DIVINE SCIENCE, 
 
 NeW Light Upon Old JrvjtKs. 
 
 TO ALL WHO SEEK MORE LIGHT. 
 
 "SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND. 
 
 MRS. KANNIE B. JAMES. 
 
 DENVER, COLORADO: 
 
 BARKHAUSEN 4- LESTER, PRINTERS, 
 1896.
 
 IMPORTANT TO ALL READERS. 
 
 As the lessons in this book are designed to be 
 studies upon the Science, or right knowledge of Divinity, 
 the subject is taken from its starting point in the Divine, 
 and step by step is it developed from the Source and 
 Cause of all things. 
 
 Therefore each study makes that which follows it 
 plain, and it is decidedly important that the lessons be 
 read, or studied rather, in their order. 
 
 To one who has never had opportunity to study this 
 truly Divine Science, we would suggest that they may 
 find, by careful thought, a complete understanding of the 
 principle and practice of the Science of Life, in these 
 lessons. 
 
 So we advise such, to lay aside questions at first; 
 read each lesson to gain clearly the point considered in 
 it; let all else alone. Read one lesson each day, or even 
 on alternate days; reread often, until the subject of it is 
 understood, before studying the next. By so doing, with- 
 out a teacher, the knowledge of the Science may be 
 gained, and its practice understood.
 
 INJRODUCJORy JHOUQHTS. 
 
 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 
 
 WORDS of Jesus the Christ are growing in 
 significance or, are coming to us with deeper 
 meaning to-day than in any ' age before 
 this. One minister has said, "The Bible 
 means more to us than it did to our parents; 
 it will mean more to our children than it does to us." 
 Another said, "The Sunday school children of to-day are 
 better able to understand Jesus' teachings than were the 
 disciples of old." 
 
 Jesus said to his disciples, " I have many things to 
 say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now"; which plain^ 
 ly shows us that Jesus was limited in his speaking of the 
 Truth, by the dulness of his hearers. He could give to 
 the disciples only what they were able to "bear," or to 
 receive. He sometimes rebuked their lack of under- 
 standing. Matt. 15:16 ; Mark 8:21. 
 
 From His words quoted, and those which followed 
 " Howbeit, when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will 
 guide you into all Truth " we may conclude that Jesus 
 had a reserve of Truth, which he would gladly have ex- 
 pressed, but that it could not be understood even by the 
 disciples; and that he knew and foretold in these word. c , 
 how the revelation of fuller Truth would continue fron 
 
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 the Spirit throughout the ages to come, until " all Truth" 
 had been received and understood. 
 
 This certainly contradicts our past ignorant belief, 
 that all revelation ceased with the " good old times" ; 
 and that the " voice from heaven " has long been silent 
 it can speak to us no more ! Is revelation finished ? 
 
 The Truth will never cease to speak within our souls, 
 while there is anything of God not comprehended. 
 " Take heed how ye hear." Luke 8:18. 
 
 "There is nothing covered that shall not be re- 
 vealed. " Matt. 10:26. Revelation cannot be finished 
 until every mystery is made plain: revelation is not 
 therefore limited to any time or place; and whenever or 
 wherever there is the spirit to receive and be taught, 
 fuller and higher Truth is being made known. 
 
 One says, " Revelation is unveiling; but the veil is 
 on the face of man and not on the face of God. " The 
 "veil*' is a fitting symbol of our own ignorance; with 
 every new revelation of Truth the " veil " grows thinner. 
 " Which veil is done away in Christ. " 2 Cor. 3:14-16. 
 
 Christ is " The way, the truth and the life. " As fast 
 as we are able to be led in the " Way, " and to " bear, " 
 or carry in our hearts the " Truth, " and to " hear, " or 
 understand the so-called " mysteries " of " Life, " just so 
 surely is the " veil, " or lack of understanding, being 
 " done away. " 
 
 " Clouds and darkness are round about Him," is 
 David's conception of God, and with Jeremiah we have 
 been willing to say, " Thou hast covered thyself with a 
 cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. " Lam. 
 3:44. But we may rejoice in the increasing light, which 
 now reveals that around God are no impenetrable clouds ! 
 
 As well might we say on a cloudy day, "The sun has 
 wrapped himself in clouds and darkness. " The clouds
 
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 that hide the sun from us, and shut out the warmth and 
 brightness of its presence, are around our earth, and arise 
 from the earth. These intercept the light of the sun, so 
 that it does not reach us, but the sun shines on and on 
 unaltered by the clouds around us. 
 
 So the clouds of darkness, fear, sorrow or doubt that 
 seem to come into our lives, are around us, and not near 
 the source of Light and Love. Neither do they come 
 from the source of Love, but arise from our own incom- 
 pleteness, or incomplete understanding. 
 
 As long as we see "clouds" about us, there is need 
 of further revelation, or unveiling. As long as we have 
 the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Wisdom, Truth and Love 
 with us, we shall still be taught of God, and shall go on 
 hearing Truth more and more clearly. 
 
 New things shall be revealed must be while the 
 Spirit continues to lead us into all Truth. Revelation 
 never ceases unless we close our eyes and ears to it. 
 
 Shall we then shrink from the " new, " or shall we 
 " Prove all things, holding fast that which is good " ? 
 i Thess. 5:21. 
 
 Jesus said, " Ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
 shall make you free. " Jno. 8:32. These words express 
 a truth for all times, as long as man any where is not 
 free. The promise is given to-day, to every yearning one, 
 who feels the depression of bondage to the flesh, or to 
 " The ills that flesh is heir to. " 
 
 From these words we may gather three suggestions: 
 First, that ignorance, or not knowing the truth, is the 
 cause of our bondage ; second, that the relief from all 
 bondage shall come through knowledge of truth ; and 
 third, that we shall come into this knowledge and be 
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 and hint of continued revelation How could we other- 
 wise come to know all truth ? 
 
 Also in this is the blessed assurance that when we 
 have understanding of the truth as it is, we shall have 
 perfect freedom. " Where the Spirit of the Lord is, 
 there is liberty." 2 Cor. 3:17. "My people are de- 
 stroyed for lack of knowledge. " Hos. 4:6. 
 
 What is this Truth that shall make us free, and 
 where is it to be found ? 
 
 Jesus declared, concerning his mission to earth, "To 
 this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the 
 world, that I should bear witness unto the truth" Jno. 
 18:37. Certainly this Divine One understood that the 
 need of man was to know the Truth, and announced him- 
 self as the teacher and living witness of Truth. 
 
 From Him them we may expect to catch the clear- 
 est idea of what and where Truth is. We would not still 
 be asking these questions if man could have understood 
 his answer to them at that time. He said, "The king- 
 dom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom of God is with- 
 in you." Matt. io:j. Luke j:2i. 
 
 If we are able now to "bear" these words, we shall 
 find in them no uncertain sound. The kingdom of God 
 all that heaven is the kingdom of Truth, of Love and of 
 Peace, is not afar off, but at hand, within us! 
 
 We have heeded these words so little, that our 
 heaven our good and our peace "at hand," has been 
 literally overlooked, as we have tried to stretch our gaze 
 into the beyond. We have been taught to place our 
 happiness in the future, at some other time and place. 
 We have sung, " I'm but a pilgrim here, heaven is my 
 home." We have put off everything good to a future 
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 here and now, if we do not know the truth about it being 
 at hand, and within us. 
 
 Like the patriarchs of old, we have " Died in the 
 faith, not having received the promises, but having seen 
 them afar off; and truly, if they had been mindful of that 
 from whence they came out, they might have had oppor- 
 tunity to have returned. " Heb. n\ 13-15. 
 
 When shall we become "mindful ?" 
 When shall we accept our heaven ? Not until we know 
 the truth of it. "Now is the accepted time. " Now is 
 the time to accept and there can never be any better 
 opportunity than now, for it is all right here. "At 
 hand. " " Within you. " 
 
 " How far from here to heaven? Not very far, my friend; 
 A single hearty step will' all thy journey end. 
 Hold, there ! where runnest thou? Know heaven is in thee. 
 Seekest thou for God elsewhere, His face thou'lt never see." 
 
 Is not our question answered? Where is the Truth? 
 Everywhere ! Heaven is the kingdom of Truth. Heaven 
 is wherever God is. God is everywhere. Truth's "king- 
 dom " is within us; is all around us. Our only need is to 
 know the Truth, to have our eyes opened and our faces 
 unveiled to see the everpresent goodness and Truth. 
 
 We remember the story of one who sought the tem- 
 ple of fame. He had been told-by those who had never 
 been there to see, that it stood on the summit of a dis- 
 tant mountain. The youth left the plane of his every 
 day life, forsook all else and spent the years of his life in 
 toiling up the steep mountain in order to reach the tem- 
 ple. At last, aged and weary, he attained the height 
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 and, wandering on, he met an old man, who looked sadly 
 at him, appreciating his earnest and worthy effort, but 
 pitying his mistake, and said: " My friend, the temple 
 you seek stands in the midst of the place you have left." 
 
 May we not expect something like this to greet us 
 as we finish life's journey here, thinking to find our 
 heaven at the end of our faithful toiling to attain it ? 
 Shall we have to learn then instead of now, that our 
 heaven is within us? If we listen to the voice of the one 
 who knows, we will have no reason for any delusion. 
 Heaven is now and always "within you at hand." 
 
 Heaven is God's presence, and God's presence is the 
 Truth which we may know and accept at this moment as 
 now and here; and knowing this Truth, shall make us 
 free. 
 
 Truth never changes; it is "The same yesterday, to- 
 day and forever. " It fills the universe of God, hence all 
 Truth is here and now, and all that is true is eternal. 
 
 There is no new Truth. Man may gain new ideas of 
 the Truth, and revelation of God must bring new ideas 
 to us, but this does not alter one iota of the Eternal 
 Truth. 
 
 Truth must contain many things new to us, and these 
 new things must be among the " many things" that Jesus 
 could not tell to his disciples, but promised that the 
 Spirit should reveal them as soon as they could be re- 
 ceived. 
 
 Why then be afraid of a' new idea of Truth? Why 
 hesitate to accept something that has not been " seen " 
 or "heard" before by us ? It is written, " Eye hath not 
 seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the 
 heart of man, what God hath prepared. " / Cor. 2:9. 
 We have not yet conceived of the things that Truth
 
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 hath in store for us; we never shall know if we refuse to 
 accept a new idea. 
 
 This idea of progress in spiritual understanding, is 
 clearly taught in the Bible. " Greater works shall he 
 do " (" that believeth on me, " which makes these words 
 apply to believers of every age.) Paul speaks of " milk " 
 for " babes, " and " strong meat " for " full age. " Simple 
 spiritual thoughts for us in immature consciousness, but 
 strong sustenance for fuller developed thought. " That 
 we may grow up into Him in all things." " Till we all 
 come * * to the measure of the fulness of the stat- 
 ure of Christ. " Eph. 4:13. "Therefore leaving the prin- 
 ciples (or first teachings) of the doctrine of Christ, let us 
 go on to perfection. " Heb. 6:1, 2. 
 
 Truth is never afraid to declare new things. It says, 
 Isaiah 42:9, " New things do I declare" ; 43:19, " Behold 
 I will do a new thing " ; 62:2, " Thou shalt be called by 
 new name" ; 65:17, "Behold I create a new heaven and 
 a new earth" ; Ezek. 11:19, " I w ^^ P u * a new spirit with- 
 in you "; Matt. 26:28, " This is my blood of the new 
 testament"; Mark 16:17, " They (that believe on Me) 
 shall speak with new tongues"; Jno. 13:34, "Anew 
 commandment give I unto you " ; 2 Cor. 5:77, " If any 
 man be in Christ (the Truth) he is- a new creature, all 
 things have become new "; Col, 3:10, "Put on the new 
 man" ; Rev. 2:ij, "To him that overcometh will I give 
 . . . a new name" ; 3:12, " I will write upon him my 
 new name " ; 5:9, " They sung a new song " ; 27:5, " Be- 
 hold I make all things new. " 
 
 Why, we cannot enter into Truth until we are ready 
 to accept all these " new " things. Truth is not chang- 
 ing. " New things " are only the eternal things seen by a 
 new light even by Divine illumination called the Spirit. 
 
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 of progress in religion. The Jewish church is the first 
 example of this. One says: "If Jesus had taught no 
 higher truth than the Jews had received from their fore- 
 fathers, they would have heard him gladly, but they 
 could not accept His "new doctrine. " 
 
 We cannot blame the Jews. We find the same mis- 
 taken zeal to-day, the same rejection of a higher truth 
 not understood by our religious leaders. We remember 
 it is recorded by Matthew, " All the chief priests and elders 
 took counsel against Jesus to put him to death "; and 
 again, " The chief priests and elders persuaded the multi- 
 tude that they should destroy Jesus. " Isaiah's words 
 seem to be fulfilled: " The leaders of this people cause 
 them to err. " Is a. 9:16. 
 
 Then, as now, the church of God refused to hear any 
 doctrine new to it; it said: "We have Moses; we know 
 that God spake unto Moses; as for this fellow, we know 
 not whence he is. " 
 
 Judge them not, Oh Minister of God, for "Wherein 
 thou judgest another, thou condemneth thyself." It was 
 no easier then to accept a "new doctrine'' than it is now. 
 It was just as hard to give up the old and sacred concep- 
 tions then as it is now. 
 
 "The common people heard him gladly." Those 
 that were humblest in their opinions had little to lay 
 aside, could come as a "little child" and receive. Matt. 
 ii :2$ ; i Cor. I :iq, 2j. But "The first shall be last." It 
 is hard when we feel that we have so much of Truth, to 
 humble ourselves to listen to "new doctrine"; to give up 
 what has seemed so sacred, for a new idea. 
 
 Truth calls upon us to "Leave all and follow Me," 
 even "Mother" and "Father" our dearest past concep- 
 tions for Truth's sake. "When that which is perfect is 
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 The world has been crying for "more light," and 
 then shrinks in alarm at the "new things," that "more 
 light" reveals. 
 
 If we stand in a dark room, we see little that the 
 room contains, we scarcely can tell where we are. If we 
 stand in the kingdom of heaven, with our souls darkened, 
 we cannot "see" what heaven is holding for us, nor know 
 even where we are! Bring a light into the dark room, 
 and how different everything appears; the light does not 
 bring in anything, but it enables us to see what was al- 
 ready there, and to realize where we stand. 
 
 So the soul illumined sees everything in a new light, 
 and begins to know where it is. This is the "new 
 heaven and the new earth" promised heaven and earth 
 seen by a diviner light, revealing what was not seen by 
 us before; new to us. 
 
 Jesus came as a light to the world, not to bring any- 
 thing that was not always here, but to throw light upon 
 the world. As it is written of him, "He came to bring 
 life and immortality to light." Men were suffering and 
 dying not for any lack of good in the world, but because 
 they did not know the truth, could not see the presence 
 of Good. 
 
 He brought to light, or to man's consciousness, the 
 immortality he had not known, and led man's thought 
 out of darkness into light; out of ignorance into knowl- 
 edge of truth; out of bondage into freedom. 
 
 "That is the light that lighteth every man that com- 
 eth into the world." Jno. 1:9. But "If the light that is 
 in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness." Every 
 man has the light of the Divine within him, but if he be- 
 comes unconscious of this truth, he is in deep darkness 
 to himself. 
 
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 thus rekindle the light of that Divine in man, by which 
 he should see his way to the Father, and understand the 
 tie that eternally unites him with his Divine Source. That 
 "tie" is the Divine Nature in man, which Paul speaks of 
 as the "Christ in you, your hope of glory." This unites 
 man with God, and is the at-one-ment, which Jesus re- 
 vealed, or brought to light. Only now is this being truly 
 understood by man. 
 
 "The path of the just is as a shining light, which 
 shineth more and more, until the perfect day." Our 
 "light" within must increase until it blends with the 
 Eternal, or enters the "Perfect day." At first, "We see 
 through a glass darkly" this is when understanding is 
 feeble. "But then face to face." When our conscious- 
 ness is clear, we see without any veil. 
 
 Truth is not changing our light upon it is growing. 
 Our forefathers lighted their rooms with a tallow candle. 
 Electricity with all its possibilities was right with them, 
 but they understood not its use. It was better to have a 
 candle than no light, but would that satisfy them now? 
 Would they not now accept the brighter light, and shall 
 not we? Do we show disrespect to their memory when 
 we use electricity instead of candles? 
 
 Do not let us put the new religious "light" out of 
 our lives, because our fathers had it not. May we not 
 imagine that they too have gone on into better light? 
 We need not worry about leaving their light, they have 
 left it too. 
 
 We pray for spiritual understanding, but are ready 
 to refuse it, if it comes through a channel unknown to us. 
 A simple story is told of a nest full of birds which were 
 deserted by the mother-bird. Hunger beset them and 
 an attempt was made to give them food for which they 
 were crying, but as the strange hand approached them,
 
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 their open mouths were quickly shut in a flutter of fear, 
 making it impossible to give them that for which they 
 cried. The food was then laid on the edge of the nest 
 and they were left for the night. In the morning all 
 were dead. Too afraid to take their food from a new 
 source, and too blind to see it "at hand," they suffered 
 and died for their own ignorance. 
 
 "May we not," says the writer, "for the same reason, 
 lose the good sent to us in answer to our cries"? 
 
 The cry of these birds may be heard all around us. 
 "Give us our spiritual bread, and our water of life, but 
 give it to us in the old familiar way which we know so 
 well." 
 
 One says: "It takes two to make a gift, one to give, 
 the other to receive." God, the Giver of every good gift, 
 has never withheld anything from us. David sings: 
 "The earth \sfull of the goodness of the Lord." Psl. 33:5. 
 
 If we lack any good, it is because we have not known 
 how to accept and appropriate the good that is every- 
 where. God has given all ; we have not received. 
 
 "Our citizenship is in heaven." Phil. 3:20. Rev, Ver. 
 Not is going to be, but is now. The world needs a Sav- 
 iour to-day just as much as it did 1,800 years ago. The 
 same Divine Power, the same pure Life, the same Truth, 
 the same Love, and the same spiritual Presence is with 
 us. "Lo, I am with you always." 
 
 Let us admit this Presence and Power, and then 
 shall we hear in each new voice that speaks the assuring 
 words, "It is I, be not afraid." 
 
 If we follow the inner call of Truth, we shall have 
 the outer evidence. The disciples, without a question, 
 folldwed a voice strange to them, which bade them 
 "come." They left all, and followed without any evi- 
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 ceived abundant proof; so will every disciple of Truth. 
 Let us "Be careful to entertain strangers" even strange, 
 or new thoughts, "for thereby some have entertained 
 angels unawares." "With all thy getting, get under- 
 standing for understanding is a wellspring of Life." 
 Proverbs.
 
 GOD. 
 
 UR responsibility is twofold; first, to obey the truth 
 as far as we understand it; and we read, "God gives 
 his spirit to them that obey," which is to say, that 
 more light comes to them that obey what light they have. 
 The spirit of understanding comes in greater fulness to 
 them that are obeying the Truth they already see. 
 
 But unless they are looking for, and ready to listen to 
 higher understanding, they cannot receive the reward of 
 their obedience! Hence, our second responsibility is to 
 be ever on the alert for higher revelation, ever ready and 
 willing to catch a hint of something beyond what we 
 have yet thought of. 
 
 It is not a new Truth we seek but a new conscious- 
 ness of Truth. What shall bring this new consciousness 
 to us? 
 
 Jesus said to the disciples, " It is expedient for you 
 that I go away; for if I go not away the Comforter will 
 not come unto you." The "Comforter" is the Spirit of 
 Truth, the inner guide. While Jesus is with the disciples, 
 they look to Him personally, and leave upon His power 
 and understanding. But His desire was to teach them how 
 to be led by the spirit, which must be heard within them. 
 Thus would their individuality be strengthened, and they 
 learn, as each soul must sooner or later, to hear the guid- 
 ing voice within themselves, and to come in direct touch 
 with the Infinite. 
 
 This is true for every disciple. There is but one 
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 and was showing to man, not what he personally could 
 do, but what Divine Presence and Power, Divine Love 
 and Truth, can do in humanity. 
 
 So he said to one who called him "Good Master," 
 "Why callest thou me good, there is none good but one." 
 As if to say, "I am not here to glorify myself, but God, 
 the Father of All; if you see good in me trace it back of 
 my personality, to the One Source of good which is Uni- 
 versal, therefore is for all alike. As I manifest this good, 
 so may you. Greater works shall ye be able to do, but 
 all by the One Power." 
 
 This inner guide, is that which shall lead us into new 
 consciousness, it is called in Scripture, the "Still Small 
 Voice," and of this leading it is written; "They shall be 
 all taught of God." Jno. 6: 45. This inner voice is the 
 "Light that lighteth every man," which God has placed 
 in each soul, to guide it into all Truth. 
 
 We cannot see by the light that lighteth another. 
 We may get the spark that shall set our lamp to burning, 
 from another's light, but that is all! It is written, "The 
 spirit of man is the candle of the Lord," Prov. 20: 27. 
 Whatever consciousness, or inner light any soul receives, 
 it is set aflame by Infinite Love and Truth. 
 
 The voice of Truth keeps speaking in the soul, for it 
 is always there, " Behold I stand at the door and knock." 
 Once in a while some soul hears, and this is revelation! 
 If it has ever been, it must be now, for Truth never 
 changes. 
 
 The Whole Truth, includes all the fragments of 
 Truth ever known. So that as we advance into better 
 knowledge of Truth, we shall not lose any Truth we ever 
 possessed. But one may ask, in what relation does a new 
 Truth stand to the old? 
 
 We may find illustration for this in our schools.where
 
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 there are many grades, and a pupil passes from one to 
 a higher, just as fast as he can accomplish the work re- 
 quired in each grade. 
 
 It is a pupil's pride to push on into new work, and 
 learn new things; and it is a teacher's purpose to assist 
 the child in his progression. 
 
 Each grade belongs to the one school, and has equal 
 honor in its place. The last grade does not hold the first 
 in contempt, but in high esteem, as having been a step- 
 ping stone in the way of advance. 
 
 One must learn his A B C's before he can become 
 an author, and though he shape the world's thought by 
 his writings, he never ceases to use his A B C's learned 
 in the first grade. 
 
 No Truth gained is ever lost; the higher contains all 
 the Truth of the lower. 
 
 Truth has been compared to a cone which has its 
 base in a circle, and its summit in a point. 
 
 The circle well represents the eternal nature of 
 Truth, and its omnipresence, encircling the universe. 
 
 But as the cone rises to its summit it terminates in a 
 point, so as man's consciousness of Truth is lifted up, he 
 begins to see the unity of all Truth. As it is written, 
 "That in the fulness of times he might gather together 
 in one all things in Christ." Eph. i :io. Christ is the final 
 Truth into which all things shall be drawn. "If I belifted 
 up, I will draw all men unto me." 
 
 "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these 
 things shall be added unto you." 
 
 For centuries we have been pleading. "Thy king- 
 dom come." If the kingdom is "at hand," and "within 
 us," whence is it to "come"? It has already come. 
 The Divine promise is, "Before they call I will answer," 
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 Before we asked for the Kingdom to come, it was 
 with us! We must come to a knowledge of it, and 
 the result of our "seeking" has been to find it "at hand." 
 And finding the kingdom, we find within it all good 
 things, ours, here and now. 
 
 Are we ready then, to hear a new doctrine, and to let 
 the light within us be our guide? We desire better con- 
 ditions, we long for satisfaction, but if we are unwilling to 
 receive new ideas upon life, we shall have to continue to 
 submit to old conditions, in the old ideas. 
 
 If the "Spirit of Truth," is leading us, we must ex- 
 pect to be led into more spiritual ideas of all things. Our 
 conception of God, of Christ, of man and of life, will be- 
 come more spiritual. 
 
 As our spiritual sense of things is quickened, we shall 
 be glad to find our material sense being "done away." 
 Jesus said, "The flesh profiteth nothing, it is the spirit 
 that quickeneth," and we read that many of his disciples 
 hearing this, "Went back, and walked no more with him," 
 Jno. 6: 6o-66\ for they said, "This is a hard saying." 
 They were not able to "bear" it, but shall not we search 
 deeper into the words, and seek for their highest mean- 
 ing? 
 
 May we not say with Paul: "Henceforth know we no 
 man after the flesh; yea though we have known Christ 
 after the flesh, yet henceforth know we him so no more?" 
 2dCor.$:i6. For are we not going to search for the 
 spiritual idea of God, of Christ, and of man? 
 
 Divine Science encourages this search, made by the 
 light of Spirit. The name has a significance. 
 
 Science is "knowledge, Truth ascertained; knowl- 
 edge duly arranged." Having for its foundation, or 
 starting point, a Truth that never changes, all its knowl-
 
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 edge is derived from, and agrees with this changeless 
 Truth. 
 
 And this Science we are now to study, is Divine, be- 
 cause the Truth with which it begins and from which it 
 judges of all things, is Divinity. God is the basis and 
 foundation of all its knowledge. 
 
 For where shall we look for the changeless, but to 
 God, the Eternal, "In whom is no variableness, nor 
 shadow of turning." Where shall we seek for a beginning, 
 and Source, Itself without beginning, but in the Infinite 
 Mind of Wisdom and Spirit of Truth! Now this is our 
 foundation, for in this Great Eternal Being, we shall find 
 a Cause or Source, therefore a reason, for everything that 
 is. 
 
 Let us then search in Spirit and in Truth for a clearer, 
 and above all, a more spiritual understanding of this Great 
 Being we call "God." 
 
 We read, "Other foundation can no man lay, than is 
 laid, which is Jesus Christ." Here we learn that the 
 foundation for Truth's building is already laid: like all 
 Truth it is eternal! 
 
 "Order is heaven's first law," and the order in every 
 building is, that the foundation shall be laid first. The 
 strength and safety of the building depends upon the v 
 perfection of its foundation. 
 
 What is the foundation of Divine Science? 
 
 The foundation for all Truth is "Jesus Christ;" not a 
 personality, but the "Word" which was "In the begin- 
 ning with God, and was God." "All things were made 
 by him," (Jno. 1:3) by the Eternal Word of God! With 
 us always. 
 
 This Foundation and Cause of all things is in our 
 midst today, and ever has been in the earth.
 
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 Of it Jesus said: "Before Abraham was, I am;" and 
 again, "Lo! I am with you always'' 
 
 How easy then to find and lay our foundation. It 
 is God with us, and through us, above and below us 
 God everywhere present. "All in all." 
 
 Then, to know certainly the changeless Truth or real 
 nature of all things, we must find the Truth of God. 
 
 First we will think of God as Source and Cause of all 
 things; not making things of nothing, but of His own Life 
 and Being, this Great Mother-Father God, brings forth 
 all the forms of Life. "One God, and Father of all, who 
 is above all, and through all, and in you all" Eph. 4:6. 
 "For 0/Him, and through Him and to Him are all things." 
 Rom. 11:36. 
 
 God the Source and the Cause, the Beginning and 
 the end of everything; as Spirit saith: "I am the Begin- 
 ning and the end" "The first and the last." "I am all 
 in the beginning, and all in the end. I am the all of ev- 
 erything!" 
 
 This is just what we mean by speaking of God as 
 Principle, which is thus defined by Webster: "The 
 source and origin; that from which anything proceeds; 
 the beginning; the first," 
 
 Principle is changeless Truth, Foundation and Cause, 
 out of which visible things are brought forth. 
 
 God is the beginning of all things. Think of this! 
 Everything that lives and moves, begins its life in God- 
 Life. "With Thee is the fountain of Life." Everything 
 true has its origin in God. All that is, is in and of God! 
 We cannot emphasize this too much. 
 
 In the Word we read, "The same fountain cannot 
 bring forth sweet and bitter water." From the same 
 source cannot come sweet and bitter. Nothing can come 
 from God, that is not in God. If the "fountain" or source
 
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 of Life is sweet and good, it can send forth only that 
 which is pleasant and good. 
 
 What then is the nature of this Fountain that sup- 
 plies all Life? What do we know of it? 
 
 We know that God is good, hence must say every- 
 thing begins and ends in Good. God never changes if 
 good, then always good, and sends forth only good to 
 His creation. "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good." 
 Psl.jf.-S. "For Thou, Lord, art good." 86:5, This 
 teaches us then that the Source of life is good, and when 
 I say with the Psalmist, (7.7) "All my springs are in 
 Thee," I understand that everything that comes into my 
 life has origin in this Great Fountain of Good. 
 
 Moreover, not only is God good, but all the good 
 there is as Jesus said: "There is none good but One.' 1 
 I cannot look anywhere else for my good, but to God. I 
 cannot find good in anything else. I must look to God 
 only for my good health. 
 
 I must know then where God is, and what God is, 
 to know where and what my good is. 
 
 God is the Source of good. God is the only source 
 of good. God is the source of good only, nothing else 
 but good can come from God. 
 
 We know God not only a.sa Source and Cause, but as 
 the only Source and Cause. There is but One Source. "I 
 am the Lord, and there is none else; there is none be- 
 side me." ha, 45:5-6. "One God and Father of all." 
 "And Jesus answered, The first of all commandments is, 
 Hear, O Israel, the Lord, our God, is One Lord." 
 
 We have thought it easy to believe in One God; but 
 now that we find it means to believe in One Good; One 
 Cause only, is it so easy? 
 
 We know God as Life; therefore as the only Life,
 
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 and the Only Source of Life; so it is written, "Whoso 
 findeth me, findeth Life." Prov. 8:35. 
 
 We know God as Love; as Paul says: "For God is 
 love." Not Loving, but is love itself, and changes never! 
 Love is God. "Every one that loveth is born of God." 
 i Jno. 4:7. The source of everything is Love! 
 
 "God is Light." / Jno. 1:5. God is Truth. "I am 
 the light of the world; I am the Truth," Jesus said. 
 There is just One Light, One Understanding, One Intelli- 
 gence, One Truth. 
 
 God is the Infinite Mind All Wisdom. 
 
 "God is Spirit." God is Substance (Sub, under, and 
 stare, to stand,) "that which underlies all the outward." 
 Webster. Spirit is the one only Substance. 
 
 The Substance of all things is not the visible but the 
 Invisible; is not matter, but Spirit. "The things that 
 are not seen are eternal." We should rejoice in this. 
 "Things are not what they seem," but altogether better ! 
 So Jesus said: "Judge not by appearances, but judge right- 
 eous judgment." 
 
 Science teaches us to judge of things by their Source. 
 If all things proceed from One Source, they are con- 
 tained in that Source, before they are visible, and they 
 can be only what that Source is. 
 
 We have seen that the Origin of all things is Light; 
 is Love; is Good; is Spirit, or Intelligent Mind; is Truth, 
 and, like a Great Fountain, this Light and Love, Truth 
 and Life, is pouring forth its perfect Substance into all 
 the forms of Life. In countless ways it is making itself 
 visible to us. 
 
 But where shall we find this Great Source which is 
 our Life, Substance and Intelligence? Do we say, like 
 Job, "Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I 
 might come even to his seat"? yob 23:3.
 
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 We long for God, because we long for Truth, for 
 Peace, for Love, for Understanding, for Life. Jesus said 
 that to know God aright is Life, eternal. Our desire for 
 life, Peace and Good, is really our cry for God, 
 Where shall we find Him? Everywhere. "In Him I 
 live." Ads 17:28. Think of this! I live in Life eternal, 
 in Intelligence, in Spirit, in Truth and Love, in All Good. 
 Of course I do if the kingdom of God is within me at 
 hand. 
 
 Do we believe that God is Omnipresent? We say yes; 
 but think, do we believe God is ^//-Presence? "God 
 omnipotent means good everywhere present," and this 
 admits of no other presence but Good. Do we believe 
 that God's Presence fills every spot and space, and do 
 we refuse to see anything that is not the presence of 
 Good? Yet this is just What (9ww'-presence means. 
 
 The Bible supports this idea: jfer. 23:24, "Do I not 
 fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord." Psl. 139:7, 
 "Whither shall I go from thy spirit, or whither shall I 
 flee from thy presence? If I ascend into heaven Thou 
 art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art 
 there." God's presence, which, remember, means the 
 presence of Changeless Love, Truth and Life, fills heaven 
 and earth, and behold is to be found even in hell ! 
 
 What is the difference between "heaven" and "hell"? 
 Heaven is where God's presence is recognized as "all in 
 all." Hell is where God's presence is not recognized. 
 Both are "within" us. 
 
 But as if these words were not enough to convince 
 us, we hear still further, in Eph. 1:23, about "The fulness 
 of Him that filleth all in all"; and again, Col. 3 :ii, we 
 read, "Christ is all and in all." This is what God omni- 
 present means. 
 
 Omnipotent All-Power admits no other Power.
 
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 God's Power is the Only Presence. Can we accept this? 
 Paul says this very thing, in Rom. 13:1, "There is no pow- 
 er but of God." Can we now admit an evil power or an 
 evil presence? Can we claim any longer a Source for 
 evil? 
 
 Non-recognition of God as Omnipresence, Omnipo- 
 tence, as All in All, is the only cause, presence or power 
 of evil. Hence to recognize God as All-Presence, All- 
 Power, All-Intelligence, Omniscience, shall be the de- 
 struction of every claim of evil, error, or fear.
 
 CONDENSED STATEMENTS. 
 
 " In the beginning was the word. " 
 
 Divine Understanding begins with the word. 
 
 In imitation thereof we begin by speaking the word. 
 
 " The kingdom of God is within you. " 
 
 "The kingdom of heaven is at hand. " 
 
 God is Everywhere. God is here. 
 
 God is Light. Light is here. 
 
 God is Truth. Truth is here. 
 
 God is Good. Good is here. 
 
 God is Peace. Peace is here. 
 
 God is Freedom. Freedom is here. 
 
 Now am I in All Good Presence. 
 
 Now am I in Perfect Freedom. 
 
 Now am I in Changeless Love and Truth. 
 
 Now am I in Eternal Life. 
 
 Now am I in Full Light, for " I live, move and have 
 my being " in God. In Light, Truth, Love, Freedom, 
 Goodness and Peace. 
 
 " God is All and in all. " 
 
 "The Truth shall make you free."
 
 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OP DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 "When ever the Christmas season 
 
 Lends lustre and peace to the year, 
 
 And the Ling-long-ling of the bells, 
 
 Tells only of joy and cheer, 
 
 I hear in the sweet wild music, 
 
 These words, and I hold them true: 
 
 The Christ who was born on Christmas morn, 
 
 Did only what you can do. 
 
 Each soul that hath breath and being 
 Is touched with heaven's own fire; 
 Each living man is part of the plan, 
 To lift the world up higher. 
 No matter how narrow your limits, 
 Go forth and make them broad, 
 You are, every one, the daughter or son, 
 Crown Prince, or Princess of God."
 
 CHRIST, THE DIVINE MAN. 
 
 LTHOUGH Truth may be Omnipotent, and perfect 
 
 Love be Omnipresent; though we may "live move, 
 and have our being" in God, the All-Good; though we 
 dwell in the kingdom of heaven, if we are not conscious 
 of these truths, and do not know the wonderfnl meaning 
 to us, we may go our way, in lack of all things, losing the 
 blessedness that is ours. 
 
 "Heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ," we may, 
 through ignorance of this, be slaves of misery and pov- 
 erty. As Paul declares: "Now the heir, so long as he is 
 a child, (without understanding), differeth nothing from 
 a servant, though he be lord of all." Gal. 4:1. 
 
 Truth must be recognized in order to be realized by 
 us, and to become a power in and through our lives. 
 
 It is said that seed have been found in the hands of 
 mummies, which being planted, have burst forth into 
 growth, after having been dormant for centuries. The 
 seed had within it all the Life-principle, waiting devel- 
 opment, but the hand that held it was dead. 
 
 The Divine Life and Truth begins in the soul as a 
 seed. It may be held in a dead consciousness, but the 
 Truth-seed never dies. It is waiting its opportunity. It 
 is implanted by Divine Hand in every soul. 
 
 One says, "When Jesus said he had finished the 
 work, he had sown the entire field with seed; the seed 
 were small, the harvest is universal"
 
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 " We think that heaven will not shut forevermore, 
 
 Without a knocker left outside the door : 
 
 Lest some belated wanderer should come 
 
 Heart-broken, asking just to be at home. 
 
 So that the Father will at last forgive, 
 
 And looking on His face, that soul shall live. 
 
 We think there will be watchmen through the night, 
 
 Lest any far off turn them to the light. 
 
 That He who loved us into Life, must be 
 
 A Father, Infinitely Fatherly. 
 
 And groping for Him, all shall find their way 
 
 From outer darkness, through twilight, into perfect day." 
 
 "His mercy endureth forever." 
 
 "Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess." 
 
 What is this knowledge that we need to make us 
 free? 
 
 The knowledge of God, and of man's relation to 
 God; the right understanding of these will break the 
 bonds of our captivity, and give us consciousness of 
 Eternal Life. 
 
 Jesus said, knowing the Truth makes free, also 
 knowing God is Eternal Life two most precious boons, 
 Freedom and Life, are ours for the knowing. Knowing 
 what? That they are ours ! "All things are yours," 
 Paul affirms. Life and freedom are mine now. The 
 Truth makes me know I am free. Understanding God 
 and my relation to God, convinces me that I am Eternal 
 Life, for I am made of Eternal Life, I am Peace, because 
 I am made of everlasting Peace. I am changeless Love 
 and Truth, for I am made of Love and Truth that 
 changes never. 
 
 "I am, because God is." God is the reason or cause 
 of my being at all; the Source and Substance of my ex- 
 istence. 
 
 All that I am must be found in God my Source, and
 
 CHRIST, THE DIVINE MAN. 29 
 
 most truly I cannot be anything that God is not, for I 
 have no other Source. God is all. I cannot be some- 
 thing else. 
 
 To know what I am, I must know what God is, for 
 in God I have my beginning and in God I shall have my 
 end. God is "All and in all." 
 
 What is God? Goethe says, "The Most High cannot 
 be spoken in words." Then words, either written or 
 spoken, can only hint of the highest conception of Truth, 
 and each soul must go for itself to the Infinite Fount, to 
 receive within its own consciousness. 
 
 To form a practical idea of God, take paper and pen- 
 cil and write the word "God"; then write with this word 
 every term that expresses God to you. Do not forget 
 the Infinitude of God, and when you write beside the 
 word God "One" write with it, "All." The One God 
 is all there is. 
 
 If you write "Mind," let the One Mind be All Mind; 
 declare that the One Mind is all Mind; then cast out be- 
 lief of something beside God, by saying, There is no 
 other Mind, no mortal mind. 
 
 If you write the word "Love," let it be to you All. 
 "Love fills all, I live in perfect Love. There is no fear 
 or hate." 
 
 Whatever you write with God "Life," "Strength," 
 "Spirit," "Light," "Good" declare it All. Deny the 
 claim of any opposite. Make this a common practice if 
 you would see God everywhere. 
 
 So we love to think of God as changeless Good, 
 filling all: the Only Power, controlling all; Principle, or 
 Source of Life, pressed out into all. Perfect Truth and 
 Love, pervading all. Eternal Mind and Substance, sus- 
 taining all. Everpresent Fulness, supplying all, The
 
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 Only Intelligence enlightening all. "Since God is all, 
 there is no room for any opposite." 5, and H. 
 
 Can any limited personality be attached to such an 
 exalted idea of Infinite Being? Can we for a moment 
 think that such an Universal idea of Deity, can be com- 
 patible with the cramped notion of God, as dwelling in 
 any one time or place in greater fulness than in another? 
 
 "The fulness of Him that filleth all in all, without 
 shadow of turning," must teach of Limitless Presence 
 and Power, "That God may be all and in all," in every 
 time and every place the same. 
 
 One says, "We are as much in the presence of God 
 now, as we shall ever be." The only possibility is to be- 
 come more and more conscious of God's presence. Our 
 heaven is growing nearer, as our knowledge of God's 
 presence expands. 
 
 To understand my relation to God, I must study 
 Jesus Christ, for I am nothing to God except by and in 
 the Christ. 
 
 "No man cometh to the Father but by me." Jesus 
 Christ, we have been told, is the foundation of every cre- 
 ated thing. All the universe of Spirit (and there is no 
 other universe) is built upon Christ. What is the mean- 
 ing of Christ? "Now know I no man after the flesh. 
 Yea, though I have known Christ after the flesh, yet 
 henceforth know I Him no more." If we will find the 
 spiritual idea of Christ Jesus, we can then understand how 
 every man is founded upon Christ, and how "Christ is 
 all in all." 
 
 Many sayings of Jesus, which cannot refer to per- 
 sonality, will also be made clear to us, as "Before Abra- 
 ham was, I am." "Lo, I am with you always." This "I 
 am" that has been and shall always be in the world, can- 
 not possibly be the personal Jesus, it must be something
 
 CHRIST, THE DIVINE MAN. 31 
 
 more. There is plainly reference to an impersonal pres- 
 ence. Also, when Jesus said of his disciples, "That they 
 may be one in us, I in them and Thou in me," he must 
 have referred to a spiritual or soul relation, and not to 
 any personality. 
 
 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
 with God, and the Word was God." Jno. i :i. Christ is 
 here called the "Word" of God, which signifies the ex- 
 pression of God; or the expression of Life, Truth and 
 Love. This eliminates all idea of personality. 
 
 A minister called the attention of his listeners to the 
 fact that in the Gospels the name Christ applied to the 
 Divine Nature of the Son of God, and the name Jesus to 
 his human nature. 
 
 Let us try to understand Jesus' relation to God, for 
 it is the type of every living soul. "I am the way," 
 shows us that there is no other way. Jesus himself 
 claimed no personal advantage over any one. He said, 
 "I am the light of the world," also, "Ye are the light of 
 the world." "As the Father hath sent me even so have I 
 sent you." "The works that I do, shall ye do." "That 
 the world may know that Thou has loved them as Thou 
 hast loved me." 
 
 He showed what God could do in man, and that the 
 Divine Power that governed him is universal, hence is 
 for all alike. 
 
 One says, "Jesus solved the humam riddle; he has 
 shown us in himself, that God and man are one insepara- 
 ble life; God in Jesus, is God in our humanity." 
 
 Another declares, "Christ comes not merely to show 
 Divinity to us, but to evolve the latent Divinity that is 
 implanted in every one of us." Man was ignorant of the 
 Divine in himself. The Truth, always there, lay dor- 
 mant in his soul. Jesus was the first to rise out of this
 
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 deadness of consciousness. He was the first of heaven's 
 children, to know who and what he is the Son of God. 
 Paul speaks of this when he speaks of Jesus as "The 
 first-born from the dead." Col. 1:18. "The first-born of 
 every creature." Col. 1:15. Into his consciousness shall 
 every soul follow, as fast as it awakens from its dream of 
 ignorance. 
 
 By what Power did Jesus know and manifest the 
 Divine Life and Truth? There is but One Power, One 
 Presence, One Mind or Intelligence. Jesus recognized 
 the One as All. He said, "Of myself \ can do nothing." 
 He claimed no individual power, no power but that 
 which is universal, therefore is for all. 
 
 One says, "We must not try to imitate Jesus in his 
 self-confidence." But was Jesus' reliance upon himself, 
 or was it upon the One Divine Power and Presence, and 
 shall we not imitate him in this? 
 
 Jesus' sole dependence was upon the Divine Nature 
 which he was manifesting, the Christ or Expression of 
 God, his own spiritual Being and Life. The same must 
 be the strength and moving power of every living soul. 
 Each one may say as truly as could Jesus: "I can do 
 all things through Christ which strengthened me." Phil. 
 
 4:13- 
 
 This Christ is the Whole Divine Nature, always with 
 us, of which each soul is a partaker. 
 
 "Christ is all in all." Col. j:ii. We need to accept 
 this in its fullest sense, for then shall we come to see 
 Christ Onlv ; Begotten of God: Divine Self-hood; Divine 
 Man, as all Self-hood, as the Only Man. Not seen "Af- 
 ter the flesh," but in the understanding of God's Divine 
 Idea of Man. All personality is lost sight of. 
 
 This is the Foundation and Substance of every liv- 
 ing soul. Christ is God's complete Idea for all men.
 
 CHRIST, THE DIVINE MAN. 33 
 
 We are to come into Christ, by letting the old self "go" 
 die to our consciousness, and know Christ to be all. All 
 therefore of me. 
 
 Jesus knew perfectly that he was nothing apart from 
 the Divine, but recognizing his Divinity , declared all 
 power, life, perfection and truth to be his, because of his 
 relation to the Infinite. No other has yet comprehended 
 this as Jesus did, but "All shall know Him." 
 
 "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, . . . but 
 we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like 
 Him." When we are like Him, he shall appear to us 
 again. Then we shall be able to see Him. 
 
 "Christ in you, your hope of glory." Col. 1:27. The 
 Divine in you is your claim upon God, and through It and 
 in It shall you be glorified. 
 
 " In His Son the Father sees us, 
 And as Sons He gives us place." 
 
 How shall I truly accept Christ as my substitute? By 
 putting myself as I have thought myself to be, entirely 
 out of mind, and where I have looked upon self, see 
 Christ as the Only Self. I can then say with Paul, "I no 
 longer live, but Christ liveth in me," or in place of the old 
 me. This is true ^//-sacrifice, to be made "Once for all." 
 We have been trying to patch up and make better the 
 old self. We have repented of a sin here, and a short- 
 coming there, and where the sin has rent the soul, we 
 have tried to put in a new piece, a better condition. 
 Shall we recall Jesus' words: "No man putteth a piece 
 of new cloth into an old garment for the rent is made 
 worse." Matt. 9:16. This is just what we have endeav- 
 ored to do, to patch up our old lives with new Christ-life. 
 What has been the result? Is sin destroyed and its ef- 
 fects banished? 
 
 If not, let us listen to the "new" way. Entirely dis-
 
 34 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 card the old self; do not try to improve the mortal, but 
 accept the Divine Self in its stead. If the Divine is ex- 
 alted and the mortal denied a place, soon it will "No 
 longer live," but the Divine will be all life. 
 
 "Likewise, reckon ye yourselves also to be dead unto 
 sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." 
 This is to "Put on Christ." Rom. 13:14. Put out of 
 thought the self that sins, and looking at Christ, or man's 
 Divine Nature as all of man in God's image, declare: 
 "Christ is my Divine Nature; Christ is my Life and Be- 
 ing; Christ is my Self-hood, when I find myself in God. 
 I accept Christ as the All-Truth of me, for "Christ is all 
 and in all." 
 
 Of such, the Divine saith: "Their sins and their in- 
 iquities will I remember no more." Having once truly ac- 
 cepted Christ, we can have no more memory of sin, but 
 will say with Paul, "If I do that which I would not, it is 
 no more /that do it." The Divine of me cannot sin, suf- 
 fer, or be sick. 
 
 Continual sacrifice for sin is not Divine method, and 
 is therefore not acceptable to Deity. Heb. 10:1-3, 5, 6, 
 8, 11-14. 
 
 Accepting the Divine of us Child of God instead 
 of the child of evil, we make a sacrifice "once for all," 
 or rather accept the eternal sacrifice in Christ. 
 
 One says, "True humility is not to think meanly of 
 oneself, but not to think of self at all." Accepting Christ 
 instead of self is not to think of self at all; therefore not 
 to think of the sinner. It is to be so filled with the Di- 
 vine Idea of Perfection, Love, Goodness and Truth, as to 
 have no room for any other idea. 
 
 Jesus taught the Divine Nature of man when he 
 bade him say "Our Father." This declares man to have
 
 CHRIST, THE DIVINE MAN. 35 
 
 a Divine origin. We say this is man's only nature, for 
 there is no other origin. 
 
 Jesus emphasizes this when he bids us "Call no man 
 on the earth your father, for One is your Father even 
 God." The command is, Acknowledge no Life-giver, 
 no Source, or Cause but Spirit. 
 
 We have always recognized the "spark" of Divinity 
 in man; why is it but a spark? Is the Divine so feeble 
 that it must yield the right of possession to another 
 power? No, for there is no other power ! It simply 
 means that we have acknowledged the Divine so little 
 that it has seemed but a spark to us. 
 
 Now, if we will exalt the Divine in man, lift it up, in 
 all our ways acknowledge him, we shall soon realize the 
 spiritual sense of Jesus' words: "If I be lifted up, I will 
 draw all men unto me." Truth will fan the "spark" into 
 a great "flame" when we lift up Divinity in all.
 
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 CONDENSED STATEMENTS. 
 
 God is manifest to me through Christ within, "Be- 
 cause that which may be known of God, is manifest in 
 them." Rom. i ; ig. 
 
 I am heir of all good through the Divine in me. God 
 only is my Father, Source, Origin, hence my only inher- 
 itance is good. 
 
 In the Divine of me, I am the child of God. I am 
 the child of Good. Child of Light. I am born of Love. 
 "I am free-born." I am child of Truth. I inherit all 
 Good, all Love, all Light, or Knowledge, all Peace, all 
 Wholeness. 
 
 I have no lack. I do not lack good. I have no lack 
 of Love or Knowledge. I have no lack of Peace or 
 Health, for "I" am Divine. 
 
 By the Christ, or the Truth, I am made free. 
 
 "If the Son shall make you free, then are ye free in- 
 deed." Jno. 8: 36.
 
 THE HOLY GHOST. 
 
 DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS. 
 
 (( JTIHAT which is born of spirit is spirit." The child 
 I has the nature of the Father. If God is our 
 "Father" we may rightfully claim to be of Divine Nature. 
 Having been blind to this, all kinds of conceptions have 
 gathered around ourselves but "The Truth shall make 
 you free." 
 
 We have heard of the artist, who looking upon a 
 rough stone said, "There's an angel in that stone." There 
 was no visible evidence of it, yet he began his work of 
 chipping away, with patience and skill, bit after bit of 
 the stone that hid the angel, until at last there stood be- 
 fore all eyes the visible representation. The artist mind 
 saw the invisible angel, hidden beneath the rough exter- 
 ior so Divine Mind sees Divine nature buried out of 
 sight perhaps in humanity, and with patience and skill 
 destroys mortality's claims, one after another, until the 
 perfect being is revealed. 
 
 What further endorsement do we find in the word of 
 God, for the Divine in man? 
 
 In its first chapter we read: "God created man in 
 His own image ; in the image of God created He him;" 
 and again in the same first chapter are these words; "And 
 God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was 
 very good."
 
 38 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 Is there anything that God did not make? "All things 
 were made by Him; and without Him was not anything 
 made that was made.'' Jno. 1:3. God made everything, 
 and pronounces all He made "very good"; then there is 
 no reality in evil. 
 
 Whatever there is, God is responsible for it, and more 
 than that is the Source of it: there is "none else." "Who- 
 sover is born of God doth not commit sin, he cannot sin; 
 because he is born of God." / Jno. i : 9. "We know that 
 we are of God." That which is born of God and cannot 
 sin, is the Divine Man, the "Image and likeness" of God; 
 for that which comes forth from God is like God. 
 
 As we have been admonished to call none other 
 "Father," we must acknowledge ourselves born of God, 
 and must know further that all that is born of God is pure 
 and perfect. "Be ye therefore perfect even as your 
 Father in heaven is perfect." Matt. 5: 48. 
 
 "Be ye holy for I am holy." / Pet. i: 16. 
 
 My only claim of perfection and holiness must be, 
 because God my only source is Perfect and Holy. That 
 which comes from God and is of God must be holy, the 
 image of God cannot sin. Christ, Son of God, is the 
 Divine Nature of all, and in the Christ, or Truth of myself, 
 I am Divine. Jesus said, "I am the Vine, ye are the 
 branches," and it is written in the same book: "If the 
 root be holy, so are the branches." Rom. 11:16. 
 
 Paul says, "That we may present every man perfect 
 in Christ Jesus," which means spiritually, and in no other 
 sense can any one be in Christ Jesus, that we may present 
 every man perfect in the Divine of himself. 
 
 Man has never yet been bettered by condemnation; 
 would it not be wise to try the opposite course? see the 
 "angel" or the Divine Nature, the Christ presence in 
 every soul, no matter how hidden; deny the truth of all
 
 THE HOI.Y GHOST. 39 
 
 seeming error; it is not born of God, and all that is real 
 is of God. Break away the false ideas that obscure the 
 angel and watch the result. 
 
 "The worst way to improve the world is to condemn 
 it. Men might be better if we better desire of them." 
 "Man is the image and glory of God." / Cor. n : j. 
 "Men, which are made after the similitude of God." 
 James j : g. 
 
 It is certain that man in his spiritual nature is God- 
 like, and when we see or understand but One Source, One 
 Life, One Mind, and One Substance Spirit we shall 
 know that man's true and only nature is Spiritual. "God 
 hath made man upright, but they have sought out many 
 inventions'' Ecc. 7: 29. Man has invented many false 
 ideas about himself, and these false claims have gathered 
 so densely about him, as to cover his "eyes" with a 
 thick "cloud"; so that the inner glory of God is not 
 recognized. 
 
 This "cloud" or veil, is "done away" when we see 
 Christ, the Holy One of God as "All in all." We "die" 
 to the old idea of self which was false, and become alive 
 to the Divine idea, the Eternal, though "new" to us. 
 
 Paul beseeches us to put on this new idea of man 
 when he says : 
 
 "That ye put off concerning \.\\.t former conversation the 
 old man" (do not any longer talk about the man of sin; 
 the man of God never sins), which is corrupt according to 
 the deceitful lusts. And be renewed in the spirit of your 
 minds. And that ye put on the new man (the new idea of 
 man) which after God, is created in righteousness and true 
 holiness. Eph. 4:22-24. 
 
 The Bit>le gives full encouragement to look at God's 
 perfect work, and to put away the old idea of unright- 
 > usness.
 
 40 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OP DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 If we once realize God as "All and in all" All that 
 is in all we can never again admit the truth of some- 
 thing beside God. The source and cause of error and 
 evil, is the belief in something beside God. A belief in two 
 Minds, two Substances, two Powers, and two Truths, op- 
 posite to each other, is all the evil there is, and this be- 
 lief is false. 
 
 "I am the Lord, and beside me there is none else." 
 Let us get from this statement all the practical interpre- 
 tation that we can. 
 
 The Lord is Life All Life then it may read: "I 
 am All Life and beside Life there is none else, no op- 
 posite to Life." According to which we safely conclude 
 there is no death. Life is All Power, All Presence. 
 
 What a joyful message if we can receive it! 
 
 The Lord is Good, All Good; then it may read: 
 "I am All Good and beside Good there is none else." 
 Which plainly states, there is no evil. Good is All 
 Power and Presence. 
 
 The Lord is Spirit, then it may read: "I am spirit, 
 and beside Spirit there is none else." This teaches us 
 that all is Spirit, there is no other substance, no other 
 Presence. 
 
 The Lord is Love, and so it may read: "I am Love, 
 and beside Love there none else." There is no hate or 
 fear. "Perfect love casteth out all fear." / Jno. 4:18. 
 All is Love. The only Presence is Love. 
 
 If Spirit is All, then I am Spirit. 
 
 Spirit has no clouds and darkness. Spirit is Light; 
 then I am Light. 
 
 Spirit has no sin, sickness, or death in it. Spirit is 
 Holiness, Wholeness, and Life eternal. I am Holiness, 
 Wholeness, and Life eternal. I am Understanding for I 
 am Spirit.
 
 THE HOI,Y GHOST. 4! 
 
 "There is a Spirit in man and the inspiration of the 
 Almighty giveth them understanding." Job 34:8. 
 
 This "inspiration" of the Almighty is what we have 
 known as the Holy Spirit, and here it is declared that 
 this Spirit "giveth understanding." 
 
 The Holy Spirit of God is Divine Consciousness or 
 Understanding, which illumines the soul, revealing to 
 it the truth of the Infinite Love, Life, and Peace; by the 
 Light of the Spirit each individual may know the unlim- 
 ited Presence and Power of all Good, and may claim this 
 Presence and Power as its own. 
 
 God is manifest to us visibly in Jesus. 
 
 "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." Jno. 
 14:9. 
 
 God is manifest to us in the Invisible in Christ, the 
 Divine Nature in each, 
 
 "For that which may be known of God is manifest 
 in them." Rom. i:iq. 
 
 Christ is God's Divine Idea; in Christ we see what 
 the Divine Idea is for all. The Light by which we see 
 this Divine Idea, is Divine Consciousness, or the Holy 
 Ghost. By this inner light are we led into all Truth, it is 
 God-Consciousness within us. 
 
 The unpardonable sin is to refuse to see this Light, 
 and to be led by it for as long as we refuse its guidance 
 we must remain in darkness, or lack of knowledge; by no 
 other power can we be enlightened concerning our 
 Source and our Divine Nature. The sin of ignoring the 
 Light Divine must be given up, it can never be excused: 
 by no other leading can we find the Father. This Holy 
 Spirit guides us from within, it is the consciousness of 
 God in the soul. 
 
 God is known as a Trinity in Unity called Father,
 
 42 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 Son and Holy Ghost. Our three lessons thus far have 
 presented the spiritual idea of this Trinity. 
 
 God, the Infinite Mind of the Universe and man . 
 Christ, the Divine Idea of the Infinite Mind. Holy 
 Spirit, the Divine Consciousness of the Infinite Mind. 
 There is no perplexity in this understanding, to see how 
 the Three are One. 
 
 Mind to be complete and perfect must have within 
 it a Perfect Idea, and Perfect Consciousness. Also, Idea 
 and Consciousness cannot exist without Mind to contain 
 and include them. 
 
 If we expect to accomplish anything, the very first 
 fact is that we have an idea in mind of what we want to 
 do, and how we want to do it. All we do is based upon, 
 and begins in that idea. So Christ is the Idea in the Su- 
 preme Mind from which all created things begin. 
 
 That which enables a mind to carry out, or manifest 
 its idea, is its consciousness by understanding that it 
 can do a thing our mind acts. So the Holy Spirit is the 
 Acting Power of Supreme Mind, by which the Perfect 
 Idea it contains is carried into expression. 
 
 Christ is the Whole Truth of creation which is in the 
 Infinite Mind before creation. Christ is the Universal 
 Man, the Divine Idea and Divine Nature of every indi- 
 vidual. This is what Jesus meant by saying, "I am the 
 Vine" there is just One Divine Man, "Only Begotten 
 Son of God," "For whom the whole family in heaven and 
 earth are named." The "whole family" are the many 
 "branches" of the one vine. All individuals branch out 
 from the One Divine Nature. 
 
 Study the parable of the vine and branches to under, 
 stand how all individuals are related to the One Univer- 
 sal Man of God. 
 
 Christ is the "Vine," the root and beginning of all
 
 THE HOLY GHOST. 43 
 
 living souls, which are the branches. Note the process 
 when the vine begins to put forth its life in the spring; 
 here and there are seen buds pushing their way out from 
 within the parent stem; we know these buds are the first 
 appearance of the great branches into which they shall 
 grow; but all the life and substance of the branch still 
 and always is drawn from within the vine. There is one 
 vine, but many branches. Like to this is the relation ot 
 each and all individuals to the One Divine Soul. Divine 
 Man is the Holy Root, there is but One Divine Man in- 
 dividual souls are the many branches, pressed out from 
 within the One Divine Soul, having life of its Life and 
 substance of its Substance. 
 
 "If the root be holy so are the branches." When we 
 see all in the Christ, and of the Christ, know the Christ 
 or Divine Nature as the "root," we see also the purity 
 and perfection of all. 
 
 But the vine with its branches which it has put forth, 
 is not yet complete. A third necessity exists ; from the 
 branches must proceed fruit: if the branch adheres prop- 
 erly to the vine it bears much fruit, if it becomes severed 
 from the vine, both branch and fruit wither and die. 
 "Abide in me," says the "Vine," "and ye shall bring forth 
 much fruit, for apart from me ye can do nothing." 
 
 The individual can be and do nothing of itself. 
 Jesus represents the most perfect branch of this great 
 Christ-Vine, and yet he said, "Of myself \ can do nothing." 
 He knew that apart from the great Principle of Life 
 and Being, he individually could accomplish nothing. If 
 He said it, we surely must. 
 
 The "Vine" is type of the Universal, Omnipotent, 
 Divine Life, Substance and Intelligence, that is the only 
 Source of individual life. It is Man, as Spirit. "/ am 
 Spirit." "I am the Vine."
 
 44 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE 
 
 The "branches" are type of individual life, substance 
 and intelligence, expression of the Universal. "Man is the 
 expression of God." Science and Health. This is the liv- 
 ing, active soul; Image of God. 
 
 The "fruit" is type of the visible universe; the earth; 
 the spoken word; the true "body." The "fruit" is the 
 inner Life and Substance, made visible; it is the third 
 and last step in the Divine process. It has come from 
 within Spirit; it is the "likeness" of God. 
 
 Hence the soul which is Man's individuality, is the 
 Image of Goc, and the body is the likeness of God. 
 There is but one life, and one substance for vine, branch 
 and fruit; so there is but One Life and One Substance for 
 Spirit, soul and body. 
 
 As the Vine, branch and fruit make one perfect and 
 complete vine, so do spirit, soul and body make one per- 
 fect and complete Spirit. 
 
 Spirit is creator of the living soul, and soul is maker 
 of the body, not of its own power, but by the Power back 
 of the soul even Divine Spirit. 
 
 One says, "Our natural bodies begin to form as soon 
 our souls exist, and because they exist. The soul's life 
 is the power that forms the body." 
 
 "For of the soul, the body form doth take, 
 For soul is form, and doth the body make." 
 
 "The mind of man is God," (Science and Health'], 
 for All Mind is God, there is but One Mind. Man, as Di- 
 vine Being, is eternally in and of that Mind; as an indi- 
 vidual, man expresses that Mind; thinks its thoughts, 
 and then speaks these Divine thoughts into words, so 
 the thought and word unfold from within Divine Mind; 
 are contained within Divine Mind before they are 
 thought or spoken. 
 
 We can learn from this the method or law by which
 
 THE HOLY GHOST. 45 
 
 Infinite Mind expresses Itself, viz: Mind, forms its 
 thoughts and speaks its words. 
 
 Let us compare these various statements: 
 
 i. f Mind, 
 2. \ Forms its Thoughts. 
 3. ( Speaks out its Word. 
 
 or Vine, 
 Forms its branches. 
 Puts forth its fruit. 
 
 or Spirit, 
 Forms its soul. 
 Makes its body. 
 
 ist. Being. 2nd. Acting. 3rd. Result. 
 
 Back of you and me and all of us, is the Great In- 
 finite One. As Jesus said, "My Father is the husband- 
 man." Everything begins in this One known when man- 
 ifest to us, as Christ still One for it is simply the Spir- 
 itual Truth and Life of the Father, expressed in all. "All 
 are one in Christ." 
 
 The consciousness of Truth, Life and Love, or Di- 
 vine Understanding is the Holy Spirit of God, the Light 
 of the World, lighting each soul to see its Divine Nature, 
 and to know that all that is, is Spirit, and its manifesta- 
 tion in soul and body; is Mind, and its expression in 
 thought and word.
 
 46 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 ONE. GOD, ALL. 
 
 One Mind is All Power. 
 
 One Life is All Presence. 
 
 One Substance is All Reality. 
 
 One Spirit is All Intelligence. 
 
 One Law is All Love. 
 
 One Good is All Truth. 
 
 All is Spirit. All is God. 
 
 All is Mind. All is Good. 
 
 If God is (9;#/'presence, there is nothing anywhere 
 but God. 
 
 There is no presence of evil. 
 
 If God is Omnipotence, there is no opposition to 
 God. 
 
 There is no power of evil. 
 
 If God is Omniscience, there is no knowledge but of 
 God. 
 
 There is no knowledge of evil. 
 
 There is no mind of evil. 
 
 There is no cause of evil. 
 
 "God is all and in all."
 
 THE WOI?K OF THOUGHT. 
 
 rnHERE is no power against, or contrary to God. God 
 | is the Infinite or All Mind, of the universe. The 
 whole Idea of creation is within this Infinite Mind, which 
 also contains all consciousness. 
 
 Every idea in the world comes forth from the One 
 Perfect Idea of God, for It is all. All Understanding in 
 the world, comes forth from the One Perfect Conscious- 
 ness, for It is all. 
 
 So God, as All Mind, Idea, and Consciousness, per- 
 vades all living souls, and acts within them. This action 
 of Infinite Mind is called Divine Thought. Paul declares, 
 "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything 
 as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." 2 Cor. 
 
 3- 5- 
 
 We are entirely dependent upon our Divinity for our 
 ideas, our consciousness, and even our thoughts! When 
 we receive the consciousness of this Divine Idea within 
 us, Christ is born to us; and 
 
 "Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, 
 If he's not born in thee, thy soul is all folorn. 
 
 Could but thy soul, oh man, become a silent night, 
 God would be born in thee, and set all things aright." 
 
 I cannot claim to be anything in and of myself, or apart 
 from the Infinite. What I am, individually, is wholly 
 according to what the Great "I am" is. 
 
 The name"! am"is full of new meaning to us now. It
 
 48 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEAUNG. 
 
 is not originally my individual name. It is eternally the 
 the name of Divine Being. 
 
 The real "I" or self belongs in this Divine Being, 
 whose name is "I am." 
 
 There is but One I am. "I am that I am" is received 
 by Moses as the Divine Name. It is becoming to us 
 a sacred name. We have used the name "I am," as if it 
 belonged to us wholly, to handle as we chose; but now 
 we are learning to say "Hallowed be Thy Name." 
 
 We say "I am" in this understanding of it, with rev- 
 erence; for it is God's Name, it is God's Nature, it is 
 God's Presence, "descending upon us like a dove." 
 
 "I am" is always Life, Spirit, Love and Truth, filling 
 us to fulness, so that there is no lack, in that which I am. 
 
 "I am" is Wholeness, Perfection and Health, the 
 Mind of Good that is All in all. There are not many I 
 ams, but One, even God. So I understand that to say "I 
 am afraid, I am sick, I am weary, I am weak," is to 
 speak falsely; the I am is none of these things. 
 
 "I am," as I now speak it, is my "new name," because 
 it appeals to me with such new meaning. "I will write 
 upon him my new name." Rev. j: 12. I will give him 
 a new consciousness of my name. 
 
 Only my Divine Nature can say I am. I have no be- 
 ing apart from God, "In Him I live, move, and have my 
 being." 
 
 - To know what I am, I must know what the All I am 
 is. Hence, when I say "I am," I speak not of myself but 
 of God. It is enough to know what the Great I am is; 
 since It is All, It includes me. To speak truthfully then, 
 I silence all opinions and beliefs, in order to listen. " Be 
 still, and know, (for then shall we know), that I am God." 
 
 Let us conceive of the individual as being perfectly 
 still. In this silence of the soul, he hears the testimony
 
 THE WORK OF THOUGHT. 49 
 
 of the Spirit within him. "I am Spirit, . . . the 
 beauty of holiness, the perfection of Being, imper- 
 ishable glory, all are mine, for I am God. I give 
 immortality to man, for I am Truth. I include and 
 impart all bliss, for I am Love. I give Life with- 
 out beginning and without end, for I am Life. I am 
 Supreme and give all, for I am Mind. I am the Sub- 
 stance of all because I am that\ am." Science and Health, 
 page 149. 
 
 When the individual soul thus hears from within, it 
 has "become a silent night," and Truth is forming itselfm 
 soul and body. Our thoughts are being put out, that the 
 Divine may do its own thinking in us, and speak its own 
 words. 
 
 "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your 
 Father which speaketh in you." 
 
 Many mistake the intention of these high declara- 
 tions, supposing the individual is speaking of himself, 
 but instead of this he has put self out of the way, and is 
 letting the spirit of God speak through him. 
 
 This spirit spoke through Jesus, (as he said, "The 
 words which I speak, I speak not of myself") What did 
 it say? 
 
 "I am the light of the world." "I am with you al- 
 ways." "I am the Truth. I am the Lite." "I am the 
 resurrection and the life." "I and my Father are one." 
 "Abide in me." "He that liveth and believeth in me shall 
 never die." "Come unto me." "In me ye shall have 
 peace," etc. 
 
 This "I am" and "me" is the Divine Nature of which 
 we have been speaking, it says the same words within 
 each, for Jesus spoke not these words of himself individ- 
 ually, but of the Father, or Spirit of Truth. 
 
 When we learn to speak the I am rightly, we have
 
 50 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING' 
 
 found a refuge from every ill! Into it we may run and es- 
 cape every claim or belief of mortality. 
 
 When we go into the "I am" we enter God's World. 
 Spirit's realm. 
 
 It is in our own little world, which means our belief 
 of separation from God, that sin and evil exist. 
 
 There is no sin in God's World; no evil in God's uni- 
 verse, no darkness in God's presence, and God's world is 
 the only world. God's universe fills all, God's presence 
 is all in all! Hence a world of sin, evil and darkness, 
 is a false belief. There is no world of our own, apart 
 from God. 
 
 My belief in a world of sin, is my mistake, resulting 
 from my idea of separation. 
 
 Jesus came into our world, came to us in our belief oi 
 separation from God, to show us the truth of our one- 
 ness with God. 
 
 "1 have overcome the world"; not God's world, but 
 the false idea of the world, the world and the self apart 
 from God that we have believed in. The truth shall 
 make you free. 
 
 The world of separation has no true existence, for 
 God is all in all. It is therefore a belief which Truth 
 destroys; in this belief of separation is all the claim of sin 
 and suffering. 
 
 To destroy or overcome this world of suffering, man 
 must come into consciousness of oneness with God; this 
 ends our belief of separation, and is the end of our world 
 of sin and death. 
 
 Then we see the "new earth," or God's World filled 
 with Divine Nature. 
 
 Oneness with God is the at-one-ment. 
 
 In this concious oneness, self is surrendered. God 
 is all; then we say, I am what God is, for I cannot be.
 
 THE WORK OF THOUGHT. 51 
 
 something beside God. Therefore I let God, or "The 
 Spirit of My Father," say within, "I am Life Eter- 
 nal and Changeless. I am Spirit and Power. I am 
 Light and Truth. I am Fulness and Freedom. I am 
 Health, Goodness, Perfection, and all Love." 
 
 This is what I am, for there is no other "I am." I 
 think this that I am, and my soul is radiant with Light. 
 Then I speak what I think, and my body is full of Light, 
 full of Strength, full of Good, full of Health, because I 
 see what I am. 
 
 There is no "I am," no Being anywhere, that is not 
 in Peace and Health. 
 
 In thus thinking, "We have the mind of Christ." / 
 Cor. 2: 16. And are willing to "Let the word of Christ 
 dwell in us richly in all wisdom." Col.j: 16, ij. 
 
 "And whatever ye do in word or deed do all in the 
 name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the 
 Father by him." 
 
 The "name of the Lord Jesus" is this very "I am" 
 that we are to believe in and to abide in, for it is the 
 Great Christ presence which includes all, "I in them and 
 they in me." "That they may be one in us." 
 
 As soon as I see the One that I am, I can also see 
 what I am not! 
 
 I begin to think of the true I am; I know that I live 
 in Mind and not in body. 
 
 I am spirit, and am manifest in soul and body. 
 
 I am Mind, and am expressed in thought and word. 
 
 We have studied Mind, and have found the meaning 
 of Its threefold aspect. We have seen the Son to be in 
 the Father. This is the place Divine Man holds, he is 
 co-eternal with God, therefore is Eternal Life, Change- 
 less Truth, and Perfect Substance. The many living souls 
 are but branches out of the One Man and therein have
 
 52 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 they all Life, Being, Intelligence, and Substance. The 
 fruit of these branches is the body, perfect and complete 
 in all good when the branch abides in the vine. 
 
 Thought is the busy worker; gathering material from 
 within, from Source and Cause Invisible, from the I am 
 that is always Wholeness and Perfection, it conveys what 
 it has gathered into the visible, or fruit. 
 
 Thought is building the visible universe, and it it 
 turns only to spirit for its knowledge, the outer will be 
 in the very likeness of Spirit. 
 
 If we see in our visible "world" things contrary to 
 or God, then thought has turned away from Spirit 
 to gather its material for building, and brings forth other 
 than Spirit's fruit, "For the fruit of the spirit is in all 
 goodness and righteousness and truth." Eph. 5:9. 
 
 Misery, error, and evil, are not fruits of Spirit. Has 
 thought power to bring forth these? 
 
 It is written, Jer. 6:19, "Behold I will bring evil upon 
 this people, even \hzfruit of their thoughts," and again 
 "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." 
 
 The soul of man is the power God has given him to 
 think divinely, and thus image all Good. If thought has 
 been wedded to something beside Spirit, it has failed to 
 image God in the earth. Among the wonders shown to 
 Christian in the Interpreter's home, was a man raking 
 in the dust, and so intently was his attention fixed upon 
 this, that he did not see held just above him a crown, 
 waiting for the upward look of his eye, and the lifting of 
 his head. 
 
 "Thou hast crowned him (man) with honor and 
 glory. Thou hast put all things under his feet," but, 
 thought has been so busy looking into the "dust" of its 
 own stirring up, so intent upon seeing man as a "worm of 
 the dust, "[that it has not seen the crowning of man by
 
 THK WORK OF THOUGHT. 53 
 
 Divinity, nor lifted its head to receive the God given 
 glory! 
 
 Now by Divine Consciousness, are we able to see 
 man by a Diviner light. We are beginning to believe in 
 the Divine Idea of Man and to accept it as all of man. 
 
 When thought sees truly what is in Being or Source, 
 all things will appear right and good, for "Thoughts ex- 
 pand into expression." S. and H. 
 
 Body is the thought made visible. 
 
 We must therefore carefully guard our thinking. 
 Let Truth and Divine Consciousness, which speaks only 
 of good, control it. "*" 
 
 "Stand, porter, at the door of thought." S. and H. 
 Guard the very entrance of thought, decide whether 
 God's Idea alone shall enter your thought. You can de- 
 cide, for you are the thinker. 
 
 "If we are wise," says one, "We will not permit any- 
 thing to enter our thoughts, that we are not willing to 
 have expressed in our bodies." "Think the thoughts of 
 Infinite Mind. Watch your thinking, control it with 
 Truth. There is a channel, so to speak, through which 
 the Light (of Divinity, the Life, the Perfection, Whole- 
 ness, etc.) is conveyed to its destination, and this chan- 
 nel is man's capacity to think." 
 
 Perfect Life, Divine Peace, all Goodness and Health, 
 Intelligence and Freedom, are all ours, for "We are 
 Christ's and Christ is God's" / Cor. 3:23. Thought is the 
 "channel" by which these Divine qualities are conveyed 
 to their destination. Their destination is the body. Thought 
 should continually pour into word and body, all per- 
 fect qualities contained in Divine Source. Thought and 
 conditions of body are as Cause to effect; change the 
 thought, and conditions of the body will change.
 
 54 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 I must be the Mind of Good, before I can think good, 
 or act good. 
 
 Good thinking comes from Good Being, and good 
 doing results from good thinking. 
 
 I cannot make myself good by acfing goodl I must 
 begin where all things begin, in Being. See the truth of 
 my Being. I am Good, is first; I think good, follows; I 
 act and speak good, is the result. 
 
 I am perfect in Mind, for Mind is God. 
 
 I am perfect in Thought. 
 
 I am perfect in body.
 
 THB WORK OK THOUGHT. 55 
 
 SILENCE SELF, AND LISTEN. 
 
 "Be still, and know that I am God." 
 
 I am 
 Mind, Idea, Consciousness. 
 
 "In him dwelleth the fulness of the God head bodily; 
 and of his fulness, have all we received, and grace for 
 grace." Col. 2:9; Jno. 1:16. 
 
 I am the fulness of the God head bodily. 
 
 In Source I am Life, Strength, Intelligence, Love, 
 Wholeness, Freedom, Fulness, Goodness, and Truth. 
 
 In Source I have power to express Life, Strength, 
 Wholeness, Goodness, Etc. 
 
 In Source I am conscious of having power to express 
 my Wholeness, Strength, Life, Etc. 
 
 I know the Truth of Being Whole. 
 
 "In him ye are complete." 
 
 I think of my freedom and peace. 
 
 I declare now my strength and completeness. 
 
 By the Law Divine, as I recognize and declare my 
 Peace, Plenty, and Satisfaction, the Truth of Peace, Plenty 
 and Satisfaction resounds through all my existence. 
 
 The One Only Voice that speaks "I am Peace," is 
 God. My soul and body echo that voice and say "I am 
 Peace."
 
 56 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 THE TRUE I AM. 
 
 Lite. 
 
 Love. 
 
 Peace. 
 
 Strength. 
 
 Health. 
 
 Goodness. 
 
 Perfection, etc. 
 I think what I am. 
 I speak what I think I am. 
 
 Result of thought : The body full of Life, strength, 
 health, etc. 
 
 THE FALSE I AM. 
 
 Life and death. 
 
 Love and fear. 
 
 Peace and discord. 
 
 Strength and Weakness. 
 
 Health and sickness. 
 
 Goodness and evil. 
 
 Perfection and imperfection. 
 I think what I am. 
 I speak what I think I am. 
 Body the result of what / think I am. 
 
 Which "I am" have we been thinking, the true or 
 the false? The body answers our question; well and 
 sick; strong and weak; living and dying.
 
 OUR JUDGMENT DA.Y. 
 
 PVERYTHING begins in mind, is expressed in thought, 
 ^and manifest, or spoken forth in word. 
 
 Mind is the Actor, or Thinker. Thought is the ac- 
 tion, and word is the fruit or result. Every action must 
 have an actor before it, and a result following it. 
 
 Every thought must have a thinker preceding it, and 
 a spoken word following it. 
 
 Mind is the spirit of Man; his Divine Being and Life, 
 his Intelligence and Substance. 
 
 Thought is the soul of Man. Image of Eternal Mind, 
 Life, Being, Intelligence, and Substance. 
 
 Word is the body of Man, that which results from 
 thought, which shows forth thought, likeness of Eternal 
 Mind, Life, and Substance. 
 
 Thought is the invisible form of Mind, Life, etc. 
 
 Body is the visible form of Mind, Life, etc. "By one 
 spirit are we all baptized into one body." 
 
 When all have One Mind, One Intelligence, and that 
 the Mind of Christ or Truth, we shall see but one kind of 
 body, perfect and pure. 
 
 When we see no Cause but Infinite Mind, we shall 
 see no result but a perfect body. 
 
 Mind works through thought into word. Spirit 
 works through soul into body. 
 
 Mind is the Only Power, and Cause of everything. 
 All things begin to form in Mind. 
 
 Thought is the action that forms things. The work
 
 58 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 of the soul is to form the Image of the Divine within it- 
 self, and to bring Its likeness into the visible. 
 
 Body is the thing formed by this action. The body 
 of this perfect method is the likeness of God the fruit of 
 Spirit. 
 
 Stillness is the Universal Man, the "I am"; enter 
 therefore into the silence, if thou, my soul, wouldst learn 
 what I am. 
 
 Action is the individual man, expression of God, 
 manifestation of Divinity. 
 
 Mind is the Universal Man, Fulness and Freedom. 
 
 Thinking is the individual man; the Divine Acting, 
 declaring itself. 
 
 Spirit is the Universal Man, Changeless Self-hood. 
 
 Living soul is individual man, "Thought of God," as 
 Phillips Brooks has said; Image of God, action of God. 
 
 Thought stands between the Invisible and visible. 
 By the action of thought is the Invisible made visible; 
 this is the law of expression. 
 
 Divine Thoughts are the angels of God; Love Mes- 
 sages straight from the heart of the Infinite Soul, to the 
 living soul the spiritual "ear" of man. "Angels are pure 
 thoughts winged with Truth and Love. Angels are not 
 messengers, but messages of the true idea of Divinity 
 flowing into humanity. These upward soaring thoughts, 
 never lead mortals to self, or sin, but guide them to the 
 principle of all-good." Science and Health. 
 
 "When the angels look into the soul of man, they see 
 only the good and true." 
 
 "And it seems to me that the more we grow, 
 
 Like the angels in love and duty, 
 The less we shall see of evil in all, 
 
 And the more of good and beauty. 
 And so the good shall increase, increase, 
 
 And evil shall vanish away,
 
 OUR JUDGMENT DAY. 59 
 
 Until the Truth in each heart shall glow, 
 Like the light of a perfect day.'' 
 
 When "The Lord is in the midst of thee," (in the 
 midst of thy thoughts), "Thine eye shall not see evil any 
 more." Zeph. j : 15. 
 
 In our ignorance of God, and belief of separation, we 
 have conceived of two selves, a spiritual nature, and a 
 carnal nature. The latter is the sinner, the former the 
 saint. One the child of the evil one; the other child of 
 God. 
 
 Both of these natures, our belief declares, inhabit our 
 tenament of clay, though they are opposed one to the 
 other. Conceive of deadly enemies living together in 
 one house! Would we expect very much peace or har- 
 mony in that house? Yet under just such circumstances, 
 as we have supposed, we have been trying to find health 
 and peace of mind! 
 
 One speaks to us of peace; the other holds us in 
 bondage. "Nevertheless what saith the scriptures? Cast 
 out the bond woman and her son; for the son of bond 
 woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman." 
 Gal. 4:30. 
 
 We are to cast out of our mental household the 
 thought, or belief of bondage to "the world, the flesh, 
 and the devil," and the fruit of such thought will also 
 go, for "We are not children of the bond woman but the 
 free. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ 
 (the Truth) hath made us free, and be not entangled 
 again with the yoke of bondage." Gal. 5/7. 
 
 We "put off\he old man," the self apart from God, 
 the "sinner" that must die, when we see Christ, Divinity, 
 "I am," as all. It is simply growing out of self into 
 Christ, after we receive the revelation that came to Paul,
 
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 of which he said, "It pleased God to reveal His Son in 
 me" Gal. 11:5. 
 
 When self is dead, Christ is all. The growth out of 
 self is strongly pictured in these words: 
 
 First, "All of self and none of Thee. 
 
 Second, Some of self and some of Thee. 
 
 Third, Less of self and more of Thee. 
 
 Fourth, None of self and all of Thee." 
 
 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them 
 that are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life, 
 in Christ Jesus, (perfect idea of man), hath made me free 
 from the law of sin and death." Rom. 8:1-2. 
 
 "If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." 
 Gal. 5:18. 
 
 "Reckon ye yourselves therefore, to be dead unto sin, 
 but alive unto God." Rom. 6:11. 
 
 We have not seen the impossibility of accepting 
 Christ, and still holding on to the sinner! But we must 
 receive Christ as all. See no more condemnation, no law 
 of sin, no bondage to the ills of the flesh, no self but 
 Divine Nature, the all that I am. This means perfect 
 freedom to us, and wholeness in spirit, soul and body. 
 
 "In the spiritual philosophy of Jesus, religion and 
 health are viewed as one. Health of body was external 
 holiness, and holiness was internal health." 
 
 "How shall we take hold of this new realization? By 
 using the new thoughts and speaking the new words 
 faithfully. 
 
 See what I am, think and declare it. See what I am 
 not, cast it away by denying it." "Know ye not, that to 
 whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants are 
 ye, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto right- 
 eousness." Rom. 6:16. 
 
 "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds."
 
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 "Finally, whatsoever things are pure, are true, are lovely, 
 are of good report think on these things." Phil. 4:8. 
 
 The more steadfastly we think upon good, the less 
 of evil shall we see; the more earnestly we think upon 
 Peace, the less of discord shall we see, the more we think 
 upon righteousness, the less of sin shall we see; the more 
 we think upon Health, the less of sickness shall we see. 
 
 Not that thought has this power in and of itself, but 
 good thought, health thought, life thought, expresses God, 
 and fulfills the law of all Being, of all Mind, therefore the 
 law is completed in good results of health, peace, and 
 Tightness. It is the law of God. 
 
 If we will listen to the general conversation around 
 us, what shall we hear? Constant acknowledgement of 
 God, the Good? Do we talk of good health, and per- 
 fect love, or is our talk of ill-health, and much fear? 
 Our speech shows what our thoughts are. If thoughts 
 mold our conditions, is it any wonder that in every di- 
 rection there are signs of sin, sickness and death? The 
 outer is but an expression of the inner. 
 
 The light of Truth shining more clearly within us, 
 shows us our mistakes, uncovers error and destroys it for 
 us. 
 
 In this light we now discover many opinions and be- 
 liefs, not based upon changeless Love. We believe so 
 many things that could not come from changeless Love, 
 which are to be separated from our thought and cast out. 
 We cannot talk as we once did, for we do not think the 
 same. "From the abundance of the heart the mouth 
 speaketh." 
 
 We are trying to "Let love become a habit of the 
 soul," as Drummond says: to let good become a habit of 
 thought. In order to do this, we are led to deny a place 
 to evil in our thoughts, somewhat as Paul says, Eph. 4:271
 
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 "Neither give place to the devil." When we see God 
 everywhere, we cannot consent to allow evil a place. 
 There is no place for it. When we see Truth clearly, we 
 cannot give error a place. When we recognize Love as 
 Infinite, we can find no place for fear. If Life is all, 
 death has no place. Seing Perfection fill all, we can 
 grant no place to imperfection. 
 
 Truth revealed, shows us the One All, without any 
 opposite, and says to claims of evil: "Depart from me, 
 I never knew you"; which is to say, you are not of Truth. 
 
 Jesus said of the devil, the personification of all 
 error, "He was a murderer from the beginning, and 
 abode not in the truth, for there is no truth in him." "For 
 he is a liar, and the Father of it." The origin of all evil 
 is a lie. It says, There are two minds, two wills, two 
 powers, etc., and all sorrow and trouble come from this 
 falsehood. 
 
 Now we are beginning to separate and to cast away 
 from the self all that the I am is not, and to maintain 
 firmly that which I am. 
 
 This process into which I find myself drawn, began 
 in the first dawn of spiritual consciousnees. When man 
 awakened from the "dust," or from the wholly material 
 conception of himself, and "Became a living soul," 
 (Gen. 2:7), he became alive to, or conscious of the 
 fact of his spiritual being. He heard Truth saying 
 then, even though he heard in feeble consciousness, 
 "Thou shalt not partake of the knowledge of good and 
 evil." Gen. 2:ij. This is the interpretation we may find 
 beneath the letter of those words. 
 
 Later on, man receives the same instruction under 
 another figure. "Thou shalt not sow thy field with 
 mingled seed." Lev. 19:19. "For what a man soweth 
 that shall he also reap." Another way of saying, Thou
 
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 shalt not believe in good and evil, for if thou dost, thou 
 shalt reap good and evil. 
 
 Jesus represented this condition of thought by a par- 
 able (Matt. 13:24-30}. He illustrated the good seed by 
 "wheat," and the evil seed by "tares." He saw thought 
 as a field sown with mingled seed. The kingdom of 
 heaven, which is "within you," was planted with good 
 seed only; but men fell asleep, and in their sleep saw "an 
 enemy" planting tares ! Asleep to Truth, we see an op- 
 posite to Truth. This is the "origin" of evil. 
 
 So good and evil are held side by side, (26) until 
 thought awakens to the fact of good as all; then it ques- 
 tions, "Whence the tares"? It did not know before, that 
 the tares had no right to be there. Something is arous- 
 ing thought, and it at once desires to separate the wheat 
 from the tares. 
 
 This shall be done, Truth replies, "In the time of 
 harvest." Then "I will say to the reapers: Gather ye 
 together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn 
 them, but gather the wheat into my barn." 
 
 Our first question has been, since Light revealed the 
 true nature of all things as good, "Whence then is evil"? 
 Truth answers: You have been asleep! The harvest is the 
 awakening time of thought. It is called in other places, 
 the Judgment day. 
 
 To judge is to discern, or distinguish between; and 
 our "Day of Judgment" is when by Divine Light within, 
 our thoughts are able to distinguish, and thus separate, 
 between the true and the false claim. 
 
 The "Reapers" are Divine Thoughts, directed by 
 Truth, in this sifting and separating. We understand 
 the process when we have entered into it. 
 
 What is Truth's directions? "Gather first the tares
 
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 and bind them to burn them." Error must be disposed 
 ol first. This law we will consider in our next study. 
 
 "Gather the wheat into my barn." All good is eter- 
 nal. All error shall be consumed. "For behold the day 
 cometh that shall burn as an oven." Mai, 4:1. The 
 "Day" is the Divine Light; it shall "burn as an oven," 
 for "Our God is a consuming fire," consuming all unlike 
 good. The Light is also the fire, for the Light of Truth 
 destroys all error belief. 
 
 Jesus again illustrates this judgment, in Matt. 25:31. 
 Truth is the Judge; sitting upon his "throne," represents 
 the Truth enthroned within our consciousness. Then is 
 judgment passed upon all conditions, and separation is 
 made by Divine Thoughts, for the "holy angels" are in 
 this picture. The "sheep" are placed upon the right, 
 the "goats" upon the left. The sheep go into life eter- 
 nal, the goats into the everlasting fire. 
 
 These all teach us of the purifying each soul re- 
 ceives, when it falls into the hands of Truth. Every be- 
 lief of sin, error, evil, or any opposite to God, shall be 
 dissolved in the consciousness that the One is All. 
 
 "I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge 
 away thy dross." ha. 1:28.
 
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 PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. 
 
 When we look into faces around us, we find traces of 
 anxiety and care in all. Anxious thought has written its 
 marks over most faces. 
 
 What are we anxious about? Some fear haunts us. 
 We seem afraid of so many things. Afraid of falling into 
 something that will hurt us, or somebody else, Suppose 
 now, that we just let ourselves fall! Rest awhile by say- 
 ing, "I have no concern about what happens. I am not 
 anxious. I have no responsibility." It will be well for 
 us to try falling for a time. We have been on such a 
 strain, trying to hold ourselves up, to keep from falling; 
 let us now yield, give up the strain, fall ! What then? 
 Where is there to fall but into God? 
 
 "Underneath are the everlasting arms." We have 
 never rested upon them, because we have been trying to 
 keep ourselves up. When we "let go," we shall feel all 
 about us, these strong arms." 
 
 All threats of what may happen to us, will be proven 
 powerless when we give up resistance. Let come what 
 will, for only God can come! 
 
 We may begin to destroy claims of fear and anxiety 
 by saying often: "I. am not afraid, for there is nothing 
 to be afraid of. "God hath not given me a spirit of fear. 
 Perfect Love casts out all fear." 
 
 I am love, for God is Love. I am peace, for God is 
 Peace. I am understanding, for God is Understanding. 
 I am not afraid.
 
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 In the judgment of Truth, we are led to surrender 
 past conceptions, that we may follow the light of a new 
 consciousness. "And another of his disciples said, 'Lord, 
 suffer me first to go and bury my father.' But Jesus said 
 'Follow me; let the dead bury their dead.' So, likewise, 
 whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he 
 hath, he cannot be my disciple. 
 
 "If any man come to me, and hate not his father and 
 mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, 
 yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 
 
 "The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a 
 field, the which when a man hath found, he selleth all 
 that he hath, and buyeth the field. 1 ' Jesus' words. 
 
 Martha was cumbered about much serving; and 
 Jesus said to her, "Thou art careful and troubled about 
 many things. But one thing is needful; and Mary hath 
 chosen that good part which shall not be taken away 
 from her." 
 
 We cannot receive the Divine Idea of All-good, un- 
 til we have given up many opinions and beliefs.
 
 FASTING. 
 
 (( f iQE shall all stand before the judgment seat of 
 Wchrist." Rom. 14; 10. That which cannot "stand" 
 or remain, before Truth's judgment, is not of Truth. 
 
 11 We shall all stand" before this judgment, is a blessed 
 assurance, that there is Truth enough in all, to abide the 
 trial by Truth! And Paul adds right here, (Rom. 14:11) 
 as if this is what was in his thought, "For it is written, 
 As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and 
 every tongue shall confess to God." 
 
 "Judgment day" comes, when the Light of Divinity 
 is so bright in the soul, that it detects all that is of Truth 
 and all that is not of Truth all that is of the Divine, and 
 all that is not. 
 
 In this time, or consciousness, sinners "tremble" be- 
 cause all sense of error is about to be destroyed; only 
 that which is of Divine image and likeness, shall "re- 
 main," or "stand," in this increase of Light. 
 
 So it is written, Psl. 1:5. "The ungodly, shall not 
 stand in the judgment," but "We shall all stand!" All 
 that is ungodly anywhere, shall be wiped out! Truth 
 shall search out all wickedness until none is found. Psl. 
 10:15. "The wicked shall be turned into hell," Psl.t):!^, 
 that is, into the purifying fire which is Divine Love. 
 
 "For yet a little while and the wicked shall not be. 
 Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall
 
 68 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 notbe"Psl.37:io. Because in the very place that we 
 saw wickedness, Light and Truth have shown God to be! 
 Omnipresent Good. In this light the wicked shall not 
 stand or remain in any place at all. Omnipresence is the 
 "Consuming fire." 
 
 "As wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked 
 perish, at the presence of God." Psl. 68 :2. 
 
 "When the Lord shall have washed away the dross of 
 the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood 
 of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of 
 judgment, and by the spirit of burning." ha. 4:4. 
 
 "The sinners in Zion are afraid. Who among us shall 
 dwell ("stand") with the devouring fire? Who among us 
 s\\a\\dwell with the everlasting burnings? He that walk- 
 eth uprightly, and speaketh righteously, he that stoppeth 
 his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from 
 seeing evil." Isa jj :I4~I5- 
 
 When the time of judgment or separation comes, the 
 sinners are represented as being "afraid," or "trembling," 
 or being in great rage, because their end is near. As in 
 Rev. 12:12. "The devil is come down unto you, having 
 great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short 
 time" Later on in the book, we see the devil cast into 
 the "Lake of fire." The Greatness of Divine Love, at 
 last consumes the most boasted power of evil. 
 
 The purifying fire, then, is a process in each soul by 
 which all false conceptions, are destroyed. Paul tells all 
 about it in / Cor. j :ii-i6, (please read it right here). 
 Upon one foundation, which is Truth, men are building 
 two ideas of life; one is of Divine Nature, therefore is 
 the eternal Substance, designated as "Gold, silver, and 
 precious stones." The other is not of the Divine Nature, 
 Changeless 1 Truth, and it is designated as "Hay, wood,
 
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 and stubble," because of its perishable nature. (12). 
 
 The testing time comes. (/j). "The day shall de- 
 clare it." Divine Light shall show the true or false na- 
 ture of all things, of all opinions and all works. "The fire 
 shall try every man's work of what sort it is." 
 
 If man's idea of life is based upon the true and eter- 
 nal, his thought and word, his soul and body, is repre- 
 sentative of Truth, is the image and likeness of God. 
 This building "abides," "dwells," "stands" in the midst 
 of Light and fire. (14}. 
 
 If man's ideas of life are contrary to that which is 
 good, his thought and word, soul and body, is repre- 
 sentative of error. This building "shall be burned" in the 
 consuming fire. All the false ideas of life shall be de- 
 stroyed; all that this soul has "built" shall be swept away, 
 in order that his thought may be purified, for it is de- 
 clared, (75), 
 
 "But he kimsetfsha.il be saved, yet as by fire." 
 
 This judgment day, by the "light" of which we are 
 able to discern what is of Truth's nature and what is not, 
 and therefore to separate the true from the false claim, 
 does not break suddenly upon us, but comes at the end 
 of a process within our consciousness. 
 
 It is the "Day of the Lord," which spiritually inter- 
 preted signifies the "Light of the Divine Nature," the 
 light in which Divine Nature is clearly seen. 
 
 It is a day of destruction, which we welcome when 
 we understand it, because the many false ideas which our 
 ignorance has invented, are destroyed by the true light. 
 
 This judgment day comes near the "End of the 
 World," because in its light, our conception of the world 
 passes away and we enter into a new consciousness of the 
 world. Thought is ready to see heaven and earth by a
 
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 new light, is prepared to receive a new idea of heaven 
 and earth; this is the end of our world! 
 
 John saw in his vision, the "Great and small" ap- 
 pear befoie God to be judged. In this judgment he 
 saw heaven and earth pass away; he also saw "Death and 
 hell cast into the lake of fire." Later, he declares that 
 he saw a "New heaven and a new earth," but speaks not 
 of seeing a "new hell" after its destruction! 
 
 The devil spoke to Jesus, "All these things will I 
 give thee if thou wilt worship me." Worship acknowledges 
 a power and presence. Every day this temptation meets 
 us, as it did Jesus; evil appearances appeal to us, to ac- 
 knowledge the reality of evil, to admit its power and 
 presence! But Jesus answered, "It is written, Thou shalt 
 worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou 
 serve." Truth replies to claims of error, God alone is 
 power and presence; this only do I acknowledge. 
 
 Then "the devil leaveth him and angels come.'' 
 
 We recall the story of the Saint, who was so lost in 
 contemplation of Divine Love, as to be filled completely 
 with its Holy Presence. In the midst of his bright vision 
 arose a dark figure, whom he knew to be "Satan." Look- 
 ing upon it a moment, with the light of Love filling his 
 soul, he exclaimed, "Satan, thee too I love." Immedi- 
 ately the dark form disappeared, and Light Divine, shone 
 in the very place where darkness had been. 
 
 To look at every appearance, with thought aglow in 
 the consciousness of Divine Presence and Power as all, is 
 to dispel every opposite claim. 
 
 Peter expresses this idea of the judgment day when 
 he says, "The day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the 
 night." 
 
 A thief does not annouuce his coming with noise of
 
 trumpet and commotion! He steals upon us so silently, 
 that we are not aware of his presence, until we see what 
 his work has been! 
 
 So does Divine Light quietly take possession of our 
 thoughts, stealing away our treasures of earth. As is 
 added, "In which the heavens shall pass away with a 
 great noise, and the elements (of the world) shall melt 
 with fervent heat, and the works that are therein shall 
 be burned up." 
 
 The Light is the thief; we now long for its coming! 
 though we shall find all our old and highly valued ideas 
 of heaven and earth "done away." 
 
 Understanding the work of Light, even its destroying 
 power, we no longer rebel, but gladly lay in its consum- 
 ing power, all that is not of Divine Nature. 
 
 "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with 
 fire." Christ's baptism upon us, immerses us in Divine 
 Consciousness, which purifies us from our beliefs in 
 something beside God. 
 
 We noted how Truth said in this harvest, or sifting 
 time, "Gather first the tares, to burn them." 
 
 First then, we will search truly among our concep- 
 tions, and separate, by the light of judgment, based upon 
 Spirit as All Life, Mind, and Substance, all that claims to 
 be, or that we have believed to be a truth, a life, and a 
 mind not God. 
 
 We can do this when touched by Divine Knowledge, 
 for "He that is spiritual judgeth all things." 
 
 Standing in the Presence of Truth, let us witness 
 what separation is made between the Divine, and not 
 Divine.
 
 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 On one hand we have: 
 The Divine Nature. 
 Born of God. 
 Cannot sin. 
 Perfect health. 
 Perfect love. 
 Perfect peace. 
 The immortal. 
 The living. 
 The loving. 
 Rest. 
 
 The incorruptible. 
 The wheat. 
 The sheep. 
 
 Truth speaks to these, 
 "Unter thou into the joy 
 
 On the other: 
 
 The claim of mortal nature. 
 Not born of God. 
 Full of sin. 
 Full of sickness. 
 Full of fear. 
 Full of discord. 
 The mortal. 
 Dying. 
 Hating. 
 Unrest. 
 
 The corruptible. 
 The tares. 
 The goats. 
 To these Truth says, 
 'Depart from me, I never 
 knew you." 
 
 of thy Lord." 
 
 That which Truth never knew, has no truth in it, is 
 therefore falsehood. 
 
 All Truth belongs in the Divine Nature, and here we 
 find, in the separation taking place within us, Peace, Per- 
 fection, Life, Health, Strength, and all Good, hence we 
 declare these to be truth. All untruth belongs in the claim 
 of a mortal nature, and here we find arrayed, discord, im- 
 perfection, sin, sickness and death, all evil. 
 
 In the Divine Nature, God, Spirit, Infinite Mind is 
 seen as the Master sowing Good seed only; here is the 
 "Wheat." In the claim of a mortal nature, man has fallen 
 asleep to Truth, and his dreams, which seem so real, while 
 he is in them, are of suffering, death, evil and darkness. 
 
 He begins to be aroused by the voice of Truth say- 
 ing, (Eph. 4:14), "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise 
 from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." 
 
 "It is high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our
 
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 salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is 
 far spent, the day is at hand'' Rom. 13:11. 
 
 The "deep sleep" that fell upon Adam, has held the 
 race in dullness until this day. But it is written, "As in 
 Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive." Not 
 in some far off Adam, any more than a far off Christ ! 
 In the ignorant thought within us, is belief of separation 
 and death. Also in the consciousness of sonship within 
 us, is knowledge of oneness and life eternal for all. 
 
 In this "sleep," the whole race have believed in sep- 
 aration from God, which means separation from Peace, 
 from Life, from Spirit and Wisdom, from Strength and 
 Wholeness. We have the "fruit" of that belief. It ap- 
 pears as our world of sin and suffering. 
 
 In the awaking, we begin to see the falseness of 
 these universal, or race beliefs; we see there is no sepa- 
 ration from God, no world of our own, no mind of our 
 own, no life separate from God; no power, no presence, 
 no knowledge but God Mind. 
 
 But, as when we awaken from a deep sleep, we do 
 not in a moment throw off the spell of the sleep and its 
 dream, so we do not at once and for all, give up that 
 which has held us so long. We are not at first wide 
 awake; sometimes we indulge in a little more sleep, and 
 go back into our dream ! But "morning" has come, the 
 "day" has dawned, darkness is disappearing, and we 
 must arise. 
 
 After we are fully aroused, we often smile at the ab- 
 surdity of our dreams; sometimes we are so glad to 
 know that they are not true. How much more satisfac- 
 tion shall we feel when we "awake to righteousness," 
 which is right thinking, "I shall be satisfied when I 
 awake with thy likeness." Prov. 17:15. When I awake
 
 74 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 to the truth of being in thy likeness, or of being Divine 
 Nature. 
 
 What will help us to arouse quickly from our dream 
 of error and evil? To cease to believe in error and evil, 
 because we see Truth and Goodness as All in all. But 
 we have seen the opposite so long it is hard to throw it 
 off. 
 
 For this very reason we must not fall asleep again; 
 the first awakening is the hardest; be persistent, be posi- 
 tive. What will help us to be positive? 
 
 First, "Bind the tares in bundles to burn them." We 
 have bound them in bundles under Truth's directions. 
 The race beliefs, the claim of a mortal nature, of some- 
 thing not born of God. All appearances of evil result 
 from these beliefs, for we have seen how all sorrow and 
 suffering follow in this train. How shall we "burn" 
 these"? "Cast out the bond woman and her son." "The 
 grace of God (which is light within) that bringeth sal- 
 vation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying 
 ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, 
 righteously and godly in this present world." Titus 2:12. 
 
 The surest way to become free from evil is to deny it 
 a place ; deny all that is ungodlike. We can do this 
 when we know God is all. Begin and deny each claim 
 separately. "There is no truth in the claim of a mortal 
 nature. There is nothing that is not of God. There is 
 no separation from God. There is, therefore, no world 
 of sin, sickness, discord, or fear. "God hath not given 
 us a spirit of fear." / Tim. i:f. There is no death. 
 There is no hate. There is no suffering in the world; for 
 
 There is no mind but Immortal Mind. 
 
 There is no power in any claim of evil. 
 
 There is no power in the false race beliefs. 
 
 There is no place for evil or error. 
 
 There is no self apart from God."
 
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 When we deny the race beliefs the universal 
 opinions about fear, trouble, sickness and death, 
 which bind us, until by Truth, we see our freedom, we 
 have handled the strongest claim of error there is, one of 
 the largest "bundles." 
 
 Remember, error and evil are only claims, resulting 
 from ignorance of God, and belief of separation; deny 
 ignorance, it does not belong to Divine Mind, and Divine 
 Mind is All-Presence. 
 
 Deny separation there is none. All are in the One. 
 While we have not seen God every where, we have be- 
 lieved in seeing something not God. This belief is that 
 which must be "cast out," and is cast out by our denials; 
 because as we deny, we cease to believe in it. 
 
 Jacob, in his sleep, saw a ladder reaching from 
 heaven to earth. Angels ascended and descended. So 
 in sleep have we believed in the visitation of "angels," 
 but God's presence was at the other end of the ladder. 
 
 When "morning" came and "day" dawned to Jacob, 
 he saw differently. "When Jacob awaked out of his sleep 
 he said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it 
 not. . . . This is none other but the house of God, 
 and this is the gate of heaven." Gen. 28:16, ij. 
 
 When the disciples questioned Jesus about their in- 
 ability to heal a certain case, he said it was because of 
 their unbelief. He added these words: "Howbeit this 
 kind goeth not out, but by prayer and fasting." This is 
 just as true to day. We must fast and pray without 
 ceasing. 
 
 Fasting in its inner sense, is the soul's denial of all 
 the claims of sense; denying the old mortal idea of life 
 and of self; that the Divine Idea may more fully possess 
 our thoughts. 
 
 "The Lord is in the midst of thee, thine eye shall 
 not see evil any more."
 
 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 DENY THYSELF. 
 
 I have no set/apart from God. 
 
 There is no Mind, Life, Power, or Substance, apart 
 from God. 
 
 There is no Mind or Power of darkness, or evil. 
 
 There is no reality or power in fear. 
 
 "God hath not given us fear." There is no fear. 
 
 There is no evil. There is no death. 
 
 There is no cause of suffering or sorrow. 
 
 These claims are not found in the Source of All. 
 
 Man is not born of flesh. 
 
 Man does not inherit from flesh. 
 
 Man is not heir to ills of flesh. 
 
 There is no flesh, for all is Spirit. 
 
 I am not "conceived in sin," nor "shapen in iniquity." 
 
 God o?ily is my Father, my Lifegiver, my Source. 
 
 I am not affected by universal beliefs of sin, evil and 
 death. 
 
 There is no universal mortal mind. 
 
 I have no past outside of God. 
 
 I have no doubt, anxiety, or fear. 
 
 I have no uncertainty of Life. 
 
 I have no ignorance. 
 
 I am nothing of myself. I am all in God. 
 
 The Truth hath made me free.
 
 PASTING, in its spiritual sense, is breaking away from 
 all that binds or limits. We may do this by ejection 
 
 of past ideas which contain belief of any opposite to 
 God. 
 
 "Is not this the fast which I have chosen: To loose 
 the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to 
 let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 
 . . . Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, 
 and thy health spring forth speedily." Isa. 58:6, 8. 
 
 When the light of true judgment has illumined our 
 consciousness, we know how to fulfill this "fast." 
 
 "Ye cannot serve two Masters," Jesus said; Which is 
 to say: Ye cannot acknowledge two powers. Because 
 we have done so, we must now break the yoke of bond- 
 age to one or the other; shall we acknowledge the power 
 of Spirit only? If so, we must free ourselves from the 
 belief of bondage to the flesh. "There is no power but 
 of God; no power but Spirit," may be our denial for this. 
 Jesus said: "Now is the axe laid at the root of the tree, 
 and every plant that my Father hath not planted shall be 
 rooted up." 
 
 Cause of evil and error must be struck at, not the 
 outer effect. Cause of sickness and sorrow must be de- 
 stroyed, and not just the appearance. Truth cuts deep, 
 and roots out "Every plant which my Father hath not 
 planted;" because Truth reveals that whatever the Father 
 hath not planted, has no reality, no cause ; this understand-
 
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 ing destroys the cause of sin, sickness and death. There 
 is no cause of evil; when we see this, a blow has been 
 made at the root, which shall finally destroy the entire 
 plant." fsa. 52:2, 5. 
 
 To clear our garden of weeds, we clean them out 
 root and all, for if we cut away only the tops we shall 
 have an abundant crop again. To heal the sickness of 
 the body is like cutting off the tops of our weeds, and 
 leaving all the roots to put forth again in new growth. 
 
 Science goes always into Cause; and as there is but 
 One Cause to go into, and that forever Good, it soon 
 eliminates the cause of evil, seeing it has none ! The 
 only supposed cause of evil and suffering is the thought 
 of separation from Good. There is no separation from 
 God. Truth destroys this "cause." 
 
 Fasting is "casting down imaginations," or false im- 
 ages thought is holding. "And every high thing that 
 exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bring- 
 ing into captivity every thought, to the obedience of 
 Christ." 2 Cor. 10:5. 
 
 That which sees things contrary to God is imagina- 
 tion. "And God saw that . . . every imagination of 
 the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually." 
 Gen. 6:5. This condition caused the "flood," and within 
 each of us, the flood shall come, that shall destroy these 
 imaginations. When the soul is flooded with the light 
 of Truth and Love, "The world of the ungodly" perishes; 
 the imagination that there is an ungodly world, is de- 
 stroyed. Righteous thought Noah, (Gen. /./), is sepa- 
 rated from all unrighteousness, that ungodliness may be 
 destroyed. 
 
 Fasting is "shutting the door" when thought enters 
 into communion with All-Spirit. It shuts out every 
 thing but Spirit, seeing that Spirit is all. Hence fasting
 
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 prepares the way for prayer; it empties thought, making 
 it ready for, or receptive to refilling. "Empty that he 
 might fill me," expresses the idea of fasting and prayer. 
 
 Thought emptied of its own opinions and ideas, is 
 cleansed, and prepared to be filled with Divine Idea. 
 
 Prayer is the complement of fasting. After the 
 emptying must come the filling; after the rooting out, 
 comes the re-sowing; after tearing down, we want to 
 build; after fasting we must pray. 
 
 As a new idea of Truth dawns in our understanding, 
 one of the first questions it stirs up is, How shall I pray? 
 which shows that our prayer changes as our conscious- 
 ness changes. 
 
 As Jesus opened the disciples' eyes to more Spirit- 
 ual understanding, we hear them asking at once, "Lord, 
 teach us how to pray." 
 
 As consciousness increases, prayer assumes new 
 meaning, and the words of our childhood the "milk" 
 that belonged to babyhood no longer satisfy our fuller 
 grown thought. 
 
 To find a more helpful idea of prayer, which our new 
 consciousness demands, we first must know what the 
 purpose of prayer is. 
 
 Prayer cannot, and has never changed God. We 
 read, in Isaiah 51:9, the prayer of Israel, calling upon 
 God, to awake. "Awake, awake, put on strength, O 
 arm of the Lord." This is the prayer of childhood, and 
 the answer comes back, (ha. 52:1}, "Awake, awake, put 
 on thy strength, O Zion." "Zion" needs to awake, not 
 God. 
 
 As soon as we understand that the All is Everpres- 
 ent, that we live in It, and that "All things are ours," 
 we see that the purpose of prayer is not to bring any- 
 thing^to us, is not to induce the Divine to grant us, what
 
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 it would otherwise not have given, but to bring us into a 
 realization of the Fulness of Good, that is everywhere 
 present, so that we may accept the Eternal gift of Love. 
 
 One says, "God has given all of Himself to each 
 one. He has nothing more to give. " And when 
 Truth declares, "Before they call I will answer," it is as 
 much as to say, everything is given them, before they 
 ask for it. Asking does not then bring anything to 
 us, but earnest seeking helps us to find and receive that 
 which is always "at hand." 
 
 God's Omnipresence makes us sure of all good here 
 and now, and when this consciousness is ours, prayer 
 changes. We have no more pleading to do, but we de- 
 sire only to have our eyes opened, to see what is here for 
 us in Truth. 
 
 When Hagar wept and "Lifted up her voice," pray- 
 ing for water, that her son might live, "God opened her 
 eyes, and she saw a well of water." Gen. 21:19. 
 
 Prayer opens our eyes to see God's everpresent sup- 
 ply, and we see there is no lack. Because "Eye hath 
 not seen" and "Ear hath not heard" we have been 
 "hungry" and "thirsty" in the midst of full supply. 
 "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, it is laying 
 hold of His Highest willingness." 
 
 In this understanding, Jesus' words come to us with 
 clear meaning, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye ask 
 and pray for, believe that ye have received, and ye shall 
 have." Mark 11:24. (Rev. Ver.} 
 
 No more pleading when our eyes and ears are 
 opened to see and hear the good that is all around us 
 that is ours as "Heirs of God." 
 
 If we pray as Jesus here directs, our petitions will be 
 changed to thanksgiving, as we recognize that we "have 
 received" all things !
 
 PRAYER. 8l 
 
 Jesus' prayer at the tomb of Lazarus, before he had 
 called upon him to come forth from the dead, should be 
 ours in all that we desire : "Father, I thank Thee, that 
 Thou hast heard me, and I know that Thou hearest me 
 always." 
 
 It is also written: "If we know that he heareth us, we 
 also know that we have the petitions that we desired of 
 Him." i Jno. 5:15. When we know that He "heareth 
 us always," we will joyfully declare this, as Jesus did, 
 rather than plead, as of old: "Hear our prayer, good 
 Lord." Our manner of praying will be, then, according 
 to our understanding of God, and man's relation to God. 
 
 While we believe in God as a Great Personality, 
 seated in some far off heaven, arbitrary in will and pur- 
 pose, swayed by man's pleadings, moved by his desires, 
 sending good gifts as a reward, withholding good as a 
 punishment, we will send up our petitions and pleadings 
 without cessation. 
 
 When we know God as Changeless Power and Pres- 
 ence, always Love, forever Good, Eternal Fulness, 
 "Without shadow of turning," filling full heaven and 
 earth; that the kingdom of All Good is within us; that 
 this Infinite Good-Presence does not change, because it 
 is always Perfection; does not make special gifts, but for- 
 ever gives all to all; then we pray according to this 
 knowledge. 
 
 We know that every good thing is ready and waiting 
 for us to accept with loving gratitude; that in the "Son" 
 we are heirs to this All-good, everpresent. We hear 
 Spirit saying to Its Own Begotten in us: "Son, all that I 
 have is thine"; and we answer: "All mine are thine, and 
 all thine are mine." Blindness ignorance only has 
 kept us from receiving all good; we have not seen. 
 
 It is written, (JFer. 77 .-5-8), "Cursed be the man that
 
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 trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm"; that trusteth 
 in man's opinions; that believes in Life and Understand- 
 ing apart from God. "For he shall be like the heath in 
 
 the desert, and shall not see when good cometh 
 
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, . . . for 
 he shall be as a tree planted by the waters . . . and 
 shalt not see when heat cometh." 
 
 So we need not ask God to be near us; Good cannot 
 come any nearer than it always is ! Let us then seek to 
 realize how near God is. We will not ask for more life, 
 more strength, more health, to be given us; but will try 
 to appreciate and accept the changeless Life and 
 Strength, the perfect Health in which we live. "Shall 
 we plead for more at the open Fount, which already 
 pours forth more than we can" (or know how) "to re- 
 ceive"? 5. and H. What then shall we ask for? Only 
 that our eyes may be opened to see what eternally is. 
 
 Consciousness of God enables us to claim what is; 
 to recognize our Father's good gifts and good will. The 
 prayer then of a higher understanding is recognition of 
 Truth, and willing thanksgiving. 
 
 "In happy childhood, at a father's call, 
 Trusting we walk wherever He may lead. 
 We say not: 'Father, do not let me fall 
 Down this steep hill.' We feel so safe, that all 
 We think is to enjoy his loving heed. 
 We never plead: 'Do not forget, I pray, 
 To give me food and drink enough to-day.' 
 Why should we with a heavenly Father plead?" 
 
 In a better consciousness, the pleading of God's chil- 
 dren, gives place to joyful recognition. Many, at this 
 point, call attention to the "Lord's Prayer," and ask, Is 
 not that full of petition? Granted that it is, we must re- 
 member that Jesus himself, admitted his restriction in 
 speaking, because of lack of understanding in his hear-
 
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 ers. - He must give the prayer which the consciousness 
 of his hearers could receive. The Spirit of Truth is re- 
 vealing the "many things" that Jesus could not then tell 
 about; and clearer consciousness can receive them. 
 
 But we notice that in the Lord's Prayer there is no 
 "if." It seems that the greatest hindrance to answer of 
 prayer, has been because of that little word "if," which 
 Jesus never directed us to use. Webster defines "if" to 
 mean, "In case that, or supposing that." Then "if" im- 
 plies doubt, and doubting prayer is not answered. "He 
 that wavereth is like a wave of the sea. . . . Let not 
 that man think that he shall receive anything of the 
 Lord." James 1:6, 7. 
 
 Jesus indicated the need of perfect confidence when 
 he said, "Whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be thou 
 removed, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall be- 
 lieve that what he saith comes to pass, he shall have it." 
 Here we are authorized to speak positively, which we 
 never do when we put an "if" in. 
 
 When we know that "The word which I speak is not 
 mine, but the Father's," we will also know that it "Shall 
 not return unto me void." 
 
 But one will say, "I pray, If it be thy will, because I 
 am not sure whether it is God's will or not." In such a 
 case, we had better at once enlighten ourselves about 
 God's will; there is no excuse for not knowing it. As 
 Paul says: "Be not foolish, but know what the will of 
 the Lord is." Eph. 5:77. (Rev. Ver.} 
 
 "The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil," (Psl. 
 121 .7), is a statement in His Word, and makes plain 
 God's will towards us. Again, it is told us clearly, in 
 Gal. i .-4, "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might 
 deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will 
 of God." One came to Jesus, saying: "Lord, //Thou wilt,
 
 84 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 thou canst make me clean." Not doubting his power I 
 know thou canst but uncertain about his willingness. 
 Jesus' answer to this one is the answer for all in such 
 doubt, "Twill: be thou clean." God is always more wil- 
 ling to give than we are to receive ! 
 
 When we understand God's will, as Jesus did, how 
 gladly will we say, "Not my will, but Thine," for as one 
 says: "The 'I will' in Truth is God's will." This we see, 
 when we know that the One is All; One Mind; One Intel- 
 ligence; One Will. 
 
 Jesus said: "Abide in me"; be firm or fixed in con- 
 sciousness of the One that I am, "And ye shall ask what 
 ye will, and it shall be done unto you," for it is then the 
 One Will. "It is God that worketh in me both to will 
 and to do of His good pleasure," after I have given up 
 all belief of separateness. 
 
 Jesus again said: "If ye ask anything in my name, I 
 will do it"; does not say in these boundless promises, "I 
 will do it if it is best for you," but simply, I will do it. 
 Do what? "Anything" you wish, but seek it "in my name." 
 This is the secret. We may find everything in that won- 
 derful Divine Name, I am, which is also Divine Nature. 
 In the Divine Nature we have all things we desire: 
 Peace, Health, Strength, All-good is there, and is ours in 
 that Nature, which I am. We can feel no doubt, nor say 
 an "if" when we understand asking "in his name." 
 
 "Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it." Psl. 81 :io. 
 Make plenty of room to receive, the Divine sets no limit. 
 If thought is half filled with belief of evil, it cannot be 
 more than half filled with good. If thought is emptied 
 of all belief of evil, it can be filled/?/// of good. 
 
 'Prove me now, saith the Lord, if I will not open the 
 windows of heaven (open your spiritual eyes to see) and.
 
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 pour out a blessing that there shall not be room enough." 
 Mai. 3 :io. 
 
 What we recive is not limited by the Giver, but by 
 our capacity to receive. 
 
 "When the poor widow applied to Elisha for aid, he 
 met her need by increasing the oil she had in the house; 
 and the limit of increase was set, not by the Giver of ev- 
 ery good gift, not by Elisha, through whom the blessing 
 came, but by the widow who measured for herself! The 
 oil ran until it filled every vessel she had set to contain it! 
 And when there was not a vessel more, the oil stayed." 
 
 As one says, "our failure to receive comes from self 
 made limitations." 
 
 What shall we ask for? Jesus told us, when he said, 
 "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven." And David gave 
 us the right idea of prayer when he declared, "One thing 
 have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I 
 may dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psl. 27:4. 
 
 The kindom of God is also God's house; David was 
 seeking the kingdom of God, or to dwell in God's pres- 
 ence. To become conscious of God's All-Presence is to 
 dwell in that Presence. If we declare God's Presence as 
 all, we help our thought to dwell in that consciousness 
 to dwell in God's "House." 
 
 Jesus said {Luke, 10:42}: "But one thing is needful." 
 This one thing is to recognize the everpresent God or 
 Good. 
 
 Can we concentrate our desires to "one thing?" 
 When we do, we shall find in that "one thing." whatever 
 we would ask for. It is His Holy Name or Nature; it is 
 His One Only Presence and Power, which we are to joy- 
 fully acknowledge and accept. 
 
 Our past praying, has been so mixed with doubt, be- 
 cause we have not seen God's will clearly, and could not
 
 86 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEAUNG. 
 
 understand that the All-Good was ours before we began 
 to pray, so we never felt certain of the answer! This need 
 not discourage us, because when we know better, we 
 shall pray better! 
 
 When Peter was imprisoned by Herod, we read that 
 "Prayer was made without ceasing, of the church unto 
 God for him." On the night of his delivery he went to a 
 house where "Many were gathered together praying." 
 Peter knocked at the door, am the maid, who knew 
 Peter's voice, ran in to those praying, and "Told them 
 how Peter stood before the gate." And they said unto 
 her, "Thou art mad!" But she constantly affirmed that 
 it was even so. "Then," said they, "it is his angel!" The 
 need, just as truly now as then, is to have morefaith'm our 
 prayers! And knowledge will give us that faith. In 
 clearer understanding we will revise our form of prayer. 
 Our old and well loved "Now I lay me," has new strength 
 and meaning in its "new" form: 
 
 A CHILD'S PRAYER. 
 "Now I lay me down to sleep, 
 I know that God His child doth keep, 
 I know that God my life is nigh, 
 I live in Him, I cannot die. 
 
 God is my Health, I can't be sick, 
 
 God is my Strength, unfailing, quick. 
 
 God is my All, I know no fear, 
 
 Since Life, and Truth, and Love are here."
 
 "Oh, Thou All-seeing, and All-knowing One, 
 Whom we call 'Father,' 'God,' 'Creator,' to Thee 
 We pray, not as of old when ignorance of Thy laws 
 And Thee, did bid us supplicate, entreat, 
 Implore for things we most desired. 
 Eut in the higher understanding 
 With which our great Teacher bade us pray; 
 He who said: 'When thou prayest, believe 
 That things desired by thee, are thine! 
 For thy Father knoweth all thy heart, 
 And gives thee all good blessings, e'er thy prayer 
 Is uttered' ! God is perfection, law itself, 
 And He no changing needs. But we, His children, 
 Heirs by birth and inheritance, have lived 
 So long in doubt of our estate, cannot receive; 
 Our spiritual ears, eyes and thoughts are silent; 
 
 So we the changing need, 
 Now when we pray, we will not say: 
 'Dear Father, hear our prayer;' but know 
 That Thou dost hear, and answer! 
 We will not plead, 'Be near us,' 
 But know that space '^filled by Thee alone! 
 And surely Thou art here as everywhere. 
 We will not plead that Spirit's power, 
 May us encompass and protect, 
 We know that spirit never leaves us day or night. 
 We'll let each breath, and thought, and word, 
 A recognition be, our lives be hid in Thee. 
 Content in Thee, we find our heaven now, 
 And nothing have to fear, 
 Since God is 'All in All,' and God is good."
 
 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 AND MY FATHER ARE ONE. 
 
 One in Life, in Mind, in Idea, in Consciousness; 
 
 One in Truth, in Freedom, in Fulness, in Wisdom; 
 
 One in Strength, in Wholeness, in Peace, and Rest. 
 
 God, my Source, is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Om- 
 niscient Life and Love. 
 
 I (my name, or my patient's name) express the Om- 
 nipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient Life and Love. 
 
 I, (patient's name), the individual, express all the 
 Truth of the Universal Divine Man. 
 
 The Universal says: I am Divine Man, one with 
 God; one with Life, Truth, and Love. 
 
 The individual says: I express the Whole Truth of 
 Divine Man; his Perfection, Peace, Wholeness, Ease, 
 Understanding, Harmony, Goodness, and Love. 
 
 The Spirit of Love fills the universe of God. 
 
 I live in the full Power and Presence of Love. 
 
 Spirit fills all time and all places. 
 
 Every moment is brimming full of Life Eternal 
 and Changeless. 
 
 Because God is Life, I (patient's name) express life; 
 because God is Wholeness, I express health; because 
 God is Peace, I express peace and ease. 
 
 (After emptying thought by the denials given, fill it 
 with these Divine affirmations).
 
 GROWTH. 
 
 THE POWER OF THE WORD. 
 
 (( K\OR by thy words thou shalt be justified and, by thy 
 ' words thou shalt be condemned." Matt. 12:37. 
 
 Science turns about (converts) our thoughts 
 from the outward to the inward; from the visible to the 
 invisible; from appearances to righteous judgment; from 
 the body to Spirit; from the word to Mind; from the 
 fruit to the Vine; from effect to Cause. By thus looking 
 beyond appearances, I can see by Divine Light, what I 
 am. 
 
 Before I can judge righteously, and appear right, I 
 must know what it is to be right. 
 
 The spoken word is, as Webster defines it: A sign 
 or symbol of an idea in Mind. Every word spoken 
 which also signifies every visible thing has an idea back 
 of it, in which it originated. The idea is the unspoken 
 word; the spoken word is the idea expressed. The idea 
 is first, therefore is the power that is in the word. Hence 
 all power is in Mind, and the word expresses that power. 
 
 In Divine Mind is the Eternal Idea of all things. 
 "The word that was in the beginning with God, and was 
 God." This word is complete in God, before it is spoken 
 forth; for it is God's complete Idea, which is All-Good, 
 All-Perfection, All-Truth. So when we speak the Word 
 of Truth, we speak of finished work, that which is eter-
 
 90 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 nally done in God; hence our speaking does not make 
 any truth, but it expresses, or brings forth, the Truth that 
 is, and that was, before we spoke. 
 
 This explains many verses in the Bible, as Gen. 2:4, 
 5, "In the day that the Lord God made every plant of 
 the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the 
 field, before it grew!' And again, in Heb.^.:^, "For we 
 which have believed do enter into rest. . . The works 
 were finished from the foundation of the world"; or Eph. 
 2:9, "Not of works lest any man should boast." 
 
 My Eternal Life is a finished fact. 
 My Health is a finished fact. 
 My Peace is a finished fact. 
 
 We can never in Truth assume that individually we 
 have done anything; not even can we claim by our under- 
 standing, to have accomplished aught. Divine Under- 
 standing enlightens our thought to see that which is 
 eternally fiinished in Truth. And as soon as we see it, we 
 begin to think it, and to declare it: this is to be our 
 work. Our part is to believe in \.\^Q finished Truth of all 
 things in God. 
 
 The Truth that thus presents itself to us, is God's 
 Divine Idea; we have called it the Christ always Full 
 and Complete. We are to believe in this Fulness and 
 Completeness of all things, and this helps us to under- 
 stand that, which Jesus declares to be the "work" which 
 God requires of each soul. Jno. 6:29, "This is the work 
 of God, that ye believe on him whom He hath sent." 
 We are to believe on, and to be positive about the finished 
 work of God the Divine that He hath sent into all. 
 
 Now, I desire to be good, where shall I begin? Shall 
 I try to make myself good by acting good? This would 
 be trying individually to make something, which is im- 
 possible. If I want a beautiful lilly, do I try to make
 
 GROWTH. 91 
 
 the flower first? or do I plant deep out of sight, a 
 lilly bulb, which in due time sends forth stems, out of 
 which burst the blossom? All of us can plant a bulb and 
 have a lilly. The bulb contains within it the perfect 
 lilly; the flower is the result of the perfect life and sub- 
 stance that is in the bulb. 
 
 This bulb may represent to us our Divine Nature. 
 The planting of it in mother earth, may remind us to see 
 our Divine Nature implanted within the Whole Divine 
 Life, the Mother, Father, God Source of all; Power in 
 and through all; "Your life is hid with Christ in God." 
 Col. 3:3. 
 
 To understand my life buried with Truth in God, is 
 to plant the bulb of my existence, the starting point of 
 all outward expression of good. 
 
 The "stem" and "flower" represent to us this out- 
 ward expression, put forth from within the bulb, after it 
 is buried. When we look from the visible to the Invisible 
 Life, from the act to the Actor, or Power of Action, 
 Divine Life stirs up our souls, by pushing out Its own 
 action, and the result comes into the visible act of good- 
 ness. 
 
 With faith in the bulb, and what it can do, we plant 
 it, and wait. With faith in Divine Nature, and what it 
 can do, we believe in it, and wait. "For we have need of 
 patience that after we have done the will, we may receive 
 the promise." 
 
 The Divine Soul is the budding out of the Spirit of 
 Life, Truth, and Love. The Divine Body is the develop- 
 ment of this bud into the perfect flower. 
 
 When thought is truly converted, it sees that we 
 cannot make perfect lives, but we can be the Perfect Life 
 in God, and thus let it put forth its perfection, peace, and 
 beauty, into soul and body.
 
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 We cannot make good acts that are genuine; they 
 must unfold from within good thoughts, which rest, or 
 are positive in Good Being. All Truth must come from 
 Source. 
 
 We cannot then make good health! There is just 
 One Law of making or expressing anything. 
 
 We must go into Source and Cause, and see Good 
 Health as an eternal fact a finished Truth then we 
 will believe in good health only, and wait. By the law 
 we have seen, this bud of good health, shall unfold into 
 the perfect expression. 
 
 We cannot make the body well permanently, while 
 thought is based upon ill-health as a truth. If we desire 
 a well body, we must "Work as the Father works/' which 
 is to say we must recognize the Divine Law and method. 
 
 First, a well mind. As there is but One Mind, and 
 that the Infinite, we can easily see that Mind is well ! 
 There is no Mind of disease. 
 
 Second, a well thought and this comes naturally 
 from a sound Mind. 
 
 Third, a well body the sure result of a sound Mind 
 and Thought. 
 
 "God hath not given us a Spirit of fear, but (God 
 hath given us a Spirit) of love, and of power, and of a 
 sound mind." 2 Tim. i :j. Therefore claim, "I have a 
 sound mind, a sound thought, and a well body." This is 
 the way to look to God for our good health. Joyfully 
 rocognize "What God hath prepared" for us. My good 
 health is finished in God, is waiting for me to accept. 
 
 This is the whole Law of expression, which means 
 the law of growth. It is always from within, outward. 
 
 "Consider the lillies how they grow; they toil not, 
 neither do they spin." "Which of you, by taking 
 thought, can add one cubit unto his stature." Matt. 6:
 
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 27, 28. These words contain such a wonderful secret : 
 the whole mystery of growth is wrapped up in them. 
 
 Toil not, labor not to grow. Growth is never pro- 
 moted in that way; busy thought never adds to your 
 stature, and yet thought was made to be busy, for 
 thought is the action of Mind ! 
 
 It is natural to grow, and we grow without effort. 
 If we use thought as a cause of growth, we make a mis- 
 take; thought is only the method by which growth is ac- 
 complished; the impelling power is in Mind which moves 
 thought on to do its will. Thought is the servant, not 
 Master; the action, not the Actor; the expression, not 
 the Expressor. 
 
 Thought does not add to my stature, because I am 
 that I am, eternally. Thought may see what I am, and 
 seeing, declare it, The work of thought is not to make 
 me anything, but to continually express what I am. 
 
 "Their strength is to sit still." In the outer, be pas- 
 sive, but in the inner, to "sit still" is to be brimful of the 
 consciousness of Omnipotence ! Be positive. 
 
 "For thus saith the Lord ... in returning and 
 rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and confidence shall be 
 your strength; and ye whole not." Isa. 30:7-15. 
 
 "O, Jerusalem, . . . how often would I have 
 gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth 
 her chickens under her wings, and we would not." Matt. 
 
 23-37- 
 
 "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life." 
 Jno. 5:40. 
 
 We cannot "sit still" in Life, in Truth, and in Love, 
 until we have come into Christ come into knowledge of 
 being Divine. Then /rest in Being; I direct thoughts to 
 express the truth of my Being Divine, and the word, or 
 visible result of thought, will follow. Growth, then, is
 
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 not making myself become anything, it is becoming more 
 and more conscious of what I am. 
 
 Because we have not recognized the truth of our 
 Life and Being, thought has become filled with images 
 of false being, which have obscured the true idea. Our 
 visible world rests under the shadow of such false belief; 
 for it is an acknowledged fact, by many thinkers, that 
 creation, or the visible, is mysteriously linked with man's 
 thought. 
 
 "The student of nature observes, that all things in 
 nature the animals, mountains, seas, and stones have a 
 secret relation to man's thought and his life. Nature 
 gives him a copy of every mood and shade in his charac- 
 ter and mind. Every object he beholds is the mask of 
 man. Nature is the immense shadow of man." Victor 
 Hugo. 
 
 "The soul spreads its own hue over everything; the 
 shroud or wedding garment of nature is woven in the 
 loom of our own feelings." F. W. Robertson. 
 
 The visible world returns to us our own opinions and 
 beliefs. 
 
 "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking 
 makes it so." Shakespeare. 
 
 "There is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that 
 esteemeth a thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. "- 
 Paul. His thinking makes it so to himself. We may as 
 truly say, "There is nothing hurtful of itself, but to him 
 that esteemeth a thing to be hurtful, to him it is hurtful." 
 
 To change our world, therefore, we must change our 
 thoughts about it. "The things that are seen are temporal," 
 because our way of seeing things shall change! 
 
 "The creation is on wheels, always passing into 
 something else, streaming into something higher ; every- 
 thing undressing and stealing away from its old into new
 
 GROWTH. < 95 
 
 forms. Thin or solid everything is in flight." Emerson. 
 The outer is uplifted, as thought is enlightened by the 
 Truth, to see-the true nature of all things. 
 
 "A pure inward life, may transform the outward 
 shape, and turn it by degrees, to the soul's essence, till all 
 be made immortal." "Be ye transformed by the renew- 
 ing of your minds." 
 
 The whole world is to be transformed by the making 
 new of our thoughts of the world. When our belief of 
 the world is darkness, the shadow of sin, sickness and 
 death, or the absence of Purity, Health and Life seem to 
 be. 
 
 A little girl, when asked what made the daylight on 
 the earth truthfully replied: "The side of the earth that 
 is turned to the sun." But when asked again what makes 
 the night? naturally replied, "The side of the earth that 
 is turned to darkness." There is no darkness for the earth 
 to turn towards! The darkness comes to the side of the 
 earth that is turned away from the light. And still more, 
 it is the earth's own shadow that creates darkness! If the 
 earth were transparent, the light of the sun would pene- 
 trate it through and through, and shine into it and be- 
 yond it everywhere. The opaqueness of the earth, throws 
 the shadow or darkness. 
 
 So the denseness of our thought, throws darkness 
 over our world; these dense thoughts stand between the 
 "Light that lighteth every man," and the world of Truth, 
 casting their shadow on all things. This is how "We 
 see through a glass darkly." 
 
 If our thoughts were clear, filled with light, then 
 we would see "Face to face"; or see everything as it is; 
 for the light would penetrate our thoughts through and 
 through, and shine upon all things. 
 
 These" shcdcvs ca<t ficrr igrcr^rl, dark thcrght
 
 96 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OK DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 make our world seem enveloped in darkness, doubt, fear, 
 error and evil; of this it is written: "For all that is in the 
 world the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and 
 the pride of life, is not of the Father, (not God's world,) 
 but is of the world" (your own idea of the world). "And 
 the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that 
 doeth the will of God abideth forever." ist Jno. 2:16,17. 
 It is descriptive of a mental state, opposed to spiritual- 
 ity, which shall pass away, as spirit is known to be all. 
 
 Of this "world" (our own ideas, in belief of separa- 
 tion) Jesus spoke when he said, "In the world ye shall 
 have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome 
 the world. Ye are not of the world, even as I am not of 
 the world." 
 
 Our first, or infant ideas of things, shall pass away, 
 as thought matures. "The first man is of the earth 
 earthy"; this represents the earliest idea man has of him- 
 self. "But the second man is the Lord from heaven;" 
 the latest, or last idea that man has of himself, when the 
 "new" is "put on," "Created in rigteousness and true ho- 
 liness." Man is to grow into this knowledge of himself, 
 and the seed of such knowledge must be planted in the 
 soil of Divine Mind, put forth through thought, and last 
 of all, spoken out in word. 
 
 Hence to improve the world, we would not in Sci- 
 ence begin our work with the world not work to change 
 the outer; "Not by might, nor by power, but by my 
 Spirit, saith the Lord." Change the beliefs of thought 
 into right knowledge; and this must be done, not 
 by saying "I will," but by hearing the voice of Wisdom 
 within saying "I am." Begin always with Divine Nature, 
 let it reveal itself. This is what all creation is waiting 
 for, as it is written: "The whole creation groaneth; wait-
 
 GROWTH. 97 
 
 ing for the manifestation of the sons of God." Rom. 8:22, 
 19. 
 
 "Be still," is not slothfulness, but stilling mortal 
 opinion, to let Divine Will have its full action. Be still, 
 but expectant, wide awake, looking! "For to as many 
 as look for him, he shall appear, without sin unto salva- 
 tion." We receive what we look for, since that only have 
 we "eyes" for. If we do not look for or expect good, we 
 "shall not see when good cometh!" So of Health, of 
 Life, and Strength, Peace and all good. 
 
 Two who had spent some time in India upon differ- 
 ent missions, met, and each told his experience. The 
 Missionary recounted his triumphs, and rejoiced in the 
 number of converts; the hunter replied, "I do not believe 
 there is a Christian in India, for I was there for months 
 without seeing one." 
 
 Then the hunter told his story, and spoke of the 
 number of bears he had seen and shot; the Minister re- 
 plied, "I do not believe there is a bear in India, for I was 
 there for years and never saw one." 
 
 We all see what we look for. As long as we say, ''We 
 must look for trials and sufferings, and sickness, and 
 death, while we are in this world," we shall find just 
 these. And we cannot but notice now, how busy people 
 are looking for tribulations! 
 
 Let us consider a practical illustration of how to ob- 
 tain good results by going into Source, rather than work- 
 ing with effect. I feel tired, my body rebels against fur- 
 ther effort. I lie down, or lay the body down to rest it. 
 I rise refreshed, but only for a time; soon again the body 
 demands rest; it is right, it should have rest! Again I 
 lay it down to rest; soon again it asks for rest, and it will 
 continue to cry out for rest, until we learn how to give it 
 true and permanent rest. How shall we do this? Go to.
 
 98 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 where rest eternal is. "Come unto me, and rest." En- 
 ter into the Consciousness that / am Rest; my thought 
 expresses the Rest that I am, and my body shows it 
 forth this is the only lasting rest; and the body will 
 continually demand it, until we give it its own!. The tired 
 body then is a warning voice to us. "Give me my true 
 rest." 
 
 Let us be willing to grow up into our Divine Nature 
 in all things. Which means that in every place we rec- 
 ognize that the Divine is, and is the rewarder of all that 
 seek it.
 
 GROWTH. 99 
 
 A STUDY OF THE TRINITY. 
 
 Three is the sign, or symbol, of completeness. 
 
 "Three in One," indicates the Complete One. 
 
 Mind is a Trinity in Unity, or is complete as 
 Mind, Idea, and Consciousness. 
 
 This is Infinite Mind, in Stillness and Fulness, but 
 with all Power of action. It "creates," or manifests It- 
 self in Its own likeness. Therefore we find the "Three 
 in One" in all creation; and God-Mind includes the 
 whole creation, and holds it in oneness with Itself. 
 
 In the Trinity we may say there is one, two, three. 
 
 The One is the Infinite Mind. 
 
 The Two is the action of the One Infinite. 
 
 The Three is the result of this action of the One. 
 
 The One is the Creator. 
 
 The two and three, or action and result, is the cre- 
 ation. 
 
 In the parable of the Vine, we find an illustration: 
 
 The One is the Vine. 
 
 The two and three are the branches and fruit; and 
 Vine (Creator) includes and holds in oneness with itself, 
 its branches and fruit (creation). 
 
 So there is but One in the universe Mind, the Ac- 
 tor; and creation, the unfolding of Mind. 
 
 i. Mind, the "Head." 
 
 2 and 3. Creation, the "Body." 
 I. Infinite Mind. I. Infinite Spirit. 
 2. Its Thought. 2. Its Soul. 
 3. Its Word. 3. Its Body. 
 
 All One. 
 i. The One. 
 2. Its Action. 
 3. Its Result. 
 
 I. Creator. 
 
 i. Infinite Cause. 
 
 i. The Vine. 
 
 2. Its Image. 
 3, Its Likeness. 
 
 2. Its Heavens. 
 3. Its Earth. 
 
 2. Its Branches. 
 3. Its Fruit,
 
 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING, 
 
 "Upon the summit of each mountain-thought 
 Worship thou God; for Deity is seen 
 From every elevation of the soul." 
 
 "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy 
 mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge 
 of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." ha. 11:9.
 
 THE MOUNTAIN OF THE 
 LORD. 
 
 ND 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 into it. And 
 many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up 
 to the Mountain of the Lord." Isa. 2:2. 
 
 Mountain is the symbol of clear consciousness, or 
 perfect spiritual realization. As we ascend a mountain 
 our vision is extended; we rise above the earth nearer 
 heaven; we see more clearly. So does consciousness lift 
 us above "earthiness," and give us plainer, broader vision. 
 The "Mountain of the Lord's house," represents con- 
 sciousness of God's presence, and the promise is, that in 
 the "last days," or fuller light, the knowledge of God's 
 presence shall be established above all other knowledge, 
 and all others shall come into it. 
 
 This indicates plainly to us, that in due time, all 
 things shall be brought into the Consciousness of Love, 
 Life, and Truth. "For the knowledge of the Lord shall 
 cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." This Con- 
 sciousness of Divinity as all in all, is now beginning to be 
 our refuge. "Beautiful for situation is Mount Zion, God 
 is known in her palaces for a refuge." Psl. 47:2, j. 
 "Flee as a bird to your mountain, thou who are weary of 
 sin." In perfect understanding, sin is not known. ! 
 
 "O Zion, that bringeth good tidings, get thee up into
 
 102 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 the high mountain." We know how Jesus went up into 
 the mountain to pray; and it was in "an exceeding high 
 mountain" that he met and conquered the strongest 
 claims of the flesh! We need to be established in the 
 highest consciousness, to be able to deny the allurements 
 of sense, or appearances. In the Old Testament stories 
 peculiar reference is made to mountains; and by finding 
 the spiritual significance, most helpful truths are gleaned 
 from the narratives. 
 
 "The ark rested upon the mountains," lifted up by 
 the waters that had destroyed the "World of the un- 
 godly." Our ark of safety finds its resting place in Di- 
 vine Consciousness, borne upward upon the flood of light 
 and Truth, that has destroyed our beliefs of darkness and 
 error. 
 
 Moses went into the Mountain to receive the com- 
 mands of the Lord. We likewise meet the Divine, face 
 to face, when we rise into pure consciousness. John says 
 that he was carried away in Spirit "To a great and high 
 mountain," where he saw "The holy Jerusalem descend, 
 ing out of heaven from God." Rev. 21:10. When in the 
 Spirit we are lifted into "a great and high" consciousness^ 
 the same vision awaits us. We see in this high con- 
 sciousness, heaven and earth as one heaven, and hear 
 Truth saying, of this new heaven and earth, "And God 
 shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall 
 be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither 
 shall there be any more pain, . . . and there shall be 
 no more curse, . . . And there shall be no night 
 there, . . . for the Lord God giveth them light." 
 Rev. 21 .'4. 22:3, 5. We cannot see this except from the 
 height of pure Consciousness, even in "His holy moun- 
 tain."
 
 THE MOUNTAIN OF THE I,ORD. 103 
 
 THE MOUNT OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 
 
 Each one stands now, somewhere on the "Mount of 
 Consciousness." One may be lingering at the foot of this 
 mount, where his vision is shut in, limited, Here his 
 seeing is likely to be obscured by the mists of the valley; 
 into this low spot, the sunlight reaches for only a few 
 brief hours, the "shadows," therefore, fall long and deep. 
 In the "valley" is the "shadow of death." Psl. 23:4. 
 
 We hear this one praying for deliverance from these 
 deep shadows and blinding mists. The answer comes, 
 "Work out your own salvation. If you are seeing clouds 
 and shadows, it proves that you are standing on low 
 ground. Your only deliverance is, to rise above the place 
 of mists and darkness. In the valley must ever be deep 
 shadows and clouds, they belong to to the valley; but I 
 have told you that 'There shall be no hurt in all my holy 
 mountain.' Ascend, come up; and soon you will be 
 lifted to where there are no shadows. 'Follow me.'" 
 
 Now the willing one, obedient to the guiding voice, 
 begins to turn away from the valley, and to seek the 
 mountain path; soon he sees a way that has been opened 
 by the One who first ascended, and who now calls from 
 the heights to all below him, "Come unto me"; "Come 
 and be with me, where I am; come from the depths of 
 your doubt and fear in the valley, to this summit of 
 Light, where I stand. I have gone before and prepared 
 a way for you. I wait to receive you here. I have over- 
 come, by coming up over all doubts and darkness, and 
 because 1 did this, you may also. The way is 'straight 
 and narrow,' it leads direct to me." 
 
 This voice is heard even by those halting in the val- 
 ley; and he who heeds, begins at once the ascent, al- 
 though the way is not familiar at first. 
 
 But soon an exclamation of surprise is heard; as this
 
 IO4 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OP DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 one advances in the new way, he cries, "How my view is 
 broadening, how much freer I feel, how pure is the at- 
 mosphere becoming,, how much clearer is the sunlight, 
 how less dense the shadows! From where I now stand, 
 I "see" what I never even conceived of while I was in the 
 valley"! 
 
 From above a voice is heard, "And I, if I be lifted 
 up, will draw all men unto me." And this ascending 
 one, begins to understand the drawing power that is giv- 
 ing him strength to rise in consciousness. 
 
 So, all along, from the base to the summit of the 
 mountain, are those who have left the valley, in obedi- 
 ence to the voice, and are attempting to attain the 
 heights. Each speaks his view, from his standpoint, for 
 the view changes with every upward step; and so we hear 
 views given, differing according to the height reached in 
 consciousnesss. 
 
 Some of these travelers move slowly, others rapidly. 
 We see one who halts and hesitates, and learn that it is 
 because he fears to go too fast; he wishes to be sure of 
 every step of the way, before he takes it; he is so occu- 
 pied with his own thoughts and beliefs, that he hears not 
 clearly the voice that says "come," and feels uncertain as 
 to just the direction from which it speaks. In his confu- 
 sion he is sometimes led to believe that he must not try 
 to rise higher, and then he halts. He does not realize 
 that by going on up, his seeing will be clearer, and he will 
 draw nearer to the voice that calls him, for it comes from 
 the very summit of the mountain. 
 
 Another progress, slowly, as if burdened. We find 
 that this one is trying to carry with him up the mountain, 
 a remembrance of the "clouds and shadows" he has seen 
 in the valley! He is so engrossed with trying to hold on 
 to these memories, that he cannot hear the voice above
 
 THB MOUNTAIN OK THB I,ORD. 105 
 
 saying, "Thy sins and thy iniquities, will / remember no 
 more." He sighing says, "Whom the Lord loveth he 
 chasteneth." He does not realize that the chastening 
 means the purifying from all doubts and clouds, and an 
 uplifting into Light! He does not know that all the 
 "Scourging" comes in the clouds of the valley, because 
 Love would draw us above them. "To him that over- 
 cometh (which is, 'cometh up over') will I grant to sit 
 with me in my throne." Rev. 3:21. This one does not 
 "Forget the things that are being left behind," though it 
 is written, "Remember ye not the former things, neither 
 consider the things of old." Isa. 43:18. So his progress 
 in consciousness is hindered. 
 
 We meet another steadily pressing upward, and we 
 hear him joyfully singing, "I will look unto the hills whence 
 cometh my help. Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He 
 that walketh uprightly. I have set the Lord always before 
 me. I shall not be moved. Thou wilt show me the path 
 of life; in thy presence is fulness of joy," and we notice 
 as these words are uttered, that the upward progress of 
 this one, is rapid and easy; we remember it is written, 
 "The joy of the Lord shall be your strength." And all 
 who catch the echo of this rejoicing one, are strengthened 
 to push on. 
 
 As we go higher, we see that all the other hills and 
 moutains begin to disappear, as we are being exalted 
 above them. All the hills of difficulty, which once arose 
 so threateningly above us, now seem to be leveled, when 
 looked down upon from this highest of mountains. Also 
 as we look, the very valley we left is lifted up, and is 
 seen no more as a valley! Now is the prophesy of Isaiah 
 understood, "Every valley shall be exalted and every 
 mountain and hill shall be made low." Isa. 40:4. Ful- 
 filled when the soul has reached the heights of Pure Con.
 
 IO6 STUDIES IN' THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 sciousness, or the Consciousness of Purity filling all. "To 
 the pure, all things are pure." This is the summit of the 
 Mount, the Christ-consciousness towards which each soul 
 on the Mount has been pressing, from the "beginning." 
 
 One says, "To get above the clouds you must ascend 
 the mountain; so with the soul; it must rise to where it is 
 lighted by Supreme Truth, before the mists of error and 
 ignorance vanish." 
 
 "Behold the day of the Lord cometh, and it shall not 
 be clear in some places, and dark in other places of the 
 world, but it shall be one day which shall be known to the 
 Lord." Zech, 14:1, 6, 7. (Margin). 
 
 "There shall be one fold, one shepherd." 
 
 THE LAW OF HEREDITY. 
 
 In the second commandment it is written: "Visiting 
 the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the 
 third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and 
 showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and 
 keep my commandments." 
 
 Upon these words, the universal belief in heredity is 
 based. Even Christians claim its threat, of the visiting 
 of iniquity upon the children of the Fathers that hate me! 
 They claim for their children the inheritance of an evil 
 habit, or a weak body from some ancestor, even though 
 for generations back they have been God-loving people. 
 They entirely forget that the assertion is, that the sins of 
 iniquity shall be visited upon those that "hate me," but 
 mercy is shown to "Those that love me." Certainly, 
 Christians should insist upon freedom from heredity by 
 this very second commandment. 
 
 To love God is to be conscious of God. Hate is the
 
 THE MOUNTAIN OF THE I,ORD. 107 
 
 opposite of Love; hence to hate God, is to be unconscious 
 of God. Whenever we see evil, or see the absence of 
 Good, we, in a sense, "hate" God, for we cannot see any 
 absence of God, without being unconscious of God ! 
 Where we see absence, God is; therefore, to see evil, is to 
 be unconscious of God's all presence, and this is to "hate" 
 God. 
 
 In this understanding we can see the truth contained 
 in the words above quoted. 
 
 "Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the chil- 
 dren ... of them that are unconscious of me; but 
 showing mercy unto them that are conscious of me." To 
 believe that man inherits any evil, is indeed an indication 
 that thought is unconscious of Truth and Good; hence 
 "The Truth shall make you free," for to become con- 
 scious of the Truth of Good only, is to be free in thought, 
 from belief of evil inheritance. 
 
 In Ezekiel, eighteenth chapter, we read, long after 
 the commandments had been given: "What mean ye by 
 using this proverb, . . . saying. The fathers have 
 eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth have been set 
 on edge? As I live, saith the Lord, ye shall not have 
 occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. The 
 son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall 
 the father bear the iniquity of the son," etc. 
 
 Later on, when Jesus spoke from still more perfect 
 understanding, we hear him say, and now know his mean- 
 ing: "Call no man on the earth your father; for one is 
 your Father, even God." This forever settles the ques- 
 tion! Man is child of God only; his Father is the Infi- 
 nite Spirit of Perfection and Peace; now does he know 
 what his inheritance is; and knowing, he claims it; and 
 claiming, he possesses it, for it is his for the knowing. 
 Therefore, in the Light of true Knowledge we say: Infi-
 
 Io8 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 nite Mind is the Only Source or Cause. I am in that 
 Source eternally, and am of its Perfect Changeless Na- 
 ture. 
 
 I am born of Spirit only, and am Spirit. This is my 
 new birth, or new consciousness of birth. My inheri- 
 tance is goodness and perfection in mind, thought, and 
 body. I was made whole. 
 
 There is no source, or cause, of disease, weakness, or 
 lack of any kind. I am eternally of Divine nature, and 
 am filled full of all Truth from my Source.
 
 THB MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD. 109 
 
 WHAT I AM NOT. 
 
 God, or Good, is in everything. 
 There is nothing to be afraid of. 
 am not afraid of any kind of weather, 
 am not afraid of rain or wind, 
 am not affected by cloud or sunshine, 
 am not affected by anything external. 
 am not afraid of anything I do. 
 am not afraid of anything I eat. 
 do not believe there is anything to hurt me. 
 do not believe in two Minds or two Powers, 
 do not believe in two Substances, 
 am not bound by universal beliefs of fear and evil, 
 am not influenced by individual claims of fear or 
 evil. 
 
 I am free. 
 
 "The value of a thought cannot be told. 
 
 He lives most who thinks most. 
 
 It is much less what we do, than 
 
 What we think, that fits us for the future." 
 
 Festus.
 
 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 "Christian experiences are not the work of magic, 
 but come under the law of Cause and effect. Joy is as 
 much a matter of Cause and effect, as pain. There is 
 no mystery about Happiness whatever. Put in the in- 
 gredients and it must come out. All fruits grow, whether 
 in the soil, or in the soul. Spend the time you have 
 spent in sighing for fruits, in fulfilling the conditions of 
 their growth. We have hitherto paid immense attention 
 to effects. Henctforth let us deal with Causes. 
 
 Do not imagine that you have got these things be- 
 cause you know how to get them. As well try to feed 
 upon a cookery book. What more need I add but this: 
 test the method by experiment," Drummond.
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 ((/TIHERE is no new thing under the sun." Solomon. 
 | All Truth is Eternal; but man illumined by the in- 
 creasing light of Spirit within, progresses in con- 
 sciousness, and perceives Truth more and more dis- 
 tinctly; he is on his way to the "perfect day"; that, is, to 
 perfect understanding. 
 
 One says: "Man is on his way to God, not by mere 
 lapse of time, but through various stages of illumination." 
 Man comes to God, by seeing God more and more clearly. 
 
 "Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous 
 things out of thy law." Psl. 119:18. 
 
 When Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, saw the city en- 
 compassed by the enemy, he said to Elisha: "Alas my 
 master, what shall we do"? "And Elisha prayed and 
 said: Lord, I pray thee open his eyes that he may see ; 
 and behold the mountain was full of the horses and char- 
 iots of fire round about Elisha " As soon as his eyes 
 were opened, he saw the truth of Divine protection. 
 
 What were these "horses and chariots round about 
 Elisha"? We read, in Psl. 68:17, "The chariots of the 
 Lord are twenty thousand, even many thousands of 
 angels ; the Lord is among them." 
 
 "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them 
 that fear (or acknowledge) him and delivereth them." 
 Psl. 34:7. Angels are Divine Thoughts: whisperings of 
 Truth and Love in the soul. These tell us of the Omni- 
 present Power of Good, and deliver us from all fear-
 
 112 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 When our eyes are opened to see, we too are made con- 
 scious of the Divine that surrounds us, and can say, "I 
 will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." 
 
 "Because thou hast made the Lord thy habitation," 
 Because thou hast seen the Divine as thy dwelling place. 
 "There shall no evil befall thee, nor any plague come 
 nigh thy dwelling." Certainly not, for neither evil nor 
 plague can come near to God. "For He shall give His 
 angels charge over thee, to keep thee. . . They shall 
 bear thee up, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." 
 Psl. 91:9:12. 
 
 May we not trust in this, when we come to the 
 rough, steep places in life's journey, that just "at hand" 
 is the "chariot of the Lord," to bear us up above all hard- 
 ship; that if we enter into Divine thinking, or thinking 
 of the Divine Presence, All in all, nothing can be "hard" 
 to us? 
 
 Let us not wait, however, until confronted by ap- 
 pearances that claim to be evil, before we establish our 
 thoughts in Divine Consciousness. Begin at once, and 
 continually try to see Divinity always at hand, wi:hin 
 you; deny all other presence, power, or knowledge, a 
 place. Do this while all seems well; then are you forti- 
 fied when you see the "enemy all around." 
 
 We know that when a train approaches a tunnel, the 
 lamps are all lighted while the train is still in daylight; 
 then when it plunges into the darkness of the tunnel, it is 
 all light within. If the lighting of the car were left to be 
 done after the train had entered the tunnel, there would 
 be much confusion, for it is too dark to see even how to 
 make a light ! 
 
 So we find many who have made just this mistake, 
 and feel discouraged because in the darkness they could
 
 CONCLUSION. 113 
 
 not find their light; in sickness they tried, but could not 
 find their health! 
 
 We should carry our health, our light, our peace, 
 always burning within us; and if we suddenly rush into a 
 claim of sickness, it is all health within. If we plunge 
 without warning into discord, it is all peace within. 
 
 If the within is fixed in health and peace, the without 
 will soon be restored to harmony. 
 
 We need but to know the truth to be free, because 
 we are free already from every mortal claim, and we only 
 need to know it. "Open my eyes to see the Infinite 
 Truth," is our prayer; and the answer comes, "Say to 
 them that are of a fearful heart, fear not: the eyes of the 
 blind shallbz opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be 
 unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as the hart, 
 and the tongue of the dumb sing. They shall obtain joy 
 and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." 
 Isa. 35:4-10. 
 
 How much we are able to "see," depends upon the 
 height we have reached in Consciousness. A new under- 
 standing is our need, and not a new thing. "There is no 
 new thing." 
 
 One says: "Our measure of Consciousness is our 
 measure of life"; which is to say that we have all the life 
 we are conscious of; and as truly may we say, we have all 
 the good we are conscious of; our health is measured by 
 our consciousness of Health; our strength, by our conscious- 
 ness of Strength; our rest, by our consciousness of Rest. 
 
 Our Life, Health, Strength, Goodness, and Rest are 
 limitless we have all that we know how to claim. 
 
 To-day a deep and new idea of Truth is dawning in 
 our consciousness; it does not appeal to material sense, 
 for it is the Spirit of Truth that is leading us into this 
 new consciousness, and as we read, "The natural man re-
 
 114 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OP DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 ceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are 
 foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because 
 they are spiritually discerned." / Cor. 2:14. 
 
 "The world, weary and disappointed, is wooed to listen 
 to the more excellent way, which promises better results." 
 
 If we have worked a long problem in mathematics, 
 and at the end find a mistake in our answer, how do we 
 correct it? Are we willing to change the figures in our 
 result, without going back over our work to see where the 
 mistake began? Would a teacher allow a pupil to cor- 
 rect his mistake in that way, by simply changing his fig- 
 ures in the answer? Never ! The scholar must learn 
 what his mistake was, that in future he may, with better 
 understanding, work more correctly, and be sure of cor- 
 rect results. 
 
 All our conditions of life, may be likened to the 
 worked out example in mathematics. There is a Princi- 
 ple of Life, back of all examples in the visible, to be un- 
 derstood and demonstrated in living. We learn the Prin- 
 ciple; the First Cause the Source of every visible thing; 
 we find that from this starting point, which is Infinite 
 Mind, all things are brought forth. Our thought recog- 
 nizes the Way and the Truth to be followed in its work- 
 ing, or reasoning. All things that come from this First 
 Cause, or Source, must agree with It in nature; must be 
 like It; must express Its Truth, Light, Goodness, Peace, 
 and Wholeness. Our living, which includes all our con- 
 ditions, should be an example, or proof, of its Source 
 and Cause: for "The fruit of Spirit (of Principle, Mind, or 
 Infinite Cause) is in all goodness," etc. Such would be. 
 a perfect example of Life. Complete, it is 
 
 Perfect Mind, as Caus*;
 
 CONCLUSION. 115 
 
 We have found a Cause, or Principle, and know that 
 when we rightly understand it, and work in accord with 
 its Truth, by thinking rightly of the Life and Peace it 
 contains for all, we shall have in all our conditions, right- 
 ness, peace, love, health, etc. 
 
 But now we are finding in our examples, conditions 
 of not good, not peace, not health ! Without much con- 
 sideration of the right way, we have tried to fix up this in- 
 correct example by changing its figures ! We have taken 
 the sick body, which is one wrong figure, and tried to 
 make it a well body by working to change the outer. 
 This is just like changing our result in mathematics by 
 altering the figures in the answer. 
 
 We call this, in school children, a dishonest method. 
 I look on some other little girl's paper, who always gets 
 her answers right, and I see I have gotten nine as an an- 
 swer, and it ought to be ten. I just erase the nine and 
 put ten in its place. Have I been helped by this? Only 
 temporarily. I have been carried over a hard place. 
 
 So I may patch up the sick body for the time, but 
 have gained nothing until I learn the mistake that pro- 
 duced the sick body, and find the antidote for all such 
 conditions, in Divine Source. 
 
 To understand true healing, then, is to know, as ex- 
 actly as in mathematics, what the Principle of Health is; 
 what its law of demonstration, in order that I may 
 always express this true condition. 
 
 "With all things, a right beginning is essential to a 
 correct ending." It is then all important to know and 
 understand the source of all things. One says: "To hold 
 a false idea of God is to worship a false God." And to 
 be ignorant of the True and Only Source, is to misun- 
 derstand our Life, and all its conditions. To know any-
 
 Il6 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 thing about our lives we must go into the Source of Life; 
 to understand our health and strength and peace, we 
 must go into the Source of Health, Strength and Peace, 
 and work it out from there! 
 
 If then, "figures" or conditions appear in our answer 
 to the "problem of Life," that do not harmonize with the 
 Principle of Life, in goodness and peace, we may con- 
 clude that our work is wrong somewhere, and our wisest 
 course is to do just as an honest scholar in mathematics 
 does, erase our work and begin all over again. 
 
 It seems hard to some, that after having been relig- 
 ious all their lives, they are made to begin so far 
 back, when they turn to Divine Science! But they come 
 with anxious minds and sick bodies, which often have 
 grown rebellious against former methods, and refuse to 
 be improved thereby; so that they must have a better 
 way, and in their earnest desire, they submit to the new 
 method. 
 
 They are carried at once to the Beginning of all 
 things, are shown the True and Eternal Nature of their 
 own soul and body, in changeless Being or Spirit; are 
 persuaded to rub out their past work, or method of rea- 
 soning from appearances, to go into Invisible Source, 
 where all Good has its Beginning, and to bring forth by 
 Divine Law or method, from Mind, through thought, 
 into visible things, the Perfection and Truth of Divinity. 
 
 This is Divine Science. An exact knowledge of Be- 
 ing Divine; or Being perfect as Source is, in Mind, 
 thought, and body; perfect in Strength, in Health; com- 
 plete in Love and Truth and Life. 
 
 This is the true condition of the I am that I am, and 
 I learn that as I think truly of the I am, knowing that "I 
 and my Father are one" one in Life, in Mind, in Idea, 
 and Consciousness; one in Substance, one in Spiiit or Be-
 
 CONCLUSION. 117 
 
 ing, as I think of this, beholding the glory of the One 
 Only I Am, I must become individually in Its image, and 
 express Its Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Life, and Good- 
 ness. 
 
 As I think in my heart, I shall manifest in my world, 
 this is the law. If I think holiness, my world will be 
 holy whole complete. If I think not of holiness, my 
 world will lack. 
 
 If I believe not in the unity of all things with Source, 
 I see separation from God, and consequently a world 
 lacking Ease, Light, Truth, and Love; it is the shadow of 
 my own thought, and the wrong "figures" in the living 
 example, all come from this. 
 
 The remedy is to enlighten thought, show it the One 
 that is All and in All. "If thine eye be single, thy whole 
 body shall be full of light." If my thought sees but One 
 and that all light, then must my body be "full of light." 
 
 When we turn to the Infinite Source, we find It is 
 Light All that comes from Light is Light. We find It 
 is Love, and all that comes from Love is Love. We find 
 It is Mind or Spirit, and "That which is born of Spirit, 
 is Spirit." It is Strength, Life, Health, and All Good; 
 that which comes from It, is likewise Strength, Life, 
 Health, and All Good. 
 
 If in any living thing there is a lack of Life, Intelli- 
 gence, Strength, Wholeness, Peace and Good, these are 
 the wrong "figures," because they give no representation 
 of the Source, or Principle of Truth. 
 
 If the Good made all things and made them good, as 
 the Word declares, and if without Good "Was nothing 
 made that was made," then every true thing is good, and 
 all that seems not good, is a false result from a false rea- 
 soning, or thinking. 
 
 Evil is not of God, therefore has no Source or Cause
 
 Ilfc STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 in Truth. Our mistakes put it there, our right knowledge 
 will wash it out. 
 
 To Spiritual Being and Consciousness, there is no 
 darkness, no error, no pain or disease, no evil. I am 
 spiritual consciousness in Divine Mind, and I know the 
 Divine and Perfect Idea of all things. This knowledge 
 is the Light of my Spirit within me, which judges 
 righteous judgment. 
 
 It separates from me, all claims of Being weak, erring, 
 sinful, sick and dying. // says to these claims, "You are 
 no part of the Divine Me. Depart from me into everlast- 
 ing fire." The Light within becomes the consuming fire 
 to all error. 
 
 We have let good and evil, Truth and error, Life and 
 death, Peace and discord, Health and sickness, share our 
 faith. Now we refuse to do so! We deny the truth of 
 evil appearances; because we do not find cause for 
 them in the One Source, the One Life, the One Mind, 
 the One Truth, we reject them; this is erasing our old 
 wrong example, in order to write new and truer figures. 
 
 We find that by denials, our thought is freed from 
 faith or belief in the power and presence of evil, or of 
 anything not Good, and we are made ready to think 
 wholly upon God as Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omnisci- 
 ent Truth. 
 
 We can make these denials even in the face of ap- 
 pearances, when we have received clearly the Divine 
 Truth, called the statement of Being: "All is Infinite 
 Mind and Its manifestation," which means, that Infinite 
 Mind with Its thought and word, Infinite Spirit with Its 
 soul and body, Infinite Source with Its image and likeness, 
 js all there is in the universe. Or, as another states the 
 same truth, "God, and God manifest is all there is."
 
 CONCLUSION. II 9 
 
 The same is declared by Paul in these words: "God is 
 All and in all." 
 
 "Since God is All, there is no room for any oppo- 
 site." vS. and H. 
 
 "To see the Divine Nature as filling all, is the de- 
 struction of every opposite claim." 
 
 One says, that all our trouble comes from the use of 
 two little words, "mine" and "thine." These certainly 
 admit a claim of separation When we learn to speak 
 the "I am" in consciousness of oneness, we will know 
 how to say with Jesus, "All thine are mine, and all mine 
 are thine." 
 
 It has been written in one of the sacred books, "This 
 is the great enemy, the wzy-ness in me." My thought of 
 separation from God and from my fellow being, causes 
 all belief of enmity. 
 
 Let us deny separateness, and declare oneness. The* 
 Great Source of Life and Light, pushes Itself into ex- 
 pression, just as the sun sheds its light in all directions. 
 God's expression is man, and as the rays of light are for- 
 ever joined to their Source, and shine by its light, not as 
 separate rays, but blended into one. body of light, so man 
 is always united with his Source, and lives its Life, and 
 is one Mind, soul, and body, with all expressions of Life. 
 
 Christ Divine Nature is the Head, the Founda- 
 tion, the Beginning of all things. And all things are the 
 "body" of Christ the form of Divine Nature. As such, 
 let us receive all things, as being in the nature of the 
 Divine, whose Presence and Power, whose Light and 
 Knowledge is All, and embraces all. 
 
 One Substance is the Substance of all things. There 
 is no hurt for us in anything. Every breeze that blows, 
 whispers of good; every thing that moves, tells of Divine 
 Life and Presence. We have nothing to fear, therefore,
 
 I40 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEAI,iN6. 
 
 "whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, do all for 
 the glory of God." 
 
 "May not the lofty mountains and the hills 
 Be voice of God? His song the gentle flowers, 
 His chant the stars' procession; and, alas ! 
 His only sigh these human hearts of ours." 
 
 In full consciousness, there shall be no more pain or 
 crying, for former idea of things is passed away. "Be- 
 hold, all things are new.
 
 WHAT i AM. 
 
 "God worketh through me to will and to do of His 
 good pleasure." "In Him I live, move, and have my 
 Being." 
 
 I am Life within Eternal Life. 
 
 I am Substance within the Eternal Substance. 
 
 I am Strength within the Infinite Strength. 
 
 I am Mind within the Divine Mind. 
 
 I am Idea within the Divine Idea. 
 
 I am Consciousness within Divine Consciousness. 
 
 I am Truth. I am Freedom. I am Fulness. I am 
 that I am. 
 
 My life is complete now. I am eternally perfect. 
 
 My Health is a finished fact. 
 
 My Freedom is a changeless reality, 
 
 My Strength is Omnipotence. 
 
 My Understanding is Omniscience. 
 
 I now accept my always Perfect Health, my Change- 
 less Freedom, my Unlimited Strength, my Divine Under- 
 standing and my Spiritual Substance from Thee, my 
 Source. 
 
 "All souls shall be in God, and shall be God, and 
 nothing but God be." Festus.
 
 122 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEADING. 
 
 SOME FINAL WORDS. 
 
 We learn, then, in Science, the futility of trying to 
 better conditions, by working to change the outer, without 
 reaching the inner Cause. 
 
 One has said, that although our streets were swept 
 and kept as clean as the streets of heaven, and man's 
 thoughts remained the same, every known disease would 
 be repeated within a generation! 
 
 The outer is not a cause of anything; all cause is in- 
 visible; the visible is the effect, or result, of a cause. 
 
 To work scientifically, and this means to work with 
 certain knowledge, and to be certain of results, we must 
 begin with Source and Cause. 
 
 In Divine Science, we accept that the Source of all 
 things is Divinity; that all Cause is Divine Mind. We 
 follow the method of Divine Mind in expressing Itself, 
 and know that Its first expression, or activity, is Divine 
 Thought, and that the result of Divine Thought is Divine 
 Word, or Body. As this Divine Mind is Omnipresent, 
 and Its expression is always with It, we have every- 
 where the Divine, with Its image and likeness; Its expres- 
 sion and manifestation; Its thought and word; Its soul 
 and body. 
 
 We do not pretend to bring out the expression and 
 manifestation of Divine Mind into the visible, but we go 
 into the Source and follow It out; see that it does fill all 
 with Its perfect Presence, Invisible and visible. 
 
 As soon as we are willing to see the Omnipresence, 
 Omnipotence, and Omniscience of Divine Mind, our 
 "Whole body shall be full of light," for the visible will be 
 seen in its true relation to the Invisible; it will be known
 
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 as the result, or fruit, of Invisible Cause, which is Light. 
 As soon as we know the Truth, we shall begin to be freed 
 from all false ideas about the visible. 
 
 We look to Source only to find the Truth of things; 
 for that which is in Source is all reality. We look upon 
 "disease; immediately we ask, Has it a place in Source 
 and Cause? No; Divine Mind is Perfect Ease, and can 
 therefore, as Source of all, send forth only ease. Disease 
 (of any kind) has no existence in Source; it has no place 
 in Mind, hence no place in "thought," and no place in 
 "body"; for thought and body, are image and likeness, 
 expression and manifestation of Divine Mind, their 
 Source. 
 
 There is, therefore, no truth in the claim of disease, 
 no cause for disease. There is no disease in the world of 
 God, or in the expression and manifestation of God. 
 
 We find that these denials of any opposite to God, or 
 Good; any opposite to Ease, or Life, cleanse thought of 
 its belief in fear and evil, and prepare it to believe only 
 in God. Moreover, we have learned that as this change 
 takes place in thought, appearances change; sickness, 
 sorrow, and pain, fear, hate, and all discord, disappear. 
 Then we know that there is no opposite to Good except 
 in our thought^ and when its belief is destroyed, the Cause 
 or root of evil is touched, and the whole outgrowth of 
 that belief begins to wither and die! Seeing but One 
 Cause, and that All-Good, we can say, There is no cause 
 for evil, and its appearances begin to go. 
 
 One says, "Regeneration means work." If we re- 
 ceive from these studies in Divine Science, only a beau- 
 tiful theory, we have gained but little. Unless we put into 
 practice, according to the rules given, its Divine Princi- 
 ple meeting every condition in life with true judgment, 
 by letting Divine Truth as seen in Source, settle every
 
 124 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEAUNG. 
 
 question for us; by daily cleansing thought of mortal 
 claims universal and individual, knowing that there is 
 no mortal Being, the Only Being is the Divine; no mortal 
 mind with its opinions, the Only Mind is the Immortal 
 therefore denying the claims of mortality any place; then 
 stating or affirming the Truth of the I am until we are 
 sure of what I am unless we do this regularly and earn- 
 estly, we shall never know the freedom that is ours in 
 Truth, of which these studies bear witness. 
 
 "He that willeth to do the will, shall know of the 
 doctrine." Rev. Ver. 
 
 "Let each man think himself an act of God, 
 His mind a thought, his life a breath of God, 
 And let each try by great thoughts and good deeds, 
 To show the most of heaven he hath in him."
 
 REALIZATION FOR HEALTH. 125 
 
 REALIZATION FOR HEALTH. 
 
 All Reality is in God and like God. There is no re~ 
 ality in darkness, doubt, fear, or evil. 
 
 I am that I am, for my Life is in God, my Being; 
 my Strength is in God; my Health is in God; my Under- 
 standing and Wisdom is in God; therefore, my Life is 
 Divine and Perfect; my Strength can never fail; my 
 Health is always the same; my Understanding is com- 
 plete. 
 
 I am expression of Perfect Life and Good, and I am 
 kept by Divine Power, forever in the Truth. 
 
 I can never be separated from Truth, Life, and Love. 
 I can never be out of Health, out of Peace, or out of 
 Light. There is no darkness; there is no doubt or 
 anxiety about anything; God is always my Light. 
 
 There is no disease in God. There is no truth in 
 the world's claim of disease and death such a thought 
 has no reality. God is the Only Mind; there is no Mind 
 of error, evil, or suffering. There is no place for error, 
 disease, or pain, for God fills all. 
 
 There is no truth at all in the claim of sin or sick- 
 ness; we cannot find these in the Source of all, and only 
 that which is contained in Source is true. All Truth is 
 in God. 
 
 That which is born of God, is the image of God, and 
 cannot have any sickness or discord in it. The Divine 
 fills all, hence, there is no place for pain or disease in 
 my mind, my thought, or my body. I have no belief 
 in pain. I am the Mind that knows all Peace. In Truth 
 I am now free from every claim of ignorance, or error, 
 for these are not to be found in God, and I am in God.
 
 126 STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF DIVINE HEALING. 
 
 HOW TO REALIZE ILLUMINATION, OR 
 UNDERSTANDING. 
 
 First, realize what I am. 
 
 I am Strength and Understanding. I am Light. I am 
 that I am. I am Mind, I am Idea, I am Consciousness. 
 I am all Wisdom within myself, for my self is God's Di- 
 vine Idea. 
 
 There is no lack in the universe. God fills it all. 
 There is no need of anything. There is no ignorance. 
 Mind has no lack in It, and All is Mind. 
 
 There is no Mind of darkness or misunderstanding 
 no Mind of fear or error. 
 
 There is no fear. There is no cause of fear. There 
 is nothing to be afraid of. 
 
 Light fills all for Light is God. 
 
 Understanding is all in all. 
 
 I live, move and have my being in Light. I express 
 perfect understanding. 
 
 I am Light, in Mind, in thought, and in body. I am 
 all Light. I am complete. I am satisfied now. 
 
 I am filled full of the Fulness that filleth all. Life, 
 Truth, Light, Love, and Understanding, are all mine in 
 God.
 
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