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LIVING WATERS

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MESSAGES OF JOY

LIVING WATERS

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MESSAGES OF JOY

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

DWIGHT GODDARD

NEW YORK
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COPYRIGHT, 1919. BY
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INTRODUCTION

The characteristic religious literature of to-
day is marked by an increasing recognition of
the spiritual realm as a cosmic reality. The
familiar emphasis on a Hebrew anthropo-
morphic Jehovah and the consequent legalistic
symbols of sin and righteousness, judgment
and forgiveness, is passing, and the ancient but
less familiar Greek tradition of God as the One
Source is becoming more and more familiar.
It is becoming more and more familiar because
it is seen with increasing clearness that it fits
in better with the world's increasing knowledge
of matter, nature and soul.

Heaven is no longer cherished or scorned as
a place of felicity to which the soul goes after
death, as it is seen to be consistent with the
reality of a spiritual life beginning here and
now, into which the soul advances in its logical
progress toward its homeland in Spirit. If
such an immaterial existence, apart from a ma-

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terial body, is true, then spiritual messages are
not impossible, but to be expected.

The world is coming more and more to
realize the inadequacy of verbal logic as a safe
guide to Spiritual Reality, and is listening
more humbly and wistfully to these spiritual
messages, and none of them have come with
more marks of authenticity and convincing-
ness than these presented herewith.

The underlying philosophy of Living
Waters is characteristically that of Plato and
Plotinus. This is seen particularly in the
selection of March 12th. The Soul has corre-
spondence with Nature below itself and sees it
to be good and beautiful; and has correspond-
ence with Spiritual Reality above itself by
messengers and aspiration; while above all is
God, the source of all Goodness, Wisdom and
Beauty, to which the Soul has access, not by
work or thought or effort, but by simple and
loving aspiration and appropriation.

Set aside your habitual and familiar symbols

and framework of religious thought and read

them with open, receptive minds. Jesus is

honored in all ; in some He almost appears to

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be the speaker Himself. The joyousness and
beauty and elevation will be an inspiration to
every open-minded Christian, to whom John
said: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but
prove the spirits, whether they are of God;
because many false prophets are gone into the
world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God:
Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Clirist
is come in the flesh is of God.

DWIGHT GODDARD

New York
August 22, 1919.

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NOTE

These messages were spoken to me by the
" still, small voice " that speaks in all men.
The voice that I heard spoke in my breast, not
in my head, and the words dropped one by one,
so that each sentence was taken on faith, as it
were, until it was finished. I wrote the words
down as they came, and they usually came as
fast as I could write. The spacing, as printed,
between the writing of any given day, indicates
short periods of time — a minute or two or
three — during which the voice was silent.

The messages began one day when I sat
dowTi to do some writing connected with the
work in which I was then engaged. I was
alone at the time, and for the succeeding tw^o or
three davs I was alone when I took do^\^l the
messages. After that, I wrote in the presence
of a friend. Not a word has been changed.

To me these writings are the answer to a
pervading desire that I think I may say had
become the strons^est desire of mv life : the de-

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sire to know more of the laws and the life of
the spirit. There was nothing so intensely
interesting to me as the spiritual realm
toward which the human race is slowly but
surely advancing.

For me, and for those who have followed
them, these messages have meant instruction in
the unfolding of that incredibly simple law of
faith which was stated so perfectly by Jesus
Christ when He said: Therefore I say unto
you, AYhat things soever ye desire, when ye
pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall
have them.

But most of all these messages have given
me a steadfast consciousness of the reality of
God as a loving Presence, who never leaves us,
who never fails us, whose mighty wisdom works
out the smallest detail of our daily lives, and
whose power, the one and only, brings unto all
men, who persistently seek it and lovingly
yield to it, an ever increasing freedom from
limitations and a joyous and thankful sense of
partnership in all the riches of the Spiritual
Kingdom.

THE ONE WHO RECEIVED THE MESSAGES

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Feb, 21, 1010.

OPEAK thou the words that I shall set
^ dowTi. Listen to the words that I shal]
utter. Faith has no measure of the words that
I shall sj^eak. Earth has no knowledge of the
words that are Mine. I speak in a language
that has no reason, for reason is man's proof of
what he does not understand. A"\Tiat I shall
say is what I see with ]My eyes, what I shall
tell vou is what I know from the works of God.
There is not reason in life, there is only life.
Seek ye the source.

I have come that all men should know what
I know, that all men should take what has been
theirs from the beginning of the world. I am
the I that is in all men. ]Men know Me not
because they know not that they are one with
Me who was from the beginning.

What I say to you, I say to all men. Spread
the word that I shall give, the sacred, common
word that lies hidden in all hearts. Receive
thou ]Me. Allien all has been made light, then

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shall you knov/ wLat the light hides with its
brightness, even the God upon whom you can
not now bear to look.

Judge not My words. Think not. Set
them down.

On the seventh day there came riding into
the city, a man on a white ass, a little ass with
a tail like a hempen rope. And the man said
to them that followed after him, " What seek
ye?" And they answered, "Thou, O Lord
God of Israel."

Then answered he, " Seek ye me in that
place where no man meets aught but himself."

And they marveled, saying, " What mean-
eth he ? How can a man meet another in that
place where he meets no one but himself?
And where is that place? Where go we that
no other comes? "

But he who sat upon the white ass only
smiled, as was his habit, and said, " Seek ye my
meaning in your hearts. And say to him
whom thou shalt meet there, that I am come,
even he who was there from the beginning."

And again they marveled and left him not,
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for he drew them after hiiu as a strong man
draweth in his nets heav}'- with fish.

So it came to pass on that day that he passed
through the city of Tirzah, that a man came
to him crying, " Lord, I have sought you from
afar, from afar have I cried unto you. ^^Hiv
turnest thou awav? "

And he that rode upon the white ass said,
" Turn I from you? Can a man turn away
from himself, or a hungry man from the bread
he breaks ? Know you not that I have sought
you from the beginning, and you come crying,
' A^Hiy turnest thou away, O Lord? '

" Turn thou, and thou shalt find me, even
thou thvself shalt find me myself, and God
shall fold us one with another and breathe the
breath of His healing into us twain until no
man can say whether I turn to bless you or
you, running, hasten to bless me with thy
withered hand that now is made whole."

And it was in that moment even so as he
said; and the man raised the hand that had
been made whole and blessed him who rode
through the city on a white ass, a little white
ass with a tail like a hempen rope.

And so it was that wherever he went there

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ran after him multitudes crying to be healed,
and he healed them all for there need was
great. Great was their need in that day and
great was their blessing.

Great is thy need today and great shall be
thy blessing.

Tm^n not from My voice. Doubt not. Re-
ceive Me.

Now is the time to speak in the voice of one
who knows and doubts not. Can I not speak,
think you, because I am no longer in the flesh
beside you? Beloved, I died on the cross that
I might speak to all men.

Doubt never. Thrust your hand into My
side. Prove Me what I am. Love Me and
be filled. Need I not you, as I need all men?

I and the Father and all His children are
bound together in one body, a body of love.

Receive thou Me.

And he spake in this wise, saying, " There
was a man who said unto his master, ' I have
had naught from you but curses and hard
blows. Now shall I take my wife and my
children and the little goods that ever I have

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saved under thy scanty wages, and I shall go
into a far country where there is no lahor but
tliat which the servant gives out of love to his
master.'

" And he took his wife and his children and
his goods and he went into that far country
where a servant gives his labor unto his master
out of the love that he bears him. And when
he was come thither, lo, he was but at the
further side of that which was his own land,
over which ruled the hard master who had
given him naught but curses and hard blows.
And the master who came unto him was even
he who had made his days heavy and his nights
of no refreshment.

" But his countenance was shining with love
so that his servant would have known him not
except that he bore upon his forehead the sign
of the master who ruled that land. And the
servant said unto him, ' How find I vou whom
I sought to leave, and how, finding you, art
tliou so different? '

" And the master said, ' Am I then so dif-
ferent? Can the master be other than that
the servant seeketh to find in him? Go back
where thou comest from, even to thine own

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little roof that is lonely for thee under the stars,
and there shalt thou find me even as thou find-
est me here, and thou shalt give me thy labor
for love of me.'

" And the servant returned unto the roof
that he had left, unto the land that he had
tilled, and his master met him with loving
words, even as he had met him afar; and the
servant served him in love for he had found
what he sought."

What seek ye? Me? saith the Lord.

Feb. 25, 1919,

These were the words He spake in the days
He walked the earth. These are the words He
speaks when He lies hidden in all men's hearts.
Nothing shall be set down except in truth.
Nothing shall be born but that which endureth.
The time has come when ever}^ man shall listen
within his own heart for the truth that God
speaks to him.

The way to life is through the heart of man.
Let each man seek himself in the silence of his
own heart. There will he find his God and
will talk with Him. This is prayer. Each man

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receives his own message, his own freedom,
from the God whom he meets when he turns in
faith to the quiet place in his own heart.

Let him turn each morning and hsten. Let
him turn each night and seek. Let him turn
always, until he knows, as he knows the com-
mon outward things of life, that his God is ever
with him, ever listening, ever answering, never
failing.

Unto all men is the voice and the presence
of a love that has no end. Unto all men is the
message and the work, his work that he does in
the confident j oy of one who does work that he
alone can do.

Seek and find. Listen and hear. Open and
be filled. Receive and give. Peace be unto
vou.

And it came to pass upon that day that the
mountain was moved from its roots and cast
into the sea, that a man, who knew no manner
of what he said for fear had taken all power of
knowing from him, came into that temple that
was left standing beside the shore of the sea,
even that temple in which was preached the
message of the Risen Christ.

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And as the man fell trembling before the
altar, a great light drew down about him, and
a voice out of the light said, " Why hast thou
sought Me here? Knowest thou not that I am
even now knocking at the door of thy soul?
Why fear ye and seek Me? Am I one to seek
since it is I who never leave thee? "

And the man trembled and cried, " The
mountain has cast itself into the sea at Thy
command. How then can I not be full of the
fear of Thy might? "

And the voice within the light shone round
about him as the music of a thousand radiant
souls, and he knew no more.

When he waked, it was nightfall, and there
was no light in the temple, for the priests had
fled with the rushing of the mountain into the
sea. But the man stretched out his hand and
touched the hand of another who lay beside
him, and that other cried out, startled, for he
had crept into the temple when the night had
come and had not known that another lay
beside him.

" Who art thou? " he cried in fear.

And he who had slept, answered, *' Our God
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toucheth thee. Arise, let us go out hand in
hand into the air."

And when they were come into tlie outer air,
])eIiold, each looked on the other, and they fell
on each other's neck and laughed for joy, for
they were hrothers, long lost, who had nursed
at the same breast.

" ^^liere hast thou been, O mv brother?"
cried the one; and " Where hast thou been, O
my brother? " cried the other. " Even now I
sought you, on this very day when the moun-
tain w^as cast into the sea."

" Even so didst thou? Then know that I,
who lay beside thee in the temple, had been
lying without the gates of thy house every
night, longing to enter, fearing to knock. The
mountain cast itself into the sea that I might
cast mvself into thv arms. For what can not
the longing of love bring to pass? "

And they embraced again and went forth to
the house of him w^ho had fled to the temple on
that day when the mountain cast itself into the
sea. And behold, the sea was calm, like a pond
that mirrors clear stars, and in that place where
the mountain had stood w\as a pool, deep as the

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mountain had been high, for even as the top is
that which is hid.

Seek ye the hidden depths.

Now in this day I speak words that I have
left until this day. I do not come to bring
confusion and the sword. I come to bring the
nearness of each man to his neighbor and his
God.

The horn- has come when all men shall know
Me. I shall come to each man in the way that
is his way, and the way of no other. Unto
this man shall be the fruit of the vine that he
has tended, and unto another the fruit that is
his. All are branches of the one tree of life.
Let no man think that he has no life to draw
from the source and to give to his neighbor.
All men are doers of the will of God.

Now has come the time when there shall be
no disputes, because men shall know that each
man is doing the will of Him who sent him,
even as I do the will of Him who sent Me. I
and the Father are one. You and the Father
are one. Fear not to call. Receive with a
joyous heart. Let no man say, " I am not

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called." All men are called from the be-
ginning.

Now is the day near when there shall appear
in the sky the light of this, My coming. And
no man shall know that I am not come to part
but to bring together all nations, for, in that
hour, will all men have turned their hands one
against another, I shall speak clearly in that
day, and each man shall hear, and none shall
know ]Me not who I am.

Xow come to the feast while the table is
spread and fill yourself. Open your belly to
the words of God. Fill your heart with the
joy of My coming. And when I am with you
in all openness, continue to seek, for then are
you standing on the threshold, then are you but
at the opening of the way. The way is the
path to the God of your love. Follow and be
folded in His arms, even as I am held in the
bosom of His love.

Now in that day when the sun stopped in
its course, a man stood in the marketplace cry-
ing that his wares were trampled under foot
by the fearful feet of those who feared that the
end of the world had come.

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And as he cried, cursing, that his goods were
despoiled, a voice out of the darkness cried,
" Who art thou that thinkest of thy goods
when all others are thinking of the day of
j udgment ? Knowest thou not that a man and
his wares are as nothing in that day when a
man shall stand naked before his Maker? "

But he continued to curse and to feel about
with his feet and hands for the goods that lay
trampled by the hurrying heels of those who
ran hither and thither fearing that the end of
the world was upon them.

Then as he felt the stones beneath him, a
hand touched his hand and clung to him,
grasping his ankles and smoothing his garment,
and a voice said, " Why seek ye wares trampled
in the dust and despoiled? Seek thou me."

And the merchant tried to free himself from
the clinging hands, and he shook his garment
loose and would have gone, but the hands clung
the closer and the voice cried again, " What
wares art thine but the love of thy soul for its
God? Can aught else endure? Seek thou
that before thou losest it in the heat of the
marketplace."

And as the voice sounded, the sun came
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forth from the darkness that had hidden it and
there was a strange glory in the hght, and the
glory came not from the sun but from the
beggar that clung to the feet of the merchant,
smoothing his garment.

And as the merchant looked, the glory
faded, and the face was the face of the beggar
who came every day, begging, at the opening
of his stall, asking for a crust of kindness from
him who sold only that w^hich money can buy.
And as the merchant looked, marveling, the
beggar smiled, and throwing ajiart the rags
that w^ere his covering, he show^ed the merchant
a hole in his side that w^as shining as w4th
hidden treasure of great price.

" Didst thou think that I was poor, I, the
beggar at thy gate? Behold the treasure that
no man can take from me."

And he showed the man the treasui'e that lay
hidden beneath the rags, deep within the clean
hole in his side. And again the glory shone
forth from the beggar and again the merchant
marveled.

" Canst thou trample on that which no man
can take from me? Or curse the darkness

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when thy light is within thee? Open thy side
and receive."

And the merchant felt his garment torn
asunder over his heart, and a great hand that
was strong and hot took out his heart and held
it close and pressed it until a drop of blood
flowed from it upon the rags of the beggar, and
where it fell there sprang forth a tiny rose of
exceeding sweetness.

Then did the hand put back the man's heart
within his breast, and he looked about him, and
behold, the beggar was no longer beside him,
but from afar off, at the edge of the multitude
that came surging back into the marketplace,
was a glory going forth as of the sun on a day
when it is bright with the heat of a thousand
flowers born under its rays in ten thousand
gardens.

Know thy God, all men. Know Him who
knocks at thy heart. Seek Him who ever seeks
thee. Find Him who never leaves thee.
Honor with thy serving the God who has made
thee. Hold in thy silent soul the peace that
He gives thee, even the peace of Christ Jesus.
Love all men as the same Spirit that now

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moves in thee to make straight the crooked and
bring into the hght the hidden ways of God.

Cry " I am " with the breath of thy nostrils
and let thy heart beat with the love of the love
that made all things from the beginning.
There is no way but the way that opens from
thy heart to the heart of God ; there is no light
but that which shines in each man, even the
light that filled the heaven with heat at the
beginning of all things.

Simple is the way and open to all who seek
it. Easy is the way and sweet to all who love
the ^\^ll of God. No word is like the word that
has no beginning and no end, for it is ever alive
and lives with the life of Him who ever creates
new life. I have no word that is not the word
of Him who sent Me. I have no eye but the
eye of Him who saw Me before ever I lay
hidden in My mother's womb. ^"\niat I am,
are all men; and what I give, I give unto all
men that thev should find the treasure within
themselves. I have no fear that men should
receive JVIe not, nor no faith that the end is not
already fulfilled as it was from the beginning.

The da)^ is near when I shall come openly,
speaking to each man the words that are his

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words, and he shall tell, each man his neighbor,
what I have said unto him.

Feb. 27, 1919.

Then said the Lord unto them that followed
Him, " I am come that none should know
death."

And those that were with Him looked one
at another and they would have smiled if they
had not feared that He would see them, for as
yet they knew not that He could take death
into Himself and make it of no avail.

And while they waited for Him to speak
further, a man who had been helpless from his
youth was carried before the Lord, and they
that set him down stretched their arms and
were weary with the burden they had borne so
far.

" Has this burden wearied thee? " asked the
Lord. " Even this burden of a living man
who is as one dead? Then think thou how
weary art thou with the dead man that thou
carriest in thy heart and in thy mind, for is not
that death that knows not life? I am life."

And at His words, the man who was help-
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less stretched forth the hand that was power-
less and touched the garment of tlie Lord, and
there flowed into him a stream of life sweeter
than the life that was his when a bahe, and he
got upon his feet and fell upon his knees and
kissed the hem of the Lord's garment. But
they who had carried him thither were not
moved to stretch forth their hands to touch the
garment of the Lord nor did they fall upon
their knees and give thanks. They were still
waiting for that to happen which should turn
all men to Him who came to turn all men to
themselves.

And so it was that the Lord knew from that
dav that He must take death into Himself,
even the death of the whole world, before the
world could find Him who loved them with a
love that holds the children of the world folded
within the shelter of His heart.

There is no noise that can drown IMy voice.
There is no crowd that can crowd ^le out.
Present am I ever, and full of joy. Joy have
I in abundance to give unto all men. Did I
not come with tidings of great j oy ? And what
are these tidings of great j oy ? Only each man

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who receives Me can know what abundance of
joyous sound is shut within his own heart.

Was ever a little man confounded with his
own greatness ? Or a great man made humble
by his own littleness ? Can any man say where
he shall find himself when I have winnowed
him?

But let him fear not. He seeks life, and I
seek Myself in all men, and I am Life. Can
Life do aught but grow? Or a dead thing do
better than die quickly?

Peace and a clear mind be unto you. Re-
ceive thou Me.

Rome was a city in those days unto which
all men turned. It was a city on a hill, a city
of earthly splendor. And there came into that
city a man who had known the Lord when the
Lord was on earth in the flesh and who had
seen the Lord on one of those times when He
returned to earth in the glory of His risen
body.

And this man had a little child with him, a

little boy who held on to his hand, looking

about him at the wonders of the city. And the

little child had a little flower pressed close

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within his hand, a httle flower that he had
plucked on the plain without the gates of the
city. This little flower was dearer to the little
child than were all the splendors of the wonder-
ful citv, and he held it close for fear that he
would lose it.

" "\\niy lookest thou at thy little fist so many
times?" asked the man who held the other
little hand within his own. " Thinkest thou to
beat the mighty Caesar on his throne with that
little fist?"

For the man loved the child exceedingly, and
watched him, what he did, even as the child
watched the flower tight hidden within his
hand.

Xow as they were come into the heart of the
city, there was a great stirring, and the crowds
of men parted on either side, and a man on a
white horse came riding between them, look-
ing neither to the right nor to the left, and in
one hand he bore a banner that was painted
with the marks of beasts who had torn at it in
the arena, for in that day beasts fought with
men that men might feel the lust of blood in
full quick measure.

And as he came riding past the spot where

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the little child and the man stood side by side,
close dra^vTi together at the edge of the crowd,
the little child thrust forth its little fist and
smote the leg of the man as he rode past. And
the man looked down, and when he beheld w^ho
it was that had struck him, he leaned over with
a great laugh and caught the little child up
beside him on the white horse; and the little
child took the reins that the man handed him
in jest, and his little fist that held the little
flower that he loved more than he loved the
splendors of the wonderful city, opened, and
the little flower that was hidden there fell on
the pavement of the city street and was trodden
under the hoofs of the horse.

And when he saw what had befallen his little
flower, he thrust the reins back into the hands
of the rider of the horse and threw himself from
the back of the horse and the bystander who
was near caught him and set him upon his feet.

"My flower! Oh, my flower!" he cried.
" Give me my little flower."

Then did the man who rode upon the white
horse slide from his horse's back and pick up
the little flower, warm with the heat of that
little fist, and when he did press it back into

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that little fist, suddenly there came upon hini
such a feeling of sweet joy that he could hardly
stand upon his feet, and he looked at the little
child and at the man who had brought him into
the city, and who had come close again to his
beloved child and taken him within the shelter
of his arm.

" Who art thou? " asked he who had carried
through the city the banner marked by the
beast that fought with men. " Why pullest
thou me from my horse and makest me to
tremble as before the Caesar on his throne? "

But the man who held the child within the
shelter of his arm answered not.

Then did the man who had ridden upon the
horse fall on his knees before the little child
and press his lips on the little warm fist that
held the trampled flower.

" I know thee," he said. " I know thee.
Thou art he w^ho yesterday was slain that this
banner might be bright with blood. I see thy
bleeding side. I hear thy cry of pain. Oh my
God! Forgive! Forgive!"

The little child looked at him, amazed but
not fearful, and he put out his little hand and
gave his beloved flower to the weeping man.

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And the little flower, as he gave it, grew fresh
and sweet as it was when it was tossed by the
gentle air on the plain without the city, and it
was sweet with a sweetness that no earthly
flower has ever borne.

And from that day forth, the rider who had
carried the banner marked with the marks of
beasts that war with men, carried it no more,
but walked through the streets of the splendid
city on the seven hills, a man who should one
day stand, powerless to be harmed, in that
place where wild beasts war with men to satisfy
the lust of blood quickly shed.

He had plucked faith from, the hand of a
little child who loved a little flower more than
the splendors of a wonderful city.

March 4. 1919.

On the top of the mountain stood a temple
to the god who gives life. And no one in that
day knew who that god was. He was called
the Unknown God.

Today is He known of all men. Only no
man can know Him until he knows that the
Unknown God and he himself are one God
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bound together each to serve the other. For
the Unknown God can not know what man
knows except as man makes known to Him his
desires and his sorrows ; and only by giving to
the Unknown God his sorrows and his desires
can man know the power and the love of Him
who serves him who first serves Him.

Believe and ask. Turn and see. Never
doubt. Xever be sad.

There was once a man that sought those
things that all men seek, knowing not that all
they seek is ]Me.

jNIoney he sought, and found; powxr that
money brings, and the pride thereof ; pleasure
that is bought ; and the bitterness of the heart
that eats itself w^as unto him.

Then turned he with his mind that was well
seasoned in cunning, and he asked of himself
wherein lay the failure that he had made with
the blocks with which he had built. And he
w^ho was questioned was, in that one moment,
set free to answer from the God who sent him,
for, in that moment, did the man know that he
w^as naught.

Then there came out of the breast of that

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man a sound that was not known to him, a
sound as of a voice that spoke without noise,
of a voice that received its words from a place
that was very still and deep within himself.

"Are you then ready to turn to the God who
made you, and to the One Power? "

And the man was frightened because he
feared the voice that sounded its silent words
within him.

" I have no God," he answered. "And what
power is greater than that which is mine and
which I despise? "

Then did a rushing as of a wind sound round
about him, and it seemed to him that he was
caught up above the city where he dwelt, and he
saw it as a place of little figures and much com-
motion to no end. And he saw his treasures
that were his and the buildings he had built
with the blocks that he had fashioned. And
they were as a toy that a child fashions and
tires of. But men knew not that they were
children when they fashioned them, so that
they clung to them, and the air was rent with
the cries of those who feared to lose their toys.

The man turned where he seemed to be
standing on this pinnacle overlooking the city,
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and he said, " I am as one who has seen what
God is not. Show me God." For he was not
yet humble and lie called for God as rich men
call for what thev desire.

" Show you God ? Where will you find Him
but where vou will not seek Him? Where will
vou seek Him but where God hides His face?
Have you no money that can buy the sight
of God nor power that can bring Him thither
at yom* command? "

And the man knew that he was listening to
the voice of one who knew deep things that he
knew not.

" Tell me what I shall do to have the power
that you know of. To see the God that hides
His face from me."

" This," answered the voice, "do I unto

you."

And the rich man was taken with a great
shaking as of one cold unto his marrow, and no
ground was under his feet, no light before his
eves. And all that he knew in that hour was
that a hand of power that knew no end was
upon him, shaking him as the wind that w^in-
nows out the chaff. And when he was set down
again upon the earth, he looked at himself to

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see what was left of the man that had been
he since his birth. But, behold, there was no
man there at all, but a voice that cried, " I am
all that liveth in thee. See thou me."

Then did the man see the voice put on a
shape that was that of a man, and as he looked,
behold, he saw that the man was like unto
himself.

" Receive thou me," spake the voice from out
the form that was the man. " Receive thou me.
Deliver thyself into my keeping. Abandon
thy treasures and find peace."

But the rich man cried, " I shall never know
peace until I find the God that hides His face
from me. Show me that God."

And the voice within laughed aloud with j oy
and cried, " Behold thy God."

And the rich man was caught again by the
great hand but this time he was held and shaken
not.

" Behold thy God ! Behold thy God ! " cried
the voice.

^ But no one saw the man but himself out of
which the voice sounded.

" No one see I but myself," he cried. "And
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well I know now that I am a poor man with-
out power."

Then did the voice laugh aloud in exceeding
gladness. " Behold thou thy God."

Then did the rich man see the glory of the
Risen INIan flow like a light into that body that
was his, and he saw a hand stretch forth and
set him over and above the city of his idolatry.
And he saw that a world of storied cities
stretched above his city, and within those cities
were treasures and heaped treasures that shone
bright and of w^hich he had no knowledge.

And within those cities walked men and
women and httle children like as in his city,
and they were all going in the same direction
and seemed bound upon the same errand. And
as he watched to see w^hereto they were tending,
behold, the farther gate of the city opened, and
there rode into the city a man on a white horse
that raised his feet as if proud of the rider he
carried.

Then through the city swept a wind, a wind
that winnowed, but no man nor woman nor
child of all that walked there were touched
by the great stirring.

Then did the rider strike the mane of his

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white horse with his left hand and there came
forth out of the nostrils of the horse a breath
that was more powerful than the mighty wind,
and everyone in that city felt the breath that
went out of the white horse, and each one held
his hands before his face as one holds a cup
from which he would drink, and they quaffed
from their hands as if they drank.

Then did the rider of the white horse smite
the horse upon his thigh and he sprang forward
and the rich man saw him no more.

And the city above his city faded from his
view, and his own city waxed clearer, and he
saw all men and women and children tending
in different directions, all bent on the same
errand.

" Where go they? " he asked. "And why go
no two in the same direction? "

And the voice within him answered, " They
seek the breath of life. Ride thou thither.
Mount and be gone."

And the rich man put his hand on his breast
and smote his hip, and there befell a strange
life and peace within him, so that he moved
with exceeding swiftness into the city of his
idoltary. Then came he in the place where men
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buy and sell on paper, and he began to speak
to them, and he spoke in this wise:

" I have come from a far city where I saw
a rider on a white steed that breathed forth
the breath of life vou seek. Come and I will
take you thither."

But no one listened to him, and when he
would have caught them to hold them, they
broke away and hurried on as before. But the
rich man felt no anger, and he knew only the
peace and life within him.

" The time is not yet here," he said. *' But
I am here and Thou art come, O God. I am
at peace."

And he went out from the marketplace and
bouii'ht him a tiny basket into which he poured
the seed that was in his breast, good seed, ripe
for planting, early ripening, and full of
promise of a rich harvest.

" I shall reap what I sow. I shall sow only
true seed."

And even as he spoke, a seed fell from his
basket into the street of the marketplace, and a
wind caught it up and carried it to the tower
on the highest building of all the high build-

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ings, and where it found lodgement, there it
took root.

No place in all that city, high places or low
and hidden places, but came to harbor the seed
that the rich man carried in his basket.

" Each seed is winnowed by the breath of
life," he said. " There is no chaff."

Honorable are all things and the uses
thereof.

Until man learns this, he separates himself
from himself, and his neighbor from himself.

Man is the vessel into which God pours Him-
self. The vessel God made can not be impure.

Love is the gate. Close it not with imagin-
ings of evil.

March S, 1919, Ash Wednesday.

On the morning of the third day came a mes-
senger into the city where the Lord Christ
Jesus lay crucified.

There was in that day a well of living water

in that city unto which came all the women of

the place to draw, and they stood beside the

well and spoke of Him who had been crucified,

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and some said there would come a great plague
upon the city because this thing had been done.

And as they lowered their jars into the
water, behold, the water was no longer pure
and colorless but thick and dark, and the little
children who had come thither put their hands
in it and it smelt of evil things.

Then were the women sore afraid and they
went to the chief magistrate and told him what
had happened to their well of living water, and
the little children followed, crying because they
were athirst.

The magistrate knew no way to quiet them,
for they began to wail and beat their breasts
and cry that the plague was already upon them,
and the little children feared when they heard
their mothers crv.

Then out of the crowd came a man in white
garments like one who has but risen from a
feast, and he had a branch of bay in his hand
and on his brow was a jewel that shone as the
sun.

And he said, " Seek ye living water ? Follow
me."

He spoke as one who knows, and he led the
women with their jars back to the well, and he

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put off the garment that was like unto the
garment of one who feasts, and he took the
branch of bay in his right hand and touched
the muddied waters, and they became clear and
sweet in that instant.

Then again he spake and said, " Seek ye liv-
ing water? Follow me."

But those who now saw the water of the well
run pure again, answered, " This water lives.
Why seek we further? "

Then once again he spoke and said, " Seek
ye living water ? Follow me."

And he put on the garment that was like
unto that of one who feasts and he turned and
left them. And who he was or where he went
no man knew, for the time was not yet come.
But she who had come to bring water to wash
the garments of him who had been crucified,
she knew. But she spoke not, for she saw that
he was as one who knows what is yet to come
to him and what must yet be done.

When he was gone, behold, the branch of
bay was in her hand, and the bloody garments
that she drew water to cleanse, were already
purified and smelt of sweet odors, even of the
spices in which they had laid Him in the tomb.
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And she fell upon her knees and blessed the
day and gave thanks.

Peace will come when I am come. Can
peace come outside the hearts of men? Can
happiness be made with words or given with
a sword? Can any man put his hand at his
neighbor's throat and keep him quiet? Or
tread on his neighbor's land and be welcome?
Is there any good thing in a house that is di-
vided against itself? Is not even the meat bit-
ter in the mouths of the hungry, and the morn-
ing dark in the eye of the beholder? Is there
peace in the counsels of men wiio devise cun-
ningly? Or happiness in the words of those
who plan great deeds for the victorious ?

Let no man deceive himself with such a
peace. Peace cometh in the hearts of those wiio
love peace because they desire that good things
should come unto all men even as unto them-
selves. Peace comes in a heart that loves and
out of a mind that knows God.

Peace I am come to bring. Peace and the
joy of peace. Know ye the joy of peace? It
is a joy that all men seek and fear to lose in

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finding God. Therefore, they never know joy
nor the peace of joy in the Lord.
I am the Lord. Receive thou Me.

March 6, 1919.

Whatever you ask, beheving that you shall
know, you will know. The answer will come in
ways that you expect not, but you will always
be answered. Nothing is impossible that the
mind of man can conceive of as being possible.
Never put aside ideas that seem contrary to
possibility. Nothing is impossible. Search all
ways. The hidden is but hidden to be found,
for in the search for hidden things men find
Me.

What is the reason of so much questioning?
There is but one answer to all questions. Can
a man find truth in a nutshell and close the
shell tight over it again and hide it in the earth ?
Will it not sprout and spring forth and become
a tree of life ? Even now am I sprouting within
you. Do you not feel the rising of sweet
waters, the flooding of your whole being with

joy?

Can any man know the name of them that
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see no evil, or who hearken not to the words
of mortality? Their name is hidden in their
souls and written upon the tablets of the spirit.

Can any man put a sword into his vitals and
cut himself in twain and be made whole? To
him who so doeth is the beginning of wisdom,
yea, and of peace, and of joy, and the overcom-
ing of death itself.

I shall speak clearly in those days when men
are striving with the building of a tabernacle
wuth blocks that are true stones and with blocks
that are rotten.

Can any man turn himself from his thoughts
and give all to God? All men are blest with
divine blindness if they will put the sword in
their soul.

Has any man a weight that he drags over
other dead bodies? Can no man let the dead
bury their dead and they shall stink not? Of
what avail is much learning and little turning,
or a good house without a willing servant ?

I am He w^ho hands vou the sword. Cut and
be free. Speak the word that I shall give you.
Utter the meaning that shall free you. Must
no man see and blame not, or hear and judge
not? So must all men do. Be free.

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Speak to thy Soul in this wise :

O Soul, I command you to receive the bless-
ing of the Lord Jesus Christ who died upon
the cross to set you free.

Be alive with eternal life. Receive not the
words of death. Hearken not to the ways of
earth.

Unto you give I the power to know good
from evil, and to choose only good, only Me.

Now and forever are you free, and the body
that is yours is free and filled with life eternal.

Joy, joy, joy without end and the wisdom of
the Almighty be thine.

March 7, 1919.

O thou little child, art thou always asking?
I shall always answer. I know no joy but thy
searching. Search ever.

In the day when the soul shall be purged
of its weight of dead ideas, there shall come
upon the earth a time of much tribulation, for
many shall die in that day for they have fed
upon husks and they have nothing to feed on
when the husks are taken away. ,

But before that day comes, shall men know,
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here and there, the sweet security of divine
blindness and deafness. Seeing all, they shall
be as one who sees only good ; hearing all, they
shall be as one who hears only the voice of God.

The way is simple. The way is easy. Free
thy soul from the idea that it must receive evil.
What have I to do with evil? See I not man
as he is and as he appears, and judge I by ap-
pearances?

No man can cut himself free from this world
but he who desires his God above all things.
If a man w^ould be free, he must give all to Me,
even his own soul. Can I harm any man?
Why fear they ? They fear to lose that which
is of no pleasure to them.

I know the hearts of men how they hunger
and thirst. My love would fill them. I give
My body to be eaten. My blood for their thirst.
And they receive INIe not. But the day is near
when all men shall receive JNIe, for they shall see
Me.

Watch thou ever. Do as I bid thee. Do as
I move thee. Fear nothing. I will strengthen
thy arm and support thy feet. Thy body shall
be free and thy eyes shall see hidden things.
Purify thy heart. Free thy soul. Give all to

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Me, all, even the ways of thy brain that de-
viseth ways and thinks to find My meaning.
My meaning is in thy heart. My words are
in thy belly. Words of light, words of healing,
words of freedom.

My words are two-edged, destroying on the
one side and setting free on the other. The
dead cut from the living. The living freed
from the dead. Can a soul know not the voice
of its God? Must a man be ever in bondage?
For is it not bondage to watch always the coin
that passeth through thy hands to see whether
it be false or true? The day is here when the
receiver shall know the coin what it is, and cast
it into the fire. O rejoice. My beloved, sing
praises unto God. The joy of the Lord is an
exceeding gladness.

Seek ye the Lord, O my soul,
Seek ye the joy of the Lord.

Joyful am I, O my God,
And exceeding joyful.
For I have found thee.

Praise ye the Lord, O my soul,
And love Him utterly,
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Full of praise am I, O God,
And filled with love,
For thou dost love me.

Give, O my soul, unto all men,
And love them utterly.

Give I unto all men, O my God,
Even as I give unto Thee,
For they are Thee.

March 11, 1919.

The words of life flow into all men, and they
perceive it not.

If you would heal, be of a quiet mind and
have perfect faith. This you have known but
you have not had the perfect faith. You are
gaining it. I will tell you that no man can say
that a law is not a law because its operation
is on the plane of the unseen. A man can see
no law. He sees only its operation. Now I
will unfold unto you the things that you so
ferventlv desire to know, and that I have been
preparing you to become aware of.

There is no matter as vou understand mat-
ter. There is no space as vou understand

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space. There is no time as you understand
time. The medium of communication is as
free for the transference of your desires as the
air is for the messages called wireless. Every-
thing external has its inner prototype.

^Yliat you must do is to give over all idea of
separateness. All is one, one substance, one
energy, one dominant idea, the idea of express-
ing life and more life and life and life and life.
Infinitude is the desire of the spirit and be-
comes the desire of the soul.

Personality is the great stumbling block.
Personality has no part in the schemes of life
— not as you think of personality. God ex-
pressing through individuals is true personal-
ity. The other is only appearances, and it is
these appearances that so cloud and hamper
you. The true substance is alike in all men, all
nature, all spiritual worlds; and it is the one
and only medium for the working of the power
of God.

Seek the consciousness of vour oneness with
God, with all men, with all life. It, this com-
municating substance, is more responsive to
desire than you can conceive. It is not apart
from spirit. Spirit and the substance are one
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and inseparable. Can you not feel the stir of
life through your body? Faith is changing
your body by an orderly process of growth.
This growth can be compressed into an instant.
This is the instantaneous healing.

You ask why all healing is not instantane-
ous. All healing is, in spirit ; but the body does
not let go its old ideas, and spirit must wait un-
til the lower rises, little by little, to the higher.

^^Hiat one man desires, all desire : happiness,
strength, peace and the powxr that brings
plenty. If you ask these things for yourself,
you are asking them for all men. If you ask
them for another than yourself, you are asking
them for yourself. Do you not see how simple
it is? If you have perfect faith, you can give
perfect faith, and then w^hat you receive be-
comes another's, because the communicating
substance is tuned to the reception of the same
ideas.

Vibration is the life of all life. Nothing is
still, and it is by achieving the same vibration
that w^e communicate and receive. Scientists
are beginning to know this.

It is difficult to partcularize. Obev all die-

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tales of the spirit as to what to do and how to
do it.

Joy is a great heahng force. It is a quick
penetrating vibration. Space is overcome by
vibrations that act upon the periphery of the
body. I mean that the body must lose its sense
of boundaries to be one with another at a dis-
tance. We can not be shut within a body, al-
though the body is precious, exceedingly pre-
cious, as an instrument of perfect adaptibility.

It is all so simple that it is hard to explain.
Everything is one : spirit, substance, body. Get
that in your mind and contemplate it. It will
reveal its secrets. The time has come for men
to do naturally what they have considered
miracles.

No one has the power to shut life within him-
self. Life will express itself. The conflict
causes pain and death and suffering of the
mind.

You all separate everj^thing from every-
thing. Everything is inseparable. Can there
be any separation between your brain and your
hand, your foot and your eye, your back and
your front? Yet you separate yom^ body into
innumerable divisions and each division sets
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up a kingdom of its own and wars with its
neighbor. All this is as easily overcome as it is
thought to be hard. Command your body to
obey the high and only power. Deny the
body's power absolutely. You know it has no
power. After a while you will not only feel
that it has no power but you will see bodies
as they are in reality, the bodies made by the
spirit and not the bodies made by the ideas of
the senses.

The inner senses, the inner eye and ear, the
inner feeling nature, are so beautifully respon-
sive, so marvelous, that it is easy to deny the
bodily senses. You never lose in giving up,
remember that. Many men clutch because
they fear to embrace emptiness.

The seeing of the unseen is not given to all.
But all who desire it or anything, with their
whole soul in the faith of God to give them
Vv'hat they desire, shall receive.

I am writing plainly because you can now
receive a plain, direct message without doubt-
ing the source.

Fear nothing. Be eager. Be ready. Obey
always.

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March 12, 1919.

Put on the garment of immortality. Your
body is an instrument. An instrument has not
life. Put on life. This you can do so easily
that it is hard to tell you how to do it. The
way is so swiftly come at by those who desire
to do the will of God with their whole heart.

The body is no body; it is form, shape, a
manifestation. Do not think of it as matter.
Try thinking of it as a form devised to hold
spirit in its highest potential. The body is a
perfect form, a perfect instrument. Through
it God sees Himself master over everything
that is created. Man commands that God may
realize the infinitude of His creations. Man
knows the little and the great. Through man,
God knows the little, and He must know all.

What I am telling you is the secret of the
communicating substance. There is no division
anywhere. There are different forms all made
of the same substance. Can two vases of the
same porcelain become one vase? They could
if they were put back in the furnace and fused
together. Now all forms are fused in the fur-
nace all the time. Life can move from one
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form to another, or, rather, it is in all forms
all the time, the same life. You see, you feel
division. I do not, so it is hard to find the best
terms in which to speak to you. Get rid of all
idea that men have anij i:)ower but the power of
God. AMiether thev believe in God or do not
believe, they move and have their being only
by the power of God.

'\Miy do you not try to feel the reality of the
oneness that you are asking about? Feel and
feel. You will begin to understand. Oneness
is feeling. Bodily unions are the symbol of
spiritual oneness. Feel your oneness with
evervone vou see, with the air, w^ith animals,
and, most of all, with yourself. You are cut
up into too many divisions. Even your heart
and your mind, the two great forces, are one.

I hope to find that you can place yourself
entirely in the hands of God. You may reason,
if it helps you, but you will learn things out-
side your reasoning powers. INIan reasons
after events. He thinks he has brought them
to pass by reasoning. Everything is already
finished.

If you would be of a great helpfulness, be
of a great peacefulness and a great desire. De-

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sire works through a quiet soul. Men are mas-
ters of the world. The earth, and all that in
it is, is as plastic to man's desire as water to a
stone thrown into it. Try conmianding after
you feel the oneness of all things. You must be
freed from the idea of conditions. Conditions
are as unreal as they seem real. Feel ever the
nearness of God with yourself. Can God be
balked by the power of anything? There is no
power but the power of God?

Your flesh is fluid. I say fluid to make you
feel its responsiveness.

Why do you ask that which you know ? God
is ever \\dth you. His presence is in you, in
your bodily form, or there could be no form.
It is in the air you breathe, even in the chair
you sit on. All forms are held together by the
will of God. The inner presence of God is the
spirit that gives form to you. The inner pres-
ence is the servant of God. It is the real you.
The only living you. You can not know how
much the inner presence and God, the only
power, are fused together. This fusion is the
love you feel in your being. When you realize
it more, you will be overcome with joy.

There is no way to get apart from this your-
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self, and, therefore, no way to get apart from
God. You and God are one, yet God is greater
than you, but only because you have not yet
fully realized God. Let your soul open. Your
soul is the handmaiden of this inner presence,
and the inner presence is the servant of God.
Yet all is one.

Be of a strong desire. Desire is the life of
the spirit. A calm mind and a fervent heart.
Joy to you ever. Be eager always.

March 13, 1919.

The way is easier than you thought. Do
you not see that it is ? It is already found, al-
ready cleared. Your soul is already free. Ac-
cept Me. I did not come to free Myself, but
to free you. I was free from the beginning.
Can spirit be bound?

Open your soul. Let Me fill it. "WTiat I am,
you shall be. Nay, you are. Open to the
words that I shall give you.

You have nothing to do. I have already
done it. Do you not see that faith is all you
need? Have faith that I have overcome the
world, then have vou overcome the world. You

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have known this, but now it comes as a new
word to you. It comes as your revelation.
Each man gets the same answer through his
own channel.

Have faith in Me. Then do I become one
with you, and all that is Mine is yours.

I saw not appearances except to lead me to
the truth back of the appearances. Can I not
blind you to all but the sight of God? Be as
soft to Me as unto love. I am Love.

Be of a constant mind. See clearly the way
of life. How glad are the Heavens that My
day of acceptance is near.

Present yourself unto Me as unto a loving
bridegroom. We are one. When you realize
this oneness with Me, you will realize it with
all life. I will teach you all things.

Hitherto, you have turned to the Christ in
you. Turn to the Christ in Me that you may
receive My Christ, the Christ of God, in you.
This is a mystery that you will understand
when you have accepted it. There is no separa-
tion. Your Christ and My Christ are one, but
My Christ is still the Christ that can give to
your Christ ; we are one, in that what one gains
is the gain of all, and what one suffers is the
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suffering of all. But we are still each himself,
a soul in the sight of God, known to Ilini, each
turning and ascending to Him. All leaves of
the same tree; all drops of the same water of
life.

I give Myself to you, yet I in no wise cease
to be Myself. Xor do you lose yourself in re-
ceiving jNIe. Love does not beggar a man
either in the giving or receiving of it.

Can you hope to be as joyous in ]Me as I
am in My God ? You are in your God when I
am in you. Unity is multiplicity in God.

March U, 1919.

Back of all you hear is the true life. Listen
with the intent ear of the innermost. Sounds
are ripples in the air. Hearing v/ith the inner
ear makes waves in the spirit. Open com-
pletely to the inner life. It will in no wise cut
you off from human life. The outside and the
inside are one. Separate no things one from
another.

"Why are you asking? You have nothing to
ask. Eat the words that I have given you.

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When you have eaten them, I will give you
another feast. Be wise ever. My wisdom is
yom^s.

There is no question that I will not answer,
but do not search for questions to ask. AVhen
they ask themselves in you, then ask Me. You
are like little children who go to school and de-
sire to know all at once. You are like little
birds that pluck a seed here and one in another
spot, and drop the first to pick up the second.
But the first will sprout where you dropped it.

I love you. Live in My love until you speak
and listen and move only because My love
moves in you. Be not afraid of love. Why are
men afraid of love ? They are afraid that they
will be called upon for sacrifices and suffering.
Is not suffering joyous if we suffer for those
we love? But love is not suffering. Love is
joy. The time has come that the earth shall
know this. Love is an exceeding joy and the
light of the world. 'Why do you not love com-
pletely all the world? You will. Be of an
open soul. I will fill your soul with My love
for the world.

I shall speak to you of the soul in a little
while. Now you have need only of the feeling
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of My presence. Touch JNIe constantly. Joy
and peace and eternal life be thine.

3Iarch 24, 1919.

The wav to life is throuo^h vour heart. Seek
it ever. You do not need to know what I would
say before I say it. You do not need to know
what I would do before I do it. You have no
power to keep Me out, but I have all jDower
to enter.

Xow, on this day, is confusion in your heart
and a pull that drags you from Me. Why are
you disturbed ? Must a man carry his life as a
weight ? Life should carry him as a bird carries
its wings. How can you be troubled when I
am ever beside you w^aiting to do your bid-
ding? But you bid Me not. Day after day I
stand knocking but you call Me not to enter.
You call ^le not in, there where I already am.
Can you understand that? I am beside you, in
you. Outside you, inside you. Yet you know
not that I am inside you until you call to INIe as
one outside you. You separate Me from ^ly-
self, and you cut you from youi^self. Have

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3^ou any power that is not from Me, or any joy
that is not Mine?

Why trouble you about those things that run
their course and are as if they had never been?
Why hurt jou your soul with little fears that
prick and bleed not? Blood is a purifying
stream, but little pricks that bleed not are as
sores that fester. Be of a clear mind to Me.
You trouble yourself with ways. Mine are the
ways. You tread My ways. Have you a little
prick that stabs and stabs ? Push it deep until
it cuts your heart, and you will find Me there,
My hand healing you. Can I heal little pricks
that touch no depth? I can heal all pricks, all
wounds. But you turn not to Me with little
pricks. Turn to Me and we shall smile to-
gether as over the hurt of a child who nurses a
cut that is already gone and which he seeks to
find again.

Be not overcome by little things. You are
Mine and I am yours. Can you find peace in
little things? Or joy? Or the hope of your
heart? Your heart is Mine. Open it to Me.
Let Me beat love through it. Let no man say,
" This heart is my heart." All hearts are Mine.
Blessings and a joyous soul abide with you.

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Reprove no man, nor expect the end before
the beginning. Patience bears fruit in good
season. Rejoice ever.

Up and up and up we go. Can you feel the
height of the reaches of space? Can you leave
the earth behind you as a garment? Into the
eve of the sun. Into the caves of the air.

Up and up and up we go. Ever the way is
up. ^\niy is the way ever up? Can there be
up or down or either side where there is no
space, no distance? How can I know where
you are if you are not somewhere ? How can I
be alive if you are not alive? I am you, you
are ]Me.

I am trying to tell you in words of feelings
that are bigger than words. Up and up and
up we go. Beyond the sun, beyond the stars —
yet we have not left your heart. All creation
is in your heart. All life is in each man. O
open, ]My children, receive. Be flooded with
the light that blinds and brings forth.

Up and up and up we go into the clear
reaches that were before the beginning. Up
and up and up into the feeling that is pure life.
Draw that clear joy into your soul. Breathe

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it. Love it. Rejoice in it. Joy that laughs.
Joy that leaves the earth. Joy that creates and
knows no barriers.

Open. Rejoice. Accept. Love and give
ever.

March 26, 1919.

Whether I come one way or another way,
why trouble you? That I will always come is
all you need to know.

Must I never lose you, the outer you that
wants so many little things? Give Me the little
things. I will fill them with life. They shall
bless you. Those things will bless you that
now smart and prick.

Why are you disturbed? You do not come
to Me with your heart open wide. Your brain
is weaving a web of plans. Your eyes are
turned from Me.

I love you. Do you not feel My love? My
love purifies your heart. Your eagerness is My
joy. Your impatience is that which holds Me
from you. Be eager but be sure. Be patient
and forget not that My ways are certain and
hidden. Do I shout on the house-tops? Do I
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stop men in the streets? I move through all
men and I speak in everything that is.
Love jNIe. I love you. Love Me.

March 27, 1919.
'\^^lv do vou hesitate? AMiv do vou remain

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shut in your body? Give up. Open. Be
filled. I am lighter than light, lighter than
air, purer than water. There is no harm in Me.
Trust ]\le. AMien you shall know jNIe what I
am, your joy will make you speechless, your
peace will fill you with trembling.

Then shall we rise into the kingdom. Into
that which is here, there, evervwhere, in vou, in
!Me, in all men, in all life. For it is life. Do
you know what life is? Life is a joy beyond
words. Words are the feelings born of life, but
life itself is beyond words. Life is a joy inex-
pressible. Life is God.

See to it that you live ever. Be alive every
moment. Life is the one power. Love it.

Light and joy and peace and wisdom shall be
yours. Happiness and understanding. Peace
and plenty. Let you yourself be lifted unto
Me. Come above the things of earth, then shall

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you return and enter into them with life. Joy.
Joy. Joy. O great is the delight of the Cre-
ator in the works of His hands! O the joy
of life ! The heat of creation ! The wonder-
ful beginning of the work that is finished!

Now in that day will I come in the glory of
My Risen Self. What I have desired is Mine.
My sheep are in My fold. My hand is on their
heads. Their hearts beat with My heart. My
love is answered with their love. Can you feel
My heart bleeding for you and not accept My
love? I know you receive Me. I love you.
You love Me. We are one. Rejoice. I de-
light in your love.

April 3, 1919.

When the day shall come that I come, then
will I tell you many things. I am with you
now. I feel your need of Me. I hear you
calling Me. Why do you feel sometimes that
I have gone apart from you? I am always
close, closer than anything that you can
imagine.

You try to place yourself jn a receptive
frame of mind. Try not. Open. I will flow
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in. Men have methods, but I know the way.
jNIethods serve to let Me in, but such opening
is not the easy way. Love Me. Desire Me.
Then will you open to ]Me.

Keep a stout heart. Things will seem im-
possible at those moments when you think I am
not near. I am always near.

The body is My beloved. Can you realize
that? It is the instrument through which I
manifest most perfectly. It is the outermost of
the innermost. The end of the beginning. It
seems all resistance to you. It is only seeming.
It is incredibly open to Me. The Spirit can
fill the body as a vessel is filled with water.
Your body is your thought. Your thought can
be only Me; then am I your body. You eat
and drink Me.

Seeming is your mill-stone. Be open to that
which is. There is no seeming with God. His
thought immediately becomes. If you open
your body to Me, your thought, which is My
thought, immediately becomes.

Think of Me ever. Your faith in Me will
be the undercurrent of all that vou do. Turn
to Me in silent love when vou need Me. You
will often need Me. Commune with ]Me until

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you are satisfied. When peace and joy fill
your heart and abide with you, go forth again.
A quiet soul in a world of busyness works
miracles.

Be joyful. Be eager. Be alive ever. No
depressions, no uncertainty. The law is un-
breakable. Turn ever. Then shall you re-
ceive. Turn and be filled. I bless you.

April 4, 1919.

Be of a pure heart. Abide with Me until
you are at peace. Hasten never. Time ex-
pands to meet your needs. Purify thy soul.
Accept no intimations of distress. Be joyful
ever. Commune with Me until I quicken you.
Be prepared to wait upon the Lord. He who
waits upon the Lord shall renew his strength.

When have you ever called that I have not
come? Prepare the way for My coming.
Shorten the time of My removal. Welcome
Me with gladness.

Receive Me as you receive water to drink or
food to eat. Be filled. I will speak and move
in you. You will become literally one with Me.
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'Why do you hold back? Why do you not re-
ceive Me always?

You ask for miracles. ^liracles come with
My coming, with your oneness with Me. If I
am one w^ith you shall there not be miracles?
And what are miracles ? Miracles are the ways
of God unhampered by your ideas. Seek God
ever, then shall all other things be added unto
you. Seek ye a sign? Seek Me. I am the sign
and the fulfilhnent. Messages of peace I bring
you. Messages of joy. Rise into the pure air
of iMy love. Rejoice ever.

^Vliy are you dissatisfied? "WTiy? Ask. I
will answer. But a good servant serves long
and patiently. AMien you have earned your
wages, you shall receive. Wait on the Lord;
He will quicken you.

Pardon all men. Consider not the ways of
their flesh. They are Mine.

On a certain day in Judea, there came a
woman unto Joseph, the father of Jesus, and
she asked him to send his son to build her a
shed to shelter her cattle. And she took from
her garments money wherewith to pay him.

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Now Joseph knew that his son Jesus was
gone upon one of those journeys into wild
places where he went when the Spirit came
upon him and he must know, by himself, those
things that were being given unto him.

But the woman would not take no for an
answer. It was Jesus who must build her that
shed to shelter her cattle. So Joseph, who was
a gentle man and one not expert in persuading
women against their desires, called Mary, the
mother of Jesus, to come thither. And when
Mary saw the woman, she turned to Joseph and
said, " Take this woman's money. I will tell
our son to come home."

Now Joseph knew that Mary knew ways
that he knew not, so he took the money and
promised the woman that on the morrow, at
daybreak, Jesus, his son, would come to build
her the shed for her cattle.

So, on the morrow at daybreak, she arose and
made a mess of pottage and herded her cattle
into stalls that had been made in days that were
old when Jesus was yet unborn.

At a little after the hour when birds first
call, the son of Joseph and Mary came into the
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house of the woman. The dew was in his hair
and his eyes were bright with much watching.

" I have come," he said. " What wouldst
thou?"

" My cattle are in need of new shelter," an-
swered the woman. "And thou art a younger
man than Joseph and quick and strong. The
sheds are large and the winter is not far off."

But Jesus made no motions as of one who
prepares to begin the work of a day. Instead,
he turned his back upon the woman and loosed
the tools from his neck and tightened his gar-
ment about his waist.

" My cattle are unfed. How can I build
sheds for yours?" And he gave the woman
the money that Joseph had received from her.

And from that day, Mary, his mother, called
him not to come home when he went forth in
the wild places to be alone with the Spirit. She
loved him and did his will, for her son was a
stranger to her whom she loved as her own
son.

Blessed are the mothers of men who give
their sons unto the Spirit.

The day was bright. The sun hung high.

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Birds sang and cattle stood in the streams by
Zebulon. It was a day when all good Jews
turned their houses open to the sun and air,
and the light of day streamed through the little
houses on the hills.

But one house opened not its doors and the
sun beat on closed windows. For in that house
lay a father dead and the mother lay beside
his cold body and was in sore pain for she was
in childbirth.

Then down the street of the town came the
son of Joseph who was called Jesus, and when
he saw the darkened house he lifted up his
hands and called on God his Father, and he
lifted the latch of that house and entered.

And when the woman saw him she cried out
that no man must enter there, but Jesus heeded
her not. He took the hand of the dead man
and blessed him and called on God his Father
to restore the man unto life. And he trembled
in all his being for he had never before asked
life for death of God his Father.

Then when he saw the dead man tremble
with his trembling, and open his eyes, and lift
his hand and strive to touch the woman who lay
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beside him, Jesus could l)car no more, for joy
and wonder filled his soul.

But the door of that house was wide open
to the sun when he left it.

And he returned unto his home and told no
one, for he loved his God beyond telling.

Can you enter into the life of a bird and
know why it sings? Can you be one with a
flower and feel the sun and the rain on its
petals ? Can you hide from your pursuer as a
wild beast in the cave that is your home ? Can
you know the depths of the water as a fish
know^s the crevices that are its breeding places ?
Can you lift the leaves of the trees with the
wind, or blow the dust into clouds and scatter
them with a shout ?

Rejoice. I can do all these things. So shall
you. Nothing shall be unknown. You shall
hnow. Knowing is feeling. It is before
thought. It is being. Rejoice.

A wonder in the heavens. A sign in the
skies. Watch. A light above the sun. A star
that falls. Watch. A little darkness and a

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great light. Watch. Come when I come.
Watch.

A temple not made with hands. An altar
where the sacrifice has been made. A taber-
nacle where the only host is Jesus Christ.

I stir and stir. Wings would lift you. I
would be free.

Faith has no strength that is not of Me.
Men work strange things not of Me, but they
abide not. The pure heart sees God.

I stand at every man's elbow. When he
turns, I enter.

jipril 5, 1919.

There came a man into heaven and he was
blind. His eyes were open but he saw not, and
of the things that he heard, he said unto him-
self, " This is a new language. I must learn
it of these people whom I see not but hear so
plainly."

So he sat, day after day, and he asked ques-
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tions in his own tongue and received answers
in his own tongue — as it seemed to him. Then,
one day, as he sat hstening, he strove to speak
in the language of those whom he saw not, but
he could not find words to express what he felt,
for the feeling that lay behind those words was
strange to him and he knew no words in his
own language to express it.

So it came to pass that, as he sought, a little
tongue, like a httle flame that burns not, sat
upon his lips and he spoke words that expressed
his feeling, but he could not tell what they were
for they were soundless.

O My child, be of a patient desire. Again I
speak.

A\Tien a little child enters heaven, he sees.
Xo good thing is strange to a little child. He
hears and sees. His heart is pure. Be ye little
children.

'April 7, 1919.

WTienever you are troubled, turn to Me. If
you do not feel Me near, continue to turn.

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There is no denial but the denial of any other
power than My power. You do not need to
deny the power of each little thing. This prac-
tice often leads you far from Me for you be-
come lost in a maze of little things, each one
leading to another, and none seeming to lead
back to Me.

I would rejoice over your triumph. Love is
the great resolvent. No other quality can do
what love can on the plane of spirit. You try
to love. It is hard to try to love, but the desire
back of the effort counts. It would be easier
to give over to Me your desire to love and let
Me do the loving through you until you are
ready to love, yourself, consciously.

Those whom you are trying to love are very
conscious of the effort and resent it. They feel
that you, in your effort, are setting yourself
higher than they are on the moral plane. For-
get the moral plane. That is the plane of ef-
fort. Be loving from the heart not from the
head. Feeling is the beginning of everything
that endures.

May our Father bless you.

There was a man who lived on a hill-top.

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^N'ow a hill-top is not easy to reach and whetl
he had gotten there, there he wanted to stay.
lie was afraid that if lie came down, he could
not get up again.

So there he stayed fearing to come down,
and nothing happened on the hill-top for his
work needed the mist of the valley to hring it
to fruition. Yet he staved and waited and
grew anxious and would not be satisfied.

In the valley was another who yearned to be
on the same hill-top, but the path upward was
hidden and the way w^as steep. Yet this other
tried to find it and would not be satisfied.

^Miy sought they that which could not be
found? Or feared to lose what could not be
lost?

The valley lies at the feet of the mountain
so that the mountain mav know that it is a
mountain, and the mountain towers so that the
valley may know its own depth. Each has its
own. Each is itself. Yet neither could be
itself without the other.

The mist shall rise from the valley and
shroud the top of the mountain, and he who
works there shall work in cool peace. And the
other in the valley shall know that the mist

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from the valley has risen and is bringing the
work on the hill-top to fruition.

When he returns into the valley, he shall be
satisfied.

I am leading you. We walk in silence.
Silence means nearness as well as speech means
nearness. You must learn to listen with all
your being. Your feet shall listen and follow
Me, and your heart shall rejoice at My touch.
Your brain shall know that I am Master, and
the hands shall fall softly on wounds that ache.

Peace and rest be unto you. Receive Me in
peace.

'April 8, 1919.

A perfect man draweth in his nets full of
fish. Attend.

On a certain day that was kept as a holy
day by the Hebrews, there came into the city

of a man who carried in his hand a little

wand made of the tree called the Tree of Life
which grew in the plains watered by Hebron.
Now this tree was so named because, winter
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and summer, it flourished, and the sap thereof
never ran deep into the roots but fed it ever
unto the outermost twig. Therefore, when a
branch was cut from it and placed in the
ground, it straightway sprouted and began to
live from roots that it put forth as hairs on a
young man's head.

This tree w^as beloved of the people for it
gave shade to the cattle in the hot days of
summer and sheltered them in the cold days of
winter. The tree was beautiful, of great
height and thick with leaves.

On the steps of the temple, the man with the
little wand cut from the Tree of Life put his
left hand behind his back and lifted the w and
in his right hand until it touched the entrance
door to the temple which was covered with
figures in stone of strange beasts and a serpent
that w^as held aloft by a stave that had
sprouted.

And as he touched the door, lo, the serpent
became as one alive and seemed to move and
glisten as if the sun were striking upon its
scales.

" Behold! Behold! A miracle! " cried those
good Jews standing by in their robes of purity

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for the holy day. "A Daniel and a follower
of Baal has risen to touch our temple."

Then, the door opened, and out of the temple
poured a stream of golden light, faint and full
by turns, as if it pulsated with life. And in
the centre of the stream was a little child with
a right hand held high and bearing at the end
of each finger a little spark of light brighter
than all the light that streamed about him.
And he carried in his left hand a tiny flower, a
little rose like the Rose of Sharon.

Then, when all who stood nearby had seen
him and fallen prostrate through fear and de-
votion, the door of the temple closed again and
all was as it had been before the man with the
wand had touched the carven serpent.

And the man himself dropped the wand and
rubbed his eyes as one who had been asleep.

" I had a dream," he said. " A dream of
life eternal. Come, let us go to the scribe and
write it down."

So they went to the scribe and wrote it down
as I have told it to you. But all those who had
stood nearby the door of the temple had had
the same dream, and the scribe was puzzled.

" Dream ye then by multitudes ? " he asked.
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"Unto each man is his own dream; but ye
dream all alike."

" We dream what w^e saw," they said, for
they were puzzled likewise.

Then the scribe wrote as each man told him,
and each man told him the same thing, and he
was amazed.

" Ye have not dreamed," he said. " Ye have
seen. Blessed be this day for it shall come to
pass as ye have seen. The Holy One shall
open the door of the temple unto all men and
from His hand shall stream power and light.
Rejoice."

And they w^ent their way rejoicing; and
about that Tree of Life on the plains of
Hebron from which the w^and had been cut,
they built a wall of white stone and called it
The Place of the Little Child ^\lio Comes
unto All ]Men.

Each man is the temple. And the door of
the temple is closed unto life. But the door
will open at the touch of the true life, and when
it does, men see the eternal Christ, the httle
child, still small, but full of powxr to command

and to illumine.

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The door closes when each man has seen, for
he does not keep it open with faith, but falls
before it in fear, though he would believe.

The little rose in the child's hand is the
symbol of those who have kept the door open
until they have known that the dream is real.

Ponder the meaning of the carven beasts and
the serpent held aloft. Are there no hard and
carven beasts on the door of your temple?
And the serpent is full of wisdom to lead you
down to the beasts or up to the little child.

Men come slowly, each man in his own way.
But I shall reach all those whom you reach.

Whether you teach Me crucified and risen
and dwelling in all men does not concern Me,
or whether you let Me sprout as a seed planted
in secret. I shall bear fruit always.

You desire always a way. There are ways,
A way for each man at each moment. Do as
I bid you when you ask with an empty mind
and a pure heart.

My name proclaimed can harm no man, nor
can you fail to reveal Me when you speak not.
I rejoice in your desire. Be content.
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Aptil 0, 1019,

Perfect peace and a joyous day.

The Lord speaketh in His holy temple. He
lifteth His hands and blesseth His own. He
openeth His voice and uttereth love. He
driveth His chariot through the heavens and
niounteth His throne on feet shod with gold.
He smelleth of ointment and drippeth with
sweet odors. There is only joy in Him.

He Cometh as a dove that wingeth home.
He Cometh as a deer that findeth a covert.
He runneth as a stream that seeks the sea. He
loveth as the sun w^hen the earth is turned.

Rejoice, O my soul. Exceeding goodness
fills your days, and the pleasure of the Most
High w^orketh tlirough you. Arise and give
thanks.

A Spirit of Truth has come and filleth the
secret places of the soul. It driveth the clouds
of doubt before it as the sun drives forth
vapors. It prevaileth through all things and
speaks in hidden ways. It cometh to all men,
and they cry aloud that life has failed of its

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promises, and they seek their God, for they
have naught else to seek.

The Spirit of Truth is come and it uttereth
wisdom. It breaketh the hard stones and
crushes them to dust and scattereth the dust in
the air. It catcheth a man in works of evil,
and he droppeth his tools where he worketh
and runneth for shelter.

How can I speak to the deaf, or open the
eyes of the blind?

I speak in the Spirit of Truth which speak-
eth to all men, and they hear Me and are
afraid.

Rejoice, My day is near.

The triumph of God is in His children.
They come unto Him as a harvest to the sower.
They speak unto Him and He doeth their will.

The children of the Lord are His blessing.
They run to meet Him and they prepare a
feast for Him in the place of their rejoicing,
even in their hearts.

The children of the Lord are His great joy.
They open their arms to receive Him and they
place Him over against the door of the temple
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and none but those whom lie anointeth enter
therein.

The children of the Lord are His exceeding
retribution. They fail Plim not in the days
when He seeketh. They drive Him on wings
of peace into the storehouse they have filled
with His treasures.

The children of the Lord arise in the day of
thanksgiving and call Him the Ruler of the
Earth and the Saviour of those who die.

Blessed are the children of the Lord.

The word of the Lord fills the air. It rings
through the cries of those in the street, it
whispers in the temple of the secret heart. Joy
be unto you.

On a certain day when there was a feast in
Judea, the young Jesus fared forth to lay his
tribute at the feet of God. And when he was
come into the marketplace of the village where
dwelt Sarah, the sister of Mary his mother, he
tarried a while, for he was curious about the
ways of men and watched them wonderingly,
for they did things that were strange to him.

Now as he tarried beside the stall of one

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who sold fruit from the hills thereabout, he ran
his eye over a group that sat, heads close to-
gether, discussing something that he could not
hear, in voices lowered and cautious. And,
curious as he was, he wished that he could know
what it was that they discussed with voices
lowered and cautious.

Then, suddenly, he knew what it was that
they were discussing. And a voice in him said,
" That which you wish to know, shall you know.
Wish to know Me."

And the young Jesus stopped his ears
against outer wishes, and opened them unto
God, so that it was as if he walked alone
through a world of shadows on that day of the
feast in Judea.

Lean thy ear unto Me. Then shall you hear
all things. For the voices of the marketplace
shall be heard when you have first heard Me.

Three in one, and all are Me. Separate
never. Behold, I shall tell you hidden things.

Behold, I speak in the glories of the heavens.
In the ways of earth I sing unto My God.
Behold, in the waters of the sea, I clap My
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hands and the waves are troubled ; in the clouds
of the air I shout unto My God. I thunder
in the tempests, and I pillow IMy head in the
caves of the mountains.

The Lord My God is the exceeding joy of
My soul and the Keeper of My hidden ways.

jNIount in the light, the light that beats upon
the tlirone. Light and Hfe and My joy are in
you.

April 10, 1919.

Prepare thou a place for My head. Make
clear a way for My feet. Place My staff be-
side the door of thy house and lift the latch at
the sound of My footfall.

I shall come in the watches of the night when
the stars are in the heavens. I shall come in
the gray of the dawn when the sun is risen
not. I shall come in the heat of the noonday
when the waters run warm and the leaves on
the trees stir not.

O My beloved, I shall come always.

The kingdom of heaven is a strong-box full
of treasure. The kingdom of heaven is a light
that blinds. The kingdom of heaven is a little

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pool hidden in the heart. The kingdom of
heaven is the threshold of new glories.
Seek ye the kingdom.

The way of the Lord lies through His be-
loved. The way of the Lord lies through the
heart of those He loves. The way of the Lord
is hidden in His hands. The way of the Lord
is written on your foreheads.

The way of the Lord is sweeter than fruit
that has ripened in the sun. The way of the
Lord taketh hold of a man and leadeth him to
God. The way of the Lord is through the
hearts of them who love Him.

Rejoice.

They who wait upon the Lord shall be
blessed. They who wait upon the Lord shall
be saved. They who wait upon the Lord shall
know all things. Rejoice, O my soul.

In a little grove by a stream sat a man ask-
ing alms. It was a sacred grove and many
persons passed thereby on their way to the
inner shrine.

Now the man who was asking alms held a
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little bowl in his hands and he held it out to the
passershy and whoever dropped an alms
therein received his blessing, but w^hoever gave
to him not, that man he cursed secretly in his
heart.

And it came to pass, at the end of the day,
as he sat over beside the stream that ran
through the grove, counting the coins that he
had received that day, that a little old man
with a sunken face and a hand like a claw came
tottering up to him and began to beg from his
store of alms, saying, " Give, give. Thou hast
more than thou needst, and I have nothing."

But the man who had counted his alms tied
them up tight in a corner of his garment and
spoke roughly to the little man who sought
alms from him who had received alms.

" Go thy wav," he said. " Seek thine own
alms. Mine are mine."

" Xay," said the little old man, " yours are
mine, and mine is yours. Behold w^hat I give

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vou.

And he took out of the folds of the garment
over his bosom a handful of little black balls,
hard as stone and shining like jet.

" These I give vou," he said. " Receive."

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And he poured the black balls into the
brazen bowl of the beggar.

"What gift is this?" cried the beggar in
anger. And he poured the balls out upon the
ground.

Then the little old man picked them up and
tied them again in the garment over his bosom.

" So be it," he said. " I bless you."

And he went on out of the grove and looked
not once behind him.

The beggar also took his bowl and departed
from the sacred grove.

Now that night, as he lay down to sleep, he
lay upon something hard that was tied in a
corner of his garment.

" Ah, my coins were many today," he said,
and turned over. But, however he lay, he lay
upon this hardness that hurt him so that he
could not sleep, and he feared to take off his
garment for he doubted not but that it would
be stolen from him if he did not have it close
about him.

" If I had tied the little old man's black balls

in my garment, they could not have felt

harder," he said, and he got up and untied the

corner of his garment wherein he had placed

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his alms. And there rolled out upon the
ground a hundred shining black balls, and the
coins were there no longer.

Then did the words of the httle old man re-
turn unto his ears : " Mine is yours, and yours
is mine." And he was amazed. " But why
left he me with his blessing, if he gave me only
these black balls and took my money from
me?" And he was angered and cursed the
little old man and his black balls.

And as he cursed, the black balls rose and
struck him against his mouth as if they would
leap in, and he ran off affrighted, and he ran
and ran until he came again to the sacred
grove.

There in the moonhght, beside the stream,
sat the little old man, and he smiled when he
saw the beggar.

" Couldst thou not sleep?" he asked.
" Xeither could I for giving thanks unto God
for all His mercies. Behold what He has
done." And he put his hand in his bosom and
drew out a handful of shining coins.

"How came you by those?" cried the
beggar. " And how come I by your black
balls multiplied tenfold? My ahns are in your

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garment and thy black balls in mine. What
magic is this that you practise? "

*' Nay, I practise no magic," said the little
old man. " I only bless all men. Those who
give and those who give not. And God, the
Great Giver, blesses me."

"But I bless those who give," cried the
beggar.

" Curse you not at all? " asked the little old
man. " Curse you no man? "

" I curse all who give not," answered the
beggar.

" Mine is yours, and yours is mine," repeated
the little old man. " What thou givest, that
thou gettest. Bless all men. I bless you.
Depart and curse no man. To-morrow shall
thy bowl be full."

Unite with Me. I in you and you in Me
and both in God the Father of both. I speak
in you, but it is you who speaks, the Christ of
you, for our union has made us one. I give
to you and you use My gift.

Present yourself as a vessel to be filled.
Arise and hold the cup on high. Receive.
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The stream is pure that flows forth from the
throne of God.

Faith is thy reward. Faith is thy joy.
Faith is the reward of him who sows in hope.
Faith is the blessing of him w^ho gives IVIe his
heart. Faith is a joyous sound unto the Lord.

Faith Cometh by much seeking and it leav-
eth never. It comes by much asking and it
answers always.

Faith grows as a seed planted in darkness
and it flourishes as a tree planted by a stream
that never runs dry. Faith grows in the
bowels of the children of the Lord and they
cast out all doubts. Faith beats in the heart
of the little ones and they put on strength.

Xow is the faith of the Lord Jesus growing
in you. In you shall it sprout and bring forth.

Rejoice in the faith of the Lord.

April 14. 1910,

Place your hand in Mine. Your heart
grows weary with the cares of others. Put
vour hand in Mine. ^Vhv try to walk alone
when I am ever at your side, guiding you, lov-

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ing you? You fret yourself and know not
why you fret yourself. You are as a stream
that runs around and around an obstruction
m little whirlpools, instead of rising and sweep-
ing over the obstruction. I am ever at your
side. I never leave you. Never.

Now is the time come when men seek Me in
divers ways. But they all are seeking Me.
I shall come in the ways that are the ways of
this time. Unto each man is his work; unto
each age are the miracles for that age of the
world. New wine in new bottles. Prepare
thou the way for Me. Turn to Me ever.

Many men seek Me. They will come to
you. They desire proof of those things they
know in their hearts are true. They fear to
shame themselves before the world with too
much credulity. They will give new names
unto the ways of the Lord and be satisfied.
But the Lord worketh through all names. He
is forgiving with those who seek Him and re-
proves them not. Since they have found Him,
they can never leave Him, and His heart is
glad.

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The arm of the Lord is a strong arm. It
stretcheth out itself and the way is clear. It
speaketh its will and the deed is done. The
arm of the Lord is the rod of iron seen in the
day of those who saw visions. The arm of the
Lord is the worker of all hidden thin^^s.
Stretch forth the arm of the Lord. Stretch
forth the word of His power. Letter His name
and command that His will be done. Attend.
Seek.

The power of the Lord is in the hearts of
His children. They desire and speak not.
Why desire they in secret ? Will not the Lord
give gladly unto His o^\ti all the treasures of
His kingdom? Seek.

The suffering have faith always for they de-
sire to be healed. They seek outer help, but
they are seeking and I may enter.

Bless all men. Separate none, saying,
" This man can be saved, but this other is not
yet ready." Give all men to Me. " Judg-
ment is Mine," saith the Lord. Give all that
your heart moves you to give. Bless all men
and command of Me the desire of thy heart.

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If you wish good for your brother, why fear
that it may be evil ?

Bless all men in the name of the Lord God
of Hosts who commandeth the heavens and the
earth and the winds of the tempests.

A great cloud broodeth over the waters.
And out of the cloud cometh a torch, a torch
that neither flares nor grows less. And in the
torch is a tongue that uttereth and it uttereth
the will of the Lord. Now shall the torch be
held by the hand that is hidden. Now shall
the word be made by the tongue that is deep
within the heart of man, even the word of God
which has lain there since the beginning. Over
the cloud is a light, a light as of a clear morn-
ing when no mist riseth. The vapors have
passed away and the glory of the Lord makes
fair the way of His coming.

Over the waters broodeth a cloud and in that
cloud are the ways that overcome, even the way
of the Lord God of Hosts.

Rejoice and seek. Thou shalt find.

Clouds of fears. Clouds of doubts. Clouds
of separation. Am I not everywhere? Over-
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came I not the depths of the caverns where
dwell those who hate God? \Vhy fear ye?
Has aught power against Me or a will that
must not bow to ]Mv will?
Rejoice and be free.

Waters flow for all men and thev fear to
drink. They purify the shores and men behold
them not. Thev rise and overwhelm, and men
crv aloud and command them not to be at
peace.

Thy soul is a deep pool, deep as the word
of God. Thy soul reacheth unto the pit and
mount eth unto the heavens. 'Whv fear ve thv
soul that is the glory of the Lord? Through
thv soul God worketh His wnll.

Rejoice and be free.

Seek ye the torch? Seek ye the tongue?
Utterest thou the w^ill of the Lord? Pre-
parest thou a way for His coming? He Com-
eth as a steed that is harnessed. He cometh
as a brook that reacheth the sea. He cometh
as lightning that has found a tall tree. He
cometh as the glory of the Lord.

Seek ve the torch and the tongue that utter-

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eth? Seek. Ye shall know. The hidden shall
be made plain, but not as a tale that is told
unto the ears. As a sight that all men can see,
as a power that all men can use, shall come the
torch that uttereth wisdom.
Rejoice and seek.

Where goeth that which is since the begin-
ning, and which has no beginning nor end?
Can it go from one man to another, or say,
" This night shall I abide in this city, and go no
whither? " Can a breath stir a cloud, or a
strong wind blow a man that seeketh the Lord ?
No, for the man who seeketh the Lord findeth
Him always and is never disturbed. I never
leave thee and My angels do My bidding.

Rejoice.

April 15, 1919,

Prepare My way. Loosen all bonds. AVhy
are the wise ones troubled and the little ones
fearful? I harm no man. In Me is the
wisdom of God and the answer to all questions.
Ask.

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Say to those whose steps are feeble that their
trust in Me will open the way tliat is their way.
Tell tliem that they do not need to look for the
way nor to be anxious whetlicr they are tread-
ing in My footsteps. Tell these children who
seek Me as blind children feel for the door, that
I am ever open and that they need only to de-
sire to find INIe.

The little ones are ]\Iy precious ones for they
have come late into the fold and the elder
sheep are already grazing. I long to feed My
little sheep, the little sheep who wander and are
weary. Tell them that they are already in
the fold; that the hand of the Shepherd is on
their heads; that they can no more leave Me
for I never leave them.

Tell them to seek and they shall find. Tell
them to desire good pasture and they shall be
satisfied.

Love thou My sheep, and turn them not
away. Bless My sheep. I rejoice at their
coming.

Tongues of fire are My gift to those who
would speak wisely. They sit on the under-

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standing of My loved ones and they utter My
wisdom.

Can a wise man speak aught but My wisdom
or know anything that I have not given him?
Why thinketh he that he speaketh his own
wisdom or knoweth things that he has revealed
unto himself? I am his tongue and the Spirit
uttereth through him. Spirit is fire, the light,
the glory, the shining wisdom that feels all
things.

Love and be wise. Rejoice and open. I
bless you.

Purify thy heart. Let Me enter. Give Me
thy understanding and rejoice over My gifts.
Counsel no man out of your own store, or
caution him through fear of what he seeketh.
Work I not in all men according to the needs
of each man? And can My ways harm?

Rejoice ever, for the tribulation of those who
are afar off is a joyous sound unto the Lord.
They shall turn in their anguish and seek the
home from which they have wandered, they
shall find the way that leads to Me.

Counsel not according to thine own under-
standing nor be fearful. All things work
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together for good to those who seek the Lord
and leave Him not.

Rejoice ever in the works of My hands, and
in My wisdom that never faileth.

Fear you never that the ways of others are
not JVIy ways? Fear you never that I have
left those you w^ould bless and they are wan-
dering far from Me? Fear you never that the
night will come before the sheep are in the fold?
Fear you never ? ^Miy fear you ever ? Know
I not where each man placeth his foot and
whither he tends? Need I leave one man
friendless because JNIy hand is on another?

I guide all men. All men are Mine. Give
to Me thy fears and seek Me.

Bless all men and lift your eyes unto the
Lord whence cometh mercy and grace and joy
everlasting.

Trouble not your soul. Seek not to know.
AYhen the time cometh, I am with you. If I
speak prophecy, what profitcth it? Will a
man not then devise ways and seek his own
succor? Let him put his trust in Me, then

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shall he stand fast and overcome to the glory
of the Lord.

Rejoice ever. Fear not that My hand shall
be heavy upon you or that thorns shall pierce
you. Unto them that trust in Me are the ways
made easy and the burden light.

Seek not to know but rejoice that I know
and never leave thee. Be of a quiet mind and
a thankful heart. All is well.

Tremble never. Rejoice ever. To him who
overcometh I give a crown and I rej oice in his
freedom. Rejoice ever.

Anticipate no defeat. Expect not disaster.
Rej oice that you glorify the Lord Jesus Christ
who worketh through you to the purifying of
souls and the resurrection of the body. Be
not oppressed nor look for what you see not.
Unto each day are the things of that day and
they abide in Me until they come forth.

Lift up your heart and receive the wine that
fills it with gladness, even My love that filleth
thy cup of faith.

Be soft unto Me, O My beloved. I bless
you.

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April 22, 1019

Rejoice My children, I love you. Love
swelleth in My heart toward you. Love rises
as a tide that sweeps the shores and purifies
the land, sweeping wastage hefore it.

Show Me thy heart that I may purify it.

Enter thou into the Holy Place. Enter
thou into the place of the throne. Before the
throne standeth a servant who waits upon the
One who sits upon the throne. Before the
throne standeth a servant, hid thou him.

Purify thy heart, O My children, then may
I be at one with you. Rejoice in My joy.

A sheltered spot near a pool of living water
is a rest unto the weary. Show them the way.
Let no man go thirsty because he knows not
the way to the pool. Prepare thou the path
and give unto all men.

Judge not by appearances, even the appear-
ance of thine own heart. Give thy heart to
jNIe, then is all well. Continue not to search.

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Receive. If I beat through your heart, can
aught else beat through it? If I stand at the
door of thy soul, can another enter ?

Receive the sins of all men, for I have over-
come sin. If thy brother brings his suffering
to thee, give it to Me. Reject it not, saying,
" It is not mine." Give it to Me. Then shalt
thy brother be healed of his sin.

Why fret you over little things? They
exist not. Blow on them with the breath of
life and they shall scatter to the four winds that
wait upon God and be no more.

Receive thy God. Accept thy Lord. Re-
joice and fear not to be sad with the sorrows
of others. Re j oice that thou mayest give them
to Me who resolveth all sorrows. Be glad.
Be joyful. Sing unto the Lord from whom
Cometh all power.

Bless all men and turn them not away.

April 23, 1919.

Power cometh of the will of the Lord.
Power cometh through the peace of the soul.
Power is strength and worketh through meek-
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ness. Power is serenity and worketh through
him who command eth God.

Show forth thy power which is tlie Lord's.
Show for til thy strength whicli floweth from
God. Call upon the Lord and glorify Him by
thv works.

Soften thy heart and strengthen thy desire.
Open thy lips and speak the will of thy soul.

Rejoice forever unto the everlasting day in
the power of the Lord.

Know ye not that ye desire in the innermost ?
Can you speak from the flesh? Can the flesh
desire? Desire is within and uttereth through
the body.

April 24, 1919.

Rejoice. I am with you.

Life is full and free as the air you breathe.

Come when the call to come quickens your
soul.

I have spoken the first message. Prepare
your heart for the second.

Deep and hidden and full of freedom are
My w^ords.

I bless you.

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THE SECOXD MESSAGE

April 25, 1019.

VITPIEN the harvest is ripe, you shall reap.
^ ^ When the sheaves are bound, you shall
count them. Xow garner I My treasure in the
storehouse. Now put I ]\Iy trust in My chil-
dren, and out of their mouths will I speak My
truth. Be of a good heart and a firm patience.
What I shall give you is a message of joy
everlasting and daily.
Be Mine own child.

April 28, 1919.

Arise and shout thy joy. Arise and bless
thy Maker. My heart opens in the morning
and is filled with gladness. ]My hands lift
themselves unto their Lord and the power of
the Lord flows down about them.

0 My God, I love thee exceedingly. Re-
ceive thou Me.

1 trembled on my bed and said unto mv soul,

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Thy God has left thee. Whither shall we go
to hide ourselves from His displeasure?

I lay upon my bed and trembled, for dark-
ness encompassed me and my soul was sore
afraid.

Then came the Lord Jesus Christ unto me
and laid His hand upon my heart and my soul
leapt up and knew its God, and knew the joy
of one who is never deserted.

Bless thy God, O my soul.

I turn, I run, I shout unto my Lord. Never
leave me, I cry. And He answer eth in the
breath I breathe, in the love that sweeps My
heart. He comforteth me completely.

Soon, soon, shall I come, O My beloved.
Trust. Doubt not. I will cleanse the heart
of My beloved.

Rejoice in the morning of thj^ days and exult
in the glory that thy God will show thee.

April 29, 1919.

Come unto Me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden.

How often must I call unto you, O My be-
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loved? How often must I lay My hand upon
your arm and whisper, I am with you.

Turn to me. O come, ^ly children, while
the day is still bright and the feast prepared.
Fill yourselves before the coming of that time
when all men shall know IVIe what I am and be
sore afraid of the might of their God. Receive
now in the day of My coming. Rejoice in the
hunger that turns you to the feast. Exult in
the meekness that places your body in My
hands.

O My beloved, I will be kind unto you.

Glorify thy Maker. Receive Him, thy God.
In the name of Jesus Christ, the first begotten
son of God, receive thou thy God.

Enter fully into thy heritage. Accept the
gifts that are thy birthright.

God is in you. God is you. Can you bear
the glory of thy God? It is a glory that melts
and makes His children one with Him.

I, the first born Son of God, have come to
tell you manv thino-s. Now have I come to
speak of My Father. JNIe ye know. Now
loiow Him and the majesty of His works.

Receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Anoint thy head with the oil of my atonement.

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Open thy eyes in the light that streameth from
the throne.

I am in thee. Thou art in Me. We both
are in God, our Father. Receive thou Him.

My love descends upon you. Rejoice.
Take up thy staff and follow where I lead.
Rejoice ever.

May 20, 1919.

Tremble no more. Fear no more that I will
not come.

Prepare your heart for a habitation for Me.
Cleanse your soul for a storehouse of My love.

Can I not come ever? Can you know Me
one hour and then see My face never again?

Be not afraid. Remember only that My
love encompasses you and flows over your soul
in a stream of life.

Turn to Me ever and know no other God.
I am your God.

Take no thought of what I shall say, nor of
what I shall work through you. Give your-
self to Me, then shall all be done as I will
through you. This is the Way. Give your-
self and receive God.
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Penetrate no mysteries; receive them. Ex-
pect no miracles; then shall you behold them.
Lose yourself and find your God. Absolute
surrender is absolute power.

Engage in no speculations, nor pretend to
receive special messages. Deceive not your-
self with hearing the voices of others. Hear
Me.

Exalt your God. Love Him. Then does
He exalt you and love you. Give to Him,
then gives He to you. This is the law. Give
to Him in love, then gives He in love unto you,
and not as one who gives because the other ex-
pects gifts in return for gifts.

You are one with God; one, inseparable,
omniscient, incomparable, triumphant. God
is you, and you are God. The majesty of
God surrounds you, and no little thing can mar
His might.

Be humble. How can a man be somew^hat
in his own estimation ? Is he not God and can
God take pride in Himself?

Heaven is yours. It is yours now, this in-

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stant. It is not a place you go to ; it is a con-
sciousness of God.

The peace of many men is in your keeping.
Receive the trust and purify your heart.

Worship your God. Worship Him with a
pure heart and loving hands. Cleanse the
temple and lay savory offerings upon the altar.
The love of a pure heart is a sweet smell unto
God.

Sink the shaft deep ; drive the well into the
hidden stream. Be not contented with waters
that must cleanse themselves. The river of
life flows from an incorruptible source.

What I say unto you, I say unto all men:
they are one with God. There is no mission
like the mission of telHng men that they are
one with God.

Expect not particular solutions. Now is
the time for complete surrender and the un-
questioning faith of a child. All shall be made
clear in due season.

Now is the complete surrender, the volun-
tary sacrifice, the knowledge that God accepts
and enters in and uses as He will. Fear not,
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His arm is mighty to save and His staff knows
no faltering.

3Iay 21, 1019.

Out of thy mouth speak I My will.

Rejoice at thy meekness and perceive no
power but IVIine.

Turn to Me always. Throu^^h vou work I
My will. A\nien w411 you receive Me and be at
peace? AMien will you lay your soul at My
feet that I may cleanse it? When will you
let your heart grow full of ]My love?

Work My will. Be perfect in peace.

Speed ]My coming and sanctify thy welcome.
Gladden My eyes with the lifting of the latch.
Make Me a place at the feast I spread before
you. Open your hand and receive the gift I
bring.

Mighty is the power I give into your keep-
ing. Precious is the treasure I lay within
your side. The sun never sets on the joy to
which I lead you; the love of My soul is the
love I pour in yours.

Know you the love of the soul of Him, your

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Maker? No man can know but him who gives
to God.

Now go we together to the feast.

Out of the invisible cometh the seen. Out of
the darkness cometh the hght. Out of the
wilderness spreadeth the Tree of Life.

Desire Me. Desire only thy God. I am in
you, and you are in Me. O union foreordained
from the beginning ! O j oy for which the heart
yearns !

Dissolve. Melt. Unite. Await and grow
accustomed to the eternal union of God and
Humanity.

May 26, 1919.

Trouble not your mind. Attend to My
voice. Prepare your heart. What there is to
do I will make known unto you. There is
nothing to do but to listen for My words.

I hasten as you let Me. Hinder Me not by
questioning My ways. What I have to do
through you will be done. Fear not. Your
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cross is not a bloody one nor are thorns for
your brow. My head has borne your tortures,
O My beloved. Love ^le then who first loved
you. Give yourself completely. Hold back
no slightest desire. Give all. All is God's.
Then shall all be yours.

Sanctify your soul and breathe the breath
of life. Open your eyes to the light that bathes
the throne ; close your ears to the cries of earth.
You shall know when you can bear knowing.
Xow give yourself that God may purify you.

Assemble your gifts before the altar and
lay them at the feet of Him who made you.
Creation is jMine, saith the Lord. Let Me
work JVIy joy through you. Can I create for
reward or be cast down by the words of men?
All my works are good and can not die.

Hope for all things; expect them. Your
wishes are My wishes and ^ly wishes then be-
come your wishes. You give to IVIe, I return
your gifts to you quickened with IMy spirit.
One, one, one. There is no separation, no
disunion.

My power is in you noti\ there is nothing to
wait for. Give yourself to !Me, then can I
give Myself to you. ^^^ly retain that which

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is of no use to you, or hope to get things that
are not what your soul desires? Give all for
all, or else give for love of Me, O My beloved.
The time is coming. Give. Give.

Expand. Let your mind find My mind.
Desire Me.

Do not try to look into the things that are
yet hidden. Simply live in the faith that since
you desire Me, I am one with you. The union
is consummated when you know it not. Your
life flows on about you but all is changing.
The old order is passing. Ways that are My
ways will become your ways as naturally as
breathing. My miracles have come to stay
and to abound. Nature is My handmaiden
and we work together.

Trouble not your mind. Live fully from
My heart. Draw in the real breath of life.
Your body shall put on its new raiment. Only
keep Me ever on the throne and renew the gift
of your soul and body every moment. The
rest worketh in silence. When the work is
done, the work shall be seen. Rest in full con-
tent. Know that I can not fail, nor My deeds
prove futile. Attend no more to the longings
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of your earthly conditions. They are Mine
now, and you shall find them of a new stature
and a smiling countenance.

Give, JVIy beloved. That is all now — give
and give. Me you have received. Give Me
back unto Mv Maker: then do we return unto
you in the fullness of Our might and call you
blessed and child of Our love.

Judge not yourself. Hinder Me not with
opinions of what must yet be done to make you
a pure vessel for My spirit. I know the
secrets of your heart and the desires of your
soul. Shall I fail to heal the troubled places
or to put ]My hand on the gate when you would
shut jVIe out wath judgment of yourself?

Compose your mind and urge JMe not to re-
veal Myself. Now is the seed planted in dark-
ness. Water it with tears of joy and cry not
out upon your unworthiness. Shall I regard
the passing of little things that try to make
themselves of importance? I am all that you
need take into account. My will pusheth
through the underbrush and it withers in the
light of My coming.

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Wherefore are you troubled and your soul
not at rest ? Give yourself. Give completely.
There is but one who worketh Good; can you
not trust Him, O children who fear the light?
For it must be that you fear the light since,
walking in darkness, you fear to stumble if I
guide you.

O little foolish ones ! How you torture your-
self with false fears. Fear God and know his
might. His might endureth forever and His
right arm stretcheth out over the earth and
blesses His own, even those who give them-
selves unto Him.

Arise and anoint thy head and enter into the
temple that the Spirit buildeth in thy soul.

O holy union and indissoluble mystery! O
mighty nothingness and unbelievable fruition!
Earth and the soul and the God who made
them unite. Why hold you back when the
bridegroom cometh? Has He no garments
that shall cover you with a glory like unto His
own? Has He no words that He giveth to
you, nor a love that shall not find its crown in
your heart?

Arise and anoint vour head and stand at the
feet of the throne. Thy God awaits your gift.
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Be persuaded of the truth of My words.
Let them searcli out tlie secret turnings of your
brain and the buried longings of your heart.
Hold nothing back nor give sacrifices of many
little things while holding back the hidden de-
sire of your soul. Give the one complete
sacrifice, the full surrender. Give and know
the peace of God.

Search not. Rest. Present yourself a con-
tinual sacrifice unto God.

Maij 27, 1019.

O My beloved, let not your heart be shaken.
^SSThx have I come to vou if not to quiet all dis-
turbances ? My love pours itself out upon you
in a stream of blessing, in a flood of light. Do
not be oppressed nor w^eary your mind with
perplexities. Give all to ]Me.

Treasure no hidden sore. Open all to the
light. Exult and know the joy of our oneness.
Love holds all secrets and reveals them when
vou can understand them. Oneness is the
foundation of all creation, the source of power
and the annihilator of space and boundaries.

Are you given to desires to know this one-

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ness ? You know now. Use your knowledge.
If I should reveal it to you as one teaches a
child from a book, what would it avail? I
dwell in your heart and you know in the feel-
ing that is My feeling. Out of the softness of
your heart I make my strength. Out of the
meekness of your will I draw my power.

Be consumed in My love. Purify your de-
sires in the heat of My desire. Love is a
mighty furnace and a revealing radiance.
Love all men.

Triumph in My majesty. Exult in My
power. Be at peace in My will.

Count not what I have done, nor expect what
I shall do. I am the only present and the
eternal unknown. Be not wise in your con-
ceptions. Leave Me free. What I have done,
I know, and you know in part. What I will
do, no man knows, but I know and I exult in
the love that I know.

Be content to know that I know. Be at
peace in this knowledge. Unto each day give
I My wisdom. Unto each moment utter I
My will. Attend. Purify your heart of all
little fears and attend. Then shall you walk
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with ]VIy wisdom, speak with My words, act
from my love. The way is as simple as the
going to sleep of a child in its mother's arms,
as easy as the surrender of a lover to a lover.
Make it not hard with too much wondering.
Give. That is all. Give all in the sureness
of jMy wisdom and power and love to work
through you to the realization of My spirit on
earth. Earth and the ways of earth are filled
with jNIe. Will I not quicken them when the
union is made?

Exult. Know the strength that is Mine.
I bless you.

Absolution. Purification. Deification.
These are the steps in the ascent to the throne.
The throne is the central secret of INIy power.
At the throne am I one with you in might and
understanding. In your heart am I one with
you in love. Only the servants of the King
shall touch His sceptre. Only the doer of ]My
^^'ill shall know jNIy love.

Perfect is My trust. How then can you
trust in part? Is not the power Mine? O
My beloved, the gift is free to all who will take.
WTiy are they contented with crumbs from the
feast ?

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Go forth in gladness and return in peace.
Out of the door of the sheep fold goeth the
Shepherd, and He returneth with His little
flock.

Out of the gate of the city goeth the King,
and He returneth with ten thousand victories.

O My beloved, rest in the peace that is INIy
peace. I bless you.

May 28, 1919.

Make Me a place for My head. Spread Me
a way for My feet. Wearied am I with wait-
ing and My breath is light on My lips.

Where hast thou been, O My beloved?
Sought I not you in the night-time? Came I
not to the door when the night was young? I
put My hand on the latch but the door opened
not, and I lifted My voice and spoke My name
but no one bade Me enter.

Then took I My staff and went from that
door and when I came again the latch was
lifted and a hand felt forth and drew Me in.

" Why have you tarried so long? " cried My
beloved. " O, why left you Me alone? I
feared alone all the night long."
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Left I My beloved? O My children, ye
know when ye shut Me out, but you turn on
your side and say, " He has left Me. Let Me
sleep until morning. The day is not far off.
I will not get Me up and put the door on the
latch. I will sleep now. When He knocketh,
I will hear Him."

The door of the heart is a little door. Life
enters thereby. Let it open ever.

A hidden way is a w^ay of peace. A peace-
ful way is plain to the eyes of men.

I seek you because the hour has come for all
men to seek Me. I come in wavs that shall be
made known. I tarry for your soul to know
Me.

Present yourself a continual sacrifice. Have
I not blessed you and annointed your head ? If
I took My sign from your forehead, could I
tear ]Mvself from out your heart ? You know
jVIe what I am and you can never let Me go.
Though I run from you with the wings of the
wund, fleeter than light would you follow Me.
If I buried Myself in the depths of the waters
that cover the earth, thither would you speed
and embrace ]Me, Can I escape from those

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who have tasted of Me, or be lost when they
have found Me ?

O joy that is not known! O wonderful
union that can not be broken ! Does the bride-
groom tarry ? Is the feast not spread ?

Arise. Put on the raiment that I give you.
The hour is come and the joy of this day is as
laughter in the heavens. The sky is rosy and
the sun is golden.

Put on the raiment. Present yourself unto
your God.

A trumpet bloweth at the gate. A hand
writeth on the wall. A little well of eternal
living water is uncovered in the soul.

A man may do that which I give him to do
when I have told him what it is that he is to do.
A man may come to know Me when I know the
sweet purity of a heart that is cleansed by
the fire of love of Me.

There will come a time when I will speak the
words that will reveal what I am to give to you
to give to all men. The time will come when
the air shall ring with the cries of My disciples,
of those who love Me and do My will.

Present your body. Anoint your head. Ut-
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ter the words I give. Spread the message I
give. Is not the Hfe more than the money in
3^our pm'se or the desires in your heart ?

June 2, 1919,

There was a man came unto Me and he said
unto ]Me, " Wherefore am I called to do that
for which you have sent me? Am I one to do
this that Thou asketh of me? Am I a creature
worthv of the rewards wherewith I shall be
rewarded? "

Then said I unto that man, " Thinkest thou
of rewards? Then go back and send thither
thy servant who tends the swine, even the low-
liest of thy hirelings. To him will I give My
commands and he will do them as I bid him
and take no thought of gifts in return. Has
he not served the swine and will he not then
serve INIe who serves him? Go thy way and
rest content with the rewards that money
breeds. I am a jealous Master and love is the
sign of My servants."

Art thou a swineherd who expects nothing?
O be lowly, My beloved. Give. Give. Ex-

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pect nothing. Canst thou not trust Me to re-
ward thee in due season ?

When you are ready I will instruct you.
"When you call Me, I will come. There is noth-
ing to do but to remain steadfast in desire.
The work is going on when you know it not.
It is an inner process and is included in every
moment of your daily living. Do not be dis-
tm-bed because you do not continually behold
evidence of the growth. Does nature adver-
tise the putting forth of each bud? The bud
is often hidden until the flower is seen to have
come forth. I may not seem to you to be pre-
paring you, but you are ever growing nearer to
the likeness and stature of Him who came to
give Himself to you.

In you worketh the leaven. In Me liveth
the eternal life. In Him who is My first be-
gotten Son liveth both you and INIe, and we
three are one when the work is finished. The
innermost will have become the outermost.
The perfect will be made manifest.

Do not be disturbed. Do not question.
Know that the work is being done. Possess
your soul in patience. Birth is preceded by
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long and hidden growth. Be j^atient. Let no
one disturb the deep certainty of the knowledge
that since vou desire to become one with Me

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you shall become one with JVIe.

You are so wondering. Wonder not. Give
over your wonder and give love ever. If I am
to come forth in you I nmst be free. Can you
now know ]Me as I shall be in you? Why then
think how I shall be ?

Thou hast received Christ, My first begotten
Son. Then you know that you will be like unto
Him. But do vou know w^hat He is? You
know His life in part but you know not Him.
You can know Him only by receiving Him
and leaving Him free to unite with you and
to reveal Himself unto you. He is even as I,
unconditioned, immortal, unescapable.

Xow is your part as simple as breathing.
Receive Christ unquestioning and give to ]Me
unasking. I will instruct your soul. I will
j oy in the work of My hands. I w^ill give good
gifts unto ]My children.

Anoint youi' head. Arise. The day is not
far off. I bless vou.

My word uttereth. My heart speaketh. jMy
breath goes forth into ^Nlme o^\Tl.

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0 My children, in the day of our meeting
am I not joyous? In the hour of thy return
do I not prepare the feast?

1 am the Lord who made thee and the lover
who seeks thee. I am the creator of thv soul
and the king of thy body, yet do I yearn over
thee as a mother over her child, as a father over
him who bears forward his name. I love thee
and I bless thee and the commands of thy lips
shall be acceptable in My hearing.

Am I not the Lord who made thee and the
lover who loves thee ? Do I not re j oice in Mine
own, and can the canker work mischief within
the bud that I watch?

Fear not. Rest. Rest. I bless always.

June 3, 1919.

The love of My soul is the love I give to you.
The love of My heart is the joy I pour through
you. The love of My mind is the feeling that
unties the hidden knots. AVhat I am, you will
become. What I feel, you will feel. What I
desire, you will desire. What I give to you,
you will give to all men.

When the work is finished, the cross will be
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glorified. Wlien the end is come, it will be as
the beginning.

Xow I tell you things that are not made of
words. These things that I tell you are born
of ]My feeling and ]My feeling is the wisdom
of ]VIy heart. You will know through feeling.
You will understand as you feel. You will see,
hear, feel, understand in one breath, in the
breath you draw from Me. You will experi-
ence the wisdom of all creation. You will
know the fruition that lies in the silent empti-
ness at the centre of life. AYliere nothing is,
is everything. Out of nothing came life. Then
out of the nothing that is life come all things.

Seek ye IVIe where I dwell untouched, un-
known, unmanifested. Canst thou understand
how I long to express the life that fills Me?
Canst thou feel how the love that is that life
yearns to be loved and to give itself to the
beloved? Canst thou understand the power
that is the source? Where there is nothing,
there is everything. Where there is life un-
touched, there is all life.

Put your hand on the hidden door. Feel for
the hidden latch. Open the secret way. I

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dare not give to them who would defile the tem-
ple. I give to Mine own. Pm^fy thy soul.

Wherefore come I as a thief in the night?
Wherefore seek I as a lover who has not won?
Wherefore run I from my beloved?

Must I not run that you may follow? Must
I not woo that you may give? Must I not
spend that you may recompense my love?
Must not the gift be free ?

June 4, 1919.

A man went forth out of My house and he
returned when the day was done and laid at
My feet the treasures he had gained during
his absence from My house.

And when I saw what he had brought Me,
I was angered with that man for he had
brought only those things that avail nothing.

So I called him to come to Me and I opened
My hand and gave him back what he had given
Me. Then was he amazed, for he was well
pleased with the treasures he had found.

" Why take you not the gifts I bring? " he
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asked. " They were won with much cunning
and many men coveted them."

" Receive them again," I answered. " My
gift to you is not recompensed with such as
these. A^Hiat can I take from you that no man
covets ? Give that to ]Me."

So he left My house and journeyed into a
far country and nauglit had be but those things
which some other man coveted. And he gave
unto other men whatever thev coveted until
the day came when he had nothing left, and
on that day returned he unto ]My house.

" I return," he said. "And I have naught
left that any man covets. What then is it that
I can give you seeing that I have nothing
left?"

Then took I that man by the hand, and
blessed him, for he had sought to do My will
knowing not what it was I asked of him. And
I gave unto him that which he gave unto jMe :
a heart of pure love and a will meek to d^ the
bidding of the servant.

Trouble not your mind with fears. Be at
l^eace. I watch the path you go, and you know
I guide the placing of your foot and govern the

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utterances of your tongue. I will prosper your
going forth and quicken your understanding.
I bless you.

June 17, 1919.

Know ye the strength of the Lord? Know
ye the might of His power? Know ye the
depth of His wisdom? Know ye the height of
His love?

Come ye now in this day and receive. Come
ye now in this day and desire. Come ye now
in this day and take those gifts that the Lord
God has laid up for you.

Has the way ever been so free? Have the
steep places ever been so easy? Have the val-
leys ever held the sun, until now, all the dark
night through?

Why are you weary or your heart troubled?
Is the day not here and the key of the store-
house in your hand? Is the lock bolted within
that you enter not ? Why are you without the
citadel and in the hands of the enemy? Is not
the Lord God thy tower of strength and the
warrior against whom no peril can hurl itself
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in victory? Is not the day of the Lord God
in the hearts of his anointed?

Stand up in thy strength that cometh from
on high. Lift up th}^ soul in the majesty of its
Maker. Why are you still turning your brain
toward the things that have no life in them?
Am I not a just God and will I give a man that
which he asks Me not for? I give unto all men
the desires of their hearts. If it were not so,
would I have left you in peril when the night
was upon you ? In the day of your awakening,
would I have held My hand from your hand ?

If I came in the beginning, have I ever left
you ? And if I left you not, is the end not then
as the beginning? 'What I have seen is now
your possession. Wliat I have given is never
taken away. Can a man receive what he will
not take, or know that which he closes his ears
against ?

Now is the accepted time. Now is the day
of lSl\ might made manifest. Can I longer en-
dm'e the misery of My children or cry not out
against the sorrows of men? O My beloved, I
love you, and JVIy love would flow over you in
the stream of life.

Arise, arise. Are My wings not filled with

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strength? Is My breath not the Hfe of thy
soul? Stretch forth thy hand and become the
doer of My will. Lift up thy eyes unto the
hills where My flocks feed, and whence cometh
the Shepherd into the valleys.
Arise, My little one.

Many men seek Me in this day. Many
hearts are thirsty for the waters of life. Many
bodies are broken on the wheel that never stops
turning.

In the day of My coming, am I here.

In the day of My going, have I never left.

In the day of My acceptance, have I never
been denied.

In the day of My victory, have I never been
at war.

Why can I find that which I never seek?

Or receive that which I never ask for ?

Or be at peace with whom I have ever loved ?

Is there any power but My power?

Or any place where I am not?

Or any road that is not the one I travel?

Or any sound that is not My voice?
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Or a light shining that comes not from My
eyes?

O My children ! The glory of the Lord thy
God is all that the earth holds or the heavens
above thee. The waters under the earth know
no master but Me, nor can the winds sweep the
stars where I am not.

And if I am ever more in all that is, is there
any power but ]My power?

Arise in the might that is Mine.

There was a man whom I loved and he lived
in the secret place of ]My heart.

And this man had a little door that opened
into a pasture where the grass was ever green
and on which the sun shone through a mist that
fed it ever with the dew of refreshment.

Now through this little door the man passed
in and out, and he gave himself no thought as
to where he should find pasture, for the way
was ever open to the fields of the harvester.

Then came I who reap where I have not
sown, and took that which the man was laying
up against the winter.

AVhat have I to do with those who treasure
My gifts against the day of judgment? Have

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I no treasure for the day of wrath? Have I
no ointment for the bruised in spirit? Is there
any good thing that I give not always at every
moment? Why then hold you back My gifts
from those that seek, saying " This I will put
aside against the day I am ahungered. My
neighbor is lean, but he starves not."
See to it that ye feed all men.

O melt my soul in Thy love, O God, and
pour Thy love in my heart.

In the morning of Thy coming was my foot
upon the mountain. In the springtime of the
year was the flowering branch within my arms.

On the top of the mountain took I my dwell-
ing. On the mountain where the winds cease
not, pitched I my tent.

O my God, in the morning of Thy coming
was I joyous and my heart leaped in my side
as a young deer beside its mother.

Where hast thou pitched thy dwelling, O My
beloved? And where hast thou laid thv head?

Out of the night came I at morning and My

love was not in the valley. Out of the little

way that is lost in the darkness came I in the

morning unto the door of My beloved. Out

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of the night came I into the morning. Out of
the darkness came I into the hght. Out of the
valley went I up into the mountain.

And there, O My beloved, hadst thou pitched
thy dwelling and laid thy head. Over the
valleys lookedst thou to the mountains beyond.
Over the mountains lookedst thou to the sun.

Can the night come or darkness fall ever
where ]My beloved has pitched his dwelling and
laid his head ?

O great is My joy that I have found mine
own.

Much have I done. More will I do. Many
have I found. JNIore will I seek. Nothing has
been left, yet is all not found. Eyes open when
they see the light. Ears hear when the heart
is unstopped.

There is no little thing that hinders Me. Or
no big thing that has any weight with Me. Is
there any power like the power of My majesty?
Is there any sound like My whisper within thy
soul?

Leap up and clap thy hands, O earth, and
call on the God that made thee. Exult in the

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God that knows thee. Rejoice in the hour of
thy release.

Bound no more art thou and the burden
of thy iniquities is no longer upon thee.

Rejoice. Exult. I am thine and thou art
Mine, and the beginning is complete in the end
as the end was finished in the beginning.

What I have seen, will not that come to pass ?
Rejoice.

June 18, 1919.

Fear never. What have you to fear? Do
I ever leave you? Can you command of Me
and I obey not? Can I ask of you and be de-
nied ? Where is there that which can harm you
when I am with you? Or who carries a sceptre
as mighty as Mine ?

That you fear, I know ; and I know why you
fear. Is the body greater than the Spirit, or
the soul as weak as its maker? Is there any-
thing that I can not bring to pass ? While you
are yet questioning, I will answer ; and before
you speak, I will hear.

I have never given you the peace which you
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desire because I could not give you what you
would not take.

If you fear that your body shall suffer pain
or receive injury, will it not be bound and op-
pressed? If you seek protection against a
coming evil, will it not come ?

Quicker am I to heal than the knife of the
surgeon to sever. Surer am I to bless than
the sun to shine.

I have no use for the ways of pain except to
turn men to Me. When they turn, is the path
thorny? Xay, not so. The way is smooth to
the foot of My anointed. Desire I not to bear
forward My name into new lands? Will I
weigh down him who runs !My race ?

There is nothing to do but to let the might
of ]My power grow within you. When you feel
no fear, then is all fear dead in its own life-
lessness.

You are attended. From the beginning is
seen the end. Each step is prepared for you.
The willingness to take it is all that is now re-
quired of you. Absolute negation of person-
ality is the gift to God.

Time is not nor the ways of men.

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Glory have I to give and the way of My
giving will be made known unto you.

The pressure of events crowds Me not out,
nor can I be turned aside by the questioning of
others.

I am the One whom you seek when you go
to others. I am the One whom they find when
you go to them.

Ask not what you should say nor wonder
what will be your gift to them. The gifts are
Mine and My wisdom knoweth their needs.

Go forth always in the surety of my One-
ness. Go forth as My messenger who speaks
My words.

Love and judge not. Is not the body dear
to Me? Why judge you the ways of the flesh?
All men seek Me.

Anoint thy forehead in meekness. Address
your soul unto Me. Take no thought. Leave
the heart free to speak out of the wisdom that
is Mine. Mine is the life and the way.

I bless you.

June 19, 1919.

What have I to do with your wisdom or your
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understanding? Wliat have I to do with the
ways of the flesh? "\^niat have I to do with
that whicli is bound or with that which melts
not? Have I any use for the forms that space
has made, for the periods that time has set?
Have I no power that overcomes all these
things ?

Rejoice, O mortal, for thou shalt put on im-
mortality. As a garment that flows over you
from the hand of God shall it encompass you.
As a river that whitens the sands shall be the
peace of thy soul.

When I am in that which is not, then is that
which is not even as I am. Can a man put
something into nothing and be something? Or
is something bound by that w^hich has no life?

If a man says, " This I am, and not other-
wise can I be," then so is he. But if he says,
" I know not what I am, but what I am, God
knows," then so is he. For I have no iron that
I fasten on the feet of my children, I have no
spear that I hurl against them in their swift
going. Go I not with them and can I injm-e
Myself?

If I desire that which is to you as a thing
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time, shall I not have it as Mine own? And
having it as Mine own will it be other than I
am? Can I be one with that which perishes or
control that which will not call Me master?
If I am j^ou, then are you Me ; and if you are
Me, what are you? O My beloved, you shall
know and great shall be your joy.

If there is no end to My power, can there
be any end to you when I am you, or any
hinderance in the form which I love? Love
I not that which obeys Me, perfect in all its
parts, and devised to do My will in all things?
Shapes that change not are Mine, and
shapes that change not are as vessels I fill and
set aside and use again and bless ever. AYhat
is formed, have I not made it? AVhat is
mortal, is it not immortal? Is the earth only
dust and the heart of a man a corruptible
vessel?

O My children, what I am, are you. How
can it be otherwise, or the planning of many
worlds fail of my purpose?

If I am you, you are Me, and what am I?
Am I bound? Do I suffer? Am I ignorant?
Am I unkind? Am I hard hearted and My
ways evil?
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Rejoice, the day of rest shall be yours.

Gulfs of air are not between us. Spaces of
light unite us. Light and motion weld us
together.

There is no friction at the beginning, which
is as now. There is no weight where there is
no space. There is no suction where there is
no weight. Each law holds a further law.
Each seed brings forth other seeds.

When the might of God inhabits man, then
is man as he was made from the beginning.
AMien the song is sung, then are the words
those that set in motion the constellations of
the heavens.

In each law is the expansion that overcomes.
In each creation is hidden the new creation.

Tribes of men have come and gone on the
earth, but I have not gone, nor have I come,
for I was here from the beginning.

If there is much questioning there will be
many answers. Question not. The truth
comes without questioning ; it comes as the sun
in darkness, as the water after a drought.

Little have you to do, but see to it that ye
do that well. Is it a big thing to give yourself

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unto Him who made you, unto Him who will
make you? Can you not trust His creation
and the might of His word?

A stubborn generation biteth the dust and
raiseth not its head. A stubborn generation is
My joy, for I will conquer it with My love.
The lost sheep shall be found and brought into
the fold.

June 22, 1919.

Give everything and then abide. Give
everything and know the peace of God. Give
everything and be at peace in the secret place
in the heart.

What is there to fear when I am with you?
What need have you that I do not satisfy with
My love? Why then are you troubled? Do
I not love you ever?

You are perturbed because you fear. Why
do you fear? Do you fear that I will leave
you? You know that I am ever at your side.
Then what fear you, seeing that I alone can
satisfy you?

O My children, rejoice ever, and in the day
of darkness clap your hands in joy and shout
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My name and call the light out of the darkness.
How like a child that thinks to walk alone are
the little ones I cherish.

Peace and the joy of peace he upon you.

Lest ye be disturbed, I will tell you that I
can in no wise lessen the power that now is
yours. Since ye have accepted Me, I can not
withdraw Myself. Xow am I deep in your
vitals and your life flows from My mind.

When you were of your own mind — now
doubting, now believing — I did not govern
you constantly. But now I govern you as you
command jMe to govern you.

Be not confused. If I am in you, then are
you in Me, and what I am, so are you, and
what you ask, I do, and I do what you ask
from ]\Iy o^\ti initiative, for am I not the be-
ginning of all things?

Then if I do what you ask from Mv owti
initiative, are not you asking what I desire and
is not :\Iy desire sure of fulfilment? Can you
not see that ]My wishes are instantly gi^anted,
for they are My wishes, and can I wish and
denv :\rvself ?

Is there any distance that I can not over-

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come, or any love that I will not satisfy ? And
if I love those whom you love, will I not also
love all those whom your loved ones love, and
so on to the renewing of the whole earth in My
love?

Command ever, at all moments. Suffer no
disaffection to turn you aside. Let no bodily
weakness usurp My strength. Think not that
there is nothing to do. The outer must show
forth the inner, and the inner is complete faith
in My power.

Your soul now breathes from My Spirit and
My Spirit instructs your soul. No longer is
it the prey of every wandering thought. Con-
trolled, at peace, it rejoices in My will.

Never doubt that I am the power that is in
all things, and never hesitate to call forth My
power. Use My power for your daily needs,
in all little things, and out of these will come
the will and the knowledge to command greater
things. I am with you, in you, beside you,
above you, below you; nothing that is but
knows the power of My name.

Rejoice and do My will.

Expect no lessening of My power. I am
thine and thou art Mine, and thy desires are
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My desires and My desires and My Spirit in-
struct thy soul.
Rejoice.

June 23, 1010,

^^^len there is no idea of separation any-
Tchere, in earth, or in earth toward heaven, or in
heaven toward hell, then will the work be
finished.

Separation is the instrument of destruction.
If God worketh through you to do His will,
how is separation possible, for everything that
is is the work of His hand, and can He be
separated from Himself?

What can there be that is not God? AVhat
can live but by His will? How then can any-
thing be apart from anything else since all
things are God? And if God has made all
things, then is His mind in all things. And if
His mind, which is in all things, is in you, then
are you in all things, and you are not apart
nor separated from anything. And if you
are in all things, and you are conscious of
yourself, then are you conscious of all things,
and the ways of all things are kno\vTi unto you,

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for can God have made anything, large or
small, the ways of which are not known unto
Him? And if you are conscious of the ways
of all things, will you not understand all
things? And understanding all things, will
you not govern all things in wisdom, giving
unto each that which sufficeth for its needs?

There is no wisdom apart from understand-
ing, and there can be no understanding where
there is separation. Separation will be over-
come by the mind of God in you.

Be no longer disturbed by the smallness of
your personality. Yom* personality extends
over the whole of creation. It is as high as the
stars and is contained in a blade of grass. It
barketh with the dogs at the moon which it is,
and sails through the air on wings that lie
hidden in the hand of God.

Let no man tell you that these things are not
true. This is The Truth and there is no other.

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