.” We know now, that words and
+thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man’s body and
+affairs.
+
+A woman came to me in great distress and said she was to be sued on the
+fifteenth of the month for three thousand dollars. She knew no way of
+getting the money and was in despair.
+
+I told her God was her supply, and _that there is a supply for every
+demand_.
+
+_So I spoke the word!_ I gave thanks that the woman would receive three
+thousand dollars at the right time in the right way. I told her she
+must have perfect faith, and act her _perfect faith_. The fifteenth
+came but no money had materialized.
+
+She called me on the ’phone and asked what she was to do.
+
+I replied, “It is Saturday, so they won’t sue you today. Your part is
+to act rich, thereby showing perfect faith that you will receive it by
+Monday.” She asked me to lunch with her to keep up her courage. When
+I joined her at a restaurant, I said, “This is no time to economize.
+Order an expensive luncheon, act as if you have already received the
+three thousand dollars.”
+
+“All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, _believing_, ye shall
+receive.” “You must act as if you _had already received_.” The next
+morning she called me on the ’phone and asked me to stay with her
+during the day. I said “No, you are divinely protected and God is never
+too late.”
+
+In the evening she ’phoned again, greatly excited and said, “My dear,
+a miracle has happened! I was sitting in my room this morning, when
+the doorbell rang. I said to the maid: ‘Don’t let anyone in.’ The maid
+however, looked out the window and said, ‘It’s your cousin with the
+long white beard.’
+
+So I said, ‘Call him back. I would like to see him.’ He was just
+turning the corner, when he heard the maid’s voice, and _he came back_.
+
+He talked for about an hour, and just as he was leaving he said, ‘Oh,
+by the way, how are finances?’
+
+I told him I needed the money, and he said, ‘Why, my dear, I will give
+you three thousand dollars the first of the month.’
+
+I didn’t like to tell him I was going to be sued. What shall I do? I
+won’t _receive it till_ the first of the month, and I must have it
+tomorrow.” I said, “I’ll keep on ‘treating.’”
+
+I said, “Spirit is never too late. I give thanks she has received the
+money on the invisible plane and that it manifests on time.” The next
+morning her cousin called her up and said, “Come to my office this
+morning and I will give you the money.” That afternoon, she had three
+thousand dollars to her credit in the bank, and wrote checks as rapidly
+as her excitement would permit.
+
+If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the
+situation he has prepared for. For example: A man came to me asking me
+to speak the word that a certain debt would be wiped out.
+
+I found he spent his time planning what he would say to the man when
+he did not pay his bill, thereby neutralizing my words. He should have
+seen himself paying the debt.
+
+We have a wonderful illustration of this in the bible, relating to
+the three kings who were in the desert, without water for their men
+and horses. They consulted the prophet Elisha, who gave them this
+astonishing message:
+
+“Thus saith the Lord—Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain,
+yet make this valley full of ditches.”
+
+Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, _when there isn’t the
+slightest sign of it in sight_.
+
+For example: A woman found it necessary to look for an apartment during
+the year when there was a great shortage of apartments in New York. It
+was considered almost an impossibility, and her friends were sorry for
+her and said, “Isn’t it too bad, you’ll have to store your furniture
+and live in a hotel.” She replied, “_You needn’t feel sorry for me, I’m
+a superman, and I’ll get an apartment._”
+
+She spoke the words: “_Infinite Spirit, open the way for the right
+apartment._” She knew there was a supply for every demand, and that she
+was “unconditioned,” working on the spiritual plane, and that “one with
+God is a majority.”
+
+She had contemplated buying new blankets, when “the tempter,” the
+adverse thought or reasoning mind, suggested, “Don’t buy the blankets,
+perhaps, after all, you won’t get an apartment and you will have no use
+for them.” She promptly replied (to herself): “I’ll dig my ditches by
+buying the blankets!” So she prepared for the apartment—acted as though
+she already had it.
+
+She found one in a miraculous way, and it was given to her although
+there were over _two hundred other applicants_.
+
+The blankets showed active faith.
+
+It is needless to say that the ditches dug by the three kings in the
+desert were filled to over-flowing. (Read, II Kings.)
+
+Getting into the spiritual swing of things is no easy matter for the
+average person. The adverse thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the
+subconscious. They are the “army of the aliens” which must be put to
+flight. This explains why it is so often, “darkest before the dawn.”
+
+A big demonstration is usually preceded by tormenting thoughts.
+
+Having made a statement of high spiritual truth one challenges the old
+beliefs in the subconscious, and “error is exposed” to be put out.
+
+This is the time when one must make his affirmations of truth
+repeatedly, and rejoice and give thanks that he has already received.
+“Before ye call I shall answer.” This means that “every good and
+perfect gift” is already man’s awaiting his recognition.
+
+Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
+
+The children of Israel were told that they could have all the land
+they could see. This is true of every man. He has only the land within
+his own mental vision. Every great work, every big accomplishment,
+has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision,
+and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and
+discouragement.
+
+The children of Israel when they reached the “Promised Land,” were
+afraid to go in, for they said it was filled with giants who made them
+feel like grasshoppers. “And there we saw the giants and we were in our
+own sight as grasshoppers.” This is almost every man’s experience.
+
+However, the one who knows spiritual law, is undisturbed by appearance,
+and rejoices while he is “yet in captivity.” That is, he holds to his
+vision and gives thanks that the end is accomplished, he has received.
+
+Jesus Christ gave a wonderful example of this. He said to his
+disciples: “Say not ye, there are yet four months and then cometh the
+harvest? Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the
+fields; for they are ripe already to harvest.” His clear vision pierced
+the “world of matter” and he saw clearly the fourth dimensional world,
+things as they really are, perfect and complete in Divine Mind. So
+man must ever hold the vision of his journey’s end and demand the
+manifestation of that which he has already received. It may be his
+perfect health, love, supply, self-expression, home or friends.
+
+They are all finished and perfect ideas registered in Divine Mind
+(man’s own superconscious mind) and must come through him, not to him.
+For example: A man came to me asking for treatments for success. It
+was imperative that he raise, within a certain time, fifty-thousand
+dollars for his business. The time limit was almost up, when he came to
+me in despair. No one wanted to invest in his enterprise, and the bank
+had flatly refused a loan. I replied: “I suppose you lost your temper
+while at the bank, therefore your power. You can control any situation
+if you first control yourself.” “Go back to the bank,” I added, “and
+I will treat.” My treatment was: “You are identified in love with the
+spirit of everyone connected with the bank. Let the divine idea come
+out of this situation.” He replied, “Woman, you are talking about an
+impossibility. Tomorrow is Saturday; the bank closes at twelve, and my
+train won’t get me there until ten, and the time limit is up tomorrow,
+and anyway they won’t do it. It’s too late.” I replied, “God doesn’t
+need any time and is never too late. With Him all things are possible.”
+I added, “I don’t know anything about business, but I know all about
+God.” He replied: “It all sounds fine when I sit here listening to you,
+but when I go out it’s terrible.” He lived in a distant city, and I did
+not hear from him for a week, then came a letter. It read: “You were
+right. I raised the money, and will never again doubt the truth of all
+that you told me.”
+
+I saw him a few weeks later, and I said, “What happened? You evidently
+had plenty of time, after all.” He replied “My train was late, and
+I got there just fifteen minutes to twelve. I walked into the bank
+quietly and said, ‘I have come for the loan,’ and they gave it to me
+without a question.”
+
+It was the last fifteen minutes of the time allotted to him, and
+Infinite Spirit was not too late. In this instance the man could never
+have demonstrated alone. He needed someone to help him hold to the
+vision. This is what one man can do for another.
+
+Jesus Christ knew the truth of this when he said: “If two of you shall
+agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be
+done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” One gets too close to
+his own affairs and becomes doubtful and fearful.
+
+The friend or “healer” sees clearly the success, health, or prosperity,
+and never wavers, because he is not close to the situation.
+
+It is much easier to “demonstrate” for someone else than for one’s
+self, so a person should not hesitate to ask for help, if he feels
+himself wavering.
+
+A keen observer of life once said, “no man can fail, if some one person
+sees him successful.” Such is the power of the vision, and many a
+great man has owed his success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who
+“believed in him” and held without wavering to the perfect pattern!
+
+
+
+
+THE POWER OF THE WORD
+
+        “By thy words thou shalt be justified,
+    and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
+
+
+A person knowing the power of the word, becomes very careful of his
+conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know
+that they do “not return void.” Through his spoken word, man is
+continually making laws for himself.
+
+I knew a man who said, “I always miss a car. It invariably pulls out
+just as I arrive.”
+
+His daughter said: “I always catch a car. It’s sure to come just as I
+get there.” This occurred for years. Each had made a separate law for
+himself, one of failure, one of success. This is the psychology of
+superstitions.
+
+The horseshoe or rabbit’s foot contains no power, but man’s spoken word
+and belief that it will bring him good luck creates expectancy in the
+subconscious mind, and attracts a “lucky situation.” I find however,
+this will not “work” when man has advanced spiritually and knows a
+higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away “graven images.”
+For example: Two men in my class had had great success in business
+for several months, when suddenly everything “went to smash.” We
+tried to analyze the situation, and I found, instead of making their
+affirmations and looking to God for success and prosperity, they had
+each bought a “lucky monkey.” I said: “Oh I see, you have been trusting
+in the lucky monkeys instead of God.” “Put away the lucky monkeys
+and call on the law of forgiveness,” for man has power to forgive or
+neutralize his mistakes.
+
+They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a coalhole, and all went
+well again. This does not mean, however, that one should throw away
+every “lucky” ornament or horseshoe about the house, but he must
+recognize that the power back of it is the one and only power, God, and
+that the object simply gives him a feeling of expectancy.
+
+I was with a friend, one day, who was in deep despair. In crossing the
+street, she picked up a horseshoe. Immediately, she was filled with joy
+and hope. She said God had sent her the horseshoe in order to keep up
+her courage.
+
+It was indeed, at that moment, about the only thing that could have
+registered in her consciousness. Her hope became faith, and she
+ultimately made a wonderful demonstration. I wish to make the point
+clear that the men previously mentioned were depending on the monkeys,
+alone, while this woman recognized the power back of the horseshoe.
+
+I know, in my own case, it took a long while to get out of a belief
+that a certain thing brought disappointment. If the thing happened,
+disappointment invariably followed. I found the only way I could
+make a change in the subconscious, was by asserting, “There are not
+two powers, there is only one power, God, therefore, there are no
+disappointments, and this thing means a happy surprise.” I noticed a
+change at once, and happy surprises commenced coming my way.
+
+I have a friend who said nothing could induce her to walk under a
+ladder. I said, “If you are afraid, you are giving in to a belief in
+two powers, Good and Evil, instead of one. As God is absolute, there
+can be no opposing power, unless man makes the false of evil for
+himself. To show you believe in only One Power, God, and that there
+is no power or reality in evil, walk under the next ladder you see.”
+Soon after, she went to her bank. She wished to open her box in the
+safe-deposit vault, and there stood a ladder on her pathway. It was
+impossible to reach the box without passing under the ladder. She
+quailed with fear and turned back. She could not face the lion on
+her pathway. However, when she reached the street, my words rang in
+her ears and she decided to return and walk under it. It was a big
+moment in her life, for ladders had held her in bondage for years. She
+retraced her steps to the vault, and the ladder was no longer there!
+This so often happens! If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to
+do, he does not have to.
+
+It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understood.
+
+Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a
+situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away
+of its own weight.
+
+The explanation is, that fear attracted the ladder on the woman’s
+pathway, and fearlessness removed it.
+
+_Thus the invisible forces are ever working for man who is always
+“pulling the strings” himself, though he does not know it. Owing to the
+vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
+People who continually speak of disease, invariably attract it._
+
+After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words. For
+example: I have a friend who often says on the ’phone, “Do come to see
+me and have a fine old-fashioned chat.” This “old-fashioned chat” means
+an hour of about five hundred to a thousand destructive words, the
+principal topics being loss, lack, failure and sickness.
+
+I reply: “No, I thank you, I’ve had enough old-fashioned chats
+in my life, they are too expensive, but I will be glad to have a
+new-fashioned chat, and talk about what we want, not what we don’t
+want.” There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for
+three purposes, to “heal, bless or prosper.” What man says of others
+will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for
+himself.
+
+“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”
+
+If a man wishes someone “bad luck,” he is sure to attract bad luck
+himself. If he wishes to aid someone to success, he is wishing and
+aiding himself to success.
+
+The body may be renewed and transformed through the spoken word and
+clear vision, and disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness.
+The metaphysician knows that all disease has a mental correspondence,
+and in order to heal the body one must first “heal the soul.”
+
+The soul is the subconscious mind, and it must be “saved” from wrong
+thinking.
+
+In the twenty-third psalm, we read: “He restoreth my soul.” This means
+that the subconscious mind or soul, must be restored with the right
+ideas, and the “mystical marriage” is the marriage of the soul and
+the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious mind. They must be
+one. When the subconscious is flooded with the perfect ideas of the
+superconscious, God and man are one. “I and the Father are one.” That
+is, he is one with the realm of perfect ideas; he is the man made in
+God’s likeness and image (imagination) and is given power and dominion
+over all created things, his mind, body and affairs.
+
+It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the
+violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, “Love
+one another,” and in the Game of Life, love or good-will takes every
+trick.
+
+For example: A woman I know, had, for years an appearance of a terrible
+skin disease. The doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in
+despair. She was on the stage, and she feared she would soon have to
+give up her profession, and she had no other means of support. She,
+however, procured a good engagement, and on the opening night, made a
+great “hit.” She received flattering notices from the critics, and was
+joyful and elated. The next day she received a notice of dismissal.
+A man in the cast had been jealous of her success and had caused her
+to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment taking complete
+possession of her, and she cried out, “Oh God don’t let me hate that
+man.” That night she worked for hours “in the silence.”
+
+She said, “I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at
+peace with myself, with the man, and with the whole world. I continued
+this for two following nights, and on the third day I found I was
+healed completely of the skin disease!” In asking for love, or good
+will, she had fulfilled the law, (“for love is the fulfilling of the
+law”) and the disease (which came from subconscious resentment) was
+wiped out.
+
+Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical, inharmonious
+thoughts cause unnatural deposits in the blood, which settle in the
+joints.
+
+False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred, unforgiveness, fear,
+etc. Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease. I said once, in my
+class, “There is no use asking anyone ‘What’s the matter with you?’ we
+might just as well say, ‘Who’s the matter with you?’” Unforgiveness is
+the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver,
+and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.
+
+I called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having eaten
+a poisoned oyster. I replied, “Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you
+poisoned the oyster. What’s the matter with you?” She answered, “Oh
+about nineteen people.” She had quarrelled with nineteen people and had
+become so inharmonious that she attracted the wrong oyster.
+
+Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental inharmony. “As
+the within, so the without.”
+
+Man’s only enemies are within himself. “And a man’s foes shall be
+they of his own household.” Personality is one of the last enemies
+to be overcome, as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It
+was Christ’s message—“Peace on Earth, good will towards man.” The
+enlightened man, therefore, endeavors to perfect himself upon his
+neighbor. His work is with himself, to send out good-will and blessings
+to every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he
+has no power to harm him.
+
+For example: A man came to me asking to “treat” for success in
+business. He was selling machinery, and a rival appeared on the scene
+with what he proclaimed, was a better machine, and my friend feared
+defeat. I said, “First of all, we must wipe out all fear, and know
+that God protects your interests, and that the divine idea must come
+out of the situation. That is, the right machine will be sold, by the
+right man, to the right man.” And I added, “Don’t hold one critical
+thought towards that man. Bless him all day, and be willing not to sell
+your machine, if it isn’t the divine idea.” So he went to the meeting,
+fearless and nonresistant, and blessing the other man. He said the
+outcome was very remarkable. The other man’s machine refused to work,
+and he sold his without the slightest difficulty. “But I say unto you,
+love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate
+you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you.”
+
+_Good-will produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends
+it, and “No weapon that is formed against him shall prosper.” In
+other words, love and good-will destroy the enemies within one’s self,
+therefore, one has no enemies on the external!_
+
+“_There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will to man!_”
+
+
+
+
+THE LAW OF NONRESISTANCE
+
+    “Resist not evil. Be not overcome of evil,
+        but overcome evil with good.”
+
+
+Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person.
+
+The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is
+perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before
+it.
+
+Jesus Christ said, “Resist not evil,” for He knew in reality, there
+is no evil, therefore nothing to resist. Evil has come of man’s “vain
+imagination,” or a belief in two powers, good and evil.
+
+There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of “Maya the Tree of
+Illusion,” and saw two powers instead of one power, God.
+
+_Therefore, evil is a false law man has made for himself, through
+psychoma or soul sleep._ Soul sleep means, that man’s soul has been
+hypnotized by the race belief (of sin, sickness and death, etc.) which
+is carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have outpictured his
+illusions.
+
+We have read in a preceding chapter, that man’s soul is his
+subconscious mind, and whatever he feels deeply, good or bad, is
+outpictured by that faithful servant. His body and affairs show forth
+what he has been picturing. The sick man has pictured sickness, the
+poor man, poverty, the rich man, wealth.
+
+People often say, “why does a little child attract illness, when it is
+too young even to know what it means?”
+
+I answer that children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of
+others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
+
+I heard a metaphysician once say, “If you do not run your subconscious
+mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.”
+
+Mothers often, unconsciously, attract illness and disaster to their
+children, by continually holding them in thoughts of fear, and watching
+for symptoms.
+
+For example: A friend asked a woman if her little girl had had the
+measles. She replied promptly, “not yet!” This implied that she was
+expecting the illness, and, therefore, preparing the way for what she
+did not want for herself and child.
+
+However, the man who is centered and established in right thinking,
+the man who sends out only good-will to his fellow-man, and who is
+without fear, cannot be _touched or influenced by the negative thoughts
+of others_. In fact, he could then receive only good thoughts, as he
+himself, sends forth only good thoughts.
+
+Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a “state of torment.”
+
+A metaphysician once gave me a wonderful recipe for taking every trick
+in the game of life, it is the acme of nonresistance. He gave it in
+this way; “At one time in my life, I baptized children, and of course,
+they had many names. Now I no longer baptize children, but I baptize
+events, but _I give every event the same name_. If I have a failure I
+baptize it success, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
+the Holy Ghost!”
+
+In this, we see the great law of transmutation, founded on
+nonresistance. Through his spoken word, every failure was transmuted
+into success.
+
+For example: A woman who required money, and who knew the spiritual
+law of opulence, was thrown continually in a business-way, with a
+man who made her feel very poor. He talked lack and limitation and
+she commenced to catch his poverty thoughts, so she disliked him,
+and blamed him for her failure. She knew in order to demonstrate
+her supply, she must first feel that she _had received—a feeling of
+opulence must precede its manifestation_.
+
+It dawned upon her, one day, that she was resisting the situation, and
+seeing two powers instead of one. So she blessed the man and baptized
+the situation “Success”! She affirmed, “As there is only one power,
+God, this man is here for my good and my prosperity” (just what he
+did not seem to be there for). Soon after that she met, _through this
+man_, a woman who gave her for a service rendered, several thousand
+dollars, and the man moved to a distant city, and faded harmoniously
+from her life. Make the statement, “Every man is a golden link in the
+chain of my good,” for all men are God in manifestation, _awaiting the
+opportunity given by man, himself, to serve the divine plan of his
+life_.
+
+“Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition.” His arrows will
+be transmuted into blessings.
+
+This law is true of nations as well as individuals. Bless a nation,
+send love and good-will to every inhabitant, and it is robbed of its
+power to harm.
+
+Man can only get the right idea of nonresistance, through spiritual
+understanding. My students have often said: “I don’t want to be a
+door-mat.” I reply “when you use nonresistance with wisdom, no one will
+ever be able to walk over you.”
+
+Another example: One day I was impatiently awaiting an important
+telephone call. I resisted every call that came in and made no
+out-going calls myself, reasoning that it might interfere with the one
+I was awaiting.
+
+Instead of saying, “Divine ideas never conflict, the call will come
+at the right time,” leaving it to Infinite Intelligence to arrange, I
+commenced to manage things myself—I made the battle mine, not God’s
+and remained tense and anxious. The bell did not ring for about an
+hour, and I glanced at the ’phone and found the receiver had been off
+that length of time, and the ’phone was disconnected. My anxiety,
+fear and belief in interference, had brought on a total eclipse of
+the telephone. Realizing what I had done, I commenced blessing the
+situation at once; I baptized it “success,” and affirmed, “I cannot
+lose any call that belongs to me by divine right; I am under _grace,
+and not under law_.”
+
+A friend rushed out to the nearest telephone, to notify the Company to
+reconnect.
+
+She entered a crowded grocery, but the proprietor left his customers
+and attended to the call himself. My ’phone was connected at once, and
+two minutes later, I received a very important call, and about an hour
+afterward, the one I had been awaiting.
+
+  _One’s ships come in over a calm sea._
+
+So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he
+runs away from it, it will run after him.
+
+For example: I repeated this to a woman one day, and she replied, “How
+true that is! I was unhappy at home, I disliked my mother, who was
+critical and domineering; so I ran away and was married—but I married
+my mother, for my husband was exactly like my mother, and I had the
+same situation to face again.” “Agree with thine adversary quickly.”
+
+That means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed
+by it, and it falls away of its own weight. “None of these things move
+me,” is a wonderful affirmation.
+
+The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself.
+
+When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious
+situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.
+
+So we see man’s work is ever with himself.
+
+People have said to me, “Give treatments to change my husband, or my
+brother.” I reply, “No, I will give _treatments to change you_; when
+you change, your husband and your brother will change.”
+
+One of my students was in the habit of lying. I told her it was a
+failure method and if she lied, she would be lied to. She replied, “I
+don’t care, I can’t possibly get along without lying.”
+
+One day she was speaking on the ’phone to a man with whom she was very
+much in love. She turned to me and said, “I don’t trust him, I know
+he’s lying to me.” I replied, “Well, you lie yourself, so someone has
+to lie to you, and you will be sure it will be just the person you want
+the truth from.” Some time after that, I saw her, and she said, “I’m
+cured of lying.”
+
+I questioned: “What cured you?”
+
+She replied: “I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I
+did!”
+
+One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others.
+
+Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our
+associates.
+
+Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.
+
+Jesus Christ said, “Behold, now is the accepted time.” “Now is the day
+of Salvation.”
+
+Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
+
+The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the
+past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future,
+knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live _fully in the
+now_.
+
+For example: A woman came to me, complaining that she had no money with
+which to buy Christmas gifts. She said, “Last year was so different;
+I had plenty of money and gave lovely presents, and this year I have
+scarcely a cent.”
+
+I replied, “You will never demonstrate money while you are pathetic
+and live in the past. Live fully in the _now_, and _get ready to give
+Christmas presents_. Dig your ditches, and the money will come.” She
+exclaimed, “I know what to do! I will buy some tinsel twine, Christmas
+seals and wrapping paper.” I replied, “Do that, and the _presents will
+come and stick themselves to the Christmas seals_.”
+
+This too, was showing financial fearlessness and faith in God, as the
+reasoning mind said, “Keep every cent you have, as you are not sure you
+will get any more.”
+
+She bought the seals, paper and twine, and a few days before Christmas,
+received a gift of several hundred dollars. Buying the seals and twine
+had impressed the subconscious with expectancy, and opened the way
+for the manifestation of the money. She purchased all the presents in
+plenty of time.
+
+Man must live suspended in the moment.
+
+“Look well, therefore, to this Day! Such is the salutation of the Dawn.”
+
+He must be spiritually alert, ever awaiting his leads, taking advantage
+of every opportunity.
+
+One day, I said continually (silently), “Infinite Spirit, don’t let
+me miss a trick,” and something very important was told to me that
+evening. It is most necessary to begin the day with right words.
+
+Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.
+
+For example:
+
+“_Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion; I give
+thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders
+shall never cease._”
+
+Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his
+life.
+
+One morning I picked up a book and read, “Look with wonder at that
+which is before you!” It seemed to be my message for the day, so I
+repeated again and again, “Look with wonder at that which is before
+you.”
+
+At about noon, a large sum of money, was given me, which I had been
+desiring for a certain purpose.
+
+In a following chapter, I will give affirmations that I have found
+most effective. However, one should never use an affirmation unless it
+is absolutely satisfying and convincing to his own consciousness, and
+often an affirmative is changed to suit different people.
+
+For example: The following has brought success to many:
+
+“I have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I give wonderful service,
+for wonderful pay!”
+
+I gave the first two lines to one of my students, and she added the
+last two.
+
+It made a _most powerful statement_, as there should always be perfect
+payment for perfect service, and a rhyme sinks easily into the
+subconscious. She went about singing it aloud and soon did receive
+wonderful work in a wonderful way, and gave wonderful service for
+wonderful pay.
+
+Another student, a business man, took it, and changed the word work to
+business.
+
+He repeated, “I have a wonderful business, in a wonderful way, and I
+give wonderful service for wonderful pay.” That afternoon he made a
+forty-one-thousand dollar deal, though there had been no activity in
+his affairs for months.
+
+Every affirmation must be carefully worded and completely “cover the
+ground.”
+
+For example: I knew a woman, who was in great need, and made a demand
+for work. She received a great deal of work, but was never paid
+anything. She now knows to add, “wonderful service for wonderful pay.”
+
+It is man’s divine right to have plenty! More than enough!
+
+“His barns should be full, and his cup should flow over!” This is God’s
+idea for man, and when man breaks down the barriers of lack in his own
+consciousness, the Golden Age will be his, and every righteous desire
+of his heart fulfilled!
+
+
+
+
+THE LAW OF KARMA
+
+and
+
+THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS
+
+
+Man receives only that which he gives. The Game of Life is a game of
+boomerangs. Man’s thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or
+later, with astounding accuracy.
+
+This is the law of Karma, which is Sanskrit for “Comeback.” “Whatsoever
+a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
+
+For example: A friend told me this story of herself, illustrating the
+law. She said, “I make all my Karma on my aunt, whatever I say to her,
+some one says to me. I am often irritable at home, and one day, said to
+my aunt, who was talking to me during dinner. ‘_No more talk, I wish to
+eat in peace._’”
+
+“The following day, I was lunching with a woman with whom I wished to
+make a great impression. I was talking animatedly, when she said: ‘_No
+more talk, I wish to eat in peace!_’”
+
+My friend is high in consciousness, so her Karma returns much more
+quickly than to one on the mental plane.
+
+The more man knows, the more he is responsible for, and a person with
+a knowledge of Spiritual Law, which he does not practice, suffers
+greatly, in consequence. “The fear of the Lord (law) is the beginning
+of wisdom.” If we read the word Lord, law, it will make many passages
+in the Bible much clearer.
+
+“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord” (law). It is the law
+which takes vengeance, not God. God sees man perfect, “created in his
+own image,” (imagination) and given “power and dominion.”
+
+This is the perfect idea of man, registered in Divine Mind, awaiting
+man’s recognition; for man can only be what he sees himself to be, and
+only attain what he sees himself attaining.
+
+“Nothing ever happens without an on-looker” is an ancient saying.
+
+Man sees first his failure or success, his joy or sorrow, before it
+swings into visibility from the scenes set in his own imagination. We
+have observed this in the mother picturing disease for her child, or a
+woman seeing success for her husband.
+
+Jesus Christ said, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall
+make you free.”
+
+So, we see freedom (from all unhappy conditions) comes through
+knowledge—a knowledge of Spiritual Law.
+
+Obedience precedes authority, and the law obeys man when he obeys the
+law. The law of electricity must be obeyed before it becomes man’s
+servant. When handled ignorantly, it becomes man’s deadly foe. _So
+with the laws of Mind!_
+
+For example: A woman with a strong personal will, wished she owned a
+house which belonged to an acquaintance, and she often made mental
+pictures of herself living in the house. In the course of time, the man
+died and she moved into the house. Several years afterwards, coming
+into the knowledge of Spiritual Law, she said to me: “Do you think I
+had anything to do with that man’s death?” I replied: “Yes, your desire
+was so strong, everything made way for it, but you paid your Karmic
+debt. Your husband, whom you loved devotedly, died soon after, and the
+house was a white elephant on your hands for years.”
+
+The original owner, however, could not have been affected by her
+thoughts had he been positive in the truth, nor her husband, but they
+were both under Karmic law. The woman should have said (feeling the
+great desire for the house), “Infinite Intelligence, give me the right
+house, equally as charming as this, the house _which is mine by divine
+right_.”
+
+The divine selection would have given perfect satisfaction and brought
+good to all. The divine pattern is the only safe pattern to work by.
+
+_Desire is a tremendous force, and must be directed in the right
+channels; or chaos ensues._
+
+In demonstrating, the most important step is the _first step, to “ask
+aright_.”
+
+Man should always demand only that which is his by _divine right_.
+
+To go back to the illustration: Had the woman taken this attitude: “If
+this house, I desire, is mine, I cannot lose it, if it is not, give me
+its equivalent,” the man might have decided to move out, harmoniously
+(had it been the divine selection for her) or another house would have
+been substituted. Anything forced into manifestation through personal
+will, is always “ill-got,” and has “ever bad success.”
+
+Man is admonished, “My will be done not thine, and the curious thing
+is, man always gets just what he desires when he does relinquish
+personal will, thereby enabling Infinite Intelligence to work through
+him.”
+
+“Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord” (law).
+
+For example: A woman came to me in great distress. Her daughter had
+determined to take a very hazardous trip, and the mother was filled
+with fear.
+
+She said she had used every argument, had pointed out the dangers to be
+encountered, and forbidden her to go, but the daughter became more and
+more rebellious and determined. I said to the mother, “You are forcing
+your personal will upon your daughter, which you have no right to do,
+and your fear of the trip is only attracting it, for man attracts what
+he fears.” I added, “Let go, and take your mental hands off; _put it
+in God’s Hands, and use this statement_:” “I put this situation in the
+hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is the Divine plan,
+I bless it and no longer resist, but if it is not divinely planned,
+I give thanks that it is now dissolved and dissipated.” A day or two
+after that, her daughter said to her, “Mother, I have given up the
+trip,” and the situation returned to its “native nothingness.”
+
+It is learning to “stand still,” which seems so difficult for man. I
+have dealt more fully with this law in the chapter on nonresistance.
+
+I will give another example of sowing and reaping, which came in the
+most curious way.
+
+A woman came to me saying, she had received a counterfeit twenty-dollar
+bill, given to her at the bank. She was much disturbed, for, she said,
+“The people at the bank will never acknowledge their mistake.”
+
+I replied, “Let us analyze the situation and find out why you attracted
+it.” She thought a few moments and exclaimed: “I know it, I sent a
+friend a lot of stagemoney, just for a joke.” So the law had sent her
+some stagemoney, for it doesn’t know anything about jokes.
+
+I said, “Now we will call on the law of forgiveness, and neutralize the
+situation.”
+
+Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness—Christ has redeemed
+us from the curse of the Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is
+his Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious conditions.
+
+So I said: “Infinite Spirit, we call on the law of forgiveness and give
+thanks that she is under grace and not under law, and cannot lose this
+twenty dollars which is hers by divine right.”
+
+“Now,” I said, “Go back to the bank and tell them, fearlessly, that it
+was given you, there by mistake.”
+
+She obeyed, and to her surprise, they apologized and gave her another
+bill, treating her most courteously.
+
+So knowledge of the Law gives man power to “rub out his mistakes.” Man
+cannot force the external to be what he is not.
+
+If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness.
+
+For example: A woman came to me asking treatment for prosperity. She
+did not take much interest in her household affairs, and her home was
+in great disorder.
+
+I said to her, “If you wish to be rich, you must be orderly. All
+men with great wealth are orderly—and order is heaven’s first law.”
+I added, “You will never become rich with a burnt match in the
+pincushion.”
+
+She had a good sense of humor and commenced immediately, putting her
+house in order. She rearranged furniture, straightened out bureau
+drawers, cleaned rugs, and soon made a big financial demonstration—a
+gift from a relative. The woman, herself, became made over, and keeps
+herself keyed-up financially, by being ever watchful of the _external
+and expecting prosperity, knowing God is her supply_.
+
+Many people are in ignorance of the fact that gifts and things are
+investments, and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.
+
+“There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that
+withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.”
+
+For example: I knew a man who wanted to buy a fur-lined overcoat. He
+and his wife went to various shops, but there was none he wanted. He
+said they were all too cheap-looking. At last, he was shown one, the
+salesman said was valued at a thousand dollars, but which the manager
+would sell him for five-hundred dollars, as it was late in the season.
+
+His financial possessions amounted to about seven hundred dollars. The
+reasoning mind would have said, “You can’t afford to spend nearly all
+you have on a coat,” but he was very intuitive and never reasoned.
+
+He turned to his wife and said, “If I get this coat, I’ll make a ton of
+money!” So his wife consented, weakly.
+
+About a month later, he received a ten-thousand-dollar commission. The
+coat made him feel so rich, it linked him with success and prosperity;
+without the coat, he would not have received the commission. It was an
+investment paying large dividends!
+
+If man ignores these leadings to spend or to give, the same amount of
+money will go in an uninteresting or unhappy way.
+
+For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving Day, she informed her
+family that they could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner. She had the
+money, but decided to save it.
+
+A few days later, someone entered her room and took from the bureau
+drawer the exact amount the dinner would have cost.
+
+The law always stands back of the man who spends fearlessly, with
+wisdom.
+
+For example: One of my students was shopping with her little nephew.
+The child clamored for a toy, which she told him she could not afford
+to buy.
+
+She realized suddenly that she was seeking lack, and not recognizing
+God as her supply!
+
+So she bought the toy, and on her way home, picked _up, in the street,
+the exact amount of money she had paid for it_.
+
+Man’s supply is inexhaustible and unfailing when fully trusted, but
+faith or trust must precede the demonstration. “According to your faith
+be it unto you.” “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
+evidence of things not seen—” for faith holds the vision steady, and
+the adverse pictures are dissolved and dissipated, and “in due season
+we shall reap, if we faint not.”
+
+Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel) that there was a
+higher law than the law of Karma—and that that law transcends the law
+of Karma. It is the law of grace, or forgiveness. It is the law which
+_frees man from the law of cause and effect—the law of consequence.
+“Under grace, and not under law.”_
+
+We are told that on this plane, man reaps where he has not sown; the
+gifts of God are simply poured out upon him. “All that the Kingdom
+affords is his.” This continued state of bliss awaits the man who has
+overcome the race (or world) thought.
+
+In the world thought there is tribulation, but Jesus Christ said: “Be
+of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
+
+The world thought is that of sin, sickness and death. He saw their
+absolute unreality and said sickness and sorrow shall pass away and
+death itself, the last enemy, be overcome.
+
+We know now, from a scientific standpoint, that death could be overcome
+by stamping the subconscious mind with the conviction of eternal youth
+and eternal life.
+
+The subconscious, being simply power without direction, _carries out
+orders without questioning_.
+
+Working under the direction of the superconscious (the Christ or God
+within man) the “resurrection of the body” would be accomplished.
+
+Man would no longer throw off his body in death, it would be
+transformed into the “body electric,” sung by Walt Whitman, for
+Christianity is founded upon the forgiveness of sins and “an empty
+tomb.”
+
+
+
+
+CASTING THE BURDEN
+
+Impressing the Subconscious
+
+
+When man knows his own powers and the workings of his mind, his great
+desire is to find an easy and quick way to impress the subconscious
+with good, for simply an intellectual knowledge of the Truth will not
+bring results.
+
+In my own case, I found the easiest way is in “casting the burden.”
+
+A metaphysician once explained it in this manner. He said, “The only
+thing which gives anything weight in nature, is the law of gravitation,
+and if a boulder could be taken high above the planet, there would be
+no weight in that boulder; and that is what Jesus Christ meant when he
+said: ‘My yoke is easy and my burden is light.’”
+
+He had overcome the world vibration, and functioned in the fourth
+dimensional realm, where there is only perfection, completion, life and
+joy.
+
+He said: “Come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
+give you rest.” “Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my
+burden is light.”
+
+We are also told in the fifty-fifth Psalm, to “cast thy burden upon the
+Lord.” Many passages in the Bible state that the _battle is God’s_ not
+man’s and that man is always to _“stand still” and see the Salvation of
+the Lord_.
+
+This indicates that the superconscious mind (or Christ within) is the
+department which fights man’s battle and relieves him of burdens.
+
+We see, therefore, that man violates law if he carries a burden, and
+a burden is an adverse thought or condition, and this thought or
+condition has its root in the subconscious.
+
+It seems almost impossible to make any headway directing the
+subconscious from the conscious, or reasoning mind, as the reasoning
+mind (the intellect) is limited in its conceptions, and filled with
+doubts and fears.
+
+How scientific it then is, to cast the burden upon the superconscious
+mind (or Christ within) where it is “made light,” or dissolved into its
+“native nothingness.”
+
+For example: A woman in urgent need of money, “made light” upon the
+Christ within, the superconscious, with the statement, “I cast this
+burden of lack on the Christ (within) and I go free to have plenty!”
+
+The belief in lack was her burden, and as she cast it upon the
+Superconscious with its belief of plenty, an avalanche of supply was
+the result.
+
+We read, “The Christ in you the hope of glory.”
+
+Another example: One of my students had been given a new piano, and
+there was no room in her studio for it until she had moved out the
+old one. She was in a state of perplexity. She wanted to keep the old
+piano, but knew of no place to send it. She became desperate, as the
+new piano was to be sent immediately; in fact, was on its way, with no
+place to put it. She said it came to her to repeat, “I cast this burden
+on the Christ within, and I go free.”
+
+A few moments later, her ’phone rang, and a woman friend asked if she
+might rent her old piano, and it was moved out, a few minutes before
+the new one arrived.
+
+I knew a woman, whose burden was resentment. She said, “I cast this
+burden of resentment on the Christ within, and I go free, to be
+loving, harmonious and happy.” The Almighty superconscious, flooded
+the subconscious with love, and her whole life was changed. For years,
+resentment had held her in a state of torment and imprisoned her soul
+(the subconscious mind).
+
+The statement should be made over and over and over, sometimes for
+hours at a time, silently or audibly, with quietness but determination.
+
+I have often compared it to winding-up a victrola. We must wind
+ourselves up with spoken words.
+
+I have noticed, in “casting the burden,” after a little while, one
+seems to see clearly. It is impossible to have clear vision, while in
+the throes of carnal mind. Doubts and fear poison the mind and body and
+imagination runs riot, attracting disaster and disease.
+
+In steadily repeating the affirmation, “I cast this burden on the
+Christ within, and go free,” the vision clears, and with it a feeling
+of relief, and sooner or later comes _the manifestation of good, be it
+health, happiness or supply_.
+
+One of my students once asked me to explain the “darkness before the
+dawn.” I referred in a preceding chapter to the fact that often,
+before the big demonstration “everything seems to go wrong,” and
+deep depression clouds the consciousness. It means that out of the
+subconscious are rising the doubts and fears of the ages. These old
+derelicts of the subconscious rise to the surface, _to be put out_.
+
+It is then, that man should clap his cymbals, like Jehoshaphat, and
+give thanks that he is saved, even though he seems surrounded by the
+enemy (the situation of lack or disease). The student continued, “How
+long must one remain in the dark” and I replied, “until one _can see in
+the dark_,” and “_casting the burden enables one to see in the dark_.”
+
+In order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential.
+
+“Faith without works is dead.” In these chapters I have endeavored to
+bring out this point.
+
+Jesus Christ showed active faith when “He commanded the multitude to
+sit down on the ground,” before he gave thanks for the loaves and the
+fishes.
+
+I will give another example showing how necessary this step is. In
+fact, active faith is the bridge, over which man passes to his Promised
+Land.
+
+Through misunderstanding, a woman had been separated from her husband,
+whom she loved deeply. He refused all offers of reconciliation and
+would not communicate with her in any way.
+
+Coming into the knowledge of Spiritual law, she denied the appearance
+of separation. She made this statement: “There is no separation in
+Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and
+companionship which are mine by divine right.”
+
+She showed active faith by arranging a place for him at the table
+every day; thereby impressing the subconscious with a picture of his
+_return_. Over a year passed, but she never wavered, and _one day he
+walked in_.
+
+The subconscious is often impressed through music. Music has a fourth
+dimensional quality and releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes
+wonderful things seem _possible, and easy of accomplishment_!
+
+I have a friend who uses her victrola, daily, for this purpose. It puts
+her in perfect harmony and releases the imagination.
+
+Another woman often dances while making her affirmations. The rhythm
+and harmony of music and motion carry her words forth with tremendous
+power.
+
+The student must remember also, not to despise the “day of small
+things.”
+
+Invariably, before a demonstration, come “signs of land.”
+
+Before Columbus reached America, he saw birds and twigs which showed
+him land was near. So it is with a demonstration; but often the student
+mistakes it for the demonstration itself, and is disappointed.
+
+For example: A woman had “spoken the word” for a set of dishes. Not
+long afterwards a friend gave her a dish which was old and cracked.
+
+She came to me and said, “Well, I asked for a set of dishes, and all I
+got was a cracked plate.”
+
+I replied, “The plate was only signs of land. It shows your dishes are
+coming—look upon it as birds and seaweed,” and not long afterwards the
+dishes came.
+
+Continually “making-believe,” impresses the subconscious. If one makes
+believe he is rich, and makes believe he is successful, in “due time he
+will reap.”
+
+Children are always “making believe,” and “except ye be converted, and
+become as little children, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
+
+For example: I know of a woman who was very poor, but no one could
+make her _feel poor_. She earned a small amount of money from rich
+friends, who constantly reminded her of her poverty, and to be careful
+and saving. Regardless of their admonitions, she would spend all her
+earnings on a hat, or make someone a gift, and be in a rapturous state
+of mind. Her thoughts were always centered on beautiful clothes and
+“rings and things,” but without envying others.
+
+She lived in the world of the wondrous, and only riches seemed
+real to her. Before long she married a rich man, and the rings and
+things became visible. I do not know whether the man was the “Divine
+Selection,” but opulence had to manifest in her life, as she had imaged
+only opulence.
+
+There is no peace or happiness for man, until he has erased all fear
+from the subconscious.
+
+Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected, or transmuted into
+Faith.
+
+Jesus Christ said, “Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?” “All
+things are possible to him that believeth.”
+
+I am asked, so often by my students, “_How can I get rid of fear?_”
+
+I reply, “_By walking up to the thing you are afraid of_.”
+
+“The lion takes its fierceness from your fear.”
+
+Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he runs after
+you.
+
+I have shown in previous chapters, how the lion of lack disappeared
+when the individual spent money fearlessly, showing faith that God was
+his supply and therefore, unfailing.
+
+Many of my students have come out of the bondage of poverty, and are
+now bountifully supplied, through losing all fear of letting money go
+out. The subconscious is impressed with the truth that _God is the
+Giver and the Gift_; therefore as one is one with the Giver, he is one
+with the Gift. A splendid statement is, “I now thank God the Giver for
+God the Gift.”
+
+Man has so long separated himself from his good and his supply, through
+thoughts of separation and lack, that sometimes, it takes dynamite to
+dislodge these false ideas from the subconscious, and the dynamite is a
+big situation.
+
+We see in the foregoing illustration, how the individual was freed from
+his bondage by _showing fearlessness_.
+
+Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is
+fear or faith.
+
+“Choose ye this day whom we shall serve,” fear or faith.
+
+Perhaps one’s fear is of personality. Then do not avoid the people
+feared; be willing to meet them cheerfully, and they will either prove
+“golden links in the chain of one’s good,” or disappear harmoniously
+from one’s pathway.
+
+Perhaps one’s fear is of disease or germs. Then one should be fearless
+and undisturbed in a germ-laden situation, and he would be immune.
+
+One can only contract germs while vibrating at the same rate as the
+germ, and fear drags men down to the level of the germ. Of course, the
+disease laden germ is the product of carnal mind, as all thought must
+objectify. Germs do not exist in the superconscious or Divine Mind,
+therefore are the product of man’s “vain imagination.”
+
+“In the twinkling of an eye,” man’s release will come when he realizes
+_there is no power in evil_.
+
+The material world will fade away, and the fourth dimensional world,
+the “World of the Wondrous,” will swing into manifestation.
+
+“And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth—and there shall be no more
+death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain;
+for the former things are passed away.”
+
+
+
+
+LOVE
+
+
+Every man on this planet is taking his initiation in love. “A new
+commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.” Ouspensky
+states, in “Tertium Organum,” that “love is a cosmic phenomenon,” and
+opens to man the fourth dimensional world, “The World of the Wondrous.”
+
+Real love is selfless and free from fear. It pours itself out upon
+the object of its affection, without demanding any return. Its joy is
+in the joy of giving. Love is God in manifestation, and the strongest
+magnetic force in the universe. Pure, unselfish love _draws to itself
+its own_; it does not need to seek or demand. Scarcely anyone has the
+faintest conception of real love. Man is selfish, tyrannical or fearful
+in his affections, thereby losing the thing he loves. Jealousy is the
+worst enemy of love, for the imagination runs riot, seeing the loved
+one attracted to another, and invariably these fears objectify if they
+are not neutralized.
+
+For example: A woman came to me in deep distress. The man she loved had
+left her for other women, and said he never intended to marry her.
+She was torn with jealousy and resentment and said she hoped he would
+suffer as he had made her suffer; and added, “How could he leave me
+when I loved him so much?”
+
+I replied, “You are not loving that man, you are hating him,” and
+added, “_You can never receive what you have never given. Give a
+perfect love and you will receive a perfect love._ Perfect yourself on
+this man. Give him a perfect, _unselfish_ love, demanding nothing in
+return, do not criticise or condemn, and _bless him wherever he is_.”
+
+She replied, “No, I won’t bless him unless I know where he is!”
+
+“Well,” I said, “that is not real love.”
+
+“When you _send out real love_, real love will return to you, either
+from this man or his equivalent, for if this man is not the divine
+selection, you will not want him. As you are one with God, you are one
+with the love which belongs to you by divine right.”
+
+Several months passed, and matters remained about the same, but she
+was working conscientiously with herself. I said, “When you are no
+longer disturbed by his cruelty, he will cease to be cruel, as you are
+attracting it through your own emotions.”
+
+Then I told her of a brotherhood in India, who never said, “Good
+morning” to each other. They used these words: “_I salute the Divinity
+in you._” They saluted the divinity in every man, and in the wild
+animals in the jungle, and they were never harmed, for they _saw only
+God in every_ living thing. I said, “Salute the divinity in this man,
+and say, ‘I see your divine self only. I see you as God sees you,
+perfect, made in His image and likeness.’”
+
+She found she was becoming more poised, and gradually losing her
+resentment. He was a Captain, and she always called him “The Cap.”
+
+One day, she said, suddenly, “_God bless the Cap wherever he is._”
+
+I replied: “Now, that is real love, and when you have become a
+‘complete circle,’ and are no longer disturbed by the situation, you
+will have his love, or attract its equivalent.”
+
+I was moving at this time, and did not have a telephone, so was out of
+touch with her for a few weeks, when one morning I received a letter
+saying, “We are married.”
+
+At the earliest opportunity, I paid her a call. My first words were,
+“What happened?”
+
+“Oh,” she exclaimed, “a miracle! One day I woke up and all suffering
+had ceased. I saw him that evening and he asked me to marry him. We
+were married in about a week, and I have never seen a more devoted man.”
+
+There is an old saying: “_No man is your enemy, no man is your friend,
+every man is your teacher._”
+
+So one should become impersonal and learn what each man has to teach
+him, and soon he would learn his lessons and be free.
+
+The woman’s lover was teaching her selfless love, which every man,
+sooner or later, must learn.
+
+Suffering is not necessary for man’s development; it is the result
+of violation of spiritual law, but few people seem able to rouse
+themselves from their “soul sleep” without it. When people are happy,
+they usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma is set
+in action. Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.
+
+I knew a woman who had a very nice husband, but she said often, “I
+don’t care anything about being married, but that is nothing against my
+husband. I’m simply not interested in married life.”
+
+She had other interests, and scarcely remembered she had a husband. She
+only thought of him when she saw him. One day her husband told her he
+was in love with another woman, and left. She came to me in distress
+and resentment.
+
+I replied, “It is exactly what you spoke the word for. You said you
+didn’t care anything about being married, so the subconscious worked to
+get you unmarried.”
+
+She said, “Oh yes, I see. People get what they want, and then feel very
+much hurt.”
+
+She soon became in perfect harmony with the situation, and knew they
+were both much happier apart.
+
+When a woman becomes indifferent or critical, and ceases to be an
+inspiration to her husband, he misses the stimulus of their early
+relationship and is restless and unhappy.
+
+A man came to me dejected, miserable and poor. His wife was interested
+in the “Science of Numbers,” and had had him read. It seems the report
+was not very favorable, for he said, “My wife says I’ll never amount to
+anything because I am a two.”
+
+I replied, “I don’t care what your number is, you are a perfect idea in
+divine mind, and we will demand the success and prosperity which are
+_already planned_ for you by that Infinite Intelligence.”
+
+Within a few weeks, he had a very fine position, and a year or two
+later, he achieved a brilliant success as a writer. No man is a success
+in business unless he loves his work. The picture the artist paints
+for love (of his art) is his greatest work. The pot-boiler is always
+something to live down.
+
+No man can attract money if he despises it. Many people are kept in
+poverty by saying: “Money means nothing to me, and I have a contempt
+for people who have it.”
+
+This is the reason so many artists are poor. Their contempt for money
+separates them from it.
+
+I remember hearing one artist say of another, “He’s no good as an
+artist, he has money in the bank.”
+
+This attitude of mind, of course, separates man from his supply; he
+must be in harmony with a thing in order to attract it.
+
+Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from want and limitation, but
+it must be always kept in circulation and put to right uses. Hoarding
+and saving react with grim vengeance.
+
+This does not mean that man should not have houses and lots, stocks and
+bonds, for “the barns of the righteous man shall be full.” It means
+man should not hoard even the principal, if an occasion arises, when
+money is necessary. In letting it go out fearlessly and cheerfully he
+opens the way for more to come in, for God is man’s unfailing and
+inexhaustible supply.
+
+This is the spiritual attitude towards money and the great Bank of the
+Universal never fails!
+
+We see an example of hoarding in the film production of “Greed.” The
+woman won five thousand dollars in a lottery, but would not spend
+it. She hoarded and saved, let her husband suffer and starve, and
+eventually she scrubbed floors for a living.
+
+She loved the money itself and put it above everything, and one night
+she was murdered and the money taken from her.
+
+This is an example of where “love of money is the root of all evil.”
+Money in itself, is good and beneficial, but used for destructive
+purposes, hoarded and saved, or considered more important than love,
+brings disease and disaster, and the loss of the money itself.
+
+Follow the path of love, and all things are added, _for God is love_,
+and _God is supply_; follow the path of selfishness and greed, and the
+supply vanishes, or man is separated from it.
+
+For example; I knew the case of a very rich woman, who hoarded her
+income. She rarely gave anything away, but bought and bought and bought
+things for herself.
+
+She was very fond of necklaces, and a friend once asked her how many
+she possessed. She replied, “Sixty-seven.” She bought them and put them
+away, carefully wrapped in tissue paper. Had she used the necklaces it
+would have been quite legitimate, but she was violating “the law of
+use.” Her closets were filled with clothes she never wore, and jewels
+which never saw the light.
+
+The woman’s arms were gradually becoming paralyzed from holding on to
+things, and eventually she was considered incapable of looking after
+her affairs and her wealth was handed over to others to manage.
+
+So man, in ignorance of the law, brings about his own destruction.
+
+All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of
+love. Man’s boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back
+laden with sickness and sorrow. Love seems almost a lost art, but the
+man with the knowledge of spiritual law knows it must be regained, for
+without it, he has “become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.”
+
+For example: I had a student who came to me, month after month, to
+clean her consciousness of resentment. After a while, she arrived at
+the point where she resented only one woman, but that one woman kept
+her busy. Little by little she became poised and harmonious, and one
+day, all resentment was wiped out.
+
+She came in radiant, and exclaimed “You can’t understand how I feel!
+The woman said something to me and instead of being furious I was
+loving and kind, and she apologized and was perfectly lovely to me.
+
+No one can understand the marvelous lightness I feel within!”
+
+Love and good-will are invaluable in business.
+
+For example: A woman came to me, complaining of her employer. She said
+she was cold and critical and knew she did not want her in the position.
+
+“Well,” I replied, “Salute the Divinity in the woman and send her love.”
+
+She said “I can’t; she’s a marble woman.”
+
+I answered, “You remember the story of the sculptor who asked for a
+certain piece of marble. He was asked why he wanted it, and he replied,
+‘because there is an angel in the marble,’ and out of it he produced a
+wonderful work of art.”
+
+She said, “Very well, I’ll try it.” A week later she came back and
+said, “I did what you told me to, and now the woman is very kind, and
+took me out in her car.”
+
+People are sometimes filled with remorse for having done someone an
+unkindness, perhaps years ago.
+
+If the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be neutralized by doing
+some one a kindness _in the present_.
+
+“This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and
+reaching forth unto those things which are before.”
+
+Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison
+the atmosphere of the individual.
+
+A woman said to me in deep sorrow, “Treat me to be happy and joyous,
+for my sorrow makes me so irritable with the members of my family that
+I keep making more Karma.”
+
+I was asked to treat a woman who was mourning for her daughter. I
+denied all belief in loss and separation, and affirmed that God was the
+woman’s joy, love and peace.
+
+The woman gained her poise at once, but sent word by her son, not to
+treat any longer, because she was “so happy, it wasn’t respectable.”
+
+So “mortal mind” loves to hang on to its griefs and regrets.
+
+I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course,
+she always had something to brag about.
+
+The old idea was if a woman did not worry about her children, she was
+not a good mother.
+
+Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible for many of the diseases
+and accidents which come into the lives of children.
+
+For fear pictures vividly the disease or situation feared, and these
+pictures objectify, if not neutralized.
+
+Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that she puts her child in
+God’s hands, and _knows_ therefore, that he is divinely protected.
+
+For example: A woman awoke suddenly, in the night, feeling her brother
+was in great danger. Instead of giving in to her fears, she commenced
+making statements of Truth, saying, “Man is a perfect idea in Divine
+Mind, and is always in his right place, therefore, my brother is in his
+right place, and is divinely protected.”
+
+The next day she found that her brother had been in close proximity to
+an explosion in a mine, but had miraculously escaped.
+
+So man is his brother’s keeper (in thought) and every man should know
+that the thing he loves dwells in “the secret place of the most high,
+and abides under the shadow of the Almighty.”
+
+“There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh
+thy dwelling.”
+
+“Perfect love casteth out fear. He that feareth is not made perfect in
+love,” and “Love is the fulfilling of the Law.”
+
+
+
+
+INTUITION OR GUIDANCE
+
+ “In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.”
+
+
+There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man who knows the
+power of his word, and who follows his intuitive leads. By the word he
+starts in action unseen forces and can rebuild his body or remold his
+affairs.
+
+It is, therefore, of the utmost importance to choose the right words,
+and the student carefully selects the affirmation he wishes to catapult
+into the invisible.
+
+He knows that God is his supply, that there is a supply for every
+demand, and that his spoken word releases this supply.
+
+“Ask and ye shall receive.”
+
+Man must make the first move. “Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh
+to you.”
+
+I have often been asked just how to make a demonstration.
+
+I reply: “Speak the word and then do not do anything until you get a
+definite lead.” Demand the lead, saying, “Infinite Spirit, reveal to me
+the way, let me know if there is anything for me to do.”
+
+The answer will come through intuition (or hunch); a chance remark from
+someone, or a passage in a book, etc., etc. The answers are sometimes
+quite startling in their exactness. For example: A woman desired a
+large sum of money. She spoke the words: “Infinite Spirit, open the
+way for my immediate supply, let all that is mine by divine right now
+reach me, in great avalanches of abundance.” Then she added: “Give me a
+definite lead, let me know if there is anything for me to do.”
+
+The thought came quickly, “Give a certain friend” (who had helped her
+spiritually) “a hundred dollars.” She told her friend, who said, “Wait
+and get another lead, before giving it.” So she waited, and that day
+met a woman who said to her, “I gave someone a dollar today; it was
+just as much for me, as it would be for you to give someone a hundred.”
+
+This was indeed an unmistakable lead, so she knew she was right
+in giving the hundred dollars. It was a gift which proved a great
+investment, for shortly after that, a large sum of money came to her in
+a remarkable way.
+
+Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to create activity in
+finances, one should give. Tithing or giving one-tenth of one’s income,
+is an old Jewish custom, and is sure to bring increase. Many of the
+richest men in this country have been tithers, and I have never known
+it to fail as an investment.
+
+The tenth-part goes forth and returns blessed and multiplied. But the
+gift or tithe must be given with love and cheerfulness, for “God loveth
+a cheerful giver.” Bills should be paid cheerfully; all money should
+be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.
+
+This attitude of mind makes man master of money. It is his to obey, and
+his spoken word then opens vast reservoirs of wealth.
+
+Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited vision. Sometimes the
+student has a great realization of wealth, but is afraid to act.
+
+The vision and action must go hand in hand, as in the case of the man
+who bought the fur-lined overcoat.
+
+A woman came to me asking me to “speak the word” for a position. So
+I demanded: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for this woman’s right
+position.” Never ask for just “a position”; ask for the right position,
+the place already planned in Divine Mind, as it is the only one that
+will give satisfaction.
+
+I then gave thanks that she had already received, and that it would
+manifest quickly. Very soon, she had three positions offered her,
+two in New York and one in Palm Beach, and she did not know which to
+choose. I said, “Ask for a definite lead.”
+
+The time was almost up and was still undecided, when one day, she
+telephoned, “When I woke up this morning, I could smell Palm Beach.”
+She had been there before and knew its balmy fragrance.
+
+I replied: “Well, if you can smell Palm Beach from here, it is
+certainly your lead.” She accepted the position, and it proved a great
+success. Often one’s lead comes at an unexpected time.
+
+One day, I was walking down the street, when I suddenly felt a strong
+urge to go to a certain bakery, a block or two away.
+
+The reasoning mind resisted, arguing, “There is nothing there that you
+want.”
+
+However, I had learned not to reason, so I went to the bakery, looked
+at everything, and there was certainly nothing there that I wanted, but
+coming out I encountered a woman I had thought of often, and who was in
+great need of the help which I could give her.
+
+So often, one goes for one thing and finds another.
+
+Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply
+_points the way_.
+
+A person often receives a lead during a “treatment.” The idea that
+comes may seem quite irrelevant, but some of God’s leadings are
+“mysterious.”
+
+In the class, one day, I was treating that each individual would
+receive a definite lead. A woman came to me afterwards, and said:
+“While you were treating, I got the hunch to take my furniture out
+of storage and get an apartment.” The woman had come to be treated
+for health. I told her I knew in getting a home of her own, her
+health would improve, and I added, “I believe your trouble, which is
+a congestion, has come from having things stored away. Congestion of
+things causes congestion in the body. You have violated the law of use,
+and your body is paying the penalty.”
+
+So I gave thanks that “_Divine order was established in her mind, body
+and affairs_.”
+
+People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is
+a mental correspondence for every disease. A person might receive
+instantaneous healing through the realization of his body being a
+perfect idea in Divine Mind, and, therefore, whole and perfect, but
+if he continues his destructive thinking, hoarding, hating, fearing,
+condemning, the disease will return.
+
+Jesus Christ knew that all sickness came from sin, but admonished the
+leper after the healing, to go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come
+upon him.
+
+So man’s soul (or subconscious mind) must be washed whiter than snow,
+for permanent healing; and the metaphysician is always delving deep for
+the “correspondence.”
+
+Jesus Christ said, “Condemn not lest ye also be condemned.”
+
+“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”
+
+Many people have attracted disease and unhappiness through condemnation
+of others.
+
+What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.
+
+For example: A friend came to me in anger and distress, because her
+husband had deserted her for another woman. She condemned the other
+woman, and said continually, “She knew he was a married man, and had no
+right to accept his attentions.”
+
+I replied, “Stop condemning the woman, bless her, and be through
+with the situation, otherwise, you are attracting the same thing to
+yourself.”
+
+She was deaf to my words, and a year or two later, became deeply
+interested in a married man, herself.
+
+Man picks up a live-wire whenever he criticises or condemns, and may
+expect a shock.
+
+Indecision is a stumbling-block in many a pathway. In order to
+overcome it, make the statement, repeatedly, “_I am always under direct
+inspiration; I make right decisions, quickly._”
+
+These words impress the subconscious, and soon one finds himself awake
+and alert, making his right moves without hesitation. I have found it
+destructive to look to the psychic plane for guidance, as it is the
+plane of many minds and not “The One Mind.”
+
+As man opens his mind to subjectivity, he becomes a target for
+destructive forces. The psychic plane is the result of man’s mortal
+thought, and is on the “plane of opposites.” He may receive either good
+or bad messages.
+
+The science of numbers and the reading of horoscopes, keep man down on
+the mental (or mortal) plane, for they deal only with the Karmic path.
+
+I know of a man who should have been dead, years ago, according to his
+horoscope, but he is alive and a leader of one of the biggest movements
+in this country for the uplift of humanity.
+
+It takes a very strong mind to neutralize a prophecy of evil. The
+student should declare, “Every false prophecy shall come to naught;
+every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved and
+dissipated, the divine idea now comes to pass.”
+
+However, if any good message has ever been given one, of coming
+happiness, or wealth, harbor and expect it, and it will manifest sooner
+or later, through the law of expectancy.
+
+Man’s will should be used to back the universal will. “I will that the
+will of God be done.”
+
+It is God’s will to give every man, every righteous desire of his
+heart, and man’s will should be used to hold the perfect vision,
+without wavering.
+
+The prodigal son said: “I will arise and go to my Father.”
+
+It is, indeed, often an effort of the will to leave the husks and swine
+of mortal thinking. It is so much easier, for the average person, to
+have fear than faith; _so faith is an effort of the will_.
+
+As man becomes spiritually awakened he recognizes that any external
+inharmony is the correspondence of mental inharmony. If he stumbles or
+falls, he may know he is stumbling or falling in consciousness.
+
+One day, a student was walking along the street condemning someone
+in her thoughts. She was saying, mentally, “That woman is the most
+disagreeable woman on earth,” when suddenly three boy scouts rushed
+around the corner and almost knocked her over. She did not condemn
+the boy scouts, but immediately called on the law of forgiveness,
+and “saluted the divinity” in the woman. Wisdom’s ways are ways of
+pleasantness and all her paths are peace.
+
+When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for
+surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it
+is going right.
+
+For example: A woman was told that there was no loss in divine mind,
+therefore, she could not lose anything which belonged to her; anything
+lost, would be returned, or she would receive its equivalent.
+
+Several years previously, she had lost two thousand dollars. She had
+loaned the money to a relative during her lifetime, but the relative
+had died, leaving no mention of it in her will. The woman was resentful
+and angry, and as she had no written statement of the transaction,
+she never received the money, so she determined to deny the loss, and
+collect the two thousand dollars from the Bank of the Universal. She
+had to begin by forgiving the woman, as resentment and unforgiveness
+close the doors of this wonderful bank.
+
+She made this statement, “I deny loss, there is no loss in Divine Mind,
+therefore, I cannot lose the two thousand dollars, which belong to me
+by divine right.” “_As one door shuts another door opens._”
+
+She was living in an apartment house which was for sale; and in the
+lease was a clause, stating that if the house was sold, the tenants
+would be required to move out within ninety days.
+
+Suddenly, the landlord broke the leases and raised the rent. Again,
+injustice was on her pathway, but this time she was undisturbed. She
+blessed the landlord, and said, “As the rent has been raised, it means
+that I’ll be that much richer, for God is my supply.”
+
+New leases were made out for the advanced rent, but by some divine
+mistake, the ninety days clause had been forgotten. Soon after, the
+landlord had an opportunity to sell the house. On account of the
+mistake in the new leases, the tenants held possession for another year.
+
+The agent offered each tenant two hundred dollars if he would vacate.
+Several families moved; three remained, including the woman. A month
+or two passed, and the agent again appeared. This time he said to
+the woman, “Will you break your lease for the sum of fifteen hundred
+dollars?” It flashed upon her, “Here comes the two thousand dollars.”
+She remembered having said to friends in the house, “We will all act
+together if anything more is said about leaving.” So her _lead_ was to
+consult her friends.
+
+These friends said: “Well, if they have offered you fifteen hundred
+they will certainly give two thousand.” So she received a check for
+two thousand dollars for giving up the apartment. It was certainly a
+remarkable working of the law, and the apparent injustice was merely
+opening the way for her demonstration.
+
+It proved that there is no loss, and when man takes his spiritual
+stand, he collects all that is his from this great Reservoir of Good.
+
+“I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten.”
+
+The locusts are the doubts, fears, resentments and regrets of mortal
+thinking.
+
+These adverse thoughts, alone, rob man; for “No man gives to himself
+but himself, and no man takes away from himself, but himself.”
+
+Man is here to prove God and “to bear witness to the truth,” and he
+can only prove God by bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of
+injustice.
+
+“Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you
+the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be
+room enough to receive it.”
+
+
+
+
+PERFECT SELF-EXPRESSION
+
+or
+
+THE DIVINE DESIGN
+
+    “No wind can drive my bark astray
+    nor change the tide of destiny.”
+
+
+There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which
+he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do,
+which no one else can do; it is his destiny!
+
+This achievement is held, a perfect idea in Divine Mind, awaiting man’s
+recognition. As the imaging faculty is the creative faculty, it is
+necessary for man to see the idea, before it can manifest.
+
+So man’s highest demand is for the _Divine Design of his life_.
+
+He may not have the faintest conception of what it is, for there is,
+possibly, some marvelous talent, hidden deep within him.
+
+His demand should be: “_Infinite Spirit, open the way for the Divine
+Design of my life to manifest; let the genius within me now be
+released; let me see clearly the perfect plan._”
+
+The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love and perfect
+self-expression. This is the _square of life_, which brings perfect
+happiness. When one has made this demand, he may find great changes
+taking place in his life, for nearly every man has wandered far from
+the Divine Design.
+
+I know, in one woman’s case, it was as though a cyclone had struck
+her affairs, but readjustments came quickly, and new and wonderful
+conditions took the place of old ones.
+
+Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing
+interest that it will seem almost like play. The student knows, also,
+as man comes into the world financed by God, the _supply_ needed for
+his perfect self-expression will be at hand.
+
+Many a genius has struggled for years with the problem of supply, when
+his spoken word, and faith, would have released quickly, the necessary
+funds.
+
+For example: After the class, one day, a man came to me and handed me a
+cent.
+
+He said: “I have just seven cents in the world, and I’m going to give
+you one; for I have faith in the power of your spoken word. I want you
+to speak the word for my perfect self-expression and prosperity.”
+
+I “spoke the word,” and did not see him again until a year later. He
+came in one day, successful and happy, with a roll of yellow bills in
+his pocket. He said, “Immediately after you spoke the word, I had a
+position offered me in a distant city, and am now demonstrating health,
+happiness and supply.”
+
+A woman’s perfect self-expression may be in becoming a perfect wife,
+a perfect mother, a perfect home-maker and not necessarily in having a
+public career.
+
+Demand definite leads, and the way will be made easy and successful.
+
+One should not visualize or force a mental picture. When he demands
+the Divine Design to come into his conscious mind, he will receive
+flashes of inspiration, and begin to see himself making some great
+accomplishment. This is the picture, or idea, he must hold without
+wavering.
+
+The thing man seeks is seeking him—_the telephone was seeking Bell_!
+
+Parents should never force careers and professions upon their children.
+With a knowledge of spiritual Truth, the Divine Plan could be spoken
+for, early in childhood, or prenatally.
+
+A prenatal treatment should be: “Let the God in this child have perfect
+expression; let the Divine Design of his mind, body and affairs be made
+manifest throughout his life, throughout eternity.”
+
+_God’s will be done, not man’s; God’s pattern, not man’s_ pattern, is
+the command we find running through all the scriptures, and the Bible
+is a book dealing with the science of the mind. It is a book telling
+man how to release his soul (or subconscious mind) from bondage.
+
+The battles described are pictures of man waging war against mortal
+thoughts. “A man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” Every
+man is Jehoshaphat, and every man is David, who slays Goliath (mortal
+thinking) with the little white stone (faith).
+
+So man must be careful that he is not the “wicked and slothful servant”
+who buried his talent. There is a terrible penalty to be paid for not
+using one’s ability.
+
+Often fear stands between man and his perfect self-expression.
+Stage-fright has hampered many a genius. This may be overcome
+by the spoken word, or treatment. The individual then loses all
+self-consciousness, and feels simply that he is a channel for Infinite
+Intelligence to express Itself through.
+
+He is under direct inspiration, fearless, and confident; for he feels
+that it is the “Father within” him who does the work.
+
+A young boy came often to my class with his mother. He asked me to
+“speak the word” for his coming examinations at school.
+
+I told him to make the statement: “I am one with Infinite Intelligence.
+I know everything I should know on this subject.” He had an excellent
+knowledge of history, but was not sure of his arithmetic. I saw him
+afterwards, and he said: “I spoke the word for my arithmetic, and
+passed with the highest honors; but thought I could depend on myself
+for history, and got a very poor mark.” Man often receives a set-back
+when he is “too sure of himself,” which means he is trusting to his
+personality and not the “Father within.”
+
+Another one of my students gave me an example of this. She took an
+extended trip abroad one summer, visiting many countries, where she was
+ignorant of the languages. She was calling for guidance and protection
+every minute, and her affairs went smoothly and miraculously. Her
+luggage was never delayed nor lost! Accommodations were always ready
+for her at the best hotels; and she had perfect service wherever she
+went. She returned to New York. Knowing the language, she felt God was
+no longer necessary, so looked after her affairs in an ordinary manner.
+
+_Everything went wrong_, her trunks delayed, amid inharmony and
+confusion. The student must form the habit of “practicing the Presence
+of God” every minute. “_In all thy ways acknowledge him_;” nothing is
+too small or too great.
+
+Sometimes an insignificant incident may be the turning point in a man’s
+life.
+
+Robert Fulton, watching some boiling water, simmering in a tea kettle,
+saw a steamboat!
+
+I have seen a student, often, keep back his demonstration, through
+resistance, or pointing the way.
+
+He pins his faith to one channel only, and dictates just the way he
+desires the manifestation to come, which brings things to a standstill.
+
+“_My way, not your way!_” is the command of Infinite Intelligence. Like
+all Power, be it steam or electricity, it must have a nonresistant
+engine or instrument to work through, and man is that engine or
+instrument.
+
+Over and over again, man is told to “stand still”. “Oh Judah, fear not;
+but tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord will be with you. You
+shall not need to fight this battle; set yourselves, stand ye still,
+and see the salvation of the Lord with you.”
+
+We see this in the incidents of the two thousand dollars coming to
+the woman through the landlord when she became _nonresistant_ and
+_undisturbed_, and the woman who won the man’s love “after all
+suffering had ceased.”
+
+The student’s goal is _Poise!_ _Poise_ is _Power_, for it gives
+God-Power a chance to rush through man, to “will and to do Its good
+pleasure.”
+
+Poised, he thinks clearly, and makes “right decisions quickly.” “He
+never misses a trick.”
+
+Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the root of many
+diseases, and causes wrong decision leading to failure.
+
+It has been named one of the worst “sins,” as its reaction is so
+harmful. The student learns that in metaphysics sin has a much broader
+meaning than in the old teaching. “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”
+
+He finds that fear and worry are deadly sins. They are inverted faith,
+and through distorted mental pictures, bring to pass the thing he
+fears. His work is to drive out these enemies (from the subconscious
+mind). “When Man is _fearless he is finished_!” Maeterlinck says, that
+“Man is God afraid.”
+
+So, as we read in the previous chapters: Man can only vanquish fear by
+walking up to the thing he is afraid of. When Jehoshaphat and his army
+prepared to meet the enemy, singing “Praise the Lord, for his mercy
+endureth forever,” they found their enemies had destroyed each other,
+and there was nothing to fight.
+
+For example: A woman asked a friend to deliver a message to another
+friend. The woman feared to give the message, as the reasoning mind
+said, “Don’t get mixed-up in this affair, don’t give that message.”
+
+She was troubled in spirit, for she had given her promise. At last,
+she determined to “walk up to the lion,” and call on the law of divine
+protection. She met the friend to whom she was to deliver the message.
+She opened her mouth to speak it, when her friend said, “So-and-So
+has left town.” This made it unnecessary to give the message, as the
+situation depended upon the person being in town. As she was willing
+to do it, she was not obliged to; as she did not fear, the situation
+vanished.
+
+The student often delays his demonstration through a belief in
+incompletion. He should make this statement:
+
+“In Divine Mind there is only completion, therefore, my demonstration
+is completed. My perfect work, my perfect home, my perfect health.”
+Whatever he demands are perfect ideas registered in Divine Mind, and
+must manifest, “under grace in a perfect way.” He gives thanks he has
+already received on the invisible, and makes active preparation for
+receiving on the visible.
+
+One of my students was in need of a financial demonstration. She came
+to me and asked why it was not completed.
+
+I replied: “Perhaps, you are in the habit of leaving things unfinished,
+and the subconscious has gotten into the habit of not completing (as
+the without, so the within).”
+
+She said, “You are right. I often _begin things_ and never finish them.”
+
+“I’ll go home and finish something I commenced weeks ago, and I know it
+will be symbolic of my demonstration.”
+
+So she sewed assiduously, and the article was soon completed. Shortly
+after, the money came in a most curious manner.
+
+Her husband was paid his salary twice that month. He told the people of
+their mistake, and they sent word to keep it.
+
+When man asks, _believing, he must receive, for God creates His own
+channels_!
+
+I have been sometimes asked, “Suppose one has several talents, how is
+he to know which one to choose?” Demand to be shown definitely. Say:
+“Infinite Spirit, give me a definite lead, reveal to me my perfect
+self-expression, show me which talent I am to make use of now.”
+
+I have known people to suddenly enter a new line of work, and be fully
+equipped, with little or no training. So make the statement: “_I am
+fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life_,” and be fearless in
+grasping opportunities.
+
+Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers. They refuse
+gifts through pride, or some negative reason, thereby blocking their
+channels, and invariably find themselves eventually with little or
+nothing. For example: A woman who had given away a great deal of money,
+had a gift offered her of several thousand dollars. She refused to take
+it, saying she did not need it. Shortly after that, her finances were
+“tied up,” and she found herself in debt for that amount. Man should
+receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water—freely ye
+have given, freely ye shall receive.
+
+There is always the perfect balance of giving and receiving, and
+though man should give without thinking of returns, he violates law if
+he does not accept the returns which come to him; for all gifts are
+from God, man being merely the channel.
+
+A thought of lack should never be held over the giver.
+
+For example: When the man gave me the one cent, I did not say: “Poor
+man, he cannot afford to give me that.” I saw him rich and prosperous,
+with his supply pouring in. It was this thought which brought it.
+If one has been a bad receiver, he must become a good one, and take
+even a postage stamp if it is given him, and open up his channels for
+receiving.
+
+The Lord loveth a cheerful receiver, as well as a cheerful giver.
+
+I have often been asked why one man is born rich and healthy, and
+another poor and sick.
+
+Where there is an effect there is always a cause; there is no such
+thing as chance.
+
+This question is answered through the law of reincarnation. Man goes
+through many births and deaths, until he knows the truth which sets him
+free.
+
+He is drawn back to the earth plane through unsatisfied desire, to pay
+his Karmic debts, or to “fulfill his destiny.”
+
+The man born rich and healthy has had pictures in his subconscious
+mind, in his past life, of health and riches; and the poor and sick
+man, of disease and poverty. Man manifests, on any plane, the sum total
+of his subconscious beliefs.
+
+However, birth and death are man-made laws, for the “wages of sin is
+death”; the Adamic fall in consciousness through the belief in _two
+powers_. The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He
+never was born and has never died—“As he was in the beginning, he is
+now, and ever shall be!”
+
+So through the truth, man is set free from the law of Karma, sin
+and death, and manifests the man made in “His image and likeness.”
+Man’s freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny, bringing into
+manifestation the Divine Design of his life.
+
+His lord will say unto him: “Well done thou good and faithful servant,
+thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler
+over many things (death itself); enter thou into the joy of thy Lord
+(eternal life).”
+
+
+
+
+DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS
+
+
+“Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.”
+
+All the good that is to be made manifest in man’s life is already
+an accomplished fact in divine mind, and is released through man’s
+recognition, or spoken word, so he must be careful to decree that only
+the Divine Idea be made manifest, for often, he decrees, through his
+“idle words,” failure or misfortune.
+
+It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, to word one’s demands
+correctly, as stated in a previous chapter.
+
+If one desires a home, friend, position or any other good thing, make
+the demand for the “divine selection.”
+
+For example: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for my right home, my right
+friend, my right position. I give thanks _it now manifests under grace
+in a perfect way_.”
+
+The latter part of the statement is most important. For example: I
+knew a woman who demanded a thousand dollars. Her daughter was injured
+and they received a thousand dollars indemnity, so it did not come
+in a “perfect way.” The demand should have been worded in this way:
+“Infinite Spirit, I give thanks that the one thousand dollars, which is
+mine by divine right, is now released, and reaches me under grace, in a
+perfect way.”
+
+As one grows in a financial consciousness, he should demand that the
+enormous sums of money, which are his by divine right, reach him under
+grace, in perfect ways.
+
+It is impossible for man to release more than he thinks is possible,
+for one is bound by the limited expectancies of the subconscious. He
+must enlarge his expectancies in order to receive in a larger way.
+
+Man so often limits himself in his demands. For example: A student made
+the demand for six hundred dollars, by a certain date. He did receive
+it, but heard afterwards, that he came very near receiving a thousand
+dollars, but he was given just six hundred, as the result of his spoken
+word.
+
+“They limited the Holy One of Israel.” Wealth is a matter of
+consciousness. The French have a legend giving an example of this. A
+poor man was walking along a road when he met a traveler, who stopped
+him and said: “My good friend, I see you are poor. Take this gold
+nugget, sell it, and you will be rich all your days.”
+
+The man was overjoyed at his good fortune, and took the nugget home. He
+immediately found work and became so prosperous that he did not sell
+the nugget. Years passed, and he became a very rich man. One day he met
+a poor man on the road. He stopped him and said: “My good friend, I
+will give you this gold nugget, which, if you sell, will make you rich
+for life.” The mendicant took the nugget, had it valued, and found it
+was only brass. So we see, the first man became rich through feeling
+rich, thinking the nugget was gold.
+
+Every man has within himself a gold nugget; _it is his consciousness of
+gold, of opulence, which brings riches into his life_. In making his
+demands, man begins at his _journey’s end_, that is, he declares _he
+has already received_. “_Before_ ye call I shall answer.”
+
+Continually affirming establishes the belief in the subconscious.
+
+It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one
+had perfect faith! One should not plead or supplicate, but give thanks
+repeatedly, that he has received.
+
+“The desert shall _rejoice_ and blossom as the rose.” This rejoicing
+which is yet in the desert (state of consciousness) opens the way
+for release. The Lord’s Prayer is in the form of command and demand,
+“Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we
+forgive our debtors,” and ends in praise, “For thine is the Kingdom
+and the Power and the Glory, forever. Amen.” “Concerning the works of
+my hands, command ye me.” So prayer is command and demand, praise and
+thanksgiving. The student’s work is in making himself believe that
+“with God all things are possible.”
+
+This is easy enough to state in the abstract, but a little more
+difficult when confronted with a problem. For example: It was
+necessary for a woman to demonstrate a large sum of money within a
+stated time. She knew she must _do something_ to get a realization (for
+realization is manifestation), and she demanded a “lead.”
+
+She was walking through a department store, when she saw a very
+beautiful pink enamel papercutter. She felt the “pull” towards it. The
+thought came. “I haven’t a paper cutter good enough to open letters
+containing large cheques.”
+
+So she bought the papercutter, which the reasoning mind would have
+called an extravagance. When she held it in her hand, she had a flash
+of a picture of herself opening an envelope containing a large cheque,
+and in a few weeks, she received the money. The pink papercutter was
+her bridge of active faith.
+
+Many stories are told of the power of the subconscious when directed in
+faith.
+
+For example: A man was spending the night in a farmhouse. The windows
+of the room had been nailed down, and in the middle of the night he
+felt suffocated and made his way in the dark to the window. He could
+not open it, so he smashed the pane with his fist, drew in draughts of
+fine fresh air, and had a wonderful night’s sleep.
+
+The next morning, he found he had smashed the glass of a bookcase and
+the window had remained closed during the whole night. He had _supplied
+himself with oxygen, simply by his thought of oxygen_.
+
+When a student starts out to demonstrate, he should never turn back.
+“Let not that man who wavers think that he shall receive anything of
+the Lord.”
+
+A colored student once made this wonderful statement, “When I asks
+the Father for anything, I puts my foot down, and I says: Father,
+I’ll take nothing less than I’ve asked for, but more!” So man should
+never compromise: “Having done all—Stand.” This is sometimes the most
+difficult time of demonstrating. The temptation comes to give up, to
+turn back, to compromise.
+
+“He also serves who only stands and waits.”
+
+Demonstrations often come at the eleventh hour because man then lets
+go, that is, stops reasoning, and Infinite Intelligence has a chance to
+work.
+
+“Man’s dreary desires are answered drearily, and his impatient desires,
+long delayed or violently fulfilled.”
+
+For example: A woman asked me why it was she was constantly losing or
+breaking her glasses.
+
+We found she often said to herself and others with vexation, “I wish
+I could get rid of my glasses.” So her impatient desire was violently
+fulfilled. What she should have demanded was perfect eye-sight, but
+what she registered in the subconscious was simply the impatient desire
+to be rid of her glasses; so they were continually being broken or lost.
+
+Two attitudes of mind cause loss: depreciation, as in the case of the
+woman who did not appreciate her husband, _or fear of loss_, which
+makes a picture of loss in the subconscious.
+
+When a student is able to let go of his problem (cast his burden) he
+will have instantaneous manifestation.
+
+For example: A woman was out during a very stormy day and her umbrella
+was blown inside-out. She was about to make a call on some people whom
+she had never met and she did not wish to make her first appearance
+with a dilapidated umbrella. She could not throw it away, as it did not
+belong to her. So in desperation, she exclaimed: “Oh, God, you take
+charge of this umbrella, I don’t know what to do.”
+
+A moment later, a voice behind her said: “Lady, do you want your
+umbrella mended?” There stood an umbrella mender.
+
+She replied, “Indeed, I do.”
+
+The man mended the umbrella, while she went into the house to pay her
+call, and when she returned, she had a good umbrella. So there is
+always an umbrella mender at hand, on man’s pathway, when one puts the
+umbrella (or situation) in God’s Hands.
+
+One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.
+
+For example: I was called on the ’phone late one night to treat a
+man whom I had never seen. He was apparently very ill. I made the
+statement: “I deny this appearance of disease. It is unreal, therefore
+cannot register in his consciousness; this man is a perfect idea in
+Divine Mind, pure substance expressing perfection.”
+
+There is no time or space, in Divine Mind, therefore the word reaches
+instantly its destination and does not “return void.” I have treated
+patients in Europe and have found that the result was instantaneous.
+
+I am asked so often the difference between visualizing and visioning.
+Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious
+mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the
+superconscious mind. The student should train his mind to receive
+these flashes of inspiration, and work out the “divine pictures,”
+through definite leads. When a man can say, “I desire only that which
+God desires for me,” his false desires fade from the consciousness,
+and a new set of blueprints is given him by the Master Architect, the
+God within. God’s plan for each man transcends the limitation of the
+reasoning mind, and is always the square of life, containing health,
+wealth, love and perfect self-expression. Many a man is building for
+himself in imagination a bungalow when he should be building a palace.
+
+If a student tries to force a demonstration (through the reasoning
+mind) he brings it to a standstill. “I will hasten it,” saith the Lord.
+He should act only through intuition, or definite leads. “Rest in the
+Lord and wait patiently. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to
+pass.”
+
+I have seen the law work in the most astonishing manner. For example: A
+student stated that it was necessary for her to have a hundred dollars
+by the following day. It was a debt of vital importance which had to be
+met. I “spoke the word,” declaring Spirit was “never too late” and that
+the supply was at hand.
+
+That evening she phoned me of the miracle. She said that the thought
+came to her to go to her safe-deposit box at the bank to examine some
+papers. She looked over the papers, and at the bottom of the box, was
+a new one hundred dollar-bill. She was astounded, and said she knew
+she had never put it there, for she had gone through the papers many
+times. It may have been a materialization, as Jesus Christ materialized
+the loaves and fishes. Man will reach the stage where his “word is
+made flesh,” or materialized, instantly. “The fields, ripe with the
+harvest,” will manifest immediately, as in all of the miracles of Jesus
+Christ.
+
+There is a tremendous power alone in the name Jesus Christ. It stands
+for _Truth Made Manifest_. He said, “Whatsoever ye ask the Father, in
+my name, he will give it to you.”
+
+The power of this name raises the student into the fourth dimension,
+where he is freed from all astral and psychic influences, and he
+becomes “unconditioned and absolute, as God Himself is unconditioned
+and absolute.”
+
+I have seen many healings accomplished by using the words, “In the name
+of Jesus Christ.”
+
+Christ was both person and principle; and the Christ within each man is
+his Redeemer and Salvation.
+
+The Christ within, is his own fourth dimensional self, the man made
+in God’s image and likeness. This is the self which has never failed,
+never known sickness or sorrow, was never born and has never died. It
+is the “resurrection and the life” of each man! “No man cometh to the
+Father save by the Son,” means, that God, the Universal, working on
+the place of the particular, becomes the Christ in man; and the Holy
+Ghost, means God-in-action. So daily, man is manifesting the Trinity of
+Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
+
+Man should make an art of thinking. The Master Thinker is an artist
+and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his
+mind; and he paints these pictures with masterly strokes of power and
+decision, having perfect faith that there is no power to mar their
+perfection and that they shall manifest in his life the ideal made real.
+
+All power is given man (through right thinking) to bring _his heaven_
+upon _his earth_, and this is the _goal of the_ “_Game of Life_.”
+
+The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!
+
+May each reader be now freed from that thing which has held him in
+bondage through the ages, standing between him and his own, and “know
+the Truth which makes him free”—free to fulfill his destiny, to bring
+into manifestation the “_Divine Design of his life_, Health, Wealth,
+Love and Perfect Self-Expression.” “Be ye transformed by the renewing
+of your mind.”
+
+
+(For Prosperity)
+
+God is my unfailing supply, and large sums of money come to me quickly,
+under grace, in perfect ways.
+
+
+(For Right Conditions)
+
+Every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved and
+dissipated, and the Divine Idea now comes to pass.
+
+
+(For Right Conditions)
+
+Only that which is true of God is true of me, for I and the Father are
+ONE.
+
+
+(For Faith)
+
+As I am one with God, I am one with my good, for God is both the
+_Giver_ and the _Gift_. I cannot separate the _Giver_ from the gift.
+
+
+(For Right Conditions)
+
+Divine Love now dissolves and dissipates every wrong condition in my
+mind, body and affairs. Divine Love is the most powerful chemical in
+the universe, and _dissolves everything_ which is not of itself!
+
+
+(For Health)
+
+Divine Love floods my consciousness with health, and every cell in my
+body is filled with light.
+
+
+(For the Eyesight)
+
+My eyes are God’s eyes, I see with the eyes of spirit. I see clearly
+the open way; there are no obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the
+perfect plan.
+
+
+(For Guidance)
+
+I am divinely sensitive to my intuitive leads, and give instant
+obedience to Thy will.
+
+
+(For the Hearing)
+
+My ears are God’s ears, I hear with the ears of spirit. I am
+nonresistant and am willing to be led. I hear glad tidings of great joy.
+
+
+(For Right Work)
+
+    _I have a perfect work
+      In a perfect way;
+    I give a perfect service
+      For perfect pay._
+
+
+(For Freedom from all Bondage)
+
+_I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free!_
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Decoration]
+
+  “_One secret
+  of her success was that
+  she was always herself ... colloquial,
+  informal, friendly, and humorous.
+  She herself was very spiritual ...
+  and taught by familiar, practical, and
+  everyday examples._”
+
+[Illustration: Decoration]
+
+EMMET FOX
+
+—_On Florence Scovel Shinn_—
+
+
+Books by _FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN_
+
+  THE GAME OF LIFE & HOW TO PLAY IT
+  THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD
+  YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND
+  THE SECRET DOOR TO SUCCESS
+  THE WRITINGS OF FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN (_1 Vol. Edition_)
+  THE GAME OF LIFE—_Cassette Tape_
+
+
+  DEVORSS & COMPANY, _Publishers_
+  Marina del Rey, California 90294-0550
+
+
+
+
+  Transcriber’s Notes
+
+  pg 8 Changed: victim of distorted imagiation.
+            to: victim of distorted imagination.
+
+  pg 86 Changed: the Holy One of Isreal
+             to: the Holy One of Israel
+
+
+
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-<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 74878 ***</div>

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-

-<h1>THE GAME OF LIFE<br><br>

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-<span class="fs80">AND HOW TO PLAY IT</span></h1>

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-<br><br>

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-<p class="center no-indent fs120">By<br>

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-FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN</p>

-<br><br>

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-<p class="center no-indent fs90">DeVorss &amp; Company<br>

-P. O. Box 550<br>

-Marina del Rey, California 90294

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-<div class="chapter">

-<p class="center no-indent fs80">

-Copyright 1925 by<br>

-Florence Scovel Shinn<br>

-</p>

-</div>

-<br>

-<p class="center no-indent fs80">ISBN: 0-87516-257-6</p>

-<br>

-<br>

-<p class="center no-indent fs80">Printed in the United States of America</p>

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-<div class="chapter">

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2>

-</div>

-

-

-<table class="autotable">

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Game</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Law of Prosperity</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Power of the Word</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Law of Nonresistance</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Casting the Burden (Impressing the Subconscious)</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Love</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Intuition or Guidance</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Perfect Self-Expression or the Divine Design</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td>

-</tr>

-<tr>

-<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Denials and Affirmations</span></td>

-<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td>

-</tr>

-</table>

-

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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

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-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_GAME">THE GAME</h2>

-</div>

-

-

-<p>Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a

-battle, it is a game.</p>

-

-<p>It is a game, however, which cannot be played

-successfully without the knowledge of spiritual

-law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the

-rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Jesus

-Christ taught that it was a great game of <em>Giving

-and Receiving</em>.</p>

-

-<p>“Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also

-reap.” This means that whatever man sends out in

-word or deed, will return to him; what he gives, he

-will receive.</p>

-

-<p>If he gives hate, he will receive hate; if he gives

-love, he will receive love; if he gives criticism, he

-will receive criticism; if he lies he will be lied to; if

-he cheats he will be cheated. We are taught also,

-that the imaging faculty plays a leading part in

-the game of life.</p>

-

-<p>“Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence,

-for out of it are the issues of life.” (Prov.

-4:23.)</p>

-

-<p>This means that what man images, sooner or

-later externalizes in his affairs. I know of a man<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span>

-who feared a certain disease. It was a very rare

-disease and difficult to get, but he pictured it continually

-and read about it until it manifested in his

-body, and he died, the victim of distorted imagination.</p>

-

-<p>So we see, to play successfully the game of life,

-we must train the imaging faculty. A person with

-an imaging faculty trained to image only good,

-brings into his life “every righteous desire of his

-heart”—health, wealth, love, friends, perfect self-expression,

-his highest ideals.</p>

-

-<p>The imagination has been called, “<em>The Scissors

-of The Mind</em>,” and it is ever cutting, cutting, day

-by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or

-later he meets his own creations in his outer world.

-To train the imagination successfully, man must

-understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks

-said: “Know Thyself.”</p>

-

-<p>There are three departments of the mind, the

-<em>subconscious, conscious and superconscious</em>. The

-subconscious, is simply power, without direction.

-It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is

-directed to do; it has no power of induction.</p>

-

-<p>Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is

-impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried

-out in minutest detail.</p>

-

-<p>For example: a woman I know, when a child,

-always “made believe” she was a widow. She

-“dressed up” in black clothes and wore a long

-black veil, and people thought she was very clever

-and amusing. She grew up and married a man

-with whom she was deeply in love. In a short time

-he died and she wore black and a sweeping veil for<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span>

-many years. The picture of herself as a widow was

-impressed upon the subconscious mind, and in

-due time worked itself out, regardless of the havoc

-created.</p>

-

-<p>The conscious mind has been called mortal or

-carnal mind.</p>

-

-<p>It is the human mind and sees life as it <em>appears

-to be</em>. It sees death, disaster, sickness, poverty and

-limitation of every kind, and it impresses the subconscious.</p>

-

-<p>The <em>superconscious</em> mind is the God Mind within

-each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.</p>

-

-<p>In it, is the “<em>perfect pattern</em>” spoken of by Plato,

-<em>The Divine Design</em>; for there is a <em>Divine Design</em> for

-each person.</p>

-

-<p>“<em>There is a place that you are to fill and no one

-else can fill, something you are to do, which no

-one else can do.</em>”</p>

-

-<p>There is a perfect picture of this in the <em>superconscious

-mind</em>. It usually flashes across the conscious

-as an unattainable ideal—“something too

-good to be true.”</p>

-

-<p>In reality it is man’s true destiny (or destination)

-flashed to him from the Infinite Intelligence which

-is <em>within himself</em>.</p>

-

-<p>Many people, however, are in ignorance of their

-true destinies and are striving for things and situations

-which do not belong to them, and would

-only bring failure and dissatisfaction if attained.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman came to me and asked

-me to “speak the word” that she would marry a

-certain man with whom she was very much in love.

-(She called him A. B.)</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span></p>

-

-<p>I replied that this would be a violation of spiritual

-law, but that I would speak the word for the

-right man, the “divine selection,” the man who

-belonged to her by divine right.</p>

-

-<p>I added, “If A. B. is the right man you can’t lose

-him, and if he isn’t, you will receive his equivalent.”

-She saw A. B. frequently but no headway

-was made in their friendship. One evening she

-called, and said, “Do you know, for the last week,

-A. B. hasn’t seemed so wonderful to me.” I replied,

-“Maybe he is not the divine selection—another

-man may be the right one.” Soon after

-that, she met another man who fell in love with

-her at once, and who said she was his ideal. In

-fact, he said all the things that she had always

-wished A. B. would say to her.</p>

-

-<p>She remarked, “It was quite uncanny.”</p>

-

-<p>She soon returned his love, and lost all interest

-in A. B.</p>

-

-<p>This shows the law of substitution. A right idea

-was substituted for a wrong one, therefore there

-was no loss or sacrifice involved.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of

-God and his righteousness; and all these things

-shall be added unto you,” and he said the Kingdom

-<em>was within man</em>.</p>

-

-<p>The Kingdom is the realm of <em>right ideas</em>, or the

-divine pattern.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ taught that man’s words played a

-leading part in the game of life. “By your words ye

-are justified and by your words ye are condemned.”</p>

-

-<p>Many people have brought disaster into their

-lives through idle words.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span></p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman once asked me why her

-life was now one of poverty of limitation. Formerly

-she had a home, was surrounded by beautiful

-things and had plenty of money. We found she

-had often tired of the management of her home,

-and had said repeatedly, “I’m sick and tired of

-things—I wish I lived in a trunk,” and she added:

-“Today I am living in that trunk.” She had spoken

-herself into a trunk. The subconscious mind has

-no sense of humor and people often joke themselves

-into unhappy experiences.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman who had a great deal of

-money, joked continually about “getting ready for

-the poorhouse.”</p>

-

-<p>In a few years she was almost destitute, having

-impressed the subconscious mind with a picture of

-lack and limitation.</p>

-

-<p>Fortunately the law works both ways, and a

-situation of lack may be changed to one of plenty.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman came to me one hot

-summer’s day for a “treatment” for prosperity.

-She was worn out, dejected and discouraged. She

-said she possessed just eight dollars in the world. I

-said, “Good, we’ll bless the eight dollars and multiply

-them as Jesus Christ multiplied the loaves

-and the fishes,” for He taught that <em>every man</em> had

-the power to bless and to multiply, to heal and to

-prosper.</p>

-

-<p>She said, “What shall I do next?”</p>

-

-<p>I replied, “Follow intuition. Have you a ‘hunch’

-to do anything, or to go anywhere?” Intuition

-means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is

-man’s unerring guide, and I will deal more fully

-with its laws in a following chapter.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p>

-

-<p>The woman replied: “I don’t know—I seem to

-have a ‘hunch’ to go home; I’ve just enough money

-for carfare.” Her home was in a distant city and

-was one of lack and limitation, and the reasoning

-mind (or intellect) would have said: “Stay in New

-York and get work and make some money.” I

-replied, “Then go home—never violate a hunch.”

-I spoke the following words for her: “<em>Infinite Spirit

-open the way for great abundance for ——. She is

-an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to her by

-divine right.</em>” I told her to repeat it continually

-also. She left for home immediately. In calling on

-a woman one day, she linked up with an old friend

-of her family.</p>

-

-<p>Through this friend, she received thousands of

-dollars in a most miraculous way. She has said to

-me often, “Tell people about the woman who

-came to you with eight dollars and a hunch.”</p>

-

-<p>There is always <em>plenty on man’s pathway</em>; but it

-can only be <em>brought into manifestation</em> through

-desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus Christ

-brought out clearly that man must make the <em>first

-move</em>.</p>

-

-<p>“<em>Ask</em>, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye

-shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

-(Mat. 7:7.)</p>

-

-<p>In the Scriptures we read:</p>

-

-<p>“Concerning the works of my hands, command

-ye me.”</p>

-

-<p>Infinite Intelligence, God, is ever ready to carry

-out man’s smallest or greatest demands.</p>

-

-<p>Every desire, uttered or unexpressed, is a demand.

-We are often startled by having a wish

-suddenly fulfilled.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p>

-

-<p>For example: One Easter, having seen many

-beautiful rose-trees in the florists’ windows, I

-wished I would receive one, and for an instant saw

-it mentally being carried in the door.</p>

-

-<p>Easter came, and with it a beautiful rose-tree. I

-thanked my friend the following day, and told her

-it was just what I had wanted.</p>

-

-<p>She replied, “I didn’t send you a rose-tree, I sent

-you lilies!”</p>

-

-<p>The man had mixed the order, and sent me a

-rose-tree simply because I had started the law in

-action, and <em>I had to have a rose-tree</em>.</p>

-

-<p>Nothing stands between man and his highest

-ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and

-fear. When man can “wish without worrying,”

-every desire will be instantly fulfilled.</p>

-

-<p>I will explain more fully in a following chapter

-the scientific reason for this and how fear must be

-erased from the consciousness. It is man’s only

-enemy—fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness,

-fear of loss and a feeling of <em>insecurity on

-some plane</em>. Jesus Christ said: “Why are ye fearful,

-oh ye of little faith?” (Mat. 8:26.) So we can see we

-must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only

-inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.</p>

-

-<p>The object of the game of life is to see clearly

-one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of

-evil. This must be done by impressing the subconscious

-mind with a realization of good. A very

-brilliant man, who has attained great success, told

-me he had suddenly erased all fear from his consciousness

-by reading a sign which hung in a room.

-He saw printed, in large letters this statement—“<em>Why

-worry, it will probably never happen.</em>” These<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>

-words were stamped indelibly upon his subconscious

-mind, and he has now a firm conviction that

-only good can come into his life, therefore only

-<em>good can manifest</em>.</p>

-

-<p>In the following chapter I will deal with the

-different methods of impressing the subconscious

-mind. It is man’s faithful servant but one must be

-careful to give it the right orders. Man has ever a

-silent listener at his side—his subconscious mind.</p>

-

-<p>Every thought, every word is impressed upon it

-and carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer

-making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic

-plate. Every note and tone of the singer’s

-voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is

-registered also. So let us break all the old bad

-records in the subconscious mind, the records of

-our lives which we do not wish to keep, and make

-new and beautiful ones.</p>

-

-<p>Speak these words aloud, with power and conviction:

-“I now smash and demolish (by my spoken

-word) every untrue record in my subconscious

-mind. They shall return to the dust-heap of their

-native nothingness, for they came from my own

-vain imaginings. I now make my perfect records

-through the Christ within—The records of <em>Health,

-Wealth, Love and perfect self-Expression</em>.” This is

-the square of life, <em>The Game completed</em>.</p>

-

-<p>In the following chapters, I will show how man

-can <em>change</em> his <em>conditions by changing his words</em>.

-Any man who does not know the power of the

-word, is behind the times.</p>

-

-

-<div class="poetry-container">

-<div class="poetry">

-  <div class="stanza">

-    <div class="verse indent0">“<em>Death and Life are in the power of the tongue.</em>”<br></div>

-    <div class="verse indent27">(Prov. 18:21.)</div>

-  </div>

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-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LAW_OF_PROSPERITY">THE LAW OF PROSPERITY</h2>

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-<div class="poetry-container">

-<div class="poetry">

-  <div class="stanza">

-    <div class="verse indent0">“Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense</div>

-    <div class="verse indent1">and thou shalt have plenty of silver.”</div>

-  </div>

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-</div>

-

-

-<p>One of the greatest messages given to the race

-through the scriptures is that God is man’s supply

-and that man can release, <em>through his spoken

-word</em>, all that belongs to him by divine right. He

-must, however, have <em>perfect faith in his spoken

-word</em>.</p>

-

-<p>Isaiah said, “My word shall not return unto me

-void, but shall accomplish that where unto it is

-sent.” We know now, that words and thoughts are a

-tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man’s

-body and affairs.</p>

-

-<p>A woman came to me in great distress and said

-she was to be sued on the fifteenth of the month for

-three thousand dollars. She knew no way of getting

-the money and was in despair.</p>

-

-<p>I told her God was her supply, and <em>that there is a

-supply for every demand</em>.</p>

-

-<p><em>So I spoke the word!</em> I gave thanks that the

-woman would receive three thousand dollars at the

-right time in the right way. I told her she must have

-perfect faith, and act her <em>perfect faith</em>. The fifteenth

-came but no money had materialized.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p>

-

-<p>She called me on the ’phone and asked what she

-was to do.</p>

-

-<p>I replied, “It is Saturday, so they won’t sue you

-today. Your part is to act rich, thereby showing

-perfect faith that you will receive it by Monday.”

-She asked me to lunch with her to keep up her

-courage. When I joined her at a restaurant, I said,

-“This is no time to economize. Order an expensive

-luncheon, act as if you have already received the

-three thousand dollars.”</p>

-

-<p>“All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, <em>believing</em>,

-ye shall receive.” “You must act as if you <em>had

-already received</em>.” The next morning she called me

-on the ’phone and asked me to stay with her during

-the day. I said “No, you are divinely protected

-and God is never too late.”</p>

-

-<p>In the evening she ’phoned again, greatly excited

-and said, “My dear, a miracle has happened! I was

-sitting in my room this morning, when the doorbell

-rang. I said to the maid: ‘Don’t let anyone in.’

-The maid however, looked out the window and

-said, ‘It’s your cousin with the long white beard.’</p>

-

-<p>So I said, ‘Call him back. I would like to see him.’

-He was just turning the corner, when he heard the

-maid’s voice, and <em>he came back</em>.</p>

-

-<p>He talked for about an hour, and just as he was

-leaving he said, ‘Oh, by the way, how are finances?’</p>

-

-<p>I told him I needed the money, and he said,

-‘Why, my dear, I will give you three thousand

-dollars the first of the month.’</p>

-

-<p>I didn’t like to tell him I was going to be sued.

-What shall I do? I won’t <em>receive it till</em> the first of the

-month, and I must have it tomorrow.” I said, “I’ll

-keep on ‘treating.’”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p>

-

-<p>I said, “Spirit is never too late. I give thanks she

-has received the money on the invisible plane and

-that it manifests on time.” The next morning her

-cousin called her up and said, “Come to my office

-this morning and I will give you the money.” That

-afternoon, she had three thousand dollars to her

-credit in the bank, and wrote checks as rapidly as

-her excitement would permit.</p>

-

-<p>If one asks for success and prepares for failure,

-he will get the situation he has prepared for. For

-example: A man came to me asking me to speak the

-word that a certain debt would be wiped out.</p>

-

-<p>I found he spent his time planning what he

-would say to the man when he did not pay his bill,

-thereby neutralizing my words. He should have

-seen himself paying the debt.</p>

-

-<p>We have a wonderful illustration of this in the

-bible, relating to the three kings who were in the

-desert, without water for their men and horses.

-They consulted the prophet Elisha, who gave them

-this astonishing message:</p>

-

-<p>“Thus saith the Lord—Ye shall not see wind,

-neither shall ye see rain, yet make this valley full of

-ditches.”</p>

-

-<p>Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for,

-<em>when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight</em>.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman found it necessary to

-look for an apartment during the year when there

-was a great shortage of apartments in New York. It

-was considered almost an impossibility, and her

-friends were sorry for her and said, “Isn’t it too bad,

-you’ll have to store your furniture and live in a

-hotel.” She replied, “<em>You needn’t feel sorry for me,

-I’m a superman, and I’ll get an apartment.</em>”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p>

-

-<p>She spoke the words: “<em>Infinite Spirit, open the

-way for the right apartment.</em>” She knew there was a

-supply for every demand, and that she was “unconditioned,”

-working on the spiritual plane, and that

-“one with God is a majority.”</p>

-

-<p>She had contemplated buying new blankets,

-when “the tempter,” the adverse thought or reasoning

-mind, suggested, “Don’t buy the blankets, perhaps,

-after all, you won’t get an apartment and you

-will have no use for them.” She promptly replied (to

-herself): “I’ll dig my ditches by buying the blankets!”

-So she prepared for the apartment—acted as

-though she already had it.</p>

-

-<p>She found one in a miraculous way, and it was

-given to her although there were over <em>two hundred

-other applicants</em>.</p>

-

-<p>The blankets showed active faith.</p>

-

-<p>It is needless to say that the ditches dug by the

-three kings in the desert were filled to over-flowing.

-(Read, II Kings.)</p>

-

-<p>Getting into the spiritual swing of things is no

-easy matter for the average person. The adverse

-thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the subconscious.

-They are the “army of the aliens” which

-must be put to flight. This explains why it is so

-often, “darkest before the dawn.”</p>

-

-<p>A big demonstration is usually preceded by tormenting

-thoughts.</p>

-

-<p>Having made a statement of high spiritual truth

-one challenges the old beliefs in the subconscious,

-and “error is exposed” to be put out.</p>

-

-<p>This is the time when one must make his affirmations

-of truth repeatedly, and rejoice and give<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span>

-thanks that he has already received. “Before ye call

-I shall answer.” This means that “every good and

-perfect gift” is already man’s awaiting his recognition.</p>

-

-<p>Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.</p>

-

-<p>The children of Israel were told that they could

-have all the land they could see. This is true of every

-man. He has only the land within his own mental

-vision. Every great work, every big accomplishment,

-has been brought into manifestation

-through holding to the vision, and often just before

-the big achievement, comes apparent failure and

-discouragement.</p>

-

-<p>The children of Israel when they reached the

-“Promised Land,” were afraid to go in, for they

-said it was filled with giants who made them feel

-like grasshoppers. “And there we saw the giants

-and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers.”

-This is almost every man’s experience.</p>

-

-<p>However, the one who knows spiritual law, is

-undisturbed by appearance, and rejoices while he

-is “yet in captivity.” That is, he holds to his vision

-and gives thanks that the end is accomplished, he

-has received.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ gave a wonderful example of this. He

-said to his disciples: “Say not ye, there are yet four

-months and then cometh the harvest? Behold, I say

-unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields;

-for they are ripe already to harvest.” His clear

-vision pierced the “world of matter” and he saw

-clearly the fourth dimensional world, things as they

-really are, perfect and complete in Divine Mind. So<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span>

-man must ever hold the vision of his journey’s end

-and demand the manifestation of that which he has

-already received. It may be his perfect health, love,

-supply, self-expression, home or friends.</p>

-

-<p>They are all finished and perfect ideas registered

-in Divine Mind (man’s own superconscious mind)

-and must come through him, not to him. For

-example: A man came to me asking for treatments

-for success. It was imperative that he raise, within a

-certain time, fifty-thousand dollars for his business.

-The time limit was almost up, when he came to me

-in despair. No one wanted to invest in his enterprise,

-and the bank had flatly refused a loan. I

-replied: “I suppose you lost your temper while at

-the bank, therefore your power. You can control

-any situation if you first control yourself.” “Go back

-to the bank,” I added, “and I will treat.” My treatment

-was: “You are identified in love with the spirit

-of everyone connected with the bank. Let the

-divine idea come out of this situation.” He replied,

-“Woman, you are talking about an impossibility.

-Tomorrow is Saturday; the bank closes at twelve,

-and my train won’t get me there until ten, and the

-time limit is up tomorrow, and anyway they won’t

-do it. It’s too late.” I replied, “God doesn’t need any

-time and is never too late. With Him all things are

-possible.” I added, “I don’t know anything about

-business, but I know all about God.” He replied: “It

-all sounds fine when I sit here listening to you, but

-when I go out it’s terrible.” He lived in a distant

-city, and I did not hear from him for a week, then

-came a letter. It read: “You were right. I raised the

-money, and will never again doubt the truth of all

-that you told me.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p>

-

-<p>I saw him a few weeks later, and I said, “What

-happened? You evidently had plenty of time, after

-all.” He replied “My train was late, and I got there

-just fifteen minutes to twelve. I walked into the

-bank quietly and said, ‘I have come for the loan,’

-and they gave it to me without a question.”</p>

-

-<p>It was the last fifteen minutes of the time allotted

-to him, and Infinite Spirit was not too late. In this

-instance the man could never have demonstrated

-alone. He needed someone to help him hold to the

-vision. This is what one man can do for another.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ knew the truth of this when he said:

-“If two of you shall agree on earth as touching

-anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for

-them of my Father which is in heaven.” One gets

-too close to his own affairs and becomes doubtful

-and fearful.</p>

-

-<p>The friend or “healer” sees clearly the success,

-health, or prosperity, and never wavers, because he

-is not close to the situation.</p>

-

-<p>It is much easier to “demonstrate” for someone

-else than for one’s self, so a person should not

-hesitate to ask for help, if he feels himself wavering.</p>

-

-<p>A keen observer of life once said, “no man can

-fail, if some one person sees him successful.” Such is

-the power of the vision, and many a great man has

-owed his success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who

-“believed in him” and held without wavering to the

-perfect pattern!</p>

-

-

-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

-

-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_POWER_OF_THE_WORD">THE POWER OF THE WORD</h2>

-</div>

-

-<div class="poetry-container">

-<div class="poetry">

-  <div class="stanza">

-    <div class="verse indent4">“By thy words thou shalt be justified,</div>

-    <div class="verse indent0">and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”</div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-

-<p>A person knowing the power of the word, becomes

-very careful of his conversation. He has only

-to watch the reaction of his words to know that they

-do “not return void.” Through his spoken word,

-man is continually making laws for himself.</p>

-

-<p>I knew a man who said, “I always miss a car. It

-invariably pulls out just as I arrive.”</p>

-

-<p>His daughter said: “I always catch a car. It’s sure

-to come just as I get there.” This occurred for years.

-Each had made a separate law for himself, one of

-failure, one of success. This is the psychology of

-superstitions.</p>

-

-<p>The horseshoe or rabbit’s foot contains no

-power, but man’s spoken word and belief that it

-will bring him good luck creates expectancy in the

-subconscious mind, and attracts a “lucky situation.”

-I find however, this will not “work” when

-man has advanced spiritually and knows a higher

-law. One cannot turn back, and must put away

-“graven images.” For example: Two men in my

-class had had great success in business for several<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span>

-months, when suddenly everything “went to

-smash.” We tried to analyze the situation, and I

-found, instead of making their affirmations and

-looking to God for success and prosperity, they had

-each bought a “lucky monkey.” I said: “Oh I see,

-you have been trusting in the lucky monkeys instead

-of God.” “Put away the lucky monkeys and call on

-the law of forgiveness,” for man has power to

-forgive or neutralize his mistakes.</p>

-

-<p>They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a

-coalhole, and all went well again. This does not

-mean, however, that one should throw away every

-“lucky” ornament or horseshoe about the house,

-but he must recognize that the power back of it is

-the one and only power, God, and that the object

-simply gives him a feeling of expectancy.</p>

-

-<p>I was with a friend, one day, who was in deep

-despair. In crossing the street, she picked up a

-horseshoe. Immediately, she was filled with joy and

-hope. She said God had sent her the horseshoe in

-order to keep up her courage.</p>

-

-<p>It was indeed, at that moment, about the only

-thing that could have registered in her consciousness.

-Her hope became faith, and she ultimately

-made a wonderful demonstration. I wish to make

-the point clear that the men previously mentioned

-were depending on the monkeys, alone, while this

-woman recognized the power back of the horseshoe.</p>

-

-<p>I know, in my own case, it took a long while to get

-out of a belief that a certain thing brought disappointment.

-If the thing happened, disappointment

-invariably followed. I found the only way I could<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span>

-make a change in the subconscious, was by asserting,

-“There are not two powers, there is only one

-power, God, therefore, there are no disappointments,

-and this thing means a happy surprise.” I

-noticed a change at once, and happy surprises

-commenced coming my way.</p>

-

-<p>I have a friend who said nothing could induce

-her to walk under a ladder. I said, “If you are

-afraid, you are giving in to a belief in two powers,

-Good and Evil, instead of one. As God is absolute,

-there can be no opposing power, unless man makes

-the false of evil for himself. To show you believe in

-only One Power, God, and that there is no power or

-reality in evil, walk under the next ladder you see.”

-Soon after, she went to her bank. She wished to

-open her box in the safe-deposit vault, and there

-stood a ladder on her pathway. It was impossible to

-reach the box without passing under the ladder.

-She quailed with fear and turned back. She could

-not face the lion on her pathway. However, when

-she reached the street, my words rang in her ears

-and she decided to return and walk under it. It was

-a big moment in her life, for ladders had held her in

-bondage for years. She retraced her steps to the

-vault, and the ladder was no longer there! This so

-often happens! If one is willing to do a thing he is

-afraid to do, he does not have to.</p>

-

-<p>It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little

-understood.</p>

-

-<p>Someone has said that courage contains genius

-and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is

-no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.</p>

-

-<p>The explanation is, that fear attracted the ladder<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span>

-on the woman’s pathway, and fearlessness removed

-it.</p>

-

-<p><em>Thus the invisible forces are ever working for

-man who is always “pulling the strings” himself,

-though he does not know it. Owing to the vibratory

-power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to

-attract. People who continually speak of disease,

-invariably attract it.</em></p>

-

-<p>After man knows the truth, he cannot be too

-careful of his words. For example: I have a friend

-who often says on the ’phone, “Do come to see me

-and have a fine old-fashioned chat.” This “old-fashioned

-chat” means an hour of about five hundred

-to a thousand destructive words, the principal

-topics being loss, lack, failure and sickness.</p>

-

-<p>I reply: “No, I thank you, I’ve had enough old-fashioned

-chats in my life, they are too expensive,

-but I will be glad to have a new-fashioned chat, and

-talk about what we want, not what we don’t want.”

-There is an old saying that man only dares use his

-words for three purposes, to “heal, bless or prosper.”

-What man says of others will be said of him,

-and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for

-himself.</p>

-

-<p>“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”</p>

-

-<p>If a man wishes someone “bad luck,” he is sure to

-attract bad luck himself. If he wishes to aid someone

-to success, he is wishing and aiding himself to

-success.</p>

-

-<p>The body may be renewed and transformed

-through the spoken word and clear vision, and

-disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness.

-The metaphysician knows that all disease has<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span>

-a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the

-body one must first “heal the soul.”</p>

-

-<p>The soul is the subconscious mind, and it must

-be “saved” from wrong thinking.</p>

-

-<p>In the twenty-third psalm, we read: “He restoreth

-my soul.” This means that the subconscious

-mind or soul, must be restored with the right ideas,

-and the “mystical marriage” is the marriage of the

-soul and the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious

-mind. They must be one. When the subconscious

-is flooded with the perfect ideas of the

-superconscious, God and man are one. “I and the

-Father are one.” That is, he is one with the realm of

-perfect ideas; he is the man made in God’s likeness

-and image (imagination) and is given power and

-dominion over all created things, his mind, body

-and affairs.</p>

-

-<p>It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness

-come from the violation of the law of love. A new

-commandment I give unto you, “Love one another,”

-and in the Game of Life, love or good-will

-takes every trick.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman I know, had, for years an

-appearance of a terrible skin disease. The doctors

-told her it was incurable, and she was in despair.

-She was on the stage, and she feared she would soon

-have to give up her profession, and she had no other

-means of support. She, however, procured a good

-engagement, and on the opening night, made a

-great “hit.” She received flattering notices from the

-critics, and was joyful and elated. The next day she

-received a notice of dismissal. A man in the cast

-had been jealous of her success and had caused her

-to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span>

-taking complete possession of her, and she cried

-out, “Oh God don’t let me hate that man.” That

-night she worked for hours “in the silence.”</p>

-

-<p>She said, “I soon came into a very deep silence. I

-seemed to be at peace with myself, with the man,

-and with the whole world. I continued this for two

-following nights, and on the third day I found I was

-healed completely of the skin disease!” In asking for

-love, or good will, she had fulfilled the law, (“for

-love is the fulfilling of the law”) and the disease

-(which came from subconscious resentment) was

-wiped out.</p>

-

-<p>Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as

-critical, inharmonious thoughts cause unnatural

-deposits in the blood, which settle in the joints.</p>

-

-<p>False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred,

-unforgiveness, fear, etc. Every disease is caused by

-a mind not at ease. I said once, in my class, “There

-is no use asking anyone ‘What’s the matter with

-you?’ we might just as well say, ‘Who’s the matter

-with you?’” Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause

-of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect

-the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.</p>

-

-<p>I called on a woman, one day, who said she was

-ill from having eaten a poisoned oyster. I replied,

-“Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you poisoned the

-oyster. What’s the matter with you?” She answered,

-“Oh about nineteen people.” She had quarrelled

-with nineteen people and had become so inharmonious

-that she attracted the wrong oyster.</p>

-

-<p>Any inharmony on the external, indicates there

-is mental inharmony. “As the within, so the without.”</p>

-

-<p>Man’s only enemies are within himself. “And a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span>

-man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”

-Personality is one of the last enemies to be overcome,

-as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It

-was Christ’s message—“Peace on Earth, good will

-towards man.” The enlightened man, therefore,

-endeavors to perfect himself upon his neighbor. His

-work is with himself, to send out good-will and

-blessings to every man, and the marvelous thing is,

-that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm

-him.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A man came to me asking to

-“treat” for success in business. He was selling

-machinery, and a rival appeared on the scene with

-what he proclaimed, was a better machine, and my

-friend feared defeat. I said, “First of all, we must

-wipe out all fear, and know that God protects your

-interests, and that the divine idea must come out of

-the situation. That is, the right machine will be

-sold, by the right man, to the right man.” And I

-added, “Don’t hold one critical thought towards

-that man. Bless him all day, and be willing not to

-sell your machine, if it isn’t the divine idea.” So he

-went to the meeting, fearless and nonresistant, and

-blessing the other man. He said the outcome was

-very remarkable. The other man’s machine refused

-to work, and he sold his without the slightest difficulty.

-“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless

-them that curse you, do good to them that hate

-you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and

-persecute you.”</p>

-

-<p><em>Good-will produces a great aura of protection

-about the one who sends it, and “No weapon that is<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span>

-formed against him shall prosper.” In other words,

-love and good-will destroy the enemies within one’s

-self, therefore, one has no enemies on the external!</em></p>

-

-<p>“<em>There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will

-to man!</em>”</p>

-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

-

-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LAW_OF_NONRESISTANCE">THE LAW OF NONRESISTANCE</h2>

-</div>

-

-<div class="poetry-container">

-<div class="poetry">

-  <div class="stanza">

-    <div class="verse indent0">“Resist not evil. Be not overcome of evil,</div>

-    <div class="verse indent4">but overcome evil with good.”</div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-

-<p>Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant

-person.</p>

-

-<p>The Chinese say that water is the most powerful

-element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can

-wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ said, “Resist not evil,” for He knew in

-reality, there is no evil, therefore nothing to resist.

-Evil has come of man’s “vain imagination,” or a

-belief in two powers, good and evil.</p>

-

-<p>There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of

-“Maya the Tree of Illusion,” and saw two powers

-instead of one power, God.</p>

-

-<p><em>Therefore, evil is a false law man has made for

-himself, through psychoma or soul sleep.</em> Soul sleep

-means, that man’s soul has been hypnotized by the

-race belief (of sin, sickness and death, etc.) which is

-carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have outpictured

-his illusions.</p>

-

-<p>We have read in a preceding chapter, that man’s

-soul is his subconscious mind, and whatever he feels

-deeply, good or bad, is outpictured by that faithful

-servant. His body and affairs show forth what he<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span>

-has been picturing. The sick man has pictured sickness,

-the poor man, poverty, the rich man, wealth.</p>

-

-<p>People often say, “why does a little child attract

-illness, when it is too young even to know what it

-means?”</p>

-

-<p>I answer that children are sensitive and receptive

-to the thoughts of others about them, and often

-outpicture the fears of their parents.</p>

-

-<p>I heard a metaphysician once say, “If you do not

-run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else

-will run it for you.”</p>

-

-<p>Mothers often, unconsciously, attract illness and

-disaster to their children, by continually holding

-them in thoughts of fear, and watching for symptoms.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A friend asked a woman if her little

-girl had had the measles. She replied promptly,

-“not yet!” This implied that she was expecting the

-illness, and, therefore, preparing the way for what

-she did not want for herself and child.</p>

-

-<p>However, the man who is centered and established

-in right thinking, the man who sends out

-only good-will to his fellow-man, and who is without

-fear, cannot be <em>touched or influenced by the

-negative thoughts of others</em>. In fact, he could then

-receive only good thoughts, as he himself, sends

-forth only good thoughts.</p>

-

-<p>Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a “state of

-torment.”</p>

-

-<p>A metaphysician once gave me a wonderful recipe

-for taking every trick in the game of life, it is the

-acme of nonresistance. He gave it in this way; “At

-one time in my life, I baptized children, and of

-course, they had many names. Now I no longer<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span>

-baptize children, but I baptize events, but <em>I give

-every event the same name</em>. If I have a failure I

-baptize it success, in the name of the Father, and of

-the Son, and of the Holy Ghost!”</p>

-

-<p>In this, we see the great law of transmutation,

-founded on nonresistance. Through his spoken

-word, every failure was transmuted into success.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman who required money,

-and who knew the spiritual law of opulence, was

-thrown continually in a business-way, with a man

-who made her feel very poor. He talked lack and

-limitation and she commenced to catch his poverty

-thoughts, so she disliked him, and blamed him for

-her failure. She knew in order to demonstrate her

-supply, she must first feel that she <em>had received—a

-feeling of opulence must precede its manifestation</em>.</p>

-

-<p>It dawned upon her, one day, that she was resisting

-the situation, and seeing two powers instead of

-one. So she blessed the man and baptized the

-situation “Success”! She affirmed, “As there is only

-one power, God, this man is here for my good and

-my prosperity” (just what he did not seem to be

-there for). Soon after that she met, <em>through this

-man</em>, a woman who gave her for a service rendered,

-several thousand dollars, and the man moved to a

-distant city, and faded harmoniously from her life.

-Make the statement, “Every man is a golden link in

-the chain of my good,” for all men are God in

-manifestation, <em>awaiting the opportunity given by

-man, himself, to serve the divine plan of his life</em>.</p>

-

-<p>“Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his

-ammunition.” His arrows will be transmuted into

-blessings.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p>

-

-<p>This law is true of nations as well as individuals.

-Bless a nation, send love and good-will to every

-inhabitant, and it is robbed of its power to harm.</p>

-

-<p>Man can only get the right idea of nonresistance,

-through spiritual understanding. My students have

-often said: “I don’t want to be a door-mat.” I reply

-“when you use nonresistance with wisdom, no one

-will ever be able to walk over you.”</p>

-

-<p>Another example: One day I was impatiently

-awaiting an important telephone call. I resisted

-every call that came in and made no out-going calls

-myself, reasoning that it might interfere with the

-one I was awaiting.</p>

-

-<p>Instead of saying, “Divine ideas never conflict,

-the call will come at the right time,” leaving it to

-Infinite Intelligence to arrange, I commenced to

-manage things myself—I made the battle mine,

-not God’s and remained tense and anxious. The

-bell did not ring for about an hour, and I glanced

-at the ’phone and found the receiver had been off

-that length of time, and the ’phone was disconnected.

-My anxiety, fear and belief in interference,

-had brought on a total eclipse of the telephone.

-Realizing what I had done, I commenced blessing

-the situation at once; I baptized it “success,” and

-affirmed, “I cannot lose any call that belongs to me

-by divine right; I am under <em>grace, and not under

-law</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>A friend rushed out to the nearest telephone, to

-notify the Company to reconnect.</p>

-

-<p>She entered a crowded grocery, but the proprietor

-left his customers and attended to the call

-himself. My ’phone was connected at once, and two<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span>

-minutes later, I received a very important call, and

-about an hour afterward, the one I had been

-awaiting.</p>

-<br>

-

-<p class="center no-indent">

-<em>One’s ships come in over a calm sea.</em><br>

-</p>

-<br>

-

-<p>So long as man resists a situation, he will have it

-with him. If he runs away from it, it will run after

-him.</p>

-

-<p>For example: I repeated this to a woman one

-day, and she replied, “How true that is! I was

-unhappy at home, I disliked my mother, who was

-critical and domineering; so I ran away and was

-married—but I married my mother, for my husband

-was exactly like my mother, and I had the

-same situation to face again.” “Agree with thine

-adversary quickly.”</p>

-

-<p>That means, agree that the adverse situation is

-good, be undisturbed by it, and it falls away of its

-own weight. “None of these things move me,” is a

-wonderful affirmation.</p>

-

-<p>The inharmonious situation comes from some

-inharmony within man himself.</p>

-

-<p>When there is, in him, no emotional response to

-an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever,

-from his pathway.</p>

-

-<p>So we see man’s work is ever with himself.</p>

-

-<p>People have said to me, “Give treatments to

-change my husband, or my brother.” I reply, “No,

-I will give <em>treatments to change you</em>; when you

-change, your husband and your brother will

-change.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p>

-

-<p>One of my students was in the habit of lying. I

-told her it was a failure method and if she lied, she

-would be lied to. She replied, “I don’t care, I can’t

-possibly get along without lying.”</p>

-

-<p>One day she was speaking on the ’phone to a man

-with whom she was very much in love. She turned to

-me and said, “I don’t trust him, I know he’s lying to

-me.” I replied, “Well, you lie yourself, so someone

-has to lie to you, and you will be sure it will be just

-the person you want the truth from.” Some time

-after that, I saw her, and she said, “I’m cured of

-lying.”</p>

-

-<p>I questioned: “What cured you?”</p>

-

-<p>She replied: “I have been living with a woman

-who lied worse than I did!”</p>

-

-<p>One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in

-others.</p>

-

-<p>Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves

-reflected in our associates.</p>

-

-<p>Living in the past is a failure method and a

-violation of spiritual law.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ said, “Behold, now is the accepted

-time.” “Now is the day of Salvation.”</p>

-

-<p>Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a

-pillar of salt.</p>

-

-<p>The robbers of time are the past and the future.

-Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps

-him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it

-has in store for him endless joys, but live <em>fully in the

-now</em>.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman came to me, complaining

-that she had no money with which to buy<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span>

-Christmas gifts. She said, “Last year was so different;

-I had plenty of money and gave lovely presents,

-and this year I have scarcely a cent.”</p>

-

-<p>I replied, “You will never demonstrate money

-while you are pathetic and live in the past. Live

-fully in the <em>now</em>, and <em>get ready to give Christmas

-presents</em>. Dig your ditches, and the money will

-come.” She exclaimed, “I know what to do! I will

-buy some tinsel twine, Christmas seals and wrapping

-paper.” I replied, “Do that, and the <em>presents

-will come and stick themselves to the Christmas

-seals</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>This too, was showing financial fearlessness and

-faith in God, as the reasoning mind said, “Keep

-every cent you have, as you are not sure you will get

-any more.”</p>

-

-<p>She bought the seals, paper and twine, and a few

-days before Christmas, received a gift of several

-hundred dollars. Buying the seals and twine had

-impressed the subconscious with expectancy, and

-opened the way for the manifestation of the money.

-She purchased all the presents in plenty of time.</p>

-

-<p>Man must live suspended in the moment.</p>

-

-<p>“Look well, therefore, to this Day! Such is the

-salutation of the Dawn.”</p>

-

-<p>He must be spiritually alert, ever awaiting his

-leads, taking advantage of every opportunity.</p>

-

-<p>One day, I said continually (silently), “Infinite

-Spirit, don’t let me miss a trick,” and something

-very important was told to me that evening. It is

-most necessary to begin the day with right words.</p>

-

-<p>Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.</p>

-

-<p>For example:</p>

-

-<p>“<em>Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span>

-completion; I give thanks for this perfect day,

-miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall

-never cease.</em>”</p>

-

-<p>Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and

-miracles come into his life.</p>

-

-<p>One morning I picked up a book and read,

-“Look with wonder at that which is before you!” It

-seemed to be my message for the day, so I repeated

-again and again, “Look with wonder at that which

-is before you.”</p>

-

-<p>At about noon, a large sum of money, was given

-me, which I had been desiring for a certain purpose.</p>

-

-<p>In a following chapter, I will give affirmations

-that I have found most effective. However, one

-should never use an affirmation unless it is absolutely

-satisfying and convincing to his own consciousness,

-and often an affirmative is changed to

-suit different people.</p>

-

-<p>For example: The following has brought success

-to many:</p>

-

-<p>“I have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I

-give wonderful service, for wonderful pay!”</p>

-

-<p>I gave the first two lines to one of my students,

-and she added the last two.</p>

-

-<p>It made a <em>most powerful statement</em>, as there

-should always be perfect payment for perfect service,

-and a rhyme sinks easily into the subconscious.

-She went about singing it aloud and soon

-did receive wonderful work in a wonderful way,

-and gave wonderful service for wonderful pay.</p>

-

-<p>Another student, a business man, took it, and

-changed the word work to business.</p>

-

-<p>He repeated, “I have a wonderful business, in a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span>

-wonderful way, and I give wonderful service for

-wonderful pay.” That afternoon he made a forty-one-thousand

-dollar deal, though there had been

-no activity in his affairs for months.</p>

-

-<p>Every affirmation must be carefully worded and

-completely “cover the ground.”</p>

-

-<p>For example: I knew a woman, who was in great

-need, and made a demand for work. She received a

-great deal of work, but was never paid anything.

-She now knows to add, “wonderful service for

-wonderful pay.”</p>

-

-<p>It is man’s divine right to have plenty! More than

-enough!</p>

-

-<p>“His barns should be full, and his cup should

-flow over!” This is God’s idea for man, and when

-man breaks down the barriers of lack in his own

-consciousness, the Golden Age will be his, and

-every righteous desire of his heart fulfilled!</p>

-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

-

-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LAW_OF_KARMA">THE LAW OF KARMA<br><br>

-

-<span class="fs90">and</span><br><br>

-

-THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS</h2>

-</div>

-

-

-<p>Man receives only that which he gives. The

-Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man’s

-thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or

-later, with astounding accuracy.</p>

-

-<p>This is the law of Karma, which is Sanskrit for

-“Comeback.” “Whatsoever a man soweth, that

-shall he also reap.”</p>

-

-<p>For example: A friend told me this story of

-herself, illustrating the law. She said, “I make all

-my Karma on my aunt, whatever I say to her, some

-one says to me. I am often irritable at home, and

-one day, said to my aunt, who was talking to me

-during dinner. ‘<em>No more talk, I wish to eat in

-peace.</em>’”</p>

-

-<p>“The following day, I was lunching with a

-woman with whom I wished to make a great impression.

-I was talking animatedly, when she said:

-‘<em>No more talk, I wish to eat in peace!</em>’”</p>

-

-<p>My friend is high in consciousness, so her Karma<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span>

-returns much more quickly than to one on the

-mental plane.</p>

-

-<p>The more man knows, the more he is responsible

-for, and a person with a knowledge of Spiritual

-Law, which he does not practice, suffers greatly, in

-consequence. “The fear of the Lord (law) is the

-beginning of wisdom.” If we read the word Lord,

-law, it will make many passages in the Bible much

-clearer.</p>

-

-<p>“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord”

-(law). It is the law which takes vengeance, not God.

-God sees man perfect, “created in his own image,”

-(imagination) and given “power and dominion.”</p>

-

-<p>This is the perfect idea of man, registered in

-Divine Mind, awaiting man’s recognition; for man

-can only be what he sees himself to be, and only

-attain what he sees himself attaining.</p>

-

-<p>“Nothing ever happens without an on-looker” is

-an ancient saying.</p>

-

-<p>Man sees first his failure or success, his joy or

-sorrow, before it swings into visibility from the

-scenes set in his own imagination. We have observed

-this in the mother picturing disease for her

-child, or a woman seeing success for her husband.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ said, “And ye shall know the truth

-and the truth shall make you free.”</p>

-

-<p>So, we see freedom (from all unhappy conditions)

-comes through knowledge—a knowledge of

-Spiritual Law.</p>

-

-<p>Obedience precedes authority, and the law obeys

-man when he obeys the law. The law of electricity

-must be obeyed before it becomes man’s servant.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span>

-When handled ignorantly, it becomes man’s deadly

-foe. <em>So with the laws of Mind!</em></p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman with a strong personal

-will, wished she owned a house which belonged to

-an acquaintance, and she often made mental pictures

-of herself living in the house. In the course of

-time, the man died and she moved into the house.

-Several years afterwards, coming into the knowledge

-of Spiritual Law, she said to me: “Do you

-think I had anything to do with that man’s death?”

-I replied: “Yes, your desire was so strong, everything

-made way for it, but you paid your Karmic

-debt. Your husband, whom you loved devotedly,

-died soon after, and the house was a white elephant

-on your hands for years.”</p>

-

-<p>The original owner, however, could not have

-been affected by her thoughts had he been positive

-in the truth, nor her husband, but they were both

-under Karmic law. The woman should have said

-(feeling the great desire for the house), “Infinite

-Intelligence, give me the right house, equally as

-charming as this, the house <em>which is mine by divine

-right</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>The divine selection would have given perfect

-satisfaction and brought good to all. The divine

-pattern is the only safe pattern to work by.</p>

-

-<p><em>Desire is a tremendous force, and must be directed

-in the right channels; or chaos ensues.</em></p>

-

-<p>In demonstrating, the most important step is the

-<em>first step, to “ask aright</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>Man should always demand only that which is his

-by <em>divine right</em>.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p>

-

-<p>To go back to the illustration: Had the woman

-taken this attitude: “If this house, I desire, is mine,

-I cannot lose it, if it is not, give me its equivalent,”

-the man might have decided to move out, harmoniously

-(had it been the divine selection for her) or

-another house would have been substituted. Anything

-forced into manifestation through personal

-will, is always “ill-got,” and has “ever bad success.”</p>

-

-<p>Man is admonished, “My will be done not thine,

-and the curious thing is, man always gets just what

-he desires when he does relinquish personal will,

-thereby enabling Infinite Intelligence to work

-through him.”</p>

-

-<p>“Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord”

-(law).</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman came to me in great

-distress. Her daughter had determined to take a

-very hazardous trip, and the mother was filled with

-fear.</p>

-

-<p>She said she had used every argument, had

-pointed out the dangers to be encountered, and

-forbidden her to go, but the daughter became

-more and more rebellious and determined. I said to

-the mother, “You are forcing your personal will

-upon your daughter, which you have no right to do,

-and your fear of the trip is only attracting it, for

-man attracts what he fears.” I added, “Let go, and

-take your mental hands off; <em>put it in God’s Hands,

-and use this statement</em>:” “I put this situation in the

-hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is

-the Divine plan, I bless it and no longer resist, but if

-it is not divinely planned, I give thanks that it is now

-dissolved and dissipated.” A day or two after that,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span>

-her daughter said to her, “Mother, I have given up

-the trip,” and the situation returned to its “native

-nothingness.”</p>

-

-<p>It is learning to “stand still,” which seems so difficult

-for man. I have dealt more fully with this

-law in the chapter on nonresistance.</p>

-

-<p>I will give another example of sowing and reaping,

-which came in the most curious way.</p>

-

-<p>A woman came to me saying, she had received a

-counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, given to her at the

-bank. She was much disturbed, for, she said, “The

-people at the bank will never acknowledge their

-mistake.”</p>

-

-<p>I replied, “Let us analyze the situation and find

-out why you attracted it.” She thought a few moments

-and exclaimed: “I know it, I sent a friend a

-lot of stagemoney, just for a joke.” So the law had

-sent her some stagemoney, for it doesn’t know

-anything about jokes.</p>

-

-<p>I said, “Now we will call on the law of forgiveness,

-and neutralize the situation.”</p>

-

-<p>Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness—Christ

-has redeemed us from the curse of the

-Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is his

-Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious

-conditions.</p>

-

-<p>So I said: “Infinite Spirit, we call on the law of

-forgiveness and give thanks that she is under grace

-and not under law, and cannot lose this twenty

-dollars which is hers by divine right.”</p>

-

-<p>“Now,” I said, “Go back to the bank and tell

-them, fearlessly, that it was given you, there by

-mistake.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span></p>

-

-<p>She obeyed, and to her surprise, they apologized

-and gave her another bill, treating her most courteously.</p>

-

-<p>So knowledge of the Law gives man power to

-“rub out his mistakes.” Man cannot force the external

-to be what he is not.</p>

-

-<p>If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman came to me asking treatment

-for prosperity. She did not take much interest

-in her household affairs, and her home was in great

-disorder.</p>

-

-<p>I said to her, “If you wish to be rich, you must be

-orderly. All men with great wealth are orderly—and

-order is heaven’s first law.” I added, “You will

-never become rich with a burnt match in the pincushion.”</p>

-

-<p>She had a good sense of humor and commenced

-immediately, putting her house in order. She rearranged

-furniture, straightened out bureau

-drawers, cleaned rugs, and soon made a big financial

-demonstration—a gift from a relative. The

-woman, herself, became made over, and keeps

-herself keyed-up financially, by being ever watchful

-of the <em>external and expecting prosperity, knowing

-God is her supply</em>.</p>

-

-<p>Many people are in ignorance of the fact that

-gifts and things are investments, and that hoarding

-and saving invariably lead to loss.</p>

-

-<p>“There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and

-there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it

-tendeth to poverty.”</p>

-

-<p>For example: I knew a man who wanted to buy a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span>

-fur-lined overcoat. He and his wife went to various

-shops, but there was none he wanted. He said they

-were all too cheap-looking. At last, he was shown

-one, the salesman said was valued at a thousand

-dollars, but which the manager would sell him for

-five-hundred dollars, as it was late in the season.</p>

-

-<p>His financial possessions amounted to about

-seven hundred dollars. The reasoning mind would

-have said, “You can’t afford to spend nearly all you

-have on a coat,” but he was very intuitive and never

-reasoned.</p>

-

-<p>He turned to his wife and said, “If I get this coat,

-I’ll make a ton of money!” So his wife consented,

-weakly.</p>

-

-<p>About a month later, he received a ten-thousand-dollar

-commission. The coat made him feel so

-rich, it linked him with success and prosperity;

-without the coat, he would not have received the

-commission. It was an investment paying large

-dividends!</p>

-

-<p>If man ignores these leadings to spend or to give,

-the same amount of money will go in an uninteresting

-or unhappy way.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving

-Day, she informed her family that they could

-not afford a Thanksgiving dinner. She had the

-money, but decided to save it.</p>

-

-<p>A few days later, someone entered her room and

-took from the bureau drawer the exact amount the

-dinner would have cost.</p>

-

-<p>The law always stands back of the man who

-spends fearlessly, with wisdom.</p>

-

-<p>For example: One of my students was shopping<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span>

-with her little nephew. The child clamored for a

-toy, which she told him she could not afford to buy.</p>

-

-<p>She realized suddenly that she was seeking lack,

-and not recognizing God as her supply!</p>

-

-<p>So she bought the toy, and on her way home,

-picked <em>up, in the street, the exact amount of money

-she had paid for it</em>.</p>

-

-<p>Man’s supply is inexhaustible and unfailing

-when fully trusted, but faith or trust must precede

-the demonstration. “According to your faith be it

-unto you.” “Faith is the substance of things hoped

-for, the evidence of things not seen—” for faith

-holds the vision steady, and the adverse pictures are

-dissolved and dissipated, and “in due season we

-shall reap, if we faint not.”</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel)

-that there was a higher law than the law of Karma—and

-that that law transcends the law of Karma.

-It is the law of grace, or forgiveness. It is the law

-which <em>frees man from the law of cause and effect—the

-law of consequence. “Under grace, and not

-under law.”</em></p>

-

-<p>We are told that on this plane, man reaps where

-he has not sown; the gifts of God are simply poured

-out upon him. “All that the Kingdom affords is

-his.” This continued state of bliss awaits the man

-who has overcome the race (or world) thought.</p>

-

-<p>In the world thought there is tribulation, but

-Jesus Christ said: “Be of good cheer; I have overcome

-the world.”</p>

-

-<p>The world thought is that of sin, sickness and

-death. He saw their absolute unreality and said<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span>

-sickness and sorrow shall pass away and death

-itself, the last enemy, be overcome.</p>

-

-<p>We know now, from a scientific standpoint, that

-death could be overcome by stamping the subconscious

-mind with the conviction of eternal youth

-and eternal life.</p>

-

-<p>The subconscious, being simply power without

-direction, <em>carries out orders without questioning</em>.</p>

-

-<p>Working under the direction of the superconscious

-(the Christ or God within man) the “resurrection

-of the body” would be accomplished.</p>

-

-<p>Man would no longer throw off his body in

-death, it would be transformed into the “body

-electric,” sung by Walt Whitman, for Christianity

-is founded upon the forgiveness of sins and “an

-empty tomb.”</p>

-

-

-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

-

-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CASTING_THE_BURDEN">CASTING THE BURDEN<br><br>

-Impressing the Subconscious</h2>

-</div>

-

-

-<p>When man knows his own powers and the workings

-of his mind, his great desire is to find an easy

-and quick way to impress the subconscious with

-good, for simply an intellectual knowledge of the

-Truth will not bring results.</p>

-

-<p>In my own case, I found the easiest way is in

-“casting the burden.”</p>

-

-<p>A metaphysician once explained it in this manner.

-He said, “The only thing which gives anything

-weight in nature, is the law of gravitation, and if a

-boulder could be taken high above the planet,

-there would be no weight in that boulder; and that

-is what Jesus Christ meant when he said: ‘My yoke

-is easy and my burden is light.’”</p>

-

-<p>He had overcome the world vibration, and functioned

-in the fourth dimensional realm, where

-there is only perfection, completion, life and joy.</p>

-

-<p>He said: “Come to me all ye that labor and are

-heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” “Take my

-yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden

-is light.”</p>

-

-<p>We are also told in the fifty-fifth Psalm, to “cast

-thy burden upon the Lord.” Many passages in the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span>

-Bible state that the <em>battle is God’s</em> not man’s and

-that man is always to <em>“stand still” and see the

-Salvation of the Lord</em>.</p>

-

-<p>This indicates that the superconscious mind (or

-Christ within) is the department which fights man’s

-battle and relieves him of burdens.</p>

-

-<p>We see, therefore, that man violates law if he

-carries a burden, and a burden is an adverse

-thought or condition, and this thought or condition

-has its root in the subconscious.</p>

-

-<p>It seems almost impossible to make any headway

-directing the subconscious from the conscious, or

-reasoning mind, as the reasoning mind (the intellect)

-is limited in its conceptions, and filled with

-doubts and fears.</p>

-

-<p>How scientific it then is, to cast the burden upon

-the superconscious mind (or Christ within) where

-it is “made light,” or dissolved into its “native

-nothingness.”</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman in urgent need of money,

-“made light” upon the Christ within, the superconscious,

-with the statement, “I cast this burden of

-lack on the Christ (within) and I go free to have

-plenty!”</p>

-

-<p>The belief in lack was her burden, and as she cast

-it upon the Superconscious with its belief of plenty,

-an avalanche of supply was the result.</p>

-

-<p>We read, “The Christ in you the hope of glory.”</p>

-

-<p>Another example: One of my students had been

-given a new piano, and there was no room in her

-studio for it until she had moved out the old one.

-She was in a state of perplexity. She wanted to keep

-the old piano, but knew of no place to send it. She<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span>

-became desperate, as the new piano was to be sent

-immediately; in fact, was on its way, with no place

-to put it. She said it came to her to repeat, “I cast

-this burden on the Christ within, and I go free.”</p>

-

-<p>A few moments later, her ’phone rang, and a

-woman friend asked if she might rent her old

-piano, and it was moved out, a few minutes before

-the new one arrived.</p>

-

-<p>I knew a woman, whose burden was resentment.

-She said, “I cast this burden of resentment on the

-Christ within, and I go free, to be loving, harmonious

-and happy.” The Almighty superconscious,

-flooded the subconscious with love, and her whole

-life was changed. For years, resentment had held

-her in a state of torment and imprisoned her soul

-(the subconscious mind).</p>

-

-<p>The statement should be made over and over

-and over, sometimes for hours at a time, silently or

-audibly, with quietness but determination.</p>

-

-<p>I have often compared it to winding-up a victrola.

-We must wind ourselves up with spoken words.</p>

-

-<p>I have noticed, in “casting the burden,” after a

-little while, one seems to see clearly. It is impossible

-to have clear vision, while in the throes of carnal

-mind. Doubts and fear poison the mind and body

-and imagination runs riot, attracting disaster and

-disease.</p>

-

-<p>In steadily repeating the affirmation, “I cast this

-burden on the Christ within, and go free,” the

-vision clears, and with it a feeling of relief, and

-sooner or later comes <em>the manifestation of good, be

-it health, happiness or supply</em>.</p>

-

-<p>One of my students once asked me to explain the

-“darkness before the dawn.” I referred in a preceding<span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span>

-chapter to the fact that often, before the big

-demonstration “everything seems to go wrong,”

-and deep depression clouds the consciousness. It

-means that out of the subconscious are rising the

-doubts and fears of the ages. These old derelicts of

-the subconscious rise to the surface, <em>to be put out</em>.</p>

-

-<p>It is then, that man should clap his cymbals, like

-Jehoshaphat, and give thanks that he is saved, even

-though he seems surrounded by the enemy (the

-situation of lack or disease). The student continued,

-“How long must one remain in the dark” and I

-replied, “until one <em>can see in the dark</em>,” and “<em>casting

-the burden enables one to see in the dark</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>In order to impress the subconscious, active faith

-is always essential.</p>

-

-<p>“Faith without works is dead.” In these chapters

-I have endeavored to bring out this point.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ showed active faith when “He commanded

-the multitude to sit down on the ground,”

-before he gave thanks for the loaves and the fishes.</p>

-

-<p>I will give another example showing how necessary

-this step is. In fact, active faith is the bridge,

-over which man passes to his Promised Land.</p>

-

-<p>Through misunderstanding, a woman had been

-separated from her husband, whom she loved

-deeply. He refused all offers of reconciliation and

-would not communicate with her in any way.</p>

-

-<p>Coming into the knowledge of Spiritual law, she

-denied the appearance of separation. She made

-this statement: “There is no separation in Divine

-Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the

-love and companionship which are mine by divine

-right.”</p>

-

-<p>She showed active faith by arranging a place for<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span>

-him at the table every day; thereby impressing the

-subconscious with a picture of his <em>return</em>. Over a

-year passed, but she never wavered, and <em>one day he

-walked in</em>.</p>

-

-<p>The subconscious is often impressed through

-music. Music has a fourth dimensional quality and

-releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes

-wonderful things seem <em>possible, and easy of accomplishment</em>!</p>

-

-<p>I have a friend who uses her victrola, daily, for

-this purpose. It puts her in perfect harmony and

-releases the imagination.</p>

-

-<p>Another woman often dances while making her

-affirmations. The rhythm and harmony of music

-and motion carry her words forth with tremendous

-power.</p>

-

-<p>The student must remember also, not to despise

-the “day of small things.”</p>

-

-<p>Invariably, before a demonstration, come “signs

-of land.”</p>

-

-<p>Before Columbus reached America, he saw birds

-and twigs which showed him land was near. So it is

-with a demonstration; but often the student mistakes

-it for the demonstration itself, and is disappointed.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman had “spoken the word”

-for a set of dishes. Not long afterwards a friend gave

-her a dish which was old and cracked.</p>

-

-<p>She came to me and said, “Well, I asked for a set

-of dishes, and all I got was a cracked plate.”</p>

-

-<p>I replied, “The plate was only signs of land. It

-shows your dishes are coming—look upon it as

-birds and seaweed,” and not long afterwards the

-dishes came.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span></p>

-

-<p>Continually “making-believe,” impresses the

-subconscious. If one makes believe he is rich, and

-makes believe he is successful, in “due time he will

-reap.”</p>

-

-<p>Children are always “making believe,” and “except

-ye be converted, and become as little children,

-ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”</p>

-

-<p>For example: I know of a woman who was very

-poor, but no one could make her <em>feel poor</em>. She

-earned a small amount of money from rich friends,

-who constantly reminded her of her poverty, and to

-be careful and saving. Regardless of their admonitions,

-she would spend all her earnings on a hat, or

-make someone a gift, and be in a rapturous state of

-mind. Her thoughts were always centered on beautiful

-clothes and “rings and things,” but without

-envying others.</p>

-

-<p>She lived in the world of the wondrous, and only

-riches seemed real to her. Before long she married a

-rich man, and the rings and things became visible.

-I do not know whether the man was the “Divine

-Selection,” but opulence had to manifest in her

-life, as she had imaged only opulence.</p>

-

-<p>There is no peace or happiness for man, until he

-has erased all fear from the subconscious.</p>

-

-<p>Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected,

-or transmuted into Faith.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ said, “Why are ye fearful, O ye of

-little faith?” “All things are possible to him that

-believeth.”</p>

-

-<p>I am asked, so often by my students, “<em>How can I

-get rid of fear?</em>”</p>

-

-<p>I reply, “<em>By walking up to the thing you are

-afraid of</em>.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span></p>

-

-<p>“The lion takes its fierceness from your fear.”</p>

-

-<p>Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run

-away and he runs after you.</p>

-

-<p>I have shown in previous chapters, how the lion

-of lack disappeared when the individual spent

-money fearlessly, showing faith that God was his

-supply and therefore, unfailing.</p>

-

-<p>Many of my students have come out of the

-bondage of poverty, and are now bountifully supplied,

-through losing all fear of letting money go

-out. The subconscious is impressed with the truth

-that <em>God is the Giver and the Gift</em>; therefore as one

-is one with the Giver, he is one with the Gift. A

-splendid statement is, “I now thank God the Giver

-for God the Gift.”</p>

-

-<p>Man has so long separated himself from his good

-and his supply, through thoughts of separation and

-lack, that sometimes, it takes dynamite to dislodge

-these false ideas from the subconscious, and the

-dynamite is a big situation.</p>

-

-<p>We see in the foregoing illustration, how the

-individual was freed from his bondage by <em>showing

-fearlessness</em>.</p>

-

-<p>Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his

-motive for action is fear or faith.</p>

-

-<p>“Choose ye this day whom we shall serve,” fear or

-faith.</p>

-

-<p>Perhaps one’s fear is of personality. Then do not

-avoid the people feared; be willing to meet them

-cheerfully, and they will either prove “golden links

-in the chain of one’s good,” or disappear harmoniously

-from one’s pathway.</p>

-

-<p>Perhaps one’s fear is of disease or germs. Then<span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span>

-one should be fearless and undisturbed in a germ-laden

-situation, and he would be immune.</p>

-

-<p>One can only contract germs while vibrating at

-the same rate as the germ, and fear drags men

-down to the level of the germ. Of course, the disease

-laden germ is the product of carnal mind, as all

-thought must objectify. Germs do not exist in the

-superconscious or Divine Mind, therefore are the

-product of man’s “vain imagination.”</p>

-

-<p>“In the twinkling of an eye,” man’s release will

-come when he realizes <em>there is no power in evil</em>.</p>

-

-<p>The material world will fade away, and the

-fourth dimensional world, the “World of the Wondrous,”

-will swing into manifestation.</p>

-

-<p>“And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth—and

-there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor

-crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the

-former things are passed away.”</p>

-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

-

-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="LOVE">LOVE</h2>

-</div>

-

-

-<p>Every man on this planet is taking his initiation

-in love. “A new commandment I give unto you,

-that ye love one another.” Ouspensky states, in

-“Tertium Organum,” that “love is a cosmic phenomenon,”

-and opens to man the fourth dimensional

-world, “The World of the Wondrous.”</p>

-

-<p>Real love is selfless and free from fear. It pours

-itself out upon the object of its affection, without

-demanding any return. Its joy is in the joy of giving.

-Love is God in manifestation, and the strongest

-magnetic force in the universe. Pure, unselfish love

-<em>draws to itself its own</em>; it does not need to seek or

-demand. Scarcely anyone has the faintest conception

-of real love. Man is selfish, tyrannical or fearful

-in his affections, thereby losing the thing he

-loves. Jealousy is the worst enemy of love, for the

-imagination runs riot, seeing the loved one attracted

-to another, and invariably these fears

-objectify if they are not neutralized.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman came to me in deep distress.

-The man she loved had left her for other

-women, and said he never intended to marry her.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span>

-She was torn with jealousy and resentment and said

-she hoped he would suffer as he had made her

-suffer; and added, “How could he leave me when I

-loved him so much?”</p>

-

-<p>I replied, “You are not loving that man, you are

-hating him,” and added, “<em>You can never receive

-what you have never given. Give a perfect love and

-you will receive a perfect love.</em> Perfect yourself on

-this man. Give him a perfect, <em>unselfish</em> love, demanding

-nothing in return, do not criticise or

-condemn, and <em>bless him wherever he is</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>She replied, “No, I won’t bless him unless I know

-where he is!”</p>

-

-<p>“Well,” I said, “that is not real love.”</p>

-

-<p>“When you <em>send out real love</em>, real love will return

-to you, either from this man or his equivalent,

-for if this man is not the divine selection, you will

-not want him. As you are one with God, you are one

-with the love which belongs to you by divine right.”</p>

-

-<p>Several months passed, and matters remained

-about the same, but she was working conscientiously

-with herself. I said, “When you are no longer

-disturbed by his cruelty, he will cease to be cruel, as

-you are attracting it through your own emotions.”</p>

-

-<p>Then I told her of a brotherhood in India, who

-never said, “Good morning” to each other. They

-used these words: “<em>I salute the Divinity in you.</em>”

-They saluted the divinity in every man, and in the

-wild animals in the jungle, and they were never

-harmed, for they <em>saw only God in every</em> living

-thing. I said, “Salute the divinity in this man, and

-say, ‘I see your divine self only. I see you as God sees<span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span>

-you, perfect, made in His image and likeness.’”</p>

-

-<p>She found she was becoming more poised, and

-gradually losing her resentment. He was a Captain,

-and she always called him “The Cap.”</p>

-

-<p>One day, she said, suddenly, “<em>God bless the Cap

-wherever he is.</em>”</p>

-

-<p>I replied: “Now, that is real love, and when you

-have become a ‘complete circle,’ and are no longer

-disturbed by the situation, you will have his love, or

-attract its equivalent.”</p>

-

-<p>I was moving at this time, and did not have a

-telephone, so was out of touch with her for a few

-weeks, when one morning I received a letter saying,

-“We are married.”</p>

-

-<p>At the earliest opportunity, I paid her a call. My

-first words were, “What happened?”</p>

-

-<p>“Oh,” she exclaimed, “a miracle! One day I woke

-up and all suffering had ceased. I saw him that

-evening and he asked me to marry him. We were

-married in about a week, and I have never seen a

-more devoted man.”</p>

-

-<p>There is an old saying: “<em>No man is your enemy,

-no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.</em>”</p>

-

-<p>So one should become impersonal and learn

-what each man has to teach him, and soon he

-would learn his lessons and be free.</p>

-

-<p>The woman’s lover was teaching her selfless love,

-which every man, sooner or later, must learn.</p>

-

-<p>Suffering is not necessary for man’s development;

-it is the result of violation of spiritual law,

-but few people seem able to rouse themselves from

-their “soul sleep” without it. When people are<span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span>

-happy, they usually become selfish, and automatically

-the law of Karma is set in action. Man

-often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.</p>

-

-<p>I knew a woman who had a very nice husband,

-but she said often, “I don’t care anything about

-being married, but that is nothing against my

-husband. I’m simply not interested in married

-life.”</p>

-

-<p>She had other interests, and scarcely remembered

-she had a husband. She only thought of him

-when she saw him. One day her husband told her

-he was in love with another woman, and left. She

-came to me in distress and resentment.</p>

-

-<p>I replied, “It is exactly what you spoke the word

-for. You said you didn’t care anything about being

-married, so the subconscious worked to get you

-unmarried.”</p>

-

-<p>She said, “Oh yes, I see. People get what they

-want, and then feel very much hurt.”</p>

-

-<p>She soon became in perfect harmony with the

-situation, and knew they were both much happier

-apart.</p>

-

-<p>When a woman becomes indifferent or critical,

-and ceases to be an inspiration to her husband, he

-misses the stimulus of their early relationship and is

-restless and unhappy.</p>

-

-<p>A man came to me dejected, miserable and

-poor. His wife was interested in the “Science of

-Numbers,” and had had him read. It seems the

-report was not very favorable, for he said, “My wife

-says I’ll never amount to anything because I am a

-two.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span></p>

-

-<p>I replied, “I don’t care what your number is, you

-are a perfect idea in divine mind, and we will

-demand the success and prosperity which are <em>already

-planned</em> for you by that Infinite Intelligence.”</p>

-

-<p>Within a few weeks, he had a very fine position,

-and a year or two later, he achieved a brilliant

-success as a writer. No man is a success in business

-unless he loves his work. The picture the artist

-paints for love (of his art) is his greatest work. The

-pot-boiler is always something to live down.</p>

-

-<p>No man can attract money if he despises it. Many

-people are kept in poverty by saying: “Money

-means nothing to me, and I have a contempt for

-people who have it.”</p>

-

-<p>This is the reason so many artists are poor. Their

-contempt for money separates them from it.</p>

-

-<p>I remember hearing one artist say of another,

-“He’s no good as an artist, he has money in the

-bank.”</p>

-

-<p>This attitude of mind, of course, separates man

-from his supply; he must be in harmony with a

-thing in order to attract it.</p>

-

-<p>Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from

-want and limitation, but it must be always kept in

-circulation and put to right uses. Hoarding and

-saving react with grim vengeance.</p>

-

-<p>This does not mean that man should not have

-houses and lots, stocks and bonds, for “the barns

-of the righteous man shall be full.” It means man

-should not hoard even the principal, if an occasion

-arises, when money is necessary. In letting it go out

-fearlessly and cheerfully he opens the way for more<span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span>

-to come in, for God is man’s unfailing and inexhaustible

-supply.</p>

-

-<p>This is the spiritual attitude towards money and

-the great Bank of the Universal never fails!</p>

-

-<p>We see an example of hoarding in the film

-production of “Greed.” The woman won five thousand

-dollars in a lottery, but would not spend it.

-She hoarded and saved, let her husband suffer and

-starve, and eventually she scrubbed floors for a

-living.</p>

-

-<p>She loved the money itself and put it above

-everything, and one night she was murdered and

-the money taken from her.</p>

-

-<p>This is an example of where “love of money is the

-root of all evil.” Money in itself, is good and beneficial,

-but used for destructive purposes, hoarded

-and saved, or considered more important than

-love, brings disease and disaster, and the loss of the

-money itself.</p>

-

-<p>Follow the path of love, and all things are added,

-<em>for God is love</em>, and <em>God is supply</em>; follow the path

-of selfishness and greed, and the supply vanishes, or

-man is separated from it.</p>

-

-<p>For example; I knew the case of a very rich

-woman, who hoarded her income. She rarely gave

-anything away, but bought and bought and bought

-things for herself.</p>

-

-<p>She was very fond of necklaces, and a friend once

-asked her how many she possessed. She replied,

-“Sixty-seven.” She bought them and put them

-away, carefully wrapped in tissue paper. Had she

-used the necklaces it would have been quite legitimate,

-but she was violating “the law of use.” Her<span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</span>

-closets were filled with clothes she never wore, and

-jewels which never saw the light.</p>

-

-<p>The woman’s arms were gradually becoming

-paralyzed from holding on to things, and eventually

-she was considered incapable of looking after her

-affairs and her wealth was handed over to others to

-manage.</p>

-

-<p>So man, in ignorance of the law, brings about his

-own destruction.</p>

-

-<p>All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation

-of the law of love. Man’s boomerangs of hate,

-resentment and criticism, come back laden with

-sickness and sorrow. Love seems almost a lost art,

-but the man with the knowledge of spiritual law

-knows it must be regained, for without it, he has

-“become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.”</p>

-

-<p>For example: I had a student who came to me,

-month after month, to clean her consciousness of

-resentment. After a while, she arrived at the point

-where she resented only one woman, but that one

-woman kept her busy. Little by little she became

-poised and harmonious, and one day, all resentment

-was wiped out.</p>

-

-<p>She came in radiant, and exclaimed “You can’t

-understand how I feel! The woman said something

-to me and instead of being furious I was loving and

-kind, and she apologized and was perfectly lovely to

-me.</p>

-

-<p>No one can understand the marvelous lightness I

-feel within!”</p>

-

-<p>Love and good-will are invaluable in business.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman came to me, complaining<span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</span>

-of her employer. She said she was cold and

-critical and knew she did not want her in the

-position.</p>

-

-<p>“Well,” I replied, “Salute the Divinity in the

-woman and send her love.”</p>

-

-<p>She said “I can’t; she’s a marble woman.”</p>

-

-<p>I answered, “You remember the story of the

-sculptor who asked for a certain piece of marble.

-He was asked why he wanted it, and he replied,

-‘because there is an angel in the marble,’ and out of

-it he produced a wonderful work of art.”</p>

-

-<p>She said, “Very well, I’ll try it.” A week later she

-came back and said, “I did what you told me to,

-and now the woman is very kind, and took me out

-in her car.”</p>

-

-<p>People are sometimes filled with remorse for

-having done someone an unkindness, perhaps years

-ago.</p>

-

-<p>If the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be

-neutralized by doing some one a kindness <em>in the

-present</em>.</p>

-

-<p>“This one thing I do, forgetting those things

-which are behind and reaching forth unto those

-things which are before.”</p>

-

-<p>Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of

-the body, and poison the atmosphere of the individual.</p>

-

-<p>A woman said to me in deep sorrow, “Treat me

-to be happy and joyous, for my sorrow makes me so

-irritable with the members of my family that I keep

-making more Karma.”</p>

-

-<p>I was asked to treat a woman who was mourning<span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</span>

-for her daughter. I denied all belief in loss and

-separation, and affirmed that God was the woman’s

-joy, love and peace.</p>

-

-<p>The woman gained her poise at once, but sent

-word by her son, not to treat any longer, because

-she was “so happy, it wasn’t respectable.”</p>

-

-<p>So “mortal mind” loves to hang on to its griefs

-and regrets.</p>

-

-<p>I knew a woman who went about bragging of her

-troubles, so, of course, she always had something to

-brag about.</p>

-

-<p>The old idea was if a woman did not worry about

-her children, she was not a good mother.</p>

-

-<p>Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible

-for many of the diseases and accidents which come

-into the lives of children.</p>

-

-<p>For fear pictures vividly the disease or situation

-feared, and these pictures objectify, if not neutralized.</p>

-

-<p>Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that

-she puts her child in God’s hands, and <em>knows</em> therefore,

-that he is divinely protected.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman awoke suddenly, in the

-night, feeling her brother was in great danger.

-Instead of giving in to her fears, she commenced

-making statements of Truth, saying, “Man is a

-perfect idea in Divine Mind, and is always in his

-right place, therefore, my brother is in his right

-place, and is divinely protected.”</p>

-

-<p>The next day she found that her brother had

-been in close proximity to an explosion in a mine,

-but had miraculously escaped.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</span></p>

-

-<p>So man is his brother’s keeper (in thought) and

-every man should know that the thing he loves

-dwells in “the secret place of the most high, and

-abides under the shadow of the Almighty.”</p>

-

-<p>“There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any

-plague come nigh thy dwelling.”</p>

-

-<p>“Perfect love casteth out fear. He that feareth is

-not made perfect in love,” and “Love is the fulfilling

-of the Law.”</p>

-

-

-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

-

-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="INTUITION_OR_GUIDANCE">INTUITION OR GUIDANCE</h2>

-</div>

-

-<div class="poetry-container">

-<div class="poetry">

-  <div class="stanza">

-    <div class="verse indent0">“In all thy ways acknowledge Him and</div>

-    <div class="verse indent4">He shall direct thy paths.”</div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p>There is nothing too great of accomplishment

-for the man who knows the power of his word, and

-who follows his intuitive leads. By the word he starts

-in action unseen forces and can rebuild his body or

-remold his affairs.</p>

-

-<p>It is, therefore, of the utmost importance to

-choose the right words, and the student carefully

-selects the affirmation he wishes to catapult into

-the invisible.</p>

-

-<p>He knows that God is his supply, that there is a

-supply for every demand, and that his spoken word

-releases this supply.</p>

-

-<p>“Ask and ye shall receive.”</p>

-

-<p>Man must make the first move. “Draw nigh to

-God and He will draw nigh to you.”</p>

-

-<p>I have often been asked just how to make a

-demonstration.</p>

-

-<p>I reply: “Speak the word and then do not do

-anything until you get a definite lead.” Demand

-the lead, saying, “Infinite Spirit, reveal to me the

-way, let me know if there is anything for me to do.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</span></p>

-

-<p>The answer will come through intuition (or

-hunch); a chance remark from someone, or a

-passage in a book, etc., etc. The answers are

-sometimes quite startling in their exactness. For

-example: A woman desired a large sum of money.

-She spoke the words: “Infinite Spirit, open the way

-for my immediate supply, let all that is mine by

-divine right now reach me, in great avalanches of

-abundance.” Then she added: “Give me a definite

-lead, let me know if there is anything for me to do.”</p>

-

-<p>The thought came quickly, “Give a certain

-friend” (who had helped her spiritually) “a hundred

-dollars.” She told her friend, who said, “Wait

-and get another lead, before giving it.” So she

-waited, and that day met a woman who said to her,

-“I gave someone a dollar today; it was just as much

-for me, as it would be for you to give someone a

-hundred.”</p>

-

-<p>This was indeed an unmistakable lead, so she

-knew she was right in giving the hundred dollars.

-It was a gift which proved a great investment, for

-shortly after that, a large sum of money came to her

-in a remarkable way.</p>

-

-<p>Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to

-create activity in finances, one should give. Tithing

-or giving one-tenth of one’s income, is an old Jewish

-custom, and is sure to bring increase. Many of the

-richest men in this country have been tithers, and I

-have never known it to fail as an investment.</p>

-

-<p>The tenth-part goes forth and returns blessed

-and multiplied. But the gift or tithe must be given

-with love and cheerfulness, for “God loveth a cheerful

-giver.” Bills should be paid cheerfully; all<span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</span>

-money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a

-blessing.</p>

-

-<p>This attitude of mind makes man master of

-money. It is his to obey, and his spoken word then

-opens vast reservoirs of wealth.</p>

-

-<p>Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited

-vision. Sometimes the student has a great realization

-of wealth, but is afraid to act.</p>

-

-<p>The vision and action must go hand in hand, as

-in the case of the man who bought the fur-lined

-overcoat.</p>

-

-<p>A woman came to me asking me to “speak the

-word” for a position. So I demanded: “Infinite

-Spirit, open the way for this woman’s right position.”

-Never ask for just “a position”; ask for the

-right position, the place already planned in Divine

-Mind, as it is the only one that will give satisfaction.</p>

-

-<p>I then gave thanks that she had already received,

-and that it would manifest quickly. Very soon, she

-had three positions offered her, two in New York

-and one in Palm Beach, and she did not know

-which to choose. I said, “Ask for a definite lead.”</p>

-

-<p>The time was almost up and was still undecided,

-when one day, she telephoned, “When I woke up

-this morning, I could smell Palm Beach.” She had

-been there before and knew its balmy fragrance.</p>

-

-<p>I replied: “Well, if you can smell Palm Beach

-from here, it is certainly your lead.” She accepted

-the position, and it proved a great success. Often

-one’s lead comes at an unexpected time.</p>

-

-<p>One day, I was walking down the street, when I

-suddenly felt a strong urge to go to a certain

-bakery, a block or two away.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</span></p>

-

-<p>The reasoning mind resisted, arguing, “There is

-nothing there that you want.”</p>

-

-<p>However, I had learned not to reason, so I went

-to the bakery, looked at everything, and there was

-certainly nothing there that I wanted, but coming

-out I encountered a woman I had thought of often,

-and who was in great need of the help which I could

-give her.</p>

-

-<p>So often, one goes for one thing and finds another.</p>

-

-<p>Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain,

-but simply <em>points the way</em>.</p>

-

-<p>A person often receives a lead during a “treatment.”

-The idea that comes may seem quite irrelevant,

-but some of God’s leadings are “mysterious.”</p>

-

-<p>In the class, one day, I was treating that each

-individual would receive a definite lead. A woman

-came to me afterwards, and said: “While you were

-treating, I got the hunch to take my furniture out of

-storage and get an apartment.” The woman had

-come to be treated for health. I told her I knew in

-getting a home of her own, her health would

-improve, and I added, “I believe your trouble,

-which is a congestion, has come from having things

-stored away. Congestion of things causes congestion

-in the body. You have violated the law of use,

-and your body is paying the penalty.”</p>

-

-<p>So I gave thanks that “<em>Divine order was established

-in her mind, body and affairs</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>People little dream of how their affairs react on

-the body. There is a mental correspondence for

-every disease. A person might receive instantaneous

-healing through the realization of his body<span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</span>

-being a perfect idea in Divine Mind, and, therefore,

-whole and perfect, but if he continues his

-destructive thinking, hoarding, hating, fearing,

-condemning, the disease will return.</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ knew that all sickness came from

-sin, but admonished the leper after the healing, to

-go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon

-him.</p>

-

-<p>So man’s soul (or subconscious mind) must be

-washed whiter than snow, for permanent healing;

-and the metaphysician is always delving deep for

-the “correspondence.”</p>

-

-<p>Jesus Christ said, “Condemn not lest ye also be

-condemned.”</p>

-

-<p>“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”</p>

-

-<p>Many people have attracted disease and unhappiness

-through condemnation of others.</p>

-

-<p>What man condemns in others, he attracts to

-himself.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A friend came to me in anger and

-distress, because her husband had deserted her for

-another woman. She condemned the other woman,

-and said continually, “She knew he was a

-married man, and had no right to accept his

-attentions.”</p>

-

-<p>I replied, “Stop condemning the woman, bless

-her, and be through with the situation, otherwise,

-you are attracting the same thing to yourself.”</p>

-

-<p>She was deaf to my words, and a year or two

-later, became deeply interested in a married man,

-herself.</p>

-

-<p>Man picks up a live-wire whenever he criticises

-or condemns, and may expect a shock.</p>

-

-<p>Indecision is a stumbling-block in many a pathway.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</span>

-In order to overcome it, make the statement,

-repeatedly, “<em>I am always under direct inspiration;

-I make right decisions, quickly.</em>”</p>

-

-<p>These words impress the subconscious, and soon

-one finds himself awake and alert, making his

-right moves without hesitation. I have found it

-destructive to look to the psychic plane for guidance,

-as it is the plane of many minds and not

-“The One Mind.”</p>

-

-<p>As man opens his mind to subjectivity, he becomes

-a target for destructive forces. The psychic

-plane is the result of man’s mortal thought, and is

-on the “plane of opposites.” He may receive either

-good or bad messages.</p>

-

-<p>The science of numbers and the reading of

-horoscopes, keep man down on the mental (or

-mortal) plane, for they deal only with the Karmic

-path.</p>

-

-<p>I know of a man who should have been dead,

-years ago, according to his horoscope, but he is

-alive and a leader of one of the biggest movements

-in this country for the uplift of humanity.</p>

-

-<p>It takes a very strong mind to neutralize a prophecy

-of evil. The student should declare, “Every

-false prophecy shall come to naught; every plan

-my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved

-and dissipated, the divine idea now comes

-to pass.”</p>

-

-<p>However, if any good message has ever been

-given one, of coming happiness, or wealth, harbor

-and expect it, and it will manifest sooner or later,

-through the law of expectancy.</p>

-

-<p>Man’s will should be used to back the universal

-will. “I will that the will of God be done.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</span></p>

-

-<p>It is God’s will to give every man, every righteous

-desire of his heart, and man’s will should be

-used to hold the perfect vision, without wavering.</p>

-

-<p>The prodigal son said: “I will arise and go to my

-Father.”</p>

-

-<p>It is, indeed, often an effort of the will to leave

-the husks and swine of mortal thinking. It is so

-much easier, for the average person, to have fear

-than faith; <em>so faith is an effort of the will</em>.</p>

-

-<p>As man becomes spiritually awakened he recognizes

-that any external inharmony is the correspondence

-of mental inharmony. If he stumbles or

-falls, he may know he is stumbling or falling in

-consciousness.</p>

-

-<p>One day, a student was walking along the street

-condemning someone in her thoughts. She was

-saying, mentally, “That woman is the most disagreeable

-woman on earth,” when suddenly three

-boy scouts rushed around the corner and almost

-knocked her over. She did not condemn the boy

-scouts, but immediately called on the law of forgiveness,

-and “saluted the divinity” in the woman.

-Wisdom’s ways are ways of pleasantness and all her

-paths are peace.</p>

-

-<p>When one has made his demands upon the

-Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything

-may seem to be going wrong, when in reality,

-it is going right.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman was told that there was

-no loss in divine mind, therefore, she could not

-lose anything which belonged to her; anything

-lost, would be returned, or she would receive its

-equivalent.</p>

-

-<p>Several years previously, she had lost two thousand<span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</span>

-dollars. She had loaned the money to a relative

-during her lifetime, but the relative had died,

-leaving no mention of it in her will. The woman

-was resentful and angry, and as she had no written

-statement of the transaction, she never received

-the money, so she determined to deny the loss, and

-collect the two thousand dollars from the Bank of

-the Universal. She had to begin by forgiving the

-woman, as resentment and unforgiveness close the

-doors of this wonderful bank.</p>

-

-<p>She made this statement, “I deny loss, there is

-no loss in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot lose the

-two thousand dollars, which belong to me by divine

-right.” “<em>As one door shuts another door

-opens.</em>”</p>

-

-<p>She was living in an apartment house which was

-for sale; and in the lease was a clause, stating that

-if the house was sold, the tenants would be required

-to move out within ninety days.</p>

-

-<p>Suddenly, the landlord broke the leases and

-raised the rent. Again, injustice was on her pathway,

-but this time she was undisturbed. She

-blessed the landlord, and said, “As the rent has

-been raised, it means that I’ll be that much richer,

-for God is my supply.”</p>

-

-<p>New leases were made out for the advanced

-rent, but by some divine mistake, the ninety days

-clause had been forgotten. Soon after, the landlord

-had an opportunity to sell the house. On

-account of the mistake in the new leases, the tenants

-held possession for another year.</p>

-

-<p>The agent offered each tenant two hundred

-dollars if he would vacate. Several families moved;

-three remained, including the woman. A month<span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</span>

-or two passed, and the agent again appeared. This

-time he said to the woman, “Will you break your

-lease for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars?” It

-flashed upon her, “Here comes the two thousand

-dollars.” She remembered having said to friends

-in the house, “We will all act together if anything

-more is said about leaving.” So her <em>lead</em> was to

-consult her friends.</p>

-

-<p>These friends said: “Well, if they have offered

-you fifteen hundred they will certainly give two

-thousand.” So she received a check for two thousand

-dollars for giving up the apartment. It was

-certainly a remarkable working of the law, and

-the apparent injustice was merely opening the way

-for her demonstration.</p>

-

-<p>It proved that there is no loss, and when man

-takes his spiritual stand, he collects all that is his

-from this great Reservoir of Good.</p>

-

-<p>“I will restore to you the years the locusts have

-eaten.”</p>

-

-<p>The locusts are the doubts, fears, resentments

-and regrets of mortal thinking.</p>

-

-<p>These adverse thoughts, alone, rob man; for

-“No man gives to himself but himself, and no man

-takes away from himself, but himself.”</p>

-

-<p>Man is here to prove God and “to bear witness

-to the truth,” and he can only prove God by

-bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of

-injustice.</p>

-

-<p>“Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of

-hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven,

-and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be

-room enough to receive it.”</p>

-

-

-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

-

-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="PERFECT_SELF-EXPRESSION">PERFECT SELF-EXPRESSION<br><br>

-

-<span class="fs90">or</span><br><br>

-

-THE DIVINE DESIGN</h2>

-</div>

-

-<div class="poetry-container">

-<div class="poetry">

-  <div class="stanza">

-    <div class="verse indent0">“No wind can drive my bark astray</div>

-    <div class="verse indent1">nor change the tide of destiny.”</div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-

-<p>There is for each man, perfect self-expression.

-There is a place which he is to fill and no one else

-can fill, something which he is to do, which no one

-else can do; it is his destiny!</p>

-

-<p>This achievement is held, a perfect idea in Divine

-Mind, awaiting man’s recognition. As the

-imaging faculty is the creative faculty, it is necessary

-for man to see the idea, before it can manifest.</p>

-

-<p>So man’s highest demand is for the <em>Divine Design

-of his life</em>.</p>

-

-<p>He may not have the faintest conception of

-what it is, for there is, possibly, some marvelous

-talent, hidden deep within him.</p>

-

-<p>His demand should be: “<em>Infinite Spirit, open

-the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest;

-let the genius within me now be released; let

-me see clearly the perfect plan.</em>”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</span></p>

-

-<p>The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love

-and perfect self-expression. This is the <em>square of

-life</em>, which brings perfect happiness. When one

-has made this demand, he may find great changes

-taking place in his life, for nearly every man has

-wandered far from the Divine Design.</p>

-

-<p>I know, in one woman’s case, it was as though a

-cyclone had struck her affairs, but readjustments

-came quickly, and new and wonderful conditions

-took the place of old ones.</p>

-

-<p>Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but

-of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost

-like play. The student knows, also, as man comes

-into the world financed by God, the <em>supply</em> needed

-for his perfect self-expression will be at hand.</p>

-

-<p>Many a genius has struggled for years with the

-problem of supply, when his spoken word, and

-faith, would have released quickly, the necessary

-funds.</p>

-

-<p>For example: After the class, one day, a man

-came to me and handed me a cent.</p>

-

-<p>He said: “I have just seven cents in the world,

-and I’m going to give you one; for I have faith in

-the power of your spoken word. I want you to

-speak the word for my perfect self-expression and

-prosperity.”</p>

-

-<p>I “spoke the word,” and did not see him again

-until a year later. He came in one day, successful

-and happy, with a roll of yellow bills in his pocket.

-He said, “Immediately after you spoke the word, I

-had a position offered me in a distant city, and am

-now demonstrating health, happiness and supply.”</p>

-

-<p>A woman’s perfect self-expression may be in<span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</span>

-becoming a perfect wife, a perfect mother, a perfect

-home-maker and not necessarily in having a

-public career.</p>

-

-<p>Demand definite leads, and the way will be

-made easy and successful.</p>

-

-<p>One should not visualize or force a mental picture.

-When he demands the Divine Design to

-come into his conscious mind, he will receive

-flashes of inspiration, and begin to see himself

-making some great accomplishment. This is the

-picture, or idea, he must hold without wavering.</p>

-

-<p>The thing man seeks is seeking him—<em>the telephone

-was seeking Bell</em>!</p>

-

-<p>Parents should never force careers and professions

-upon their children. With a knowledge of

-spiritual Truth, the Divine Plan could be spoken

-for, early in childhood, or prenatally.</p>

-

-<p>A prenatal treatment should be: “Let the God

-in this child have perfect expression; let the Divine

-Design of his mind, body and affairs be made

-manifest throughout his life, throughout eternity.”</p>

-

-<p><em>God’s will be done, not man’s; God’s pattern,

-not man’s</em> pattern, is the command we find running

-through all the scriptures, and the Bible is a

-book dealing with the science of the mind. It is a

-book telling man how to release his soul (or subconscious

-mind) from bondage.</p>

-

-<p>The battles described are pictures of man waging

-war against mortal thoughts. “A man’s foes

-shall be they of his own household.” Every man is

-Jehoshaphat, and every man is David, who slays

-Goliath (mortal thinking) with the little white

-stone (faith).</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</span></p>

-

-<p>So man must be careful that he is not the

-“wicked and slothful servant” who buried his

-talent. There is a terrible penalty to be paid for

-not using one’s ability.</p>

-

-<p>Often fear stands between man and his perfect

-self-expression. Stage-fright has hampered many a

-genius. This may be overcome by the spoken

-word, or treatment. The individual then loses all

-self-consciousness, and feels simply that he is a

-channel for Infinite Intelligence to express Itself

-through.</p>

-

-<p>He is under direct inspiration, fearless, and

-confident; for he feels that it is the “Father within”

-him who does the work.</p>

-

-<p>A young boy came often to my class with his

-mother. He asked me to “speak the word” for his

-coming examinations at school.</p>

-

-<p>I told him to make the statement: “I am one

-with Infinite Intelligence. I know everything I

-should know on this subject.” He had an excellent

-knowledge of history, but was not sure of his arithmetic.

-I saw him afterwards, and he said: “I spoke

-the word for my arithmetic, and passed with the

-highest honors; but thought I could depend on

-myself for history, and got a very poor mark.”

-Man often receives a set-back when he is “too sure

-of himself,” which means he is trusting to his

-personality and not the “Father within.”</p>

-

-<p>Another one of my students gave me an example

-of this. She took an extended trip abroad one

-summer, visiting many countries, where she was

-ignorant of the languages. She was calling for

-guidance and protection every minute, and her

-affairs went smoothly and miraculously. Her luggage<span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</span>

-was never delayed nor lost! Accommodations

-were always ready for her at the best hotels; and

-she had perfect service wherever she went. She returned

-to New York. Knowing the language, she

-felt God was no longer necessary, so looked after

-her affairs in an ordinary manner.</p>

-

-<p><em>Everything went wrong</em>, her trunks delayed,

-amid inharmony and confusion. The student must

-form the habit of “practicing the Presence of God”

-every minute. “<em>In all thy ways acknowledge him</em>;”

-nothing is too small or too great.</p>

-

-<p>Sometimes an insignificant incident may be the

-turning point in a man’s life.</p>

-

-<p>Robert Fulton, watching some boiling water,

-simmering in a tea kettle, saw a steamboat!</p>

-

-<p>I have seen a student, often, keep back his

-demonstration, through resistance, or pointing

-the way.</p>

-

-<p>He pins his faith to one channel only, and dictates

-just the way he desires the manifestation to

-come, which brings things to a standstill.</p>

-

-<p>“<em>My way, not your way!</em>” is the command of

-Infinite Intelligence. Like all Power, be it steam

-or electricity, it must have a nonresistant engine or

-instrument to work through, and man is that engine

-or instrument.</p>

-

-<p>Over and over again, man is told to “stand still”.

-“Oh Judah, fear not; but tomorrow go out against

-them, for the Lord will be with you. You shall not

-need to fight this battle; set yourselves, stand ye

-still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you.”</p>

-

-<p>We see this in the incidents of the two thousand

-dollars coming to the woman through the landlord

-when she became <em>nonresistant</em> and <em>undisturbed</em>,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</span>

-and the woman who won the man’s love “after all

-suffering had ceased.”</p>

-

-<p>The student’s goal is <em>Poise!</em> <em>Poise</em> is <em>Power</em>, for it

-gives God-Power a chance to rush through man,

-to “will and to do Its good pleasure.”</p>

-

-<p>Poised, he thinks clearly, and makes “right decisions

-quickly.” “He never misses a trick.”</p>

-

-<p>Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the

-root of many diseases, and causes wrong decision

-leading to failure.</p>

-

-<p>It has been named one of the worst “sins,” as its

-reaction is so harmful. The student learns that in

-metaphysics sin has a much broader meaning than

-in the old teaching. “Whatsoever is not of faith is

-sin.”</p>

-

-<p>He finds that fear and worry are deadly sins.

-They are inverted faith, and through distorted

-mental pictures, bring to pass the thing he fears.

-His work is to drive out these enemies (from the

-subconscious mind). “When Man is <em>fearless he is

-finished</em>!” Maeterlinck says, that “Man is God

-afraid.”</p>

-

-<p>So, as we read in the previous chapters: Man

-can only vanquish fear by walking up to the thing

-he is afraid of. When Jehoshaphat and his army

-prepared to meet the enemy, singing “Praise the

-Lord, for his mercy endureth forever,” they found

-their enemies had destroyed each other, and there

-was nothing to fight.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman asked a friend to deliver

-a message to another friend. The woman feared to

-give the message, as the reasoning mind said,

-“Don’t get mixed-up in this affair, don’t give that

-message.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</span></p>

-

-<p>She was troubled in spirit, for she had given her

-promise. At last, she determined to “walk up to

-the lion,” and call on the law of divine protection.

-She met the friend to whom she was to deliver the

-message. She opened her mouth to speak it, when

-her friend said, “So-and-So has left town.” This

-made it unnecessary to give the message, as the

-situation depended upon the person being in

-town. As she was willing to do it, she was not

-obliged to; as she did not fear, the situation vanished.</p>

-

-<p>The student often delays his demonstration

-through a belief in incompletion. He should make

-this statement:</p>

-

-<p>“In Divine Mind there is only completion, therefore,

-my demonstration is completed. My perfect

-work, my perfect home, my perfect health.”

-Whatever he demands are perfect ideas registered

-in Divine Mind, and must manifest, “under grace

-in a perfect way.” He gives thanks he has already

-received on the invisible, and makes active preparation

-for receiving on the visible.</p>

-

-<p>One of my students was in need of a financial

-demonstration. She came to me and asked why it

-was not completed.</p>

-

-<p>I replied: “Perhaps, you are in the habit of

-leaving things unfinished, and the subconscious

-has gotten into the habit of not completing (as the

-without, so the within).”</p>

-

-<p>She said, “You are right. I often <em>begin things</em>

-and never finish them.”</p>

-

-<p>“I’ll go home and finish something I commenced

-weeks ago, and I know it will be symbolic

-of my demonstration.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</span></p>

-

-<p>So she sewed assiduously, and the article was

-soon completed. Shortly after, the money came in

-a most curious manner.</p>

-

-<p>Her husband was paid his salary twice that

-month. He told the people of their mistake, and

-they sent word to keep it.</p>

-

-<p>When man asks, <em>believing, he must receive, for

-God creates His own channels</em>!</p>

-

-<p>I have been sometimes asked, “Suppose one has

-several talents, how is he to know which one to

-choose?” Demand to be shown definitely. Say: “Infinite

-Spirit, give me a definite lead, reveal to me

-my perfect self-expression, show me which talent I

-am to make use of now.”</p>

-

-<p>I have known people to suddenly enter a new

-line of work, and be fully equipped, with little or

-no training. So make the statement: “<em>I am fully

-equipped for the Divine Plan of my life</em>,” and be

-fearless in grasping opportunities.</p>

-

-<p>Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers.

-They refuse gifts through pride, or some

-negative reason, thereby blocking their channels,

-and invariably find themselves eventually with little

-or nothing. For example: A woman who had

-given away a great deal of money, had a gift

-offered her of several thousand dollars. She refused

-to take it, saying she did not need it. Shortly

-after that, her finances were “tied up,” and she

-found herself in debt for that amount. Man should

-receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon

-the water—freely ye have given, freely ye shall

-receive.</p>

-

-<p>There is always the perfect balance of giving<span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</span>

-and receiving, and though man should give without

-thinking of returns, he violates law if he does

-not accept the returns which come to him; for all

-gifts are from God, man being merely the channel.</p>

-

-<p>A thought of lack should never be held over the

-giver.</p>

-

-<p>For example: When the man gave me the one

-cent, I did not say: “Poor man, he cannot afford

-to give me that.” I saw him rich and prosperous,

-with his supply pouring in. It was this thought

-which brought it. If one has been a bad receiver,

-he must become a good one, and take even a

-postage stamp if it is given him, and open up his

-channels for receiving.</p>

-

-<p>The Lord loveth a cheerful receiver, as well as a

-cheerful giver.</p>

-

-<p>I have often been asked why one man is born

-rich and healthy, and another poor and sick.</p>

-

-<p>Where there is an effect there is always a cause;

-there is no such thing as chance.</p>

-

-<p>This question is answered through the law of

-reincarnation. Man goes through many births and

-deaths, until he knows the truth which sets him

-free.</p>

-

-<p>He is drawn back to the earth plane through

-unsatisfied desire, to pay his Karmic debts, or to

-“fulfill his destiny.”</p>

-

-<p>The man born rich and healthy has had pictures

-in his subconscious mind, in his past life, of

-health and riches; and the poor and sick man, of

-disease and poverty. Man manifests, on any plane,

-the sum total of his subconscious beliefs.</p>

-

-<p>However, birth and death are man-made laws,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</span>

-for the “wages of sin is death”; the Adamic fall in

-consciousness through the belief in <em>two powers</em>.

-The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and

-deathless! He never was born and has never died—“As

-he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever

-shall be!”</p>

-

-<p>So through the truth, man is set free from the

-law of Karma, sin and death, and manifests the

-man made in “His image and likeness.” Man’s

-freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny,

-bringing into manifestation the Divine Design of

-his life.</p>

-

-<p>His lord will say unto him: “Well done thou

-good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful

-over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many

-things (death itself); enter thou into the joy of thy

-Lord (eternal life).”</p>

-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">

-

-<div class="chapter">

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</span></p>

-

-<h2 class="nobreak" id="DENIALS_AND_AFFIRMATIONS">DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS</h2>

-</div>

-

-

-<p>“Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be

-established unto thee.”</p>

-

-<p>All the good that is to be made manifest in

-man’s life is already an accomplished fact in divine

-mind, and is released through man’s recognition,

-or spoken word, so he must be careful to decree

-that only the Divine Idea be made manifest, for

-often, he decrees, through his “idle words,” failure

-or misfortune.</p>

-

-<p>It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, to

-word one’s demands correctly, as stated in a previous

-chapter.</p>

-

-<p>If one desires a home, friend, position or any

-other good thing, make the demand for the “divine

-selection.”</p>

-

-<p>For example: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for

-my right home, my right friend, my right position.

-I give thanks <em>it now manifests under grace in a

-perfect way</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>The latter part of the statement is most important.

-For example: I knew a woman who demanded

-a thousand dollars. Her daughter was

-injured and they received a thousand dollars indemnity,

-so it did not come in a “perfect way.”<span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</span>

-The demand should have been worded in this

-way: “Infinite Spirit, I give thanks that the one

-thousand dollars, which is mine by divine right, is

-now released, and reaches me under grace, in a

-perfect way.”</p>

-

-<p>As one grows in a financial consciousness, he

-should demand that the enormous sums of money,

-which are his by divine right, reach him under

-grace, in perfect ways.</p>

-

-<p>It is impossible for man to release more than he

-thinks is possible, for one is bound by the limited

-expectancies of the subconscious. He must enlarge

-his expectancies in order to receive in a larger

-way.</p>

-

-<p>Man so often limits himself in his demands. For

-example: A student made the demand for six

-hundred dollars, by a certain date. He did receive

-it, but heard afterwards, that he came very near

-receiving a thousand dollars, but he was given just

-six hundred, as the result of his spoken word.</p>

-

-<p>“They limited the Holy One of Israel.” Wealth

-is a matter of consciousness. The French have a

-legend giving an example of this. A poor man was

-walking along a road when he met a traveler, who

-stopped him and said: “My good friend, I see you

-are poor. Take this gold nugget, sell it, and you

-will be rich all your days.”</p>

-

-<p>The man was overjoyed at his good fortune, and

-took the nugget home. He immediately found

-work and became so prosperous that he did not

-sell the nugget. Years passed, and he became a

-very rich man. One day he met a poor man on the

-road. He stopped him and said: “My good friend,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</span>

-I will give you this gold nugget, which, if you sell,

-will make you rich for life.” The mendicant took

-the nugget, had it valued, and found it was only

-brass. So we see, the first man became rich

-through feeling rich, thinking the nugget was

-gold.</p>

-

-<p>Every man has within himself a gold nugget; <em>it

-is his consciousness of gold, of opulence, which

-brings riches into his life</em>. In making his demands,

-man begins at his <em>journey’s end</em>, that is, he declares

-<em>he has already received</em>. “<em>Before</em> ye call I

-shall answer.”</p>

-

-<p>Continually affirming establishes the belief in

-the subconscious.</p>

-

-<p>It would not be necessary to make an affirmation

-more than once if one had perfect faith! One

-should not plead or supplicate, but give thanks

-repeatedly, that he has received.</p>

-

-<p>“The desert shall <em>rejoice</em> and blossom as the

-rose.” This rejoicing which is yet in the desert

-(state of consciousness) opens the way for release.

-The Lord’s Prayer is in the form of command and

-demand, “Give us this day our daily bread, and

-forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,”

-and ends in praise, “For thine is the Kingdom and

-the Power and the Glory, forever. Amen.” “Concerning

-the works of my hands, command ye me.”

-So prayer is command and demand, praise and

-thanksgiving. The student’s work is in making

-himself believe that “with God all things are possible.”</p>

-

-<p>This is easy enough to state in the abstract, but

-a little more difficult when confronted with a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</span>

-problem. For example: It was necessary for a

-woman to demonstrate a large sum of money within

-a stated time. She knew she must <em>do something</em>

-to get a realization (for realization is manifestation),

-and she demanded a “lead.”</p>

-

-<p>She was walking through a department store,

-when she saw a very beautiful pink enamel papercutter.

-She felt the “pull” towards it. The thought

-came. “I haven’t a paper cutter good enough to

-open letters containing large cheques.”</p>

-

-<p>So she bought the papercutter, which the reasoning

-mind would have called an extravagance.

-When she held it in her hand, she had a flash of a

-picture of herself opening an envelope containing

-a large cheque, and in a few weeks, she received

-the money. The pink papercutter was her bridge

-of active faith.</p>

-

-<p>Many stories are told of the power of the subconscious

-when directed in faith.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A man was spending the night in

-a farmhouse. The windows of the room had been

-nailed down, and in the middle of the night he felt

-suffocated and made his way in the dark to the

-window. He could not open it, so he smashed the

-pane with his fist, drew in draughts of fine fresh

-air, and had a wonderful night’s sleep.</p>

-

-<p>The next morning, he found he had smashed

-the glass of a bookcase and the window had remained

-closed during the whole night. He had

-<em>supplied himself with oxygen, simply by his

-thought of oxygen</em>.</p>

-

-<p>When a student starts out to demonstrate, he<span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</span>

-should never turn back. “Let not that man who

-wavers think that he shall receive anything of the

-Lord.”</p>

-

-<p>A colored student once made this wonderful

-statement, “When I asks the Father for anything,

-I puts my foot down, and I says: Father, I’ll take

-nothing less than I’ve asked for, but more!” So

-man should never compromise: “Having done all—Stand.”

-This is sometimes the most difficult

-time of demonstrating. The temptation comes to

-give up, to turn back, to compromise.</p>

-

-<p>“He also serves who only stands and waits.”</p>

-

-<p>Demonstrations often come at the eleventh hour

-because man then lets go, that is, stops reasoning,

-and Infinite Intelligence has a chance to work.</p>

-

-<p>“Man’s dreary desires are answered drearily,

-and his impatient desires, long delayed or violently

-fulfilled.”</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman asked me why it was she

-was constantly losing or breaking her glasses.</p>

-

-<p>We found she often said to herself and others

-with vexation, “I wish I could get rid of my

-glasses.” So her impatient desire was violently fulfilled.

-What she should have demanded was perfect

-eye-sight, but what she registered in the subconscious

-was simply the impatient desire to be rid

-of her glasses; so they were continually being

-broken or lost.</p>

-

-<p>Two attitudes of mind cause loss: depreciation,

-as in the case of the woman who did not appreciate

-her husband, <em>or fear of loss</em>, which makes a

-picture of loss in the subconscious.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</span></p>

-

-<p>When a student is able to let go of his problem

-(cast his burden) he will have instantaneous manifestation.</p>

-

-<p>For example: A woman was out during a very

-stormy day and her umbrella was blown inside-out.

-She was about to make a call on some people

-whom she had never met and she did not wish to

-make her first appearance with a dilapidated umbrella.

-She could not throw it away, as it did not

-belong to her. So in desperation, she exclaimed:

-“Oh, God, you take charge of this umbrella, I

-don’t know what to do.”</p>

-

-<p>A moment later, a voice behind her said:

-“Lady, do you want your umbrella mended?”

-There stood an umbrella mender.</p>

-

-<p>She replied, “Indeed, I do.”</p>

-

-<p>The man mended the umbrella, while she went

-into the house to pay her call, and when she

-returned, she had a good umbrella. So there is

-always an umbrella mender at hand, on man’s

-pathway, when one puts the umbrella (or situation)

-in God’s Hands.</p>

-

-<p>One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.</p>

-

-<p>For example: I was called on the ’phone late one

-night to treat a man whom I had never seen. He

-was apparently very ill. I made the statement: “I

-deny this appearance of disease. It is unreal,

-therefore cannot register in his consciousness; this

-man is a perfect idea in Divine Mind, pure substance

-expressing perfection.”</p>

-

-<p>There is no time or space, in Divine Mind,

-therefore the word reaches instantly its destination<span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</span>

-and does not “return void.” I have treated patients

-in Europe and have found that the result

-was instantaneous.</p>

-

-<p>I am asked so often the difference between

-visualizing and visioning. Visualizing is a mental

-process governed by the reasoning or conscious

-mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by

-intuition, or the superconscious mind. The student

-should train his mind to receive these flashes

-of inspiration, and work out the “divine pictures,”

-through definite leads. When a man can say, “I

-desire only that which God desires for me,” his

-false desires fade from the consciousness, and a

-new set of blueprints is given him by the Master

-Architect, the God within. God’s plan for each

-man transcends the limitation of the reasoning

-mind, and is always the square of life, containing

-health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression.

-Many a man is building for himself in imagination

-a bungalow when he should be building a palace.</p>

-

-<p>If a student tries to force a demonstration

-(through the reasoning mind) he brings it to a

-standstill. “I will hasten it,” saith the Lord. He

-should act only through intuition, or definite

-leads. “Rest in the Lord and wait patiently. Trust

-also in him, and he will bring it to pass.”</p>

-

-<p>I have seen the law work in the most astonishing

-manner. For example: A student stated that it

-was necessary for her to have a hundred dollars by

-the following day. It was a debt of vital importance

-which had to be met. I “spoke the word,”

-declaring Spirit was “never too late” and that the

-supply was at hand.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</span></p>

-

-<p>That evening she phoned me of the miracle.

-She said that the thought came to her to go to her

-safe-deposit box at the bank to examine some

-papers. She looked over the papers, and at the

-bottom of the box, was a new one hundred dollar-bill.

-She was astounded, and said she knew she

-had never put it there, for she had gone through

-the papers many times. It may have been a materialization,

-as Jesus Christ materialized the

-loaves and fishes. Man will reach the stage where

-his “word is made flesh,” or materialized, instantly.

-“The fields, ripe with the harvest,” will manifest

-immediately, as in all of the miracles of Jesus

-Christ.</p>

-

-<p>There is a tremendous power alone in the name

-Jesus Christ. It stands for <em>Truth Made Manifest</em>.

-He said, “Whatsoever ye ask the Father, in my

-name, he will give it to you.”</p>

-

-<p>The power of this name raises the student into

-the fourth dimension, where he is freed from all

-astral and psychic influences, and he becomes

-“unconditioned and absolute, as God Himself is

-unconditioned and absolute.”</p>

-

-<p>I have seen many healings accomplished by

-using the words, “In the name of Jesus Christ.”</p>

-

-<p>Christ was both person and principle; and the

-Christ within each man is his Redeemer and Salvation.</p>

-

-<p>The Christ within, is his own fourth dimensional

-self, the man made in God’s image and likeness.

-This is the self which has never failed, never

-known sickness or sorrow, was never born and has

-never died. It is the “resurrection and the life” of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</span>

-each man! “No man cometh to the Father save by

-the Son,” means, that God, the Universal, working

-on the place of the particular, becomes the Christ

-in man; and the Holy Ghost, means God-in-action.

-So daily, man is manifesting the Trinity of

-Father, Son and Holy Ghost.</p>

-

-<p>Man should make an art of thinking. The Master

-Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only

-the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind;

-and he paints these pictures with masterly strokes

-of power and decision, having perfect faith that

-there is no power to mar their perfection and that

-they shall manifest in his life the ideal made real.</p>

-

-<p>All power is given man (through right thinking)

-to bring <em>his heaven</em> upon <em>his earth</em>, and this is the

-<em>goal of the</em> “<em>Game of Life</em>.”</p>

-

-<p>The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance

-and love!</p>

-

-<p>May each reader be now freed from that thing

-which has held him in bondage through the ages,

-standing between him and his own, and “know the

-Truth which makes him free”—free to fulfill his

-destiny, to bring into manifestation the “<em>Divine

-Design of his life</em>, Health, Wealth, Love and Perfect

-Self-Expression.” “Be ye transformed by the

-renewing of your mind.”</p>

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</span></p>

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Prosperity)</p>

-

-<p>God is my unfailing supply, and large sums of

-money come to me quickly, under grace, in perfect

-ways.</p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Right Conditions)</p>

-

-<p>Every plan my Father in heaven has not

-planned, shall be dissolved and dissipated, and

-the Divine Idea now comes to pass.</p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Right Conditions)</p>

-

-<p>Only that which is true of God is true of me, for

-I and the Father are ONE.</p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Faith)</p>

-

-<p>As I am one with God, I am one with my good,

-for God is both the <em>Giver</em> and the <em>Gift</em>. I cannot

-separate the <em>Giver</em> from the gift.</p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Right Conditions)</p>

-

-<p>Divine Love now dissolves and dissipates every

-wrong condition in my mind, body and affairs.

-Divine Love is the most powerful chemical in the

-universe, and <em>dissolves everything</em> which is not of

-itself!</p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Health)</p>

-

-<p>Divine Love floods my consciousness with

-health, and every cell in my body is filled with

-light.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</span></p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For the Eyesight)</p>

-

-<p>My eyes are God’s eyes, I see with the eyes of

-spirit. I see clearly the open way; there are no

-obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the perfect

-plan.</p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Guidance)</p>

-

-<p>I am divinely sensitive to my intuitive leads, and

-give instant obedience to Thy will.</p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For the Hearing)</p>

-

-<p>My ears are God’s ears, I hear with the ears of

-spirit. I am nonresistant and am willing to be led.

-I hear glad tidings of great joy.</p>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Right Work)</p>

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-</div>

-</div>

-

-

-<p class="center no-indent">(For Freedom from all Bondage)</p>

-

-<p><em>I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go

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+<h1>THE GAME OF LIFE<br><br>
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+<span class="fs80">AND HOW TO PLAY IT</span></h1>
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+FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN</p>
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+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Game</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Law of Prosperity</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Power of the Word</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Law of Nonresistance</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Casting the Burden (Impressing the Subconscious)</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Love</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Intuition or Guidance</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Perfect Self-Expression or the Divine Design</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Denials and Affirmations</span></td>
+<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_GAME">THE GAME</h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a
+battle, it is a game.</p>
+
+<p>It is a game, however, which cannot be played
+successfully without the knowledge of spiritual
+law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the
+rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Jesus
+Christ taught that it was a great game of <em>Giving
+and Receiving</em>.</p>
+
+<p>“Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also
+reap.” This means that whatever man sends out in
+word or deed, will return to him; what he gives, he
+will receive.</p>
+
+<p>If he gives hate, he will receive hate; if he gives
+love, he will receive love; if he gives criticism, he
+will receive criticism; if he lies he will be lied to; if
+he cheats he will be cheated. We are taught also,
+that the imaging faculty plays a leading part in
+the game of life.</p>
+
+<p>“Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence,
+for out of it are the issues of life.” (Prov.
+4:23.)</p>
+
+<p>This means that what man images, sooner or
+later externalizes in his affairs. I know of a man<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span>
+who feared a certain disease. It was a very rare
+disease and difficult to get, but he pictured it continually
+and read about it until it manifested in his
+body, and he died, the victim of distorted imagination.</p>
+
+<p>So we see, to play successfully the game of life,
+we must train the imaging faculty. A person with
+an imaging faculty trained to image only good,
+brings into his life “every righteous desire of his
+heart”—health, wealth, love, friends, perfect self-expression,
+his highest ideals.</p>
+
+<p>The imagination has been called, “<em>The Scissors
+of The Mind</em>,” and it is ever cutting, cutting, day
+by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or
+later he meets his own creations in his outer world.
+To train the imagination successfully, man must
+understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks
+said: “Know Thyself.”</p>
+
+<p>There are three departments of the mind, the
+<em>subconscious, conscious and superconscious</em>. The
+subconscious, is simply power, without direction.
+It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is
+directed to do; it has no power of induction.</p>
+
+<p>Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is
+impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried
+out in minutest detail.</p>
+
+<p>For example: a woman I know, when a child,
+always “made believe” she was a widow. She
+“dressed up” in black clothes and wore a long
+black veil, and people thought she was very clever
+and amusing. She grew up and married a man
+with whom she was deeply in love. In a short time
+he died and she wore black and a sweeping veil for<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span>
+many years. The picture of herself as a widow was
+impressed upon the subconscious mind, and in
+due time worked itself out, regardless of the havoc
+created.</p>
+
+<p>The conscious mind has been called mortal or
+carnal mind.</p>
+
+<p>It is the human mind and sees life as it <em>appears
+to be</em>. It sees death, disaster, sickness, poverty and
+limitation of every kind, and it impresses the subconscious.</p>
+
+<p>The <em>superconscious</em> mind is the God Mind within
+each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.</p>
+
+<p>In it, is the “<em>perfect pattern</em>” spoken of by Plato,
+<em>The Divine Design</em>; for there is a <em>Divine Design</em> for
+each person.</p>
+
+<p>“<em>There is a place that you are to fill and no one
+else can fill, something you are to do, which no
+one else can do.</em>”</p>
+
+<p>There is a perfect picture of this in the <em>superconscious
+mind</em>. It usually flashes across the conscious
+as an unattainable ideal—“something too
+good to be true.”</p>
+
+<p>In reality it is man’s true destiny (or destination)
+flashed to him from the Infinite Intelligence which
+is <em>within himself</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Many people, however, are in ignorance of their
+true destinies and are striving for things and situations
+which do not belong to them, and would
+only bring failure and dissatisfaction if attained.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman came to me and asked
+me to “speak the word” that she would marry a
+certain man with whom she was very much in love.
+(She called him A. B.)</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span></p>
+
+<p>I replied that this would be a violation of spiritual
+law, but that I would speak the word for the
+right man, the “divine selection,” the man who
+belonged to her by divine right.</p>
+
+<p>I added, “If A. B. is the right man you can’t lose
+him, and if he isn’t, you will receive his equivalent.”
+She saw A. B. frequently but no headway
+was made in their friendship. One evening she
+called, and said, “Do you know, for the last week,
+A. B. hasn’t seemed so wonderful to me.” I replied,
+“Maybe he is not the divine selection—another
+man may be the right one.” Soon after
+that, she met another man who fell in love with
+her at once, and who said she was his ideal. In
+fact, he said all the things that she had always
+wished A. B. would say to her.</p>
+
+<p>She remarked, “It was quite uncanny.”</p>
+
+<p>She soon returned his love, and lost all interest
+in A. B.</p>
+
+<p>This shows the law of substitution. A right idea
+was substituted for a wrong one, therefore there
+was no loss or sacrifice involved.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of
+God and his righteousness; and all these things
+shall be added unto you,” and he said the Kingdom
+<em>was within man</em>.</p>
+
+<p>The Kingdom is the realm of <em>right ideas</em>, or the
+divine pattern.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ taught that man’s words played a
+leading part in the game of life. “By your words ye
+are justified and by your words ye are condemned.”</p>
+
+<p>Many people have brought disaster into their
+lives through idle words.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span></p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman once asked me why her
+life was now one of poverty of limitation. Formerly
+she had a home, was surrounded by beautiful
+things and had plenty of money. We found she
+had often tired of the management of her home,
+and had said repeatedly, “I’m sick and tired of
+things—I wish I lived in a trunk,” and she added:
+“Today I am living in that trunk.” She had spoken
+herself into a trunk. The subconscious mind has
+no sense of humor and people often joke themselves
+into unhappy experiences.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman who had a great deal of
+money, joked continually about “getting ready for
+the poorhouse.”</p>
+
+<p>In a few years she was almost destitute, having
+impressed the subconscious mind with a picture of
+lack and limitation.</p>
+
+<p>Fortunately the law works both ways, and a
+situation of lack may be changed to one of plenty.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman came to me one hot
+summer’s day for a “treatment” for prosperity.
+She was worn out, dejected and discouraged. She
+said she possessed just eight dollars in the world. I
+said, “Good, we’ll bless the eight dollars and multiply
+them as Jesus Christ multiplied the loaves
+and the fishes,” for He taught that <em>every man</em> had
+the power to bless and to multiply, to heal and to
+prosper.</p>
+
+<p>She said, “What shall I do next?”</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “Follow intuition. Have you a ‘hunch’
+to do anything, or to go anywhere?” Intuition
+means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is
+man’s unerring guide, and I will deal more fully
+with its laws in a following chapter.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p>
+
+<p>The woman replied: “I don’t know—I seem to
+have a ‘hunch’ to go home; I’ve just enough money
+for carfare.” Her home was in a distant city and
+was one of lack and limitation, and the reasoning
+mind (or intellect) would have said: “Stay in New
+York and get work and make some money.” I
+replied, “Then go home—never violate a hunch.”
+I spoke the following words for her: “<em>Infinite Spirit
+open the way for great abundance for ——. She is
+an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to her by
+divine right.</em>” I told her to repeat it continually
+also. She left for home immediately. In calling on
+a woman one day, she linked up with an old friend
+of her family.</p>
+
+<p>Through this friend, she received thousands of
+dollars in a most miraculous way. She has said to
+me often, “Tell people about the woman who
+came to you with eight dollars and a hunch.”</p>
+
+<p>There is always <em>plenty on man’s pathway</em>; but it
+can only be <em>brought into manifestation</em> through
+desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus Christ
+brought out clearly that man must make the <em>first
+move</em>.</p>
+
+<p>“<em>Ask</em>, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye
+shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
+(Mat. 7:7.)</p>
+
+<p>In the Scriptures we read:</p>
+
+<p>“Concerning the works of my hands, command
+ye me.”</p>
+
+<p>Infinite Intelligence, God, is ever ready to carry
+out man’s smallest or greatest demands.</p>
+
+<p>Every desire, uttered or unexpressed, is a demand.
+We are often startled by having a wish
+suddenly fulfilled.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p>
+
+<p>For example: One Easter, having seen many
+beautiful rose-trees in the florists’ windows, I
+wished I would receive one, and for an instant saw
+it mentally being carried in the door.</p>
+
+<p>Easter came, and with it a beautiful rose-tree. I
+thanked my friend the following day, and told her
+it was just what I had wanted.</p>
+
+<p>She replied, “I didn’t send you a rose-tree, I sent
+you lilies!”</p>
+
+<p>The man had mixed the order, and sent me a
+rose-tree simply because I had started the law in
+action, and <em>I had to have a rose-tree</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Nothing stands between man and his highest
+ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and
+fear. When man can “wish without worrying,”
+every desire will be instantly fulfilled.</p>
+
+<p>I will explain more fully in a following chapter
+the scientific reason for this and how fear must be
+erased from the consciousness. It is man’s only
+enemy—fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness,
+fear of loss and a feeling of <em>insecurity on
+some plane</em>. Jesus Christ said: “Why are ye fearful,
+oh ye of little faith?” (Mat. 8:26.) So we can see we
+must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only
+inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.</p>
+
+<p>The object of the game of life is to see clearly
+one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of
+evil. This must be done by impressing the subconscious
+mind with a realization of good. A very
+brilliant man, who has attained great success, told
+me he had suddenly erased all fear from his consciousness
+by reading a sign which hung in a room.
+He saw printed, in large letters this statement—“<em>Why
+worry, it will probably never happen.</em>” These<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>
+words were stamped indelibly upon his subconscious
+mind, and he has now a firm conviction that
+only good can come into his life, therefore only
+<em>good can manifest</em>.</p>
+
+<p>In the following chapter I will deal with the
+different methods of impressing the subconscious
+mind. It is man’s faithful servant but one must be
+careful to give it the right orders. Man has ever a
+silent listener at his side—his subconscious mind.</p>
+
+<p>Every thought, every word is impressed upon it
+and carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer
+making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic
+plate. Every note and tone of the singer’s
+voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is
+registered also. So let us break all the old bad
+records in the subconscious mind, the records of
+our lives which we do not wish to keep, and make
+new and beautiful ones.</p>
+
+<p>Speak these words aloud, with power and conviction:
+“I now smash and demolish (by my spoken
+word) every untrue record in my subconscious
+mind. They shall return to the dust-heap of their
+native nothingness, for they came from my own
+vain imaginings. I now make my perfect records
+through the Christ within—The records of <em>Health,
+Wealth, Love and perfect self-Expression</em>.” This is
+the square of life, <em>The Game completed</em>.</p>
+
+<p>In the following chapters, I will show how man
+can <em>change</em> his <em>conditions by changing his words</em>.
+Any man who does not know the power of the
+word, is behind the times.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">“<em>Death and Life are in the power of the tongue.</em>”<br></div>
+    <div class="verse indent27">(Prov. 18:21.)</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LAW_OF_PROSPERITY">THE LAW OF PROSPERITY</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">“Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense</div>
+    <div class="verse indent1">and thou shalt have plenty of silver.”</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>One of the greatest messages given to the race
+through the scriptures is that God is man’s supply
+and that man can release, <em>through his spoken
+word</em>, all that belongs to him by divine right. He
+must, however, have <em>perfect faith in his spoken
+word</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Isaiah said, “My word shall not return unto me
+void, but shall accomplish that where unto it is
+sent.” We know now, that words and thoughts are a
+tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man’s
+body and affairs.</p>
+
+<p>A woman came to me in great distress and said
+she was to be sued on the fifteenth of the month for
+three thousand dollars. She knew no way of getting
+the money and was in despair.</p>
+
+<p>I told her God was her supply, and <em>that there is a
+supply for every demand</em>.</p>
+
+<p><em>So I spoke the word!</em> I gave thanks that the
+woman would receive three thousand dollars at the
+right time in the right way. I told her she must have
+perfect faith, and act her <em>perfect faith</em>. The fifteenth
+came but no money had materialized.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p>
+
+<p>She called me on the ’phone and asked what she
+was to do.</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “It is Saturday, so they won’t sue you
+today. Your part is to act rich, thereby showing
+perfect faith that you will receive it by Monday.”
+She asked me to lunch with her to keep up her
+courage. When I joined her at a restaurant, I said,
+“This is no time to economize. Order an expensive
+luncheon, act as if you have already received the
+three thousand dollars.”</p>
+
+<p>“All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, <em>believing</em>,
+ye shall receive.” “You must act as if you <em>had
+already received</em>.” The next morning she called me
+on the ’phone and asked me to stay with her during
+the day. I said “No, you are divinely protected
+and God is never too late.”</p>
+
+<p>In the evening she ’phoned again, greatly excited
+and said, “My dear, a miracle has happened! I was
+sitting in my room this morning, when the doorbell
+rang. I said to the maid: ‘Don’t let anyone in.’
+The maid however, looked out the window and
+said, ‘It’s your cousin with the long white beard.’</p>
+
+<p>So I said, ‘Call him back. I would like to see him.’
+He was just turning the corner, when he heard the
+maid’s voice, and <em>he came back</em>.</p>
+
+<p>He talked for about an hour, and just as he was
+leaving he said, ‘Oh, by the way, how are finances?’</p>
+
+<p>I told him I needed the money, and he said,
+‘Why, my dear, I will give you three thousand
+dollars the first of the month.’</p>
+
+<p>I didn’t like to tell him I was going to be sued.
+What shall I do? I won’t <em>receive it till</em> the first of the
+month, and I must have it tomorrow.” I said, “I’ll
+keep on ‘treating.’”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p>
+
+<p>I said, “Spirit is never too late. I give thanks she
+has received the money on the invisible plane and
+that it manifests on time.” The next morning her
+cousin called her up and said, “Come to my office
+this morning and I will give you the money.” That
+afternoon, she had three thousand dollars to her
+credit in the bank, and wrote checks as rapidly as
+her excitement would permit.</p>
+
+<p>If one asks for success and prepares for failure,
+he will get the situation he has prepared for. For
+example: A man came to me asking me to speak the
+word that a certain debt would be wiped out.</p>
+
+<p>I found he spent his time planning what he
+would say to the man when he did not pay his bill,
+thereby neutralizing my words. He should have
+seen himself paying the debt.</p>
+
+<p>We have a wonderful illustration of this in the
+bible, relating to the three kings who were in the
+desert, without water for their men and horses.
+They consulted the prophet Elisha, who gave them
+this astonishing message:</p>
+
+<p>“Thus saith the Lord—Ye shall not see wind,
+neither shall ye see rain, yet make this valley full of
+ditches.”</p>
+
+<p>Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for,
+<em>when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight</em>.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman found it necessary to
+look for an apartment during the year when there
+was a great shortage of apartments in New York. It
+was considered almost an impossibility, and her
+friends were sorry for her and said, “Isn’t it too bad,
+you’ll have to store your furniture and live in a
+hotel.” She replied, “<em>You needn’t feel sorry for me,
+I’m a superman, and I’ll get an apartment.</em>”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p>
+
+<p>She spoke the words: “<em>Infinite Spirit, open the
+way for the right apartment.</em>” She knew there was a
+supply for every demand, and that she was “unconditioned,”
+working on the spiritual plane, and that
+“one with God is a majority.”</p>
+
+<p>She had contemplated buying new blankets,
+when “the tempter,” the adverse thought or reasoning
+mind, suggested, “Don’t buy the blankets, perhaps,
+after all, you won’t get an apartment and you
+will have no use for them.” She promptly replied (to
+herself): “I’ll dig my ditches by buying the blankets!”
+So she prepared for the apartment—acted as
+though she already had it.</p>
+
+<p>She found one in a miraculous way, and it was
+given to her although there were over <em>two hundred
+other applicants</em>.</p>
+
+<p>The blankets showed active faith.</p>
+
+<p>It is needless to say that the ditches dug by the
+three kings in the desert were filled to over-flowing.
+(Read, II Kings.)</p>
+
+<p>Getting into the spiritual swing of things is no
+easy matter for the average person. The adverse
+thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the subconscious.
+They are the “army of the aliens” which
+must be put to flight. This explains why it is so
+often, “darkest before the dawn.”</p>
+
+<p>A big demonstration is usually preceded by tormenting
+thoughts.</p>
+
+<p>Having made a statement of high spiritual truth
+one challenges the old beliefs in the subconscious,
+and “error is exposed” to be put out.</p>
+
+<p>This is the time when one must make his affirmations
+of truth repeatedly, and rejoice and give<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span>
+thanks that he has already received. “Before ye call
+I shall answer.” This means that “every good and
+perfect gift” is already man’s awaiting his recognition.</p>
+
+<p>Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.</p>
+
+<p>The children of Israel were told that they could
+have all the land they could see. This is true of every
+man. He has only the land within his own mental
+vision. Every great work, every big accomplishment,
+has been brought into manifestation
+through holding to the vision, and often just before
+the big achievement, comes apparent failure and
+discouragement.</p>
+
+<p>The children of Israel when they reached the
+“Promised Land,” were afraid to go in, for they
+said it was filled with giants who made them feel
+like grasshoppers. “And there we saw the giants
+and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers.”
+This is almost every man’s experience.</p>
+
+<p>However, the one who knows spiritual law, is
+undisturbed by appearance, and rejoices while he
+is “yet in captivity.” That is, he holds to his vision
+and gives thanks that the end is accomplished, he
+has received.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ gave a wonderful example of this. He
+said to his disciples: “Say not ye, there are yet four
+months and then cometh the harvest? Behold, I say
+unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields;
+for they are ripe already to harvest.” His clear
+vision pierced the “world of matter” and he saw
+clearly the fourth dimensional world, things as they
+really are, perfect and complete in Divine Mind. So<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span>
+man must ever hold the vision of his journey’s end
+and demand the manifestation of that which he has
+already received. It may be his perfect health, love,
+supply, self-expression, home or friends.</p>
+
+<p>They are all finished and perfect ideas registered
+in Divine Mind (man’s own superconscious mind)
+and must come through him, not to him. For
+example: A man came to me asking for treatments
+for success. It was imperative that he raise, within a
+certain time, fifty-thousand dollars for his business.
+The time limit was almost up, when he came to me
+in despair. No one wanted to invest in his enterprise,
+and the bank had flatly refused a loan. I
+replied: “I suppose you lost your temper while at
+the bank, therefore your power. You can control
+any situation if you first control yourself.” “Go back
+to the bank,” I added, “and I will treat.” My treatment
+was: “You are identified in love with the spirit
+of everyone connected with the bank. Let the
+divine idea come out of this situation.” He replied,
+“Woman, you are talking about an impossibility.
+Tomorrow is Saturday; the bank closes at twelve,
+and my train won’t get me there until ten, and the
+time limit is up tomorrow, and anyway they won’t
+do it. It’s too late.” I replied, “God doesn’t need any
+time and is never too late. With Him all things are
+possible.” I added, “I don’t know anything about
+business, but I know all about God.” He replied: “It
+all sounds fine when I sit here listening to you, but
+when I go out it’s terrible.” He lived in a distant
+city, and I did not hear from him for a week, then
+came a letter. It read: “You were right. I raised the
+money, and will never again doubt the truth of all
+that you told me.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p>
+
+<p>I saw him a few weeks later, and I said, “What
+happened? You evidently had plenty of time, after
+all.” He replied “My train was late, and I got there
+just fifteen minutes to twelve. I walked into the
+bank quietly and said, ‘I have come for the loan,’
+and they gave it to me without a question.”</p>
+
+<p>It was the last fifteen minutes of the time allotted
+to him, and Infinite Spirit was not too late. In this
+instance the man could never have demonstrated
+alone. He needed someone to help him hold to the
+vision. This is what one man can do for another.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ knew the truth of this when he said:
+“If two of you shall agree on earth as touching
+anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for
+them of my Father which is in heaven.” One gets
+too close to his own affairs and becomes doubtful
+and fearful.</p>
+
+<p>The friend or “healer” sees clearly the success,
+health, or prosperity, and never wavers, because he
+is not close to the situation.</p>
+
+<p>It is much easier to “demonstrate” for someone
+else than for one’s self, so a person should not
+hesitate to ask for help, if he feels himself wavering.</p>
+
+<p>A keen observer of life once said, “no man can
+fail, if some one person sees him successful.” Such is
+the power of the vision, and many a great man has
+owed his success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who
+“believed in him” and held without wavering to the
+perfect pattern!</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_POWER_OF_THE_WORD">THE POWER OF THE WORD</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent4">“By thy words thou shalt be justified,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>A person knowing the power of the word, becomes
+very careful of his conversation. He has only
+to watch the reaction of his words to know that they
+do “not return void.” Through his spoken word,
+man is continually making laws for himself.</p>
+
+<p>I knew a man who said, “I always miss a car. It
+invariably pulls out just as I arrive.”</p>
+
+<p>His daughter said: “I always catch a car. It’s sure
+to come just as I get there.” This occurred for years.
+Each had made a separate law for himself, one of
+failure, one of success. This is the psychology of
+superstitions.</p>
+
+<p>The horseshoe or rabbit’s foot contains no
+power, but man’s spoken word and belief that it
+will bring him good luck creates expectancy in the
+subconscious mind, and attracts a “lucky situation.”
+I find however, this will not “work” when
+man has advanced spiritually and knows a higher
+law. One cannot turn back, and must put away
+“graven images.” For example: Two men in my
+class had had great success in business for several<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span>
+months, when suddenly everything “went to
+smash.” We tried to analyze the situation, and I
+found, instead of making their affirmations and
+looking to God for success and prosperity, they had
+each bought a “lucky monkey.” I said: “Oh I see,
+you have been trusting in the lucky monkeys instead
+of God.” “Put away the lucky monkeys and call on
+the law of forgiveness,” for man has power to
+forgive or neutralize his mistakes.</p>
+
+<p>They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a
+coalhole, and all went well again. This does not
+mean, however, that one should throw away every
+“lucky” ornament or horseshoe about the house,
+but he must recognize that the power back of it is
+the one and only power, God, and that the object
+simply gives him a feeling of expectancy.</p>
+
+<p>I was with a friend, one day, who was in deep
+despair. In crossing the street, she picked up a
+horseshoe. Immediately, she was filled with joy and
+hope. She said God had sent her the horseshoe in
+order to keep up her courage.</p>
+
+<p>It was indeed, at that moment, about the only
+thing that could have registered in her consciousness.
+Her hope became faith, and she ultimately
+made a wonderful demonstration. I wish to make
+the point clear that the men previously mentioned
+were depending on the monkeys, alone, while this
+woman recognized the power back of the horseshoe.</p>
+
+<p>I know, in my own case, it took a long while to get
+out of a belief that a certain thing brought disappointment.
+If the thing happened, disappointment
+invariably followed. I found the only way I could<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span>
+make a change in the subconscious, was by asserting,
+“There are not two powers, there is only one
+power, God, therefore, there are no disappointments,
+and this thing means a happy surprise.” I
+noticed a change at once, and happy surprises
+commenced coming my way.</p>
+
+<p>I have a friend who said nothing could induce
+her to walk under a ladder. I said, “If you are
+afraid, you are giving in to a belief in two powers,
+Good and Evil, instead of one. As God is absolute,
+there can be no opposing power, unless man makes
+the false of evil for himself. To show you believe in
+only One Power, God, and that there is no power or
+reality in evil, walk under the next ladder you see.”
+Soon after, she went to her bank. She wished to
+open her box in the safe-deposit vault, and there
+stood a ladder on her pathway. It was impossible to
+reach the box without passing under the ladder.
+She quailed with fear and turned back. She could
+not face the lion on her pathway. However, when
+she reached the street, my words rang in her ears
+and she decided to return and walk under it. It was
+a big moment in her life, for ladders had held her in
+bondage for years. She retraced her steps to the
+vault, and the ladder was no longer there! This so
+often happens! If one is willing to do a thing he is
+afraid to do, he does not have to.</p>
+
+<p>It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little
+understood.</p>
+
+<p>Someone has said that courage contains genius
+and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is
+no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.</p>
+
+<p>The explanation is, that fear attracted the ladder<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span>
+on the woman’s pathway, and fearlessness removed
+it.</p>
+
+<p><em>Thus the invisible forces are ever working for
+man who is always “pulling the strings” himself,
+though he does not know it. Owing to the vibratory
+power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to
+attract. People who continually speak of disease,
+invariably attract it.</em></p>
+
+<p>After man knows the truth, he cannot be too
+careful of his words. For example: I have a friend
+who often says on the ’phone, “Do come to see me
+and have a fine old-fashioned chat.” This “old-fashioned
+chat” means an hour of about five hundred
+to a thousand destructive words, the principal
+topics being loss, lack, failure and sickness.</p>
+
+<p>I reply: “No, I thank you, I’ve had enough old-fashioned
+chats in my life, they are too expensive,
+but I will be glad to have a new-fashioned chat, and
+talk about what we want, not what we don’t want.”
+There is an old saying that man only dares use his
+words for three purposes, to “heal, bless or prosper.”
+What man says of others will be said of him,
+and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for
+himself.</p>
+
+<p>“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”</p>
+
+<p>If a man wishes someone “bad luck,” he is sure to
+attract bad luck himself. If he wishes to aid someone
+to success, he is wishing and aiding himself to
+success.</p>
+
+<p>The body may be renewed and transformed
+through the spoken word and clear vision, and
+disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness.
+The metaphysician knows that all disease has<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span>
+a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the
+body one must first “heal the soul.”</p>
+
+<p>The soul is the subconscious mind, and it must
+be “saved” from wrong thinking.</p>
+
+<p>In the twenty-third psalm, we read: “He restoreth
+my soul.” This means that the subconscious
+mind or soul, must be restored with the right ideas,
+and the “mystical marriage” is the marriage of the
+soul and the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious
+mind. They must be one. When the subconscious
+is flooded with the perfect ideas of the
+superconscious, God and man are one. “I and the
+Father are one.” That is, he is one with the realm of
+perfect ideas; he is the man made in God’s likeness
+and image (imagination) and is given power and
+dominion over all created things, his mind, body
+and affairs.</p>
+
+<p>It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness
+come from the violation of the law of love. A new
+commandment I give unto you, “Love one another,”
+and in the Game of Life, love or good-will
+takes every trick.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman I know, had, for years an
+appearance of a terrible skin disease. The doctors
+told her it was incurable, and she was in despair.
+She was on the stage, and she feared she would soon
+have to give up her profession, and she had no other
+means of support. She, however, procured a good
+engagement, and on the opening night, made a
+great “hit.” She received flattering notices from the
+critics, and was joyful and elated. The next day she
+received a notice of dismissal. A man in the cast
+had been jealous of her success and had caused her
+to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span>
+taking complete possession of her, and she cried
+out, “Oh God don’t let me hate that man.” That
+night she worked for hours “in the silence.”</p>
+
+<p>She said, “I soon came into a very deep silence. I
+seemed to be at peace with myself, with the man,
+and with the whole world. I continued this for two
+following nights, and on the third day I found I was
+healed completely of the skin disease!” In asking for
+love, or good will, she had fulfilled the law, (“for
+love is the fulfilling of the law”) and the disease
+(which came from subconscious resentment) was
+wiped out.</p>
+
+<p>Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as
+critical, inharmonious thoughts cause unnatural
+deposits in the blood, which settle in the joints.</p>
+
+<p>False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred,
+unforgiveness, fear, etc. Every disease is caused by
+a mind not at ease. I said once, in my class, “There
+is no use asking anyone ‘What’s the matter with
+you?’ we might just as well say, ‘Who’s the matter
+with you?’” Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause
+of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect
+the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.</p>
+
+<p>I called on a woman, one day, who said she was
+ill from having eaten a poisoned oyster. I replied,
+“Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you poisoned the
+oyster. What’s the matter with you?” She answered,
+“Oh about nineteen people.” She had quarrelled
+with nineteen people and had become so inharmonious
+that she attracted the wrong oyster.</p>
+
+<p>Any inharmony on the external, indicates there
+is mental inharmony. “As the within, so the without.”</p>
+
+<p>Man’s only enemies are within himself. “And a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span>
+man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”
+Personality is one of the last enemies to be overcome,
+as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It
+was Christ’s message—“Peace on Earth, good will
+towards man.” The enlightened man, therefore,
+endeavors to perfect himself upon his neighbor. His
+work is with himself, to send out good-will and
+blessings to every man, and the marvelous thing is,
+that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm
+him.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A man came to me asking to
+“treat” for success in business. He was selling
+machinery, and a rival appeared on the scene with
+what he proclaimed, was a better machine, and my
+friend feared defeat. I said, “First of all, we must
+wipe out all fear, and know that God protects your
+interests, and that the divine idea must come out of
+the situation. That is, the right machine will be
+sold, by the right man, to the right man.” And I
+added, “Don’t hold one critical thought towards
+that man. Bless him all day, and be willing not to
+sell your machine, if it isn’t the divine idea.” So he
+went to the meeting, fearless and nonresistant, and
+blessing the other man. He said the outcome was
+very remarkable. The other man’s machine refused
+to work, and he sold his without the slightest difficulty.
+“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless
+them that curse you, do good to them that hate
+you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and
+persecute you.”</p>
+
+<p><em>Good-will produces a great aura of protection
+about the one who sends it, and “No weapon that is<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span>
+formed against him shall prosper.” In other words,
+love and good-will destroy the enemies within one’s
+self, therefore, one has no enemies on the external!</em></p>
+
+<p>“<em>There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will
+to man!</em>”</p>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LAW_OF_NONRESISTANCE">THE LAW OF NONRESISTANCE</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">“Resist not evil. Be not overcome of evil,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent4">but overcome evil with good.”</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant
+person.</p>
+
+<p>The Chinese say that water is the most powerful
+element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can
+wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ said, “Resist not evil,” for He knew in
+reality, there is no evil, therefore nothing to resist.
+Evil has come of man’s “vain imagination,” or a
+belief in two powers, good and evil.</p>
+
+<p>There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of
+“Maya the Tree of Illusion,” and saw two powers
+instead of one power, God.</p>
+
+<p><em>Therefore, evil is a false law man has made for
+himself, through psychoma or soul sleep.</em> Soul sleep
+means, that man’s soul has been hypnotized by the
+race belief (of sin, sickness and death, etc.) which is
+carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have outpictured
+his illusions.</p>
+
+<p>We have read in a preceding chapter, that man’s
+soul is his subconscious mind, and whatever he feels
+deeply, good or bad, is outpictured by that faithful
+servant. His body and affairs show forth what he<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span>
+has been picturing. The sick man has pictured sickness,
+the poor man, poverty, the rich man, wealth.</p>
+
+<p>People often say, “why does a little child attract
+illness, when it is too young even to know what it
+means?”</p>
+
+<p>I answer that children are sensitive and receptive
+to the thoughts of others about them, and often
+outpicture the fears of their parents.</p>
+
+<p>I heard a metaphysician once say, “If you do not
+run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else
+will run it for you.”</p>
+
+<p>Mothers often, unconsciously, attract illness and
+disaster to their children, by continually holding
+them in thoughts of fear, and watching for symptoms.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A friend asked a woman if her little
+girl had had the measles. She replied promptly,
+“not yet!” This implied that she was expecting the
+illness, and, therefore, preparing the way for what
+she did not want for herself and child.</p>
+
+<p>However, the man who is centered and established
+in right thinking, the man who sends out
+only good-will to his fellow-man, and who is without
+fear, cannot be <em>touched or influenced by the
+negative thoughts of others</em>. In fact, he could then
+receive only good thoughts, as he himself, sends
+forth only good thoughts.</p>
+
+<p>Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a “state of
+torment.”</p>
+
+<p>A metaphysician once gave me a wonderful recipe
+for taking every trick in the game of life, it is the
+acme of nonresistance. He gave it in this way; “At
+one time in my life, I baptized children, and of
+course, they had many names. Now I no longer<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span>
+baptize children, but I baptize events, but <em>I give
+every event the same name</em>. If I have a failure I
+baptize it success, in the name of the Father, and of
+the Son, and of the Holy Ghost!”</p>
+
+<p>In this, we see the great law of transmutation,
+founded on nonresistance. Through his spoken
+word, every failure was transmuted into success.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman who required money,
+and who knew the spiritual law of opulence, was
+thrown continually in a business-way, with a man
+who made her feel very poor. He talked lack and
+limitation and she commenced to catch his poverty
+thoughts, so she disliked him, and blamed him for
+her failure. She knew in order to demonstrate her
+supply, she must first feel that she <em>had received—a
+feeling of opulence must precede its manifestation</em>.</p>
+
+<p>It dawned upon her, one day, that she was resisting
+the situation, and seeing two powers instead of
+one. So she blessed the man and baptized the
+situation “Success”! She affirmed, “As there is only
+one power, God, this man is here for my good and
+my prosperity” (just what he did not seem to be
+there for). Soon after that she met, <em>through this
+man</em>, a woman who gave her for a service rendered,
+several thousand dollars, and the man moved to a
+distant city, and faded harmoniously from her life.
+Make the statement, “Every man is a golden link in
+the chain of my good,” for all men are God in
+manifestation, <em>awaiting the opportunity given by
+man, himself, to serve the divine plan of his life</em>.</p>
+
+<p>“Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his
+ammunition.” His arrows will be transmuted into
+blessings.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p>
+
+<p>This law is true of nations as well as individuals.
+Bless a nation, send love and good-will to every
+inhabitant, and it is robbed of its power to harm.</p>
+
+<p>Man can only get the right idea of nonresistance,
+through spiritual understanding. My students have
+often said: “I don’t want to be a door-mat.” I reply
+“when you use nonresistance with wisdom, no one
+will ever be able to walk over you.”</p>
+
+<p>Another example: One day I was impatiently
+awaiting an important telephone call. I resisted
+every call that came in and made no out-going calls
+myself, reasoning that it might interfere with the
+one I was awaiting.</p>
+
+<p>Instead of saying, “Divine ideas never conflict,
+the call will come at the right time,” leaving it to
+Infinite Intelligence to arrange, I commenced to
+manage things myself—I made the battle mine,
+not God’s and remained tense and anxious. The
+bell did not ring for about an hour, and I glanced
+at the ’phone and found the receiver had been off
+that length of time, and the ’phone was disconnected.
+My anxiety, fear and belief in interference,
+had brought on a total eclipse of the telephone.
+Realizing what I had done, I commenced blessing
+the situation at once; I baptized it “success,” and
+affirmed, “I cannot lose any call that belongs to me
+by divine right; I am under <em>grace, and not under
+law</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>A friend rushed out to the nearest telephone, to
+notify the Company to reconnect.</p>
+
+<p>She entered a crowded grocery, but the proprietor
+left his customers and attended to the call
+himself. My ’phone was connected at once, and two<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span>
+minutes later, I received a very important call, and
+about an hour afterward, the one I had been
+awaiting.</p>
+<br>
+
+<p class="center no-indent">
+<em>One’s ships come in over a calm sea.</em><br>
+</p>
+<br>
+
+<p>So long as man resists a situation, he will have it
+with him. If he runs away from it, it will run after
+him.</p>
+
+<p>For example: I repeated this to a woman one
+day, and she replied, “How true that is! I was
+unhappy at home, I disliked my mother, who was
+critical and domineering; so I ran away and was
+married—but I married my mother, for my husband
+was exactly like my mother, and I had the
+same situation to face again.” “Agree with thine
+adversary quickly.”</p>
+
+<p>That means, agree that the adverse situation is
+good, be undisturbed by it, and it falls away of its
+own weight. “None of these things move me,” is a
+wonderful affirmation.</p>
+
+<p>The inharmonious situation comes from some
+inharmony within man himself.</p>
+
+<p>When there is, in him, no emotional response to
+an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever,
+from his pathway.</p>
+
+<p>So we see man’s work is ever with himself.</p>
+
+<p>People have said to me, “Give treatments to
+change my husband, or my brother.” I reply, “No,
+I will give <em>treatments to change you</em>; when you
+change, your husband and your brother will
+change.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p>
+
+<p>One of my students was in the habit of lying. I
+told her it was a failure method and if she lied, she
+would be lied to. She replied, “I don’t care, I can’t
+possibly get along without lying.”</p>
+
+<p>One day she was speaking on the ’phone to a man
+with whom she was very much in love. She turned to
+me and said, “I don’t trust him, I know he’s lying to
+me.” I replied, “Well, you lie yourself, so someone
+has to lie to you, and you will be sure it will be just
+the person you want the truth from.” Some time
+after that, I saw her, and she said, “I’m cured of
+lying.”</p>
+
+<p>I questioned: “What cured you?”</p>
+
+<p>She replied: “I have been living with a woman
+who lied worse than I did!”</p>
+
+<p>One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in
+others.</p>
+
+<p>Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves
+reflected in our associates.</p>
+
+<p>Living in the past is a failure method and a
+violation of spiritual law.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ said, “Behold, now is the accepted
+time.” “Now is the day of Salvation.”</p>
+
+<p>Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a
+pillar of salt.</p>
+
+<p>The robbers of time are the past and the future.
+Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps
+him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it
+has in store for him endless joys, but live <em>fully in the
+now</em>.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman came to me, complaining
+that she had no money with which to buy<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span>
+Christmas gifts. She said, “Last year was so different;
+I had plenty of money and gave lovely presents,
+and this year I have scarcely a cent.”</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “You will never demonstrate money
+while you are pathetic and live in the past. Live
+fully in the <em>now</em>, and <em>get ready to give Christmas
+presents</em>. Dig your ditches, and the money will
+come.” She exclaimed, “I know what to do! I will
+buy some tinsel twine, Christmas seals and wrapping
+paper.” I replied, “Do that, and the <em>presents
+will come and stick themselves to the Christmas
+seals</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>This too, was showing financial fearlessness and
+faith in God, as the reasoning mind said, “Keep
+every cent you have, as you are not sure you will get
+any more.”</p>
+
+<p>She bought the seals, paper and twine, and a few
+days before Christmas, received a gift of several
+hundred dollars. Buying the seals and twine had
+impressed the subconscious with expectancy, and
+opened the way for the manifestation of the money.
+She purchased all the presents in plenty of time.</p>
+
+<p>Man must live suspended in the moment.</p>
+
+<p>“Look well, therefore, to this Day! Such is the
+salutation of the Dawn.”</p>
+
+<p>He must be spiritually alert, ever awaiting his
+leads, taking advantage of every opportunity.</p>
+
+<p>One day, I said continually (silently), “Infinite
+Spirit, don’t let me miss a trick,” and something
+very important was told to me that evening. It is
+most necessary to begin the day with right words.</p>
+
+<p>Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.</p>
+
+<p>For example:</p>
+
+<p>“<em>Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span>
+completion; I give thanks for this perfect day,
+miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall
+never cease.</em>”</p>
+
+<p>Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and
+miracles come into his life.</p>
+
+<p>One morning I picked up a book and read,
+“Look with wonder at that which is before you!” It
+seemed to be my message for the day, so I repeated
+again and again, “Look with wonder at that which
+is before you.”</p>
+
+<p>At about noon, a large sum of money, was given
+me, which I had been desiring for a certain purpose.</p>
+
+<p>In a following chapter, I will give affirmations
+that I have found most effective. However, one
+should never use an affirmation unless it is absolutely
+satisfying and convincing to his own consciousness,
+and often an affirmative is changed to
+suit different people.</p>
+
+<p>For example: The following has brought success
+to many:</p>
+
+<p>“I have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I
+give wonderful service, for wonderful pay!”</p>
+
+<p>I gave the first two lines to one of my students,
+and she added the last two.</p>
+
+<p>It made a <em>most powerful statement</em>, as there
+should always be perfect payment for perfect service,
+and a rhyme sinks easily into the subconscious.
+She went about singing it aloud and soon
+did receive wonderful work in a wonderful way,
+and gave wonderful service for wonderful pay.</p>
+
+<p>Another student, a business man, took it, and
+changed the word work to business.</p>
+
+<p>He repeated, “I have a wonderful business, in a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span>
+wonderful way, and I give wonderful service for
+wonderful pay.” That afternoon he made a forty-one-thousand
+dollar deal, though there had been
+no activity in his affairs for months.</p>
+
+<p>Every affirmation must be carefully worded and
+completely “cover the ground.”</p>
+
+<p>For example: I knew a woman, who was in great
+need, and made a demand for work. She received a
+great deal of work, but was never paid anything.
+She now knows to add, “wonderful service for
+wonderful pay.”</p>
+
+<p>It is man’s divine right to have plenty! More than
+enough!</p>
+
+<p>“His barns should be full, and his cup should
+flow over!” This is God’s idea for man, and when
+man breaks down the barriers of lack in his own
+consciousness, the Golden Age will be his, and
+every righteous desire of his heart fulfilled!</p>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LAW_OF_KARMA">THE LAW OF KARMA<br><br>
+
+<span class="fs90">and</span><br><br>
+
+THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS</h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Man receives only that which he gives. The
+Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man’s
+thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or
+later, with astounding accuracy.</p>
+
+<p>This is the law of Karma, which is Sanskrit for
+“Comeback.” “Whatsoever a man soweth, that
+shall he also reap.”</p>
+
+<p>For example: A friend told me this story of
+herself, illustrating the law. She said, “I make all
+my Karma on my aunt, whatever I say to her, some
+one says to me. I am often irritable at home, and
+one day, said to my aunt, who was talking to me
+during dinner. ‘<em>No more talk, I wish to eat in
+peace.</em>’”</p>
+
+<p>“The following day, I was lunching with a
+woman with whom I wished to make a great impression.
+I was talking animatedly, when she said:
+‘<em>No more talk, I wish to eat in peace!</em>’”</p>
+
+<p>My friend is high in consciousness, so her Karma<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span>
+returns much more quickly than to one on the
+mental plane.</p>
+
+<p>The more man knows, the more he is responsible
+for, and a person with a knowledge of Spiritual
+Law, which he does not practice, suffers greatly, in
+consequence. “The fear of the Lord (law) is the
+beginning of wisdom.” If we read the word Lord,
+law, it will make many passages in the Bible much
+clearer.</p>
+
+<p>“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord”
+(law). It is the law which takes vengeance, not God.
+God sees man perfect, “created in his own image,”
+(imagination) and given “power and dominion.”</p>
+
+<p>This is the perfect idea of man, registered in
+Divine Mind, awaiting man’s recognition; for man
+can only be what he sees himself to be, and only
+attain what he sees himself attaining.</p>
+
+<p>“Nothing ever happens without an on-looker” is
+an ancient saying.</p>
+
+<p>Man sees first his failure or success, his joy or
+sorrow, before it swings into visibility from the
+scenes set in his own imagination. We have observed
+this in the mother picturing disease for her
+child, or a woman seeing success for her husband.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ said, “And ye shall know the truth
+and the truth shall make you free.”</p>
+
+<p>So, we see freedom (from all unhappy conditions)
+comes through knowledge—a knowledge of
+Spiritual Law.</p>
+
+<p>Obedience precedes authority, and the law obeys
+man when he obeys the law. The law of electricity
+must be obeyed before it becomes man’s servant.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span>
+When handled ignorantly, it becomes man’s deadly
+foe. <em>So with the laws of Mind!</em></p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman with a strong personal
+will, wished she owned a house which belonged to
+an acquaintance, and she often made mental pictures
+of herself living in the house. In the course of
+time, the man died and she moved into the house.
+Several years afterwards, coming into the knowledge
+of Spiritual Law, she said to me: “Do you
+think I had anything to do with that man’s death?”
+I replied: “Yes, your desire was so strong, everything
+made way for it, but you paid your Karmic
+debt. Your husband, whom you loved devotedly,
+died soon after, and the house was a white elephant
+on your hands for years.”</p>
+
+<p>The original owner, however, could not have
+been affected by her thoughts had he been positive
+in the truth, nor her husband, but they were both
+under Karmic law. The woman should have said
+(feeling the great desire for the house), “Infinite
+Intelligence, give me the right house, equally as
+charming as this, the house <em>which is mine by divine
+right</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>The divine selection would have given perfect
+satisfaction and brought good to all. The divine
+pattern is the only safe pattern to work by.</p>
+
+<p><em>Desire is a tremendous force, and must be directed
+in the right channels; or chaos ensues.</em></p>
+
+<p>In demonstrating, the most important step is the
+<em>first step, to “ask aright</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>Man should always demand only that which is his
+by <em>divine right</em>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p>
+
+<p>To go back to the illustration: Had the woman
+taken this attitude: “If this house, I desire, is mine,
+I cannot lose it, if it is not, give me its equivalent,”
+the man might have decided to move out, harmoniously
+(had it been the divine selection for her) or
+another house would have been substituted. Anything
+forced into manifestation through personal
+will, is always “ill-got,” and has “ever bad success.”</p>
+
+<p>Man is admonished, “My will be done not thine,
+and the curious thing is, man always gets just what
+he desires when he does relinquish personal will,
+thereby enabling Infinite Intelligence to work
+through him.”</p>
+
+<p>“Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord”
+(law).</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman came to me in great
+distress. Her daughter had determined to take a
+very hazardous trip, and the mother was filled with
+fear.</p>
+
+<p>She said she had used every argument, had
+pointed out the dangers to be encountered, and
+forbidden her to go, but the daughter became
+more and more rebellious and determined. I said to
+the mother, “You are forcing your personal will
+upon your daughter, which you have no right to do,
+and your fear of the trip is only attracting it, for
+man attracts what he fears.” I added, “Let go, and
+take your mental hands off; <em>put it in God’s Hands,
+and use this statement</em>:” “I put this situation in the
+hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is
+the Divine plan, I bless it and no longer resist, but if
+it is not divinely planned, I give thanks that it is now
+dissolved and dissipated.” A day or two after that,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span>
+her daughter said to her, “Mother, I have given up
+the trip,” and the situation returned to its “native
+nothingness.”</p>
+
+<p>It is learning to “stand still,” which seems so difficult
+for man. I have dealt more fully with this
+law in the chapter on nonresistance.</p>
+
+<p>I will give another example of sowing and reaping,
+which came in the most curious way.</p>
+
+<p>A woman came to me saying, she had received a
+counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, given to her at the
+bank. She was much disturbed, for, she said, “The
+people at the bank will never acknowledge their
+mistake.”</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “Let us analyze the situation and find
+out why you attracted it.” She thought a few moments
+and exclaimed: “I know it, I sent a friend a
+lot of stagemoney, just for a joke.” So the law had
+sent her some stagemoney, for it doesn’t know
+anything about jokes.</p>
+
+<p>I said, “Now we will call on the law of forgiveness,
+and neutralize the situation.”</p>
+
+<p>Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness—Christ
+has redeemed us from the curse of the
+Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is his
+Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious
+conditions.</p>
+
+<p>So I said: “Infinite Spirit, we call on the law of
+forgiveness and give thanks that she is under grace
+and not under law, and cannot lose this twenty
+dollars which is hers by divine right.”</p>
+
+<p>“Now,” I said, “Go back to the bank and tell
+them, fearlessly, that it was given you, there by
+mistake.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span></p>
+
+<p>She obeyed, and to her surprise, they apologized
+and gave her another bill, treating her most courteously.</p>
+
+<p>So knowledge of the Law gives man power to
+“rub out his mistakes.” Man cannot force the external
+to be what he is not.</p>
+
+<p>If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman came to me asking treatment
+for prosperity. She did not take much interest
+in her household affairs, and her home was in great
+disorder.</p>
+
+<p>I said to her, “If you wish to be rich, you must be
+orderly. All men with great wealth are orderly—and
+order is heaven’s first law.” I added, “You will
+never become rich with a burnt match in the pincushion.”</p>
+
+<p>She had a good sense of humor and commenced
+immediately, putting her house in order. She rearranged
+furniture, straightened out bureau
+drawers, cleaned rugs, and soon made a big financial
+demonstration—a gift from a relative. The
+woman, herself, became made over, and keeps
+herself keyed-up financially, by being ever watchful
+of the <em>external and expecting prosperity, knowing
+God is her supply</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Many people are in ignorance of the fact that
+gifts and things are investments, and that hoarding
+and saving invariably lead to loss.</p>
+
+<p>“There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and
+there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it
+tendeth to poverty.”</p>
+
+<p>For example: I knew a man who wanted to buy a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span>
+fur-lined overcoat. He and his wife went to various
+shops, but there was none he wanted. He said they
+were all too cheap-looking. At last, he was shown
+one, the salesman said was valued at a thousand
+dollars, but which the manager would sell him for
+five-hundred dollars, as it was late in the season.</p>
+
+<p>His financial possessions amounted to about
+seven hundred dollars. The reasoning mind would
+have said, “You can’t afford to spend nearly all you
+have on a coat,” but he was very intuitive and never
+reasoned.</p>
+
+<p>He turned to his wife and said, “If I get this coat,
+I’ll make a ton of money!” So his wife consented,
+weakly.</p>
+
+<p>About a month later, he received a ten-thousand-dollar
+commission. The coat made him feel so
+rich, it linked him with success and prosperity;
+without the coat, he would not have received the
+commission. It was an investment paying large
+dividends!</p>
+
+<p>If man ignores these leadings to spend or to give,
+the same amount of money will go in an uninteresting
+or unhappy way.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving
+Day, she informed her family that they could
+not afford a Thanksgiving dinner. She had the
+money, but decided to save it.</p>
+
+<p>A few days later, someone entered her room and
+took from the bureau drawer the exact amount the
+dinner would have cost.</p>
+
+<p>The law always stands back of the man who
+spends fearlessly, with wisdom.</p>
+
+<p>For example: One of my students was shopping<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span>
+with her little nephew. The child clamored for a
+toy, which she told him she could not afford to buy.</p>
+
+<p>She realized suddenly that she was seeking lack,
+and not recognizing God as her supply!</p>
+
+<p>So she bought the toy, and on her way home,
+picked <em>up, in the street, the exact amount of money
+she had paid for it</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Man’s supply is inexhaustible and unfailing
+when fully trusted, but faith or trust must precede
+the demonstration. “According to your faith be it
+unto you.” “Faith is the substance of things hoped
+for, the evidence of things not seen—” for faith
+holds the vision steady, and the adverse pictures are
+dissolved and dissipated, and “in due season we
+shall reap, if we faint not.”</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel)
+that there was a higher law than the law of Karma—and
+that that law transcends the law of Karma.
+It is the law of grace, or forgiveness. It is the law
+which <em>frees man from the law of cause and effect—the
+law of consequence. “Under grace, and not
+under law.”</em></p>
+
+<p>We are told that on this plane, man reaps where
+he has not sown; the gifts of God are simply poured
+out upon him. “All that the Kingdom affords is
+his.” This continued state of bliss awaits the man
+who has overcome the race (or world) thought.</p>
+
+<p>In the world thought there is tribulation, but
+Jesus Christ said: “Be of good cheer; I have overcome
+the world.”</p>
+
+<p>The world thought is that of sin, sickness and
+death. He saw their absolute unreality and said<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span>
+sickness and sorrow shall pass away and death
+itself, the last enemy, be overcome.</p>
+
+<p>We know now, from a scientific standpoint, that
+death could be overcome by stamping the subconscious
+mind with the conviction of eternal youth
+and eternal life.</p>
+
+<p>The subconscious, being simply power without
+direction, <em>carries out orders without questioning</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Working under the direction of the superconscious
+(the Christ or God within man) the “resurrection
+of the body” would be accomplished.</p>
+
+<p>Man would no longer throw off his body in
+death, it would be transformed into the “body
+electric,” sung by Walt Whitman, for Christianity
+is founded upon the forgiveness of sins and “an
+empty tomb.”</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="CASTING_THE_BURDEN">CASTING THE BURDEN<br><br>
+Impressing the Subconscious</h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>When man knows his own powers and the workings
+of his mind, his great desire is to find an easy
+and quick way to impress the subconscious with
+good, for simply an intellectual knowledge of the
+Truth will not bring results.</p>
+
+<p>In my own case, I found the easiest way is in
+“casting the burden.”</p>
+
+<p>A metaphysician once explained it in this manner.
+He said, “The only thing which gives anything
+weight in nature, is the law of gravitation, and if a
+boulder could be taken high above the planet,
+there would be no weight in that boulder; and that
+is what Jesus Christ meant when he said: ‘My yoke
+is easy and my burden is light.’”</p>
+
+<p>He had overcome the world vibration, and functioned
+in the fourth dimensional realm, where
+there is only perfection, completion, life and joy.</p>
+
+<p>He said: “Come to me all ye that labor and are
+heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” “Take my
+yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden
+is light.”</p>
+
+<p>We are also told in the fifty-fifth Psalm, to “cast
+thy burden upon the Lord.” Many passages in the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span>
+Bible state that the <em>battle is God’s</em> not man’s and
+that man is always to <em>“stand still” and see the
+Salvation of the Lord</em>.</p>
+
+<p>This indicates that the superconscious mind (or
+Christ within) is the department which fights man’s
+battle and relieves him of burdens.</p>
+
+<p>We see, therefore, that man violates law if he
+carries a burden, and a burden is an adverse
+thought or condition, and this thought or condition
+has its root in the subconscious.</p>
+
+<p>It seems almost impossible to make any headway
+directing the subconscious from the conscious, or
+reasoning mind, as the reasoning mind (the intellect)
+is limited in its conceptions, and filled with
+doubts and fears.</p>
+
+<p>How scientific it then is, to cast the burden upon
+the superconscious mind (or Christ within) where
+it is “made light,” or dissolved into its “native
+nothingness.”</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman in urgent need of money,
+“made light” upon the Christ within, the superconscious,
+with the statement, “I cast this burden of
+lack on the Christ (within) and I go free to have
+plenty!”</p>
+
+<p>The belief in lack was her burden, and as she cast
+it upon the Superconscious with its belief of plenty,
+an avalanche of supply was the result.</p>
+
+<p>We read, “The Christ in you the hope of glory.”</p>
+
+<p>Another example: One of my students had been
+given a new piano, and there was no room in her
+studio for it until she had moved out the old one.
+She was in a state of perplexity. She wanted to keep
+the old piano, but knew of no place to send it. She<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span>
+became desperate, as the new piano was to be sent
+immediately; in fact, was on its way, with no place
+to put it. She said it came to her to repeat, “I cast
+this burden on the Christ within, and I go free.”</p>
+
+<p>A few moments later, her ’phone rang, and a
+woman friend asked if she might rent her old
+piano, and it was moved out, a few minutes before
+the new one arrived.</p>
+
+<p>I knew a woman, whose burden was resentment.
+She said, “I cast this burden of resentment on the
+Christ within, and I go free, to be loving, harmonious
+and happy.” The Almighty superconscious,
+flooded the subconscious with love, and her whole
+life was changed. For years, resentment had held
+her in a state of torment and imprisoned her soul
+(the subconscious mind).</p>
+
+<p>The statement should be made over and over
+and over, sometimes for hours at a time, silently or
+audibly, with quietness but determination.</p>
+
+<p>I have often compared it to winding-up a victrola.
+We must wind ourselves up with spoken words.</p>
+
+<p>I have noticed, in “casting the burden,” after a
+little while, one seems to see clearly. It is impossible
+to have clear vision, while in the throes of carnal
+mind. Doubts and fear poison the mind and body
+and imagination runs riot, attracting disaster and
+disease.</p>
+
+<p>In steadily repeating the affirmation, “I cast this
+burden on the Christ within, and go free,” the
+vision clears, and with it a feeling of relief, and
+sooner or later comes <em>the manifestation of good, be
+it health, happiness or supply</em>.</p>
+
+<p>One of my students once asked me to explain the
+“darkness before the dawn.” I referred in a preceding<span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span>
+chapter to the fact that often, before the big
+demonstration “everything seems to go wrong,”
+and deep depression clouds the consciousness. It
+means that out of the subconscious are rising the
+doubts and fears of the ages. These old derelicts of
+the subconscious rise to the surface, <em>to be put out</em>.</p>
+
+<p>It is then, that man should clap his cymbals, like
+Jehoshaphat, and give thanks that he is saved, even
+though he seems surrounded by the enemy (the
+situation of lack or disease). The student continued,
+“How long must one remain in the dark” and I
+replied, “until one <em>can see in the dark</em>,” and “<em>casting
+the burden enables one to see in the dark</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>In order to impress the subconscious, active faith
+is always essential.</p>
+
+<p>“Faith without works is dead.” In these chapters
+I have endeavored to bring out this point.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ showed active faith when “He commanded
+the multitude to sit down on the ground,”
+before he gave thanks for the loaves and the fishes.</p>
+
+<p>I will give another example showing how necessary
+this step is. In fact, active faith is the bridge,
+over which man passes to his Promised Land.</p>
+
+<p>Through misunderstanding, a woman had been
+separated from her husband, whom she loved
+deeply. He refused all offers of reconciliation and
+would not communicate with her in any way.</p>
+
+<p>Coming into the knowledge of Spiritual law, she
+denied the appearance of separation. She made
+this statement: “There is no separation in Divine
+Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the
+love and companionship which are mine by divine
+right.”</p>
+
+<p>She showed active faith by arranging a place for<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span>
+him at the table every day; thereby impressing the
+subconscious with a picture of his <em>return</em>. Over a
+year passed, but she never wavered, and <em>one day he
+walked in</em>.</p>
+
+<p>The subconscious is often impressed through
+music. Music has a fourth dimensional quality and
+releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes
+wonderful things seem <em>possible, and easy of accomplishment</em>!</p>
+
+<p>I have a friend who uses her victrola, daily, for
+this purpose. It puts her in perfect harmony and
+releases the imagination.</p>
+
+<p>Another woman often dances while making her
+affirmations. The rhythm and harmony of music
+and motion carry her words forth with tremendous
+power.</p>
+
+<p>The student must remember also, not to despise
+the “day of small things.”</p>
+
+<p>Invariably, before a demonstration, come “signs
+of land.”</p>
+
+<p>Before Columbus reached America, he saw birds
+and twigs which showed him land was near. So it is
+with a demonstration; but often the student mistakes
+it for the demonstration itself, and is disappointed.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman had “spoken the word”
+for a set of dishes. Not long afterwards a friend gave
+her a dish which was old and cracked.</p>
+
+<p>She came to me and said, “Well, I asked for a set
+of dishes, and all I got was a cracked plate.”</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “The plate was only signs of land. It
+shows your dishes are coming—look upon it as
+birds and seaweed,” and not long afterwards the
+dishes came.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span></p>
+
+<p>Continually “making-believe,” impresses the
+subconscious. If one makes believe he is rich, and
+makes believe he is successful, in “due time he will
+reap.”</p>
+
+<p>Children are always “making believe,” and “except
+ye be converted, and become as little children,
+ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”</p>
+
+<p>For example: I know of a woman who was very
+poor, but no one could make her <em>feel poor</em>. She
+earned a small amount of money from rich friends,
+who constantly reminded her of her poverty, and to
+be careful and saving. Regardless of their admonitions,
+she would spend all her earnings on a hat, or
+make someone a gift, and be in a rapturous state of
+mind. Her thoughts were always centered on beautiful
+clothes and “rings and things,” but without
+envying others.</p>
+
+<p>She lived in the world of the wondrous, and only
+riches seemed real to her. Before long she married a
+rich man, and the rings and things became visible.
+I do not know whether the man was the “Divine
+Selection,” but opulence had to manifest in her
+life, as she had imaged only opulence.</p>
+
+<p>There is no peace or happiness for man, until he
+has erased all fear from the subconscious.</p>
+
+<p>Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected,
+or transmuted into Faith.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ said, “Why are ye fearful, O ye of
+little faith?” “All things are possible to him that
+believeth.”</p>
+
+<p>I am asked, so often by my students, “<em>How can I
+get rid of fear?</em>”</p>
+
+<p>I reply, “<em>By walking up to the thing you are
+afraid of</em>.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span></p>
+
+<p>“The lion takes its fierceness from your fear.”</p>
+
+<p>Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run
+away and he runs after you.</p>
+
+<p>I have shown in previous chapters, how the lion
+of lack disappeared when the individual spent
+money fearlessly, showing faith that God was his
+supply and therefore, unfailing.</p>
+
+<p>Many of my students have come out of the
+bondage of poverty, and are now bountifully supplied,
+through losing all fear of letting money go
+out. The subconscious is impressed with the truth
+that <em>God is the Giver and the Gift</em>; therefore as one
+is one with the Giver, he is one with the Gift. A
+splendid statement is, “I now thank God the Giver
+for God the Gift.”</p>
+
+<p>Man has so long separated himself from his good
+and his supply, through thoughts of separation and
+lack, that sometimes, it takes dynamite to dislodge
+these false ideas from the subconscious, and the
+dynamite is a big situation.</p>
+
+<p>We see in the foregoing illustration, how the
+individual was freed from his bondage by <em>showing
+fearlessness</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his
+motive for action is fear or faith.</p>
+
+<p>“Choose ye this day whom we shall serve,” fear or
+faith.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps one’s fear is of personality. Then do not
+avoid the people feared; be willing to meet them
+cheerfully, and they will either prove “golden links
+in the chain of one’s good,” or disappear harmoniously
+from one’s pathway.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps one’s fear is of disease or germs. Then<span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span>
+one should be fearless and undisturbed in a germ-laden
+situation, and he would be immune.</p>
+
+<p>One can only contract germs while vibrating at
+the same rate as the germ, and fear drags men
+down to the level of the germ. Of course, the disease
+laden germ is the product of carnal mind, as all
+thought must objectify. Germs do not exist in the
+superconscious or Divine Mind, therefore are the
+product of man’s “vain imagination.”</p>
+
+<p>“In the twinkling of an eye,” man’s release will
+come when he realizes <em>there is no power in evil</em>.</p>
+
+<p>The material world will fade away, and the
+fourth dimensional world, the “World of the Wondrous,”
+will swing into manifestation.</p>
+
+<p>“And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth—and
+there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor
+crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the
+former things are passed away.”</p>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="LOVE">LOVE</h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Every man on this planet is taking his initiation
+in love. “A new commandment I give unto you,
+that ye love one another.” Ouspensky states, in
+“Tertium Organum,” that “love is a cosmic phenomenon,”
+and opens to man the fourth dimensional
+world, “The World of the Wondrous.”</p>
+
+<p>Real love is selfless and free from fear. It pours
+itself out upon the object of its affection, without
+demanding any return. Its joy is in the joy of giving.
+Love is God in manifestation, and the strongest
+magnetic force in the universe. Pure, unselfish love
+<em>draws to itself its own</em>; it does not need to seek or
+demand. Scarcely anyone has the faintest conception
+of real love. Man is selfish, tyrannical or fearful
+in his affections, thereby losing the thing he
+loves. Jealousy is the worst enemy of love, for the
+imagination runs riot, seeing the loved one attracted
+to another, and invariably these fears
+objectify if they are not neutralized.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman came to me in deep distress.
+The man she loved had left her for other
+women, and said he never intended to marry her.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span>
+She was torn with jealousy and resentment and said
+she hoped he would suffer as he had made her
+suffer; and added, “How could he leave me when I
+loved him so much?”</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “You are not loving that man, you are
+hating him,” and added, “<em>You can never receive
+what you have never given. Give a perfect love and
+you will receive a perfect love.</em> Perfect yourself on
+this man. Give him a perfect, <em>unselfish</em> love, demanding
+nothing in return, do not criticise or
+condemn, and <em>bless him wherever he is</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>She replied, “No, I won’t bless him unless I know
+where he is!”</p>
+
+<p>“Well,” I said, “that is not real love.”</p>
+
+<p>“When you <em>send out real love</em>, real love will return
+to you, either from this man or his equivalent,
+for if this man is not the divine selection, you will
+not want him. As you are one with God, you are one
+with the love which belongs to you by divine right.”</p>
+
+<p>Several months passed, and matters remained
+about the same, but she was working conscientiously
+with herself. I said, “When you are no longer
+disturbed by his cruelty, he will cease to be cruel, as
+you are attracting it through your own emotions.”</p>
+
+<p>Then I told her of a brotherhood in India, who
+never said, “Good morning” to each other. They
+used these words: “<em>I salute the Divinity in you.</em>”
+They saluted the divinity in every man, and in the
+wild animals in the jungle, and they were never
+harmed, for they <em>saw only God in every</em> living
+thing. I said, “Salute the divinity in this man, and
+say, ‘I see your divine self only. I see you as God sees<span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span>
+you, perfect, made in His image and likeness.’”</p>
+
+<p>She found she was becoming more poised, and
+gradually losing her resentment. He was a Captain,
+and she always called him “The Cap.”</p>
+
+<p>One day, she said, suddenly, “<em>God bless the Cap
+wherever he is.</em>”</p>
+
+<p>I replied: “Now, that is real love, and when you
+have become a ‘complete circle,’ and are no longer
+disturbed by the situation, you will have his love, or
+attract its equivalent.”</p>
+
+<p>I was moving at this time, and did not have a
+telephone, so was out of touch with her for a few
+weeks, when one morning I received a letter saying,
+“We are married.”</p>
+
+<p>At the earliest opportunity, I paid her a call. My
+first words were, “What happened?”</p>
+
+<p>“Oh,” she exclaimed, “a miracle! One day I woke
+up and all suffering had ceased. I saw him that
+evening and he asked me to marry him. We were
+married in about a week, and I have never seen a
+more devoted man.”</p>
+
+<p>There is an old saying: “<em>No man is your enemy,
+no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.</em>”</p>
+
+<p>So one should become impersonal and learn
+what each man has to teach him, and soon he
+would learn his lessons and be free.</p>
+
+<p>The woman’s lover was teaching her selfless love,
+which every man, sooner or later, must learn.</p>
+
+<p>Suffering is not necessary for man’s development;
+it is the result of violation of spiritual law,
+but few people seem able to rouse themselves from
+their “soul sleep” without it. When people are<span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span>
+happy, they usually become selfish, and automatically
+the law of Karma is set in action. Man
+often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.</p>
+
+<p>I knew a woman who had a very nice husband,
+but she said often, “I don’t care anything about
+being married, but that is nothing against my
+husband. I’m simply not interested in married
+life.”</p>
+
+<p>She had other interests, and scarcely remembered
+she had a husband. She only thought of him
+when she saw him. One day her husband told her
+he was in love with another woman, and left. She
+came to me in distress and resentment.</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “It is exactly what you spoke the word
+for. You said you didn’t care anything about being
+married, so the subconscious worked to get you
+unmarried.”</p>
+
+<p>She said, “Oh yes, I see. People get what they
+want, and then feel very much hurt.”</p>
+
+<p>She soon became in perfect harmony with the
+situation, and knew they were both much happier
+apart.</p>
+
+<p>When a woman becomes indifferent or critical,
+and ceases to be an inspiration to her husband, he
+misses the stimulus of their early relationship and is
+restless and unhappy.</p>
+
+<p>A man came to me dejected, miserable and
+poor. His wife was interested in the “Science of
+Numbers,” and had had him read. It seems the
+report was not very favorable, for he said, “My wife
+says I’ll never amount to anything because I am a
+two.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span></p>
+
+<p>I replied, “I don’t care what your number is, you
+are a perfect idea in divine mind, and we will
+demand the success and prosperity which are <em>already
+planned</em> for you by that Infinite Intelligence.”</p>
+
+<p>Within a few weeks, he had a very fine position,
+and a year or two later, he achieved a brilliant
+success as a writer. No man is a success in business
+unless he loves his work. The picture the artist
+paints for love (of his art) is his greatest work. The
+pot-boiler is always something to live down.</p>
+
+<p>No man can attract money if he despises it. Many
+people are kept in poverty by saying: “Money
+means nothing to me, and I have a contempt for
+people who have it.”</p>
+
+<p>This is the reason so many artists are poor. Their
+contempt for money separates them from it.</p>
+
+<p>I remember hearing one artist say of another,
+“He’s no good as an artist, he has money in the
+bank.”</p>
+
+<p>This attitude of mind, of course, separates man
+from his supply; he must be in harmony with a
+thing in order to attract it.</p>
+
+<p>Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from
+want and limitation, but it must be always kept in
+circulation and put to right uses. Hoarding and
+saving react with grim vengeance.</p>
+
+<p>This does not mean that man should not have
+houses and lots, stocks and bonds, for “the barns
+of the righteous man shall be full.” It means man
+should not hoard even the principal, if an occasion
+arises, when money is necessary. In letting it go out
+fearlessly and cheerfully he opens the way for more<span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span>
+to come in, for God is man’s unfailing and inexhaustible
+supply.</p>
+
+<p>This is the spiritual attitude towards money and
+the great Bank of the Universal never fails!</p>
+
+<p>We see an example of hoarding in the film
+production of “Greed.” The woman won five thousand
+dollars in a lottery, but would not spend it.
+She hoarded and saved, let her husband suffer and
+starve, and eventually she scrubbed floors for a
+living.</p>
+
+<p>She loved the money itself and put it above
+everything, and one night she was murdered and
+the money taken from her.</p>
+
+<p>This is an example of where “love of money is the
+root of all evil.” Money in itself, is good and beneficial,
+but used for destructive purposes, hoarded
+and saved, or considered more important than
+love, brings disease and disaster, and the loss of the
+money itself.</p>
+
+<p>Follow the path of love, and all things are added,
+<em>for God is love</em>, and <em>God is supply</em>; follow the path
+of selfishness and greed, and the supply vanishes, or
+man is separated from it.</p>
+
+<p>For example; I knew the case of a very rich
+woman, who hoarded her income. She rarely gave
+anything away, but bought and bought and bought
+things for herself.</p>
+
+<p>She was very fond of necklaces, and a friend once
+asked her how many she possessed. She replied,
+“Sixty-seven.” She bought them and put them
+away, carefully wrapped in tissue paper. Had she
+used the necklaces it would have been quite legitimate,
+but she was violating “the law of use.” Her<span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</span>
+closets were filled with clothes she never wore, and
+jewels which never saw the light.</p>
+
+<p>The woman’s arms were gradually becoming
+paralyzed from holding on to things, and eventually
+she was considered incapable of looking after her
+affairs and her wealth was handed over to others to
+manage.</p>
+
+<p>So man, in ignorance of the law, brings about his
+own destruction.</p>
+
+<p>All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation
+of the law of love. Man’s boomerangs of hate,
+resentment and criticism, come back laden with
+sickness and sorrow. Love seems almost a lost art,
+but the man with the knowledge of spiritual law
+knows it must be regained, for without it, he has
+“become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.”</p>
+
+<p>For example: I had a student who came to me,
+month after month, to clean her consciousness of
+resentment. After a while, she arrived at the point
+where she resented only one woman, but that one
+woman kept her busy. Little by little she became
+poised and harmonious, and one day, all resentment
+was wiped out.</p>
+
+<p>She came in radiant, and exclaimed “You can’t
+understand how I feel! The woman said something
+to me and instead of being furious I was loving and
+kind, and she apologized and was perfectly lovely to
+me.</p>
+
+<p>No one can understand the marvelous lightness I
+feel within!”</p>
+
+<p>Love and good-will are invaluable in business.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman came to me, complaining<span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</span>
+of her employer. She said she was cold and
+critical and knew she did not want her in the
+position.</p>
+
+<p>“Well,” I replied, “Salute the Divinity in the
+woman and send her love.”</p>
+
+<p>She said “I can’t; she’s a marble woman.”</p>
+
+<p>I answered, “You remember the story of the
+sculptor who asked for a certain piece of marble.
+He was asked why he wanted it, and he replied,
+‘because there is an angel in the marble,’ and out of
+it he produced a wonderful work of art.”</p>
+
+<p>She said, “Very well, I’ll try it.” A week later she
+came back and said, “I did what you told me to,
+and now the woman is very kind, and took me out
+in her car.”</p>
+
+<p>People are sometimes filled with remorse for
+having done someone an unkindness, perhaps years
+ago.</p>
+
+<p>If the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be
+neutralized by doing some one a kindness <em>in the
+present</em>.</p>
+
+<p>“This one thing I do, forgetting those things
+which are behind and reaching forth unto those
+things which are before.”</p>
+
+<p>Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of
+the body, and poison the atmosphere of the individual.</p>
+
+<p>A woman said to me in deep sorrow, “Treat me
+to be happy and joyous, for my sorrow makes me so
+irritable with the members of my family that I keep
+making more Karma.”</p>
+
+<p>I was asked to treat a woman who was mourning<span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</span>
+for her daughter. I denied all belief in loss and
+separation, and affirmed that God was the woman’s
+joy, love and peace.</p>
+
+<p>The woman gained her poise at once, but sent
+word by her son, not to treat any longer, because
+she was “so happy, it wasn’t respectable.”</p>
+
+<p>So “mortal mind” loves to hang on to its griefs
+and regrets.</p>
+
+<p>I knew a woman who went about bragging of her
+troubles, so, of course, she always had something to
+brag about.</p>
+
+<p>The old idea was if a woman did not worry about
+her children, she was not a good mother.</p>
+
+<p>Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible
+for many of the diseases and accidents which come
+into the lives of children.</p>
+
+<p>For fear pictures vividly the disease or situation
+feared, and these pictures objectify, if not neutralized.</p>
+
+<p>Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that
+she puts her child in God’s hands, and <em>knows</em> therefore,
+that he is divinely protected.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman awoke suddenly, in the
+night, feeling her brother was in great danger.
+Instead of giving in to her fears, she commenced
+making statements of Truth, saying, “Man is a
+perfect idea in Divine Mind, and is always in his
+right place, therefore, my brother is in his right
+place, and is divinely protected.”</p>
+
+<p>The next day she found that her brother had
+been in close proximity to an explosion in a mine,
+but had miraculously escaped.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</span></p>
+
+<p>So man is his brother’s keeper (in thought) and
+every man should know that the thing he loves
+dwells in “the secret place of the most high, and
+abides under the shadow of the Almighty.”</p>
+
+<p>“There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any
+plague come nigh thy dwelling.”</p>
+
+<p>“Perfect love casteth out fear. He that feareth is
+not made perfect in love,” and “Love is the fulfilling
+of the Law.”</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="INTUITION_OR_GUIDANCE">INTUITION OR GUIDANCE</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">“In all thy ways acknowledge Him and</div>
+    <div class="verse indent4">He shall direct thy paths.”</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>There is nothing too great of accomplishment
+for the man who knows the power of his word, and
+who follows his intuitive leads. By the word he starts
+in action unseen forces and can rebuild his body or
+remold his affairs.</p>
+
+<p>It is, therefore, of the utmost importance to
+choose the right words, and the student carefully
+selects the affirmation he wishes to catapult into
+the invisible.</p>
+
+<p>He knows that God is his supply, that there is a
+supply for every demand, and that his spoken word
+releases this supply.</p>
+
+<p>“Ask and ye shall receive.”</p>
+
+<p>Man must make the first move. “Draw nigh to
+God and He will draw nigh to you.”</p>
+
+<p>I have often been asked just how to make a
+demonstration.</p>
+
+<p>I reply: “Speak the word and then do not do
+anything until you get a definite lead.” Demand
+the lead, saying, “Infinite Spirit, reveal to me the
+way, let me know if there is anything for me to do.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</span></p>
+
+<p>The answer will come through intuition (or
+hunch); a chance remark from someone, or a
+passage in a book, etc., etc. The answers are
+sometimes quite startling in their exactness. For
+example: A woman desired a large sum of money.
+She spoke the words: “Infinite Spirit, open the way
+for my immediate supply, let all that is mine by
+divine right now reach me, in great avalanches of
+abundance.” Then she added: “Give me a definite
+lead, let me know if there is anything for me to do.”</p>
+
+<p>The thought came quickly, “Give a certain
+friend” (who had helped her spiritually) “a hundred
+dollars.” She told her friend, who said, “Wait
+and get another lead, before giving it.” So she
+waited, and that day met a woman who said to her,
+“I gave someone a dollar today; it was just as much
+for me, as it would be for you to give someone a
+hundred.”</p>
+
+<p>This was indeed an unmistakable lead, so she
+knew she was right in giving the hundred dollars.
+It was a gift which proved a great investment, for
+shortly after that, a large sum of money came to her
+in a remarkable way.</p>
+
+<p>Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to
+create activity in finances, one should give. Tithing
+or giving one-tenth of one’s income, is an old Jewish
+custom, and is sure to bring increase. Many of the
+richest men in this country have been tithers, and I
+have never known it to fail as an investment.</p>
+
+<p>The tenth-part goes forth and returns blessed
+and multiplied. But the gift or tithe must be given
+with love and cheerfulness, for “God loveth a cheerful
+giver.” Bills should be paid cheerfully; all<span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</span>
+money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a
+blessing.</p>
+
+<p>This attitude of mind makes man master of
+money. It is his to obey, and his spoken word then
+opens vast reservoirs of wealth.</p>
+
+<p>Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited
+vision. Sometimes the student has a great realization
+of wealth, but is afraid to act.</p>
+
+<p>The vision and action must go hand in hand, as
+in the case of the man who bought the fur-lined
+overcoat.</p>
+
+<p>A woman came to me asking me to “speak the
+word” for a position. So I demanded: “Infinite
+Spirit, open the way for this woman’s right position.”
+Never ask for just “a position”; ask for the
+right position, the place already planned in Divine
+Mind, as it is the only one that will give satisfaction.</p>
+
+<p>I then gave thanks that she had already received,
+and that it would manifest quickly. Very soon, she
+had three positions offered her, two in New York
+and one in Palm Beach, and she did not know
+which to choose. I said, “Ask for a definite lead.”</p>
+
+<p>The time was almost up and was still undecided,
+when one day, she telephoned, “When I woke up
+this morning, I could smell Palm Beach.” She had
+been there before and knew its balmy fragrance.</p>
+
+<p>I replied: “Well, if you can smell Palm Beach
+from here, it is certainly your lead.” She accepted
+the position, and it proved a great success. Often
+one’s lead comes at an unexpected time.</p>
+
+<p>One day, I was walking down the street, when I
+suddenly felt a strong urge to go to a certain
+bakery, a block or two away.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</span></p>
+
+<p>The reasoning mind resisted, arguing, “There is
+nothing there that you want.”</p>
+
+<p>However, I had learned not to reason, so I went
+to the bakery, looked at everything, and there was
+certainly nothing there that I wanted, but coming
+out I encountered a woman I had thought of often,
+and who was in great need of the help which I could
+give her.</p>
+
+<p>So often, one goes for one thing and finds another.</p>
+
+<p>Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain,
+but simply <em>points the way</em>.</p>
+
+<p>A person often receives a lead during a “treatment.”
+The idea that comes may seem quite irrelevant,
+but some of God’s leadings are “mysterious.”</p>
+
+<p>In the class, one day, I was treating that each
+individual would receive a definite lead. A woman
+came to me afterwards, and said: “While you were
+treating, I got the hunch to take my furniture out of
+storage and get an apartment.” The woman had
+come to be treated for health. I told her I knew in
+getting a home of her own, her health would
+improve, and I added, “I believe your trouble,
+which is a congestion, has come from having things
+stored away. Congestion of things causes congestion
+in the body. You have violated the law of use,
+and your body is paying the penalty.”</p>
+
+<p>So I gave thanks that “<em>Divine order was established
+in her mind, body and affairs</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>People little dream of how their affairs react on
+the body. There is a mental correspondence for
+every disease. A person might receive instantaneous
+healing through the realization of his body<span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</span>
+being a perfect idea in Divine Mind, and, therefore,
+whole and perfect, but if he continues his
+destructive thinking, hoarding, hating, fearing,
+condemning, the disease will return.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ knew that all sickness came from
+sin, but admonished the leper after the healing, to
+go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon
+him.</p>
+
+<p>So man’s soul (or subconscious mind) must be
+washed whiter than snow, for permanent healing;
+and the metaphysician is always delving deep for
+the “correspondence.”</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ said, “Condemn not lest ye also be
+condemned.”</p>
+
+<p>“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”</p>
+
+<p>Many people have attracted disease and unhappiness
+through condemnation of others.</p>
+
+<p>What man condemns in others, he attracts to
+himself.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A friend came to me in anger and
+distress, because her husband had deserted her for
+another woman. She condemned the other woman,
+and said continually, “She knew he was a
+married man, and had no right to accept his
+attentions.”</p>
+
+<p>I replied, “Stop condemning the woman, bless
+her, and be through with the situation, otherwise,
+you are attracting the same thing to yourself.”</p>
+
+<p>She was deaf to my words, and a year or two
+later, became deeply interested in a married man,
+herself.</p>
+
+<p>Man picks up a live-wire whenever he criticises
+or condemns, and may expect a shock.</p>
+
+<p>Indecision is a stumbling-block in many a pathway.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</span>
+In order to overcome it, make the statement,
+repeatedly, “<em>I am always under direct inspiration;
+I make right decisions, quickly.</em>”</p>
+
+<p>These words impress the subconscious, and soon
+one finds himself awake and alert, making his
+right moves without hesitation. I have found it
+destructive to look to the psychic plane for guidance,
+as it is the plane of many minds and not
+“The One Mind.”</p>
+
+<p>As man opens his mind to subjectivity, he becomes
+a target for destructive forces. The psychic
+plane is the result of man’s mortal thought, and is
+on the “plane of opposites.” He may receive either
+good or bad messages.</p>
+
+<p>The science of numbers and the reading of
+horoscopes, keep man down on the mental (or
+mortal) plane, for they deal only with the Karmic
+path.</p>
+
+<p>I know of a man who should have been dead,
+years ago, according to his horoscope, but he is
+alive and a leader of one of the biggest movements
+in this country for the uplift of humanity.</p>
+
+<p>It takes a very strong mind to neutralize a prophecy
+of evil. The student should declare, “Every
+false prophecy shall come to naught; every plan
+my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved
+and dissipated, the divine idea now comes
+to pass.”</p>
+
+<p>However, if any good message has ever been
+given one, of coming happiness, or wealth, harbor
+and expect it, and it will manifest sooner or later,
+through the law of expectancy.</p>
+
+<p>Man’s will should be used to back the universal
+will. “I will that the will of God be done.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</span></p>
+
+<p>It is God’s will to give every man, every righteous
+desire of his heart, and man’s will should be
+used to hold the perfect vision, without wavering.</p>
+
+<p>The prodigal son said: “I will arise and go to my
+Father.”</p>
+
+<p>It is, indeed, often an effort of the will to leave
+the husks and swine of mortal thinking. It is so
+much easier, for the average person, to have fear
+than faith; <em>so faith is an effort of the will</em>.</p>
+
+<p>As man becomes spiritually awakened he recognizes
+that any external inharmony is the correspondence
+of mental inharmony. If he stumbles or
+falls, he may know he is stumbling or falling in
+consciousness.</p>
+
+<p>One day, a student was walking along the street
+condemning someone in her thoughts. She was
+saying, mentally, “That woman is the most disagreeable
+woman on earth,” when suddenly three
+boy scouts rushed around the corner and almost
+knocked her over. She did not condemn the boy
+scouts, but immediately called on the law of forgiveness,
+and “saluted the divinity” in the woman.
+Wisdom’s ways are ways of pleasantness and all her
+paths are peace.</p>
+
+<p>When one has made his demands upon the
+Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything
+may seem to be going wrong, when in reality,
+it is going right.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman was told that there was
+no loss in divine mind, therefore, she could not
+lose anything which belonged to her; anything
+lost, would be returned, or she would receive its
+equivalent.</p>
+
+<p>Several years previously, she had lost two thousand<span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</span>
+dollars. She had loaned the money to a relative
+during her lifetime, but the relative had died,
+leaving no mention of it in her will. The woman
+was resentful and angry, and as she had no written
+statement of the transaction, she never received
+the money, so she determined to deny the loss, and
+collect the two thousand dollars from the Bank of
+the Universal. She had to begin by forgiving the
+woman, as resentment and unforgiveness close the
+doors of this wonderful bank.</p>
+
+<p>She made this statement, “I deny loss, there is
+no loss in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot lose the
+two thousand dollars, which belong to me by divine
+right.” “<em>As one door shuts another door
+opens.</em>”</p>
+
+<p>She was living in an apartment house which was
+for sale; and in the lease was a clause, stating that
+if the house was sold, the tenants would be required
+to move out within ninety days.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly, the landlord broke the leases and
+raised the rent. Again, injustice was on her pathway,
+but this time she was undisturbed. She
+blessed the landlord, and said, “As the rent has
+been raised, it means that I’ll be that much richer,
+for God is my supply.”</p>
+
+<p>New leases were made out for the advanced
+rent, but by some divine mistake, the ninety days
+clause had been forgotten. Soon after, the landlord
+had an opportunity to sell the house. On
+account of the mistake in the new leases, the tenants
+held possession for another year.</p>
+
+<p>The agent offered each tenant two hundred
+dollars if he would vacate. Several families moved;
+three remained, including the woman. A month<span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</span>
+or two passed, and the agent again appeared. This
+time he said to the woman, “Will you break your
+lease for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars?” It
+flashed upon her, “Here comes the two thousand
+dollars.” She remembered having said to friends
+in the house, “We will all act together if anything
+more is said about leaving.” So her <em>lead</em> was to
+consult her friends.</p>
+
+<p>These friends said: “Well, if they have offered
+you fifteen hundred they will certainly give two
+thousand.” So she received a check for two thousand
+dollars for giving up the apartment. It was
+certainly a remarkable working of the law, and
+the apparent injustice was merely opening the way
+for her demonstration.</p>
+
+<p>It proved that there is no loss, and when man
+takes his spiritual stand, he collects all that is his
+from this great Reservoir of Good.</p>
+
+<p>“I will restore to you the years the locusts have
+eaten.”</p>
+
+<p>The locusts are the doubts, fears, resentments
+and regrets of mortal thinking.</p>
+
+<p>These adverse thoughts, alone, rob man; for
+“No man gives to himself but himself, and no man
+takes away from himself, but himself.”</p>
+
+<p>Man is here to prove God and “to bear witness
+to the truth,” and he can only prove God by
+bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of
+injustice.</p>
+
+<p>“Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of
+hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven,
+and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be
+room enough to receive it.”</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="PERFECT_SELF-EXPRESSION">PERFECT SELF-EXPRESSION<br><br>
+
+<span class="fs90">or</span><br><br>
+
+THE DIVINE DESIGN</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">“No wind can drive my bark astray</div>
+    <div class="verse indent1">nor change the tide of destiny.”</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>There is for each man, perfect self-expression.
+There is a place which he is to fill and no one else
+can fill, something which he is to do, which no one
+else can do; it is his destiny!</p>
+
+<p>This achievement is held, a perfect idea in Divine
+Mind, awaiting man’s recognition. As the
+imaging faculty is the creative faculty, it is necessary
+for man to see the idea, before it can manifest.</p>
+
+<p>So man’s highest demand is for the <em>Divine Design
+of his life</em>.</p>
+
+<p>He may not have the faintest conception of
+what it is, for there is, possibly, some marvelous
+talent, hidden deep within him.</p>
+
+<p>His demand should be: “<em>Infinite Spirit, open
+the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest;
+let the genius within me now be released; let
+me see clearly the perfect plan.</em>”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</span></p>
+
+<p>The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love
+and perfect self-expression. This is the <em>square of
+life</em>, which brings perfect happiness. When one
+has made this demand, he may find great changes
+taking place in his life, for nearly every man has
+wandered far from the Divine Design.</p>
+
+<p>I know, in one woman’s case, it was as though a
+cyclone had struck her affairs, but readjustments
+came quickly, and new and wonderful conditions
+took the place of old ones.</p>
+
+<p>Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but
+of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost
+like play. The student knows, also, as man comes
+into the world financed by God, the <em>supply</em> needed
+for his perfect self-expression will be at hand.</p>
+
+<p>Many a genius has struggled for years with the
+problem of supply, when his spoken word, and
+faith, would have released quickly, the necessary
+funds.</p>
+
+<p>For example: After the class, one day, a man
+came to me and handed me a cent.</p>
+
+<p>He said: “I have just seven cents in the world,
+and I’m going to give you one; for I have faith in
+the power of your spoken word. I want you to
+speak the word for my perfect self-expression and
+prosperity.”</p>
+
+<p>I “spoke the word,” and did not see him again
+until a year later. He came in one day, successful
+and happy, with a roll of yellow bills in his pocket.
+He said, “Immediately after you spoke the word, I
+had a position offered me in a distant city, and am
+now demonstrating health, happiness and supply.”</p>
+
+<p>A woman’s perfect self-expression may be in<span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</span>
+becoming a perfect wife, a perfect mother, a perfect
+home-maker and not necessarily in having a
+public career.</p>
+
+<p>Demand definite leads, and the way will be
+made easy and successful.</p>
+
+<p>One should not visualize or force a mental picture.
+When he demands the Divine Design to
+come into his conscious mind, he will receive
+flashes of inspiration, and begin to see himself
+making some great accomplishment. This is the
+picture, or idea, he must hold without wavering.</p>
+
+<p>The thing man seeks is seeking him—<em>the telephone
+was seeking Bell</em>!</p>
+
+<p>Parents should never force careers and professions
+upon their children. With a knowledge of
+spiritual Truth, the Divine Plan could be spoken
+for, early in childhood, or prenatally.</p>
+
+<p>A prenatal treatment should be: “Let the God
+in this child have perfect expression; let the Divine
+Design of his mind, body and affairs be made
+manifest throughout his life, throughout eternity.”</p>
+
+<p><em>God’s will be done, not man’s; God’s pattern,
+not man’s</em> pattern, is the command we find running
+through all the scriptures, and the Bible is a
+book dealing with the science of the mind. It is a
+book telling man how to release his soul (or subconscious
+mind) from bondage.</p>
+
+<p>The battles described are pictures of man waging
+war against mortal thoughts. “A man’s foes
+shall be they of his own household.” Every man is
+Jehoshaphat, and every man is David, who slays
+Goliath (mortal thinking) with the little white
+stone (faith).</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</span></p>
+
+<p>So man must be careful that he is not the
+“wicked and slothful servant” who buried his
+talent. There is a terrible penalty to be paid for
+not using one’s ability.</p>
+
+<p>Often fear stands between man and his perfect
+self-expression. Stage-fright has hampered many a
+genius. This may be overcome by the spoken
+word, or treatment. The individual then loses all
+self-consciousness, and feels simply that he is a
+channel for Infinite Intelligence to express Itself
+through.</p>
+
+<p>He is under direct inspiration, fearless, and
+confident; for he feels that it is the “Father within”
+him who does the work.</p>
+
+<p>A young boy came often to my class with his
+mother. He asked me to “speak the word” for his
+coming examinations at school.</p>
+
+<p>I told him to make the statement: “I am one
+with Infinite Intelligence. I know everything I
+should know on this subject.” He had an excellent
+knowledge of history, but was not sure of his arithmetic.
+I saw him afterwards, and he said: “I spoke
+the word for my arithmetic, and passed with the
+highest honors; but thought I could depend on
+myself for history, and got a very poor mark.”
+Man often receives a set-back when he is “too sure
+of himself,” which means he is trusting to his
+personality and not the “Father within.”</p>
+
+<p>Another one of my students gave me an example
+of this. She took an extended trip abroad one
+summer, visiting many countries, where she was
+ignorant of the languages. She was calling for
+guidance and protection every minute, and her
+affairs went smoothly and miraculously. Her luggage<span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</span>
+was never delayed nor lost! Accommodations
+were always ready for her at the best hotels; and
+she had perfect service wherever she went. She returned
+to New York. Knowing the language, she
+felt God was no longer necessary, so looked after
+her affairs in an ordinary manner.</p>
+
+<p><em>Everything went wrong</em>, her trunks delayed,
+amid inharmony and confusion. The student must
+form the habit of “practicing the Presence of God”
+every minute. “<em>In all thy ways acknowledge him</em>;”
+nothing is too small or too great.</p>
+
+<p>Sometimes an insignificant incident may be the
+turning point in a man’s life.</p>
+
+<p>Robert Fulton, watching some boiling water,
+simmering in a tea kettle, saw a steamboat!</p>
+
+<p>I have seen a student, often, keep back his
+demonstration, through resistance, or pointing
+the way.</p>
+
+<p>He pins his faith to one channel only, and dictates
+just the way he desires the manifestation to
+come, which brings things to a standstill.</p>
+
+<p>“<em>My way, not your way!</em>” is the command of
+Infinite Intelligence. Like all Power, be it steam
+or electricity, it must have a nonresistant engine or
+instrument to work through, and man is that engine
+or instrument.</p>
+
+<p>Over and over again, man is told to “stand still”.
+“Oh Judah, fear not; but tomorrow go out against
+them, for the Lord will be with you. You shall not
+need to fight this battle; set yourselves, stand ye
+still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you.”</p>
+
+<p>We see this in the incidents of the two thousand
+dollars coming to the woman through the landlord
+when she became <em>nonresistant</em> and <em>undisturbed</em>,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</span>
+and the woman who won the man’s love “after all
+suffering had ceased.”</p>
+
+<p>The student’s goal is <em>Poise!</em> <em>Poise</em> is <em>Power</em>, for it
+gives God-Power a chance to rush through man,
+to “will and to do Its good pleasure.”</p>
+
+<p>Poised, he thinks clearly, and makes “right decisions
+quickly.” “He never misses a trick.”</p>
+
+<p>Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the
+root of many diseases, and causes wrong decision
+leading to failure.</p>
+
+<p>It has been named one of the worst “sins,” as its
+reaction is so harmful. The student learns that in
+metaphysics sin has a much broader meaning than
+in the old teaching. “Whatsoever is not of faith is
+sin.”</p>
+
+<p>He finds that fear and worry are deadly sins.
+They are inverted faith, and through distorted
+mental pictures, bring to pass the thing he fears.
+His work is to drive out these enemies (from the
+subconscious mind). “When Man is <em>fearless he is
+finished</em>!” Maeterlinck says, that “Man is God
+afraid.”</p>
+
+<p>So, as we read in the previous chapters: Man
+can only vanquish fear by walking up to the thing
+he is afraid of. When Jehoshaphat and his army
+prepared to meet the enemy, singing “Praise the
+Lord, for his mercy endureth forever,” they found
+their enemies had destroyed each other, and there
+was nothing to fight.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman asked a friend to deliver
+a message to another friend. The woman feared to
+give the message, as the reasoning mind said,
+“Don’t get mixed-up in this affair, don’t give that
+message.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</span></p>
+
+<p>She was troubled in spirit, for she had given her
+promise. At last, she determined to “walk up to
+the lion,” and call on the law of divine protection.
+She met the friend to whom she was to deliver the
+message. She opened her mouth to speak it, when
+her friend said, “So-and-So has left town.” This
+made it unnecessary to give the message, as the
+situation depended upon the person being in
+town. As she was willing to do it, she was not
+obliged to; as she did not fear, the situation vanished.</p>
+
+<p>The student often delays his demonstration
+through a belief in incompletion. He should make
+this statement:</p>
+
+<p>“In Divine Mind there is only completion, therefore,
+my demonstration is completed. My perfect
+work, my perfect home, my perfect health.”
+Whatever he demands are perfect ideas registered
+in Divine Mind, and must manifest, “under grace
+in a perfect way.” He gives thanks he has already
+received on the invisible, and makes active preparation
+for receiving on the visible.</p>
+
+<p>One of my students was in need of a financial
+demonstration. She came to me and asked why it
+was not completed.</p>
+
+<p>I replied: “Perhaps, you are in the habit of
+leaving things unfinished, and the subconscious
+has gotten into the habit of not completing (as the
+without, so the within).”</p>
+
+<p>She said, “You are right. I often <em>begin things</em>
+and never finish them.”</p>
+
+<p>“I’ll go home and finish something I commenced
+weeks ago, and I know it will be symbolic
+of my demonstration.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</span></p>
+
+<p>So she sewed assiduously, and the article was
+soon completed. Shortly after, the money came in
+a most curious manner.</p>
+
+<p>Her husband was paid his salary twice that
+month. He told the people of their mistake, and
+they sent word to keep it.</p>
+
+<p>When man asks, <em>believing, he must receive, for
+God creates His own channels</em>!</p>
+
+<p>I have been sometimes asked, “Suppose one has
+several talents, how is he to know which one to
+choose?” Demand to be shown definitely. Say: “Infinite
+Spirit, give me a definite lead, reveal to me
+my perfect self-expression, show me which talent I
+am to make use of now.”</p>
+
+<p>I have known people to suddenly enter a new
+line of work, and be fully equipped, with little or
+no training. So make the statement: “<em>I am fully
+equipped for the Divine Plan of my life</em>,” and be
+fearless in grasping opportunities.</p>
+
+<p>Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers.
+They refuse gifts through pride, or some
+negative reason, thereby blocking their channels,
+and invariably find themselves eventually with little
+or nothing. For example: A woman who had
+given away a great deal of money, had a gift
+offered her of several thousand dollars. She refused
+to take it, saying she did not need it. Shortly
+after that, her finances were “tied up,” and she
+found herself in debt for that amount. Man should
+receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon
+the water—freely ye have given, freely ye shall
+receive.</p>
+
+<p>There is always the perfect balance of giving<span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</span>
+and receiving, and though man should give without
+thinking of returns, he violates law if he does
+not accept the returns which come to him; for all
+gifts are from God, man being merely the channel.</p>
+
+<p>A thought of lack should never be held over the
+giver.</p>
+
+<p>For example: When the man gave me the one
+cent, I did not say: “Poor man, he cannot afford
+to give me that.” I saw him rich and prosperous,
+with his supply pouring in. It was this thought
+which brought it. If one has been a bad receiver,
+he must become a good one, and take even a
+postage stamp if it is given him, and open up his
+channels for receiving.</p>
+
+<p>The Lord loveth a cheerful receiver, as well as a
+cheerful giver.</p>
+
+<p>I have often been asked why one man is born
+rich and healthy, and another poor and sick.</p>
+
+<p>Where there is an effect there is always a cause;
+there is no such thing as chance.</p>
+
+<p>This question is answered through the law of
+reincarnation. Man goes through many births and
+deaths, until he knows the truth which sets him
+free.</p>
+
+<p>He is drawn back to the earth plane through
+unsatisfied desire, to pay his Karmic debts, or to
+“fulfill his destiny.”</p>
+
+<p>The man born rich and healthy has had pictures
+in his subconscious mind, in his past life, of
+health and riches; and the poor and sick man, of
+disease and poverty. Man manifests, on any plane,
+the sum total of his subconscious beliefs.</p>
+
+<p>However, birth and death are man-made laws,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</span>
+for the “wages of sin is death”; the Adamic fall in
+consciousness through the belief in <em>two powers</em>.
+The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and
+deathless! He never was born and has never died—“As
+he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever
+shall be!”</p>
+
+<p>So through the truth, man is set free from the
+law of Karma, sin and death, and manifests the
+man made in “His image and likeness.” Man’s
+freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny,
+bringing into manifestation the Divine Design of
+his life.</p>
+
+<p>His lord will say unto him: “Well done thou
+good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful
+over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many
+things (death itself); enter thou into the joy of thy
+Lord (eternal life).”</p>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="DENIALS_AND_AFFIRMATIONS">DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS</h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>“Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be
+established unto thee.”</p>
+
+<p>All the good that is to be made manifest in
+man’s life is already an accomplished fact in divine
+mind, and is released through man’s recognition,
+or spoken word, so he must be careful to decree
+that only the Divine Idea be made manifest, for
+often, he decrees, through his “idle words,” failure
+or misfortune.</p>
+
+<p>It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, to
+word one’s demands correctly, as stated in a previous
+chapter.</p>
+
+<p>If one desires a home, friend, position or any
+other good thing, make the demand for the “divine
+selection.”</p>
+
+<p>For example: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for
+my right home, my right friend, my right position.
+I give thanks <em>it now manifests under grace in a
+perfect way</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>The latter part of the statement is most important.
+For example: I knew a woman who demanded
+a thousand dollars. Her daughter was
+injured and they received a thousand dollars indemnity,
+so it did not come in a “perfect way.”<span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</span>
+The demand should have been worded in this
+way: “Infinite Spirit, I give thanks that the one
+thousand dollars, which is mine by divine right, is
+now released, and reaches me under grace, in a
+perfect way.”</p>
+
+<p>As one grows in a financial consciousness, he
+should demand that the enormous sums of money,
+which are his by divine right, reach him under
+grace, in perfect ways.</p>
+
+<p>It is impossible for man to release more than he
+thinks is possible, for one is bound by the limited
+expectancies of the subconscious. He must enlarge
+his expectancies in order to receive in a larger
+way.</p>
+
+<p>Man so often limits himself in his demands. For
+example: A student made the demand for six
+hundred dollars, by a certain date. He did receive
+it, but heard afterwards, that he came very near
+receiving a thousand dollars, but he was given just
+six hundred, as the result of his spoken word.</p>
+
+<p>“They limited the Holy One of Israel.” Wealth
+is a matter of consciousness. The French have a
+legend giving an example of this. A poor man was
+walking along a road when he met a traveler, who
+stopped him and said: “My good friend, I see you
+are poor. Take this gold nugget, sell it, and you
+will be rich all your days.”</p>
+
+<p>The man was overjoyed at his good fortune, and
+took the nugget home. He immediately found
+work and became so prosperous that he did not
+sell the nugget. Years passed, and he became a
+very rich man. One day he met a poor man on the
+road. He stopped him and said: “My good friend,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</span>
+I will give you this gold nugget, which, if you sell,
+will make you rich for life.” The mendicant took
+the nugget, had it valued, and found it was only
+brass. So we see, the first man became rich
+through feeling rich, thinking the nugget was
+gold.</p>
+
+<p>Every man has within himself a gold nugget; <em>it
+is his consciousness of gold, of opulence, which
+brings riches into his life</em>. In making his demands,
+man begins at his <em>journey’s end</em>, that is, he declares
+<em>he has already received</em>. “<em>Before</em> ye call I
+shall answer.”</p>
+
+<p>Continually affirming establishes the belief in
+the subconscious.</p>
+
+<p>It would not be necessary to make an affirmation
+more than once if one had perfect faith! One
+should not plead or supplicate, but give thanks
+repeatedly, that he has received.</p>
+
+<p>“The desert shall <em>rejoice</em> and blossom as the
+rose.” This rejoicing which is yet in the desert
+(state of consciousness) opens the way for release.
+The Lord’s Prayer is in the form of command and
+demand, “Give us this day our daily bread, and
+forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,”
+and ends in praise, “For thine is the Kingdom and
+the Power and the Glory, forever. Amen.” “Concerning
+the works of my hands, command ye me.”
+So prayer is command and demand, praise and
+thanksgiving. The student’s work is in making
+himself believe that “with God all things are possible.”</p>
+
+<p>This is easy enough to state in the abstract, but
+a little more difficult when confronted with a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</span>
+problem. For example: It was necessary for a
+woman to demonstrate a large sum of money within
+a stated time. She knew she must <em>do something</em>
+to get a realization (for realization is manifestation),
+and she demanded a “lead.”</p>
+
+<p>She was walking through a department store,
+when she saw a very beautiful pink enamel papercutter.
+She felt the “pull” towards it. The thought
+came. “I haven’t a paper cutter good enough to
+open letters containing large cheques.”</p>
+
+<p>So she bought the papercutter, which the reasoning
+mind would have called an extravagance.
+When she held it in her hand, she had a flash of a
+picture of herself opening an envelope containing
+a large cheque, and in a few weeks, she received
+the money. The pink papercutter was her bridge
+of active faith.</p>
+
+<p>Many stories are told of the power of the subconscious
+when directed in faith.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A man was spending the night in
+a farmhouse. The windows of the room had been
+nailed down, and in the middle of the night he felt
+suffocated and made his way in the dark to the
+window. He could not open it, so he smashed the
+pane with his fist, drew in draughts of fine fresh
+air, and had a wonderful night’s sleep.</p>
+
+<p>The next morning, he found he had smashed
+the glass of a bookcase and the window had remained
+closed during the whole night. He had
+<em>supplied himself with oxygen, simply by his
+thought of oxygen</em>.</p>
+
+<p>When a student starts out to demonstrate, he<span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</span>
+should never turn back. “Let not that man who
+wavers think that he shall receive anything of the
+Lord.”</p>
+
+<p>A colored student once made this wonderful
+statement, “When I asks the Father for anything,
+I puts my foot down, and I says: Father, I’ll take
+nothing less than I’ve asked for, but more!” So
+man should never compromise: “Having done all—Stand.”
+This is sometimes the most difficult
+time of demonstrating. The temptation comes to
+give up, to turn back, to compromise.</p>
+
+<p>“He also serves who only stands and waits.”</p>
+
+<p>Demonstrations often come at the eleventh hour
+because man then lets go, that is, stops reasoning,
+and Infinite Intelligence has a chance to work.</p>
+
+<p>“Man’s dreary desires are answered drearily,
+and his impatient desires, long delayed or violently
+fulfilled.”</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman asked me why it was she
+was constantly losing or breaking her glasses.</p>
+
+<p>We found she often said to herself and others
+with vexation, “I wish I could get rid of my
+glasses.” So her impatient desire was violently fulfilled.
+What she should have demanded was perfect
+eye-sight, but what she registered in the subconscious
+was simply the impatient desire to be rid
+of her glasses; so they were continually being
+broken or lost.</p>
+
+<p>Two attitudes of mind cause loss: depreciation,
+as in the case of the woman who did not appreciate
+her husband, <em>or fear of loss</em>, which makes a
+picture of loss in the subconscious.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</span></p>
+
+<p>When a student is able to let go of his problem
+(cast his burden) he will have instantaneous manifestation.</p>
+
+<p>For example: A woman was out during a very
+stormy day and her umbrella was blown inside-out.
+She was about to make a call on some people
+whom she had never met and she did not wish to
+make her first appearance with a dilapidated umbrella.
+She could not throw it away, as it did not
+belong to her. So in desperation, she exclaimed:
+“Oh, God, you take charge of this umbrella, I
+don’t know what to do.”</p>
+
+<p>A moment later, a voice behind her said:
+“Lady, do you want your umbrella mended?”
+There stood an umbrella mender.</p>
+
+<p>She replied, “Indeed, I do.”</p>
+
+<p>The man mended the umbrella, while she went
+into the house to pay her call, and when she
+returned, she had a good umbrella. So there is
+always an umbrella mender at hand, on man’s
+pathway, when one puts the umbrella (or situation)
+in God’s Hands.</p>
+
+<p>One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.</p>
+
+<p>For example: I was called on the ’phone late one
+night to treat a man whom I had never seen. He
+was apparently very ill. I made the statement: “I
+deny this appearance of disease. It is unreal,
+therefore cannot register in his consciousness; this
+man is a perfect idea in Divine Mind, pure substance
+expressing perfection.”</p>
+
+<p>There is no time or space, in Divine Mind,
+therefore the word reaches instantly its destination<span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</span>
+and does not “return void.” I have treated patients
+in Europe and have found that the result
+was instantaneous.</p>
+
+<p>I am asked so often the difference between
+visualizing and visioning. Visualizing is a mental
+process governed by the reasoning or conscious
+mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by
+intuition, or the superconscious mind. The student
+should train his mind to receive these flashes
+of inspiration, and work out the “divine pictures,”
+through definite leads. When a man can say, “I
+desire only that which God desires for me,” his
+false desires fade from the consciousness, and a
+new set of blueprints is given him by the Master
+Architect, the God within. God’s plan for each
+man transcends the limitation of the reasoning
+mind, and is always the square of life, containing
+health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression.
+Many a man is building for himself in imagination
+a bungalow when he should be building a palace.</p>
+
+<p>If a student tries to force a demonstration
+(through the reasoning mind) he brings it to a
+standstill. “I will hasten it,” saith the Lord. He
+should act only through intuition, or definite
+leads. “Rest in the Lord and wait patiently. Trust
+also in him, and he will bring it to pass.”</p>
+
+<p>I have seen the law work in the most astonishing
+manner. For example: A student stated that it
+was necessary for her to have a hundred dollars by
+the following day. It was a debt of vital importance
+which had to be met. I “spoke the word,”
+declaring Spirit was “never too late” and that the
+supply was at hand.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</span></p>
+
+<p>That evening she phoned me of the miracle.
+She said that the thought came to her to go to her
+safe-deposit box at the bank to examine some
+papers. She looked over the papers, and at the
+bottom of the box, was a new one hundred dollar-bill.
+She was astounded, and said she knew she
+had never put it there, for she had gone through
+the papers many times. It may have been a materialization,
+as Jesus Christ materialized the
+loaves and fishes. Man will reach the stage where
+his “word is made flesh,” or materialized, instantly.
+“The fields, ripe with the harvest,” will manifest
+immediately, as in all of the miracles of Jesus
+Christ.</p>
+
+<p>There is a tremendous power alone in the name
+Jesus Christ. It stands for <em>Truth Made Manifest</em>.
+He said, “Whatsoever ye ask the Father, in my
+name, he will give it to you.”</p>
+
+<p>The power of this name raises the student into
+the fourth dimension, where he is freed from all
+astral and psychic influences, and he becomes
+“unconditioned and absolute, as God Himself is
+unconditioned and absolute.”</p>
+
+<p>I have seen many healings accomplished by
+using the words, “In the name of Jesus Christ.”</p>
+
+<p>Christ was both person and principle; and the
+Christ within each man is his Redeemer and Salvation.</p>
+
+<p>The Christ within, is his own fourth dimensional
+self, the man made in God’s image and likeness.
+This is the self which has never failed, never
+known sickness or sorrow, was never born and has
+never died. It is the “resurrection and the life” of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</span>
+each man! “No man cometh to the Father save by
+the Son,” means, that God, the Universal, working
+on the place of the particular, becomes the Christ
+in man; and the Holy Ghost, means God-in-action.
+So daily, man is manifesting the Trinity of
+Father, Son and Holy Ghost.</p>
+
+<p>Man should make an art of thinking. The Master
+Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only
+the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind;
+and he paints these pictures with masterly strokes
+of power and decision, having perfect faith that
+there is no power to mar their perfection and that
+they shall manifest in his life the ideal made real.</p>
+
+<p>All power is given man (through right thinking)
+to bring <em>his heaven</em> upon <em>his earth</em>, and this is the
+<em>goal of the</em> “<em>Game of Life</em>.”</p>
+
+<p>The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance
+and love!</p>
+
+<p>May each reader be now freed from that thing
+which has held him in bondage through the ages,
+standing between him and his own, and “know the
+Truth which makes him free”—free to fulfill his
+destiny, to bring into manifestation the “<em>Divine
+Design of his life</em>, Health, Wealth, Love and Perfect
+Self-Expression.” “Be ye transformed by the
+renewing of your mind.”</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</span></p>
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Prosperity)</p>
+
+<p>God is my unfailing supply, and large sums of
+money come to me quickly, under grace, in perfect
+ways.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Right Conditions)</p>
+
+<p>Every plan my Father in heaven has not
+planned, shall be dissolved and dissipated, and
+the Divine Idea now comes to pass.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Right Conditions)</p>
+
+<p>Only that which is true of God is true of me, for
+I and the Father are ONE.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Faith)</p>
+
+<p>As I am one with God, I am one with my good,
+for God is both the <em>Giver</em> and the <em>Gift</em>. I cannot
+separate the <em>Giver</em> from the gift.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Right Conditions)</p>
+
+<p>Divine Love now dissolves and dissipates every
+wrong condition in my mind, body and affairs.
+Divine Love is the most powerful chemical in the
+universe, and <em>dissolves everything</em> which is not of
+itself!</p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Health)</p>
+
+<p>Divine Love floods my consciousness with
+health, and every cell in my body is filled with
+light.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</span></p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For the Eyesight)</p>
+
+<p>My eyes are God’s eyes, I see with the eyes of
+spirit. I see clearly the open way; there are no
+obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the perfect
+plan.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Guidance)</p>
+
+<p>I am divinely sensitive to my intuitive leads, and
+give instant obedience to Thy will.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For the Hearing)</p>
+
+<p>My ears are God’s ears, I hear with the ears of
+spirit. I am nonresistant and am willing to be led.
+I hear glad tidings of great joy.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Right Work)</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0"><em>I have a perfect work</em></div>
+    <div class="verse indent2"><em>In a perfect way;</em></div>
+    <div class="verse indent0"><em>I give a perfect service</em></div>
+    <div class="verse indent2"><em>For perfect pay.</em></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="center no-indent">(For Freedom from all Bondage)</p>
+
+<p><em>I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go
+free!</em></p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<figure class="figcenter illowp10" id="098_ad" style="max-width: 20.75em;">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/098_ad.jpg" alt="">
+</figure>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center no-indent fs150">
+“<em>One secret<br>
+of her success was that<br>
+she was always herself ... colloquial,<br>
+informal, friendly, and humorous.<br>
+She herself was very spiritual ...<br>
+and taught by familiar, practical, and<br>
+everyday examples.</em>”<br>
+</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="098_ad_2" style="max-width: 20.75em;">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/098_ad.jpg" alt="">
+</figure>
+
+<p class="center no-indent fs300"><span class="smcap">Emmet Fox</span></p>
+
+<p class="center no-indent">—<em>On Florence Scovel Shinn</em>—</p>
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+
+<div class="chapter transnote">
+<h2 class="nobreak bold fs150" id="Transcribers_Notes">Transcriber’s Notes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>pg 8 Changed: victim of distorted imagiation.<br>
+<span style="padding-left: 2em">to: victim of distorted imagination.</span></li>
+
+<li>pg 86 Changed: the Holy One of Isreal<br>
+<span style="padding-left: 2em">to: the Holy One of Israel</span></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 74878 ***</div>
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