Part 6
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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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