THREE MAGIC WORDS: OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION

I AM GOD
YOU ARE GOD
WE ARE GOD
FOR GOD IS ALL THERE IS!

PETE'S JOURNAL, September 2004

www.seekeronline.org

Excerpt from:
Three Magic Words
by
U. S. Andersen

9-1-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION: THE LOCK
(Overcoming our buried pain remembrances)

1. There is a power, greater than you are, which you can
use to make your life vibrant, successful, and happy.

2. This power is the Universal Creative Mind, the Sub-
conscious Mind, and you are using it now; you can't help
using it.

3. All of us live and move and have our beings in the great
intelligence that makes up the universe and the world.

4. This Universal Mind is responsive to thought. It creates
what is projected into it.

5. The reason our conscious desires do not always manifest
themselves in reality is twofold: 1) We are not projecting
our thoughts with conviction. 2) There are Prompters in the
Subconscious Mind which cause our thinking to go astray.

6. The Prompters in the Subconscious Mind make up
the Lock which bars us from proper use of the great power of
the infinite.

7. These Prompters are rejections of the Conscious Mind,
buried in the Subconscious and long forgotten. They are
primarily pain experiences, and thus are primarily negative,
attracting and creating lack and limitation and disease and
unhappiness.

8. This Lock, these Prompters, can be removed by understanding,
study, and application of the great laws of spirit.

9-2-04

MEDITATION—MANIFESTATION

Enlightenment, however, is not going to be as simple as
just reading the chapters in this book. You must devote
at least ten minutes daily to the practice of what you have
learned, for only with this cooperation and effort can the
rewards of self realization be achieved.

We ask you to spend ten minutes daily in meditation,
projecting your thoughts into the creative Subconscious Mind,
so that they can manifest into actuality. These meditation
periods are designed to accomplish a purpose, to prove to you
that you can achieve your desires through
the proper use of mental law.

Of course, if you spend ten minutes each day
saying "yes" and the other twenty-three hours and fifty
minutes saying "no," the "no" will result. Obviously, the
only way the "yes" can be manifested is when you do more
affirming than denying. The Subconscious Mind always acts,
and it acts on the most predominant thought.

Therefore, commit the meditation to memory or carry it with you.
Throughout the day, when circumstances appear to be negative,
when disillusionment, depression, or discouragement knock at the
door of your consciousness, simply bring the meditation to
your mind and say it over to yourself. The simple saying of
the words will immediately restore your peace and confidence.

“In the beginning, was the word," and so it is with all creation,
for the word is the thought. Speaking the word with
conviction and maintaining that conviction with faith is
the complete chain of manifestation from the thought to the thing.

The meditations, which is given at the end of each
chapter, are designed to put you in contact with the Universal
power Subconscious Mind [of God], to provide you with a sense
of peace,and security, for only with this sense of the absolute
can you go through the entire book to complete
self-realization and unlimited power.

Subsequent meditations will aim
at achieving specific results in the realms of success,
accomplishment, money, health, love and happiness.

During your meditation periods, you must be alone.
You must be in a place of quiet and solitude, undisturbed by
other voices or the movements of other people. You must set
your mind at rest, forgetting for the moment all cares and
problems and people. You must let go—let go of everything
you know except self [your inner being].

When you feel calm and peaceful, you will know that you
are in contact with the Universal Mind. Then, and only
then, speak the meditation aloud. But don't simply speak it.
Understand it, feel it, project it... and it will manifest
for you in actuality.

9-3-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION:
MEDITATION ON THE LOCK

I know that I am pure spirit, that I always have been,
and that I always will be. There is inside me a place of
confidence and quietness and security where all things
are known and understood. This is the Universal Mind,
God, of which I am a part and which responds to me as I
ask of it. This universal mind knows the answer to all of
my problems, and even now the answers are speeding
their way to me. I needn't struggle for them; I needn't
worry or strive for them. When the time comes, the
answers will be there. I give my problems to the great mind
of God; I let go of them, confident that the correct
answers will return to me when they are needed. Through
the great law of attraction, everything in life that I need
for my work and fulfillment will come to me. It is not
necessary that I strain about this, only believe. For in
the strength of my belief, my faith will make it so. I
see the hand of divine intelligence all about me, in
the flower, the tree, the brook, the meadow. I know that
the intelligence that created all these things is in me and
around me and that I can call upon it for my slightest
need. I know that my body is a manifestation of pure
spirit and that spirit is perfect; therefore my body is
perfect also. I enjoy life, for each day brings a constant
demonstration of the power and wonder of the universe and
myself. I am confident. I am serene. I am sure. No matter
what obstacle or undesirable circumstance crosses my
path, I refuse to accept it, for it is nothing but illusion.
There can be no obstacle or undesirable circumstance to
the mind of God, which is in me, and around me, and
serves me now.

9-4-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION: ILLUSION
(How evil develops.)

1. Evil is error and is illusion.

2. Good is truth and is reality.

3. Truth will dispel error, therefore good will dispel evil.

4. Evil is the result of man's thought, not God's.

5. Hell and the devil are illusions.

6. God does not destroy any human soul, for He does not
destroy Himself.

7. God knows everything, therefore is incapable of error
evil.

8. The single function of the Subconscious Mind, or
Universal Mind, is to manifest into form or circumstance the
seed of though.

9. Man has complete freedom of choice in the kind of
thoughts he wishes to plant in the garden of the
Subconscious Mind.

10. No human being can assume the responsibility for a
single thing other than his own thinking, for the Universal
Subconscious Mind does all creating.

11. Morality and ethics do not always follow the law of
cause and effect; but the use of spiritual law always
follows the law of cause and effect. This is because
moral law is manmade, while spiritual law is the
essence of God.

12. The proper use of spiritual law is acceptance and
faith.

13. You cannot demand anything from the Universal
Subconscious Mind by willing it to happen.

14. Guidance and inspiration in the paths of truth and
achievement can be yours through faith and reliance in
the power greater than you are.

STRIVE FOR BALANCE

You are now experimenting with the greatest force in
nature. We caution you not to become so wrapped up in it
that you forget your daily life. Do not search for contact
with the Subconscious Mind to the exclusion of the exercise
of the Conscious Mind, for as a human being your goal must
be to achieve a perfect balance between the two.

The ordinary people we meet each day scarcely use the Subconscious
Mind at all, and their lives are directed and controlled entirely
by circumstance. Men and women of genius are those in whom
there is a perfect balance between the Subconscious Mind and
the Conscious Mind. It is balance we strive for, balance
between the great creative power of the Universal Subconscious
Mind and the Conscious Mind.

Work at your meditation joyfully and confidently. Cast
aside all doubt and morbidity and effort and strain. You don't
have to make anything; it is already made. You only want to
use it correctly. Accept! Believe! Know! Relax! The universe
will provide you with all you desire.

THE MEDITATION

Our meditation following this chapter is aimed at dispelling
illusion or evil. When you have settled yourself for your
meditation, recall to mind all those circumstances in your
life which you consider to be error or evil. Say to yourself
that they are simply illusion and do not exist in reality.
Then commence with your meditation. "Within a month
you will see some very startling changes.

In later chapters we shall become more and more specific
with our meditations, until one by one we have laid each
ghost and demon that springs from the buried Prompters in
your Subconscious, until your life opens to unlimited
horizons and great adventure, until you see the universe
as it really is, designed specifically for you!

Know! Accept! Believe! Keep faith! There are more things
in this world than you have ever dreamed.

9-5-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION:
MEDITATION ON ILLUSION

I know that I am one with the Universal Mind. I know
this mind is perfect and I may rely upon it for complete
guidance in all of my daily affairs. This Universal Mind,
this great Subconscious Mind, this mind of God knows no
evil or limitation or lack. It simply creates in my
experience that which I believe and accept. Therefore I
deny all evil and all error. When my eyes and my senses
are deluded with the apparent circumstance of evil, I turn
away, lifting my thoughts to the perfection and abundance
and love of all the universe. I know that God does
not create evil; and I know that by using the power of
God I am able to deny evil, which is only illusion, simply
error, and will not stand before truth. For the great
reality is good, which is always attempting to manifest
itself. I know that error or evil is the result of my own
thought, is the result of error on my part, is the result of
isolating myself from the power of the Universal Mind.
I know that the Universal Mind is constantly creating in
my experience that which I think, and if evil is manifested,
it has come from my own thought; and my own thought
may as quickly deny it. I do not will anything
to happen, for I am not bigger than God. I simply
understand that the law of creation is bigger than I am
and that I cannot help my thoughts and beliefs from
becoming real in my experience. Therefore I hold my thoughts
steadfastly on the good. I do not do this with effort,
as if I were commanding something to act. I simply relax
in contemplation of the good, secure in the knowledge that
everything rests with a power much greater than I am.
I trust this power. I have complete faith and confidence
in this power. I rely upon this power for guidance in all
my daily affairs. I refuse to accept evil, and evil is gone.
I accept good, and the supply and love
of the universe are mine.

9-6-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION: THE MIND
(Understanding Conscious Mind and Universal Subconscious Mind)

1. The Conscious Mind is an instrument for the recording
of pain and pleasure. It measures experiences of pain and
pleasure, files them for recall, analyzes the experiences that
produced them, and imagines escape from pain and flight into
pleasure; thus the compartments of the Conscious Mind:
memory, reason, and imagination.

2. The Conscious Mind is a finely tuned instrument with
the sole aim of physical survival of the organism.

3. The Conscious Mind is as destructible as the body of
which it is a part.

4. The Conscious Mind has no memory of its own but simply
a certain ability of recall.

5. The memory of the Subconscious Mind is perfect.

6. The Subconscious Mind is the infinite substance of
which all things are made. It has no beginning and no
end and everything exists within it.

7. The Subconscious Mind is everything and knows everything.
It is everywhere at all times and all of it is anywhere at
any particular time, for space and time cannot exist in infinity.

8. Inductive reasoning attempts to arrive at law through
observing particular circumstance, and is the type of
reasoning primarily done by the Conscious Mind of man.

9. Deductive reasoning attempts to arrive at particular
circumstance through the knowledge of law and is the type
of reasoning always done by the Subconscious Mind.

10. Hypnotism exposes the essence of the Subconscious
Mind and allows us to see that it responds entirely by
suggestion.

11. We cannot order our lives through hypnotism, but only
through consciously exercising our control over the
Subconscious Mind, which simply means consciously exercising
control over our thoughts.

12. Meditation is the tool with which we seek to control
our thoughts and thus to control our world through the
Subconscious Mind.

13. Thought transference is a proof that all of life exists
within the one mind of all creation the Universal
Subconscious Mind.

14. Intuition is a proof that the Universal Subconscious
Mind contains the knowledge of the law and will reveal it
to the Conscious Mind of man when a proper rapport is
established.

15. The Subconscious Mind has the power to heal the body,
to create physical form and physical circumstance, but
acute ill health must still be dealt with by the doctor, and
acute mental distress must still be dealt with by the
psychiatrist, for we have not come far enough in our faith
and our conception to be able to remove all cause and effect
from the plane of the purely physical.

16. The first cause of every object and circumstance is its
creation on the plane of Mind.

THE MAGNIFICENT ASPIRATION

Gradually the barriers in your thinking dissolve before the
weight of a greater conception. Gradually your mind turns
from its concern with circumstance toward a beginning grasp
of a greater and more towering reality than you have ever
dreamed.

Think in terms of complete unity. You are one with every
person who lives, ever has lived, and ever will live. You are
one with every form of life that exists, every inanimate object
of your world. For all things are made from one thing and
thus all things are one thing, and objects and circumstances
sexist as the result of conception and desire being projected
into the infinite creative substance of which we are all a part,
in which we are all one.

Thought is the only mover. According to the degree of
our conscious intelligence you will grasp the power that is
ours. According to your conscious intelligence, you will
project images into the Subconscious Mind which are great or
small.

Thus there will be returned to you only those circumstances
of which you are capable of conceiving. But whatever
you conceive will be returned to you; and if doubt and fear
predominate your thinking, those very things that you fear
will be visited upon you, for they are convictions that the
Subconscious Mind must create into actuality.

We can't escape living in the Subconscious Mind, and we
can't escape thinking. And we can't escape having our thoughts
manifest themselves in our physical world. But we can control
our thoughts. We can control our thoughts and thus we
can control our destinies, and we can become as great and as
powerful as we can conceive of being, for there is at our
disposal the unlimited power of all creation.

The meditation that follows is aimed at creating harmony
and effectiveness in your daily life. No matter what your
work is, out of the home, in the home, manual, mental,
employee, employer, you can create and attract circumstance
and harmony so as to make each day full of achievement and
satisfaction.

Remember that meditation is the tool with
which we work. It is our way of giving suggestion to the
Subconscious Mind. You must not fail to engage in your
meditation period daily. Only through the constant use of
this great tool can you achieve control over your circumstance
and your destiny.

You will succeed, for you cannot fail. You are dealing with
life force, are a part of life force, and power through
self-reali-zation is the destiny of man.

9-7-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION:
MEDITATION ON THE MIND

I know and recognize my oneness with all things. I
know that all form and all circumstance are the
creation of an infinite intelligence that is in and around me.
I know that all things are the result of conception and
desire, that my world is ordered according to my own
thoughts and convictions. Therefore I concentrate on
harmony. I see nothing but order and constructiveness
all about me. I do not accept thoughts of destructiveness
and disharmony. In my friends, my loved ones, my fellow
workers, I see nothing but cooperation and assistance. I
know that we all seek: the same answers and the same
goals. I know that each person must follow a different
path toward his vision, and I understand the searching
and the copings of everyone I know and see. I have
sympathy and tolerance for all things and all people. I
know that inasmuch as I help others I help myself. In my
brother's eye there is my own soul. In my friend's smile
there is my own humor. In my neighbor's sorrow there ia
my own loss. I have compassion and understanding for
all things, for this life in which I have my being strives
for understanding of itself. I deny error; it is simply
progress toward truth. I know that it is impossible to fail
when faith is present. I do not order things to be made
in my time or in my place, but trust the Universal Mind
in its own great knowledge of the time and the place and
the need and the way. Each moment of each day brings
my life closer to realization. The objects of my work are
being accomplished this very minute. Success and
harmony, peace and confidence are mine.

9-8-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION: FORM
(How all things proceed from Universal Subconscious Mind.)

1. Basic and eternal in the universe are everlasting laws
of action.

2. A vibrating universe, acting upon itself, evolves centers
of force such as are represented by the atom and by the Solar
System.

3. These centers of force seek other centers of force with
similar vibrations, and by their coalescence matter is formed.

4. Since intelligent law makes up the center of force, the
atom, which is the building block of the universe, is conscious.

5. We have our beings in the midst of a living universe.

6. There is no such thing as inanimate matter, for all form
is made from universal intelligence and is but a conception in
the Universal Subconscious Mind.

7. That matter which we call living is simply that which
has evolved sufficiently so that its consciousness is discernible
to our senses.

8. That process which all life is caught up in is Universal
Intelligence seeking to know itself by becoming a thing.

9. Evolution is the path of expanding consciousness.

10. Developed self-consciousness, such as is now possessed
by man, is a necessary step toward the development of
universal consciousness.

11. Man's destiny is to expand his consciousness to complete
unity, to a oneness with God.

12. Form proceeds from intelligence, for form is intelligence.
Therefore form proceeds from thought, and thought
makes things!

13. All life is but an incarnation of the one life, therefore
there are innumerable reincarnations until unity with the
Universal Subconscious Mind is obtained.

14. The Secret Doctrine has been held inviolate by esoteric
groups for many ages and teaches that mankind is evolving
toward spiritual unity.

15. The Secret Doctrine lays down the past and future of
man's evolution but this cannot be accepted as substantiated.

16. Matter is only relative, and is nothing more than a
combination of centers of force or moving intelligence.

17. Space and time are also relative and represent concepts
in the Universal Subconscious Mind.

18. Man lives upon two planes at once the plane of mind
and thought and the plane of things and circumstances but
actually these two planes are only one.

19. Your "I" is a product of your thought and is never the
same from one moment to the next, except insofar as it is
confined within the fleshly limits of your body.

20. The real "I" is eternal, everlasting, only one, and
contains all things.

21. The Kingdom of God is within us.

22. You are what you think, and thoughts are things;
there fore select your thoughts with care.

PATIENCE

Still we have not come to grips with concrete problems in
concrete lives. And two more chapters are to be read before
we undertake to teach specifically how to apply the laws of
mind to the realms of love, success, and health. We modems
are an impatient people, and always the first thing we want
to know is what does it do?

Then, the minute we find out, we want to get on with it as
quickly as possible. We would like to be laymen one day
and Doctors of Medicine the next, unnoticed one week and
famous the following; and even when we recognize this sort
of thing as a possible miracle, we forget that the workers of
miracles must serve their apprenticeships also.

It would be foolish to teach the powers of the mind without
first getting it thoroughly understood what the mind is.
It would be folly to undertake the vast and exciting subject
that engrosses us without recognizing that if such answers were
obvious they would long ago have been in widespread use by
all mankind. Bear with us; the groundwork must be thoroughly laid.

THE INFALLIBLE LAW

You must understand that the teachings of this book
are not to be regarded as patent medicines or wonder drugs,
things that work most of the time, or some of the time, or not
at all. The law this book teaches works all of the time and
nothing or nobody on the face of the earth is big enough to
stop it from working. We didn't make this law. We neither
start it nor stop it. Our only purpose here is to impart to you
a knowledge of its existence and methods of using it. The law
works one hundred per cent of the time. It never fails. If you
apply it to achieve success and you meet with failure, it isn't
the law that has failed it is you! You have simply failed to do
the one thing it is necessary for you to do to obtain the
slightest good and that is to think only positively of that good.
If an opposite develops, it has developed because you have been
more convinced of it than you have of the good you want, and
the law has still worked as it always must.

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill
to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
The world has been built by builders, and those who destroy
have no alternative other than to dwell in desolation.
Throughout the world there are working groups who are
envisioning the arrival of the Kingdom of God and Man, who
see in the thinking mind of man the object of his own
liberation. Thoughts are things, they say. Things are thoughts.
Awaken, man, to your sovereignty over all. Cast aside your
enemies: doubt, morbidity, fear, and guilt. Ask and it shall be
given; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened to
you. You cannot dream a dream too big, nor aspire too high.
Nothing is impossible.

In our fourth meditation, we are recognizing that all form
and circumstance are but manifestations of the Universal
Mind, that everything and everyone is made from and has his
being in universal intelligence.

Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours!
Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear.
That which knows and does everything is inside you and
harkens to the slightest whisper.

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION:
MEDITATION ON FORM

I know that all of life exists within me. Here in my
heart and mind, in the recesses of my being, there is
utter calm, a place of unruffled and placid waters, where
the truth is apparent and the clamor of the world does
not exist. I see about me the thoughts of all mankind, for
these thoughts have become things. Whatever is good
among these thought-things I accept; whatever is evil I
ignore; for my concern is only with truth and understanding,
which is forever the lovely and the good and
the expanding. My mind moves easily to the furthermost
reaches of space, in all directions, and just as easily
moves back to me once again. I am the center of the
universe. God, the Universal Subconscious Mind, has made
himself manifest through me. I know that my purpose in
life is to reach ever upward and outward, to expand in
knowledge and love and unity. I place my future in
divine hands. I turn over each problem of my life to that
great all-knowing mind to which all things are possible.
I do not tell God how to bring these things about. I have
complete confidence that every circumstance that comes
my way is part of a perfect plan to convert the image of
my faith into physical reality. Even now the universe
seeks to answer my every need. As I believe in my heart,
so shall it be done unto me; this is the law of life and of
living. There is greatness in my friend and in my enemy,
for we are all brothers seeking the same high mountain
along many paths. God, who made all creatures, made no
poor creature, for He made only of himself. I am prosperous
for God owns everything. I am vigorous for God
is all vigor. I need only open my mind and my heart,
keep my thoughts in the path of truth, and I am filled to
overflowing with the power and abundance
and love of the universe.

9-9-04

Unity's World Day of Prayer:

One with You, dear God,
I am united with all creation.
I open my heart in faith to you,
And to Your infinite blessings.

9-10-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION: INTUITION
(Using the invisible power)

1. The studies of Dr. J. B. Rhine have proved conclusively
the validity of extra-sensory perception.

2. All the truths that Jesus taught are now being proved by
scientific investigation.

3. The overwhelming evidence of the super-physical power
of the Universal Subconscious Mind has been recorded in all
times by extremely reliable persons.

4. Genius perceives the fixed laws of nature in at least one aspect.

5. Jesus perceived the fixed laws of nature in entirety.

6. The bud of perfection, or genius, dwells within each of us.

7. The thought of today is the thing of tomorrow.

8. Things are thoughts, ideas implanted in Universal Mind.

9. We do not perceive the things around us in their true nature.

10. Our world is but a bare indication of the infinite possibilities
of all things and all life.

11. The so-called "natural" world is the unnatural. The so called "supernatural" world is the light of truth.

12. Space and time are illusions of man's locked-in viewpoint.

13. Things do not depend for their existence on being perceived,
but on being implanted as ideas in Universal Mind.

14. Creation of any type is the manifestation of a miracle.
We only regard it as natural because we see the processes of
formation moving through space and time.

15. Expanded consciousness perceives time as a dimension
and space as existing within.

16. Intuition will reveal the laws of the universe.

17. Intuition is not merely a "hunch" but an irresistible
light which must be followed.

18. Jesus, as an example of expanded consciousness, com-
pressed time and space to perform his miracles.

19. It is enough for us now to effect creation through the
established chain of physical movement. This we can do by
refusing to accept doubt and fear.

20. Follow the heart; it is the seat of intuition.

21. The Subconscious Mind must always be controlled, for
it proceeds irrationally of itself and depends upon the planting
of ideas.

22. Lack of conscious control of the Subconscious Mind is
insanity.

23. Denial of the Subconscious Mind is the birth of fear
and futility.

24. Genius attains balance between the Conscious and
Subconscious Minds.

9-11-04

OUR GOALS

It is our intuitive perception of the laws of the universe
that reveals to us God as he is. We need only put all wishful
thinking aside save the desire to know the truth. Expectation
and desire will light the way. In the quietness of our meditations
the inner eye will see and the inner ear will hear, and
the truth shall be revealed to us, and the truth shall make us
free.

We shall sense the future dwelling within us, know the
thoughts and hopes of all mankind, know that the way we
lived our yesterday has determined our today, know that the
way we live our today will determine our tomorrow. True
intuition will be ours—the light that never was on land or sea!

The soul of all life is your own soul. Wherever your eye
falls it sees naught but a reflection of yourself. The mighty
mind in which you live is all things to all life in all places,
and it is the same to you. You are fashioned from the intelligence
of God. You are one with the intelligence of God.

You need only rub the mote from your eye, clear the wax from
your ear, and there becomes apparent a universe which has
cradled you in everlasting arms, a universe that responds to
your every mood and need and desire.

We know where the path leads—ever upwards to a oneness
with God. We know that the purpose of life is a constantly
expanding consciousness, and we know it is within our
power to expand our consciousness to encompass all of the life
about us. We know that this is the secret of Jesus, that he saw
the universe dwelling within him, that he intuitively perceived
the laws that made up his being.

This is our destiny. We may aid it or obstruct it as we wish,
but we cannot stop it from eventually arriving. We may use it
to fill our lives with good, or we may use it to fill our lives with
error and evil; it matters not to the Subconscious Mind. For
every soul who falls behind, another steps ahead.

He who seeks will find; he who abandons the search as hopeless
will find at once a hopeless life. It is a question of courage and effort;
a question of desire. We either work in accord with the power within
us or by opposing it destroy ourselves. It is for each man to decide.

We seek wisdom and knowledge. Our goals are power with
pity; wealth with charity; health with temperance; love without
lust. We accede to these goals through no moral pressure.
They are true goals because they are truth.

We are embarking on man's greatest age—an age wherein the first movements are apparent to banish disease and suffering and poverty
from the face of the earth—an age wherein the brotherhood of man
finally will arrive in all its magnificent peace and harmony.

TRANSFIGURATION

Slowly we are moving through the maze of complexity that
surrounds our existence. Slowly we are dissolving the illusions
and half truths that inhibit our minds and our powers. Gradually
the clutter is being cleared away so that we may perceive
the great and edifying truth in all its simplicity. The age is
at hand; the dawn is near. In the words of Edward Carpenter,
"When the individual is no longer under the domination of
the body and its heredity, but rising out of this tomb becomes
lord and master of the body's powers, and identified with the
immortal Self of the world—such is Transfiguration. The
whole of man's evolution is preparation for it."

This is our path and our goal, the purpose of this study.
Long and persevering as it may seem, it is but a negligible
flash in the history of man. To him who through it
perceives that sublime feeling and power by which he is
able to identify himself with the immortal Self, all the ages of
man will have directed him to that moment. There is no
greater goal or undertaking within the realm of life and endeavor.
What is a year in its attainment? or even a lifetime?

May we once again urge you to the assiduous practice of the
meditations. Unless you put the meditations to work for you,
this entire book becomes naught but philosophy. If you are
studying only for mental exercise, it would be better that you
turn to logarithmic tables or higher calculus. It is your
immortal reaching soul that will find food here, and lest you
provide it with the living tool of the practice of the meditations,
the secret will pass you by, leaving you once again in
the void of limitless space and darkness. Only in proof is
there conviction.

Our meditation this time is aimed at intuitive perception
of the unseen and unheard forces that surround us. Through
reliance and immersion in Universal Mind we shall become
aware of the directions our lives are to take; we shall perceive
the purposes of our tasks and the manner in which they must
be performed; we shall find guidance through each day to the
I appointed hours when we shall fulfill those destinies that only
I we can fulfill.

Put your faith and trust in the mind of God, and follow
the dictates of your heart. Quoth Shakespeare, "To thine own
self be true, and it shall follow like the night the day, thou
then canst not be false to any man."

9-12-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION:
MEDITATION ON INTUITION

I listen to the voice of the universe as it speaks within
me. It is the voice of truth and it guides me unerringly
along the paths of my life. Somewhere deep within me,
in the perfect bud of my soul, there stands an immobile
universe where all things and all law lie revealed. I reach
within to this place of peace and quietness. I harken to
the voice of my heart. I close my eyes and sense a living,
breathing universe dwelling within me, and I dwelling
in it. I am one with all people and all life and all things.
I move in accordance with divine law. All the limitless
power of creation is mine to draw upon, for it is in me
and one with me and I am a part of it. The answer comes
with the question; the path is lighted with the first step;
the way is cleared with the looking; the goal is in sight
with the desire. I know that I am fulfilling the fondest
wish of God, for I place myself in His hands, taking each
step of my life boldly and strongly, for it is God who
prompts me, and God moves with sureness. I see
tomorrow for I know today, and this day is father of
tomorrow. The things of my life are the children of my
thoughts, and my thoughts of today are even now bearing
the children of tomorrow. All that is good I desire; all
that is evil I refuse to accept. By attaining, I do not
deprive. All that is and ever will be is available to every
man; he need only ask and it shall be given. I bind
myself to the power for good that surges heavenward all
around me. The limits and inhibitions of my past are
gone. Each day is a new birth of my soul. Each day is an-
other step on my journey to a oneness with God. I do not
seek, I know. I do not strive, I am guided.

9-13-04

FAITH

If thou wouldst assume the Masters role
Wed unto Faith like a wife
Faith will sustain thee, nourish thy soul
And attain thee a mastery of life

FAITH—THE MIGHTY TOOL
(Moving the Universal Subconscious Mind to Creation.)

All things are rooted in faith. Even those of us who have the
most difficulty applying this law to our daily lives will find
innumerable instances in which we use it with perfect aplomb.

We have complete faith that the food we eat will turn into
blood and bone and muscle and tissue and fiber, yet we do not
bow why, or what causes it, and even the most erudite of us
can do no more than follow the chemical process with awe.

We have faith that the air we breathe will combine with the
sugar content of the blood to oxidize and form energy for the
cells of our bodies. We don't stop to wonder or doubt or
analyze this each time we draw a breath; we simply breathe,
confident that we are doing the natural thing to sustain vigor
and well-being.

We have faith that the sun will rise, that the
earth will revolve uniformly, that the stars will maintain their
places in the heavens. We have faith that we can walk across
the street, talk to another person, understand him. We have
faith in our own existence! Yet we admit we know the cause of
none of these things. Our faith is blind! How Strange it is that
we so often scoff at faith in the less tangible fields of human
existence!

Faith led Moses to the Promised Land, Columbus to the
West Indies, Pasteur to the microbe, Galileo to the stars, St.
Paul on his ministry, Democritus to the atom, Magellan
around the world. Sustained by the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things unseen, these men departed from
the beaten paths and followed their visions, and all the world
has benefited from their faith.

Faith is the single most important tool of man's existence.
In order to thoroughly understand this, let us return once
again to the dual nature of mind.

FAITH IS MENTAL LAW

The truth is that the physical world has accustomed us to
the wrong use of faith. In material things our faith habitually
follows demonstration; while in spiritual or mental things
faith must always precede demonstration.

The constant analogy that we draw between things physical and
things mental causes us to believe that mental law must parallel
physical law, and we omit to notice the great difference. Physical
law does not need our faith to be operative. Mental law follows
our faith exactly, indeed, is faith; thus the difficulty in perceiving
|the great world of mind and spirit in which we dwell.

It sometimes sounds extremely childish to say to a person
who is distraught with problems and grief's that he may
over come them all by simply having faith. The reason for this
is that the person who is in such a position is acutely aware of
physical circumstance and has denied the reality of the realm
of mind and spirit. Knowing the physical so well, he has
denied his true being and has lost faith.

It becomes almost Pollyanna-ish to insist that a person use
faith under such circumstances, for faith is knowing, and at
the moment he cannot know. Only by communion with the
indwelling Self, the quiet assured place in the recesses of his
being, will he come into the possession of true knowledge and
thus complete faith.

So it is that one man can never insist with success that
another man have faith, nor can any man insist
that he himself have faith when he is beset by doubt and fear.

Faith only comes through knowledge, and the precepts that
are contained in the pages of this book, plus your daily
meditations and communions with the indwelling "I," will
bring this knowledge home with full force and achieve for
you a faith that will turn life into glorious adventure.

9-14-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION: FAITH

1. All things are rooted in faith, which is the single most
important tool of man's existence.

2. The Subconscious Mind turns every conviction of the
Conscious Mind into physical reality.

3. The Subconscious Mind knows specific time and place
circumstance only through the convictions forwarded to it by
the Conscious Mind.

4. Whatever the Subconscious Mind knows, the Subconscious
Mind creates.

5. Thought plus faith creates.

6. Faith in negative things is delusion but nevertheless
moves the Subconscious Mind to create them in physical
actuality.

7. Negative faith or delusion is caused by man isolating
himself from the Universal Subconscious Mind, and making
fear and resentment and hate his companions through his
sense of separateness.

8. Faith is attained through complete trust and confidence
in the power of Universal Mind.

9. The unity of all things and all people indwelling in the
immortal Self of the universe is the essence of faith.

10. Faith is a spiritual value and must be maintained in a
spiritual manner; therefore it can never be dictated by the
circumstances that surround you.

11. He whose faith vacillates with the events of his life allows
himself to become a victim of every wind that blows and every
twig that falls, and is never his own master.

12. Faith is sustained effort.

13. Faith is persistence.

14. Faith is knowing, while hope is little more than wishing.

15. Don't fall into the trap of hoping for things; it will avail
you little.

16. Positive thinking is the cornerstone of faith.

17. Refuse to add negative thoughts and circumstance unto
yourself. Choose only the good and the great and the beautiful.
The rest is delusion.

18. The mind may be trained in the habit of positive thinking
through a training period called a thirty-day mental diet.

19. The inner Self does not make up thoughts; it only observes
and chooses. Your life today is a result of the thoughts
you have chosen to accept.

20. Turn your problems over to Universal Subconscious
Mind; you will find the answers and be guided in the right
paths.

21. Don't, under any circumstances, tell the Subconscious
Mind how to do things. Let go and let God.

22. When negative circumstance arises, know that it is but
temporary, a necessary route to the goal you inevitably will
achieve as long as your faith remains with you.

23. Daily seek the consciousness of the indwelling spectator,
the place of calm and unruffled quiet, where all things are
known and understood.

24. Seek to know. Subordinate all things to faith, for faith
must precede all demonstration.

THE MENTAL DIET

What are these thoughts that we are going to refuse to
entertain? They are any thoughts that might in the smallest or
greatest manner cast into a pessimistic or poor light yourself,
your family, your friends, your social group, your state, your
nation, or the entire human race. They are, in short, negative
thoughts of any type, regardless of whether they seem personally
aimed at you yourself, or even at an inanimate object.

Now don't be blind about this and say, "Oh, I never think
negatively." And don't be fearful about it and say, "I couldn't
manage to concentrate on that sort of thing for thirty days."
Don't say you haven't got time. Don't say it won't work. We
needn't even point out how and why each of these attitudes
destroys the goal even before the experiment has begun.

Before you start the thirty-day mental diet, spend a day or
two observing how your mind is working. Carry a notebook
and pencil with you if you will, and keep a record of each
negative thought you entertain for a period of two days. The
result will astound you and convince you beyond all doubt of
the absolute necessity of embarking on the mental diet.

This is going to be no easy time, discarding every negative
thought for a period of thirty days, but it is something you
absolutely must do. Until you become master of your thinking,
you will never become master of your fate. If you fall
from the path of your resolve and entertain negative thoughts,
become depressed, apprehensive, pessimistic, there is nothing
to do but start over.

You must negotiate thirty days of positive thinking without
any serious intrusion of negative thought. It is exceptionally
important that you do this thing. Let nothing stand in your way.

During the period of your mental diet, you will be helped
by understanding exactly what it is you are doing. You are
training your mind to obey you rather than you obey it. You
are training yourself to think more of less and less of more.
In other words, you are developing the habit of concentration
as well as the habit of positive thinking.

THE ROAD AHEAD

You now have arrived at the crossroads of understanding.
There is much to do. There is, first, the thirty-day mental
diet which you must perform faithfully and assiduously and
which must be carried to successful completion no matter how
many false starts you may make.

There is, second, the breathing exercises and period of
communion with the indwelling Self in which you seek
contact with the eternal "I," your true being. And, of course,
there are the meditations which you must perform directly
after the breathing exercises and communion.

Once again may we caution you that failure to carry out the
work will lose for you the greatest value that can be gained
from your study—demonstration of good in your life. Only
through such demonstration will the full knowledge come to
you of your own self-mastery.

Without this you are simply performing mental exercises.
Knowledge without faith is like a ship without a sea; it may
be beautiful to behold, but it does very little good. Do the work!
Perform the meditations! Keep the faith!

9-15-04

MEDITATION ON FAITH

Here in solitude, in this time of peace, of meditation,
I withdraw deep into the silent recesses of my being to
a place of utter calm. Slowly the world retreats from
around me, until finally I am alone. Walled away from
all clamor and strife there is nothing but me. I am not
body; I am not thought; I am not experience; I am not
the past nor the present nor the future. I simply am.
Across my consciousness comes a constant procession of
thoughts and I observe them. I do not make up these
thoughts. I know they come from the Universal
Subconscious Mind, and I watch as they are presented to
me. I slow the train of thoughts. I examine each of them,
then let go, neither accepting nor rejecting. On and on the
thoughts come, and I ask myself, "Who is it that observes
this?" And I hear the answer, "Thou that art, always
have been, and always will be—thou observes!," and I
understand. Divorced from body, thought, and
experience, I still exist as I always must. Here then is my
true self, a thing independent of all but spirit, a
contemplative "I," which only observes and chooses from the
thoughts that cross consciousness. Whatever I choose is
mine. Whatever I reject shall never touch me. I need
only observe and accept, and all things will be added
unto me by a power which leaps to acknowledge my faith
and my decision. I sense such warmth and security as
might overflow the world. I sense a fusion of my being
with the great Universal Subconscious Mind, the mind
of God. I sense the presence of the Father who knoweth
no wrath, who does all things at his child's bidding. I
sense my union with this Father by immutable and
irrevocable bonds. I am one with all truth,
all beauty, all justice, all love.

9-16-04

ATTRACTION

Like unto like doth the universe cry
What thou choose to accept thou wilt see
Skim the wide ocean, split the deep sky
Relentlessly bound on a meeting with thee

THE ENDLESS PRAYER

The human being is a center of life force, attracting some
things, repelling others, according to his conceptions and
beliefs. Universal Mind differentiates into centers of life
force or atoms, which congregate with others vibrating on a
similar frequency. And it is the nature of any unit built
from Universal Mind to attract unto itself those thought-things
that answer the mental vibrations it exudes.

We have seen that all the things of our world are nothing
more or less than pure intelligence, cast into form by a
conception in the Universal Subconscious Mind. Intelligence
responds to intelligence, and thought creates vibrations which
inevitably attract the thing in the image.

The one mind which we all live contains an infinite number
of possibilities, all of which are capable of becoming manifest
in space and time when the conception has been planted in
Universal Subconscious Mind.

Therefore whatever you choose and accept must develop
in your experience, for it is attracted to you by an irresistible
and immutable law, a law which isn't working some of the
time, or occasionally, or most of the time, but every second
of every minute of all the time there is.

Whether we like analogy or not, we are literally praying
every minute of our lives, and every single one of our prayers
are answered. There is no escaping this wheel of answered
thought and belief. It is the law of life.

Whatever has developed in our experience has not been brought
to us by luck or fate or coincidence, but is simply a physical
manifestation of our thought and belief. Whether it has brought us
good or evil, it is in effect an answered prayer.

You are what you think; you attract what you think; your
life is a product of your thought and belief; and nothing in
the world can change this fact. To alter your life the only
single course open is to alter your thinking!

LET GO AND LET GOD

Overcoming vanity and relaxing into mental attitudes of
trust and confidence often have been expressed in the
metaphysical saying, "Let go and let God." Yet it would seem
from observation of many who quote this saying that they haven't
absorbed it. On the one hand, they say, "I trust in God," and
on the other, they act as if God were quite untrustworthy.

They set out for certain goals, create the attainment of these
goals on the plane of mind, and accept the image. But the
very first time they observe that the path they are following
doesn't coincide with the route they believe they should take,
they are convinced that God has made a mistake or hasn't
heard them in the first place. "I am not going to get there" is
their first reaction, and naturally the Subconscious Mind then
sees to it that they don't.

You can't predict the Subconscious Mind, and you can't
outguess the Subconscious Mind; and if you try, you defeat
those very things you have set out to do. It is strange that any
of us ever try to tell God how to do things in the first place,
since most of us will readily admit that we don't know
everything.

The Subconscious Mind always works with the perfect
knowledge of all times and all places and all people and all
things. It must answer billions of different conceptions. Only
God knows the way a thing may be done; and man never will,
not until his evolution has brought him complete unity with
the Universal Subconscious Mind.

But whatever you conceive and accept with faith will be
yours, regardless of the apparently circuitous paths and by-
roads you must follow to its attainment. The road you are
guided to take is the only way, there is no other, and as long
as you work with the Subconscious Mind your steps and
routes are perfect.

All things are made from universal intelligence. All things
exist in universal intelligence. All form proceeds from
thought, and thought is the first cause for all things. We are
able to choose what we will think, and once having chosen,
nothing can stop our decisions from becoming real in the
physical world.

Thus the law of attraction is the law of choosing thoughts.
Whatever we choose to think we will think; and whatever we
think becomes real in our lives. Choose to think only that
which you really desire; refuse to entertain any thoughts
of what you fear; and you will find you are unerringly guided
to your goals by a power greater than you are.

9-17-04

OUTLINE FOR ILLUMINATION: ATTRACTION

1. Every center of life force attracts those thought-things
that answer its mental vibrations.

2. Because we think and desire, we are praying every minute
of our lives.

3. To alter your life you must alter your thinking.

4. Every form and substance in the universe exudes a subtle
attraction, powerful in proportion to awareness.

5. What man accepts. God creates.

6. Vanity is a sense of independent ego, and isolates a man
from the Universal Subconscious Mind.

7. Vanity breeds a sense of personal responsibility, and personal
responsibility denies the power of the Universal Mind.

8. A human being has no personal responsibility other
than for the thoughts he chooses to think.

9. He who lives by a doctrine of personal responsibility
sees the entire universe as his toe.

10. He who lives by a doctrine of attunement sees the entire
universe rushing to do his bidding.

11. Make your decisions in the mind, and trust the Universal
Mind to carry them out. Refuse to accept apparent delay and
detour as anything other than the perfect path.

12. Don't predict the manner in which Universal Mind
would carry you to your goals. It has the knowledge of all
things and all times and thus automatically knows the perfect
path. The human being has only a limited knowledge of a certain
place and certain time and thus, by himself, cannot know the
perfect path.

13. Don't batter and rail against unwanted circumstances,
but "let go and let God." Denying the power that guides you
will leave you adrift with insurmountable problems.

14. A man by himself is a microbe. A man attuned to his
inner Self is a universe.

15. Mistakes are for learning and not to carry around with
you as a burden. Refuse to accept guilt. God is in you, and
God is not guilty.

16. Do not keep examining your goals when they are not yet
attained. If you keep projecting lack of attainment into the
Universal Subconscious Mind, you can expect nothing else in
return.

17. When you have created something on the plane of mind
you must know that it is done. Nothing can stop it from
manifesting in the physical world. Keep your faith and
conviction no matter the apparent obstacles. Look for
opportunity in each obstacle.

18. The Kingdom of Heaven is the center of consciousness.
Know it, and all things will be added unto you.

19. Action of itself produces nothing. Only true action
creates, and true action springs from true thought.

20. The one place the human can exercise will is at the center
of his consciousness, where he can will to think whatever
he wishes.

21. Take more heed to your thought than to the world about
you, for your thought brings the world about you.

22. In meditation ponder the meaning of "All things indwelling
in God, and God dwelling in all things."

23. Be not busy or in a hurry. There is nothing to fight and
nobody to beat. These are only things to learn and awareness
to be obtained. God moves with sureness.

24. Don't confuse what you seem to be with what you really
are. You are never what you seem to be, and always what you
really are, which is within you, at the center of your
consciousness.

25. Let the spiritual element rule every decision of your life.

26. Refuse to accept melancholy or sadness. The universe
sings and dances.

27. Choose the thought. Once you accept it, the thing in its
image will be yours.

9-18-04

MEDITATION ON ATTRACTION

I do not confuse what I seem to be with what I really
am. I am never what I seem to be, and always what I
really am—host to the indwelling God. I quiet the
movements of my body, slow my breathing, and glide deep
into the recesses of my being, to the very center of my
consciousness. Here in this place of infinite calm I
become one with the immortal Self of the world, and I
observe. My thoughts cross my consciousness in a
never-ending stream. I do not create these thoughts. They come
from the infinite reaches of the Universal Subconscious
Mind and are directed to my consciousness, for I have
attracted them. I may choose any thoughts I desire. I have
but to decide, and the ideas and images I have chosen are
directed to me. As I accept them so will they manifest in
my world. I alone decide what I will think; thus I decide
my entire life. I bar the door of my mind to negative
thoughts or thoughts of evil. The door is always open to
admit the positive, the good, the beautiful and the aspiring.
I have complete confidence in the wisdom and the
power of the Universal Subconscious Mind. I do not predict
the manner in which each of my thoughts will
manifest; I have complete faith that God moves in the
most perfect manner. There is no such thing as lack unless
it is accepted; the universe has infinite supply. Vigor
and health, abundance and success are mine, for I choose
only such thoughts. Love abounds in a universe where I
am one with the immortal Self, the Universal Subconscious
Mind, God. My every decision is answered from a
perfect and inexhaustible source of power.

9-19-04

LOVE

No gate too strait, no journey too far
When the path is lit by the gleam
Of the radiant rays of the guiding star
Of love, the law that's supreme

LOVE GOVERNS ALL

Love is all. God is love. It is the nature of our basic unity,
the underlying dim remembrance of complete spiritual oneness,
that keeps us forever seeking union with others. From the
Universal Mind we have been differentiated into separateness,
isolated within a fleshy prison, and throughout our incarnation
in life we reach out to receive and to give and to commune
to return again to complete unity.

Beauty, courage, loyalty,perseverance, creation are all born
of love successfully given and received. Distortion, fear,
iniquity, hate, resentment, violence,and failure are all born
of love frustrated. Thus it is love that governs all... the
supreme law of life.

Spake Jesus, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind. This is
the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like
unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

9-20-04

THE CONSTANT SEARCH

We are evolved from pure and eternal spirit, from a place
where space and time and number do not exist. From infinity
we are thrust into finiteness, perceive space and time and
number and separateness and other things and beings.

Is it any wonder that the terrible longing grows within us,
to have and hold, to take and be taken, to give and receive,
to share, to reach for an earthly realization of that complete
sense of belonging that can only be known in absolute unity?

Love we seek above all things, for we have known absolute
love and are lost without it; and all our hurts are received when
our reachings for love are rejected; and all the Prompters of the
Subconscious Mind are planted by the buried pain remembrances
of our love rejections.

In this life we are isolated from the Universal Subconscious
Mind. In our separateness, we see through a glass, darkly. In
our separateness, we long for the unity that rests at the crux
of our Subconscious, and this is our motivating force, love.
According to how we are able to give and receive it, all things
in life come to us. The time will arrive when face to face we
shall know as we are known, for the Universal Subconscious
Mind is complete unity and thus is love itself, and we shall
return to it.

9-21-04

SPIRITUAL UNITY

The negation of love is fear, and fear is the father to hate,
and fear and hate through all their varying degrees are the
seeds from which all evil grows. Is it any wonder, then, that
love will overcome all, for with love there is no fear, and with
love there is no hate; with love there is no opposition.

True love, then, is simply recognition of the spiritual unity
of all life. Once you have realized completely that you and
your neighbor are one, it is no longer possible for you to
perform an unseemly act against your neighbor; it would be
as if you performed it against yourself.

Nor can you hate your enemy, for your enemy is also one with you,
as like unto you as your very self. All life and all matter are
but manifold manifestations of the one immortal Self, the
Universal Subconscious Mind. It is not the nature of this Mind
to chastise itself, to fight with itself, or to destroy itself.

Anyone who regards life as a battle, who seeks to beat others
or destroy them, is doing neither more nor less than beating
himself or destroying himself. One! One! One! sings the Universe.
We all-sprung from one intelligence. We all return to one
intelligence.

There is but one immortal underlying Self to all creation.
Separated from it in our physical bodies, we desire to
know this complete unity again, and it is to this emotional
drive that we give the name of love.

Few will dispute the power of love, but the vast majority
of us have great difficulty bringing it into all aspects of
our lives.

Hundreds of buried pain remembrances, or Prompters,
have set up coping mechanisms within our Subconscious so
that we automatically are directed to greet certain circumstances
or things or people with belligerence, aggression,cruelty, fear,
timidity, or a thousand different other negations that backfire
on us daily.

Yet all of these Prompters can be dissolved by
finding the Kingdom of Heaven within. At this magic center,
where all things are known and understood, absolute love will
banish fear and hate.

He who loves God and understands that God is love, loves
all things. His love does not rest on the shifting sands of the
world, nor does it wax hot and cold as the winds that blow;
but he knows his complete oneness with the Father whose very
essence is love. He seeks not, for he has all. Wherever his eye
looks, he sees but a reflection of himself. All things return his
love, and his prayers move the very foundations of the world.

9-22-04

ABSOLUTE LOVE LIES WITHIN

Love is the supreme law, for through it we throw off the
bonds of separateness and perceive the great spiritual unity
in which we have our being. Through love we attain a rebirth
of consciousness, unity with the Universal Mind, such as Jesus
spoke of when he said, "I say unto you that unless a man be
born again he shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."

We need not drive for love. Love is in us, complete and
absolute. It cries out for expression from the very depth
of our being, but we lock it in. We consider it smart and
adult to build a fence around love and submit to loneliness
and pride and vanity. How dear to us our vain little errors
are, and how smug!

We hurt only ourselves. He who deprives himself of
the expression of love, deprives himself of all things. He
hurts no one but himself, for love moves through all the
universe, expresses itself through every bud and bush and
flower and rain drop, and needs no man for its fulfillment.
Loves makes the world go. It will make you go too.
Just let it!

9-23-04

CREATION SPRINGS FROM LOVE

Life is creation, and all creation is a labor of love. Nothing
springs full-bodied from the vast creativeness of the Universal
Subconscious Mind unless there is first a desire to contribute
to humanity. The essence of creativeness is love of life, for
such love guides a man to do something better or bigger or
more enlightening than has ever been done before.

Such love catches a man in the great unity and the great purpose,
and he instinctively perceives the direction in which life moves,
becomes one with its efforts, contributes, and creates.

Life seeks for knowledge, and creation is the measure of
what has been learned; thus creation is the purpose of life,
and creation springs from love. Each of us has a talent,
sometimes several, given especially to us, for through us God
has become something unique in the universe. Love develops our
talents, sets us free to do the special work that we can do.

No matter what else we do in life, we are never completely happy
unless our talents are developed, unless our destinies are
fulfilled, unless we enlarge the vision and knowledge of God
for which all humanity strives. By allowing love to work in
our lives as a power for good, we become free to develop our
special gifts in accord with an expanding and seeking universe;
we become free to contribute.

This contribution, when it is individualized and expressed in
such manner as is unique with each of us, advances all humanity
along the road of knowledge and thus moves in accord with the
very nature of life itself.

This power is accessible to all men, and all of it is accessible
to any man. It works for good only through love. Love recognizes
that all things are accomplished through the many manifestations
of God.

Love sees that all things are the One Thing that lies back
of all creation. Love knows that your neighbor is yourself, that
your enemy is yourself, that there is only one power behind all
space and time and form.

Love understands that God is sought by everyone, each working
in his own way toward his own vision, and each sustaining
the other through his discoveries. Love knows that each man
advances all men. Love knows that the only activity worthy
of man's being an heir of God is creation.

Love fuses all beings and all life into a great common purpose:
to share and contribute and advance along the common path
toward God. God is love; love is life; we are love. He who denies
love denies himself and destroys his part in the human drama.

How unattainable love seems to most of us; how complex
our spiritual natures and our emotional drives. Yet the
answer is appallingly simple. Lower the barriers! Love is
God is the Universal Subconscious Mind, and God dwells
within each of us, constantly seeking expression and outlet.

The perfect seed of love is within. Said Jesus, "Be thou perfect,
even as thy heavenly Father is perfect." Said John, "Love lies
in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us... and
love for him is complete in us." Perfect love is in each of us,
constantly seeking outlet. All we have to do is let it!

9-24-04

TRUST LOVE

We exist in a world which is striving to know and understand
itself. Each of us is a miraculous manifestation of that
world. There is a great and unknown spirit working in and
through every man, woman, and child in the universe. This
spirit is seeking to know.

We serve the ends of Almighty God by living and loving and
learning, by lifting up our eyes to the stars, by asking
questions, by searching for answers. Life is the supreme
adventure. The deathless, sleepless spirit within us leads
us ever onward to a higher good. We cannot fail if we
keep our hearts filled with love and faith.

Trust love, for when you trust love you trust God. We are
all children sitting at the knee of a loving Father whose
purpose we will fathom in time. What is going on is a great and
good thing, and we are a part of it; we shall always be a part
of it; we shall finally be one with it.

We need not be perfectly happy every minute of every day,
for perfect happiness only comes with perfect knowledge. But
by trusting in the great and good ends of life and by knowing
that the door to the mystery swings on the hinges of love, we
shall never lose faith in our divinity and our ability to build
a heaven here on earth.

Know that truth is always the great and the good and the
beautiful and the aspiring. Close your eyes, your ears, your
mind, and your heart to all else; it is illusion. Says the
Bhagavad-Gita, "There is no existence for that which is unreal;
there is no non-existence for that which is real.

9-25-04

THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE

One desire pervades the universe... the desire for love.
Through this desire all things are created... our songs, our
stories, our paintings, our engines and machines, our cities
and schools, our churches and stores. The hunger of mankind
is to know the love of the great Creator. In all lands men are
supplicating God to join with them in some enterprise.

Each of two warring nations calls on God to aid it in the fight.
But men are beginning to realize that God doesn't join anybody;
people join God. God is love moving according to law. We
must move over on God's side rather than ask him to move
over on ours. God's side is the side of love. When man moves
toward love, he moves toward God, toward the foundation on
earth of the brotherhood of man, peace, happiness, and knowledge.

This adventure of ours, this life we live, has caught us in
the miracle of all creation. We create by our thought and our
desire. How precious are the chambers of thought within us.
Whatever we think is visited upon us in this world. Learning
how to think and how to love, how to create through the use
of Universal Mind are the main businesses of our lives.
According to how we learn these laws all things come to us.

Every thought we think, every desire we have, every mood
we invite, each emotion we undergo is projected into the great
creative substance of the Universal Subconscious Mind to be
manifested in the world about us. What a miracle! But also
what a responsibility.

We as easily visit evil upon ourselves as we visit good, for
according to how we think and believe so is it done to us.
Every minute of every day we are using the greatest
power in the universe for good or for evil. Only a tool or a
madman would deliberately use this power for evil.

God's will is love, and by following love as the guiding law
of life, we follow God's will and thus have infinite power.
Every thought attracted by love and accepted by faith will
create good in your world.

9-26-04

THE MIGHTY MEDICINE

Society is love expressed by groups. Men living together,working
together, building together, helping each other, seeking common
goals, attaining knowledge, are all brought about through love.
We depend on each other for our very lives, for we are all one
in reality, and are nothing without each other.

The cities and schools and institutions of our world have all
been built through love, one man for the other, one neighbor
for the other, husband for wife, parent for child. Every step we
take toward the divinity that is ours is guided by the illumination
of the love of God for man, and the love of God is complete in man
through each step taken. Wondrous things are at work in the universe,
and we need not see into the reaches of infinity to grasp their
mighty import.

Wrote Nietzsche, "Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother,
there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage... it is called Self;
it dwelleth in thy body." What a vision of splendor, what a
mighty fate awaits each of us when we have returned once again
home, to know as we shall be known.

There is no limit to love in the universe, and all of it is
available to you. Put this mighty medicine to work in your
life, and you will see such a healing and prospering and peace
as will dazzle your very eyes.

In your meditations, in the silent times at the center of your
consciousness, remember to think all things with love, and
negative thoughts will be banished from your mind.

Love bars the door of mind to the evil and the negative, and
opens the door to the good and the positive, and from mind
all things proceed. Yet the heart rules, always has ruled,
always will.

Whatever takes root in mind is first attracted by the heart, by
love or hate, one or the other. Thus by letting love into your
heart, you bring good into your mind and into your life. By
letting love into your heart you banish hate; hate cannot live
with love.

Trust in love, trust all things to love, think all things with love,
do all things with love; in this manner you will walk with God,
in tune with the infinite power of the universe.

9-27-04

REVIEW

1. Love is the underlying unity of the universe.

2. Love is the supreme spiritual law. Love is God.

3. Humanity seeks love above all things.

4. True love is recognition of the spiritual unity of all life.

5. Frustrated love gives birth to fear and hate, gives birth
to evil.

6. The absence of love is fear. The rejection of love is hate.

7. Love will cast out the Prompters of the Subconscious
Mind, and never fails.

8. He who knows and believes in the love of God loves all
things both great and small.

9. Complete and absolute love is within each of us.

10. All creation is but an expression of love.

11. On all sides of us we see the commands of the universe,
"Love or suffer. Love or die."

12. Faith and knowledge are nothing without love.

13. By our fancied hurts, by our sensitive egos, we isolate
ourselves, develop fear and hate, create evil in our lives.

14. All unhappiness, every neurosis, every psychosis, all
illness, accident, disaster, all evil are born of rejected love.

15. Love works for all who surrender their hearts, and works
only with surrender.

16. Spirit is always perfect and love is always perfect. The
imperfect things of our world are the result of our imperfect
knowledge of love. We are growing to perfect knowledge.

17. Love of man for woman and woman for man is a manifestation
of the love of God for all mankind.

18.Love creates, produces, heals, comforts, guides, and illumines.

19. Man creates through his thought and desire projecting
into Universal Subconscious Mind. What he thinks and desires
with love creates good. What he thinks and desires in the
absence of love creates evil.

20. By becoming one with love we become one with the
power of the Universal Subconscious Mind.

9-28-04

THE CONQUERING IDEA

These are the tools we deal with: we think; we love; and we
believe. Through thought we attain knowledge. Through love
we attune ourselves with Universal Mind. Through belief
we transform thoughts into things. These three tools,
understood and used, bring power.

Slowly the world is awakening to the truth. Gradually the
light of man's spiritual splendor and destiny is penetrating
into our schools and social institutions, into our business
houses, into our governments. A common Father binds all
men together in a great and irrevocable bond.

Through love alone will we be guided to our destination, make
our lives on earth great and good and abundant. This is the
message that Jesus brought. It will win the universe for man!

In the words of Albert Schweitzer: "Sooner or later the idea
here put forth will conquer the world, for with inexorable
logic it carries with it both the heart and the head."

9-29-04

MEDITATION ON LOVE

The truth about life is' the infinite love of God for all
things. Each man is my brother, bound to me by immortal
and everlasting ties. I love all people; they dwell
in my Father and my Father in them. I surrender my
heart to humanity, and humanity serves me with love. I
surrender my heart to God, and the love of God becomes
complete in me. I am one with all the power and vigor and
knowledge of the universe. I let go of fear and confusion;
They are illusions and cannot live with truth, which is
love, which is complete and fulfilled in me now. The
great reality of Universal Subconscious Mind is forever
present at the center of my being. I draw from it perfect
intelligence, perfect health, perfect peace, perfect happiness,
perfect love. I surrender all the built up inhibitions
that have been impressed upon me by the illusions of the
world. I refuse to accept anything but truth, which is
always the good and the positive. I move in accord with
Divine Intelligence. I accept the will and the love of God,
which I express in laughter and joy and pleasure and
service. Only the good, the great, the significant, and
the constructive do I add unto myself. Nothing else is
allowed into the creative depths of my being. The surging
desire of each man is to know the fulfillment of love. The
way to this fulfillment is through contact with the center
of consciousness, through communion with the silent
dweller within. I surrender my doubts and confusions
and fears. Universal love is complete in me. I am united
with God, move with God. I am serene and sure, joyful
and achieving, confident of ultimate splendor.

9-30-04

THE KEY

That which from Self made each mortal
Self unto each mortal must be
Thus the key that unlocks the portal
To God is thyself... thou art He

YOU ARE GOD

THE VEIL REMOVED

This is the ineffable secret, the ultimate illumination, the key
to peace and power: You are God. If you will accept this towering
truth, dare to stand atop this magnificent pinnacle, universal
consciousness will be revealed to you from within. God is there.
It is He who peers from behind your eyes, who is your own
consciousness, who is your very Self. You are not just a part of
God; you are altogether God, and God is altogether you.

Upanishads:
"The personal self and the ultimate imperishable impersonal
Self are one."

Vedanta:
"Not a part, not a mode of That, but identically That, that
absolute Spirit of the World."

Jesus:
"Who hath seen me hath seen the Father."

9-31-04

God is Universal Subconscious Mind, the intelligence that
pervades all times and places, the design and order and
consciousness of all things. God becomes things; He becomes all
things; He has become you. God is not your body, not your
ego, but your sense of being, your "I." There is only one "I"
in the universe. The same sense of Self is in everyone.

It appears to be different in life because it clothes itself in
different forms. These forms wither and decay, but the Self is
always one and indivisible and changeless. Every person that
lives, every person that ever will live, every creature and thing,
are all one in spirit. All are God, and each is altogether God.

Each of us is altogether God because infinite intelligence
cannot divide itself. It makes a seeming division in flesh,
but never in spirit, for infinity is always one and indivisible.
God manifests completely in each thing, and each thing is a
manifestation of God's knowledge of Himself.

Your consciousness is God's consciousness. Your idea of yourself
is God's idea of Himself. The ideas you accept are automatically
manifested in life, for what God knows He creates, and what you know
is created, for you are God.

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