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THE FAITH THAT DEMONSTRATES

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The
Faith that Demonstrates

FLORENCE ^CRAWFORD

THIRD EDITION

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Copyright 1920

By FLORENCE CRA-NVFORD

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CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I. Freedom Through Faith . . . . 11

II. How to Acquire Faith 22

III. The Power of Faith 35

IV. The Law of Faith 54

V. The Faith That Heals 77

VI. Unfoldment Through Faith .... 92

VII. The Transforming Power of Faith . . 107

VIII. Abundance Through Faith .... 123

IX. Demonstration Through the Law of Faith . 137

X. Guide to Demonstration 144

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Faith is much more than
mere religious fervor;
it is scientific principle —
a universal law.

I3o you

This message of faith comes to you
after I have proved its power in my
own experience. Through faith I
have received inspiration, health,
guidance, unfoldment, protection and
supply from the Spirit. "The Com-
forter" work, which I am privileged
to do, was born and developed
through faith. Having proved the
wonder of this law, I now send this
to you as my testimony. Have faith
and DOUBT not, for God who created
the worlds through faith by the
power of his word, bids you unfold
his creation through the same law.
Faith worketh by love, and the joy
of unfolding God's perfect creation
awaits you when you will but believe
and use this law. Prove the magic
of it in love, and rise from the limita-
tions of faithlessness into the glory of
your FAITHFUL self.

F. C.

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CHAPTER I

Freedom Through Faith

HERE is no limit to the power
of faith. "If thou canst be-
lieve, all things are possible to
him that belie veth," said the
great Master of faith. All things are pos-
sible unto you, and nothing shall be im-
possible unto you (Mat. 17:20) if you
have the mustard seed quality of faith
which believes in that omnipotence which
operates from within and lies back of all
desire for expression.

God himself has given you the power
of faith. It is a law. It is a law w^hich
he has given to make you free. Until
you use the law of faith you are in
bondage to every earthly condition; but
once you become conscious of the "faith
that worketh by love," (Gal. 5:Q) you
are forever free. Knowledge of freedom

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through the law of faith is one of the great
gifts given to the world by the Master.
How he plead with man to use it! "Where
is your faith?" he questioned the disciples
who feared they would perish in the storm.
"Wherefore didst thou doubt?" was his re-
buke to Peter, who would have sunk be-
neath the waves but for his staying hand.
"O, faithless generation!" he called to the
whole world when the unbelieving disciples
brought to him the lunatic boy they had
been unable to heal; and how sorrowing
is his question, "When the Son of man
Cometh will he find faith on the earth?"
Over and over again he reminded those
whom he had restored to the conscious-
ness of health, "Thy faith hath saved thee.
Thy faith hath made thee whole."

Faith must be used by you for yourself
if you desire freedom. It is your faith
that saves you — not the faith of another.
Therefore, grow large in your conception
of the power of faith, and in the realiza-
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tion of your responsibility and privilege
in applying it. Since it is God's gift, you
displease him if you do not use it. The
Father does not desire to see you in lim-
itation or lack of any kind. "He satisfieth
the desire of every living creature." His
great longing is that you shall recognize
hi7n as the one who satisfies, or fulfills, the
desire. All seeming lack is but an invita-
tion urging you to the acceptance of God
as the fulfillment of it. Remember to
begin the solution of your problem — the
fulfillment of your need — in the true
place: ''In the beginning — God." Spirit,
the Father, is the source and substance of
every needful thing. Therefore, the first
step in demonstration is to recognize that
whatever you desire, its beginning, or
source, is God, and you must go to the
Father for it, knowing for a certaint}^
that if you ask for bread you will not re-
ceive a stone, but will receive exactly that
for which you ask.

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"Ask, and it shall be given you —
for everyone that asketh receive th.
Or what man is there of you, whom
if his son ask bread, will he give him
a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he
give him a serpent? How much more
shall your Father which is in heaven
give good things to them that ask
him." (Mat. 7:8-12.)

"But thou when thou prayest, en-
ter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father
which is in secret; and thy Father
which seeth in secret shall reward
thee openly." (Mat. 6:5-7.)

All things that are seen have been made
of the substance of faith. "Faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen." The very worlds were
brought forth through faith by the word of
God (Heb. 11:3) so that "Things which
are seen were not made of things which
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do appear." All things are made of the
invisible substance of God, "framed by the
word" through the power of faith. When
you frame a picture, you outline it, or
enclose it in its frame. Even so do you
frame, or outline, your desire by the word
you speak. What faith pictures have you
been outlining, or framing, by the power
of your word? Have these pictures been
of faith or of fear? There is a law of fear
as well as a law of faith. Job found that
what he feared came upon him. He had
framed in mind a fearful picture, and it
became manifest. The Master said, ''Fear
not, only believe,'' for it was his desire
that man should know he could frame ideal
conditions through the power of the word
and so experience freedom instead of
bondage.

Fear is the shadow side of faith. It

works against you rather than for you.

Therefore, fear not, believe only. Let all

your force be used in believing. Waste

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none of it in fear. Have faith only — no
fear at all. Fear is born of untruth, be-
lieving in the power and presence of evil.
The truth is, God is all and he is good.
He is the only power, substance and intel-
ligence. Have faith in God, the good.
Fear is negative and creates every nega-
tive condition. It brings undesirable
things only. Faith is positive and creates
positive conditions. It brings all that is
good and desirable. "Faith is the sub-
stance of things hoped for," or desired.
Desire that which is good, then have faith.
It is to be formed of the very substance
of your own faith, for faith is substance —
mind substance.

Dismiss from your consciousness the be-
lief that there are spiritual and material
things. Bathe your eyes in the pool of
Siloam, which means Sent, (John 9:7)
and see that all is Spirit; that all things
visible come forth through faith from the
invisible Spirit substance itself. Have
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faith in God, actually in him, that is,
within him. See your desire in God, and
know that he manifests as the fulfillment
of it. Since God is the omnipresence, he
is the source of all things visible and in-
visible. Being all, God has no conscious-
ness of either lack or possession, only the
realization of being all — all that is. It is
his joy, then, to be the fulfillment, or that
which fills full, your desire.

Cleanse your thought of the sense of
lack. God being cdl, he cannot be more
or less, hence has no thought of gain or
of loss. Whether his Being is expressed
or unexpressed, still he is being God — the
whole thing — the absolute allness of all
there is. H2 O is H2 O whether the form
be gas, steam, rain, dew, ice or snow. So
is God always God whether in Being, or
state (form) of Being. He is to you as
you ash him to be, for "Everyone that
asketh receiveth." (Mat. 7:8.)
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"Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy
may be full." (John 16:24)

If you were the host at a banquet and
had provided an abundant supply of good
and desirable things for the pleasure of
your guests, would it not be your wish to
serve them as they desired? Would you
take offense because they might choose one
thing and not another? Certainly not.
You would desire only that they should
state their request. Your pleasure would
be in fulfilling it. Can you not under-
stand, then, the consciousness of the all-
bountiful and beautiful God of whom the
Master says, "Will he not give good
things to them that ash him?" Therefore,
ask God. Ask for what you do want, and
do not name, or outline, to the ever-re-
sponsive Spirit that which you do not
want. For every idle word that you speak
you shall be required to give an account
thereof in the day of judgment, or at that
time when the word you have "framed"
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takes form in your experience. (Matt.
12:36.)

The greatest freedom will come to your
mind when you realize that faith is a law,
and that it is a law for the use of every
one. Just as the principle of mathematics
may be used by all, so may the law of faith
be used. Many apply this law uncon-
sciously and create for themselves desir-
able conditions which many of the "chil-
dren of the light" fail to enjoy because
they fear to use the very law which the
Spirit has given man in order that he may
exercise his "dominion in earth." The law
of faith is the law that brings free-
dom. Paul says, "Before faith came, we
were under the law . . . but after
that faith is come we are no longer under
a schoolmaster." (Gal. 3:23-26.) In other
words, after faith is revealed to us as a
law, we ourselves become masters and use
it. The Master Jesus was astonished at
our lack of faith. "How is it that ye have
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no faith!" he exclaimed. And again,
"O, wherefore didst thou doubt?"

Try to see very clearly that faith is not
hope, neither is it belief. Today you may
believe something, and tomorrow, some-
thing else. Your belief may be strength-
ened into hope, but even your hope will
not demonstrate for you. It but leads to
the faith that creates. Hope is like a bot-
tomless bucket. As fast as water is
dipped in a bottomless bucket, it runs
out. That is why you may hope and hope
and hope, but never receive. Faith puts
a bottom in the bucket. What it dips it
keeps. It holds the substance, gives it
definite form, and establishes the thing
you desire. "Faith is the substance of
things [hoped for." At first, you hope, but
at last you have faith. Then you demon-
strate, and not before.

When you have brought into experi-
ence the fulfillment of a heart's desire
through the definite law of faith you will
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value the law. It will be more wonder-
ful to you than the fulfillment of your de-
sire. When you have proved God's law,
you will love God, and praise Him for
the means He has given you through
which you may establish perfect freedom
in all your affairs. You will rejoice be-
cause the law of the Lord is perfect. It
will convert your soul. That is, it will fire
your soul with a great appreciation of this
"treasure in heaven," or law of mind,
which you must seek "first" in order to
have the "added thing," because it is this
law which forms the added thing, or
makes it possible.

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CHAPTER II

How to Acquire Faith

__^1AITH is a quality of con-
^SJfS) sciousness which gives evi-
dence of its use through the
effects its produces. Faith
which does not manifest in works is not
faith, but doubt and unbelief. Thus, in
endeavoring to acquire faith, we are not
seeking a blind belief in an intangible, im-
practical, mystical something which lies
ever beyond us, but are seeking to ascer-
tain the way to use a force which operates
according to a definite law, and produces
definite results.

Faith is not something which lies out-
side the self, but a consciousness within
the self. Every one has faith, but few
recognize it, and only the very few know
how to use it, and what it can accomplish.
The Master made no limit to the power
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of faith. "If ye have faith as a grain of
mustard seed . . . nothing shall he
impossible unto you/' (Matt. 17:20.)
That faith lies within the individual, he
clearly indicates in the following: ''Thy
/fli^/i hath made thee whole." (Matt. 9:22.)
"According to your faith be it unto you."
(Matt. 9:29.) Again, he asked, "Where
is 2/oi^r faith?" (Luke 8:25.) At another
time he questioned them in wonderment,
"How is it that ye have no faith?" (Mark
4:40.) Thus we see the first evidences of
faith are to be found within the individual.
It is there in some form, and it is always
exercised though often unconsciously.
Now that we are learning the wonders
that may be produced through faith, it is
time to awaken to its presence within us
and to exercise this power until it accom-
plishes for us the works we wish it to do.
We exercise faith when we go to bed at
night, for we cannot foretell the events
of the morning, and know not what shall
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occur while we are sleeping, yet we close
our eyes in perfect faith, planning the
work of the day to come. In faith we
think and speak and act. Few among us
know aught of the power of thought and
of the possibilities of construction and de-
struction that lie in the spoken word, but
in thinking and in speaking we ignorantly
use faith, little guessing how the result
may react upon us. Few understand the
process of the assimilation of food, yet all
eat in faith, and the silent, unseen forces
of the mind that are greater than those
of the conscious realm, calmly and per-
fectly do their work. Without knowing
how they do it we trust them; we have
faith, and it is done. The farmer plants
his grain for the next season's harvest in
faith. He does not understand why or
how the little seeds sprout and grow, but
without knowing, he does his part in faith,
though perchance he would never think
of it as such. When he has done his work,
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the sun, the earth, the rain, the dew, the
air and the very seed he plants, do their
part in obedience to laws that his objec-
tive mind does not comprehend, yet which
faithfully operate above the plane of his
consciousness.

It is but another step to deliberately
use this faith for a definite end, still trust-
ing the operation of a law that may be al-
together unknown to the outer realm of
thought. The faith we use when we re-
tire is in the dark of night. In times of
uncertainty, or in darkened consciousness,
we often are obliged to speak and act. It
is in the time of hunger that we have the
faith to eat. It is when there is need of a
harvest that we sow. Is it then an unnat-
ural thing that in the hour of despair, in
a time of direst need, in the midst of a
distressing sense of lack, we should still
be called upon to exercise faith in the
operation of a law that works beyond the
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plane of the conscious mind? Indeed it
is most natural that this should be so.

In Paul's epistles he many times em-
phasizes the fact that a faith that is seen
is not faith, and this is indeed true, for
faith is always the "substance of things
hoped for'' or that quality of the mind
that reaches toward the desire of the heart,
"as seeing the invisible." There could not
be a reaching toward the desire if there
were no desire, and there could be no de-
sire if there were no need. Therefore the
need awakens the desire. Once outlined
in the mind, the desire is first hoped for,
then hoped for with such conscious con-
viction that it becomes real to conscious-
ness. Hope is thus raised to faith, and
faith is the substance through which the
imaged desire becomes an imaged reality,
or a real image.

It is important in acquiring faith, to
learn first of all to value the need that in-
spires faith to action. Instead of feeling
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alarm at the need which is present in your
life, see it as prepared ground that calls
for a seed. This need demands satisfac-
tion. It is there to compel you to con-
ceive that which will fulfill the need.
When you have once named it you have
conceived an idea which if held faithfully
(or perfectly imaged in your mind in
faith) will be given birth in your experi-
ence. Blessed is the emptiness that
arouses your consciousness to the point of
conceiving that which will fill it.

The average individual, not knowing the
truth, holds fear in the hour of need in-
stead of faith, and creates a fearful image
in mind, thus increasing the difRfculty.
"Fear not," said the Master. "Have faith,
and doubt not." This seems easy to say,
but you inquire, "How can I avoid the
doubt amid such trying circumstances?"
Here the soul needs to be strengthened by
the example of others who have proved
the way through faith. Paul makes this
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clear in his words, "Now faith cometh by
hearing, but hearing by the word of God."
(Rom. 10:17.) In such an hour of doubt
one would do well to read the eleventh
chapter of Hebrews, and then make a
study of all those mentioned who received
a "good report," or had good reported of
them, because they acted in faith, not see-
ing the way, but believing in the opera-
tion of a law which is beyond sight, and
which never fails to produce results for
the faithful.

There are many, however, who cannot
receive their inspiration from reading
stories about those who seem but myst-
ical in character. They demand some-
thing more at hand. To these I would
say in words of my own, "Now faith
cometh by seeing, by seeing the works of
God." The conscious mind cannot see the
actual working, for that is done by a mind
higher than the conscious mind, but illus-
trations can be seen to show the law, and
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SO lead the conscious mind to trust, or have
faith in this higher power. Take for in-
stance in the conception of a child. Father
and mother conceive the child. That ac-
tion is of the conscious mind, but beyond
this they cannot go. The formation of the
child's body is accomplished without their
conscious knowledge. This is done for
them by a mind beyond the conscious, and
indeed if their conscious mind were al-
lowed to act in this matter it would be but
an interference.

Even so, in the action of faith, when
the conscious mind with its thinking, its
reasoning, its arguments, its questions, at-
tempts to assist, it but interferes and pre-
vents. The conscious mind can do one
thing alone and then it must rest. It can
ask for what it wants, but then it must
have the faith to believe that the fulfill-
ment of that desire is being formed by a
law which works without assistance from
the objective plane. The conscious mind
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can know, and must know, what it wants,
then the soul, or higher mind, forms what
is wanted. Man in his need asks. God
in his fullness gives. Thus the child takes
the part of the child, and the Father takes
the part of the Father. The Father gives,
and the child receives. "Ask and receive,
that your joy may be full," said the Mas-
ter.

This asking in recognition of the higher
power must be done in the faith of a little
child, and it is only this childlike state of
mind that ever receives the full reward of
faith, for the child is willing to receive,
indeed it knows naught but to receive. Its
consciousness is open, expectant, recep-
tive, and therefore the fullness can come
to it. It is good for the "grown up" con-
sciousness, that which feels itself to be so
intellectual, and which knows so much
about things (but which has never entered
into or become one with the heart of
things) to really examine this phase of its
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consciousness. What does it really know
anyway? What can it really know?
Spirit and intellect are as widely different
as the sun and the moon. The moon has
a light about it from the sun, but the sun
is light in itself. Therefore, souls must
enter more and more into the heart of
of things, enter into the Spirit of life, and
allow the Spirit to play through them as
it does through its whole creation. It is
the Spirit that holds the vast universe
poised in power and perfect form. It is
the Spirit that teaches the little birds to
build their nests in the faith that by and
by there will be eggs to fill them. It is
the Spirit that moves the clouds, turns the
wind, holds the sea in its place, paints the
glorious sunset, dawns in the sunrise, tints
the leaves, colors and unfolds the flowers,
gurgles in the brook, plays in the fountain,
sings in the heart, frolics through the dear
little wild creatures and laughs in inno-
cent happiness through the little child!
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How can one live upon the earth and miss
seeing the spirit of things? How can one
doubt the presence of Spirit and fail to
have the faith to yield to Spirit? Surely,
"Faith Cometh by seeing, — by seeing the
works of God," as I have said. We need
but to open our eyes, and acknowledge
that we are one with a unified creation
which lives and moves and has its being
in the God that lives and moves and ex-
presses his Being through it.

Certainly we are compassed about by
this great number of witnesses. Living
among them, how can we feel anxious be-
cause of tomorrow? How easy it is, if we
will but hear their testimony, to "toil not,"
but rather "to consider the lilies, how they
grow." How simple a thing to rest in the
promise, "If God so clothe the grass of
the field, will he not much more clothe you,
oh ye of little faith?" But see things in
their larger sense, but awaken to the fact
of a unified creation, but fit yourself into
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the whole of it, opening to the fullness,
the allness of life, and you cannot be faith-
less, but faith full. Once to see this, leaves
no room for doubt, for faith fills the soul
to the uttermost.

Have faith to know God is, faith to ask
because God is, faith to receive because
God is, and faith to act believing that you
have already received, — this is a full faith.
The Father indeed knoweth that you have
need of all these things, but the Father
desires your recognition of him. He de-
sires that you shall look to him, see him
as the beginning J and as the fulfillment of
your desire. Therefore, he bids you
"Ask." He tells you plainly in the words
of the Master that it will be vmto thee "as
thou wilt" He would have you know that
he will satisfy the hunger of your heart,
but also he would have you understand
that "He that cometh to him must believe
that he is and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews
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11:6.) It is but divine order, it is but the
natural order, it is but right that the Son
should acknowledge his relationship to the
Father. Every need in the personal life
God is waiting to fill, but are you in the
personal life waiting for God to fill it?
That is the question. That is where the
adjustment must be made. Hear with
your ears the testimony of the throng of
witnesses. See with your eyes the count-
less millions of evidences of his work and
his presence. Then open the heart, dis-
miss the unbelief which but shuts you
from your good, and believe the promise
which cannot fail because uttered by the
very personification of Truth itself.

"What things soever ye desire,
when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them." Mark
11:24.

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CHAPTER III

The Power of Faith

OW is it that ye have no faith?"
asked the Master in astonish-
ment of his disciples when
they quaked with fear before
the raging storm. He could not compre-
hend their inability to use that power
which it was their right to use at such a
time. They in turn questioned in amaze-
ment among themselves, "What manner
of man is this that even the winds and
waves obey him?"

Jesus was the same manner of man that
all men are to be, and which he expected
them to be. He wondered that those
about him did not awaken to their right
to use the power at their command, and
so be delivered from their bondage. How
often he referred to the power of faith!
"Have faith in God."
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"Have faith and doubt not."
"Daughter, thy faith hath made thee

whole."
"Thy faith hath saved thee."
"Wherefore didst thou doubt?"
"O faithless generation!"
"Oye of little faith!"
"Be not faithless, but believing."
"If ye have faith as a grain of must-
ard seed ye should say unto this
mountain. Remove hence to yonder
place; and it should remove; and
nothing shall be impossible unto
you."
Think of the power given to man
through faith, "Nothing shall be impos-
sible unto you!" What more could be
promised? What could be more all in-
clusive? Not one condition of limitation
is suggested except the limitation which
one gives to his own faith.

The mustard seed faith is not a small
faith, as many have supposed. The Mas-
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ter in speaking of it referred to its quality
rather than its quantity. The faith of the
mustard seed is, that being a mustard seed,
it has the right to give expression to the
mustard plant. It is this kind of a faith,
this same quality, that man is expected to
use. He is to know that being a Son of
God he has the right to express all that
the Son of God is, the fullness, the free-
dom, the power and perfection of his be-
ing. Man, the offspring of God, who is
indeed the very image and likeness of God,
has been given dominion in earth. He does
not exercise it consciously, and so fails to
produce for himself the harmonious en-
vironment he should enjoy. Instead, not
knowing his right to exercise this power,
he unconsciouslj^ subjects himself to every
form of inharmony and imperfection be-
cause through doubt and fear he brings
their reaction upon him. Man has do-
minion in earth. Earth responds to his
exercise of that dominion. Fearful things
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shape themselves as the result of fear.
Faithfully the perfect takes form at the
exercise of faith. The substance of earth
as readily responds to man's call for the
full and complete expression of his idea,
as it does to the call of the mustard seed
when it determines to express itself. "It is
indeed the least of all seeds ; but when it is
grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and
becometh a tree, so that the birds of the
air come and lodge in the branches there-
of." (Matt. 13:32.) When man under-
stands the possibility that lies in his right
of dominion, he will do the mighty work
that it is his privilege to do.

Faith is much more than mere religious
fervor; it is scientific principle — a uni-
versal law. It is the substance of things
hoped for, even as Paul declared. Faith
is beyond hope, for things "hoped for" are
formed, actually made of, the substance
of faith. Hope is mere yearning, and but
creates the desire which opens the way
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to the fullness of faith. Faith is the un-
derstanding that gives fixity to the con-
sciousness. It does not waver. A waver-
ing faith is no faith at all. It is doubt and
unbelief. Only the faith that is jioced, or
substantial, can be the substance of things
hoped for.

Faith is not belief. Belief may change.
Faith does not change for it knows that
which is so. Faith does not argue, or ques-
tion, or waver, or hesitate. Faith knows.
Today you may have a certain belief. To-
morrow your belief may be strengthened
into a hope that it may be as you believe,
but when you demonstrate the belief that
your hope may be true, you will have the
faith that knows it is true, and because it
is so, it will so manifest. This is the faith
that heals the sick, raises the dead, rebukes
the devil, removes the mountains, and sets
you free.

The faith that does this work comes
only from understanding your right to ex-
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ercise it. This can be only as you recog-
nize yourself as a Son of God. There is
no doubt of this truth, so never allow the
mind to enter into uncertainty in regard
to it. Jesus plainly said, "Call no man
on earth your father, for one is your
Father, even God." The apostle John,
who entered into Jesus' own conscious-
ness, said, "Beloved, now are we the Sons
of God." When you know your divinity,
then you know your right to every good
that belongs to the divinely royal family.
What is unbelief? It is merely not
knowing your right to believe. Unbelief,
which is lack of faith, is born of the con-
sciousness of being the servant of God.
Belief which leads to the hope that finally
becomes ficced in faith comes from know-
ing that you are the Son of God. While
you are a servant you are under the law.
When you realize your Sonship, then you
use the law. Love fulfills the law. Christ,
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the operator of it. The Son of God uses
the law to do the works of his Father.
He is expected to do so, for to him has
been given the dominion. To be conscious
of being the Son is to have power — power
to bring to pass every good.

The Son of God consciousness is the
heavenly state of mind. It thinks from
above. To live in the earthly, or objec-
tive, consciousness is to experience only
the negative, shadow side of things. When
the mind is centered here it is in the realm
of effects, and has descended from the
heights from which it should function —
the realm in which effects are caused.
Man, as the Son of God, is the cause of
effects, and should never be in bondage
to the effects which he has caused.

Man is the light, and should think light
and dispel darkness. Clouds of unbelief
vanish before this mighty power when it
is exercised. All shadows must pass away,
and the Son of God in man must come
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forth into visibility. He must be seen as
he is, and not as he has thought himself
to be. He is to change his thoughts of
himself to that which is so of himself.
From the celestial heights of the Son of
God consciousness, all things are seen to
proceed from the one Being, and to be
governed by the one and only power —
God. There is one power — God. It is
exercised through man, for man gives ex-
pression to God. All power is in Man, —
is in you. To know this is faith. Leave
forever the powerless side of yourself for
the powerful. Turn from without to the
within. Abandon external thinking for
the internal. Find the kingdom of God
within yourself. Leave the faithless side
of yourself for the faithful. Take your
stand on the right side — the side of truth,
the side of power, the side that it is fight
for you to take. Then only can you dem-
onstrate, for this is the side of the Son of
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God to whom all power is given in heaven
and in earth.

As members of the divine family we
may share all that the Father has, and co-
operate with him in bringing all good into
manifestation. To imagine ourselves serv-
ants of God is to beg, beseech, fear. To
the Son, all is given. "Son thou art ever
with me, and all that I have is thine."
Jesus was so conscious of this perfect re-
lationship that he said, "I and the Father
are one." And again, "He that hath seen
me, hath seen the Father." This last he
said in recognition of himself as the image
of God, or the God Spirit made manifest
as form. Jesus did not serve God. He
communed with God, and allowed God to
serve all mankind through him.

"When the Son of man cometh shall he
find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8.)
How slow we are to grasp our opportun-
ity— to comprehend our good — to claim
our own! Right now we may recognize
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who and what we are, and use faith he-
cause we are, Man is God's Son. He is
not an hirling. He is not a servant. "The
servant abideth not in the house forever,
but the Son ever." "Henceforth I call
you not servants, but friends." (John
15:15.) Our friends are those equal with
us. Jesus called "friends" those who had
entered into his consciousness that all are
children of the one Father, — God.

Not every disciple of the Master is able
at first to see the Son in his glory. But
three, Peter, James and John, w^ere taken
up into the mount of transfiguration to be
shown the wonder of man in this con-
sciousness, or to behold man as he shall
manifest in "the kingdom of God." Their
wondering eyes were opened to the radi-
ance of divinity. "His face did shine as
the sun, and his raiment was white as the

light."

These three disciples were the most ad-
vanced in the group of twelve that fol-

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lowed their Master. They represent the
three most advanced ideas in Christ con-
sciousness, or the three that contribute
most to the support, or unfoldment, of
Christ consciousness. Peter represents
faith; John, love; and James, good judg-
ment, or perception of the good. When
faith and love and spiritual perception
have been lifted to the heights of con-
sciousness they behold transfigured man
and see him as the Son of God.

The three among the disciples who were
prepared for this were first shown the
transformed body of Jesus, then witnessed
the presence of Moses and Elias with him.
Thus were they given to realize the im-
morality of man, that identity is never lost,
that divine man is deathless — eternal.
What an awakening that must have been
to those disciples! The power, the glory,
the immortality of man revealed to them !
How fearless, how powerful they must
have become in that instant!
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But the vision meant much more than
this. Moses represented the Law. He was
the first great leader in the unfolding of
the race consciousness. Elias represented
Prophecy, he who had appeared last as
John the Baptist, the greatest of prophets,
or as the Master said, "More than a
prophet." He represented the next stage
in the unfoldment of race consciousness.
With them stood the Christ. As they
looked upon the three, thinking to build
three temples, Moses and Elias faded
from view, and the Christ stood alone, —
supreme. Then came the voice from
heaven, "This is my beloved Son, hear
him." In other words, the highest expres-
sion of consciousness was before them, —
the Son of God, toward which Law and
Prophecy had been unfolding. Christ,
first in power, was the last to come forth.
The Son of God stood revealed.

The great revelation is that three
temples are not needed, for all three states
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of consciousness abide within one temple.
The three are one. The law represents
the first plane of conscious power man at-
tains. It is this that leads him out of sense
darkness into a higher state of mind, that
which reveals psychic, or prophetic power.
This is a wilderness state of consciousness,
for terrible reactions result from a misuse
of this power through lack of knowledge
as to its highest purpose. Here man is
"bit by the serpent," psychic reaction, un-
til he learns to "lift it up," then he is led
out of it into the "promised land," the full
Christ consciousness wherein man is given
dominion over every condition and
stands supreme.

Christ is greater than the law and the
prophets, and every man is to unfold
through these planes until he reaches
Christ consciousness and uses both law and
prophecy to bring forth his divine ideas
into expression.

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"The law and the prophets were
until John. Now is the kingdom of
God preached, and every man press-
eth into it''

Every man is to realize that he is press-
ing toward the goal of perfection wherein
he will understand his dominion and fear-
lessly and lovingly exercise it.

The Son in man is his divine self, —
I am, the Spirit.

The Prophet in man is Soul power,
that which foretells, or visions,
what the divine one in man chooses
to express.

The Law in man is the power of
mind, or law of expression,
through which the vision of the di-
vine man is made manifest.

Thus the Son, the Christ in man, is
above the law — he stands over it. He is
no longer a slave to conditions, but he
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visioning, or foretelling, and the exercise
of the law of mind which brings the vision
into actual experience. Man thus enters
into dominion in earth. He becomes a
king in his own domain.

The Son in man embodies all the cre-
ative possibility of the Father. "As the
Father hath life in himself, so hath he
given unto the Son to have life in him-
self," said Jesus. This understanding
gives man immovable faith, enables him
to know that he has all power within, and
thus gives him the courage to make use
of it. He finds that within his own be-
ing he is the very power, substance and
intelligence out of which, and because of
which, all things are given form, and that
"All things, whatsoever," can be made to
take form, and do take form, in the exact
pattern of the form he holds in mind, or
visions. There is but one limit to man's
power and that is the limit in his own con-
sciousness of power, which prevents him
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from thinking into manifestation the for^n
he desires. Power and substance in mind
as definitely bring forth man's conception
as do sun and earth bring forth the flower
hidden within the seed when it is cast into
the ground.

Man is safe with this consciousness for
it cannot be fully unfolded to him until
he has entered into love. He may express
the high psychic, or prophetic power, but
unless that power is used in love, it "bites
back," as does the serpent, and he must
cry out for deliverance. Love is the great
deliverer. Christ is supreme power, and
Christ in man has all power, because he
understands that all power is God, and
that he is one with God, sent of God to
be "about his Father's business" of free-
ing all mankind from bondage. He fears
no lack. He knows no limitation. Any
mountain of obstruction in the way must
dissolve before that mustard seed quality
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of consciousness which knows its right to
express itself — the living Christ within.

"Have faith in God. For verily I
say unto you, That whosoever shall
say unto this mountain, Be thou re-
moved, and be thou cast into the sea;
and shall not doubt in his heart, but
shall believe that these things which
he saith shall come to pass; he shall
have whatsoever he saith." (Mark
11:22-23.)

To every limitation one in Christ con-
sciousness says, "Limitation, let go — I
am coming forth!" It was this conscious-
ness that enabled the Master to rebuke
the devil in the boy brought to him by
the disciples who had remained at the foot
of the mountain. Their unbelief, or false
belief in regard to the true self in the boy,
had made it impossible for them to call
forth the truth in his consciousness and so
deliver him from his delusion. The disci-
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pies who did not know the Christ within,
saw only the devil in the boy, but Jesus
who knew the Christ, saw the Christ, and
the boy was set free.

In the same way the Master met the
devil, or false belief, of taxation when it
was presented. He did not allow himself,
or his disciples, to be lirnited by taxes, but
called upon the larger consciousness of
freedom, and taught them how to prove
themselves greater than taxes. Remind-
ing Peter of the truth of freedom, the
Master lifted his consciousness above
limitation, and sent him to the sea (repre-
senting the universal source in which all
things have their beginning) to obtain the
tribute money from the mouth of the fish
that should first come to him. The Sons
of God are free. (Matt. 17:26.) They
are greater than any limitation which
the unenlightened may endeavor to press
upon them. Those in Christ conscious-
ness whimper no more. They can give
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two fold for all that is required of them.
In universal consciousness, they are free,
can meet any obligation, "lest they of-
fend" those who do not as yet understand.
Every mountain in your objective
thought which seems to deny freedom to
the Christ within is to be cast into the
great universal God mind, and there it
will be dissolved, or removed from your
pathway without harm to any and without
resistance on your part. You, however,
must know your power to cast it there,
and speak your word of authority —
"Remove hence to yonder place." Then
will it remove. Such is the law.

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CHAPTER IV

The Law of Faith

AITH is scientific. It cannot
fail to demonstrate. It is defi-
nite principle, impersonal in
its nature. Neither worthi-
ness nor unworthiness on the part of the
one using it enters into the consideration
of what faith will do. The law of faith
is as definite a principle as that of mathe-
matics. A thief may add and subtract,
multiply and divide. A philanthropist
may do the same. Even so, the law of
faith is open for the use of all. Universal
principle is for universal use. "He maketh
his sun to rise on the evil and the good,
and sendeth his rain on the just and the
unjust." (Matt. 5:45.)

Misuse of any law brings upon the one
so using it the reaction of the law. The
law itself causes neither happiness nor
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unhappiness. It is the use of the law
which produces effects. Untrue motives
bring unhappy experiences. True mo-
tives bring forth that which is good and
true. The actor is always responsible for
the act. "A good tree bringeth forth good
fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth
evil fruit." Both, however, produce by
the same law. The law of faith will bring
forth for those who use it. Without fail,
it will give to the one applying it that for
which he asks, and exactly that for which
he asks. "If he ask a fish will he give him
a serpent?" (Matt. 7:10.) Indeed, no.
The request for fish brings fish.

That being worthy or unworthy does
not enter into the demonstration of what
faith will do, the Master clearly shows in
the parable recorded in the eleventh chap-
ter of Luke. Here is given the story of
a man who at the midnight hour appealed
to a neighbor for food to supply a
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Knocking upon the neighbor's door, he
said, "Friend, lend me three loaves?"
From within, the neighbor answered,
"Trouble me not; the door is now shut,
and my children are with me in bed; I
cannot rise and give thee."

The Master then makes this wonderful
statement, which should inspire every one
to the fearless exercise of faith:

"Though he will not rise and give
him because he is his friend, yet be-
cause of his importunity he will rise
and give him as many as he needeth.
And I say unto you, Ask and it shall
be given you, for every one that
asketh receive th."

The meaning is very plain, and the les-
son a powerful one. Through indiffer-
ence, or unworthy acts, you may not have
commimed of late with the neighbor
within you — the creative God-principle in
your soul. A sudden need may arise in
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your life, and in the dark, midnight hour
of your experience when you appeal to
this inner one for aid, you may feel that
Spirit power has been withdrawn. Spirit
and its relative forces may appear to be
slumbering and unwilling to yield to you
the desire of your heart. "The door is now
shut, and my children are with me in bed,"
the voice from within the house (the
Spirit within your soul), may seem to
answer. Yet the promise is, "Though he
will not rise and give you because he is
your friend, (that is, friendly to you be-
cause of your worthiness) yet, because of
your importunity he will rise and give you
as many as you need." You have the right
to ask your Father because he is your
Father. If you know your right to ask
and stand at the door and demand prin-
ciple to work for you, it must respond to
the call of your consciousness and fulfill
your need. Such is the value of this won-
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derful impersonal law, open for the use
of all.

The great point to be borne in mind is
that faith is a law, and being such, must
produce for those who use it. In your
garden there may be a tree laden with ripe
apples. A good man, so called, may shake
the tree. He will get apples. A bad man,
so called, may shake the tree. He will
get apples. Getting the apples is not the
result of being either good or bad, but in
having the knowledge to shake the tree, or
do that which releases the fruit. Even so,
fulfilling the law of faith produces the
demonstration, for demonstration is the
result of applied principle. When you
discover that God, in giving you dominion
in earth, gave you a law through which to
exercise your dominion, you will rejoice
because of the freedom that lies before
you in your opportunity of bringing free-
dom to others. Faith worketh in love, and
the magical, wonder-working power of
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this law will make you love God, the giver
of it, in a way you have never known to
love him before.

It is not the fulfillment of desire that
harms people. It is the incessant struggle
in the wrong direction to secure fulfill-
ment of desire. Mankind feels his inher-
ent right to freedom and rebels against
limitation, but unconscious of the law that
will produce it for him, he struggles in
the outer world, seeking to get from with-
out, that which can be brought forth only
from within. Desires may be fulfilled,
and the desire itself is the first step
toward the fulfillment. "Woe unto you
who are satisfied," cried the Master, who
sorrowed because of the woeful ignorance
of man and his unwillingness to be deliv-
ered from it. "Delight thyself also in the
Lord ; and he shall give thee the desires of
thine heart." (Psa. 37:4.) "All things,
whatsoever, ye desire, when ye pray, be-
lieve ye receive them and ye shall have
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them." (Mark 11:24.) "Seek and ye
shall find; knock and it shall be opened
unto you." (Matt. 7:7.) These are true
promises, and are given to bring happi-
ness and completeness into the lives of
men. "Hitherto, ye have asked nothing
in my name (in the consciousness of the
Son) . Ask, and ye shall receive that your
joy may he full" (John 16:24.) You
may have what you want, but you must
learn that what you want has its begin-
ning in God, and you must definitely
form your desire in your own conscious-
ness, place it before your Father in the
secret place of the Most High (the crea-
tive God-center within yourself) and
await the action of this Creator in bring-
ing it forth. Ask the Father for what
you want. That which begins in God is
always good. If you can lay your request
before this Perfect One, you need have
no fear of its being a good desire, nor of
its perfect forthcoming. "He that cometh
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to God must believe that he is, and that
he is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek him." (Heb. 11:6.)

Our first step in demonstration is to
contact God. We then have the fullness
of God's wisdom, love and truth (or
power, substance and intelligence) with
us in bringing it forth. Our work is to
begin from the I Am in us which is one
with the I Am that is in all, and all in all.
A leaf on a vine begins its expression at
that point within itself wherein it is
joined to the whole vine — its stem. This
is the door through which the expression
of the vine comes forth into the leaf.
Even so within us is the "door," the Christ
within, the I Am in our consciousness
which contacts the great I Am that is the
life and light of all.

Your expression is to be given forth

from within you, even as the leaf unfolds

from within itself. Your affairs are to be

operated from within you. "But thou,

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when thou prayest, enter into thy closet
(the inner sanctuary of the soul) and
when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy
Father which is in secret ; and thy Father
which seeth in secret shall reward thee
openly." (Matt. 6:6.) The first and
greatest commandment, the Master said,
is this important thing of making com-
plete at-one-ment with the Father within.
He gave it in the following words:

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, with all thy soul,
with all thy strength and with all thy
mind." (Mark 12:30.)

Do you not see how you must be cen-
tered in the Father within you, drawing
the whole of your good from him, and
that every force of your nature is to ope-
rate from the divine self? "In the begin-
ning" of all expression is God, the God
within, else God could not be expressed,
or brought forth.

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The law of faith is a creative law. It
brings forth. It must then begin its ope-
ration in the creative center — God. As a
creative law, it must be considered in such
light. As a universal law it has universal
application on whatever plane of con-
sciousness it is operating. Sun and earth
bring forth a flower when the seed
is planted in earth. Father and mother
bring forth a child when the conception
takes place within the mother. Spirit and
soul bring forth expression in body and
affairs when the seed-idea underlying that
expression is planted, or conceived within
the soil of the soul. This, briefly stated,
is the law.

Sun and earth are impersonal in their
productive capacities, bringing forth
whatever seed is planted, the choice of the
seed lying with the individual who de-
sires the plant. We shall some day under-
stand that rare children are born of par-
ents of rare and idealistic consciousness,
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and that souls born upon the earth seek
their own level of mind unfoldment.
Unconsciously parents choose their off-
spring by the quality of their own
thought. Spirit and soul are equally
impersonal in their creative possibilities.
"The desire of thine heart" is brought
forth. Things are shaped in your experi-
ence "according to your faith." God is
no respecter of persons. The law is the
law. "God hath committed all judgment
unto the Son" (John 5:22) . That is, God
allows man to judge for himself as to what
shall take place in his life, — the perfection
God has conceived for him, or the bitter
experiences which shall cause him finally
to cry out for the perfection. Every seed
idea placed in the soul becomes a concep-
tion, is given thought-form in mind, later
to be experienced in physical form. Ideas
of perfection produce perfection. The re-
verse is equally true. Just as sun and
earth produce with equal willingness the
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mighty oak and the frailest poppy when
their respective seeds are planted, so spirit
and soul respond to the call of man, and
that which he desires, or for which he has
asked, believing, he receives.

This understanding gives great rest to
the mind, even though it is a revelation
of great personal responsibility. It re-
veals man as a master, and faith as a
power. Understanding faith makes man
invincible. Like Christ and Peter on the
boisterous sea, understanding and faith
must join hands, before faith can walk
the troubled waves in safety. Both must
get into the ship, or become a part of
man's consciousness. Then the sense
world is stilled. Man then may control
his world from within himself and speak
the word that brings great calm.

The perfect understanding is that which

came to the three disciples on the top of

the mount, — that the creative principle

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ing Christ, ever "one with Father," of
whom Jesus said, "As the Father hath
life in himself, even so hath he given unto
the Son to have life in himself/' Within
the Son is the creative power to form, or
to bring forth from Being, as has already
been stated in the preceding chapter.

As Being, (the Christ) divine man
knows he contacts, and is within himself
one with the power, substance and intelli-
gence of which and through which things
are given form.

Through the prophetic power of Being,
(Elias) man prophesies, foretells, or con-
ceives the form which his power, sub-
stance and intelligence shall express.

Through the law of mind, (Moses)
which the divine intelligence of Being
exercises, man brings forth through faith
that which he has conceived, and "accord-
ing to his faith," or in the exact pattern
of his belief, he then has in tangible form,
that which before he had only in an un-
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manifest state. Fulfilling the law of
mind, brings the unmanifest into mani-
festation, or causes it to materialize.

Before man can enter into his dominion,
he must understand that he is continually
using all three planes of his consciousness
and must understand their relation to
each other. As already stated, the trans-
figuration scene represents not only the
three great steps in the unfolding race
consciousness, but also the three states of
consciousness within man himself. On the
mountain top with the Christ stood Elias,
Moses and the disciples. Four states of
being were represented:

12 3 4

Christ Elias Moses Man

or or or or

Being Prophecy Law Expression

In the realms of man's consciousness

these represent:

1. Spirit, the Super-conscious.

2. Soul, the Sub-conscious.

3. Mind, the Conscious.

4. Body, the Conscious Expression.

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Jesus spoke of these four planes as:
Heart Soul Mind Strength

He said that man should "love God
with all his heart, with all his soul, with
all his mind and with all his strength," or
that the whole nature of man should be
centered in, or express from God the
Being of which he is the likeness and the
image. Man is to learn to think from his
"heart," or from Spirit, for it is written
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
Man's expression is brought forth from
the heart of his being, for it is there his
expression begins to be, "In the begin-
ning, God."

It is in the heart of Being that man
says "I Am." It is the I Am of man
that is ever one with the Father, as one
with God as a drop of water is one with
the ocean of which it is a part. Man's
being is one with the Being of God and is
within itself that which God is. For this
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reason, man within himself is power, sub-
stance and intelligence. It is knowing this
that gives him dominion in the realm of
form, or makes all form subject to him.
"Even the winds and the waves obey
him," they said of Jesus, who was the first
to claim his God-given right of dominion
in earth.

Within the heart of man's consciousness
lies the creative law through which he ex-
presses his Being. This is the treasure in
heaven of which Jesus spoke, and is a
treasure because within it lies the power
of bringing forth every earthly treasure.
It is the cause of things. It is a trinity
principle, and through its use "All things
are possible," for within it lies the power
and substance and intelligence through
which all things are created.

This heart of Being, man's Spirit, or
Christ self, may be understood as follows :
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1. Wisdom.
I Am < 3 2. Love.

3. Truth.

1. Wisdom, or Power to express.

2. Love, or Substance with which to express.

3. Truth, or Intelligence with which to conceive
what shall be expressed.

It can be readily seen that when in man
lies all power to express, and all sub-
stance with which to express, and all in-
telligence with which to think what form
shall be expressed, there remains but one
thing necessary to bring forth expression,
and that is to decide what form shall be
thought into expression, or to intelligently
conceive what the power and substance of
Being shall produce. This definite deci-
sion as to what shall be expressed is like
choosing a seed for sun and earth to bring
forth. They are willing to produce any
harvest man desires, but he himself must
decide what he wishes to sow. Even so,
power and substance lie within the being
of man and will bring forth into expres-
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sion that which he conceives, or prophesies,
if he will only fulfill the law of mind,
which is the law of faith, by "Asking" for
what he wants and by believing he has
that for which he asks.

"What things soever ye desire,
when ye pray, believe ye receive them,
and ye shall have them." (Mark.
11:24.)
We will now consider the four planes
of man's being again, understanding that
in his heart, or Spirit, is the power and
substance and intelligence to bring all
form into manifestation; That in soul
the Prophet is always asking "WHAT
shall be brought forth?" That in mind
the law is to be fulfilled, or the individual
is to believe he has that which he has con-
ceived, since he indeed does have it in un-
manifest form, and that through believing
he has, he actually comes to have in ex-
pression that which previously he had only
in Being.

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Christ Elias Moses Man

Being The Prophet The Law The Expression

Heart Soul Mind Body

I Am I Conceive I Believe I Have

In the Heart of man's being, where he
is one with the Father, the Father says,
"I am that power, substance and intelli-
gence which is the fulfillment of your
every desire."

In Soul, the question is asked, ''What
do you desire?"

In Mind, it is required, "Believe ye
have that which ye desire."

In Expression, it is promised, "And ye
shall have the fulfillment of j^our desire."

As has been before stated, this is a cre-
ative law, the law of bringing forth, and
in operation is exactly the same as that
used upon the physical plane when father
and mother conceive a child, the body of
which is given form within the matrix of
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the mother, and in fullness of time is
brought to birth. Even so the Spirit
(father) and Soul (mother) conceive
what is to be brought forth, and this seed-
idea is held within the matrix of the soul,
the mind, until in fullness of time it is pro-
duced in form, or delivered upon the
physical plane.

It is now easy to see that your desire
in the without must through "the silence,"
or in prayer be carried to the inner sanc-
tuary of the soul ("thy closet") and there
placed as a definite request before the
Father— the I Am. This is "asking."
The Spirit asks, ''What shall I do for
thee?" You answer by naming your de-
sire,— by asking.

Lifted to the spiritual plane, your re-
quest is there quickened by the Spirit and
becomes a conception in your soul. Now it
is a conceived idea, — a seed planted in the
soil of your soul. As any other seed, it
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will germinate, develop first in the invis-
ible, and in "fullness of time" come forth.

The mind, conscious of this, expects the
fulfillment, as does a mother her child, or
a farmer his harvest. This is "believing."
It is "holding in mind" the form of the
perfected expression. The mother be-
lieves she has her child, even when it is
being formed in the invisible. The farmer
believes he has his harvest, even while it
is growing beneath the soil. We must
"believe we have" our demonstration
while it is being formed for us in the in-
ner realms of consciousness, for it is "be-
lieving we have" that holds definitely in
mind the form of our desire, and gives it
the desired form. When we believe we
have, seeing in faith, "the invisible," we
have.

In fullness of time, this thought form is

delivered upon the physical plane. As a

mother's birth effort delivers her child, so

you through phyical effort perfect your

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demonstration. It requires strength to
speak and act in a way that is true to the
conception, and to carry out the idea held
in mind. The idea of health and the
thought form of health must not be denied
by the action of sickness or by resorting
to external means to try to get well. The
thought form is perfect health now.

If the soul conception is abundance, the
action must carry out that idea. The spirit
of the action must conform to the image.
Until abundance manifests the amount of
expenditure need not be increased, but the
spirit of the mind must be one of richness,
and what is spent rnust be allowed to leave
the hands cheerfully and willingly in no
consciousness of loss or of self-denial, but
rather in the attitude of trust and thanks-
giving because of the ever present supply
now being made manifest. Be true. Spirit,
soul, mind and body must agree to bring
forth even as you have conceived, exact-
ly "according to your faith." "Ye shall
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reap in due time (the time of fulfillment)
if ye faint not. "Be not faithless, but be-
lieving/'

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CHAPTER V

The Faith That Heals

HE Master made it very clear
that healing is accomplished
through faith. It could not be
otherwise, for health springs
from within. Life which is health must
have its source in God, the giver of life,
who is ever within the soul yearning to
quicken soul, mind, body and affairs with
power and perfection, but who cannot do
so until the principle for this quickening,
or out-pouring is fulfilled. God is brought
forth into expression through the law of
faith and it was for this reason that the
Master invariably told those whom he had
been able to heal, "Thy faith hath made
thee whole. Thy faith hath saved thee."
Sometimes, before speaking the healing
word, he asked the one desiring help, "Be-
lieve ye that I am able to do this?" (Matt.
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9 :28. ) It is recorded, also, that in his own
country he could do no mighty works be-
cause of their unbelief.

The bringing forth of Spirit substance
into definite form is accomplished through
definite law, and until this law is fulfilled
there can be no demonstration. Spirit
forms according to the conception held in
mind through faith. For this reason all
things are to us according to our faith.
Until faith in the thing desired is estab-
lished in the mind, it cannot assume defin-
ite form in the experience, and the reason
that so many undesirable things take form
in our lives is because, unconsciously, we
have held in mind, or have had faith in, a
conception which we really dreaded to ex-
perience. The mind must be trained to
hold only ideal, truthful conceptions in
order that ideal and truthful expression
may be made manifest.

It is most important then to question
ourselves in regard to the real nature of
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our faith. Have we faith in God, the good,
or are we endeavoring to solve our prob-
lems and restore our health through a
divided faith — sometimes in the good, and
sometimes in evil ? A wavering faith brings
forth its exact reproduction, — wavering
conditions. Faith in evil brings forth the
evil condition, but faith in the good which
is God brings forth the good. Therefore
it is written ''Have faith in God/' The
Master cautioned us to "keep the eye sin-
gle" to this good, if we desire a "body of
light" or one that is buoyant, light, health-
ful and beautiful (Matt. 6:22) . To image
God, you must have faith in God, or hold
God in mind. ''Whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things are honest, what-
soever things are just, whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report, if
there he any virtue, if there be any praise,
think on these things'' (Phil. 4:8). To
hold in mind the ideal is to form the ideal
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through the operation of the law of faith ;
and to free yourself from conditions that
are less than ideal, you must cease to hold
them in mind, for so long as they are held
in mind they are held in experience. For
this reason, you can dis-member, or bring
to nothingness every false condition in ex-
perience through re-membering it no
more, and in its stead form in mind, or
establish in consciousness, the perfect con-
dition to be brought forth.

When you understand this as a laAv
through which all form becomes manifest,
then you will realize how important it is
to have faith in the good, and if that faith
is not a part of your consciousness, then
you will want to know just how it can be-
come so. It is Paul who speaks of the law
of faith, and he also tells us just how the
faith-less may be made faith-f ul. He says
(Romans 10:17) that faith may be culti-
vated,— "So faith Cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the woi^d of God." All things,
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including faith itself have their beginning
in the word. For this reason when faith
seems to be lacking, the word "faith" must
be spoken, for back of the word faith, lies
the thought faith, and back of the thought
faith is the idea faith,and in this idea of
faith lies the Spirit power of faith which
is released in consciousness when the word
"faith" calls it forth. It is for this reason
that we a^k the Father within for what we
want, and by believing that we have re-
ceived, we have, for it takes form in our
experience when we call it forth through
asking and believing.

Word, thought, idea and Spirit-power
bear exactly the same relation to each
other that the key, hammer, string and
vibration bear to each other in a piano.
The vibration, or power within the string
is released as sound to the ear only as the
key in connection with it is struck. The
key C moves the hammer C which touches
the string C and releases the vibration C.
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In no other way can that particular tone
be brought forth. If we want the tone C,
we must be particular to strike the hey C.
In the same way, the word health moves
the thought health, and awakens the idea
health until the virbation or feeling of
health is released in consciousness. It is
for this reason that the weak are told to
say "I am strong." Strength is what the
weak wish to experience, therefore they
must say it and tJdnk it and in exact ful-
fillment of the law of faith they will feel it,
but they will not do so as long as they
persist in saying "weak."

These true words, or words declaring
the truth of Being, are the "keys of the
kingdom" to which Jesus referred when
he told Peter, the man of faith, that they
would be given to him. They are given
to every faith-full soul who will lift the
consciousness above the testimony of the
senses, or the opinions of others, and voice
the Truth from the prompting of the
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Spirit within. In no other way can the
"church" of Christ which is the "temple
of the body" be built, for it must be formed
from within, but can be only as the word
which calls it forth is spoken from without.
The kingdom of heaven is within, and the
keys which unlock this kingdom to the
consciousness of man are the good words
or words of God which we speak. We
must speak the words that are true of
Being, then will the true become manifest,
and the false will pass away.

Not only does it take faith to disregard
the appearance and call forth the ideal,
but it takes a continuance of faith to es-
tablish the ideal in consciousness and make
it real in experience. The word we speak
is but a seed. Like every seed it grows
first beneath the soil, hidden from view.
When the seed-word is spoken it takes
root in the soil of the mind. It will sure-
ly bring forth after its kind, and we will
"reap in due time, — if we faint not."
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Often we miss the fruit of faith because
we have not continued in faith, or awaited
the fulfillment of faith. No farmer would
plant his grain and not await his har-
vest. Instead he would make preparation
for his harvest. He would plant his seed
believing that he would receive. Even so a
mother who has conceived a child trusts
that interior growth which takes place and
which is hid from her view, and prepares
for the birth of the child, believing sihe has
received. So, when we speak the word of
Truth which is the seed of the ideal we
wish to see manifest, we must believe we
have, and with no doubt in the mind, trust
that first growth which always takes place
within, hid from view. Fear, doubt and
uncertainty prevent the perfect "holding
in mind" of the thing desired, and until
it is established, or made firm, in mind it
cannot take form in the external.

Just as a seed must be established in
the earth before it will start to grow, so
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must an idea be established in mind be-
fore it will begin to express. A wavering
mind is not established, and James tells us
that in this consciousness we can never
hope to receive from the Lord or from
the outworking of the law. "Let him ash
in faithj nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven
with the wind and tossed, for let not that
man think he shall receive anything of the
Lord'" (James 1:6-7).

Therefore be firm in speaking the word
of truth for healing. Affirm that which
is true in Being by speaking the true word
which will unlock the inner kingdom of
reality and establish its ideas in experi-
ence. When the word for the true condi-
tion has been spoken, claim the effect of
that word, and be unmoved by any ap-
pearance to the contrary. From the mo-
ment the word of Truth is spoken, claim
its full fruition, believing that you have
received, and act in perfect accord with
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that belief. Action must carry out the
spirit of the mind, — not contradict it. It
is this that builds the house, or establishes
the body, so that nothing from without can
affect it. From the moment you speak
the word "health," hold it in mind, and act
as though health is already received for in
this way is the law of faith fulfilled.
Regardless of every appearance, claim
that health is yours from the moment you
a^k the Father within to manifest as
health, for the Father within, or this Infi-
nite Power in the Heaven within, can no
more avoid responding than the sound
within the piano can help coming forth
when the key is struck. For this reason it
is written, "If you ask for bread, will he
give you a stone?" He cannot give you
a stone, for it is the nature of the Father
to give you that for which you ask. "Ask
and you shall receive, for everyone that
asketh, receiveth."

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When I had been in the consciousness
of Truth less than eighteen months, and
as yet had but little knowledge of the law
of faith in healing which must always
be fulfilled, even though we may be un-
conscious of it, I had the following case
of instantaneous healing:

We were living in an apartment in San
Francisco. My husband expected to go
away that evening on important business,
and I had to remain alone with our little
four-year-old son, who was ill. He was
very feverish and delirious. I had been
holding him in my arms all morning de-
claring freedom for him, but with no suc-
cess. As I review the case now, I realize
that it was my fear which prevented the
healing, for I dreaded being left alone
with the child that night. This bound me
in consciousness to the idea of sickness
rather than to that of freedom. Though
I did not realize it then, I knew later that
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it was this which prevented the law of
mind from doing its perfect work.

Having no success with my treatment,
I finally became almost desperate. I be-
gan to wonder why the case seemed so re-
sistant, for at other times I had been able
to use the law and relieve fevers quickly
and easily. At last I resolved to find out
wherein I was failing. I laid the little boy
down and went into the next room. I took
my Bible and sat down in a chair. Then
I asked the Spirit to show me the way
and to have me open the Bible to a pass-
age that would reveal to me my mistake.
I sat in the silence for a few moments,
then opened the Bible. I opened to the
4th Chapter of 2 Kings. My finger was
upon the 26th verse. (Read 2 Kings
4:17-27.) It was the story of the Shu-
nammite woman whose son had died. As
she went to the Prophet Elisha, his serv-
ant came to meet her with the question,
"Is it well with thee, is it well with thy
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husband, is it well with thy child?" In all
the strength of a complete faith, she made
answer, "It is well." Instantly, I saw that
if she could say, "It is well," with her son
dead, I certainly could say the same with
my son sick. I realized at once that I
must be positive in the truth, denying the
appearance, and so started toward the
room where my little boy lay, still in a
state of stupor.

It was at this point that a most impor-
tant thing happened to me, one which in-
variably happens to all. I was tested.
The Spirit proved my faith. Just as I
was passing into the next room, the door
bell rang, and when I opened the door,
there stood a friend from another apart-
ment. The question she asked me was:

''How is Timothyr

I stood before her in bewilderment.

How should I answer? In the next room

the child lay in a stupor. I had just been

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could I, without evidence to the senses,
and feel that I was speaking the truth?
Somehow, I realized that it was my test,
and in the boldness of my faith, I almost
shouted at her:

"He is well!"

In but an instant I felt a pull at my
dress, and there by my side stood my little
boy. He said:

"Mother, I want my supper."

I stood trembling with wonder. Al-
though I thought I believed, still it seemed
impossible that he could be there — freed.
However, it was so. I did not question,
but allowed him to be the judge of his
need. He asked for his dinner, so I gave
it to him at once, and tucked him in bed
for the night, — restored to perfect health.
Each of us had been made free from the
effect of error through my positive decla-
ration of truth. My three positions in the
apartment during that experience perfect-
ly symbolize the three planes of conscious-
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ness each soul must touch in making a
demonstration. While with my little boy
in the sick room I was in the realm of ap-
pearances. When I went into the next
room to enter the silence, I was in the
place of the Most High — the realm of
reality where all is perfection. When I
opened the hall door and heard the ques-
tion of my friend, I was in the realm of
my soul. Here I stood midway between
the realm of appearance and the realm of
reality. I was at the "door" of my Being
deciding ''what" should enter into my ex-
perience. The woman's question was real-
ly the Spirit saying to me, "Your child ap-
pears to objective consciousness to be sick.
In the realm of reality you know him to
be well. Now what is the decision of your
soul — how is he?" My decision was the
determining factor of my faith. It
"framed" the resultant effect. "Ye shall
know the truth and the truth shall make
you free."

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CHAPTER VI

Unfoldment Through Faith

HERE can be no expression or
growth without faith, for
growth is pressing forth from
that which now is into that
which is to be expressed. It is making
the unseen seen. Not having yet experi-
enced the unseen, we cannot reason about
it with conscious knowledge. We must
press forth into this new state in faith, else
we can never attain it. Faith is the evi-
dence of things not seen, the substance of
things hoped for.

This conscious reaching out, this belief
in the unseen, is the evidence that it can
be, and this mental quality is in itself the
substance of the thing. It is that which
underlies the thing hoped for. Faith is
the spiritual substance of the thing you
desire. It is the invisible side of the vis-
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ible substance. It is the fixed idea in mind
which stands for the formed thing in earth.
The image takes form in mind, and be-
comes form in earth. A thing is first ideal-
ized in faith, and then realized in experi-
ence. This is the true materialization. The
very worlds were formed in this way.

''Through faith we understand that the
worlds were framed by the word of God,
so that things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear/' (Heb.
11:3.)

At first, this seems very mystifying,
but since all is Spirit, then all form must
take form in Spirit, the invisible sub-
stance, in order to be visible. The idea is
perceived in Spirit, it is outlined, or
"framed" by the word which gives it form.
Through the faculty of faith this idea is
held in mind until it is made firm, endur-
ing, substantial. Becoming substantial, it
is materialized, or becomes substance.
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This is just what Jesus meant when he
said :

''Ask/' — speak the word.
''Believe/' — hold the form in mind.
"And ye shall have/' — it will mani-
fest.

As there is no limit to the form our
faith may take, so there is no limit to the
form substance may assume in our ex-
perience.

For this reason all things are possible
and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
"What things soever ye desire, when ye
pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye
shall have them." (Mark 11:24.) There
is no limitation except to the mind that
fails to grasp this conception of faith and
neglects to give desire definite form, with-
out which it cannot materialize. No
flower ever blooms that does not have in
its heart the form it is to be. A wise ar-
chitect has a plan for his house, and the
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Infinite who is so ready and willing to sat-
isfy the desire of every living creature
asks but one thing, — "What shall I give
unto thee? What do you want ?"

The reason so much imperfection has
been expressed in the world is because the
conscious mind of man has not been
thinking the "thoughts of God after him."
Man has become separated from his
Father through the realm of conscious-
ness, while he should be united to him
through consciousness, — G o d's perfect
thought manifest. Not understanding
this, and deceived by appearances, man
has fallen into error- thinking ; tare seeds
have taken root in his soul; mis-concep-
tions have taken form, and many times a
mis-carriage of the divine idea is brought
forth. This may happen to the individual
again and again, but finally these bitter
experiences cause him to seek his God, and
cry to his Creator, "Lord what wouldst
thou have me to do?" This is the only at-
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titude of soul that opens the way for the
revelation of the divine conception, the
plan for the perfect unfoldment of life.

It is just as true that we have to re-
conceive ourselves, or awaken to the con-
sciousness of God's concept for us, as it is
that a little child, born into the world, has
to discover for itself what it has been con-
ceived to be, whether girl or boy, Mary or
John. It may live several years before
a very definite idea of its being unfolds
to it. So the mind of man experiences a
new birth, an inner awakening to the truth
of his heavenly origin, his angelic nature,
and his divinely-appointed work.

Not one soul could come into manifes-
tation without the idea for his expression
being divinely conceived, his form of ex-
pression being fore-known, and his life
work being pre-destined. Man often
turns from his good, as did Jonah of old,
but the divine purpose in each must final-
ly be accomplished, and man's perfection
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brought forth, for he will be thrown into
a sea of circumstances, as was this prophet,
and carried back to his starting point,
there to bring forth the will of God.

Great peace comes to our souls when
we have wearied of experiences, and turn
to God for rest. What a joy to learn
that our real self is angelic — perfect —
and that our work is but to unfold this
perfection and "let the tares alone."

Jesus spoke of the eternal nature of our
spiritual self, saying "The very hairs of
your head are all numbered." "Fear
not them that kill the body but cannot
kill the soul." David spoke of our un-
foldment from a God idea: "In thy book
all my members were written, which in
continuance were fashioned, when as yet
there was none of them," — or as yet they
were unmanifest. (Psalm 139.) Paul
spoke of the "Body not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens," that we have a
spiritual body and a natural body, and
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mentioned having seen himself a perfect
being in the "Christ above," but did not
"glory" because he had not as yet con-
sciously attained unto it, or made it mani-
fest. John gives us a wonderful word of
encouragement in regard to our unfold-
ment (1 John 2:27).

''But the anointing which ye have
received of him abide th in you, and
ye need not that any man teach you;
but as the same anointiiig teacheth
you of all things, and is truth, and is
no lie, and even as it hath taught you,
ye shall abide in him/'

This is the same thing which Paul
meant when he spoke of our being fore-
known, for-ordained and pre-destined to
conform to the image of the Son. That
is, it shall be given every living soul to
know that it is planned from the time of
the soul's conception that he shall perfect-
ly manifest as a Son of God, for how
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could man be aught else when God has
conceived him?

Thus we see that at heart, or in Being,
man's form is outlined, awaiting his own
conscious co-operation in bringing it
forth. The Spirit urges upon man again
and again to recognize himself as he is, a
spiritual Being. Continually man hears
the inner voice questioning, "What shall
I give unto thee?" So long as the demand
is for the untrue, the untrue conceptions
take place in the soul and have to be ex-
perienced. Unhappiness, poverty and
disease finally lash the soul into a desire
for better things. The "bondage of
Egypt" drives the children of the light to
seek Canaan. The pressure of earth cre-
ates in the heart of the seed the desire for
freedom in sun and air. The grossness
of material consciousness at last compels
the soul to seek the unfoldment of the
spiritual, and man awakens to the possi-
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bilities that God has placed within his
soul.

All are fleeing from the "land of dark-
ness," leaving the "old" and entering the
"new" through faith. Few press into the
new without occasional glances backward
upon the old, and without moments of in-
decision,— perhaps even at times prefer-
ring the bondage of the "fleshpots" to the
seeming uncertainty of the "daily bread"
of the wilderness. Nevertheless, in the
midst of all this confusion of mind, the
awakened soul knows to say "Peace," re-
alizing that the old must "pass away,"
and that the new is unfolded "according
to our faith." We must listen to the voice
of the prophet within, who alone is able
to fortell the things to be, and through
the power of our faith speak our word
to frame our new world "in earth even
as it is in heaven." Steadfastly we must
claim the right to our vision, hold it in
mind, and make preparations for its com-
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ing forth, as did the widow of old for the
increase of her oil. Fearlessly we must
use toward the development of our ideal,
the little we have consciously at hand —
the little faith, the little courage, the little
talent, the little strength, the little life,
the little supply. Never an oak tree grew
except from a Utile acorn! Things begin
in the beginning and the beginning is al-
ways small. The time for the beginning is
now.

All things develop through use. Self
expression is strengthened as it is exer-
cised in faith. How many have glorious
talents lying apparently lifeless through
lack of use! Some are afraid to express.
Others are indifferent. Many are too
selfish, while others fear they will receive
no reward. Through expression increased
ability to express comes as a rich reward,
— a treasure in heaven which never can be
lost. Faith is not faith which does not
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embody activity; that does not express it-
self in works.

Two voices are ever whispering to the
soul. The one speaks of limitation and
impossibility. It is the voice of objective
consciousness, that state of mind which
sees things as they appear to be. The
other speaks of the limitless and reminds
the soul that every desire may be fulfilled
through faith. This is the inner prophetic
voice of the soul. It is urging a better ex-
pression, a complete happiness, a life that
is more abundant. Since the within is to
be expressed in the without, this is the
voice which we must hear if we would
know the "land of promise," or experience
the good promised to us. It tells us,
"Press steadfastly on — in faith"

The little crocus which so fearlessly
braves the cold and frost of early spring-
time, and through its sweet presence, an-
nounces "The winter is over and gone,"
is one of nature's most precious messen-
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gers of the law of faith and of the possi-
bilities which lie open to man when he
will realize and use that law.

The cold and frost of winter become
so imbearable to the crocus that it is
forced to turn from earth and look long-
ingly upward, believing that somewhere
Ihere must be the warmth and cheer which
its heart so craves. This call for warmth
comes from within itself. It feels the
inner urge. It desires good cheer. Every
evidence of the without denies it the possi-
bility of attaining the fulfillment of its
desire. But, — how it does long for color,
for sunshine! How its heart yearns for
grace, for beauty! How desperately it
pleads within itself for freedom from its
bondage ! The cold, relentless earth denies
it all these things — so it turns away from
earth! This is the first step toward its
ascent and makes possible its unfoldment.
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Can you not see that opposition which
drives you in the right direction is good?
During the exeprience it may not be pleas-
ant, but that force which compels expres-
sion is a friend, and when you "agree"
with it, you will hasten toward your good.
All suppression, all deprivation that com-
pels you to listen to the prophet's voice
within your soul and urges you into fear-
less and free experssion is a blessing to
you. Though it seems to be your enemy,
it really is your friend.

The longing for better conditions was
the urge of the prophet in the crocus' own
soul. (II Kings 4:1-7.) The prophet said:

"What shall I give unto thee?"

The crocus replied, "I desire to express
myself as a purple crocus in the freedom
of sun and air." Then the prophet said,
"Enlarge your vision. Be full of faith.
Cease to think of the earth. Vision your-
self as unfolding perfection. See for
yourself a purple dress. Think of your
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heart of gold. Look upward to the sun.
Imagine how lovely the air is. Vision the
buds and the springtime. Fear not, —
only believe!" Thus spoke the voice of
the prophet in the heart of the little cro-
cus bulb!

The poor little widowed outer self spoke
differently. The ugly, brown bulb-self
said:

"Do not make a spectacle of yourself!"

"It is impossible!"

"People will think you unwise."

"You are too insignificant!"

"I tell you it is winter, — it will not be
spring for months yet!"

But always in spite of the discourage-
ment without, in the innermost soul of the
crocus it heard the prophet urge,

"Fear not, — only believe. Express
yourself!"

It listened to that inner urge, and
obeyed. You rejoiced because it did. Be-
cause it followed the urge of its own soul
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you saw the first crocus of the springtime,
and the glad cry "Oh, there is a purple
crocus!" sprang from your lips. You
were glad that it was a crocus, — just it-
self. It had a message of its own to give
you. More than all the flowers it ex-
presses faith. It is small, but it is brave;
it is fearless ; it is a power. It believes in
springtime in spite of all the testimony
of winter in the without. It obeys the
urge within itself. It almost gets frost-
bitten,— but it doesnt! Faith may almost
seem to fail, but it never does. Faith is
exact fulfillment, — always it is to you ex-
actly "according to your faith!"

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CHAPTER VII

The Transforming Power
of Faith

HROUGH the outworking of
the law of faith we grow like
that which we gaze upon, or
hold in mind for ourselves.
This law of faith, or suggestion, is very-
potent, but it becomes doubly so when
that which is suggested to us is something
we love, or idealize. Grecian mothers
were very careful to surround themselves
with every ideal influence during the
months prior to the birth of their children,
and Paul who understood this law em-
phasized it in speaking of the Christ ideal,
— ''We all with ojjen face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord, are changed
into the same image from glory to glory"
(2 Cor. 3:18.)

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The Old Testament story of Jacob,
who placed the spotted sticks in the drink-
ing water of his cows, is but another il-
lustration of the subtle power of this law.
The cows brought forth that which they
gazed upon, — spotted offsprings after the
pattern of the spotted sticks they saw in
the water day by day.

The drinking water but typifies the wa-
ter of the soul which God always ''moves
upon' in order to bring forth. Here is re-
flected and conceived the divine idea which
is to be held in mind, and brought to birth
in outer form. When the water of the
soul is kept as still as that of a placid
lake the reflection is perfect, and the di-
vine idea becomes clear and well defined
in mind. As we gaze upon it, love it, hold
it as our ideal, and desire to bring it forth,
in fullness of time it is given birth and
that which we cherished in mind takes ac-
tual form.

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Man instinctively looks up, and wor-
ships. It has been a human tendency to
make an image after the pattern of the
ideal conceived in the soul, and this tend-
ency has led to the idolatry of the past.
Ignorant of its dire consequences images
have been graven in wood and stone, gold
and silver. A later form of idolatry is
that which worships the personality of one
who out-pictures a perfect ideal. In so
doing the ideal is soon lost and only the
idol remains. Spirit would never have
us worship idols, but ideals,and for this
reason Moses was commanded to ''destroy
their altars, break their images, and cut
down their groves, for thou shalt worship
no other god; for the Lord whose name
is Jealous, is a jealous God/' (Ex.
34:13-14.) No idol can truly represent
the ideal, for no sooner is the idol formed
to represent the ideal, than lo, the ideal
has surpassed that sent forth to represent
it. The ideal must always be greater than
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that which is formed to express it.
"Greater is he that is in thee (Spirit) than
he that is in the world." (Manifestation.)
(I John 4:4.)

The ideal of Spirit precedes the idol of
manifestation, and presses itself forth. To
fasten the gaze upon the idol instead of
the ideal is to cease to make advance.

The ideal is that highest conception of
truth which we can form in mind. It is
our supreme idea of good. It is the "pat-
tern we see in the mount" of our illumi-
nation. We are to build according to this
pattern, — the divine ideal. To find this
pattern we must climb the mount, and this
is by no means an easy thing to do. To
climb a mount we not only desire to reach
the top, but we walk every step of the way.
Illumination is not reached through hear-
ing the word or mere thinking upon it, but
the voice says to us, — "This is the way;
walk ye in it." When Moses climbed
Mount Sinai he did so with effort,
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as the meaning of the word implies.
"It was a "jagged" or "bushy" way.
There were rocks to scale, and thick
underbrush through which he had to find
his way. He aspired to reach the heights,
he overcame difficulties and lifted up his
body, compelling it to follow the aspira-
tion of his soul. Moses did not climb this
mount to satisfy his own thirst for knowl-
edge, but he desired understanding that
he might lead the people "God- ward" and
"teach them ordinances and laws." (Ex.
18:19-20.)

When Jesus "went up into the moun-
tain" to teach the eager multitude, he had
to ascend to a very high place in conscious-
ness to find the truth that could be "bread
of life" to the soul-starved men and women
who followed after him. His compassion
for their need drove him to that mountain
peak in mind where he could see that the
''poor are to be blessed/' that those who
''mourn are to be comforted/' that the
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persecuted are to ^'rejoice and be exceed-
ing glad/' So, too, must we climb the
mountain peak of mind to find that pat-
tern or law by which we may solve every
problem in life and bring forth the true
image of the self — the divine ideal God
has formed for us.

This high place is an holy place, and
for this reason Moses was cautioned to
make careful preparation for the ascent.
(Ex. 19:9-25; 20:1-8.) On his first jour-
ney he did not go alone, but clung in his
old mortal way to Joshua, Aaron and the
elders, taking them with him as far as he
dared. Consequently, he was not able to
endure the test he met when he descended.
In Spirit he had seen the ideal as God re-
vealed it, and when he came down from
the mount and saw the people worship-
ping an idol of gold, ''his anger wowed hot,
and he cast the tables out of his hand and
broke them beneath the mount/' Thus
Moses broke all the commandments at
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once in a fit of anger, because he had not
gone every step of the way to the moun-
tain peak alone. He conceived an idea,
but it was not high enough, and when the
ideal of his fellow-men did not conform
to it, — his own ideal crumbled to earth
and every commandment of God was
broken at one time! He was later to be
more truly led. He was to build upon
a surer foundation. On his second ascent,
Moses hewed his own tables of stone, and
heard the Spirit speak as it always does
from the innermost, —

''No man shall come up with thee;
neither let any man he seen through-
out all the mount; neither let the
flocks nor herds feed before that
mount,"

Thus Moses ascended done, preparing

for himself the two table of stone which

were to receive the law. He had learned

at last to receive for liimself the ideal as

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God intended he should. And the Spu-it
said:

"It is a terrible thing I will do
with thee/'

It as always a terrible, that is, a won-
derful, powerful, beautiful, awe-inspiring
thing, that Spirit does for us when we
have opened ourselves to it, and have dared
to follow its leading alone. Even as Spirit
cautions us to receive it alone, so does
it caution us to express it alone.

"Take heed to thyself lest thou
make a covenant with the inhabitants
of the land whither thou goest, lest
it be for a snare in the midst of thee,
for the Lord whose 7iame is Jealous
is a jealous God/'

When we have heard Sj)irit speak to
us alone, we dare not go the way of an-
other or make an agreement with any
other man — for God's name is Jealous, —
and he is a jealous God.

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Why is God jealous? He is jealous to
bring forth his own ideal, because he loves
his ideal — the one he has conceived for
each of us — and unless we look to that pat-
tern only, we cannot bring it forth.
Therefore, because it is the best for us,
God is jealous of that which turns our
eyes away from the perfect pattern he has
conceived for us. For this reason the first
commandment he gave Moses was ''Thou
shalt have no other gods before me/'
That is, in order to bring forth God, all
attention of the mind must be given to
God. He must be gazed upon, loved, wor-
shipped as the true and perfect pattern
that we may become in very truth his "im-
age and likeness." Thus do we become
centered in the one who is all power, and
thus the waters of the soul are at rest and
receptive to the divine ideal to be brought
forth. In this way, and in this way only,
can God, the Father, bring forth his Son,
making him the idol of his heart — the im-
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age of himself — the expression of his own
perfect ideal.

Each one of us is a special creation, —
a perfect and individual conception of the
divine mind. This being true, no thing
else is like unto us in heaven or in earth,
and so the second commandment natural-
ly follows the first:

''Tfiou shalt not make unto thee
(for thyself) any graven image (any
mental picture) or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or
that is in earth beneath or that is in
the water under the earth. Thou
shalt not bow down to them or serve
them, for the Lord thy God is a jeal-
ous God/'

To gaze upon any likeness of anything
already formed is to open the mind to the
subtle law of suggestion and to form that
which does not belong to us as a peculiar
and especial creation. We must see our-
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selves as God sees us in order to hrin^
forth that ideal God himself desires for us.
We are in danger of malformation the
moment we focus our thought on less than
the ideal, for true to this subtle law of sug-
gestion the ''iniquity of the fathers'' is
visited ''upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of them that hate
me'' (or turn their attention away from
Spirit). To gaze upon the iniquities, the
limitation, the diseases, of past genera-
tions is to bring them forth for genera-
tions to come, but the moment one, or a
thousand, of the illumined ones catch the
true concept of life and "love me" — the di-
vine ideal — that moment is "mercy
shown" or that moment does the same
subtle law of suggestion work for con-
struction instead of destruction. No mat-
ter what the ancestry may have been,
or what the inherited tendency,according
to that perfect law which each may find
for himself on the top of the inner Mount
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Sinai, — v/e can turn to the ideal in the self,
and gazing upon it, bring forth perfect
freedom from every form of bondage.

As naturally as the second command-
ment follows the first, so does the third
follow the second:

''Thou shalt not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain/'

''The Lord in the midst of thee is
mighty." It is a "terrible," a wonderful
thing he will do unto us. He is au. power.
This ALL power is operating in us, an indi-
vidual God to each of us as we individual-
ly receive Him. We are not to take the
name of this God in us m vain, or to feel
that its power is limited for us, but
through ascending the mountain peak of
consciousness to God in us, we are to
know the power that is in the mount, —
power to do all things^ for unto this God
''nothing is impossible/' though all things
are done according to law. This law is
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to keep the attention fixed upon the ideal,
and never allow it to rest for an instant
upon any formed thing in heaven or in
earth, — good or seeming bad. ''Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and all thy soul and all thy mind and
with all thy strength'' said Jesus, who
called this the first and greatest command-
ment. Its meaning is identical with the
first one given to Moses. Then Jesus gave
us the next greatest commandment, —
that which he said was like "unto the first"
— ''Thou shall love thy neighbor as try-
self J" This means, that if we are to claim
the privilege of bringing forth the divine
ideal from within us in perfect freedom,
we must of necessity extend the same
privilege to our fellow-man. He has the
same right to use the law to bring himself
forth that we have. Each man must climb
his own mountain, receive his own pattern,
and bring forth his own ideal. If we fail
to accord him this privilege, and in anger
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condemn him because he fails to worship
in our way — our own ideal crumbles into
nothingness, we have broken the whole
law, and will have to ascend the mountain
again for a more perfect conception of
the ideal. When the scribe who listened
to this commandment as given by Jesus
(Mark 12:28-35) saw the great reason-
ableness of this, and exclaimed that it was
"more than burnt offerings and sacrifices,"
the Master replied, ''Thou art not far from
the Mngdom of God."

What depth of meaning in the Master's
reply! We are not far from the kingdom
of God when we can accept this intellec-
tually as true, but we are in the Mngdom,
literally of it, when we dare to prove its
truth by our acts. Hearing and thinking
never take us into the kingdom though
they may bring us Jiear to it. Action alone
makes the ideal real. The ideal is to be
given physical birth. When we do the
w^orks then are we being manifest, or
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manifesting Being, and until Being is
made manifest in us we are not in the
kingdom of God, that is, have not yet
brought forth the ideal into actual form.
It is doi7ig that builds the house. "He
that heareth my word and doeth it/' the
Master said, builds his house on the rock
that winds and waves cannot destroy.
Each soul must hear and do for himself.
Each soul must climb the mountain peak
of illumination for the pattern as God de-
sires it brought forth, then each must
descend from the mount prepared to meet
his tests and build for himself as he him-
self has seen. Thus with the love of his
heart, soul, mind, and strength centered
upon the good — the perfect ideal, — the
power of God flows out into perfect ex-
pression, and God builds the temple of his
body, — a holy temple, indeed, as holy as
God, himself, has idealized it. It is this
"faith of God" which each must accept for
himself in order to demonstrate perfection.
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So God builds his house, and from his
ideal forms for himself an idol as divine |
as his ideal, — and

''Unless the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain who build it/^

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CHAPTER VII

Abundance Through Faith

HE very thought of abundance
lifts the mind far beyond the
bounds of limitation. One can-
not think abundance and con-
ceive things in particular at the same time.
It is too large a word to permit of detail.
With it in mind, consciousness must swing
far out with full sweep into universal
existence, and soar unhampered, unbound
in the joyousness of perfect freedom.

Consciousness does not attain unto this
in a moment. The actual breaking of the
last vestige of limitation may be accom-
plished in an instant, but there is a prep-
aration for the glorious event, — a prepar-
ation in minutest detail — even as every
petal of a poppy is perfected in minutest
detail within the confines of its bud, —
but once perfected, the sepals open wide
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through the force of a last impelling inner
urge, and the bloom unfolds, — gloriously,
beautifully free. A moment before its
birth it was a prisoner, boimd within the
sepal sense of self, but an inner perfecting
wrought through hourly preparation,
grew mightier than the limitation and
proved that the limitless, the boundless,
awaited a complete readiness to receive it.
Thus it is in the faith that brings abund-
ance. Like the land of Canaan, the prom-
ised abundance awaits the one who has the
strength and courage and faith to enter in.
Egyptian bondage must be forsaken, the
uncertainties of the wilderness must be
overcome, and Canaan must be entered
into, — then only is Canaan gained. On
the way to abundance, certain things must
be abandoned ; tests of faith are to be met
and victories won; new realizations are to
be accepted in order that they may be
enjoyed. No freedom was ever gained
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— decision against the old, adherence to
faith in the new, even while it is as yet un-
seen, and complete and full acceptance of
the new when it is revealed.

We have done well when we have de-
cided against limitation; we have done
better when through persistent practice of
faith we have proved the power of the law
to demonstrate that Spirit will indeed
form as supply from day to day to meet
every particular need, but we have done
best, when we have passed beyond the
proving of the presence of supply for
particular needs, and have entered the
land ''overflowing with milk and honey,"
— have so completely entered into the
promise of faith that we take "no
thought" as to what we shall eat or what
we shall wear, but find ourselves living in
supply itself since in God himself, and
therefore in abundance.

As it takes faith to leave the old state of
material bondage wherein we receive only
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that which the law of sense determines for
us, and again an increase of faith to meet
the tests that compel us to rely upon the
unseen power to provide for the daily
needs, still again it requires faith in an in-
tensified degree to know I am supply, —
that where I am God is, and where God
is, all is. Therefore, abundance is here
where I am, for I am the boundless,
limitless aboundance of power, substance
and intelligence of God, present in all
places, under all circumstances and at all
times. This is the promised land, the ful-
fillment of faith that admits of no limita-
tion, that recognizes no lack, that abides
in the consciousness of abundance and
hence lives and loves and gives. It is the
exercising of faith that "worketh by love,''
for love is the fulfilling of the law, — the
perfecting of it.

The Master gave loaves and fishes to all
who asked him. He gave also the law
whereby particular, specified things can
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spring into form to meet any need. "All
things, whatsoever, ye shall ask in prayer,
believing, ye shall receive," he said, but he
ever held an ideal before the soul of those
who could receive it, — "Take no thought
for your life, what ye shall eat ; neither for
the body, what ye shall put on, neither be
ye of doubtful mind. For all these things
do the nations of the world seek after ; and
your Father knoweth that ye have need of
these things, but rather seek ye the king-
dom of God; and all these things shall be
added unto you/' (Luke 12:22-32). He
would have all come into this highest con-
sciousness,— the Sons of God go free.

It takes faith, a big faith, to know you
are a Son of God, for to really know it is
to be asked to prove it. The "nations of
the world," those who have not yet entered
into the consciousness of being in the di-
vine family, will demand of you as was
demanded of Jesus in the wilderness, ''If
ihou be the Son of God, do this or that."
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If you have arisen to the full Son consci-
ousness, you will never seek to prove it hy
what you can do, but will continuously
prove it by what you are, and this proving
is as often effected by what you do not do,
as by what you do.

In universal consciousness you will like-
ly forget to desire to sef^ve yourself, for
being a Son and having realized the fulfill-
ment of the promise, you will have risen
beyond the desire to be served, and will
find your joy only in serving others. Thus
is the law of love, or "faith that worketh by
love" fulfilled, and this love of giving sets
in operation the unfailing law "measure
for measure" where with no thought for
receiving, you cannot avoid receiving, for
having abundantly given, the abundance
is pressed upon you in exact fulfillment of
the law. "Give and it shall be given unto
you; good measure, pressed down, and
shaken together, and running over, shall
men give unto your bosom. For with the
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same measure that ye mete withal it shall
be measured to you again." (Luke 6:38.)
Yet, "Give, hoping for nothing in return,"
for to so hope would be to separate your-
self in consciousness from supply and so
to shut out the abundance once more. The
Son of God never descends from his high
and heavenly consciousness. Possessing
the all, wherein no more can be gained, the
''Son of man comes not to he ministered
unto, hut to minister."

Only those in the consciousness of being
Sons can receive the abundance, — uni-
versal supply. It is everywhere present to
be partaken of by all, but all cannot par-
take of it because they have not prepared
their consciousness for it; they have not
yet entered into the Son consciousness
wherein they can freely use the Father's
bounty in constant recognition of the
Father's all providing care. "Son, thou
are ever with me, and all that I have is
thine." Love consciousness only can be-
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lieve this to be true. Love is the golden
key that unlocks the storehouse of the
Father's treasure. The servant of God
cannot use the key because he is afraid.
The Son of God appropriates all that the
Father has in his loving mission of being
about his "Father's business." Confident
that he is a Son, he has no feverish anccieiy
to possess, for as a Son he is continuously
possessing the all in its unlimited, un-
bound, unrestricted, abundant state.

Solomon (Son, or Sun, of Man) , whose
radiant love nature expanded in the night
of his experience to that universal plane
of consciousness where he asked not for
self but to be of service, brought to himself
wealth undreamed, with life and honor be-
yond his power to ask. (I Kings 3:8-16;
10 :l-24. ) He had the wisdom to love, and
love released its boundless wealth upon
him, so that "silver was counted as naught
in the days of Solomon," for love is the
gold idea that manifests in golden store.
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Even the drinking vessels of this mighty-
king of love were of gold, — pure gold.
The faith to love is the faith that releases
the boundless storehouse of God, for to
love is to give, and to give is gain.

We cannot work in the spirit of love
without having God present in conscious-
ness. To consciously have God present is
to be one with life and wisdom. To have
life and wisdom present in consciousness
is to be spiritually quickened and inspired,
— to Imow what to do and how to do it. It
is to be led without effort, without toil, by
the prompting of the Spirit within. This is
the secret of the great riches which finally
came to Jacob after he had labored so long
in Canaan for the sake of the woman his
soul loved. Fourteen long years he la-
hored for love, while as yet his soul seemed
bound by the hardships his inconsiderate
father-in-law imposed. Love finally light-
ened his darkness, and the way to abun-
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the prompting of the Spirit within. When
Laban had at last consented to award him
the "spotted calves" which might be born,
Spirit prompted him to produce spotted
calves by placing spotted sticks in the
drinking troughs of the cows. Interior
powers were opened to him through his
faithfulness to love. The law of sugges-
tion, the power of mental imagery, was
revealed, and true to the outworking of
this law, the cows brought forth according
to the picture they held in mind, and
Jacob, who never could have guessed this
secret by taking thought, had it revealed
to him by Spirit when through his labor
of love, he learned to listen to the guid-
ance which came from within.

The account of the miraculous draught
of fishes made by the disciples of Jesus in
obedience to ''his word'' tells the same
beautiful story and reveals the ease with
which abundance manifests when the law
of faith has been fulfilled. The disciples
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had toiled ''all the night" in a vain en-
deavor for supply. They were laboring
in the old time method. They were to be
shown the better way. A giving up, or a
giving away from self, first was required.
The Master borrowed their boat. He
promised them nothing at the time. Just
for pure love's sake they were asked to
loan their boat that their Master might
use it in order to teach the multitude.

The "people pressed upon" the Master
in order to hear his word. His heart ached
to satisfy their soul hunger. He had to
be separated from them a little in order
to best instruct them, so he bade Simon
"thrust out a little from the land." Then
he taught the multitude, and when he had
delivered his message, he did not neglect
to show his appreciation for the loan of
the boat. The Christ always makes a just
and generous return. He revealed to
Simon the way to the abundance, ''haunch
in the deep'' he said, "and let doxvn your
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nets for a draught," Simon, who had
toiled all the night for his supply, doubted
the presence of the abundance, but was
wise enough to obey his word. When he
had done so, he enclosed such a multitude
of fishes that the nets broke. Right there
where they had been toiling all the night
long the abundance lay, but they had not
been able to find it because the principle
which reveals it to consciousness had not
been fulfilled. In the night of their toil,
they had not loaned their boat to serve the
multitude; they had not the Christ in it;
and they had not listened to his word. But
"when they had this done/' — that is, when
the principle had been fulfilled, — lo, like
magic the multitude of fish were there.

Today, people are "pressing to hear the
word of God" just as then. They are
starved for the word of truth. Manv,
many boats or business enterprises, are ly-
ing idly by unused because their owners
think they have brought no return. They
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have toiled for a living, and have found
nothing. ''It is God who maketh rich.''
''Thou shalt rememher the Lord thy God;
for it is he that giveth thee power to get
wealth/' This is the divine promise, but
since it is the Father who "careth" for his
children, the law of the Father must be
carried out. We cannot prosper as we
toil for self. Let us take our empty boat ;
let us thrust it a little from the shore of
material thought; let us place the Christ
ideal within it ; let us use this ideal to serve
our fellow man; let us obey the urge of
this ideal, when it prompts us to launch
away out in the depths of the sea of the
Love Spirit, and lo, such an abundance
will come to us that we will have to call
others to help us care for the supply.

Then a revelation will come to our con-
sciousness. After all supply just of itself
amounts to nothing. Fish are fish, and
may be sold for gold or silver. But the
ideal that can attract fish is greater than
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gold and silver. This revelation uncovers
a greater treasure, — the treasure in
heaven, the eternal principle that under-
lies every manifestation of abundance.
Earthly treasures suddenly become sec-
ondary to this. We remember the cause
that produced the wonderful supply, — it
was the loan of the boat to the Christ that
he might feed the soul-starved multitude.
We remember that men are greater than
fish, and we henceforth seek to serve men
rather than catch fish. When we attempt
to catch fish without thought of service to
our fellowmen, we "toil all the night and
take nothing," but when we seek men,
fearlessly using our boats for this purpose,
lo, they are filled with fish, without our
"taking thought." This is the golden love
key, which opens the door to the abund-
ance of God.

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CHAPTER IX

Demonstration Through
the Law of Faith

J^^^ COMPLETE outworking of
^ the Law of Faith which re-
sulted in a perfect demonstra-
tion was experienced by me
early in my awakening to the truth. I
feel it well to give this here, first because
it was a complete outworking of the law,
although at that time, I did not realize it
as a law; and second, because it was one
of my very first demonstrations, and I
wish it to inspire young students to use
this law rig'ht now. It will be such a joy
to you to have proved God's protecting
love, and care and bounty. How you will
love Spirit when you know the presence
of Spirit in your life. But you will never
know this presence until you prove it. I
can tell you of it, but I can know only for
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myself. You must dare to prove this for
yourself. Then only will you know.

This experience came to me just after
we moved to Oregon. We felt the seem-
ing financial limitation which is a wilder-
ness experience to many, but which
should always be considered as the "way
to Canaan, flowing with milk and honey."
It seemed that there could be no house-
maid, and that there was no supply for
the many things so needed to give me free-
dom. Kept at home through my household
duties, and the care of my little son,
there was one thing I very much longed
to see in the home, and which would add
greatly to my happiness. This one thing
needful at that moment was a piano. It
did not seem (please notice that I say seem
always, for the limiting thought was only
in my own mind) that we could buy a pi-
ano. It did not even seem that we could
rent one. Nevertheless, I longed for one,
and I conceived the idea that I could store
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one. Notice this, / conceived the idea of a
stored piano. That was exactly what I
brought forth, — a stored piano, I could
have conceived differently if I had known
the law, but having conceived it in this
way a stored piano was given birth, or
brought forth in my experience. I saw an
advertisement in the paper about a piano
for which storage was desired, and wrote
a letter requesting the use of it, but after
consulting with other members of the fam-
ily, it seemed that it was not exactly har-
monious that an unknown piano be given
a home with us, so I destroyed the letter.
Nevertheless, I remembered that God sat-
isfieth the desire of every living creature
and knew that somehow I would be given
a piano. I asked myself how. Then I
remembered the promise,

''All things whatsoever ye shall ask

in prayer believing ye shall receive,"

I decided that "all things whatsoever"

included a piano, and although I did not

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know it as a law, as yet, still I received it
as a precious promise, and decided to do
my part by asking and believing, I sat
down in a nearby chair. I asked myself,
"What am I to do first?" I realized that
the first step was to ask; so I closed my
eyes, and said the very simple words,

''Dear Heavenly Father, please
send me a brown piano."

I desired a brown piano because I
wanted it to harmonize with my furniture.
But here it is well to notice that uncon-
sciously I fulfilled a very exacting law. I
stated definitely what I wanted, I framed
my desire by my word, ' It was the living
seed which developed what I wanted.
Having asked, I remembered that now I
must believe that I had received. There-
fore, I knew I must be grateful, so again
I closed my eyes, and in the same simple
way expressed my thanks,

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''Dear Heavenly Father, I thank
thee that thou hast sent me a brown
piano/'

At once I knew that the piano had been
selected for me by the Infinite Mind, and
that it was a question of but a very short
time until it would be brought to me. Im-
mediately I acted out my faith, I pre-
pared for its coming. I arose from
my chair and re-arranged the furniture in
the room. I left one corner vacant,
empty, awaiting the arrival of the brown
piano. I saw the piano there. Every
morning I dusted the piano when I dusted
the other furniture. I imagined myself
playing upon it, and heard myself singing.
Mentally I arranged a basket of beautiful
orange wild rose berries upon it, enjoying
the harmony of color expressed in the or-
ange and brown. I was bringing forth
my conception with all my soul and mind
and strength, although I was doing so

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more through an obedient, devotional
spirit spirit than through realizing the act
as the outworking of definite law.

Within a week three piano agents had
called at my door, asking me to purchase
or rent a piano. I seemed to know that
it was through the quickening power of
my word. I had spoken the word "Pi-
ano," and, of course, it vibrated upon pi-
ano consciousness. I knew the piano was
on its way. Within a month, a lady who
lived just around the corner, and whom I
knew but slightly, told me she was going
to California for six months, and asked me
if I would store her piano. When it ar-
rived, lo, it proved to be a brown walnut
cased instrument. It went into the empty
space prepared for it, and it filled that
emptiness exactly as I had conceived it.
I had given birth to my conception ! How
close the fulfillment of my desire was, —
just around the corner! Finally the
owner of the piano called to see it in its

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new home. She told me that she was a
Christian Scientist. Then I told her what
I had done, and we both "praised the
Lord" for the fulfillment of his beautiful
promise.

This was a perfect outworking of the
law of faith which I have since come to see
is exact in operation. It is a law of crea-
tion, the law of bringing forth. It is the
one law well know in every home. It is
the outworking of marriage, conception
and birth on the Spiritual plane. Spirit
and Soul mate. They conceive an idea
in the Soul. It is formed in the mind.
It is given birth in expression. Such
a simple law! So easily understood!
God's creative law free for the use of all.
It brings forth good, and it brings forth
ill according to the seed. "What shall I
do for thee?" asks the Spirit within your
Soul. With you rests the power of de-
cision. "Ask and receive, that your joy
may be full . . . for every one that

asketh, receiveth."

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CHAPTER X

Guide to Demonstration

I T is the hour of need that de-
mands the exercise of faith.

When the farmer needs a har-
vest, he plants his grain. He
plants it in the soil, covers it up, leaves it
in the dark, silent depths of earth until it
comes forth. The hour of need is your op-
portunity. It is then that you may turn
to the Father within, outline your desire
to him, know that he quickens the seed-
idea which you frame by the power of
your word in asking, and that in fullness
of time it will come forth. In the quiet,
invisible realm of your soul allow this seed-
word to rest. In the silent, secret depths
of Being it will begin its unfoldment. Ex-
pect the answer to your request. Know
that you must receive the manifestation
of your word, as truly as the farmer re-
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ceives the harvest from the grain he sows.
Your word shall not return unto you void,
but it shall accomplish that which you
please, and it shall prosper in the thing
whereunto you sent it. (Isa. 55:11.)
Such is the law.

Directions

Have faith in God.
Have faith, — and doubt not.
Fear not, — have faith only.
Remember, there are no limitations. To
God all things are possible.

Use positive words only in making
your request. The perfect condition is
desired, therefore plant in your soul the
perfect seed-idea.

Thus, ask to manifest health, and not to
be healed of disease; to express harmony,
and realize abundance, not to be delivered
from discord and limitation.

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Fill in all three blank spaces with the
request for what you want in the tense as
indicated. The word is a seed. It will
grow.

Leave the how, when and where to God.
Your work is merely to say what you
want, and to give thanks, believing you
have received. All the details of this
bringing forth are the work of the Father.
"He doeth the works." Do faithfully your
part, and leave God's part to him. ''Ask"
God for what you want, then ''receive'
God's fulfillment.

Keep this guide near at hand, giving
thanks daily that the work is being done.
Let this be in silence and in secret. "Pray
to thy Father in secret, and thy Father
who seeth in secret, shall reward thee
openly."

When the demonstration is completed,
this guide will be one of your treasures, —
a proof of the law, and the power of your
faith.

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the faith that demonstrates

Demonstration Guide

The Realization: "The Father in me
he doeth the works." (John 14:10.)

The Promise: "Every one that asketh,
receiveth." (Matt. 7:8.)

The Law: "According to thy faith be
it unto thee." "What things soever ye de-
sire, when ye pray, believe ye receive them,
and ye shall have them." (Mark 11:24.)

The Instructions: "Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with
all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with
all thy mind." (Luke 10:27.)

With All My Heart

In the heart of my being, I am one with
thee, my Father, and I recognize thee as
the Being, the Father of all. Thou art
Spirit, — omnipresent, omnipotent, omni-
scient. Thou art Wisdom, Love and
Truth, the power and substance and intel-
ligence of which and through which all
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things are formed. Thou art the life of
my Spirit; the substance of my soul; the
intelligence of my mind; and I am mani-
festing thee in my body and affairs. Thou
art the beginning and the end, the very
all of the good which I can ever know or
express. The desire of my mind, im-
planted in my soul, is quickened by thy life
in my Spirit, and in fullness of time,
through the law of faith, is given birth in
my experience. Therefore the good I
now desire to be made manifest already
exists in Spirit in invisible form, and but
awaits the fulfillment of thy law to be
brought forth into manifestation. In
thee, the source of all that is, I already
have my desire and but await its outward
expression.

With All My Soul

The word which I now speak outlines to
thee, my Father, that which I desire. As
a seed-idea it is planted in the soil of my

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soul, and moved upon by thy quickening
life in my Spirit, must come forth. As
a child is conceived within its mother, so
my desire is now conceived in my soul. /
will give birth to my conception. I allow
only thy quickening Spirit of Wisdom,
Love and Truth to move my soul. I con-
ceive only that which is good for all, and
now ask thee to bring it forth.

Father, within me, I ask thee to

With All My Mind

The idea which I have conceived in my
soul is now being given thought-form in
my mind. I form in mind only that which
I have conceived. As a seed begins its
growth in the silent, secret depths of the
earth, or as a child is first given form with-
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in its mother, so does my desire now take
form in the silent, invisible realm of my
consciousness. I enter my closet and shut
the door. Quietly and confidently, I now
hold my desire in mind as already being
fulfilled. I await the perfect bringing
forth of my conception.

Father, within me, I thank thee that
now in the invisible the fulfillment of my
desire is already established. I believe

that thou hast

With All My Strength

No act of mine shall deny that I have
already received in Spirit the fulfillment
of my desire, and that it is being brought
forth into perfect manifestation. In
Spirit, in soul, in mind and in body, I am
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true to my conception. I have piUceived
my good in Spirit; I have conceived it as
a perfect idea in soul ; and in mind I have
given true thought- form to my concep-
tion.

That which I have conceived is now
being brought forth into manifestation.

I thank thee, Father, that I now have

"Thou shalt decree a thing and it
shall be established unto thee."
(Job 22:28.)

"Said I not unto thee, that if thou
wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the
glory of God?" (John 11:40.)

It Is Finished.

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