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THE
PERFECT VISION
BY LILLIAN fSfcJk****)
DE WATERS
Author
of
The Hidden Truth
How To Have
Health
etc.
Published and for sale by
LILLIAN DE WATERS
118 Forest Street, Stamford, Conn,
copyright, 1920
Lillian De Waters
All rights reserved
JAN 26 1921
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The Perfect Vision
How many of us take life too seriously?
How many of us are too indifferent? too
lazy?
too
troubled to appreciate
How many
acutely that
of
we
busy?
too
careless?
too
life?
us have inspiration so
are constantly recognizing
grandeur, wonderment, glory, beauty, har-
mony,
as
being
manifested
everywhere,
from the tiny seedling to the giant oak;
from the grain
from the
little
of
sand to the majestic sun;
rivulet to the
from the infinitesimal to
mighty ocean;
infinity?
Many
of us need to bestir our mentalities into
an attitude or a state
of recognition of love,
enthusiasm, praise, joy.
Begin today to
wonder, to ponder, to exclaim, to enthuse,
to glorify
Mind and
its
wonderful power
of thought.
Cultivate a feeling of joy, delight, appreciation for
the power and ability to
have* to know, to understand the wonders
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and
.glories
and
Have you
of Life.
toward
tenderness
everybody, or
everything
there a cold indifference,
is
so small or asleep that
it
sees nothing over
knows
but exists upon
which to enthuse, nothing to
no true thought to think,
own
fears, doubts,
praise,
and worries?
Don't be afraid to count your
make merry.
to rejoice or to
afraid
to
blessings,
Don't be
laugh and be happy.
enjoyment.
and
and
a depressed attitude, a mind
a reserve,
its
affection
Fill
Life
is
every thought with joy
that you are an inseparable
realize
part of this wonderful Nature and Being.
Praise Life and
Mind and
its
sun that shines
its
manifestations.
creative force.
its light
Praise the
and warmth upon
you; praise the breeze that wafts
derful touch of invisible being
praise the hills
the forests.
and
Praise
its
won-
upon you;
valleys, the grass
and
•
room for you to sweeten the
disposition?
Take out all sense of anger
Is
there
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This
or hatred.
a poison that will
is
your body and deprive
harm
of its normal
it
manifestations and functions of health and
activity.
you love the whole world
If
whom you
except one individual toward
have hate or
Law and
ill
will,
you have broken the
reap the punishment that
will
One drop
hate brings.
glass of water, so
of ink will color a
one drop of hate or anger
or resentment in your mentality will con-
taminate the whole sense of your mentality.
Be
It
ignorance,
is
bottom
at the
you
want
thoughts,
think?
better?
my
you
of all of our troubles.
to
and
how
If
all.
wrong education that
want understanding?
really
really
for
not to hate at
careful, then,
to
know how
what
do
not,
is
Do
Do you
to think better
thoughts
right
better, act better,
then there
is
to
fefcl
no need
to read further in this book, for
whole object
mental touch with
understanding.
is
to
right
bring
and
you
into
true thinking,
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Instead of reasoning from the basis that
you are a mental
you probably have
been taught that you are a weak human
being;
sinful,
that you
being,
can be
and ultimately
sick,
die; that
mixture of good and
evil,
go.
you are a
and
spirit
know why you
matter; that you neither
came nor whither you
of
miserable,
Many
have
of us
been trained to think of the body
trained to believe that
is sick,
and that
the body that
the body that must
What
be made well.
As
it is
it is
first;
nonsense
this.
is
well try to correct the image in the
mirror paying no attention to the original
outside that
try
tion
is
casting that image, as to
and correct the body paying no attenthe
to
thought convictions in the
individual mentality that are causing that
condition called sickness.
You
say,
But
I
have stomach trouble,
consumption, rheumatism,
rid of it?
to reason.
how can
First of all be rational.
I get
Listen
Stop and think who you
are.
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Are you not a conscious,
Is
not your very
trouble,
are
Do
Can
how can
Then,
individualized
Life
these conditions?
Itself?
have stomach
sick,
consumption?
who
you,
God,
life
God, perfect Life be
intelligent being?
have
not spend your time
how
out how
arguing out that you have them, and
you got them but try and reason
impossible
Life or
would be
it
God
for that
of
is
to be sick.
Dear Seeker, the truth
is
which
not a fact of
Life.
If
you
is
that sickness
sat in the coach
a train that was standing
still
and
watched from the window a train that was
moving
believe
you would be very apt to
that it was your train that was
past,
moving, for your sense of motion would be
very real and true to you, and
it
might be
necessary for you to look from another
window upon
still
objects that were standing
to your sense of things to be actually
convinced that your train was not in motion
at
all.
So you,
in
your ignorance of perfect
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and Mind mav
Life
but sickness
sick,
state
that vou are
not the truth of existence
is
anymore than was the
that
belief
you
were in motion when actually vou were
standing
of
Sickness has an appearance
still.
realitv
to
the self-deceived mentality,
but this appearance
any
as
you
as
lie,
and
of the
is
this will
same nature
become plain
to
you gain some actual understanding
of Life
and
self.
The very power,
the ability you have to
think, to live, to feel, to do, to speak, to
hear,
is
God,
You
from God.
You
Itself.
are not something that
God made and then
of
the
set
the tiny seed, the
animal, the
life
life
are not separate
aside.
life
of
and
life
the largest
of the grass at
of the bird
The
flower,
your
feet,
and your
God and hence
There
is
but one
but one Life which
is
infinite in individuality
life is
God.
from a grain
of seed to
an individual
man
woman. When you claim that you are
sick, you are virtually claiming that God,
or
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the One-Life
is
being
consciousness,
soul,
life,
mind,
God.
God
your
sick, for
is
and true understanding are the same and
hence
the Life of
is
all.
There
is
but one
Father, and this Father of us all is Life, Itself.
All the
outcome
ills
of
of
are the results or the
life
wrong education, wrong teach-
about Life; mental misconceptions.
ings
Your understanding
this
may
of Life being
be the direct result of your trouble
or of your suffering.
way
to
wrong
overcome what
The one and only
is
disease, poverty, fear, etc.,
called sickness,
is
to acquire
an
understanding of Being and to rely solely
upon
this
standing
is
understanding.
this
under-
the only thing that you can
take from this plane to what
next plane.
This
is
called the
Nothing goes with you from
world except what you understand
of Life; so awake'
today to the supreme
importance that you gain a reasonable and
demonstrable understanding of Being.
there
is
to
you
is
All
your individual con-
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sciousness,
your thought convictions (your
understanding), and their manifestations.
Your individual mentality will manifest in
its body whatever this mentality is thinking and feeling as mental convictions.
Thinking
the
is
Body
mentality.
the mentality.
subjective
is
trariwise,
All objectifications of right
they
real because
upon Fact and Truth.
all
the
of
the objective state of
and true thoughts are
are founded
state
objectifications
of
Conerring
thoughts are unreal because untrue, having
As you remove from
no right foundation.
your mentality the erring thought
you are believing and substitute
that
in
its
place the right and true thought about
Life
and
self, this will
result in the discord
being removed from the mentality, and
will
body but the
harmony will be ex-
no more be found
natural condition of
it
in the
perienced by you.
Now, you must be
strive to
willing to accept
and
understand as true these facts of
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Life:
that there
which
is
infinite, perfect
mental Nature,
Mind
is
"Son of
but the one
is
Life,
and good;
one and
there
all
is
it
that
all;
that
God; that the good,
to Life,
is
It
understanding of Life, lived, that
and
God,
God and that right thought is the
God" or Mind and is the all-power
or mental force of
alone,
is
Life,
is
is
this
heaven;
a lack of this understanding or
is
ignorance
of
Life
and thinking
formity with this error that
is
in
hell.
con-
You
must become an understander of Life.
You simply cannot win harmony or gain
permanent peace upon any other basis.
You
possess
your very nature
through
the ability to reason and to think, to act
and to
feel,
and
to gain
an understanding
of Life for yourself.
Try
to
comprehend
clearly that there
is
nothing to be healed in the body, but that
it is
the mentality or thinking that needs
correction.
Healing
is
a mental process,
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the process of knowing the truth about
God,
The mental
life, self.
must be
state
changed before the bodily state can change.
The
science of true healing
performed
is
through a purely mental method, the application of right thought or Truth.
sin,
and death are not so many
sickness
powers but are delusions
delusions or
Evil,
wrong
in the mentality,
beliefs
about God,
and nearly everything under the sun.
become
thrilled
and character
whole Mind,
Just
with the awakening that
your own individual mentality
nature
life
its
of
is
the
inheritance
the exact
or
infinite
so
so
rich,
unlimited, so full of substance and infinite
wisdom that the very recognition of this
Truth will set you free to master that
The body
delusion that confronts you.
The
can make no condition for itself.
mentality alone
feeling,
what
loves.
is
responsible for
and form.
The mentality
sees, hears, feels, acts,
The body
all
is
action,
alone
is
understands,
neither
cause
nor
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creator nor
is
conditions.
sidered
God
11
Mind dependent upon
you have conperfect Mind, right
All things that
could do,
Any one
thinking can and will do for you.
who
of
bodily
thinks figures must have the right sense
them and obey the law governing num-
bers in order to get the correct result, so,
any one who thinks
sense of Life
life
must have the
and obey the laws
right
of Life in
order to experience the result of Life, which
is
harmony.
Don't look upon the evidence or
of
wrong thinking
called a sick or diseased
body and then try
that body.
faucet.
to change or correct
You might
up the water that
is
as well try to dry
flowing from an open
Close the faucet,
and there
no water to flood the lioi^W
wrong thinking,
result
belief,
and
It
will
is
be
your
reeling that
is
causing the body to show forth this ap-
pearance of disorder, and this
is
in accord
with the metaphysical law of Life, for as a
man
thinketh and believeth in his mind
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show
so does he
You
forth in his body.
draw your thoughts upon a canvas and
exhibit that as a picture.
It
is
merely the
manifested outline of the thought picture
you
had
first
in
mind.
So, your
body
is
the visible showing forth of your invisible
The
thoughts.
my
seat of the trouble therefore,
friend,
is
not in the body which
effect,
but
is
in
cause.
When
your mind which
the
is
the
is
the mentality through under-
standing thinks right and true thoughts
and ceases
to
think ignorant and wrong
thoughts, then will the discord that appears
your body and in your environment
in
disappear.
You may have
ball that
means
is
of a
put out of
jK> o?
matter with
appears
all
heard about the rubber
the
its
There
is
by
nothing the
though
rubber ball
it
twisted and out of shape, for,
remove the clamp, and,
all
natural shape
perfect as
it
was
the ball
lo,
there
all
the time.
remove your wrong thinking,
is
acting,
So,
and
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feeling (the clamp),
your body
is all
You know
and you
13
will find that
right.
you saw a blackboard
as large as is the surface of the earth and
on every point and all over it was written
6 and 3 are 7 it would not disturb you nor
deceive you, would it?
Now if you can
that
if
understand that you, the real you, are an
indivisible part of the
ment or Mind
of the
and
whole mental
as a drop of water
whole ocean and that
right
that you express
it is
is
ele-
part
natural
perfect Life
and Being, you would not be disturbed
by the appearance of discord anymore
than by the statement made by another
that 6 and 3 are 7.
Many
of us fall into the habit of taking
joys and pleasures
and
all
the exquisite
loveliness of the growing things
for granted.
sing
about us
We hear the robins warble
and
and enthuse and exclaim at the peep
of
day, and probably the "noise" disturbs us.
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A
day
in spring or early
the atmosphere
is filled
nodding
of blossoms,
new mown hay; and
summer when
with the fragrance
daisies, sweetest clover,
balmy breeze
is deliciously scented with this aroma which
seems to penetrate over the hills and
meadows, across the valleys and into the
door yards of rich and poor alike, we meet
one who looks
the fresh
though he held the
as
troubles of the world
His face
is
upon
his shoulders.
long and sad, his eyes red and
watery, he sneezes and uses his handkerchief alternately until finally
that
he declares
this loveliness, this
it is all
demonstration of
and
life
festation of sweetness
brings "hay fever,"
wonderful
love, this
mani-
and fragrance that
makes him
sick
and
miserable.
Next we meet a man walking along with
his little son.
him that he
from
We
stops,
his pocket,
notice before
we
reach
and taking a small box
he puts a lighted match
to something in the
box and then he holds
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it
up
so that the
boy may inhale the fumes
Now, what
of the burning substance.
more
there of
15
is
exquisite fragrance to inhale
than the breath of the day, we wonder,
and as we meet him we ask him
he remarks, "Son has the
"Oh,"
tion.
asthma and
this ques-
so
is
bad today that he can
scarcely breathe without inhaling
some
of
touching the small box, "this gives
this,"
him some
We
relief."
ask,
"But where did
he get the asthma?" knowing that asthma
is
not included in
have
and
it,
isn't
have
it,
Son?
Oh
it."
of
plicity
"Why
Good.
so of course, he has
you know
just nature
it,
infinite
for the
Daddy
has
it.
It
I
is
boy to have
it
and so you
the trust and yielding sim-
the
child's
mind,
as,
looking
loyally into his father's face he answers,
"Yes, Daddy."
Fathers, Mothers awake! cease contam-
by
God,
inating the pure sense of your children
such
wicked
Nature.
It
is
blasphemies
bad enough
for
against
you
to believe
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that you can be sick and have disease,
but for you to believe that
dition can be
this
wrong con-
handed down by Nature
a pure, helpless, innocent child
to
ignorant
is
and wicked.
What
kind of a Nature or
God
could
there be that would cause disease to be
transmitted from one to another and even
to the innocent child?
Is
there
any asthma
in
perfect
Life?
Does Nature, God contain such conditions
hay fever, asthma, nerves, consumption, and deal these out to this one
called
and that one with even the including
clause, that
what
is
given to the father will
be handed dow^n to his child?
times no,
—None
A
thousand
of these thoughts or con-
ditions are in or of Nature, or Life.
Your
wrong beliefs about Nature and Life
what causes you to bring forth these
ow^n
is
wrong
conditions.
ing of
down
Is
it
your understand-
numbers that causes you
to put
the wrong answers to your problems?
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No,
It
is
your ignorance of numbers that
make
causes you to
it
So
these mistakes.
your ignorance of Life that causes
is
you
17
to experience mistakes called sickness,
These conditions are not
disease.
any more than mistakes are
Think
of
in
in Life
mathematics.
Nature as a mental Substance,
being infinitely good, pure, perfect, har-
monious,
lovely,
Nature became more
you.
and
If
that
is
your real
you knew
this well
This
enough would you have nerves, hay
consumption?
No more
than
is
that
if
many do
fever,
you know
them
2 and 2 are 4 will you call
great trouble
this
same Nature
of the
when you became
true Nature.
know
then
5.
The
not pause
long enough to think, to reason, but blindly
accept
the
ignorant
teachings
of
their
ancestors and submit without a spark of
reasoning to ignorant beliefs.
We
continue our walk this bright morn-
we
One is
ing basking in the delight of Soul, and
notice the approach of
two
ladies.
ihzpz?. jz;rv:s::::
IS
we
see
me
H.rm
a nurse,
u<_
iUiiii
able
...
."way.
ask.
there,
there
the
out
the
r
V\ est
I
must
are
you know."
more Lite?
Nature
Is
Colorado r"
Such
Can we
in
the
sun.
get
Colorado
moon,
more
uictereut
there another
I-
in
find
to
the science of numbers
are
the
"It's
consumptives
:
harmony from music
there?
other.
•
The Doctors say
Strut nonsense.
is
is
l
we excatm.
seeming invalid-
from here'
ishuess.
w
"Do you expect
govermiug being
here?
before
ill
better ou: there.
God
foot
,
this climate.
We
and she
;ne treat.- aere:
is
says
"•Oh:"
air.
,1
•
i
vvnat
attire,
<
move one
to
Tin
by her
ktw:
more
than
ditferenf
stars,
light
dmerent tuere?
But. vou saw
suffered
I
from what
know
is
who
-hose
h
called consumption
and have teen cured by living for a time
What
in that climate.
individual's
bit
of
it.
own
did
it
thinking did
How?
;
This.
it
very simple.
ah
The
—every
He was
—
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by those whose opinion he valued,
told
that the air here
is
damp
too dry or too
or too this or too that, while out in Colorado
somewhere
or
and
else,
it
undoubtedly
will
is
purer,
healthier,
effect
a cure.
The
patient accepts this theory; he believes
He
of
more here day by day "because
the air" when the fact is the air he is
wilts
breathing
is
it.
is
the same air that his neighbor
breathing, and his neighbor
is
perfectly
healthy and well.
So the lady of
despairingly
down
whom we
speak, walks
the street or
sits
on the
porch bundled up in blankets and thinks
there
all
is
nothing for which to
live; recalls
the sad places in her past and broods
over them; breathes the dry air or
damp
air believing it is hurting her; and, is it
any wonder she "droops" and
is
fails?
She
serving every other god that could be
thought of except this one perfect God,
right thinking.
that her
She
is
ignorant of the fact
own thoughts govern
her body
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not the
own
her
or sun, or earth, or sky, but
air.
thoughts.
Thinking she has con-
sumption as though
real
nature to have,
condition
in
were something of
it
manifests
she
her bodv.
this
The mind and
body are not separate but are one as cause
and effect. The body is merely the thought
As long as she thinks
in the objective.
she has consumption and the air makes
her sick and she is too weak to walk, she
will show forth these conditions in the body.
If her body manifested abundant life and
strength while her mentality was entertaining
these
ignorant,
wicked
thoughts
then intelligence would not be the ruling
power and we
would be
all
would be
in a sorry plight.
as impossible as for
an
indi-
vidual totally ignorant of music to
sit
down
It
at a piano, strike whatever keys his fingers
fell
upon and thereby produce harmony
in music.
There
is
unalterable,
a fixed metaphysical law, an
unchangeable,
indestructible
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law governing Life in
all
its
21
activities.
This
Law says as a man thinketh and feeleth
as a
mental conviction so does he reap in
the visible body.
hay
fever,
in the
think and believe
asthma, consumption, bad
mind,
these very
To
air
sooner or later to exhibit
is
in the
ills
body, and you can
no more change the body without
changing your thoughts than you can
first
make
the water cease flowing out of the pipe
while the faucet
Now,
that
is
is all.
open.
when
then,
Colorado, she
is
the lady arrives
in
is
apt to change her thought,
She
likes the air, she thinks it
good and
is
aiding her recovery; she
who have been worse off
is and now they are entirely well.
meets new people, makes new
hears of those
than she
She also
friends
and acquaintances, and becomes
happier in
less
and
many ways;
she thinks of disease
of health more, pines less
and hopes
more, and, of course, the faithful image,
the body, manifests this better belief to
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correspond
with her thinking and more
health and strength and vigor continue to
manifest in the body, to keep pace with the
Had
thought.
home
she changed her thought at
she could have produced the same
result as she did in Colorado.
There
is
one thing that
any one on earth
or in order to
all
to do in order to be healed
come
good, and that
of Isaiah, "Let the
into the experience of
is
to follow the advice
wicked forsake his way
and the unrighteous man
There
is
necessary for
is
no other way
his
thoughts."
of salvation
we can be saved from
evil
than by letting go of our
whereby
effects
evil
other
thinking,
no way under the heavens that we may
come
into the joy of living other than
thinking,
living,
thoughts.
When
feeling
are
good and
you going
by
right
to begin?
Each must answer this question for him
self.
Each experiences all the good, the
health, the joy, of which he
and no more.
is
conscious
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The
that
great truth
and
all is in
that
is
all is
Mind.
of
no understanding whatever
23
mental and
He who
of the
has
power
of right thinking has not the right concept
of Life
and
therefore subject to his
is
As thought
erring beliefs.
is
own
causative, one
needs to be free from mental misconceptions
through the actual knowledge of the truth
It
of Life.
right reason,
free
through the application of
is
which
our mind from
beliefs.
the Saviour, that
is
all
we
wrong and ignorant
This was the teaching of the great
Master that sickness and disease are erring
beliefs
that can be overcome through a
right understanding of Life,
reality Life
is
and
Now,
here.
perfect
if
and that
in
and harmonious now
you think other than
you are thinking wrongly, or are
violating the laws of right and true think-
this
ing,
and you
will
automatically experience
that punishment that you merit.
work mentally
Always
to gain a conviction that
there are no discordant conditions in Life
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or Xature, that
ceaselessly
and
all
and
Life
is
good, perfect,
harmonious
changelessly
self -existent.
It
is
you continue
as
to
think and to reason these right thoughts
you
that
will
gradually
gain
mental
a
conviction of the perfection and the reality
of
Being and then your body
to your right
To
will
respond
and true sense and conviction.
some, in fact to many, the healings
produced
in
metaphysics are mysterious
and are not understood
in their true light.
I will relate a simple experience of
just to
show how very true
or right thinking heals.
it is
my own
Mind
that
One day
I
placed
an iron (the kind with a handle) over the
gas flame, preparatory to doing some
ironing at hand.
little
I let the iron get intensely
hot and then shut
off
the gas.
Forgetting
to place the cloth ironing-holder over the
handle before picking up the iron,
my
I
placed
bare hand firmly over the hot handle.
Immediately, the pain was so intense that
I could scarcelv
bear
it;
the skin became
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white,
some places
away.
into
rising
while in other places
25
blisters,
simply dropped
it
my
For just a few seconds
eyes
seemed riveted to the hand and to the
seemed so evident.
fearful condition that
Knowing
that
would never do to con-
it
tinue looking at the hand, for thought
causative, I at once put
me and
called to
perfect
being.
my
my mind
said
I
is
hand behind
the facts of
aloud,
and
my
with
strong mental conviction that each word
was an absolute
fection)
is
fact of Life:
all-in-all
and
I
"God
am
(per-
not
Re-
by any evidence to the contrary,"
and I kept up this right thinking until a
sound mental conviction was obtained by
me and then the pain left. Using the hand
ceived
as naturally as ever, I did the
little
ironing
that I had planned to do, and later put
that hand into hot water with not a single
discordant feeling.
sense of pain
There was no further
and the outward healing took
place rapidly.
You can
see
now
that
we
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cannot afford to watch the body
really
nor look upon the unnatural conditions as
Look away from the bodv into
the Facts of Life, this causes you to think
realities.
right
right
and true thoughts and
is
it
these
and true thoughts that heal you.
Another time
I visited a dentist to ascer-
tain about a tooth that
me
He
advised
in
the jaw-bone
seemed out
of order.
that the trouble was seated
and that he could not
possibly rectify that condition without extracting the tooth.
dentist for advice
thing, adding:
I called
and he told me the same
am
"I
sorry but I could
no more heal that condition
I could
upon another
grow hair on
my
for
you than
bald head."
I
went home and thought the matter over
I
carefully.
tooth.
plish
I
did
not want to lose that
knew that
before I could accom-
anything for myself that I would
have to
kill
the fear I had, the fear that the
trouble would lead to grave consequences
as
the dentists had pointed out.
After
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and meditation
several hours of reading
the science of Being there
it,
lie
interfere with
about perfection ever touches
or contaminates
it.
After seeing this very
gained a clear mental
so that I
clearly
only perfection
is
no laws of dentists
and no
I
According to
arrived at this conclusion:
in Life;
27
conviction of this fact, I lost every vestige
of fear
and
ing I
was happy and
right
on
in three
days of
this right think-
rejoicing.
I kept
convinced of the Truth
feeling
that I was thinking and after two weeks
the
all
mouth was
in
a normal condition and
trouble with that tooth
do not
So, I say again,
was at an end.
let
appearances
deceive you, but mentally insist that
Nature and Life
is
forever
all
manifesting
harmony and in perfection. The
moment you know a thing is true, that
Itself in
moment
has begun the visible unfoldment
and embodiment
there
is
of that thing for you, for
nothing either good or bad but
thinking makes
it
so.
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28
Friend,
you
if
act,
move,
understand, sing, talk, hear,
live,
see,
feel,
how can
you be a mere image or a shadow?
image cannot think, cannot
You
understand.
are
feel,
therefore
shadow nor are you merely a
You
It
is
An
cannot
not
a
reflection.
are a conscious, living, active being.
your body that
the reflection.
is
the image, the shadow,
The mind
is
the power,
the actor, the manifestor, the thinker; the
body
is
the creation, the manifestation, the
external or objective of Mind's thoughts or
convictions.
The body
is
that reflection which has no
truth nor intelligence of
life,
its
own but
expresses the convictions of the mentality's
The body is man,
and the mind is God or
thinking and feeling.
or manifestation,
Soul.
While God (Mind)
is
not
man
(body)
yet they are one and inseparable as Cause
and
effect.
No
matter what you believe your
self to
be you can be nothing but what you
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eternally
Believing
are.
29
yourself
to
be
other than you are you will project a false
creation, a seeming.
is
no part
this false creation
of you, the real you,
than darkness
is
things are to
you
believe
Yet
them
any more
part of the light.
All
you understand or
as
or according to your individual
A
state of consciousness.
false creation is
of course not a true creation
and
exists
only so long as does the mistake in the
individual's mentality.
Beyond your thinking
or consciousness
of a thing or a condition this thing or con-
Your right
harmony with
dition does not exist to you.
thinking brings you into
that which
is,
your wrong thinking, being
a wrong conception of that which
right,
If
brings
you wish a
you
into
is
eternally
darkness, trouble.
right thing or a
good condition
do not try to make or create
it
as though
you were making something new or apart
from
Life, Itself.
It
may
appear new to
your consciousness, but to mental Nature
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30
there are no
new
as
results
and eternally inherent.
forever
good
all
is
Also, do
not claim a certain good condition in the
expectation of getting rid of some other
discordant
Continue to hold
condition.
to the mental position that there
side to Life
We
but the one and good
do not claim that
sin
To
side.
and sickness do
not appear on this plane of
ing.
no other
is
life
as a seem-
the world ignorant of Truth they
appear as
but to Mind, under-
realities,
standing, they do not appear as realities.
Many
have a confused and mysterious
sense of the body.
Some
believe that they
have two bodies, one material and
and the other
claim
that
invisible
and
spiritual.
visible
Others
have a "mortal body,"
they
who believe that they
all.
Now, what is the
while there are some
have no body at
right
way
to regard the
body?
Think
of
the body as mental, as spiritual and as
good.
By what
right do
we dare think
of
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for
students
of
we have
To
souls and material bodies.
the body as matter is to condemn
Truth?
It
spiritual
think of
it
and stand
otherwise
it
31
to dust.
could not be that
It
is
our sense of the body that
wrong and not the body itself. We
should think of the body as Mind objectified, Nature in its manifested or visible
is
It
state.
that
we
is
the objective state of Life only
primal state
see, for Life in its
The
invisible.
flowers, birds, animals
is
and
own bodies are effects or forms of Nature.
It was Mary Baker Eddy, who some fifty
years ago wrote in her text book: "We
our
are
Spirit,
Soul."
.
.
.
"You, the im-
mortal have a perfect and a divine form."
.
.
"The
are Spirit
final
must come."
Life, of course,
diminished for
changeless,
Life or
understanding that we
it
God.
cannot be increased nor
is
absolute, immutable,
This
mental element,
Mind, comprehends
ever can be.
In
this
all
sense
there
is
or
creation
is
3-2
BZ
7
expression
Life
of
E
VISIOM
T
I
constant and unin-
is
The Master teacher
terrupted.
they
I-"
but the uiifoldment or external
finished,
am come
PEB
that they might have
have
might
more
it
He must have meant
life
'T
and that
abundantly."
we
that
said:
enlarge or
increase our sense of Life and as this takes
place in the mental there will necessarily
be an external expression to correspond.
The mental element
one
is
intelligence
constantly seeking and finding greater and
fuller expression of Itself.
Do
back
not
believe
of the
scientists
Sower, the body.
Hold
teach.
God. Mind
"mortal mind'"
that
is
all
mental, and the
:
to
there
~
some
etc.. as
the truth that
is.
is
is
hence
all
is
and
as spiritual
good and perfect as are the thoughts and
convictions of Truth in the mentality.
Jesus
said:
"Verily
except ye become as a
I
say
little
unto
you
child ye shall
not enter the kingdom of heaven."'
Did
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33
he mean that we must be changed back
into little children in order to enter heaven?
No,
do
would be as impossible
It
this as it
for us to
would be impossible
for the
butterfly to return to the caterpillar, or
for the
oak to again become the acorn.
He meant
that
we
are to put on or unfold
the characteristics of the child mentality,
which are simplicity, innocence,
ness, confidence, faith, purity.
will
take
all
fearless-
Now,
if
we
the characteristics that I have
mentioned as a model to hold before our
we cannot
consciousness constantly,
but find heaven within
characteristics
us, for these
help
mental
are the foundation stones
of all true character.
The
child's
mind
is
easily susceptible to
the teachings of Truth.
The power
of the
individual mentality of consciousness
in
possessing
humility,
the
innocence,
qualities
etc.
It
called
is
love,
as these
qualities rest in our consciousness that
consciously
possess
their
power.
lies
we
Unless
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34
you are
with
sincere
Truth cannot benefit you
fooling yourself.
unless
Its
you are
you are
yourself,
and glad
willing
to
obey
Law.
Have
Faith
faith.
is
a live conviction.
Faith has confidence that the heights can
Faith tends to bring your
be reached.
mind
into touch with the laws of Life so
that you naturally or automatically think
Have
good, and thus receive good.
faith
in the infinite, perfect
God, Nature; faith
in yourself; faith in the
Law.
Have faith
in
Mind and understand the power of right
thought. Remember that to change what
we call conditions, you must first change
your thought, for the individual creation
(individual body)
is
always the image and
likeness of the individual mentality.
you are able
to
think,
to think rightly as
then
will
you
When
aspire
you experience your
fondest desire.
You can
else.
The
succeed as well as can any one
ability to succeed
is
a natural
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35
quality inherent in every mentality.
mind
is
the same substance, for God, Life,
is
no respecter
Real faith
Blind
faith
things,
and
faith
as
you wish to
act.
measurelessly calm, strong,
is
Real
serene.
Faith gives
of mentalities.
you the power to act
is
All
faith
faith
is
this
is
is
not
blind
placed
in
a detriment.
faith.
external
Real faith
placed in internal things
(right
thoughts) and this faith leads to conscious
understanding of Life which
is
real salvation.
We are greater far than we at present know.
If
you wish
to be well
and stay well do
not talk sickness nor allow
talked to you.
it
to be
Keep your whole
unduly
attention
upon health and Nature's harmony.
take the attitude "I
am
perfectly well"
To
is
the shortest cut to the attainment of perfect
health.
than
fore,
Refuse to consider yourself other
this.
since
God,
Life, is changeless,
there-
you are one with the whole
mental element, you, too, are changeless
Substance.
If
you can know and
feel this
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36
fact to the exclusion of all opposing beliefs,
these seeming beliefs will melt
the
way
the
of the sun.
away
exactly
dew disappears in the presence
Your mind cannot believe two
opposite thoughts at the same time.
you hold your thoughts
facts of
As
steadfastly to the
your true nature and
feel
that what
you are thinking is actually true, this will
bring you into accord with the tune of the
Universe which is harmony. As long as
you make something out of a lie it stands
to teason you are fighting the darkness
and you cannot proceed. When an individual in his thinking denies the omnip-
otence
(all
power), omniscience
omnipresence
(all
(all
science),
presence) of God, good,
he enters into that dream state called mortal,
a belief state wherein he
is
not consciously
at-one with the Father (understanding).
Dear Seeker, don't sit and read and rave
over the wonder of spiritual life and then
close your books and act like a heathen.
Don't sit and talk about health and then
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In as much
get up and act like a sick man.
as in you
lies,
act out
37
your own good thoughts,
otherwise they are like "sounding brass."
Try each day
to
more
live
fully,
spontaneously, more abundantly.
is
Life in
more
faith in health
faith in
folding Itself in us
times
when we
All that
is
than in sickness,
good than in
Loving Mind
Infinite,
Health
natural state of manifestation.
its
Have more
more
is
evil.
Why,
constantly un-
and through us at
all
are loving or thinking good.
required of us
is
that
we
let this
Mind and its thoughts be in us,
and this we do by thinking in unity and
perfect
in
harmony with
it,
letting go all reverse
Gratitude,
thoughts.
love,
strengthen our faith in good
joy,
praise,
(God) and
bring us into a closer at-one-ment with our
perfect
Nature, for you can only come
into relationship with the perfect mental
element in a mental way.
As long
and act
as
like
you think
of yourself as sick
a sick person you will continue
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38
show forth
to
this condition called sickness.
you wish to be well you must think and
act and feel, so far as in you lies, like a well
If
person.
Perfect Intelligence does not think
one way and act another.
Sever
all
mental
connection with disease and suffering and
begin today to enter into your birthright,
your inheritance of natural harmony.
That which
lives
in
us
is
constantly
seeking to express more and more of
Within yourself
all
it
your right
is
Itself.
the Power to bring forth
desires.
After you plant a seed
needs cultivation, water and care.
Some
seeds (thoughts) grow in the ground (mentality) of certain individuals
than in others;
it
more quickly
depends upon the
nature, desire, feeling, action, etc., in that
particular mentality.
ing
But
you cannot admit
in divine think-
error,
disease, sin,
sickness as true in one thought
and then
turn around and realize God, heaven and
perfection
cannot
in
another thought, for they
coincide
or
co-mingle;
they
are
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opposites, one the
make
the other the reality
True metaphysics teaches that
of Being.
to
lie,
disease a reality
get rid of
it is
and then try to
mental quackery.
Endeavor always
to think
from the stand-
point of mental perfection.
we
It
are actually sick and that
be made over into health, nor
body
is
we
and make
it
were something outside
to try
it
into order
we
go away as
ourself,
The
if
nor are
erring misconcep-
we
wrong acting and
are manifesting,
so long as
we think
feeling
must be uncovered
and cast from our consciousness,
for just
sick or wicked thoughts
and act out these thoughts
just so long
they bring us their punishment.
is
that our
which we have accepted and which are
responsible for the
that
is it
to
and heal the body as though the
cause were there.
tions
we want
If sickness presents itself to us
are not to try
it
not that
is
out of order and we want by think-
ing certain thoughts to put
again.
39
do
He who
not ready to part with sinful thought
and
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40
and become a
action
yet ready to experience
they
who
for healing
up
to give
this
when they
sinful
Many
harmony.
from
travel
individual is not
better
are
one to that one
are not yet willing
and
beliefs
actions,
to
love fully and freely, to forgive and forget;
hence, they continue to manifest in the
body
disease
and
suffering as the direct
result of erring thinking
Get understanding.
wrong thoughts;
Evil
is
Refuse
must consider
it
is
evil at all is
all
around us
teachers
declare
we
we have
evil as real,
what
the evidences of evil's reality.
physical
that
because
is
think
the absence
The only reason
been educated to believe in
and because
to
wrong deeds.
refuse to do
negation because
of the Truth.
all
and doing.
is
called
Some meta-
that
it
is
not
necessary for us to pay any attention whatsoever to so-called evil conditions which
we
are manifesting, but not so the founder
of Christian Science,
who
said:
"To heal
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by argument,
get
find the type of the ailment,
name and
its
array your mental plea
physical
the
against
41
.
.
.
conform
the
argument so as to destroy the evidence
of
the disease."
We
in
find that in mathematics,
music or
we can
correct a
any other
science, that
mistake already
know what
and
tion,
We
made more
the error
this
is
is
quickly
that needs correc-
also true in metaphysics.
need to point out to humanity that
sickness,
death,
we
if
are
sin,
the results of false
teaching, false belief, false thinking,
wrong
living: because, unlike the science of
num-
wherein
bers
there
is
no
universal
or
general thought or belief that 2 and 2 are
5,
and wherein there are no schools that
teach mathematics erroneously; contrariwise,
Life
the general, universal belief about
is,
that
and sad;
that
the
it
it
alive
can be well and
sick;
happy
and dead; about the body
is,
can be healthy and diseased; that
mind can be sane and
insane; that
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accidents
in
this
is
it.
that
it
moving and
is
it
When vou
k_
c
and believe
it.
it
is
is
the earth
sav that vou
of the eternal
pure mental Substance
a
which cannot be contaminated.
is
C
c
seems true to
vou because vou are ignorant
fact that Life
a
seems true to him because he
revolving.
are sick
When
sleepest."
ignorant of the fact that
is
religion,
denounce them,
the sun
that
states
believes
and
in the
to be not the truth of existence.
"Awake thou
that
fads
be concerned with them,
them,
expose
to
These
good.
infinite
learning
why we must
show them
is
of
so-called
of
as
child
harmonies transpire
as
beliefs are taught as true
school
so
universe
this
wrong
well
as
But
it
quite impossible for anyone to receive
or partake of his full inheritance as spiritual
and perfect
until he claims
birthright.
Until
mental
we come
recognition
perfect Life. God.
of
little
our
it
as his divine
into conscious
oneness
with
do we know about
the joys and harmonies of Being.
It
is
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true that 2
we
and 3 are 5
in
thinking this
are
43
numbers whether
or
anyone
else
is
thinking this or not; already, even before
we think
is
that they are 5 the
sum
of 2
and 3
eternally 5 in the science of numbers, but
not until we accept this fact intelligently
we
are
conscious of
So, always
us.
or can
it,
indestructible Life,
Being as perfect,
immutable, immortal,
but not until we claim
this
for ourselves as true are
or does
it
benefit
and forever we are estab-
lished in the science of
it
it
become
and recognize
we conscious of it,
to us.
real
In other
w ords we do not manifest or experience
what we actually are, but we manifest
that which we think or believe we are,
T
while on this plane.
Be brave
evil as
it,
act
therefore,
an actuality.
it.
and refuse to accept
Do
When you
not think
it,
talk
see the picture of
sickness, sorrow, sin exhibited before you,
it is
merely the result or exhibition of the
erroneous sense in the mentality of that
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44
You can
individual.
look at the dirt upon
and not be misled into
a child's face
believ-
ing that the dirt
is
part of the child's face,
or that the face
is
injured or harmed, and
you can separate
dirt
at once in your
mind the
and the face and know that nothing
at all has
happened to the
face.
So with
that individual that appears blind, crippled,
Blindness, disease, sin are no
sinful.
more
a part of the true consciousness or soul
than dirt
dirt
face,
As
part of the child's face.
is
can be washed from the surface of the
so the sense of sickness can be re-
moved from the mentality of the individual.
To show how possible this is I will tell
you of a man, now living, who healed himself
of
what
is
generally
incurable condition.
This
man was
and had been born that way.
he was
sitting
on a bench
an
considered
blind
One day
in a park,
as
he
chanced to hear a conversation between two
people.
that
One person was saying
there
are
not
two
to the other
creations,
one
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and one
Spiritual
but the one
is
we and
that
and true
that the
man
creation,
things else
even as God
perfect,
all
of dust, but that there
real
all
45
is
heard.
are
perfect.
From
and
actually
This was
that instant
he began to think of himself as actually
It
perfect.
seemed wonderful to him, and
Before this he had always thought
true.
himself
made
of dust,
but now, the more he
reasoned that he was perfect because he
was
God, the clearer
of
and the surer he was that
fact of Life.
it
became to him,
this
was the actual
Immediately he began to put
these right thoughts into operation to act
and
live
a better man.
A few days later, as he was trying to make
his
way
and
fell
so he
across the street alone, he stumbled
into the gutter, but even as he did
was not
afraid for he
still
held to the
thought that he was in reality absolutely
perfect;
and then a wonderful thing came
As he was getting
suddenly the world was
to pass in his experience.
upon
his
feet,
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46
visible to
him, he saw for the
and
his life
So dear
his sense
friend,
was
clear
first
and natural.
you who are seeking to
experience health, think of this
take
new
man and
heart and fresh hope and
more earnest endeavor. God
ing) is no respecter of persons
What one can
When
time in
do,
all
make
(right think-
(mentalities).
can do.
Jesus was only twelve years old
he said that he was about his Father's
business.
If
each one of us would start
in doing this business,
and understand the
into
which
is
facts of Life
our consciousness no
to reason
and take
sense
sickness, or error, nothing that
is
of
sin,
unlike
good, what a great change would take place
with us
down
all.
other
Then, we would not be tearing
people's
business, lamenting
their behavior, criticizing their doings, for
each of us would be in business with Good,
harmony, and as we could not possibly use
sin, sickness, fear, in this
business of our
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Father (perfect understanding), we would
not, of course,
have anything to do with
these.
you were a man who
handled only the finest and best grades of
Suppose
that
your business, and
silk in
to pass
it
was your duty
judgment upon the various grades
that were brought to you for inspection.
Having already established a standard
for
the silk you would necessarily cast aside
all
materials that did not
come up
to your
standard, would
you not?
fine business for
us to pattern after with
our thoughts.
We
Well, this
is
must not have grades
of ill-assorted lots in our mentality, part
of the
day thinking health, part
of the
day
believing in sickness; holding to ourselves as
Life individualized for a few
moments, and
a good share of the time wondering, doubting, fearing, complaining.
our thoughts continually,
We
must watch
passing judgment
upon the wrong thoughts that seek admittance and accepting none but the best
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and purest thoughts, those that are founded
upon the law of Nature, God.
If you will take this business today into
your home, into the street car, into your
you cannot help but succeed. I will
tell you of a demonstration in a business
way that came about after following these
office,
right thoughts or entering into this business
of the Father.
healer
and
said:
An
individual
went to a
"On the opposite
side of
my store is a big departand my little store does not
the street from
ment
store,
seem to cope with
Their prices are
it.
lower than I can afford to
and people won't come
my
make
into
my
prices,
store
and
buy what I have, and I therefore cannot
pay my rent and I am about to fail."
Can you see that these thoughts that she
was taking into her business were not the
right thoughts and that she was acting
contrary to the very law that she should
have put into operation?
to her:
The
healer said
"Have you anything pretty
in
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She quickly answered, "Oh,
your store?"
and he
yes/'
and
ceaselessly
in
is
handiwork
that Mind's ideas
some one always
use,
wants them, always
one but
Go back
it.
see all as the
Know
God, Mind.
are
"Love
said:
into your store
of
49
Not
using them.
many need and
appreciate the
you
beautiful ideas of clothes, etc., that
carry in your store and are taking
now.
Make
this
your mental
them
vision."
In a short time the lady returned to the
him that she had followed his
advice and that now she had three clerks,
whereas she had formerly had only one.
She said that now when she took up a
waist it was to notice the tiny eyelets, the
healer telling
many
stitches, to
for there
all
know
that
Mind
did
it,
nothing but Mind, and that
is
good ideas are forever
in
demand
in the
realm of right thinking.
Let us
Father,
If
you
all
—the
will
join in this business of our
business
of
right
thinking.
go deep into this business you
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will find that it will solve all the
your house;
in
your community;
in
nation; in the world.
falsities,
If
you
in the
not think
will
misrepresentations,
but instead
problems
deceits,
lies,
think thoughts of love, of
will
unity, of service,
you
have established
will
the Law, and back of the
Law
is
Seek ye
first
the kingdom
that operates
of heaven,
it.
—the kingdom
kingdom of
the
living.
Many
right
the power
of understanding,
thinking
are they
who
and
right
procrastinate
by working at the wrong
end of the problem. The construction of
any work must begin on a foundation.
In order that the structure be permanent
their deliverance
it
requires that the foundation be inde-
structible, changeless,
The
dawn,
immovable.
darkest hour always precedes the
and
the
end, so should
greatest
storm
has
you ever be placed
seething midst of either, rejoice to
that
all
that
is
its
in the
know
without God, true thinking,
comes to naught.
Think about courage
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and be courageous; think about protection
for there
it
is
is
no other power than good, and
and true thought that
this right
your protection.
live,
Think:
move, and have
infinite,
It
my
because I
is
being in the
omnipotent and omnipresent con-
and harmon-
sciousness of good, of perfect
ious
is
Life
and whereout
wherein
all
is
harmony and perfection that I need have
no fear. Guard your thinking so that discouragement, doubt, anxiety, impatience,
have no place
Expect.
in
your mentality.
Expect today to
feel
good;
expect to walk, run, leap, today; expect to
hear perfectly, see perfectly, today; expect
the floodtides of strength,
joy,
activity,
peace, harmony, wisdom, to unfold to you,
individually, today, as flow the waters over
the Niagara banks,
is
limit.
This
the hope that passeth understanding;
the joy that
is
King; the harmony that
eternal; the Christ
Be
—without
of
good cheer, I
is
which sayeth always;
am with you all the way.
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5-2
People are prone to ask these days
you
Christian
a
A
scientist?
An
Scientist?
new-thoughter?
Orthodox?"
understander?
does this
Jesus?
calls
all
mean?
"Are
:
A mental
A believer?
Now what
What would vou
call
Naturally, the Christian Scientist
Jesus a Christian Scientist; the mental
believes
scientist
scientist;
the
that
he was a mental
orthodox ministers
various
believe that Jesus favored a certain atti-
tude of devotion or prayer, whether
it is
a
kneeling posture, a standing position, or a
looking up position, etc.
If
we
are asked
todav, Are vou a Christian Scientist?
infer that the
belong
to
the
and do you attend the
the rules and by-laws?
fact that
Science
church
services
and obey
To many,
the mere
one belongs to the church and
faithfully attends
certain rules
Christian
Do you
questioner means,
Christian
we
the services and obeys
and regulations counts one a
Scientist.
friend, does it?
But,
dear
Is this all that
is
thinking
necessary,
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53
As in all matters
we gain the ultimate and perfect verdict
by turning to the teachings of him who
was Master, I now ask, Was Jesus a member of the Christian Science church or any
Did he subscribe to any
other church?
Did he authorize any one
rules or laws?
and
is
else to
this necessary?
Why,
do this?
in those
days the
words Christian Science, mental
New Thought
none of
self.
these
were never uttered and by
names did Jesus
Yet no one
heights
that he
else
classify
him-
has ever risen to the
attained.
Do we
find Jesus scrambling after place
Do we
science,
ever
and power?
him censuring and condemning
others who were after the kingdom of
heaven and yet who were not seeking teaching from him? Just to the contrary. Jesus
rebuked John for this attitude of mental
slavery with these words: "He that is not
find
against us
is
on our
said that Jesus
side."
Mrs. Eddy
was a Christian
yea, the best that ever lived,
Scientist,
and
still
we
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54
know
that he never set foot into a Christian
Science church building, nor have his
on
its roll of
name
membership.
Consciousness constantly unfolds more
and more
truths.
of its
We
own
harmonies and
glories,
should expect that Truth be
continually better expressed or stated as
time goes on.
That which
is
said or written
one day must not be accepted as
final or
the last word on Truth, inasmuch as
will
continually
unfold
understanding for there
Mind
more and more
is
no end to God
Mind nor to its unfoldment. Truth, in
order to be known as Truth need not bear
or
the stamp of any personality.
own
Truth
is
by
It is right and
this or by that individual.
natural that we should be grateful and
appreciative to every one who sheds some
its
light
authority whether
it is
uttered
on our path, those who bring into
our experience greater good, greater joy
and a
But we must
the notion that there is any
fuller sense of life.
get rid of
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Do
"authority" over us.
act in
55
not say or do or
any particular way because
of
any
Look
certain one or ones "in authority."
back over the records of those who have
advanced themselves and helped humanity
and you
note that they reasoned and
will
acted independently and positively refused
to consider
any authority as ruling them
other than the
highest,
purest,
God
within them,
holiest
sense
—
of
Independent thinking and acting
result of intelligence
and
bound
is
their
right.
is
the
to bring
forth greater good to the individual
and
greater good for humanity.
Now,
I feel
confident
that
you have
broadened your vision so that you now are
certain that
of clay or a
you are more than a few pounds
few quarts of water and
salt,
more than a few handfuls of dust; but
do not stop here. Open your mind still
farther. Expand your vision
Never mind
or
!
what kind
grandfather
of
or
a religion your father or
neighbor
or
friend
has.
56
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Think for
yourself.
Do
not be afraid to
when you know
get out of the kindergarten
you have outgrown
Do
it.
not be afraid
and age-long ideas
to let go unreasonable
when you can understand
that they are
without actual foundation or truth.
Listen
to the song of the robin, the whisper of
the forest, the rush of the ocean, saying
unto you:
"There
am
All-Life.
is
no separate
life.
I
That which you see
and feel and understand is My One Life
manifested." Be fearless. Live up to the
one
this
level of this vision.
Jesus said, "Your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of before ye ask him."
In other words Nature, Consciousness, can
fulfill all
we
feel
our needs and
the need of anything the
for us to take mentally
what we need
forth.
having
our desires.
all
We
is
to
know
step
that
within our power to bring
bring forth right conditions by
within
thoughts.
is
first
If
It
is
ourselves
all
right
and true
a matter of becoming
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57
conscious of the fact that you are, and that
all
good has been and eternally
is
yours in
proportion as you become conscious of
In mental Nature,
and
all
Keep
good
is
all
is
it.
forever perfect,
continually being unfolded.
this vision before you, the vision of
the perfect, the changeless, the ever unfolding divine good.
You
are a particle of perfect Life
you are sustained by
is
this Life.
and
As a wave
a state of the ocean so are you a state of
consciousness in this infinite, all-inclusive
Life.
The bond
that unites us
the bond that unites
all
all,
yea,
plants, animals,
the tiniest blade of grass and the greatest
constellation
is
the
One-Life.
thought bring great joy to you.
Let
this
See God,
good, everywhere; see God, good, in everything.
Let God, Mind, talk to you through
the stars, ocean, flowers, animals, mankind.
This
pulpit.
is
a sermon not heard from the
In this larger and
God we have no
creed,
fuller sense of
no church organiza-
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58
tion,
no mental
restrictions,
no boundaries.
We are as free as the air.
the
hill
listen to
As we stand upon
under the great blue canopy and
the rhythm of the universe, we
can but exclaim, "Freedom!"
"Unity !"
What
a glorious experience
to feel a-kin to all
versal
"Progress!"
life
is
this
and to hear the uni-
and impersonal whisperings
of love,
of joy, of unity, in this vast consciousness
of All-God.
wrong
belief
In this mental vision of soul,
drops away,
fade out of sight,
are swallowed
up
all
all fears,
all
petty troubles
doubts, worries
in the active realization of
heaven and harmonv within and without.
Now,
heart
is
the desire that swells up in our
the desire to aid others, to give to
From
others enlightenment and help.
exalted vision there
is
the language of love.
Love
as the
everlasting
but one language,
V\e see Truth and
male and female; we
arms embracing
all;
conscious of the One-Presence;
the
New Day.
this
feel
the
we
are
we behold
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In this perfect vision we understand that
there
we
is
are
which
no separation from our loved ones;
close together in the One-Life,
all
is
paramount, eternal,
As when the
disappears,
Spirit,
the darkness
light appears,
so
when
the
indivisible.
supremacy
of
supreme and adorable Life (perfect
understanding),
dream or sense
shall
unfold
of matter, evil
tion will disappear.
to
us,
the
and separa-
It
is
because I have received
upon the subject
lightenment
much
of
en-
meta-
physics during the past few years that I
share
desire
to
others
who
intelligent
of Life.
are
the
enlightenment with
hungry and
thirsty for an
and reasonable understanding
I will be very glad to help
honest seeker
me;
this
who may choose
also I will gladly supply
names
buted to
of such
my
any
to write to
anyone with
books as have contri-
mental enlightenment.
— The Author
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