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 FROM EXISTENCE TO LIFE 
 
 (the science of self-consciousness) 
 
 ILLUMINATION 
 INSPIRATION 
 THE WAY 
 
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 JAAMLS PORTER v^XILLS J^\D 
 
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 NEW YORK, 1915 
 

 Copyright, 19 15 
 in U. S. A. and Great Britain 
 
 BY 
 
 JAMES PORTER MILLS 
 
 MAY li 1915 
 
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AUTHOR'S NOTE 
 
 The following pages represent but a 
 feeble attempt to forecast in a few words 
 the trend of a new order of teaching. It 
 is scarcely possible to develop the spirit 
 >r or working power of the teaching in 
 an introduction to a pocket manual of 
 meditation. This is of necessity left, 
 first, to the oral teaching and second, 
 to the larger books, particularly to the 
 text book, From Existence to Life: 
 The Science of Self -Consciousness y Psy- 
 chical and Spiritual. When the reader 
 has caught this spirit, he will find it of 
 marvelous practical value in the renewing 
 of the mind and the reforming of the 
 personality. 
 
 The meditations herein presented 
 have evolved in the course of my work 
 and have been used in my public and 
 private classes for the awakening and 
 drawing out of the spiritual nature into 
 self-conscious recognition. 
 
A NEW ORDER OF 
 MEDITATION 
 
 There is a Principle of man, the men- 
 tal being, upon which he is founded, 
 and by which his mind lives and is main- 
 tained, in the same way that there is a 
 principle of proportion by which both 
 the body of the universe and the body 
 of man live and are maintained. 
 
 The principle of proportion has modes, 
 such as mathematics, mechanics, and 
 chemistry, that are suited to man's re- 
 quirements in dealing constructively 
 with the chemical elements. So also 
 the Principle of man, the mental being, 
 has modes such as Life, Truth, Right- 
 eousness and Wisdom, for the fulfilling 
 of his destiny as a self-conscious being, 
 and these are to be translated into terms 
 
2 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 of the man self -consciousness, just as 
 the physical elements have been trans- 
 lated by his creative or divine nature 
 into terms of physical proportion. 
 
 The divine nature is the Knowledge- 
 nature of which the mind with its nine 
 faculties is the instrument. We know 
 that the mind not only cognizes facts 
 through the senses, but that we place 
 it in such relation with its Principle that 
 it is able to conceive ideas that are repre- 
 sentative of this Knowledge- Principle, 
 which for instance in mechanical form, 
 work out as useful scientific inventions, 
 proving themselves to be mechanical 
 children of the Principle by which worlds 
 are framed. 
 
 Moreover it is by virtue of the prin- 
 ciple of chemistry that the chemical 
 elements have come into existence, and 
 that the material bounties and comforts 
 that the earth affords have been pro- 
 duced; so that man draws out of the 
 Principle of Wisdom all that the mind 
 needs for creative purposes in the struggle 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 3 
 
 with his environment. All that he re- 
 quires of elements for the renewing of 
 his body and for his support and com- 
 fort comes to him as a result of the crea- 
 tive activities of this same Principle 
 functioning in the elements of the earth. 
 
 Now the Principle of man the mental 
 being, of man in his bodily presentment, 
 and of the universe in its body form, is 
 one and the same Knowledge-Principle 
 which operates and functions its Knowl- 
 edge-Spirit to his mind. Man handles 
 the elements as a master and fashions 
 them to his desires. All the time that 
 he is using his inherited divine creative 
 power to deal with his environment in 
 constructive activity in the industries, 
 in science and art, the same Principle 
 of All- Science is being called out by the 
 instinctive intelligence, unconsciously to 
 him, for the purpose of creative activi- 
 ties of both body and mind. 
 
 Man's body is but a device invented 
 by subjective, instinctive man, called 
 
4 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 out of the Principle of his own existence, 
 with the intent of transforming the 
 unself -conscious man idea, or spirit, 
 into terms of self-consciousness. The 
 body, with its sensorium, is suited to the 
 man transformation much as the electric 
 bulb is suited to its office in producing 
 light from subjective electrical sub- 
 stance. Whether it be man, tree, or 
 flower, the latent constructive desire, 
 feeling, or idea determines the form 
 of the mechanism that shall work the 
 transformation. The Life, the Knowl- 
 edge Principle never changes, but 
 always answers to the call of con- 
 structive feeling, whatsoever be the 
 nature of the transforming instrument 
 required. 
 
 The Knowledge-nature, as has been 
 said, is the divine nature of man. It 
 consists first of Principle, second of the 
 man instinct inherent in the Knowledge- 
 Principle; third, of the mental faculties 
 officed in a mechanism, — the brain, 
 suited to the purpose of transforming 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 5 
 
 the instinctive creative feeling in and 
 by which the man has being, into terms 
 of self-conscious cognition and use. In 
 other words, it is the divine nature that 
 translates instinctive feeling from its 
 primary realm of the involuntary and 
 unself -conscious, through the interme- 
 diary of a mechanism, — the body as a 
 whole, — to the secondary state of the 
 voluntary and self-conscious. 
 
 Man, then, real Man, is prima- 
 rily subjective, and in the subjective 
 state of his Knowledge-Principle he 
 ever abides. The Knowledge-Principle 
 through the divine nature, is the Life 
 and Knowledge resource of personal 
 man who is the offspring of instinctive 
 action, and who now walks the earth, 
 clothed in the elements, and self-con- 
 scious. In this personal state of exist- 
 ence, man through the intuitional office 
 in the brain, is now able to receive intui- 
 tions from the instinctive side of exist- 
 ence, and in so doing he has already 
 
6 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 proved himself able to deal with his 
 environment scientifically. 
 
 But what of his own personal states 
 as centered in the different provinces of 
 mind and body? His emotions, sensa- 
 tions, thoughts, — his consciousness gen- 
 erally? What use has he made of the 
 Knowledge- Principle — this inheritance 
 through his divine nature — as related 
 directly to his personal consciousness? 
 
 The Truth is that while man has come 
 into personal consciousness of that hemi- 
 sphere of Principle by which he moulds 
 his environment scientifically to his de- 
 sire, and has become master in creative 
 science and art, he has not entered con- 
 sciously into his heritage of Principle 
 as it is related to his manhood on the 
 self-conscious side of existence. When 
 awake to this other hemisphere of his 
 Knowledge-Principle he may deal with 
 his personal consciousness, may deter- 
 mine the nature of it and may call 
 straight out of his subjectivity in the 
 God- consciousness, thoughts and emo- 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 7 
 
 tions that make for divine personality. 
 Thoughts and emotions that are as 
 worthy to live and as deathless on the 
 self-conscious side of existence as is 
 their Substance, the subjectivity of the 
 Omniscience in which they took their 
 rise. 
 
 Now that this continent of Original 
 Consciousness, just below the threshold 
 of the mind, has been discovered, we are 
 through the science of self-consciousness 
 taking measures to open up the office 
 of intuition in the brain life, in order to 
 receive from the newly discovered hemi- 
 sphere of the Substantial Life its rich 
 treasures of latent Godhood. Through 
 this divine nature we are now to trans- 
 late these treasures into corresponding 
 emotions and sensations in our personal 
 self-conscious life, as did the Master. 
 
 We see then, that in common with 
 the objective universe, objective self- 
 conscious man has taken his rise in the 
 subjective Principle — Omniscience. 
 
 "The Father dwelling within" here- 
 
8 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 tofore mystical and incomprehensible to 
 us, we now find to be divine, subjective, 
 unself-conscious man, — the Son, ever 
 dwelling in the bosom of the All-Father. 
 This All-Father is original Life, the all- 
 embracing term for Whom is Principle; 
 the existence-term in likeness thereof 
 in pure subjectivity, is Man* the Son, 
 who becomes the " Heavenly Father* ' of 
 personal man. That is to say, this Son 
 of the All-Father is pre-physical man, 
 who becomes in his activities the Heav- 
 enly Father of his own offspring, indi- 
 vidualized, self-conscious man; and also 
 the mediator between the province of 
 self-consciousness which he has created 
 and the Principle. 
 
 The Son, when embodied and self- 
 conscious of the All-Father, in the ful- 
 filling of his office of Redeemer toward 
 mankind who are not yet born of the 
 Spirit, we find to be the Christ of Scrip- 
 ture made personal in Jesus. We also 
 find that the Heavenly Father who feels 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 9 
 
 every action of the mind and every heart's 
 desire of the self-conscious, personal 
 man, his offspring, is none other than 
 the indwelling Christ, the Son of the 
 All-Father. 
 
 For the Absolute Principle has no 
 correspondence to secondary life, save 
 through the medium of the Son. It is 
 truly said that God's eyes are too pure 
 to behold iniquity, but through the 
 " mediator" a way out of ignorance or 
 sin into knowledge and holiness in self- 
 conscious life, is provided. It is indeed 
 the Heavenly Father "who knoweth 
 what ye have need of" before you put 
 it into words and who renders the equiva- 
 lent of every desire in responsive emo- 
 tion ; and these deeds of the mind enter 
 soul-life to become incarnated during 
 the activities of bodily commerce. ' l The 
 Father dwelling within" is in Truth 
 the Christ to personal man, the mediator 
 between the All-Father, the Man- Prin- 
 ciple and personal man in his self- 
 conscious state of existence. 
 
IO A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 These meditations are founded upon 
 the teaching of the Master of Galilee 
 concerning the " Father dwelling within, " 
 and also upon the findings of deductive 
 science, namely: that from nothing, 
 something cannot come. It is evident 
 that something is, therefore something 
 must always have, been, something un- 
 limited by time or senses, extending 
 into another realm which is, and which 
 antedates all appearance in the elements. 
 What then precedes the appearance? 
 What precedes the appearance of an 
 ordinary invention, or any form of body 
 or mechanism? The inventor through 
 his desire first calls it out of its absolute 
 state in Principle into concrete form 
 in the mind. He then gives it mechani- 
 cal form in the elements. Yet the 
 substance of the invention, that which in 
 the Principle responded to the desire of 
 the inventor and gave it form still 
 abides in the Principle. 
 
 So with man, — instinctive feeling or 
 desire has called him out of his subjec- 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION II 
 
 tive state in Principle into concrete form. 
 Yet like the mechanical invention, he 
 coexists with his Principle both before 
 and after he has appeared in the elements. 
 But here the analogy ceases, for man 
 extends his domain of original power 
 and intelligence into the realm of his 
 bodily existence, and further, he is 
 capable of entering into self-conscious- 
 ness of his Principle of All-Knowledge. 
 
 By meditation I do not mean intel- 
 lectual meditation wherein the mind is 
 concentrated on a particular subject, 
 in a state of thinking. Spiritual medita- 
 tion is very simple; so simple that at 
 first one can hardly believe that any- 
 thing is being accomplished. It con- 
 sists merely in repeating the words of 
 the meditation over slowly, just often 
 enough to keep the mind from wandering, 
 or from forgetting to say them; never 
 heeding the thoughts that may, and 
 will at first, arise involuntarily; never 
 stopping to resist this kaleidoscope of 
 
12 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 thought-images that presents itself, but 
 simply carrying out your purpose of 
 repeating the words, assured that your 
 "Heavenly Father " (your divine nature) 
 knows what your purpose is. In other 
 words the desire that the meditation ex- 
 presses could not have been conceived 
 in the mind at all except through the 
 cooperation of subjective pre-physical 
 man and the Principle. It is, there- 
 fore, already known within. The 
 mere act of faithfulness under the 
 difficulties in the involuntary thought- 
 realm where the habit of contrary de- 
 sires has been established, counts 
 mightily in bringing responsive feeling 
 from the Principle, by virtue of which 
 the words of the meditation were origi- 
 nally conceived. 
 
 We must remember that words are rep- 
 resentative of a certain order or intent, 
 and that the words of spiritual meditation 
 lead straight back to Original Spirit, by 
 which they came into existence. 
 
 In spiritual meditation "I" always 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 13 
 
 means the divine nature, in contra- 
 distinction to the "I" of personal con- 
 sciousness, which has been founded 
 on the mind's experience as interpreted 
 through the senses 
 
 The divine nature "I" is the Christ 
 within, on the involuntary and instinc- 
 tive side of existence. It is the " I " that 
 not only carries on all the scientific pro- 
 cesses of bodily life and incarnation by 
 means of its inheritance of the Knowl- 
 edge Substance, but it also functions 
 life to the mind, and the Substance- 
 feeling out of which in due order ideas 
 and thoughts are born. It is this "I" 
 of creative Knowledge that ever waits 
 below the threshold of the self-conscious 
 office of the mind, ready to function to 
 the intuitional office of the brain, on the 
 one hand the creative Spirit of Knowl- 
 edge nascent from the Principle, or on 
 the other hand, race feeling and personal 
 experience out of the soul store, in 
 accordance with the evolution of self- 
 
14 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 consciousness in the individual, or in 
 answer to the desire or necessity of the 
 moment. 
 
 "I am" in meditation always means 
 the divine nature of man, as if it were 
 speaking from its Substance the Prin- 
 ciple, as in one of our meditations spoken 
 by the Master, "I am the Way, the 
 Truth, and the Life " within thee. This 
 is imagined to be the Christ nature pass- 
 ing from its involuntary office to the prov- 
 ince of self -consciousness, in answer to 
 the desire of the mind expressed in the 
 meditation, thus bringing its spirit into 
 contact with the personal consciousness 
 of the individual, — to be interpreted 
 into ideas, thoughts, or actions. These 
 in turn are given back to the involun- 
 tary realm as so much heavenly treasure 
 added to the soul store. This store 
 increasing day by day becomes more 
 and more an involuntary inspiration to 
 the mind and to the vital processes of 
 personal life, making also for health 
 and length of days. 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 1 5 
 
 It is well to remember always that 
 our meditations are not entered into 
 by personal man, but by the divine 
 nature; that "I am" means that the 
 divine nature has come into self -con- 
 sciousness of its Principle far enough 
 to desire further spiritual birth. 
 
 So also with the meditations begin- 
 ning "Thou art"; for example, "Thou 
 art the Christ, the Son of the living 
 God within me." This again is the 
 mind acknowledging the divine nature 
 as the man-correspondence of the Prin- 
 ciple, — the idea being to get the mind 
 more and more into conscious realization 
 of its oneness with the Principle now; 
 its oneness with Goodness and Wisdom 
 and Health and Righteousness by which 
 it may solve all the problems of personal 
 life. ' 
 
 I have only attempted here to give 
 just a running sketch of the nature of 
 the teaching as a help to an understand- 
 ing of this new order of meditation. In 
 
1 6 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 my book From Existence to Life: the 
 Science of Self -Consciousness, this, the 
 greatest of all sciences, is fully set forth 
 and formulated in a way that meets the 
 demand both of the scholastic mind and 
 the ordinary mind of common sense. 
 In the present writing I have scarcely 
 hinted at the health aspect of the teach- 
 ing, but it will be readily comprehended 
 that meditation "lays the axe at the 
 root of the tree," generating a new spirit 
 in which disease can find no correspond- 
 ence. It is therefore the most powerful 
 and the most fundamental method of 
 healing, and of placing one's health on a 
 sound basis. 
 
 Experience has shown that the intel- 
 lectual comprehension of the theory of 
 this teaching does not by any means 
 bring with it the full working power or 
 realization of the spirit of the same ; but 
 it does lead those who have grasped the 
 truth of it, to hear the oral teaching in 
 which the practical spirit seems to be 
 more intimately conveyed. 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 1 7 
 
 Nevertheless there are many natures 
 that will find great peace and illumi- 
 nation by following these simple sug- 
 gestions. 
 
 It is often asked how often one should 
 meditate, and how long each meditation 
 should be continued. Ten or fifteen 
 minutes in the morning, and the same 
 in the evening ought to be the minimum 
 of time to allow for the practice of 
 communion with one's Life and Knowl- 
 edge-Substance, that promises in the 
 ultimate to yield an hundredfold more 
 of all the good things according to sense 
 perception, and finally Life Eternal. 
 
 Then too, it is most helpful, right in 
 the midst of the activities of the day, to 
 stop still even for a minute or two, and 
 enter the meditative silence. The day 
 will thus yield much more profit in all 
 that counts towards life and abundance. 
 
 Those who have ample time at their 
 command should practice as much as 
 comes easily and naturally with inspira- 
 
1 8 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 tion, remembering not to seek trance- 
 like states of long comfortable reverie. 
 
 As to posture, experience has proved 
 that meditations taken while sitting up- 
 right are much more virile and effective 
 than those taken when lying down. When 
 meditating, the attention should not be 
 fixed upon any nerve center or upon any 
 part of the body, even for healing. The 
 mind belongs in the brain, let the atten- 
 tion center there, never below the chin. 
 
 The mind allies itself through desire 
 with the involuntary divine nature, 
 which is the Life and Source of all the 
 creative activities in the body, and thus 
 healing is induced. 
 
 Spiritual healing is induced through 
 desire and trust, while psychological 
 healing is more or less a matter of mental 
 dominancy. 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 1 9 
 
 Synonyms for Principle 
 
 Life 
 
 Spirit 
 
 Goodness 
 
 Substance 
 
 Truth 
 
 Rightness 
 
 Wisdom 
 
 Faith 
 
 Health 
 
 Love 
 
 Omnipotence 
 
 Omniscience 
 
 Omnipresence 
 
 The Knowledge-Principle 
 
 The Knowledge-Substance 
 
 The All-Father 
 
 The Great Within 
 
 The Infinite 
 
 Synonyms for the Divine Nature 
 
 Pre-physical Man 
 Subjective Man 
 
20 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 Instinctive Man 
 The Christ 
 The Son of God 
 The Mediator 
 The Heavenly Father 
 
 Example in Self- Conscious Existence 
 
 Jesus 
 
 The Regenerate Man 
 The Word Made Flesh 
 A Man Born of the Spirit. 
 
SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY 
 
 The intellectual perception of the 
 truth of man's origin and continuous 
 life in God prevalent in the advanced 
 teaching of to-day, has led to a system 
 of affirmation which constitutes a kind 
 of spiritual psychology, a sort of kinder- 
 garten to the spiritual realization which 
 should follow the intellectual perception. 
 
 These affirmations have proved most 
 useful in time of great stress, when spirit- 
 ual realization was impossible, stimu- 
 lating the mind to an acute conviction 
 or belief in God, and bringing about 
 constructive, vital activity, thus saving 
 the situation for the moment, but leav- 
 ing the mind in a state of psychology 
 or belief, rather than inducting it into 
 a further knowledge of God. This for 
 beginners is a legitimate practice, but 
 
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22 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 it does not make for spiritual advance- 
 ment. 
 
 These same affirmations put as medi- 
 tations, primary and secondary, intro- 
 duce a safe and sure method of spiritual 
 development, because there is no pos- 
 sible opportunity for the personal "I" 
 to become deceived into thinking that 
 it is something of itself; whereas the 
 continual affirmation, "I am good," for 
 instance, might become a piece of self- 
 deception and self -stultification, making 
 a man believe, in his relative condition 
 of consciousness that he is absolute, 
 while his neighbor can only too plainly 
 perceive the contrary fact. Instead, 
 then, of saying as an affirmation, "I am 
 good," we put the idea either as a pri- 
 mary meditation: M I am thine Infinite 
 Goodness within thee," or as a secondary 
 meditation: "Thou art mine Infinite 
 Goodness within me." 
 
 The following formula of spiritual 
 psychology is offered as an aid to the 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 23 
 
 beginner. It should be committed to 
 memory, and such parts of it as seem 
 to be adapted to the situation of the 
 moment should be repeated over and 
 over with great conviction until the 
 threatened condition is overcome. Then 
 when the mind has risen to its proper 
 dominion, one should make good with 
 a suitable spiritual meditation, confirm- 
 ing in Truth the vital action already 
 set in motion. 
 
REALIZATION IN SPIRITUAL 
 PSYCHOLOGY 
 
 There is no life, substance, or intelli- 
 gence apart from Thee, Thou Knowledge- 
 Substance by which the worlds were 
 made. I would acknowledge Thee, and 
 Thee only as my Life, my Health, my 
 Strength, and my Eternal Wisdom. 
 
 God works in me to will and to do all 
 that my wisdom leads me to do. 
 
 I, in my Divine Nature, came forth 
 from God, by His Power and by His 
 Wisdom. I am formed of His Sub- 
 stance ; God is my Divine Inheritance ; I 
 live and move and have my being in 
 God; I will acknowledge Him in all my 
 ways. 
 
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A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 2$ 
 
 I will walk only in the ways of God 
 my Life; I will acknowledge only the 
 Good ; I will love only the Good. 
 
 I will stay my mind on the Good, so 
 shall I be delivered from the thrall of 
 sense, and the bondage of superstition 
 and fear. With my mind stayed on God 
 there is nothing to fear ; there is no fear 
 in God and there is no fear in His like- 
 ness which I am, in my divine nature. 
 
 I acknowledge God through my Di- 
 vine Nature as my only working Power 
 and Wisdom. 
 
 The elements have no power over me ; 
 God never gave the air dominion over 
 me to give me cold or discomfort ; I will 
 therefore not bow down to the air nor be 
 enslaved by it. 
 
 Food has no power to put me in bond- 
 age ; I will make use of food to the honor 
 and glory of my Life. Neither heat 
 
26 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 nor cold has dominion over me; I will 
 not have them to rule over me. I will 
 arise to the dominion God has given me, 
 by creating me of His Own Omnipotent 
 Substance. 
 
 I will not bow down to, nor serve 
 emotions of fear, nor any other emotion 
 that bears no likeness to God; I will 
 arise and go to my Father. 
 
 I now affirm the freedom that I have 
 inherited through my Divine Nature, as 
 I also deny any bondage to past experi- 
 ence or human heredity. 
 
 I praise Thee, I bless Thee, I venerate 
 Thee, O my God, my Father, my Life. 
 
 Thou wilt never leave me nor forsake 
 me. Let me never leave Thee, nor 
 forsake Thee, Most High. 
 
 God is my Health, God is my Strength, 
 God is my Life. 
 
SPIRITUAL MEDITATIONS 
 i. Infinite Goodness. 
 
 2. Omniscient Goodness. 
 
 3. Infinite Holiness. 
 
 4. Omniscient Principle. 
 
 5. Infinite Spirit within me. 
 
 6. I am Spirit. 
 Teach me. Spirit, righteous think- 
 
 7 
 ing 
 
 8 
 9 
 
 Infinite Life within me. 
 
 Infinite Consciousness within me. 
 
 10. Infinite Goodness, I would Thee 
 know. 
 
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28 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 11. The Divine Love is within me. 
 
 12. I am thy Original Feeling within 
 thee. 
 
 13. Wisdom, Wisdom, Omniscient 
 vital Wisdom. 
 
 14. Peace, Peace, Omniscient vital 
 Peace. 
 
 15. Oh God! give me Knowledge. 
 
 16. Oh Life Omniscient within me, 
 give me Knowledge. 
 
 17. I am thy Holy Knowledge- 
 Substance. 
 
 18. In my deep Origin I am per- 
 fectly divine. 
 
 19. I am thy Omniscient Knowledge- 
 Substance within thee. 
 
 20. I am thy Holy Spirit of Right- 
 eousness within thee. 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 29 
 
 21. I am thy Original Spirit of 
 Knowledge, thy High Counsellor within 
 thee. 
 
 22. I am thy Creative Power and 
 Principle within thee. 
 
 23. Be still and know that I within 
 thee am God. 
 
 24. I am thy Almighty Protection 
 and Bounty within thee. 
 
 25. I am thy Holy Principle of 
 Faith, and thy Involuntary Self-control 
 within thee. 
 
 26. Faith in God; have faith in God. 
 
 27. I am Light, and in Me is no 
 darkness at all. 
 
 28. I am thy Holy Spirit of Truth 
 within thee. 
 
 29. I am thine Omniscient Principle 
 of Life, Faith, Love within thee; trust 
 
30 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 thou in Me, for I will never leave thee 
 nor forsake thee. 
 
 30. That I may know the Truth 
 within me. 
 
 31. My Creator and I are one. 
 
 32. The Father and I are one. 
 
 33. Faith in Omniscient Life. 
 
 34. I would know Thee, oh Most 
 High within me, that I may abide 
 realizingly in Thee. 
 
 35. Let not the will of finite experi- 
 ence, but the will of the Infinite Spirit 
 be done in Me. 
 
 36. Infinite Health within me. m 
 
 37. Let the Kingdom (or Spirit) of 
 Health within me come. 
 
 38. I am thy Holy Spirit of Health 
 and thy Involuntary Self-control within 
 thee. 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 3 1 
 
 39. I acknowledge Thee and Thee 
 only, as my Health-producing Power 
 and Wisdom. 
 
 40. Be still and know that I within 
 thee am God, I will have Health and 
 not disease; I will have Knowledge 
 and not ignorance; I will have Peace 
 and not turmoil. 
 
 41 . I am He that inhabiteth Eternity 
 within thee. 
 
 42. I am He that inhabiteth the 
 Omniscience within thee. 
 
 43. He that dwelleth in the secret 
 place of the Most High shall abide under 
 the protection of the Almighty. 
 
 44. Behold the Lamb of God that 
 taketh away the sin of the world. 
 
 45. I am the Resurrection and the 
 Life within thee. 
 
32 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 46. I am the Resurrection-Principle, 
 the Life-Substance within thee. 
 
 47. My Grace is sufficient for thee. 
 
 48. I am thy Creative Life within 
 thee; trust thou in Me; abide in Me and 
 live. 
 
 49. I am thy Spirit of Peace and 
 Power within thee. 
 
 50. I am meek and lowly in heart. 
 
 51. I am the Christ, the Son of the 
 Living God within thee. 
 
 52. Lo, I am with you alway, even 
 unto the end of the world. 
 
 53. I am the Way, the Truth, and 
 the Life within thee. 
 
 54. This is my Beloved Son, in 
 Whom I am well pleased, hear Him. 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 33 
 
 55. I can of my own self do nothing; 
 the Father that dwelleth within me, 
 He doeth the works. 
 
 56. I am thy Holy Spirit, thy Com- 
 forter, thy Principle of Love and Peace 
 within thee, trust thou in Me. 
 
 57. Arise, shine, for thy Light is 
 come. 
 
 58. There is a Spirit in man and the 
 breath of the Almighty giveth them 
 understanding. 
 
 59. Ye shall know the Truth and 
 the Truth shall make you free. 
 
 60. Thou art my Divine Spiritual 
 Protection within me. 
 
 61 . I am thy loving Life within thee. 
 I will satisfy all the desires of thy heart. 
 
 62. I will both lay me down in peace 
 and will sleep, for Thou, Lord, alone, 
 makest me to dwell in safety. 
 
34 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 63. I will both lay me down in peace 
 and will sleep for Thou, alone, oh my 
 Divine Nature within me, makest me 
 to dwell in safety. 
 
 64. Holy Son of God within me, I 
 go to sleep in Thy care, let me awake 
 feeling Thy Love. 
 
 65. Holy Divine Nature within me, 
 offspring and likeness of the Infinite 
 Knowledge-Substance, I go to sleep in 
 Thy care, let me awake feeling Thy 
 Love. 
 
 66. Let there now appear in my active 
 feeling-nature, the great and luminous 
 calm of oneness with Thee, Most 
 High within me, Thou Almighty Part- 
 ner of my self-conscious life. 
 
 67. Inspiration (repeat about six 
 times) 
 
 Infinite Spirit of Inspiration within me. 
 Inspiration of Life. 
 Inspiration of Knowledge. 
 
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A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 35 
 
 Inspiration of Goodness. 
 Inspiration of Wisdom. 
 Inspiration of Health. 
 Inspiration of Truth. 
 Inspiration of Omniscient Love. 
 Inspiration of Eternal Life. 
 (Repeat over for ten or fifteen minutes 
 with expectancy.) 
 
 68. Holy Son of God within me, 
 teach Thy self-conscious child of Thy 
 Father, that I may abide in Thee, even 
 
 .as Thou dost abide in Him. 
 
 69. Principle, Principle, Principle. 
 Infinite Principle, Infinite Principle. 
 Principle is all that I have. 
 Principle is all that I need. 
 Principle is all that there is. 
 Principle is always with me. 
 Principle is always for me. 
 Principle never fails. 
 
 Principle always succeeds. 
 Principle is my Life within me. 
 Principle is my inheritance. 
 
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 I was conceived in Principle. 
 I was born in Principle, 
 I am environed by Principle, 
 I live and move and have my being 
 in Principle. 
 
 Principle, Thou Infinite First, I 
 would acknowledge Thee as my Life. 
 
 There is no principle or power of evil, 
 There is no substance or intelligence 
 apart from Thee, Thou Principle Most 
 High within me. 
 
 Thou art the Life of my body, 
 Thou art the Life of my mind, 
 Thou art the Life of all the experience 
 I have had which I would now re- 
 deem unto Thee. 
 
 Thou art the Life of my hearing, 
 Thou art the Life of my seeing, 
 In all the ways of sense, in all the ways 
 of mind, I would know Thee O Thou 
 Holy Spirit of Knowledge within me. 
 To know Thee is Life Eternal. 
 
 70. That I may know the Principle 
 by which I came into existence. 
 
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 71. That I may know the Principle 
 of my mind. 
 
 72. That I may know the Spirit of 
 the Substance-Spirit, the Spirit of Om- 
 nipotence, the Spirit of Omniscience. 
 
 73. Let the Kingdom of Omniscience 
 within me come, let the will of the Om- 
 niscience within me be done in the psy- 
 chical and physical nature as it is in 
 the Kingdom of Spirit. 
 
 74. That I may be directed by my 
 Divine Nature in all the ways of my life 
 to-day; let the Divine Nature within 
 me come forth. 
 
 75. Let the Divine Nature come 
 forth and direct me in all my relations 
 with people. 
 
 76. Let the Divine Nature come forth 
 and direct me in all my business rela- 
 tions. 
 
38 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 77. Let the Divine Nature come 
 forth and direct me in all the ways of 
 my self-conscious life. 
 
 78. That my self-consciousness may 
 be one with the Principle of my Life, 
 and not opposed to it. 
 
 79. I thank Thee that Thou hast 
 heard me, and that Thou dost always 
 hear me. 
 
 80. I am thy Knowledge-Nature, the 
 Son of the Principle of All-Knowledge 
 within thee; learn of me. 
 
 81. I am thy Divine Nature within 
 thee; no man cometh unto the Know- 
 ledge-Principle, the Omniscient Sub- 
 stance, but by me. 
 
 82. I am thy Holy Principle of All- 
 Knowledge by which thou hast come 
 into existence; learn of Me and be wise. 
 
 83. Thou art the Holy Spirit of All 
 Knowledge by which I came into exist- 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 39 
 
 ence; I would know Thee, that I may 
 abide in Thy Wisdom. 
 
 84. I am thy Holy Knowledge- 
 Substance, and the involuntary con- 
 trolling Power of thy mind. 
 
 85. That I may know the Omnis- 
 cient Principle of Creation, upon which 
 my conscious life subsists. 
 
 86. I must keep faith with my Know- 
 ledge-Principle, for my Knowledge- 
 Principle is my Life-Substance, my 
 Love-Substance and the Substance of my 
 entire personal presentment. So I must 
 get into self-conscious relation with my 
 Life-Principle, that I may enter into 
 my divine inheritance of Life, Health, 
 Wisdom, and Love. 
 
 87. That I may know Thee, my 
 Life-Knowledge-Love-Substance ; while 
 I am coming to know Thee, Most 
 High within me, let me abide in loving 
 trust of Thee. 
 
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 * 88. Teach me thy Way, Man of 
 Knowledge within me; I would walk in 
 Thy Truth. 
 
 89. In the Kingdom of Knowledge 
 there is no prejudice, there is no judg- 
 ment, there is no condemnation. Let 
 the Kingdom of Knowledge within me 
 come. 
 
 90. In the Spirit of Knowledge there 
 is no prejudice, no judgment, no con- 
 demnation, nor is there any other 
 malignant spirit, of any sort or kind, 
 in the Infinite Spirit of Knowledge. Let 
 the Infinite Spirit of Knowledge within 
 me come. 
 
 * In those meditations where certain denials 
 appear in contrast to the subsequent affirmation, 
 it is well to repeat the denials over and over 
 many times in the spirit of the affirmation, mak- 
 ing sure not to entertain a spirit of condem- 
 nation towards that which you are denying, but 
 to abide all the time in the creative consciousness 
 of the spiritual affirmation. 
 
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 91. In the Spirit of Knowledge there 
 is no ignorance, there is no fear, there 
 is no weakness; there is only Infinite 
 Faith. Let the Spirit of Knowledge 
 within me come. 
 
 92. In the Spirit of Eternal Life there 
 is no deception, there is no ignorance, 
 there is no disease, there is nothing 
 perishable. Let the Spirit of Eternal 
 Life within me come. 
 
 93. In the Kingdom of Righteous- 
 ness there is no deception, there is no 
 evil, there is no fear, there is only Infi- 
 nite Wisdom. Let the Kingdom of 
 Righteousness, the Spirit of the Omnis- 
 cient Substance, within me come. 
 
 94. Thou art opening my heart to 
 Thy Holy Spirit of Truth, that I may 
 live a normal, intuitive, spiritual Life. 
 
 95. I thank Thee that Thou art 
 opening my heart to Thy Holy Spirit of 
 
 
 
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 Truth, and that I am more and more 
 each day realizing the spiritually inspired 
 life. 
 
 96. While I in my personality am 
 coming to know Thee, O Most High 
 within me, let me learn to trust Thee, 
 to trust Thee implicitly. 
 
 97. Thou wilt reveal to me the de- 
 ceptions of my present state and wilt 
 give me wisdom to know, and grace to 
 follow in, the Way of Regeneration — 
 the Way of Life. 
 
 98. Thou wilt cleanse my feeling- 
 nature of all sadness, condemnation, 
 resentment, and regret, and of all de- 
 pendance upon any other than Thee, 
 Most High within me, and Thou wilt 
 feed my mind and heart with the Bread 
 of Life straight from Thine own Omnis- 
 cient Substance, and wilt enable me in 
 my personality to express my divine 
 inheritance of Health, Wisdom, and 
 Love. 
 
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 99. I thank Thee that all sadness, 
 condemnation, resentment, and regret 
 are being melted away by the incoming 
 of Thy Divine Love to my personal 
 consciousness. 
 
 100. That my personal conscious- 
 ness may be inspired by the Holy Spirit 
 of Wisdom, and that out of this chrysalis 
 of human personality my Divine Man- 
 hood may be brought to birth. 
 
 101. Thou Divine Nature, Christ 
 of my soul, Mediator between my per- 
 sonality and the Holy Life within, 
 regenerate this mask of human con- 
 sciousness which I have called myself, 
 that it may fitly represent the Divine 
 Substance — the Father dwelling within. 
 
 102. 0, Thou Infinite Divine Christ- 
 Nature, Son of God within, as yet un- 
 born to me, Thou wilt reveal Thyself, 
 that I may create a noble character and 
 consciousness which shall be fashioned 
 out of Thine own Divine Substance, 
 
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 and shall testify of Thee, not only in 
 my own regeneration, but in that of 
 others, and in the hundred-fold that 
 shall be added because of the lifting up 
 of the Son of Man within. 
 
 103. That I may love the Lord 
 my God with all my heart, with all 
 my mind, with all my soul, and with 
 all my strength, and in this Spirit of 
 God-Love may I meet and enjoy my 
 neighbor. 
 
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 104. I am the Christ, the Son of the 
 living God within thee. By thy desire 
 I am come to regenerate thy conscious- 
 ness. 
 
 I will keep thy feet from failing, I will 
 keep thy heart from quailing; I will 
 inspire thee with Truth, with knowledge 
 of Me. 
 
 I will heal thee of all ignorance of 
 soul, and of its likeness in the flesh. 
 
 I will enable thee to form a new per- 
 sonality within the chrysalis of the one 
 that thou hast called thyself, a person- 
 ality which shall have loving dominion 
 over all the earth-consciousness. 
 
 Fear not, I am always with thee. 
 Call upon .Me and I will answer thee. 
 Thou art in My keeping, in Me there is 
 nothing to fear. 
 
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 I am the Health-Spirit within thee, 
 the Healing Spirit. Call upon Me in 
 time of need. 
 
 Trust in Me at all times and I will 
 cause great signs and wonders to appear. 
 At thy word the lame shall walk, the 
 blind shall see, the ears of the deaf shall 
 be unstopped, and all manner of sick- 
 ness shall be healed. 
 
 , Trust thou in Me, in Me there is 
 nothing to fear. Trust thou in Me. 
 
 Note. — Meditations are most effective when 
 they are first thoroughly learned by heart. 
 
 Number 104 will not only be found to have 
 great regenerative power, but also a quieting^ 
 comforting quality, and when used during a 
 wakeful night it induces sleep. 
 
 Much could be said of the different medita- 
 tions, but experience will discover it all. 
 
 To speak generally, it is better for those who 
 have had little or no teaching, to use first the 
 shorter and simpler meditations, jmd not to 
 change too often to others. 
 
NOTES FROM A MEDITATION 
 CLASS 
 
 Let us first invoke the Spirit of 
 Health. "Thou art my Holy Spirit 
 of Health within me." 
 
 This is the acknowledgment of God 
 as the Spirit of Life, and of the Health 
 which must come into our self-conscious- 
 ness in order for us to be able eventually 
 to realize God as the Spirit of Health. 
 We realize something of the spirit of 
 chemistry, and of mechanics, which 
 works out our bodily problem, and also 
 the state of normal-mindedness, as we 
 account normality, but the Spirit of the 
 Health-Substance we do not realize. 
 We realize facts, and enjoy the fact of 
 being well, but the conscious mind does 
 not realize that the health of the body 
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 depends on the mind being imbued with 
 a certain Spirit, which is the Health 
 Spirit. So let us meditate for a while 
 saying the words over, as if they were 
 from the Infinite, within ourselves, — 
 "I am thy Holy Spirit of Health within 
 thee, trust thou in Me." 
 
 In the old Scriptures we have the 
 terse laconic record, "Asa was diseased 
 in his feet, his disease was exceeding 
 great, yet in his disease he sought not 
 to the Lord, but to the physicians. 
 And Asa slept with his father s." 
 
 I want to get a lesson of healing out of 
 this. What does this record mean to 
 us? Why was Asa singled out to have 
 the fact of his disease, his seeking help 
 from the physicians, and his death, 
 recorded for posterity? Does it mean 
 that it is wrong to go to the physicians? 
 This record, coming as it does from 
 religionists, may perhaps be looked on 
 as one-sided, but it certainly tells us 
 something about Asa. He must have 
 had a higher idea than to go to the phy- 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 49 
 
 sicians or he would not have been held 
 up in this way for taking their advice. 
 
 The record presupposes therefore, 
 that Asa knew better, that he had within 
 himself a higher perception, but did not 
 live up to it in the moment of need, and 
 was lured away from it by some old 
 adversary in his mind. There were the 
 physicians on the outside, but he knew 
 a higher way of getting health and heal- 
 ing, of getting it from within, from "the 
 Lord." If he had not known this there 
 would be no point in the record. He did 
 not live up to the Truth he had per- 
 ceived, but in the hour of his temptation 
 he fell. The first obstacle he met, he 
 gave in to, and ceased to meditate on 
 "the Lord/' for this is what "seeking 
 the Lord" means. 
 
 Since God is subjective, is Omnis- 
 cience, we must turn the mind to consid- 
 ering this Subjectivity, as in meditation. 
 Asa could not send for the Lord, object- 
 ively, as for the physicians, so instead 
 of sending his mind to the Lord in 
 
50 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 meditation, he sent for the physicians, 
 and thus changed the character of 
 his meditation from the divine to the 
 human. 
 
 We find ourselves prone to do the 
 same thing. We change the character 
 of our meditation very frequently in 
 the hour of temptation when the mind 
 meets with some obstacle to our higher 
 idea. For instance, we go into a room 
 for the purpose of meditating, and some- 
 thing which we profess not to enjoy 
 nearly as well as our meditation engages 
 our attention, and we too, in a mental 
 sense, " sleep with our fathers" — we 
 11 sleep" to the spiritual idea. Why 
 do we do this? Because the mind is 
 not trained to stay with our meditation. 
 There is a hurdy-gurdy in the street, 
 we go off and attend to that ; someone is 
 coughing, and that rivets us and we are 
 asleep spiritually. We " sleep with our 
 fathers." 
 
 Now this Truth that we are following 
 means everything to us if we abide in 
 
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 it, but we need not be discouraged. 
 If we cannot abide in it to-day we may 
 hope to do so to-morrow. You know 
 that if we cannot learn a given lesson 
 in one day, we go on and on, and so 
 progress along the lines of ordinary 
 mundane knowledge in our struggle with 
 our environment. We do not jump up 
 and down in the same place for months 
 and months, but we progress by steady 
 earnest effort. So too it must be with 
 our spiritual progress, and thus we shall 
 attain to the knowledge of our Health- 
 Spirit, Health to the soul, and the cor- 
 responding health of body which grows 
 out of it. 
 
 In the New Testament we have an- 
 other terse direction: "Agree with 
 thine adversary quickly whiles thou art 
 in the way with him, lest at any time 
 the adversary deliver thee to the judge 
 . . . and thou be cast into prison/ ' 
 
 Now we know something of the Mas- 
 ter's teaching, and may therefore be very 
 sure that this does not mean that we 
 
52 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 are to capitulate or submit to the ad- 
 versary's terms. 
 
 The teaching of Jesus is a teaching 
 regarding the bringing forth of the Divine 
 Nature. " Agree with thine adversary 
 quickly . . . lest the adversary deliver 
 thee to the judge . . . and thou be 
 cast into prison.' ■ The adversary and 
 the judge and the prison are all within. 
 They are metaphors. All this is meta- 
 physical teaching of how to attain to 
 Divine Manhood, and to understand 
 this teaching we must know what are 
 the terms of agreement which we have 
 to make with the adversary within. 
 
 The Son of God comes forth from God, 
 and this coming forth means the coming 
 into self -consciousness. The self -con- 
 sciousness of the Divine Man must 
 therefore be a true representation of the 
 Source from which He came. This is 
 the sole meaning of the Christ existence 
 in self-conscious life. 
 
 x\gree with thine adversary — come to 
 an understanding with him. Does that 
 
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 mean resist him? No, resistance is not 
 in this teaching. We can see that Jesus 
 does not mean that we should resist, for 
 he says, "Whosoever shall compel thee 
 to go a mile, go with him twain." On 
 what terms then shall we come to an 
 agreement? It can only mean that our 
 adversary must be healed by the Son 
 of God within, must feel the Good we 
 are functioning, and agree on the terms 
 of the Good, through the feeling subtly 
 awakened in him by our abiding in the 
 Spirit of All Good. Continue to abide 
 in the Good through the whole trans- 
 action, for only in this manner can the 
 birth of the Christ into the realm of the 
 self-conscious personality go on con- 
 tinuously. 
 
 We are now being taught to abide with 
 God no matter what happens on the 
 outside, and by so doing all our adver- 
 saries will melt into agreement with 
 their in-dwelling Christ. We are Sons 
 of God being born, and we must not 
 personally resist evil, but trust to the 
 
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 Christ Nature to overcome evil with 
 Good, since all Power is given to the 
 indwelling Man. In this way, and on 
 these terms we actually come into a 
 oneness with God. If we abide in the 
 Good the adversary lays down his arms, 
 he meets the Spirit generated in the 
 personal realm by our abiding, which 
 dissolves the spirit of fight. Remember 
 all this transaction of coming to an 
 agreement takes place first in the meta- 
 physical realm, and then becomes mani- 
 fest in the outward presentment and 
 conduct of the personal being. 
 
 In all the events of our life we must 
 remember to abide continually in the 
 Good, to be in constant touch with our 
 Most High, and let all vexed questions 
 be settled in the involuntary realm by 
 the in-dwelling Son of God. 
 
 Now in our high moments of percep- 
 tion and feeling we have accepted the 
 great teaching of the Master as our 
 guide in dealing with our daily affairs. 
 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 55 
 
 Shall we then, as heretofore, take up 
 arms, visible or emotional, and sally 
 forth against our enemy as though he 
 were without? The enemy to our peace, 
 to our progress in Truth is our own 
 store of emotion within, which we are 
 mistakenly directing towards another, 
 while all the time it abides as a canker 
 in our own souls, joining forces with the 
 old personality formed by past educa- 
 tion and experiences while living from 
 sensuous premises. Each personality 
 differs, and if two are not in accord, the 
 one that knows the most must abide in 
 the Truth. While the Spirit of Truth 
 brings about this agreement, we should 
 remember that this is not done by the 
 voluntary man, but by the involuntary 
 man, that is to say, measures are taken 
 by the voluntary man which bring about 
 in the involuntary realm that feeling 
 which results in agreement. 
 
 Now we have all spent some years in 
 working out of old conditions with what 
 faithfulness we could, and yet perhaps 
 
56 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 some of us have not realized that we 
 have only one great adversary, and that 
 is within ourselves. We must deal with 
 that adversary by abiding in God, and 
 if he be not overcome at once we had 
 better pray that the condition that is 
 disturbing us may not let us off, until 
 we have done with it, because it is the 
 very thing that is calling for our trust 
 in the Divine Nature, which is able to 
 overcome the whole gamut of emotions 
 which this stumbling-block represents. 
 When we have overcome the enemy by 
 abiding in God we shall be more able in 
 our daily life to meet the various contin- 
 gencies which have tripped us up before, 
 and to overcome them by thus abiding. 
 The time to learn to abide is not so much 
 in the turmoil of life, as in your own 
 chamber, or in the meeting-place where 
 special opportunities of overcoming are 
 provided. 
 
 We give the enemy reality if we resist, 
 for we treat it as though it had power 
 apart from the great Principle (or in 
 
A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 57 
 
 religious language Omniscience) in which 
 we are abiding. Do not resist, just abide 
 like a little child, while the condition 
 resolves. It may take a little time to 
 generate the feeling that shall be great 
 enough to forgive the sins of the race 
 and our own sins up to the moment we 
 are having our temptation, which is 
 what "the enemy " represents. 
 
 But abide. You say it is not easy to 
 abide at such a moment, but it is easier 
 than you think. If you start out with 
 the feeling that your life depends on 
 your overcoming and that you are not to 
 overcome by fighting, but are to abide 
 and let the result be brought about 
 as unconsciously as the beating of the 
 heart takes place, it will not be so hard. 
 You will fall at once into the attitude of 
 meekness and lowliness, knowing that 
 your life depends on your abiding in 
 that attitude. Realize that you can do 
 nothing, but that your Life can do this 
 just as it beats your heart — in this way 
 you will surmount your stumbling-block. 
 
58 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 For instance, a temptation is offered 
 to be angry. Now in cold blood we 
 know that there is a better way of 
 settling matters than temper, but when 
 the temptation comes we do not always 
 remember this. 
 
 Because we are invited by some per- 
 sonality or by our own education to be 
 angry or to condemn shall we do it? 
 No, we have not to answer for another. 
 We have simply to abide, and we can 
 perhaps give that other a little help 
 on the way by thus abiding. Let us 
 remember that we are ourselves a com- 
 plete world of personality and each one 
 has this overcoming to do, of changing 
 that personality and bringing out an- 
 other. Are we going to fail, or to over- 
 come by abiding? We can help others 
 most not by talking and arguing but by 
 abiding. Do not go away to-day simply 
 feeling that you have had a wonderful 
 time which you have enjoyed, but go 
 away and the first adversary you meet, 
 just abide. You say you cannot do 
 
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 this? Just let go. Abide. Do not 
 fight, but abide, and trust the Power 
 that has brought you along to help you 
 to abide. 
 
 Knowledge is meek and lowly in 
 heart, it never thrusts itself forward, it 
 does not come like a mighty flood and 
 sweep us away, it does not crush itself 
 into us, but it comes in moments of 
 divine harmony and offers itself to us. 
 Knowledge is the door of Life Eternal 
 and Life Eternal does not manifest in 
 discord, ignorance, and bodily disturb- 
 ance, but is always peaceful, still, and 
 great. It does not argue, there is no 
 ground for argument, but when one is 
 not in the arguing spirit and is abiding, 
 it will come and sup with us. 
 
 Our only full salvation is knowledge 
 of God. Abide then in God. If there 
 is anything higher than knowledge of 
 God, go to it quickly but if there is 
 anything lower, then drop it. 
 
 Abide now and get your healing. I 
 do not ask you to remain poverty- 
 
60 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 
 
 stricken, but to come into wealth and 
 get your healing by abiding in the Spirit 
 of Health and let transmutation take 
 place in your bodies from terms of sense 
 to terms of mind. This will be accom- 
 plished not by abiding in the thought 
 of wealth or gain of any kind, but by 
 abiding in that great Spirit out of which 
 those things are born into the universe. 
 
 But this transmutation of body into 
 terms of mind all depends on the mind 
 being at a working oneness with its 
 Principle. Just so much of the Spirit 
 of Health as we are able to open to, so 
 much healing shall we get. This Spirit 
 can enter through the sound realm, by 
 means of the spoken word, and it can 
 enter through the soul realm — silently. 
 The one meets the other and enters the 
 personality. 
 
 The Great Master said: "Say not lo 
 here, nor lo there, the Kingdom of 
 Heaven is within you." I want to re- 
 mind you of a converse fact. Your 
 whole kingdom of enemies is within: 
 
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 Say not lo here, nor lo there, for enemies 
 — all your enemies are within. Looking 
 through sense we may think we see our 
 enemies on the outside — it is all a de- 
 ception — they are within — personalities 
 only call them out into objective form. 
 Your kingdom of hell is within, it is not 
 vested in any other person, so we know 
 just what we have got to do, we have to 
 rebuild our world of personality. Jesus 
 said that He could call ten legions of 
 angels and escape from His enemies 
 through fighting physically, but it was 
 not his purpose to do so, He chose to 
 abide. On another occasion He "hid 
 himself and went out of the temple 
 going through the midst of them, and so 
 passed by." 
 
 When we have redeemed the self 
 within we need not live in the world of 
 enemies any longer. We can look on 
 and see what people are and form our 
 opinions of them calmly and quietly — 
 but we shall not dwell in a world of 
 enemies any more. If they are harmo- 
 
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 nious we enjoy them and abide, and if 
 they are inharmonious we are able to 
 recognize that, and to abide none the 
 less, thus raising them by the greater 
 spirit which grows out of abiding stead- 
 fastly in the Good ourselves. 
 
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