E END OF THE AGE 
 
 AN INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT 
 AND MODERN PROPHECY 
 
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 A Study of Present World Conditions and 
 a Revelation of Mysteries 
 
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REV. GLENN ANDREWS KRATZER, B.A., C.S. 
 
THE END OF THE AGE 
 
 A Study of Present World Conditions 
 
 AND 
 
 A Revelation of Mysteries 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. GLENN A: KRATZER 
 
 Lecturer, Teacher and Practitioner of Christian Science 
 
 Author of 
 
 "Revelation Interpreted," "The Cause and Cure of War," 
 
 "Dominion Within," "The Universal Gospel," 
 
 "Spiritual Man," "What is Truth," 
 
 and Numerous Pamphlets 
 
 Compiler, Editor and Publisher of 
 "Teaching and Addresses" By Edward A. Kimball, C. S. D. 
 
 An Address Delivered at Oregon, Illinois 
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 TO THOSE LIVING IN THE END OF THIS 
 AGE, WHO DESIRE TO UNDERSTAND THE 
 MYSTERIES OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE, THIS 
 BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED BY 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
An Address Delivered 
 
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 Oregon, Illinois, 
 
 June 3, 1917, 
 
 Taken in Shorthand, 
 
 Revised and Amplified 
 
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THE END OF THE AGE 
 
 Introductory Remarks 
 
 In the Scriptures it is declared that "God is 
 light and in him is no darkness at all." The 
 Buddhists have a term, "amitabha," meaning 
 the boundless light. This is the "light that 
 lighteth every man that cometh into the world;" 
 and if I were to classify myself, I would say that 
 I am a follower of that Light. 
 
 Human Mentality Imprisoned 
 
 Now, then, matter, which is opposite to Spirit 
 or God; the flesh, which "lusteth against the 
 Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh," so that 
 "these two are contrary, one to the other"; the 
 carnal mind, which is enmity against God; these 
 three, — matter, flesh and the carnal mind — consti- 
 tute, as it were, the walls of the great prison in 
 which human mentalities are more or less con- 
 fined, and which, more or less, shut human mental- 
 ities out from the clear vision and reception of 
 the boundless light. 
 
The Windows of the Prison 
 
 But there are windows in the walls of this pris- 
 on; some of them large; some of them with win- 
 dow-panes very clear, very translucent, some of 
 them smaller, some with the window-panes more 
 or less dirty, some very, very dirty. 
 
 One of the largest windows in this human pris- 
 on-house, constituted by the carnal mind and the 
 belief in matter, was Jesus of Nazareth; another 
 was Gautama Buddha; another was Zoroaster; 
 another was Lao Tse; another was BahaVllah, 
 the great seer of modern Persia; another was 
 Plato; another was Swedenborg; another, Mar- 
 tin Luther; another, Wesley; another, Calvin; 
 another was John Murray; another was named 
 Mary Baker Eddy; and other windows in the 
 walls of this prison house are named Smith and 
 Jones and Eobinson and McCarthy, and so on 
 ad infinitum. 
 
 Judging Your Fellow Men 
 
 Some windows in a house such as you live in 
 may be large and clear; some may be smaller; 
 some may be dirty ; but even a dirty window will 
 let in much light, will let in enough to work or 
 read by, and so may serve you very well, if you 
 are in need of light and are not concerned so 
 much about the dirt on the window pane. So, it 
 
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is a question, in observing your human fellow- 
 beings, what you are looking for. If looking for 
 mental dirt, you will find it, and if looking for 
 spiritual light, you will see that; but the only 
 spiritual light there is, is God manifested, — mani- 
 fested more or less through every human men- 
 tality. "There is none good save one; that is 
 God." There is one light, one God, and wher- 
 ever you see spiritual light manifested, it comes 
 from one Source of infinite good, who is God. 
 
 The following paragraph, on page 295 of ' ' Sci- 
 ence and Health, with Key to the Scriptures," by 
 Mary Baker Eddy, is interesting in this connec- 
 tion: 
 
 "The manifestation of God through mortals is as 
 light passing through the window-pane. The light and 
 the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less 
 opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which 
 Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost 
 much materiality — much error — in order to become a 
 better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting 
 into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun." 
 
 What to Follow 
 
 Now, I am not a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, 
 but I am a follower of the Light which shone 
 through the mentality of Mary Baker Eddy; I 
 am not a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, but I am 
 a follower of the Light which was manifest in his 
 words and deeds ; I am not a follower of Gautama 
 Buddha, but I am a follower of the Light which 
 
came through that wide and open channel; I am 
 not a follower of Martin Luther, but of the Light 
 which shone through his consecrated life upon the 
 world. I am not a follower of Smith or Jones or 
 Brown or McCarthy, but I am a follower of the 
 Light of good which bursts through every such 
 mentality. I am not a follower of G. A. Kratzer, 
 but I am a follower of the Light from God which 
 comes, in a measure, through that mentality which 
 is known on earth among men as G. A. Kratzer. 
 
 "Jesus took a child and set him in the midst and 
 said, Of such is the kingdom of God." Now, I 
 am not a follower of any child, but I am a fol- 
 lower of the boundless Light that shines through 
 the smallest child that is in this audience, this 
 morning. I am not a follower of the flowers and 
 fishes and birds, but of the one Light and one 
 Life that is manifested through them all, despite 
 the tendency of matter and flesh to hinder in some 
 measure the full expression of that Light. 
 
 When I shall have attained that Light, when I 
 shall have "put on Christ", then I shall be a fol- 
 lower no longer, but then, and not before, I shall 
 be that Light, as you will all be when you have 
 made the same attainment. 
 
 BahaVllah, the great modern Persian seer, 
 founder of the world-wide Bahai movement for 
 the unification of mankind religiously, writes on 
 
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the second page of the "Book of Ighan" the fol- 
 lowing important statement : 
 
 "Should a servant desire to make the words, deeds 
 and actions of other servants, learned or ignorant, the 
 standard for knowing God and His Chosen Ones, he shall 
 never enter the Rizwan of the Knowledge of the Lord 
 of Might nor attain to the Fountain of the Knowledge 
 and Wisdom of the King of Oneness ; neither shall he 
 reach the bourne of immortality nor partake of the Cup 
 of Nearness and Good Pleasure." 
 
 The Universal Gospel 
 
 Such following and transmitting of the bound- 
 less Light which ' ' lighteth every man that cometh 
 into the world" is a promulgation of that univer- 
 sal gospel which Jesus said ' ' shall be preached in 
 all the world for a witness unto all nations; and 
 then shall the end come." 
 
 Main Subject for Consideration 
 
 I am here this morning to deliver unto you a 
 message from the universal Mind that is adapted 
 to the needs and circumstances of this crisis in 
 the world's history and development, and I invite 
 your consideration of a couple of short passages 
 from the Bible by way of texts. 
 
 "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars ; see 
 that ye be not troubled; for all these things must come 
 to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against 
 nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be 
 famines, and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places. 
 All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they 
 deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and ye 
 shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And 
 
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then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, 
 and shall hate one another. And many false prophets 
 shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity 
 shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he 
 that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." 
 
 And then, over in the second chapter of Acts: 
 
 "And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will 
 pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall 
 prophesy ; and I will show wonders in heaven above, and 
 signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of 
 smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the 
 moon into blood, before that great and notable day of 
 the Lord come; and it shall come to pass, that whoso- 
 ever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." 
 
 "The Time of the End" 
 
 I believe I have been announced to speak on a 
 subject indicated by the phrase, "The Time of 
 the End." This phrase was used by the prophet 
 Daniel, and, without doubt, has reference to the 
 same time or set of circumstances that was 
 referred to in our Scripture Lesson by the phrase, 
 "the end of the world," and concerning which we 
 are told that, ' ' He that shall endure unto the end, 
 the same shall be saved." 
 
 An Instance of Poor Translation 
 
 Now, friends, "the end of the world," is not a 
 good translation of the original Greek in this con- 
 nection. The word translated "world" is, in the 
 Greek, axon, which transliterated into English — 
 that is, transferred letter by letter, — gives our 
 English word "aeon." It has a parallel in the 
 
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Latin language, which is a cousin to the Greek, 
 in the word aevum, which means ' ' age, " " period ' ' 
 or "cycle." So, when we have a correct under- 
 standing of the question which the disciples of 
 Jesus raised on that occasion, as recorded in Mat- 
 thew 24:3, it was, What shall be the sign of thy 
 coming, and of the end of the age or cycle? Now, 
 that it was concerning which the prophets were 
 speaking, toward which they were continually 
 looking, concerning which the Old Testament 
 prophets and the prophecies of the New Testa- 
 ment have many things to say — the end of the 
 cycle or the end of the age, and that which is to 
 succeed the end. 
 
 The Present and the Coming Cycle Contrasted 
 
 Friends, mankind has been living, since the time 
 of Jesus, and very long before that, in an age or 
 cycle of selfishness, of materialism, of lust, of 
 carnality, of human domination in church and 
 state, of states-craft, of setting up of national 
 power as taking the place of the rule of God over 
 men's mentalities and consciousness. That is the 
 kind of age we have been living in, but ' ' the time 
 of the end" of that age is pretty nearly here. 
 And it is to be succeeded by an age which is 
 spoken of in the Book of Revelation, and which 
 theologians refer to as "the millennium"; an age 
 when human selfishness shall largely cease ; when 
 
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men will be governed, not by kings and emperors 
 or potentates, but when, under God, they will gov- 
 ern themselves; an age when fellowmen shall be 
 more highly regarded than money; when it will be 
 regarded as a crime to put immature children to 
 work in factories in order to coin gold out of their 
 blood. That sort of thing, which is typical of tens 
 of thousands of similar procedures which occur in 
 our present state of so-called civilization, is a 
 thing which will be unheard of in the age that is 
 coming. A time is near when no one will think of 
 selling distilled poison to his neighbor in order to 
 swell his own bank account; a time when the rul- 
 ing spirit of the age will not be materiality and 
 carnality, but when the knowledge of God and 
 obedience to the Most High ' ' shall cover the earth 
 as the waters cover the sea." That is the kind 
 of an age or cycle into which we are soon to come. 
 And he that shall endure to the end of this age or 
 cycle shall be saved, and shall have the glorious 
 privilege of entering into the next one — such a 
 cycle of human development as none but the 
 prophets of God have ever been able to conceive. 
 
 "The Signs of the Times" 
 
 Not only is such a " golden age" forecast in 
 
 prophecy, but many of the present ''signs of the 
 
 times" indicate that it is near at hand, and that 
 
 we are already entering into the new order, even 
 
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while the old order is " dying hard" in giving 
 birth, as it were, to the new. The two cycles over- 
 lap a little, like the links of a chain. 
 
 The Spread of Democracy 
 
 One of the great signs of the coming "day of 
 the Lord" is the spread of democracy. I was 
 startled, the other day, when I chanced to pick 
 up a Rand & McNally's Atlas of the World, and 
 opened to the map of Asia, and saw printed in 
 large letters across one of the largest of the polit- 
 ical divisions, "Republic of China," the last place 
 on the world 's map where, a few years ago, one 
 would have expected to see the word "Republic" 
 appear — a country containing about one-fourth of 
 the world's population, shifted, in a few years, 
 from the most typical absolutism and conserv- 
 atism in government and custom to a clear recog- 
 nition of the ideal of progressive self-government 
 on the part of the people. 
 
 The Approaching End of Absolutism 
 
 And now Russia, with the great stretches of 
 Siberia, has come, bringing a very large portion 
 of the territory of the world, and a substantial 
 share of its people under the republican ideal. 
 To be sure, these new democracies may be turbu- 
 lent and unstable as yet. They have not found 
 
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themselves; but it is clear that there will be no 
 going back to former absolutism, — rather a going 
 forward to enlightened and stable self-govern- 
 ment. 
 
 It has become clear that the present world-war 
 is a struggle for mastery between the former 
 ideal of government of the many by the few, and 
 the ideal of the many governing themselves, rep- 
 resentatively, under no domination but that of 
 unchanging, unseen right and good; and there 
 seems little doubt, now, as to which ideal will win. 
 It would not surprise me if, within ten years, there 
 is not a crowned head in the world. 
 
 That this is no mere dream of an enthusiast, 
 but is the confident expectation of people of the 
 highest standing and responsibility, witness, for 
 instance, the following words from the war mes- 
 sage sent to the Congress of the United States, 
 April 2, 1917, by President Wilson: 
 
 "We are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil 
 of false pretense about them, to fight thus for the ultimate 
 peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, 
 the German peoples included, for the rights of nations, 
 great and small, and the privilege of men everywhere to 
 choose their way of life and of obedience 
 
 "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its 
 peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of 
 political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We 
 desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities 
 for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices 
 we shall freely make. 
 
 "We are but one of the champions of the rights of 
 mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have 
 been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of 
 nations can make them." 
 
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Also the following from Elihu Root, head of 
 the American Mission to Russia, delivered to rep- 
 resentatives of the Russian Government in Petro- 
 grad, in June, 1917 : 
 
 "Under the security of our own laws we have grown 
 in strength and prosperity. But we value our freedom 
 more than wealth. We love liberty and we cherish above 
 all our possessions the ideals for which our fathers fought 
 and suffered and sacrificed, that America might be free. 
 
 "We believe in the competence of the power of democ- 
 racy, and in our heart of hearts abides faith in the com- 
 ing of a better world in which the humble and oppressed 
 of all lands may be lifted up by freedom to a heritage of 
 justice and equal opportunity. 
 
 "We have faith in you all. We pray for God's bless- 
 ing upon you all. We believe you will solve your prob- 
 lems, will maintain your liberty, and that our two great 
 nations will march side by side in the triumphant prog- 
 ress of democracy until the old order everywhere has 
 passed away and the world is free." 
 
 World-Wide Temperance 
 
 Then the movement for the suppression of alco- 
 holism, which, as you all know is sweeping all 
 over the world, and which is likely to soon bring 
 our own country into freedom from this terrible 
 curse, means much as a sign and seal of the higher 
 order which is coming. 
 
 Equal and Universal Suffrage 
 
 Likewise, the spread of universal and equal 
 suffrage, — already in force, even in Russia and 
 China, — and coming soon in all the civilized coun- 
 tries, means the elevation of women, and the giv- 
 
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ing to humanity in fuller measure the benefit of 
 the exercise of those God-given faculties which 
 are predominantly feminine in their nature. The 
 larger independence of women means, on the 
 whole, more intelligent selection in union through 
 the marriage bond, and an improved human race 
 in consequence. 
 
 The Rights of Humanity Superior to Property- 
 Rights 
 
 As already indicated, there are many signs that 
 the rights of humanity are coming to be regarded 
 as paramount over the so-called rights of prop- 
 erty, when there is any conflict between the two, 
 — a reversal of the prevailing order in the history 
 of the world thus far. When this ideal is realized, 
 together with the coming in of universal democ- 
 racy, both political and industrial strife, resulting 
 in blood-shed, will cease from the earth. 
 
 The Destructibility of Matter and Physical 
 
 Energy Now Admitted 
 
 That which is of greater significance than all 
 the rest of "the signs of the times" is the changed 
 attitude of the teachings of natural science with 
 regard to matter and physical energy. Until quite 
 recently, it was held that matter, while changeable 
 as to its various forms, was resolvable into ulti- 
 
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mate atoms, which were regarded as eternal and 
 indestructible ; and so matter, fundamentally, was 
 considered to be indestructible. Then there was 
 the doctrine of "the conservation of energy," 
 which held that the amount of physical force in 
 the universe, while assuming various forms, was 
 a fixed quantity, which could not be increased or 
 diminished, or destroyed. At present, the gradu- 
 ates from the departments of physics and chem- 
 istry of many, if not all, of the leading colleges 
 and universities know that it is considered by the 
 world's leading investigators of matter and force, 
 that both are gradually wasting away in favor of 
 nothing; and so those now schooled in the learn- 
 ing of the world can agree with St. Paul in declar- 
 ing that, * ' The things that are seen are temporal 
 (temporary), while the things that are not seen 
 are eternal." 
 
 The Coming Cycle of the Reign of Spirit 
 
 Once it is admitted that matter and physical 
 force are destructible, that is equivalent to admit- 
 ting that they are, in the absolute sense, "unreal," 
 as even Mr. Herbert Spencer agreed. In conse- 
 quence, the so-called laws of the so-called mate- 
 rial universe are not real laws, and cannot, there- 
 fore, be held to be either God's laws, or to be in 
 real contravention to the laws of Spirit, the laws 
 of which are eternal, unvarying, and so, supreme 
 
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and real. Thus, as a result of the change that has 
 come in the teachings of the world's learning, the 
 historic " warfare between religion and science" 
 is being done away with, and will vanish com- 
 pletely. It will soon come to be known by all men 
 that Spirit is the only real substance, and that the 
 manifestations of Spirit, God, Good, are the only 
 real law and the only real power. This will trans- 
 form humanity's point of view, change the basis 
 of human reliance and usher in the age of the 
 Spirit, to displace the cycle of materialism 
 through which humanity has passed, thus far. 
 Verily, as I have already said, the days foretold 
 in the old prophecy are upon us, when, "The 
 knowledge of God shall cover the earth as the 
 waters cover the sea." This, above all else, will 
 bring in health, harmony and holiness. 
 
 The Time of Dread Near at Hand 
 
 But between the present time and the coming 
 in of that next cycle there is to ensue for the world 
 at large a period of upheaval and distress and 
 suffering such as has never been known of in 
 human history, and it will try men's souls.* Fore- 
 
 *If this time of suffering shall prove to be less severe than 
 has been foretold in various prophecies, and than is forecast 
 in this book, it will be because of intelligent and effectual 
 turning to God, on behalf of the world, by rightly instructed 
 metaphysical workers, of whom there are already many in 
 the world, in ways indicated further on. 
 
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seeing this period, Mrs. Eddy has written, begin- 
 ning on page 95 of "Science and Health," the 
 following : 
 
 Mrs. Eddy's Prophecy 
 
 "Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep 
 in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. Ma- 
 terial sense does not unfold the facts of existence; but 
 spiritual sense lifts human consciousness into eternal 
 Truth. Humanity advances slowly out of sinning sense 
 into spiritual understanding; unwillingness to learn all 
 things rightly, binds Christendom with chains. 
 
 "Love will finally mark the hour of harmony, and 
 spiritualization will follow, for Love is Spirit. Before er- 
 ror is wholly destroyed, there will be interruptions of the 
 general material routine. Earth will become dreary and 
 desolate, but summer and winter, seedtime and harvest 
 (though in changed forms), will continue unto the end — 
 until the final spiritualization of all things. 'The darkest 
 hour precedes the dawn.' 
 
 "This material world is even now becoming the arena 
 for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord 
 and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and 
 peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to 
 be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and 
 death, which assume new phases until their nothingness 
 appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of 
 error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual 
 Truth. 
 
 "Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. 
 This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue 
 until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief 
 is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless. 
 
 "As this consummation draws nearer, he who has 
 shaped his course in accordance with divine Science will 
 endure to the end. As material knowledge diminishes and 
 spiritual understanding increases, real objects will be 
 apprehended mentally instead of materially. 
 
 "During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor 
 to find means by which to accomplish more evil; but 
 those who discern Christian Science will hold crime in 
 check. They will aid in the ejection of error. They will 
 maintain law and order, and cheerfully await the certain- 
 ty of ultimate perfection." 
 
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The End of the Present Cycle 
 
 We are now in the midst of the greatest war 
 and the greatest suffering that the world has 
 experienced thus far. Of course, there have been 
 places and times in the world's history where peo- 
 ple have endured as much as they now are endur- 
 ing in Europe, but such trouble never was so wide- 
 spread before. At the time of the fall of Jeru- 
 salem there was as great suffering in Palestine, 
 I suppose, as there now is in Europe. There have 
 been spots, here and there at times, when human- 
 ity has suffered as keenly, but never before has 
 there been any such war, upheaval and disturb- 
 ance as we are now in the midst of, and this is 
 but the beginning of sorrows; for after the war, 
 or maybe even before it closes, comes the famine ; 
 and on the heels of the famine, the plague, which 
 always follows where there are extreme degrees 
 of starvation. There is no telling how many calam- 
 ities in the way of earthquakes, floods, droughts, 
 may occur; but after the war, famine; and after 
 the famine, the plague; and what the world has 
 experienced thus far is but "the beginning of 
 sorrows," because that which is coming over the 
 world is not going to strike just the men in the 
 trenches, nor is it just going to take away from 
 homes some of the male members, but it will 
 spread through and among the people generally 
 
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and take women and children as well. I cannot 
 say how severe it will be in any particular place, 
 as here in Oregon, but any one who can read the 
 signs of the times as much as he can discern the 
 face of the sky knows that what I am saying is 
 true. He that is able to go through it and endure 
 unto the end of it shall be saved from it and enter 
 upon the most wonderful period, the happiest 
 period, the most joyous period the world has ever 
 known. 
 
 How We May Survive the Period of 
 Catastrophe 
 
 And how is a man to endure unto the end? We 
 are told in the second chapter of Acts, that "he 
 who shall call on the name of the Lord shall be 
 saved," even when "the sun shall be darkened 
 and the moon turned into blood.' ' "When the 
 sun shall be darkened, ' ' — that is, when the human 
 sense of the light of divine Mind or God, of whom 
 the sun is the scriptural symbol, is obscured. 
 "When the moon shall be turned to blood" — that 
 is, when the light of the Christ, who should be 
 regarded as "the prince of peace," whose light 
 is reflected from God as the light of the moon is 
 reflected from the sun, shall be perverted, on 
 account of sectarian differences, to become the 
 occasion of bloody strife. 
 
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as being the only power, the only remedy for 
 every human ill, shall be saved. 
 
 An Unfortunate Mistranslation 
 
 The Authorized Version of the Bible tells us: 
 "Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ 
 and thou shalt be saved." I am sorry that this 
 verse appears in the Scripture in that way, in our 
 most widely read English version, because it leads 
 so many million people to depend on that which in 
 the hour of need proves to be a rope of sand. The 
 Greek verb pisteuo does not mean " believe," 
 according to modern idiomatic English. The pre- 
 cise sense which it should convey is, know God 
 exactly and then rely on that knowledge. The 
 Greek word onoma does not mean "name," but 
 it means "nature" or "character," according to 
 modern English. 
 
 Rely on the Character of the Lord Jesus Christ 
 
 I will promise you one thing. Those of you who 
 acquaint yourselves with the character of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, and then confidently rely on 
 your detailed knowledge of that character, as your 
 guide for thought, feeling and conduct, every day 
 and in time of trouble, as you rely on your knowl- 
 edge of arithmetic when you have a problem to 
 solve, — if you have a detailed knowledge of that 
 character, and rely on it in the same confident 
 
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 Attention is called to page 40: The mis-spelling of the 
 word "Brahmin"; to page 33: The paragraph beginning: 
 "The mind knows, &c," should read, "The mine knows, 
 &c"; to page 61: The mis-spelling of the word "led." 
 
-yineifectually, — and to have no answer in conse- 
 quence. But those of you who are able to call on 
 thesname of the Lord in the time of trouble in 
 some\such sense as those of you who are accoun- 
 tants claU on your knowledge of mathematics when 
 you hav^ accounts to reckon up, or as those of 
 you who are chemists call on your knowledge of 
 chemistry ito work out intricate problems, or as 
 those of you who are musicians call upon your 
 knowledge of harmony and rhythm to bring forth 
 an acceptable rendition; those of you who have 
 Greek verb pisteuo does not mean "believe," 
 according to modern idiomatic English. The pre- 
 cise sense whichxit should convey is, know God 
 exactly and then rely on that knowledge. The 
 Greek word ono ma does not mean "name," but 
 it means "nature" or "character," according to 
 modern English. /\ 
 
 Rely on the Character of the Lord Jesus Christ 
 I will promise you one tIKng. Those of you who 
 acquaint yourselves with ti^e character of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, and then\onfidently rely on 
 your detailed knowledge of that character, as your 
 guide for thought, feeling and conduct, every day 
 and in time of trouble, as you rely on, your knowl- 
 edge of arithmetic when you have a problem to 
 solve, — if you have a detailed knowledge of that 
 character, and rely on it in the same confident 
 
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way, you will be saved, and you will come through, 
 at "the time of the end," to live in that glorious 
 millennium which is to follow. 
 
 Futility of Belief 
 
 A man might believe in arithmetic. He might 
 be fully convinced that there is such a science and 
 that it is very important. He might go out on 
 the streets of the Town, shouting and proclaiming, 
 "/ believe in arithmetic. Formerly, I did not, but 
 I have been converted and I believe in arithme- 
 tic": and still, if he did not know anything about 
 it in detail, it would not help him a bit and he 
 couldn't solve one problem. Anybody could cheat 
 him in a deal, any time. 
 
 I want to tell you that, if you are relying on a 
 belief in God or His Christ to save you in this 
 world or the next, without a knowledge of the 
 nature of God and of the character of Jesus 
 Christ, you are leaning on that which will prove a 
 broken reed. It will not help you a bit. You will 
 never get anywhere with that. But if you learn 
 to know your God, to know His characteristic 
 manifestations in detail and to know that each 
 one is all-powerful and specific in its own realm, 
 and to know that, when confidently relied upon 
 and intelligently applied, it is a law of annihila- 
 tion to all that opposes it in human experience, 
 
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then you will understand the character and nature 
 of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your reliance on 
 that will save you in this time and every other 
 time if you intelligently practice such reliance in 
 sufficient degree. 
 
 The Method of Prophecy 
 
 Now, in order that you may understand the 
 whole situation a little more clearly, and that you 
 may have more confidence in the forecastings 
 given us by the prophets, and in order that you 
 may understand your own way, both now and in 
 the time of dread that is coming on most people, 
 I am going to uncover to you, in a few minutes, 
 how it is that the prophets were able to forecast 
 the future and how you can learn to know what is 
 coming and so to prophesy. To do that, it is nec- 
 essary for us to get a clear understanding, which 
 we can quite briefly, of the three levels in which 
 human consciousness works or may work. 
 
 The Three Levels of Consciousness 
 
 Our starting point is the level of what may be 
 termed brain-mentation;* that is, the ordinary, 
 every-day, "natural" consciousness of the vast 
 majority of men and women. Below that is the 
 
 *See Appendix II. 
 
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great realm of sub-consciousness, of which I shall 
 have more to say later on. Above the level of 
 brain-mentation is the level of super-conscious- 
 ness, divine Mind, God. The terms "above" and 
 "below" have nothing to do with directions in 
 space, but refer to higher and lower mental quali- 
 ties. Those are the three levels in which we work, 
 or may work. 
 
 A Pertinent Illustration 
 In order that you may understand these, let me 
 use an illustration. You go up, some day, near 
 the top of a high mountain, and you may find 
 yourself, up there, in the region of the clouds, 
 and while you are in the region of the clouds, you 
 will find that the clouds limit and narrow your 
 vision. You cannot see through them; they 
 obscure and shut you in. Descend a little, and 
 you get below the level of the clouds and then the 
 whole earth region is spread out before you. You 
 can see, for miles and miles and miles, the rivers 
 and streams and forests, and the villages and 
 cities, if there are any. All the details of the earth 
 are open before you, though the whole landscape 
 appears darkened because of the clouds. If you 
 ascend, you will get above the region of the clouds, 
 and then the illimitable sky-order with the bound- 
 less light of the sun is before you. No forms or 
 shapes there — all great, clear, boundless light. 
 
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A Concentrator and Reflector 
 
 While you are in the cloud-region, if you could 
 climb up somewhere toward the upper stratum of 
 the clouds, and if you had some kind of a large 
 and powerful reflector and concentrator, so that 
 you could catch the light of the sun and reflect it 
 on the clouds round about you, intensifying the 
 light, as the headlight of a locomotive reflects and 
 concentrates the light, or as what is known as a 
 burning glass catches and focuses the rays of the 
 sun on a piece of paper, until it burns ; if you had 
 such a reflector and concentrator — a very large 
 one — and could turn it on the clouds and dissipate 
 them, what would happen then! Why, the whole 
 earth-order would be spread out before you in 
 detail, just as before, except that it would now 
 be lighted by the full sunlight, and seen more 
 clearly, in consequence — not because you went 
 down and got in contact with it, but because you 
 went up higher, got command of the sunlight, and 
 by means of the reflector and concentrator dissi- 
 pated the clouds. And then what? So far as you 
 are concerned, the clouds are gone; everything 
 below open; everything above open; everywhere, 
 so far as you are concerned, the clouds are all 
 swept away. 
 
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Psychics and Mediums 
 
 Well, now, there are some people who have a 
 knack of descending from the region of brain- 
 mentation into the region of sub-consciousness. 
 These are the people who go into a so-called 
 trance. They are called mediums or psychics. 
 What is it that happens ? In the degree that they 
 get below brain-mentation, they come into the 
 realm of sub-consciousness; that is, into some- 
 thing like the full consciousness of the earth- 
 realm. Everything in the earth-realm is known 
 coincidentally in the sub-consciousness; the past, 
 the present and the future are all there. That is, 
 the sub-conscious mind at its deepest level is 
 omniscient as to the earth-order, though it knows 
 nothing of the spiritual order. The concepts of 
 the earth-order are describable as material, tem- 
 porary, imperfect and finite, or limited. It is the 
 order of shape and change. It is the order of 
 un-Godlike mentality; for divine Mind, "the mind 
 which was also in Christ Jesus, ' ' thinks in terms 
 of the spiritual, the eternal, the perfect and the 
 infinite. The sub-conscious mind is what Jesus 
 called the Devil, of which he said: "He abode 
 not in the truth, for there is no truth in him." It 
 is the order of falsehood, unreality, although its 
 presentations seem very real to human experience. 
 
Psychism Condemned 
 
 Now anyone descending into the region of the 
 sub-consciousness, if he gets into it sufficiently, 
 can, if he wants to, tell where somebody's grand- 
 father hid his will. He can tell you what your 
 sister in California is doing just now, if he wants 
 to. If he gets clear down into it and fully into 
 it, he can tell you anything about what is going 
 on in the war in Europe, or what is transpiring 
 in Timbuctoo, or what happened in Hong Kong 
 yesterday or is likely to happen tomorrow or next 
 year; but I want to tell you that the practice of 
 descending from brain-mentation into sub-con- 
 sciousness is damnable and deadly in its effect. 
 It amounts to endeavoring to become possessed 
 of a "familiar spirit". The Scripture wisely 
 counsels: "Regard not them which have familiar 
 spirits'' (Lev. 19:31), and repeats this advice 
 directly and by implication at least a dozen times. 
 
 No Communication with Departed Spirits 
 
 Because they do not understand the mental 
 operations which they experience, many psychics, 
 when they go partially or wholly into "trance" 
 and see "visions" and hear "voices" and get in- 
 formation in ways that are abnormal and unusual 
 from the standpoint of most peoples' experience, 
 — these psychics, being unable to account for their 
 
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experiences in any other way, suppose that they 
 have gotten in mental communication with the 
 " spirits" of those who have died and "passed 
 to another world", when, as a matter of fact, they 
 are simply getting direct mental impressions from 
 what is stored in the deeper levels of their own 
 sub-consciousness, which is identical with the sub- 
 consciousness of all mortals, past, present and 
 future, and contains a record of their mortal ex- 
 periences, though nothing of spiritual fact or 
 truth. 
 
 Psychic Phenomena Explained 
 
 Many "mediums" will insist that they see the 
 form or get communications in the peculiar ver- 
 nacular of an "old Indian chief", or some other 
 queer personality, or that the form or voice, or 
 both, of some departed relative appears to them, 
 and gives them information, and these "spirits" 
 they regard as "guides". As they go into partial 
 or complete "trance" (mental "transition" from 
 brain-mentation to sub-consciousness), they do 
 get in mental touch with the sub-conscious realm, 
 in which are preserved the records of the forms, 
 voices, sayings, and deeds of all mortals who have 
 ever lived, as a phonograph record preserves the 
 song or speech of one who spoke into the instru- 
 ment years ago, and they get into mental touch 
 
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with the sub-conscious mental currents which 
 energized through them. Feeling this mental 
 touch, and being influenced by it, their own men- 
 talities objectify the forms, voices and pictures 
 which they experience, just as your dream-con- 
 sciousness, at night, objectifies persons, voices, 
 scenes, and surroundings which have no real exist- 
 ence — no existence apart from the dream itself. 
 To quite an extent, those who are in " trance" see 
 and hear what they "went into trance" expecting 
 to see or hear, though, once in touch with the sub- 
 conscious mental realm, it may influence their 
 personal mentalities to have many experiences 
 which were not expected. Once the personal men- 
 tality has thrown itself into contact with the sub- 
 consciousness, it may be caught and carried along 
 in its experiences by the mental currents of that 
 realm as a man embarking in skiff on a river 
 might be carried along by the current into regions 
 and scenes which he had not anticipated. 
 
 "Materializations" at "Seances" Interpreted 
 
 But, at "seances", groups of people often see, 
 or think they see, the "materialization" of some 
 departed "spirit", in such a way that they all 
 have a uniform sense of what they see. How is 
 this possible, if there is not some actual object 
 before them to induce this uniform impression? 
 
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It is because, under the influence of those who are 
 leading "the circle", and under the influence of 
 group-consciousness, stimulated by expectation, 
 they all come more or less into touch with the 
 realm of sub-consciousness, which is hypnotic in 
 its effect, and so they are all brought into one 
 circle of hypnosis, and their mentalities objectify 
 the uniform picture, largely in accordance with 
 the expectation of the one or more persons whose 
 thought is guiding the ' ' seance ' \ But, when their 
 mentalities come into contact with the sub-con- 
 scious realm, they may contact mental currents 
 which are running there that will cause the whole 
 group to have mental experiences, and to think 
 that they see forms or hear voices, that were un- 
 expected by anyone present. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy's Explanation of Psychic 
 Phenomena 
 
 In explanation of the phenomena of psychism 
 and of so-called spiritualism, Mrs. Eddy has writ- 
 ten, on pages 86 and 87 of "Science and Health", 
 as follows: 
 
 "Mortals evolve images of thought. These may appear 
 to the ignorant to be apparitions; but they are mysterious 
 only because it is unusual to see thoughts, though we can 
 always feel their influence. Haunted houses, ghostly 
 voice's, unusual noises, and apparitions brought out in dark 
 seances either involve feats by tricksters, or they are 
 images and sounds evolved involuntarily [out of sub-con- 
 sciousness] by mortal mind. Seeing is no less a quality 
 
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of physical sense than feeling. Then why is it more dif- 
 ficult to see a thought than to feel one? Education alone 
 determines the difference. In reality there is none. 
 
 "Portraits, landscape paintings, facsimiles of penman- 
 ship, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, can 
 all be taken from pictorial thought and memory [the 
 region of the sub-consciousness] as readily as from objects 
 cognizable by the senses. Mortal mind sees what it be- 
 lieves as certainly as it believes what it sees. It feels, 
 hears and sees its own thought. Pictures are mentally 
 formed before the artist can convey them to the canvas. 
 So it is with all material conception. Mind-readers per- 
 ceive these pictures of thought. They copy or reproduce 
 them, even when they are lost to the memory of the [con- 
 scious] mind in [the sub-consciousness of] which they 
 are discoverable. 
 
 "It is needless for the thought or for the person hold- 
 ing the transferred picture to be individually and con- 
 sciously present. Though individuals have passed away, 
 their mental environment remains to be discerned, de- 
 scribed and transmitted. Though bodies are leagues apart 
 and their associations forgotten, their associations float 
 in the general atmosphere [the sub-consciousness] of 
 human mind. 
 
 "The Scotch call such vision 'second sight,' when real- 
 ly it is first sight instead of second, for it presents primal 
 facts to mortal mind. Science enables one to read the 
 human mind, but not as a clairvoyant. It enables one to 
 heal through Mind, but not as a mesmerist. 
 
 "The mind knows naught of the emeralds within its 
 rocks, the sea is ignorant of the gems within its caverns, 
 of the corals, of its sharp reefs, of the tall ships that float 
 on its bosom, or of the bodies which lie buried in its 
 sands; yet these are all there. Do not suppose that any 
 mental concept is gone because you do not think of it. 
 The true concept is never lost. The strong impressions 
 produced on mortal mind by friendship or by any intense 
 feeling are lasting [in sub-consciousness], and mind- 
 readers can perceive and reproduce these impressions." 
 
 Caution Against Psychic Practices 
 
 Have no partnership with the practices or per- 
 formances of psychics and mediums, and place no 
 
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reliance in such testimony. Even though they are 
 able to report about things and events that are 
 distant, and about events past or future, in a 
 very unusual and wonderful way, you will note, 
 if you have had any previous experience with 
 them, that they almost never foretell or report 
 anything good. The reason is, that they are in 
 touch with the realm of the sub-consciousness, in 
 which, from the absolute standpoint, nothing but 
 the order of limitation and evil inheres; so they 
 cannot get in touch with any good. They may 
 sometimes forecast a coming journey, or the 
 receipt of some money, or some other so-called 
 good of the material order, but of real good, of 
 the experiences of the good of God, they have no 
 report to make. From even the human stand- 
 point, they are generally "prophets of ill". 
 
 Mediums Unwittingly Sell Themselves to the 
 Devil 
 
 It will be noted that those who endeavor to fore- 
 cast the future, or to read mortal mind, through 
 getting in touch with the sub-consciousness, do not 
 even profess to take any thought of God, in doing 
 so. Their method of procedure is to immerse 
 themselves in the "sea of sub-consciousness", and 
 thus, usually without understanding the signifi- 
 cance of what they are doing, they, "sell them- 
 
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selves to the devil", for the price of a little un- 
 usual mortal mind information, received in an 
 unusual way, and almost wholly of the order that 
 one would prefer not to hear about. 
 
 The More Excellent Way 
 
 The prophet Isaiah has well said : 
 
 "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them 
 that have familiar spirits, and unto wizzards that peep, 
 and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their 
 God? to the living (God), instead of to the dead?" (Isa. 
 8:19). 
 
 This is much the better way for every kind of 
 knowledge that one may need ; for if one, neglect- 
 ing for the time being the region of the sub-con- 
 sciousness, will go higher, reaching up toward 
 God, becoming acquainted with God, with the 
 boundless Light, — that is, becoming acquainted 
 with universal love, with universal intelligence, 
 with universal joy, with universal peace, with uni- 
 versal liberty, with universal justice, with univer- 
 sal purity, and dozens of other divine manifesta- 
 tions that I might mention, all of which are illim- 
 itable, but all of which have identity with bound- 
 less light, getting into that higher realm, getting 
 command of that light, which is the sunlight of 
 God, you can cause it to energize in your mental- 
 ity so that it serves the purpose of a powerful 
 spiritual reflector and concentrator, catching light 
 
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from higher Light and concentrating that light 
 upon the cloud realm, upon the mist, upon the fog 
 of brain-mentation and the limitations of carnal 
 mind, and if you succeed in doing this, you will be 
 released, for the time being and as long as you 
 succeed in doing it, from the cloud realm, from 
 the limits of brain-mentation. Then what? All 
 the earth-order of knowledge is spread out before 
 you more clearly than to him who descends to 
 sub-consciousness. You go higher and get all, 
 even of the lower order, spread out before you, 
 because the intervening clouds, with their limits, 
 have been swept away. Not only is the earth- 
 order spread out, but also the sky-order, the Light 
 of the Christ, who declared, "I am the light of 
 the world; he that followeth me shall not sit in 
 darkness, but shall have the light of life." No 
 limitations. Everything pertaining to humanity, 
 past, present and future, stretched out before you 
 like the details of the hills and valleys to one on 
 a high mountain; and all the joys of the illimit- 
 able God above. And then from that higher stand- 
 point, you can read the past, present and the 
 future; not because you went down, but because 
 you went up. Those who read mortal mind from 
 this higher standpoint, do so without immersing 
 themselves in it or becoming subject to it. They 
 read it as masters by rising above it, and in a 
 measure control it, instead of its controlling them. 
 
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How the Prophets Forecast the Future 
 
 Now, this is what happened in the case of the 
 prophets. They were an order of men who, in 
 order to know the past, present and futnre of 
 humanity, did not go into sub-consciousness. 
 They went up to God, and their realization and 
 understanding and control of the light of God 
 gave them power to sweep the clouds obscuring 
 their human mentalities out of the way and then 
 they knew what humanity had gone through, was 
 going through, and will go through to the end. 
 
 As confirmatory of what I have been saying, 
 the following words of Mrs. Eddy are interesting 
 and illuminating: 
 
 "Mortal Mind Reading and Immortal Mind 
 Reading' ' 
 
 "Mortal mind-reading and immortal mind-reading are 
 distinctly opposite standpoints, from which cause and ef- 
 fect are interpreted. The act of reading mortal mind in- 
 vestigates and touches only human beliefs. Science is im- 
 mortal and co-ordinate neither with the premises nor with 
 the conclusions of mortal beliefs. The ancient prophets 
 gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal stand- 
 point. . . . When sufficiently advanced in Science to 
 be in harmony with the truth of being, men become seera 
 and prophets involuntarily, controlled not by demons, spir- 
 its, or demigods, but by the one Spirit. It is the preroga- 
 tive of the ever-present, divine Mind*, and of thought which 
 is in rapport with this Mind, to know the past, the pres- 
 ent, and the future. 
 
 "Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us 
 to commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee 
 and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, 
 
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to be divinely inspired, — yea, to reach the range of fet- 
 terless Mind. 
 
 "It is recorded that Jesus, as he once journeyed with 
 His students, 'knew their thoughts, 1 — read them scientifi- 
 cally. In like manner he discerned disease and healed the 
 sick. After the same method, events of great moment 
 were foretold by the Hebrew prophets. Our Master re- 
 buked the lack of this power when he said : 'Oh ye hypo- 
 crites ! ye can discern the face of the sky ; but can ye not 
 discern the signs of the times?' " 
 
 *The phrase "divine Mind," as here used, evidently 
 means a very high degree of spiritual intelligence, but can- 
 not, in this connection, be taken to mean the absolute 
 Mind ; for, in the realm of the absolute, which is the eter- 
 nal order, there is no time ('Time is no part of eternity' — 
 S. & H. 468:29), and, consequently, no past, present or 
 future to be known by absolute Mind. On the other hand, 
 God, Mind, cannot cognize the time order, which is the 
 mortal order; for God is "of purer eyes than to behold 
 evil, and cannot look upon iniquity;" and, from the abso- 
 lute standpoint, the material order is "iniquity." 
 
 A Moving Picture Illustrates 
 Now, in order that you may understand exactly 
 what you are to do if you want to be saved, — for 
 illustration, suppose you go into a moving pic- 
 ture show in the middle of the performance. 
 There is a picture going on, spread out before 
 you on the screen, swimming by. There is no 
 substance there, though it appears as though 
 there were. It seems so, but if you go down to 
 the screen and reach out to it, you wouldn't get 
 hold of those people or things which appear. The 
 picture reels by for an hour, an hour and a half 
 or two hours, may be, spread out before you, a 
 succession of pictures, in time order. Now, you 
 know, every part of that picture was reeled up 
 
in the box before it commenced to unfold. It is 
 at the will of the operator as to how it is reeled 
 out, fast or slow, and you have to take it as it 
 comes if you stay there. If you enter in the mid- 
 dle of the performance, some of the picture has 
 been shown and reeled up on one reel in the box, 
 and some hasn't been unreeled and shown yet. 
 If you could go back to that box, and had an X-ray 
 vision so you could look right into it, then you 
 could get at one glance everything that had been 
 shown and everything that was to be shown. You 
 could get all the details of the picture at once, if 
 you could look into the box. 
 
 The Great, Original Cinematograph 
 
 So far as the material, un-Godlike order is con- 
 cerned, we may as well speak of it as an illusory 
 moving picture; for our experience and dealings 
 with it work out as though it were; and it has 
 been so recognized by many great thinkers. For 
 instance, Emmanuel Kant, in "The Critique of 
 Pure Reason", declares; 
 
 "All [real or spiritual] life is essentially only intel- 
 lectual and not subject to time changes, neither beginning 
 with birth nor ending with death. This world's life is 
 only an appearance, a sensuous [perverted] image of 
 the pure spiritual life, and the whole world of sense only 
 a picture swimming before our present knowing faculty 
 like a dream, and having no reality in itself. For if we 
 should see things and ourselves as they are, we should 
 see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures with which 
 our entire real relation neither began at [supposed mor- 
 tal] birth nor ended with the body's death." 
 
Martin Luther held the same views, as is indi- 
 cated by the following paragraph concerning him 
 from CasselPs "Universal History", by Oilier: 
 
 "The fervour and moral purity of his life showed the 
 perfect sincerity of the man; while the . . . mys- 
 ticism of his speculations, which induced him to regard 
 the visible world as an illusion, essentially evil and mis- 
 leading, revealed a nature ill at ease with itself and its 
 surroundings, but one from which great deeds might be 
 expected." 
 
 About 600 B. C., Arada, a renowned Bhamin 
 teacher, wrote: 
 
 "Putting away all desire and clearly recognizing the 
 non-existence of matter, we reach a state of perfect empti- 
 ness" [of all sense of that which is false]. 
 
 About two centuries later, Plato, the renowned 
 philosopher of ancient Greece, declared, in one of 
 his books: 
 
 "This world which appears to the senses has no true 
 being, but only a ceaseless becoming; it is and it is not, 
 and its comprehension is not so much knowledge as illu- 
 sion." 
 
 Parmenides, a Greek philosopher, born 488 B. 
 C, as reported by Dr. Crozier in his "History of 
 Intellectual Development", wrote as follows: 
 
 "The material world . . . (is) a mere succes- 
 sion of fleeting, ephemeral existences, coming into being 
 and passing away as in a dream, or, like the images in 
 a mirror, shadowy and illusory appearances, without real- 
 ity or independent existence of their own." 
 
 In the "Gospel of Buddha," arranged and 
 translated by Dr. Paul Carus, we find the great 
 
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Eastern seer and teacher, who lived about 500 
 B. C, reported as follows : 
 
 "Look about you and contemplate life! Everything 
 is transient and nothing endures. There is birth and 
 death, growth and decay; there is combination and sep- 
 aration. The glory of the world is like a flower; it 
 stands in full bloom in the morning and fades in the heat 
 of the day. Wherever you look, there is a rushing and a 
 pushing, an eager pursuit of pleasures, a panic flight from 
 pain and death, a vanity fair, and the flames of burning 
 desires. The world is full of changes and transforma- 
 tions. All is samsara [error, vanity]. All compound 
 things shall be dissolved again, worlds will break to pieces 
 and our [mortal] individualities [so-called] will be scat- 
 tered ; but the words of Buddha will remain forever." 
 
 The immortal Shakespeare in "The Tempest " 
 makes one of the characters to speak thus con- 
 cerning mortal man and the material universe : 
 
 "We are such stuff as dreams are made of, 
 And our little life is rounded with a sleep. 
 The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
 The solemn temples, the great globe itself — 
 Yea, all which it inherits — shall dissolve 
 And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, 
 Leave not a rack behind." 
 
 A little farther on, I shall give several quota- 
 tions from our own Bible, indicating clearly its 
 teaching of the destructibility and consequent 
 unreality of matter and flesh. 
 
 Count Leo Tolstoy wrote in his famous War 
 Prophecy : 
 
 "I see the passing show of the world-drama, how it 
 fades like the glow of evening upon the mountains." 
 
 Baha'o'llah, in the first paragraph of the "Book 
 41 
 
of Ighan," makes the following significant decla- 
 ration : 
 
 "The servant of God shall never attain to the shore 
 of the Sea of Knowledge except by complete severance 
 from all that is in the [material] heavens and earth." 
 
 It is very evident that we do not need ''sever- 
 ance" from that which is good or real or true; 
 so this statement by BahaVllah is equivalent to 
 a declaration on his part that the material uni- 
 verse is not God-made and is neither good, real or 
 true; and so is to be regarded as transitory and 
 illusory. 
 
 Mr. F. L. Rawson's Interpretation 
 
 Mr. F. L. Rawson, the widely known independ- 
 ent Christian Science author, teacher and prac- 
 titioner, of London, England, — formerly one of 
 the most eminent mechanical, electrical and con- 
 sulting engineers of Great Britain, long recog- 
 nized as the leading British authority on new in- 
 ventions, — in his epoch-making book, "Life Un- 
 derstood",* and in his other publications,* includ- 
 ing the weekly, "Active Service", which he edits, 
 has developed in great detail, and in a very edify- 
 ing way, the fact that the material universe may 
 be regarded, and mentally dealt with, as an im- 
 
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 Institute, 447-449 McCormick Bldg., Chicago. See last adver- 
 tising page at end of this book. 
 
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mense cinematograph, or moving picture, all the 
 details of which were pre-determined from its 
 own beginning, and which, to adapt Kant's phrase, 
 swims before the present knowing faculty of 
 humans like a dream, having no reality in itself. 
 And, as Mr. Rawson points out, humans must see 
 and submit to the many unpleasant features of 
 this cosmic moving picture, involving for them 
 the experience of sin, disease, accident, poverty, 
 limitation and death, pre-determined for them 
 from the beginning of cosmic mortal belief, alias 
 the devil, except in the case of those humans who 
 learn how to turn to higher Mind, God, or get 
 someone, who knows how, to do so for them, and 
 apply the light and power of this Mind to erase 
 and destroy at least the more evil features of the 
 cosmic moving picture which otherwise would be 
 imposed upon them as seeming reality, just as a 
 spectator at an ordinary moving picture show, 
 where the pictures on the screen are but a com- 
 bination of light and shadow, might, if he had the 
 control of a powerful searchlight, press the but- 
 ton, turn on that light, whenever the pictures did 
 not suit him, and cause them partially or wholly 
 to disappear, in proportion to the intensity of the 
 light which he could command to turn upon them. 
 
 The Final Disappearance of Matter 
 Thus far, humans have rarely attained the real- 
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ization and command of the light of Spirit suf- 
 ficiently to erase from the cosmic moving pic- 
 ture the lines and figures which represent the 
 manifestations of matter; for these seem to be 
 thrown into clear and strong relief, and, thus far, 
 have generally proven indelible. But tens of 
 thousands of humans, in various ages of the 
 world, have had sufficient realization of the light 
 of ever-present Mind to be able to so reflect this 
 light upon the false moving picture which cosmic 
 mortal belief was endeavoring to induce them to 
 accept as themselves, as to erase from that pic- 
 ture the elements named sin and disease, whether 
 organic or inorganic, poverty, accident and dis- 
 cord generally. They have also been able to delay 
 indefinitely the coming of the death-picture upon 
 their human consciousness; and, with increasing 
 spirituality, they will ultimately destroy this al- 
 together, as they finally will, also, those elements 
 of the cosmic picture known as matter. Well has 
 the prophet Isaiah declared : ' ' And all the host of 
 heaven [material planets and stars, including the 
 earth] shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall 
 be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host 
 shall fall down" (Isaiah 34:4) : even as the writer 
 to the Hebrews represents God as declaring: "Yet 
 once more I shake not the earth only, but also 
 heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth 
 the removing of those things that are shaken, as 
 
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of things that are made [by mortal belief, which 
 are not eternal, as are all the works of God], that 
 those things which cannot be shaken may remain" 
 (Heb. 12:26, 27). And Jesus declared, "Heaven 
 and earth shall pass away but my words shall 
 not pass away", which is exactly in line with the 
 prophecy of John in the Eevelation, where he 
 writes: "And I saw a new [eternal] heaven and 
 a new earth: for the first heaven and the first 
 earth were passed away." 
 
 The Moving Picture Hypothesis is Practical 
 
 So, let me repeat, we may deal with the so-called 
 material universe in all phases of its presentation, 
 as though it were an immense, long-drawn-out 
 moving picture, into which we, personally, en- 
 tered after the show was far progressed. The 
 sum-total of cosmic mortal consciousness, the 
 devil, is the operator, and we, so far as our 
 mentalities are carnal and material, are offspring 
 of the devil, "who abode not in the truth," as was 
 the case with the mentalities of the Scribes and 
 Pharisees, to whom Jesus said: "Ye are of your 
 father the devil, and the lusts [behests] of your 
 father, ye will do." There is a measure of car- 
 nality in every one of us, which is offsprung from 
 the devil; and the devil unreels the pictures of 
 the material order to us and we have to take them 
 
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as they come, unless we know better, just as we 
 would let the clouds on the mountain drift by and 
 envelop us, if we did not know better. But if, up 
 in the mountain, we could get hold of a large and 
 powerful concentrator and reflector of the light 
 of the sun, we could dissipate some of those clouds, 
 and if in "the mountain of the Lord's house' ' 
 (exalted spiritual consciousness) you gain a 
 knowledge and command of the power of God, 
 which is the boundless light, "the light that light- 
 eth every man that cometh into the world," and 
 foresee what the operator of mortal mind is going 
 to unreel for you, if he is going to send clouds be- 
 fore your vision which are filled with appearances 
 named poverty, disease, want, pain, and all that 
 kind of thing, if he is going to send such clouds as 
 these drifting before or across your mentalities, 
 and you "call on the name of the Lord," you turn 
 to higher Mind, you get control of that higher 
 Light and turn it on those dark pictures, you can 
 largely erase and destroy them, burn them up, 
 with the fire of the Holy Ghost. You con protect 
 the region of your own mentalities and of others 
 closely connected with you from being over- 
 whelmed and apparently killed by those drifting 
 clouds of evil which are coming over the world in 
 the near future, destroying all save only those 
 who know how to intelligently call on the name 
 of the Lord and be saved. 
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Make Your Knowledge of God Practical 
 
 Now, if you believe in God, if you believe in 
 good, and if you believe that God is all-powerful, 
 if you know He is, and that each of His manifesta- 
 tions is all-powerful in its own realm, if you lay 
 hold on liberty and apply it to the extermination 
 of bondage, if you lay hold of divine Love and 
 consciously apply it to the destruction of malice, 
 jealousy, anger and revenge, if you consciously 
 lay hold on Life, God's truth and being, and apply 
 it to the destruction of the argument of death, if 
 you will lay hold on Spirit, which is the only sub- 
 stance that will endure, and apply your knowledge 
 of that substance to the overcoming or controlling 
 of matter which is but a false claim of substance, 
 and really is only shadow, if you will stand with 
 your God in consciously and intelligently turning 
 down all that is unlike God in your experience, 
 then it will not be blind faith on your part but 
 intelligent action, and you will be saved. 
 
 Death Unnecessary 
 
 My friends, you do not need to die. It is not 
 written in God's law that you shall. The Scrip- 
 tures represent God as declaring, "Oh death, I 
 will be thy plagues" (Hosea 13:14); and again, 
 "I have no pleasure in the death of him that 
 dieth, saith the Lord God; wherefore, turn your- 
 
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selves, and live ye" (Ezekiel 18:32). The Scrip- 
 ture again speaks of Christ as he who "was mani- 
 fest to destroy him who had the power of death, 
 that is, the devil." 
 
 "Death is the wages of sin, but the gift of God 
 is eternal life." Death is not the law of God. 
 The Son of God was sent into the world, not that 
 you might have death, but that you might have life 
 and have it more abundantly. "This is life eter- 
 nal that they might know thee, the only true God 
 and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." If you 
 know God and know him fully, you will never die. 
 "He that keepeth my saying shall never see 
 death," saith the Christ. I will tell you that, if 
 you die, in this time or any other time, it is be- 
 cause you die under the law of the devil and not 
 under the law of God, and the truth dwelleth not 
 in the devil. Death is one of those pictures that 
 comes along and deceives humanity. You can 
 stave that off indefinitely. You do not need to 
 suffer with sickness or to die. 
 
 Rise to Higher Consciousness 
 
 Get into that higher Light, in the light of which 
 everything above and everything below is spread 
 out before you, so you can see your way. In doing 
 so, you get into that order of mentality which was 
 also in Christ Jesus. Then, when you can see 
 everything in the earth-order, where everything 
 
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is open and coincidently known, you can " speak 
 with tongues" if you want to, as they did on the 
 day of Pentecost. In "Science and Health", Mrs. 
 Eddy, speaking of those activities of human men- 
 tality which are in close touch with absolute Intel- 
 ligence, declares: 
 
 "Mind is not necessarily dependent upon , educational 
 processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry, 
 and the power of expressing them. . . . We are 
 all capable of more than we do. The influence or action 
 of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phenomena 
 of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips." 
 
 Speaking with Tongues 
 
 Human languages are mortal, not immortal. 
 God neither knows nor speaks the English, the 
 Latin or any other articulate language; but all 
 human words, all languages, are stored up and 
 known in general sub-conscious mind; and he be- 
 fore whom this sub-conscious mind lies open in the 
 light of higher Mind can read out of this lower 
 mind, and speak, any language he chooses, with- 
 out having previously studied it, as easily as you 
 can read a newspaper. There are extant today 
 quite a number of books written in this way. The 
 so-called "Aquarian Gospel", by Levi, is one of 
 them. 
 
 Two Modern Persian Prophets and Seers 
 
 It is reported, on apparently reliable authority, 
 that Husain Ali, whose spiritual title is Baha'o' 
 
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llah, the founder of the modern Bahai movement, 
 wrote books on subjects that he had never studied, 
 one of which was a history of Greek philosophy, 
 and that these books bear the test of the most 
 critical scholarship as to their accuracy. It is 
 also said that his son, Abdul Baha, who spent all 
 his life, from childhood to old age, in a Turkish 
 prison, with no opportunities for schooling, on 
 being released at sixty-four years of age, trav- 
 elled in Europe and spoke at will in private con- 
 versation the languages of the various countries 
 which he visited, though he delivered his public 
 addresses in Persian. 
 
 "And Nothing Shall be Impossible to You" 
 
 It is well for us all to strive for that high 
 degree of spirituality which, in proportion as we 
 attain it, will set us free from the limitations of 
 materiality and brain-mentation; for this will 
 mean a completer freedom and higher usefulness 
 for us in every way. It will enable us, for one 
 
 In one of his "Tablets," Baha'o'llah wrote as follows con- 
 cerning his ability to become acquainted with the world's 
 learning without stut'y : — 
 
 "Thou, indeed, knowest that we have never read the books 
 of the people or ever become conversant with what they know 
 of science. But whenever we wish to mention anything con- 
 cerning the utterances of the learned and wise, that which 
 is in existence and that which books and tablets contain 
 become manifest before our face. Thus we see, and then 
 write what we see." 
 
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thing, to know anything that we need to know, 
 spiritual or material, instantly, and without any 
 process of learning; that is, it will make us highly 
 intuitive; and this same order of exalted con- 
 sciousness uncovers sin, without effort, and de- 
 stroys it in the uncovering process. 
 
 True and False Methods of Uncovering Error 
 
 That method of uncovering sin, which drags a 
 confession of it out of a fellow human being by a 
 process of mortal questioning and application of 
 "the third degree", whether administered by a 
 Christian Scientist, so-called, or by a police of- 
 ficer, tending to make the so-called sinner fear- 
 ful and humiliated, is often very harmful; and 
 especially so, if the error so uncovered is pub- 
 lished around the neighborhood, or in the news- 
 papers. This is a mortal-mind uncovering of 
 error, which, instead of destroying it, tends to 
 multiply and propagate it, and to fix it upon the 
 sinner. But, when error is uncovered, without 
 mortal questioning, through spiritual discernment 
 on the part of the Scientist, the same spirituality 
 which uncovers it destroys it, or so largely so 
 that, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writ- 
 ings", "the remaining third destroys itself." In 
 other words, the scientific uncovering of error and 
 destruction of it are co-incident, and part of the 
 same process. 
 
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Super- Consciousness Is Healing and 
 Life -Giving 
 Also, the attainment of what Mrs. Eddy aptly 
 speaks of as "fetterless Mind", by rising above 
 brain-mentation, enables one to heal all manner 
 of disease, and prevent the approach of death. 
 Very luminously has she written in ' ' Science and 
 Health" the following paragraphs: 
 
 "The admission to one's self that man is God's own 
 likeness sets man [mankind] free to master the infinite 
 idea. This conviction shuts the door on death, and opens 
 it wide toward immortality. The understanding and rec- 
 ognition of Spirit must finally come, and we may as well 
 improve our time in solving the mysteries of being through 
 an apprehension of divine Principle . . . Our Master 
 easily read the thoughts of mankind, and this insight 
 better enabled him to direct those thoughts aright. 
 
 "Our Master read mortal mind on a scientific basis, 
 that of the omnipresence of Mind. An approximation of 
 this discernment indicates spiritual growth and union 
 with the infinite capacities of the one Mind. . . . The 
 effect of his Mind was always to heal and to save, and 
 this is the only genuine Science of reading mortal mind. 
 . . . We approach God, or Life, in proportion to our 
 spirituality, our fidelity to Truth and Love; and in that 
 ratio we know all human need and are able to discern the 
 thought of the sick and the sinning for the purpose of 
 healing them. Error of any kind cannot hide from the 
 law of God. 
 
 "Whoever reaches this point of moral culture and 
 goodness cannot injure others, and must do them good. 
 The greater or lesser ability of a Christian Scientist to 
 discern thought scientifically, depends upon his genuine 
 spirituality. This kind of mind-reading is not clairvoy- 
 ance, but it is important to success in healing, and is one 
 of the special characteristics thereof." 
 
 How Super-Consciousness is Gained 
 
 The progressive attainment of higher Mind is 
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brought about by learning to know God as fully 
 and as much in detail as possible, and by living 
 as close to the Absolute in thought, feeling and 
 action as possible, and as continuously as we can. 
 The process may be hastened by scientifically 
 knowing that man really thinks by the action of 
 infinite Mind, and never by the action of brain 
 lobes ; that man is the reflection of infinite Spirit, 
 and is never a form of matter; and that any ap- 
 pearance to the contrary is absolutely false, and 
 without divine power or any real power to main- 
 tain itself in evidence, or to continue to enforce 
 its false claim. There is no sub-consciousness, no 
 cosmic mortal belief, no evil or devil, because God, 
 the infinite Good, immortal Mind, never created 
 His opposite, nor endowed His opposite with 
 power ; and that which He has not created or en- 
 dowed does not exist, even though it may appear, 
 until the false appearance is destroyed by the 
 application of Truth. 
 
 The Coming Day of the Lord 
 
 More and more, and very rapidly in these ' ' last 
 days ' ', will mankind, all over the world, come into 
 the understanding and progressive demonstration 
 of this saving truth. 
 
 The conditions will soon be favorable to the 
 rapid spread and acceptance of this higher knowl- 
 edge. As long as men are at least fairly com- 
 
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fortable on the plane of material living, the most 
 of them will not turn to spiritual truth. Even 
 when they are in trouble, as long as there is any 
 seeming material help in sight, or as long as there 
 is any visible seeming opponent that they can 
 fight, they will continue to use carnal means and 
 carnal weapons. At the present time, the vari- 
 ous nations of the world think that certain other 
 nations are their enemies, and so they are fight- 
 ing each other. To use an inelegant but very 
 applicable illustration, the situation is somewhat 
 comparable to that of two cats, with their tails 
 tied together by a bad boy, and thrown over a 
 clothes-line. Each cat thinks that the other is the 
 occasion of his discomfort, because the other cat 
 is the thing in sight ; so they proceed to fight and 
 tear each other in pieces; and the bad boy who 
 is their real enemy looks on and laughs, being 
 himself unharmed. They should not attack each 
 other, but should help each other off the line, and 
 attack the boy. Then their troubles would cease. 
 
 The Enemy Uncovered 
 Likewise, in a fundamental sense, no two human 
 beings, and no groups of human beings, ever have 
 any occasion to regard each other as enemies; 
 and, if they knew how to employ the more excel- 
 lent way, they would never quarrel with or fight 
 against each other, either mentally, verbally or 
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physically. The one evil, cosmic sub-conscious- 
 ness, the devil, the master of the cosmic moving 
 picture show, ties humans together in social, com- 
 mercial or political bonds, and then they find 
 themselves in distress, because the relation is on 
 a false, material basis; and then each person or 
 group thinks that its distress is caused by the 
 behavior of the other person or group; and then 
 they fight. The fact is, that their discomfort, and 
 the disposition to fight about it, is instilled into 
 their mentalities by the one evil, the father of 
 mortals, and the father of lies. If humans would 
 regard each other and treat each other kindly 
 and unselfishly, even when they were seeming to 
 be used as agents in bringing distress upon each 
 other, and would turn their attention to the sum- 
 total of falsehood, by scientifically knowing that 
 there is no evil, or devil, because God, the infinite 
 Good, never made any; and that this false claim 
 of evil has no power to continue to unreel pic- 
 tures of discomfort and distress before them, or 
 before mankind in general, they would then be 
 attacking with the sword of the Spirit, and the 
 Word of Truth, that which is their real enemy. 
 Then they would begin to find deliverance from 
 their distresses. Men never will find deliverance, 
 as long as they fight each other, animated by evil 
 passions, and using carnal weapons; but when 
 
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they treat each other lovingly, and turn upon the 
 great lie, and liar, the devil, with their knowledge 
 and mental enforcement of divine Truth and Love, 
 their troubles will soon be over. 
 
 "Man's Extremity is God's Opportunity" 
 The present world-wide war will cease, sooner 
 or later, from physical exhaustion, if for no other 
 reason; and then men will cease to fight that 
 which is in sight. But when the famine and the 
 plague come upon them, in the measure that they 
 are likely to, they will wake up to the fact that 
 there is no help on a material basis. Then they 
 will do what men generally do, when all material 
 means have failed. They will turn to God, the 
 Spirit, which is the source of real power. Then, 
 indeed, "man's extremity" will prove to be 
 "God's opportunity". Men and women, all over 
 the world, will be ready to learn how to intelli- 
 gently "call on the name of the Lord, and be 
 saved. ' ' 
 
 The Gospel in All the World 
 
 The Science of God, and of His law and power, 
 is already known, and widely disseminated in the 
 world, through the discovery and teachings of 
 Mrs. Eddy, founded upon the teachings of the 
 Bible ; and the conditions of modern life are such, 
 with its railroads, steamships, telegraphs, ocean 
 
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cables, wireless instruments, and its facilities for 
 printing, that the knowledge of the Truth, and the 
 scientific method of its application, could be made 
 known to practically the whole world in a single 
 day, if desired. So, when, under the pressure of 
 necessity, men come to "hunger and thirst after 
 righteousness" (right-wise-ness), the conditions 
 are such that they can be given the needful knowl- 
 edge without delay. And so it seems very likely 
 that the prophecy of Jesus will be fulfilled, that 
 "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached 
 in all the world for a witness unto all nations; 
 and then shall the end [of this age, and the 
 commencement of the next one] come." 
 
 Then there will be demonstrated in present ex- 
 perience the prophecy in the second chapter of 
 Isaiah : 
 
 "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the 
 mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the 
 top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills ; 
 and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall 
 go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of 
 the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will 
 teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths ; for out 
 of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord 
 from Jerusalem. And he shall juclge among the nations, 
 and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their 
 swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning- 
 hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, 
 neither shall they learn war any more." 
 
 That is the blessed time that is coming, and in 
 a very few years. 
 
 Know Grod, rely on Him, be saved, and enter 
 into the coming joys eternal. 
 
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SUPPLEMENT 
 
 Day of Pentecost 
 "Hearing, Every Man in His Own Language' ' 
 
 (Portion of a lecture delivered in Chicago, June 10th, 1917) 
 
 What Constitutes an Explanation 
 
 To explain a mystery, is to give an understand- 
 ing of the conditions under which the phenom- 
 enon occurred, to classify it by showing its rela- 
 tion to other similar phenomena, and to show 
 how, under like conditions, the phenomenon would 
 be repeated. 
 
 Errors by Reversal May Serve as Way-Marks 
 
 to Truth 
 
 You will recall that, on the Day of Pentecost, 
 the disciples of Jesus, being Galilaeans, began 
 to speak in their own language the wonderful 
 works of God; and men in the assembled crowd, 
 "from every nation under heaven ", to their 
 amazement, began to hear them, not in the lan- 
 guage they were speaking, but every man in his 
 own language. 
 
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Since, as Mrs. Eddy has declared, "by reversal, 
 errors serve as way marks to the one Mind" (S. 
 & H., 267:24), and again, "If mortals are in- 
 structed in spiritual things, it will be seen that 
 material belief, in all its manifestations reversed, 
 will be found the type and representative of ver- 
 sities, priceless, eternal and just at hand (Misc. 
 Writ., page 60), let me relate to you two experi- 
 ences on the plane of error which may serve as 
 "way marks" in enabling us to understand this 
 Pentecostal phenomenon of hearing in many lan- 
 guages the words of one speaker through the 
 operation of higher Mind. 
 
 The Experience of a Merchant 
 
 Quite a number of years ago, there lived in a 
 village in Ohio a merchant whom we will call 
 Mr. S. The only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. 
 was attending college at Akron, Ohio, — a college 
 in which there was a dormitory for the women, 
 presided over by a Miss B., who was also one of 
 the professors in the college, and was much be- 
 loved by the girls. 
 
 The Conditions at the Time 
 
 One evening, in the winter time, just after din- 
 ner, Mr. and Mrs. S. were sitting in their living 
 room, with their backs toward a center table, on 
 
which was a large parlor lamp, with a shade, 
 from under which light fell upon the magazines 
 which they were reading. There was no other 
 light in the room, and, in consequence, the outer 
 portions and corners of the room were compara- 
 tively dark. 
 
 An Experience Mentally Transferred 
 
 As Mr. S. sat there reading, he suddenly heard, 
 in tones of fright and agony, in his daughter's 
 voice, the words: "Papa! Papa!" Startled, he 
 looked up from his paper, and saw in the dusky 
 corner of the room the figure of his daughter out- 
 lined in a sheet of fire. He immediately addressed 
 his wife, "Mama, did you hear Erma call?" She 
 replied, "Why no. What do you mean?" Then 
 he told her of the experience which he had just 
 had. She laughed at him, and they both thought 
 the circumstance queer, but dropped it from 
 thought in a few moments. But, in half an hour, 
 a telegram came, saying that his daughter had 
 been burned to death. 
 
 What Lead to the Occurrence 
 
 It was the lady-principal's birthday, at the col- 
 lege; and the girls had arranged a celebration in 
 her honor. One of them had written a poem for 
 the occasion ; another had set it to the music of a 
 
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chant; and a dozen of the girls, including Miss 
 S., had robed themselves as muses, their gowns 
 having been made from Canton flannel, which is 
 very inflammable. The gowns had long, flowing 
 sleeves. 
 
 The Birthday Celebration 
 
 After dinner, the girls assembled in the par- 
 lor, and, when all was ready, a messenger was 
 sent up to Miss B.'s room, saying that someone 
 wished to see her in the parlor. As she came in, 
 the girls who were seated around the outside of 
 the room rose and gave her the Chautauqua salute. 
 From a side room, the twelve girls came dancing 
 out in a row, singing the chant. They formed a 
 circle around the center table, caught hold of 
 hands, began waving their hands up and down, 
 circling about the table and dancing to the music 
 of the chant. 
 
 The Tragic Ending 
 
 Over the center table there was an old-fashioned 
 gas chandelier, with the arms hanging rather low, 
 and at the end of each was an unprotected gas 
 flame. Miss S. accidentally swung the flowing 
 sleeve of her garment against one of the flames, 
 and the fire ran over her gown as quickly as 
 though it had been gun-powder. Frightened, she 
 
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gasped for breath, inhaled a full breath of the 
 flame, and seemed to realize instantly that she 
 was killed. She cried twice, "Papa! Papa!" and 
 fell down dead. Of course, it was in the self-same 
 instant that her father heard the cry at her home, 
 sixty or seventy miles away. 
 
 Interpretation of the Phenomenon 
 
 Now, of course, he did not hear those words, 
 nor see her in a sheet of flame, in the ordinary 
 way. That is, the sound waves did not travel in 
 the atmosphere those seventy miles, nor did the 
 light waves pierce the walls of the college, travel 
 the seventy miles, pierce the walls of his home, 
 and strike his eyes after the manner of ordinary 
 vision, judged from the physical standpoint. 
 
 Transference Through the Sub-Consciousness 
 
 What did happen was as follows : Through the 
 medium of universal sub-consciousness, concern- 
 ing the nature and activities of which I have in- 
 formed you in previous lectures, the daughter's 
 state of feeling was immediately transferred to 
 the father. Such transfer is going on all the 
 time, regardless of so-called distance, between 
 people who are closely related in thought and in- 
 terest; but, ordinarily, an impulse passing from 
 one to the other is not strong enough to break 
 
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down the natural barrier that usually seems to 
 exist between the conscious mind of a person and 
 the region of the sub-consciousness. Otherwise, 
 peoples' mentalities would be flooded, all the 
 time, with states of thought and feeling coming to 
 them from all sorts of persons, in all sorts of 
 places, who are thinking about them. 
 
 A Natural Barrier Broken 
 
 But, in this case, the thought-and-feeling-im- 
 pulse sent by the daughter toward the father was 
 so intense that it broke this natural barrier, for 
 the moment, and his mentality received and took 
 on her state of feeling. Under the stimulus of 
 this feeling, his mentality did what our mentali- 
 ties frequently do, when in the dream state. It 
 objectified words and a visual image correspond- 
 ing to the state of feeling which it had received 
 and was experiencing. If, at a given time, any 
 two people felt exactly the same, — mark you, I 
 say, exactly the same, — they would say exactly 
 the same words, and do the same things. Accord- 
 ingly, when the father, for the moment, felt the 
 same as the daughter, his mentality expressed 
 itself, by auditizing and visualizing just what 
 her mentality was expressing. 
 
 Now, for the time being, we will let this inci- 
 dent stand; and I will relate another one, with 
 
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which, after finishing it, I wish to correlate this 
 one. 
 
 Another Pertinent Incident 
 
 When I was about twenty-one years of age, 
 long before I knew anything about Christian Sci- 
 ence, I had quite a severe and protracted fit of 
 illness, which did not confine me to the house, but 
 kept me from attending to my regular work. Dur- 
 ing this time, I was staying with an uncle in the 
 country, and he was a subscriber to a farm jour- 
 nal, known as "The Farm and Fireside." One 
 day, I chanced to read in this paper an advertise- 
 ment, worded substantially as follows: "Clair- 
 voyant Physician. Send a lock of your hair for 
 a free diagnosis, and recommendation as to treat- 
 ment." The name and address of a physician in 
 Michigan was given. I was in New York state at 
 the time. 
 
 A Clairvoyant Diagnosis 
 
 Half out of curiosity, half seriously, I an- 
 swered the advertisement, sending merely my 
 name and address, and a small bit of my hair. 
 As quickly as a letter could reach the town in 
 Michigan and a reply come back, — that is, by 
 return mail, — I received a letter, describing my 
 height, weight, general personal appearance, and 
 
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all the symptoms of the disease, more accurately 
 than I could have found words to describe them 
 myself. Incidentally, I will remark that I did not 
 take up with the proposed offer of treatment ; for 
 I knew, even then, that it is one thing to under- 
 stand what is the trouble in a human situation, 
 and it is another thing to know how to remedy it. 
 Many who are accurate in the diagnosis of dis- 
 ease are unable to heal the disease, even after 
 they know what it is. 
 
 How Was the Diagnosis Made? 
 But the question now pertinent is, How did 
 that physician know what was the matter with 
 me? The answer is, that he was what is called a 
 psychic ; that is, his mentality easily got into touch 
 with the realm of sub-consciousness. Through 
 the sub-consciousness, in which mental operations 
 go on regardless of so-called distance, his men- 
 tality received and took on my exact state of feel- 
 ing at the time. Then, all he had to do, in order 
 to diagnose my case, was to observe his own tem- 
 porary state of feeling, in the light of his trained 
 medical experience, and correlate the symptoms 
 which he felt with his previously acquired knowl- 
 edge, and then write me what they signified from 
 a medical standpoint. Also, while in mental con- 
 tact with the sub-conscious realm, taking on my 
 mentality and state of feeling, — taking on my con- 
 
sciousness, as it were, — he would take on the same 
 picture of my bodily manifestation, interior and 
 exterior, as I held concerning myself. Having 
 taken on my state of feeling, he merely translated 
 the details of that feeling into the English lan- 
 gauge, which he had to do in thought, in order to 
 write me the letter. He would probably have 
 done it anyway, as it is rather natural for all of 
 us to translate our feelings into words, even if 
 we do not speak them aloud, or write them. 
 
 A Supposable Case and Results Which Would 
 Follow 
 
 Now I want you to note that, had it chanced that 
 I had read half a dozen similar advertisements 
 that same day, by as many different clairvoyant 
 physicians, and answered each advertisement, and 
 suppose, for purposes of illustration, that one of 
 them had been a native of Norway, and another 
 one a Chinese, and another a Persian, and anoth- 
 er a Spaniard, and another an Italian. Then, 
 when each of them took on my state of feeling, 
 or my consciousness, they would all have the same 
 state of feeling and see the same picture of my 
 physical person, but when they came to translate 
 that state of feeling into language, the Nor- 
 wegian would think and feel in terms of his lan- 
 guage; another would think in Chinese; another, 
 
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in Persian; another, in Spanish; and another, in 
 Italian. That is, each would describe a state of 
 feeling, which I would describe in English, in his 
 own native language ; so the use of six languages 
 would be involved. 
 
 One State of Feeling Heard in Many- 
 Languages 
 
 Now, suppose that, at the time that the six were 
 in mental contact with my state of consciousness 
 through the subconsciousness, I were suffering 
 intensely, and were voicing my sufferings in Eng- 
 lish words. If my state of feeling were suffi- 
 ciently intense, — as intense as was the feeling of 
 Miss S, when she involuntarily uttered the cry of 
 distress to her father who was miles away, — it 
 might transfer itself to these six physicians with 
 sufficient intensity to reproduce a sense of distress 
 in their mentalities violent enough to cause them 
 to cry out with pain, or, at least, violent enough to 
 cause their mentalities to objectify the state of 
 consciousness in terms of words which they 
 seemed to hear, — as was the case with Mr. S, when 
 he got the impulse from his daughter at the 
 moment of her being burned to death. His men- 
 tality, under the stress of the impulse, expressed 
 to itself in words just what the daughter at the 
 moment was crying out. 
 
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So, under the circumstances which I have de- 
 scribed, the mentalities of these six physicians, 
 taking on at the same instant the same violent 
 feeling, might translate the details of that feel- 
 ing into words, seeming to be heard, but each 
 would translate them into words of his own native 
 language ; and so it would come to pass that a feel- 
 ing which I was vocalizing in English would be 
 heard, or seem to be heard, many miles away, in 
 many different directions, in five different 
 languages. 
 
 These Experiences Parallel to a Higher 
 Phenomenon 
 
 Now these are phenomena which occurred, or 
 might occur, on the mortal mind plane; and so 
 they are in the realm of error. But, as we stated 
 at the beginning, they may help us to understand 
 that which occurs, sometimes, in higher mental 
 activity. 
 
 The Preparation for the Marvel 
 
 The Day of Pentecost was the culmination of a 
 long period of spiritual preparation. For more 
 than three years, a company of disciples had been 
 under the immediate instruction of the most 
 spiritual man who ever trod the globe, Jesus of 
 Nazareth. There had been the period of conster- 
 
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nation, for the three days following the crucifix- 
 ion, then the period of reassurance after the 
 resurrection, when the disciples had received visi- 
 ble proof that their great teacher had demon- 
 strated his power over death, as he had foretold, 
 time and again, that he would do. The disciples, 
 who had gone into hiding immediately after the 
 crucifixion, were now more bold. They had be- 
 come convinced that real life and power are in 
 the unseen world ; that this is the basis of the life 
 worth living, and that what happens in the realm 
 of the seen is of comparatively small consequence. 
 Then, "when the Day of Pentecost was fully 
 come, they were all together with one accord in 
 one place," and they were all aware of having 
 come together for a great purpose ; for their Lord, 
 whose word they had now come to trust implicitly, 
 had told them that, on that day, the Spirit of the 
 Lord would be poured out upon them, and they 
 had come in a mood of great expectancy. 
 
 The Effect of Group -Consciousness 
 
 Now, whenever a group of people assembles, 
 in times of unusual interest, moved by a common 
 purpose, almost invariably a group-consciousness 
 takes possession of them, which is far more 
 intense than would be the consciousness of any 
 individual by himself. When the purpose which 
 calls them together is of a mortal order, the 
 
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group-consciousness which animates them is usu- 
 ally called the " mob- spirit"; and it is well known 
 that, under the influence of a mob-spirit, people 
 will do and say things, and have experiences, that 
 they would never do and say and have when by 
 themselves. 
 
 Likewise, when the purpose that calls a large 
 number of people together is a spiritual one, espe- 
 cially if many in the assembly are of high spirit- 
 ual attainment, then the group-consciousness be- 
 comes a highly intensified condition of spiritual- 
 ity, — so much so, that the cobwebs of materiality, 
 the obstructions of brain-mentation, are swept out 
 of the mentalities of members of the group who 
 ordinarily are not spiritually minded; but the 
 Spirit of God, always behind every spiritually 
 dormant human mentality, then comes to the 
 front, and all mentalities in the group energize 
 with the influence of this Almighty Spirit of Life. 
 Thus all present come very largely into the one 
 Mind, "that Mind which was also in Christ 
 Jesus," and are then sufficiently spiritual, so that 
 their predominant state of feeling is an expe- 
 rience of divine Love, the uplift of spiritual joy, 
 the inspiration of the experience of infinite lib- 
 erty; but members of the group are still human 
 enough so that they are likely to translate the 
 details of their spiritual feeling into human 
 
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words, by means of which they express to them- 
 selves or others, in human language, that which 
 they are thinking and feeling. 
 
 The Outpouring of the Spirit 
 
 Now, on this Day of Pentecost, the disciples of 
 Jesus, being Galilaeans, came together, under the 
 influence of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak, 
 one after another, declaring the wonderful works 
 of God. There was such a stir, and such an influ- 
 ence went out from the group, that other Jews 
 who were present in large numbers at the feast 
 of the Pentecost, — of Jewish lineage, but natives 
 of many different countries, and not naturally 
 understanding the dialect of the Galilaeans, but 
 speaking the languages of the several countries 
 from which they came, — began to gather around 
 the group of the disciples, moved at first by curi- 
 osity, and marveling at the wonderful power with 
 which they spoke. Some thought they were drunk, 
 observing which, Peter declared that they were 
 not, because it was only nine o'clock in the morn- 
 ing, and men do not customarily come under the 
 influence of wine as early as that. 
 
 The Hearing in Many Languages 
 
 As the Galilaeans continued to testify, the crowd 
 grew, until it became so large that the majority 
 
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were too far away from the speakers to hear what 
 they said in the natural way ; but soon vast num- 
 bers of the crowd came under the spiritual influ- 
 ence, becoming more intense as the result of the 
 group-consciousness ascending to the one Mind, 
 and then they took on or entered into the same 
 state of feeling as possessed those who were 
 speaking. As a consequence, the mentalities of 
 thousands of men in that group, "out of every 
 nation under heaven, ' ' began to translate the feel- 
 ing common to them all into an expression taking 
 the form of language, and probably so vividly 
 that it seemed like spoken words which they 
 heard; but, in that case, each translated the one 
 state of feeling into his own native language ; and 
 thus it came to pass that when the Galilaeans 
 spoke, the multitude was astounded, because 
 every man in the crowd heard, not in the language 
 of the Galilaeans which he could not understand, 
 but in the language of his own country, which he 
 could and did understand. 
 
 Another similar activity occurred when the 
 mentality of the child Samuel translated a feel- 
 ing-impulse which it received from higher Mind 
 into words that he apparently heard, and which 
 seemed to call him by name. The call was in the 
 feeling, from higher Intelligence, but the words, 
 as in all such cases, were supplied or objectified 
 by the lower stratum of his own mentality. A 
 
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similar incident occurred, as related in the 12th 
 
 chapter of John: 
 
 "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? 
 Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came 
 I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came 
 there a voice from heaven [higher consciousness], saying, 
 I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The 
 people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it 
 thundered ; others said, an angel spake to Him. Jesus 
 answered and said, This voice came not because of me, 
 but for your sakes." 
 
 Under the influence of the mentality of Jesus, 
 sweeping away the materiality, in greater or less 
 measure, from the mentalities of the by-standers, 
 they were all, more or less, in a spiritual group- 
 consciousness ; and they received from higher 
 Mind a spiritual feeling. The mentalities of those 
 who got it most clearly translated the feeling into 
 the definite words, "I have both glorified it, and 
 will glorify it again," supplying the words so 
 clearly that they appeared as audible. Other by- 
 standers, not being so spiritually minded, and not 
 getting the spiritual feeling so clearly, were yet 
 touched by it in a measure, indistinctly, and their 
 mentalities supplied an indistinct sound, so that 
 they said that it thundered. 
 
 In considering these phenomena, it is well to 
 remember that, in all cases, it is the mentality, 
 and not any outward object, that supplies the 
 hearing. Any well-schooled natural scientist or 
 philosopher will tell you that, when an iceberg 
 
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cracks in two in the middle of the ocean, there is 
 no sound, unless some mentality be within reach 
 of the occurrence. In all cases, what we hear, 
 so far as the sound is concerned, is not external 
 objects, but states of our own consciousness. 
 
 When it comes to be thoroughly understood that 
 matter itself, in the last analysis, is mental, and 
 that the whole realm of consciousness is an expe- 
 rience, not of matter, but of true or false mental- 
 ity, then all seeming mysteries will have been 
 solved. 
 
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INSTANTANEOUS TRANSPORTATION 
 
 We read, in the eighth chapter of Acts, that 
 Philip was led of the Spirit to make a journey 
 southward from Jerusalem, and that there he met 
 a prominent Ethiopian, a servant of the queen 
 of the country, and entered into conversation with 
 him. The Ethiopian was converted and baptised ; 
 and the record says that, ''"When they were come 
 up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught 
 away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more; 
 but Philip was found at Azotus," which was many 
 miles from where he had been with the eunuch 
 a few moments before. The record gives us to 
 understand that the transportation from one 
 place to the other was made practically instan- 
 taneously. There is much testimony, in the total, 
 that various people, at different times in the 
 world's history, have disappeared in one place 
 and found themselves at another distant place 
 immediately; and the question of how this could 
 happen has been considered a difficult one to an- 
 swer; but it is not difficult, if we have the right 
 basis of understanding. 
 
 Such an occurrence as the one above related 
 can be understood only by those who have previ- 
 ously reached a comprehension of the fact that 
 matter in all of its manifestations is but a mode 
 
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of mortal consciousness, and is unreal, — a fact 
 which even the best known physicists and chem- 
 ists of the world are now admitting. For instance, 
 we read in the introduction to a text-book on 
 physics by Henderson and Woodhull, of Columbia 
 University, as follows : 
 
 "Matter makes itself known to us by the testimony of 
 the senses. We see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, touch it 
 But observe that, after all, this is indirect testimony. 
 These impressions are all of them simply brain impres- 
 sions. He see, hear, smell, taste, touch, in our conscious- 
 ness only. We cannot assert, therefore, that matter exists 
 apart from this consciousness." 
 
 Herbert Spencer has written : 
 
 "Matter, motion, and force, are not reality, but the 
 symbols of reality." 
 
 In the same line is the following declaration 
 by Dr. Gustave Le Bon, in his book, ''The Evolu- 
 tion of Forces," one of the International Scien- 
 tific Series : 
 
 "The world constructed with the impressions of our 
 senses is a summary translation, and necessarily a far 
 from faithful one, of the real world which we know not" 
 
 Mr. Grant Allen, author and scientist, states the 
 following view : 
 
 "The universe, as known to us, consists wholly of 
 mind, and matter is a doubtful and uncertain inference 
 of the human intelligence." 
 
 Professor Max Miiller, of world-wide celebrity, 
 has written: 
 
 "To speak of matter or substance as something exist- 
 ing by itself and presented to the senses is mere myth- 
 ology." 
 
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Once it be admitted that matter is unreal, then 
 it is seen that the material earth, for instance, 
 though it appears, is "not so." Then one can 
 ask one's self the question, "How many miles is 
 it around that which is not so?" and answer it, 
 1 ' No distance at all. ' ' Granting that the material 
 city of London, and all the seeming matter, as land 
 and water, appearing between us and it, is un- 
 real, "How far is it across an unreality to the 
 unreality named the city of London 1 ?" the answer 
 evidently is, "No distance at all." And the an- 
 swer would be the same with regard to a question 
 as to the distance from here to the sun, which, 
 though appearing as matter, is nothing but an 
 illusory state of false consciousness. 
 
 So, in considering the transportation question, 
 whether immediate or stretched out over hours or 
 days of so-called time, from a philosophical stand- 
 point we are really dealing, not with matter and 
 space, as appears, but with what seems to tran- 
 spire in states of consciousness which are unreal 
 and false, and not, therefore, solid and fixed, as 
 they seem to be, but perfectly fluid. 
 
 In dreams, we change our sense of location in- 
 stantly and without effort, by a mere change of 
 thought, because the sense of location is but a 
 state and part of the dream. We can do this, be- 
 cause the dream consciousness does not seem to 
 be under the control of any other order of con- 
 
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sciousness, but is "a law unto itself," as it were, 
 changing its material objectifications at will. 
 
 Now, as we have seen, our so-called waking 
 sense of material surroundings and of location is 
 but a mode of objectified mortal consciousness; 
 but the personal waking consciousness is, ordinar- 
 ily, under the mesmeric control of general belief, 
 the cosmic carnal mind, which tends to hold the 
 personal belief of all mortals to a sense of uni- 
 formity, and to fix the conditions of material 
 objectification for them. All humans were born 
 under and into this sense of mesmeric control, 
 and usually pass from the cradle to the grave 
 thinking this control to be "law," or the "order 
 of nature," and most people, taking it for granted 
 that matter is real, even accept it as God's crea- 
 tion, without an attempt at protest. Accordingly, 
 for most people, the fact holds that, "to whom ye 
 yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye 
 are; whether of sin [false belief] unto death, or 
 of obedience unto right-wise-ness." 
 
 Occasionally, here and there, a person becomes 
 aware of the fact that the material order is not 
 real substance, and that the so-called laws of na- 
 ture are but the mesmeric imposition of cosmic 
 carnal mind, whose seeming power is but a pre- 
 tense. This knowledge is attained by those who 
 have awakened to the fact that real substance is 
 Spirit, and that real law and real power are the 
 
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manifestations of this Spirit, Almighty God. If 
 people thus awakened continually strive to draw 
 nigh to the higher Mind, they become imbued with 
 its power. Consequently, there comes a degree of 
 their development when their reflection of the 
 power of God makes their personal consciousness 
 stronger than the mesmerism of cosmic carnal 
 mind, alias the devil; and they are held less and 
 less under its seeming mesmeric control. Conse- 
 quently, their thought, even on the mortal plane, 
 is a law unto itself, because their reflecting higher 
 Mind has broken the control which general belief 
 had seemed to hold over them ; and so, just as is 
 the case with those in the dream consciousness, 
 whatever state of thought they hold immediately 
 objectifies itself, according to itself, and not at 
 all according to the seeming mortal law that binds 
 the thought of other humans who have less benefit 
 from the realization of Spirit. Consequently, in 
 the case of those who have entered far into higher 
 consciousness, if they think " Chicago, ' ' there they 
 are. If, the next instant, they think * 'London," 
 there they are; and so, if sufficiently freed by 
 spirituality from the limitations of mortal mes- 
 merism, they may be at will in any place they 
 think about, taking part as long as they will in 
 the uniform mortal illusion that binds the inhabit- 
 ants of that place, but breaking free from that 
 
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illusion any instant they choose to, and entering 
 into another one. 
 
 When they become still more spiritual, and 
 enter fully into union with the one Mind, they 
 then transcend the illusion of materiality entirely, 
 and disappear from the apprehension of carnal 
 sense, as did Jesus when he demonstrated the 
 ascension. His disciples beheld him no more. 
 
 I was much interested to find confirmation of 
 what I am here teaching in Science and Health. 
 On page 90, Mrs. Eddy says : 
 
 "In dreams we fly to Europe and meet a far-off friend. 
 The looker-on sees the body in bed, but the supposed in- 
 habitant of that body carries it through the air and over 
 the ocean. This shows the possibilities of thought. 
 Divest yourself of the thought that there can be sub- 
 stance in matter, and the movements and transitions now 
 possible for mortal mind will be found to be equally pos- 
 sible for the body." 
 
 This spiritualized state of consciousness, in 
 which and by which this and other so-called 
 miracles may be wrought, will be characteristic 
 of many who will live in the cycle of the Spirit 
 which is to follow the end of this age ; and it is a 
 condition of consciousness worth attaining, not 
 only for the freedom which it may give one from 
 the limitation of being bound to one place, unless 
 one undergoes the expense and trouble of travel- 
 ling, but because, in the presence of such a state 
 of consciousness, the matter-belief is fluid, and 
 many phases of it are immediately destructible; 
 
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so that one imbued with this higher consciousness 
 can immediately erase such material manifesta- 
 tions (more properly spoken of as obj edifications 
 of general belief) as are named " cancer", "car- 
 buncle", or any other material picture of disease. 
 In fact, while still in touch with the material be- 
 lief, they have mastery over it in every way, in- 
 stead of being limited and afflicted by it. "Where 
 the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ' ' 
 
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APPENDIX I 
 
 SOME PERTINENT PROPHECIES 
 
 From the Authorized Version, Matt. 24: 3-14 
 
 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the 
 disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell 
 us, when shall these things be? and what shall 
 be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the 
 world? 
 
 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take 
 heed that no man deceive you. 
 
 For many shall come in my name saying, I am 
 Christ; and shall deceive many. 
 
 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars ; 
 see that ye be not troubled; for all these things 
 must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 
 
 For nation shall rise against nation, and king- 
 dom against kingdom ; and there shall be famines, 
 and pestilence, and earthquakes, in divers places. 
 
 And all these are the beginning of sorrows. 
 
 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, 
 and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all 
 nations for my name's sake. 
 
 And then shall many be offended, and shall 
 betray one another, and shall hate one another. 
 
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And many false prophets shall rise, and shall 
 deceive many. 
 
 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of 
 many shall wax cold. 
 
 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same 
 shall be saved. 
 
 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be 
 preached in all the world for a witness unto all 
 nations ; and then shall the end come. 
 
 Acts 2: 1-21 
 
 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, 
 they were all with one accord in one place. 
 
 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven 
 as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the 
 house where they were sitting. 
 
 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues 
 like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 
 
 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, 
 and began to speak with other tongues, as the 
 Spirit gave them utterance. 
 
 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, 
 devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 
 
 Now when this was noised abroad, the multi- 
 tude came together and were confounded, because 
 that every man heard them speak in his own 
 language. 
 
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And they were all amazed and marvelled, say- 
 ing one to another, Behold, are not all these which 
 speak Galilaeans? 
 
 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, 
 wherein we were born? 
 
 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the 
 dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cap- 
 padocia, in Pontus, and Asia. 
 
 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the 
 parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of 
 Eome, Jews and proselytes. 
 
 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak 
 in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 
 
 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, 
 saying one to another, What meaneth this? 
 
 Others mocking said, These men are full of new 
 wine. 
 
 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted 
 up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, 
 and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known 
 unto you, and hearken to my words : 
 
 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, see- 
 ing it is but the third hour of the day. 
 
 But this is that which was spoken by the 
 prophet Joel; 
 
 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith 
 God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: 
 and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 
 
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and your young men shall see visions, and your 
 old men shall dream dreams : 
 
 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I 
 will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and 
 they shall prophesy : 
 
 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and 
 signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and 
 vapour of smoke : 
 
 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the 
 moon into blood, before that great and notable 
 day of the Lord come : 
 
 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall 
 call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 
 
A PROPHESY FROM PERSIA 
 
 A number of years ago, Mr. Charles Mason 
 Remey prepared a series of questions, which he 
 was permitted to ask from Abdul Baha, the pres- 
 ent leader of the world-wide Bahai movement, 
 which originated in Persia something more than 
 fifty years ago, and which, at the present time, has 
 something like ten million followers, although 
 there is no formal organization, the founders of 
 the movement discountenancing any attempt to 
 form one. Part of the questions and answers, as 
 recorded at the time, were as follows : 
 
 Question. "What is the significance of the 
 twelfth verse of the twelfth chapter of Daniel: 
 * Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the 
 thousand three hundred and five and thirty 
 (1335) days?" 
 
 Answer. " After that date, a great disturbance, 
 a terrible calamity, is to happen in the world." 
 
 Question. "Is this to be in the form of war 
 and strife, or will it be as an earthquake, such as 
 those which have happened in Messina and else- 
 where ?" 
 
 Answer. "Wars and earthquakes, such as you 
 have mentioned, will happen, but these, compared 
 with this great catastrophe to come, will be as 
 nothing. As in the past, whole peoples and civ- 
 
ilizations have, through physical changes, been 
 obliterated, so that not a trace has remained. So 
 it will be, when this great change shall take 
 place.' ' 
 
 Question. "In the Bible, there is a prophesy: 
 'And it shall come to pass that in all the land, 
 saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off 
 and die ; but the third shall be left therein. And I 
 will bring the third part through the fire, and will 
 refine them as silver is refined, and will try them 
 as gold is tried; they shall call on my name, and 
 I will hear them ; I will say, It is my people ; and 
 they shall say, The Lord is my God' (Zech. 13: 
 8, 9). Does this refer to the happenings in ques- 
 tion!" 
 
 Answer. "Yes." 
 
 Question. "Will this take place soon after the 
 date 1917, which is the end of the 1335 prophet- 
 ical 'days,' mentioned in Daniel, or will it be in 
 the very distant future?" 
 
 Answer. "It is not so very soon, nor, again, 
 is it in the distant future. ' ' 
 
 As to how Biblical prophecy works out in dates, read the 
 pamphlet, "The Years 1914 to 1923 in Bible Prophecy— Scrip- 
 ture Prediction of the Present War", by T. Troward, to be 
 purchased at 20 cents from The Central Christian Science 
 Institute, Chicago. «,« 7 _ ^j ft*C*~<U* flUj.QUup J^ 
 
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AIRPLANES AND ZEPPELINS FORE 
 TOLD IN ANCIENT PROPHECY 
 
 Mr. F. L. Rawson, M. I. E. E., of London, was, 
 so far as the writer knows, the first to call atten- 
 tion to the fact that many of the new inventions 
 and devices used in the present war were fore- 
 seen, in vision, by the ancient prophets, and were 
 described by them as well as the language at their 
 command permitted. In reading these prophecies, 
 we must remember that the writers were not able 
 to use such technical terms as " engines," "pro- 
 pellers," "dirigibles," "bombs," etc., applicable 
 to modern machinery and devices, because no such 
 words had been invented. 
 
 In "The War and the Great World Change to 
 Follow," Mr. Rawson has written the following 
 concerning Ezekiel's description of bi-planes: 
 
 "At last now we are able to understand 
 Ezekiel's prophecy of the wheels in the first chap- 
 ter, verses 19-24. It is just what you would expect 
 such a man to write at that early date, if he saw 
 the cinematographic picture of an aeroplane. It 
 is as follows: 'And this was their appearance; 
 they had the likeness of a man . . . And their 
 feet were straight feet; . . . they (the living 
 creatures) sparkled like the colour of burnished 
 
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brass. And they had the hands of a man under 
 their wings . . . and their wings were divided 
 above (marginal translation) : two wings of every 
 one were joined one to another, and two covered 
 their bodies. And they went every one straight 
 forward. 
 
 1 And the living creatures ran and returned as 
 the appearance of a flash of lightning . . . their 
 work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a 
 wheel. And when the living creatures went, the 
 wheels went by them; and when the living crea- 
 tures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels 
 were lifted up . . . for the spirit of life (marginal 
 translation) was in the wheels . . . And under the 
 firmament were their wings straight, the one 
 toward the other; and every one had two which 
 covered on this side, and every one had two which 
 covered on that side, their bodies. And when they 
 went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the 
 noise of great waters, as the voice of the 
 Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an 
 host; when they stood they let down their wings.' 
 
 "The roar of the motor is aptly spoken of as 
 'the noise of great waters,' and the whirr of the 
 propellers as 'the noise of their wings.' Ezekiel 
 seeming to hear the noise overhead, thought that 
 it was ( the voice of the Almighty.' When he saw 
 the aeroplanes land, the planes became almost 
 
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invisible as they appeared to be on a level, and 
 it looked as if 'they let down their wings.' " 
 
 Zeppelins 
 
 When one considers in connection with the 
 "clouds," mentioned in the following passage 
 from the fifteenth chapter of II Esdras, that they 
 are described as "smiting one upon another," 
 and as "smiting down a great multitude of stars 
 [bombs] upon the earth/' and that, in conse- 
 quence, "there shall be great fearfulness and 
 trembling upon the earth," one may perceive that 
 Esdras may have had a forevision of the giant 
 Zeppelins, floating in the sky, for which there 
 was no better term available in his language than 
 "clouds." The passage is as follows: 
 
 "Behold clouds from the east and from the 
 north unto the south, and they are very horrible 
 to look upon, full of wrath and storm. They shall 
 smite one upon another, and they smite down a 
 great multitude of stars upon the earth, even 
 their own star; and blood shall be from the sword 
 unto the belly. And there shall be great fearful- 
 ness and trembling upon the earth; and they that 
 see the wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall 
 come upon them. And there shall come great 
 storms from the south, and from the north, and 
 another part from the west. And strong winds 
 
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shall arise from the east, and shall open it; and 
 the cloud which he raised up in wrath, and the 
 star stirred to cause fear toward the east and 
 west wind, shall be destroyed. The great and 
 mighty clouds shall be lifted up full of wrath, and 
 the star, that they may make all the earth afraid, 
 and them that dwell therein; and they shall pour 
 out over every high and eminent place an horrible 
 star" (the bombs which they drop). 
 
 TENNYSON'S PROPHECY 
 
 (From "Locksley Hall," Printed in 1842) 
 
 "I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, 
 Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that 
 would be; 
 
 Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic 
 
 sails, 
 Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly 
 
 bales; 
 
 Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a 
 
 ghastly dew 
 From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central 
 
 blue; 
 
 Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rush- 
 ing warm, 
 
 With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the 
 thunder-storm ; 
 
 Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags 
 
 were furl'd 
 In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world." 
 
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THE WAR PROPHECY OF TOLSTOY 
 
 This is a revelation of events of a universal 
 character which must shortly come to pass. Their 
 spiritual outlines are now before my eyes. I see 
 floating upon the surface of the sea of human 
 fate the huge silhouette of a nude woman. She is, 
 with her beauty, poise, her smile, her jewels, a 
 super- Venus. Nations rush madly after her, each 
 of them eager to attract her especially. But she, 
 like an eternal courtesan, flirts with all. In her 
 hair ornaments, of diamonds and rubies, is en- 
 graved her name, ' ' Commercialism. ' ' As alluring 
 and bewitching as she seems, much destruction 
 and agony follow in her wake. Her breath, reek- 
 ing of sordid transactions, her voice of metallic 
 character like gold, and her look of greed are so 
 much poison to the nations who fall victims to 
 her charms. 
 
 Three Torches of Corruption 
 
 And behold, she has three gigantic arms with 
 three torches of universal corruption in her hands. 
 The first torch represents the flame of War, that 
 the beautiful courtesan carries from city to city 
 and country to country. Patriotism answers with 
 flashes of honest flame, but the end is a roar of 
 guns and muskets. 
 
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The second torch bears the flame of bigotry and 
 hyprocrisy. It lights the lamps only in temples 
 and on the altars of sacred institutions. It carries 
 the seed of falsity and fanaticism. It kindles the 
 minds that are still in cradles and follows them 
 to their graves. 
 
 The third torch is that of the law, that danger- 
 ous foundation of all unauthentic traditions, which 
 first does its fatal work in the family, then sweeps 
 through the larger world of literature, art and 
 statesmanship. 
 
 All Europe In Flames 
 
 The great conflagration will start about 1912 
 [date of the first Balkan war], set by the torch of 
 the first arm in the countries of Southeastern 
 Europe. It will develop into a destruction and 
 calamity in 1914. In that year I see all Europe 
 in flames and bleeding. I hear the lamentations 
 of huge battle-fields. 
 
 But in the year 1915 a strange figure from the 
 North — a new Napoleon — enters the stage of the 
 bloody drama. He is a man of little militaristic 
 training, a writer or a journalist, but in his grip 
 most of Europe will remain until 1925. 
 
 The end of the great calamity will mark a new 
 political era for the old world. There will be 
 left no empires or kingdoms, but the world will 
 
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form a federation of the United States of Nations. 
 There will remain only four great giants — the 
 Anglo-Saxons, the Latins, the Slavs and the Mon- 
 golians. 
 
 (The latter part of the prophecy is omitted.) 
 
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A REMARKABLE PROPHECY 
 
 Written Over Three Hundred Years Ago, 
 But True Today 
 
 In a publication called ''Omens of the Great 
 "War," the following allegory, written by Brother 
 Johannes three hundred years ago, appears, says 
 the New York Herald. 
 
 In deciphering the allegory it must be remem- 
 bered that: 
 
 France is represented by a cock; 
 
 England by a leopard; 
 
 Russia by a white eagle; 
 
 Germany by a black eagle; 
 
 and Austria by "the other eagle"; 
 
 while the lamb stands for Justice, Mercy and 
 Truth. 
 
 Towards the year 2000 the anti-Christ will 
 manifest himself. His army will surpass in num- 
 bers all that can be imagined. 
 
 There will be Christians among the legions, and 
 there will be Mohammedan and savage soldiers 
 among the defenders of the Lamb. 
 
 For the first time, the Lamb will be all red. 
 There will not be a single spot in the Christian 
 world that will not be red, and red will be the 
 heavens, the earth, the waters and even the air, 
 
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for blood will flow in the domains of the four 
 elements at once . 
 
 The black eagle will throw himself on the cock, 
 who will lose many feathers, but will strike back 
 heroically with his spurs. He soon would be 
 crushed, were it not for the help of the leopard 
 and his claws. The black eagle will come from 
 the country of Luther, will surprise the cock from 
 another side, and will invade the country of the 
 cock, up to the middle of it. 
 
 The white eagle, coming from the north, will 
 surprise the black eagle and the "other eagle," 
 and will invade the country of the anti-Christ from 
 one end to the other. The black eagle will see 
 himself forced to liberate the cock in order to 
 fight the white eagle, and the cock will pursue the 
 black eagle into the country of the anti-Christ to 
 help the white eagle. 
 
 The battles fought up to then will be as nothing 
 compared to those which will take place in the 
 country of Luther; for the seven angels will to- 
 gether pour in the fire of their censers on the 
 impious earth, which signifies that the Lamb will 
 order the extermination of the race of the anti- 
 Christ. 
 
 When the beast sees that he is lost, he will be- 
 come furious, and for many months the beak of 
 the white eagle, the claws of the leopard, and the 
 spurs of the cock will strike furiously at him. 
 
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They will cross rivers over the bodies of the 
 slain, and these, in places, will change the course 
 of the waters. They will bury only men of noble 
 families, the leading commandants, and the 
 princes, because to the carnage made by the armies 
 will be joined the wholesale death of those who 
 will die of hunger or the pest. 
 
 The anti-Christ will ask many times for peace, 
 but the seven angels who walk in front of the three 
 angels defending the Lamb have declared that 
 victory will only be granted on the condition that 
 the anti-Christ be crushed like straw on the barn 
 floor. 
 
 The executives of the justice of the Lamb can- 
 not stop fighting as long as the anti-Christ pos- 
 sesses soldiers to fight against them. 
 
 That which makes the decree of the Lamb so 
 implacable is that the anti-Christ has pretended 
 to be the follower of Christ and to act in his name, 
 and if he does not perish, the fruit of the redeemer 
 would be lost and the doors of hades would prevail 
 against the savior. 
 
 The fight which will take place where the anti- 
 Christ forges his arms will not be in any sense 
 a human fight. [This may have reference to 
 Essen, where the Krupp works are, and many au- 
 thorities believe that the decisive battle may take 
 place in Westphalia.] 
 
 The three armies defending the Lamb will ex- 
 
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terminate the last army of the anti-Christ, but 
 they will be forced to erect on the battlefield a 
 pyre as large as a city ; for the bodies of the dead 
 will change the aspect of the countryside, as there 
 will be mounds of the slain. 
 
 The anti-Christ will lose his crown and will die 
 in solitude and madness. His empire will be di- 
 vided into twenty-two states, but none of them 
 will any longer possess armies or vessels. [Curi- 
 ously enough, this number coincides with the 
 number of German States.] 
 
 The white eagle, by the order of St. Michael, 
 will drive the crescent from Europe and will in- 
 stall himself at Constantinople. Then will begin 
 an era of peace and prosperity for the earth, and 
 there will be no more wars, each nation being 
 governed according to its desires, and living ac- 
 cording to the rules of justice. 
 
 There will no longer be Lutherans or Schis- 
 matics. The Lamb will reign and the supreme 
 happiness of humanity will begin. Happy will 
 be those who, escaping the perils of that period, 
 will be able to enjoy the fruit of the reign of the 
 Spirit, and of the purging of humanity, which can 
 only come after the defeat of the anti-Christ. 
 
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APPENDIX II 
 
 BRAIN MENTATION 
 
 MEDIATORIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 
 
 AND ABSOLUTE MIND 
 
 Let us first make a careful analysis of the situ- 
 ation with which we have to deal on the plane of 
 human experience. It is not claimed that this 
 analysis is a statement of truth; but is an uncov- 
 ering, in the light of the truth, of the ways of 
 erroneous belief, with which we have to contend ; 
 and error, uncovered, is always more easily dealt 
 with and destroyed by the application of truth; so 
 the analysis is worth while. 
 
 The highest order of consciousness is that 
 which, from the human standpoint, is super-con- 
 sciousness, the divine Mind, God, the concepts or 
 manifestations of which all bear the characteris- 
 tics of being spiritual, eternal, changeless, per- 
 fect, infinite or unbounded; and all of which are 
 inimitably good. 
 
 The lowest order of consciousness is that which, 
 from the human standpoint, is sub-consciousness, 
 all of whose concepts or manifestations are 
 changeable, temporary, and most of them are 
 
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finite, having form, and presented as matter. The 
 characteristics of the manifestations of sub-con- 
 sciousness are diametrically opposite to those of 
 super-consciousness, and so they are diametric- 
 ally opposite to infinite Good, which indicates that 
 sub-consciousness, from the absolute standpoint, 
 is wholly evil. 
 
 Brain Mentation 
 
 Between these two orders of consciousness lies 
 what may be spoken of as the human mentality, 
 which is, in fact, an apparent blending of that 
 which is above and that which is below, and which, 
 for the most part, seems to function through a 
 brain. 
 
 In analyzing error, Mrs. Eddy recognizes this 
 claim of falsehood. For instance, on page 185 of 
 "Science and Health,' • she says: "Erroneous 
 methods act on and through the material stratum 
 of the human mind, called brain." She also rec- 
 ognizes that, on the human plane, even the mani- 
 festations of higher Mind function through the 
 brain, as, for example, when she declared, on page 
 531 of "Science and Health", that "It is well that 
 the upper portions of the brain represent the 
 higher moral sentiments, as if hope were ever 
 prophesying thus: The human mind will some- 
 time rise above all material and physical sense, 
 
 104 
 
exchanging it for spiritual perception, and ex- 
 changing human concepts for the divine conscious- 
 ness. Then man will recognize his God-given 
 dominion and being. ' ' 
 
 Perhaps it will be helpful, if what is meant by 
 " functioning" is illustrated in terms of some 
 familiar experience. When music is produced 
 through a pipe-organ, the pipes function the air 
 that comes through them, as is easily shown by 
 the fact that, if an organ is played in a vacuum, 
 no music is produced. The physical basis of music 
 is the air, far more than it is the organ. The 
 organ simply serves to set the air in vibration at 
 different rates of vibration. If the organ is in 
 good condition, and is well played, beautiful music 
 is the result. If a part of the organ is out of 
 repair, the music will be faulty when certain keys 
 are used, but otherwise good. If the organ is gen- 
 erally in bad condition, the music will be unac- 
 ceptable, though the organ were well played. Yet 
 it is to be noted that the air which comes through 
 a faulty organ is just as good as the air which 
 comes through an organ in fine condition. It is 
 also to be noted that the organ does not produce 
 the air which it functions. 
 
 Likewise, a human brain does not produce con- 
 sciousness. It merely functions sub-conscious- 
 ness, or super-consciousness, both of which, on 
 
 105 
 
the plane of human experience, press through the 
 brain, giving a human mentality the character of 
 both good and evil, though these are really sepa- 
 rate, and come from diametrically opposite 
 sources. 
 
 When a human brain is in thoroughly good con- 
 dition, the result is manifested on the human 
 plane as a well-rounded, normal human life. If a 
 portion of the brain is defective, the life of that 
 person will be defective in a corresponding mental 
 manifestation, but normal in other respects. The 
 defect may take the form of partial inaction, or of 
 over-action, the mental result being stupidity 
 along a certain line, or else insanity along that 
 line. 
 
 If the brain organ is generally defective, gen- 
 eral insanity is manifested; if extremely defec- 
 tive, a condition of idiocy will appear; and, if 
 still more defective, the condition of so-called 
 death ensues; that is, neither higher nor lower 
 mentality function, any more, on the human plane, 
 through that brain. No consciousness is de- 
 stroyed, just as no air would be destroyed, if 
 someone were to take an axe and smash a pipe- 
 organ while it was being played. Nevertheless, 
 the music would cease, because the instrument 
 functioning the air had been destroyed. 
 
 We know that these are facts in the human situ- 
 ation, because, if a certain portion of the human 
 
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brain is impaired, there is always an impairment 
 of the mental manifestation which, in all cases 
 observed, characteristically is functioned by that 
 particular portion of every human brain. For in- 
 stance, the upper portion of the brain is very 
 much more delicate in structure than the lower 
 portions; and it is the upper portion which, as 
 Mrs. Eddy indicates, functions the higher moral 
 and spiritual sentiments. Now, in case a man 
 uses alcoholic liquor to any considerable extent, 
 the alcohol gets into his blood, and attacks first 
 the upper portion of the brain, causing it to ap- 
 pear, after a while, as though it had been cooked, 
 or coagulated as is the white of an egg when 
 boiled. In proportion as this happens, the mani- 
 festation of the higher and finer faculties disap- 
 pears from that man's life, though his health may 
 remain good, for a time, and he may get on well 
 in the management of business, and affairs that 
 are conducted on a material basis. 
 
 Now this is, as I have previously said, an anal- 
 ysis of the way in which human mentality, as 
 brain-mentation, behaves, if left to run its course, 
 without any interference through the application 
 of higher Mind; but if a person has become 
 acquainted with the super-conscious Mind, and 
 applies it in his own behalf, or, in a measure, if 
 higher Mind is intelligently applied for him by 
 
 107 
 
another who knows how to do so, in proportion 
 to the thoroughness of this application all that 
 has been said above may be annulled and set aside, 
 greatly to the advantage of the person who may 
 thus be freed from the fog and limitations of the 
 brain order of consciousness. 
 
 This may be accomplished by what, among 
 Christian Scientists, is known as "treatment," 
 properly adapted for this particular purpose. In 
 Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy gives some state- 
 ments, made from the standpoint of eternal Truth, 
 which are excellent for use in this way. A few are 
 reprinted herewith : 
 
 "That Life or Mind is finite and physical or 
 mainfested through brain and nerves, is false" 
 (290:10-12). This statement seems diametrically 
 opposite to some other statements quoted above; 
 and it is, the reason being that the statements for- 
 merly quoted were made from the standpoint of 
 analyzing the erroneous action of human belief, 
 while this statement is made from the standpoint 
 of treating or correcting that belief, after its 
 methods of operation have been uncovered. 
 
 "The knowledge that brain-lobes cannot Mil a 
 man [who knows how to intelligently rely upon 
 higher Mind, God] nor affect the functions of 
 mind would prevent the brain from becoming dis- 
 eased" (395:30-32). 
 
 108 
 
"The arguments to be used in curing insanity 
 are the same as in other diseases; namely, the 
 impossibility that matter, brain, can control or 
 derange mind" (414:7-10). 
 
 "The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and 
 that there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins 
 at once to destroy the errors of mortal sense and 
 to supply the truth of immortal sense. This 
 understanding makes the body harmonious; it 
 makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, in- 
 stead of masters. If man is governed by the law 
 of divine Mind, his body is in submission to ever- 
 lasting Life and Truth and Love. The great mis- 
 take of mortals is to suppose that man, God's 
 image and likeness, is both matter and Spirit, both 
 good and evil" (216:11-21). 
 
 Mediatorial Consciousness 
 
 By the use of such declarations as these, and 
 those given on page 53 of the preceding address, 
 one may progressively demonstrate over the lim- 
 itations imposed by cerebration, or brain-menta- 
 tion, and may enter more and more into the realm 
 of "fetterless Mind," in which condition of freer 
 consciousness one may read the past, present and 
 future of mortal mind, without being subject to it ; 
 may largely control it and annul its more unpleas- 
 ant and undesirable features; may speak human 
 languages without taking the trouble to learn 
 
 109 
 
them ; may know what is written in books without 
 even reading them; may be wise in even human 
 wisdom without taking the trouble to study or 
 learn; may strike loose the fetters of sin and 
 sickness from those who sit in bondage ; may im- 
 part faith, peace, joy, and love to all associates, 
 and may become in every way a source of bless- 
 ing to one's self and to mankind. 
 
 Absolute Mind 
 
 In terms of the illustration which we have been 
 using, if, when you had reached the top of a 
 mountain, above the cloud region, you should 
 take a balloon and go up, and up, indefinitely, you 
 would get out of sight of the earth-order alto- 
 gether. Likewise, though the mortal order of 
 human experience, past, present and future, is 
 spread out before one who is high in the spiritual 
 consciousness, yet when one demonstrates the 
 ascension, as Jesus did, one goes so high above 
 the mortal order, and attains so completely the 
 absolute Mind, God, that one is, like God Himself, 
 out of sight of the earth-order, wholly; for God 
 "is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot 
 look upon iniquity"; and likewise, with one who 
 has attained final union with the infinite Mind. 
 
 What all mankind is seeking is happiness. 
 
 Happiness may be defined as a desirable state 
 of consciousness. 
 
 110 
 
A desirable state of consciousness is the unin- 
 terrupted experience of love, joy and peace. This 
 is what all men want. 
 
 Now, just as gold is yellow, regardless of 
 whether it is next something yellow or something 
 green or something black, but is yellow because 
 it is yellow, so God is Love because He is Love; 
 and love reflected from God continues to be love, 
 whether, on the human plane, it is met with love, 
 or with hatred or malice. In the absolute realm, 
 it meets with nothing unlike itself; and it is not 
 love of anything outside itself. It is love because 
 it is Love, and is not the love of persons or things, 
 but is the love of Love. 
 
 Just as gold is hard, regardless of whether it 
 is next something hard or something soft, so God 
 is Joy because He is Joy; and joy reflected from 
 God continues to be joy, regardless of whether, 
 on the human plane, it is met with joy, or with 
 seeming occasions for sorrow. In the absolute 
 realm, it meets with nothing unlike itself, and it 
 is not joy about persons or things, but is the en- 
 joyment of Love and Joy. 
 
 Just as gold is opaque, regardless of whether 
 it is next something opaque or something trans- 
 lucent, so God is Peace because He is Peace ; and 
 peace reflected from God, "the peace that passeth 
 understanding", continues to be peace, whether 
 
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on the human plane it is met with peace or with 
 discord. It takes its character from God and not 
 from human surroundings. It is as peaceful when 
 misunderstood and reviled as when it is praised; 
 as peaceful on a battlefield as in the bosom of a 
 harmonious family circle. In the absolute realm 
 it meets with nothing unlike itself, yet it is not 
 peace because of peaceful surroundings. It is the 
 changeless peace of God. 
 
 So, when you attain final and complete union 
 with the absolute Mind, the absolute heaven, your 
 consciousness will not be an enjoyment of per- 
 sons or things or surroundings, but the peace of 
 God, the enjoyment of joy, the love of Love, "all 
 rapture through and through," the being of 
 ecstatic Being. 
 
 "When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor 
 of matter, this understanding will expand into self-com- 
 pleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other 
 consciousness." — S. & H. 264. 
 
 "I AM THAT I AM." 
 
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