and my Redeemer." Use any preliminary thought that appeals to you. This preparation is John Baptist crying in the wilderness of sense, "Repent, repent." When his work is accomplished, let the redeeming Jesus enter in the declaration of the consciousness you wish to attain. Boldly assert your oneness with God: "I and my Father are one. If you seek the Godconsciousness as health, declare, "I Am Health." If you wish a manifestation of supply, let your unchallenged word go out, "I Am Substance." Whatsoever you desire to bring forth into the visible, that affirm, audibly and silently, until you have obliterated the sense-consciousness that believes in limitation. Then be very still in your soul. Do not strain after stillness, for that is the extreme opposite of stillness. Be still in the calm knowing that God will be true to Himself and fill in every part of your consciousness from which you do not debar Him. This infilling is the descent of the Holy Ghost, completely reconciling the conscious mind to the Omnipresence of Spirit. If, in this practice, the sense mind seeks intrusion, recall the thoughts to the work at hand by simply coming back to the statement you are making, or the consciousness you are exercising. This is worshiping, in Spirit and in Truth, our God who is Spirit. The act of worship is acknowledging the worshiped one as true to its own nature. The degree of steadfastness to which the silence. is practiced will measure the growth in the spiritual consciousness. Sooner or later, for each, will that state of mastery be reached in which the thought may go back into the secret place and make conscious connection with the Omnipotent. All intervals of waiting can be devoted to mental worship, and sometimes the point in experience will be found where, even though the hands be busy and the thought on objective matters, there can be a known linking of the outer to the inner, and the two made. one, and that one glorified by the radiance of the Divine. It takes practice. Remember that God cannot force Himself into your consciousness any more than the physical air can force itself into your lungs. He is very patient, and will wait æons upon æons, as He has already waited, for your recognition. If you choose to mask in the flesh, and believe matter to be your God, you shall not be denied; but the dispensation is arriving in which your knees shall rejoice to bow, and your tongue herald alleluias of confession that our God is Spirit and Father of all. “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness." HOLY SPIRIT HEALING. Jesus Christ is called the "Great Physician because he healed so many people so quickly and in such easy ways. His healing method is admitted to be the best ever given to men, and yet it is not referred to in the medical books of the day. One would think that doctors, who are looking for efficient ways of healing sick people, would study His system first, because it brought forth such marvelous results. But they have left Him out of their medical books. Wonderful healing is being done and the process is openly revealed. We are taking literally the promise of Jesus, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”—then “ask what ye will," etc. We are fulfilling the conditions as carefully as we know how, and the results are proof that we are right. His healing was promised to all who believed on him. "He that believeth on me . . . out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." John 7:38. The promise was, that this believing state of mind would open the way for the Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit, which would do a special healing and illuminating work as his helper. This was promised as part of the Christian system of "signs," or proofs of the power of God in the world, when certain laws were complied with. Read in the New Testament the great mass of testimony to substantiate this healing system, and how it was to be perpetuated. It is to take the place of all systems eventually, because it is based upon the understanding and use of that Divine Law upon which all existence rests. you. These things have I spoken unto you while yet abiding with But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said unto you.-John 14:25,26. Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.-Acts 8:17. The gift of the Holy Ghost was poured out on the Gentiles. -Acts 10:45. Even Jesus of Nazareth, how that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.-Acts 10:38. Certain disciples at Ephesus were asked by Paul: Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given.-Acts 19:2. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied Acts 19:6. He breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit; whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.- John 20:22, 23. And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.-Acts 2:38. And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul; insomuch that unto the sick were carried away from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.-Acts 19:11, 12. He that uttereth a slander, is a fool.-Prov. 10:18. THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. BY MARY BREWERTON DE WITT. I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.- John 14:6. According to the present existence of things, it has seemed difficult to know just what the way and the truth and the life may be. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me;" and the churches naturally understand this to mean that no man cometh unto the Father save by, or through, Jesus; therefore they have made a law that Jesus forgives our sins and pleads to an angry God to take us into His fold for Jesus' sake. Here the ministers show a complete misunderstanding of the beautiful teachings of the Master. In the first place, Jesus pointed the way, he spoke the truth, and led the life; hence the declaration, "I am the way, the truth and the life." But remembering his words spoken on another occasion, "I am in you and ye are in me, "" a yet deeper meaning is gathered from the words, "I am the way, the truth and the life." Not only has it been legitimate for Jesus to use this statement, but man also must declare it from the standpoint of his divine sonship, or oneness with the Father, in order to obey the mandate, "Follow thou me," which were also words of the Christ. As we have stated that man uses these words by the authority of Jesus, the question naturally arises, How can he make this declaration, when, according to the appearance of things, man has not proved himself to be either a good way, or a true way or the way of life? All those men known or written of, that have lived since the time of Jesus, have not proved a way of life, inasmuch as they have proved the way of death. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). How then can man say, "I am the way, the truth and the life?" No man considering himself flesh can in truth make this declaration; but man speaking from his soul center, or divine 'self, may honestly say, "I am the way, the truth and the life." Then must he go to work and see to it that his flesh outpictures this truth of his being, for the real man is God-man, as was Jesus. Thus knowing, remember always it is the soul that speaks, and it is through this God-man, or soul, that he comes unto the Father; therefore, man comes to God through God. He must follow the teachings of Jesus in the Spirit. He must love first love his neighbor, love his divine self, not the external; and loving thus, he will love God. He must know peace, he must be harmonious with all people and all things, animate or inanimate. He must resist no evil, he must find only good, and be like God, with eyes so he will behold only the things of purity. feel the joy of heaven within his heart, and desire save that of becoming more at one with his soul nature. pure that He must know no This is God in man; this is the Jesus Christ attitude which enabled him to say, "I am the way, the truth and the life." This is the only truthful basis for a happy existence here upon the earth and a life that will show forth blessing and an eternity of good. In very truth, man can never escape from his soul teaching, which will eventually bring him into his kingdom here, which is the kingdom of God, or the kingdom of heaven within man; therefore, at some time or another, in some life upon earth or on some star, man will awake and say with Jesus "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Soul life is the only life there is; therefore, life without the knowledge of the soul is empty and without satisfaction to the liver. One must seek for his soul until he find it in all its glory, its richness, its |