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Enclosed you will find Part Twenty-four, your final lesson of this course.
If
you have practiced each of the exercises a few minutes every day, as
suggested, you will have found that you can get out of life exactly what you
wish by first putting into life that which you wish, and you will probably
agree with the student who said: "The thought is almost overwhelming, so
vast, so available, so definite, so reasonable and so usable."
The
fruit of this knowledge is, as it were, a gift of the Gods; it is the
"truth" that makes men free, not only free from every lack and limitation,
but free from sorrow, worry and care, and, is it not wonderful to realize
that this law is no respecter of persons, that it makes no difference what
your habit of thought may be, the way has been prepared.
If
you are inclined to be religious, the greatest religious teacher the world
has ever known made the way so plain that all may follow. If your mental
bias is toward physical science, the law will operate with mathematical
certainty. If you are inclined to be philosophical, Plato or Emerson may be
your teacher, but in either case, you may reach degrees of power to which it
is impossible to assign any limit.
An
understanding of this principle, I believe, is the secret for which the
ancient Alchemists vainly sought, because it explains how gold in the mind
may be transmuted into gold in the heart and in the hand.
PART TWENTY-FOUR
1.
When the scientists first put the Sun in the center of the Solar System and
sent the earth spinning around it, there was immense surprise and
consternation. The whole idea was self-evidently false; nothing was more
certain than the movement of the Sun across the sky, and anyone could see it
descend behind the western hills and sink into the sea; scholars raged and
scientists rejected the idea as absurd, yet the evidence has finally carried
conviction in the minds of all.
2. We
speak of a bell as a "sounding body," yet we know that all the bell can do
is to produce vibrations in the air. When these vibrations come at the rate
of sixteen per second, they cause a sound to be heard in the mind. It is
also possible for the mind to hear vibrations up to the rate of 38,000
vibrations per second. When the number increases beyond this, all is silence
again; so that we know that the sound is not in the bell, it is in our own
mind.
3. We
speak and even think of the Sun as "giving light." Yet we know it is simply
giving forth energy which produces vibrations in the ether at the rate of
four hundred trillion a second, causing what are termed light waves, so that
we know that we call light is simply a form of energy and that the only
light there is, is the sensation caused in the mind by the motion of the
waves. When the number increases, the light changes in color, each change in
color being caused by shorter and more rapid vibrations; so that although we
speak of the rose as being red, the grass as being green, or the sky as
being blue, we know that the colors exist only in our minds, and are the
sensations experienced by us as the result of the vibrations of light waves.
When the vibrations are reduced below four hundred trillion a second, they
no longer affect us as light, but we experience the sensation of heat. It is
evident, therefore, that we cannot depend upon the evidence of the senses
for our information concerning the realities of things; if we did we should
believe that the sun moved, that the world was flat instead of round, that
the stars were bits of light instead of vast suns.
4. The
whole range then of the theory and practice of any system of metaphysics
consists in knowing the Truth concerning yourself and the world in which you
live; in knowing that in order to express harmony, you must think harmony;
in order to express health you must think health; and in order to express
abundance you must think abundance; to do this you must reverse the evidence
of the senses.
5.
When you come to know that every form of disease, sickness, lack and
limitation are simply the result of wrong thinking, you will have come to
know "the Truth which shall make you free." You will see how mountains may
be removed. If these mountains consist only of doubt, fear, distrust or
other forms of discouragement, they are none the less real, and they need
not only to be removed but to be "cast into the sea."
6.
Your real work consists in convincing yourself of the truth of these
statements. When you have succeeded in doing this you will have no
difficulty in thinking the truth, and as has been shown, the truth contains
a vital principle and will manifest itself.
7.
Those who heal diseases by mental methods have come to know this truth, they
demonstrate it in their lives and the lives of others daily. They know that
life, health and abundance are Omnipresent, filling all space, and they know
that those who allow disease or lack of any kind to manifest, have as yet
not come into an understanding of this great law.
8. As
all conditions are thought creations and therefore entirely mental, disease
and lack are simply mental conditions in which the person fails to perceive
the truth; as soon as the error is removed, the condition is removed.
9. The
method for removing this error is to go into the Silence and know the Truth;
as all mind is one mind, you can do this for yourself or anyone else. If you
have learned to form mental images of the conditions desired, this will be
the easiest and quickest way to secure results; if not, results can be
accomplished by argument, by the process of convincing yourself absolutely
of the truth of your statement.
10.
Remember, and this is one of the most difficult as well as most wonderful
statements to grasp.... remember that no matter what the difficulty is, no
matter where it is, no matter who is affected, you have no patient but
yourself; you have nothing to do but to convince yourself of the truth which
you desire to see manifested.
11.
This is an exact scientific statement in accordance with every system of
Metaphysics in existence, and no permanent results are ever secured in any
other way.
12.
Every form of concentration, forming Mental Images, Argument, and
Autosuggestion are all simply methods by which you are enabled to realize
the Truth.
13. If
you desire to help someone, to destroy some form of lack, limitation or
error, the correct method is not to think of the person whom you wish to
help; the intention to help them is entirely sufficient, as this puts you in
mental touch with the person. Then drive out of your own mind any belief of
lack, limitation, disease, danger, difficulty or whatever the trouble might
be. As soon as you have succeeded is doing this the result will have been
accomplished, and the person will be free.
14.
But remember that thought is creative and consequently every time you allow
your thought to rest on any inharmonious condition, you must realize that
such conditions are apparent only, they have no reality, that spirit is the
only reality and it can never be less than perfect.
15.
All thought is a form of energy, a rate of vibration, but a thought of the
Truth is the highest rate of vibration known and consequently destroys every
form of error in exactly the same way that light destroys darkness; no form
of error can exist when the "Truth" appears, so that your entire mental work
consists in coming into an understanding of the Truth. This will enable you
to overcome every form of lack, limitation or disease of any kind.
16. We
can get no understanding of the truth from the world without; the world
without is relative only; Truth is absolute. We must therefore find it in
the "world within."
17. To
train the mind to see Truth only is to express true conditions only, our
ability to do this will be an indication as to the progress we are making.
18.
The absolute truth is that the "I" is perfect and complete; the real "I" is
spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect; it can never have
any lack, limitation, or disease. The flash of genius does not have origin
in the molecular motion of the brain; it is inspired by the ego, the
spiritual "I" which is one with the Universal Mind, and it is our ability to
recognize this Unity which is the cause of all inspiration, all genius.
These results are far reaching and have effect upon generations yet to come;
they are the pillars of fire which mark the path that millions follow.
19.
Truth is not the result of logical training or of experimentation, or even
of observation; it is the product of a developed consciousness. Truth within
a Caesar, manifests in a Caesar's deportment, in his life and his action;
his influence upon social forms and progress. Your life and your actions and
your influence in the world will depend upon the degree of truth which you
are enabled to perceive, for truth will not manifest in creeds, but in
conduct.
20.
Truth manifests in character, and the character of a man, should be the
interpretation of his religion, or what to him is truth, and this will in
turn be evidenced in the character of his possession. If a man complains of
the drift of his fortune he is just as unjust to himself as if he should
deny rational truth, though it stand patent and irrefutable.
21.
Our environment and the innumerable circumstances and accidents of our lives
already exist in the subconscious personality which attracts to itself the
mental and physical material which is congenial to its nature. Thus our
future being determined from our present, and if there should be apparent
injustice in any feature or phase of our personal life, we must look within
for the cause, try to discover the mental fact which is responsible for the
outward manifestation.
22. It
is this truth which makes you "free" and it is the conscious knowledge of
this truth which will enable you to overcome every difficulty.
23.
The conditions with which you meet in the world without are invariably the
result of the conditions obtaining in the world within, therefore it follows
with scientific accuracy that by holding the perfect ideal in mind you can
bring about ideal conditions in your environment.
24. If
you see only the incomplete, the imperfect, the relative, the limited, these
conditions will manifest in your life; but if you train your mind to see and
realize the spiritual ego, the "I" which is forever perfect and complete,
harmonious; wholesome, and healthful conditions only will be manifested.
25. As
thought is creative, and the truth is the highest and most perfect thought
which anyone can think, it is self-evident that to think the truth is to
create that which is true and it is again evident that when truth comes into
being that which is false must cease to be.
26.
The Universal Mind is the totality of all mind which is in existence. Spirit
is Mind, because spirit is intelligent. The words are, therefore,
synonymous.
27.
The difficulty with which you have to contend is to realize that mind is not
individual. It is omnipresent. It exists everywhere. In other words, there
is no place where it is not. It is, therefore, Universal.
28.
Men have, heretofore, generally used the word "God" to indicate this
Universal, creative principle; but the word "God" does not convey the right
meaning. Most people understand this word to mean something outside of
themselves; while exactly the contrary is the fact. It is our very life.
Without it we would be dead. We would cease to exist. The minute the spirit
leaves the body, we are as nothing. Therefore, spirit is really, all there
is of us.
29.
Now, the only activity which the spirit possesses is the power to think.
Therefore, thought must be creative, because spirit is creative. This
creative power is impersonal and your ability to think is your ability to
control it and make use of it for the benefit of yourself and others.
30.
When the truth of this statement is realized, understood, and appreciated,
you will have come into possession of the Master-Key, but remember that only
those who are wise enough to understand, broad enough to weigh the evidence,
firm enough to follow their own judgment, and strong enough to make the
sacrifice exacted, may enter and partake.
31.
This week, try to realize that this is truly a wonderful world in which we
live, that you are a wonderful being that many are awakening to a knowledge
of the Truth, and as fast as they awake and come into a knowledge of the
"things which have been prepared for them" they, too, realize that "Eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man," the
splendors which exist for those who find themselves in the Promised Land.
They have crossed the river of judgment and have arrived at the point of
discrimination between the true and the false, and have found that all they
ever willed or dreamed, was but a faint concept of the dazzling reality.
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